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You seriously think that editing your original video was in bad taste, due to showing a body? Have some compassion for the relatives of those who suffered and died there you prick.
@@STHFGDBY I visited Dachau in 1976 something I will NEVER FORGET and I said in those days every youngster. Should visit such a dreadful place Marty Australia
Restricting documentaries on showing what happened doesn't benefit anyone, if anything it is more damaging. Your coverage, as I said on the other video, is highly respectful. This subject needs to be covered and younger generations need to be fully aware of what people can be capable of doing to each other, with that understanding they can then help prevent it happening again. My family was torn apart by the war, it is something that needs to be kept in the minds of all as a stark warning.
Exactly what was going thru my mind. I watched the original and I did not see anything that would alarm me or make me turn the video off. JD does do a great job in resepecting these places and artifacts, youtube quoting it goes against community guidlines is rubbish.
My Uncle Fred was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau. No one ever knew it until late in his life, when he finally talked about it. He never got over it, and it messed him up pretty badly, the older he got. He had a heart of gold, and I was so proud of him when he finally spoke out.
@Jerry McClure not all Germany Was nazis alot of good Germans was good and was Scared of the nazis there was a good Community of Germans that Help my family escape from the nazi
This was a rough place to visit for me. My foster uncle was placed here as a child in 1934- 1945. Malnourished and badly abused, he said he was more afraid of death when he was liberated than as a slave. Out of 157 of his family, he and his first cousin were the only survivors. You would think he would be so angry after what happened to him. I never saw him without a smile and i don't think he went an hour without telling a joke. He's said if he makes everyone love him, he will never have to suffer like that again. God Bless Eugene Zuckerman.
@@danielwebster5748read again... He was more aftaid of death after being liberated, because life begam again. When prisioned, you prefer death than sufering.
I served 4 years in the Army stationed in Germany for the most of it. One summer I took a trip to Dachau because of curiosity. As sobering as it was, the most striking thing to me at the time was that no birds chirped, or sang, as I entered through the compound. It was quiet and still, and a bit un-nerving. It sparked an interest to find out more of the years 1933 to 1946. I hope no one ever forgets or dismisses the horror of those years. It was a very somber tour, and I admit I cried during the presentation of the tour.
We were stationed in Germany in the 1980s, and we took a USO tour to Bavaria. Like you, we stopped at Dacau. It was a very sobering tour. Could not believe people were treated in this manner.
The shame is that there actually are complete pieces of 💩 who deny that the events of The Holocaust ever happened...or that they weren't as bad as we know they were ect. Smh it's extremely pathetic and sad that there are people THAT ignorant in the world, but unfortunately they do exist.
I recently had an opportunity to venture to Cambodia. I visited one of the (many) Killing Fields there, as well as one of the torture prisons of the Khmenr Rouge. The silence of the birds (not to mention the other visitors) was deafening there too.
I knew a WW2 vet many years ago who was one of the first to go in through those gates, with the 42nd I believe. He took pictures with his Brownie camera, and showed them to me once. What I saw in those pictures is unspeakable, to this day, even here. I wish I'd never seen them... the images have never left my memory. He then said, "You think those pictures are bad, being there was far worse. When I opened up one of the barracks doors the odor that came out was so thick and terrible, I dropped my camera and threw up on the spot! I've smelled death on the battlefields, seen carnage and gore, but none of my battle experience prepared me for what I experienced at Dachau..." Great job on the video, and thank you for your efforts.
My great uncle was a part of the 45th infantry division and was one of the first soldiers through the gates of Dachau to liberate the camp... I'm so grateful to have been able to hear (and thankfully record) him telling his accounts of it and get to see the pictures and items he took himself of and from the camp.... It's very sobering and should never be forgotten and these events should never be repeated.
Thankful you have the recordings. Guard them like gold and make sure they are passed down in your family. I wish so much that I had recorded the stories my father-in-law told me about life as a Polish slave laborer in a Nazi ball bearing factory. The oddest thing I learned about it, though, is we figured out that my father, a B-17 tailgunner, flew over and his plane dropped bombs on or near that same ball bearing factory a number of times! I'm thankful they both survived the war because they became very close friends.
TH-cam needs to get their shit together!! This information needs to be out there! History repeats itself and if we don’t honor history by showing the atrocities that happened then how are we any better than the people that committed these unspeakable acts? It’s not romanticized if we are showing what a group of horrible people did to innocent human beings! Thank you for you’re hard work! I watched both versions until the end because this is uncomfortable as it should be but I don’t want to forget!
Sarah! You wrote everything I am feeling about this. We must not allow anyone to not know what the evil Hitler and his equally evil underlings did. Thank you Sarah!
It’s advertising that wants it censored. He can put it on TH-cam all day long no problem. Monetizing images of the holocaust is a different story. It costs him time and money. He should be able to. Just seen as gauche by people that pay the bills.
U are so right Sarah, I think they are trying to stop us from finding out the truth,they don't want us to know our history because they want to do this again to us ,I don't trust government at all,or why else would they be trying to block us from knowing the truth
As a relative of Dachau survivor, we can not forget. He lived to 91 but the PTSD stayed with him till the end and as his carer it broke my heart for not being able to take his nightmares away. Rest in peace Stan 🕊️you will always be in our hearts and never forgotten.
My dad and his parents fled Yugoslavia and ended up in Dachau. His father ( my granddad) was immediately conscripted into the German army and sent east. Never to be heard from again. My grandmother was forced to work in the kitchen and hospital at times. My dad at 9 years old worked with prisoners from many countries building buildings and other things until the liberation. He was able to understand and speak 7 languages from Italian to Russian. He came to the US when he was 17. My dad helped build many of the buildings there.
Similar situation with two of my great uncles, also from former Yugoslavia. Both were sent as forced labourers and returned never the same. I met one of them when I was much younger and it seemed after he returned, wore his sailor suit often but was essentially broken for rest of his life and never really returned to working on boats. To illustrate the complexity of war, those two great uncles that were sent to Dachau had a brother who was earlier sent to an Italian prison (some dust up over a woman with his commanding officer), and so when the Nazis came south and overran the prison, he was press ganged into becoming a translator for a couple of months. Then press ganged into joining the equally shameful Ustaše (Nazi collaborators), and then finally short period later jumped to join the partisans for last couple years of WWII. He served some time in jail after the war as the partisans weren’t sure on his story, and I remain curious to find out more as well about that awful period.
My parents immigrated from Germany, and I was mostly raised in the states. We spent a lot of time visiting family in Germany. When I was 14, my mom decided I was old enough to see a concentration camp for myself. I visited Dachau. I don't really know how to describe the feeling. It was like an overshadow of darkness. As I walked through, I saw where people were held, murdered, and cremated. In my head, I kept picturing all the people who suffered there. It was an insane experience to walk the same ground all the Nazi's prisoners had. One thing I will absolutely NEVER forget is going into the crematorium. The smell of burnt flesh and death still lingers very very heavily. It was like walking into a thick almost suffocating fog when the smell hit. Visiting a concentration camp is a surreal experience and not for the faint of heart. It was an overwhelming feeling of darkness, sadness, and horror. All I could picture were the people who suffered and lost their lives there. Any area or room I walked into, I pictured the people who were there years and years before. This visit changed me. It's just heavy and gives you so much to think about. Especially when you see more evil happening in the world today.
Yes, it is horrific.. Fictional history that plays on your emotions instead of presenting facts for 70+ years.. No wonder this nonsense is still believed. Let's talk about the 16 million Slavs (Ukrainians, Russians, etc) that were starved to death at the hands of the Jewish Bolshevik regime and tortured/killed in the most bestial fashion in their extermination camps (gulags). Or the 20+ million Christian Russians who were killed by the Jewish Bolshevik regime once they brutally took over Russia.... Listen to Yuri Bezemenov (might have botched the last name) and listen to what he says about the Soviet Union. You will soon realize that Hitler fought to defend Europe from the plague known as Communism/Marxism/Bolshevism (all the same) while the Allied powers aided this plague in their conquest to destroy Germany and Hitler.
I visited Dachau two days ago. Even though I have no relatives or friends who have experienced those camps, but even then, I felt so much pain for everyone who was trapped in there. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how haunting it was. One of the places that messed me up the most was the death chambers, crematorium and a box containing the ashes of all the victims of the camp. The thought of how many people; real human beings with personalities and smiles and bodies were killed there will always hurt me. The whole place felt so cold and soulless. I just hope that those souls have left that dreadful place and returned to their rightful homes. Never forget, Never again.
I was stationed in Augsburg Germany from 1989-1992. After I toured Dachau, I made it my mission to ensure that new soldiers to my unit toured Dachau as well. When this episode first started I saw the puddles on the ground and knew it had been raining that day. I toured Dachau no less that 20 times in my 3 years in Germany. I can count on one hand the number of times that the sun shone on that camp. It was as if the sun itself knew that horrible things had happened here and refused to shine on such cursed ground. Thank you for recording your visit so that the world can see what so many of us stationed there saw. NEVER AGAIN.
i made similiar experiences. i am german and went 3 times to KZ Buchenwald after visiting Prague and everytime the weather was perfect when we are in Prague but suddenly when we visit the KZ its getting cloudy and rainy.
I was there at the same time, and also went to Dachau, and Buchenwald. I was stationed in Neu Ulm, not far from you, than went on to USAEUR HQ in Heidelberg to finish up. I bet a lot has changed! The Wall (funny, I almost wrote die Maueur!) Came down in late Nov and on Christmas Eve I was in East Berlin, ending up in Czechoslovakia. What an experience going into the east at that time!
no mate, it is just a normal weather for when you tour the camp only in winter. in fact, there are schools in Germany that refuse to visit the camp in summer, because they don't want to students to have a good sunny day and enjoy the visit.
@@stevenmartin4889 Really??? Tell that to Ron Desantis who is banning the teaching of black history. He's a fascist. I hope you aren't comparing this tragedy to the erecting and celebration of confederate, traitors and the removal of their statues. Clown.
I worked at a pool store many years ago, one customer we had was a very sweet older lady who happened to be a survivor. I never disrespected her by asking questions about where and how old she was at the time. One day she came in and a kid that was working there (16-17) saw her arm and asked what the numbers were for. He didnt mean it disrespecful by no means. I was stunned that 1. He didnt know what it was 2. Found out they do not teach that in schools here anymore. She was so sweet, she explained what the numbers meant and where she was at and a few things that had happened to her while ahe was there. This child was in tears after listening to her. We all were. Other customers were too. When did they stop teaching this in schools? AND WHY???
They don’t teach about its because it’s an unpleasant subject to talk about. There’s bound to be a little group of parents that would complain about it. Very loudly, I’m sure. The same ones who pitch a fit about teaching sex ed. I think would be appropriate for 15, 16 or 17 year olds to study and learn about the holocaust. As a society, we need to show respect for the victims and survivors and not pretend like it didn’t happen. That’s what the German population did when it was happening, and afterwards. It’s human nature to avoid unpleasantness, to say the least in this case, especially if it’s happening to someone else.
@@tamaramorton8812They don't teach it because its offensive. They may not teach sex ed but they teach gay sex to 5 and 6 year olds! We learned about the holocaust in junior high. I remember the videos. My boys learned about it as well and read the Diary of Ann Franke. Unfortunately the current wars over seas have re-sparked anger and hate....
This guy is so respectful. Don't block this terrible but important real history TH-cam. That is not a good thing to do. This history must not be forgotten.
My grandparents were survivors and the stories they told are unforgettable. When I hear people say it never happened it breaks my heart for all those that suffered this tragedy. Thank you for sharing this.
@@BoobtubeusThere were also polish, gays... So it doesn't matter if he's Jewish or not. If you were not a Christian, and did not go by Christian beliefs, you were taken into concentration camps against your will. I left Christianity for a few years now if you are going to ask me if I am a Christian. I am now officially Jewish. Romans 2:28-29 28. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: (Matthew 3:9; Galatians 6:15 . John 8:39) 29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (2 Corinthians 10:18; Philippians 3:3; 1 Peter 3:4 . John 5:44 . Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 Corinthians 4:5) "Jesus" was a Jew - John 4:7-9 9. Then saith the woman of Sa-ma'-ri-a unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Sa-ma'-ri-a? for the Jews have no dealings with the Sa-mar'-i-tans. (Acts 10:28; 2 Kings 17:24 . Matthew 10:5; John 8:48)
When I visited this camp I was ten yeats old. I had red several books and watched documentaries and films, but, in that occasion I was letterally shoked ! Since then l cannot belive how cruel and terrific can be few unhuman fellows who decide the sorts of their ' brothers'. I cannot forget It.
I know how you feel. It is like when people try to say slavery never happened or that it was not that bad. It is mind boggling what some humans(?) are capable of doing to other humans. God bless you and your family.
@salmamostafa4142 where in the world did that come from? You don't know me so don't insinuate that you do. Why would I compare this to Gaza? Because you asked me too? No I think they are very different situations. Both tragic but none the less different.
I have been there. 1982. I swear you could feel it. The birds stopped singing and a silence fell that was hard to imagine. Almost 40 years later and the very ground remembered.
Any grub that doesn't want the truth told about history, obviously does want to repeat the past, a new breed of evil people are building, brewing and preparing for evil to hit the Human race once more, l don't trust what's going on these days.
My father who has passed away 8 yrs ago was a wonderful, kind man. He was a Liberator in the 20th Armored Division. The only time he cried was when he would talk about Dachau and what he saw. It broke my heart. Since it is Father’s Day tomorrow I came to this vid to maybe see where my father walked. He never spoke about this until his late 70’s into his 80’s. God Bless all who were here. I’m so very sorry for the families.
I lost my father 8 yrs ago also. He was in the 8th infantry. What he saw was awful. He was the same way did not talk about the war til he was in his '70's. We were lucky he was asked to sit for an interview, which he did. Now his story is in the library of Congress for future generations to understand what happened. It was horrible what these people went through. Bless your father for what he did for the world!! Best generation!
My grandfather was in the 20th as well. He never spoke about this and I didn’t think I should bother him about it. I do still have his book from the 20th armored division, did your father have that book? I’m sure they knew one another. We must pass this history along to our children and their children.
I was stationed in Germany several times over my career. I took my daughters through those same gates into hell. It even smells like sadness. Tears will never be enough to make sure this never happens again. Thank you for posting this!
My father, Joseph Christy Bell was with the 45th division , and was in the liberation obf the camp. He was assigned as a guard for 3 weeks because of the condition of the inmates, with so many dieases that was running rampant. The feeding of the inmates was an issue to. Dad's sargent gave someone an apple. It killed him. The medics told everyone to stop. They started feeding one spoonfull of sugar water, until their systems could adjust . Dad would become very upset when he talked about the conditions and death.
As a young child, I went to Germany with my parents and we toured Dachau. It was the first time I had any inkling of how horrible people can be to each other, and the lesson has stayed with me. As someone much wiser than I has said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
@@jacquelineadams4872 We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking mass of humanity I have ever seen. Of course, I have seen them since the beginning and marveled that beings alleged to be made in the form of God can look the way they do or act the way they act. _General Patton
I lost many family members to the concentration camps, and I have met a few survivors, one of them family. I appreciate your very respectful, most necessary and well done documentary of your visit. The absolute unimaginable horror and darkness humans are capable of must never be forgotten. It is only through efforts and works such as yours that the memory will survive. Thank you.
