AUSTRIA: WW2 MAUTHAUSEN concentration camp (Gusen concentration camp)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 май 2018
  • Mauthausen, Austria - the Mauthausen concentration camp (Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp) in Austria. Let's go visit the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (the Mauthausen concentration camp) which was the hub of a large group of German concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Gusen) in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres east of the city of Linz. The Mauthausen concentration camp operated from the time when Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich in 8 August 1938, to 5 May 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Starting with a single camp at Mauthausen, the complex expanded over time and by the summer of 1940 Mauthausen had become one of the largest labour camp complexes in the German-controlled part of Europe, with four main subcamps at Mauthausen and nearby Gusen, and nearly 100 other subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany, directed from a central office at Mauthausen.
    #Mauthausen #Austria #VicStefanu

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  • @kellymotion1674
    @kellymotion1674 3 года назад +27

    Vic thank you sir for again expressing this sad nazi monstrosities in the most respected manner you are always very clear in your narration and always mindful to be respectful i think your a wonderful kind person telling everyone of there slowly forgotten story may your voice be a constant reminder we must never forget so this won't be repeated!! Because sadly and unfortunately this is still very possible to happen again!! thank you Vic God bless you and your family. X

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +5

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @katherinebottingcouturekat5287
      @katherinebottingcouturekat5287 3 года назад +1

      @@VicStefanu ]]

    • @everdinestenger1548
      @everdinestenger1548 3 года назад +5

      It was insufferable and the worst is that the leftist world is repeating hystory with their cancell culture. God help us all.

    • @vunenicar
      @vunenicar 3 года назад +2

      2:20

    • @emersonsoriano7714
      @emersonsoriano7714 3 года назад +2

      Bbbbb. Hi

  • @AK-ju7ku
    @AK-ju7ku 4 года назад +12

    My grandfather has survived hell of this concentration camp . He arrived there 10.01.1942 , day of his 32 nd birthday.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 года назад

      My dad and grandfather was there as well. I so hear you.

  • @markwest1963
    @markwest1963 3 года назад +16

    My father was one of the 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron troops who liberated Mauthausen. Awesome video, thank you!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 года назад +2

      Your dad saved my dad and he is a hero 75118. Please write a book. Speer never should’ve been allowed to live for what he did. Roll call Appel was the hardest part of the day. It was freezing cold and prisoners couldn’t move. If they did they were beaten. Notice Germans or Austrians laughing. Tell me what has really changed.

  • @palignac
    @palignac 5 лет назад +57

    Thank you for posting this. My parents, Lajos & Iren Pusztay, were prisoners at Mauthausen from probably late October/early November 1944 until the camp was liberated by U.S. Forces in 1945. My parents along with all their co-workers at a factory in Budapest were sent to Mauthausen after the Nazis discovered the factory in Budapest was purposely making inferior products in protest of being under the thumbs of the Germans. My parents very rarely talked about Mauthausen because it was so horrific. The one comment that I remember both of them saying is that the Nazis routinely would take prisoners out to the Danube and execute them via firing squad and the bodies would then fall into the river. My father's section was informed that they were to be executed "in 2 weeks" but luckily the liberation happened just before their execution was to take place.

    • @palignac
      @palignac 5 лет назад +3

      www.findagrave.com/memorial/128938945/iren-juras-pusztay

    • @palignac
      @palignac 5 лет назад +3

      www.findagrave.com/memorial/191759401/lajos-pusztay

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +5

      Thank you for your comments. Please watch this video, this is exactly what your parents were talking about: ruclips.net/video/xo_6BIJawvY/видео.html

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +4

      Hi interesting, I read both of the biographies, thank you!!

    • @jhorne18
      @jhorne18 4 года назад +6

      Your parents had more courage than could ever be described. You share their honor by your post.

  • @shawndayvis6169
    @shawndayvis6169 5 лет назад +66

    You sir are providing a great service to all humanity...thank you greatly

    • @DAVEDEATH1000
      @DAVEDEATH1000 5 лет назад +6

      I could be wrong here but I think the machine you were puzzled about could be for treating clothing with Zyklon-B. I thought that because the doors look like they would seal tight when closed.

    • @keishawashington8276
      @keishawashington8276 3 года назад

      Amen

  • @davidwaddington9414
    @davidwaddington9414 4 года назад +46

    The chamber with a door at each end @10.30 would be an chemical autoclave, used for cleansing dirty and infected clothing.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +12

      Yes, thank you for the information!

