I've been to a few different camps trying to understand what they went through. I can't even begin to understand how they felt in these camps but i believe we should never let them be forgotten.
Looks like they are doing a good job preserving the history…. Those cards were in crazy shape. Beyond ridiculous what went on there and in other camps…so sad
I'm not sure if it's real but there is information indicating modern western women are less happy than female concentration camp prisoners which is incredible if true
My great-grandfather was a prisoner in KL Buchenwald. I found his documentation in archives and it said he was a political prisoner (after the Warsaw Uprising), but they kept him alive because he was a qualified metalworker. I must say, their archives are amazingly detailed. Pity it documents the oceans of suffering
A registered nurse that I worked with in the 60s and early 70s had been a prisoner in one of the well-known camps. She got tears in her eyes when talking about getting a bag of potatoes for everyone to eat in there and what a treasure it was.. Nothing else, but a potato, but they had been so hungry with nothing to eat…. potatoes were gourmet to them. I can still see her talking about this and the horrible things that they went through. We must never forget.
That's what happens when supply chains are cut off from the invading armies. Pretty crazy they were even considered to be fed since they were all supposed to be exterminated anyway. Much different from the Russian Gulags.
@Kloetenhenne I was being facetious. That's the false understanding, that the camps' sole purpose was to exterminate the prisoners. It can easily be disproven, but the narrative never changes.
I read a story about a woman whose job it was to sort the clothes. She would put on rags from the other prisoners & go to work. There she would exchange her clothing & shoes for better stuff & then go back to her place & give the new clothes to the other prisoners . She did this her entire stay so others would have good & warm clothes. Very brave lady
@HSE331 I'm sorry .I remember that i watched it not read it, but it is a true story. The Jews fought back in every way they could. It was a PBS documentary . You can maybe look it up.
Anything to do with these camps literally makes me feel physically sick. I find it so painful that humans treated other humans like they did.and then went home to their families and acted normal. And I’m not Jewish but I feel their pain.
Go research what the so called Heros aka Amricans,Russians,Polish,French and who else was there during the War and after the War what they did to the Germans POWs and Civilians you will see that the Germans werent so bad how everybody says they where.
It is also worth noting how the colour you wore could affect treatment by both guards and prisoners. In many cases those who wore pink triangles were persecuted by guards and prisoners alike. these people suffered one of the highest death rates in the camps by category. People charged under 175 were not allowed to access financial aid postwar unlike other survivors
@@JDaLightskinif you are referring to the fact that homosexuals were persecuted in the camps, then that is awful, no one deserves to be treated as sub-human, no one, no matter religion beliefs, gender or sexuality
My great aunts and uncles suffered a similar fate in occupied Poland. My grandmother and grandfather met while fleeing Europe. I am incredibly lucky to be here.
@@magnusbrockman9623 we aren’t putting Palestinian people in camps. Hamas is a terrorist group that kidnapped Israelis. We didn’t start the fighting we had this land and my aunt who lives in Israel is a doctor. She calls my mom in the middle of the night(it’s day for us when she calls) she tells us about how she has to work with people who got raped and killed it’s devastating and I’m sure that whatever is happening to Palestinians is very devastating too. That’s the problem though I don’t want my family’s country to go through this and I don’t want anyone is Palestine to go through this but as someone’s family who’s from Israel that’s heard all the terrible story’s I haven’t really heard what’s been happening in Palestine
Shouldn't be making jokes and comments like that! Y'know I'd a great gran-uncle who died in one of those camps😑😑😑😑 was his own fault though, he got drunk and fell out of the guard-tower🤧
We should not forget the Anglo Boer war in the 1900 between British and the Boers. Many women and children died in British concentration camps in South Africa during the second Anglo boer war. 24000 women and 3400 children died. If it was not for British English women Emily Hophouse more women and children would have died.
Dont forget one thing the word ' Apartheid ' is a Dutch denomination and try to find a translation. In any language we use Apartheid, so who is the bad guys here!!! 😂😂😂
In high school, we were able to meet 2 camp survivors. It is one of my greatest moments of my life. Feel sad for future generations that will never be able to meet people that actually were there
Here’s some more info I found on the meanings of the different color triangles: Red triangle - political prisoners: social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, gentiles who assisted Jews; trade unionists and Freemasons Green triangle - convicts and criminals (often working as kapos) Blue triangle - foreign forced laborers and emigrants. Purple triangle - primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses (over 99%) as well as members of other small pacifist religious groups. Pink triangle - primarily homosexual men and those identified as such at the time (e.g., bisexual men, trans women) and sexual offenders as well as pedophiles and zoophiles. Black triangle - people who were deemed asocial elements (asozial) and work-shy (arbeitsscheu), including Roma and Sinti.
@@petertea2393since they weren't the focus of the Germans cleansing it was a "little" easier to be black. Sure you you had to deal with sterilization programs and the Nuremberg laws. The minimum of blacks that were sent to convention camps were at least 2 dozens, but there are several cases that they were allowed to join the Wehrmacht
So amazing that these printed records survived. Thank you for helping these dead souls speak for themselves. Don't forget that prisoners had their numbers tattooed on their arms. This was a way of dehumanizing the prisoners, taking away their names, and turning them into mere numbers. I live in Canada and I have seen the arm tattoos of many people as I was growing up. I always had to fight back tears. I can't begin to imagine the horrors that these brave people endured. Yes, yellow for Jewish people, and pink for gays. NEVER AGAIN.
