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Hitler's prisons were like Disneyland next to the Jewish prisons in Russia and in the Ukraine. At least in Hitlers prisons there were Olympic size swimming pools, commissaries, brothels, soccer fields, theaters, and prisoners were paid with money to spend. None of that was in the Jewish prisons.
@@terrygabrich4806 NO. You do not get to lie and minimize the suffering of Nazi concentration camp victims. In Europe, this would get you into legal trouble, and deservedly. What a disgusting thing to even imagine.
I have been fighting cancer for 4 years. Through that time you have kept my mind off of that and enriched my life with your stories. Thank you!! You never know who you are helping. God Bless
My Great Uncle was stationed at Landsberg! Thank you so much for posting this! I love seeing where my Great Uncle walked. He was a prison guard there during the war crime trials there. I have original photos of him there, some of his documents, news paper clippings and whole NPs, some of his insignia pieces, german souvenirs, IDs and passes, a Landsberg post card signed by a handful of men tried at the Dachau Trials, and a ton more. He passed away in 86 so I never got to meet him.
What your commenting on JD is a warning of what can happen again in the United States, people think this past is dead and forgotten, but don’t realize for everyone of those evil men buried there there’s someone now in the present who are attempting to pick up and continue carrying that torch for them, great job on your documentary’s, keep bringing this valuable history as a reminder to never go down that road ever again!
Yes, indeed. It's very frightening that so very many Americans carry so very much hate and violent vehemence against some of their fellow Americans, just the same as the Nazi's, there's no difference between them. Do "the p.r.o.u.d boys" wear brown shirts? bet they hide their cowardly faces.
so true, in australia a group went out for dinner, they asked if the could bring in a birthday cake. guess what , it was hitlers birthday. the cake had his picture on it and they done a nazi salute. the police were called. it is illigak in australia to fly the nazi flag or anything like that. heavy fines or even jail. good on ya ben
So says the guy that says nothing about the people that's running this world into the ground right now and starting World War 3 and all the other atrocities they've done over the decades.
JD I love all your videos!!! I am an old grandma who really loves world War II history and civil war history ! I find your videos fascinating and extremely educational! Keep making your awesome content!!!
JD, you are living a life that I could only dream of. Anytime I see a new video, everything stops and I learn something new about history. Keep up the good work, my friend.
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I think in this country we need to reform schools from the bottom up. Tell teach history like it really happened the good. The bad. The ugly. How under payed our teachers are and seriously deal with students for misbehaving just to start.
JD I have been reading the comments on this and other videos. Not only are you "edutaining" us, your bringing us together for a short time to enjoy great content and interact with one another in very positive, sometimes heartwarming ways. You doing great work
When I was in France, Belgium & Holland last year, it was eerie visiting the German graves, very cold, very weird, got a creepy feeling seeing all those flat grave stones, some with 2 or 3 under the same stone. Our guide told us the Belgians did not want them buried on their land, but I guess there was no way to get them back to Germany at that time. I also had no idea so many were actually hung/shot after the war. I had only read where many Nazis escaped their death sentences one way or another. Thank you for this great information!
Incredible. Hate to even give a thumbs up for such a thing, but the video is amazing. May this horrific vicissitude of human arrogance never be forgotten.
Amazing, once again…..have traipsed all over wartime Europe…..Dachau, Berchtesgaden, Bastogne, Normandy….but your detail leaves me blown away at what we missed! Thank you! Andrew
My father was in the 103rd inf div WWII. He was in Patton’s 3rd army, & was also an interpreter. He was in the Battle of the Bulge when he first arrived. One of his final missions was to liberate a concentration camp in Landsberg named Kaufering. It is all but gone now. My daughter visited it a couple of years ago. Not much is left. The people in the area have been trying to completely wipe out any remains of it. Did you happen to go there? The stories my father told us were unimaginable. My dad will always be my hero.
I took care of a Gentleman @ a care center , who served in this Battle of the Bulge ,I was so in awe and wrote the story of his experience he relayed to me down in my journal . These stories to me are priceless & so are the amazing souls who served . My respect and thanks for your father & his service .
I visited this cemetery a few months ago. It does contain the most graves of the worst people in history. Those executed from Nuremberg were cremated and their ashes scattered on a river. This cemetery is unique in the world in terms of occupants. Like yourself, I research graves and cemeteries and often visit during my travels.
Ordinary Men was one of my assigned books from a college Holocaust class. It was an elective class, but I kept the book. I didn't realize its significance in telling the story until well after college, but I recognized the book as important in telling the story, so I kept it. The Einsatzgrupen were awful people. It's amazing how brainwashing worked on such a large group of individuals, turning them into heartless killers.
This is a dreadful yet fascinating series. Thank you for your in-depth research and also, for sharing your on-location videos. These are keepers. Thank you so much!
