Mauthausen Concentration Camp | Austria | Documentary | 2020
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2020
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This documentary touches a sensitive subject.
We tried to approach this subject as professionally as possible.
This abbreviation we did not explain in the video:
The SS or The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.
Video Production:
Wieke Biesheuvel & Alexandru Sava
Documentation & Script:
Wieke Biesheuvel & Alexandru Sava
Audio:
Wieke Biesheuvel & Alexandru Sava
Footage:
Alexandru Sava
Thank you for watching.
Watching this video brings tears to my eyes. My great-grandfather, who was a Serb from Croatia, was a survivor of three concentration camps in WW2 - a Croatian concentration camp known as Staro Sajmiste located in the Balkans, Mathausen and Dachau. He was a slave laborer in Mathausen for two years. From Mathausen he was transferred to Dachau, an extermination camp where he was until the camp was liberated in 1945. Fortunately, by the grace of God, he actually survived all of this and eventually returned home to his family. When he came home, he was 80lbs (he was 6' tall), and was unrecognizable to his family. He was barely able to walk and his liver had almost completely failed. The doctors said he has no hope of living in his severely disabled state, but he proved everyone wrong and lived till 85. In his life, he endured, the loss of all of his family, physical violence, phycological violence, starvation, and disease. He is living proof that the human spirt is unbreakable, in in the worst circumstances.
I am really sorry for what happened with him. Love and empathy for your family.
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My grandfather died there...from Crete island, Greece. I want to visit the place definitely some time in the future. Congrats for the video.
I am sorry for your grandfather. Be well.
God bless you
@@AlexandruSava Please Look Into The Fires Of May 16th 1189 YES The Village Of Mauthausen Was Burned Down By King Barbarossa
The use of a female and male voice back and forth was very effective and helped to make this more focused on the subject. Good job on a very difficult subject. I did not know about this place.
My wife and I visited Mauthausen while on a visit to Vienna. What was so weird was that the camp sits amidst peaceful surroundings of woods, lawns, trees that look so bucolic, peaceful...disguising the unbelievable inhumane horrific things that went on in that horrible place!
A sensitive subject presented in a very respectful way. Thank you. I recommend watching the film "The Photographer of Mauthausen" the story of Francisco Boix who saved hundreds of photos of the horrors of the camp as well as taking photographs himself.
The youths narrating the documentary did an excellent job, both in content and presentation
I have visited Mauthausen among many other camps. The stairway of death was hard to climb even unladen and with no guards beating you. The steps are deliberately built unevenly making it hard to climb them properly. They are different heights and slope one way then the other.
I first learnt of this place after reading the excellent book The Tunnel by Andre Lacaze, who was in a sub camp building the Loibl Tunnel, virtually by hand.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."
Every time I see a video of a former concentration camp, I am amazed at how nice they look. I know of the atrocities at these camps and I think there should be some small area dedicated to showing the horrific conditions that existed for the poor souls incarcerated there. And I mean designed in such a way to bring the conditions to life.
Mauthausen was primarily used for quarry work. Known for the "Stairway Of Death", where prisoners were forced to carry heavy blocks of stone up and down a tall stairway all day. Mauthausen prisoners were also used as forced labor at a nearby Mauser factory. The Kommandant was captured alive at the end of the war, but was killed while trying to escape before he could be tried.
This should be taught to all politiantions in the US. Never forget and never repeat it again. We should always learn from our history and mistakes. Human life is precious and we are all on this planet for a very short time.
In Canada as well. Many Canadian’s don’t even know that Canada did not let the Jewish refugees in, they where anti Semitic, less then 5,000 and sent also back a boot load of people to there deaths.
A camp which not so much is known about generally, compared to others - so thank you for this informative film.
Heartbreakingly sad subject. Your compassion comes through the video. Why are people so terribly cruel?
There evil that s y
Paranoia and fear, but Evil DOES exist too
Myself and wife at Mauthausen this week ... Have seen documentaries on World War 2 on TV could and was not prepared for the overwhelming shock and horror and deep sadness I felt 😱 ... On reverence book I on behalf of myself and wife wrote ....."Let us never forget .... Man's inhumanity to man" may all victims at Mauthausen RIP 👃➕.
Peter from Anne comes to my mind every time
I would so love to visit this site. It has such history connected to it's name. Evil history, but still history. This camp was known for exceeding the evil requirements to include working inmates to death and freezing them to death as well. Such an evil place. So many poor souls were put to death behind these walls for what? For being born a certain way. A person has no control over the environment for which they are born. A person is born into a Jewish Family, or born with a disability, or born with darker skin, etc...... One can not be blamed for being born!
Darker skin?? You mean like the Africans from Senegal that live unrestricted in Hamburg???