Many more things were worse than concentration camps. Propaganda made camps the evil of WW2. HOLOCAUST? 6 MILLION FROM CAMPS DIED WHILE JUST RUSSIA ALONE LOST 200 MILLION DURING WW2. If it were not for Russia at that time America and every other nation would be speaking German. Know the facts not the lies they used at the suffering to many of our loved ones and how can we say we love those we lost when we refuse to DEMAND THE TRUTH?
I went to Dachau when I was 16. As an American child, it was devastating. Our tour guide cried and apologized that she just couldn’t go in. It was the most disturbing thing I’ve every seen. But I’m glad they keep it open so we can be taught the reality of the horrors that happened.
God bless you, Mary, and give you His peace. Although my Dad was among the liberators of Dachau (see my previous post), I have never been there. However, I saw the same depth of emotion while touring one of the (many) Killing Fields and one of the (many) torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia last Fall. The saving grace for me was that while I was at the main torture prison, two middle school classes arrived on busses to also tour the museum facility. From the looks on the kids' faces, they too will never forget!
It's the people who have never traveled to Germany that don't understand or deny the truth. tRump voters will re-create that same scene in the USA if we don't vote a straight blue ticket in Roe-vember.
I feel the same way about that place as you. In 1980-1983, my wife and I were stationed nearby in Augsburg, Germany. After our first visit to this place, we made it a point to bring all of our family visitors from the states to Dachau. After a few visits to the museum, we had to send our visitors in without us, it was way too gut-wrenching to experience this inhumanity to man over and over. It is impossible to imagine the suffering that went on here. Thank you for this public service; I know the cost paid by you in making this video.
My dad was a prisoner here for three years, only 18 yrs old. Hé survived and died 1993. By then hé told me all of his camp experiences. I needed psychological help after that. I visited another camp in east Germany as a schoolkid of 15. You feel so drained and sad. People who survived were mentally damaged the rest of their lives. Thx for this documentory
Imagine my shock when I watched videos filmed in those concentration camps.. Jews and other people in the camps swimming in the pool at Auschwitz, doctors taking care of the people there, hospital wards for mothers/babies. The people playing sports and watching movies, singing in the choir, and practicing their religion.. Oh, the horror that was! I also listened to many interviews where the survivors describe how they were treated so well and looked after! I'll never get over this. I, too, needed psychological help after that!
@@godfreyzilla8608 It takes courage to admit that you have a feeble mind and it's not going to waste. Using emotions and fantastical fictional stories to capture the mind of the individual. You are a product of that. Yes, it can. Guess what? The "footage" from the camps are from the American military's division for pshycological warfare. The items on the tables you see in many of the videos are there to reinforce the lies and had absolutely nothing to do with the camps. It's the product of psychological operations (psyop) to influence the mind's of an enemy state to your advantage through uncombatitive means. There's many purposes they serve, and three of them are: 1) The Germans loved and admired Hitler. He was their hero in their eyes as he was the person who brought Germany back to prosperity and out of debt slavery pushed onto them as the result of the Treaty. So, to break this the psyop was intended to influence their minds with fantastical tales of what war crimes their Fuhrer "committed." This resulted in Germans throughout Europe to be persecuted, tortured, murdered, and humiliated as they forced them to march to their certain death in the Soviet Union Gulags.. 10-12 million Germans were killed due to ethnic cleansing. Children were not even spared. The children were hung along with the adults. 2) After years of the Allied powers and the media in those countries painting Hitler as a warmonger who is wanting to conquer the world with their supposedly "superior" race to rule the lesser races.. They needed to reinforce that idea and never mention that it was only Hitler that pleaded for peace and pleaded for understanding and reconciliation and for Germany to be judged equally and left alone to attend to their duties and responsibilities. That it was only the Allied powers who demanded/wanted (did a terrible job of masking their desires) a World War. 3) And to cover up their own war crimes and hide the fact that the true enemy was the Soviet Union and the extermination camps were in Soviet Union. To hide the fact the Allied powers aided this country by funding its rearming and supplying military equipment. Even knowing that the Soviet Union invaded and liquidated many countries to the West (they didn’t even bother coming to their aid as the Soviets invaded) To cover up the fact the Allied Air Froce pilots in Poland straffed and bombed civilians, refugees fleeing the Soviet Union as they pushed towards Berlin (because they would be murdered by the NKVD operating behind the front), their bombing and sinking of German ships carrying civilians that are fleeing the war, and the bombing of crucial supply chains meant for the very concentration camps resulting in a severe lack of food and medicine to fight Typhus that killed hundred thousands of people in these camps. Their bombings of German cities and European cities across Europe, the bombing of these very concentration camps (I mean, it is a known fact that they had to *"reconstruct"* the camps to show the world).
@StormTrooper I wonder how Daddy felt about seeing the *Wooden Door* leading into the deadly shower... Excuse me, gas chambers disguised as... a shower room..
My father was also in the first group of liberators. He was a Tech Sgt and he took a lot of pictures, some were printed in Life magazine. My sister and I have some of his original pictures mostly in 35mm size so they are pretty small but you can see the boxcars full of bodies, hard to tell arms from legs. Something happened to him there that really messed him up. My Mother said he would wake up screaming and totally soaked in sweat. He became an alcoholic but still provided for his family. We never could get him to talk about it but just looking at the pictures gives me chills. Wished we could have helped him, he was a good man and Father. I hope he is at peace now.
I am so very sorry about your dad. They really needed the help back then like they have now. Different generation where men were supposed to "man up" and just not talk about it. Truly sad
Talking about his experiences of horror with a therapist might have enabled him to air his sorrow and horror and lay it somewhat to rest. We are doing a bible study at church about Moral Injury, and war always injures its soldiers morally. Without a way to express what they went through, their memories remain vivid and the only thing to help them to forget are drugs, alcohol and ultimately suicide. This is so sad. In the WW2 era, coming home was supposed to heal them all, but it didn't. Those who were not in direct fighting probably had an easier time readjusting to civilian life, but those who were in the infantry, fighting hand to hand and suffering concussive brain injuries returned broken. My Dad wrote in a letter home that when he got back home he wanted a car and for his Dad to look out for one for him. He also didn't want to get a job right away, but to rest and travel around for a bit. He got his car but to my knowledge he did not travel; he got a job and entered the work force. He got married to our Mom in 1946 and they had my older brother in 1948. So Dad got back into the swing pretty easily but it wasn't easy at ALL for guys in the front lines.
My father was there to liberate that camp. He told me of the horrors and how they reacted, and subsequently, were sent back to the US due to what they called "battle fatigue". I visited the camp in 1998, six years after my father passed. He had four battle stars for Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. But this broke him. The things he saw there haunted him for the rest of his life. I only hope he has respite being with Jesus.
Dad did not talk about his experience in WWII until just a few years before he passed. We were fortunate for him to be able to sit and do an interview and have his story put into the library of Congress.. we are blessed to have had him for a father. Definitely a different generation. God bless them.
Rev 21:1-4, He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; [4] he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed.
My FIL was in the Army in the 1970's and stationed at Dachau as a guard. My MIL and husband visited him and toured the facility. My husband said you could still smell the crematoria. He said it is something he will never forget. He literally cried describing it.
My Mom and I went to Germany in 1985, during our trip we went to Dachau. During most of our trip the sun was out and it was beautiful, the day we went to Dachau the sky was gray, it had snowed and it was cold and we saw soldiers training along the road, on our way to the camp. I remember the gate....and the barb wire and electric fences....it was like walking back through time going through the gates. We went through the museum, at that time they had detailed menus showing what the prisoners were supposed to have been being fed for meals and what they were actually fed.... They showed pictures of the prisoners that were starving.... They had examples of household products that had been made from the prisoners skin, including lamp shades. By the time we watch the video we were so traumatized and upset, we couldn't handle anything more so we left. Videos like this need to be shown in our schools.... People need to realize (and remember) what happened in World war II.... NEVER FORGET!
You are absolutely right. As part of educating their children at age 12+ they should take their kids to the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Wear comfortable shoes because there are four floors of exhibits dense with reading, photos and artifacts -- thousands of shoes, eyeglasses, suitcases, human hair. One small area is about a small Jewish village that was completely exterminated; photos of the inhabitants grace the walls and you get an idea of the life that existed in that village that was snuffed out. You can walk through a cattle car like those used to transport people to the camps; so, so much to see. There is an excellent museum shop and also a hall of remembrance. Parents spend a fortune taking their kids to Disneyworld. But THIS is part of their education and development of their idealism, sense of moral justice and compassion. LITTLE is more important for you to give your kids. Some people with the financial means take their kids to concentration camps to see the real thing. It is something they will never forget. Videos like this can take the place of expensive flights and visits. Watch such documentaries with your kids to answer their questions and show them how to obtain additional information online. And educate YOURSELF if you are uninformed about the Holocaust. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. OK, so why is this so darned important? Well, when an American president urges his minions to break into the Capitol, the American seat of government, to terrorize lawmakers and stop the ratification of a free and fair election, we think back to when Hitler burned the Reichstag, the seat of German government. When a president imitates the jerky movements of a physically challenged person, it brings to mind how Hitler rounded up the physically and mentally challenged in Germany and exterminated them by lethal injection because they were worthless humans and non-Aryan to boot. When a president cozies up to dictators we are reminded of how Hitler cozied up to Mussolini. The similarities are striking but if you do not know your history you cannot draw the parallels or know what the results of such actions will be. Just think on it. Do your own reading and research (NOT on conspiracy theory sites which pander to ignorant people) and see if I am right or wrong. Make up your own mind about whether the Holocaust actually occurred. Going to a concentration camp will convince you. Going into the shower rooms where people were gassed will make you physically and psychologically ill. You will feel the presence of souls all around you. I am not kidding!
@@virginiasoskin9082You are spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself. Been following American politics closely since 2015. The "legit" platform for hate and vengeance that Trump created for millions of Americans and people around the world is scary and very similar to Hitler 😢 #NeverAgain #NeverForget
I visited more than 30 years ago, as I was a teenager. I seriously left the camp different from the way I entered it. I thank my parents for bringing me there.
I’ll bet….thought about visiting myself……for that matter I’d also like to visit my friend in Armenia and perhaps the site of THEIR genocide by the Turks around the time of the Great War. Then there was the genocide of some of my ancestors back in Ireland in 1846-1850…list is endless, really, and we’d do well to remember that…
Same here…I was 13 when my parent took me there while living on a former German Wehrmacht Base in Amberg, Germany. The camp left me completely changed and after 40 + yrs, I’m finding out that Eva Braun, Hitler’s wife is a cousin of mine that left me shocked, angry, depressed and stupidified at that finding although I am glad Hitler is NOT connected to my family at all, Thank God! What happened in Dachau really left me changed.
I was at Dachau in 1996 and it's stayed with me all these years. At that time the main building had a large scale map of the greater Reich with the many camps and the date of establishment. The scale of the misery was breathtaking. That must never be forgotten, nor sanitized!
In 82, I was assigned to germany. I was included in a visit to Dachau. It was nothing like your presentation but some areas looked the same. I will never forget the guide telling us the gas showers and crematorium was never used. We all looked at each other as a smell was still present. Thank you for your history and stories.
Revisionist history trying to make the story more appealing has been underway since the beginning. That is why, very soon after victory, the US command took thousands of German civilians from surrounding towns through the concentration camps. At least if they were being truthful, they could not deny the reality they were struck with when they had their "tours."
I lived in France for 3 years in the early 1980s and visited Dachau. We had no guide, we just walked where we pleased. It was an experience I will never forget. It feels like their souls still linger. As to your guide, most Germans will not admit to knowing anything about the atrocities.
I visited Dachau on a school trip when I was 16 years old. To this day, nothing from that 14 day trip was as memorable or important as walking through those gates, and seeing “Arbeit Macht Frei”. Being the naive teenager that I was, I didn’t realize then just how privileged I was to be able to also walk out of those gates that day. I am forever grateful that I was able to experience visiting. The 34 year old I am today, wishes the 16 year old knew just how important it was, and privileged that I was. It definitely changed me in some ways, that I will always remember that we have only one life, and to never take anything for granted. Thank you for such a beautiful and respectful documentary.
I previously viewed the original version of episode 269, and it was excellent. Fwiw, my only "appall" is with TH-cam for their ridiculous taboos leveled on that most educational film. I'm well into my 7th decade on this here rock, and struggle to find content of such relativity - like the kind this channel offers up on a regular basis - and like that found in the Dachau series. It's called humanity, which is #1 of all the things left in life that truly matter. That's not an opinion, but absolute fact. To censor any portion of the trespasses committed in the history of humanity only encourages repetition of the same. On the contrary, it has to be available to everyone - all of it - with nothing censored, and nothing hidden in the dark shadows.
you couldnt have said that any better its to bad there are the worst in this world to self centered to understand it if it wernt for others in life they wouldnt have shit because they are to weak to do the basic things themself as they are so much better than the rest in their minds if the country turned to theconcentration of life bet they would be so misserable evryone else would probably make it but the those who just dontunderstand importance would fail drasticaly god bless those who deserve amd those who dont well theres a placce they can gather and be better than each other their power and greed dont make life all humans do together
That was a very poignant narration JD. I have been to Dachau myself and what the video cannot capture is just how big this camp really is. I stood exactly where you were in the gas chamber and had an overwhelming sensation of not being able to maintain my balance, so much so, that I had to lean against a wall to steady myself. The effect that the gas chamber had on me was something I will never forget for the rest of my life
I have been there also and there is such a heavy feeling of sad hopelessness. I could feel it all around me, especially in the museum and gas chamber. Like you, I will never forget it. I pray that the world never suffers what those people lived again.
I know what you mean. I was there years ago and my moment was looking up at a wooden beam and seeing a sign that said "Prisoners were hung from this beam."
I was able to visit dauchu in 2021 and ill never forget tjat eerrie feeling when walking thru this camp. I boke down in tears after visiting. Watching this brought back those feelings.
Considering TH-cam's restrictions on facts, this video is informative and well narrated. I had a cousin through marriage that survived this very facility. His name was Armon Neil Geist. He was a humble and kind man. I can't believe anybody would want to harm him or the millions that were treated with such disdain. Rest in Godly peace Armon.
I felt as if I were watching a professional documentary. TY for all the hard work it took to make this documentary. It really gives people the true meaning of concentration camp and we should never forget.
When I was in first grade my teacher asked the class to go home and have our parents help us with a family tree going back as far as we could. I saw names and dates of birth and death and asked why 1. Everyone on Dad’s side died in the same year, and 2. Why I didn’t know anyone on Dads side except for my Aunt. She tried to explain why in a way that wouldn’t scare a 6 year old (it scared me anyway). But that was how I learned about Dachau. I remember asking her why they hated us so much. She said “that’s what happens when you believe the things people tell you about someone without getting to know them yourself.”
