My grandfather, survived the Mauthausen concentration camp. He, along with his two sisters and parents were all deported to one of the labour camps in 1944 after the Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. They managed to escape along with some other Slovenians and walked for more than 100 km, avoiding beeing seen from any patrols or local population. I wanted him to tell me many times about his ordeal in detail, but he got so emotional and almost started crying that I stopped at that point. He passed away in April at age 87.
Mine too, except he didn't escape. Never met him, but they tell me that the only story he wanted to share about Mauthausen was about typhus that took many lives there, and how he apparently had some sort of a resistance to that disease. He spoke German fluently, but never let anyone from the family to learn that language in the school.
I visited Dachau in 1996 and it was the same thing the silence was overwhelming. Never knew silence to be so loud anywhere else in the world. We went as a highschool group and when we left you could hear a pin drop for hours afterwards. Rip to all that lost their lives in this sad sad part of human history. May we never forget what happened.
My grandfather was there. He was arrested as normal citizen in 1942... He survived a lot of tortures, and beatings.. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945... He told many sad and frightening stories. On the first day when he got there, he accidentally looked the German officer in the eyes and because of that he received several strong punches to the head and body... He also told me about the hard work, carrying a stone down and up the stairs, about the food which was sawdust and beet soup!!!
My uncle was in the 82nd airborne. He helped liberate one of the camps. He told my father about it when he got drunk one night. My dad made a mistake and mentioned it to my uncle the next day when he was sober. He never did that again.
I wish I could have heard this better. When I worked in Germany in the late 1960’s, I was friends with a Polish gentleman who had been interred here as a teenager after seeing his mother shot. He worked mainly in the crematorium. I have never seen this place before.
Thank you for this documentary. Dad was a slave/prisoner in Mauthausen and Auschwitz. He confided in me about this time of his life only once, when he got sick. Sadly, only then did I realize that he suffered every day the Shoah. When he was a patient at Mt. Sinai hospital, I would sit with him and we would listen to lectures and music. (He was legally blind.) Every time there was a mention of the Holocaust or the Kaddish was sung his ventilator’s alarms started ringing. So that trauma sat there always, the elephant in the room. His life was difficult and he fought and he won. He wanted to live. L’chaim. His motto, “get into line, I will overcome”. However, the hospital and their oaths to only heal the sick is run as a business. The Natzi’s couldn’t finish him off, but the butchers at the hospital did.
Violin music is painfully Loud in places, but this is a common issue with many Holocaust videos...Not sure why, the words are so important. However...Subtitles on with volume off solves the clash between loud music and quiet narration.Edit: The uploader filmed the footage himself, and added official narration in English...Helps those of us who don't speak Russian.
Thanks for sharing this video. I've been there many times. I teach history, and Mauthausen is only 30 minutes from our town, so I often visit this place with school children.
A very detailed and realistic look at this camp. Thank you for taking the effort to do this. As for the 187 dislikes, i say to them, why does your conscience allow you to do this?
It maybe that the dislikes are in response to the "musik" which at times almost drowns out the commentary and does nothing to help or improve the experience.
Very well done and informative. The music ( I recognized it from the OST from Schindler's List) is beautiful, but a bit loud in some parts. The final salt-in-the-wound of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis was the fact that SO MANY of them went unpunished, either because they were considered low-level, the allies did not have the resources to bring them all to trial, or they were aided in their escape to Argentina by various groups, including the Catholic Church, and others. They too, have blood on their hands. Unfortunately, man is quite good at NOT learning from history and repeating genocide all over the planet.
We were there in Sept. 2017 as well. I remember seeing from the top of the quarry the beautiful nearby rolling hills. Also from up on the walls one can see the distant Alps. I remember thinking it must have been terrible to see such beauty off in the distance from such a hell hole. The walk up from the bus stop was through such a beautiful neighborhood too.
I visited this camp in 1982, - 37 years ago as a 22 year old. The images are still vivid but other aspects of this place are not portrayed in the video clip tour. These other sites were even more breathtaking as they were real: soap made from humans, lamp shades made of tattooed human skin, rooms full of shoes and left luggage. The gas chamber with shower head and tiled walls, the rusted heat treated gurney for placing corpses into a furnace. This gurney was heavy by itself and difficult to manage. The sobering visit has stayed with me for decades and has always reinforced my view to be grateful to the military who stood between us and this; to be thankful for where I live - a peaceful country by comparison.
So it has been proven that the Nazis actually made soap from human beings? I thought that was controversial because there has never been any substantive proof for that claim. Just curious, thanks.