    • @dqve11
      @dqve11 3 года назад +8

      Correct.. Auschwitz has the exact same machinery btw.. Just horrific and mindblowing to think that 'human beings'.. actually planned all this with great meticulousness, fully aware and determined. The evil devil does exists for he is among us.

    • @siggyretburns7523
      @siggyretburns7523 3 года назад +1

      I'll buy that.

    • @juliewillis7852
      @juliewillis7852 3 года назад +1

      Yes I remember that from another documentary, for sterilisation of clothes

    • @angelarac1554
      @angelarac1554 2 года назад

      Dirty people u mean, i dont think u understand the level pf evil that happens

  • @kathygodwin1132
    @kathygodwin1132 2 года назад +5

    I am extremely proud to know that my father was a platoon leader from The 30th Infantry, 3rd division who liberated this god awful concentration camp. He never talked to his family about it. We understand why now. But we are honored to know he helped liberate this camp.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +2

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @frankmuldowney7839
    @frankmuldowney7839 Год назад +3

    It was 2001, when I went to the Camp to become more educated what happened here. I was born in Dublin, Ireland, where we only hear of the mass buried graves in our country as our own history is mostly buried and no one want to discuss it. Coming to here actually helped, to see and experience the reality of it, which effected my soul during the day. I hadn't prayed for many years, but my visit there made it so clear to me and this time I did, giving me a different perception of the real world we are living in, still controlled by power. Thank you so much for this video, to remind me what I learned and focus on my own kindness and gratitude how lucky I am now today.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hello my friend, thank you for these interesting comments!

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 года назад +8

    The most famous Suvivor at the Liberation was SIMON WIESENTAL

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Yes, thank you for this information!

  • @katgkiri
    @katgkiri 2 года назад +4

    Thank you for the tour and your kind and thoughtful words. My brother found and sent your video to me. I recently started researching our ancestry. Our 85 year old father was a young child in Crete, Greece, during WWII and recalls the occupation. He lost two relatives, the first, a paternal uncle, who he knew was taken to a camp, and the second, a relative who was killed in am explosion at his home. This weekend, i discovered our great uncle is listed in the 'death book' for the Mauthausen camp and in US Holocaust Museum records.. he died a few months after he was taken there as a political prisoner, supposedly of sepsis.. it must have been horrible.. thank you sir for your efforts to share this part of history with everyone...

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +2

      Hi and thank you for your comments. Many Greeks died in Mauthausen, there is a monument outside the camp dedicated to them...

  • @jelenajm1160
    @jelenajm1160 3 года назад +9

    Thank you for keeping history alive with this video. May history never forget the poor people who suffered in these concentration camps, nor ever forgive those who operated them.My Serbian great-grandfather was a survivor of Mathausen, Dachau, and a Croatian and Nazi -operated concentration camp in the Balkans known as Sajmiste. He often spoke of the absolutely horrendous conditions in which the prisoners were kept in Mathausen and in the other camps.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 года назад

      I feel for you and your family. My father and grandfather were there, then they were sent to ebensee

  • @driekkus1
    @driekkus1 5 лет назад +39

    You explain it with respect of the victims my friend bless you....Ican hear it in your voice

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +6

      Hi and thank you for your comments!!

  • @alternativelight8424
    @alternativelight8424 5 лет назад +13

    Vic. The device that you are showing at 11:20 into the video is most likely an Autoclave. If so, this device would have been used to sterilize clothes of prisoners by subjecting the items to high temperatures and pressure, as well as steam. These devices are used in hospitals and industrial laundries. Thank you for your attention to detail and excellent photography.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +3

      Hi, thank you for this information and for viewing my videos!!

    • @heresjohnny1219
      @heresjohnny1219 4 года назад +2

      Yes it’s for disinfecting clothes they have more at autswitz 2

    • @stephanbateman5410
      @stephanbateman5410 2 года назад +1

      @@heresjohnny1219 Yes, they had them at Dachau as well. Used for killing of lice to prevent Typhus.

  • @timjewell5117
    @timjewell5117 5 лет назад +13

    Thanks Vic its so important to keep this history alive so it is never forgotten

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @tonybezanson9625
    @tonybezanson9625 Год назад +2

    Vic, I want to thank you for these videos. Very educational and interesting. I don't think I could set foot in these places without breaking down in tears.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +3

      I know exactly what you mean… Thank you for your comments!