I had never heard of this site and to even look at those unmarked graves was eerie. Thank you for sharing and I related to your emotions on how evil some people can be. So sad.
Very well done. You know the history, and you present these stories with an excellent intelligence and quality. You don't ramble, you give the facts, and you know what you're doing. I've subscribed!
Thank you JD very good video. My Dad, a Canadian, went into Bergen-Belsen in April 45 to help liberate it. Never got over what he saw there he said they could smell it for miles before they got there. They made the Germans go through the piles of bodies & some were still alive but they died a short time later. The towns folk denied knowing what was going on so they marched them over to witness the burial. He was in Germany when the war was over & said the German citizens treated them worse than the soldiers.
I love history and I love this channel! I love how much knowledge you have, and the little tidbits that aren’t in the history books. Thank you so much for making these videos!
JD that was a powerful video. Thank You for sharing this with us. It reminds us that we must always be vigilant against those people who are doing evil.
I was blessed during my career to be able to visit many of the places & locations throughout the world that you chronicle. I wish your content would have Been available to me then! We continue to witness ideologies that spawn evil & in some instances, will not be brought to justice without Devine intervention! I wish your channel would become course work for the youth of today & properly educate them to the reality of the world! Thank you && God Bless!!
I love, love, love this channel. I have also been convalescing at home and find this information fascinating. Thank You so much from a fellow WW2 student. I have to say I envy you in creating an excellent and informative video series.
I worked on a book for a Holocaust survivor. Her husband (a German Jew)was one of those bilingual soldiers who interrogated many of these war criminals who were executed. He found the kommandant who killed his parents. The kommandant was among those who was executed and the only execution the man attended.
As always, I learn new things every time I watch your videos. Many of the places you visit are places that I will never see for myself, but now I feel like I have been there. Great work again.
JD, I am sure there is a document or diagram somewhere that records who is buried in each grave. I can't imagine they stripped off all the grave markers before recording each plot. Maybe held in the prison's archives.
I remember someone told me once that they wished they would tear down every concentration camp or associated with Hitler. I told me that if they did that, we would forget. We would forget and then we would repeat history. Thank you for continuing to educate us, "lest we forget".
It's so hard to imagine what would bring out this sort of evil in a person, but I guess that kind of person has existed throughout history. Thanks for another great video.
I had a colleague who'd become like one of those executed at Landsberg if the people behind his radical ideas (environmentalists in his case) ever got into power and he had the chance. He honest to god believed that all those who are not true believers in his radical green ideology should be killed as a start towards depopulating the planet with the end goal of having the population brought down to a few hundred thousand of those "worthy to be stewards of the environment". When Covid started and the death rates were very high initially he was ecstatic, proclaimed for all to hear that "here is Mother Nature saving the planet from mankind".
Unfortunately, it seems there are forces at play that would prefer that we forget much of the government's and individual's atrocities. That's not a coincidence, imo. Read Orwell's 1984 for a lesson on how this works and what the result is.
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When society loses faith in liberal values and human rights it is a small step to take. The holocaust is unique in its scale and organisation but whenever a society starts believing there are enemies out to get them and somebody tells them it's okay to take "decisive steps" to counter the threat that's where you end up. Just look around.
Very well done video. The research you’ve completed to put this together is I’m sure extensive to say the least. I’ve learned a great deal of historical information watching this video and hearing you speak about it. Thank you so much. I appreciate all the work you put into your historical videos.
Wow, what an incredible place to visit. It was not on my Bucket List. But thank you for going and sharing all the stories. My wife caught half of it and said - one day there will be a place like that for the evil people of our time. Just love your choice of music too.
This has to be one the most compelling videos you have made, I love all your videos and truly appreciate the work you put into them, but I could have watched 2hrs of this content it was that engrossing. Thanks JD 👍
Thanks to the Traveler Episode 266, I could visit the St. Ulrich in Spotting Friedhof two weeks ago. It has been very impressive! Thank you very much indeed!
Another compelling and educational video, JD. Any knowledge - or even speculation - regarding the choice of the "roofed crosses" in this cemetery ?? Let us never forget ! Thanks again for a great job.
they're pretty traditional in Bavaria and parts of Austria, often seen as little roadside shrines in places where people died in traffic accidents. I guess it's just a regional variation.
Not sure what the significance of this particular symbol is. One of the oldest uses of the cross symbol is the four spokes of the circular zodiac calendar which represent the two solstices and the two equinoxes that mark the changing of the seasons, and the circle represents the path of the sun, moon, and planets through the constellations. Even in Christian iconography you often see the crucifix depicted with a circle centered on the point where the vertical and horizontal lines intersect.
@@willdwyer6782 A good example of which is the "Celtic Cross". Which I believe is the conglomeration of Paganism and Christianity. Easier to convert pagans if you give them a little something to hang on to from the "old ways".