How can those who don't know forget things they are never shown? Ignoring history doesn't make it not happen nor does it make it go away, it only serves to make it all the easier TO forget! Society needs more people like you to keep history alive specifically so the lessons that exist therein can be learned especially now that we are reaching the time when those who were there are no longer with us to give 1st hand accounts of what actually happened. Keep up the good work & thank you for all your effort.
@@faiththrower7951Dumbest comment so far. DeSantis is not about erasing history. He's just against history being distorted for political purposes. Try not to believe everything the liberal media tells you.
These restrictions regarding historic events is so ridiculous! How can anyone know the horror of cruel & vicious acts of violence? Keep up the good work! You're awesome!
What a wealth of knowledge you educated us on a horrific period in time. 40 years ago, I along with 30 other college students from the US toured this camp. The one thing that stays with me the most is the feeling of those that died there. I left praying that all those spirits Rest In Peace.
I'll never forget the eerie feeling I had while touring this facility. Kudos for capturing this footage and educating people. May we never forget so as to not repeat...
I visited germany in 1994. I live in massachusetts, USA. The visit to this concentration camp was the most emotional and heartbreakng experience. I was with my husband and 6 other close friends, we had traveled together. For those that havent been there, my words would be insufficient to describe the emotion we all felt. This part of history should continue to be brought to attention For those who perished while enduring man's bad treatment at the hands of another man ... God bless
I remember as a kid in 8th grade, my english teacher had a Holocaust survivor, her name lost to my memory, came in and taught us about her experience in the camp she was placed. I also remember having to sit in a taped in area in the classroom made to resemble the interior of a cattle car in which the prisoners were transported. I am having a hard time fighting back the tears this video has brought about. Never again
I'm pushing 40 now and I went to Dachau when I was around 11. I'll never forget it. The oppression was so palable even to a child. Thank you for making something so informative, honest, and respectful. Well done.
Nothing was "informative, and honest" about this. There was not 1 single crematorium in any camp ever found. Not 1. And even those who spread these lies who originally said 21 camps had them, they had to retract those statements down to 1... Auschwitz. Which is why they added a chimney to that camp AFTER the war. Funny bc while the camp was active there was no chimney. David Coles documentary from 1992 explains all of this. It's no wonder Mr Cole went into hiding for his groundbreaking work despite David himself being of the same 'persecuted faith too. Instead of this nonsense maybe the guy who makes this video should travel to the middle east and let people see the horror that takes place in 🇮🇱 but News organizations don't cover it, and Yisrael can get away with literal 🔪 and 🔫
I went when I was 14 (I'm in my mid 20s now) and it fucking changed me. I will never forget how heavy the atmosphere was the moment I stepped inside the camp. And the smell. I'll never forget the smell.
As a student of the Holocaust I have seen many videos. This one is respectful, intelligent and fine in so many ways. Thank you. Presented in this manner honors the victims as well as quietly reminds us all of the need to banish man's inhumanity in a fashion any human can comprehend
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau. We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. As a hardened US Army retired Colonel, I too welled-up. While we pray #NeverAgain , genocides are happening on ever-increasing rapidity in our world. God help us!
History should not be censored . As it is, history is written by the winner's. So it's already bias ,and even with that it's so horrific. So quit trying to sensor everything that offended your tender feelings. It was horrific and the world should see it for what it was. Horrific and it should never be forgotten
@@zmanr2090 They don't teach the real truth in any of our social problems. We have to read and read and read to get to the one truth. It is very difficult to get to any truths. You have to travel and speak to the elders and listen to their stories in order to understand what their history was all about and then we learn the real truth. I lived in Berlin Germany in 1963 and my father took us to all these places that I had no idea what Germans did to their own people. I never forgot it. It took one man to do all this damage. His name was Hitler. Biden and the media, Big Pharma, Corporations are all part of destroying us. Meanwhile we are fighting each other. Turn off mainstream media talk to your elders and travel. You will learn we are not as bad as media makes us out. Yes, there are bad people out there for sure.
@antionettewardell2151 I can't argue that, there is very little truth to be found in most institutions. Being a lover of history I have learned many things gs and learned why they are "hidden". And it doesn't matter about politicians, they are 2 sides of the same coin. Sad state of affairs.
I visited Dachau in 1976, while stationed in Germany... a walk thru the crematorium is a truly sobering experience. Thank you for the work you put into your video..
I visited Dachau and it’s a very sad place. Walking through the camp you can’t help but wondering at every turn how these poor people lived. I also saw the crematorium. I used to see it in documentaries but to see it in person, it left me speechless.
I was there as well a few years ago. It causes so much emotion on so many levels to try to process it. How can humans do this to another human being? It defies comprehension. I didnt think it could ever happen again, but it can. More evil than Hitler exists today.
@@ticketbabe Because evil exists and the devil is the destroyer of life and all things created by God. The same evil that existed then, exists now and will continue getting much worse in these last days. The devil knows his time is short and he’s seeking to take as many to hell with him as he can. Just look at the time in which we’re living in. Every commandment given to us from God is being twisted and flipped by the devil.
I was there in the ‘80’s and had similar feelings. There was a man sitting on some steps,he was crying. You could smell death. There was a Carmelite Convent at the back and we visited the sisters. A sobering place.
What a wonderful job in documenting this! The videography, your tone as you succinctly described everything as well as the music…..all superb! Thanks you!
80 years later, and this is still so devastating. I didn't know anyone there, and I'm not aware of knowing anyone who knew anyone there, but it was such an extreme crime against humanity that it make my heart pound and takes my breath away still. Thank you for making sure that none of us forget, so that we may live true to the words, "never again."
I have also visited this camp. I'm not able to express my feelings at this place. It was extremely oppressive. I will never forget the atmosphere. However I thank God that I went. This horrific event should absolutely be remembered and NEVER FORGOTTEN!
Then look what is going on today with all of these evil lying soulless Anti-Israel/Jew/pro terrorists leftist protest going on here in America and around the world !!! Man HAS NOT learned from history 😔 !!
My dad took a tour through Dachau at the end of the war. He wrote a ten page letter to his parents describing the sights and smells and feelings he had at the time. You can feel the depth of his emotions as he describes the cruelity and horrors of it. He also confirms they took no prisoners of the SS when they arrived. They were so disgusted by them that they just took them out.
My father told me they were specifically told anyone wearing an SS uniform or having an SS Tattoo was to be immediately shot, none were allowed to become POWS. My dad served and was 3rd wave on Normandy Beach. He didn't even talk about the horrors until he was much older.
My grandfather was a member of the 42nd Rainbow Division that helped liberate Dachau. He returned home with photos that as a young gal I was not allowed to see. There were also two swords with lion heads containing ruby eyes and a pistol that my best guess says were removed from guards that were no longer alive to enjoy or use them.
Very well done documentary tour. You displayed so much respect and your narration was so calm, clear, honest and again, so respectful. Great work and thank you for keeping this part of history up front in our minds! 👏🏼
I know a WWII Veteran that helped liberate Dachau. He has since passed away 10 years ago. He had told me of the horrors of this place. I was also in the Army in the 1990s. I went to Dachau, just to see what he had talked about. It is horrific, and I think everyone should see this. I think they could learn of these devastating sites, and learn of Empathy! The way the world is seemingly repeating itself now, us humans need to learn from this, and be kind to ALL humans, and the Planet as a whole! I Pray for all people, and just hope this could sink in with kindness, love, and togetherness! Lets learn to Love, and not Hate!
Dachau was liberated by my great uncle, who died recently ~3 years ago. He was part of the front line that found Dachau, he has many medals and told me about this event. Some of what he told me: He said it was beyond what he thought human being were capable of. He said there were huge ovens that were still hot with piles of smoldering human remains, they were burned alive, he said there was a very strong smell of death. He told me the human prisoners there were beyond emaciated and they were ordered to not allow them to leave before disease could be established and to not give much food because they couldn’t handle it after being starved so long. Uncle told me damn with those orders and his squad gave every bit of food and water they had, the survivors were scared when they were not allowed to immediately leave but were comforted and began trusting the Americans after they gave them all their food and water. I asked my uncle what happened to the guards there, he said who? I said the guys that guarded it. He said they fought to liberate it and there were no human guards, that they were lower than animals and the prisoners went at them and he and his men refused to stop them, he said you would of needed lethal force to stop the prisoners and he was not about to shoot the prisoners. They flew my great uncle “Pat” to Florida before his death to give a “living testimony” to what had happened there. Uncle Pat was a good man, kind hearted, strong and wholesome, he lived to 97-98 years old I believe.
Thank you for sharing a very important perspective from someone who witnessed the atrocity first hand. May your uncle rest in peace we are forever grateful for his and all other veterans' sacrifice.
I went to Dachau some years ago. I was immediately struck by the lack of color. Everything was white, gray, or black. There was no grass during the time it was occupied--only concrete and stones. None of us can imagine the horrific suffering these people endured, nor can we imagine the malevolence with which it was planned and carried out.
My husband, daughter and I were just there on 6/19/24. We didn’t have the best guide but it is important to us to have been there. Seeing firsthand the living conditions, the ovens, and the grounds overall was very moving. But what seemed to have the most profound effect on me was the sculpture; it brought me to tears to see it in person and it just did again now, in your video. I could only look at it briefly while I was there, and had to look away just now as your closeup played. I can’t put into words why it affects me so deeply but it does; it wrenches my heart in a way that I rarely experience. Thank you for this video.
This was so respectfully made. I broke down crying several times. Thank you for this video. It is so important that these stories live on and told in all of their harsh cruel truth.
I was 13 when I visited my first camp. I was horrified. I can not explain everything that I felt during that time but, my life was changed. There are still so many things that I can't put into words. My life was changed. While my family lived in Germany, I visited 6 different sites and with each I was overcome. I can not put it into words. I pray everyday for every blessed soul who suffered through these camps! Those who lived and those who passed. I am in my 60s now, but they are with me everyday. May G_d have blessings and love for all who struggled at these places.
As a child, my father was stationed at zembach airforce base in Germany. I was in the 5 th grade, our school went on a field trip to this concentration camp. So heart breaking, I couldn't stop crying the whole time we were there
Death, starvation, and disease conditions at Dachau were so terrible that General Patton was contacted and urgently asked to come and see it himself. He did, and was outraged. When charges were brought against U.S. soldiers who had helped kill many Dachau guards, including their lending guns for prisoners to use, they were all overruled and dismissed outright. By General George Patton himself.
@@bobstrom2967my German step-father who was a child at the time, always said the camps were an open secret. He said some supported the camps but many didn’t agree with them. However, most were too frightened to say or do anything lest they end up in the camps themselves. The Nazis were well known for throwing any dissenters and their family into the camps. I have a friend who had an American father and German mother. Her grandfather died at Dachau. He was a doctor who refused to join the Nazi party when they tried to recruit him. So he was thrown into the camp as an example. He ended up dying there😢
Wow! I appreciate how you used old footage to give the viewer more of a feel of what these people went through. The way you present this gives me a real sadness; I imagine being there on site, that feeling must be 100 times worse. Thanks so much for this...respect!
I was lucky enough to listen to the now deceased Holocaust survivor who spoke at the Holocaust museum in Dallas, TX….I will never forget his story and will be forever grateful that I had the opportunity to listen to a firsthand survivors account of what had happened.
I was stationed in Germany from 2005-2006 and served as a military policeman. I also served in the Marine Corps before I served in the Army. I stopped into Dachau with my family on the way back from Garmisch. What amazed me most about the camp you shouldn’t leave out is how well camouflaged the camp was because they try to hide the camps. I almost walked right past the camp because it just looked like a thicket of trees surrounding it. When I was there in 2005, the path leading up to it had a bus stop in front of the trail that leads to the camp. They also tried to keep us from going to the gas chambers by saying it was “closed for repairs”! Your video brought back some memories of my family’s visit. I was stationed in Giessen and we actually stayed in barracks similar to the ones at Dachau’s. We stayed in old Luftwaffe barracks. I might add too that Germany is made to keep these camps up to make them keep in mind what happened in the past, so it won’t be repeated. You do know Zyklon B is what the Nazis used to kill people right? It wasn’t a disinfectant. They did actually kill prisoners in those gas chambers and anybody that tells you different is lying. The German government hates admitting to it. Those first two rooms in the gas chambers were for disrobing. The next room were the “showers” where they used the zyklon b. The next rooms were for stacking bodies and burning them in ovens. You really need to do more research instead of just what they are telling you at the camp. Do you think they just built gas chambers and build fake showers to look at? Prisoners went down there and didn’t come back!!! You should redo this video! They will never admit to it! They hate that they have to keep the camps up! Read up on Dr. Blaha’s testimony of what he saw at the camp. Read this in it’s entirety furtherglory.wordpress.com/tag/dr-franz-blaha/ .
Lest these lives be lost for nothing. You do us a great service by posting these very well and sensitively made videos. I thank you for all the members of my family that cannot thank You. Keeping these memories alive will hopefully remind others of the evils of war
When stationed in Germany many years ago, we went to Dachau. Later, we found out my Uncle had been one of the first Americans to enter to liberate the camp. No one in the family knew about it until then. He refused to say anything more about it and took his story to the grave.
There was nothing there to tell. The inmates were already on the way to their promised land where Yankees live. Thats why your uncle kept his mouth shut.
Many were near death, when liberated. I think that’s what the comment above meant. Those people had no where to go IF they even went home. No family remaining and people were still anti-semitic.
@@philup6274 "one of the first" means there were many who were in the first battalions that did the liberation. In fact there were many concentratiom camps... and some WERE FIRST LIBERATED BY RUSSIANS... who incidentally proved that they were highly skilled at those types of camps (Russian versions were called GULAGS, I believe.
JD, the efforts you have gone to get this story out there and keep this alive is extraordinary. You are not an 'influencer', you are an educator. Thank you as always. I saw the original, and I watched it again here. Thanks for persevering. Love your work! You are and always will be a true legend
Thank you so much for this documentary, full of respect and dignity. I am German, we learn from early on at Scholl about our Country's cruel recent history. But actually, eye-witnessing a historic memorial site such as this puts an entirely different order of magnitude to how one perceives and understands what really happened back then, just some mere 10 or so Kilometers out of Munich, Berlin, Krakow etc. May this be, for every human on this earth and for generations to come a beacon of remembrance and vigilance as for this shall never ever be repeated #NeverAgain
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau. We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. #NeverAgain
We toured Dachau back in the late 90’s while stationed in Germany. There is a heaviness that I still remember to this day. No birds chirping…just an eerie silence. There was also an older gentleman explaining the crematorium that was a prisoner there, so sad.
Was that man a German soldier who was imprisoned because he questioned why children were being experimented on? If so, I spoke to the same older gentleman. He told us that he refused to talk to Germans about his experience. He even pointed out a tree that prisoners were hung on, by their elbows tied behind their backs. We were there in the late 90s when my husband was stationed in Budingen. We took our children, so they could see with their own eyes that yes...monsters are real.
As someone who is disabled and will never get to se these places for myself, thank you for showing us. It's sad how cruel people can be, and still are.
