He had been sentenced and been sent to prison for 6 years. The pain, suffering and injustice done to the people who were sent to Treblinka is some of the worst I have ever heard of, some of the worst things human beings seem to have ever done to one another, and it's been only 80 years ago. I still don't understand how so many of the people involved were able to get away and live peaceful lives uncharged until now.
@@I_Lemaire thank you for bringing this up, I had in fact not heard of the Jasonovec extermination camp before. Interesting also in that it was a place where mainly Serbs and Romani were murdered.
Important first hand testimony from one of the main SS perpetrators - shocking but vital to our understanding of the assembley line process of extermination of so many millions
Unbelievable !Incredible!Awfull! Terrible!!Can you believe so called human beings can do things such as this. At least the old man is prepared be honest and tell the truth...
Have you watched this video? Have you listened to anything suchomel said? You should watch the film this interview comes from. It's called Shoah. The full version is available on TH-cam in 4 episodes. In the film the villagers at Treblinka, Chelmo and Sobibor describe what they saw. A German railway bureaucrat speaks about the "Special Trains" that traveled to the camps, and left them empty. There were no trains leaving Treblinka and moving onwards.
If you average what he said could be accomplished each day multiplied by how long he purportedly worked there, you will find the number so wildly shockingly large it boggles the mind. If his testimony is accurate, that would mean he personally participated in overseeing the death of more than 3million Jews. That calculus is at 1 location for only 14mo of the war! In my opinion, even the more inflated estimates would fall short of the true number of Jewish prisoners who perished during the Holocaust. I for one believe he is telling the truth; his cold, indifferent, matter of fact testimony is a clear indicator of classic German honesty. With it he at least let survivors know what had happened to them. I believe he knew that not denying them that truth, (like most in his position did post war) and owning his actions was the only thing left he could do that was redeemable in any way. Wow, just wow. Listening to this man unbelievable...
The testimony of SS officers was produced after or torture or under duress that their families would be killed. All of it should be removed from the record. Rudolph VRBA changed his story in 1985 under oath. The story went from eyewitness to hearsay. He lied. His testimony should be ignored.
Actually you should check out what Christopher Hitchens has to say about Holocaust deniers and the freedom of speech here on youtube. He makes some really valid points and I have to agree with him on why it's important not to shut Holocaust deniers up.
Dallas Burns True, but that's doesn't make Holocaust deniers smart. Most of them have anti-jewish agendas and racist ideas against Jewish people. I'm prowd to live in the US where freedom of speech is extended even farther than it is in Europe. You can legally spout racist nonsense without fear of being impriaoned by the government, but people will rightly laugh you off and refuse to engage with someone with such a bigoted and uneducated view oof the world and the people around them. You should check out how Christopher Hitchens responded to 9/11 truthers when they tried asking him questions at events. He would have likely responded similarly to a Holocaust denier if one showed up at one of his speaking events.
@@CrimsonLegacy It's also a group of people who aren't anti-Semitic but don't want to acknowledge or believe humankind has the capacity to be this evil, so it's also a genuine form of denialism for them. They also don't believe in the details of other recorded atrocities or massacres and believe it's all a farce or impossible to believe with outrageous articles of them being staged or faked.
Having read Sereny's book on Stangl, I describe a meeting with Suchomel. Stangl Suchomel and others worked at the secret T4 euthenasia Castle Hartheim near Linz Austria. They were sent with others to start a camp named Sobibor. It was a wooded area near the railway. Suchomel walked into the wood and returned saying to Stangl 'Come and see what I have found'. He took Stangl to a building in the woods. ' What does that remind you of ( the gas chamber at Hartheim) So with little of the camp prepared and no orders yet - the gas chamber was already prepared. Stangl became the Kommandant there until moved to Treblinka as Kommandant
@ToreDL87 Yes they had to be careful to not frighten them. I was told by someone who knew, that the soldiers milling about were not to carry guns, and that the Nazis giving directions used riding crops to point people in the direction they wanted them to go. One Nazi is known to have used a conductor's baton for this purpose.
If I'm part of thousands of people, and I have the slightest suspision that I and my fellow train guests are about to get killed, and I smell deconposing bodies, I'm fighting whoever is in that camp, guns or no.