The Schindler's List soundtrack in the background was absolutely appropriate, and it wasn't THAT loud. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Excellent short film. Thank you
I couldn’t hear the speaker with the violin playing… Gosh what a horrible horrific place Just been watching this and I feel much sadness for the people what they went through and much more hurt for the people who were murdered here may they R.I.P.
I wonder if those buried there would be happy that their final resting place is inside the monstrous camp where they suffered and died. They were never able to escape, even in death.
The nazis in their perversity graded their concentration camps by harshness. Mauthausen was one of their harshest ones. It was extermination through labor not an extermination camp as such. A lot of soviet POWs perished there and captured agents.
Nazi German. And how Nazi German could financed it? Germany was completely broken after 1WW. So how is it possible that this broken country was able to finance enormous project like 2WW within 20 years? Maybe someone gave them money then? Who were they... hmmm... yeah, that is interesting question.
Good film, good explanation. I was there. I will never forget it. Our children need to go there and see this stuff. Maybe, they might understand what went on. This needs to be taught in American schools. To the point of older comments: "luke Porter 9 months ago Did this place have cliff were they walked people off with rocks I went to one in the year 2000 but can't remember which one" Yes --this is where they pushed the prisoners off at the top of the Quirey --they made each one push another off. The heavy rocks they brought up the stairs---they would push a man backward and watch him die falling down the rock steps with his heavy rock on top of him. The Germans have torn down and will do anything --to remove anything to get rid of WW2. Over the years, prisoners have returned and re-build parts of these camps (they had to be torn down because of health reasons). Never forget.
The ultimate cowardice - making one prisoner push another. Perhaps that way they lied to themselves that they didn't have blood on their hands. How on earth does one become so cruel and bereft of humanity? My belief in God wavers, but I do believe I have to answer to some sort of higher power. There should always be that healthy fear of accountability and consequences. The arrogance of these people was off the scale.
You should have mentioned Francisco Boix who was imprisoned here with other Spanish guys, risked his life here, and managed to save the films that were done in the camp (supposed to be destroyed), that were used at the Nurnberg trials.
@Kristie C Yes, i've watched the movie on Netflix. It was so powerful I watched bits and pieces. I also speak Spanish but I am not at all fluent. There is another amazing Norwegian movie about a real case from WWII -The 12th man (Den12 Mann). It's on Netflix.
Great video. The narration helps a lot to understand what went on in those horrible times. I too have made slideshows of visits to other camps 14 years ago. It stays with you, the feeling of sorrow for what horrors laid within these walls.
On this day 27th of March 1945 Ricardo my grandfather died at Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp a month before the Americans liberated the CC. He was first interned at Dachau CC on his birthday the 1st of Feb 1944 and then transported to Mauthausen in August of 1944...
He must have known Francisco Boix. He was also interred in Mauthausen. He was the photograph from Mauthausen, and smuggled the films out of the camp. They were used at Nuremberg trials. Unfortunately, Francisco died soon after he got out of the camp.
The background music makes watching impossible. Too moody, too loud. I understand that violin music is often used to create a certain feeling, but if videos like this one are mainly supposed to be historical, then the violin music is all wrong because the music overwhelms the narration.
It's awesome to know more n more about this... I usually very curious to know more about the facts and places related to WW2.. and you explained it well... Thanks 👍
Interesting video; I have visited the area, although not the camp, and I'm sure the cold in winter would readily have killed off a high percentage of the prisoners. The music level wasn't as bad as might have been expected from some of the comments, but I think it would be better without any at all.
Several years ago, I drank Kosher Schlivovitz and Kosher Vodka at the kitchen table at Martin Small, a survivor of Mauthausen. He was pulled off a pile of bodies when the Americans liberated the camp. He survived from being near dead. He gave me a beautiful Mezuzah that he created. I have it mounted on my door.
@flikedout I was born in Austria. I did not know that this camp exhisted until I saw the Netflix movie. A mutual friend later told me that Martin was in this camp.
hard to hear with the music being a bit over powering (but fitting). out of all i’ve read or watched about the camps this is the first time i’ve heard mention of a “store” where prisoners could buy items. where did they get the money from? i’m a little confused over this comment...i knew about the brothels but not a store
My dad was reportedly the very first American into the camp via a hole blasted by a tank. He also was said to have shot the camp’s commander. I do know and saw some of the photographs he took of the crematoriums but my mother discarded them all. After the war he was assigned drive German soldiers and concentration victims home.
