Liberating Ebensee Concentration Camp | May 1945
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- In May 1945, the 3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, of the 3rd Cavalry Group, crossed the German border into Austria. One of the Squadron's tasks was to secure the Gmunden-Ebensee area on the right flank of the 80th Infantry Division. The Squadron successfully carried out this assignment, but what it would discover to the South of Ebensee would affect many of the soldiers for years to come.
This video is dedicated to the memory of all those men, women and children who were sadly victims of the Holocaust. May they never be forgotten...
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"The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the [Ohrdruf Concentration] Camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation. General Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so.
I made the visit [to Ohrdruf] deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda."
- General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, in a letter to General George Marshall, General of the Army, 15 April 1945.
Three days earlier, General Eisenhower, with Generals Omar Bradley and George Patton, had visited the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in central Germany. Ohrdruf was liberated on the 4 April 1945 by elements of the 89th Infantry and 4th Armored Divisions and was the first Concentration Camp to be liberated by the U.S. Army.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us never forget the millions of men, women and children who lost their lives during the Holocaust...
My Grandfather was infantry in WWII. He was seconded to observe treatment of POW's in an American unit. The unit was sent to a concentration camp to liberate it. The Germans that were left were trying to help the prisoners as the SS had gone a few days earlier and they could now get away with it. My grandfather said everyone was trying to help and absolutely everyone was administering first aid and warm sweet tea (the Polish love tea). The problem was that they made the mistake of giving some prisoners normal food ration sizes which killed them as their livers were so shrunken as to not be able to properly process it. They ended up getting an entire company of Americans under the direction of about 50 medics to clear the camp and get rid of the dead etc. He wouldn't even speak of it till I was 19 shortly before he died. Even then when I asked how bad it was he said "you probably think it's a bit worse then in the films, well it was 100 times worse than what you are thinking". It was one of the few situations where soldiers ordered to do certain duties within the camp ended up being "excused" due to the effect it was having on them. In fact I do not know of any other time that has happened. The CO basically sent you on "spud patrol" as a "punishment" if you were unable to carry out the orders (like moving all the dead bodies etc). There were a few good things that came out of that whole mess though. We learned a hell of a lot about how to optimally treat chronic starvation cases and a lot of anorexics have survived as a result. The other thing was that some WI ladies sent "care boxes" to several camps which included a small compact and lipstick etc. It gave the recipients enough of a psychological boost for a measurable increase in survival rates.
And then we have the Holocaust deniers.
All the locals were called to the camp to bear witness to the atrocities committed that they had turned a blind eye towards. All showed up in their best clothes to give a good presentation to the victorious allied military. Expecting a stern lecture many were surprised when, instead, they were handed a shovel. They were to dig graves for hundreds of dead prisoners, a number that still increased for weeks after liberation. Many of the locals ended up catching cholera from the dead and dying to serve as sort of bittersweet justice.
Let us not forget that all major murderous conflicts in Europe began with the ideology of ‘uniting’ Europe into one power!
@@wekapeka3493 Are implying that EU is like the Nazi Germany?
I showed my European History teacher your channel and she loved it. Now I talk to her about the videos you upload. Thank you for helping to build that friendship.
That's nice to hear :)
Did she give up some bush for you ?
@@PirosmikeyNone bush, as in "between the legs"? You're awful.
Ask your European history teacher ...do they know it was the British who invented concentration camps during the Boer war in South Africa..1899....were 50.000 women and children starved to death ...🧐🤔
@@hedgefundshyster..3241 Sadly I think nearly every country in the world has committed atrocities in the past. "The sins of our fathers.." and all that. It is enlightening that we are now wise enough not to hold our generation responsible. Asking modern day Germans or English to apologise for what happened before they were born is ludicrous.
It wasn't just the men of the 3rd Calvary who never forgot about what they saw. My mother was a US Army nurse who treated the survivors at Ebensee. She never spoke much of the war, but she considered it her duty to tell the world what she saw at Ebensee until her dying day.
