What They Didn't Tell You About Concentration Camps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- The labor camps of World War 2 marked the darkest chapter in human history. In today's video, we are going to examine the different concentration camps used during the war.
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What happened to "Never Again?" Concentration Camps are used in China for the "reeducation" of the Uyghurs. The names and language may be different, but the story remains the same.
Well don't forget North Korea have Concentration Camps as they hate slums or low level of society of North Korea.
But that's true, Concentration camps still terrible and horribly today
Facts! I hate when people say that we must be sure this will never happen again.. China and North Korea are the biggest examples, but most ignore them and look away.
Not to mention that not only Germany had those camps. USA built concentration camps for japaniese-looking people and declared martial law in Hawai. Japaniese "science" camps in china were on paar with those german ones. Not to mention forced labor camps in Korea.
@@twojstarypijany3182 true, but the american internment camps were no where near as bad, its still pretty bad but no where near the others
They are not concentration camps only camps by United Nations definitions. If that was the case the Soviets gulag system would be illegal
I visited Auschwitz a few years ago, and I saw the gas chambers myself. Even after so many years, they still are terryfying.
Also huge shout out to Witold Pilecki, a polish soldiers who willingly had himself imprisoned in Auschwitz to witness it all and then describe it to the allies. After escaping by himself (he was promised help, but it never came), he told the allies how many horrible things happened there, but they refused to believe him because they couldn't believe thay someone would do that to fellow humans. After the war, he was viewed as an enemy to communism and therefore executed by communists. Unfortunately, to this day he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
I've never heard about Mr. Pilecki until your mention. His story is fascinating and I hope Infographics can dedicate an episode to him!
@@levirubin6974 just look up his pictures before and after Auschwitz. I had a hard time believing it was the same person. Also I didn't include the whole truth. After the ww2 has ended, Poland has been made a puppet communist state, with ussr pulling all its strings. Pilecki joined the AK (armia krajowa) and fought our communist oppressors. Unfortunately he was caught, tortured and then shot at the back of his head because puppet president refused to let him go. He doesn't even have a proper grave.
@@levirubin6974 the band Sabaton has a song about him, Inmate 4859 (if I recall correctly the numbers) and they have a history channel, Sabaton History, and have an episode telling his story more in-depth.
I've also heard about a man named Ferdynand Ossendowski, a famed author which wrote about Lenin's dark truth, no wonder the communists made his books unpublished, and made him forgotten...
Pozdrawiam z Polski
I’ve been there too, terrible place.
Men like Pilecki often get their recognition many years after they’re dead. I know it’s sad but just wait.
I went to Germany for the first time this year and I visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial. I can't begin to describe what that experience was like. Unless you see something like that with your own eyes it's hard to put into words. The hardest part was walking into the crematorium building. I had to walk back outside because I was almost overcome with emotion. Knowing I was in a place where there was so much cruelty, so much death, I almost couldn't take it. But, looking back on that experience, I'm glad that I went there. Because in a way, the many prisoners that were there, were telling me there stories. And it's a story I will never forget.
Please don’t make the holocaust about you
@@shadowxFFx he didnt?
Wow so inspirational
AMERICA WAS JUST LIKE GERMANY.. GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY FOR 400 PLUS YEARS
@@shadowxFFx you're mad because he said it was horrific?You seem lile defending Nazis at this point 🙄
My grandpa has those tattoos, he is a survivor, and he also hates the people who get these tattoos on purpose, because they will never know what its truly like to be treated like an animal. He was 5 when he was brought in, in 1940, and i am grateful and amazed he survived it
What do you mean getting these tatoos in purpose? People mark themselves with these concentration tatoos on their arms or what?
@@Duality-Mode some people actually tattoo this kind of number on purpose today
@@irrelevanttwat Ask the people who tatoo themselves with it
What a strong man he must have been
@@bernieflanders8822 who, my grand father? If so, yes, but he was just a child, and his camp was the first to be freed
I remember I toured Dachau when I visited Germany years ago. Our tour guide was excellent: passionate and professional. He had all of our questions answered before we’d even thought of them. He mentioned that up until 20-30 years ago survivors of the camp were the tour guides. So as a result he and the current tour guides feel a great responsibility to honor them.
That sounds like a harrowing job, doesn't seem like an easy sell for survivors. I guess it would take a certain type of person who's really, truly overcome their trauma to take that job.
@@matthewmitchell3457 idk how they do it, i certaiinly wouldnt
@matthewmitchell3457 huh? Dude, have you never suffered like AT ALL in your life? When you suffer so deeply, you want to share your story and have people understand you.
I think that they would do it to honor those who died and to make sure their stories were told correctly.
I can only imagine how it felt for those survivors and the victims 😔
I can’t imagine the fear and pain of being separated from your parents or children in that cold cruel place
Of course that goes without saying but. We know this for eighty years and why the focus on mostly this and not the same time given to other atrocities
Slavery
@@Astrid-jt8cd because 6 million innocent people were murdered for being who they were.
My mother is 99 and has her Auschwitz forearm tattoo. Both her parents, all 4 of her grandparents, all her aunts and uncles were gassed, along w nearly all her cousins. A brother was arrested and beaten to death in the second ghetto they were moved to, right before her mother was taken away (her father was taken away earlier). My father, who passed away 12 years ago had basically the same story, both of his parents and his sister were gassed at Auschwitz along with five out of his seven aunts and uncles (along with all of their children). He didn't have a tattoo because his number was on his uniform, as your video states. Nearly all the prisoners my father came in contact with were Jews, in the work camps he moved around for almost 3 years. My mom was taken out of Birkenau (the worst part of Auschwitz) in 1944, after witnessing weeks of train loads going straight into the gas chambers and crematoria on the same day they arrived at Auschwitz. She was moved to the work camp portion of Auschwitz and stayed there until she was taken out by the Nazis along with hundreds of other prisoners as human shields while they traveled West toward the Americans (who might imprison the German soldiers) and away from the Russians (who would certainly just execute all the German soldiers). She was liberated by the Russians at the Elba River, not long before the European part of the war ended. My parents spent the rest of their lives in a close-knit group of about 25 other Jewish survivors like them, who all had the same experience - many had it worse than they did. These were almost all the 'family' I knew, growing up in NYC.