Thank you for sharing this with us. WWII left an imprint on my heart. So many dead so needlessly. We can learn from history yet it seems we never do. Now colleges want to tell young adults this never happened.
Thank you for watching. You can check my blog for articles may be interesting for you as an addition to the video. You can dinf the link within the description to the video.
Most humans are incapable from learning from history. As long as people remember and hold onto what happened in the past, without being able to forgive or forget and move on, then there can never be changes. Religion also plays a big role in people not learning from the past.
It's a pity that the camera man didn't pay more attention to notices on walls etc., to see what they said. I had to be a bit quick on the pause button to read the ones I could. I think back ground music should have been limited for open shots of places where there is no commentary, otherwise to me, it interferes with the commentary. But over all, it is a chilling video of the place where so much death an suffering by the inmates took place.
There was music played while speaking about concentration camps. It is not necessary. The listener is disturbed by the music while listening to a serious matter
Pity of the music. It is suited to the subject but much too present, difficult to concentrate on the commentary with this music so prominently in the background.
Finally somebody that knows the terminology of narration for that particular concentration camp video finally somebody had a brain to narrate it and tell the story behind it that's the way it's supposed to be done but the cheesy music behind it could have been left out and the audio could have been turned up a little bit for what the guy was saying otherwise it was a really good video
Thank you for the positive feedback. I have taken the audio guide extras to edit this video, yet it was a bit of a challenge to shot all the needed footage on the site and then to edit. Sorry for the loudness of the music. I would continue to make 'WW2' videos in the future.
I love Austria, Germany, the Alps but I cannot help to look up the war and pre-war history of all those lovely places I have vacationed or visited. It learned me that the Austrians were among the most fanatic Nazi’s. Austrians were over represented in the party in general and in the SS in specific. Yet, somehow they’ve succeeded in looking like a victim after the war.
it is not HUMAN RACE! This is one specific race. Well, according to definition they are not race. They financed 1WW, then 2WW, got enormous benefits of them (especially 2WW) and they still make profits under Hocoloust Company plus some asid jobs like petrol wars in the middle east.
@Craig F. Thompson You are crazier than a shithouse rat. I hope you don't live in the United States, and if you do then why don't you leave if you hate it so much? Your comments are insane including the ones blubbering about prison conditions here in America. Here's an idea: Don't commit criminal acts and you won't end up in prisons. It's pretty easy to follow the laws set forth in this Constitutional Republic, and if you can't abide by these laws then you are a pretty stupid failure as a human being.
Was there Sept 1987 the visitors centre is new and they opened a few more exhibits! The day I was there a group of Yugoslavian former inmates were there with me.
My uncle was in 601sr TD division and I was lucky to hear them. One story he tells is of liberating a camp,I would love to find the camp he helped liberate,he never named it....
How on earth did they identify the exhumed corpses? The only thing that I can think of is their tattooed numbers but these would only be any good with camp records.
My wife and I visited here. We had been to Buchenwald, Auschwitz 1, 2, and 3, the site of thePlaszow Work Camp, Mauthausen, and finally Dachau. I'm not sure why, but Dachau was the worst for me... Maybe because it was the first camp built for its purpose by the Nazis. They were all bad in their own way, but Dachau stood out.
On May 5, 1945, US Troops liberated the Mauthausen death camp. A platoon of 23 men from the 11th Armored Division of the US Third Army, led by Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek, arrived at the main camp near the town of Mauthausen and liberated it.
Liberated? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... all SS guards were already gone!!!! Only prisoners were there. US soldiers were just passing by and poped up. Typical for US to join the war when it is coming to the end.
I read that Mauthausen had a subcamp named Gusen.It was said to be the most brutal of all-worse than Mauthausen itself.Many claimed it was even worse than the death camps(as opposed to concentration camps) like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
@flikedout Jesus,sorry,I can't imagine.Seems like the Austrian camps (Mauthausen,Gusen,Ebensee)were as if not more sadistic than those in Germany and Poland.I wish they'd all get more recognition,but there were so few survivors to bear witness.If you haven't seen it,Remembering The Camps,narrated by Hitchcock,has a segment on Ebensee.
you are right, i live very near the camp and thus we have been educated ob this topic very specifically. gusen was probably even more cruel, and only very few who were sent there survived
@@toniixxx8046 Thanks,I remember reading that decades ago.Austria's beautiful though,isn't it? Those mountains would be quite a change from where I'm living now.
It is so sad to watch these videos about the camps. It is so hard to understand how a racial group could try to wipe out another entire racial group, especially in such a sadistic way. If all these Jewish people were not killed, things would have been so much different. God gives everyone special talents. There could have been a lot of future doctors that could have saved a lot of lives. There could have been many future artist, pianist and writers. There could have been future scientists that could have found cures for deadly diseases.