Tovi Blatt was at Sobibor. He related that some Jews from Belzec were shipped to Sobibor for gassing. These inmates had been processing people for death, taking their clothes, sorting out their worldly goods and burning their bodies. The Nazis promised them good conditions. These folks were fully fed and given ample water on the train ride to Sobibor death camp. When they got to Sobibor they realized that they were to be gassed. The Germans had a hell of a fight on their hands. The Sobibor inmates were locked up in their barracks. They heard screaming and gun fire. Most of the Belzec inmates were shot rushing Germans or fighting the trip to the gas chambers. The Belzec workers left notes in their clothes. "If you are reading this note it means that we were gassed by the Germans. They promised us work. Instead they gave us death. Avenge us!!".
You'd think that, but plenty of people were shot by the Einsatzgruppen one by one in a firing squad knowing they will be next while standing over a mass grave and not many run AFAIK. I'd imagine you'd be in a state of disbelief, nauseous with anxiety, and shock about what's happening.
Fighting after months of starvation and illness in a ghetto before several days in train without food, water or even light. The nazis knew what they were doing
Hoe many ordinaru civilians were aware that there were camps dedicated to extermination as their primarily purchased . And from what dates was it common knowledge ?? I
You didn't answer my question about Treblinka, you say that the 18,000 figure per day is grotesque. You also say that suchomel's correction down to 12 to 15,000 per day is a poor guess. So what's your figure? More importantly what kind of technical or expert background do you have that allows you to make statements about the numbers burned. I take it you didn't work at the camp?
Back in the day, coal was used to cremate bodies. Assuming we use 15,000,000 bodies as the number cremated in the camps, there would need to be 90 pounds x 15 million bodies, of coal used.- or 675,000 tons. Declassified USAF photos form 1978, show virtually no coal piles anywhere. The cremains from each body are 30 pounds, therefore the ashes or cremains would be 450,000,000 pounds or 220,000 tons. That would be 15,000 rail cars. What happened to those cremains.
@@hanzzimmer1132 The official story is massive pyres , like used in India were used to BURN and CREMATE 870,000 bodies in the open air in winter in Treblinka. Treblinka camp officials turned down the use cremation ovens as they had no need, they said. An experiment was conducted on a beach in the USA, using a wood fire to burn a non frozen leg of lamb. Using 40 wood logs and 2 quarts of lighter fluid it was1/3 burned after 4 hours. There was no gasoline or lighter fluid in 1943. The amount of trees needs to burn 870,000 frozen bodies would be millions and the stack of firewood would be 50 feet high and cover a space of 500 feet by 500 feet. There were no wood piles. Weekly aerial overflights by USAF, declassified in 1978, show no pyres, no woodpiles, no ash piles and no burial pits and no soil mounds. They show a undisturbed, 14 acre grass site with some trees and 6 small buildings and railroad tracks. The Treblinka photos prove beyond all doubt the Treblinka facility was a tiny railroad depot, like Belzac. When the Russians captured Treblinka, they reported 10 bodies in shallow graves. They were likely soldiers who died during the war when stationed at the train depot.
@Hypebusta...Yes, God-less days...agreed! And I have a really hard time picturing Wirth as a sweet little boy. One who kissed his mothers cheek regularly and played with his block's and had trouble falling asleep Christmas Eve...its all just too much. Personally, I think the seeds were already in him - in them all - to be a heartless bastard and Hitler was his green light to Asshole Boulevard.
you are not German, right?? I am. And he obviously and very comprehensible says "kalt". He´s from southern part of Germany- due to his pronunciation and surname, that´s sure.
You keep saying it's impossible etc. But you don't say on what basis you are saying this. Again are you an expert on death camp technology and body disposal?
@zofe You're seriously grasping at straws: he says "kalt". Just like a German speaker from a southern region (Bavaria/Austria) would pronounce it not like you would pronounce it since you obviously don't know German. And how would a foreign actor be able to speak southern variety of German so naturally?
We know it was evil, he knows it was evil, humanity will always know it was evil. It was right and proper for the purposes of human history to allow this former officer to speak out and offer an impassioned, accurate as possible first hand account in order to help it never happening again. Takes courage from both sides, but to video tape it without that persons knowledge? Also, what is the purpose of deliberately de-capitalising his name?
