In April 1944 two Jewish prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. When they recounted what they had left behind their harrowing testimony revealed the true horror of the Holocaust to the outside world for the first time. They described in forensic detail the gas chambers and the full extent of the extermination programme. The news they brought presented the Allies with one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th Century: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?
I would be extremely surprised if a bombing of a prisoner of war camp would of been approved by allied troops. The Jewish community has the right to defend and protect their children, families and culture. Asking another country to undertake the plan was a right but including a request to take out the camp was a mistake. It is shocking, horrific and tragic.....
Many of the prisoners did hope and pray that Auschwitz would be bombed. At that point it didn’t matter that some of them might perish, because many were at the point of death, or were headed for certain death. The Allied decision was to not bomb the site. But Auschwitz-Birkenau was so huge that if they did bomb, it should’ve been easy enough to hit IG Farben. They weren’t producing much, really, and the site wasn’t “in the black” as far as production, but it would’ve thrown a monkey wrench into the works, and possibly would’ve hit the crematoria on that side. IG Farben didn’t want to be associated with the brutalities toward the prisoners, but after they got used to the “free workers” and their “low cost help” they too turned a blind eye to what was happening at the camps (I, II and III). None of the heads in IGF could be not guilty of partaking in the suffering and deaths of the Jews at A-B. They did. And like all Germans, they kept meticulous records, proof in ink of their guilt.
What...the gas chambers.... it is so many books about this.....Jurgen Graf : The Holocaust Schwindel, you can have this book here :Guideon Burg Verlag, Postfach 4009, Basel, Schwqeiz
My Dad told me that as a teen they had heard rumours but nothing concrete. When the camps were discovered he said the whole world was in shock. He with my Mother went and paid their respects at Auschwitz and years later so did I. I was literally stunned for days after. How humans can to this to other humans I will never understand. Barbaric!
It is good to pay tribute but I hope you also pay tribute to the 10s of millions who were slaughtered by Stalin. It annoys me that people do not pay tribute to those people as well.
It was a real crazy time to be alive. The Jews ruined the economy for non-jews in germany. Jews would only do business with other Jews which was not right but nobody could have imagined the punishment for doing that.
Auschwitz and the Holocaust are why I’m a history teacher. My mother’s family immigrated from Poland after the war. It was just my great grandpa that survived from his family. He lost everyone. They are commemorated in the Yad Vashem memorial. As a child, when my mother first explained about our family it left a permanent mark on me, and shaped my career choice.
Wow. I am in IT. But, after knowing all this, I wish everyday I had studied history and could devote my life understanding human history. There have been brutalities all through the history.
Agreed. I didn't learn much about WWII in school. I learned about WWI and WWII by reading two very think hardbound books from my local library. My mother asked why I was so interested in world wars at just 10 years old. I think it was because of the photos in these two books drew me in and kept me interested still 30 years later and I'm still learning new bits of other human beings' struggle.
Really? Why don't they cover more details about what happened to the Native Americans, Africa Americans or every other oppressed people throughout huma history for that matter. Why just this subject/event in your opinion? Educators/Administration need to be selective with what they choose to teach young children. If they went into depth and detail about every particular subject, topic, event or travesty throughout human history children would be in school forever. They have to teach a small amount about certain subjects. Then if those people/children are interested in learning more about a particular subject, topic or event later in life it is their choice to do so. You have be realistic. Just because you are particularly interested in this topic and learning more details about it doesn't mean that others are. I'm extremely interested in this topic myself, that's why I'm here. But I learned enough about the Holocaust in high school, enough to decide on my own to further educate myself on the topic later in life. Just saying... 😉🙂
It used to be but I guess history teachers avoid the subject, this is the first documentary with new information, like with everything that happend during WW2 there is still alot of mystery. I find this refreshing, so many stories must be missing etc.
I remember learning about the holocaust as a student and such and I remember thinking how awful etc.... But now that I am an adult I really think about it. An entire nation state doing this as policy on an enormous economical scale. The logistics involved. Its incredible, yet it happened.
I don’t know if it’s possible to honor these two men with words, anything I might say would fall short. I am in awe of their heroism and selflessness. I think about all the poor souls executed almost every day, growing up I lived in an area outside Chicago with many survivors. Talking to them as a young person affected me, hearing stories imprinted on my heart, I will always honor their memory. 🙏🙏❤️
And now, 80 years later, the civilized world is faced with a similar moral question concerning the destruction of Ukraine by one of our allies in WW2. Not much has changed since the liberation of the concentration camps. Same evil. Different uniforms .
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of lives could have been saved. The constant train arrivals..without the gas chambers, would have caused overcrowding in the camp. This chaos could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
I've always referred to this as the monumental moral dilemna. The allies were stuck between a hard place and a rock. Had they bombed the camp to stop the slaughter, they would have been criticized for killing civilians. By not bombing the camp, they are criticized for not stopping the carnage! A lose, lose situation.
The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz. The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of lives would have been saved.
If ithave not have been stopped, they wouldn’t have saved the ones that they did and the Reicht would have destroyed all of the Jews in Europe- which is what Satan had planned to begin with. He has been trying to kill off the Jews, since the beginning of time.
To the man who feels ashamed for wishing people would die so that you could have a place to sit down... Please don't feel ashamed!!! You went through so much suffering for a 14 year old child!!! Please forgive yourself!!!
This is about Rudolf Vrba, one of my dad's PhD mentor's best friends! He ended up becoming an incredible scientist. His wife gave me his book as a wedding gift. It's called I Escaped From Auschwitz. It's an AMAZING book! Highly recommend!
Amanda 2 l have just brought the book on Amazon my parents lived in Hungary during WW2 and lve heard some terrible stories but we should never ever forget what happened
I bet the guys who escaped in real life looked 1000 times worse than the actors. I can't imagine what they went through BEFORE escaping and then somehow surviving to WALK to some kind of safety without being caught
Witold Pilecki of the Armia Krajowa volunteered to infiltrate Auschwitz in 1940 in order to find out what was happening there, and he escaped in 1943, a year earlier than the event described in this video. Shortly after his escape, he wrote the "Witold Report" about Auschwitz. While being inside Auschwitz, he sent regular reports to Armia Krajowa about the genocide of the Jews happening in the camp. These reports were forwarded to the British government in London and to other Allied governments, specifically the US government. Based on these reports, the Allied governments knew already in March 1941 about the industrial extermination of the Jews happening in Auschwitz. You can find on this site the testimony of Jan Karski on his meeting with FDR in July 1943. In the meeting, rather then letting Karski tell about the extermination of the Jews, FDR shifted the conversation to a discussion on the fate of the horses in the occupied Poland.
@@DemonratsRevil excuse you! To what exactly are you referring? (Yes, that is a HIGHLY rethorical question!).......... It most definitely would most definitely be difficult to walk, run, skip, jump, twirl around or probably any means of self transportation after who knows how long of an individual being starved, worked to death with no relief in the freezing cold winter or burning heat of summer and being forced to stand hours on end for daily "role calls" which were just evil torture lines in which people were selected to be killed anyway and above all of that you say that?!!!........ Please explain....
@@notabene7381 Yes. What was going on at Auschwitz was well known throughout Europe by mid 1943. Even by about August 42, the British knew that something very sinister was occurring at Auschwitz. The book "The Volunteer" about Witold Pilecki by Jack Fairweather ( 2019 ) explains a lot. First reports about mass murder at Auschwitz/Birkenau were actually in regard to the brutality and murder of Soviet POW's , not Jews.
This was an excellent documentary and representation of the thinking of the time...the struggle to find the words to describe what was happening and the challenge to really grasp the magnitude of the atrocity. And, a great discussion of all of the deliberations and considerations, with the clarity of the limitations and parameters of the choices at hand. Well done, and thank you!
I still cannot fathom how this could happen. I have watched countless documentaries on this and yet my mind is blown every time, my mind can't believe this is reality.
Until we remove our slaughter houses it will happen again, hypocrisy at this highest form from us as a human race is what we have , and yet we repulse at the horror when done to our species
Having walked the having walked the ground in Auschwitz knowing this was the same ground where over one million people walked their last steps is an experience I have trouble finding the words to describe.
