Liberating the Vught Concentration Camp | October 1944
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- In October 1944, the British Second Army launched Operation Pheasant in the Netherlands to seize the vital cities of 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg. One of the formations involved was the 51st Highland Division, elements of which liberated the small village of Vught on the 26 October. The following day, patrols of the 51st would uncover the horrors of the Vught Concentration Camp.
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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Being Dutch, born relatively shortly after WW2, my parents raised me with this war in mind. Thank you so much for your story, 'Never to be forgotten'
Never forget, never forgive....
Damn
w8 ur 70 years old?
Born in 2000, still able to remember thanks to these sorts of videos!
I worked on a coaster, which called into a lot of different Dutch ports, in the mid to late seventies, and as a British person, I was quite often unable to buy myself a beer, because the local people all wanted to improve their English language skills. And so they would take turns in buying me a beer, and sitting down to talk in English, and they quite often took the time to talk about the war, and how they had been bombed by both sides, but they accepted the British bombing the country, because it was to help them get rid of the nazis. But they were most grateful for the mercy runs which the RAF made, so that the people could get something to eat. And when I saw the result of the stolen referendum, I was horrified by the fact that the scumbag tory government, was crapping all over the graves of every single person, that gave up their lives, while they were fighting to rid the whole of Europe of the right wing nazi scumbags, because they are obviously very similar in their outlook............ So, while I am glad that you remember/know, what Britain did in the war, I would understand, if you were pissed off at the scumbag tory government(because I am), and what they’re doing these days, to get their no deal Brexshit..........
My grandmother's brother was a survivor of Mauthausen. Thank you for telling these stories, and thank you to all soldiers past and present
I hope after these atrocities, he lived an awesome life!
Thankfully there seems to be many more survivors than initially thought and I too hope they got a full life after the carnage Europe suffered..
Thank you to your grandmother's brother for being open to telling his story! May God bless you and your family!
Thank you for sharing this video. My mum was 8 years old in 1940 and she grew up nearby concentration camp Vught. The only thing she once told me was: I've seen the marches from the trainstation towards the camp. That's all she told me. She didn't wanted to talk about the war.
I was at the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' Regimental Museum in Stirling Castle just yesterday.
It's a truly remarkable museum outlining the incredible history of the Argylls.
Unfortunately I had my 4 year old nephew with me, so I couldn't spend a huge amount of time reading all of the exhibits - I'll need to go back on my own.
My Father was in the Argylls and was stationed in Stirling castle for a time, a proud regiment with a long history.
I took my 16yo son there in 2018. He was born in Bristol, and his mum's English, but he considers himself Scottish. After our visit to Stirling I had to ask myself why I'd never been there before? (I'm Edinburgh born and Bred).........It's a wonderful Castle and the "Argylls" Museum was the highlight!
Thanks for your comment. It has lead to other interesting comments too.
0:39 is the Utrechtseweg near the town of Oosterbeek.. (where I live).. Here the men of the 1st Airborne Division marched towards Arnhem. Only a few managed to reach it.. The battle of Arnhem was fought out at Oosterbeek.. Only 2 weeks ago a young boy metal detecting uncovered another field grave with a missing paratrooper in it. One of around 150 still missing.. 2100 kia..
Commemorations are coming up.. We (who are born and raised in Oosterbeek) NEVER forget!
You should do an episode on the defence of the Witches cauldron as the Oosterbeek perimeter was called by the British and German troops alike.. Anyone of the regiments involved has incredible stories of bravery, man to man combat until the very end..
A weird fact about the site of the Camp at Vught..
Pottery and silverware were found there belonging to the Tafelberg and Schoonoord hotels from Oosterbeek. Both Hotels served as British field hospitals during the siege and battles of Oosterbeek both changed from British in to German hands and back again multiple times during these battles. The presence of these items possibly indicate either British POW's went through there and/or German troops that fought at Oosterbeek were there.
A shameful moment in modern history, repeated to often because we refuse to stop history from repeating itself. Excellent video, thank you.
We are pitifully unaware of what leads mankind into totalitarianism. The concentration camp sits in the back of the contemporary mind of man, it’s “Hell” in our collective subconscious. But those ideas which inevitably create such horrors we’ve no understanding of, or at least not enough of us do to prevent it.
This is another example of this channel's superb telling of events most of us have never heard of. Conventional history tells us of the events at Arnhem but very little of what happened before the crossing of the Rhine. Great work.
Absolutely brilliant Vid. Thank you. My great Aunt was incarcerated there. She survived but was a broken woman forever. I even have a (photocopy 0f) her Vught Concentration Camp index card. Her crime was hiding Jewish teenagers with my grandmother......
Excellent video as always, as one born and raised in tilburg I’ve know of the camp as long as I can remember and visited the museum it currently houses multiple times.
This video is an excellent addition to the story of the camp.
Thank you.
As always LfE well expalined and told with respect not just for the British squaddies, but also for the victims within Vught.
Thx for the upload! Greetings from The Netherlands!
A switch up from the usual, I like it!
Thank you again for sharing these important stories 🙏
4:58 that street is just around the corner of mine, it still looks like that with the same building
Thank you for covering these atrocities so well.