My guess is that the "roof" is mainly to protect the wooden cross from the weather. I noticed that all of the crosses were wooden, which will decay over time due to rain, frost etc; I suspect the "roof" is just there to preserve the cross for as long as possible.
I find it ironic that the graves were unmarked due to modern day Nazis wanting to worship there, and that those who were murdered during the holocaust left no markers at all. Your videos are impactful, and thoughtful, thanks JD.
more likely they were removed because the German government for decades now has been trying to eradicate any and all references to the Nazi era, including history books, museum exhibits, and anything at all that reminds people of what was done by the German people during that period.
I'm surprised they were buried in a cemetery and not cremated and the ashes scattered as the top Nazis (Goering, Ribbentrop, Kaltenbrunner, et al) were. Especially in a cemetery in the shadow of a chapel, usually considered hallowed ground. I suppose the occupation authorities considered they'd "atoned"by virtue of the executions and gave them proper burials, but that's just a guess on my part. I'll tell you, there's so much evil buried in that cemetery I'm amazed the grass grows.
My wife and I were at Landsburg the past fall. We actually went into the parking lot and took pictures until a guard came out and told us we couldn’t. He was actually very nice and gave us a little history of the prison and told us Hitlers cell was now a storage area. We did not know about the graveyard but knew about the concentration camp just outside of town. It was one of three work camps that is still original and slowly falling apart. Very interesting
You've just answered the question that came to mind when he said it was still in use as a prison......is Cell #7 still in use? I'm glad it's now just a mundane storage area.
I'm so glad I found this site. I have been going through a lot of bad things lately and you have been a great influence on easing my depression. I am 71 yrs. old but so much of history was before me. I couldn't wait to subscribe and I will surely keep up with your stories. Keep going with your stories.Thank you so much.
Really enjoy your content!! The way you relay the stories of history is entertaining, just finding your channel !! Great content , many not all but many of the newer Generation's don't know much of our History so this is such a wonderful channel with really good stories. Good job.
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd I live in Florida, so typical Florida weather, if you don't like it one min, wait 5 mins go back outside lol. But it's cold as of this morning, most likely be warm to hot around noon, then some quick showers cold again. Lol just a repeat haha. How about your weather? Are you across the pond? Or?
@@kellyolivia1799 Oh that's a nice place that's sounds cool the weather over here is a little bit cold 🥶 I'm from San Francisco California... I'm just a couple of months on TH-cam I do enjoy watching videos and you how long have you been on TH-cam
I learned something new today. I was under the impression that nazi war criminals were executed, then cremated, and ashes thrown into the water. Wow, thanks for the in-depth history lesson. 👍🏼
I am at home except for doctor’s visits and cannot read because of vision loss. Listening to videos keeps my brain from becoming oatmeal. You are doing great!
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As a kid of a WW2 veteran I love it when people do things like this, I asked my dad things but rarely got answers but when he did I cried and sometimes threw up because to they were too much for me to take at the moment by he never lied or sugar coat or bragged about how many he killed, I know that it bothered him, as General Sherman was said and it's true War is hell , any way will do that's anyone will do.
I never knew the backstory to Babi Year Park that I have driven by numerous times when I lived in Denver. I’m outside of Denver now but will have a different perspective when I drive by next time. Appreciate your comment.
@@31Alden Sure thing. If you want to learn more about Babi Yar and The Escape from Sobibor Death camp(they're related) here is an audio series I'm listening to right now from Mark Felton war stories. th-cam.com/play/PLjVnMGhQyOzMlbpZlkoaQpMW2lCjaQz7_.html
@@Gitarzan66 How very kind of you - thank you. I thought I had a book about Babi Yar from my late father’s library which contained a plethora of WWII books/reading material, but cannot locate it in my personal library. Heading over to the link you provided with much gratitude.
@@31Alden No problem, you're very welcome and stuff. Mark Felton is awesome. As an ageing metal head with bad eyes it's easier for me to listen to books than to read them. There are quite a few posted on Y.T. Dr. Felton specializes in 'The Deep Cuts' of history.
This is the first cemetery that is truly eerie to me. I'm compelled to wonder about the significance, if any, in the design of the crosses - which I've never seen before. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyway, thanks very much J.D. for all your hard work.
Came across this channel about a year ago - well impressed and watch most of the vids you put out. The genuine enthusiasm that comes across in each part is so interesting to myself - being so into history - especially WW2.
New subscriber here … you came up on my feed and I really love learning history . I have read many books on WW2 .. your videos put me right there . Thanks for your effort
I really love all of your wonderful videos, please keep doing videos because I watch your videos every day.you are awesome ❤️. please do a video if possible on the civil war ghost's at kannasaw ga??. thank you so much..