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 It was the Russians that said 4 million. It wasn't until after the Berlin wall came down and other researchers were allowed to go in and do a more accurate investigation which resulted in a lower number. Are the numbers important? Of course they are but to me the numbers begin to pale in significance compared to the reasons why they died. There wouldn't be a number at all if Germany had won that war. It would have simply been....all of them.
@@robgeorgia8801 I’m a revisionist and that’s the first argument I’ve heard that actually kinda makes sense, however there’s still no evidence behind the 6mil number, at the Nuremberg trials it was claimed they turned them into soap, put them on rollercoasters into ovens, experimented nuclear bombs dropping them on them and other bs.
@@robgeorgia8801 The British cracked the enigma code and intercepted top secret transmissions and found nothing besides execution it escapees and so on, nothing about gas or an organised killing effort, theres not a single document showing undeniable proofs, the commandant of camps that confessed to it was later found out they were tortured into confessions. For example the interrogator of I believe Rudolf hoss was a British Jew allied soldier and later in his autobiography he admitted to torturing him, hitting him in the balls with a sledgehammer and other torturing methods and he said if he didn’t confess his family would be killed and thus he confessed. So maybe he was guilty however at minimum the confession isn’t reliable and thus to be a real historian we must find other evidence that wasn’t extracted via torture
@@robgeorgia8801 If the Soviets lied about 4 mil what’s to say they didn’t build a fake g(TH-cam will censor) chamber? Also at Auschwitz there’s a chimney that isn’t connected to anything and was clearly built by Soviets in 1948. I believe it may well be likely that there were killings of Jews on the eastern front with einsatzgruppen and Ukrainian nationalists etc as there is substantially more documented evidence for that, however as far as camps in Europe theres very little evidence. And originally the western allies claimed dachau was a death camp with gas chambers but then they changed the story and said nobody was killed there and the only death camps were in the soviet zone.
Thank you for posting this and when I watch anything about this I cry about it. Rip to everyone who died There. and thank you for helping hidden or helped .Rip you are gone but not forget
My partner took a tour of Auschwitz and I asked him about it. He said "the evil is still there, you can feel it. Once the tour was over I just knew I had to get out of there" I hope, that those who lost their lives there, have finally found peace
I take it a situation like this is where the saying "For evil to persist, all it takes is for good men to do nothing..." What a sad, and very tragic story 😔
I have read Rudolph "Rudy" Yrba's book about Auschwitz, that he cannot forgive. It is a very important book to read about WW2. Thank you to Mr Yrba for his testimony and his book. Thank you for this film also. I have met people who were in the camps; and my step father in law was one soldier who helped to liberate them.
Who in their right mind would forgive somebody who committed these atrocities against them and it's scary to know that there are many people who say this never happened and there are those who laugh about it. I live in Florida and anti-Semitism is on the rise as I'm sure it is throughout the world. those who deny the Holocaust cannot wait for another one.😊
No matter how many times I see documentaries on the Holocaust, it grieves my heart so much. I'm so tired of man and their evil and wicked intentions. God will deal swiftly with them. 😥😓
@@ahklys1321 Yes God is real. He created you. That says something. Out of all the sperm that raced to your mother's egg, you were the one that made it. There's something special about you. I don't know you but that speaks volumes to me. Y Te, you were made for a purpose and I pray that you reach your full potential in life and destiny. God bless you Y Te. Jesus loves you! 💜✝️🙏
Winston Churchill was right when he said this is the greatest atrocity in history and today it still is. How could anyone believe this was happening when it was found out? Absolutely unbelievable!!
@@RattyDaddy Yes, the woman goes willingly...but she's not the one being killed. If the baby had a choice, would it willingly go? It IS the modern day Holocaust.
I am 74 & still cannot imagine the pure evil these poor people were subjected , even though my family were all military, my dad (god bless him ) survived but his two brother's were killed RIP ,it's still hard to keep your temper
@@renee6164 a liberal crazy is out. Let me guess… trump is somehow creating another holocaust right? Geeze. Like I say, whatever the liberal crazies accuse you of, they are usually doing themselves
We could smell something for days on our way to the camp. When we got there we figured out what it was. They had bodies piled up in stacks like wood and they were rotting. That's what my dad told me and he was there.
The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz. The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
Night is still one of the most powerfully captivating books ever written. It's hard to comprehend the utter horror. The extreme Moral failure is gut wrenching.
Never ever get rid of this place let it be a constant reminder to the atrocities that took place. i visited Auschwitz in 2020 it was such a sad and forbidding place, no one should ever forget what happened
The British Mosquito was designed to take out precision targets due to their light weight wooden structure and speeds better than 400 mph. The P47D could had been used to knock out the rail road systems routes to the death centers
@@eq1373 Perhaps, but every day would allow more people to survive. Just throwing leaflets letting the guard and SS know that at the end of the war, they would be hung (which they did not) would have had an effect
Bombing the railroad might have slowed the trains and the numbers transported! The Italian campaign gave us bomber bases to hit targets in Eastern Europe unreachable from England.
I have watched/read countless documentaries about the Holocaust/ww2 and this is the most comprehensive and detailed account of this particular event I have ever seen. Too many reports omit what these 2 fellas did. I can't fully comprehend the depth of the terror and horror these 2 guys must have felt ♥ Thanks for this excellent documentary.
Thank you so much for letting us know. It’s greatly appreciated. Watching anything on the holocaust is so hard. The horror and the sheer scope of this makes it very very difficult to imagine. I don’t know how some survivors were able to ‘forgive’ I don’t know how they did it. I really don’t. Thanks again and stay safe
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory im a 68yrs old lady my dads best friend whom was polish and only a youny man at the time was sent to this place we still call it hell on earth camp they tatooed dads friend he made friend with the people he ended up shuffling the remaines from the chambers my dads friend told my mum and dad he esçaped the terrible horrible camp he went tothe wire dug underneath a dog grabed his leg he broke the dogs kneçk and made it to the part of pollandwhere he lived iwent to school with his daughter they came to britton i see the tatooe and he showed us his leg i dont know how he servived the dog attack let alone the place hell here on earth this i will never forgett
It must have been so hard for the escaped prisoner's to get anyone to believe them as it does sound unbelievable, however, we all know now it was very true. It was a living hell for all of them, we must never let this happen again.
The worst part of all this is these were 100% civilians and this wasn't even 80 years ago.. to think this could happen in a civilized world is insane..
These stories are so very terrible and the cruelty performed on innocent people is incomprehensible ( if that is a word) I went on a tour of Mauthausen in 1973, it was the saddest place I had ever seen. I still get upset when I hear of what some humans are capable of hurting another person without absolutely no regard of human life
How about all the other death camps. Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec, Maidenek, Mathausen, Stuthoff. Most of the extermination camps were in Eastern Poland. In the end how ironic that Stalin liberated most of the death camps in Eastern Poland anyway. Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Steyer, Jasenovac etc.etc.etc. In the end you needed ground troops. Ripping out the railroads and deportation centers would have been a start.
Yea that was my first thought during this whole doc. Say we did bomb and destroy Auchwitz's gas chambers. What then? It was only one camp and there were dozens of these. It wouldn't have ended the Holocaust. I think what this documentary shows more than anything else is that the information about the camps needed to be made public much sooner because it was the Nazi's commitment to secrecy that really needed to be addressed.
@@arthurkorff that is simple. To truly stop the killings from happening at the camps you need to overrun the camps. That require ground troops. Tanks, infantry, and artillery
Yes this is true. But Auschwitz must stand for them all because the true "death factorys" belzec, Majdinek or Treblinka, Sobibor. These were set up in 1942 for a specific mission:(liquidating the jews in poland). Called 'Operation Reinhardt'. 'Punishment for the death of "Deputy Reich-Protecter" of Bohemia Reinhardt Heydrich. They complete thus task and are immediately destroyed and in the case of Treblinka a farm house was put over the ashes buried on the site. Auschwitz was opened on a site of an old Polish Calvary Barracks, it had more permanent infrastructure and was such a huge site that it could not just be evacuated and destroyed before the Red Army units reached the site. The SS did March as many live persons as possible West so as to keep live witnesses to a minimum. And so this is why people can delude themselves that it was a case of labor camps that got out of control near the end of the war by lack of resources on the German side and so was not in fact a planned, intentional policy of physical destruction of this race. There is much evidence of the Western camps on the Reich territory, ( Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Etc) But the Holocaust really happened in the East.
