Austria: Exploring the WW2 Nazi Mauthausen Concentration Camp

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  • Mauthausen, Austria - the Mauthausen concentration camp (Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp) in Austria. Let's go visit the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (the Mauthausen concentration camp) which was the hub of a large group of German concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Gusen) in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres east of the city of Linz. The Mauthausen concentration camp operated from the time when Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich in 8 August 1938, to 5 May 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Starting with a single camp at Mauthausen, the complex expanded over time and by the summer of 1940 Mauthausen had become one of the largest labour camp complexes in the German-controlled part of Europe, with four main subcamps at Mauthausen and nearby Gusen, and nearly 100 other subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany, directed from a central office at Mauthausen.
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  • @kellymotion1674
    @kellymotion1674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Vic thank you sir for again expressing this sad nazi monstrosities in the most respected manner you are always very clear in your narration and always mindful to be respectful i think your a wonderful kind person telling everyone of there slowly forgotten story may your voice be a constant reminder we must never forget so this won't be repeated!! Because sadly and unfortunately this is still very possible to happen again!! thank you Vic God bless you and your family. X

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @katherinebottingcouturekat5287
      @katherinebottingcouturekat5287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VicStefanu ]]

    • @everdinestenger1548
      @everdinestenger1548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was insufferable and the worst is that the leftist world is repeating hystory with their cancell culture. God help us all.

    • @vunenicar
      @vunenicar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2:20

    • @emersonsoriano7714
      @emersonsoriano7714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bbbbb. Hi

  • @frankmuldowney7839
    @frankmuldowney7839 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It was 2001, when I went to the Camp to become more educated what happened here. I was born in Dublin, Ireland, where we only hear of the mass buried graves in our country as our own history is mostly buried and no one want to discuss it. Coming to here actually helped, to see and experience the reality of it, which effected my soul during the day. I hadn't prayed for many years, but my visit there made it so clear to me and this time I did, giving me a different perception of the real world we are living in, still controlled by power. Thank you so much for this video, to remind me what I learned and focus on my own kindness and gratitude how lucky I am now today.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello my friend, thank you for these interesting comments!

  • @markwest1963
    @markwest1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My father was one of the 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron troops who liberated Mauthausen. Awesome video, thank you!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your dad saved my dad and he is a hero 75118. Please write a book. Speer never should’ve been allowed to live for what he did. Roll call Appel was the hardest part of the day. It was freezing cold and prisoners couldn’t move. If they did they were beaten. Notice Germans or Austrians laughing. Tell me what has really changed.

  • @AK-ju7ku
    @AK-ju7ku 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My grandfather has survived hell of this concentration camp . He arrived there 10.01.1942 , day of his 32 nd birthday.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My dad and grandfather was there as well. I so hear you.

  • @shawndayvis6169
    @shawndayvis6169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    You sir are providing a great service to all humanity...thank you greatly

    • @DAVEDEATH1000
      @DAVEDEATH1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I could be wrong here but I think the machine you were puzzled about could be for treating clothing with Zyklon-B. I thought that because the doors look like they would seal tight when closed.

    • @keishawashington8276
      @keishawashington8276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen

  • @palignac
    @palignac 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Thank you for posting this. My parents, Lajos & Iren Pusztay, were prisoners at Mauthausen from probably late October/early November 1944 until the camp was liberated by U.S. Forces in 1945. My parents along with all their co-workers at a factory in Budapest were sent to Mauthausen after the Nazis discovered the factory in Budapest was purposely making inferior products in protest of being under the thumbs of the Germans. My parents very rarely talked about Mauthausen because it was so horrific. The one comment that I remember both of them saying is that the Nazis routinely would take prisoners out to the Danube and execute them via firing squad and the bodies would then fall into the river. My father's section was informed that they were to be executed "in 2 weeks" but luckily the liberation happened just before their execution was to take place.

    • @palignac
      @palignac 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      www.findagrave.com/memorial/128938945/iren-juras-pusztay

    • @palignac
      @palignac 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      www.findagrave.com/memorial/191759401/lajos-pusztay

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you for your comments. Please watch this video, this is exactly what your parents were talking about: th-cam.com/video/xo_6BIJawvY/w-d-xo.html

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hi interesting, I read both of the biographies, thank you!!

