My Uncle Herbert Ogden, of the British Army, Pathfinder Tanks, opened the gates at Belsen and set the people free. He was the most humble, happy man you could hope to meet. He died last year at 96 years old. RIP Uncle Bert. You were a man’s man, a good man and always missed.
My grandmother Marianne was arrested by the gestapo in 1944 in northern France. She was member of the resistance She was deported to Darchau concentration. She survived. Thank to the men like your Uncle. Have a great day!
Thank you for bringing this man's terrible regime to light. My father was one of those who liberated Belsen, he suffered from nightmares about it for the rest of his life. He never spoke about what he saw there, all he would say was that the place exemplified man's inhumanity to his fellow man
My grandfather fought in Holland during Operation Market Garden and from there moved into Germany. Near the city Celle was The Camp Bergen Belsen, here he and his fellow troops entered and liberated the camp. He actually never spoke of what he saw. Till his death 10 years ago he was never the same as he was at the age of 24. He always told me great stories about the war. But when anyone started about Bergen Belsen, his face turned white and you could see fear in his eyes.
Vengeance noun punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. "The Allies were ready to wreak vengeance on Joseph Kramer for the horrors perpetrated on various groups." The poster may not speak/write English as first language so may depend on "unreliable" resources like _dictionaries._
Revenge is defined as the act of committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Therefore it was vengeful, albeit righteous and called for.
My best friend's Dad was tortured in two camps by him , he died far too easy - in loving memory of Alex Kuden Sr. who lived a good life after the camp's and raised good kids
I had 3 uncles that fought in WW2 and only 1 came home.. he was wounded by shrapnel and wandered behind enemy lines for 3 days and, somehow, by the Grace of God, he made it back to his unit. He was delirious the whole time from the infection the wound caused and he wasn't even aware that he was behind enemy lines!
You know, I can not even remotely SEE how that insane level of evil and hatred can exist among some psychopaths. Truly, the Third Reich was a casting call for every loser, misfit, reprobate, pervert and psychopath within the sphere of Germany's early efforts..
During his trial when he said that he didn’t think it was right to pick who dies and who doesn’t, it just shows you he knew the difference between right and wrong. A true monster that was tried and accordingly executed. This execution wasn’t a vengeful one but a righteous one, but I understand what you mean.
Visited Bergen-Belsen several times while I was stationed in West Germany in the last half of the 80's & we would go up to do gun camps every year. A very eerie feeling walking in there, no birds flying around or singing & no animals were around there either. Also visited Natzweiler as it wasn't far from where we were stationed in Lahr, less than an hours drive to it for us & not to sound disrespectful, but it was in a really pretty part of France in the hills. Again, no birds were around or small animals - seemed like they knew what happened there at those places & would avoid them.....
It was like that when I visited Auschwitz in January 2012 although it was deep winter and all the trees were dead with no birds in them. Snow all over the place and minus 32 ! Very eerie and very quiet. Extremely cold I can't imagine what it was like just wearing those striped uniforms. Apparently Poland has boiling hot humid summers and freezing cold winters. So the prisoners were uncomfortable all year round!
My Mother told me that my father was one of the soldiers who helped liberate Belsen. He must of seen so much horror that when he returned home to us in UK he was a very sick man. He had a severe water infection from the trenches and a nervous breakdown. He never mentioned this to me as I guess it was all too painful but years later he got a job as caretaker at a local synagogue and made quite a few friends with the Jewish community.
Definitely deserved and just, but I wouldn't shy away from admitting wanting vengeance. It's very human to seek for vengeance when terribly wronged, and delivering it doesn't make it unjust.
Such a simple execution was too good for these butcher's. I've been to one of the camps he was stationed at and I would definitely want revenge but justice as well.
Justice is dispensed when an impartial objective due process is set to runs its course. If not impartial it’s an emotionally motivated bias mob revenge & not justice at all.
@@Lee5p33dy no sir I'm not talking torture him for justice, I'm talking just for fun. I wouldn't care if he was Jesus himself. Torture rules! Wohoo!! YOLO!
My grandparents from all sides have lost their entire families in these camps, my Grandma who was a a widow when I was a child (in the 90s) she used to tell me her survival stories when she lived with us, She liked going to bed very early and I snuck into her room and begged her to tell me stories from the war which fascinated me, She was a fascinating story teller he memory was sharp, As a result I grew up in a different world then other children would it made me appreciate the liberties to which we are used to in the US, we can all loose it with the blink of the eye.
Very well said . Evil is constantly looking for a way to exploit families and hard working people who love God's gift of life. To think there's always those who would rather spend their precious time short as it is, trying to destroy others. 😔
Your grandma was a wise woman. God bless her soul. And it's true our lives can change in seconds that's why we should thank God for every minute of our lives.
My late father was with the troops who liberated Belsen. He was an office in the RASC, responsible for supply convoys. One in his unit wrote a piece describing what they found. My Dad appended to it a note before it was sent to higher command. He wrote "I can personally vouch for all of this. I have seen it with my own eyes".
The crazy thing is these German camps were based on the Russian camps of the 1920s 1930's where the Russians would do the same thing work and starve anyone sent to these camps to death but sadly nothing was done to the Russians for their crimes because they we're on our side in the war
Even I'm thinking what the hell to this one. The beast is probably a quiet efficient man who doesn't say much and stays away from drugs unlike everyone around him and without anyone to bother him.
My late father was part of the British Army unit that liberated Bergen-Belsen on 8th April 1945. A corporal with the Royal Corp of Signal, he then spent a week manning an emergency communications centre within the boundaries of the camp. After Josef Kramer's trial, my father was selected as one of the British Army personnel who were official witnesses to his execution. Until he died in 2004, at the age of 86, there wasn't day when those events were far from his memory
they tried a special diet used to treat famine victims which really didn't work, it was discovered that one large hut faired better when fed on eastern European type foods red cabbage etc
At 17 and touring with a youth orchestra in 1976, our hosts took us to spend an afternoon at Bergen-Belsen. It was a profound experience. And to this day, it strongly colours my attitude towards those who actively seek to divide humanity on ethnic grounds.
@knight Owl I read, years ago, that putting them on solid food, right away, caused organ failure (especially the kidneys, if I recall correctly; the liver is more resilient than the kidneys): the food was simply too "rich" for their bodies to handle. They should have spoken up! "Our mothers fed us chicken soup when we were sick." (A clear broth of low-sodium chicken soup stock is something they actually settled on: and fed them up to 4 times a day, keeping them adequately hydrated and warm in their beds. When those prisoners began to get stronger, their diet was changed, gradually.) (Boiled cabbage...both red and green...is good, and easily handled by the body.)
Refeeding syndrome occurs when starved people are given food. Food has to be reintroduced slowly, or the people continue to died as their digestive systems are so badly damaged
@@loriscook5231 And, kidney failure happened, too! (When the kidneys fail, that's the "end of the road".) P.S. The digestive system is not 'damaged' by lack of food: it just 'rests'-- having little to do. Our kidneys, on the other hand, are damaged from chronic dehydration.
@Mary I figure that Pipers comment is in on another level of innocence. I get what do you suggest but don't be mad at it. Again children is way more clueless than grown ups
@Matt Olivier Have you got a screw loose or something? So according to you there was no cruelty at the concentration camps? Pretty insulting to all the poor souls who were murdered in horrific ways there. Try explaining that to the relatives of the survivors.
When I was a teenager in the 60 's there was an elderly couple who lived behind my grandmother, they both had the serial numbers tattoos on their forearms. And every night you could hear the old man scream all night from the nightmares
The German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union DID end well, or did they not? They disappeared as states but those responsible have never been brought to justice.
dji zzah look up the name of Oskar Dirlewanger. An SS officer and arguably the most wicked and degenerate person in the war. Google his name and, if you can bear reading his deeds, see how he met his end. It reminds me of your expression above.
Kramer was awarded a final act of mercy in being assigned the expert hangman Albert Pierrepoint…Pierrepoint had the skill of hanging down to a T, so that the condemned felt no pain and died instantly…Kramer's victims suffered terribly, and received no such mercy.
@@brianporter138 To answer your question, not someone I would like to know. Though I might have enjoyed a pint in his Lancashire pub, just as long as I was unaware that the publican was also an executioner!
@@brianporter138 Pierrepont saw his profession as a calling. As far has he was concerned who was do die was decided by others, his job was to end their lives as quickly and cleanly as possible. And without any undue stress or pain. That was why he perfected a hanging technique. Nor did he ever draw out his executions he did them as quickly as possible and gave the condemned no time to dwell on it. Nor did he ever tolerate anyone trying to taunt the condemned when they were alive or dead. So the best way to describe him is as a consummate professional.