Interesting
I'm not sure what to say except I hope that life was 100 times better afterwards. No one should have to go through this. She should write a book telling the world her experience. Many peaceful thoughts and prayers sent to her from NC. ❤
God bless them.
I'm sorry, this should just not have been allowed to happen in the 20th century. It is truly outrageous that just 30 years before I was born (in 1971) this was going on. Insanity. The cruelty of the Nazis belonged in the Middle Ages.
@@reesemorgan2259 Should have been allowed and perfectly fine in the 19th century though
My grandma who was able to speak German said her two brothers fought in world war II against the Germans and was captured in Africa. The two brothers first decided not to acknowledge the other ones existed afraid that the Germans would use one against the other so they never acknowledged and talk to each other or anything. According to what my grandma said that the two brothers they spent such a long time in the pow camp never acknowledging the other existence or talking to to the other brother persisted after they came back and started farming again. Grandma said that they had to walk all the way back from where they was captured to German POW camp other than when they had to cross a big body of water where they got a riding across in a ship. Conditions in the pow camp for what grandma said was the Germans hardly give them any food to eat they had to eat any bugs or rats or mice that they could get. The Red Cross packages the Germans would go through them and take anything good out of them and then the prisoners would get the rest. The prisoners would take anything that was partially edible like toothpaste and make one big cake out of it and everybody would get a small slice out of that. I was very young when Grandma was telling me that and I never thought of any questions unlike now I had to have a few more questions than I did when I was a kid.
Thank you for sharing your grandmother’s story. My great grandfather was part of the *89th Infantry* and liberated Ohrdruf in April of 1945. They were one of the two first divisions to uncover the atrocities of a death camp. Despite many, many, many attempts from friends, family, and the media, he wouldn’t speak a word of it, and suffered severe PTSD (which in the early ‘90s wasn’t really treated as a mental illness.) it wasn’t until after he passed away, my mother found his journal amongst many of his military keepsakes. He never finished school, he lied about his age at 16 so he could join the army, so although the grammar was very poor, reading through those 4 pages he wrote on the day they came across the camp are the most sincerely disturbing things I’ve ever read.
That generation was more innocent than those of us that came along later, and being exposed to that level of horror changed his life forever.
@@Jerrycourtney thanks for sharing your story as well. I do believe that would definitely be mind-blowing and life-changing to run across one of the death camps when you're mentally would have never even daydreamed of that ever happening. I have watched some documentaries after they liberated the death camps they got the citizens from the town to come and look at it and then also they had every service man come and look for their self just because they said they know in the future somebody will deny that that has ever happened.
Oh my goodness Michael bless your family and thank you for your story.
No i do NOT want a high interest loan!!!
My grandpa was also caught in Africa and kept in a German POW camp. Our last name is Speer so they treated him a bit nicer than other prisoners. He got a little extra food and stuff. He ended up escaping and meeting up with the Russians. I wish I would have been able to ask him some questions as an adult but I still have the post cards he wrote from the POW camp!
What's really worrying is that this could all happen again. There are always people who are willing to do dreadful things to other human beings. Especially when built around a cultural society that demands it.
we as a society cannot let this happen again!
@@OMGGaya We will not allow this to happen again.
gen**ide is happening infront of our very own eyes in Palestine right now
@@OMGGaya it’s happening in china
@@OMGGaya it happened on october 7th
My great grandparents had own a Jewish bakery in Berlin, and had everyone of their kids to help out with everyday business. In March 1939 after the Nazi's raided the bakery, both of my grandparents were sent to different concentration camps not knowing if they would ever see any of them again. After the war had ended, Both of my great grandparents were the only ones who had survived the camps, even though I have never once heard either one of them are willing to talk about their experiences. One time when I had caught a quick glimpse of the tattoo on my grandmother arm not realizing what it had meant until my aunt had explained what happened to my grandmother when she was younger
I worded in a Jewish hospital and saw the tatoos of many patients. Doctors could not fully figure out what was wrong with many patients because no one knew what all had been done to them. What injections they'd had been given or other treatment's they'd had. I know a co-founder of a 12-Step group named "Adult Children of Holocaust Survivors." She said one facet of family life for surviors was a deeply felt shame about the experince, which was never talked about.
lies
What do you mean those were the only survivors of the camps? There are like a 100 survivors of them, now
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How is it that you are a grandchild if your grand parents "lost all their kids"?
A few points you missed:
-Prisoners didn't just have their heads shaved, they had all of their body hair shaved.
-Not all prisoners were given showers, and even if they did, it was the last one they would get for years
-numbers weren't just tatued on their arms, in some camps they were carved into their abdomens
-the first extermination were carried out on the disabled in institutions in the T4 program, where the process of gassing was "perfected"
-medical experiments were carried out on Jews and Gypsies in several camps
-women with babies, children, the elderly, and people who were to sick or unable to work were exterminated upon arrival at most camps, or sent directly to extermination camps to get gassed or shot.
-guards in many camps were actually expected to fulfill a quota of prisoners to be killed
-epidemics of diseases ran rampant throughout the camps due to poor sanitation, starvation, and exhaustion
Only Jewish prisoners were shaved. And they weren’t given actual showers. Poison gas came out of those shower heads.
Did they have to shave their privates?
@@jaxlolzers Yes, they did. Read the "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz," it gives an excellent picture of what happened during that time.
My grandfather was captured at Dunkirk. He spent 5 years in a German POW camp. He was one of only 14 soldiers from his unit (51st Queen's Own Highland) at the camp to survive. He never spoke to me about it... He told my Mom and Granny a few stories. But what I've learned is absolutely heartbreaking. I love him and miss him.