    • @jhorne18
      @jhorne18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Your parents had more courage than could ever be described. You share their honor by your post.

  • @tonybezanson9625
    @tonybezanson9625 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vic, I want to thank you for these videos. Very educational and interesting. I don't think I could set foot in these places without breaking down in tears.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know exactly what you mean… Thank you for your comments!

  • @timjewell5117
    @timjewell5117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thanks Vic its so important to keep this history alive so it is never forgotten

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @driekkus1
    @driekkus1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    You explain it with respect of the victims my friend bless you....Ican hear it in your voice

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hi and thank you for your comments!!

  • @chawk1974
    @chawk1974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for showing this. My father was in the 11th Armored division, 41st Cav Mechanized and one of the first to enter the camp. He spoke very little of that experience other than it was absolute horror. I was hoping to visit this some day but not sure that will ever happen. Thanks again for the tour.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for sharing

  • @jelenajm1160
    @jelenajm1160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you for keeping history alive with this video. May history never forget the poor people who suffered in these concentration camps, nor ever forgive those who operated them.My Serbian great-grandfather was a survivor of Mathausen, Dachau, and a Croatian and Nazi -operated concentration camp in the Balkans known as Sajmiste. He often spoke of the absolutely horrendous conditions in which the prisoners were kept in Mathausen and in the other camps.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel for you and your family. My father and grandfather were there, then they were sent to ebensee

  • @katgkiri
    @katgkiri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for the tour and your kind and thoughtful words. My brother found and sent your video to me. I recently started researching our ancestry. Our 85 year old father was a young child in Crete, Greece, during WWII and recalls the occupation. He lost two relatives, the first, a paternal uncle, who he knew was taken to a camp, and the second, a relative who was killed in am explosion at his home. This weekend, i discovered our great uncle is listed in the 'death book' for the Mauthausen camp and in US Holocaust Museum records.. he died a few months after he was taken there as a political prisoner, supposedly of sepsis.. it must have been horrible.. thank you sir for your efforts to share this part of history with everyone...

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi and thank you for your comments. Many Greeks died in Mauthausen, there is a monument outside the camp dedicated to them...

  • @b.2221
    @b.2221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    You have great courage Vic, and I could not visit a place like this in real life. Thank you so much for bringing these terrible place's to our attention. You have my gratitude and full respect Sir 👍 Tam.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi, thank you for viewing my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

    • @ssherrierable
      @ssherrierable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There’s no ghosts or anything so you’ll be fine if you go, bring scooby-doo with you and you’ll find the criminals!

  • @annalapoint7156
    @annalapoint7156 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Vic, I have studied the Holocaust for years! Have journals with photos from every camp! Thank you for being so accurate on such a horrific era in history!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hi Anna, thank you very much!!!!!!!

  • @mysterious838
    @mysterious838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The silence of the camp area and your voice that emphasizing the facts really impressed me..
    I will probably not be able to visit this area on my own life but thank you for that amazing and detailed tour!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow, thank you for your comments!

  • @davidwaddington9414
    @davidwaddington9414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    The chamber with a door at each end @10.30 would be an chemical autoclave, used for cleansing dirty and infected clothing.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes, thank you for the information!

    • @dqve11
      @dqve11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Correct.. Auschwitz has the exact same machinery btw.. Just horrific and mindblowing to think that 'human beings'.. actually planned all this with great meticulousness, fully aware and determined. The evil devil does exists for he is among us.

    • @siggyretburns7523
      @siggyretburns7523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll buy that.

    • @juliewillis7852
      @juliewillis7852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I remember that from another documentary, for sterilisation of clothes

    • @angelarac1554
      @angelarac1554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dirty people u mean, i dont think u understand the level pf evil that happens

  • @christinemistretta7433
    @christinemistretta7433 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As always thank you mr. Stefanu for the video as always the footage and information is well done and put together . As it is very pleasent to see an watch these videos for it very detailed . Thank you again an a job well done

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @sharoncarrier18
    @sharoncarrier18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Your welcome. By the way, I think your narration was great. Informative, but done in a very quiet respectful tone.