Painful and hard to watch. The hate that made this happen exists and thrives in today’s politics. Nationalistic and racist politicians are being “elected “ around the world.
and to think.. this still goes on.. and will become more prevalent as the decades roll on.. what a world.. I am glad I am old... And for those of you that do not believe what I have said.. Burn it into your memories.. so when you do finally become aware of it.. I can whisper from the grave.. "I told you so!" GOD help us all..
@Pitt Burgh Well, I will let you figure that one out for yourself my friend.. It's no fun when people supply the answers for you.. you can always say 'they lie"... Finding it out for yourself will let you see some things you never thought possible..
@Pitt Burgh Burgh.. why so hostile? Can't you do your own research? you just go with what "everybody" else knows? And there are plenty of people who know what I know.. it's not a secret.. I would have told you where to look if you had asked.. But since you and "everybody" already know then you probably do not need me to tell you.. Sorry dude you are just going to have sit in your vomitus anger and stew with your "everybody else".. how sad you have become..
Just gonna point out that our generation is the LAST generation to be able to see WW2 veterans alive. They are now over 90 and probably will die in a few years.
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My grandfather, survived the Mauthausen concentration camp. He, along with his two sisters and parents were all deported to one of the labour camps in 1944 after the Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. They managed to escape along with some other Slovenians and walked for more than 100 km, avoiding beeing seen from any patrols or local population. I wanted him to tell me many times about his ordeal in detail, but he got so emotional and almost started crying that I stopped at that point. He passed away in April at age 87.
gunzoline93 I’m so sorry. My condolences to you and your family. He will always be by your side.
@maksim lukjan keep you're uneducated comments to yourself
Bless his heart..Rest easy ..
@maksim lukjan time to grow up junior
Mine too, except he didn't escape. Never met him, but they tell me that the only story he wanted to share about Mauthausen was about typhus that took many lives there, and how he apparently had some sort of a resistance to that disease. He spoke German fluently, but never let anyone from the family to learn that language in the school.
I was here in 1969. The silence was overwhelming. It seemed there were no birds. Chilling and gut-wrenching!
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I visited Dachau in 1996 and it was the same thing the silence was overwhelming. Never knew silence to be so loud anywhere else in the world. We went as a highschool group and when we left you could hear a pin drop for hours afterwards. Rip to all that lost their lives in this sad sad part of human history. May we never forget what happened.
My grandfather was there. He was arrested as normal citizen in 1942... He survived a lot of tortures, and beatings.. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945...
He told many sad and frightening stories. On the first day when he got there, he accidentally looked the German officer in the eyes and because of that he received several strong punches to the head and body... He also told me about the hard work, carrying a stone down and up the stairs, about the food which was sawdust and beet soup!!!
Well done. However could you turn down the background music. It's good music for this story, just to loud. 🍁🍂😊
Don't worry. The story stands. ¿O.k.?
I agree the music was a little distracting I couldn’t concentrate on what the he was saying but great vid though
It is probably necessary for avoiding copyright claim and takedown by making the detection harder.
Respect your opinion but for me it sets the mood of how somber and sad the history of this place is. But everyone is different of course.
Thanks to laud background music I am leaving after two minutes. Could you notify me when you have turned it down?
My uncle was in the 82nd airborne. He helped liberate one of the camps. He told my father about it when he got drunk one night. My dad made a mistake and mentioned it to my uncle the next day when he was sober. He never did that again.
I wish I could have heard this better. When I worked in Germany in the late 1960’s, I was friends with a Polish gentleman who had been interred here as a teenager after seeing his mother shot. He worked mainly in the crematorium. I have never seen this place before.
Hitler was a diehard criminal and a megalomaniac.
@@dibyendudasgupta7468 so was Churchill
So was Stalin
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Thank you for this documentary. Dad was a slave/prisoner in Mauthausen and Auschwitz. He confided in me about this time of his life only once, when he got sick. Sadly, only then did I realize that he suffered every day the Shoah. When he was a patient at Mt. Sinai hospital, I would sit with him and we would listen to lectures and music. (He was legally blind.) Every time there was a mention of the Holocaust or the Kaddish was sung his ventilator’s alarms started ringing. So that trauma sat there always, the elephant in the room. His life was difficult and he fought and he won. He wanted to live. L’chaim. His motto, “get into line, I will overcome”. However, the hospital and their oaths to only heal the sick is run as a business. The Natzi’s couldn’t finish him off, but the butchers at the hospital did.