@jimifash Absolutely true. Research the corporations and banks that helped them launder money. Prescott Bush the father to one president and grandfather to another was involved and had to pay out alot of money to avoid prosecution for helping them. It's a very interesting rabbit hole once you start looking into it.
I worked at a psych hospital in the late 90's. It was in westchester ny. We had some floridly psychotic patients come in, and one had a large amount of bugs on them. After delousing, i felt absolutely contaminated. I went to the mall and had my head shaved as i was going to meet up with a girl after work. When I came back, multiple dr s and social workers said i looked horribly intimidating. A dr who didn’t usually come in said, "he looks wonderdul, and you know who he is. Stop being obnoxious. With that, everyone was silent. I said thank you. She patted my leg and stood up. As she did for the dirst time, i noticed the tattoo on her arm. It was the dirst time i saw someone with a concentration camp tattoo. I have to admit. I nearly burst into tears. And im not a cry in public kind of cat.
Also, a pink triangle to designate that a person was homosexual. Pink was worn by many men before WWII, but afterward the color was stigmatized and often still is today.
Hanas did that to the Palestinians. Did you think they cared about those people? What did they think would happen? Israel would just cry? No. @@userfile007
@@Lisamarie732 it was a spooky place. When I went it wasn’t to see the prison, I went to the Dachau dark beer fest, because I was 18 and didn’t know anything.
Yeah, I've watched it and it was very sad. I wonder if it's true, and, if that made his father, or anyone who authorized or participated in such terrible things, to think differently about what they were doing to people.
Jehovah's Witnesses had the purple triangle and yes, it was more than horrible what happened to the prisoners. People try to deny it happened or that it was justified. None of what happened in those camps was ever justified.
@@Muslim_YM.26 You only care about Palestinians while there's actual genocides happening around the world. Look at Myanmar, China Syria and Sudan. It's been happening for years and none of you ever said a word.
My great-great-grandfather was actually a prisoner in this concentration camp for not wanting to fight in the war. He and his brother escaped from the frontlines but while his brother had the 'excuse' of marrying his wife, he himself didn't have enough reasons not to fight and was sent to Neuengamme. After the war, he died of a sickness he caught there. A few years ago I visited with my class and before that my grandma told me about this, makes the topic even heavier if you know your own family was affected.
@@patta8388 he didn't escape literally right from the frontline, he escaped while he was supposed to be at the frontline, probably from the camp (I'm not sure what it's called in English, sorry)
🤔 sometimes you can get old and forgetful. Esp if it never happened to you. Or maybe it was never told to that person before. While it was pretty common that they wore a Jewish star on them. Knowing they had taken others to the camps etc. I wouldn't have immediately known what or how they classified the rest. You learn as you go through life.
There will be MANY that don't know things related to this. Older generations maybe yes. The younger ones possibly not. The full extent of their crimes are not usually shown. The war was a long time ago.
I learned about it every year, this and black history. I didn’t learn who Martin Luther was until I was 19 years old, but I learned about Martin Luther Kang every year in school.
@Jasonwithadot Do you honestly believe that any of the 18 year old draftees who were torn apart by machine guns making beach heads in France would prefer America today over Germany, then? Blinding yourself to the consequences of your mistakes is immoral. We were wrong. Our mistakes have likely destroyed everything good in the world. We were the bad guys and all of these kooky stories are told to try to justify what we did and the power structure that arose after.
I was at an army barracks in Scotland recently called Cultybraggan where they had a N@zi uniform on display, it really was a thing of beauty, so well tailored, silk lining, immaculate stitching. Makes sense to learn Hugo Boss designed them.
Other symbols not discussed in video - Circle under the triangle meant flight risk and line on top meant youre a multiple offender. If you had "relations" with a Jewish person youd get a triangle for that too
On top of my sadness I'm also angry that there are some people who deny any of this ever happened and not even out of shame. How blinkered does a person have to be? We don't forget...ever!
Be sure to also visite other concentrationcamps. Not all camps are looking the same. Neuengamme ,Hamburg is a good place to start diving into this historic event :)
@@karenplante2593There are concentration camps in Palestine and China right now. There’s a good chance you own something built by a Chinese prisoner. These camps are just used to silence any criticism of certain ethic groups that advocate for the destruction of everything European people stand for.
@@kungfoochicken08 only around 300k survived. Mostly because the ones that didn't die were used for slavery to support the war effort. And the audit of dead is just silly
Being held against your will. Beaten and harnessed, some lived a very short time doing manual labor until they died from being beat for not working fast enough. Let us never forget who they were and what they went through. Thank you for bringing this to light.
Great educational video. Seeing it done by DW fills me with joy. Good to have German people on the good side of history this time around :) Germans should be proud of themselves, not about the dark history but how You overcame it.
Thanks, I think many of us are. Not proud to be German (that’s just luck), but proud to be an active member of a society, that learns to acknowledge and learn from its past and strive to a better future.
@@jennyh4025that's actually funny because as someone being born and growing up in Germany, I find it shocking how horrible the country has become and what happened during covid. I don't see how anything has changed, or how people have learned anything from their mistakes at all!!