I will just comment here that Western PoWs weren't put in concentration camps, they had their own PoW camps that well, compared to these camps that the Jews and Soviets had to face, where considerably better to live in.
That’s sounds ereely similar to my great grandfather who was in the Kings Army at the time (England) but it was WW1 hurt captured and one of only a few to come back…
Because of your Grandfather and his comrades in arms many people are alive today. My Maternal Grandmother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. My thanks to your Grandfather for the gift of life💖
Do you still live in Scotland?
@@samwell2004 I have been to the POW camp near my house in the United States. Germans were held here during World War II. I’ve been through the museum. It’s interesting. the prisoners were treated very well. They did make them work though. The Germans dug a lake here that was turned into a state park. The lake is 805 acres
Absolutely insane that this happened. Even more insane that humans did this. And even MORE so that people still think this way.
Even more insane that this is one of the most documented genocide in history if not the most, along with a regime so proud of their genocidal accomplishments, yet there are people who are still deny the holocaust happened
They aren't humans
@@IamDryEuropa they are VERY human human been doing things like this to people since the beginning of time
The Nazis’ were horrible yes! Mainly because of the coldness of the mechanized industrial way they committed genocide. But remember they weren’t the only ones nor were they the biggest killers the soviets killed 60million under Stalin, and China under Mao killed 70million. In closing it is never prudent or smart to give ANY government monopoly of force over its people!
@@IamDryEuropa they are neanderthals from saturn's moon europa
What's also ridiculous Is the fact that there are people on this planet that deny any of this happened 💀. It's crazy to think about.
Right..
Js like they deny transatlantic slavery🤦🏾♂️
Flat earth people have entered the chat
My maternal grandfather was one of 11 children.
He was the only one to survive.
Thats crazy
he ate the challengers
Tragic beyond comprehension. So much humanity, creativity, and love lost because of one sick ideologue and his brainless heartless followers. Peace be with you.
@@cw4608 the russians killed like 5x more people but no one cares. Its cuz they werent jewish people. Whats up with that?
That must of been horrible for him
What’s even more sad and rather disgraceful is the fact that people willfully deny that the holocaust ever happened. I used to be friends with someone who’s grandmother had a tattoo with numbers from being in a concentration camp. She was lucky to have survived and made it out of there.
I visited Auschwitz 2 weeks ago
concentration camp is still happening in China and North Korea.
I agree. Also, there are people in America pushing for communism, not understanding that it has killed over 10 times the amount of people than the Nazis. I wish people would do more research on history.
I don't deny it but find it strange that that particular genocide got its own name and the only one you can be incarcerated for denying it happened.
I saw a docco on here about an Englishman that wrote a book from the German point of view and had documents and he served seven years, can't remember his name.
Well, they are trying to numb themselves to avoid remembering the terror. To avoid trauma hounting you is to look away.
“ … history must be examined thoroughly to never again be repeated.”
That is so very true. I’m 75, and it seems to me that in someways, basic Fascist, Totalitarian, and Authoritarian hatreds of our time haven’t really changed all that much from the past century.
I read a lot of history and feel, as do others, that “hatred” is part of our Human Nature. If that is true, then how do we go about mastering that part of us, or do we really want to?
In his essay, “Notes On Nationalism,” Orwell says we first need to confront the biases that we all have. Not an easy task. If it were, there’d be little need for psychologists.
Once identified, we need to work at modifying them, so our conscious minds can put them in a better perspective. Orwell says this takes concerted moral effort. In other words, you just can’t claim to be Tolerant and expect it to happen. You actually have to BE Tolerant. It is the ones who wear Tolerance as an armband, who are the most need of this.
“‘Tolerance’ is where you tolerate things that actually bother you.” by Alex Tabarrok
It's sad because these ideologies are becoming more mainstream especially after covid started and its disgusting to watch the comments I see online are so concerning aswell It's like people just haven't learned 🤦♂️
…Very well put. Unfortunately, knowing human nature, a lot of people don’t learn from history anymore, it isn’t taught like it used to be. Worked with a nice college girl who told me that in school she was taught that nothing of importance happened before Civil Rights. She was vaguely aware of other histories, but didn’t know the details. For instance: Thought the American Revolutionary war had something to do with World War 2. I’m not joking. When we older people started talking about certain civilizations and historical points she was stunned by what we knew and she didn’t. Those teachers and professors have really done a number on the kids from kindergarten on up through college, and now we have all these problems. It’s just going to get worse….
@@michaelarkinstall9162Indeed .On both sides .
@@kryptofly I honestly just think thats an American issue as I'm from Canada and learned even extensive American history especially things like the Civil War but there definitely needs to be more history taught and not white washing it either like many US states are trying to do
Just the fact that communism is not treated as fascism and is also a major driving force of world politics, says humanity doesn't learn anything when it comes to civilizations.
I went to the Saxonhausen death camp with my school. It was the first time I’d felt an energy, like a supernatural presence. Not like ghosts but a lingering sense of dread as if something evil was stalking you. The atmosphere changed too. It was like walking under a large glass dome. Even the birds seemed to stop singing when you walked through the gates.
I went there, just outside Berlin, Sachsenhausen, I know exactly what you’re talking about, it’s like going underground.
@@simonhill591 Exactly. I want to go back so I can see it without the restrictions of being in a school group.
Demonic
@@John-ls4xh Very much.
So true. At the entrance to Sachsenhausen I asked if I could take photo’s. They were permitted but not with flash. When I went through the huts, I got to one board that described what happened to the sick. The prisoners who had previously been Dr’s, G.P’s etc weren’t allowed to minister to the sick, that job went to the layman. Absolutely unbelievable. Did you go down into what used to be the kitchens? The prisoners had drawn coloured vegetables holding cutlery, it looked quite cute until you remembered just where you were. God bless those who were starved, beat, whipped, shot to death. R.I.P. to one and all💐💐💐💐💐
My grandpa was in concentration camp in Dachau, because he refused to work in german factory and ran back to Czechoslovakia but germans captured him and sent him to Dachau. But in 1944 he managed to escape again with 2 friends and until the end of war partisans provided them a shelter.