Violin music is painfully Loud in places, but this is a common issue with many Holocaust videos...Not sure why, the words are so important.
However...Subtitles on with volume off solves the clash between loud music and quiet narration.Edit: The uploader filmed the footage himself, and added official narration in English...Helps those of us who don't speak Russian.
Thanks for sharing this video. I've been there many times. I teach history, and Mauthausen is only 30 minutes from our town, so I often visit this place with school children.
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Throughout the years.., what is the narrative of the locals? especially the elders.
Sorry, but the music detracts from the content
A very detailed and realistic look at this camp. Thank you for taking the effort to do this. As for the 187 dislikes, i say to them, why does your conscience allow you to do this?
Interesting. As of 2022.12.18 I see zero dislikes.
It maybe that the dislikes are in response to the "musik" which at times almost drowns out the commentary and does nothing to help or improve the experience.
This seems very well done.....but I had to turn it off at the 2 min mark......the music makes the narration a strain to listen to.
The violin music in the background just gives you a headache when you’re trying to listen to the narrator.
Yes....too loud !
Too bad!
ruins the video, i stopped watching
@@tram84mvp My solution is to turn the audio all the way down and use subtitles.
It's like they're trying to turn it into a "Schindler's List" film. It is a bit too overbearing for the narration.
Get rid of the back ground music. An annoying distraction.
Didn't even notice. Too into the story.
How cud u not notice/hear it? Kinda defeats the purpose of narrating....
Laser focus 🤗
@@Lisa1111 hahaha...✌👌👍👊
Agreed. The music competes with the narrator.
Very informative but please turn down the beautiful music!
I have visited Mauthausen. The silence is deafening.
Dear Максим Черный,
You have made an impressive and good video. Thank you for that.
Kind regards, Patrick
Thank you for your feedback
Yes...the music is way too loud, I did not finish the video
Very well done and informative. The music ( I recognized it from the OST from Schindler's List) is beautiful, but a bit loud in some parts.
The final salt-in-the-wound of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis was the fact that SO MANY of them went unpunished, either because they were considered low-level, the allies did not have the resources to bring them all to trial, or they were aided in their escape to Argentina by various groups, including the Catholic Church, and others. They too, have blood on their hands. Unfortunately, man is quite good at NOT learning from history and repeating genocide all over the planet.
We were there in Sept. 2017 as well. I remember seeing from the top of the quarry the beautiful nearby rolling hills. Also from up on the walls one can see the distant Alps. I remember thinking it must have been terrible to see such beauty off in the distance from such a hell hole. The walk up from the bus stop was through such a beautiful neighborhood too.
Though extremely hard to watch it is very fitting that you took the time to remind the World of the Reality that existed, and still exists..R.I.P.
I was there in 1969. There seemed to be a lack of oxygen surrounding the place! 😱
My grandfather was one of the liberators.
I visited this camp in 1982, - 37 years ago as a 22 year old. The images are still vivid but other aspects of this place are not portrayed in the video clip tour. These other sites were even more breathtaking as they were real: soap made from humans, lamp shades made of tattooed human skin, rooms full of shoes and left luggage. The gas chamber with shower head and tiled walls, the rusted heat treated gurney for placing corpses into a furnace. This gurney was heavy by itself and difficult to manage.
The sobering visit has stayed with me for decades and has always reinforced my view to be grateful to the military who stood between us and this; to be thankful for where I live - a peaceful country by comparison.
So it has been proven that the Nazis actually made soap from human beings? I thought that was controversial because there has never been any substantive proof for that claim. Just curious, thanks.
The Schindler's List soundtrack in the background was absolutely appropriate, and it wasn't THAT loud. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Excellent short film. Thank you
Been there with my school class. It is a really haunting feeling walking down the stair of deaths. May all these innocent souls rest in peace.
Background music is way too loud
My dad survived this camp with his brother.
My great uncle did too with his brother, who nearly died. Now great great granchildren growing up in Israel. עם ישראל חי
I couldn’t hear the speaker with the violin playing…
Gosh what a horrible horrific place
Just been watching this and I feel much sadness for the people what they went through and much more hurt for the people who were murdered here may they R.I.P.
There's a movie about this camp called the Photographer of Mauthausen.
You can't fully appreciate the importance and value of sewers until you live in a prison camp without them.
I wonder if those buried there would be happy that their final resting place is inside the monstrous camp where they suffered and died. They were never able to escape, even in death.
That thought did occur to me too.