Excepting not being able to marry a Anglo. But then again, while it wasnt illegal in most places, it certainly was very rare in that era
thank you for this video - what happened here must never be forgotten, and since it is so far from what most people can imagine, it is very important to recount this again and again!
The system of extermination camps is a crime within the crime of the war itself, an unimaginable breakdown of civilization and humanity. This happened and could happen again unless we recognize the patterns soon enough.
I recently was concerned from our past pres.trump.
He reminded me of what Hitler must have been like when he first gained power of course in a modern way as the refugees from Mexico. IF he was in power any longer lore and more people would have fallen out of favor
Why it took so many years for my government army
To come to rescue these poor people it took years and I don't understand why...I'm sorry it took so long...the horror still exists in mind Nd I wasn't even born yet...
@@margiemistretta8885 Americans really saved Germany and Europe - also the way West Germany was put together after the war is truly fantastic!
I am German myself and even though I grew up during the cold war my childhood and life so far has been very peaceful, happy, and with so many opportunities I would certainly have never had if the Americans had not been such an amazing influence on the way post war Gemany was put in place.
Can't thank you guys enough!
I hope that things post Trump continue to move into a brighter directon again!
@@margiemistretta8885 I was also worried about Trump, there were some parallels, especially aligning his own power with thugs in the street, the extreme polarisation, the twisting of truth and so on.
But I think compared to Hitler Trump was too much of a childish narcissist, I think Hitler, Himmler, Göbbels and Göring were much smarter than Trump. I am still very happy that he is gone now. I often feel the US democratic system is still under attack though - by media bubbles, by massive lobby groups and by the enormous financial interests of a few.
But at least there is a president now who makes whole sentences and does seem to say good things .. .
@@margiemistretta8885 It took so long because THERE WAS A WAR GOING ON!
Great job!
Although the subject is extremely sensitive, you made this documentary in a very professional way!
Thank you! ☺️
Thank you for showing us this video but it’s a horrible horrific place
RIP to all the people who died here
It’s been so sad listening….
There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with ... homo sapiens.
You SAID it!
It’s the conditions all animals are put in. It’s not just humans, all animals are the same.
@@LKaramazov Except that we strive to create these conditions over and over again ... where as environmental resource scarcity triggers violence in chimp clans. We should know better. Most of the guards were probably Catholic and perhaps religious myths instill the fear and hatred necessary for such cruelty to seem justified in their minds. Same for the First Crudade-ers who took the time to massacre 5,000 Jewish subjects of France along the roads to Jerusalem ... before they even crossed the boarder on their way out of France. The Inquisition was Catholic. Columbus was Catholic as well. He must have also lost his moral compass along the way.
It’s a topic I ponder often.....
It appears that evil is contagious to some people, one rotten apple and the whole barrel is rotten before you know it.
Thank you for doing this documentary and for posting it!
Thank you.
Forget the monsters, but not the victims. Never never forget the people that died. So sad. Hopefully this will never happen again
It already has over and over where have you been
Unfortunately many of the victims that died during the Holocaust have been forgotten because nobody is left to remember them since their entire family and all of their friends were also killed. Yad Vashem has been really good at putting names to many of the faces of those that had been murdered but sadly, they've had to acknowledge that not every victim that perished during the Holocaust will have the same respect.
Why is mauthausen so well built compared to other camps? It looks like a castle from the outside
As far as I understood, they wanted to build something big that can be seen from the town and of course to be "attractive" for people who want to get involved in the security (for example young men who thinks to join the SS - the garage area and the executive officers building were made to look good). "Ceremonies" of security newcomers (new SS young men) were held in the garage area (photos can be seen on internet). They made that so the new ones can feel that they are important and they somehow do a service for the country. (basically: manipulation)
Most of the Nazi camps were built by slave labor from the inmates themselves.
Mauthausen is right next to a quarry, and the extreme work there, also carrying the heavy stones on people's backs up from the quarry was one strategy of working the people who were locked in at the camp to death. In many Nazi camps, the imprisoned people were starved and killed simply to make room for new arrivals.
As someone said - in Auschwitz, the "product" of the camp was an industrialized mass killing machine to extinguish the tens of thousands of Jews and others who were constantly brought there by train.
In Mauthausen, the main product was the building of the camp itself and the death of the imprisoned people.
In both cases, the forced labor and living conditions of the victims were designed in a way that all would die sooner than later. Of 320000 prisoners, only 80000 managed to get out alive.
Yes with slaves with rocks on their backs building it being slaughtered if they fell or killed for the fun of it!!!
I was thinking the same thing with regard to modern structures. Except for the living conditions, those buildings looked kinda nice.
Hi hope you are well?
Never Forget!
I don't live far from Mauthausen. What a terrible place. Even today. it's said that we have learned from history. today i'm not so sure anymore.