I understand that your Mom is not alive anymore , but i still want to say THANK YOU, my name is GERT Fink born in Ebensee 1968
@@gertfink6939 Thank you for saying that. She said the camp was hell on earth but it was surrounded by the most beautiful place she'd ever seen, and the photos she took of the land outside of the camp. reflect that. I"d really like to visit one day.
My grandfather was part of the 80th Infantry. He would share a lot of stories about the war, but the only thing he wouldn’t talk about was liberating this concentration camp. It was too much for him.
Thanks for posting this. It’s giving me a better idea of what he would have experienced.
YOU must be 70 YRS old if this be true !
It's not because I don't trust you, I don't trust anyone !
@@PirosmikeyNone My grandfather fought in WWII and I'm in my 30s, it wasn't THAT long ago. FFS there are still survivors.
My father was an infantry officer in the 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. He took pictures of the camp at Ebensee, which we still have. One of them is of him and two other officers looking at 2 guards who were killed by the inmates. The rest are of the inmates and the camp itself. Always scared us kids to look through this scrapbook. Still scares me. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for this information. Perhaps you should make copies of these photos and get in touch with both Yad Vashem and The United States Holocaust Museum. My dad was liberated at Ebensee, after serving Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk. He always remembers the arriving Americans in their Jeeps. When his youngest daughter bought a jeep, it brought tears to his eyes. He also spoke of how beautiful the town of Ebensee is, being on the lake. I went there about 20 years ago and not much is left of the camp. The main gate archway is still there but the camp grounds now house a very nice suburb of homes. Any traces of the camp work can be seen in the nearby forest which houses the tunnels and stone steps created by the prisoners. Also, Ebensee has a wonderful museum dedicated to the camp and to the town's nazi past.
Best. My name is Dirk Verhofstadt. I am a professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and am writing a book about Genia Heimans who was liberated as a prisoner in Ebensee. Would it be possible to send one of several photos you have of the camp via email? Sincerely, Dirk Verhofstadt
My grandpa, a Polish citizen was imprisoned in that camp for 8 months and liberated by the Americans mentioned here on that day of May 6th, 1945. He proceeded to make his way back to Poland after the war and lived a long and fulfilling life. He often talked about his experience there, wrote memoirs that I still have and read a few times. When he was much older I remember him traveling back to Ebensee on numerous occasions to meet other former prisoners and participate in liberation memorials! I just stumbled upon this clip on YT and I am so thankful to have found it. I am wondering, but can’t make out, if he is present in any of those pictures. I miss him😢
My great-grandfather was detained in Ebensee until the liberation on May 6, 1945. We keep a small diary where he remembers some episodes of his terrible experience. He has been dead for more than 30 years now but I would like to enrich his diary with historical fragments and photos. Would it be possible to receive a copy of the photos in your possession via email?
My Uncle was in A Troop which came across the camp initially. He only talked to me about it when I came home from Vietnam in 1969 and was going through some tough times. Nightmares and shit.
He knew tho. He’d seen unimaginable stuff too. He said they were the walking dead in that camp.
Kinda made my problems seem small.
My grandfather was over F troop and recon that went in early he talked about this a lot and how he went in after the officers I have the 1915 luger from the POS that ran this hell. People need to talk about it and make it known as it was the worse thing he had ever seen he said they collected food from a 70 mile radius but when they started feeding everyone they started dying which is another story. He said he went in guards laid the guns down and he tried to take out leadership but they left quickly leaving the belongings and arms they had. This is real it happened and it can happen again
My grand father told me when the Canadians advanced on Nederland, the Germans started to shoot all in the camps. He hid my grandma and him until the Germans surrendered and the Canadians entered the camp. The sweetness and caring from them he never forgot! Neither the 'moffen' and what they did to his country and it's folk! He had a hate for them until the day he died!
My grandfather liberated this camp, from surviving previous battles and losing friends, this was by far the worst experience had.
My Dad helped clean up Bergen-Belsen and it was the only experience of WW2 that he would not talk about. If the name was mentioned he would have to wipe his eyes dry.