The nazis in their perversity graded their concentration camps by harshness. Mauthausen was one of their harshest ones. It was extermination through labor not an extermination camp as such. A lot of soviet POWs perished there and captured agents.
Graham Lowe and allied airmen
Nazi German. And how Nazi German could financed it? Germany was completely broken after 1WW. So how is it possible that this broken country was able to finance enormous project like 2WW within 20 years? Maybe someone gave them money then? Who were they... hmmm... yeah, that is interesting question.
Good film, good explanation. I was there. I will never forget it. Our children need to go there and see this stuff. Maybe, they might understand what went on. This needs to be taught in American schools. To the point of older comments:
"luke Porter
9 months ago
Did this place have cliff were they walked people off with rocks I went to one in the year 2000 but can't remember which one"
Yes --this is where they pushed the prisoners off at the top of the Quirey --they made each one push another off. The heavy rocks they brought up the stairs---they would push a man backward and watch him die falling down the rock steps with his heavy rock on top of him.
The Germans have torn down and will do anything --to remove anything to get rid of WW2.
Over the years, prisoners have returned and re-build parts of these camps (they had to be torn down because of health reasons). Never forget.
The ultimate cowardice - making one prisoner push another. Perhaps that way they lied to themselves that they didn't have blood on their hands. How on earth does one become so cruel and bereft of humanity? My belief in God wavers, but I do believe I have to answer to some sort of higher power. There should always be that healthy fear of accountability and consequences. The arrogance of these people was off the scale.
Sadly the music was too loud to hear the narration properly , good film otherwise.
Terrible. people need to know. it happened. The music is a bit distracting. Thank you for sharing.
Music too loud
Excellently made film. Thank you.
Awesome video,the music is just a little to loud for me,but that’s my opinion. History should become a school must watch.
You should have mentioned Francisco Boix who was imprisoned here with other Spanish guys, risked his life here, and managed to save the films that were done in the camp (supposed to be destroyed), that were used at the Nurnberg trials.
@Kristie C Yes, i've watched the movie on Netflix. It was so powerful I watched bits and pieces. I also speak Spanish but I am not at all fluent. There is another amazing Norwegian movie about a real case from WWII -The 12th man (Den12 Mann). It's on Netflix.
Been in my youth there. Thx for sharing!
Great video. The narration helps a lot to understand what went on in those horrible times. I too have made slideshows of visits to other camps 14 years ago. It stays with you, the feeling of sorrow for what horrors laid within these walls.
Potentially interesting but impossible to listen to because of the loud music.
Not sure if it's my phone, however, I can hear the narrator 100% despite the music. I think the video is well done.
On this day 27th of March 1945 Ricardo my grandfather died at Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp a month before the Americans liberated the CC. He was first interned at Dachau CC on his birthday the 1st of Feb 1944 and then transported to Mauthausen in August of 1944...
He must have known Francisco Boix. He was also interred in Mauthausen. He was the photograph from Mauthausen, and smuggled the films out of the camp. They were used at Nuremberg trials. Unfortunately, Francisco died soon after he got out of the camp.
13tumare Aww hope your grandfather is at peace.
The music please too laud!!!
Why would someone make the music louder than spech?
I think it's safe to say that the music is to loud 😬.
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The background music makes watching impossible. Too moody, too loud. I understand that violin music is often used to create a certain feeling, but if videos like this one are mainly supposed to be historical, then the violin music is all wrong because the music overwhelms the narration.
Like the world trade center it is very sad.
It's awesome to know more n more about this... I usually very curious to know more about the facts and places related to WW2.. and you explained it well... Thanks 👍
Yes I couldnt take the sad music in the background besides that it took away from watching the whole doc sorry to say..
Interesting video; I have visited the area, although not the camp, and I'm sure the cold in winter would readily have killed off a high percentage of the prisoners.
The music level wasn't as bad as might have been expected from some of the comments, but I think it would be better without any at all.
why so bad music
....my heart breaks....may the dead RIP
And the evil rot in HELL.
THANK YOU
Excellent research.
The background music makes this unwatchable.
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was just going to comment on that now.
Several years ago, I drank Kosher Schlivovitz and Kosher Vodka at the kitchen table at Martin Small, a survivor of Mauthausen. He was pulled off a pile of bodies when the Americans liberated the camp. He survived from being near dead. He gave me a beautiful Mezuzah that he created. I have it mounted on my door.
