Holocaust survivors in post-war Germany | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2023
- May 1945, Germany. The Nazis have been defeated; the concentration camps liberated. But tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors remain in the land of the perpetrators. DW tells the story of their struggle to rebuild their lives - and the present-day campaign to keep their memory alive.
When World War Two ended in 1945 with victory over Nazism, millions of POWs and slave laborers were able to return home. But for around 50,000 Jews freed from concentration camps, there was nowhere to return. Deported from their eastern European homelands by the Nazis, the Jewish refugees now found themselves in camps for Displaced Persons run mainly by the US Army. One of the largest DP camps was in the town of Landsberg am Lech, in southern Germany. Between 1945 and 1950, it was a ‘city within a city’, home to up to 7,000 Jews.
The DW documentary ‘In the Land of the Perpetrators - Holocaust Survivors in Post-War Germany’ meets survivors of the Shoah liberated near Landsberg and later housed in the DP camp and in the town. The survivors tell of the fate of their families and their own attempts to rebuild their lives. But as 94-year-old Jakob Bresler, who survived 11 concentration camps and ghettos, recounts, ‘What was normal for us, wasn’t normal for the rest of the world. We were disturbed children.’
Life in the DP camp was marked by the trauma of the Holocaust, the search for family members, the need for education and professional skills - and the yearning to leave Germany. Over time, the world found out more about fate of the Jewish survivors. As New York historian Atina Grossmann describes, the DP camps became a global political issue.
The film also exposes what Germany called the ‘Zero Hour’ - the term used to imply a radical break with the past after the war - as an oft-questionable attempt at self-exoneration. In the town of Landsberg in 1951, for example, a solidarity rally attended by local residents called for ‘Christian mercy’ - not for the victims of Nazi tyranny, but for the Nazi mass murderers standing trial in the town and facing the death penalty for their crimes.
In the Nazi era, party officials in Landsberg had built a huge concentration camp complex for almost 30,000 prisoners, most of them Jewish. The film also accompanies Helga and Manfred Deiler, a married couple from Landsberg who have spent the last 40 years campaigning for a fitting new memorial in their town.
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As a kid I was in displaced persons camps in Coburg, Ingolstadt, and Regensburg. Came to Canada in 1949 and have had a great life here.
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Bless you.. עם ישראל חי
U must have family members terrorizing stealing palastenian lands
How do u feel about today's political scene in Canada? I'm very interested in hearing from a person that actually lived in hard times.I'm younger but feel like we're heading towards a very dangerous situation of authoritian regiem
Tell us how Canada/you treat indigenous people. White passing privilege.
My uncle was at Landsberg concentration camp before he was liberated so this particular video holds personal significance for me. It struck me that so many years after the holocaust, local townspeople still oppose a commemoration of the Jews that were murdered.
I hope he passed on to you his experiences and wisdom.
I am also amazed by this. It is not a good look for the German people, the fact that they are effectively blocking this crucial place of knowledge, remembrance, and lessons for everyone.
What an amazing man to still live where there are such selfish people and tragic history.
They were enemies of the country, so they got punished for siding with Stalin.
I've just seen your comment. We are very interested to hear more about your uncle. I'm Helga, the one you can see in
the documentary..
@manfreddeiler1641 my uncle survived a number of concentration camps he told his story to the shoah foundation.
He must have been high on something😅
when I was in school in the uk, some of the boys brought in a holocaust denial leaflet, and we had this monk who for some reason was a part time religious studies teacher and he heard about it and talked to the headmaster . And he gave us a talk , and the monk it turned out had been a British tank commander who took part in the liberation of Belsen .he brought in photos of himself in uniform. And talked to us for over a hour about what it was like dead bodies everywhere people just dropping dead
his experiences of the war he had seen a lot of action and mainly Belsen had made him have a belief in god and eventually to becoming a monk , anyway it had had a big effect on him , its a pity more people couldn't have heard his talk or that we didn't record it this was in the 1970s.