God bless him.
Wow another miraculous escape from a death camp, so many of these stories. Starting to think the Germans were really bad at this whole death camp thing.
I’m surprised that the guards didn’t catch him trying to escape.
@@aaronerickson8878
It’s almost as if all the dead we see on camera and recordings are victims of the typhus outbreak in those camps due to the poor conditions of a prolonged war.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 not "all" of the dead. yes, a portion of the prisoners died due to the poor conditions. most of them were gassed, brutally beaten, or shot by the Nazis.
My grandmother survived a concentration camp, she was 19 years old when she was liberated but died at age 76 still traumatised by what happened. She had her number tattooed on her arm. It’s horrific for me to watch videos like this knowing my little 5ft grandmother went through this.
I'd like you to make a video on 2 similar cases:
1.Bengali genocide by the Pakistani Army.
2.Uyghurs genocide by People's Republic of China.
Chingy chingy wing-ting CHINA!
And what about bengal feminine by british on that same war time, that cost one third of Bengali people vanished.
@@MarkyMark2177 weirdo
3. Hindu genocide in kashmir
@@sazibhossan2370 what is bengal feminine, famine one two famines are not genicides but they come close
Met a man who liberated one of these camps. He pulled out a picture of the day he liberated the camp. It was horrible. He said he carried it arround to show to people who believe the holocaust never happened. Note I am not now nor have I ever been q holocaust denier. He showed it to me while we were talking about it.
When I first found out about Holocaust deniers, I was very shocked. How could any deny proven history? Not only that it hasn't happened that long ago. My adopted mom is Jewish and met a couple of survivors. It's very real. So anti semetic
lets be honest, anyone who thinks that holocaust didn;t happen is not worth the time or an explanation to even change their minds. they lack the ability to think for themselves, holocaust deniers mainly working classed whites and people with the need to blame all their issues on some imaginary "the man".
poor white men mainly and even sometimes black guys, want to blame the jewish communities on their bad decisions in life
@The King Liar
@The King humans burned others alive for thinking they are witches and sacrificed kids to please fake gods. i really dont see why this is such a Strech.
@The King that is because most people who do wear black uniforms and yell "SEIG HAIL!" as they do so.
I can’t believe some people deny this utterly horrifying event
Do you know why they deny it?
I have NEVER heard or read about anyone denying genocide, or that Jews were involved. But I have encountered plenty of denial of 6 millions jewish victims.
It is their way of saying... who cares.
As long as you believe it shouldn't matter... unless you have doubts to.
@@whe832kso10 I think those that deny it can't fathom the idea of it's possibility of such an organized path that someone would eventually stop it or say "no". Internally we find way to cope with atrocities by denying them to help our mind cope. I've even heard some people deny 9-11 for similar reasons. They aren't bad people, just find it hard to accept the evil created by other humans. There are people that deny the death of Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for similar reasons.
@@jacek-jan you need to read more.
The last 20 seconds couldn’t be more important. Thank you so much for making thing informational videos!
Agreed. Unfortunately hate is on the rise especially in the US. I’ve never seen the US get so divided and it’s to the point that if someone doesn’t agree with you then they feel they have to right to harm you such as the protest due to the overturn of abortion rights. Someone took his truck and plowed into a group of people peacefully protesting. So many Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and African Americans are being threatened and have been victims of assault. And they not only threaten that person but they tend to threaten the entire family. It’s gotten so bad right now it’s scary
yeah, remember for history not repeat itself...
Meanwhile there are concentration camps today in North Korea or China and people dont realy care.
thing
@@debrakleid5752
Which country are u from?
Especially the part where he says it "resulted in one of the most horrific tragedies of the 21st century".
Thank you for the video!At school we are often told of the number of people that died but never went to full detail to describe how horrible their treatment by not just Nazis but fellow human beings who viewed them inferior!It's hard to believe or even think humans could really do this to each other but we must learn,scrutinize and make every horrible details public knowledge to ensure we never repeat this crimes
um there are films of it we had to watch in school.
Sadly The last two years have shown me how easily people will behave in such an inhuman way. We have learnt nothing from history.
By germans, nazis were only germans or austrian back in this days
Unfortunately this is still happening in other countries as we speak. China, North Korea. North Korea has multiple camps.
@@lyricberlin Depends on what school you went to. We did a unit on the Holocaust in 10th grade World History, and I'll never forget the image from a film we watched where steamrollers were shoveling mounds of dead bodies from the gas chambers and firing squad, with all the appendages flopping over one another.
My great grandpa was a Polish prisoner he was caught giving the prisoners bread but thankfully he he made it out
God bless you and your great grandpa ❤️
God bless ur grandpa 💕
Thats great to hear, my great grandpa was a n4..z1 soldier in ww2 and then died bc he froze to death. Im half polish and half german btw
What he say about it I’m interested
@@moneyblue8466 unfortunately I didn’t really talk to him because he lived in Poland and when I did it never crossed my mind to ask I only know about this because my mom and my grandma (he was her dad) told me when I was younger
Just today a former Concentration Camp guard was sent to prison for five years in Germany. Also every 29th January we remember the horrible crimes of the Concentration Camps. Let's never forget this horror!
bro was 101 so thats a life sentence 💀
Should've been injected with air.
@@weymoo good.
Yeah what a waste of time and money. The guy was over 100 years old. Should be some kind of statute of limitations.
@@jeffreyval9665 honestly that is kind of a waste
what’s even more sad is that there are concentration camps in the world still right now
Yes
Especially north Korea and China
Life is harsh deal with it.
@@jeffreyval9665 So cold hearted a comment.