Had a neighbor growing up that served in the army during World War II in Europe and his outfit liberated a concentration camp I don’t know which one but he said that to himself I’m gonna be nice to everybody I ever see he was always nice to me. I never knew that he was in the army during World War II, I heard about these stories after he had died
Those with pink triangles were likely persecuted by other prisoners, but never those who wore purple triangles, who always tried to be kind and supportive....as they could be anyway. Interesting because the Bible that they followed so stoically, condemmned homosexual acts. Acts, not the people.
Why are you acting like Jehovah’s witnesses didn’t hate the gays? They were just as hateful towards them as any at the time. If not more than say, an atheist.
It’s so heartbreaking and sad to know that human beings went through this. Hate caused all of this. May all the souls of the victims rest in peace. The was one of the darkest times for humanity. It’s unimaginable to think what they went through.
We also need to understand that IBM was directly involved in tracking all of the prisoners using card reader technology. It started out with their expertise in census taking. This naturally translated to categorizing all of the different Jews and where they came from. It also tracked their heritage.
Yes, purple triangles were used to identify Jehovah's Witnesses. As Jehovah's Witnesses refused to bear arms in WW2, they were taken to concentration camps.
1st to be sent to the camps in 1933,long before the war officially started, were Jehovah's Witnesses because they refused to take up arms against their Brothers from any nation.
Thank you for this information brings to light how more awful practices of the ungodly regime of a mad man .What a huge and tragic loss for the world 😢. I am not Jewish I am a Christian from the US .
@@aimeekrieg9932 My first stop in Europe ever was Amsterdam so I could visit the Anne Frank House; the family's hiding place in the attic for two years before someone exposed their secret hiding place! 😢
They would sometimes gun down U.S soldiers who were put in the camps as a PO. It was a dark war but it has brought people closer from hating a common enemy.
@@ki641 no, it's more like when your God used colors right after he drowned mankind to remind him not to use the flooding one more time and to use something else
No they weren’t psychotic they were absolutely normal people!! No different than you, I, and anyone else who walk this planet!! They didn’t have horns or fangs, most were married with children they were loving family members…
These horrible places must never be forgotten. How evil people can and will be must be shown to help prevent this in the future. I toured Manzanar in southern California's desert, a horrible place with sad wind.
Sorry to dissapoint you but in the 90s the serbs had a concentration camp. camp omarska. It shocked alot of people when it was discovered. War makes animals of some people.
In 1978 as the dependent of a US Army father our middle School in Schweinfurt Germany had a class trip to Dachau. The photos if how the people were treated caused me to have strange dreams. The smell of the unwashed people was still strong in the wooden barracks they were kept in. We were shown the gas chamber, the ovens used to cremate, labs where the experiments happened, and the guards quarters. Humans can be so ignorant and heartless to treat each other and earth like trash
Please don’t feel that way. It was the downfall of a terrible political system and it’s leader, which does not speak for a large percentage of people and their ancestors or descendants, like you, and me. Prussia was also a great nation of religious conscientious objectors -Mennonite farmers especially. You are entitled to hold your head up. 😉
Every single person on this Earth needs to go visit the remains of those concentration camps at least once in their life. It is vitally important for us to never forget the atrocities perpetrated on human beings by other human beings. We can't let this kind of thing be forgotten.
I hope & pray that history never repeats itself what suffering that these men, women & children went through was pure evil, may God bless all the souls who never made it mat they rest in eternal peace🙏🌹💔😪☘️🇮🇪
@joselopez1544 The Nazis used the purple triangle as concentration camp badge to identify Jehovah's Witnesses and few members of other small pacifist religious groups.
Militaries commonly use profession/specialty badges as well as unit markings to identify members, so it's not unexpected they would follow this practice with prisoners. Your license plate on your car identifies your state of residence and possibly county, as well as parking stickers which can identify your social status/employment. So it would appear we have more in common with these prisoners than we realize.
I've been to a few different camps trying to understand what they went through. I can't even begin to understand how they felt in these camps but i believe we should never let them be forgotten.
Tal vez se hayan sentido de la misma manera que los Boers cuando eran prisioneros de los ingleses siendo que éstos fueron los q los crearon...!!!😢
Looks like they are doing a good job preserving the history…. Those cards were in crazy shape. Beyond ridiculous what went on there and in other camps…so sad
I'm not sure if it's real but there is information indicating modern western women are less happy than female concentration camp prisoners which is incredible if true
How was the swimming pool?
@@toonstierney1170how was the swimming pool.... Where?
So what exactly is it about this video that baffles you?
My great-grandfather was a prisoner in KL Buchenwald. I found his documentation in archives and it said he was a political prisoner (after the Warsaw Uprising), but they kept him alive because he was a qualified metalworker. I must say, their archives are amazingly detailed. Pity it documents the oceans of suffering
Ironically and fortunately it’s something that brought a lot of them to justice. Those extremely organized records!
@@kittykat5197 true
My heart goes out to you and your family
My greatgrandfather was in the Wehrmacht 😮.
Where to look for archives
A registered nurse that I worked with in the 60s and early 70s had been a prisoner in one of the well-known camps. She got tears in her eyes when talking about getting a bag of potatoes for everyone to eat in there and what a treasure it was.. Nothing else, but a potato, but they had been so hungry with nothing to eat…. potatoes were gourmet to them. I can still see her talking about this and the horrible things that they went through. We must never forget.
That's what happens when supply chains are cut off from the invading armies. Pretty crazy they were even considered to be fed since they were all supposed to be exterminated anyway. Much different from the Russian Gulags.