No British troops liberated death camps, only Russian soldiers
That’s so interesting to read, I can relate to this a little, it sounds like we may be a similar age. The young are so susceptible to this sort of thing and sometimes they just need someone who knows to put them right, as a young teenager on the football terraces of the late 80s and 90s we were often targeted outside the away ends by supporters of the National front and similar groups, we would keep the little cards they gave us in our wallets because they looked cool with union Jacks printed on them and we were wannabe mods. The monk sounds so interesting, thanks for posting.
very interesting - still folk who would claim never happened (despite them viewing Jews as deserving it - their view makes no sense of course as Nazi language was eliminationist anyway - but if they can persuade people it never happened, then thats the ultimate insult to the dead). No better than paedophiles who try and tell us that they love children and anyway, the kids are happy to go along with it
@Christopher Jacobs Your type of comment is so old, tiresome, and obtuse that it honestly does not even merit a response.
@Christopher Jacobs Have you been to Israel and seen how the Palestinians are treated?
My uncle survived Osterode work camp and came to Canada after the war. Thank you for this video which aligns with his experience.
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My parents met and married in the Landsberg DP camp. It was the beginning of their new life that took them ultimately to California where they raised a family and became proud Americans. They were among the only survivors of each of their families in Poland and their survival followed years of suffering in ghettos, concentration and labor camps including Warsaw, Lodz,
Auschwitz and Dachau. The memorial and museum currently being established in Landsberg is of extraordinary importance as part of the documented history of the Shoah and its aftermath.
I'm a little but floored by quote of the woman that said 'Americans are barbarians to make us look at this.' I am so sorry for this man having to hear these words after everything he had seen and experienced. What a fascinating documentary. There must be so many stories that will never be told.
I am disgusted by the comment. But I have seen a few things that have also floored me, regarding some similarly distorted views.
It's the same self-delusion as an American saying the Black slaves wanted to come here, or any of a number of other idiotic things too many Americans still believe.
she was right. Do you blame every single american civilian for the millions that the US army have killed? do you blame innocent civilians for all of the illegal invasions, bombings, sabotage, attempted coups, crimes vs humanity etc?
I have just decided to commend you again for your comment AND the 38 people who have so far given it the thumbs up.
And every story is totally different
Such a great video. My parents met and started a family while in Landsberg DP camp. Thank you to the creators for the ongoing efforts to document this important part of the Shoah story.
Far too many perpetrators were not held to account. It’s simply awful that the survivors continued to be harassed after liberation.
Because we went straight into the Cold War. Not much time for reviewing the past as we prepared for a future war.
You received so much more than so many others have. How can you still feel entitled enough to continue to complain, without acknowledging how others are treated and what they have to accept?
Time is short for the last of the living who suffered due to the Holocaust I find it very moving to listen to their troubles and their struggles. Great documentary .
I consider my civic duty to watch documentaries such as this. To know, and not forget, to pass on such terrible knowledge is important to seeing to it such horrors never happen again.
@@MomMom4Cubs yes, let us remember never again to stab another country in the back, to push them so far that they defend themselves
We need to make Germany suffer more for the people of Israel
@@MomMom4Cubs I was told by 2 people before they died, to "never forget".
I have listened to hundreds of survivors. I admire them beyond measure.
I have seen hundreds of hours of History documentaries. A bit fanatical, but I find it very helpful knowing about human behaviour, and what to expect from humankind.
@@barbsmart7373 they say never forget, but in Israel they keep killing Palestinians with no regret at all
The DW documentary sheds light on a poignant and important chapter in history, revealing the struggles and resilience of Holocaust survivors in post-war Germany. The efforts of the Deiler couple to create a meaningful memorial exemplify the ongoing commitment to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten. What a thought-provoking and moving documentary.
It’s so hard to think that they have to fight for a memorial!!
It is a complete abomination that there are people who want memorials for the perpetrators!!!
They don't deserve a memorial. They t
Betrayed their countries, so they were punished for siding with Stalin
High praise and kudos to DW for making this important documentary.
Meh
High culos to DW.