BRAVO ! Excellent investigative and enlightening report. It is said by anthropologists that this capacity for atrocity exists in us all. This sheds light on the shadow side.
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@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Eff off with your drivel
Hitler's prisons were like Disneyland next to the Jewish prisons in Russia and in the Ukraine. At least in Hitlers prisons there were Olympic size swimming pools, commissaries, brothels, soccer fields, theaters, and prisoners were paid with money to spend. None of that was in the Jewish prisons.
@@terrygabrich4806 NO. You do not get to lie and minimize the suffering of Nazi concentration camp victims. In Europe, this would get you into legal trouble, and deservedly. What a disgusting thing to even imagine.
Hitler was literally one of satans children amongst other nazi's. 😡
I have been fighting cancer for 4 years. Through that time you have kept my mind off of that and enriched my life with your stories. Thank you!! You never know who you are helping. God Bless
Wishing you good health in your journey, Janice.
I hope you are successful in your fight!
Will pray for you Janice.
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Please never stop covering the stories of WW2. You cover history like no other. Thank you.
Thanks!
Another great researcher is .mark felton productions
👈What Mima said.
My Great Uncle was stationed at Landsberg! Thank you so much for posting this! I love seeing where my Great Uncle walked. He was a prison guard there during the war crime trials there. I have original photos of him there, some of his documents, news paper clippings and whole NPs, some of his insignia pieces, german souvenirs, IDs and passes, a Landsberg post card signed by a handful of men tried at the Dachau Trials, and a ton more. He passed away in 86 so I never got to meet him.
That's a lot of money collectors go nuts for items like that.👍
Wow your story really stuck out to me, only because my great uncle was Reinhard Heydrich.
What a treasure trove you have. Amazing memorabilia. So sad you didn't get to meet and chat with him.
Glad that I could share the experience. I'd be interested in seeing those items that you talked about. Very interesting.
You know you hit it big when the History Underground picks ya up.
What your commenting on JD is a warning of what can happen again in the United States, people think this past is dead and forgotten, but don’t realize for everyone of those evil men buried there there’s someone now in the present who are attempting to pick up and continue carrying that torch for them, great job on your documentary’s, keep bringing this valuable history as a reminder to never go down that road ever again!
Sadly I agree with your comment
Yes, indeed. It's very frightening that so very many Americans carry so very much hate and violent vehemence against some of their fellow Americans, just the same as the Nazi's, there's no difference between them. Do "the p.r.o.u.d boys" wear brown shirts? bet they hide their cowardly faces.
so true, in australia a group went out for dinner, they asked if the could bring in a birthday cake. guess what , it was hitlers birthday. the cake had his picture on it and they done a nazi salute. the police were called. it is illigak in australia to fly the nazi flag or anything like that. heavy fines or even jail. good on ya ben
Very well said , agree
We are closer than anyone knows......
The world must be ever vigilant in standing up to evil of the few. Thanks JD, that was a sober reminder.
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Hello Casa how's the weather over there
So says the guy that says nothing about the people that's running this world into the ground right now and starting World War 3 and all the other atrocities they've done over the decades.
Both sides of ww2 were not good. Britain and France at that time had vast imperialist holdings around the world
This truly is "History Underground" pun intended. Thank you for bringing light to those who we want to see get there due diligence.
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JD I love all your videos!!! I am an old grandma who really loves world War II history and civil war history ! I find your videos fascinating and extremely educational! Keep making your awesome content!!!
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Hello Nanette how's the weather over there
JD, you are living a life that I could only dream of. Anytime I see a new video, everything stops and I learn something new about history. Keep up the good work, my friend.
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I really wish History teachers would use YOUR material in class!! Thank you JD!
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No, he believes the lies told at Nuremberg despite the allies torturing the Germans.
I think in this country we need to reform schools from the bottom up. Tell teach history like it really happened the good. The bad. The ugly.
How under payed our teachers are and seriously deal with students for misbehaving just to start.
If they would of had history lessons like this in my school days, I would of took every class I could of.
JD I have been reading the comments on this and other videos. Not only are you "edutaining" us, your bringing us together for a short time to enjoy great content and interact with one another in very positive, sometimes heartwarming ways. You doing great work
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When I was in France, Belgium & Holland last year, it was eerie visiting the German graves, very cold, very weird, got a creepy feeling seeing all those flat grave stones, some with 2 or 3 under the same stone. Our guide told us the Belgians did not want them buried on their land, but I guess there was no way to get them back to Germany at that time. I also had no idea so many were actually hung/shot after the war. I had only read where many Nazis escaped their death sentences one way or another. Thank you for this great information!
Johnny Cash was stationed in Landsberg. He worked as a Morse code operator intercepting Soviet Army transmissions.
Interesting!
🎶When I was just a baby, my mama said don't pout. Always be a good boy and don't ever play with krauts.