  • @chawk1974
    @chawk1974 3 года назад +5

    Thank you for showing this. My father was in the 11th Armored division, 41st Cav Mechanized and one of the first to enter the camp. He spoke very little of that experience other than it was absolute horror. I was hoping to visit this some day but not sure that will ever happen. Thanks again for the tour.

  • @b.2221
    @b.2221 5 лет назад +26

    You have great courage Vic, and I could not visit a place like this in real life. Thank you so much for bringing these terrible place's to our attention. You have my gratitude and full respect Sir 👍 Tam.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +3

      Hi, thank you for viewing my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

    • @ssherrierable
      @ssherrierable Год назад +1

      There’s no ghosts or anything so you’ll be fine if you go, bring scooby-doo with you and you’ll find the criminals!

  • @ohevisrael
    @ohevisrael Год назад +4

    My late Mother survived this camp after being in Auschwitz for 6 months. She had already lost her parents, grandparents, sister and her 3 year old nephew and all but one of her Mothers 9 siblings. My Mother was traumatized for life.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hi George...Thank you for sharing with us these comments!! wow... I can believe how traumatized your mother was...

  • @annalapoint7156
    @annalapoint7156 Год назад +5

    Vic, I have studied the Holocaust for years! Have journals with photos from every camp! Thank you for being so accurate on such a horrific era in history!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +4

      Hi Anna, thank you very much!!!!!!!

  • @josefschmeau4682
    @josefschmeau4682 3 года назад +5

    One of the most moving videos ever..
    Your subtle narration graces the visit with appropriate dignity to the mindless suffering endured there.😢
    NEVER AGAIN !😩😩😩

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @TriciaSenior25557
    @TriciaSenior25557 3 года назад +10

    Thank you Vic for this tour, very respectfully done. I noticed those very large wash basins were the same as the Nazi’s used in Sachsenhausen. Apparently, even in there the guards or kapo’s would do harm to the inmates even to the point of death. These are truly evil places, but it’s important for everyone to see documentaries like this. ....not everyone has the means to get out there and visit these cess pits. God bless ya Vic!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hi Tricia, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @haileeraestout5567
      @haileeraestout5567 11 месяцев назад

      @@VicStefanu You Should Look Into The Fire Of Mauthausen In 1189 Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa Burnt
      The Place Down But It Was Rebuilt Into The Camp We See Today

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  11 месяцев назад

      @@haileeraestout5567 Wow, very interesting, thank you, I will check it out!

  • @sharoncarrier18
    @sharoncarrier18 5 лет назад +18

    Your welcome. By the way, I think your narration was great. Informative, but done in a very quiet respectful tone.

  • @mysterious838
    @mysterious838 4 года назад +6

    The silence of the camp area and your voice that emphasizing the facts really impressed me..
    I will probably not be able to visit this area on my own life but thank you for that amazing and detailed tour!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +3

      Wow, thank you for your comments!

  • @everdinestenger1548
    @everdinestenger1548 3 года назад +3

    As my father was in the Dutch resistance and taken captive by the Germans, he wanted me to understand so he mademe read everything about the Dutch Underground, the camps, the prisons and everything, I could barely read and I was only six years old. My father got tortured and went crazy in prison, our whole family suffered because of that. As so many millions did suffer.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +2

      Hi, thank you for this sharing with us this information and for viewing my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @grahamwarner4760
    @grahamwarner4760 3 года назад +3

    A very well done & respectful documentary of a place of ultimate horror, I particularly liked the way you stayed silent through the hall of names in honour of the people that were put to death. Thank you for sharing

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @mimilini1
    @mimilini1 4 года назад +3

    This is the best feature I’ve ever seen on Mauthausen. You give such respect to the victims and the the atrocities they bore. This truly is an amazing documentary about ombré of the worst concentration camps in human history.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @pnk878251
    @pnk878251 5 лет назад +9

    I love your channel. Thank you for taking me to these historically significant locations. I may never get to see on my own but appreciate your videos. I learn something every time I watch. Thank you so much

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hi, thank you for your wonderful comments and for viewing my videos!!