My grandfather survived the holocaust and it was only recently that he told me that he was in this camp. When he’s talking about the liberation he refers to the angels who liberated the whole world on that day!
shoot me an email my grandfather was on this also I heard this told hundreds of times by him
Thanks to your grandfather and 3rd Cavalry , my grandfather was in that Ebensee camp at liberation day and survived that horror .
Best regards
Eternal gratitude to your grandfathers and the allied troops for liberating us from the nazi Germans. 🙏 greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
I have never heard of this camp when I came across this video, I had to google it. It is very sad that this camp has been almost forgotten. I was glad to read how a memorial was set up and a tunnel with displays to educate people to what happened here. Is great the Americans took the local villagers food to feed these poor people. The villagers had to know what was going on!
Uh huh, and what were they supposed to do about it, Sonia?
Incredible! I have no words for this part of history. God bless all the innocent victims who suffered or lost their lives, being prisoners in those terrible concentration camps …
History can't be changed - horrible atrocities were done to the innocent and must not be forgotten, we control the present day and the future and the weak United Nations must become stronger to protect men, women and children in area's of the world from genocide ( a word no one light to say). The smell of death is something I can't forget nor do I want to experience again, it is my part of the military I want to forget and not have anyone experience. Cheers and thank you for bringing this unknown camp from Austria to light. Lest we Forget
@wtfbuddy1
It's such a nauseating stench isn't it. It clings to the inside of your nostrils, and you're convinced you can taste it in the back of your throat. You head back to your bivvy and if you haven't got the chance to shower and change into fresh DPMs, you're paranoid it has permeated every fibre of your outer gear.
As a Combat Medical Technician one of my roles was to check recently-dug mass graves and heaps of bodies for respiratory and cardiac vitals.
There had been several cases of piles/graves being left out in the scorching sun and freezing nights for upto 72 hours (so decomposition had taken hold of most of victims) but underneath survivors had been found, either seriously wounded or simply too traumatised to crawl out into the open.
Thank you for your service.
Lest we forget. 🇨🇦🇬🇧
@@residentelect Holy fucking shit..
@@residentelect It's one of those things nobody, no training and no decompression can take away. Thank you for your service as well in the RAMC, I was Logistics. Cheers
The UN is the single most anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish organization on this planet! Thank you very much, the weaker it is, the better off this planet will be.
I was not familiar with this camp until today .
My great uncle Beach helped liberate this camp. Really surprised seeing this video popped up. I barely knew him, but my grandma said he never spoke of anything war related, especially about this. My family didn’t even know he helped liberate the camp until they did some research later one about what his troop did during his time in combat.
Those were kids who liberated those camps. College age kids. Facing unspeakable, totally unimaginable horror. There is no surprise in my mind that no one would talk about it afterwards. The Talmud says that to save a single life is to save the world. This is that proof.
Wow. And he had to live with what he saw.
Jesus. That was heartbreaking.
Well, I'd be careful using the name Jesus here, if such a man were to exist, he certainly never spoke out against slavery in the Bible.
And if, as many Christians believe he was, God incarnated on Earth, that too means he in fact supported and endorsed slavery.
@@WhoThisMonkey I bet you’re tons of fun at a party.
@@lancet.346
I am great fun at parties, because I have wit enough to come up with my own jokes!
@@WhoThisMonkey
Couldn't the same be said for any of the Abrahamic religions?
In fact slavery still exists in some parts of the world where Islam is the predominant faith?
Same with Hinduism and Sikhism, as the Indian caste system still exists to this day.
Irrespective of who the deity is, they tend to turn a blind eye to many an atrocity and crime against humanity down here on earth...
@@residentelect
Yes the same could be said.
Religion is a cancer on our species, no religious claim has ever met its burden of proof, and there's nothing religion can give us that can't be achieved without it.
We need to collectively leave all of these archaic superstitions back in the caves where they came from.