Much worse is happening in Gaza,gone is gone, stop the current genocide happening as we speak
@@jannaedwards5219everyone was to be exterminated? Umm, no.
@Kloetenhenne I was being facetious. That's the false understanding, that the camps' sole purpose was to exterminate the prisoners. It can easily be disproven, but the narrative never changes.
@@jannaedwards5219tell that to the gazans
I read a story about a woman whose job it was to sort the clothes. She would put on rags from the other prisoners & go to work. There she would exchange her clothing & shoes for better stuff & then go back to her place & give the new clothes to the other prisoners . She did this her entire stay so others would have good & warm clothes.
Very brave lady
@MacSkiver How?
@justanotherinternetuser5000in what way?
Who are these trolls!?
@@jst2708 peer reviewed source that this actually happened?
@HSE331 I'm sorry .I remember that i watched it not read it, but it is a true story. The Jews fought back in every way they could.
It was a PBS documentary . You can maybe look it up.
Anything to do with these camps literally makes me feel physically sick. I find it so painful that humans treated other humans like they did.and then went home to their families and acted normal. And I’m not Jewish but I feel their pain.
What else happens to POWs?
It wasn’t only the Germans that took PoW‘s. The US put Germans and Japs on camps. Soviets had Gulags
Go research what the so called Heros aka Amricans,Russians,Polish,French and who else was there during the War and after the War what they did to the Germans POWs and Civilians you will see that the Germans werent so bad how everybody says they where.
@@valentinclavette1187they were awful
@@bellatourigny4047 Im not saying they werent im saying that the German Civilians had to Pay a Price they didnt deserve
It is also worth noting how the colour you wore could affect treatment by both guards and prisoners. In many cases those who wore pink triangles were persecuted by guards and prisoners alike. these people suffered one of the highest death rates in the camps by category. People charged under 175 were not allowed to access financial aid postwar unlike other survivors
I heard that pink triangles meant that the prisoners were homosexual, is that true? maybe that’s the reason they were treated so badly
@@4dx3nYes, that's true. Not necessarily on morals, but rather they wouldn't, couldn't re-populate the earth.
@@JDaLightskin your insecurity is showing
@@JDaLightskinif you are referring to the fact that homosexuals were persecuted in the camps, then that is awful, no one deserves to be treated as sub-human, no one, no matter religion beliefs, gender or sexuality
The guy who made that awful comment deleted it, that says something
Lots of my older ancestors went to concentration camps luckily my grandma didn’t and survived she wrote a book on her life she was 6 when it happened
Can you share the book's title and author please.
@@naomiwebber536 it’s called the second scar
also my grandma survived, she stopped breathing for 30 minutes then jumped out of a window and immobilized 3 guards
My great aunts and uncles suffered a similar fate in occupied Poland. My grandmother and grandfather met while fleeing Europe. I am incredibly lucky to be here.
@@magnusbrockman9623 we aren’t putting Palestinian people in camps. Hamas is a terrorist group that kidnapped Israelis. We didn’t start the fighting we had this land and my aunt who lives in Israel is a doctor. She calls my mom in the middle of the night(it’s day for us when she calls) she tells us about how she has to work with people who got raped and killed it’s devastating and I’m sure that whatever is happening to Palestinians is very devastating too. That’s the problem though I don’t want my family’s country to go through this and I don’t want anyone is Palestine to go through this but as someone’s family who’s from Israel that’s heard all the terrible story’s I haven’t really heard what’s been happening in Palestine
RIP to all those who perished. You will always be remembered and loved❤😢
RIP?
You mean you can't type (or say) Rest In Peace?
@@stutzbearcat5624 I'm pretty sure they mean Rest In Peace
Shouldn't be making jokes and comments like that! Y'know I'd a great gran-uncle who died in one of those camps😑😑😑😑 was his own fault though, he got drunk and fell out of the guard-tower🤧
We should not forget the Anglo Boer war in the 1900 between British and the Boers. Many women and children died in British concentration camps in South Africa during the second Anglo boer war. 24000 women and 3400 children died. If it was not for British English women Emily Hophouse more women and children would have died.
And they're conservative numbers, unfortunately winners are the ones who get to write the history books 🤷🏻
Dont forget one thing the word ' Apartheid ' is a Dutch denomination and try to find a translation. In any language we use Apartheid, so who is the bad guys here!!! 😂😂😂
@seanthermes3707 It sadly is totally true !
@@frankvancauwenberghe9529 What point are you trying to make?
I understand your point . All lives count and should be remembered
In high school, we were able to meet 2 camp survivors. It is one of my greatest moments of my life. Feel sad for future generations that will never be able to meet people that actually were there
Why don't you visit a hospital burns unit?
Ignore ignorant irrelevant comments that try to minimize evil. I appreciate your comment and the feelings and sensibilities they portray.
@@Rampart.XYou are a VERY sad person😕
@@luananana4679 and you have no soul
We might be seeing this again soon. 😢
Here’s some more info I found on the meanings of the different color triangles:
Red triangle - political prisoners: social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, gentiles who assisted Jews; trade unionists and Freemasons
Green triangle - convicts and criminals (often working as kapos)
Blue triangle - foreign forced laborers and emigrants.
Purple triangle - primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses (over 99%) as well as members of other small pacifist religious groups.
Pink triangle - primarily homosexual men and those identified as such at the time (e.g., bisexual men, trans women) and sexual offenders as well as pedophiles and zoophiles.