  • @mrssmith3872
    @mrssmith3872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yet again brilliant narration, beautifully scripted and done with such respect. You felt here what I felt when I came. It swallows you whole and if you sit still and listen you can feel them with you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @grahamwarner4760
    @grahamwarner4760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A very well done & respectful documentary of a place of ultimate horror, I particularly liked the way you stayed silent through the hall of names in honour of the people that were put to death. Thank you for sharing

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @kathygodwin1132
    @kathygodwin1132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am extremely proud to know that my father was a platoon leader from The 30th Infantry, 3rd division who liberated this god awful concentration camp. He never talked to his family about it. We understand why now. But we are honored to know he helped liberate this camp.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @alternativelight8424
    @alternativelight8424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Vic. The device that you are showing at 11:20 into the video is most likely an Autoclave. If so, this device would have been used to sterilize clothes of prisoners by subjecting the items to high temperatures and pressure, as well as steam. These devices are used in hospitals and industrial laundries. Thank you for your attention to detail and excellent photography.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi, thank you for this information and for viewing my videos!!

    • @Lineandsinker87
      @Lineandsinker87 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes it’s for disinfecting clothes they have more at autswitz 2

    • @stephanbateman5410
      @stephanbateman5410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Lineandsinker87 Yes, they had them at Dachau as well. Used for killing of lice to prevent Typhus.

  • @josefschmeau4682
    @josefschmeau4682 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the most moving videos ever..
    Your subtle narration graces the visit with appropriate dignity to the mindless suffering endured there.😢
    NEVER AGAIN !😩😩😩

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @georgepolasky9809
    @georgepolasky9809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, Vic, as always. This is one of your greatest video services. You presented magnificently, as ever. You are the best.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments! 👍👍👍

  • @ohevisrael
    @ohevisrael ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My late Mother survived this camp after being in Auschwitz for 6 months. She had already lost her parents, grandparents, sister and her 3 year old nephew and all but one of her Mothers 9 siblings. My Mother was traumatized for life.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi George...Thank you for sharing with us these comments!! wow... I can believe how traumatized your mother was...

  • @Neal_Schier
    @Neal_Schier ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Sir for bringing this to us. You are so very respectful. What you do is a true homage to those who were lost. The horror of this is unimaginable and thus it is important that there are programs like this so that the world may never forget.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 😊😊

  • @TippyPuddles
    @TippyPuddles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for this indepth tour. I doubt that I will ever get the opportunity to see this in person. You made me feel like I had a personal tour and explained so well what I was seeing. Many thanks.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @instinctivechannel6668
    @instinctivechannel6668 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I seen some of your other video sometime ago I like them done very real thanks for history learning curve.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed the videos!! 😊😊😊

  • @mimilini1
    @mimilini1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is the best feature I’ve ever seen on Mauthausen. You give such respect to the victims and the the atrocities they bore. This truly is an amazing documentary about ombré of the worst concentration camps in human history.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @TriciaSenior25557
    @TriciaSenior25557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you Vic for this tour, very respectfully done. I noticed those very large wash basins were the same as the Nazi’s used in Sachsenhausen. Apparently, even in there the guards or kapo’s would do harm to the inmates even to the point of death. These are truly evil places, but it’s important for everyone to see documentaries like this. ....not everyone has the means to get out there and visit these cess pits. God bless ya Vic!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Tricia, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @haileeraestout5567
      @haileeraestout5567 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu You Should Look Into The Fire Of Mauthausen In 1189 Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa Burnt
      The Place Down But It Was Rebuilt Into The Camp We See Today

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@haileeraestout5567 Wow, very interesting, thank you, I will check it out!

  • @gibsondrummer
    @gibsondrummer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Vic that is such a powerful video , i sometimes wonder how you can endure the overwhelming emotions of being in the very places where so many innocent human beings perished under such brutal conditions i know how important it is to present this material to the world so that nobody ever forgets what happened here and is still happening in such places as north korea , syria and other authorititarian regimes
    Thanks again for such compelling work

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your wonderful comments, and yes, it does get overwhelming at times, being in all these places and trying not to thonk of the horrors that were commited against innocent people..