It AMAZES me there are still Holocaust survivors still alive to this day. My grandfather fought in WWII. He was on the European front. He died a LONGTIME AGO. 💯
It hasn't even been a hundred years so what is so hard to believe?😢😢😢😢
The Greatest Generation, survivors of the Shoah, liberators and first hand witnesses are passing away. It is up to us to honor them and teach future generations the destruction caused by hate and racism. The time to stand and be counted is now. 🇺🇸🙏🇮🇱
Some psychologist ironically said that "the Germans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust". You can see an example of this logic here in this video.
How can we donate to the memorial foundation? It seems even today they get little support from the surrounding community
I was on a volunteer historical project at the former concentration camp in Neuengamme( Hamburg). It was organised by a German organisation in cooperation with other EU countries. During the two weeks we were talking to German high school graduates, their relatives, locals. They confirmed that in their homes "the topic" wasn't common to be discussed, in some cases NEVER discussed! The group rather learned details from these educational sessions around the memorial.
It's been a life changing experience for me to spend 2 weeks in a former concentration camp!
Of course it is a very overrated topic. Why would you feel sorry for those traitors? They were not loyal at all to your country
Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful humans, thank you for all you do in educating us and keeping the memories alive of what reality was like for you and all of those involved ❤
Thank you for so much new information.
amazing documentary- the survivors are few now, may their memories be a blessing
The utter cruelty of humans and the Nazis. You can feel the survivors pain. Is that town council and those involved really doing enough for the memorial. All politics.
Same being done elsewhere today by so called 'civilised' countries
It was not cruelty. It was punishment for treason
Phenomenal efforts in producing this remarkable documentary. Thank you!
Thank you for this, DW and all who contributed.
Even though, as a German, I was taught the history of WW2 in school in the 70s and 80s in great detail, the history of DP camps was new to me.
Remembering, educating about, and honestly confronting this dark stain in our history can make us, as a nation, guardians.
The opposite can easily make us perpetrators again, as we're unfortunately already seeing in some parts of German culture.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
The darkest period in your history is actually the post-WW2 period. Liberal democracy has destroyed Germany to a larger extent than both World Wars
What parts of german culture are you talking about. I am really interested
@@markuss4133 The AFD and other right-wing organisations and their followers.
@@markuss4133 It's not limited to German culture. Where ever ignorance prevailes, where ever people are closed minded or will not accept differences of opinion, culture, language, or anyone different than them.
It start with ignorance and fear of the "others".
That must have felt almost Impossible to start over after experiencing something as horrific as the Holocaust. BRAVE isn't the word. Pray for ALL the survivors of the Shoa.
Thank you so much for this story!! I knew almost nothing about this part of the war. Thank you for telling these important histories!
Beautifully done. Thank you so much.
It's important to remember and document these stories for the future generations. Thank you.
Yes, but let's forget about the Bolsheviks who started all of this.
@@doomguy510 🙄
@@TheStockwell Never forget what the Zionists did to the Russian people during the Marxist revolution and what they continue to do to Palestinians and the Middle East. They lead the wars in the Middle East, not the US military.
@@TheStockwell Yeah, people defending their native lands from exploitation. Can't blame efficient people for being efficient. An honest Zionist will tell you that they intentionally promulgate micro, exclusionary economics.
why didnt the world stop them before the tragedy became global ?
Grrowing up in Landsberg county, I remember the city slowly coming to terms with its dark history during my childhood and teenage years in the 1980s and 1990s. When my mother went to high school, WWII and the Holocaust weren't mentioned at all in history lessons.
This is one of the darkest time in human history.
It was one of many, it holds such significants because of how recent it is. So many horrific times get lost in history. I think people in more recent years understand the importance of recognizing and remembering so that hopefully nothing this horrible happens again
...even though it is. China and the Muslims that no one really wants to address
Thank you for posting this very important film!..peace be upon the victims!
Amazing documentary!
Todá DW, shalom aleijem.
Thank you DW, peace be with you.