I look at the world today, and can't help thinking we've leaned very little from this horror. Perhaps ignorance is the destiny of mankind.
My mother , a courier for the French Resistance in southern France, was imprisoned in one of Mathausen's sub-camps from September 1943 to May 1945.
Incredible video, thanks . I actually have the quote from the beginning tattooed on me, I found it on a wall on a trip to auschwitz-birkenau
I am so glad you made this! So many do not know about the brutality of Mauthausen.
Nicely done and with great care......
What I did not like about the documentary, is that you give the "befehlsnotstand"-excuse that much worth. It is proven by documents that the lager-kommandants, as well as most of the other staff was there voluntary. It is also proven, that most officers who didnt want to participate anymore in the killings were able to switch to more adminastrative position. The cruelty inside the lager was encouraged and was increased voluntary. Also, the people around mauthausen did know what was happening inside. Besides that, a gread documentary. Very good choosing of pictures, also a very good narration.
Even if u knew wtf could u do wage war lol if u even spoke against it u would be in there
Always funny how English speaking people know everything better instead of the People who made it through that history.
Yes people knew there were kz. But the civilians didn’t know what happened there. There were only speculations and war propaganda about what was going on.
And those who worked inside kept their mouth shut....
@@mrtrizzle3653 Nö, bin Deutscher. ;)
But it is simply not true, that the people did not know what happend in mauthausen or other KZ. There are documents showing that and also testemony. Even my grandparents knew what happend in the KZ close to them. People did know that many people die there. Maybe not specific in which way they were killed, but the signs were obvious and the rumors wide spread.
What a horrible time and place to be alive. Very sad.
Whats coming will be worse.
@@utharkruna1116 What,is THAT my friend??
You may dont believe... but I have feeling that i was prisoner of this camp in my past life (1941)..... I had scary dreams in my childhood... I remember this stair.. I felt brotherhood of prisoners....I felt hunger and someone gave me dry meat every day, i asked where you get it? he lied that soldiers gave him...later i realized that it was human meat.! ... I dont know is it true or not but in my dream, after working day all prisoners went up through the main gate and soldiers shout the people who were last... SS organized gladiators fights, forced people to kill each other. SS burn alive prisoners using gasoline. cut half alive using circular saw... smashed by large stone human alive!..... used sticks to break bones of prisoners who went up stair with heavy stone on back.
What is specialised shooting equipment?
Neck shot facility
I just received Mauthausen Documents from my great Grandfather. He survived, weighing 33kg at the point of coming to the hospital. He was arrested by italians in Slovenia. Still no clue what he did for being stated as " politically disobedient".
At 1:54, a monument appears which strongly resembles the MLK monument in DC. I'd be curious to know if it is the inspiration. Also, the names in the crematorium resemble the Vietnam memorial.
My great pop was a russian conscript that was put into this camp, bloke was 7” and was starved to a stick and never recovered, wasted the rest of his life in Australia with severe ptsd and couldn’t ever talk about the war
I understand there are lists within the camp of those who died. Is that list available via the Internet or through camp archives?
Yes, right next to the chamber room, is an entire room with the name of all those who died in there. I can't remember if there is also a book in that room, but might be.
@@AlexandruSava Thank you. We visited this site 2 years ago. My wife mentioned she saw here families name in one of the books - I freaked and asked if she wrote it down or had taken a picture. She did not. I am looking for a digital book of names. Thanks again
the majority of the rocks carried up the stairs weighted between 12 and 20 kilograms (30 to 45 lbs).
Can’t help but wonder if this was one of the camps grandpa helped liberate. He was in an armored reconnaissance unit attached to pattons 3rd army. He never did say much about his service in Europe.
Probably very traumatised by what he saw. I knew a Canadian World War II veteran who helped the British liberate Bergen-Belsen. Even before the dementia and Alzheimer's took him and made him a shell of who he was, he would get this haunted look in his eyes whenever he mentioned the horrors he saw and heard there. He said that there was a woman who was carrying a bundle of what he thought was clothing and was cooing over it. Much to his horror, he realised that the woman was carrying a dead baby that she thought was still alive. The woman didn't make it.
Heard from my mum who worked at the nursing care facility he had to go to that there were days his Alzheimer's made him think that he was still liberating that camp. Even when he no longer knew how to talk, you could tell that he was suffering because his mind was trapped in that very dark place and he couldn't escape from it.
I will never understand how humans can be so brutal to other human beings. I hope and pray I will never look at, or treat another person as sub-human.
Hello.. I was wondering if I could use som of this for a short film I created about a gay man in Mauthausen concentration camp
It's fine. You can use the footage.