“Already forgetting?” They’re called Holocaust deniers. Those people have been ignoring, denying, carrying on with their antisemitism just as people have been antisemitic for centuries. The US refused immigration to the Jews because of antisemitism. They dropped the allowance down to a couple of thousand (a quota already filled) because they didn’t want Jews here and the government did not want the US being seen as fighting “a Jewish war.” It’s a stain on our nation, and it will never be removed. If people would only read, there are hundreds and thousands of books on the war and the Holocaust, but they have to want to learn. If someone doesn’t avail themselves because they “hate to read” or they “don’t have time” then they live only in tiny sound bites. They pick and choose what they had rather want to think happened, what they want to believe were the causes for what happened. They don’t know the facts and they don’t care. “Don’t have time” or “hate to read?” Pathetic excuses. I’ve known the busiest professional people who were always readers because they made time, because they wanted knowledge. The people who excuse themselves, deprive themselves. And often it’s an abundance of those people who change the world - but not for the better.
I feel very angry that people are denying this happened, because it did. My grandpa was a medic in ww2, spent 4 year's of his life in this war. He had no idea that this was going on, until the end of the war, when he, and a group of soldier's were headed into dachau, another death camp. As they were approaching dachau, they smelled a strangely foul smell, but didn't know what it was. Once they entered the camp, the chimneys were going in a section of the camp, but not all of them. They were shocked by what they saw upon entering first of all. There were bodies piled up everywhere, and there were bodies in train car's stacked up. There were Jews, pow's, french and other nationalities, and religion's. The stoves had partially cremated bodies, and some were still burning. They were horrified that any human could do this to another human. The people who were still alive, were starving, many sick from the living conditions and lack of hygiene. My grandpa said that all the men gave them whatever food they had, and they called for food, medicines, blankets, sheets, and to be prepared for what they were coming into. They moved many of them out, but many died because of illnesses, and the affects of starvation, and some had to be treated first before they could move them. My grandpa killed no one, one of the reasons he became a medic, and was on the front line's. He did capture an ss soldier and took his luger, swatika arm band, as well as the ss bars. My grandpa told me most of this when i was in my twenties, and i helped him do a lot of thing's around the house, because he never trusted anyone to fix anything. My grandpa made no friend's because of what he saw, as well as how US troops would kill the enemy in a horrific way after one of their squad mate's were killed. My grandpa told me all this after he told me i had saved his life, after having a heart attack that i helped him do many thing's. He told me all this stuff that he had never told anyone else, and i think that he needed to tell someone. He made me promise that no one would put anything on his grave showing that he was in the war, he wanted no recognition. My grandpa was nearly killed once in a bombing, because he left a bucket deciding that he needed to get his work done, and a young guy took his place, and less than 5 minutes later that guy who took his place was hit and killed from the bombing. My grandpa always talked about Jesus, and that if you do what you have to do, instead of what you want to do, you will be okay. People don't want to believe in God anymore, but i believe, because i have been saved from death myself. God bless everyone, this evil did happen.
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Well said....n I agree with you; but, also back then nobody wanted to or could believe that people could be that cruel to other people.🥺
Less than a week after denying this request, the US Army Air Force carried out a heavy bombing raid of the I.G. Farben works near Auschwitz III, which was less than five miles from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. An Auschwitz survivor who saw the bombs dropping nearby said this; “We were no longer afraid of death; at any rate not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.”
They made 5 bombing raids all up. Aiming for factories near and around the camp. On Sept 13, stray bombs took out the rail line leading up to the gas chambers and a slave labor workshop, killing 40 prisoners.
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved. The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp. It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
Maybe The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved. The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp. It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
@@Petal4822 When the tracks outside Budapest were bombed, Eichmann simply ordered the Jews to be force marched out of the city and any who couldn't were shot. He would have done the exact same thing in Poland if the tracks to Auschwitz were damaged. Nobody would have been saved, they just would have walked to their death instead of riding in trains.
The world could not believe that any race or nation could do what Germany did so many thought it had to be fantasy, but now, the world Will NEVER forget .
I read comments that give me peace knowing the vast majority of commenters are compassionate and caring people. Thank God for that. But a couple of comments are seriously concerning.
My mom friend told us when they heard about they was coming to hun . They got the he'll out of there . Stay hiding for 4 years . Never went back. Can to the USA.
My Husband was born in a Relocation Camp in Germany after the War. His Mother had been brought to Germany from Poland under Reichminister of Armaments Albert Speers Relocation of Slave Workers from Occupied Counties. She was Polish and had been brought to work on a Farm. When Russia invaded Poland, she decided to stay in Germany.
What strong women they are, going back to the "nightmare" talking about their experiences & emotions from their childhood. Thankyou ladies. I did listen & I do care. 🌺🪴
I can’t imagine the terror, when she found out that they were baking people instead of bread. I pray we never have anything close to this bad happen to people
This was all before my time..however I am a WWIi history buff as my father..father in law and relatives fought in the war with 2 getting killed..both sides had a great intelligence operations in place and there was nothing they didn't know about the enemy...Germany had numerous concentration camps operating at the time...I find it hard to believe that nobody knew what was going on in any of the camps.
Regarding criticizing the lack of Allied bombing in the summer of 1944, be reminded that Auschwitz is in Southern Poland very close to Krakow, due east of the Czech Republic and just north of Slovakia. I know the Silesia Region of the Czech Republic was out of practical bomber range for the USA since there would be very heavy bomber losses. Perhaps the Soviets had the best chance to bomb Auschwitz in the mid to late summer of 1944 and after their Bragation Offensive made good progress into Poland.
My father was Operations Officer for the 100th Bomb Group (The Bloody Hundredth)of the 8th Air Force. The large number of losses to this group was devastating and historic. He was barely in his early twenties leading freshly trained men, unfamiliar with the landscape, in aircraft barely held together. The weather could be unpredictable and temperatures well below freezing. He joined the RCAF already an experienced, licensed pilot right after high school. He was aware things were not right in Europe. He knew his experience would be of help. He was willing to risk his young life. He was shot down over Kiel and barely survived 2 years in Stalag Luft III. This horror, this evil, this genocide happened. To deny it is to deny one’s soul.
The Allies had to fly over Auschwitz to bomb the IG Farben Factory so it was within their range. The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz. The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
watch History on TH-cam, the guy takes an rv to many locations, and has well documented information on all side's of this issue. Some good info on Russia. People want to know all side's, i do anyway, have Russian ancestors.
Absolutely the Palestinian cause was always about getting rid of theJews and erasing their culture and connection to the ancient Holy Land and to control the Temple Mount the holiest place of the Jewish religion
No, it shouldn't be bombed!!! Instead its story should be told and retold with photos and videos to every American with the clear message that it can and will happen again -- and it will happen here -- unless we keep sharply attentive to what goes on around us here and now -- to make certain we don't allow it to happen again with our own complacence.
24:33 unfortunately I believe these thoughts are human nature. Stressful situations can have drastic effects on the brain. And at 14 years old the weight those thoughts carry can't be quantified, this is why young children don't tend fear death or think much about it. It's a self defense mechanism that disappears over time as our brains fully develop between 20-30 years old. This is also why the young are so eager to go to war...
That office in Switzerland by Roosevelt was a show office. Roosevelt didn't give a care about the Jewish people. He turned the SS St. Louis away from the shores of America at gun point, knowing that the Jewish passengers would face death on their return to Germany.
It’s a damned disgrace. I have wondered why something was done since I first heard about it and was taught in school. Became obsessed with it. How did allies turn a blind eye to this? Such a DISGRACE!!!!
I am not even a Jew and still this singer's me to know that I was a Baby when this was going on. Just being a Human being is a Crime in the eyes of Evil.
So very horrific and sad. I'ts hard to believe that some people could these things to someone I will never know . The horrors these victims endured is something we will never know the scope of the torture these victims endured .