@@Apollo890 That is interesting. As someone who is generally opposed to capital punishment, I understand what Pierrepont did and why he did it and I commend him for his work and in cases like Josef Kramer and other beasts who committed these atrocities I am not sorry that they were executed but I do still oppose it on principle and I'm not sure his punishment would have been lesser if he had been made to live a life incarcerated in prison.
I remember a few years ago talking about the holocaust museum in Berlin while at work. One of the younger office girls asked "What is the holocaust?" I thought she was joking, but she genuinely had never heard of it. Sadly, I wonder how many people will be aware of this period in history by the time the next generation has grown up?
Since Kids are allowed their phones in school nowadays and they don't pay attention in class anymore, then by next generation it will be all forgotten by them. Completely. Sad times we live in where the more technologically advanced we become, the dumber we get. So sad.
They’re too busy with self image, the Woke movement and picking holes in our own history to apologise for!! If any of them have heard of Winston Churchill, they’ll just think he’s a racist imperialist
It sure is. Another atrocity occurred on the Easter front after Germany invaded the USSR. I've studied this and the killings that occurred there is called holocaust by bullets. Just absolutely sad.
@@martinflores1370 Yes, check out the Holodomor under left wing Soviet rule and the Gulag System in the USSR. It makes this Nazi destruction seem tame in comparison.
@@rileymod2523 Sorry that was different and much more recent. Americans in the 1800's were taking land and brutally - but the Nazis did this just a few generations ago and didn't need to do it to steal land. Take your agenda elsewhere.
The sad part of this is that less than a 100 years later, some people are trying to undermine these tragic event against humanity. This only proves that it takes only at least three generation to start forgetting the atrocities made by people in the history. The number of people who cannot accept that these really happen may not be that noticeable yet but their ignorance is slowly becoming contagious.
Sure glad Canada stepped up an stopped all this shit from happening. Oh wait, you guys waited until the Russians lost 20 million and then you stepped up...nevertheless, good job. F-ing mouth-flappers.
@@glennbeadshaw727 I tend do disagree. When people do good and great kindness to strangers and humans. We go 'that makes sense, I want to do something nice' But when confronted with horrors like this? It boggles our minds and it makes more of an imprint on us. I feel much more good is done, it just isn't covered as much and also doesn't shock our souls like horrible things do. Where a kind act makes sense and doesn't effect us as much.
Knowing what we now know very few Germans got a fair trial as for barbarians barbarians execute their prisoners which is exactly what the allies did here 😬
@@sneakymcsqueaks8128 Wow, dude makes a legit comment and your inner racist just jumps the fuck out! No mention of nationality or anything, just a legit observation. Look inwards my hate filled friend. You got this
I've been to Bergen-Belsen and seen Germans visitors collapse in grief at what they saw. We see films of concentration camps where there a few huts and a compound surrounded by barbed wire. The reality is these place were vast, like small towns with graves containing tens of thousands of bodies.
Love your videos. Great work. One note on this one however; the total number people killed in the concentration camps was between 11 million and 12 million - NOT only the 6 million that some groups talk about. They will highlight the atrocities committed against their own group - and rightfully so - but let us not allow some 5.5 million other victims fade into a slanted history.
Yes, this is so and not to think of ourselves. How can we be sure that we in similar situations would be goodhearted and selfless heros? Maye some of us would also turn into beasts. We just do not know.
Most of Germany supported the Nazis and ignored what they were doing. Interesting fact is that many soldiers took photos of their crimes and sent them home to get developed and then sent back to the soldiers. So yeah, the German population knew what was going on and for me were considered complicit.
@@martinflores1370 How easy it is for us to judge today. The Germans were deceived and when they woke up they themselves were the victims of the regime, which based its power on fear. You never knew whether you would be arrested in the next moment and whether your family would be deported (kin liability).
@@martinflores1370 yes it's truly incredible how the entire nation came under the spell of a madman. America needs to wake up, because we are on a dangerous road heading in the wrong direction, and millions upon millions of our citizens have been mesmerized.
This is an excellent channel. Please continue educating the current generation about the horrors of fascism, the holocaust, and lessons to be learned from the past.
@@generalyellor8188 Most of us have the same knee-jerk reaction if we are honest. What separates us from animals like Kramer is that we push down that awful urge, knowing that it would make us just like him.
I was stationed in Germany in the late seventies, as a solder I was able to go to Auschwitz. It was eerie to say the least. So quiet, nothing was there. However, you could feel the death. You knew horrendous things happened there!! I felt nothing but sorrow!! Prayers for the souls lost!🙏🙏💖🙏.
386k views in 8 hrs is pretty impressive. This channel will reach a million subscribers in no time. Thanks for providing us quality content! Best of wishes.
i know he was called the beast of belsen but if you read up he probably did far worse at auschwitz where he was commandant of birkenau the extermination part of the camp and regularly conducted selections
I always ask myself why. What causes a person to be sadistic? What is in their heart that makes them get joy out if seeing another suffer or causing them ti suffer. It truly is the devil
Do you no what the tuts I did to the h utu in rawanda 1993/94 thousand literally thousands were hacked to death by machete in some villages no one was spared even young babe's in arm truly sickening barbaric pure savagery look on a par with this it gave me nightmares presidents plane got shot down a day later message on the state radio (kill the cockroaches ) tribal warfare of the worst kind
My old re teacher was a monk , and during the war he had been a British tank commander and also a atheist, anyway he was one of the first people to liberate Belsen. And it so effected him he became monk , he talked about what Belsen was like , during the war he had killed a number of people as a tank commander , but seeing Belsen had a much bigger effect on him
.....curiously there were many who went the other way.....from "How could God allow this?" to becoming atheists......it left no-one untouched.....my dad visited Belsen (he entered Germany from the north though Hamburg) although he was not there at the liberation of the camp.....he just said it was bad without further explanation....
reminds me of a joke, an ex concentration camp inmate died and went to heaven, upon meeting God at the pearly gates he quipped, did you hear the one about the jewish guy in a nazi concentration camp? to which God replied, you shouldn't joke about such things, the ex camp inmate then said, " I guess you had to be there "
The sheer horrors of war! Hanging....to quick I believe in an eye for an eye. Those responsible should have been put into those same camps and suffer till the end.
i was amazed wen they rounded up those ss i notice they were laughing as if they couldnt give a .... they should have let them rot in these death camps just like they did to them jewish people that give em something to laugh about pigs
My Grandpa…..John Powell, was also part of the liberation efforts with the British forces. He was an MP and had the responsibility to arrest Josef Kramer, who seemed unbothered or completely disconnected by the magnitude of his actions. The remaining guards at the camp during liberation definitely got a taste of their own medicine until litigation efforts were organized. I’ll never forget the stories he told me growing up. Looking back, I know he put an under-exaggerated spin on the conditions of Bergen-Belsen. Truly amazing to know my grandpa was part of a piece of history. RIP
Scary how people become monsters very easily .... with some of the attitudes and tension here in the US, I could see many people becoming this type of psychopath
As a Human being, men shall never be free of the probability to go that way. It is not only a choice, but a way of life. That includes , and i no it sounds oldfashioned; self sacrifice. It is a noble way, and only stark people can go so far.
There is book called Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution. It was written by a psychologist who was trying to understand how 'normal' people could be become cold blooded killers. Its been a few years since I read it but I remember its a tough read. The descriptions were horrendously graphic. And I know there are other books written by survivors of these atrocity camps. And i agree, I also wonder about the people who have 'extreme agenda's' and what they could be capable of if they had similar 'power'!
Not so sure about that. There was a German documentary that asked why US troops randomly killed nazi camp guards but British troops generally didn’t and why. You can find it on YT.
@@samkangal8428 what did our grandparents fight for it makes me wonder my own country is slowly fragmenting and falling apart all the old values are going maybe it is right that I will soon be gone from all this uncertainty and madness
@@samkangal8428 I even don't say every Germans soldiers were bad. But if you try to compare the crimes committed at any war with the Nazi criminals at the conservation camps , the death factory the Nazis created ,the horrified "medical " experiments, no my friend, there is no example in the world's history of those crimes and cruelness. Therefore I said, never forget never forgive.
@@samkangal8428 next thing your going to say is that kid killed by drunk driver is also the same cause a kid is a kid....it is very sad but no way the same. Your ancestors were responsible for ww1 also but it is not the same as well. As one that belongs to the victim's side. I assure you that we are not going to forget or forgive, forever. And forever I mean literally forever, cuase our nation is very old and we have a good and vast memory, no example of what your ancestors did.
My father was in a special unit during the war and was one of the first to arrive at Belsen. He saw Josef Kramer and Irma Grese brought out in chains. My father’s comrade was given the job of bulldozing the bodies of the victims into large pits - a task he never recovered from suffering from his nerves later in life. We have no idea what it must have been like to enter a camp totally unprepared for what you were going to see. Later, my father was at Hameln (Hamlin) and chatted to a man building the gallows and the chap asked my father whether he would like to bang a nail into the gallows which would end the life of Kramer. I am not sure whether he accepted the offer.