Never knew that
@@TheHistoryUnderground He was also the first person to receive the news that Stalin had died. The world is a funny place.
My first view of your site so if I apology if I missed your explanation but why did the grave markers have roofs over the crosses
Incredible. Hate to even give a thumbs up for such a thing, but the video is amazing. May this horrific vicissitude of human arrogance never be forgotten.
This way of not sparing us a damn thing is something that all real historians have in common. Thank you for your service to humanity.
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Your Germany visit has been fantastic, the tour of WW2 sites and the history behind them is phenomenal Thank you JD and Eric
Much more to come. Thanks!
Your videos are so informative. Thank you for keeping history alive
Thanks for watching!
Amazing, once again…..have traipsed all over wartime Europe…..Dachau, Berchtesgaden, Bastogne, Normandy….but your detail leaves me blown away at what we missed! Thank you! Andrew
Thanks! I appreciate that!
I've watched 90% of the videos on your channel so far. Keep up the good work. 👍
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My father was in the 103rd inf div WWII. He was in Patton’s 3rd army, & was also an interpreter. He was in the Battle of the Bulge when he first arrived. One of his final missions was to liberate a concentration camp in Landsberg named Kaufering. It is all but gone now. My daughter visited it a couple of years ago. Not much is left. The people in the area have been trying to completely wipe out any remains of it. Did you happen to go there? The stories my father told us were unimaginable. My dad will always be my hero.
I took care of a Gentleman @ a care center , who served in this Battle of the Bulge ,I was so in awe and wrote the story of his experience he relayed to me down in my journal . These stories to me are priceless & so are the amazing souls who served . My respect and thanks for your father & his service .
I visited this cemetery a few months ago. It does contain the most graves of the worst people in history. Those executed from Nuremberg were cremated and their ashes scattered on a river. This cemetery is unique in the world in terms of occupants. Like yourself, I research graves and cemeteries and often visit during my travels.
Hello Alice how's the weather over there
Can I go with you?
Thank you for sharing this. "“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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Wiser words have never been spoken
Ordinary Men was one of my assigned books from a college Holocaust class. It was an elective class, but I kept the book. I didn't realize its significance in telling the story until well after college, but I recognized the book as important in telling the story, so I kept it. The Einsatzgrupen were awful people. It's amazing how brainwashing worked on such a large group of individuals, turning them into heartless killers.
That book should be required reading in every history class.
This is a dreadful yet fascinating series. Thank you for your in-depth research and also, for sharing your on-location videos. These are keepers. Thank you so much!
Thank you for all your research and for educating your viewers -- my hat's off to you.
Hello B Jones how's the weather over there
I had never heard of this site and to even look at those unmarked graves was eerie. Thank you for sharing and I related to your emotions on how evil some people can be. So sad.
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@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd hello, typically Oregon, wet!🫤😋
@@tillitrueheart971 Oh that's okay the weather over here is a little bit cold 🥶 I'm from San Francisco California
Absolutely the most heart-stopping, bone chilling video ... the evil that they were is the stuff of shrieking nightmares.
Thank you for educating me on this history. I hope the world never forgets what happened.
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This world certainly will. Everything we know, done and learned is only on this planet.
Very well done. You know the history, and you present these stories with an excellent intelligence and quality. You don't ramble, you give the facts, and you know what you're doing. I've subscribed!
Thank you very much!
Thank you JD very good video. My Dad, a Canadian, went into Bergen-Belsen in April 45 to help liberate it. Never got over what he saw there he said they could smell it for miles before they got there. They made the Germans go through the piles of bodies & some were still alive but they died a short time later. The towns folk denied knowing what was going on so they marched them over to witness the burial. He was in Germany when the war was over & said the German citizens treated them worse than the soldiers.
I love history and I love this channel! I love how much knowledge you have, and the little tidbits that aren’t in the history books. Thank you so much for making these videos!
Hello Jennifer how's the weather over there
JD that was a powerful video. Thank You for sharing this with us. It reminds us that we must always be vigilant against those people who are doing evil.
Appreciate that. This plot is a reminder that evil exists.
I was blessed during my career to be able to visit many of the places & locations throughout the world that you chronicle. I wish your content would have Been available to me then!
We continue to witness ideologies that spawn evil & in some instances, will not be brought to justice without Devine intervention! I wish your channel would become course work for the youth of today & properly educate them to the reality of the world!
Thank you && God Bless!!
Thanks!
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I love, love, love this channel. I have also been convalescing at home and find this information fascinating. Thank You so much from a fellow WW2 student. I have to say I envy you in creating an excellent and informative video series.
Thanks! I appreciate that. Glad to share the experiences.
Thank you for showing us this historical place and the history behind it. without you I would not know anything about this important place!!!