  • @mrssmith3872
    @mrssmith3872 4 года назад +3

    Yet again brilliant narration, beautifully scripted and done with such respect. You felt here what I felt when I came. It swallows you whole and if you sit still and listen you can feel them with you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +2

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @georgepolasky9809
    @georgepolasky9809 2 года назад +1

    Thank you, Vic, as always. This is one of your greatest video services. You presented magnificently, as ever. You are the best.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +2

      Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments! 👍👍👍

  • @barneyporter6138
    @barneyporter6138 2 года назад +2

    Thanks again Vic learning a lot of history

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @TippyPuddles
    @TippyPuddles 4 года назад +5

    Thank you for this indepth tour. I doubt that I will ever get the opportunity to see this in person. You made me feel like I had a personal tour and explained so well what I was seeing. Many thanks.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +2

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @Neal_Schier
    @Neal_Schier Год назад +1

    Thank you Sir for bringing this to us. You are so very respectful. What you do is a true homage to those who were lost. The horror of this is unimaginable and thus it is important that there are programs like this so that the world may never forget.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 😊😊

  • @pamcharles926
    @pamcharles926 3 года назад +2

    My grandfather, Clyde Hoffer, shot the locks off at that camp back in 1945. He said the prisoners would walk past him, skin and bones, barely alive with a blank stare not saying a word.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @christinemistretta7433
    @christinemistretta7433 Год назад +1

    As always thank you mr. Stefanu for the video as always the footage and information is well done and put together . As it is very pleasent to see an watch these videos for it very detailed . Thank you again an a job well done

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @gibsondrummer
    @gibsondrummer 5 лет назад +10

    Vic that is such a powerful video , i sometimes wonder how you can endure the overwhelming emotions of being in the very places where so many innocent human beings perished under such brutal conditions i know how important it is to present this material to the world so that nobody ever forgets what happened here and is still happening in such places as north korea , syria and other authorititarian regimes
    Thanks again for such compelling work

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад

      Thank you for your wonderful comments, and yes, it does get overwhelming at times, being in all these places and trying not to thonk of the horrors that were commited against innocent people..

  • @quincy737
    @quincy737 4 года назад +4

    at 11:30 the big metal door is the real gaschamber in the camp ie for killing buggs on beding and clothes. the gaschamber you show in the vid is cold storage for bodys b4 they were cremated to stop them rotting and to stop disease spreding if it was a gaschamber you would se the blue stains on the walls the stain its self once their cannot be removed by any means its permanent its from the zyclon-b if anyone thinks i am not speaking the truth just do a little research and you will se the truth for your self .. lld3r

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +2

      Hi, thank you for this information and for viewing my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @ednammansfield8553
    @ednammansfield8553 4 года назад +3

    Thank you Vic for posting this video and the commentary of what went on here. It really brings it to home the attrocities committed by the Nazi's. You did this video with a lot of respect and it is much appreciated. Thanks again from here in the UK.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hi Ednam, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @petert9110
    @petert9110 4 года назад +8

    Hi from New Zealand,i've been on a few trips with you so i feel like i already know you. Keep up the exploring.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +2

      Hi Peter and hello from beautiful Rotorua!! Thank you for your wonderful comments!

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 2 года назад +1

    thank again for another great video from vic

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      Hello, I am glad you enjoyed the video!! 👍👍👍

  • @lumr1976
    @lumr1976 6 лет назад +11

    A Good and very comprehensive tour. You did a great job explaining the details It was very sad, but we need to understand the evils that can lurk in man. I always appreciate your attention to details in giving context to history. It was sad to see what man is capable of doing to his fellow man through prejudice and willful brutality. Keep up the great work, Vic.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад

      Thank you for your interesting comments my friend!!

  • @instinctivechannel6668
    @instinctivechannel6668 Год назад +1

    I seen some of your other video sometime ago I like them done very real thanks for history learning curve.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed the videos!! 😊😊😊

  • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
    @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 3 года назад +4

    Never heard anything about this one. I knew there was thousands of camps around at the time but wow this is absolutely unreal to see this. Thanks for sharing. It's a shame we didn't learn this at school. We don't want the past to repeat and if we don't respect the past it will happen again in the future.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @galaxy7176
    @galaxy7176 5 лет назад +3

    Excellent narration.Thank you for this historical video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +2

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 года назад +2

    A very informative video of Mauthausen. You omitted the 76 steps down to the quarry which was why the camp was located there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад

      The steps (unfortunately) were closed on the day I visited, I was told that a tourist had fallen the day before..