I went to Andersoville Prison Camp in Georgia, USA last summer, and the number of grave stones, sholder to shoulder, went on as far as you could see in every direction. It wasn't much larger than Treblinka.... everyone was just pen in a big stockade and left to die to the elements, dysnteria in the water, and hunger. Civil War Prison camps in the US hundreds of years before, and there were many of them, were forerunners of Treblinka... you know the Nazis had to have known about them.
@@I_Lemaire On the other hand, they harracks to live in out side of the weather and rain in Treblinka, but were living out under the open sky in Andersonville and died of exposure. But from what I remember of Treblinka, it was a pure extermination camp. You went right from the railway cars right intot he gas chamber the same day.Auscwitz became that as well, but Treblinka was that from the very outset of it's founding. Either way, if you've been in any one of them, you've been in them all. You find that out when it's you on the inside looking out.
This is a question that´s rumoring in my head for some years. We are sending space probes Millions of Kilometers to the planets in order to receive information about geolocigal information about the plantes´ surfaces. But we were not able to research these sites. It would be so easy!
This interview took place after this gentleman spent years languishing in a Prison. I would love to know what reading material he had access to while in prison. Much of what he says closely resembles some of the Nuremburg trial testimony and notes written by Vasilly Grossman (Soviet War Correspondent). This poor old guy got stuck with one of the dirtier jobs at a terrible place to be stationed. He's obviously not a sadist, just another victim of the war who was trying to do his duty.
@@brianblueskye9715 Suchomel was NOT an Officer. There were 2 Officers per camp. Initially Stangl Kommandant and Niemann Untersturmfuhrer who was killed in breakout. HOWEVER Suchomel might have become Officer after the breakout for a matter of months.
He was an SS-Unterscharführer. This was and is in regular German Army an Unteroffizier. In English: Corporal. The dirty work had to be done by low-ranking men. Suchomel was unimportant.
At least this man spoke. That was for him the one and only good thing he could do.
He had been sentenced and been sent to prison for 6 years. The pain, suffering and injustice done to the people who were sent to Treblinka is some of the worst I have ever heard of, some of the worst things human beings seem to have ever done to one another, and it's been only 80 years ago.
I still don't understand how so many of the people involved were able to get away and live peaceful lives uncharged until now.
@@omgsolikevalleygirl Anton Pavelic and Jasonovec were also bad...
@@I_Lemaire thank you for bringing this up, I had in fact not heard of the Jasonovec extermination camp before. Interesting also in that it was a place where mainly Serbs and Romani were murdered.
@@omgsolikevalleygirl No problem. I mostly brought it up because Pavelic was never prosecuted. Jewish people were also murdered at Jasenovac as well.
It must take remarkable strength not to beat the hell out a criminal that evil.
Important first hand testimony from one of the main SS perpetrators - shocking but vital to our understanding of the assembley line process of extermination of so many millions
History proves they lied under duress or torture.
@@maxsmith695i dont see any signs of torture or duress on suchomel
Unbelievable !Incredible!Awfull! Terrible!!Can you believe so called human beings can do things such as this.
At least the old man is prepared be honest and tell the truth...
03:18 “It was cold for us, too.”
My heart fucking bleeds for him.
They were not that cold, they had a new 4 story luxury officers quarters built by world class builders.
Poor guys, sometimes they had to stay up late because there was so many people to murder.
Truly horrible working condition!
/s of course
Thank for the post!!!
"In two hours, it was all over."
poor him...he was cold too....
lol he didnt have the proper clothes
At least he had clothes, unlike the victims who had to wait outside naked in the terrifying cold. Wait for their deaths.
Have you watched this video? Have you listened to anything suchomel said?
You should watch the film this interview comes from. It's called Shoah. The full version is available on TH-cam in 4 episodes. In the film the villagers at Treblinka, Chelmo and Sobibor describe what they saw.
A German railway bureaucrat speaks about the "Special Trains" that traveled to the camps, and left them empty. There were no trains leaving Treblinka and moving onwards.
If he has dementia he surely speaks well and I'd very informed
The indifference is the worst. It can only be understood gradually.