They deserved to be punished. They betrayed their own countries when they sided with the wrong side. Europe is a better place now thanks to German intervention
The Kaufering complex of concentration camps at Landsberg were liberated by the 63rd Division, 7th U.S. Army among other units. My grandfather John M.Shoemaker,Pfc served in the 253rd regiment, 63rd Division( attached to the 44th Division for Operation Norwind), 7th Army. He was seriously wounded in combat on April 8th, 1945 at the Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher in the drive into Germany; so, he was not at the liberation. He earned CIB,Bronze star for valor, bronze star for service, purple heart and presidential unit citation ribbon among other medals. The 63rd Division have been recognized as Holocaust liberators by the National Holocaust museum in Washington, DC. Never forget! J.R.S.,Jr.,Esq.
And as he proved, they were not death camps. Otherwise the inmates would have been all killed. They were essentially prisoners camps.
To all the American servicemen and women that came to the UK to fight and to help, I'd like to share my profound and lasting thanks. Theirs is an unmatched legacy.
@@Hartley_Hare they were pretty useless. The Americans and British were Stalin's puppets, so they deserve no respect. They offered me once that stupid red poppy, I refused, telling those veterans were all murderers
A fantastic documentary. Thank you! Such dedication from the German couple fighting for the memorial. You are both making history.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
DW has some of the best Documentaries out there.
What a wonderful couple. I hope the memorial is built. I find it shocking and shameful that there isnt one in Lansburg
Wow. Just wow. This told a side of history I've never heard before. Thank you for this, one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long, long time.
What an amazing documentary. I am the grandchild of holocaust survivors. After the war, my Bubbie was in a DP camp in Salzburg, while my Zaddie was in Vienna. I got Austrian citizenship in 2021 when Austria amended the law. While I am happy to have received it, I feel like Austria still has a long was to go in terms of remembrance. In that regard, Austria can definitely learn from the efforts of Germany. The fight continues.
The stain on our honour will never go away.
What fight continues? Check your Whyte Privilege and stop complaining and move on with your life.
@@richardfloridaman Sorry, but nobody is " white". Some weather fenotypes are piggy pink. We all descend from East Africans and I am sorry to inform you ( I am not sorry) that " races" do not exist, and anyone who knows about human evolution knows this. If someone chooses to ignore that then that someone is a racist.
The fight continues because the fight against discrimination is universal. Against " racial" discrimination of any kind ( no matter the skin " colour") and above all against discrimination because of class. And if people in the US listened to the only sane polititian, Bernie Sanders, there would be a chance for all people who suffer to unite to fight injustice. This nazi race theory bullshit the US has going on is hindering, not helping. There are no races, and saying there are is playing into the hands of those who benefit from working class being divided. If you have any idea what " left" means.
@@richardfloridaman have you ever talked to someone who survived the concentration camps? I did. Have you ever visited a place like Auschwitz? I did. If you experience racism in your life and around you I feel very sorry for you and you have my solidarity. But your comment is highly inhumane. Understand that knowing and acknowledging the crimes during the Shoa directly leads to fight all injustice and crimes against humanity, wether due to color of skin, religion, gender, sexuality or else. Greetings from Berlin, Germany!
@@helge. I talked to people from Bosnia that survived the war in the 90s. My moms family survived the war in Bosnia. I have family that was killed. I’m half Bosnian. Go talk to current survivors of current wars.
Shocking that German youth can be unaware of Germany’s dark cruel & evil role in the Holocaust.
Suprising , some people choose to focus on a positive, & hope filled future, than a past they have zero control over.
@@Joseph-lr3lt Keep it up and you'll eventually repeat it.
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@@resireg6 million people, including people who were not even Germans, including little children, were all traitors?
You’ll believe anything won’t you?
DW, this is excellent piece of documentary, as always!! Keep it up, please.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment:)
Heart breaking documentary 🙏🙏🙏 such horror….
This was a great documentary
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Most people clearly hadnt learned a thing or felt any remorse. Very sad.
As a World War II veteran, I can say that my friends and I did a very good job in the war
On which side did you fight?