Humans are cruel because of the evil in our hearts. We are sinners. If not for Jesus and His work at the Cross, we would have already been completely destroyed and creation would never had been ever come about.
As someone disabled as well, I always (I mean always when I am watching or reading about it, not always, always) think about what my fate would have been, if I was taken by the Nazis. My heart especially breaks for those like me, who's fate it was.
You don't need to be disabled to have an excuse to not have the ability to go where you want. I am not physically disabled, and I don't and will never have that kind of money to literally be there myself. It's free online while hundreds of dollars to get thee just to see the same thing. Take your "disability" as a blessing, saves you time and money.
I went to Dachau in June 1978 with my parents and sister. The images from the museum will stay with me for my entire life. At the time there were books with every single person that worked in Dachau named. Their town and city of origin. The execution wall was horrific. The crematoria was awful to see (i was 15 years old when i visited ).My dad really didn't want to go to Dachau but I was adamant about seeing it. Unfortunately I had no idea at the time that my dad's 2 aunts died in Dachau until we returned home. The ironwork sculpture of the mangled bodies is also something that i will never forget.
Going to Auschwitz was even more intense. Knowing that the ashes of millions are spread over the very ground you walk on there is a humbling event. There wasn't enough crematoria to burn all those bodies, so the Nazi sadists constructed burn piers and kept the fires going day and night, until the last of the late comers, the almost 500,000 Hungarian Jews, were murdered and disposed of. Dachau though was where it all started, and where the SS training school was. Just the most depraved ideology led to this. And still, Germans had faith in Hitler to the bitter end, even after it became known wtf was going on with the Jews. I've studied the war for 5 decades, traveled Europe, interviewed survivors in Israel, USA, and I'm still stunned when I read about the Holocaust.
Shame on TH-cam for forcing you to blur certain historical photos in your documentary. But, that said, thank you so much for filming and explaining all of this. I’m a deeply sensitive person, and I know that I can never physically go to any of these places, as I would mentally break down from the pain these horrid locations carry. Yet, I can still learn about them and pay my respects to all those who perished through videos like this. May all of the victims of all concentration camps rest in peace.
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. I appreciate your sensitivities, but please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau. We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. I'm a retired US Army COL, and I welled-up too when I experienced 1st hand the gross inhumanity men are capable of. #NeverAgain
My great uncle Alfonso Bifarelli was in Patton's army when they liberated Dachau. He was so severely disturbed by what he saw that when he came home he would have horrible nightmares and he and his wife were never able to sleep in the same bed afterward. It haunted him till the day he died.
As an older man I’m still horrified by my visit in the 80s to one of the camps….as soon as I entered the museum building I felt ill in such a profound manner…..I’ll never forget the moment I sensed the evil aura in that place…. So far your videos have been impressive in there ability to evoke memories which is both good and troubling at the same time…..thx….everyone needs reminding of the history so that it won’t be repeated….todays generations seem to not think about anything before yesterday…lol…sadly they may learn the hard way…. I try to not go a day without learning something…..well done…keep up the good work.
I understand, i was there in the 9th grade with a school field trip. We were stationed in Augsburg Germany. The absolute smell of death was still in the gas chamber at that time. I was petrified by the time we went to a small room surrounded by heavy curtains to watch the black and white footage of the atrocities that had been filmed. I kept looking over at the curtains thinking that nazi soldiers were going to come out after us. You could just sense the evil in this place in your spirit. I was never so glad to be back on the bus heading out of there. It was the Most profound experience of my youth. I'm thankful i got to see a part of real history in person. I will never forget it.
I went there in 2003. While pictures, video and commentary give an idea of what it's like there is no way to describe the feelings one encounters while being on the grounds. There is one word though for how one feels upon leaving, relief. A feeling far too many never had the chance to experience.
I'm so glad you were able to get the unrestricted version available. I would have been okay with this being even more in-depth and longer. Very very well made and well told, that you. In this day in age it's even more important for these places to be shown to a wider audience than those that can afford to travel there. Again thank you for sharing this and all the hard work.
I'm 56yrs old now and I remember when my mum gave me a book to read when I was still at school , I was 13yrs old at the time and I was just learning about the second world war ...this book was written by a polish doctor who was imprisoned by the SS..what I read in this book brought me to tears ...what happened to these people was discusting I don't think anyone today could comprehend just what these people went through unless you read this book ...the 5 chimneys...it will open your eyes up to how bad our fellow man can sink to , I hope and pray to God we never get this low EVER AGAIN.😒😔😥
@@pionus3651 yes the 5 chimneys ...sorry.. it's one book that really got to me and stayed with me ever since a tragic true story that should never be forgotten 😔
@Tracy O’Malley: Cambodia, the “killing fields”, Bosnia/Herzegovina war in the 90s, which had many actions for genocide of Muslims, also known as “ethnic cleansing”. All the bush wars in Africa during which members of one tribe kills another unprovoked and including murdering children as they sat at their school desks, along with teachers and other staff. Don’t kid yourself, it is still going on and has always been. There have always been people willing to commit atrocities against less powerful groups who they demonize.
I went there in June 1990 with my family while on a family Euro-Trip. Something I'll never forget. My grandparents came over from Dresden in 1928 and we still had a bunch of family over there. My great Uncle Willie who was 94 went with us. He had never stepped inside before. The man couldn't keep his composure thinking of the people he knew that died there and the horrors that went on and left after 5 minutes. Definitely hits different when you live through something vs learning about something. I was 14 turning 15 and the vision of him crying is still in my memory.
@@GR-hb5gk he is just a troll who finds pleasure in other people's sorrow as he is a sad person himself and can only self-pleasure himself so much in a day without developing raw hands. ignore him, as most people around him do anyway.
My mom and dad were survivors of the camps. They were the only ones of my family who lived and came to the United States of America. My father died due to experiments done on him while in the concentration camp. My mom lived to be 71 years old and she had 3 children. Me and my 2 brothers who are still alive today. RIP father. RIP mother
Thank you for posting this without the photo . . . Your narration is important and even without the photo your presentation is powerful. I don't understand the reasons behind restricting your original video, but I am thankful these stories live on.
I was stationed in Germany and we were taken to see Dachau as an educational visit. It was haunting. Chills you to the core that sick, evil humans could do this to other humans. I'll never forget my visit. 💔
I’m sorry that you had to go to these extremes just to tell the truth. History should never be sanitized, ever. Thanks JD I’m watching this whole video to help your channel’s algorithm. Stay safe and keep bearing witness to history so that others can learn. 🙏
I visited Dachau when I was in Germany (USArmy, Stuttgart) in the late 70's. It was very oppressive. Back then, you could go into the shower (gas) rooms, and you could step inside the oven shed, and there were still skulls in the bottom of one. It was really crazy, but I could smell the burning flesh inside the shed. The minute I stepped outside of it, I could not smell it. It was like it permeated every brick and piece if wood and iron inside. I will never forget it. In the barracks, they were built to house 400 people. At the end, 1600 were made to sleep in there. The beds started out kind if roomy, but just got narrower and narrower as time passed. There were horrendous experiments carried out on people and the main building had pictures and stories. It was a very humbling experience to see all that and hard to imagine people living thru it.
As usual your presentations are informative with humility and sensitivity you are probably one of the finest history presenters out there, TH-cam should applaud your work not obstruct it.
My grandfather was a sergeant in the 861st Field Artillery Battalion, 63rd US Light Infantry Division, but he never spoke about his time in the army to anyone in any significant detail. The most he would say is something along the lines of him going there, doing his duty, and coming back. My mom and I knew vaguely that he was involved in liberating a concentration camp after he made a passing comment when he came across my mom watching Schindler's List (he muttered something about how accurate the camp was and abruptly left), but we never knew which one, only that it was *bad*. He passed away twelve years ago, but my uncle found an album in his old house at the back of a closet around Thanksgiving that my grandfather had assembled decades ago, filled with pictures he took in France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium. Most of them had captions underneath describing what was in the pictures. There was a picture of some liberated prisoners with the simple caption "Dachau prisoners," which prompted me to look up which units were involved with the liberation of Dachau. Sure enough, the 63rd was credited with it. It was the only picture related to Dachau in the album. His captions after that got noticeably sparse.
My family went to Dachau in 2004. My kids, ages 10 and 7 were present. To this day, the single most horrifying thing I ever saw - and smelled. Some 45 years later, it still smelled of death. It is incredibly important that everyone either visit or watch on video like this. This is what happens when books are destroyed, guns are taken away, and religion banned.
Religion was never banned by Nazis. In fact they had freedom of religion as one of their election promises km 25 point programme. They just built their own "church" and warped the teachings of Jesus to dehumanise those they didn't like. Be far more wary of those who claim freedom of religion whilst warping the teachings of prophets. Furthermore it is also not true that Germans had their guns confiscated.
Nothing to do with book banning, guns or religion. The right in America today have many people with fascist ideals amongst their supporters, and though they like to ban books, they are desperate to cling to their guns and their god.
My husband and I visited Dachau in May of 2008. It was one of the most powerful places that I have ever been. We were there just after they had had a memorial/remembrance service so there were flowers all over the camp from the families of those that had died there. One of the things I remember most vividly is how the crematorium smelled of burnt or dead bodies. Everyone who was there made the same comments about how it smelled. I don’t know if I would ever go back there but I do believe everyone should visit one of these horrid places as least once in their life.
The idea that anyone could smell burning flesh even in 1946 is ridiculous. I was there in 1961 and there wasn’t even a faint smell of any such thing. Peoples senses were just playing tricks on them and that is sad.
I was honored to meet a man in the late 60s who escaped and made his way to America His story of the journey was something that made me think how lucky I was to be a American.. I won’t mention his name but will always have a connection to him.. god bless
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TH-cam are a xxxxxxx joke.
That was a very sobering reminder 😢
@@kevinfryer380 Of revised history at it's best.
You seriously think that editing your original video was in bad taste, due to showing a body? Have some compassion for the relatives of those who suffered and died there you prick.
@@STHFGDBY I visited Dachau in 1976 something I will NEVER FORGET and I said in those days every youngster. Should visit such a dreadful place Marty Australia
Restricting documentaries on showing what happened doesn't benefit anyone, if anything it is more damaging. Your coverage, as I said on the other video, is highly respectful. This subject needs to be covered and younger generations need to be fully aware of what people can be capable of doing to each other, with that understanding they can then help prevent it happening again. My family was torn apart by the war, it is something that needs to be kept in the minds of all as a stark warning.
Exactly what was going thru my mind. I watched the original and I did not see anything that would alarm me or make me turn the video off. JD does do a great job in resepecting these places and artifacts, youtube quoting it goes against community guidlines is rubbish.
Gotta get TH-cam to listen to this because if he puts certain things in this video it might get demonetized or just deleted.. it’s not his fault…
They don’t want us to learn
Interesting to think on how all because one man was not accepted into art school, history progressed as it did
By not showing the truth of what happened just adds more fuel to the fire of non believers who say the Halocaust was just a fabrication
My Uncle Fred was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau. No one ever knew it until late in his life, when he finally talked about it. He never got over it, and it messed him up pretty badly, the older he got. He had a heart of gold, and I was so proud of him when he finally spoke out.
Oh wow. Unreal.
@Jerry McClure not all Germany Was nazis alot of good Germans was good and was Scared of the nazis there was a good Community of Germans that Help my family escape from the nazi
I had an uncle that was with the liberation there..he would never speak about any of what he saw..said it was hell.
How did he discern the "gassing" victims from those who died of typhus and starvation?
Didn’t they basically allow all the able bodied prisoners to get their revenge on the Nazi guards by beating them to death in various ways
This was a rough place to visit for me. My foster uncle was placed here as a child in 1934- 1945. Malnourished and badly abused, he said he was more afraid of death when he was liberated than as a slave. Out of 157 of his family, he and his first cousin were the only survivors.
You would think he would be so angry after what happened to him. I never saw him without a smile and i don't think he went an hour without telling a joke. He's said if he makes everyone love him, he will never have to suffer like that again. God Bless Eugene Zuckerman.
What a man. Respect. rest in peace
@@lalani888ARTblueI'm saddened to see what happened to Israel
If only we all could have that mentality
Why was he more afraid to be liberated than being abused as a slave even the Russians were sickened by what they saw.
@@danielwebster5748read again... He was more aftaid of death after being liberated, because life begam again. When prisioned, you prefer death than sufering.
I served 4 years in the Army stationed in Germany for the most of it. One summer I took a trip to Dachau because of curiosity. As sobering as it was, the most striking thing to me at the time was that no birds chirped, or sang, as I entered through the compound. It was quiet and still, and a bit un-nerving. It sparked an interest to find out more of the years 1933 to 1946. I hope no one ever forgets or dismisses the horror of those years. It was a very somber tour, and I admit I cried during the presentation of the tour.
We were stationed in Germany in the 1980s, and we took a USO tour to Bavaria. Like you, we stopped at Dacau. It was a very sobering tour. Could not believe people were treated in this manner.
The shame is that there actually are complete pieces of 💩 who deny that the events of The Holocaust ever happened...or that they weren't as bad as we know they were ect. Smh it's extremely pathetic and sad that there are people THAT ignorant in the world, but unfortunately they do exist.
Most of the camps they say birds don’t stir. The silencing is deafening
Yeah there are birds at Chernobyl bud.
I recently had an opportunity to venture to Cambodia. I visited one of the (many) Killing Fields there, as well as one of the torture prisons of the Khmenr Rouge. The silence of the birds (not to mention the other visitors) was deafening there too.
I knew a WW2 vet many years ago who was one of the first to go in through those gates, with the 42nd I believe. He took pictures with his Brownie camera, and showed them to me once. What I saw in those pictures is unspeakable, to this day, even here. I wish I'd never seen them... the images have never left my memory. He then said, "You think those pictures are bad, being there was far worse. When I opened up one of the barracks doors the odor that came out was so thick and terrible, I dropped my camera and threw up on the spot! I've smelled death on the battlefields, seen carnage and gore, but none of my battle experience prepared me for what I experienced at Dachau..." Great job on the video, and thank you for your efforts.
My great uncle was a part of the 45th infantry division and was one of the first soldiers through the gates of Dachau to liberate the camp... I'm so grateful to have been able to hear (and thankfully record) him telling his accounts of it and get to see the pictures and items he took himself of and from the camp....
It's very sobering and should never be forgotten and these events should never be repeated.
Thankful you have the recordings. Guard them like gold and make sure they are passed down in your family. I wish so much that I had recorded the stories my father-in-law told me about life as a Polish slave laborer in a Nazi ball bearing factory. The oddest thing I learned about it, though, is we figured out that my father, a B-17 tailgunner, flew over and his plane dropped bombs on or near that same ball bearing factory a number of times! I'm thankful they both survived the war because they became very close friends.
The 45th deserves a plaque also, IMO.
My dad was in the 45th. He was there. He never mentioned it to me until he was 90.
I would love to see or hear (?) the recording- is it posted?
