DACHAU concentration camp, complete tour (Germany)

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  • Dachau concentration camp, all sites at Dachau, full tour of Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Let's visit the Dachau concentration camp which was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. Dachau concentration camp is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Dachau concentration camp was opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria. The camps were liberated by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945.
    Prisoners lived in constant fear of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for extremely long periods. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented.
    There are several religious memorials within the Memorial Site, which is open to the public.
    #ww2 #Germany #VicStefanu

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  • @amandadavis4446
    @amandadavis4446 7 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Thank you Vic!! Very powerful!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos!!

    • @jamisbillson4872
      @jamisbillson4872 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures. Wonderful piece of work mate.

    • @roseboltz
      @roseboltz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Unbelievable that a human could do these horrific things.

    • @tiffprendergast
      @tiffprendergast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      roseboltz yes

    • @vunenicar
      @vunenicar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2:00

  • @missysbloglife
    @missysbloglife 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I visited Dachau in 1994. When I was there, a very distinguished older gentleman was standing near the building with the ovens. I got to talking with him and he told me his story. He had been a prisoner there, nearly starved to death, witnessed family and friends die. He showed me around a bit and answered a lot of questions I had. He also said that he had been going to Dachau every day and he would continue to go there every day for the rest of his life to make sure everyone knows what happened and so that we will never, ever forget! It was a very moving experience and one I will never forget. Nor will I ever forget that man.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wow, what an incredible story, thank you for sharing it with us!

    • @von-Adler
      @von-Adler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have read about him. He claimed a building adjacent to the crematorium was used for gassing prisoners. This has never been proved AND as a prisoner he could not have seen that building except the roof, shielded by a high wall.

  • @americanmeteoritefan9670
    @americanmeteoritefan9670 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My husband's great grandfather spent about two years there before being transferred out to Mauthausen just two weeks before Dauchau was liberated.
    He died before liberation never knowing the fate of the rest of his family. One of his son's survived but was sterilized because he was deaf, his daughter was put to death because she was "simple minded" and one son survived to have one son (my hubby) and one daughter.
    Thank you for making this video, I doubt we will ever have a chance to visit.
    I think mb the room with lockers would've kept work tools for the daily work kommandos to check out for the day.
    RIP Emil.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @johnnykennedy4669
    @johnnykennedy4669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I visited Dachau in March 2020. I was left shell-shocked and numb after five hours of horror and sadness. The utter awfulness of the place is still in the air, and it hangs over the place like a huge black cloud. I will never forget that day.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @tgwcl6194
      @tgwcl6194 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said. I visited transition camp Westerbork in the Netherlands. Same thing. The horror, the horror.

  • @blackcitroenlove
    @blackcitroenlove ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was there in May 2022. As a historian, I wanted to go because it was close to my husband's family reunion in Freising. I'm Eastern Cherokee, so I brought tobacco to place on some of the sacred spots as best I could. The sheer size of this campus overwhelmed me, and I as a permanent crutch user felt guilty for complaining about anything. Let the spirits of those exhausted, dehumanized people get some good rest.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 😊😊😊As a side note, I lived in Kentucky and I dated an Eastern Cherokee back in the late 1990s...

  • @johnburrows1179
    @johnburrows1179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was there in 1974 in the Army. The feeling you got was indescribable. It felt like I was being pushed on from all sides. And a humming in my ears, constantly buzzing. Very difficult to describe. It felt like 100 people trying to talk to you at the same time. I will never forget it

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @speedbird1598
    @speedbird1598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I will never forget visiting this place. The camp radiated an aura of pain. I truly and genuinely felt that the souls suffering had not left that place

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @denisesmith9150
      @denisesmith9150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I felt the same way when I visited here. Very sad aura.

  • @janischamberlain8569
    @janischamberlain8569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I visited in 1968 - I remember one of the compounds showed how each became more and more crowded with bunks space getting lower and lower, also the whipping block in the "general hall" It took me months to get over my visit and I will never forget...

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @teresaurwin1261
      @teresaurwin1261 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I visited there in the early 60's with my family, and my Father who was a prisoner in there. Was liberated in 1945, Polish. We as children were told some things but obviously not all as too brutal. Never forgot or will.