@@Red1Green2Blue3 for canada like, yaroslav hunka
@@user-hx7sk5ms2m just checking not German lol
The Germans never ever get rid of these bad image.
unfortunately
Great documentaries DW makes. If I were Jewish and I went through a horrible experience as the people in the Shoah did I would NEVER return to the very country that tried to destroy my people.
I should like to think if I were in that situation that I would be strong enough to go back. To defy that cruelty.
@@zoeolsson5683 defy what? Antisemitism is still very much alive in Germany. Why put oneself through that. To each their own I guess.
"mercy"!!?? What were those people thinking of when asking that??!! That's so insane, the meanness and hate continued for so much longer after the war. So much evil gathered in one nation.
and what does that nation does upon others?? What did such nation did to Palestinians , Christians living in jesuralem and others???? Did they hug them with ammo??
Kudos to DW for this critical and highly moving documentary. Germany had a glorious history for many centuries, including being a relatively welcoming and liberal home for Jews. Sadly, however, the Nazi era turned the vast majority of the German nation into a heartless and brainwashed people, with sick racial theories that justified the most bestial conduct in human history. Both my late father's and mother's entire families were brutally murdered in Auschwitz. Naturally, it is not that easy to just flip a switch and give the entire nation a heart and mind transplant overnight. But unless the German nation teaches its youth the truth about its past, and the public comes face to face with the harsh and unvarnished truth about their past - which unfortunately must include many of their parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts who had a hand, directly or indirectly, in this horror, Germany will never truly break free from this gruesome past. It is only the rare heroes like Helga and Manfred Deiler, who offer Germany a real chance to break away from this evil past. I wish them success in their heroic endeavor.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
Germany hasn't been a country for centuries
@@Stephen-lx9nm Germany has been populated by he Germanic people for over 2,000 years, and it is their nature and behavior that I am discussing. Ashkenaz (as Jews referred to Germany) has been home to some of the greatest Jewish rabbis for more than 1,000 years, with the primary hatred and persecution of the Jews being perpetrated by the Crusaders (rougly 900 years ago) and the Lutherans. Whether they had independence or were part of some large empire is irrelevant to this discussion.
To think that 1000s of Landsbergians assembled in their town square in 1951 to show mercy to mass murderers (one such outrage of a human being killed 90K Jews), and then bullied the small contingent of Landsberg DP camp survivors with Juden raus. That two German women said in the hearing of a Jewish American vet… Hitler was right. The Americans are barbarians for forcing us to see [what we Germans perpetrated].
The Harrison report commissioned by Truman in 1946 told us our treatment of Jewish survivors was as bad as the Nazis, save the fact / extermination was off the table.
This news (including Gen. Patton’s execrable private smears of Jewish survivors - he, apparently like the two overheard German women seem to fault the Jews for their fate, for their dehumanization, for starters) only coming to my awareness in 2023 is mind-blowing. Yes Patton was not overtly disgusting (the above quotes were from a diary), but it tells us how much education was needed, and not known to be needed for 1/2 a century.
@@Stephen-lx9nm History wasn't your thing, was it? If you mean as a state like today, then it's true. But history is not like that, especially in Europe.
I cried.
It's so horrible how young men can easily be brainwashed to murder innocent people, and feel some kind of pride and sense of beloning with it.
As a young male myself, I think I have similar ego and impulse inside me, so I should always try to become less arrogant and cowardy, but more loving and courageous.
That’s what happening in Palestine now…..
@@ricecake4513 and russia is doing nothing of that sort?
Nobody was innocent
@@heikos4264 show us proof that Russia is doing what you say.
@@Shell2164 the standard copy and paste answer, well done.
how about you show me proof that they are not doing 'what i say'.
How about you show me proof that every single western intelligence agency that has an eye on this is lying!
How about you show me proof that 141 countries that are pointing fingers at russia are wrong.
tell me that the videos of bunker grandpa's Putler youth are fake. you know the videos that russians themselve proudly post, the videos in which they make kindergarten kids familiar with guns and make primary school kids do gun assembly competitions.
tell me that stuff like this proves nothing.