... We also need to stop ravaging the ocean, so we don't all die by 2048, but that's another topic all together (watch seaspiracy on Netflix)
You should make a video about the pathfinders dropped before D-Day
One exists already
I visited the memorial tunnels at Ebensee with my father in 1992. The trip was to retrace his footsteps when he served in the CIC. Edward Pawlosky (nka Paul) was a Ritchie Boy that was a graduate member of Class 24 of the Military Intelligence Center at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. His service time in Europe included time in Steyr and Ebensee Austria discovering this camp and serving as an interpreter and interrogator in this sector of the European Theatre. He was a proud member of the CIC and Ritchie Boy.
thank you for posting this. it is important to remember, to never forget.
Great grandpa was sent to a working camp, which should have had better conditions than this one. Still he did not ever speak of his experience. I can't even start to imagine what these people must have gone through.
Knew a Nice lady from Hungary, she was jewish , she ,her husband and her small boy we're deported yo a concentración camp, she never Saw again her husband and her child,.she was 18 years old then. She was sent afterwoods to another concentración camp and her labor was to make bullets,. This saved her from death , when she got free, a member of her family search for her , he was at England and found her , from England she emigrated to South America and she stayed at Uruguay,. Some years later she remarried over here and gave birth to a son , her son told ud that she never never talked about the concentración camps , she just couldnt,. God bless her
Only when they liberate these camps did they truly realise the evil they fought against.
Maybe the 'evil' is a latent quality in everyone, ready to do its stuff when circumstances permit.
@@None-zc5vg of course it is
They knew about it before but said that they couldn't believe it.
The British empire starved over 50.000 women and children in concentration camps during the Boer war in 1899...in South Africa...look it up ...you might learn something...
@@hedgefundshyster..3241 Bad behavior doesn’t excuse bad behavior. What the British did in the Boer War doesn’t justify the atrocities inflicted on Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals by the Nazis.
One groups suffering doesn’t justify the suffering of another.
Speak of the atrocities of the Boer War. They were immense and horrible. But they don’t undo the good done by British troops trying to save the victims of Germany.
It sounds like you might be German. Maybe a descendant of a German officer or an SS officer. You are not responsible for the crimes of your ancestors. The way you choose to live with your history is your choice. You can choose love or hate. The choices you make in the future are yours. Write a book about the Boer Wars atrocities. The world is only better when it is gifted with knowledge.
The Ebensee tunnels are still worked today - but possibly from the other side of the hill. A rail line large enough to take inside a full sized engine and metal trucks for the mining of limestone.
The big question is do we learn from this? Answer No. this should be shown in every school around the world.
Never Forget
TY for posting this important document.
I’ve read a lot about concentration camps or the years but this is the first song I ever heard of this one
Worth mentioning is that the former Ebensee concentration camp is today overbuilt by a residential area called the Finkerleiten-Siedlung. With the exception of the memorial cemetery, the former Appellplatz (inmate roll-call ground) and the archway of the camps main gate the only thing that reminds of the camp is the outline of most of the modern streets that lies ontop off the former camp streets and hence follows the same layout. Outside the former camp area and the post war residential area there is also a museum in part of the vast tunnel system constructed by the camp inmates.
I for one wouldn't want to live in a house built on a concentration camp. But apprantly some Austrians doesn't seem to have an issue with that.
Thank you for sharing these stories.
To the people around them that ignored it , my what disgust . Great content
Hello Ric. People who stood up to the Nazi's were put in the camps, or put on trial and executed. There are many well-documented cases, some well-known. Go to the Gestapo museum in Berlin and take a look at some of them. Under a totalitarian regime the courts do the dictator's bidding. The Nazi's appointed the judges. The Judiciary were not independent. Hitler also suspended the Reichstag, the parliament. The people had no say anymore. There is no recourse to the law, you have no rights as a citizen, you have no protection. The Germans who resisted the Nazi's mostly shared the same fate, death. You might be interested to read about them. I ask myself what would I have done. When I was young and single I stood up for what I believed in, in peacetime. I live in a free country, so I could do that. The worst that was going to happen was that some of my friends would drift away, or I might not get a particular job. Now that I have responsibilities, children to protect and feed, I know what I would do if I lived in Ebensee '44 to 45'. I'd keep my mouth shut, knowing what would happen to my family if I didn't. Ever been in that situation Ric? Sure of what you would do, are you? Ever faced a moral dilemma? Ever been in fear of your and your family's life? Walk a mile in another man's shoes before you judge him.