If you average what he said could be accomplished each day multiplied by how long he purportedly worked there, you will find the number so wildly shockingly large it boggles the mind. If his testimony is accurate, that would mean he personally participated in overseeing the death of more than 3million Jews. That calculus is at 1 location for only 14mo of the war! In my opinion, even the more inflated estimates would fall short of the true number of Jewish prisoners who perished during the Holocaust. I for one believe he is telling the truth; his cold, indifferent, matter of fact testimony is a clear indicator of classic German honesty. With it he at least let survivors know what had happened to them. I believe he knew that not denying them that truth, (like most in his position did post war) and owning his actions was the only thing left he could do that was redeemable in any way. Wow, just wow. Listening to this man unbelievable...
The testimony of SS officers was produced after or torture or under duress that their families would be killed. All of it should be removed from the record.
Rudolph VRBA changed his story in 1985 under oath. The story went from eyewitness to hearsay. He lied. His testimony should be ignored.
Actually you should check out what Christopher Hitchens has to say about Holocaust deniers and the freedom of speech here on youtube. He makes some really valid points and I have to agree with him on why it's important not to shut Holocaust deniers up.
Dallas Burns
True, but that's doesn't make Holocaust deniers smart.
Most of them have anti-jewish agendas and racist ideas against Jewish people. I'm prowd to live in the US where freedom of speech is extended even farther than it is in Europe. You can legally spout racist nonsense without fear of being impriaoned by the government, but people will rightly laugh you off and refuse to engage with someone with such a bigoted and uneducated view oof the world and the people around them.
You should check out how Christopher Hitchens responded to 9/11 truthers when they tried asking him questions at events. He would have likely responded similarly to a Holocaust denier if one showed up at one of his speaking events.
@@CrimsonLegacy It's also a group of people who aren't anti-Semitic but don't want to acknowledge or believe humankind has the capacity to be this evil, so it's also a genuine form of denialism for them. They also don't believe in the details of other recorded atrocities or massacres and believe it's all a farce or impossible to believe with outrageous articles of them being staged or faked.
Having read Sereny's book on Stangl, I describe a meeting with Suchomel. Stangl Suchomel and others worked at the secret T4 euthenasia Castle Hartheim near Linz Austria. They were sent with others to start a camp named Sobibor. It was a wooded area near the railway.
Suchomel walked into the wood and returned saying to Stangl 'Come and see what I have found'. He took Stangl to a building in the woods. ' What does that remind you of ( the gas chamber at Hartheim) So with little of the camp prepared and no orders yet - the gas chamber was already prepared. Stangl became the Kommandant there until moved to Treblinka as Kommandant
I disregard all stories are lies. Treblinka story is easily proved false.
@@maxsmith695"lalala if i close my eyes it doesn't exist!!!"
@ToreDL87 Yes they had to be careful to not frighten them. I was told by someone who knew, that the soldiers milling about were not to carry guns, and that the Nazis giving directions used riding crops to point people in the direction they wanted them to go. One Nazi is known to have used a conductor's baton for this purpose.
Glad he did live, his story needed to be told.
4 years in prison...a good deal for him.
Sounds to me like he made a deal.
6 I heard
It doesn't seem like the time this guy spent in prison was enough. You can hear he's still proud of what he did.
He isn`t
Of course he is proud--like 90% of all Nazis. Dont take repentance for granted.
How dare he say he was cold too!! Christ they were naked!
Sometimes I wish I believed in hell.
you better do i do believe in hell because i dont wanna meet this guys in there maybe i will dont know
What television show is this from?
Shoah, a french documentary film directed by Claude Lanzmann.
If I'm part of thousands of people, and I have the slightest suspision that I and my fellow train guests are about to get killed, and I smell deconposing bodies, I'm fighting whoever is in that camp, guns or no.
That is why many killed themselves. They couldn’t bare what was in store for them.
Tovi Blatt was at Sobibor. He related that some Jews from Belzec were shipped to Sobibor for gassing. These inmates had been processing people for death, taking their clothes, sorting out their worldly goods and burning their bodies.
The Nazis promised them good conditions. These folks were fully fed and given ample water on the train ride to Sobibor death camp.