If they had bombed the camps they wouldn’t have ended the atrocities, merely insured there’d be no survivors to tell the story. How would you like to try so hard to live, only to be bombed rather than rescued? I am astonished at this ‘suggested solution’.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, would it have helped, I don’t know. Britain was fighting for its very life and decisions are made in times of war. I am in no way condoning anything, heavens , they knew Coventry was going to be bombed but made the gut wrenching decision to do nothing. If they had, the Germans would have known they’d broken the code. People died, and if it were my family, I’d be appalled. But his many lives did it save in the long run. I do not understand how a nation ( and a few others willingly helped. There were nations who were occupied , willingly or no, still did not give up their Jewish citizens - not for a while anyway) could descend into a madness , in just a few years, that no sane, sensible person would possibly believe. I do not know because I sort of agree with both sides. I don’t think blame should be put on any shoulders except for the perpetrators. Yes, countries didn’t let refugees in quick enough but - it was the depression! No one had anything. All I’m asking is just take it into context and don’t just make it a blame game. People today grizzle like mad if the d..m coffee isn’t right or they don’t have the ‘right’ sneakers! All should be made aware of these testimonies . Trouble is - I think too many people today just think about themselves. It’s a very selfish world we live in today. Sadly. Very sadly. We must learn from the horrors of the past otherwise our race has no hope. We will destroy ourselves and have no one else to blame. I’m afraid , as a evolutionary experiment, we have been a disaster . And if our own making, no asteroids to blame.👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely right! Way too many selfish people these days. We have become master trash makers. Naturally we are loving beings not hate machines. I enjoyed reading ur thoughts. E Pluribus Unum!
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium. It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved. The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp. It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
You don't disappear a segment of your own people without rumors going around. Civilians didn't know what was going on until these camps were discovered. The two actors do indeed look too healthy, I imagine Mr. Vrba and Mr. Wetzler both looked emaciated when they made contact with the outside world.
Look at people in prison serving time not guilty ? Went to their deaths. Look at China, I bet you go there and North Korea how they are treated in camps. These leaders are beast, have no, heart? How in the world can you be a beast kill people.
In the 1950s and 60s we were not taught about The Holocaust in school. Likewise, the starvation deaths of over 5 million in Ukraine under Stalin (1931-1934), and a startling 30 million plus, in the Great Leap Forward in China under Mao (1960-1962). How can we say "never again" when it just keeps happpening anyway? What's wrong with our species??
In April 1944 two Jewish prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. When they recounted what they had left behind their harrowing testimony revealed the true horror of the Holocaust to the outside world for the first time.
They described in forensic detail the gas chambers and the full extent of the extermination programme. The news they brought presented the Allies with one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th Century: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?
I would be extremely surprised if a bombing of a prisoner of war camp would of been approved by allied troops. The Jewish community has the right to defend and protect their children, families and culture. Asking another country to undertake the plan was a right but including a request to take out
the camp was a mistake. It is shocking, horrific and tragic.....
Many of the prisoners did hope and pray that Auschwitz would be bombed. At that point it didn’t matter that some of them might perish, because many were at the point of death, or were headed for certain death. The Allied decision was to not bomb the site. But Auschwitz-Birkenau was so huge that if they did bomb, it should’ve been easy enough to hit IG Farben. They weren’t producing much, really, and the site wasn’t “in the black” as far as production, but it would’ve thrown a monkey wrench into the works, and possibly would’ve hit the crematoria on that side. IG Farben didn’t want to be associated with the brutalities toward the prisoners, but after they got used to the “free workers” and their “low cost help” they too turned a blind eye to what was happening at the camps (I, II and III). None of the heads in IGF could be not guilty of partaking in the suffering and deaths of the Jews at A-B. They did. And like all Germans, they kept meticulous records, proof in ink of their guilt.
What...the gas chambers.... it is so many books about this.....Jurgen Graf : The Holocaust Schwindel, you can have this book here :Guideon Burg Verlag, Postfach 4009, Basel, Schwqeiz
@@georgethomas7814 why would it be a mistake?
NO.
It was only 80 years ago that this took place...and some people still have not learned from it.
Nope, in fact we’re on pace to do it again and a lot of people would be fine with it.
I have often suggested that what some learned is how to do it better. Such is the human race.
@@youtubeblockscomments I doubt many people can fathom that history is repeating itself with the experimental jabs.
There are many people on this site working hard to deny that it's all ever happened.
@@notabene7381 The same mentality now who insist on wearing the mask, getting tested, and accepting the jab.
My Dad told me that as a teen they had heard rumours but nothing concrete. When the camps were discovered he said the whole world was in shock. He with my Mother went and paid their respects at Auschwitz and years later so did I. I was literally stunned for days after.
How humans can to this to other humans I will never understand. Barbaric!
It is good to pay tribute but I hope you also pay tribute to the 10s of millions who were slaughtered by Stalin. It annoys me that people do not pay tribute to those people as well.
Jennifer Bailey.. you said it so rite. It must have been so sad & upsetting when you visited the camp. ❤️💕
It was a real crazy time to be alive. The Jews ruined the economy for non-jews in germany. Jews would only do business with other Jews which was not right but nobody could have imagined the punishment for doing that.
I’ve seen the same in the Middle East and Africa. And as of now the Middle East and Africa going the thru the same thing.
@@deanpd3402 and now those are slaughtering the Ukrainians
Auschwitz and the Holocaust are why I’m a history teacher. My mother’s family immigrated from Poland after the war. It was just my great grandpa that survived from his family. He lost everyone. They are commemorated in the Yad Vashem memorial. As a child, when my mother first explained about our family it left a permanent mark on me, and shaped my career choice.
I can't imagine what it is like having a story like that and not hating everyone. Teach on. You have a very important job. Thank you for sharing
...and now they are taking the teaching of it out of schools
Wow. I am in IT. But, after knowing all this, I wish everyday I had studied history and could devote my life understanding human history. There have been brutalities all through the history.
We see it repeating today as the Democrat political party
Did you know the death camp had a hospital and a nursery?
I really think that this needs to be covered in all high school regiments. This can never be forgotten.
I can't believe that the former President broke bread with two anti Semitic people in his home.
Agreed. I didn't learn much about WWII in school. I learned about WWI and WWII by reading two very think hardbound books from my local library. My mother asked why I was so interested in world wars at just 10 years old. I think it was because of the photos in these two books drew me in and kept me interested still 30 years later and I'm still learning new bits of other human beings' struggle.
Really? Why don't they cover more details about what happened to the Native Americans, Africa Americans or every other oppressed people throughout huma history for that matter. Why just this subject/event in your opinion? Educators/Administration need to be selective with what they choose to teach young children. If they went into depth and detail about every particular subject, topic, event or travesty throughout human history children would be in school forever. They have to teach a small amount about certain subjects. Then if those people/children are interested in learning more about a particular subject, topic or event later in life it is their choice to do so.
You have be realistic. Just because you are particularly interested in this topic and learning more details about it doesn't mean that others are. I'm extremely interested in this topic myself, that's why I'm here. But I learned enough about the Holocaust in high school, enough to decide on my own to further educate myself on the topic later in life. Just saying... 😉🙂
@@bigfish8280 amazing! I’m actually a quarter Cherokee. It should all be covered.
It used to be but I guess history teachers avoid the subject, this is the first documentary with new information, like with everything that happend during WW2 there is still alot of mystery. I find this refreshing, so many stories must be missing etc.
This was taught and these films were shown when I was in high school in the 1980s. I never forgot them.
I remember learning about the holocaust as a student and such and I remember thinking how awful etc....
But now that I am an adult I really think about it. An entire nation state doing this as policy on an enormous economical scale. The logistics involved. Its incredible, yet it happened.
Yes in 70s too
I don’t know if it’s possible to honor these two men with words, anything I might say would fall short. I am in awe of their heroism and selflessness. I think about all the poor souls executed almost every day, growing up I lived in an area outside Chicago with many survivors. Talking to them as a young person affected me, hearing stories imprinted on my heart, I will always honor their memory. 🙏🙏❤️
And now, 80 years later, the civilized world is faced with a similar moral question concerning the destruction of Ukraine by one of our allies in WW2.
Not much has changed since the liberation of the concentration camps. Same evil. Different uniforms .
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
Millions of lives could have been saved.
The constant train arrivals..without the gas chambers, would have caused overcrowding in the camp.
This chaos could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
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I think you just honored them well, that was nicely put.