    • @dr.science9505
      @dr.science9505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I went in the 80s the bunks jad barb wire wrapped in ...did you see that?

  • @keystonedaytrip238
    @keystonedaytrip238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I toured this a few years ago with some coworkers as we were on a business trip in Germany from the US. It’s a very sad , somber place . Walking through the site , one can’t help but feel a heavy heart . Imagining what those poor victims went through is a very humbling experience :(

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @mattkremer7725
    @mattkremer7725 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Thank you for this video, two members in my family died in this concentration camp. I'm glad I could find out more about this camp. So saddening.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos and for your comments!!!

    • @davestover1584
      @davestover1584 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow I am so sorry for mate hope they ate at peace

  • @Figgatella
    @Figgatella 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What a somber and beautifully filmed video Vic. Thank you so much for showing us this. I'm not able to visit there but it means very much that you have taken the time to do this. It is heart wrenching I'm sure, to be there in person, however, you have captured the feeling. Thank you very much for sharing!❤️❤️❤️

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments!!

  • @jessicasalazar8171
    @jessicasalazar8171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I went to that concentration camp in March 2019, it seems absurd but the weather changes, it is immediately colder and cloudy. It is a very interesting place and it is striking that the entrance door is new, they changed it because someone stole it. Your videos are very interesting, congratulations.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @357lockdown
    @357lockdown 7 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    No matter how ugly history may be, we must never forget it. Thanks for another historic video Vic.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos!!

    • @ScorpioBornIn69
      @ScorpioBornIn69 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "One who does not remember history is bound to live through it again." --George Santayana.

    • @sandrasalas9813
      @sandrasalas9813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you don't learn from history, you are the ones that ignore the warnings that lead to what you see here.

    • @georgebrown8312
      @georgebrown8312 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes indeed, Logan. It is sad that some people deny that the Holocaust and other ghastly Nazi crimes ever happened, and it is quite stupid to me, because we have plenty of documented evidence to prove it. We must not forget the lessons of history.

  • @georgetunstill2341
    @georgetunstill2341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was stationed in West Germany when I was in the Army from 1979 to 1981 but I never visited Dachau or any other former concentration camps and I wished I did. Thank you for this video and for showing me what the place looks like.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @patsyperras1667
    @patsyperras1667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    thank you so much for the tour, the world will never forget. All those angels looking after us.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m afraid they already have.

    • @glennbeadshaw727
      @glennbeadshaw727 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yeah well they better step up to the plate we're going to need some help again

  • @beverleybrown2205
    @beverleybrown2205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I visited this place in 1990, I will never forget it, what struck me most that even on a summer day , the birds did not sing and every one there whispered out of tespect

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @redtomcat1725
    @redtomcat1725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well done. I am 74 and in the US. This is as close to a visit as I will ever do ! THANK YOU !!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @HellsHord
    @HellsHord 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have viewed many documentarys on Dachau but your commentary made this one even more thought provoking. It reinforces our individual moral obligation to challenge evil and protect life.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @windkin45
    @windkin45 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My mom visited here in 75/76 and she said she could smell the bodies of those that had burned. It is so sad what happened and even worse that some people don’t believe it.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @mrjchristensen1
    @mrjchristensen1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thank you for taking the time to make this!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos!!

    • @M3MYS3LFNiixX
      @M3MYS3LFNiixX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i visited some 4 years ago. you should go . unbelievable and i am a well travelled hard bitten touring muso.do it please and tell people

  • @BabaYagaWickJohn
    @BabaYagaWickJohn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching it from New York, audio commentary was horrifying and at the same time, informative 👍you definitely know your stuff, thank you for the tour🙏

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @tommyt1971
    @tommyt1971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Went here about 6 yrs ago with a professor and his students. I've looked it this way: you go to a place like this thinking you'll react a certain way but when you walk in your assumptions are blown to hell, esp when a tour guide explains what you're seeing. The 2 things that hit me the hardest were the ash pits at the front of the appelplatz and the intact crematory ovens. The pits were where the Allies put the ashes of the bodies they found when they liberated the camp. I found a little stone nearby and put it there as a tribute.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for these interesting comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @billhuber2964
    @billhuber2964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Good documentary vic. My uncle liberated one of those camps. He didn't know what was worse, combat or the horrible sights. Of these camps.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet he had interesting stories to tell.. Thank you for your comments!