When they got to Sobibor they realized that they were to be gassed. The Germans had a hell of a fight on their hands. The Sobibor inmates were locked up in their barracks. They heard screaming and gun fire. Most of the Belzec inmates were shot rushing Germans or fighting the trip to the gas chambers.
The Belzec workers left notes in their clothes. "If you are reading this note it means that we were gassed by the Germans. They promised us work. Instead they gave us death. Avenge us!!".
You'd think that, but plenty of people were shot by the Einsatzgruppen one by one in a firing squad knowing they will be next while standing over a mass grave and not many run AFAIK. I'd imagine you'd be in a state of disbelief, nauseous with anxiety, and shock about what's happening.
Abraham Bomba, the barber from Treblinka, said nobody resisted.
Fighting after months of starvation and illness in a ghetto before several days in train without food, water or even light.
The nazis knew what they were doing
I didn't know Wales had a navy, let alone submarines.
I didn't know they made unicorn gasoline powered unaliving vans.
Hard to believe so much cruelty day after day until millions were killed.
He was cold , jewish were cold , every body was cold.... why why ... because it was winter....
You obviously have no clue about how the crematoria were operated nor their cremation capacity.
Hoe many ordinaru civilians were aware that there were camps dedicated to extermination as their primarily purchased . And from what dates was it common knowledge ??
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You didn't answer my question about Treblinka, you say that the 18,000 figure per day is grotesque.
You also say that suchomel's correction down to 12 to 15,000 per day is a poor guess.
So what's your figure?
More importantly what kind of technical or expert background do you have that allows you to make statements about the numbers burned.
I take it you didn't work at the camp?
The USAF overflights and aerial photos missed it all. How strange is that.
@@maxsmith695 Which overflights were those? When did they take place?
What did they use for fuel for the crematorium??
Back in the day, coal was used to cremate bodies. Assuming we use 15,000,000 bodies as the number cremated in the camps, there would need to be 90 pounds x 15 million bodies, of coal used.- or 675,000 tons. Declassified USAF photos form 1978, show virtually no coal piles anywhere.
The cremains from each body are 30 pounds, therefore the ashes or cremains would be 450,000,000 pounds or 220,000 tons. That would be 15,000 rail cars. What happened to those cremains.
@@maxsmith695 Treblinka used wood fires
@@hanzzimmer1132 The official story is massive pyres , like used in India were used to BURN and CREMATE 870,000 bodies in the open air in winter in Treblinka. Treblinka camp officials turned down the use cremation ovens as they had no need, they said.
An experiment was conducted on a beach in the USA, using a wood fire to burn a non frozen leg of lamb. Using 40 wood logs and 2 quarts of lighter fluid it was1/3 burned after 4 hours. There was no gasoline or lighter fluid in 1943.
The amount of trees needs to burn 870,000 frozen bodies would be millions and the stack of firewood would be 50 feet high and cover a space of 500 feet by 500 feet. There were no wood piles.
Weekly aerial overflights by USAF, declassified in 1978, show no pyres, no woodpiles, no ash piles and no burial pits and no soil mounds. They show a undisturbed, 14 acre grass site with some trees and 6 small buildings and railroad tracks.
The Treblinka photos prove beyond all doubt the Treblinka facility was a tiny railroad depot, like Belzac.
When the Russians captured Treblinka, they reported 10 bodies in shallow graves. They were likely soldiers who died during the war when stationed at the train depot.
@@maxsmith695holocaust denier dected here kk
What a world we live in
These stories and narratives are fake.
@ToreDL87 and then where would they have gone?they wouldnt have made it pretty far i think:/
@Oswulf1 That's simply not true. You can go through the Nuremburg trial testimony if you wish. You will then see that they were a criminal entity.
You're claiming that not me? So why should I come up with a name..
You're not making a lot of sense.
Franz Suchomel 👍
You still should have free speech. You shouldn't jail people because of their opinions.
wow 15-20 guards, if the thousands of jews who came there every day knew that, the guards woulda been torn to shreds!!
@Hypebusta...Yes, God-less days...agreed!
And I have a really hard time picturing Wirth as a sweet little boy. One who kissed his mothers cheek regularly and played with his block's and had trouble falling asleep Christmas Eve...its all just too much.