Walking in Berlin with a German friend of mine she pointed out at random a monument (long time ago so forget which one) that commemorated the allies victory in WW2. I said, naively, ' is it not a bit goading to have that monument in Berlin celebrating allied victory ? ' , she looked at me puzzled and said , ' the allies were not victors they were liberators who we thank for liberating Germany and the world from the Nazi's' - often thought of this comment with mixed feelings over the years. We spent that night making love.
Certainly, something that can never be forgotten at all. My Grandfather on my Mum's side was involved with the liberation of this death camp and though he never spoke about it if he mentioned it he would get this look in his eyes of real sorrow and it was quite hard to deal with and it reinforced in me that this did indeed happen it was sheer evil and men like this did exist I am glad he suffered before he died given the countless innocent people he and those under him murdered pretty much in cold blood.
My father lied about his age to join the Army...at the tender of 16 his unit liberated a Nazi concentration camp. My father hated Germans for the rest of his life. He told me of the horrors he saw when I joined the Army and my father cried.... Hanging was too good. They should have given the cockroach to survivors.
My father was with the RAF number 50 MFH ( mobile field hospital) was there too. He also would never speak of i. When I was around ten or eleven I was rummaging around a cupboard I should not have been into I found some of the photographs he brought back from Belsen and my dad caught me. He just said something about " Man's inhumanity to man" which then I did not understand, but later after his death my mother told me he had been there after its liberation, she also told me that immediately after I had found the photos (and they were quite large ones about 10"x8" printed in the darkroom of the field hospital) he destroyed all of them saying that he should not have kept them for me to find, but as horrific as it was at that tender age I wished he had kept them for when my mother spoke of it I was an adult and would have liked to see what he saw first hand as a reminder of " man's inhumanity to man" for we should NOT forget what these monsters did.
I have relatives who entered a concentration camp, roughly at the same time as some Russians, Russians got there first. According to them, if it weren't for the Americans also being there, there would have been no Germans to take prisoner... They restrained them BEFORE they finally saw how bad the camp was, wished they hadn't after. Would not say anything further about it...I never have and still have no reason to even ask. What happened, happened.
Yea. Apparently at one camp that Americans liberated, the Americans (including officers) were so distraught over what they found, the soldiers were basically given a 24 hour “kill lol the German Guards, Camp Officials, and SS you want pass”. These sone of these guys survived D-Day, but the camps were mentally to mush. Apparently the same thing happened with Canadian and Russian allies too. Yea. Don’t piss off the Canadians.
@@danlivni2097 He would not tell me that. I wish I knew, he is gone now, so I'll never know. He talked about it one time and never again. Someone made a stupid "it never happened" comment and he went off in more detail than any of us knew he knew. Would not talk about it again. I couldn't blame him.
The sad thing is that the grandchildren of these poor victims inflict exactly the same suffering, barbarism and cruelty to others. Mankind forgets too easily.
I visited Dachau In August of 1989 It was late in the day but it was still quite hot outside In the shadow of one of the barracks I saw in my mind's eye something I will never forget true evil and I could smell the dead the silent screams it may have been 85 degrees fahrenheit but all I could do was shiver I didn't sleep at all for a week and when I did I was haunted by that place And still I believe they should make the story's of what happened there mandatory for all students to see lest this is ever repeated. God be with any who survived that he'll hole.
I went to Dachau in 92 after Oktoberfest. I have some of the pictures burned into my memory. It’s the one place you can feel dread walking into that place, and relief leaving it.
I visited the camp in 1983. The feeling of uneasy,tortured, spirits was palpable. One reason that today’s NAZI wannabes really saddens me. How quickly we succumb to the same poison.
Please don't forget the Other 11 million non Jewish people that died in the Holocaust ,17 million dead due to one man and his minions.My grandfather was one that went into Bergen Belsen , he told me of the ground heaving up and down in a mass grave, this stopped only after a bulldozer was used over the grave😭
Nazi Germany was more than "one man and his minions". Their crimes could not have been perpetuated without the willing cooperation of a significant number of Germans and of their allies and collaborators. The National Socialists polled a greater percentage of the popular vote, in the election prior to Hitler being named Chancellor, than David Cameron's last government which secured a substantial overall majority. It is all too easy to blame one man and a few cronies to absolve the guilt of a nation. We talk about Japanese WW2 war crimes and genocide for example but never German atrocities. Easier to blame the Nazis. We cannot be sure if all those committing atrocities were Nazis but we know they were all German (or Austrian) or peoples under the direction of Germans.
@@Kaiserbill99 look up the word minion in its English usage and it still describes what you said, underlings , followers, unimportant people doing the bidding of a higher rank, there is no size of the amount of minions few or millions mentioned, the allies knew of the atrocities being committed and did SFA
@@ldav2006; No, what fear would they have to stand before a concept you were too childish to give up! They have to stand before the most unforgiving entity in the universe, themselves!
@Matt Olivier why would you make a troll account to mess with people on Holocaust videos? You need to find something productive and meaningful in your life
@@therealnf85 it’s only fake if you’re blind. How about the way China is eradicating Uyghurs? North Korea and its own people? Australian First Nations’ treatment? The world is full of systemic racism because we are tribal people who don’t care as long as it isn’t happening to “us”.
I have visited Belsen and Dachau camps and seen the evidence of their treatment of not only the Jews but gypsies and the disabled Germans who were classed as not fit to live as they did not represent the true image they wanted for themselves. When in Germany in the 1980's all German High school children had to visit one of the death camps as part of their education to show what right wing extremism can lead to and it was a sight I can never forget as they came out of the buildings in tears as their parents had never told them about the experiments and mass slaughter of other human beings carried out by their own countrymen to create a mythical perfect Ayrian race. What astonished me was the fact the company who supplied the poison for the gas chambers is still going and is one of Germany's largest chemical manufacturers BASF.
Pierrepoint was very good at his job and despatched the condemned in a quick fashion. They didn't deserve such a death. They should all have suffered because they were beyond evil.
@nick sweeney They should have suffered the same dehumanization, hunger, forced labour etc that they inflicted on those in the camps. But as @Andrew Ockenden says doing so would make us as evil as Kramer. In the end, they faced justice as laid down in the law of the time. There has to be a clear line between being a human who treats everyone equally and fairly and these monsters. As much as they are hated for what they did they were sent to face whichever god they believed in to explain themselves.
@@andrewockenden Whilst the thought is there to give them what they inflicted on the inmates of the camps, we have to not cross the line into their vile, unimaginable pain, suffering, and terror. Thinking of such things is one thing, actually doing it, is another.
I'm pretty sure you mean justified and not vengeful, saying it was vengeful suggests that he may have been executed for purely emotional or perceived reasons, whereas if you believe in the death penalty this guy was entirely deserving of what he got.
Visited Belsen in the early 70`s while serving in W Germany, we were exercising around Luneberg Heath area at Soltau and a visit was arranged.Left a deep and lasting impression on me, all those years later you could still feel the sadness of this place.
Same, we lived just up the road on the base at Hohne around 1984/5, can still remember vividly visiting it back then around the age of 12, we used to cycle past it all the time.
@@MattFieldPhoto I was there about that time, 10 years old. I’d hear stories about the birds not singing, but it only hit home when I witnessed as an adult.
They're are more video's on TH-cam about Bergen-Belsen, on how the British ordered the guards to clear bodies and dig graves. The male guards when digging the graves were made to lie face down in the bottom of the pit when given a break, the women ( if you can call them that ) cleared bodies. German nurses and other staff were ordered to help in the hospital and due to typhus many died ( as the British didn't give them typhus injections ). Personally I don't know how the lads held back their anger and just put them up against the wall and shoot them all. I think it was mainly the Durham Light Infantry that liberated the camp and I remember in the 80's on our local BBC the men being interviewed about it. The horror gave them nightmares for years after.
God didn't do this and god gave us all free will. Had god intervened we would become mere puppets and no longer be free or responsible for our actions.
@@haroldgodwinson832 It doesn't show it quite as you word it. Yes, it shows the Nazis being led to the gallows, but it only shows it from an angle to the side of the "drop zone." You see the top of their heads drop out of view and heard a thud of the rope coming taut. It's actually quite good (at least judging by the excerpts available right here on YT), and it explains one of the little known aspects of the epilogue of WWII.
@@krisushi1 So where is the justice for the 100's of thousands that died in the fire bombing and atomic bombing of Japan? These were civilian targets. War crimes are only for the losers.