@flikedout I was born in Austria. I did not know that this camp exhisted until I saw the Netflix movie. A mutual friend later told me that Martin was in this camp.
hard to hear with the music being a bit over powering (but fitting).
out of all i’ve read or watched about the camps this is the first time i’ve heard mention of a “store” where prisoners could buy items. where did they get the money from? i’m a little confused over this comment...i knew about the brothels but not a store
Why is the music bothering so many viewers? It is beautiful and appropriate.
My uncle, Jack King, helped liberate Mauthausen and took out a few SS in the process.
My dad was reportedly the very first American into the camp via a hole blasted by a tank. He also was said to have shot the camp’s commander. I do know and saw some of the photographs he took of the crematoriums but my mother discarded them all. After the war he was assigned drive German soldiers and concentration victims home.
Thr guy who composed that music should be locked away somewhere dark.....
He probably was locked away in a standing cell which was a special type of torment.
@@peterrodby2786 The music is from John Williams Schindler's List soundtrack. He is still writing and composing.
Thank you for sharing this with us. WWII left an imprint on my heart. So many dead so needlessly. We can learn from history yet it seems we never do. Now colleges want to tell young adults this never happened.
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Which colleges?
Charlie K there are plenty of documentaries....do some research
Wait. What colleges are you speaking of?
Most humans are incapable from learning from history. As long as people remember and hold onto what happened in the past, without being able to forgive or forget and move on, then there can never be changes. Religion also plays a big role in people not learning from the past.
It's so beautiful, but for history you would never believe what went on here, God bless them all
It's a pity that the camera man didn't pay more attention to notices on walls etc., to see what they said. I had to be a bit quick on the pause button to read the ones I could.
I think back ground music should have been limited for open shots of places where there is no commentary, otherwise to me, it interferes with the commentary.
But over all, it is a chilling video of the place where so much death an suffering by the inmates took place.
There was music played while speaking about concentration camps. It is not necessary. The listener is disturbed by the music while listening to a serious matter
I am not familiar with this camp. Thank you for bring it to my attention. Very well done video.
Pity of the music. It is suited to the subject but much too present, difficult to concentrate on the commentary with this music so prominently in the background.
Finally somebody that knows the terminology of narration for that particular concentration camp video finally somebody had a brain to narrate it and tell the story behind it that's the way it's supposed to be done but the cheesy music behind it could have been left out and the audio could have been turned up a little bit for what the guy was saying otherwise it was a really good video
Thank you for the positive feedback. I have taken the audio guide extras to edit this video, yet it was a bit of a challenge to shot all the needed footage on the site and then to edit. Sorry for the loudness of the music. I would continue to make 'WW2' videos in the future.
@@maxim-chornyi Virtually inaudible due to the violin, had to stop watching 1 minute in. Please post a version without the muzak.
@@maxim-chornyi I did not see all the graves. They were there in 1996 when we visited.
So many interesting docs are ruined with unesscary music
...there's ALWAYS a critic!
Excellent work! And lovely music in the background
I will go there one day. Those poor, innocent men, mothers and children and those warped and wicked people.
@N/A N/A FAKEstinians you mean !
I love Austria, Germany, the Alps but I cannot help to look up the war and pre-war history of all those lovely places I have vacationed or visited. It learned me that the Austrians were among the most fanatic Nazi’s. Austrians were over represented in the party in general and in the SS in specific. Yet, somehow they’ve succeeded in looking like a victim after the war.
I once got told the Austrians were prime ss (and/or gestapo?) material due to their natural arrogance.
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Good film and the specifics of mass cruelty too our brothers and sisters.😢😥
Let's pretend we were trained by the BBC and play music over the spoken word as they do
How can the human race be so evil to do this I saw Dachau Concentration Camp it was an awful feeling
it is not HUMAN RACE! This is one specific race. Well, according to definition they are not race. They financed 1WW, then 2WW, got enormous benefits of them (especially 2WW) and they still make profits under Hocoloust Company plus some asid jobs like petrol wars in the middle east.
How can the human race murder unborn children?
A very very very dark history!!
@Craig F. Thompson You fucking asshole. What an ignorant thing to say. America fought the Nazis and ended this horror. Douchebag.
@Craig F. Thompson You are crazier than a shithouse rat. I hope you don't live in the United States, and if you do then why don't you leave if you hate it so much?
Your comments are insane including the ones blubbering about prison conditions here in America. Here's an idea: Don't commit criminal acts and you won't end up in prisons. It's pretty easy to follow the laws set forth in this Constitutional Republic, and if you can't abide by these laws then you are a pretty stupid failure as a human being.
Craig doesn’t have brain one.
Thank you for telling the truth
Excellent video. Authoritative.