  • @madywheed6800
    @madywheed6800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank goodness. Someone has shown all the places in correct sequence wise. From first day of deceased entered the building till the last point. May Allah forgive those who died and rest their souls at peace. Ameen.
    I. Would suggest. People living nearby must visit this place daily and pray for the departed souls. As their love ones passed away on this place and it's their graveyard. May Allah keep us all away from evil people and protect us from dangerous and unfortunate deaths. Ameen

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @richardzettervall1543
    @richardzettervall1543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for sharing such a detailed tour. When we were there in 2019 we didn’t have the time to visit in the depth that you are showing. The Russian Memorial is beautiful. Seeing the cremation ovens makes me so angry and makes me cry for the unspeakable evil that took place here.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @normabolivar552
    @normabolivar552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think your description is quite clear not only with the right images, but also with the exact words. Excellent documentary.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @cindybentley747
    @cindybentley747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I visited there in the 80's with my Army husband and my children. The most sad and eerie place I've ever been. 😢

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @rafahounds
    @rafahounds 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We were stationed in Germany 1960-65. We visited Dachau. Such a horror. Thank you for this video. We must not alter history to make it less offensive to our beliefs!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your comments!!

  • @humbertoortiz-flores8081
    @humbertoortiz-flores8081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’m going to visit in March! Thank you for the tour. Greeting from Mexico.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @rockchick0367
    @rockchick0367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I visited this camp with school. German Realschule. I’m grateful that they took us to see and learn about our past. I was deeply moved by what we’d seen and learned from the tour guide. In fact there were many school classes, one Austrian tour as well.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Gunsrgreat4all
    @Gunsrgreat4all ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I went to Dachau in 1974 there was still ash everywhere at the crematorium and there was not a building sheltering the ovens. The changes that have been made add to the educational value.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for your comments..

    • @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn
      @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perhaps you were somewhere else. The ovens ar Dachau were always within a building.

    • @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn
      @DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ash in the ovens - I think not.

  • @taotaostrong
    @taotaostrong 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I appreciate the reverence and respect that you put into this video. Thank you for this.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @ptownjon
    @ptownjon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you Vic ..very nice documentary.
    I would like to mention that the two barracks were accurate to the original buildings that were re-constructed from the munitions factory in 1933. As more barracks were added later in 1937 to accommodate the growing masses the Nazi's hastily left out the washrooms and common areas and other human necessities ..sadly!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hmmm.. ok, thank you for your comments!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @👑Royal Lugosi👑 Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @duwainewashington7958
    @duwainewashington7958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I visited dachau 1977.a day I will never forget.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @pierredubord
    @pierredubord 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vic, I want to thank you for posting this video. I watched it yesterday prior to visiting the camp today on 23 Feb 2019. The emotion in your voice is obvious and I experienced those same feelings during my visit. God Bless you and thank you for sharing.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments my friend, I am glad you enjoyed my video!

  • @winfredstevens2293
    @winfredstevens2293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I went toured the camp around 1953 or 1954 as a 10 year child when my father was stationed in Germany. The ovens were particularly striking. It is hard to believe That humans can be so cruel . Made quite an impression on a youngster.
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    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, it would have been fascinating to have been able to tour this camp back in the 1950s so that we now compare the two versions, how it looked back then and how it looks now..

    • @jacksonreilly3441
      @jacksonreilly3441 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They have been running tours for 70 years? The place must be a gold mine!

  • @Chaotic_Viking
    @Chaotic_Viking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    My great grandfather's unit liberated this concentration camp it's hard to watch this knowing that many years ago he walked through that same area seeing a different reality than what we see today.
    God bless the Thunderbirds his unit

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

    • @pjtaintz
      @pjtaintz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alot of the commentary doesnt match the facts though but yeah

    • @catdevereux1274
      @catdevereux1274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My Grandfather was liberated from this camp. He was a POW in the Polish Army. Him and his best friend in the camp (A KGB Agent) both split up when they reached the UK and gave one another a photo to remember one another. I have that photo today that was given to him.