  • @pnk878251
    @pnk878251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love your channel. Thank you for taking me to these historically significant locations. I may never get to see on my own but appreciate your videos. I learn something every time I watch. Thank you so much

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi, thank you for your wonderful comments and for viewing my videos!!

  • @ednammansfield8553
    @ednammansfield8553 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Vic for posting this video and the commentary of what went on here. It really brings it to home the attrocities committed by the Nazi's. You did this video with a lot of respect and it is much appreciated. Thanks again from here in the UK.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Ednam, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @vistany64
    @vistany64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vic you have the best concentration camp videos very detailed and your voice is BEAUTIFUL

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you!! 👍👍👍

  • @lumr1976
    @lumr1976 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A Good and very comprehensive tour. You did a great job explaining the details It was very sad, but we need to understand the evils that can lurk in man. I always appreciate your attention to details in giving context to history. It was sad to see what man is capable of doing to his fellow man through prejudice and willful brutality. Keep up the great work, Vic.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your interesting comments my friend!!

  • @barneyporter6138
    @barneyporter6138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks again Vic learning a lot of history

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @amandagarbett9085
    @amandagarbett9085 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing your videos with the world of these awful places so we dont forget and thank you for the respect and dignity you filmed them with also remembering these people actually existed that they were human and bless them they suffered terribly .The information you shared with such dignity and respect was incredible .Munchausen brought tears to my eyes its not only keeping the stories alive but by sharing information people like me have never heard before it give people a real insight .I had heard of the slave labour but not in such detail or about the profit its horrific to think of it. However the truth needs to not only be told but be kept alive and this is what your videos do so thank you from the bottom of my heart

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments!

  • @petert9110
    @petert9110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hi from New Zealand,i've been on a few trips with you so i feel like i already know you. Keep up the exploring.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Peter and hello from beautiful Rotorua!! Thank you for your wonderful comments!

  • @novadhd
    @novadhd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was great thanks for presenting it . I hope to make it here to visit someday. My grandfather was liberated from the Ebensee subcamp.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
    @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never heard anything about this one. I knew there was thousands of camps around at the time but wow this is absolutely unreal to see this. Thanks for sharing. It's a shame we didn't learn this at school. We don't want the past to repeat and if we don't respect the past it will happen again in the future.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The most famous Suvivor at the Liberation was SIMON WIESENTAL

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, thank you for this information!

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A very informative video of Mauthausen. You omitted the 76 steps down to the quarry which was why the camp was located there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The steps (unfortunately) were closed on the day I visited, I was told that a tourist had fallen the day before..

  • @galaxy7176
    @galaxy7176 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent narration.Thank you for this historical video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @LL-sq8se
    @LL-sq8se 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    So horrific and sad, Thanks for the documentation..You are an amazing person!🕊️🙋

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you, thank you!!!

    • @shawndayvis6169
      @shawndayvis6169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you greatly for your services to all mankind to see this horrifying place of evil....God bless

    • @joxp6971
      @joxp6971 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vic i went to auschwitz and dachau back in 1987 im still haunted today i am planning a trip with my son in dec to holland and poland, from sydney. Love your travel vids.

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joxp6971 back then, since poland was under communist rule, was fence still electified ?

    • @joxp6971
      @joxp6971 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@geezerp1982 no it wasn't but it was totally uninhabited. Hope you had a good time in Sydney,all the best

  • @everdinestenger1548
    @everdinestenger1548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As my father was in the Dutch resistance and taken captive by the Germans, he wanted me to understand so he mademe read everything about the Dutch Underground, the camps, the prisons and everything, I could barely read and I was only six years old. My father got tortured and went crazy in prison, our whole family suffered because of that. As so many millions did suffer.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi, thank you for this sharing with us this information and for viewing my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @remembernoahtheflood
    @remembernoahtheflood 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Vic Stefanu for sharing your videos of these places where such evil took place. We must NEVER forget what happened there. Seeing the places in modern day times gives us a depth of the reality of it all instead of from an old black and white photo only. Evil must be stopped at all costs. Never allow it to take root.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @tvland2007
    @tvland2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just looking at this, I can only image what the victims been through and the horror that they lived through! Its unbearable and sad! Thanks for the videos!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank again for another great video from vic

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, I am glad you enjoyed the video!! 👍👍👍

  • @andrewrossi5434
    @andrewrossi5434 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very informative video Vic. Very well done. What a sobering experience. I will be going myself in December of 2019. Thank you for the explanations.