Top 5 most boring things I’ve read my balls retreated inside myself
TH-cam needs to get their shit together!! This information needs to be out there! History repeats itself and if we don’t honor history by showing the atrocities that happened then how are we any better than the people that committed these unspeakable acts? It’s not romanticized if we are showing what a group of horrible people did to innocent human beings! Thank you for you’re hard work! I watched both versions until the end because this is uncomfortable as it should be but I don’t want to forget!
Agreed. History IS repeating itself and so many people don't even know or believe that this happened.
Sarah! You wrote everything I am feeling about this. We must not allow anyone to not know what the evil Hitler and his equally evil underlings did. Thank you Sarah!
It’s advertising that wants it censored. He can put it on TH-cam all day long no problem. Monetizing images of the holocaust is a different story. It costs him time and money. He should be able to. Just seen as gauche by people that pay the bills.
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Not surprised.
U are so right Sarah, I think they are trying to stop us from finding out the truth,they don't want us to know our history because they want to do this again to us ,I don't trust government at all,or why else would they be trying to block us from knowing the truth
As a relative of Dachau survivor, we can not forget. He lived to 91 but the PTSD stayed with him till the end and as his carer it broke my heart for not being able to take his nightmares away. Rest in peace Stan 🕊️you will always be in our hearts and never forgotten.
Dachau wasn’t a death camp.
Cannot even imagine…❤️ what a survivor though.
I feel the same about my grandpa. Also liberated but the same problems in his live. He was a very strong man..
I find the anti semitism that has really been inflated in current times to be so disgusting. Haven't these poor people been through enough?
My dad and his parents fled Yugoslavia and ended up in Dachau. His father ( my granddad) was immediately conscripted into the German army and sent east. Never to be heard from again. My grandmother was forced to work in the kitchen and hospital at times. My dad at 9 years old worked with prisoners from many countries building buildings and other things until the liberation. He was able to understand and speak 7 languages from Italian to Russian. He came to the US when he was 17. My dad helped build many of the buildings there.
I hope your dad has lived and full and love filled life since. Thank you for sharing his story.
What a horrible fate for your grandfather to be plucked away from his family and sent away. The horrors of the Nazi regime are unfathomable
Similar situation with two of my great uncles, also from former Yugoslavia. Both were sent as forced labourers and returned never the same. I met one of them when I was much younger and it seemed after he returned, wore his sailor suit often but was essentially broken for rest of his life and never really returned to working on boats.
To illustrate the complexity of war, those two great uncles that were sent to Dachau had a brother who was earlier sent to an Italian prison (some dust up over a woman with his commanding officer), and so when the Nazis came south and overran the prison, he was press ganged into becoming a translator for a couple of months. Then press ganged into joining the equally shameful Ustaše (Nazi collaborators), and then finally short period later jumped to join the partisans for last couple years of WWII. He served some time in jail after the war as the partisans weren’t sure on his story, and I remain curious to find out more as well about that awful period.
They worked? God forbid
@@helen1962 Go play follow the leader and eat lead.
My parents immigrated from Germany, and I was mostly raised in the states. We spent a lot of time visiting family in Germany. When I was 14, my mom decided I was old enough to see a concentration camp for myself. I visited Dachau. I don't really know how to describe the feeling. It was like an overshadow of darkness. As I walked through, I saw where people were held, murdered, and cremated. In my head, I kept picturing all the people who suffered there. It was an insane experience to walk the same ground all the Nazi's prisoners had. One thing I will absolutely NEVER forget is going into the crematorium. The smell of burnt flesh and death still lingers very very heavily. It was like walking into a thick almost suffocating fog when the smell hit.
Visiting a concentration camp is a surreal experience and not for the faint of heart. It was an overwhelming feeling of darkness, sadness, and horror. All I could picture were the people who suffered and lost their lives there. Any area or room I walked into, I pictured the people who were there years and years before. This visit changed me. It's just heavy and gives you so much to think about. Especially when you see more evil happening in the world today.
That's crazy that the smell still lingers. Wow. I plan on visiting at some point in my life. Thank you for sharing your story.
I went there in the 1980's, and I had a sense of horror but also, "We're witnesses, and they lost." But we have to stay vigilant today as well.
Oh well
I think that “the lingering smell of burnt flesh” is ridiculous after all of years.
Your senses were playing tricks on you.
@@jimdecker6172 that's funny. It's obvious you've never been there
The respectful way you presented such horrific history is appreciated. We must never forget.
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Yes, it is horrific.. Fictional history that plays on your emotions instead of presenting facts for 70+ years.. No wonder this nonsense is still believed.
Let's talk about the 16 million Slavs (Ukrainians, Russians, etc) that were starved to death at the hands of the Jewish Bolshevik regime and tortured/killed in the most bestial fashion in their extermination camps (gulags). Or the 20+ million Christian Russians who were killed by the Jewish Bolshevik regime once they brutally took over Russia....
Listen to Yuri Bezemenov (might have botched the last name) and listen to what he says about the Soviet Union. You will soon realize that Hitler fought to defend Europe from the plague known as Communism/Marxism/Bolshevism (all the same) while the Allied powers aided this plague in their conquest to destroy Germany and Hitler.
I visited Dachau two days ago. Even though I have no relatives or friends who have experienced those camps, but even then, I felt so much pain for everyone who was trapped in there. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how haunting it was. One of the places that messed me up the most was the death chambers, crematorium and a box containing the ashes of all the victims of the camp. The thought of how many people; real human beings with personalities and smiles and bodies were killed there will always hurt me. The whole place felt so cold and soulless. I just hope that those souls have left that dreadful place and returned to their rightful homes. Never forget, Never again.
The vibe I felt there was of pure sorrow. Saddest place I've ever been in.
I was stationed in Augsburg Germany from 1989-1992. After I toured Dachau, I made it my mission to ensure that new soldiers to my unit toured Dachau as well. When this episode first started I saw the puddles on the ground and knew it had been raining that day. I toured Dachau no less that 20 times in my 3 years in Germany. I can count on one hand the number of times that the sun shone on that camp. It was as if the sun itself knew that horrible things had happened here and refused to shine on such cursed ground. Thank you for recording your visit so that the world can see what so many of us stationed there saw. NEVER AGAIN.
And they have nice, tidy pea gravel there now. Not mud. So Google/Alphabet does a whitewash of the Holocaust also!
Jewish behaviour caused it....
i made similiar experiences. i am german and went 3 times to KZ Buchenwald after visiting Prague and everytime the weather was perfect when we are in Prague but suddenly when we visit the KZ its getting cloudy and rainy.
I was there at the same time, and also went to Dachau, and Buchenwald. I was stationed in Neu Ulm, not far from you, than went on to USAEUR HQ in Heidelberg to finish up.
I bet a lot has changed!
The Wall (funny, I almost wrote die Maueur!) Came down in late Nov and on Christmas Eve I was in East Berlin, ending up in Czechoslovakia. What an experience going into the east at that time!
no mate, it is just a normal weather for when you tour the camp only in winter.
in fact, there are schools in Germany that refuse to visit the camp in summer, because they don't want to students to have a good sunny day and enjoy the visit.
History should NEVER be restricted. Knowing history,, helps to change it.
Tell that to democrats.
@@stevenmartin4889 Really??? Tell that to Ron Desantis who is banning the teaching of black history. He's a fascist. I hope you aren't comparing this tragedy to the erecting and celebration of confederate, traitors and the removal of their statues. Clown.
Never worked on russia lmao
@@stevenmartin4889EXACTLY 💯!
And has anyone learned anything?
I worked at a pool store many years ago, one customer we had was a very sweet older lady who happened to be a survivor. I never disrespected her by asking questions about where and how old she was at the time. One day she came in and a kid that was working there (16-17) saw her arm and asked what the numbers were for. He didnt mean it disrespecful by no means. I was stunned that 1. He didnt know what it was
2. Found out they do not teach that in schools here anymore.
She was so sweet, she explained what the numbers meant and where she was at and a few things that had happened to her while ahe was there. This child was in tears after listening to her. We all were. Other customers were too.
When did they stop teaching this in schools? AND WHY???
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it... 😞 Looking ahead, there are some concerning things on the horizon.
They don’t teach about its because it’s an unpleasant subject to talk about. There’s bound to be a little group of parents that would complain about it. Very loudly, I’m sure. The same ones who pitch a fit about teaching sex ed. I think would be appropriate for 15, 16 or 17 year olds to study and learn about the holocaust. As a society, we need to show respect for the victims and survivors and not pretend like it didn’t happen. That’s what the German population did when it was happening, and afterwards. It’s human nature to avoid unpleasantness, to say the least in this case, especially if it’s happening to someone else.
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That's the thought that scares the hell outta me
@@tamaramorton8812They don't teach it because its offensive. They may not teach sex ed but they teach gay sex to 5 and 6 year olds!
We learned about the holocaust in junior high. I remember the videos.
My boys learned about it as well and read the Diary of Ann Franke.
Unfortunately the current wars over seas have re-sparked anger and hate....
They don’t teach it anymore because our schools have been infiltrated by leftists who hate Jews.
This guy is so respectful.
Don't block this terrible but important real history TH-cam.
That is not a good thing to do.
This history must not be forgotten.
My grandparents were survivors and the stories they told are unforgettable. When I hear people say it never happened it breaks my heart for all those that suffered this tragedy. Thank you for sharing this.
Are you Jewish?
@@BoobtubeusThere were also polish, gays... So it doesn't matter if he's Jewish or not. If you were not a Christian, and did not go by Christian beliefs, you were taken into concentration camps against your will.
I left Christianity for a few years now if you are going to ask me if I am a Christian. I am now officially Jewish.
Romans 2:28-29
28. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: (Matthew 3:9; Galatians 6:15 . John 8:39)
29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (2 Corinthians 10:18; Philippians 3:3; 1 Peter 3:4 . John 5:44 . Deuteronomy 30:6; 1 Corinthians 4:5)
"Jesus" was a Jew -
John 4:7-9
9. Then saith the woman of Sa-ma'-ri-a unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Sa-ma'-ri-a? for the Jews have no dealings with the Sa-mar'-i-tans. (Acts 10:28; 2 Kings 17:24 . Matthew 10:5; John 8:48)
When I visited this camp I was ten yeats old. I had red several books and watched documentaries and films, but, in that occasion I was letterally shoked ! Since then l cannot belive how cruel and terrific can be few unhuman fellows who decide the sorts of their ' brothers'. I cannot forget It.
I know how you feel. It is like when people try to say slavery never happened or that it was not that bad. It is mind boggling what some humans(?) are capable of doing to other humans. God bless you and your family.
My grandparents were survivors as well...I will never understand how some believe it never happened.
At my age (76) no youtube crap is going to change history as we know what really happened , keep up the great work JD I'm always with you
I will never as long as I live understand how people can say this never happened. This part of history must NEVER be forgotten.
Would it be possible for you to compare this to Gaza or are you too narrow-minded to do so?
@salmamostafa4142 where in the world did that come from? You don't know me so don't insinuate that you do. Why would I compare this to Gaza? Because you asked me too? No I think they are very different situations. Both tragic but none the less different.
Lol…. Absolutely no comparison to Gaza. Someone needs to read a history book.
@@brandonsmith848 😂🥱🤡are you lost from the trailer park, Brandon? Are you upset adult tummy time was taken away from you?
@salmamostafa4142 quit being a prick. You ask for an opinion and you got 2 so suck it up buttercup!!
I have been there. 1982. I swear you could feel it. The birds stopped singing and a silence fell that was hard to imagine. Almost 40 years later and the very ground remembered.
I read a comment about the birds at Auschwitz too. Oof.
Thank you for posting this video, and for the TH-cam staff:
"Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it!"
So true brother
@diversityisourstrength4223❤
Amen
Any grub that doesn't want the truth told about history, obviously does want to repeat the past, a new breed of evil people are building, brewing and preparing for evil to hit the Human race once more, l don't trust what's going on these days.
@@merrelthorson2224 Watch Europa the Last Battle
My father who has passed away 8 yrs ago was a wonderful, kind man. He was a Liberator in the 20th Armored Division. The only time he cried was when he would talk about Dachau and what he saw. It broke my heart. Since it is Father’s Day tomorrow I came to this vid to maybe see where my father walked. He never spoke about this until his late 70’s into his 80’s. God Bless all who were here. I’m so very sorry for the families.
I lost my father 8 yrs ago also. He was in the 8th infantry. What he saw was awful. He was the same way did not talk about the war til he was in his '70's. We were lucky he was asked to sit for an interview, which he did. Now his story is in the library of Congress for future generations to understand what happened. It was horrible what these people went through. Bless your father for what he did for the world!! Best generation!
@@SteveSmith-lo2wd God Bless your Dad’s soul. I thank God for men like our Dad’s.
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My grandfather was in the 20th as well. He never spoke about this and I didn’t think I should bother him about it. I do still have his book from the 20th armored division, did your father have that book?
I’m sure they knew one another.
We must pass this history along to our children and their children.
@@tinkertrekI do have The 20th Armored Division Book. I keep it next to my Dad’s Flag. I tried to post a pic, but I guess I am not allowed.
@@lynHeart3232Oh that is so cool.
I was stationed in Germany several times over my career. I took my daughters through those same gates into hell. It even smells like sadness. Tears will never be enough to make sure this never happens again. Thank you for posting this!
so thats what sadness smells like.actually it was the nasty dirty jews that live like slobs is what general patton said
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My father, Joseph Christy Bell was with the 45th division , and was in the liberation obf the camp. He was assigned as a guard for 3 weeks because of the condition of the inmates, with so many dieases that was running rampant. The feeding of the inmates was an issue to. Dad's sargent gave someone an apple. It killed him. The medics told everyone to stop. They started feeding one spoonfull of sugar water, until their systems could adjust . Dad would become very upset when he talked about the conditions and death.
As a young child, I went to Germany with my parents and we toured Dachau. It was the first time I had any inkling of how horrible people can be to each other, and the lesson has stayed with me. As someone much wiser than I has said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Like comparing humans and humans made into man?
My little grandson is named Patton after General Patton.
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We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking mass of humanity I have ever seen. Of course, I have seen them since the beginning and marveled that beings alleged to be made in the form of God can look the way they do or act the way they act.
_General Patton
I lost many family members to the concentration camps, and I have met a few survivors, one of them family. I appreciate your very respectful, most necessary and well done documentary of your visit. The absolute unimaginable horror and darkness humans are capable of must never be forgotten. It is only through efforts and works such as yours that the memory will survive. Thank you.
Many more things were worse than concentration camps. Propaganda made camps the evil of WW2.
HOLOCAUST? 6 MILLION FROM CAMPS DIED WHILE JUST RUSSIA ALONE LOST 200 MILLION DURING WW2.
If it were not for Russia at that time America and every other nation would be speaking German.
Know the facts not the lies they used at the suffering to many of our loved ones and how can we say we love those we lost when we refuse to DEMAND THE TRUTH?
😢I am so sorry
So sorry for your losses. Never forget
I went to Dachau when I was 16. As an American child, it was devastating. Our tour guide cried and apologized that she just couldn’t go in. It was the most disturbing thing I’ve every seen. But I’m glad they keep it open so we can be taught the reality of the horrors that happened.
Same here: 1958, age 9. They sure have cleaned the place up from the day I was there.