@@hansgruber2509 Where in my comment did I mention Japan? I spoke of the topic in the video. If you want to know how I feel about Japan, well why not ask the Emperor who refused to surrender upon threats that they will be bombed if he didn't. He had the chance to save all those people but put his ego above all. Even after the first bomb was dropped, he again refused to surrender. It was not until they were threatened with a third that they finally saw sense. If you know anything of the Japanese culture at that time, you wouldn't be asking stupid questions like this.
I like how in that still of a British soldier guarding Kramer with a sten gun has a look on his face of " just do it - do it - make one move - I'm more than ready, pleeease do it"
Still are sadly there are atrocities all over the world The Congo has been over 6 million to this day killed and still an issue Its not mentioned as it dosent have any buzz words
Interesting, is it not? The only explanation I have: he felt too proud as a Nazi and saw the hopelessness of his situation and certainly felt guilty also.
My opinion is that he had found his place in life...he knew it was going away....that nothing else would ever fulfill him. He stayed because he wanted to explain that he had worked to the best of his abilities....but that the mass influxes of prisoners and the departure of his staff had made the situation impossible. When you live in these conditions, the fear of death leaves you. He was a man unable to leave loose ends and questions unanswered. I suspect he felt a great emptiness inside, and preferred death to life by the time he was hung. Raven
They were brainwashed Nazi's and thought they were doing a good job, they thought the Allied would help them in they're work against the Jewish people, they thought wrong and that's why they stayed in the camps.
Too bad there was no video or photo showing their hangings. These evil people deserved no mercy, for they showed none. May the flames of hell forever torment them.
My Uncle Herbert Ogden, of the British Army, Pathfinder Tanks, opened the gates at Belsen and set the people free. He was the most humble, happy man you could hope to meet. He died last year at 96 years old. RIP Uncle Bert. You were a man’s man, a good man and always missed.
He was a hero. May he always be remembered..
My grandmother Marianne was arrested by the gestapo in 1944 in northern France. She was member of the resistance She was deported to Darchau concentration. She survived. Thank to the men like your Uncle. Have a great day!
Bless him
R.i.p. warrior
@@michaelstricklett7130 Why was he a hero?
My uncle helped liberate Dachau. He died when I was 14 but he told me what he saw there and was brought to tears. R.I.P to our heros! ❤️
Thank you for bringing this man's terrible regime to light. My father was one of those who liberated Belsen, he suffered from nightmares about it for the rest of his life. He never spoke about what he saw there, all he would say was that the place exemplified man's inhumanity to his fellow man
I don't blame him for not wanting to talk about it. There are some things you just can't talk about.
Your father was a true Hero. God bless. Nobody should ever have to witness atrocities like that.
God bless your father soul, a true hero. And God bless his family too.
My grandfather fought in Holland during Operation Market Garden and from there moved into Germany. Near the city Celle was The Camp Bergen Belsen, here he and his fellow troops entered and liberated the camp. He actually never spoke of what he saw. Till his death 10 years ago he was never the same as he was at the age of 24. He always told me great stories about the war. But when anyone started about Bergen Belsen, his face turned white and you could see fear in his eyes.
All the soldiers who entered concentration camps their lives changed forever. God bless your grandfather soul.
His execution was not vengeance, it was justice. He was given far more justice than his victims.
Clickbait title
Vengeance
noun
punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
"The Allies were ready to wreak vengeance on Joseph Kramer for the horrors perpetrated on various groups."
The poster may not speak/write English as first language so may depend on "unreliable" resources like _dictionaries._
Revenge is defined as the act of committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Therefore it was vengeful, albeit righteous and called for.
They are not mutually exclusive.
Exactly- he murdered many thousands and was given a fair trial . Its called justice
My best friend's Dad was tortured in two camps by him , he died far too easy - in loving memory of Alex Kuden Sr. who lived a good life after the camp's and raised good kids
Comparatively painless too, not herded naked into a gas chamber.
I had 3 uncles that fought in WW2 and only 1 came home.. he was wounded by shrapnel and wandered behind enemy lines for 3 days and, somehow, by the Grace of God, he made it back to his unit. He was delirious the whole time from the infection the wound caused and he wasn't even aware that he was behind enemy lines!
Bastard. Excuse my french. But that's what this cretin was. It must never happen again x
You know, I can not even remotely SEE how that insane level of evil and hatred can exist among some psychopaths. Truly, the Third Reich was a casting call for every loser, misfit, reprobate, pervert and psychopath within the sphere of Germany's early efforts..
During his trial when he said that he didn’t think it was right to pick who dies and who doesn’t, it just shows you he knew the difference between right and wrong. A true monster that was tried and accordingly executed. This execution wasn’t a vengeful one but a righteous one, but I understand what you mean.
Visited Bergen-Belsen several times while I was stationed in West Germany in the last half of the 80's & we would go up to do gun camps every year. A very eerie feeling walking in there, no birds flying around or singing & no animals were around there either. Also visited Natzweiler as it wasn't far from where we were stationed in Lahr, less than an hours drive to it for us & not to sound disrespectful, but it was in a really pretty part of France in the hills. Again, no birds were around or small animals - seemed like they knew what happened there at those places & would avoid them.....
It was like that when I visited Auschwitz in January 2012 although it was deep winter and all the trees were dead with no birds in them. Snow all over the place and minus 32 ! Very eerie and very quiet. Extremely cold I can't imagine what it was like just wearing those striped uniforms. Apparently Poland has boiling hot humid summers and freezing cold winters. So the prisoners were uncomfortable all year round!
Well? Death leaves a shadow.
My Mother told me that my father was one of the soldiers who helped liberate Belsen. He must of seen so much horror that when he returned home to us in UK he was a very sick man. He had a severe water infection from the trenches and a nervous breakdown. He never mentioned this to me as I guess it was all too painful but years later he got a job as caretaker at a local synagogue and made quite a few friends with the Jewish community.
A perfectly proper outcome for these butchers. Nothing vengeful about it.
Definitely deserved and just, but I wouldn't shy away from admitting wanting vengeance. It's very human to seek for vengeance when terribly wronged, and delivering it doesn't make it unjust.
Such a simple execution was too good for these butcher's. I've been to one of the camps he was stationed at and I would definitely want revenge but justice as well.
Now if they could bring the hangman to Israel, and line them invaders up.and finally get justice for the palestinians.
Justice is dispensed when an impartial objective due process is set to runs its course. If not impartial it’s an emotionally motivated bias mob revenge & not justice at all.
It’s a stupid title. And not the only time the word “vengeful” was used in this series.
The really sad part of executions like this one is that they only get to kill him once . 😢
nobody really stopped them from torturing him for months. They chose to kill him quick. Wrong choice
the stretcher would be more suitable.
@@Lee5p33dy no sir I'm not talking torture him for justice, I'm talking just for fun. I wouldn't care if he was Jesus himself. Torture rules! Wohoo!! YOLO!
@@Lee5p33dy what, do you mean like to torture him?
It looks like he may have some cigarette burns on his face in one photo at the beginning of the video.
My grandparents from all sides have lost their entire families in these camps, my Grandma who was a a widow when I was a child (in the 90s) she used to tell me her survival stories when she lived with us, She liked going to bed very early and I snuck into her room and begged her to tell me stories from the war which fascinated me, She was a fascinating story teller he memory was sharp, As a result I grew up in a different world then other children would it made me appreciate the liberties to which we are used to in the US, we can all loose it with the blink of the eye.
Very well said . Evil is constantly looking for a way to exploit families and hard working people who love God's gift of life. To think there's always those who would rather spend their precious time short as it is, trying to destroy others. 😔
Your grandma was a wise woman. God bless her soul. And it's true our lives can change in seconds that's why we should thank God for every minute of our lives.
My late father was with the troops who liberated Belsen. He was an office in the RASC, responsible for supply convoys. One in his unit wrote a piece describing what they found. My Dad appended to it a note before it was sent to higher command. He wrote "I can personally vouch for all of this. I have seen it with my own eyes".
The crazy thing is these German camps were based on the Russian camps of the 1920s 1930's where the Russians would do the same thing work and starve anyone sent to these camps to death but sadly nothing was done to the Russians for their crimes because they we're on our side in the war
@Matt Olivier Here again then? Guessing your grandad was in the ss? Am I correct?
@@janettewhitchurch5118 I think not only was his grandad in the SS, but he, himself is an a"SS"-hole.
@@janettewhitchurch5118
With a name like "Olivier", they were Vichy French, in his family!
@Matt Olivier you are so pathetic stop showing off little boy!
The epitome of man's inhumanity to man. When you dance with the devil you don't get to pick the tune.. May the souls of the victims Rest in Peace
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Sorry man, but the tune is the only thing the devil let's you pick.
Even I'm thinking what the hell to this one.