People like you 'Shelley', what are you even doing here trying to shut up anti russian comments with you cheap copy and paste one liners? EVERY time is see wannabe kreml agents like you comment you lose. You'll NEVER win the social media war because you never have real arguments and lies never prevail in the long run ;-)
never forgive, never forget
It makes me angry that these people asked for mercy for these murderers
A very small percentage of these savages were even prosecuted
Bless the Survivors, and may the memories of those who perished be for a Blessing. Bless Manfred, for his clarity, fastidiousness, and Righteous pursuit and 🤍
Nah
@@joshwaffen88 shut up racist
@@joshwaffen88 nah what?
@@justdontdie22 go eat Tacos, Mexican
@@justdontdie22 The "survivors" deserve no sympathy at all. They betrayed their own countries, so they were punished accordingly
Please add subtitles to your videos. It will be very helpful. Thanks
We, as members of humanity, have a duty to keep these survivors’ stories alive to be used to educate the younger generations. I experience the curse of ignorance on a daily basis. I’m a high school history teacher. I have 3 students in my class right now who don’t believe the Holocaust ever happened. The blame, yes blame, for this ignorance of thought rests solely on the backs of their parents. The only thing that I can do is to try and educate all my students on the history of the Holocaust and its continuing ramifications.
Great job again well done after all these years still things to discovery from those terrible times.
Santiago is a modern day ‘righteous among nations’. Never forget
Great journalism DW!
Just been getting into this subject so I’m happy this just come out 💪 rip to all the innocent
Excellent documentary. WE need more so we do not forget.
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All truly great people. I love Mr.Leitmann's articulate statements! Beauty....Full
Another good documentary doing by [DW]an amazing DW documentary channel
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The numbers don't add up.
DW should make more of this type of dokus about genocide. Great job done!
Ukraine 🙄
These people, the survivors .. Are the strongest of strong .. Keep speaking and documenting everything. Had to suffer the rest of their lives. But had a will to continue
I visit the Concentration Camp in 1998 in Kaufering Landsberg and was able to talk to a old german Farmer who came along.He told us that he seen how they took the death bodys out
In wheelbarris ,but he could never say that he seen it.He would have endet himself there.
it was such a great videos.
"Dabei bleiben a bissen länger", sir. I csn relate.❤❤❤
I'm sorry this happened. It should not be. I wish it did not happen. As one person to another, I wish you peace, some peace. I do not know what is best now, but I wish it for you and others.
I think a good way forward may be to help other people; both those you know and those you have no inclination to help in some small ways.
I did not want to watch this. I know some very small part of what happened and it is so dark and scary and more, it's hard very hard. But I watched this, so those with a personal interest in the story don't feel alone or unheard.
DW never ever disappoints it's viewers ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
DW documentaries seem more independent than their mostly censored news.
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I am a German. What happend is not my fault and I take no responsibilty for it! But it is my fault if I allow something like that to happen ever again!
Dann werd mal aktiv gegen das Jobcenter Hannover, die seit Jahren ungestraft Sinti und Roma massiv diskriminieren, verhetzen und kriminalisieren.
Wehre den Anfängen!
You are not a criminal if your cousin robs a liquor store. We are responsible for ourselves.
Today, in the US, politicians and activists make influence and money by assigning guilt for African slavery and the demise of indigenous peoples to White Americans without regard to the fact that they never personally participated in it. It's simply a political strategy or money making strategy.
@@Steelhorsecowboyyou are living in a victim complex fantasy
My ancestors had slaves and I would not be surprised if they killed Native Americans.. I have no guilt but will never turn the other cheek on fellow humans.
So what was the Havaara Transfer Agreement about then?
getting jews out of germany and it failed
Will look into
Thank you for this wonderful documentary
Thank you for watching :)
Source?