They cried or appeared to cry?
Shut up john
God bless you, Mary, and give you His peace. Although my Dad was among the liberators of Dachau (see my previous post), I have never been there. However, I saw the same depth of emotion while touring one of the (many) Killing Fields and one of the (many) torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia last Fall. The saving grace for me was that while I was at the main torture prison, two middle school classes arrived on busses to also tour the museum facility. From the looks on the kids' faces, they too will never forget!
It's the people who have never traveled to Germany that don't understand or deny the truth. tRump voters will re-create that same scene in the USA if we don't vote a straight blue ticket in Roe-vember.
I feel the same way about that place as you. In 1980-1983, my wife and I were stationed nearby in Augsburg, Germany. After our first visit to this place, we made it a point to bring all of our family visitors from the states to Dachau. After a few visits to the museum, we had to send our visitors in without us, it was way too gut-wrenching to experience this inhumanity to man over and over. It is impossible to imagine the suffering that went on here. Thank you for this public service; I know the cost paid by you in making this video.
Thanks for your comment. Please see my previous comment on this feed.
My dad was a prisoner here for three years, only 18 yrs old. Hé survived and died 1993. By then hé told me all of his camp experiences. I needed psychological help after that. I visited another camp in east Germany as a schoolkid of 15. You feel so drained and sad. People who survived were mentally damaged the rest of their lives. Thx for this documentory
Why put yourself through that, needing psychological help, and then visit another camp in Germany!!?🤦
Imagine my shock when I watched videos filmed in those concentration camps.. Jews and other people in the camps swimming in the pool at Auschwitz, doctors taking care of the people there, hospital wards for mothers/babies. The people playing sports and watching movies, singing in the choir, and practicing their religion.. Oh, the horror that was! I also listened to many interviews where the survivors describe how they were treated so well and looked after! I'll never get over this. I, too, needed psychological help after that!
@@michaelwilliamson4759 : Ha Ha - A feeble mind is an awful thing to waste. It can always be easily manipulated as you have clearly proven.
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It takes courage to admit that you have a feeble mind and it's not going to waste. Using emotions and fantastical fictional stories to capture the mind of the individual. You are a product of that.
Yes, it can. Guess what? The "footage" from the camps are from the American military's division for pshycological warfare. The items on the tables you see in many of the videos are there to reinforce the lies and had absolutely nothing to do with the camps.
It's the product of psychological operations (psyop) to influence the mind's of an enemy state to your advantage through uncombatitive means.
There's many purposes they serve, and three of them are:
1) The Germans loved and admired Hitler. He was their hero in their eyes as he was the person who brought Germany back to prosperity and out of debt slavery pushed onto them as the result of the Treaty. So, to break this the psyop was intended to influence their minds with fantastical tales of what war crimes their Fuhrer "committed." This resulted in Germans throughout Europe to be persecuted, tortured, murdered, and humiliated as they forced them to march to their certain death in the Soviet Union Gulags.. 10-12 million Germans were killed due to ethnic cleansing. Children were not even spared. The children were hung along with the adults.
2) After years of the Allied powers and the media in those countries painting Hitler as a warmonger who is wanting to conquer the world with their supposedly "superior" race to rule the lesser races.. They needed to reinforce that idea and never mention that it was only Hitler that pleaded for peace and pleaded for understanding and reconciliation and for Germany to be judged equally and left alone to attend to their duties and responsibilities. That it was only the Allied powers who demanded/wanted (did a terrible job of masking their desires) a World War.
3) And to cover up their own war crimes and hide the fact that the true enemy was the Soviet Union and the extermination camps were in Soviet Union. To hide the fact the Allied powers aided this country by funding its rearming and supplying military equipment. Even knowing that the Soviet Union invaded and liquidated many countries to the West (they didn’t even bother coming to their aid as the Soviets invaded) To cover up the fact the Allied Air Froce pilots in Poland straffed and bombed civilians, refugees fleeing the Soviet Union as they pushed towards Berlin (because they would be murdered by the NKVD operating behind the front), their bombing and sinking of German ships carrying civilians that are fleeing the war, and the bombing of crucial supply chains meant for the very concentration camps resulting in a severe lack of food and medicine to fight Typhus that killed hundred thousands of people in these camps. Their bombings of German cities and European cities across Europe, the bombing of these very concentration camps (I mean, it is a known fact that they had to *"reconstruct"* the camps to show the world).
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I wonder how Daddy felt about seeing the *Wooden Door* leading into the deadly shower... Excuse me, gas chambers disguised as... a shower room..
My father was also in the first group of liberators. He was a Tech Sgt and he took a lot of pictures, some were printed in Life magazine. My sister and I have some of his original pictures mostly in 35mm size so they are pretty small but you can see the boxcars full of bodies, hard to tell arms from legs. Something happened to him there that really messed him up. My Mother said he would wake up screaming and totally soaked in sweat. He became an alcoholic but still provided for his family. We never could get him to talk about it but just looking at the pictures gives me chills. Wished we could have helped him, he was a good man and Father. I hope he is at peace now.
I'm so sorry to hear about your father.
😢 I feel so sorry for your Dad, you and your family ❤ God bless you!!!!
Never forget what hate ist able to go to.
I am so very sorry about your dad. They really needed the help back then like they have now. Different generation where men were supposed to "man up" and just not talk about it. Truly sad
I visited this site in 1972 All was sanitized but I’ve read books. Pretty awful .
Talking about his experiences of horror with a therapist might have enabled him to air his sorrow and horror and lay it somewhat to rest. We are doing a bible study at church about Moral Injury, and war always injures its soldiers morally. Without a way to express what they went through, their memories remain vivid and the only thing to help them to forget are drugs, alcohol and ultimately suicide. This is so sad. In the WW2 era, coming home was supposed to heal them all, but it didn't. Those who were not in direct fighting probably had an easier time readjusting to civilian life, but those who were in the infantry, fighting hand to hand and suffering concussive brain injuries returned broken. My Dad wrote in a letter home that when he got back home he wanted a car and for his Dad to look out for one for him. He also didn't want to get a job right away, but to rest and travel around for a bit. He got his car but to my knowledge he did not travel; he got a job and entered the work force. He got married to our Mom in 1946 and they had my older brother in 1948. So Dad got back into the swing pretty easily but it wasn't easy at ALL for guys in the front lines.
My father was there to liberate that camp. He told me of the horrors and how they reacted, and subsequently, were sent back to the US due to what they called "battle fatigue". I visited the camp in 1998, six years after my father passed. He had four battle stars for Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. But this broke him. The things he saw there haunted him for the rest of his life. I only hope he has respite being with Jesus.
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He has. Great men like your father ascend. Respect.
Dad did not talk about his experience in WWII until just a few years before he passed. We were fortunate for him to be able to sit and do an interview and have his story put into the library of Congress.. we are blessed to have had him for a father. Definitely a different generation. God bless them.
Rev 21:1-4, He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; [4] he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed.
Jesus? Really? Still believing in god after what your father went through? Wow
My FIL was in the Army in the 1970's and stationed at Dachau as a guard. My MIL and husband visited him and toured the facility. My husband said you could still smell the crematoria. He said it is something he will never forget. He literally cried describing it.
The crematoria do not smell nowadays....
My Mom and I went to Germany in 1985, during our trip we went to Dachau. During most of our trip the sun was out and it was beautiful, the day we went to Dachau the sky was gray, it had snowed and it was cold and we saw soldiers training along the road, on our way to the camp. I remember the gate....and the barb wire and electric fences....it was like walking back through time going through the gates. We went through the museum, at that time they had detailed menus showing what the prisoners were supposed to have been being fed for meals and what they were actually fed.... They showed pictures of the prisoners that were starving.... They had examples of household products that had been made from the prisoners skin, including lamp shades. By the time we watch the video we were so traumatized and upset, we couldn't handle anything more so we left. Videos like this need to be shown in our schools.... People need to realize (and remember) what happened in World war II.... NEVER FORGET!
You are absolutely right. As part of educating their children at age 12+ they should take their kids to the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Wear comfortable shoes because there are four floors of exhibits dense with reading, photos and artifacts -- thousands of shoes, eyeglasses, suitcases, human hair. One small area is about a small Jewish village that was completely exterminated; photos of the inhabitants grace the walls and you get an idea of the life that existed in that village that was snuffed out. You can walk through a cattle car like those used to transport people to the camps; so, so much to see. There is an excellent museum shop and also a hall of remembrance. Parents spend a fortune taking their kids to Disneyworld. But THIS is part of their education and development of their idealism, sense of moral justice and compassion. LITTLE is more important for you to give your kids. Some people with the financial means take their kids to concentration camps to see the real thing. It is something they will never forget. Videos like this can take the place of expensive flights and visits. Watch such documentaries with your kids to answer their questions and show them how to obtain additional information online. And educate YOURSELF if you are uninformed about the Holocaust. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. OK, so why is this so darned important? Well, when an American president urges his minions to break into the Capitol, the American seat of government, to terrorize lawmakers and stop the ratification of a free and fair election, we think back to when Hitler burned the Reichstag, the seat of German government. When a president imitates the jerky movements of a physically challenged person, it brings to mind how Hitler rounded up the physically and mentally challenged in Germany and exterminated them by lethal injection because they were worthless humans and non-Aryan to boot. When a president cozies up to dictators we are reminded of how Hitler cozied up to Mussolini. The similarities are striking but if you do not know your history you cannot draw the parallels or know what the results of such actions will be. Just think on it. Do your own reading and research (NOT on conspiracy theory sites which pander to ignorant people) and see if I am right or wrong. Make up your own mind about whether the Holocaust actually occurred. Going to a concentration camp will convince you. Going into the shower rooms where people were gassed will make you physically and psychologically ill. You will feel the presence of souls all around you. I am not kidding!
@@virginiasoskin9082You are spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself. Been following American politics closely since 2015. The "legit" platform for hate and vengeance that Trump created for millions of Americans and people around the world is scary and very similar to Hitler 😢
#NeverAgain
#NeverForget
I did see a film in college about this but nothing in highschool. First time I ever saw a film in school on it.
Israël doet nu hetzelfde in Gaza ze hebben totaal niks geleerd van de 2e WO
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All of this happened not very long ago. People tend to think of it happening in our distant past. It wasn't in the past, it was yesterday.
The host comes off as a very caring, humane and thoughtful person.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I visited more than 30 years ago, as I was a teenager. I seriously left the camp different from the way I entered it. I thank my parents for bringing me there.
I’ll bet….thought about visiting myself……for that matter I’d also like to visit my friend in Armenia and perhaps the site of THEIR genocide by the Turks around the time of the Great War. Then there was the genocide of some of my ancestors back in Ireland in 1846-1850…list is endless, really, and we’d do well to remember that…
Same here…I was 13 when my parent took me there while living on a former German Wehrmacht Base in Amberg, Germany. The camp left me completely changed and after 40 + yrs, I’m finding out that Eva Braun, Hitler’s wife is a cousin of mine that left me shocked, angry, depressed and stupidified at that finding although I am glad Hitler is NOT connected to my family at all, Thank God! What happened in Dachau really left me changed.
I was at Dachau in 1996 and it's stayed with me all these years. At that time the main building had a large scale map of the greater Reich with the many camps and the date of establishment. The scale of the misery was breathtaking. That must never be forgotten, nor sanitized!
You are a hero
Been there, didn’t feel anything. Left the same way I entered. This “aura” or feeling everyone talks about doesn’t exist.
In 82, I was assigned to germany. I was included in a visit to Dachau. It was nothing like your presentation but some areas looked the same. I will never forget the guide telling us the gas showers and crematorium was never used. We all looked at each other as a smell was still present. Thank you for your history and stories.
Wow that guide was evil.
Revisionist history trying to make the story more appealing has been underway since the beginning. That is why, very soon after victory, the US command took thousands of German civilians from surrounding towns through the concentration camps. At least if they were being truthful, they could not deny the reality they were struck with when they had their "tours."
I know what I would have said to that guide, it's unprintable.
I lived in France for 3 years in the early 1980s and visited Dachau. We had no guide, we just walked where we pleased. It was an experience I will never forget. It feels like their souls still linger. As to your guide, most Germans will not admit to knowing anything about the atrocities.
@@DonnaAbrams-qh7zt then y do they guide if they lie? That makes me mad!! 😠
I visited Dachau on a school trip when I was 16 years old. To this day, nothing from that 14 day trip was as memorable or important as walking through those gates, and seeing “Arbeit Macht Frei”. Being the naive teenager that I was, I didn’t realize then just how privileged I was to be able to also walk out of those gates that day. I am forever grateful that I was able to experience visiting. The 34 year old I am today, wishes the 16 year old knew just how important it was, and privileged that I was. It definitely changed me in some ways, that I will always remember that we have only one life, and to never take anything for granted. Thank you for such a beautiful and respectful documentary.
I previously viewed the original version of episode 269, and it was excellent. Fwiw, my only "appall" is with TH-cam for their ridiculous taboos leveled on that most educational film. I'm well into my 7th decade on this here rock, and struggle to find content of such relativity - like the kind this channel offers up on a regular basis - and like that found in the Dachau series. It's called humanity, which is #1 of all the things left in life that truly matter. That's not an opinion, but absolute fact. To censor any portion of the trespasses committed in the history of humanity only encourages repetition of the same. On the contrary, it has to be available to everyone - all of it - with nothing censored, and nothing hidden in the dark shadows.
TH-cam are idiots.
you couldnt have said that any better its to bad there are the worst in this world to self centered to understand it if it wernt for others in life they wouldnt have shit because they are to weak to do the basic things themself as they are so much better than the rest in their minds if the country turned to theconcentration of life bet they would be so misserable evryone else would probably make it but the those who just dontunderstand importance would fail drasticaly god bless those who deserve amd those who dont well theres a placce they can gather and be better than each other their power and greed dont make life all humans do together
AGREED!!! Because it has not ended!
I agree 110% with every word you said. I've visited Dachau several times and it is an evil place.
I hope it never happens again, but it could, so we must pray.
That was a very poignant narration JD. I have been to Dachau myself and what the video cannot capture is just how big this camp really is. I stood exactly where you were in the gas chamber and had an overwhelming sensation of not being able to maintain my balance, so much so, that I had to lean against a wall to steady myself. The effect that the gas chamber had on me was something I will never forget for the rest of my life
I have been there also and there is such a heavy feeling of sad hopelessness. I could feel it all around me, especially in the museum and gas chamber. Like you, I will never forget it. I pray that the world never suffers what those people lived again.
@@debraanderson5178 - I have also been here... the total silence, even with many others also there, was overwhelming.
I know what you mean. I was there years ago and my moment was looking up at a wooden beam and seeing a sign that said "Prisoners were hung from this beam."
@@davidwilliams4865 I have to agree with how you felt while being there, I visited as a 15 year old school boy on a school trip around Europe in 1968.
I too hv been there. Sad.
I was able to visit dauchu in 2021 and ill never forget tjat eerrie feeling when walking thru this camp. I boke down in tears after visiting. Watching this brought back those feelings.