@@barryolaith fuck off
At least they could be honest afterwards and admit they knew about the camps. Many many many Germans lied and said "they didn't know". Of course they did. Them lying about knowing was almost worse then them knowing and doing nothing.
Thank you for the testimony. God bless all involved in liberating these human beings, treated so atrociously...we will not forget. Shalom
Real good content. Keep it up!!
Bless them all.
Sad day for humanity.
My uncle was a surgeon in the 30th Field hospital which arrived to administer the medical situation. If I recall they were losing 200 a day upon arrival and it took several days to stabilize the prisoner community's health so those in the greatest danger could be transported to medical facilities. As we know now the level of malnutrition was such that "normal food" was dangerous for those who hadn't eaten properly for so long. God bless each who suffered and eternal thanks to our courageous soldiers who faced this horror and survived.
Thanks
As a people we are capable of amazing acts of generosity and kindness. Unfortunately, it's usually the case that what we actually do to each other is truly disgusting.
I had not heard of the Ebensee camp. So thanks for the video;
Rest in eternal peace all victims of the holocaust and lives lost in Ww2.
Yes. They fought and died for the freedom of the world.
Thank you.I am second generation (meaning most of my family was murdered in the Shoah),78 and living in Israel.
@@annyjoseph6162 very sorry to hear that,Human beings should never treat one another so.May you live long and in peace.
This is a very good doco. Thanks!
A lot has changed over the years on how they preserved the camps for reminding people what happened. In the late 60s I was taken to Dachau to see the camp and everything was as it was, a very haunting sight. Today what camps remain as examples of the crimes have had the buildings and crematoriums removed and small walls with a few pictures and a lot of descriptions in typed format in its place.
That being said. The world was on its toes for years after to ensure such things don't happen again. Except in china where lots of people that don't bow to the ccp are worked to death and the world happily deals with the ccp in trade. I guess liberal education decided to skip teaching about this and decided to accept it with ignorance. WW2 wasn't enough, and WW3 is just around the corner.
Very well said Rob.
The modern day Socialist/Communist activists, protesters, political elite and MSM do a damn fine job of turning a blind eye to the atrocities carried out in China, North Korea and Venezuela... Despite a mountain of evidence they still want to "smash the system" and introduce Marxism as the political mainstream...
When I first saw Dachau it was an isolated area near Dachau town. More recently it is within an industrial estate.
It would appear so .
Ebensee was a sub camp of Maithausen. The prisoners dug tunnels for war work production
Tunnels can be visited at certain times. The camp gates remain ON WHICH the Austrians have built a village. It is some distance from the town of Ebensee SO WW2 locals would NOT be able to see it/get near. I have been there
I am from Ebensee,i know a lot of this terrible time from my mother,other people and survivers😔,my mother was a child and she lives near by the camp and remember the smell from the gaschaimbers and saw the prisoners walking to work in the tunnels
Poor attempt at protecting the German and Austrian people.Shame on you.
Were you there during the war?Why are you so anxious to protect locals?
@@lorraineprahm5461 Who are you shaming?
@@lorraineprahm5461 ?
After being arrested in 1943 being an active leader in the Dutch resistance, held in Scheveningen, a number of other camps, including Mauthausen, my Grandfather ended up in Ebensee. Allthough the leaders of the camp were sadistic animals and ppl. were worked to death, his spirit never waivered. Being a superstrong big (6f3) and athletic man, he often shared the little food he had. In the end he weighed less than 40kg. 2 weeks before the liberation he does. I visited the site 5 years ago with my father who was born in August 40 and does not remember him and only has 1 picture of him, and till then never went there. I think through him it has also affected me and still does till this very day..