I was a dear friend from my neighborhood. She was/is, I don't know now. A kosher kitchen. She explained how it worked. I was brought up Roman Catholic. I didn't feel anything about my religion. Because of my beliefs, and my ex husband, we enrolled our children in the, "Hebrew Academy of Northwest Indiana". It was really situated in Illinois. This school was a private school. All Jewish holidays were acknowledged. Every morning was a prayer service. Kepas? Sorry for the boys. The kitchen was kosher. It was wonderful! The kids made shelters. Sukkot? Purim was soooo much fun! Hebrew lessons along with the necessary lessons. Some of the moms, me included, sat with a teacher to learn Hebrew. To write and speak it. Not any easy task!
Germany is doing far better to remember & not repeat their past, unlike Americans. Slavery was over 150 yrs ago. And we STILL can't come to grips with that horror! 😕
You are so, so wrong....
The U.S. fought a horrid Civil War for God's sake.
The U.S. got rid of slavery, and has made so much progress. Millions of people have come from all over the world to the U. S. to make a better life, and they have. And that includes millions from Africa, very glad to be here.
Let us not forget what was done to Native Americans, too - and the ongoing affects of poverty, addictions…..😢
@@serpentines6356"the US got rid of slavery" yes and germany got rid of nazism 😊😊 true heroic countries
We never forget what happened!
that's bs the world has already forgotten what happened because it's still happening all around the world. humanity didn't learn nothing from this sick period of history and that's a fact
I'm astonished Joseph is 100 years old, to think he's been through all of that, he's amazingly sharp and looks really well.... amazing
These stories are upsetting to me. But, I feel I must watch them. To remember all who were murdered. What a waste war is.
Sadly, the persecution started long before the war. Hitler had been in power for six years when WW2 started.
Subtitles would be better, the voice-overs don’t allow listeners to hear the actual words.
Tell that to the Germans
I try my hardest to watch these important videos. Especially because i have the upmost respect for the Jewish people. I admire them and see them as very, strong, intelligent, classy people. When i heard the man singing in the first part my God how touching and beyond beautiful. To see the man sad almost in tears makes me weep and my heart breaks in a million pieces
The big question is how do we stop this from ever happening again
People these 70 years later lack the knowledge of those terrible post war years while the world attempted to come up some sort of level spot to start again. So many orphans. So many homeless. So many refugees. So much personal trauma.
12:19 soon as i hear this i know that when he sees a displaced person he sees his dad an feels like if there was a chance an his dad ran that first peoples he sees treats him how he treats people.
It's incredible that Germans could see themselves as the victims. Absolutely flabbergasting.
Dude you people where stealing Indian children in the 70´s.
I see Germans as the victims too. They had traitors within their borders. Those guys were literally supporting the bad guys instead of their own country. so the punished and camps were deserved
I know
@@taliabraver maybe because they were the victims. There were traitors and saboteurs among them.. luckily most were punished in the camps
I wonder how many prison guards that American soldier shot when they liberated the camps.
The guards were mostly Hungarian, Polish, Slovakian, they were recruited among the local populations
@@resiregif they engaged in the cruelty I wouldn't care where they were from.
This was difficult to watch at times, it was heart wrenching, to watch the pain of innocent people. I agree, these people who carried out these heinous crimes were not human!!!!
Awww!!!!
@@juozassakavicius4726 No need to be so rude. I am stating an opinion. I'm not the enemy here!!!!!!!!
It was humans who did that! I think it is equally dangerous to dehumanize the perpetrators as the victims. It is important to understand that humans are capable of such things.
They were just defending their native lands from exploitation. They were just too efficient because they're German, haha. Zionists aren't innocent of anything, just delusional hypocrites!
I think that's what so sad is that there were human just like us.
Evil were the deeds so evil but they were human.
I speak both English and German very well and the translation of some of the German comments is very poor which is frustrating. I wish they would let people be heard in their own languages and used English subtitles instead. I would really have liked to hear their comments in their original language.
Keep making those documentaries. Only if remembering what is possible one can recognize getting on slippery slopes again. There is hardly any limit to how terrible we humans can be (as classical experiments have shown most of us). So constant eternal vigilance is required in defending enlightened liberal (that is basic freedoms and rights for everybody, at least universal human rights) civilization. Most humans are just a few days away from becoming monsters if circumstances change that way. Some only need minutes.