Was it renovated? The buildings and all
Considering TH-cam's restrictions on facts, this video is informative and well narrated. I had a cousin through marriage that survived this very facility. His name was Armon Neil Geist. He was a humble and kind man. I can't believe anybody would want to harm him or the millions that were treated with such disdain. Rest in Godly peace Armon.
As a retired Social Studies teacher, who has actually been to Dachau, I applaud your dedication to history.
Much of it was total fake. You say that you are a teacher. As a teacher I would expect you to dig deeper.
How is it known that there weren't mass killings done in that gas chamber?
@@jimdecker6172another denier…
@@gregranger9440 you never said what I denied. The reason is you have no idea what I think.
I felt as if I were watching a professional documentary. TY for all the hard work it took to make this documentary. It really gives people the true meaning of concentration camp and we should never forget.
When I was in first grade my teacher asked the class to go home and have our parents help us with a family tree going back as far as we could. I saw names and dates of birth and death and asked why 1. Everyone on Dad’s side died in the same year, and 2. Why I didn’t know anyone on Dads side except for my Aunt. She tried to explain why in a way that wouldn’t scare a 6 year old (it scared me anyway). But that was how I learned about Dachau. I remember asking her why they hated us so much. She said “that’s what happens when you believe the things people tell you about someone without getting to know them yourself.”
Henry Ford was the best source of information about the jew. Hitler learned most of what he investigated, from Henry Ford.
How can those who don't know forget things they are never shown? Ignoring history doesn't make it not happen nor does it make it go away, it only serves to make it all the easier TO forget! Society needs more people like you to keep history alive specifically so the lessons that exist therein can be learned especially now that we are reaching the time when those who were there are no longer with us to give 1st hand accounts of what actually happened. Keep up the good work & thank you for all your effort.
Tell that to DeSantis and tge rep. Cult
@@faiththrower7951Dumbest comment so far. DeSantis is not about erasing history. He's just against history being distorted for political purposes. Try not to believe everything the liberal media tells you.
These restrictions regarding historic events is so ridiculous! How can anyone know the horror of cruel & vicious acts of violence? Keep up the good work! You're awesome!
Ursula Haverbeck deserves a Nobel peace prize for exposing the truth
@@yusefkhan1752 why do you even bother?
@@yusefkhan1752 She is mentally is, as are anyone that believes her.
What a wealth of knowledge you educated us on a horrific period in time. 40 years ago, I along with 30 other college students from the US toured this camp. The one thing that stays with me the most is the feeling of those that died there. I left praying that all those spirits Rest In Peace.
I'll never forget the eerie feeling I had while touring this facility. Kudos for capturing this footage and educating people. May we never forget so as to not repeat...
I visited germany in 1994. I live in massachusetts, USA.
The visit to this concentration camp was the most emotional and heartbreakng experience. I was with my husband and 6 other close friends, we had traveled together. For those that havent been there, my words would be insufficient to describe the emotion we all felt.
This part of history should continue to be brought to attention
For those who perished while enduring man's bad treatment at the hands of another man ... God bless
I remember as a kid in 8th grade, my english teacher had a Holocaust survivor, her name lost to my memory, came in and taught us about her experience in the camp she was placed. I also remember having to sit in a taped in area in the classroom made to resemble the interior of a cattle car in which the prisoners were transported. I am having a hard time fighting back the tears this video has brought about. Never again
I'm pushing 40 now and I went to Dachau when I was around 11. I'll never forget it. The oppression was so palable even to a child. Thank you for making something so informative, honest, and respectful. Well done.
Nothing was "informative, and honest" about this. There was not 1 single crematorium in any camp ever found. Not 1. And even those who spread these lies who originally said 21 camps had them, they had to retract those statements down to 1... Auschwitz. Which is why they added a chimney to that camp AFTER the war. Funny bc while the camp was active there was no chimney. David Coles documentary from 1992 explains all of this. It's no wonder Mr Cole went into hiding for his groundbreaking work despite David himself being of the same 'persecuted faith too.
Instead of this nonsense maybe the guy who makes this video should travel to the middle east and let people see the horror that takes place in 🇮🇱 but News organizations don't cover it, and Yisrael can get away with literal 🔪 and 🔫
I went when I was 14 (I'm in my mid 20s now) and it fucking changed me. I will never forget how heavy the atmosphere was the moment I stepped inside the camp. And the smell. I'll never forget the smell.
As a student of the Holocaust I have seen many videos. This one is respectful, intelligent and fine in so many ways. Thank you. Presented in this manner honors the victims as well as quietly reminds us all of the need to banish man's inhumanity in a fashion any human can comprehend
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. As a hardened US Army retired Colonel, I too welled-up. While we pray #NeverAgain , genocides are happening on ever-increasing rapidity in our world. God help us!
@@bobstrom2967 thank you for responding to me. I feel so strongly about this and hope that others will as well .
History should not be censored . As it is, history is written by the winner's. So it's already bias ,and even with that it's so horrific. So quit trying to sensor everything that offended your tender feelings. It was horrific and the world should see it for what it was. Horrific and it should never be forgotten
Makes 0 sense for history to be bias because the winners write it, just saying
I agree.
I bet they don't teach this in Florida
@@zmanr2090 They don't teach the real truth in any of our social problems. We have to read and read and read to get to the one truth. It is very difficult to get to any truths. You have to travel and speak to the elders and listen to their stories in order to understand what their history was all about and then we learn the real truth. I lived in Berlin Germany in 1963 and my father took us to all these places that I had no idea what Germans did to their own people. I never forgot it. It took one man to do all this damage. His name was Hitler. Biden and the media, Big Pharma, Corporations are all part of destroying us. Meanwhile we are fighting each other. Turn off mainstream media talk to your elders and travel. You will learn we are not as bad as media makes us out. Yes, there are bad people out there for sure.
@antionettewardell2151 I can't argue that, there is very little truth to be found in most institutions. Being a lover of history I have learned many things gs and learned why they are "hidden". And it doesn't matter about politicians, they are 2 sides of the same coin. Sad state of affairs.
I visited Dachau in 1976, while stationed in Germany... a walk thru the crematorium is a truly sobering experience. Thank you for the work you put into your video..
I visited Dachau and it’s a very sad place. Walking through the camp you can’t help but wondering at every turn how these poor people lived. I also saw the crematorium. I used to see it in documentaries but to see it in person, it left me speechless.
I was there as well a few years ago. It causes so much emotion on so many levels to try to process it. How can humans do this to another human being? It defies comprehension. I didnt think it could ever happen again, but it can. More evil than Hitler exists today.
@@ticketbabe Because evil exists and the devil is the destroyer of life and all things created by God. The same evil that existed then, exists now and will continue getting much worse in these last days. The devil knows his time is short and he’s seeking to take as many to hell with him as he can. Just look at the time in which we’re living in. Every commandment given to us from God is being twisted and flipped by the devil.
I was there in 1996. Walking through there changed my life.
I was there in the ‘80’s and had similar feelings. There was a man sitting on some steps,he was crying. You could smell death. There was a Carmelite Convent at the back and we visited the sisters. A sobering place.
I went in 1986 and I literally felt the sadness and deaths in Dachau. My life also changed that day.
What a wonderful job in documenting this! The videography, your tone as you succinctly described everything as well as the music…..all superb! Thanks you!
80 years later, and this is still so devastating. I didn't know anyone there, and I'm not aware of knowing anyone who knew anyone there, but it was such an extreme crime against humanity that it make my heart pound and takes my breath away still. Thank you for making sure that none of us forget, so that we may live true to the words, "never again."
Same here. It hurts my heart.😢
It's happening again in North Korea
What about Rwanda? Genocides have happened and are happening, we just aren't acknowledging them.
@@sunshineandwarmth Sounds horrible!!
I have also visited this camp. I'm not able to express my feelings at this place. It was extremely oppressive. I will never forget the atmosphere. However I thank God that I went. This horrific event should absolutely be remembered and NEVER FORGOTTEN!
My German grandmother and my mother survived a concentration camp. I'm 60 years old and I have never forgotten. No one should ever forget
Then look what is going on today with all of these evil lying soulless Anti-Israel/Jew/pro terrorists leftist protest going on here in America and around the world !!! Man HAS NOT learned from history 😔 !!
Mine also and 6 out of children one was killed while walking in line because of his back 😢😢😢
😢 our hearts are forever with you
My dad took a tour through Dachau at the end of the war. He wrote a ten page letter to his parents describing the sights and smells and feelings he had at the time. You can feel the depth of his emotions as he describes the cruelity and horrors of it. He also confirms they took no prisoners of the SS when they arrived. They were so disgusted by them that they just took them out.
My father told me they were specifically told anyone wearing an SS uniform or having an SS Tattoo was to be immediately shot, none were allowed to become POWS. My dad served and was 3rd wave on Normandy Beach. He didn't even talk about the horrors until he was much older.
My grandfather was a member of the 42nd Rainbow Division that helped liberate Dachau. He returned home with photos that as a young gal I was not allowed to see. There were also two swords with lion heads containing ruby eyes and a pistol that my best guess says were removed from guards that were no longer alive to enjoy or use them.
So your daddy was a war criminal? The Nuremburg show trails should have put him on display
Und das soll man glauben? Das Rheinwiesenlager war das schlimmste was es gab!
@@scottfirmanihr Yankees habt in Europa nichts verloren! Ihr habt unser Land zerstört ihr Kulturschänder!
Very well done documentary tour. You displayed so much respect and your narration was so calm, clear, honest and again, so respectful. Great work and thank you for keeping this part of history up front in our minds! 👏🏼
Many thanks.
I know a WWII Veteran that helped liberate Dachau. He has since passed away 10 years ago. He had told me of the horrors of this place. I was also in the Army in the 1990s. I went to Dachau, just to see what he had talked about. It is horrific, and I think everyone should see this. I think they could learn of these devastating sites, and learn of Empathy! The way the world is seemingly repeating itself now, us humans need to learn from this, and be kind to ALL humans, and the Planet as a whole! I Pray for all people, and just hope this could sink in with kindness, love, and togetherness! Lets learn to Love, and not Hate!
Dachau was liberated by my great uncle, who died recently ~3 years ago. He was part of the front line that found Dachau, he has many medals and told me about this event. Some of what he told me: He said it was beyond what he thought human being were capable of. He said there were huge ovens that were still hot with piles of smoldering human remains, they were burned alive, he said there was a very strong smell of death. He told me the human prisoners there were beyond emaciated and they were ordered to not allow them to leave before disease could be established and to not give much food because they couldn’t handle it after being starved so long. Uncle told me damn with those orders and his squad gave every bit of food and water they had, the survivors were scared when they were not allowed to immediately leave but were comforted and began trusting the Americans after they gave them all their food and water.
I asked my uncle what happened to the guards there, he said who? I said the guys that guarded it. He said they fought to liberate it and there were no human guards, that they were lower than animals and the prisoners went at them and he and his men refused to stop them, he said you would of needed lethal force to stop the prisoners and he was not about to shoot the prisoners. They flew my great uncle “Pat” to Florida before his death to give a “living testimony” to what had happened there. Uncle Pat was a good man, kind hearted, strong and wholesome, he lived to 97-98 years old I believe.
Thank you for sharing this. God Bless your family and Uncle Pat.
🙏🏾God bless your uncle.
Is his testimony on TH-cam?
Thank you for sharing a very important perspective from someone who witnessed the atrocity first hand. May your uncle rest in peace we are forever grateful for his and all other veterans' sacrifice.
I went to Dachau some years ago. I was immediately struck by the lack of color. Everything was white, gray, or black. There was no grass during the time it was occupied--only concrete and stones. None of us can imagine the horrific suffering these people endured, nor can we imagine the malevolence with which it was planned and carried out.
I noticed that, too. Still smells of death.
NEVER AGAIN!! THE CHILDREN MUST BE TAUGHT THE HORROR OF WHAT HAPPENED !!!!!
Yes. It’s truly stepping into a different world. It smells cold, it looks harrowing.
My husband, daughter and I were just there on 6/19/24. We didn’t have the best guide but it is important to us to have been there. Seeing firsthand the living conditions, the ovens, and the grounds overall was very moving. But what seemed to have the most profound effect on me was the sculpture; it brought me to tears to see it in person and it just did again now, in your video. I could only look at it briefly while I was there, and had to look away just now as your closeup played. I can’t put into words why it affects me so deeply but it does; it wrenches my heart in a way that I rarely experience.
Thank you for this video.
This was so respectfully made. I broke down crying several times. Thank you for this video. It is so important that these stories live on and told in all of their harsh cruel truth.
My wife and I visited Dachau this summer, and this video really helped fill in some of the gaps.Thank you so much. Very sobering.
I was 13 when I visited my first camp. I was horrified. I can not explain everything that I felt during that time but, my life was changed. There are still so many things that I can't put into words. My life was changed. While my family lived in Germany, I visited 6 different sites and with each I was overcome. I can not put it into words. I pray everyday for every blessed soul who suffered through these camps! Those who lived and those who passed. I am in my 60s now, but they are with me everyday. May G_d have blessings and love for all who struggled at these places.
God
As a child, my father was stationed at zembach airforce base in Germany. I was in the 5 th grade, our school went on a field trip to this concentration camp. So heart breaking, I couldn't stop crying the whole time we were there
Death, starvation, and disease conditions at Dachau were so terrible that General Patton was contacted and urgently asked to come and see it himself. He did, and was outraged.
When charges were brought against U.S. soldiers who had helped kill many Dachau guards, including their lending guns for prisoners to use, they were all overruled and dismissed outright.
By General George Patton himself.
GEN Patton also rounded up many of the locals and made them "tour" the camp so they could never say it never happened.
@@bobstrom2967my German step-father who was a child at the time, always said the camps were an open secret. He said some supported the camps but many didn’t agree with them. However, most were too frightened to say or do anything lest they end up in the camps themselves. The Nazis were well known for throwing any dissenters and their family into the camps. I have a friend who had an American father and German mother. Her grandfather died at Dachau. He was a doctor who refused to join the Nazi party when they tried to recruit him. So he was thrown into the camp as an example. He ended up dying there😢
Wow! I appreciate how you used old footage to give the viewer more of a feel of what these people went through. The way you present this gives me a real sadness; I imagine being there on site, that feeling must be 100 times worse. Thanks so much for this...respect!
I was lucky enough to listen to the now deceased Holocaust survivor who spoke at the Holocaust museum in Dallas, TX….I will never forget his story and will be forever grateful that I had the opportunity to listen to a firsthand survivors account of what had happened.