Thank you for sharing about this camp. Never Again.
My father was liberated from Ebensee - thank you very much to the brave men of the 80th
Its maddening that while this was going on my mexican great uncle was in full fighting in the pacific. Not just that but many other skirmishes going all over the world even though the end was coming. Just man. The chaos.
You gotta do a video on Operation Barras. The British military at it's finest.
Excellent video. Much thanks.
Unbelievable. What's more upsetting is that hundreds of soldiers allowed it to happen and took part in torturing these people.
It was more than hundreds of soldiers, it was an entire country
Never been this early, I am sure I will enjoy it :)
Bet you wish you never wrote that now.
@@randommadness1021 😖 just a little awkward, bless his cotton socks...
@@randommadness1021 true, sad story
Incredible!😪
Never again
Sadly things like this still happens around the world 😔
How a "civilized" people could be so inhuman truly hurts the soul. Sadly, it exists today throughout the world and any modern or civilized society can so quickly revert to such barbarism should strike at our hearts.
Look at iss
Those people in the villages nearby knew. They fucking knew.
The village of Ebensee was nowhere near the Camp. As with all camps they had a secured perimeter. Civilians could not get near
they knew it was an internment camp which is what it was..the conditions the allies discvered were due to allied terror bombing and shortageges from the chaos at the wars end..this was all then used as att ro55 city pg...sorry to burst ur bubble
@@WillyEckaslike Historically inaccurate. It was a Nebenlager, ( subsidiary of Mauthausen). not an internment camp. A forced labour camp to tunnel into the mountains for rocket production. Like Mauthausen, they were worked to death. Attnam Pucheim was the nearest place heavily bombed because of rail transportation of V1 & later V2 rockets. Ebensee is some distance from there so I fail to see any connection with bombing & the Ebensee prisoners who died in their thousands due to cruelty & maltreatment.
I live not far from ebensee. My grate grandpa was in the lucky situation that when ww1 ended he was still to young to get drafted and when ww2 came around he was seen as to old. So only got drafted into the "volksturm", witch was a last ditch organization comprised of the guys to old for the regular army.
As far as he was given a rifle and an armband telling that he was part of the volksturm.
The armband was there, that in case he gets captured he is treated as a combatant.
As soon as he was in the volksturm he was sent to ebensee as a gard. So he and a group of other older guys marched of from bad ischl for the 15 kilometer trip.
They had heard rumors what the camp in ebensee was about and they wanted to have nothing to do with it. So they disappeared in the forests flanking the valley wich they all new very well since most of them where, just like my grate grandpa, lumberjacks in that exact area.
The only reappeared after the occupation, but without armband and rifles.
Till the end of his live grate grandpa "found" deer on a regular basis. He never told anyone but it seems that the folks hid the rifles they where given and used them for poaching well into the 1960's and 70's.
What I can't understand, the same time your great grandfather was drafted to that Volkssturm lunacy the Wehrmacht decommissioned my 23 years old father 'cause of the malaria he had gotten in South Russia in Summer 1942 *. . .*
@@letoubib21 the mysteries of german bureaucracie....
@@tobiasfreitag2182 Yeah, must have been *. . .*
My heart breaks 💔
I can happen here in America too. That’s why we never forget. On hopes to not repeat history.
What is the emblem at the end?
GOD BLESS THOSE MEN WHO HAD ASSISTED THOSE POOR DEVILS. TO THINK MAN COULD TREAT HIS FELLOW MEN LIKE THIS IS JUST UNBELIVABLE.
Germany was not punished enough..
Those Nice Austrians Tore down the camp and built a nice house's to cover up the camp and erase the memory of those who died there.
My father was part of the third cavalry that liberated this camp.
Thank you
Oky that made me cry..............
The pronunciation of place names leaves a lot to be desired.
eh ben sea
Thanks to all american 3rd Cavalry , my grandfather was in Ebensee camp on liberation day , and they survived.
Austrian here(my hometown even gets mentioned): Your pronunciation was good.