  • @jurandyrcarvalho2998
    @jurandyrcarvalho2998 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks for this video. I didn t know about this concentration camp. Aushwitch is more known in Brasil. It is a very informative and sad video. You did a good and corageous job Vic.
    Bie.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

    • @ahsankabir4590
      @ahsankabir4590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Heart braking...

  • @bonnie8441
    @bonnie8441 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video Vic.Very respectful.You have such a soothing voice.

  • @ginagina9720
    @ginagina9720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just come across your video and no words can describe how I’m feeling watching your video it is just so upsetting knowing what the prisoners went through it was definitely “misery” and so cruel how people were treated RIP to all the people who died at this horrific place so so sad…thank you for sharing this video…

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello Georgina, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos! 👍👍👍

    • @ginagina9720
      @ginagina9720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So sad for what people went though

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ginagina9720 Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @harshdeep4171
    @harshdeep4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sir I literally love the way you capture the moment in your camera roll it just feels like I am also there and experiencing the same dilemma . If it ever become possible some day I would also love to travel 😊 world .
    Last but not the least thanks for uploading such a great content in such a pretty manner and keeping the things simple 😉 . Love From INDIA 🇮🇳

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hello my friend, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @harshdeep4171
      @harshdeep4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VicStefanu My pleasure sir

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I also wanted to say that the purpose of my channel is for the viewer to feel as if he/she was with me at the time of videotaping; you got this perfectly right, thank you!

    • @harshdeep4171
      @harshdeep4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VicStefanu ❣️

  • @graemecouch5010
    @graemecouch5010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why in all pictures of the ovens isnt the chimney connected to them ?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Read this article here: littlegreyrabbit.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/mauthausen-madness/

  • @xxxxx262
    @xxxxx262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you wonderful videos!!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @rachelenglish1032
    @rachelenglish1032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YOU'RE VERY GOOD AT THIS AND BRAVE TO DO THIS.God Bless you for all you do. Thank you. My great grandparents escaped from Russia and the pogroms. Your friend Rachel

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @cherylstevens4717
    @cherylstevens4717 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much vic for another sad video i reckon the prisoners would have appreciated you visiting the camp. X

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 😊😊😊

    • @cherylstevens4717
      @cherylstevens4717 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu You're welcome xx

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cherylstevens4717 😊😊😊

  • @jessicamilestone4026
    @jessicamilestone4026 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for shining a light on this dark chapter of history

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @maureenjackson2041
    @maureenjackson2041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very informative video but very sad, I can't even imagine the unspeakable horrors the inmates went through, the inhuman treatment they endured it must have been hell on earth. This must NEVER happen again.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    another great video from vic

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @garyjacobs2789
    @garyjacobs2789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for your sense of history. !

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for viewing my videos!

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone4351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God bless & keep you always. These are places I had always planned to visit and cannot, as I am now disabled. You have made t possible for me to “travel” finally! TY TY TY! My heart will always be broken for this horrible time in the 20th century. 😢 I believe most of these barracks originally had dirt floors. 🙏💕✝️✡️🙋‍♀️

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @jamesforbes6725
    @jamesforbes6725 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vic Stefanu your online videos are amazing and I would like to say that many more people need to watch your footage, look forward to many more and also can I send you a small donation?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments.. Sure, donations are always welcome...

  • @samthemacman
    @samthemacman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for this video. This is one of the camps which Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, was a prisoner. A very good presentation. Thank you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @billkeon880
    @billkeon880 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I visited this camp in 1992 and it was chilling to walk through it. The group of young people (late teens, early 20s) I was with were crying or dumbstruck and as we left we all sat silently for about half an hour after trying to take it all in as we rode away. No one could speak. No words

  • @sharoncarrier18
    @sharoncarrier18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    your video was well done
    I found it interesting & heartbreaking. I did not know the stairs of death and quarry were temporarily closed. However, I think you should have mentioned them in your video and perhaps shown pictures of them so viewers not familiar with Mauthausen's history could get the full picture of what these poor people actually went through. I still enjoyed your video and hope you do more.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for getting back to me and for the suggestions...