  • @andrewrossi5434
    @andrewrossi5434 6 лет назад +1

    Very informative video Vic. Very well done. What a sobering experience. I will be going myself in December of 2019. Thank you for the explanations.

  • @novadhd
    @novadhd 2 года назад +2

    This was great thanks for presenting it . I hope to make it here to visit someday. My grandfather was liberated from the Ebensee subcamp.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @bonnie8441
    @bonnie8441 6 лет назад +1

    Excellent video Vic.Very respectful.You have such a soothing voice.

  • @susiepittman601
    @susiepittman601 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you for this profound video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @xxxxx262
    @xxxxx262 3 года назад +1

    Thank you wonderful videos!!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 2 года назад +2

    another great video from vic

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @bigtexan7562
    @bigtexan7562 2 года назад +1

    I visited Mauthausen in December 2019. It was easily the most distressing place I’ve ever seen. In the backdrop of breathtakingly beautiful rural Austria, perched on a scenic hilltop lies this notorious concentration camp. Vic did a great job, but didn’t show the haunting “steps of death”. At the foot of the hill was a granite quarry where inmates spent 12 hours each day mining stone and carrying it up the notorious steps to the camp. Thousands of emaciated prisoners died in the climb carrying 50+ kgs of granite at a time up the notorious steps. Also, Vic did show the toilets of the prisoner barracks - eerily, they still have a lingering foul smell of stale human waste, even after all these decades…

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍 Unfortunately, a couple of hours before my arrival at Mauthausen, someone (an older tourist) had fallen on the steps and they were closed. I was not even allowed to get close to them...

    • @bigtexan7562
      @bigtexan7562 2 года назад

      @@VicStefanu thank you, Vic and great job once again. Your explanation makes complete sense; a man of your diligence and sense of history would never have missed the steps but for the unfortunate accident you just mentioned. Keep up the good work Sir, kudos to you for keeping history alive and accessible. 🙏

  • @paulwaring5290
    @paulwaring5290 5 лет назад +17

    My uncle was part of the liberation.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!!

    • @samfisher2306
      @samfisher2306 4 года назад

      @Kristie C you are right. I was shocked with his comment tbh. Considering the video was regarding racism and hate. Unbelievable!

    • @Barbara-ld4ug
      @Barbara-ld4ug 3 года назад

      Your uncle saved my dad and enabled my life. He is a my Hero

  • @marig6184
    @marig6184 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for the tour.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад

      Thanks for visiting! 👍👍👍

  • @LL-sq8se
    @LL-sq8se 6 лет назад +28

    So horrific and sad, Thanks for the documentation..You are an amazing person!🕊️🙋

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад +2

      Thank you, thank you!!!

    • @shawndayvis6169
      @shawndayvis6169 5 лет назад +1

      Thank you greatly for your services to all mankind to see this horrifying place of evil....God bless

    • @joxp6971
      @joxp6971 5 лет назад

      Vic i went to auschwitz and dachau back in 1987 im still haunted today i am planning a trip with my son in dec to holland and poland, from sydney. Love your travel vids.

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 4 года назад +1

      @@joxp6971 back then, since poland was under communist rule, was fence still electified ?

    • @joxp6971
      @joxp6971 4 года назад

      @@geezerp1982 no it wasn't but it was totally uninhabited. Hope you had a good time in Sydney,all the best

  • @vistany64
    @vistany64 3 года назад +1

    Vic you have the best concentration camp videos very detailed and your voice is BEAUTIFUL

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +2

      Thank you!! 👍👍👍

  • @daylily-vj8cr
    @daylily-vj8cr 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you for shareing this video, very informative

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад

      Thank you, I am glad you found my video to be informative..

  • @TracyFenner
    @TracyFenner Год назад +2

    The machine in the basement was an autoclave steam sterilizer
    for clothes and items

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +2

      Hello, thank you for this information! 😊😊

  • @samthemacman
    @samthemacman 4 года назад +4

    Thank you for this video. This is one of the camps which Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, was a prisoner. A very good presentation. Thank you.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @garyjacobs2789
    @garyjacobs2789 5 лет назад +4

    Thanks for your sense of history. !

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Thank you for viewing my videos!