@@jeffreyval9665 You’d be the first one to cry
My grandfather on my dad’s side was a survivor or these camps. When he met my mother for the first time he noticed that she would occasionally act in similar ways to the officers at the camp, as well as looked like one very specific officer who gave him the hardest time of all the officers there. Months later he met my mother’s dad, he had been a officer at the same camp as my dad’s dad had been at. (I am not proud of my mother’s side of the family, nor have I spoken to them since I found out what happened at these camps and what my mother’s dad did to my grandfather. I left my mother when I was 6 to live with my dad. That was the last time I ever came into contact with my mother.)
The ironic thing about them was that the prisoners saw "Work Makes You Free", ("Arbeit Macht Frei"), in German over the gates. A better greeting would have been "Laciat ogni, spirana voy choi ch'entrate", ("All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here'), that would have been more appropriate.
Inferno reference.
Yes, it is and should have been "Speranza," not "spirana." It's a typo on my part.
Buchenwalds gate sais "to each his own." Which is pretty appropriate.
@@blaircolquhoun7780 then why didn't you edit your comment to fix it?
@@EclipsedYamiOld I was tired when I posted it and by then it was too late.
I visited the first one that served as a blueprint while in highschool and it was so eerie there. You can feel the oppression and torture that went on there, it was very depressing but as said in the beginning of the video we have to look at these things to learn to never commit such heinous crimes again.
Cool story.
Unfortunately these crimes do still happen to Uyghur Muslims in China but no one bats an eye
Go to Russia, they call them Gulags
I visited Auschwitz the other day, and it was 100 times worse than you could ever imagine, I thought I would cry when visiting that camp but I was so emotionally numb and cold because it’s impossible to comprehend the suffering that took place
Auschwitz was rebuilt. Did they mention that?
@@tylergoodwin3546 excuse me?
Yeah I give props to the people who can visit. I can't imagine the energy that lingers there. All so negative.. hatred, despair, fear, pain. So awful.
I went to the one in Cambodia. Very, very bleak. Many were just kids. Murdered. None survived, except one.
I'd have a panic attack.
What hurts me the most is the children that had to endure this. It’s really hard to believe that a group of people even small enough while controlling the camps thought it was okay to separate young children from their parents for them to suffer alone. It’s extremely cruel and reminds me why I don’t care for people too much. It’s honestly wild to think of how of all species it’s us the humans who are crueler than any other.
Still happening in north korea
this treatment is currently happing in north korea
It happened alot throughout history, governments kidnapping and forcing kids into boarding schools to beat the language out of them
I had an uncle who was a minesweeper for the army during WW2. When he & his platoon broke into Auswich, the carnage he saw haunted him for years. In fact, my middle name of Rae (Raymond) honors his heroic acts because he saved his platoon.
The Russians liberated Auschwitz, not the British or Americans. You're full of it.
@@louisavondart9178 Louisa, I am not full of it as my uncle actually saw Auswich & the horrible conditions, & that's what he told me. In fact, he had Russian friends who befriended his platoon at that time & being a minesweeper he saved them too as the Germans mined that as well! Sorry I didn't give you the entire story then as I was limited in comments then. Ok? 😀
Apparently Disneyland Paris has a lot of really strict rules. The employees and cast members started calling it Mousechwitz. The higher ups heard about this and threatened to fire anyone who used that name. Within the next few hours the staff called it Duckau
Bruh 😂
Disney is evil no matter where you put it.
Talk about at sick sense of humor.
I don't know how true that story is but assuming it is then it's painfully ironic that both Disney and Disneyland Paris are primarily Jewish owned.
Mauschwitz is the name used for Auschwitz in a Pulitzer prize awarded graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman about his father's road through just about every possible scenario one can read about, which ultimately had him and his wife survive the holocaust. Highly advised piece of literature. Very graphic and thought provoking.
This makes me so mad, those poor innocent people
Ik it’s so sad
7:38 Imagine doing a holocaust video and mixing up the star of David with a pentagram...
There were two or three other huge blunders, but I don’t think it merits watching this again to point them out.
It stood out to me because they described what the star of david was supposed to look like.
My great grandpa died in a concentration camp.
My other great grandpa survived 18 years and then was released
I am sorry your great grandfathers had to endure such horror.
Although how could your great grandfather who survived in the concentration camps for 18 years when the Nazis were only in power in Germany from 1933-1945 (which is 12 years)?
I am not excusing him being sent there or doubting he was there, I am just confused how he wasn’t freed from the camps before having been there for that long
My Grandfather died at Auschwitz.
Fell off a guard tower.
He was leaning to far out to get a good shot an an escapee and the rail snapped.
@@CraigMcGuinn Russian concentration camps I believe.
I'll have to ask my dad
@@CraigMcGuinn I just fact checked it and he was in the Russian gulag for 18 years
It’s hard to believe this happened less than 80-90 years ago man…
Currently happening in China
History should always be remembered so it isn't repeated but sadly today it is slowly being erased.
And then history will repeat itself and we will wonder why.
How is it being erased?
7:38 that's not a star of David, it's a 5 point star depicted, the star of David has 6 points.
Also I don't know if it's the animation software or something but the star's lines shown on screen are curved which is odd.
If you have a limited graphics package (or only access to the most simple of shapes) what you can do is insert two equilateral triangles, one facing up and one facing down. you can then move them to overlap each other with the hypotenuse of each triangle being in the middle of the other. Makes a perfect star David every time!
Also, the Jews were usually given the two triangles in different colors: the first would be a standard prisoner’s group identification triangle, which pointed downward, which would be superimposed over a yellow triangle, which pointed upwards, forming the Star of David. The triangles were referred to as Winkeln, and there was a chart in a camp’s gatehouse showing all of the different combinations and their meanings. These were worn with other markings: a black border meant the prisoner was guilty of “rassenschande” (race defilement,) a black dot at the base of the triangle meant one was a member of the Strafekompanie (the special punishment group) and there were other symbols meaning one was a recidivist, that one was suspected of making escape plans and so forth.