These atrocities must be kept contemporary, lest we forget. This same evil still walks among us, it just has a new disguise.
Hello how's the weather over there
I worked on a book for a Holocaust survivor. Her husband (a German Jew)was one of those bilingual soldiers who interrogated many of these war criminals who were executed. He found the kommandant who killed his parents. The kommandant was among those who was executed and the only execution the man attended.
Hello Elizabeth how's the weather over there
As always, I learn new things every time I watch your videos. Many of the places you visit are places that I will never see for myself, but now I feel like I have been there. Great work again.
One thing I always notice between old and new footage is there's always more trees in the old footage. Freaky to think about.
JD, I am sure there is a document or diagram somewhere that records who is buried in each grave. I can't imagine they stripped off all the grave markers before recording each plot. Maybe held in the prison's archives.
I remember someone told me once that they wished they would tear down every concentration camp or associated with Hitler. I told me that if they did that, we would forget. We would forget and then we would repeat history. Thank you for continuing to educate us, "lest we forget".
It's so hard to imagine what would bring out this sort of evil in a person, but I guess that kind of person has existed throughout history. Thanks for another great video.
Hard to imagine people being that evil. But it certainly exists.
I had a colleague who'd become like one of those executed at Landsberg if the people behind his radical ideas (environmentalists in his case) ever got into power and he had the chance.
He honest to god believed that all those who are not true believers in his radical green ideology should be killed as a start towards depopulating the planet with the end goal of having the population brought down to a few hundred thousand of those "worthy to be stewards of the environment".
When Covid started and the death rates were very high initially he was ecstatic, proclaimed for all to hear that "here is Mother Nature saving the planet from mankind".
Since Cain killed Abel.
Look around and see that kind of evil still exists.
What makes a serial killer? No one really knows.
As always appreciate your dive into history that for some strange reason is no longer taught broadly.
Unfortunately, it seems there are forces at play that would prefer that we forget much of the government's and individual's atrocities. That's not a coincidence, imo. Read Orwell's 1984 for a lesson on how this works and what the result is.
History education has definitely fallen by the wayside. My hope is that people are sharing these videos to help fill the gap.
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Imagine he got out on good behaviour with his reputation 😮 new sub here love the history tours 👍 I'm from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks! Definitely want to visit your country at some point.
Thank you for this amazing video. What I’m always amazed by is how so many evil individuals could have been there at that time. Such hatred.
Awful.
EVIL IS STILL AND, WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US, AND AMONG US!!!!
When society loses faith in liberal values and human rights it is a small step to take. The holocaust is unique in its scale and organisation but whenever a society starts believing there are enemies out to get them and somebody tells them it's okay to take "decisive steps" to counter the threat that's where you end up. Just look around.
JD was my Teacher and neighbor growing up. JD is one of the smartest and down to earth person you could ever ask for
Thanks!
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@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd its a bit chilly
@@dwaynesmith9482 Oh that's okay the weather over here is a little bit cold so where are you from? I'm from San Francisco California
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd I am currently in Sullivan Missouri. JD lived by and taught me in the next over town of Bourbon Missouri
Fascinating. Thanks to this channel I would of never knew of the place
Thanks!!!
While these men were very evil, it is important to remember them so it doesn't happen again. Thank you again for another amazing video JD.
100% agree.
Already is happening again !
It's happening.
It’s already happening again and the world are basically too stupid to see it.
Very well done video. The research you’ve completed to put this together is I’m sure extensive to say the least. I’ve learned a great deal of historical information watching this video and hearing you speak about it. Thank you so much. I appreciate all the work you put into your historical videos.
Much appreciated!
This is something each and every human needs to learn about.
Hello Lorean how's the weather over there
Fantastic job of telling one of the worlds most heartless crime. We need men like you! TY
Hello Pat how's the weather over there
Great stuff as always!
Thanks! Appreciate it. I was unaware of what all happened there until I started doing some digging.
Wow, what an incredible place to visit. It was not on my Bucket List. But thank you for going and sharing all the stories. My wife caught half of it and said - one day there will be a place like that for the evil people of our time.
Just love your choice of music too.
Thanks!
This has to be one the most compelling videos you have made, I love all your videos and truly appreciate the work you put into them, but I could have watched 2hrs of this content it was that engrossing. Thanks JD 👍
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Thanks to the Traveler Episode 266, I could visit the St. Ulrich in Spotting Friedhof two weeks ago. It has been very impressive! Thank you very much indeed!
This was eerie and fascinating. Thanks for sharing it.
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What an awesome channel! I literally just discovered it and I'm hooked! Many Thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!
Hello Dawn how's the weather over there
Another compelling and educational video, JD. Any knowledge - or even speculation - regarding the choice of the "roofed crosses" in this cemetery ?? Let us never forget ! Thanks again for a great job.