    • @kianajones910
      @kianajones910 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@catdevereux1274 That's so amazing...have you ever tried to contact the family..

  • @debbiej8049
    @debbiej8049 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thank you for this video. I was there on April 29, 1989. As soon as I entered, I was overwhelmed with unbearable sadness in my heart. You could feel the suffering and tears of those who were there. Even though there were a lot of people, it was so quiet. Everyone showed respect with silence. You are just in shock that places like this even existed, and the horrors that were done to fellow human beings. We must never forget to ensure it is never repeated. God bless.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @VeryMerryLou
      @VeryMerryLou 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ... that's what I feel just by viewing this video. it's so depressing that i don't think I can bear to visit this place when i get to Munich this month.

    • @nik7972
      @nik7972 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Debbie J AMEEN IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AMEEN SHALOM, from Italy, GOD BLESS THE people of GOD. AMEEN

    • @nik7972
      @nik7972 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Debbie J WHY, five years FOR THE LIBERATION!!!!!!! , WHY MY GOD? , MY heart is true, only true!!!!!

    • @carolemerle9995
      @carolemerle9995 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Debbie J True. You described it in better terms than I could. We must not forget what happened for fear it would happen again.

  • @susiepittman601
    @susiepittman601 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for sharing this great video. It felt like being there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @oneconciousness2248
    @oneconciousness2248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent documentary video. Thank you for creating it. I'm off to watch your other vids now .

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @oneconciousness2248
      @oneconciousness2248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VicStefanu You're very welcome. You made an impressive video, very respectful and professional . Especially since the location is so disturbing and serious. Thank you for sharing it.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oneconciousness2248 Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @leesherman100
    @leesherman100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I was stationed here while in the US Army in Sept. of '69. Incredibly sad and sobering site. I'll never forget it's images.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Lee, thank you for your comments..

    • @Sunlight-zx2ur
      @Sunlight-zx2ur 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok

    • @pfdrtom
      @pfdrtom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here in 1989, Lee. I know exactly what you mean.

    • @carolemerle9995
      @carolemerle9995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lee sherman Very true

    • @gohstdog23
      @gohstdog23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for your service 👑🙏

  • @scubasteve764
    @scubasteve764 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am amazed at the vividness present during your visit. During my exploration of the camp in October of 2015, there were no birds singing, the vegetation was absent of saturation. All was silent, as if no life had existed here. It is an emptiness that I am still unable to describe to this very day.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello and thank you for your comments!

    • @carolemerle9995
      @carolemerle9995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Scuba_Steve I and my husband said that when we were done with the tour. No birds or any noise of any kind. It's one of the things I'll never forget.

  • @georgepolasky9809
    @georgepolasky9809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Many thanks, Vic. Wonderful as always.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi George, thank you!

  • @wandalawson9898
    @wandalawson9898 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My father was stationed in Munich in the 60's. I was only 8 or 9 yrs old then. He took my sisters and I to the camp. There was a gas chamber there and also a crematorium. I am 61 now and I can still smell that horrible death stench in my head. I was very young then but I will never forget. GOD Bless all those who had to suffer and rest in eternal peace.

  • @jaxonseidel8677
    @jaxonseidel8677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting this - I wanted to re-live the experience of viewing everything. I went to Germany with my mother and sister, this was one of the spots we visited, at the time I just turned 12, so I did not watch the movie, but looking back on it now, I would watch the movie.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @aaronrodriquez3815
    @aaronrodriquez3815 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Vic ...very sobering ... wife and I were near the area , but wasn’t able to stop .... we will definitely need to go back .

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi and thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @chloeheiden7593
    @chloeheiden7593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    my family and I are going there this summer very exited to go and see what life was like before i was born.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍 Have a great time!

  • @Rubiastraify
    @Rubiastraify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Hi Vic! I'm viewing this in 2020. Thank you so much for posting this; I can imagine that it was difficult for you emotionally to go through all of these areas. My uncles fought in WWII in France to defeat the Nazis. Yes, "Never Again!: And, let us never forget who financed and backed the Nazis - the British Oligarchy and the father of George H. W. Bush, Prescott Bush.
    Let us revive and celebrate the Germany of Schiller and Beethoven!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @jadedlove1345
      @jadedlove1345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, the Bush family is very evil! Barbara Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley.