Black triangle - people who were deemed asocial elements (asozial) and work-shy (arbeitsscheu), including Roma and Sinti.
& the green triangle capos were also German
Thank you for posting this.
wait why would they imprison socialists when they called themselves socialists? I thought they didn't like communists
What about Black people? I’m assuming Black triangle or Blue.
@@petertea2393since they weren't the focus of the Germans cleansing it was a "little" easier to be black. Sure you you had to deal with sterilization programs and the Nuremberg laws. The minimum of blacks that were sent to convention camps were at least 2 dozens, but there are several cases that they were allowed to join the Wehrmacht
So amazing that these printed records survived. Thank you for helping these dead souls speak for themselves. Don't forget that prisoners had their numbers tattooed on their arms. This was a way of dehumanizing the prisoners, taking away their names, and turning them into mere numbers. I live in Canada and I have seen the arm tattoos of many people as I was growing up. I always had to fight back tears. I can't begin to imagine the horrors that these brave people endured. Yes, yellow for Jewish people, and pink for gays. NEVER AGAIN.
The numbers were a way to identify and track them. The system was developed and ran by IBM.
@@12yearssober
IBM?
Goddamit!
@jimifash
Absolutely true. Research the corporations and banks that helped them launder money. Prescott Bush the father to one president and grandfather to another was involved and had to pay out alot of money to avoid prosecution for helping them. It's a very interesting rabbit hole once you start looking into it.
They are still being used today by our corporate Paperclip overseers😢
@@PatBly-zb3dkexactly, you just keep your number card safe somewhere.
Thank you for bringing light to this and not letting this tragedy be forgotten
What does bribing mean😭🙏
@@CoolCoolsoCoolI think they probably meant bringing. Autocorrect can have a mind of its own at times.
Now their descendants are killing Palestinians
Yes it's bribing 😂 trying to distract from the genocide going on in Palestine
Glad you said *_bribing_*
You accidentally spoke the truth.
This breaks my heart
I worked at a psych hospital in the late 90's. It was in westchester ny. We had some floridly psychotic patients come in, and one had a large amount of bugs on them. After delousing, i felt absolutely contaminated. I went to the mall and had my head shaved as i was going to meet up with a girl after work. When I came back, multiple dr s and social workers said i looked horribly intimidating. A dr who didn’t usually come in said, "he looks wonderdul, and you know who he is. Stop being obnoxious. With that, everyone was silent. I said thank you. She patted my leg and stood up. As she did for the dirst time, i noticed the tattoo on her arm. It was the dirst time i saw someone with a concentration camp tattoo. I have to admit. I nearly burst into tears. And im not a cry in public kind of cat.
This should be taught in all schools
We must NEVER forget😢
They bothered us at school about it until we got sick of it and then we forgot about it.
Stop the genocide of the Palestinians by Zionists if you are truly against genocide
@@r.westerling4280lost your crayons 😢
@@bobbytreetop1701tf kind of kid wants to sit down and learn about death camps all day
Many seem to have already forgotten that the majority of prison camp guards were Ukrainian's.
I could never understand how anyone could treat anyone else so unfeelingly. Hearts of stone.
7 oct !
@@jpcaretta88476 Oct. 5 Oct. 4 Oct... ad infinitum😢
@@jpcaretta8847 yes, it still happens. The "religious" are oftentimes not that all.
No hearts, horrific monsters!!!
Spiritual warfare has been happening since satan was cast from Heaven . There are many demons running the world .
The horrors those people endured…..
And now their off spring are doing the exact same thing to another set of people. Go figure.
@@Z.S1992 I don't think you've read much history
Well, the red triangle is back in use across the West...what a proud achievement...
And now the same people are doing the same thing to Palestinians
@@Z.S1992Losing a war that you started does not make you a victim.
Also, a pink triangle to designate that a person was homosexual. Pink was worn by many men before WWII, but afterward the color was stigmatized and often still is today.
Which is absolutely stupid, because it used to be the „princes color“ (red for the king and light red for the prince).
I’m surprised they didn’t mention that in the video. I saw the pink triangle and was like, oh hey! That’s the thing!
@@colonizedgrain4034nice rage bait
Thanks For The Info Charlie Hendrix! I Never Heard That Until Right Now! Shalom And Amen!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤❤❤‼️
@@jennyh4025you mean princess?
Makes me so sad to see what people went through 😢
Still are in Gaza 😢
@@userfile007Not the same in the slightest.
Hanas did that to the Palestinians. Did you think they cared about those people? What did they think would happen? Israel would just cry? No. @@userfile007
Not the same but worse. All those innocent children were murdered, and the Z can laugh while murdering them.
Worse in many ways. Fish in a barrel. @@Beowulf__
I was stationed in west Germany, 1986-88, I went to Dachau
Did you go to Gazza?
I visited Dachau as well.
@@Lisamarie732 it was a spooky place. When I went it wasn’t to see the prison, I went to the Dachau dark beer fest, because I was 18 and didn’t know anything.
@@CaseyMullin🤣😂🤣 that’s awesome. Did you get a t-shirt?
Oh wow you were there in 86-88?!? Im sure you have stories. You should write a book about your experiences in the camp. Id love to read it.
The film ' boy in the strips pajamas ' (slow start ... but....) a movie that really made me go whoa* and has never left my mind.
Amazing movie‼️
As soon as I read the name of the movie, I remembered the awful heartache. Beautifully told, so sad.