I live in Northampton I never knew this, I wish our county would teach us this! Thank you for the content I learnt something new!
As someone who lives in Vught, thank you.
Love your work. You deserve way more subs on your channel. I always share your work.
Nice video. My grandfather was caught trying to flee from the Germans because they would be put to forced labor, and was taken to Vught with his buddy. His buddy later got caught stealing a potato from a trashcan in the camp, and was hanged up and the germans forced the other inmates including my grandfather to beat him with a stick untill he didn't move anymore and then he was basically put down like a dog, gunshot to the head. Currently the company i work for is a contractor at the prison that is now built there, and so sometimes i also work there.
Dam, that is crazy and sad.
I'm so sorry for what your grandfather witnessed at that camp. No human being should ever have to be put through such misery. May God bless you and your family with good fortunes and happiness!!!!
Remember many Dutch welcomed the Germans into the Netherlands, they were known as the NSBers.
@@dexterbrown2517 troll? so enlighten me with your knowledge then...
I live about a walking distance from Camp Vught… tysm for making this video
As a Dutch person,thank you for this content👍
The new channel logo is working a treat - very easy to spot a new notification.
Local schools go to visit the museum in Vught and I've went with them as a parent. I was shocked to read that with the last train that left out of Vught was a little boy that had the age of 2 !!!. So sad. Thanx for all the great videos
And younger....
Thank you for keeping the British contribution alive.
Seems like we've got air-brushed out
My mother's uncle and aunt were in camp Vught for a while. All I know is that they survived, it must've been horrible in there.
Very interesting story
I'm from vught born and raised with two parents one born in 1937 and the other one in 1938
I've heard many stories about the war and it shall never be forgotten
To remember us what mankind is capable of
Hopefully it will never happen again
Great story
Loved it
Gr johny
But it is happening again. We just dont want to hear about it.
And that wasn’t even the tip of the iceberg ☹️
Great way covering these topics, like your style👌
love your videos , please keep posting
Words fail to sum up the atrocities perpetrated within.
something dutch very nice thank you
This was the build up to operation Infatuate, the battle of the Scheldt (the forgotten battle) to open the port of Antwerp
Them poor, innocent people. Terrible.
Hi Phillip, to think that such evil existed is beyond comprehension. I often wonder how those inhuman creatures such as Hitler and his cronies could commit such atrocities. May all those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis rest in peace, bless them ! As for Hitler etc; let's hope they suffered even more wherever they were 'spirited off' to.
Thank you from a subscriber. I understand that this channel is UK-centred; but have read of Lex McAulay's books. From one Five Eyes to another.
My Oma's older brother was sent to this camp. Apparently often at nighttime him and some other prisoners risked their lives sneaking into a nearby garden. There they would dig up and eat raw vegetables. Finally after coming back home he was very thin, and still wearing the same pair of pants he was captured wearing. But they were now dirty, tattered and torn and held up by a piece of rope.
My great grandfather served in the black watch regiment, I would really appreciate where you get your information from so I can track his footsteps though the war
We have all heard of Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and some others, but it was not until I visited Dachau and saw a map in the museum of all the concentration camps, over 1,000 throughout the conquered lands and Germany/Austria, that the true horror of it all hit me. At a later time I was walking with my German Girlfriend near Geretsried south of Munich and stumbled across a marker where inmates had been killed. My GF who grew up their had no idea that a camp had been located in her hometown. I was stationed in Bad Tolz and found out a temporary camp had been built there to build the SS Junker Schule. When I visited Dachau it is difficult to relate to empty buildings and photos. But it really hit home when I saw the plaque to 4 British Female SOE operatives who were murdered and cremated there. Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment, Noor Inayat Khan and Elaine Plewman. Bastards!
There were a lot of Germans who knew about the Camps & the smell & ash that came from them
I am from Vught, where my grandparents also lived during WW2.
Can you cover the Raid of Cabanatuan (The Great Raid). Id like to see your take on this.
Great video as always
RIP those poos souls who would loose their lives under the evil Nazi regime. And let us prey for the poor people who might have actually survived that evil place and all the others they may have been sent to, that their mental health was not entirely overwhelmed for the rest of their natural life. As it surely must have been terribly affected.
Germans called it KZ Herzogenbusch, but it is indeed located in Vught. It was the only official concentration camp in The Netherlands (even though there was also Kamp Amersfoort in the town of Leusden and Westerbork transfer camp near Hooghalen).
In 1977 woonden er Molukkers...het is tegenover de Lunetten kazerne... wachtlopen betekende..ook rond het kamp...
Visited Vught in 74
The 51st Highland division that participated in this liberation surely was reconstituted after they were left on the beach at Dunkirk by Churchill.
St. Valery was the last place many Highlanders saw the last of the British rescue and the start of a German POW camp.
My Great Grandfather was among those captured at St Valery in 1940. He was part of the Black Watch as part of the 51st HD. He was marched to Stalag 20A (I believe) and spent 5 years as a POW. He was one of the few to survive and endured a lot of physical torture including broken bones and teeth removal by gun butt.