My grand-grandmother from russia 🇷🇺 got in a concentration camp ⛺️ and is now 97 knew that her mother died of loneliness 2 YEARS LATER 😢 she met her brother after 20 years😮
This is perhaps one of the worst moments in human history. I have relatives who had to go through the concentration camps. May this never happen again in human history.
It will, don't ever underestimate just how terrible humans can be.
@@larsb.1972 like your father
It's still happening right now. It may not be a huge issue like it was back in the second world war and those era's but trust me it is still alive and well in North Korea and many countries where a dictator is present. My thoughts are always with them and with everyone who may be going thru something similar
Slavery was worse
@@eliowen5759 I don't think comparing is the answer,
both are forms of slavery
Thank you for covering this, schools like to not teach this and pretend it didn't happen, but if we don't teach what happened in the past we are doomed to repeat it.
What kind of school did you go to? I personally felt like 80% of my history classes were about this. I'm from Europe tho
What kind of school did you go to? I live in america and we had a whole lesson over this that lasted weeks.
in asia, idk
@@MrLangevei my school talked about it but it wasn't 80 percent. More like 5.
Myy nieces school covered the Holocaust in less than a page.
With her Mom's permission I taught her. We went and saw a survivor speek. We watched movies and documentaries.
Can you guys talk about the Soviet camps? I’ve always wanted an in-depth video about them
I am Greek and because I read a lot of comments saying we don't learn these at schools, here in Greece we actually do and in small age. And no one as I remember was surprised, and we actually preferred this because teachers displayed videos of concentration camps. We even learned that they were making carpets from hair of prisoners. I think we were calm because, all the Greek history is even more violent.
I am Greek as well but i dont think Greek history is more violent than the Holocaust. Actually it is difficult to find something as bad as the Holocaust in the whole human history.
@@anthia1156 unit 731
@@aaraar2361 Although the crimes of Unit 731 were horrific, the scale was a lot lower in terms of number of people and number of countries affected.
@@anthia1156 I would say the communist regime and the gulags in the 1800's-1900's come fairly close
@@ryandavies2659 Maybe, but I suppose in USSR you could toe the proverbial line, pretend you were a communist and save yourself and your family. There was no escape from the Nazis if you were a Jew though.
You should do a video looking at camps prior to the nazis. They might not have gassed people, but didn't Britain use camps in conquering parts of Africa?
Australia has camps now
White people do this to non white people in the past
or after, like ones USA had for Japanese
Yes, you are right. Britain used concentration camps against their Dutch prisoners in the Boer Wars. Winston Churchill fought in that war.
In current day Namibia. Germany committed genocide there a century ago.
When I was 18 I'm 53 now I worked on a house for a Jewish lady who lived through a camp she made bread every day feed us huge lunch an sent bread home with us. She was a true American an left a huge mark on me wish I could see her now I'm sure she has passed but she lives on in me
The most disturbing thing about this video, in my opinion, is that people don't know this happened. Those that don't know history are doomed to relive it.
What’s worse is those who deny it happened.
I was hoping they would cover more about the Ghettos.
Research Yad Vashem or US Holocaust Museum websites.
There is much education on these sites.
@@mellowguts
What's even worse is that you still believe it happened.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 dont you and why not?
When you know what you know after watching this (there's always more to learn on the camps), it makes it even more sad that some people still take selfies and artifacts from these camps.
Even sadder is how many still believe in the highly inflated number of killed people in these camps
@@OnlyInhuman90 for some reason I find it harder to believe the Nazis. Call me crazy 😐
I have no desire to visit or explore a death camp. 😭
Those TikTok girls doing selfies are cringe
I say leave a memorial with the name of every death and person held against will on a plaque on the demolished sites historic value or not its an insult if any remain intact. Then move on, forgive as human on human error but never forget the mistakes of governing forces using rasicm/borders/nations to seperate the human race and playing chess with armys just to keep human populations in check. Sickening honestly
Crazy part is this video was in my for you page while I am learning about WW2 and Concentration Camps at school.
My great-grandad came from a small town that is now in western Ukraine. He and his brother went as soldiers of the Red Army - which is why they both survived. Their entire family, neighbors and the whole Jewish population of their town were killed. When he went there after the war, his daughter (my grandmother) said he came back totally shaken and never actually told her or her mother what he saw there. Truly we must never repeat the horrors of the past!
History must be examined again and again to never repeat itself.....this is the most important statement of the day...
An event so unquestionably true it is illegal to question it.
Why would you question it instead of researching it yourself?
Its still unbelievable to me that anything like this happend. The cold calculated planing that must have taken place, the massive amount of people involved willing to do such things, it chilling.
it is unbelievable, because it's fantasy
You can rest easy. It’s complete poppycock, atrocity propaganda to justify the allied war crimes.
@@aaronerickson8878 "fantasy" well, im glad the germans kept so much documentation on such "fantasies"
@@agelessrebellion8271
How come you can find the 6 million figure in tons of newspapers from before Hitler’s time in power (1900-1930s) All claim they are being “exterminated” in Russia, Ukraine, all over Europe. They even call for loans without interest (a total of $1,000,000,000 needed) to help the six million when the war ended.
@@agelessrebellion8271
Not like documentation can be forged and pushed as authentic.
With a German born Father and twin, my Uncle, in 1911, they grew up in Germany,
but they didn't want any part of it, and left
by the mid 1930's when things got worse.
My Father was able to go to Zurich, and
met my Mother, born there, and Jewish.
In 1939, they went to the UK, London, and
my Uncle too, whereby my Father and Uncle
being German aliens, when France fell in
1940, we're then sent to Canada for 3 years,
returning in 1943 to Isle of Man, then to
London, and my parents were married in
1943, and I was born there in 1944. We
we're bombed still, until the war ended in
1945, and came to the US in 1949, on the
Queen Mary ship, and lived out their lives
here, as I still do. I was in the USAf from
1969 to 1973, during the Vietnam War,
now being 78, and a 100% Disabled Veteran.