    • @kiturselassie813
      @kiturselassie813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jadedlove1345 an dont forget what 45 said to the nazis in charlotteville south carolina

    • @hugolafhugolaf
      @hugolafhugolaf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jadedlove1345 Barbara Bush's father was named Marvin Pierce.

    • @jadedlove1345
      @jadedlove1345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hugolafhugolaf He wasn’t her biological father, Aleister was.

  • @sharon3286
    @sharon3286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Amazing video !!! Thank you 🙏

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

  • @johndean4912
    @johndean4912 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Vic. Thank you for this video. I have driven into the entrance of but turned around and didn't have the courage to enter. I'm not certain whether I will be able to look at horror place. I did look at the rail cars used in a Berlin museum. Thank you for videos. John

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi John, thank you for your comments!!

  • @ginetteregimbal4882
    @ginetteregimbal4882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Thank you for keeping this alive.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @mrssmith3872
    @mrssmith3872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your videos your so thorough!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @johnk983
    @johnk983 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for this powerful and fantastic video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you very much for your wonderful comments!!

  • @agfan1
    @agfan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I spent 7 years on active duty in Whertim and Sttugart. I sat under a tree while visiting Dachau and held my breath. Chilling

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @agfan1
      @agfan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VicStefanu you should visit Flossenburg, my unit also visited there. It was a camp that held and tortured Soviet POW's. I remember not wanting to speak to anyone for about 3 hours after we we walked thru those creamatoriums at Dachau. Can you visit and do a video of Treblinka? Eastern Europe was impossible to visit when I lived in the Fatherland. Thank you for doing this. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it. I just subscribed to your awesome channel Sir.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@agfan1 I will be visiting Treblinka late in 2020... Thank you for your comments!

  • @ufofactorfiction1565
    @ufofactorfiction1565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    back again! I LOVE YOUR TOURS!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

  • @user-pr3iy7no5v
    @user-pr3iy7no5v 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic channel really good

  • @georgepolasky9809
    @georgepolasky9809 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you, Vic, for yet another of your magnificent documentaries. I learned so much from you, as always. Your ability to guide, narrate and explain the tour elements are excellent. You really emphasize the horrors and the crimes just as you did in your Auschwitz documentary. Many thanks to you, Vic, as always. George

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi George! Thank you for your wonderful comments!

  • @ranjeetsinghfarswan6266
    @ranjeetsinghfarswan6266 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for this video👌👌👌👍👍📹📹📹🎥🎥🎥📼📼

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @MasiukA
    @MasiukA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for the video. It's eerie for me to watch, my grandmother is a survivor of Dachau, she is a non-Jewish, Ukrainian who was trucked there after her camp at Kandel-Westfalen was destroyed by bombing raids at the beginning of 1945. She told me that the crematoriums weren't too far from where she was held, and there was a constant stench of burning flesh that she smelled.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for viewing my videos!! It is highly debatable if the crematoria in Dachau used bodies from people that were gassed beforehand..

    • @MasiukA
      @MasiukA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VicStefanu I imagine they would have been, as there is a death shower just beside the crematorium (you didn't go in there, but there are other videos that show it). Nevertheless, the levels of death by disease, exhaustion, starvation, and bullets would have been high enough to keep those crematoriums plenty busy either way.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That particular day that area was closed because there as a school visiting and apparently something had happened and the authorities closed that place.. you are right, however, that there have been many deaths due to starvation, disease and executions, thus keeping the creamtoria constantly busy..

  • @sheldor5312
    @sheldor5312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I went there on Easter Day 1984 as US soldier. None of the barracks had been recreated but we did see the gas chambers and crematorium. Touched my soul deeper than multiple combat tours in Iraq.

  • @garyneidhardt1362
    @garyneidhardt1362 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Visited in 1986. Unforgettable. .

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It really is an unforgettable place, thank you for watching!! 👍👍👍

  • @TinyDancerrr
    @TinyDancerrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for filming this! I am going to the exhibit Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away this June when my great city hosts it at Union Station. I expect to be moved greatly!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hope you enjoy it!