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
I was stationed in Germany from 2005-2006 and served as a military policeman. I also served in the Marine Corps before I served in the Army. I stopped into Dachau with my family on the way back from Garmisch. What amazed me most about the camp you shouldn’t leave out is how well camouflaged the camp was because they try to hide the camps. I almost walked right past the camp because it just looked like a thicket of trees surrounding it. When I was there in 2005, the path leading up to it had a bus stop in front of the trail that leads to the camp. They also tried to keep us from going to the gas chambers by saying it was “closed for repairs”! Your video brought back some memories of my family’s visit. I was stationed in Giessen and we actually stayed in barracks similar to the ones at Dachau’s. We stayed in old Luftwaffe barracks. I might add too that Germany is made to keep these camps up to make them keep in mind what happened in the past, so it won’t be repeated. You do know Zyklon B is what the Nazis used to kill people right? It wasn’t a disinfectant. They did actually kill prisoners in those gas chambers and anybody that tells you different is lying. The German government hates admitting to it. Those first two rooms in the gas chambers were for disrobing. The next room were the “showers” where they used the zyklon b. The next rooms were for stacking bodies and burning them in ovens. You really need to do more research instead of just what they are telling you at the camp. Do you think they just built gas chambers and build fake showers to look at? Prisoners went down there and didn’t come back!!! You should redo this video! They will never admit to it! They hate that they have to keep the camps up! Read up on Dr. Blaha’s testimony of what he saw at the camp. Read this in it’s entirety furtherglory.wordpress.com/tag/dr-franz-blaha/ .
Lest these lives be lost for nothing. You do us a great service by posting these very well and sensitively made videos. I thank you for all the members of my family that cannot thank You. Keeping these memories alive will hopefully remind others of the evils of war
When stationed in Germany many years ago, we went to Dachau. Later, we found out my Uncle had been one of the first Americans to enter to liberate the camp. No one in the family knew about it until then. He refused to say anything more about it and took his story to the grave.
There was nothing there to tell. The inmates were already on the way to their promised land where Yankees live. Thats why your uncle kept his mouth shut.
@@ramdev9578 What...
Many were near death, when liberated. I think that’s what the comment above meant. Those people had no where to go IF they even went home. No family remaining and people were still anti-semitic.
Everyone seems to have been 1st.
@@philup6274 "one of the first" means there were many who were in the first battalions that did the liberation. In fact there were many concentratiom camps... and some WERE FIRST LIBERATED BY RUSSIANS... who incidentally proved that they were highly skilled at those types of camps (Russian versions were called GULAGS, I believe.
JD, the efforts you have gone to get this story out there and keep this alive is extraordinary. You are not an 'influencer', you are an educator. Thank you as always. I saw the original, and I watched it again here. Thanks for persevering. Love your work! You are and always will be a true legend
Much appreciated!
he is a legit teacher. JD was my high school teacher for civil war class. excellent educator
@@dwaynesmith9482 Mate what an honor! I wish I had him as a teacher, but I'm grateful he's there for me now on TH-cam!
Thank you so much for this documentary, full of respect and dignity. I am German, we learn from early on at Scholl about our Country's cruel recent history. But actually, eye-witnessing a historic memorial site such as this puts an entirely different order of magnitude to how one perceives and understands what really happened back then, just some mere 10 or so Kilometers out of Munich, Berlin, Krakow etc.
May this be, for every human on this earth and for generations to come a beacon of remembrance and vigilance as for this shall never ever be repeated #NeverAgain
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. #NeverAgain
We toured Dachau back in the late 90’s while stationed in Germany. There is a heaviness that I still remember to this day. No birds chirping…just an eerie silence. There was also an older gentleman explaining the crematorium that was a prisoner there, so sad.
Was that man a German soldier who was imprisoned because he questioned why children were being experimented on? If so, I spoke to the same older gentleman. He told us that he refused to talk to Germans about his experience. He even pointed out a tree that prisoners were hung on, by their elbows tied behind their backs. We were there in the late 90s when my husband was stationed in Budingen. We took our children, so they could see with their own eyes that yes...monsters are real.
I remember the eerie silence. It was like all the animals in the area ceased to exist when inside the camp. The silence was almost suffocating
As someone who is disabled and will never get to se these places for myself, thank you for showing us. It's sad how cruel people can be, and still are.
Humans are cruel because of the evil in our hearts. We are sinners. If not for Jesus and His work at the Cross, we would have already been completely destroyed and creation would never had been ever come about.
As someone disabled as well, I always (I mean always when I am watching or reading about it, not always, always) think about what my fate would have been, if I was taken by the Nazis. My heart especially breaks for those like me, who's fate it was.
@@keridrowatzky9543 Go away, thanks. Bible thumpers are not welcome in my comments.
@@keridrowatzky9543That was his sacrifice on the cross. Not his "work".
You don't need to be disabled to have an excuse to not have the ability to go where you want. I am not physically disabled, and I don't and will never have that kind of money to literally be there myself. It's free online while hundreds of dollars to get thee just to see the same thing. Take your "disability" as a blessing, saves you time and money.
I went to Dachau in June 1978 with my parents and sister.
The images from the museum will stay with me for my entire life. At the time there were books with every single person that worked in Dachau named. Their town and city of origin.
The execution wall was horrific. The crematoria was awful to see (i was 15 years old when i visited ).My dad really didn't want to go to Dachau but I was adamant about seeing it. Unfortunately I had no idea at the time that my dad's 2 aunts died in Dachau until we returned home.
The ironwork sculpture of the mangled bodies is also something that i will never forget.
Going to Auschwitz was even more intense. Knowing that the ashes of millions are spread over the very ground you walk on there is a humbling event. There wasn't enough crematoria to burn all those bodies, so the Nazi sadists constructed burn piers and kept the fires going day and night, until the last of the late comers, the almost 500,000 Hungarian Jews, were murdered and disposed of. Dachau though was where it all started, and where the SS training school was. Just the most depraved ideology led to this. And still, Germans had faith in Hitler to the bitter end, even after it became known wtf was going on with the Jews. I've studied the war for 5 decades, traveled Europe, interviewed survivors in Israel, USA, and I'm still stunned when I read about the Holocaust.
Shame on TH-cam for forcing you to blur certain historical photos in your documentary. But, that said, thank you so much for filming and explaining all of this. I’m a deeply sensitive person, and I know that I can never physically go to any of these places, as I would mentally break down from the pain these horrid locations carry. Yet, I can still learn about them and pay my respects to all those who perished through videos like this. May all of the victims of all concentration camps rest in peace.
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. I appreciate your sensitivities, but please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
We truly must never forget. While I was in Cambodia last year, I visited one (of many) Killing Fields, and one (of many) Torture prisons of the Khmer Rouge. The same type of genocide was perpetrated there as was done in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The victims were identified differently, but the resultant horrors were almost exactly the same. While I was there, 2 busloads of Middle School students were brought on a "field trip " with their teachers so they too would get 1st hand knowledge. Many were crying. I'm a retired US Army COL, and I welled-up too when I experienced 1st hand the gross inhumanity men are capable of. #NeverAgain
My great uncle Alfonso Bifarelli was in Patton's army when they liberated Dachau. He was so severely disturbed by what he saw that when he came home he would have horrible nightmares and he and his wife were never able to sleep in the same bed afterward. It haunted him till the day he died.
😢 I feel so sorry for your Dad ❤ May he rest in peace ❤
Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
As an older man I’m still horrified by my visit in the 80s to one of the camps….as soon as I entered the museum building I felt ill in such a profound manner…..I’ll never forget the moment I sensed the evil aura in that place….
So far your videos have been impressive in there ability to evoke memories which is both good and troubling at the same time…..thx….everyone needs reminding of the history so that it won’t be repeated….todays generations seem to not think about anything before yesterday…lol…sadly they may learn the hard way….
I try to not go a day without learning something…..well done…keep up the good work.
I understand, i was there in the 9th grade with a school field trip. We were stationed in Augsburg Germany. The absolute smell of death was still in the gas chamber at that time. I was petrified by the time we went to a small room surrounded by heavy curtains to watch the black and white footage of the atrocities that had been filmed. I kept looking over at the curtains thinking that nazi soldiers were going to come out after us. You could just sense the evil in this place in your spirit. I was never so glad to be back on the bus heading out of there. It was the Most profound experience of my youth. I'm thankful i got to see a part of real history in person. I will never forget it.
I went there in 2003. While pictures, video and commentary give an idea of what it's like there is no way to describe the feelings one encounters while being on the grounds. There is one word though for how one feels upon leaving, relief. A feeling far too many never had the chance to experience.
I'm so glad you were able to get the unrestricted version available. I would have been okay with this being even more in-depth and longer. Very very well made and well told, that you. In this day in age it's even more important for these places to be shown to a wider audience than those that can afford to travel there. Again thank you for sharing this and all the hard work.
I'm 56yrs old now and I remember when my mum gave me a book to read when I was still at school , I was 13yrs old at the time and I was just learning about the second world war ...this book was written by a polish doctor who was imprisoned by the SS..what I read in this book brought me to tears ...what happened to these people was discusting I don't think anyone today could comprehend just what these people went through unless you read this book ...the 5 chimneys...it will open your eyes up to how bad our fellow man can sink to , I hope and pray to God we never get this low EVER AGAIN.😒😔😥
Was it called the five chimneys
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@@pionus3651 yes the 5 chimneys ...sorry.. it's one book that really got to me and stayed with me ever since a tragic true story that should never be forgotten 😔
@Tracy O’Malley: Cambodia, the “killing fields”, Bosnia/Herzegovina war in the 90s, which had many actions for genocide of Muslims, also known as “ethnic cleansing”. All the bush wars in Africa during which members of one tribe kills another unprovoked and including murdering children as they sat at their school desks, along with teachers and other staff. Don’t kid yourself, it is still going on and has always been. There have always been people willing to commit atrocities against less powerful groups who they demonize.
Thank You for keeping the memory alive for all generations! Your documentaries are essential and bless You!
I went there in June 1990 with my family while on a family Euro-Trip. Something I'll never forget. My grandparents came over from Dresden in 1928 and we still had a bunch of family over there. My great Uncle Willie who was 94 went with us. He had never stepped inside before. The man couldn't keep his composure thinking of the people he knew that died there and the horrors that went on and left after 5 minutes. Definitely hits different when you live through something vs learning about something. I was 14 turning 15 and the vision of him crying is still in my memory.
@Name Last Name what’s that supposed to mean? If you’re a disbeliever than you disgust me for your evilness
@@GR-hb5gk he is just a troll who finds pleasure in other people's sorrow as he is a sad person himself and can only self-pleasure himself so much in a day without developing raw hands. ignore him, as most people around him do anyway.
My mom and dad were survivors of the camps. They were the only ones of my family who lived and came to the United States of America. My father died due to experiments done on him while in the concentration camp. My mom lived to be 71 years old and she had 3 children. Me and my 2 brothers who are still alive today. RIP father. RIP mother
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History should never be restricted. Those who fail to learn from it repeat the mistakes of the past. I’ve watched both. Thank you for your hard work.
The way the railroad tracks fade into and out of the ground is spooky. Like a ghost of the past
My exact thoughts
Thank you for posting this without the photo . . . Your narration is important and even without the photo your presentation is powerful. I don't understand the reasons behind restricting your original video, but I am thankful these stories live on.
I was stationed in Germany and we were taken to see Dachau as an educational visit. It was haunting. Chills you to the core that sick, evil humans could do this to other humans. I'll never forget my visit. 💔
I’m sorry that you had to go to these extremes just to tell the truth. History should never be sanitized, ever. Thanks JD I’m watching this whole video to help your channel’s algorithm. Stay safe and keep bearing witness to history so that others can learn. 🙏
AMERICA HAS PREVAILED IN ITS CENSORSHIP!! OUR WOKE AMERICA, SADDEST COUNTRY ON THIS ROCK!!
He's doing it to get views and make money 💰 Wake up FFS!🙄🥱🤡
@@TheKonga88 OK Troll.
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Thank you for sharing this heart-felt comment. Please see my previous comment about my Dad's experience at Dachau.
I visited Dachau when I was in Germany (USArmy, Stuttgart) in the late 70's. It was very oppressive. Back then, you could go into the shower (gas) rooms, and you could step inside the oven shed, and there were still skulls in the bottom of one. It was really crazy, but I could smell the burning flesh inside the shed. The minute I stepped outside of it, I could not smell it. It was like it permeated every brick and piece if wood and iron inside. I will never forget it. In the barracks, they were built to house 400 people. At the end, 1600 were made to sleep in there. The beds started out kind if roomy, but just got narrower and narrower as time passed. There were horrendous experiments carried out on people and the main building had pictures and stories. It was a very humbling experience to see all that and hard to imagine people living thru it.
As usual your presentations are informative with humility and sensitivity you are probably one of the finest history presenters out there, TH-cam should applaud your work not obstruct it.
My grandfather was a sergeant in the 861st Field Artillery Battalion, 63rd US Light Infantry Division, but he never spoke about his time in the army to anyone in any significant detail. The most he would say is something along the lines of him going there, doing his duty, and coming back.
My mom and I knew vaguely that he was involved in liberating a concentration camp after he made a passing comment when he came across my mom watching Schindler's List (he muttered something about how accurate the camp was and abruptly left), but we never knew which one, only that it was *bad*.
He passed away twelve years ago, but my uncle found an album in his old house at the back of a closet around Thanksgiving that my grandfather had assembled decades ago, filled with pictures he took in France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium. Most of them had captions underneath describing what was in the pictures.
There was a picture of some liberated prisoners with the simple caption "Dachau prisoners," which prompted me to look up which units were involved with the liberation of Dachau. Sure enough, the 63rd was credited with it. It was the only picture related to Dachau in the album. His captions after that got noticeably sparse.
My family went to Dachau in 2004. My kids, ages 10 and 7 were present. To this day, the single most horrifying thing I ever saw - and smelled. Some 45 years later, it still smelled of death. It is incredibly important that everyone either visit or watch on video like this. This is what happens when books are destroyed, guns are taken away, and religion banned.
Religion was never banned by Nazis. In fact they had freedom of religion as one of their election promises km 25 point programme. They just built their own "church" and warped the teachings of Jesus to dehumanise those they didn't like. Be far more wary of those who claim freedom of religion whilst warping the teachings of prophets. Furthermore it is also not true that Germans had their guns confiscated.
And an entire group of people are labeled as "evil", "vermin", completely dehumanized.
Nothing to do with book banning, guns or religion. The right in America today have many people with fascist ideals amongst their supporters, and though they like to ban books, they are desperate to cling to their guns and their god.
To think that any smell from 1945 is still present today is total foolishness.
@@jimdecker6172 the very idea of the Holocaust, aka Final Solution stinks imo.
My husband and I visited Dachau in May of 2008. It was one of the most powerful places that I have ever been. We were there just after they had had a memorial/remembrance service so there were flowers all over the camp from the families of those that had died there. One of the things I remember most vividly is how the crematorium smelled of burnt or dead bodies. Everyone who was there made the same comments about how it smelled. I don’t know if I would ever go back there but I do believe everyone should visit one of these horrid places as least once in their life.
The idea that anyone could smell burning flesh even in 1946 is ridiculous. I was there in 1961 and there wasn’t even a faint smell of any such thing. Peoples senses were just playing tricks on them and that is sad.
Did you notice how weird it was that people were living in apartments literally next door? I mean, likely that was part of the camp perimeter. wtf.
I was there last year and it had no smell. Also placards saying there was no gas chambers ever used at the camp.
I was honored to meet a man in the late 60s who escaped and made his way to America
His story of the journey was something that made me think how lucky I was to be a American.. I won’t mention his name but will always have a connection to him.. god bless