The beast is probably a quiet efficient man who doesn't say much and stays away from drugs unlike everyone around him and without anyone to bother him.
My late father was part of the British Army unit that liberated Bergen-Belsen on 8th April 1945. A corporal with the Royal Corp of Signal, he then spent a week manning an emergency communications centre within the boundaries of the camp. After Josef Kramer's trial, my father was selected as one of the British Army personnel who were official witnesses to his execution. Until he died in 2004, at the age of 86, there wasn't day when those events were far from his memory
Hopefully seeing sombody that was responsible for those atrocities and then paying the ultimate price helped him
The lives of all the soldiers who entered concentration camps changed forever. the degree of evil was immensely enormous
Many prisoners still died in the weeks after the liberation of Belsen, their bodies had simply been too damaged by starvation and disease to survive.
they tried a special diet used to treat famine victims which really didn't work, it was discovered that one large hut faired better when fed on eastern European type foods red cabbage etc
At 17 and touring with a youth orchestra in 1976, our hosts took us to spend an afternoon at Bergen-Belsen.
It was a profound experience. And to this day, it strongly colours my attitude towards those who actively seek to divide humanity on ethnic grounds.
@knight Owl
I read, years ago, that putting them on solid food, right away, caused organ failure (especially the kidneys, if I recall correctly; the liver is more resilient than the kidneys): the food was simply too "rich" for their bodies to handle.
They should have spoken up!
"Our mothers fed us chicken soup when we were sick."
(A clear broth of low-sodium chicken soup stock is something they actually settled on: and fed them up to 4 times a day, keeping them adequately hydrated and warm in their beds. When those prisoners began to get stronger, their diet was changed, gradually.)
(Boiled cabbage...both red and green...is good, and easily handled by the body.)
Refeeding syndrome occurs when starved people are given food. Food has to be reintroduced slowly, or the people continue to died as their digestive systems are so badly damaged
@@loriscook5231
And, kidney failure happened, too!
(When the kidneys fail, that's the "end of the road".)
P.S. The digestive system is not 'damaged' by lack of food: it just 'rests'-- having little to do.
Our kidneys, on the other hand, are damaged from chronic dehydration.
"All evil needs to do to win is for good men to do nothing."
Enstein?
@@laurentcherrier8492 No, an Irish politician, his name escapes me at the moment, in the 18th Century, I believe.
Edmund Burke. Irish statesman.
@@ShowdogTiger Bingo!
And the US is going in what direction?
Incredibly sad seeing the children in the footage. The cruelty shown towards such innocence is sickening.
@Mary I figure that Pipers comment is in on another level of innocence. I get what do you suggest but don't be mad at it. Again children is way more clueless than grown ups
@Matt Olivier Have you got a screw loose or something? So according to you there was no cruelty at the concentration camps? Pretty insulting to all the poor souls who were murdered in horrific ways there. Try explaining that to the relatives of the survivors.
@Mary Everyone who found themselves locked in that concentration camp was a victim. Does that answer your question?
@Matt Olivier think about what is wrong with you~ if you were born earlier you would want to be a termination camp soldier?
@Mary So was your question answered? Or do you like to hijack comments and play devils advocate?
A true Sadist. He truly and seriously enjoyed his work. Hanging was way too kind for these monsters.
Yea they should b beaten to death or almost dyin n set on fire
When I was a teenager in the 60 's there was an elderly couple who lived behind my grandmother, they both had the serial numbers tattoos on their forearms. And every night you could hear the old man scream all night from the nightmares
More like schizophrenia 🤔
Wow.
@@cindychin7746 genius. Because that's what schizophrenics do. 🙄
@@RankinMsP sometimes.
Sick evil people.
Lest we forget. Totalitarian regimes never end well.
The German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union DID end well, or did they not? They disappeared as states but those responsible have never been brought to justice.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 - well, for the people on the wrong side of the regime, it's terrible
A bit like the UK government today.
Lets hope Biden gets the message,
99% correct!!!!
Would’ve been nice for the prisoners of the camp to witness this and for it to be Kramer’s last visual.
Indeed.
Some did get to testify at the trial
would have loved to have left him alone in a room full of camp survivors
dji zzah look up the name of Oskar Dirlewanger.
An SS officer and arguably the most wicked and degenerate person in the war.
Google his name and, if you can bear reading his deeds, see how he met his end.
It reminds me of your expression above.
Kramer was awarded a final act of mercy in being assigned the expert hangman Albert Pierrepoint…Pierrepoint had the skill of hanging down to a T, so that the condemned felt no pain and died instantly…Kramer's victims suffered terribly, and received no such mercy.
Kramer was a horrible human being but as far as Pierrepoint, what kind of person studies and perfects the art of hanging?
@@brianporter138 To answer your question, not someone I would like to know. Though I might have enjoyed a pint in his Lancashire pub, just as long as I was unaware that the publican was also an executioner!
@@brianporter138 Pierrepont saw his profession as a calling. As far has he was concerned who was do die was decided by others, his job was to end their lives as quickly and cleanly as possible. And without any undue stress or pain. That was why he perfected a hanging technique. Nor did he ever draw out his executions he did them as quickly as possible and gave the condemned no time to dwell on it. Nor did he ever tolerate anyone trying to taunt the condemned when they were alive or dead. So the best way to describe him is as a consummate professional.
@@brianporter138 someone that wants to perform their job perfectly!
@@Apollo890 That is interesting. As someone who is generally opposed to capital punishment, I understand what Pierrepont did and why he did it and I commend him for his work and in cases like Josef Kramer and other beasts who committed these atrocities I am not sorry that they were executed but I do still oppose it on principle and I'm not sure his punishment would have been lesser if he had been made to live a life incarcerated in prison.
I remember a few years ago talking about the holocaust museum in Berlin while at work. One of the younger office girls asked "What is the holocaust?" I thought she was joking, but she genuinely had never heard of it. Sadly, I wonder how many people will be aware of this period in history by the time the next generation has grown up?
What is black wallstreet? What is the trail of tears?
Pure total ignorance of people today sadly.
mankind is obviously doomed to repeat their evil events...
Since Kids are allowed their phones in school nowadays and they don't pay attention in class anymore, then by next generation it will be all forgotten by them. Completely. Sad times we live in where the more technologically advanced we become, the dumber we get. So sad.
They’re too busy with self image, the Woke movement and picking holes in our own history to apologise for!! If any of them have heard of Winston Churchill, they’ll just think he’s a racist imperialist
We must never ever ever forget what happened to all the men women and children in these camps, words fail me,
And yet it still goes on in China
Unfortunately it has. In Yugoslavia and in Africa
It also happened on an equal scale in the Soviet Union except in that case it was 'class' rather than 'race' enemies who were murdered by the state.
We must never ever stop the trauma based mind control
@@pzkw6759 It's pitiful
I just cant believe how atrocious this is. I have no words. Only great sorrow.
It sure is. Another atrocity occurred on the Easter front after Germany invaded the USSR. I've studied this and the killings that occurred there is called holocaust by bullets. Just absolutely sad.
@@martinflores1370 Yes, check out the Holodomor under left wing Soviet rule and the Gulag System in the USSR. It makes this Nazi destruction seem tame in comparison.
Read about the American Indian history with the whites.
@@rileymod2523
Oh, I have.
@@rileymod2523 Sorry that was different and much more recent. Americans in the 1800's were taking land and brutally - but the Nazis did this just a few generations ago and didn't need to do it to steal land. Take your agenda elsewhere.
The sad part of this is that less than a 100 years later, some people are trying to undermine these tragic event against humanity. This only proves that it takes only at least three generation to start forgetting the atrocities made by people in the history. The number of people who cannot accept that these really happen may not be that noticeable yet but their ignorance is slowly becoming contagious.
That's why channels like this are important. Younger people need to hear about this and we can't forget.
The depts of human depravity knows no bounds. Thankfully, the heights of compassion can know no limits either.
I think the depravity goes far deeper than the positivity
Sure glad Canada stepped up an stopped all this shit from happening. Oh wait, you guys waited until the Russians lost 20 million and then you stepped up...nevertheless, good job. F-ing mouth-flappers.
@@glennbeadshaw727 I tend do disagree. When people do good and great kindness to strangers and humans. We go 'that makes sense, I want to do something nice' But when confronted with horrors like this? It boggles our minds and it makes more of an imprint on us. I feel much more good is done, it just isn't covered as much and also doesn't shock our souls like horrible things do. Where a kind act makes sense and doesn't effect us as much.
Knowing what we now know very few Germans got a fair trial as for barbarians barbarians execute their prisoners which is exactly what the allies did here 😬
@@sneakymcsqueaks8128 Wow, dude makes a legit comment and your inner racist just jumps the fuck out!
No mention of nationality or anything, just a legit observation.