Personally, I think the seeds were already in him - in them all - to be a heartless bastard and Hitler was his green light to Asshole Boulevard.
Why did they let him go??
you are not German, right?? I am. And he obviously and very comprehensible says "kalt". He´s from southern part of Germany- due to his pronunciation and surname, that´s sure.
Suchomel is a Slavic surname, he's from Böhmen.
You keep saying it's impossible etc. But you don't say on what basis you are saying this. Again are you an expert on death camp technology and body disposal?
i think he looks sad and regrets what he did
@rothschad Ah ok, shoulda known the documentary was probably way off!
Of course you're not antisemitic at all...
Ukrainian
Ukrainian
Ukrainian
80% of staff were Ukrainians indeed
"Naked. In summer and winter."
how could this man live after being a witness .I think i wouldn,t be able to live a normal live after that.
Why? It's total rubbish and a distortion of the truth..
@zofe
You're seriously grasping at straws: he says "kalt". Just like a German speaker from a southern region (Bavaria/Austria) would pronounce it not like you would pronounce it since you obviously don't know German.
And how would a foreign actor be able to speak southern variety of German so naturally?
You're frothing at the mouth again... I hated others?
Let's have a look at your heroes shall we?
@HistorySpeaks4Itself
We know it was evil, he knows it was evil, humanity will always know it was evil. It was right and proper for the purposes of human history to allow this former officer to speak out and offer an impassioned, accurate as possible first hand account in order to help it never happening again. Takes courage from both sides, but to video tape it without that persons knowledge? Also, what is the purpose of deliberately de-capitalising his name?
I think you know the answer to both questions...
Waiting for Freezing Death, Naked! on Winter... Hard to keep believing on on god... Where somenting to believe in that conditions. besides Death.
I believe this was NOT filmed from the van.
He had some type of hidden camera in a bag, and the van was receiving the camera image.
7:45
I went to Andersoville Prison Camp in Georgia, USA last summer, and the number of grave stones, sholder to shoulder, went on as far as you could see in every direction. It wasn't much larger than Treblinka.... everyone was just pen in a big stockade and left to die to the elements, dysnteria in the water, and hunger. Civil War Prison camps in the US hundreds of years before, and there were many of them, were forerunners of Treblinka... you know the Nazis had to have known about them.
Treblinka was worse. They were not shooting babies at Andesronville...
@@I_Lemaire On the other hand, they harracks to live in out side of the weather and rain in Treblinka, but were living out under the open sky in Andersonville and died of exposure.
But from what I remember of Treblinka, it was a pure extermination camp. You went right from the railway cars right intot he gas chamber the same day.Auscwitz became that as well, but Treblinka was that from the very outset of it's founding.
Either way, if you've been in any one of them, you've been in them all. You find that out when it's you on the inside looking out.
This is a question that´s rumoring in my head for some years. We are sending space probes Millions of Kilometers to the planets in order to receive information about geolocigal information about the plantes´ surfaces. But we were not able to research these sites. It would be so easy!
This interview took place after this gentleman spent years languishing in a Prison. I would love to know what reading material he had access to while in prison. Much of what he says closely resembles some of the Nuremburg trial testimony and notes written by Vasilly Grossman (Soviet War Correspondent). This poor old guy got stuck with one of the dirtier jobs at a terrible place to be stationed. He's obviously not a sadist, just another victim of the war who was trying to do his duty.
Unless he is free from duress, the words of Franz Suchomel cannot be seen as credible.
He's 100% a sadist. There's not an ounce of shame or emotion in this interview.
He was not an SS officer
He was SS-Untersturmführer, which means 2nd Lieutenant. Therefore, he was an SS Officer.
@@brianblueskye9715 Suchomel was NOT an Officer. There were 2 Officers per camp. Initially Stangl Kommandant and Niemann Untersturmfuhrer who was killed in breakout. HOWEVER Suchomel might have become Officer after the breakout for a matter of months.
He was an SS-Unterscharführer. This was and is in regular German Army an Unteroffizier. In English: Corporal. The dirty work had to be done by low-ranking men. Suchomel was unimportant.
Franz Suchomel is not an honest person. My suspicious is he was given a deal for these comments.