He survived the war and died in 1974 at 63 and was riddled with arthritis all over his body that doctors said were caused from his time in camp.
My granny said he was the kindest man and best father someone could have had.
His party trick was he could jump in nettles and not be affected due to his lack of nerve endings.
I wish I could've met him and spoke to him about the war
The Allies were aware of these camps years before - The French / Dutch & other underground units had informed them of there existance
my grand father was in vucht .
he survived it !
Seems the infantry marching behind the M4 Shermans would be regularly getting a facefull of exhaust fumes.
Germans that were at these camps will never pay the full price that’s coming to them.
They'll get what's coming when they meet their maker! Noone ca escape the Lord!
Jack no one gets away, you pay now or pay later. And the Judge of Judges knows the whole story and no slick high priced attorney will be able to help.
There is no god for them to face punishment. If there was, it surely wouldn't have allowed the suffering of millions to have begun.
@@archstanton6102 I have to agree
Sure, Goldberg.
Although this a hindsight observation & comment, I wonder why the allies didn't under a white flag take the local German generals to the camp and tell them to immediately surrender within a given time. Then tell them to pass the message onto German High Command that they would face the consequences if they didn't stop these atrocities. Then to release all concentration camp inmates that where in Axis hands and also to immediately surrender so humanitarian work can commence, thereby possibly shortening the war!
Because they were led by crazy people who wanted to come out on top?
Love how you pronounce dutch towns. :)
Corrie Ten Boom spent time in Vught.
Yes new kamps of the diff kind will be plentiful by christmas 2021
From Wikipedia...On 26 October 1944, Scottish troops of the 7th Black Watch, and Canadian troops of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division's 96th Battery, 5th Anti-tank Regiment, liberated the camp during Operation Pheasant after fighting a rear guard of SS personnel left to defend the nearly evacuated facility.[4] There were around 500-600 prisoners left alive, who were due to be executed that afternoon, and whose lives were saved by the arrival of the liberating forces.
Give credit where it is deserved. Take a moment and read Wikipedia.
More of a holding/transition camp.
Cameron's i.e Scottish, NOT Cameroon's who would be African.
You beat me to it. Pronounced like David Cameron with an "s" at the end
@Nigel Sheppard. Are you certain, Nigel? I mean - with SNP and Nicola Sturgeon's madness and all that?
Corrie Was Held At Vought Had She Stayed She Would've Been Freed
May us Cameron Clan live Eternally *
Can you do more US operation ?
He’s British, why would he do that? There are lots of accounts US operations.
@Angel Gomez. NO! Hollywood already do it for you.
How I life wou5be different and better
Hitler was just too ambitious. If he would have had more patience, the war would have had a much different outcome for Germany... and Israel.
War sometimes it's a necessity, but what the Germans did to innocent Jewish civilians was an atrocity!!
Not only Jews. Rom/Romani, Slavs and other "Untermeshen" were also destined to be exterminated. For further reading, I can recommend Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands - Europe between Hitler and Stalin".
ok Moshe, noone cares.
@@janism94 So atrocities to minority groups, or in general is OK...?
They are the Camerons not the Cameroons!
53rd
Please use a de-esser, your S is very prominent in your pronunciation
He doesn't speak Dutch. I'm sorry for his mispronounciation
@@titanghost1152 No worries, it's not about speaking Dutch but the overall speaking itself in English, the slissy S is what I mean. You can use a de-esser (google it) and it will solve the issue
You got way to much time on your hands. I cant hear what you are going on about.
1st half sounds like accounting
"Camerons," Not Camerooooons
Why no photos of "atrocities" ?
@aryanscience. You truly sick? Or denying the mountains of dead, naked bodies shown a myriad times?
Montgomery was not the best general.
Patton, with his personality issues was better.
And to change and attack on Russians was brilliant
Patton never attacked Russians and was not even in the same league as Monty. Stop watching Hollywood movies
@speshul. No - you simply THINK you are special!
lol
Thank you for telling this story, mostly we hear about the larger camps but not the smaller ones like Vught. Terrible atrocities took place during the war and I will never understand how man could commit such horrors on another person.
Indeed yes, some appalling camps down the years and reinforces the stupidity and pain of War.
Two reasons, one because "I was only doing it to better (insert reason here to justify it but does not cover it in the slightest)" and "I was only following orders". You might want to read the Milgram experiment for more information about the latter. It doesnt explain why, but it does explain the basic how
Another excellent video. I love you videos so well put together and such deep indeph research 🙏🏼.
What’s worse today, is denialism.
@LTrain45 45 disagree denying it happened is worse your erasing all that these people endured
What does the flame type symbol mean at the end?
Lest We Forget...
Montgomery the worst general in ww2
Your wrong, it was Lieutenant-General Percival. He surrendered Singapore to the Japanese without even firing a shot at them. Condemned tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth troops to death by Japanese cruelty and starvation, why he wasn't shot for cowardice I will never know. Montgomery never gave in to anyone, however, he possibly could have done a few things better.
No; that is a toss up between Patton, MacArthur and Eisenhower: the latter having never commanded - I am told - more than a battalion in action. Oh, sorry; I forgot John Wayne!