I'm haunted forever from that movie. What a horrifying time in history.
Reality check up indeed.😮
Yeah, I've watched it and it was very sad. I wonder if it's true, and, if that made his father, or anyone who authorized or participated in such terrible things, to think differently about what they were doing to people.
Before this I only knew of the yellow triangle/star and the pink triangle thank you for sharing this!
I knew none of them. And I couldn't understand the last 6 or so words she said!
Jehovah's Witnesses had the purple triangle and yes, it was more than horrible what happened to the prisoners. People try to deny it happened or that it was justified. None of what happened in those camps was ever justified.
@@jacquelinedavis6607 I know I had to listen to it a few times myself. She said a second yellow triangle meant imminent death.
@@madelinedelvalle3666 Oh, wow! Thank you for being so kind.
Thats actually very interesting, thank you for the information!
Let her talk about what happening in palestine
Lies again? Careers jobs to poor people
@@Muslim_YM.26 You only care about Palestinians while there's actual genocides happening around the world. Look at Myanmar, China Syria and Sudan. It's been happening for years and none of you ever said a word.
Wow, that penciled picture at the end really hit home.
So horrible.
My greatgrandfather died there in Neuengamme, november 1942, he would have worn a red triangle.
I'm so sorry 😞.! That's so sad 😢
Very sorry for your loss, so tragic.
The Reds killed millions!
@@aimeekrieg9932 thank you. Indeed. I visited in 2016, very moving experience.
@@mariaguadalupedominguez89 thank you. Indeed. I visited in 2016, very moving experience.
Thank you for keeping history alive!
Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.
@@Gamma-wu2fjpeople know about this and some still want it to happen again. It has happened since too.
This is the only good reason to film a tiktok at a concentration camp
Tik tok sucks
I can think of other reasons of filming at work camps
@@drpillz6985aside frim education? Pls, do tell about other good reasons to film at *death* camps.
@@tanyaglover4129 what death camps?
@@drpillz6985Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
Und das heißt
Erika
My great-great-grandfather was actually a prisoner in this concentration camp for not wanting to fight in the war. He and his brother escaped from the frontlines but while his brother had the 'excuse' of marrying his wife, he himself didn't have enough reasons not to fight and was sent to Neuengamme. After the war, he died of a sickness he caught there. A few years ago I visited with my class and before that my grandma told me about this, makes the topic even heavier if you know your own family was affected.
@Daydreamcaged Thank you for sharing this with us!
Escaped the frontline? How wasn't he shot for desertion?
@@patta8388 he didn't escape literally right from the frontline, he escaped while he was supposed to be at the frontline, probably from the camp (I'm not sure what it's called in English, sorry)
Thank you for this video This was Never taught to us...
I felt like this was all pretty common and well-known information. It’s interesting to see all the commenters that are just learning about this
🤔 sometimes you can get old and forgetful. Esp if it never happened to you. Or maybe it was never told to that person before. While it was pretty common that they wore a Jewish star on them. Knowing they had taken others to the camps etc. I wouldn't have immediately known what or how they classified the rest. You learn as you go through life.
There will be MANY that don't know things related to this. Older generations maybe yes. The younger ones possibly not. The full extent of their crimes are not usually shown. The war was a long time ago.
We must continue to teach this to future generations. We must never forget.
I learned about it every year, this and black history. I didn’t learn who Martin Luther was until I was 19 years old, but I learned about Martin Luther Kang every year in school.
@@kungfoochicken08 racist
@@zombies4evadude24 🤷
I never knew there were so many different patches that could be worn. Great video.
Thank you for watching. Glad to educate on such a sad and sensitive topic.
And yet there is a growing number of people saying this is all fake 😒😞
Because it is. Sometimes the truth hurts.
@@DragonBourneyour fallen ancestors are ashamed of you
@Jasonwithadot Do you honestly believe that any of the 18 year old draftees who were torn apart by machine guns making beach heads in France would prefer America today over Germany, then? Blinding yourself to the consequences of your mistakes is immoral. We were wrong. Our mistakes have likely destroyed everything good in the world. We were the bad guys and all of these kooky stories are told to try to justify what we did and the power structure that arose after.
@@DragonBourne Meme
@@DragonBourneLet me guses europa or greatest story? Which I have watched both and debunked them.
Thank you 🙏 I thought it was just the yellow star. Very informative!!❤️
There were so many groups treated badly. An officers wife ended up in there. She was killed. They were ruthless.
Thank you for telling their story.
We’re learning about this in school!
A good thing. Bad things like this should not be repeated!
@@janetmalcolm6191They’re happening right now in Palestine and China in much larger numbers than what happened in Europe.
@@kungfoochicken08Not much can be done in China. Who can regulate them?
It is so sad, what people had to go through. It brings me to tears watching this. It is unbelievable, how badly people were treated.
Thank you for content that makes humanity better.
🤗
Purple triangles were Jehovas Witneses
Neuengamme is the name of the former concentration camp she is in. These places must be remembered
It says in the video.
Pretty sure everyone in Israel already forgot!
Never forget, history Never repeat,God bless their souls
Gotta love german matculousness, efficiency and attention to detail.. 👀 very technical
I was at an army barracks in Scotland recently called Cultybraggan where they had a N@zi uniform on display, it really was a thing of beauty, so well tailored, silk lining, immaculate stitching. Makes sense to learn Hugo Boss designed them.