The bombing of Auschwitz have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
I've always referred to this as the monumental moral dilemna. The allies were stuck between a hard place and a rock. Had they bombed the camp to stop the slaughter, they would have been criticized for killing civilians. By not bombing the camp, they are criticized for not stopping the carnage! A lose, lose situation.
The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz.
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp. Millions of lives would have been saved.
Na, I don't see it that way. History would have forgiven and even applauded that action.
Literal trolley problem.
@@ahklys1321 you’re not familiar with the trolley problem, are you?
If ithave not have been stopped, they wouldn’t have saved the ones that they did and the Reicht would have destroyed all of the Jews in Europe- which is what Satan had planned to begin with. He has been trying to kill off the Jews, since the beginning of time.
To the man who feels ashamed for wishing people would die so that you could have a place to sit down...
Please don't feel ashamed!!! You went through so much suffering for a 14 year old child!!! Please forgive yourself!!!
Amen. Never be ashamed,
This is about Rudolf Vrba, one of my dad's PhD mentor's best friends! He ended up becoming an incredible scientist. His wife gave me his book as a wedding gift. It's called I Escaped From Auschwitz. It's an AMAZING book! Highly recommend!
The movie Escaped is amazing
I listened to the audiobook yes, amazing.
prove it, or shut up
@@rangerjones5531 Prove what.
Amanda 2 l have just brought the book on Amazon my parents lived in Hungary during WW2 and lve heard some terrible stories but we should never ever forget what happened
I bet the guys who escaped in real life looked 1000 times worse than the actors. I can't imagine what they went through BEFORE escaping and then somehow surviving to WALK to some kind of safety without being caught
Witold Pilecki of the Armia Krajowa volunteered to infiltrate Auschwitz in 1940 in order to find out what was happening there, and he escaped in 1943, a year earlier than the event described in this video. Shortly after his escape, he wrote the "Witold Report" about Auschwitz. While being inside Auschwitz, he sent regular reports to Armia Krajowa about the genocide of the Jews happening in the camp. These reports were forwarded to the British government in London and to other Allied governments, specifically the US government. Based on these reports, the Allied governments knew already in March 1941 about the industrial extermination of the Jews happening in Auschwitz.
You can find on this site the testimony of Jan Karski on his meeting with FDR in July 1943. In the meeting, rather then letting Karski tell about the extermination of the Jews, FDR shifted the conversation to a discussion on the fate of the horses in the occupied Poland.
You say that like walking is hard or something.
The survivors all look older too.
@@DemonratsRevil excuse you!
To what exactly are you referring?
(Yes, that is a HIGHLY rethorical question!)..........
It most definitely would most definitely be difficult to walk, run, skip, jump, twirl around or probably any means of self transportation after who knows how long of an individual being starved, worked to death with no relief in the freezing cold winter or burning heat of summer and being forced to stand hours on end for daily "role calls" which were just evil torture lines in which people were selected to be killed anyway and above all of that you say that?!!!........
Please explain....
@@notabene7381 Yes. What was going on at Auschwitz was well known throughout Europe by mid 1943.
Even by about August 42, the British knew that something very sinister was occurring at Auschwitz.
The book "The Volunteer" about Witold Pilecki by Jack Fairweather ( 2019 ) explains a lot. First reports about mass murder at Auschwitz/Birkenau were actually in regard to the brutality and murder of Soviet POW's , not Jews.
This documentary really brought tears to my eyes. How horrific this must have been to those millions of poor souls. R.I.P to all affected.
This was an excellent documentary and representation of the thinking of the time...the struggle to find the words to describe what was happening and the challenge to really grasp the magnitude of the atrocity. And, a great discussion of all of the deliberations and considerations, with the clarity of the limitations and parameters of the choices at hand. Well done, and thank you!
I still cannot fathom how this could happen. I have watched countless documentaries on this and yet my mind is blown every time, my mind can't believe this is reality.
Until we remove our slaughter houses it will happen again, hypocrisy at this highest form from us as a human race is what we have , and yet we repulse at the horror when done to our species
Visit the museum in DC, you will have no more doubt.
They TRULY believed that the jews were at the centre of all of Germany' problems and even their blood and souls were evil. Belief is a powerful tool.
You haven't seen the giant pile of shoes😂😂😂
@@eljerc5894, why is that funny?
I'm a huge history buff, this documentary is amazing with details and brings tears to my eyes.
Having walked the having walked the ground in Auschwitz knowing this was the same ground where over one million people walked their last steps is an experience I have trouble finding the words to describe.
Nobody was killed they simply died of typhus and allied bombing causing food shortages
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It was the Russians that said 4 million. It wasn't until after the Berlin wall came down and other researchers were allowed to go in and do a more accurate investigation which resulted in a lower number.
Are the numbers important?
Of course they are but to me the numbers begin to pale in significance compared to the reasons why they died.
There wouldn't be a number at all if Germany had won that war.
It would have simply been....all of them.
@@robgeorgia8801 I’m a revisionist and that’s the first argument I’ve heard that actually kinda makes sense, however there’s still no evidence behind the 6mil number, at the Nuremberg trials it was claimed they turned them into soap, put them on rollercoasters into ovens, experimented nuclear bombs dropping them on them and other bs.
@@robgeorgia8801 The British cracked the enigma code and intercepted top secret transmissions and found nothing besides execution it escapees and so on, nothing about gas or an organised killing effort, theres not a single document showing undeniable proofs, the commandant of camps that confessed to it was later found out they were tortured into confessions. For example the interrogator of I believe Rudolf hoss was a British Jew allied soldier and later in his autobiography he admitted to torturing him, hitting him in the balls with a sledgehammer and other torturing methods and he said if he didn’t confess his family would be killed and thus he confessed. So maybe he was guilty however at minimum the confession isn’t reliable and thus to be a real historian we must find other evidence that wasn’t extracted via torture
@@robgeorgia8801 If the Soviets lied about 4 mil what’s to say they didn’t build a fake g(TH-cam will censor) chamber? Also at Auschwitz there’s a chimney that isn’t connected to anything and was clearly built by Soviets in 1948. I believe it may well be likely that there were killings of Jews on the eastern front with einsatzgruppen and Ukrainian nationalists etc as there is substantially more documented evidence for that, however as far as camps in Europe theres very little evidence.
And originally the western allies claimed dachau was a death camp with gas chambers but then they changed the story and said nobody was killed there and the only death camps were in the soviet zone.
Thank you for posting this and when I watch anything about this I cry about it. Rip to everyone who died There. and thank you for helping hidden or helped .Rip you are gone but not forget
Me too, Keri. Peace.
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My partner took a tour of Auschwitz and I asked him about it. He said "the evil is still there, you can feel it. Once the tour was over I just knew I had to get out of there"
I hope, that those who lost their lives there, have finally found peace
I take it a situation like this is where the saying "For evil to persist, all it takes is for good men to do nothing..." What a sad, and very tragic story 😔
Makes me cry thinking what those people endured!
Makes me cry of wars since ,and presently.
@@ericscaillet2232 crybaby
Thyphus
HUMAN DEPRAVITY. UNIMAGINABLE EVIL. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WHAT HAPPENED. This must not forgotten.
Agree. We cannot be reminded often enough.
Amen 🙏
I have read Rudolph "Rudy" Yrba's book about Auschwitz, that he cannot forgive. It is a very important book to read about WW2. Thank you to Mr Yrba for his testimony and his book. Thank you for this film also. I have met people who were in the camps; and my step father in law was one soldier who helped to liberate them.
Who in their right mind would forgive somebody who committed these atrocities against them and it's scary to know that there are many people who say this never happened and there are those who laugh about it. I live in Florida and anti-Semitism is on the rise as I'm sure it is throughout the world. those who deny the Holocaust cannot wait for another one.😊
think it was the right decision not to bomb........think another terrible decision was the one to kill reynard heydrick
You have spelled his name wrong. It is Vrba.
Thanks for making this video 🙏✨💫💕
No matter how many times I see documentaries on the Holocaust, it grieves my heart so much. I'm so tired of man and their evil and wicked intentions. God will deal swiftly with them. 😥😓
God? Don't make me laugh.