Thank you for your service
@@raymondmartin6737 🫡 My Father was an Army Vietnam Veteran...thank you for your service sir 🇺🇸
@@MissCarter747 Thanks 😊
My great grandad died in one of those. We only recently discovered what had happened to him because he was living in countryside in a very rural area and one day he just didn't come home. The family assumed he was killed but never knew how. Just recently my aunt found a goodbye letter from the camp (apparently one of the guards was human enough to pass it to the family) and in this letter he said he was gonna get killed but he was innocent. It's really sad, for years there was no record of him and I can only imagine how many families has those loose ends when they can only assume what happened but never knowing for sure
So important to understand the past in order to learn and grow from it.
For anyone willing to learn more, read the stories of Tadeusz Borowski, such as "Proszę państwa do gazu" (Go to the gas, please) and "Ludzie, którzy szli" (People, who were walking).
It gave me a completely other view on those camps, as I've always imagined them as the most horrible places, where any insubordination would mean lead to the head or something similar. Meanwhile it had the traits of your stereotypical prison, you could "sort something out" with the guards, like "staynumers" (one of the first prisoners with the smallest numbers) being able to rob newcomers of food, clothing and similar (but for stealing gold you guessed it, lead to the head).
If there's any haunted places on earth, there's no way every single one of the camp sites aren't one of them.
Reading the Hiding Place is eye opening. I recommend the book to anyone who is interested in this topic.
In Germany we visit Camps with School, were i live Dachau is pretty near. It was horrible tbh, to stand on the ground were thousands were killed is really frightening. And to hear all the stuff what happend there wasnt easy to hear. Left a mark in me for sure.
When I was in school, we had a lady come in to talk about the Holocaust and the death camps.
She was in Auschwitz Birkenau. She showed us the faded, but still legible tattoo on her thin, wrinkled forearm.
The most amazing thing? She never harbored any hatred or sense of blame towards those Nazis who were in charge of her abusive incarceration. I recall that, vividly. She said:" They were just boys. Scared boys. They followed orders because they were afraid of what might happen to them or their families if they didn't." Many German adults simply 'disappeared'...and you had better ask no questions if you didn't want to disappear, too.
In my younger life, I was employed as both an in-home caregiver,& a terminal/dementia caregiver in facilities.
I chose the 'graveyard' shifts, because that was when one might experience conversations with elderlies during a rare moment of lucidity.
More than a dozen times, I heard how they were the only survivor of a family. A lady whose blue eyed and blond haired family was a subject for 'breeding experiments' lost an older cousin who was savaged by an adult male chimpanzee. "They wouldn't let us see her body..."
Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. And, unfortunately, it continues today, in different places all over the world.
The main reason we know so much about the experiments,& the "Final Solution" is due to obsessive documentation by the Nazis themselves,added to the evidence and testimony provided by some very courageous individuals.
May they all find peace.💔🙏
My grandmother was born in one of these camps. My great-grandmother (her mother) did not teach her kids of her Jewish heritage because of this, and she developed an anti-Semitic view of Jewish people. She also regularly said "why won't God just take me" in broken English.
Crazy how these so called death camps had maternity wards huh
Im from Germany and my school is right next to a secondary concentration camp, the barracks used then are now social appartments for people that receive benefits. It can't get into my mind what used to happen there. My great-grandpa used to work in the company that the prisoners worked in and it's impossible to know how he treated them, I never knew him. But he is described as the sweetest, most loving and funny grandpa ever by my mom and aunt - so I do have hope that he found ways to treat the prisoners well whenever he could.
I do want to stress though, that all points mentioned here in the video are taught either in schools or memorial sites which are very common. So even if a German you know doesn't know this much it's not because they weren't told ,:)
German who recently mentioned "Germans killed in Polish death camps" on Al Jazzera apparently skipped that part in school.
Liar
@@awkander not lies
@@sarapandey9301 liar
@@awkander nope
Learned a few things from this video just like all your videos. Tho you might wanna fix that "star of David" you got in there.
It's terrifying to think that us in the west are so spoiled to think this could never happen again. It can and may.
It's borderline happening in Ukraine for months.
I'm Jewish and I find these videos really interesting. My great great grandma and grandpa were sent to a concentration camp and my grandpa got out Alive but my grandma didn't. My grandpa died 2 years ago . R.i.p to all who lost their lives in the camps
What’s not mentioned is the fact they had pow futbol(soccer ) teams
Yesterday I was in Dachau and it broke my heart the stories that I heard there
My great uncle was captured by the Japanese while fighting for America in the Philippines. He was sent on a death March and managed to survive then later died in a Japanese concentration camp. I can’t believe anyone would do this to people and I can’t imagine how awful German concentration camps were 💔
Check out Unit 731.
The Infographics is a GREAT show !!! There seems to be no bias, which is extremely rare. Thank you :)
Anyone else notice at 7:38 that that's not actually a star of David?
What stuns me about how horrific these places were is that most officers had to get drunk to work the selection (the moment when they would decide who would work and who would go to the chambers). Imagine a place so horrific, that despite these officers living there every day, and being monsters, they still have to get drunk to do it.
Well, aside from joseph mengele. He was always completely sober
I also find it crazy and they did drugs too. Just to put into a mindset of not caring. Until all that wears off and they’re sitting in their warm home after ‘work’ kissing their wife and hugging the kids while they had murdered women and children
@@Vanyawwd well that's why the officers lived in Auchwitz, it separated them from reality. If they had To go home to normal society after it would be insane, so by making all the officers live there constantly surrounded by it, it "normalized" it
No words or imagination to express the pain and torture those people have suffered, it shouldn't happen to any human being irrespective of religion, region, caste ☹️
I’m Jewish and it always makes me cry when I watch stuff like this. It’s so hard to understand why other human beings were allowed to something like this for so long.