@@Little_Sidhe I thought they just manufactured them
Wow I have never learned this. This should be placed in history books.
For Germans all other countries know that.
It already is.
Even in most accurate movies about Nazism, if not pointed out and explained, it could be surmised and confirmed.
@@petemavus2948any movie that you can suggest?
hahhahaha damn those americans
Other symbols not discussed in video - Circle under the triangle meant flight risk and line on top meant youre a multiple offender. If you had "relations" with a Jewish person youd get a triangle for that too
On top of my sadness I'm also angry that there are some people who deny any of this ever happened and not even out of shame. How blinkered does a person have to be? We don't forget...ever!
Nowadays people are even demanding that it be allowed to happen again
@@jonathanwilliams1065
It is in the middle east
@@calicojack928 and people cheer for Hamas for some reason
Agree 😢
I'd like to see this complete broadcast.
Be sure to also visite other concentrationcamps. Not all camps are looking the same. Neuengamme ,Hamburg is a good place to start diving into this historic event :)
The sad part of this is it happened and people have forgotten what hate does. 😢
That comment makes absolutely no sense.
Yes. Always remember so it never happens again.
ALSO, HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT ITSELF, IF PEOPLE FORGET OR DO NOT BELIEVE IT EVER HAPPENED.
@@karenplante2593There are concentration camps in Palestine and China right now. There’s a good chance you own something built by a Chinese prisoner.
These camps are just used to silence any criticism of certain ethic groups that advocate for the destruction of everything European people stand for.
It was a working camp.
and a death camp
Nah bro they had swimming pools/j 🤣
@@LTPhantom451How did so many survive, and why aren’t we allowed to audit the number of dead?
@@kungfoochicken08 only around 300k survived. Mostly because the ones that didn't die were used for slavery to support the war effort. And the audit of dead is just silly
The men with the pink triangles were treated the worse
Why?
@@pissyjorts3993 pink triangles were for gay men
@@levy9595 yea i learned
Not worse than Jews. Many were allowed to take on positions of power within the camps.
@@Blazdragon34 they threw beans at the homosexuals to see if they would explode
Being held against your will. Beaten and harnessed, some lived a very short time doing manual labor until they died from being beat for not working fast enough.
Let us never forget who they were and what they went through. Thank you for bringing this to light.
Great educational video. Seeing it done by DW fills me with joy. Good to have German people on the good side of history this time around :) Germans should be proud of themselves, not about the dark history but how You overcame it.
Thanks, I think many of us are. Not proud to be German (that’s just luck), but proud to be an active member of a society, that learns to acknowledge and learn from its past and strive to a better future.
@@jennyh4025that's actually funny because as someone being born and growing up in Germany, I find it shocking how horrible the country has become and what happened during covid. I don't see how anything has changed, or how people have learned anything from their mistakes at all!!
Very very sad situation! God bless all of them and their families
What a beautiful German voice. I could listen all day.
Scares me.
Thanks I was looking for more examples other than the pink triangle and the star of David
My great Grandfather was in the Wehrmacht
Where did he fight?
@user-hn7iv9bh8o Operation Barbarossa, I wasn't alive at the time but my family has pictures. He was a part of history.
Thank you for sharing this information
My grandfather died at a concentration camp.
He fell from the tower.
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
Und das heißt
Erika
Very, very interesting. I never knew about this practice.
Had a neighbor growing up that served in the army during World War II in Europe and his outfit liberated a concentration camp I don’t know which one but he said that to himself I’m gonna be nice to everybody I ever see he was always nice to me. I never knew that he was in the army during World War II, I heard about these stories after he had died
Those with pink triangles were likely persecuted by other prisoners, but never those who wore purple triangles, who always tried to be kind and supportive....as they could be anyway. Interesting because the Bible that they followed so stoically, condemmned homosexual acts. Acts, not the people.
Why are you acting like Jehovah’s witnesses didn’t hate the gays? They were just as hateful towards them as any at the time. If not more than say, an atheist.
It’s so heartbreaking and sad to know that human beings went through this. Hate caused all of this. May all the souls of the victims rest in peace. The was one of the darkest times for humanity. It’s unimaginable to think what they went through.
Still people believe in this ?
what
Typhus.... Food shortages......
It's good to keep the stories alive! Education of the young is the only way to keep this cycle from repeating itself!
Never knew that. I have read a great deal tho. Thank u so much. Blessings
Thanks for this.I badly needed it
Talk about the Holodomor now 🙃
It's not the oppression olympics
DW is a German public news outlet from Germany. I think they do have enough work to do with explaining Germany (past and current).
Still the Holodomor is part of the cold war in which germany greatly partake in, as it is one of the reasons it existed in the first place
I will look for a site that explains all that. Thanks for the idea.
@@jennyh4025problem is, the Germans never learn and are in full swing to revert back to the horrors of Socialism for a third time now
We also need to understand that IBM was directly involved in tracking all of the prisoners using card reader technology. It started out with their expertise in census taking. This naturally translated to categorizing all of the different Jews and where they came from. It also tracked their heritage.
Purple triangles
The situation is much worse than that in Gaza right now so better focus on present than past
Look up how the treated the purple triangles
Are you a sister?
Yes, purple triangles were used to identify Jehovah's Witnesses. As Jehovah's Witnesses refused to bear arms in WW2, they were taken to concentration camps.