Thanks. I honestly don’t know on the crosses. Saw those in Poland too.
they're pretty traditional in Bavaria and parts of Austria, often seen as little roadside shrines in places where people died in traffic accidents.
I guess it's just a regional variation.
Not sure what the significance of this particular symbol is. One of the oldest uses of the cross symbol is the four spokes of the circular zodiac calendar which represent the two solstices and the two equinoxes that mark the changing of the seasons, and the circle represents the path of the sun, moon, and planets through the constellations. Even in Christian iconography you often see the crucifix depicted with a circle centered on the point where the vertical and horizontal lines intersect.
@@willdwyer6782 A good example of which is the "Celtic Cross". Which I believe is the conglomeration of Paganism and Christianity. Easier to convert pagans if you give them a little something to hang on to from the "old ways".
My guess is that the "roof" is mainly to protect the wooden cross from the weather. I noticed that all of the crosses were wooden, which will decay over time due to rain, frost etc; I suspect the "roof" is just there to preserve the cross for as long as possible.
I find it ironic that the graves were unmarked due to modern day Nazis wanting to worship there, and that those who were murdered during the holocaust left no markers at all. Your videos are impactful, and thoughtful, thanks JD.
Now the modern day nazis run the Whitehouse and the DEMONcratic party
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@@phyllishershkowitz3806 besides a fact.
more likely they were removed because the German government for decades now has been trying to eradicate any and all references to the Nazi era, including history books, museum exhibits, and anything at all that reminds people of what was done by the German people during that period.
I'm surprised they were buried in a cemetery and not cremated and the ashes scattered as the top Nazis (Goering, Ribbentrop, Kaltenbrunner, et al) were. Especially in a cemetery in the shadow of a chapel, usually considered hallowed ground.
I suppose the occupation authorities considered they'd "atoned"by virtue of the executions and gave them proper burials, but that's just a guess on my part.
I'll tell you, there's so much evil buried in that cemetery I'm amazed the grass grows.
" Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. " 👍
My wife and I were at Landsburg the past fall. We actually went into the parking lot and took pictures until a guard came out and told us we couldn’t. He was actually very nice and gave us a little history of the prison and told us Hitlers cell was now a storage area. We did not know about the graveyard but knew about the concentration camp just outside of town. It was one of three work camps that is still original and slowly falling apart. Very interesting
You've just answered the question that came to mind when he said it was still in use as a prison......is Cell #7 still in use? I'm glad it's now just a mundane storage area.
As long as you was on a public footpath (sidewalk) you can take as many pictures as you like, don't be fooled by people barking orders 👍
@@snowysnowyriver Otherwise it becomes a Nazi magnet.
Mr father liberated that concentration camp. He was 103rd inf div.
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I'm so glad I found this site. I have been going through a lot of bad things lately and you have been a great influence on easing my depression. I am 71 yrs. old but so much of history was before me. I couldn't wait to subscribe and I will surely keep up with your stories. Keep going with your stories.Thank you so much.
Thank you. That means a lot. I think that I have an episode coming up soon that you may find helpful.
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Hello Kathy how's the weather over there
Important stuff! Thanks for sharing. "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat".
Agreed.
Thank you for creating and showing this documentary of "reminding us just how awful people can be when their evil is unleashed and unrestrained"
Hello Pat how's the weather over there
Really enjoy your content!! The way you relay the stories of history is entertaining, just finding your channel !! Great content , many not all but many of the newer Generation's don't know much of our History so this is such a wonderful channel with really good stories. Good job.
Hello Kelly how's the weather over there
@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fd I live in Florida, so typical Florida weather, if you don't like it one min, wait 5 mins go back outside lol. But it's cold as of this morning, most likely be warm to hot around noon, then some quick showers cold again. Lol just a repeat haha.
How about your weather? Are you across the pond? Or?
@@kellyolivia1799 Oh that's a nice place that's sounds cool the weather over here is a little bit cold 🥶 I'm from San Francisco California... I'm just a couple of months on TH-cam I do enjoy watching videos and you how long have you been on TH-cam
Exceptional piece of work, I never knew of this place or these un-kind men. Thank you for this small piece of history, very
well done!
Thanks for bringing this into light. I have never heard of this.
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I learned something new today. I was under the impression that nazi war criminals were executed, then cremated, and ashes thrown into the water. Wow, thanks for the in-depth history lesson. 👍🏼
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I really am gaining a great appreciation for your videos
Glad to hear that! Thanks.
Always a good day when you upload! Love it!
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Thank you for bringing the history of these times. Makes you wonder if any of them were still alive and be buried that way
Hello Renee how's the weather over there
Really appreciate your work and passion. Watched so many of your videos!
I appreciate that!
Another great video! Thank you for sharing your visits to places I’m not likely to visit and thanks for preserving history!