Look inwards my hate filled friend. You got this
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
They are. Just look at the razor wire in D.C.
People have been domesticated already by theirs governments and the big money.
@@magnumfour88 nah, police just didn't want to kill the people
If only the Left believed this.
Half of americans obey without question
I've been to Bergen-Belsen and seen Germans visitors collapse in grief at what they saw. We see films of concentration camps where there a few huts and a compound surrounded by barbed wire. The reality is these place were vast, like small towns with graves containing tens of thousands of bodies.
God rest the souls of all those that fell victims to this monster ! Amen
Which god? Of all of them not one interceded on their behalf
@@jimmurphy4703 of course an atheist says that
Belsen was well run until allied bombings and unsustainable numbers of prisoners introduced over crowding and disease 🤔
What does that mean "rest the souls"? Be dead and "sleep" forever? Not really a desirable idea after all that the victims had to go through. Or is it?
@@jimmurphy4703 8
Love your videos. Great work. One note on this one however; the total number people killed in the concentration camps was between 11 million and 12 million - NOT only the 6 million that some groups talk about. They will highlight the atrocities committed against their own group - and rightfully so - but let us not allow some 5.5 million other victims fade into a slanted history.
@November Witch5 Really, 275k? Interesting. Share more.
It’s crazy how people like accountants, teachers, etc are capable of becoming mass murderers.
Yes, this is so and not to think of ourselves. How can we be sure that we in similar situations would be goodhearted and selfless heros? Maye some of us would also turn into beasts. We just do not know.
Most of Germany supported the Nazis and ignored what they were doing. Interesting fact is that many soldiers took photos of their crimes and sent them home to get developed and then sent back to the soldiers. So yeah, the German population knew what was going on and for me were considered complicit.
@@martinflores1370 How easy it is for us to judge today. The Germans were deceived and when they woke up they themselves were the victims of the regime, which based its power on fear. You never knew whether you would be arrested in the next moment and whether your family would be deported (kin liability).
@@martinflores1370 yes it's truly incredible how the entire nation came under the spell of a madman.
America needs to wake up, because we are on a dangerous road heading in the wrong direction, and millions upon millions of our citizens have been mesmerized.
More like demonic. It was revealed later on that the SS practiced occultism.
There was nothing vengeful about this execution.
Not vengeful enough in any of these cases.
He got a trial and reasonably good treatment unlike his victims. Though I oppose the death penalty I will lose no sleep about him being hanged.
Absolutely right. A pity a few more guards didn’t follow him to the gallows.
poor use of words, i wonder if the person who wrote the caption is not a native English speaker
@@davidroosa4561 I was already thinking that’s the case.
This is an excellent channel. Please continue educating the current generation about the horrors of fascism, the holocaust, and lessons to be learned from the past.
Bit too humane a death for such an evil man imho. Thank you for posting 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for your comment Steve. I agree, in a sense he got off lightly. Evil and despicable man.
You wanted to see him tortured for his crimes? You really have the same bloodthirsty mindset he had, don't you?
@@generalyellor8188 How else would he know what he did to thousands of people was wrong? I call I righteous cruelty.
@@TheUntoldPast "Vengeful" execution? Hardly. 😕
"Vengeance is justice with interest." 😏
@@generalyellor8188 Most of us have the same knee-jerk reaction if we are honest. What separates us from animals like Kramer is that we push down that awful urge, knowing that it would make us just like him.
I was stationed in Germany in the late seventies, as a solder I was able to go to Auschwitz. It was eerie to say the least. So quiet, nothing was there. However, you could feel the death. You knew horrendous things happened there!! I felt nothing but sorrow!! Prayers for the souls lost!🙏🙏💖🙏.
I was in Germen,Gelnhausen in 1975,beautiful place.
Praying for the dead is a waste of time . ☹️
@@brianredmond4919
No it isn't
Auschwitz is not located in Germany, its in Poland.
I the late seventies behind the iron curtain. Have you really been in Auschwitz?
@@h.wenger6804 still could go visit it on leave......he wouldn't have been nailed to the ground, i think misunderstood his statement
386k views in 8 hrs is pretty impressive. This channel will reach a million subscribers in no time. Thanks for providing us quality content! Best of wishes.
i know he was called the beast of belsen but if you read up he probably did far worse at auschwitz where he was commandant of birkenau the extermination part of the camp and regularly conducted selections
But the US did nothing after WW2 - just a few show trials.
Selections?
@@patrickmclaughlin61 for the gas chambers
Thank you for putting this together, we can never forget these monsters.
This is not war.It is the devil 💀 himself at work.
The unspeakable cruelty unleashed by a twisted mind.
Several twisted minds, countless
I always ask myself why. What causes a person to be sadistic? What is in their heart that makes them get joy out if seeing another suffer or causing them ti suffer. It truly is the devil
@Matt Olivier Why was Eisenhower the devil?
Do you no what the tuts I did to the h utu in rawanda 1993/94 thousand literally thousands were hacked to death by machete in some villages no one was spared even young babe's in arm truly sickening barbaric pure savagery look on a par with this it gave me nightmares presidents plane got shot down a day later message on the state radio (kill the cockroaches ) tribal warfare of the worst kind
Yes Hitler. And his closest men were
All Satanists.
My old re teacher was a monk , and during the war he had been a British tank commander and also a atheist, anyway he was one of the first people to liberate Belsen. And it so effected him he became monk , he talked about what Belsen was like , during the war he had killed a number of people as a tank commander , but seeing Belsen had a much bigger effect on him
.....curiously there were many who went the other way.....from "How could God allow this?" to becoming atheists......it left no-one untouched.....my dad visited Belsen (he entered Germany from the north though Hamburg) although he was not there at the liberation of the camp.....he just said it was bad without further explanation....
reminds me of a joke, an ex concentration camp inmate died and went to heaven, upon meeting God at the pearly gates he quipped, did you hear the one about the jewish guy in a nazi concentration camp? to which God replied, you shouldn't joke about such things, the ex camp inmate then said, " I guess you had to be there "
The sheer horrors of war!
Hanging....to quick
I believe in an eye for an eye.
Those responsible should have been put into those same camps and suffer till the end.
Absolutely
i was amazed wen they rounded up those ss i notice they were laughing as if they couldnt give a .... they should have let them rot in these death camps just like they did to them jewish people that give em something to laugh about pigs
Great video.
I think he and many more like him should have gone through what they put so many through at the concentration camps.
My Grandpa…..John Powell, was also part of the liberation efforts with the British forces. He was an MP and had the responsibility to arrest Josef Kramer, who seemed unbothered or completely disconnected by the magnitude of his actions. The remaining guards at the camp during liberation definitely got a taste of their own medicine until litigation efforts were organized. I’ll never forget the stories he told me growing up. Looking back, I know he put an under-exaggerated spin on the conditions of Bergen-Belsen. Truly amazing to know my grandpa was part of a piece of history. RIP
Scary how people become monsters very easily .... with some of the attitudes and tension here in the US, I could see many people becoming this type of psychopath
As a Human being, men shall never be free of the probability to go that way. It is not only a choice, but a way of life. That includes , and i no it sounds oldfashioned; self sacrifice. It is a noble way, and only stark people can go so far.
Yeah, just think at the guards at Quantanamo.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 good example
There is book called Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution. It was written by a psychologist who was trying to understand how 'normal' people could be become cold blooded killers. Its been a few years since I read it but I remember its a tough read. The descriptions were horrendously graphic. And I know there are other books written by survivors of these atrocity camps. And i agree, I also wonder about the people who have 'extreme agenda's' and what they could be capable of if they had similar 'power'!
@@IamNotANumber3929 Hopefully it’s not late for Joe and Kamila.
Grim, you can tell the British troops would have shot him at the drop of a hat.
Against the law tho.
They did that to some other guards
I am sure they would have used a white phos grenade on him if they could of,battle hardened men would not bat an eyelid to the bastard ..
They all died far too quickly. Signed Boomer Vet
Not so sure about that.
There was a German documentary that asked why US troops randomly killed nazi camp guards but British troops generally didn’t and why. You can find it on YT.
Too many nazis escaped the hangman’s noose.
Bergen-Belsen is where Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just a couple of weeks shy of the liberation by the British.
British and Canadians I believe to be more correct.
So very sad 😢
As a teenage boy with psychopathic tendencies, I found Nazism attractive. Now I am older, wiser and deeply ashamed of myself.
Only if the liberators were just a few week earlier, we would probably still have a living legend.
@@redsky4038 If she survived chances are her diary would never be published and you would have actually never heard of her.
Very well thought out and written video, but what is up with your intonation at the end of each sentence?
Vengeful??? I think he earned it.
Edit. I guess all executions are vengeful, its called punishment.