  • @einarfenrirson
    @einarfenrirson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was the unique concentration camp where the commandant was the same person to the beginning to his end

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @mielies666
    @mielies666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely love your passion for history. I love history and wish i could travel like you..

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello my friend, I love history and I am so fortunate to have been able to travel to so many places so far, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @TracyFenner
    @TracyFenner ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The machine in the basement was an autoclave steam sterilizer
    for clothes and items

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for this information! 😊😊

  • @pamcharles926
    @pamcharles926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandfather, Clyde Hoffer, shot the locks off at that camp back in 1945. He said the prisoners would walk past him, skin and bones, barely alive with a blank stare not saying a word.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @marig6184
    @marig6184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the tour.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for visiting! 👍👍👍

  • @catheyahannas3240
    @catheyahannas3240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way you present your video is very personal and informative, you tell the truth. I can hear it in your voice how it's affecting you to walk through that hell hole of a place just to keep it alive in the memory of all!! Our only consultation is like my Gran who lived through the war always said, there's a special place in hell for Hitler and his Nazi thugs and they will find out just exactly how it feels to do what they did and more!!
    Keep up the great work Vic and we will keep watching, thanks for a awesome video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dear Mr Stefanu. I visited Mauthausen 35 years ago those 2 crematory ovens are SYMBOLIC. No one was cremated at MAUTHAUSEN in them. Just like the AUSCHWITZ ones, they were brought and constructed post-war. The single oven was there and 4 feet away another oven called the small cremato. It had all the appearance of a solid fuel central heating oven. Not seen on your video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok, thank you for this information!!!!!!!!

    • @pliedtka
      @pliedtka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are you saying that Birkenau Camp crematoriums didn't exist? You weren't there in 1945 so how do you know.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pliedtka I do not think I said that!!

  • @susiepittman601
    @susiepittman601 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this profound video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @bigtexan7562
    @bigtexan7562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I visited Mauthausen in December 2019. It was easily the most distressing place I’ve ever seen. In the backdrop of breathtakingly beautiful rural Austria, perched on a scenic hilltop lies this notorious concentration camp. Vic did a great job, but didn’t show the haunting “steps of death”. At the foot of the hill was a granite quarry where inmates spent 12 hours each day mining stone and carrying it up the notorious steps to the camp. Thousands of emaciated prisoners died in the climb carrying 50+ kgs of granite at a time up the notorious steps. Also, Vic did show the toilets of the prisoner barracks - eerily, they still have a lingering foul smell of stale human waste, even after all these decades…

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍 Unfortunately, a couple of hours before my arrival at Mauthausen, someone (an older tourist) had fallen on the steps and they were closed. I was not even allowed to get close to them...

    • @bigtexan7562
      @bigtexan7562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VicStefanu thank you, Vic and great job once again. Your explanation makes complete sense; a man of your diligence and sense of history would never have missed the steps but for the unfortunate accident you just mentioned. Keep up the good work Sir, kudos to you for keeping history alive and accessible. 🙏

  • @cindyokubo4494
    @cindyokubo4494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wasn't that 3 level chamber for disinfecting clothing?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, it was, thank you!!

  • @Mimi-uu1ik
    @Mimi-uu1ik ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My fathers mothers brother was here for 2 years his name was Saul Hutterer May his souls have an aliyah

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!