@@AlexandruSava Thank you so much. We are fortunate to have a holocaust survivor David Lenga Is in our film as the main character who talks about his memories in the camp. I will of course give you a credit !!!
Good luck with your film!!
@@AlexandruSava thank you!
i remember going to this place in 1980.............disturbing to say the least.....walking through the gas chambers....living quarters.......so sad
MAUS the book about the Holocaust is set at Mauthausen
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This is very close to society today, only most people can not see the walls or barbed wire fences.
There is very little mention of the thousands of Soviet people who were tortured and murdered here. The usual one-sided view of the Westeners when it comes to the Great Patriotic War, or as they call it in the West, WWII.
Why would a member of the Wehrmacht be there? Did they finally realize murder is shameful?
Om shanti 🙏
visité en aout 1968, a l'age de 12,5 ans, par un ancien pensionnaire. Jamais je ne voterai pour lepen.
Mauthausen was a principal camp for Gay men. There they were tortured and worked to death. They were made to do senseless things like carry huge stones from one side of a road, and then back again until they collapsed. The Men With The Pink Triangle. Heinz Heger.
Most info I’ve read on the subject mention Auschwitz. I’ve always felt it important to learn as much as I can about the atrocities of the Nazi’s so I’m glad I came across this video. These actions started a chain reaction of terrible events that spread all across the world. Hell on earth
Besides being a very sad subject that Yes actually did happen is the fact that there are Americans here in America to this day that would like to have some version of this instead of democracy which makes me as a decorated disabled veteran extremely unhappy. God bless all of those who suffered through this living hell 🙏🙏🙏
and as a result of forgetfulness it will happen again
Imagine the thousands of people who suffered and died there at the hands of the Nazi regime. It sickens me.
It would be my honor.
Hitler was from Austria
there was rumors he had Jewish blood as well
Indeed he was, he also was Jewish on one of his parents sides. He actually couldn't speak German very well in the beginning of his rise to power. Mein Kampf basically told of his agenda to rid the world of "inferior" peoples. Unfortunately, many people didn't realise that, and discredited his writing........history might have been very different if his words were believed
Yes he was, but barely. He was from Braunau, which is a city split apart by a river which is also the german austrian border. The city is literally split apart into a german and austrian part.
Lucifer Thinking That He Will Overthrow The Pain of Christ!
@David Brazier reckless mischief; wild spirits.hmm..but to Overturn and Omnipresence that was Upon The Cross..in a way that relates to or conforms with a religion. "Lucifer" Was PISSED When, As Hillary Clinton! Did Not Win The White House! YOU KNOW What They're Planning..Rome REVIVED! Luciferace Readers ta Enter Into Business's unless We're Neo JEW! (but No Vaccine/DNA Altering For US!) Buying-Trading-Selling!
@David Brazier THERE LiveRightNow The Actual Person Wisely Absolutely Finding In All of It's Glory..Cool! what's the verdict! So MANY (evil) that Are now Wicked with no escape from Eternal Damnation!
The stairs of death..that's the only thing I associate in my mind when I think of Mauthausen..the stairs were implemented as a source of entertainment for the Nazis..too cruel to mention.
I am proud to be born English. I am proud and fortunate to speak English as my first language. I am proud to descend from a democratic culture. I am proud that my countrymen fought German and Austrian Nazis, Japanese Imperialists and Italian fascists. I am proud that Allied soldiers killed Axis troops. I am proud that the Allies won. And I am grateful that these poor people were eventually liberated from pure evil.
England wasn't ALWAYS democratic. Wasn't there something, you guys called THE BRITISH EMPIRE?! 🤪🤦♂️
@@Ujuani68 And tell me , which other country or tribe offered its lowliest citizens more than democracy than Britain offered its equivalent lowliest citizens at equivalent times in world history?
Lice were common.
Germany showing its Hugh level of culture and civilization to the world.
Fatherland blemished.
slnko ☀ ma svoju abecedu videl nezáleží kto kde nemá hranice
Cela devrait demoli
No! All the concentration camps should remain standing, and preserved, as a constant reminder of man's inhumanity to mankind. They are monuments to the precious souls who perished.......
Why. Not a humane place.
Вечная слава русскому и советскому солдату- освободителю. Вечная память замученным. Люди, будьте бдительны. Ю. Фучек. Писатель- антифашист замученный в концлагере
I can't read it but I could hazard a guess as to the gist of it.
In Russian but I know they feel like me
Юлиус Фучек был повешен в пражской тюрьме Панкрац , при местном гестапо.
Of course they are guilty of morder, anyone that collaborate was part of the mörder factory, what. Observation, stupid exclamation or question!
The Germans are such endearing people............NOT!
Ppl need 2 read KJB--revelations
Maybe your channel should be in your native tongue!
It is. This video was just a project for university.