  • @happynanny6375
    @happynanny6375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I visited this camp in 1986 with my husband and one year old son, in a stroller. I was so shocked and saddened to the point I cannot express. It horrified me to the point I was almost ill to my stomach. The fact we had to pay to enter made me wonder where "at that time" deutch" currency was going to. There was a museum. I just have no words.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! I think this site has always been free, I may be mistaken however.. When I first visited it in 1988, it was free..

  • @joyleenpoortier7496
    @joyleenpoortier7496 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you this was very interesting and respectful

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

  • @npr1300A8
    @npr1300A8 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    For such a horrific place to be documented, there couldn't be a better orator Vic. Thank you for taking us along. I fear those words of "Never Again" are fruitless hopes, especially these days.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are absolutely right regarding the 'Never Again' expression.. thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @sherj63w46
    @sherj63w46 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sad.My dad and father in law both fought in WW2.AMERICAN SOLDIERS. Proud of both of them.They seen a lot. Bloody war.However my great grandpa is from Germany. Any way touching video ,thank you,😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇✌✌👍👍

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your comments!

  • @ZieSpiralOut
    @ZieSpiralOut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know a place is pure evil when the entrance sign makes you cry 80 years after the fact. I pray the victims of this war are at peace with God now. Thanks to all the allied soldiers who liberated the camps! Thanks, cheers, спасибо!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @alg2116
    @alg2116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for sharing your videos with us. My bucket list inclues touring Europe. I want to tour the camps.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for viewing my videos!

  • @amara1954
    @amara1954 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We visited there in 2012. There was still a faint smell in the crematorium. The section with all the children shoes got me the most. When I was 16 I worked with a woman who had been in one. I am 70 now. Oh how I would love to talk to her now. 😢

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hello, thank you for sharing these comments with us! 😊😊😊

  • @SubjectDelta9
    @SubjectDelta9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for sharing your experience and your thoughts.

  • @jessicasalazar8171
    @jessicasalazar8171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And if we pay attention to the barracks even in Auschwitz they were different. those of Auschwitz I are in brick buildings and there are testimonies that the bunks were not shared at the beginning, they do not resemble those of Birkenau, and we do not know what those of Monowitz were like because it was totally destroyed. in Theresienstadt they lived in rooms and in the Mittelbau-Dora camp they are said to have lived in tunnels.That’s why all camps are diferrent, the original purpose of Dachau was not the same as the one of camps like Sobibor, Treblinka, or Auschwitz

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, thank you! 👍👍👍

  • @pdunc1976
    @pdunc1976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    with so many camps it is virtually impossible for the german people to not know what the hell was going on.the sheer magnitude of it,makes it almost seem like it is not possible that something like this could have ever happened..but it did.i do not think there are any words that can truly describe all of what happened??let us ''never'' forget!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @uwebeyer3459
    @uwebeyer3459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I visited Dachau twice while posted to CFB Lahr with the Canadian Armed Forces. A must see. Powerful.

  • @stephenwilliams507
    @stephenwilliams507 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very Interesting Thank you

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @sarge6870
    @sarge6870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vic, I wonder if those barracks you said didn't depict prisoner barracks accurately were actually based on Guard or Officer barracks? Sure they took much better care of themselves and had much better amenities!

  • @musicmike1960
    @musicmike1960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just the enormity of this camp is amazing, I had no idea of it's magnitude...

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @LL-sq8se
    @LL-sq8se 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Thanks for the documentation of such dispicable.. history that must never happen again!🕊️

  • @graceniketokanikai2854
    @graceniketokanikai2854 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love your videos

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi and thank you for your comments!!