Some weird things:
Braunau am Inn is usually just Braunau. Imagine if New York was called New York at the Hudson. You'd still call it New York.
In Gmunden, there is no vowel between G and m.
In Ebensee, the Es are all pronounced longer
British here! I find it staggering that after all this the only comment you can make is about the pronunciation of the place names.
cover the amethyst incident!
Not to be nitpicky here, but it's "Braunau" not Branau.
Well that' exactly what nitpicky means. I guess the spelling is more important to some than the atrocities.
@@gastonlaberge2119 Braunau is Hitler's birthplace. Usually anyone interested in the history of WW2 knows this.
I still find it hard to believe that people dispute the Holocaust happened. If it didn’t happen, then what of these photographs? What of the accounts of men such as those from the 3rd Cavalry Group who witnessed the furthest extent of human cruelty at Ebensee? What about those who had to witness the cruelty at Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau? What of the people who were put in those camps who were both fortunate and unfortunate to survive the ordeal?
It still baffles me to this day how someone can be so heartless as to disregard the experiences of these men and women as “fake”
Passive behavior is prevalent today. Much to our chagrin.
When I watched this there were 56 thumbs down. I wonder who these folks are and what the reason for their thumbs down is.
I actually spent my childhood right on the spot where this concentration camp was. There is a settlement today!
Damn
My grandfather didn’t liberate this camp. Probably why he never talked about it.
Habla inglés pero tiene acento alemán, precioso !🐽💝💝
Wept.. family lost 26 members.
I am sorry for your loss
how can people do this to people....???
By giving ones self over to the dark said.
I am simple man, I see LFM video I click
Animals kill for survival, but humans kill for political reasons..... May those who perished lay in heaven with our dear lord 🙏
Least we forget.
Ye gods there were so many fucking camps. Hadn't even heard of this one before :(
The German people have live with this history for eternity!!¡!!!!!!!!!
It's pronounced "ebbenzay"...NOT "ebENsea"
I notice the half staved looking man at 5:19. Is that an expensive looking watch I see on his left hand?1 The photo just doesn't look right.
The victims probably went through the tormentors' barracks, looking for any food or anything of value. The N*zi staff had most likely deserted to escape retaliation.
Today, people would be bitching about wasting money on others rather than investing it back in or country... shameful.
Do Germans commemorate….what if they went on a nearby death March or two, took a ride in a box-car in the freezing cold,spent a day as the prisoners did,and ate as they did.
Carole Franki ... The Germans who are alive today are of a different time in history and had nothing to do with the wars.
To do a "death march" they would have to be starved for a year or two first. Wear ragged clothes and wooden clogs, chaffing open blister after blister (if they were lucky!) They would survive today... The open box car ride in rain and snow would not really affect them today because of good weather proof clothing albeit they were in them for up to 2 weeks with no food, heat or water. Being well fed and nourished, they would survive.. Probably all have cell phones too. A can of corned beef were handed out to the prisoners, one can to 4 people. No way of opening them except for a nail or two in the wood. When they were opened, the contents was rotten, it stank and mildew was in the tins.
I wont go on...
German children are taught the atrocities their, not literally theirs but Germany’s, chosen government committed on humanity. It is not left out. In major cities across Germany and Europe there are Stolpersteine……….stumbling stones, marking the last known residence or work place of person(s) deported to various camps. The Germans CANT forget. To torture the current generations of Germans is no different than Americans paying reparations to blacks whom, in their lifetime their parents lifetime, their grandparents and great grandparents, have NEVER known slavery. It’s stupid.
Germany every year has March of the living to remember the Holocaust and those murdered
What actually could the people living near the camp do to help?
They'd probably end up as inmates of the camps themselves. I wonder about that every time I see someone suggest that the locals could have helped the people in the camp.