Was there Sept 1987 the visitors centre is new and they opened a few more exhibits! The day I was there a group of Yugoslavian former inmates were there with me.
Black Baingan
@@marlenelariviere4998 Yes
My uncle was in 601sr TD division and I was lucky to hear them. One story he tells is of liberating a camp,I would love to find the camp he helped liberate,he never named it....
How on earth did they identify the exhumed corpses? The only thing that I can think of is their tattooed numbers but these would only be any good with camp records.
My wife and I visited here. We had been to Buchenwald, Auschwitz 1, 2, and 3, the site of thePlaszow Work Camp, Mauthausen, and finally Dachau. I'm not sure why, but Dachau was the worst for me... Maybe because it was the first camp built for its purpose by the Nazis. They were all bad in their own way, but Dachau stood out.
I tried, but I couldn't stand the loud violin music,.
On May 5, 1945, US Troops liberated the Mauthausen death camp. A platoon of 23 men from the 11th Armored Division of the US Third Army, led by Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek, arrived at the main camp near the town of Mauthausen and liberated it.
Liberated? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... all SS guards were already gone!!!! Only prisoners were there. US soldiers were just passing by and poped up. Typical for US to join the war when it is coming to the end.
Pee eeP Popped. I know. Damn Yankees!
@@peeeep766 Your colossal stupidity is tiring.
I read that Mauthausen had a subcamp named Gusen.It was said to be the most brutal of all-worse than Mauthausen itself.Many claimed it was even worse than the death camps(as opposed to concentration camps) like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
@flikedout Jesus,sorry,I can't imagine.Seems like the Austrian camps (Mauthausen,Gusen,Ebensee)were as if not more sadistic than those in Germany and Poland.I wish they'd all get more recognition,but there were so few survivors to bear witness.If you haven't seen it,Remembering The Camps,narrated by Hitchcock,has a segment on Ebensee.
you are right, i live very near the camp and thus we have been educated ob this topic very specifically. gusen was probably even more cruel, and only very few who were sent there survived
@@toniixxx8046 Thanks,I remember reading that decades ago.Austria's beautiful though,isn't it? Those mountains would be quite a change from where I'm living now.
Great grandmother, great grandfather, great great grandfather
It is so sad to watch these videos about the camps. It is so hard to understand how a racial group could try to wipe out another entire racial group, especially in such a sadistic way. If all these Jewish people were not killed, things would have been so much different. God gives everyone special talents. There could have been a lot of future doctors that could have saved a lot of lives. There could have been many future artist, pianist and writers. There could have been future scientists that could have found cures for deadly diseases.
Thank you for compilation and presentation and sharing
My sincere condolences.
Thank you TH-cam
For everyone complaining about the music, just download the clip remove the music and play it back at your leisure.
The subtitles seems mostly onpoint on this one, so Subs on, Sound off. 👌
Painful and hard to watch. The hate that made this happen exists and thrives in today’s politics. Nationalistic and racist politicians are being “elected “ around the world.
Easier to mute the sound and turn on captions.
This would be a great video but the music is to loud to listen to
and to think.. this still goes on.. and will become more prevalent as the decades roll on.. what a world.. I am glad I am old... And for those of you that do not believe what I have said.. Burn it into your memories.. so when you do finally become aware of it.. I can whisper from the grave.. "I told you so!" GOD help us all..
@Pitt Burgh Well, I will let you figure that one out for yourself my friend.. It's no fun when people supply the answers for you.. you can always say 'they lie"... Finding it out for yourself will let you see some things you never thought possible..
@Pitt Burgh Burgh.. why so hostile? Can't you do your own research? you just go with what "everybody" else knows? And there are plenty of people who know what I know.. it's not a secret.. I would have told you where to look if you had asked.. But since you and "everybody" already know then you probably do not need me to tell you.. Sorry dude you are just going to have sit in your vomitus anger and stew with your "everybody else".. how sad you have become..
It’s very simple stupid , Palestine !!!
@@Chuckyarla I wish it was that simple...
tinkmarshino
What the Nazis did was the most horrible display of human behavior..
I'd suggest omitting the music altogether. Also, get a narrator who doesn't seem so satisfied with hearing his own smooth voice.
Just gonna point out that our generation is the LAST generation to be able to see WW2 veterans alive. They are now over 90 and probably will die in a few years.
Yes. It us a shame that horrific deeds will continue after they have gone
Love the violin. I play it myself. But can’t hear the commentary for it! Gave up 2 minutes in.
The background music is annoying and distracting.