@Peter Little
The dictionary disagrees with you--
vengeance and justice are not synonymous: they are two different things.
its click bait, unfortunately
Vengeful - seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury. Means they should be tortured to death NOT by hanging or by firing squad.
I'm just glad that the death penalty was still practiced at the time of the NUREMBERG trials
@@goldbell1972 Holy shit dude... What happened to you lol 🤣😂
thank you for the upload
The little children show their tattoo prisoner numbers on their little hands, make me cry. Never forget never forgive.
Not mean to the sons , never forgive means that sometimes forgiveness is not possible.
@@samkangal8428 what did our grandparents fight for it makes me wonder my own country is slowly fragmenting and falling apart all the old values are going maybe it is right that I will soon be gone from all this uncertainty and madness
@@samkangal8428 I even don't say every Germans soldiers were bad.
But if you try to compare the crimes committed at any war with the Nazi criminals at the conservation camps , the death factory the Nazis created ,the horrified "medical " experiments, no my friend, there is no example in the world's history of those crimes and cruelness. Therefore I said, never forget never forgive.
@@samkangal8428 your attempt to compare anything to the Nazis crimes are annoying.
@@samkangal8428 next thing your going to say is that kid killed by drunk driver is also the same cause a kid is a kid....it is very sad but no way the same.
Your ancestors were responsible for ww1 also but it is not the same as well.
As one that belongs to the victim's side.
I assure you that we are not going to forget or forgive, forever. And forever I mean literally forever, cuase our nation is very old and we have a good and vast memory, no example of what your ancestors did.
Omg I was hoping someone would do a video on this evil man and here you are
Thank you for posting.
My father was in a special unit during the war and was one of the first to arrive at Belsen. He saw Josef Kramer and Irma Grese brought out in chains. My father’s comrade was given the job of bulldozing the bodies of the victims into large pits - a task he never recovered from suffering from his nerves later in life. We have no idea what it must have been like to enter a camp totally unprepared for what you were going to see. Later, my father was at Hameln (Hamlin) and chatted to a man building the gallows and the chap asked my father whether he would like to bang a nail into the gallows which would end the life of Kramer. I am not sure whether he accepted the offer.
This is a perfect example of what happens when governments get too powerful.
Another paranoid Trumper. You nuts still a thing?
This is what happens when psychos have too much power...
You can see this with the covid laws.
This will happen if uneducated people fall for populism and get to vote.
@Ted Dammit Exactly.
Now he's fighting his demons in the devil's horrible lair.
no man he kicks some ass in heaven
Walking in Berlin with a German friend of mine she pointed out at random a monument (long time ago so forget which one) that commemorated the allies victory in WW2. I said, naively, ' is it not a bit goading to have that monument in Berlin celebrating allied victory ? ' , she looked at me puzzled and said , ' the allies were not victors they were liberators who we thank for liberating Germany and the world from the Nazi's' - often thought of this comment with mixed feelings over the years. We spent that night making love.
Great video, just subscribed!
Yet, some people still deny this ever happened! I just do not see how they can deny this!
People deny the millions of Indians killed by the British Raj.
@@alexbowman7582 what has that got to do with the death camps
The only reason to deny it is the wish that it will happen again.
@@TheIdandan it will happen again fascism is alive and thriving in islam. In a few decades they’ll be in power in Western Europe.
Certainly, something that can never be forgotten at all. My Grandfather on my Mum's side was involved with the liberation of this death camp and though he never spoke about it if he mentioned it he would get this look in his eyes of real sorrow and it was quite hard to deal with and it reinforced in me that this did indeed happen it was sheer evil and men like this did exist I am glad he suffered before he died given the countless innocent people he and those under him murdered pretty much in cold blood.
It’s incredibly sad what happened to those innocent people
It’s just hard to watch
Wish and pray peace for them and their families
innocent?
He went easy. There's no justice in this f'ing world!
Justice or revenge
Discussing monsters...
but there will be in the next.
My father lied about his age to join the Army...at the tender of 16 his unit liberated a Nazi concentration camp. My father hated Germans for the rest of his life. He told me of the horrors he saw when I joined the Army and my father cried.... Hanging was too good. They should have given the cockroach to survivors.
My Father was RAMC and was one of the first medics to enter Belsen. He would never speak about it.
My father was with the RAF number 50 MFH ( mobile field hospital) was there too. He also would never speak of i. When I was around ten or eleven I was rummaging around a cupboard I should not have been into I found some of the photographs he brought back from Belsen and my dad caught me. He just said something about " Man's inhumanity to man" which then I did not understand, but later after his death my mother told me he had been there after its liberation, she also told me that immediately after I had found the photos (and they were quite large ones about 10"x8" printed in the darkroom of the field hospital) he destroyed all of them saying that he should not have kept them for me to find, but as horrific as it was at that tender age I wished he had kept them for when my mother spoke of it I was an adult and would have liked to see what he saw first hand as a reminder of " man's inhumanity to man" for we should NOT forget what these monsters did.
@@samrodian919 How old are you?
Incredibly sad seeing the children in the footage. The cruelty shown towards such innocence is sickening. aye
Very informative indeed.👍☘️
I have relatives who entered a concentration camp, roughly at the same time as some Russians, Russians got there first. According to them, if it weren't for the Americans also being there, there would have been no Germans to take prisoner... They restrained them BEFORE they finally saw how bad the camp was, wished they hadn't after. Would not say anything further about it...I never have and still have no reason to even ask. What happened, happened.
Which concentration camps where your uncle's in.
The Russian filled mass graves themselves with Polish at the time.
@@SaneAsylum Stalin killed more innocents than Hitler.
Yea. Apparently at one camp that Americans liberated, the Americans (including officers) were so distraught over what they found, the soldiers were basically given a 24 hour “kill lol the German Guards, Camp Officials, and SS you want pass”.
These sone of these guys survived D-Day, but the camps were mentally to mush.
Apparently the same thing happened with Canadian and Russian allies too.
Yea. Don’t piss off the Canadians.
@@danlivni2097 He would not tell me that. I wish I knew, he is gone now, so I'll never know. He talked about it one time and never again. Someone made a stupid "it never happened" comment and he went off in more detail than any of us knew he knew. Would not talk about it again. I couldn't blame him.
The sad thing is that the grandchildren of these poor victims inflict exactly the same suffering, barbarism and cruelty to others. Mankind forgets too easily.
Like Japan’s 731 “physicians” who became billionaires
I visited Dachau In August of 1989 It was late in the day but it was still quite hot outside In the shadow of one of the barracks I saw in my mind's eye something I will never forget true evil and I could smell the dead the silent screams it may have been 85 degrees fahrenheit but all I could do was shiver I didn't sleep at all for a week and when I did I was haunted by that place And still I believe they should make the story's of what happened there mandatory for all students to see lest this is ever repeated. God be with any who survived that he'll hole.
I went to Dachau in 92 after Oktoberfest. I have some of the pictures burned into my memory. It’s the one place you can feel dread walking into that place, and relief leaving it.
I visited the camp in 1983. The feeling of uneasy,tortured, spirits was palpable. One reason that today’s NAZI wannabes really saddens me. How quickly we succumb to the same poison.
Please don't forget the Other 11 million non Jewish people that died in the Holocaust ,17 million dead due to one man and his minions.My grandfather was one that went into Bergen Belsen , he told me of the ground heaving up and down in a mass grave, this stopped only after a bulldozer was used over the grave😭
Always remember ALL who perished under this shoah.
What caused the heaving? Were they still alive?
Nazi Germany was more than "one man and his minions". Their crimes could not have been perpetuated without the willing cooperation of a significant number of Germans and of their allies and collaborators. The National Socialists polled a greater percentage of the popular vote, in the election prior to Hitler being named Chancellor, than David Cameron's last government which secured a substantial overall majority.
It is all too easy to blame one man and a few cronies to absolve the guilt of a nation. We talk about Japanese WW2 war crimes and genocide for example but never German atrocities. Easier to blame the Nazis. We cannot be sure if all those committing atrocities were Nazis but we know they were all German (or Austrian) or peoples under the direction of Germans.
@@xyz.ijk. That was the impression I got, although never said out loud.
@@Kaiserbill99 look up the word minion in its English usage and it still describes what you said, underlings , followers, unimportant people doing the bidding of a higher rank, there is no size of the amount of minions few or millions mentioned, the allies knew of the atrocities being committed and did SFA
My Hebrew school teacher in 1967 was in another camp. Her parents both where exterminated. She showed us her cattle like tattoo. God bless America.
tattoos were exlcusive to auschwitz only no other camp aside from auschwitz had tattoos
God? Huh!
Isn’t it crazy that it seems history is repeating itself?
Yep !! Over and over again !
Humans will never learn !
History always does and always has....we will never learn until...it’s too late
Unfortunately so, just look at what China is doing with the Uighur’s.