@@ahklys1321 yes God
God is black metal
Or might as well be. At least its real
@@ahklys1321 Yes God is real. He created you. That says something. Out of all the sperm that raced to your mother's egg, you were the one that made it. There's something special about you. I don't know you but that speaks volumes to me. Y Te, you were made for a purpose and I pray that you reach your full potential in life and destiny. God bless you Y Te. Jesus loves you! 💜✝️🙏
Winston Churchill was right when he said this is the greatest atrocity in history and today it still is. How could anyone believe this was happening when it was found out? Absolutely unbelievable!!
The same thing goes on in abortion clinics around the world every day. Its the modern day holocaust and is still too unbelievable for many to grasp.
@@duaneadams5210 Yemen, Palestine, china, Bosnia, and so many other countries that people do not hear about. It's happening right now.
Abortion is not the same thing as the holocaust. That is ridiculous
Abortion is not Holocaust. A woman goes willingly to an abortion clinic. The Jews didn’t go willingly to the extermination camps
@@RattyDaddy Yes, the woman goes willingly...but she's not the one being killed. If the baby had a choice, would it willingly go? It IS the modern day Holocaust.
this is so heartbreaking! this crime against humanity should never happen again!!!
Sadly still is. Hate continues to bring war. Israel.. Ukraine😞 Tragedies continue to take place.
I am 74 & still cannot imagine the pure evil these poor people were subjected , even though my family were all military, my dad (god bless him ) survived but his two brother's were killed RIP ,it's still hard to keep your temper
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MAKES ME FEEL HOW LUCKY I AM WATCHING THIS CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE TERROR THESE POOR PEOPLE WENT THROUGH REALLY SAD AND HEARTBREAKING
Well/ Sadly… It looks like the GOP is repeating History 🇺🇸🗳🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏
@@renee6164 you are a 🤡
@@renee6164 a liberal crazy is out. Let me guess… trump is somehow creating another holocaust right? Geeze. Like I say, whatever the liberal crazies accuse you of, they are usually doing themselves
Okay, but why are you shouting?
@@bcaye you ask that as if you can hear him 🫤 maybe’s he’s just emotional about this…can you blame him? 😢
We could smell something for days on our way to the camp.
When we got there we figured out what it was.
They had bodies piled up in stacks like wood and they were rotting.
That's what my dad told me and he was there.
GOD Bless your Father and all who went through these horrific atrocities. Vengeance is MINE sayith the Lord. May HE come back soon. 🙏
Michael Johanson * Auschwitz was only liberated by the Soviet's !!
The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz.
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
I don't understand why we're the Jewish people killed in treated in this painful manner..
@The Richest Man In Babylon that’s not entirely true. They would leave dead bodies in the walkways, in the barracks, and even had open mass graves.
New subscriber; Thank you for sharing these documentaries. 😔
Night is still one of the most powerfully captivating books ever written. It's hard to comprehend the utter horror. The extreme Moral failure is gut wrenching.
I read your comment and looked into the book and just ordered it
The name of the book is NIGHT ?
Who is the author ?
@@msgflash4748 Elie Wiesel
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Elie and Marion Wiesel
Never ever get rid of this place let it be a constant reminder to the atrocities that took place. i visited Auschwitz in 2020 it was such a sad and forbidding place, no one should ever forget what happened
My ex girlfriend lives 20 miles from aushwizt s she was so sad about life.mabey because she grew up so close to that place.
The British Mosquito was designed to take out precision targets due to their light weight wooden structure and speeds better than 400 mph.
The P47D could had been used to knock out the rail road systems routes to the death centers
The Mosquito was used to attack several SS prisons in precision raids.
You don't realize how quickly railroad systems can be repaired, do you?
@@eq1373 Perhaps, but every day would allow more people to survive.
Just throwing leaflets letting the guard and SS know that at the end of the war, they would be hung (which they did not) would have had an effect
Bombing the railroad might have slowed the trains and the numbers transported! The Italian campaign gave us bomber bases to hit targets in Eastern Europe unreachable from England.
Did they have that available at the time though?
I have watched/read countless documentaries about the Holocaust/ww2 and this is the most comprehensive and detailed account of this particular event I have ever seen. Too many reports omit what these 2 fellas did. I can't fully comprehend the depth of the terror and horror these 2 guys must have felt ♥ Thanks for this excellent documentary.
Thank you so much for letting us know. It’s greatly appreciated. Watching anything on the holocaust is so hard. The horror and the sheer scope of this makes it very very difficult to imagine. I don’t know how some survivors were able to ‘forgive’ I don’t know how they did it. I really don’t. Thanks again and stay safe
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@@FreeDocumentaryHistory im a 68yrs old lady my dads best friend whom was polish and only a youny man at the time was sent to this place we still call it hell on earth camp they tatooed dads friend he made friend with the people he ended up shuffling the remaines from the chambers my dads friend told my mum and dad he esçaped the terrible horrible camp he went tothe wire dug underneath a dog grabed his leg he broke the dogs kneçk and made it to the part of pollandwhere he lived iwent to school with his daughter they came to britton i see the tatooe and he showed us his leg i dont know how he servived the dog attack let alone the place hell here on earth this i will never forgett
To think that there are cowards who deny it even happened
Right??!!!!
Thanks for sharing.
It must have been so hard for the escaped prisoner's to get anyone to believe them as it does sound unbelievable, however, we all know now it was very true. It was a living hell for all of them, we must never let this happen again.
I once read the story, it's a very dramatic one.
The worst part of all this is these were 100% civilians and this wasn't even 80 years ago.. to think this could happen in a civilized world is insane..
@@andyclark8505 and it is happening again with a different MO. Sadly the end results are the same: civilian casualties and it should not be this way.
These stories are so very terrible and the cruelty performed on innocent people is incomprehensible ( if that is a word) I went on a tour of Mauthausen in 1973, it was the saddest place I had ever seen. I still get upset when I hear of what some humans are capable of hurting another person without absolutely no regard of human life
How about all the other death camps. Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec, Maidenek, Mathausen, Stuthoff. Most of the extermination camps were in Eastern Poland. In the end how ironic that Stalin liberated most of the death camps in Eastern Poland anyway. Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Steyer, Jasenovac etc.etc.etc. In the end you needed ground troops. Ripping out the railroads and deportation centers would have been a start.
Yea that was my first thought during this whole doc. Say we did bomb and destroy Auchwitz's gas chambers. What then? It was only one camp and there were dozens of these. It wouldn't have ended the Holocaust. I think what this documentary shows more than anything else is that the information about the camps needed to be made public much sooner because it was the Nazi's commitment to secrecy that really needed to be addressed.
What do you mean "needed ground troops"?
@@arthurkorff that is simple. To truly stop the killings from happening at the camps you need to overrun the camps. That require ground troops. Tanks, infantry, and artillery
Yes this is true. But Auschwitz must stand for them all because the true "death factorys" belzec, Majdinek or Treblinka, Sobibor. These were set up in 1942 for a specific mission:(liquidating the jews in poland). Called 'Operation Reinhardt'. 'Punishment for the death of "Deputy Reich-Protecter" of Bohemia Reinhardt Heydrich. They complete thus task and are immediately destroyed and in the case of Treblinka a farm house was put over the ashes buried on the site. Auschwitz was opened on a site of an old Polish Calvary Barracks, it had more permanent infrastructure and was such a huge site that it could not just be evacuated and destroyed before the Red Army units reached the site. The SS did March as many live persons as possible West so as to keep live witnesses to a minimum. And so this is why people can delude themselves that it was a case of labor camps that got out of control near the end of the war by lack of resources on the German side and so was not in fact a planned, intentional policy of physical destruction of this race. There is much evidence of the Western camps on the Reich territory, ( Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Etc) But the Holocaust really happened in the East.
*Western Poland.
But then Stalin moved Poland's borders westwards into Germany, so it became "eastern" after the war.
We need to remind people that this really happened.some are already forgetting it happened.
On Aug 1939 Hitler told his inner circle what the Turks had done to the Armenians.
“Already forgetting?” They’re called Holocaust deniers. Those people have been ignoring, denying, carrying on with their antisemitism just as people have been antisemitic for centuries. The US refused immigration to the Jews because of antisemitism. They dropped the allowance down to a couple of thousand (a quota already filled) because they didn’t want Jews here and the government did not want the US being seen as fighting “a Jewish war.” It’s a stain on our nation, and it will never be removed.