No one blame them for that, they blame those people for outright refuse that such a place exist
When making a history doc. such as this you would expect the commentator to find out the correct pronunciation of the locations described. It doesn’t inspire confidence in the level of research when all place names are pronounced incorrectly. Also Ebensee ( pronounced aybensay ) is in Austria so why are locals described as Germans ? I visited the camp area 2 years ago with a local history group & discovered the whole area is now a housing estate ! People sitting in their gardens & a children’s playground next to the cemetery. We were told they resent visitors coming with an interest in the past. We should not forget what went on here & it’s sad that so many people are happy to live a comfortable life on the same ground that saw so much suffering. It’s all too easily forgotten in my view so it’s useful to have such a doc. but please consult a local for correct pronunciation of place names before going public & calling Austrians Germans is the equivalent of calling the Scots English in my experience !
At the time Austria was a willing part of “greater Germany.” They welcomed German troops and their men formed a large part of the German army so your point is moot.
@@annoyingbstard9407 . The Scots were a willing part of the British Empire , that doesn’t make them English !
@@paulmorris1227 No. It makes them British. Well done.
Maybe you should concentrate on the story rather than majoring on the minors.
@@64MDW I’m sorry. You carry on with your self-important critique of someone else’s efforts.
0:32 This is "Bra*u*nau am Inn" - which is btw the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.
Wonder if it occurred to the Allied Troops that Braunau am Inn was the birthplace of Hitler??
They were probably far more interested in his death place.
i am a 62 year old female living in the mountains near albuquerque, new mexico. i was born only 15 years after the end of WW2, and it doesn't seem so long ago to me. Holocaust awareness is frighteningly sparse in outlying areas here, and in the nearby city. a few years ago i mentioned Anne Frank to a college educated ranch owner here and he had no idea who she was. i began asking other people and i was so enraged and appalled at the level of ignorance i encountered around this state that i had her birthday tattooed on my forearm.......it makes me want to vomit some days but i won't have it removed. Anne Frank is only one victim of the 3rd reich, i know, however she is an icon for the holocaust and there is NO excuse for ignorance regarding any of this vitally important and RECENT history. being gay i would have been killed as well.
Not wishing to have some kind of religious flaming debate, my faith that I strongly adhere to, says there will be a special place (literally) in hell for those monsters. Most, if not all of them, are experiencing this as we speak. My 16 year old sister-in-law was murdered 40 years ago. The two men (eye-witnesses) were never caught. Oh, yes they were.
No gods ! So Pursue evil doers in this life !
@@jimmurphy4703 "God is dead!" Nietzche "Nietzche is dead!" God
What these individuals did to others must always be made clear to every generation. They were feral or appeasers, which are not good human traits.
When you dehumanize people, it is easy to justify man's inhumanity towards others. We see this way of thinking even today, with politics between the left and the right. We as humans never learn.
And now? Denial Idiots in this country, who should, and probably do, know better than to dismiss that which has been well documented as it is in this and a multitude of others showing the depth and breadth of these atrocities I guess you first have to have a conscience before it can be bothered, in my opinion
Seizure of food from Germans to feed the victims as I understand was common practice. That must have been a fulfilling but insanely difficult job!!!
These photos and stories display evil personified. God preserve us from such as this again.
Branau am Inn is where hitler was born, how fun
Please encourage the younger generations to see these films as we need to educate them as to the consequences of electing people who think we are not entitled to practice free speech and that it is the Communists who change the definitions of words and who infest the hierarchy of the Democrat party. It is the Democrat Party which oversaw slavery in the U.S in the 1800s and 1900s. It was the Republicans who passed the Civil Rights act of the 60's and the southern Dems who voted against it. We are once again on the edge of slipping into another nightmare. Please wake up America get yourselves elected to School Boards and other local posts! Turn the tide. DO SOMETHING PLEASE.
Great video, except I think if this is gonna be your topic, it's important to learn the correct pronunciation of the words you're using. Ebensee is pronounced "Ay-ben-zay", not "uh-ben-see".
Never, ever again. The great tragedy of WW2 was that the Bomb was not ready in time to drop on Germany. Never again.
Chaffee like tanks?
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an observation. in fascist times, could any one survive if calling out a local concentration camp? to what end would complaining do? we could face such ,"go along, don't say anything" times here too, I believe