I am a sister too. I just left a comment about the purple triangle and Jehovah's Witnesses.
@DoIgopyatWhat's a "cult" ?
1st to be sent to the camps in 1933,long before the war officially started, were Jehovah's Witnesses because they refused to take up arms against their Brothers from any nation.
Thank you for this information brings to light how more awful practices of the ungodly regime of a mad man .What a huge and tragic loss for the world 😢. I am not Jewish I am a Christian from the US .
I'm currently staying near Belsen.
Every day I can't decide if I should go there or not.
My parents were liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany by British troops on April 15, 1945.
Thank you, troops!
Thats where Anne & Margot Frank were...😢
@@aimeekrieg9932
Yep!
Unfortunately, they perished just a few weeks BEFORE liberation from typhus & malnutrition! 😢😢😢
@@aimeekrieg9932
My first stop in Europe ever was Amsterdam so I could visit the Anne Frank House; the family's hiding place in the attic for two years before someone exposed their secret hiding place! 😢
They would sometimes gun down U.S soldiers who were put in the camps as a PO. It was a dark war but it has brought people closer from hating a common enemy.
The labels system was also supported by the IBM computer system which played major role in helping SS to run the camps
Those were not just numbers, those were catalogue numbers in IBM system leased to the /l/azis. Those number were in line with the labels.
Imagine being able to switch mood’s because of a colored shape? Those people were truly psychotic
Isn’t that what happens today. People representing themselves with colors, symbols, and pronouns
@@ki641 no, it's more like when your God used colors right after he drowned mankind to remind him not to use the flooding one more time and to use something else
@@leonidas130 OUR GOD You Neanderthal
That’s what they want you to believe, they weren’t all psychotic whatsoever
No they weren’t psychotic they were absolutely normal people!! No different than you, I, and anyone else who walk this planet!! They didn’t have horns or fangs, most were married with children they were loving family members…
These horrible places must never be forgotten. How evil people can and will be must be shown to help prevent this in the future. I toured Manzanar in southern California's desert, a horrible place with sad wind.
We can’t let this ever happen again 😢may they Rest In Peace 🕊
Hopefully it never does
I mean technically it is in China but instead of targeting Jews they target Muslims
Sorry to dissapoint you but in the 90s the serbs had a concentration camp. camp omarska. It shocked alot of people when it was discovered. War makes animals of some people.
@@kkemp221 Concentration camps still exist. People just don't know about them because of high security.
For example, Guantanamo.
Yet Weimerica here we come.
AND WE THINK HOMELESS PEOPLE GOT IT BAD.
Thank you. If we forget history, we will repeat it.
The irony of that statement
In 1978 as the dependent of a US Army father our middle School in Schweinfurt Germany had a class trip to Dachau. The photos if how the people were treated caused me to have strange dreams. The smell of the unwashed people was still strong in the wooden barracks they were kept in. We were shown the gas chamber, the ovens used to cremate, labs where the experiments happened, and the guards quarters. Humans can be so ignorant and heartless to treat each other and earth like trash
Source: trust me bro 💀
It’s true though
@@knight9907 🧢
Was passt dir nicht?
Everyone needs to inform themselves about this time period! Ignorance of history is no excuse, information is easily accessible to anyone!
More consideration than Isreal gives to Palestinians
Stop making everything about palestine
How could God have let this happen? I struggle with that. I struggle with all hatred and evilness. My heart hurts for them.
I’ve always felt strange about having a German name in America even though my family was here well before either world war.
Why?america is populated by immigrants from every nation😏
Please don’t feel that way. It was the downfall of a terrible political system and it’s leader, which does not speak for a large percentage of people and their ancestors or descendants, like you, and me. Prussia was also a great nation of religious conscientious objectors -Mennonite farmers especially.
You are entitled to hold your head up. 😉
just tell 'em you;re "pennsylvania dutch"
Don't worry about it most people today don't know anything about it ,unless your last name is Hitl@r
Every single person on this Earth needs to go visit the remains of those concentration camps at least once in their life. It is vitally important for us to never forget the atrocities perpetrated on human beings by other human beings. We can't let this kind of thing be forgotten.
Were you there?
They also used tags to house them they didn’t want political prisoners mixing with others it’s so horrible.
Very sad so many lost souls 💔 😢
And now neo nazism is on the rise. Humanity never learned
😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
Some people are doing some things today, and history is rewriting itself.
The pegs through the cards is horrifying. They were never leaving.
That was the usual thing in archives and libraries, very useful in fact. Actually the cards were removable, once you took out the drawer.b
I hope & pray that history never repeats itself what suffering that these men, women & children went through was pure evil, may God bless all the souls who never made it mat they rest in eternal peace🙏🌹💔😪☘️🇮🇪
Jehová Witness. What triangle they got.?
@joselopez1544 The Nazis used the purple triangle as concentration camp badge to identify Jehovah's Witnesses and few members of other small pacifist religious groups.
Purple
Militaries commonly use profession/specialty badges as well as unit markings to identify members, so it's not unexpected they would follow this practice with prisoners. Your license plate on your car identifies your state of residence and possibly county, as well as parking stickers which can identify your social status/employment. So it would appear we have more in common with these prisoners than we realize.
I don't know why this is on my feed. But I feel like I owe the ones who suffered, to watch them.
😏🤦♂️do some actual research
That's because your emotions are being used to subvert your mind. It's a trick. Stop falling for it.
Very thankful for the story