  • @mielies666
    @mielies666 6 лет назад +2

    Absolutely love your passion for history. I love history and wish i could travel like you..

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад +1

      Hello my friend, I love history and I am so fortunate to have been able to travel to so many places so far, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @scottburns8697
    @scottburns8697 4 года назад +1

    Awesome video. You do great work

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @Greywolfgrafix
    @Greywolfgrafix 4 года назад +1

    I greatly enjoy your videos, Sir!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @Lilia4102
    @Lilia4102 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the good video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @remembernoahtheflood
    @remembernoahtheflood 3 года назад +2

    Thank you Vic Stefanu for sharing your videos of these places where such evil took place. We must NEVER forget what happened there. Seeing the places in modern day times gives us a depth of the reality of it all instead of from an old black and white photo only. Evil must be stopped at all costs. Never allow it to take root.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @Barbara-ld4ug
    @Barbara-ld4ug 3 года назад +1

    My father was a prisoner there. My heart goes out to the people who were imprisoned and suffered.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your thoughtful comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @davidisherwood1816
    @davidisherwood1816 3 года назад +2

    Dear Mr Stefanu. I visited Mauthausen 35 years ago those 2 crematory ovens are SYMBOLIC. No one was cremated at MAUTHAUSEN in them. Just like the AUSCHWITZ ones, they were brought and constructed post-war. The single oven was there and 4 feet away another oven called the small cremato. It had all the appearance of a solid fuel central heating oven. Not seen on your video.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Ok, thank you for this information!!!!!!!!

    • @pliedtka
      @pliedtka 3 года назад +1

      Are you saying that Birkenau Camp crematoriums didn't exist? You weren't there in 1945 so how do you know.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      @@pliedtka I do not think I said that!!

  • @patriciahayes5666
    @patriciahayes5666 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you for taking me to a place in time that if the walls spoke, all the hairs on my body would stand with horror.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +3

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @skullduggery1096
    @skullduggery1096 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks Vic very emotive.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @xxxxx262
    @xxxxx262 3 года назад +1

    Great videos!!!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад

      Glad you like them! Thank you!

  • @maddogryan5799
    @maddogryan5799 5 лет назад +1

    vic another nice video

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone4351 4 года назад +2

    God bless & keep you always. These are places I had always planned to visit and cannot, as I am now disabled. You have made t possible for me to “travel” finally! TY TY TY! My heart will always be broken for this horrible time in the 20th century. 😢 I believe most of these barracks originally had dirt floors. 🙏💕✝️✡️🙋‍♀️

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @amandagarbett9085
    @amandagarbett9085 Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing your videos with the world of these awful places so we dont forget and thank you for the respect and dignity you filmed them with also remembering these people actually existed that they were human and bless them they suffered terribly .The information you shared with such dignity and respect was incredible .Munchausen brought tears to my eyes its not only keeping the stories alive but by sharing information people like me have never heard before it give people a real insight .I had heard of the slave labour but not in such detail or about the profit its horrific to think of it. However the truth needs to not only be told but be kept alive and this is what your videos do so thank you from the bottom of my heart

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hello my friend, thank you for these wonderful comments!

  • @jamesforbes6725
    @jamesforbes6725 5 лет назад +4

    Vic Stefanu your online videos are amazing and I would like to say that many more people need to watch your footage, look forward to many more and also can I send you a small donation?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Thank you for your wonderful comments.. Sure, donations are always welcome...

  • @harshdeep4171
    @harshdeep4171 3 года назад +4

    Sir I literally love the way you capture the moment in your camera roll it just feels like I am also there and experiencing the same dilemma . If it ever become possible some day I would also love to travel 😊 world .
    Last but not the least thanks for uploading such a great content in such a pretty manner and keeping the things simple 😉 . Love From INDIA 🇮🇳

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +4

      Hello my friend, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!! 👍👍👍

    • @harshdeep4171
      @harshdeep4171 3 года назад +2

      @@VicStefanu My pleasure sir

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +3

      I also wanted to say that the purpose of my channel is for the viewer to feel as if he/she was with me at the time of videotaping; you got this perfectly right, thank you!

    • @harshdeep4171
      @harshdeep4171 3 года назад +1

      @@VicStefanu ❣️

  • @paweltrawicki2200
    @paweltrawicki2200 5 лет назад +4

    My extended family member was there almost 6 years.He was captured by the the Germans.He was listed as
    a Political prisoner captured in Poland

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!!