It’s a similar thing..when governments just ignore homelessness,where people die sleeping on the streets in winter.
Or let people,starve..in the uk.
@@byron5229 that’s exactly what I mean. It’s all starting over . American is straying away from its founding principles and that will doom us.
Far too many escaped the justice they deserved.
They really didn't. They have to stand before GOD!
@@ldav2006; No, what fear would they have to stand before a concept you were too childish to give up! They have to stand before the most unforgiving entity in the universe, themselves!
Project paperclip helped many escape justice.
@@ldav2006 On all sides.
Just for a monster my uncle helped to liberate belsen he never spoke about it
@Matt Olivier Go away troll.
@Matt Olivier excuse me my uncle was in the BRITISH army I'm very offended!!
@@johnsheldon7862 matt Olivier is a troll. Also a psychopath. Dont give him your energy.
@Matt Olivier why would you make a troll account to mess with people on Holocaust videos? You need to find something productive and meaningful in your life
We can only hope there really is a hell....and he's there.
I will never understand how man kind can do this from one human to another.
The same way a police officer in the USA would shoot an unarmed black man and yet hand a water bottle to a heavily armed white man.
@@rosekay5031 you are obviously uneducated and please stop comparing your fake systemic racism to one of the most horrible events in human history
@@therealnf85 it’s only fake if you’re blind. How about the way China is eradicating Uyghurs? North Korea and its own people? Australian First Nations’ treatment? The world is full of systemic racism because we are tribal people who don’t care as long as it isn’t happening to “us”.
@@rosekay5031 basically a lot of humans are as smart as a brick.
Justice that’s what you call that!.
Yes! May he rot in hell!
You can't kill them and their ilk enough times to quench our thirst for their blood
I have visited Belsen and Dachau camps and seen the evidence of their treatment of not only the Jews but gypsies and the disabled Germans who were classed as not fit to live as they did not represent the true image they wanted for themselves. When in Germany in the 1980's all German High school children had to visit one of the death camps as part of their education to show what right wing extremism can lead to and it was a sight I can never forget as they came out of the buildings in tears as their parents had never told them about the experiments and mass slaughter of other human beings carried out by their own countrymen to create a mythical perfect Ayrian race. What astonished me was the fact the company who supplied the poison for the gas chambers is still going and is one of Germany's largest chemical manufacturers BASF.
Pierrepoint was very good at his job and despatched the condemned in a quick fashion. They didn't deserve such a death. They should all have suffered because they were beyond evil.
@nick sweeney they got the best hangman in Britain, who ensured quick painless deaths. The should have suffered.
@angel Gil Which would make you as evil and as bad as Kramer.
I would make the noose out of barbed wire and have the trap door floor covered in metal spikes nothing for those monsters would be quick nor painless
@nick sweeney They should have suffered the same dehumanization, hunger, forced labour etc that they inflicted on those in the camps. But as @Andrew Ockenden says doing so would make us as evil as Kramer. In the end, they faced justice as laid down in the law of the time. There has to be a clear line between being a human who treats everyone equally and fairly and these monsters. As much as they are hated for what they did they were sent to face whichever god they believed in to explain themselves.
@@andrewockenden Whilst the thought is there to give them what they inflicted on the inmates of the camps, we have to not cross the line into their vile, unimaginable pain, suffering, and terror. Thinking of such things is one thing, actually doing it, is another.
Remember THEM .... We should NEVER Forget
Good end to a beast
You are the first person I have ever heard say “dozens of thousands.”
Do you write headlines for the Daily Mail by any chance?
More like JUSTICE, not "vengeance"!
I'm pretty sure you mean justified and not vengeful, saying it was vengeful suggests that he may have been executed for purely emotional or perceived reasons, whereas if you believe in the death penalty this guy was entirely deserving of what he got.
I went Bergen a few years ago as I used to live there in the 80’s even today no birds sing in the forest around Bergen.
Visited Belsen in the early 70`s while serving in W Germany, we were exercising around Luneberg Heath area at Soltau and a visit was arranged.Left a deep and lasting impression on me, all those years later you could still feel the sadness of this place.
I truly believe you... animals are always aware of tragedy especially one that has been inflicted
Same, we lived just up the road on the base at Hohne around 1984/5, can still remember vividly visiting it back then around the age of 12, we used to cycle past it all the time.
I grew up in Strasbourg Alsace in the sixties and as a child remember visiting Natzweiler Struthof. My parents believed in learning about history.
@@MattFieldPhoto I was there about that time, 10 years old. I’d hear stories about the birds not singing, but it only hit home when I witnessed as an adult.
Good video. I didn't know about this monster.
They're are more video's on TH-cam about Bergen-Belsen, on how the British ordered the guards to clear bodies and dig graves. The male guards when digging the graves were made to lie face down in the bottom of the pit when given a break, the women ( if you can call them that ) cleared bodies. German nurses and other staff were ordered to help in the hospital and due to typhus many died ( as the British didn't give them typhus injections ).
Personally I don't know how the lads held back their anger and just put them up against the wall and shoot them all.
I think it was mainly the Durham Light Infantry that liberated the camp and I remember in the 80's on our local BBC the men being interviewed about it. The horror gave them nightmares for years after.
@@rodgeyd6728 Thank you, Rodney.
Sick. The evil that people can do to each other has no limits
"If this is the best God can do. I am not impressed!" George Carlin
God didn't do this and god gave us all free will. Had god intervened we would become mere puppets and no longer be free or responsible for our actions.
the best God could do ? I think it was mostly satan's work in germany back then
You actually believe that God did this? what kind of faith is this?
Jesus Christ gave His best for you George, what did you do with the gifts He offered to you?
@@OKFrax-ys2op he mocks mostly that is how the old fart made his living
The executions are dealt with brilliantly in the Pierepoint movie.
It couldn't have been joyful work, but it was better for the world that we had Pierrepoint to do it.
If it involves watching people being hung; why would anyone want to look at it?
@@haroldgodwinson832 It doesn't show it quite as you word it.
Yes, it shows the Nazis being led to the gallows, but it only shows it from an angle to the side of the "drop zone."
You see the top of their heads drop out of view and heard a thud of the rope coming taut.
It's actually quite good (at least judging by the excerpts available right here on YT), and it explains one of the little known aspects of the epilogue of WWII.
There are times when vengeance is warranted and this was one of those times, he got off easy compared to his victims.
Justice, not vengeance.
Vengeance is a part of justice.
There is nothing wrong with wanting revenge on behalf of all whom suffered at his hands. This was done as part of justice being served.
@@krisushi1 So where is the justice for the 100's of thousands that died in the fire bombing and atomic bombing of Japan? These were civilian targets. War crimes are only for the losers.
@@hansgruber2509 Without these nukes, hundreds of thousands if not millions of allied troops would’ve died. It was cruel but it was the only way
@@hansgruber2509 Where in my comment did I mention Japan? I spoke of the topic in the video. If you want to know how I feel about Japan, well why not ask the Emperor who refused to surrender upon threats that they will be bombed if he didn't. He had the chance to save all those people but put his ego above all. Even after the first bomb was dropped, he again refused to surrender. It was not until they were threatened with a third that they finally saw sense. If you know anything of the Japanese culture at that time, you wouldn't be asking stupid questions like this.
Thank you UK for this VENGEFUL execution!
I like how in that still of a British soldier guarding Kramer with a sten gun has a look on his face of " just do it - do it - make one move - I'm more than ready, pleeease do it"
Humans we're our own worst destruction and it is more than likely there will be more of these guys to come in the future
Still are sadly there are atrocities all over the world The Congo has been over 6 million to this day killed and still an issue
Its not mentioned as it dosent have any buzz words
What i don't understand is, why did Kramer hang around and allow the British to capture him.
No pun intended?
He hanged on
Interesting, is it not? The only explanation I have: he felt too proud as a Nazi and saw the hopelessness of his situation and certainly felt guilty also.
My opinion is that he had found his place in life...he knew it was going away....that nothing else would ever fulfill him. He stayed because he wanted to explain that he had worked to the best of his abilities....but that the mass influxes of prisoners and the departure of his staff had made the situation impossible. When you live in these conditions, the fear of death leaves you. He was a man unable to leave loose ends and questions unanswered. I suspect he felt a great emptiness inside, and preferred death to life by the time he was hung. Raven
They were brainwashed Nazi's and thought they were doing a good job, they thought the Allied would help them in they're work against the Jewish people, they thought wrong and that's why they stayed in the camps.
It wasn't vengeful, it was fucking deserved
Too bad there was no video or photo showing their hangings. These evil people deserved no mercy, for they showed none. May the flames of hell forever torment them.
Anyone have a clue what the patch is on his left sleeve in his prison uniform?