  • @scottburns8697
    @scottburns8697 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video. You do great work

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @bettyali9847
    @bettyali9847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tears and pain I'm so sorry for what these people went through

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @patriciahayes5666
    @patriciahayes5666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for taking me to a place in time that if the walls spoke, all the hairs on my body would stand with horror.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A Mauthausen survivor who wrote a book about it was French Resistance prisoner Evelyn de la Chene. By the way is Mauthausen still charging admittance?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, entrance is free.... Thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @sharongarcia9640
    @sharongarcia9640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for your informative but sensitive tour of a horrible place. We need to be reminded that this could happen again.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @eliasmayer8122
    @eliasmayer8122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When I was there I could have swear they are still there there was a strange feeling full of humility and honor that I was there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @alanbrooke-feather7567
    @alanbrooke-feather7567 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Vic. Very sensitively narrated, very thought-provoking. Will you be able to do a visit to Buchenwald and narrate it? Thanks again! Alan U.K.🇬🇧

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi and thank you for your comments! I will be visiting Buchenwald later on this year...

  • @Greywolfgrafix
    @Greywolfgrafix 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I greatly enjoy your videos, Sir!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @MaxZomboni
    @MaxZomboni 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    10:19 My guess is that it was an autoclave, but I could be wrong. This is an interesting video. Thanks for uploading it.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are right, thank you for your comments!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes they are, thank you!

    • @donengland9140
      @donengland9140 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures Vic, I love and appreciate your videos. I have no chance of visiting these amazing places. It’s just amazing. Thank you!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you again for your wonderful comments!!

  • @suzib777
    @suzib777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I lived in Klagenfurt in 1979-1980. I'm not aware of this camp, and did not speak to any of my Austrian colleagues about it. My father flew B-17 during WWII, but he rarely spoke of his time overseas....a sad testimony to this time of history.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is a very famous site.. thank you for your comments!

  • @xxxxx262
    @xxxxx262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great videos!!!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you like them! Thank you!

  • @chrisdoherty8044
    @chrisdoherty8044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sir thank you for helping us to know a lots on the WW 2 .. you are doing a marvellous job.. you are filled with knowledge of information.. great job go ahead.. you are attractive..may God bless you..

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    vic another nice video

  • @paulwaring5290
    @paulwaring5290 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My uncle was part of the liberation.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

    • @samfisher2306
      @samfisher2306 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Kristie C you are right. I was shocked with his comment tbh. Considering the video was regarding racism and hate. Unbelievable!

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your uncle saved my dad and enabled my life. He is a my Hero

  • @kaylababson5098
    @kaylababson5098 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    incredible and powerful video..thank you for taking us on this tour. humanity needs never to forget what these sadistic monsters did to their fellow human beings.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments!

  • @jeffreyedwards609
    @jeffreyedwards609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very well done sir, all the best to you from Wales.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel1237 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just out of interest was the courtyard area paved or dirt back when it was running ?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most likely dirt..

  • @malgrinu6947
    @malgrinu6947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello everyone. I'd like to say that in this camp thousands of Spanish people were locked in and murdered. People always talk about polish, jewes, French, etc, and not many words for the Spaniards. I want to send respect to those Spanish prisoners, along with polish, jewes, etc, for all they suffered because of fascism.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are absolutely right!! Not too many people know that out of the 7,000 Spanish republicans in Mauthausen, at least half of them died there.. Thank you!

  • @Lilia4102
    @Lilia4102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the good video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @rockbay79
    @rockbay79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very informative and professionally documented video! Top notch. So, so sad all of these prisoners were killed in this evil place. This is the work of evil governments. I have met and lived with both German and Japanese peoples, and all were very kind understanding people. Most are very ashamed of this history. I feel so many people were mislead and lied to during this time period. The murder of innocent people will never be forgiven. I pray these souls found peace in the after life. Very good job of presenting history!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for these thoughtful comments my friend!

  • @Valeriaamaradei
    @Valeriaamaradei 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very sad !! but thank you for the show us !

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your comments...

  • @davidgillies5342
    @davidgillies5342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have heard of this camp. And would be very interested to visit one day hopefully? To pay my respects.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @chichi775
    @chichi775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what exactly were the notorious steps of death?

    • @bestSHORTStravelVideos
      @bestSHORTStravelVideos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi.. Regarding the 'steps of death', read here:
      www.amusingplanet.com/2017/01/the-infamous-mauthausen-stairs-of-death.html

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      See here regarding the notorious 'steps of death': www.amusingplanet.com/2017/01/the-infamous-mauthausen-stairs-of-death.html