If people would only read, there are hundreds and thousands of books on the war and the Holocaust, but they have to want to learn. If someone doesn’t avail themselves because they “hate to read” or they “don’t have time” then they live only in tiny sound bites. They pick and choose what they had rather want to think happened, what they want to believe were the causes for what happened. They don’t know the facts and they don’t care. “Don’t have time” or “hate to read?” Pathetic excuses. I’ve known the busiest professional people who were always readers because they made time, because they wanted knowledge. The people who excuse themselves, deprive themselves. And often it’s an abundance of those people who change the world - but not for the better.
I feel very angry that people are denying this happened, because it did. My grandpa was a medic in ww2, spent 4 year's of his life in this war. He had no idea that this was going on, until the end of the war, when he, and a group of soldier's were headed into dachau, another death camp. As they were approaching dachau, they smelled a strangely foul smell, but didn't know what it was. Once they entered the camp, the chimneys were going in a section of the camp, but not all of them. They were shocked by what they saw upon entering first of all. There were bodies piled up everywhere, and there were bodies in train car's stacked up. There were Jews, pow's, french and other nationalities, and religion's. The stoves had partially cremated bodies, and some were still burning. They were horrified that any human could do this to another human. The people who were still alive, were starving, many sick from the living conditions and lack of hygiene. My grandpa said that all the men gave them whatever food they had, and they called for food, medicines, blankets, sheets, and to be prepared for what they were coming into. They moved many of them out, but many died because of illnesses, and the affects of starvation, and some had to be treated first before they could move them. My grandpa killed no one, one of the reasons he became a medic, and was on the front line's. He did capture an ss soldier and took his luger, swatika arm band, as well as the ss bars. My grandpa told me most of this when i was in my twenties, and i helped him do a lot of thing's around the house, because he never trusted anyone to fix anything. My grandpa made no friend's because of what he saw, as well as how US troops would kill the enemy in a horrific way after one of their squad mate's were killed. My grandpa told me all this after he told me i had saved his life, after having a heart attack that i helped him do many thing's. He told me all this stuff that he had never told anyone else, and i think that he needed to tell someone. He made me promise that no one would put anything on his grave showing that he was in the war, he wanted no recognition. My grandpa was nearly killed once in a bombing, because he left a bucket deciding that he needed to get his work done, and a young guy took his place, and less than 5 minutes later that guy who took his place was hit and killed from the bombing. My grandpa always talked about Jesus, and that if you do what you have to do, instead of what you want to do, you will be okay. People don't want to believe in God anymore, but i believe, because i have been saved from death myself. God bless everyone, this evil did happen.
@@worldtopgun-3525 Turks ? It was young people from a group ...I can not write it here.......
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 Well said....n I agree with you; but, also back then nobody wanted to or could believe that people could be that cruel to other people.🥺
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This happens to this day in China, North Korea, and perhaps even still in Russia.
totally agree....we are lucky to live in civilized countries.........
Less than a week after denying this request, the US Army Air Force carried out a heavy bombing raid of the I.G. Farben works near Auschwitz III, which was less than five miles from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
An Auschwitz survivor who saw the bombs dropping nearby said this;
“We were no longer afraid of death; at any rate not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.”
They made 5 bombing raids all up. Aiming for factories near and around the camp. On Sept 13, stray bombs took out the rail line leading up to the gas chambers and a slave labor workshop, killing 40 prisoners.
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved.
The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp.
It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
Maybe The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved.
The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp.
It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
@@Petal4822 When the tracks outside Budapest were bombed, Eichmann simply ordered the Jews to be force marched out of the city and any who couldn't were shot. He would have done the exact same thing in Poland if the tracks to Auschwitz were damaged. Nobody would have been saved, they just would have walked to their death instead of riding in trains.
The world could not believe that any race or nation could do what Germany did so many thought it had to be fantasy, but now, the world Will NEVER forget .
it IS fantasy, made up in the sick twisted minds of the "chosen"
H0w did it happen?
Germany ,?????? Hi7they were forceren these kids
So you've never heard of slavery?!😒🤬
I read comments that give me peace knowing the vast majority of commenters are compassionate and caring people. Thank God for that. But a couple of comments are seriously concerning.
do you have compassion for the 4 million German civilians that were needlessly slaughtered in a pointless war?
@@BannedHistory war is horrible for all civilians regardless of sides. Do my views satisfy your curiosity?
A visit from schools in their final year should be compulsory across the whole of Europe.
Totally agree I visited this place in college and it was a very hard thing to deal with, but opened my eyes on how harsh people can treat each other.
When I was in high school a girl in my class told us her Jewish grandfather escaped from a concentration camp and immigrated to South Africa
My mom friend told us when they heard about they was coming to hun . They got the he'll out of there . Stay hiding for 4 years . Never went back. Can to the USA.
My Husband was born in a Relocation Camp in Germany after the War. His Mother had been brought to Germany from Poland under Reichminister of Armaments Albert Speers Relocation of Slave Workers from Occupied Counties. She was Polish and had been brought to work on a Farm.
When Russia invaded Poland, she decided to stay in Germany.
What strong women they are, going back to the "nightmare" talking about their experiences & emotions from their childhood. Thankyou ladies. I did listen & I do care. 🌺🪴
May God give them eternal rest.
It was their god that sat by and watched as they got murdered in bulk number. God is pathetic.
I can’t imagine the terror, when she found out that they were baking people instead of bread. I pray we never have anything close to this bad happen to people
We’ve had worse with the Atlantic slave trade
Bread?
This was all before my time..however I am a WWIi history buff as my father..father in law and relatives fought in the war with 2 getting killed..both sides had a great intelligence operations in place and there was nothing they didn't know about the enemy...Germany had numerous concentration camps operating at the time...I find it hard to believe that nobody knew what was going on in any of the camps.
The impending war between Russia and Ukraine is about money ,how much is worth to Russia or USA ????
Is it about the borders ?Poland is always in the middle so sad !!!! B
I bet you’re right.
they knew many inmates from Treblinka escaped in 1943 and told their story .
says more about you that you do not believe this was the case.
Thank you for showing this
What a great documentary - haunting and well-acted.
What can we do so this doesn't happen again ?. The Armenians were also genocide and still not talked about it.
Thier was also a Greek genocide that no one talks about.
And the Rwandan Genocide that happened in 1994
@@Lihle2000 Exactly
such a great documentary explaining what and when events transpired. Thank you
Yes! I can't believe I've never heard this story. Thank u for making this documentary!
It shouldn’t have taken that long for the world to come to their rescue
the claims were fake, and the Allies had intelligence that proved it.
The Allies could not bomb Auschwitz but they did drop Nukes on Japan.
I agree... What took the world so long???
@@Jasonnn17 politics and disbelief.
@@Jasonnn17 armed germans and italians? lol. What should they have done landed a battalion and told them to run to germany??
I find it somewhat tasteless there are ads profiting from this video,
In 20 years this history will be a century old. The world must never forget these events in history
All history, must never be forgotten. The Punic Wars laid the foundation for modern Europe.
I'm sorry. I couldn't finish it. But I know - "we must bear witness, for the living and for the dead".
Regarding criticizing the lack of Allied bombing in the summer of 1944, be reminded that Auschwitz is in Southern Poland very close to Krakow, due east of the Czech Republic and just north of Slovakia. I know the Silesia Region of the Czech Republic was out of practical bomber range for the USA since there would be very heavy bomber losses. Perhaps the Soviets had the best chance to bomb Auschwitz in the mid to late summer of 1944 and after their Bragation Offensive made good progress into Poland.
The Russians wouldve been of no help since they killed jus as many Jews in the Pogroms. The didnt care what was happening to the Jews.
My father was Operations Officer for the 100th Bomb Group (The Bloody Hundredth)of the 8th Air Force.
The large number of losses to this group was devastating and historic.
He was barely in his early twenties leading freshly trained men, unfamiliar with the landscape, in aircraft barely held together. The weather could be unpredictable and temperatures well below freezing.
He joined the RCAF already an experienced, licensed pilot right after high school. He was aware things were not right in Europe. He knew his experience would be of help. He was willing to risk his young life.