  • @viyau
    @viyau 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A wonderful tour. I appreciate your input and opinions. I hope to one day visit one of these camps as I believe it should be seen and remembered. To respect those who died, survived. Thank you

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @davestover1584
    @davestover1584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow mate what an amazing experience thank you so much for your video I learned so much thank you so much very powerful

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!! 👍👍👍

  • @turtleinpa
    @turtleinpa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for this video. Very powerful. I agree with you. Theres no way they had a wash station.... even possibly toilets. Very good video. Very informative.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @oldschoolbbass
    @oldschoolbbass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for sharing many can learn about the suffering and dying at this camp. May God Bless their souls

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @LadyLinda248
    @LadyLinda248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you...very interesting.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

  • @Delphisteve
    @Delphisteve 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you ... Very well done!:)

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @terencehayes9840
    @terencehayes9840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

  • @markdavies5066
    @markdavies5066 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you victor good video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments my friend!

  • @39doddle
    @39doddle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Vic , thank you for this very emotional and informative tour. I am thinking of visiting this camp soon.
    The cabinets you refer to may have been used as a form of torture? Place a prisoner inside this box and make them stand upright for hours, maybe days! I think I read somewhere that this method was used by the Nazis.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Someone suggested that the cabinets were used by arrested army officers and politicians (Germans) from when the camp was first created...

  • @MagnoliaMS70
    @MagnoliaMS70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I visited in 1979 my 1st time. It has changed significantly.
    There were barracks that you could go in. With very narrow spaces. We all went into the gas chamber. Saw the crematoriums.
    Very different from today's tour. Very

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @jessicasalazar8171
    @jessicasalazar8171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In the barracks that you mention that there are lockers for inmates it is real, since at the beginning in 1933 it was not a concentration or extermination camp, the camp was built on a disused powder factory, the first workers occupied the facilities, at first they were not prisoners, and in the tour at the beginning they make it clear. The workers had their own locker, their hygiene utensils, their own bunk, in shared barracks. That is why Dachau is one of the most interesting camps, since you can see the change and transformation that it was having during the war years and the arrival of the large number of prisoners, and of the Jews, in fact the door did not have any phrase at the beginning, that phrase was added when it was decided that it would become an extermination camp. Dachau was the model and prototype of the following camps, at the beginning the prisoners did not wear striped uniforms, nor were they shaved, they were not mistreated, and in fact the prisoners were the ones who made improvements to the camp. The original prisoners were priests, aristocrats, people of the nobility, intellectuals, and politicians. The change of Dachau began when the SS and Theodor Eicke arrived who took command of the field and then the organization and the measures changed. People who like to visit concentration camps like us should visit Dachau first and Auschwitz last to see how they are all the same and different at the same time, some used prisoners more for forced labor and others were definitely practically extermination.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Dany, thank you for these interesting comments and for sharing so many facts with us!!

  • @beachcomer007
    @beachcomer007 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you Vic this was a very powerful video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello and thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @konstandina73
    @konstandina73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's frA E. Like Friday. Albeit macht Frei... Thank you for the tour

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok, thank you! 👍👍👍

  • @Twisted_utopia
    @Twisted_utopia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you. Excellent video, I feel like I was as close as I can be without being there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @lsmart
    @lsmart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Vic. The moral outrage that you are unable to contain as you record this video reveals a person with a true moral compass and profound human decency. If only there were some more people like you, the world would be a better place.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @charlottebakker5580
    @charlottebakker5580 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Terrible what all happened here,it is hard to imagine that some people have survived it,you must be very strong,mentally as well as physically

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Charlotte, thank you for your comments!!

  • @cd72
    @cd72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you be doing a video of the Ravensbruck Women's Concentration Camp? I enjoy your videos as I've been fascinated by the camps since I was a 12 year old boy back in 1984....

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for the suggestion! 👍👍👍 I have not been there but since you mentioned it, I put it down as a place to visit..

  • @fosterchild1793
    @fosterchild1793 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for sharing sir! Incredibly sickening to think about all that happened here.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @aliciasawyer9787
    @aliciasawyer9787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My family and I visited dauchau in1984 it was truly a sad place

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree, it really is a sad place, thank you for watching!! 👍👍👍

  • @garyjacobs2789
    @garyjacobs2789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very good ! Thank you

  • @Lilia4102
    @Lilia4102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @GodskidUr1
    @GodskidUr1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    my great grandfather was held in a cc camp in germany. my heart sad for what they went through:(

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @elernation5519
      @elernation5519 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gaby Rivas I kind of understand but why should you feel proud he went through something so horrific?