Personally I would like to see more discussion about the role of religions (and I mean all religons) in this kind of dehumanizations, in this case both Christian churches relevant here at the time with far less paganism sprinkled into it than some Christians would like to convince us. I find it hard to imagine constructing such a kind of certainty in identity to justify exterminating the supposed other without it. Yes there are a few cases of genocidal leaders in history, but I doubt we have any who made it work without providing religous identity frameworks for their movements -- or labeling the others by it.
Well put but Stalin did just as many horrors not in the name of religion. Its ideology thats the problem
This is all just stories. The truth is far, far away from what is going on here. So in essence, this is evil because it hides the truth.
Yeah, people defending their native lands from exploitation. Can't blame efficient people for being efficient. An honest Zionist will tell you that they intentionally promulgate micro, exclusionary economics.
@@sharondanya Such as Zionism. Oh the irony of the hypocrites.
Your interests and the interests of the Christian culture seem not to have many common points
Dark chapter in human history.
To this day, I cannot fathom how this happened..I've been to Jerusalem and toured the holocaust museum...it affected me emotionally like I could not imagine...Hitler and his minions, and there were many,. Were incredibly disturbed phycopathic reptiles...what blows my mind , is that there were so many .bad bad bad..so so sad..I'm not Jewish. I am nothing and don't have an inclination to belonging.....thank GOD..
It is 2023 right now. Anyone who was 20 in 1945 is 98 now. How much responsibility would a 20 year old be expected to have at age 20? How many perpetrators can be left, especially out of an age group that suffered such high death rate due to the war?
49:08 😭 I couldn’t help it. God bless him.
What a great documentary, we can never let this go, as our part of history , to prevent, from ever let this happening again !
Do you people know who Putin is and what's going on in Ukraine 🙄
Kidding, right? Like it has not been perpetuated by the self-proclaimed 'good guys' all over the world ever since?
It remains incomprehensible what happened. Even more incomprehensible how so many Germans did not stand up for an attempt at reparations, but for the SS men. It is beyond belief and I am ashamed of these people in my country. Thank you to the kind people who are working to come to terms with this time. There is no excuse for what happened, even God cannot free anyone from this guilt. I wish the bereaved all the best. It is incredible how strong and wonderful these people are. Thank God there were also people like Willi Graf, you should also watch documentaries about him and the Weisse Rose so that you do not lose faith in humanity.
The same has been happening ever sibce in other places, away from Europe, at the hands of these 'liberators' - the world seems to have justified or put up with it somehow, pushing it out of consciousness. Nazism is alive, just under different guises.
@@resireg enjoy ur immigrant filled, climate obsessed paradise.
I just hope that all of these HATERS gone be in the court of our GOD ,and have to face our Lord..
There's an old saying in my ethnic language: "Lupul își schimbă părul, dar năravul ba"
In English, although not 100% accurate, it can be translated as: 'The wolf may change his fur but not his ways"
It takes multiple generations of open-mindedness, uninterrupted and uncompromised education, and a low degree of political propaganda to change people's minds.
As for repentance for past mistakes, unless people are willing to face the truth, raw and unblemished, we are bound to repeat the same mistakes, as history shows us so often.
Never underestimate evil.
In Lithuania the perpetrators were not even arrested. Neither the ones who had done the killings nor the ones who did the looting or took the houses of the murdered owners. I used to live among them, along with parents, who survived.
34:35 This man’s powerful words are food for thought.
Man's inhumanity to man.
Things happen for a reason, and we cant always predict how they will end up playing out
Displaced people suffer intolerably.
Humanity is inextricably tied to the need for space.
Safe space.
Even Israel isn't totally safe.
What to do?
Everyone wants to feel safe.
Go extinct. Simple as.
I met a holocaust survivor the other day. They're in their 90's, they looked great for 90's. It's incredible that these people were able to even keep going after The Shoah, it always amazes me the strength that some people have to just figure out a way to keep getting back up after horrific brutality. Like, if it was me I wouldn't have been able to cope. I would have curled up into a ball or maybe gone on a murderous rampage, but not these people.