He was shot down over Kiel and barely survived 2 years in Stalag Luft III.
This horror, this evil, this genocide happened.
To deny it is to deny one’s soul.
The Allies had to fly over Auschwitz to bomb the IG Farben Factory so it was within their range.
The Allies were aware of the 35,000 Jewish prisoners working at ‘IG Farben’ but this DIDN’T stop the Allies bombing the IG Farben factory near Auschwitz.
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers - crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
The Allies couldn’t bomb the camp but they did drop nukes on Japan.
It was Czechoslovakia back then there was no Czech Republic or slovakia
It's ironic the world does not give Russia credit for where credit is due .
watch History on TH-cam, the guy takes an rv to many locations, and has well documented information on all side's of this issue. Some good info on Russia. People want to know all side's, i do anyway, have Russian ancestors.
America is german home boy is assryian is prussia what are the most peoples determines a nation
We forget, Russia does not and our relations with Germany and Ukraine have given the Russian people pause as to who their friends are...sad.
Jews, could not emigrate, own a passport,and were considered non citizens
Why did Hilter Hate the Jews .
We must never forget, or history will repeat itself!!
It is now Sadly- well, the beginning in the GOP!🇺🇸🗳🇺🇸🙏
It does not repeat it echos
What’s happening in Palestine is repeating this.
Absolutely the Palestinian cause was always about getting rid of theJews and erasing their culture and connection to the ancient Holy Land and to control the Temple Mount the holiest place of the Jewish religion
Just finished the book, amazing story! Thanks for the video 👍
No I believe this should stand in order to prove that this truly did exist and happen.
Great and sensitive documentary
numbs the soul,in the 20th century?Incredible
Thank you for share. That’s was horrific.
This was very informative
No, it shouldn't be bombed!!! Instead its story should be told and retold with photos and videos to every American with the clear message that it can and will happen again -- and it will happen here -- unless we keep sharply attentive to what goes on around us here and now -- to make certain we don't allow it to happen again with our own complacence.
24:33 unfortunately I believe these thoughts are human nature. Stressful situations can have drastic effects on the brain. And at 14 years old the weight those thoughts carry can't be quantified, this is why young children don't tend fear death or think much about it. It's a self defense mechanism that disappears over time as our brains fully develop between 20-30 years old. This is also why the young are so eager to go to war...
Put the young foght while the older ones make the decisions
This explains a lot....thank you
That office in Switzerland by Roosevelt was a show office. Roosevelt didn't give a care about the Jewish people. He turned the SS St. Louis away from the shores of America at gun point, knowing that the Jewish passengers would face death on their return to Germany.
This is soul wrenching, must Never be allowed again!😢
Absolutely heart breaking seeing them old and young faces of innocent men women and children
It’s a damned disgrace. I have wondered why something was done since I first heard about it and was taught in school. Became obsessed with it. How did allies turn a blind eye to this? Such a DISGRACE!!!!
It was a disgrace America let the world down that day they were just cowards!
Churchill: this is the most worst crime ever committed in history of human beings.
Meanwhile great Bengal feminine: sarcastic laughs.
and yet churchill knew about it for a long time. stalin told him. what did churchill do? he wrote to roosevelt , calling stalin a liar.
This should be in every school not gender history is our best teacher for a better future.
History should be based on facts not on rewritten history !
This is some of the saddest s*** I've ever watched
Teach it to your children 🙏
Our government has always had blood on their hands.....
They knew what was going on they just didn't care
God bess the 2 jewish men who escaped,very courageous men
I am not even a Jew and still this singer's me to know that I was a Baby when this was going on. Just being a Human being is a Crime in the eyes of Evil.
So very horrific and sad. I'ts hard to believe that some people could these things to someone I will never know . The horrors these victims endured is something we will never know the scope of the torture these victims endured .
If they had bombed the camps they wouldn’t have ended the atrocities, merely insured there’d be no survivors to tell the story. How would you like to try so hard to live, only to be bombed rather than rescued? I am astonished at this ‘suggested solution’.
It would of stopped the endless cycle of murder. Whether you like it or not it was the lesser of two evils at the time.
When you at war military targets have priority and bombing wasn't very accurate
No I see the logic obviously it’s not ideal. But if it happened it would of stopped it there at least.
That's probably true I just can't see how they kept this a secret
@@dylansapp7855 Wait so the solution to bringing the senseless murder to an end was to murder everyone? Yea that's logical...
Soviets did not allow British/US planes in Soviet Zones, preventing bombing flights out of Britain to Poland.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, would it have helped, I don’t know. Britain was fighting for its very life and decisions are made in times of war. I am in no way condoning anything, heavens , they knew Coventry was going to be bombed but made the gut wrenching decision to do nothing. If they had, the Germans would have known they’d broken the code. People died, and if it were my family, I’d be appalled. But his many lives did it save in the long run. I do not understand how a nation ( and a few others willingly helped. There were nations who were occupied , willingly or no, still did not give up their Jewish citizens - not for a while anyway) could descend into a madness , in just a few years, that no sane, sensible person would possibly believe. I do not know because I sort of agree with both sides. I don’t think blame should be put on any shoulders except for the perpetrators. Yes, countries didn’t let refugees in quick enough but - it was the depression! No one had anything. All I’m asking is just take it into context and don’t just make it a blame game. People today grizzle like mad if the d..m coffee isn’t right or they don’t have the ‘right’ sneakers! All should be made aware of these testimonies . Trouble is - I think too many people today just think about themselves. It’s a very selfish world we live in today. Sadly. Very sadly. We must learn from the horrors of the past otherwise our race has no hope. We will destroy ourselves and have no one else to blame. I’m afraid , as a evolutionary experiment, we have been a disaster . And if our own making, no asteroids to blame.👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This is an outrage. No ifs, ands or buts and nothing has been learned, imo.
Absolutely right! Way too many selfish people these days. We have become master trash makers. Naturally we are loving beings not hate machines. I enjoyed reading ur thoughts. E Pluribus Unum!
The Allied planes should have bombed the mass killing machines of gas-chambers -crematorium.
It would have slowed down the mass killing of Millions of people on arrival. The number of Jewish people gassed was far greater than the number of jewish people working in the camp.
Millions of Hungarian Jewish lives could have been saved.
The constant train arrivals…without the gas chambers, would have caused chaos and overcrowding inside the camp.
It could have given the prisoners a chance to overwhelm the guards.
Cultures are responsible first. Human instincts second.
Germany will never live this down imo.
U mean England. Scotland and Wales were never bombed
Excellent. A must watch
They should have put the allies on trial as well after the war for doing nothing about this.
Didn’t stop the US from dropping nukes on Japan.
This is the same narrator from fable the game! Lovely to hear your voice again, My love!
What I bad day when ur a prisoner and ur commandant is sadistic, murderous psychopath, and always pissed
You don't disappear a segment of your own people without rumors going around. Civilians didn't know what was going on until these camps were discovered. The two actors do indeed look too healthy, I imagine Mr. Vrba and Mr. Wetzler both looked emaciated when they made contact with the outside world.
New sub love these documentaries…😎
Seeing the photographs is traumatic. But seeing photographs of the little children... I can't find the words. :(
I was a child when all this happened.it is so sickening what some people do to other people.
mans inhumanity to man
Look at people in prison serving time not guilty ? Went to their deaths. Look at China, I bet you go there and North Korea how they are treated in camps. These leaders are beast, have no, heart? How in the world can you be a beast kill people.
In the 1950s and 60s we were not taught about The Holocaust in school. Likewise, the starvation deaths of over 5 million in Ukraine under Stalin (1931-1934), and a startling 30 million plus, in the Great Leap Forward in China under Mao (1960-1962). How can we say "never again" when it just keeps happpening anyway? What's wrong with our species??
How could you NOT bomb the camp????? What! You kill maybe 500 civilians ??? They were killing millions !!!!
NEVER FORGET
Yeah the Roma and others either not just Jews
@@jaynehinds3339 yup 11 million total… but all you ever hear about it the 6 million Jews who died.
RIP to all those beautiful souls.
We went to auschwitz 4 weeks ago ...its so bloody sad awful place all those poor poor people who suffered xx