Unfortunately this is not An isolated incident. Mankind has treated mankind this way since the beginning of time.
As long as the love of power Supersedes The power of love we will have this problem.
Because humanity is not as good as it claims to be.
@@DogDogGodFog not sure who started he rumor that humans are “good”. We are animals like the rest. We will do we we have to in order to survive. Life has been too good for a couple generations now so many forgot that. I have a feeling within a decade or so we will be reminded that we are just animals fighting for resources to survive.
the fact that this still happens in todays time with the uyghur muslims being treated like absolute animals but nobody is willing to talk about that
Back then, as a kid, I imagined concentration camps as warehouses/illegal facilites where kidnapped people got experimented on and forced to do labor and if they didn't do what they were told, they were forced to starve for a week (Yeah, my imagination can be pretty insane and dark sometimes)
it’s possible you imagine these things because you experienced it in a past life.. maybe?
@@aurora-sr9ue No, my life is just weird
I thought they were just places Jewish people got sent to,I remember reading a book in a young grade about a girl who lost her friend to the holocaust and thought every country just surrendered their jewish Citizens.I was so wrong I didn't know about ww2 yet.
Okay pick me
Please, cover King Leopoldo and the Congo genocide
no one cares
I care so u are wrong🤡
What?
I don't think it ever stopped and I don't think Leopold had much to do with it
The Holocaust was appallingly horrific - you’d have thought we would have learnt not to treat people like that . . . but sadly it seems we learnt nothing.
The fact that people STILL deny this even happened.
It annoys me too. Because there are many SS soldier that have admitted gassing happened and so many admit the random shooting of prisoners.
Also how could 100K+ survivors claim it to be true if it was fake? Someone would have told the "truth" to sell a book
I have two WW2 books about the Camps that are really good(not good for what happened, just how they were written was very good):
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and The Book Thief. These are both phenomenal books and I believe you can get them anywhere
You might want to see the film Escape from Sobibor.
True story of an uprising and mass escape in a concentration camp.
I just checked out the book The Book Thief today from the library. I’m going to start reading it tomorrow. I heard it was a good book.
@@Oliviux78 that’s awesome! You are simultaneously cry, and learn a lot from that book!
I think you will like the book Three Sisters! It's an amazing book, and made me cry many times
@@Benni777 I just finished the book. It was absolutely great! I was so interested. I couldn’t put it down. Any spare time I had I would sit down and try to read a chapter a chapter or two. At night when my family went to sleep I would spend an hour or two before falling asleep reading. It’s such a good story and I feel so much for those people who had to live at that time in Germany. Such a sad and beautiful story.
And the scary thing is there’s 1) people that think this didn’t happen and 2) people in Germany are pushing for it again. (But not just there) generalizing an entire group of people is exactly why this happened and people that were considered “pure” watched Jews get dragged away and said absolutely nothing. Welcome to the world we still live in
Do a video on the holodomor now and who perpetrated it.
I Penetrated it
My great grandfather was a medic in WW2. I have his picture in uniform here but sadly that's all I have. He died when I was still a child due to cancer. His wife (my great grandmother) and him had met after the war. During the war, my great grandmother had a sweetheart that was a pilot. He died in the war and she named their first born son after him. Her brother was 16 and lied about his age, joined the war, and sadly died as well. Her 2nd son she named after him. When she first met my great grandpa she told him she refused to date him if he was a German, because of her resentment for losing her brother and sweetheart in the war. So my great grandpa lied to her until he knew he wanted to marry her one day. I guess she got over it.
I went to Dachau this past summer, it was such a sobering experience. I think everyone should go to a camp, solely so they can learn and know how hellish it was.
Horrible, please do a video on Japan's abuses and cruelty during WWII
Ye they evil in WW2
@@KyuuDesperation
What do you wanna say?
@@GrillerRohde which side are you on?
U should start at early 1920 they made some rly crazy stuff
@@KyuuDesperation why be on a side
I like this youtube channel because he explains it very well to comprehend
thank you for this video! I notized something, maybe not just me - There is a typo at the beginning where the gate reads "Arbiet macht Frei". it is called "Arbeit".
God bless all that were lost during these times. May we never forget ❤️❤️❤️
Although most of my family came to the US before WW2, not all of them did. They were Jews from Poland and Russia, so they likely got a double-whammy of trouble from the nazis. Unfortunately, their treatment is not unique. Humans are a peculiar species in our capacity for gratuitous cruelty toward one another.
When I was young, 1967, there was a couple in their 30s down the street from us that had their ID numbers tattooed on their arms. They were at Auschwitz as teens where they met and they got married shortly after the camp was liberated. Very friendly and kind people.
1967!! How old are you now?
@@PhantomGlockz 66 in June
@@pugowner1347 wow
@@PhantomGlockz Lol
This man is a good story teller.. when he will be a grandpa he will be favourite to his grandsos
*grandchildern
@@shahd986 Grandsos*
grandsos
Humans are so evil 😔 Rest In Peace to those that fought and passed and I salute those that survived this disgusting era in history
Do a video on Janusz Korczak, the only man to have a free pass out of the Warsaw Ghetto. He declined it and was gassed in Treblinka.
Korczak was a advocate for children's rights, pediatrician, author, ran the largest orphanage in Warsaw.
Could you talk about the concentration camps that were in Italy? I feel like they never get talked about and I only learned about them a few months ago.
You would think this format has its limits, but no, every single face is haunting... its very effective, even in its grade-school level teaching style
I had a nightmare I was Jewish and alive during those years and it was very scary since I have been looking into this history how could someone hate people so much…?
Extremely disheatening yet fascinating information. Although, I think at the end you said 'resulted in one of the most horrific tragedies of the 21st century' - which should say 20th century.
I see alot of comments saying this wasn't covered in schools I was born and raised in Michigan and learned about the camps in school.. I'm native American and what wasn't taught was stuff like residential schools which both of my grandparents were kidnapped and taken to.