One of the best channels on TH-cam 👌❤️
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Great video! Any thoughts to doing any content in Berlin to discuss the end of the war and the start of the cold War?
I enjoy your videos. It feels like a friend telling me this stuff instead of a complete stranger. I appreciate that.
I appreciate that
How easily a population can be led by ideology. Thats why history is so important.
JD, thank you for your research, travel and presenting history in an interesting and memorable way. I've learned a lot.
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“The highest concentration of evil men buried in it”. Without a doubt. Totally eerie. Very interesting video. Thanks.
Thanks for watching. Certainly a unique place.
Perhaps the opposite of consecrated ground...
The site looks shoking. Also looks lonely, it seem nobody or very few people wish to visit it. Very interesting post.-
I was there for quite awhile and was the only one there.
I am at home except for doctor’s visits and cannot read because of vision loss. Listening to videos keeps my brain from becoming oatmeal. You are doing great!
Appreciate that!
My goodness, you do these so well.
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It is so difficult to understand such evil in a person,but we must learn from history.
Hard to wrap you mind around how people could do such things.
What a wonderful informative video. I spent a couple of years in Germany. I did get to visit Dachau. Thank You for your videos
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don’t think I would like to visit Dachau or other camps. Not sure I could handle the intense emotions it would raise.
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Cómo me gustaría q todo fuera traducido al Español....puedo entender algo.....pero en mi idioma, no me perdería ningún detalle de ésta interesante Historia....siempre me ha apasionado todo lo sucedido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.....😢😔😒
Can you turn on closed captioning and set the language to Spanish?
No names, No Shrines, just memories from history telling their evil deeds. God will deal with them.
As a kid of a WW2 veteran I love it when people do things like this, I asked my dad things but rarely got answers but when he did I cried and sometimes threw up because to they were too much for me to take at the moment by he never lied or sugar coat or bragged about how many he killed, I know that it bothered him, as General Sherman was said and it's true War is hell , any way will do that's anyone will do.
A vet from the state I live in brought home the commemorative plaque from Hitler's cell. It's on display at the military museum in the state capital.
Wow!
I learn so much from your videos. So many evil men there.
Definitely. Thanks!
Hello Carol how's the weather over there
Thankyou for sharing this . Your a brilliant and genuine presenter xxx
Hello Julie how's the weather over there
Love love love this channel. This is the history sometimes forgotten about.
Another great video been watching your videos for years you always do a great job keep up the great work 🇺🇲
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If you ever get to Denver here check out Babi Yar Park. When it opened it was the only memorial to that massacre outside Europe. It's quite moving.
Interesting.
I never knew the backstory to Babi Year Park that I have driven by numerous times when I lived in Denver. I’m outside of Denver now but will have a different perspective when I drive by next time. Appreciate your comment.
@@31Alden Sure thing. If you want to learn more about Babi Yar and The Escape from Sobibor Death camp(they're related) here is an audio series I'm listening to right now from Mark Felton war stories. th-cam.com/play/PLjVnMGhQyOzMlbpZlkoaQpMW2lCjaQz7_.html
@@Gitarzan66 How very kind of you - thank you. I thought I had a book about Babi Yar from my late father’s library which contained a plethora of WWII books/reading material, but cannot locate it in my personal library. Heading over to the link you provided with much gratitude.
@@31Alden No problem, you're very welcome and stuff. Mark Felton is awesome. As an ageing metal head with bad eyes it's easier for me to listen to books than to read them. There are quite a few posted on Y.T. Dr. Felton specializes in 'The Deep Cuts' of history.
This is the first cemetery that is truly eerie to me. I'm compelled to wonder about the significance, if any, in the design of the crosses - which I've never seen before. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyway, thanks very much J.D. for all your hard work.
Thanks. I saw grave markers similar to this in Poland. Definitely different.
I was wondering about the same thing, Mark, but haven’t been able to find an answer.
Came across this channel about a year ago - well impressed and watch most of the vids you put out. The genuine enthusiasm that comes across in each part is so interesting to myself - being so into history - especially WW2.
New subscriber here … you came up on my feed and I really love learning history . I have read many books on WW2 .. your videos put me right there . Thanks for your effort
Hello Jocelyn how's the weather over there
Sad reminder of the evils committed by the Nazis and their punishment.
100% agree.
What does the roof over the cross mean? I have seen a lot in the video. Your videos are great to keep up the fantastic work.
Not sure on the roofs. Saw those when I was in Poland too.
I really love all of your wonderful videos, please keep doing videos because I watch your videos every day.you are awesome ❤️. please do a video if possible on the civil war ghost's at kannasaw ga??. thank you so much..
BRAVO ! Excellent investigative and enlightening report. It is said by anthropologists that this capacity for atrocity exists in us all. This sheds light on the shadow side.