  • @billkeon880
    @billkeon880 5 лет назад +2

    I visited this camp in 1992 and it was chilling to walk through it. The group of young people (late teens, early 20s) I was with were crying or dumbstruck and as we left we all sat silently for about half an hour after trying to take it all in as we rode away. No one could speak. No words

  • @ginagina9720
    @ginagina9720 2 года назад +2

    Just come across your video and no words can describe how I’m feeling watching your video it is just so upsetting knowing what the prisoners went through it was definitely “misery” and so cruel how people were treated RIP to all the people who died at this horrific place so so sad…thank you for sharing this video…

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +2

      Hello Georgina, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos! 👍👍👍

    • @ginagina9720
      @ginagina9720 2 года назад +1

      So sad for what people went though

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +1

      @@ginagina9720 Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @tvland2007
    @tvland2007 3 года назад +3

    Just looking at this, I can only image what the victims been through and the horror that they lived through! Its unbearable and sad! Thanks for the videos!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @suzib777
    @suzib777 5 лет назад +2

    I lived in Klagenfurt in 1979-1980. I'm not aware of this camp, and did not speak to any of my Austrian colleagues about it. My father flew B-17 during WWII, but he rarely spoke of his time overseas....a sad testimony to this time of history.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      It is a very famous site.. thank you for your comments!

  • @maureenjackson2041
    @maureenjackson2041 2 года назад +3

    Very informative video but very sad, I can't even imagine the unspeakable horrors the inmates went through, the inhuman treatment they endured it must have been hell on earth. This must NEVER happen again.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @bettyali9847
    @bettyali9847 Год назад +1

    Tears and pain I'm so sorry for what these people went through

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 😊😊😊

  • @rachelenglish1032
    @rachelenglish1032 4 года назад +1

    YOU'RE VERY GOOD AT THIS AND BRAVE TO DO THIS.God Bless you for all you do. Thank you. My great grandparents escaped from Russia and the pogroms. Your friend Rachel

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад

      Hi, thank you for watching my videos and for your wonderful comments!!

  • @abrilmedina9485
    @abrilmedina9485 5 лет назад +9

    The movie "the photographer of Mauthausen" On Netflix brought me here.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hi, was there a link to this video? I checked it out, I did not see a link..

    • @abrilmedina9485
      @abrilmedina9485 5 лет назад +2

      @@VicStefanu hello! actually I wanted to find out more about Mauthausen so I google it, and your video popped up. Thank you, your video was very informative. Greetings from California.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      @@abrilmedina9485 Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @jurandyrcarvalho2998
    @jurandyrcarvalho2998 5 лет назад +6

    Thanks for this video. I didn t know about this concentration camp. Aushwitch is more known in Brasil. It is a very informative and sad video. You did a good and corageous job Vic.
    Bie.

  • @brendamullins7491
    @brendamullins7491 4 года назад +1

    Your a wonderful tour guide

  • @unnamedchannel1237
    @unnamedchannel1237 3 года назад

    Just out of interest was the courtyard area paved or dirt back when it was running ?

  • @eliasmayer8122
    @eliasmayer8122 3 года назад +2

    When I was there I could have swear they are still there there was a strange feeling full of humility and honor that I was there.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

  • @Mimi-uu1ik
    @Mimi-uu1ik Год назад +1

    My fathers mothers brother was here for 2 years his name was Saul Hutterer May his souls have an aliyah

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      Hello, thank you for your comments!

  • @MaxZomboni
    @MaxZomboni 6 лет назад +11

    10:19 My guess is that it was an autoclave, but I could be wrong. This is an interesting video. Thanks for uploading it.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад +3

      You are right, thank you for your comments!!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +2

      Yes they are, thank you!

    • @donengland9140
      @donengland9140 5 лет назад +5

      Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures Vic, I love and appreciate your videos. I have no chance of visiting these amazing places. It’s just amazing. Thank you!

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Thank you again for your wonderful comments!!

  • @KaceyIlliot
    @KaceyIlliot Год назад +1

    at 31:32 later on they had to put a steel screen over the hole due to the victims were trying to breath thru it..that is so horrible to think what they went thru.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад +1

      I agree, what a horrible place... Thank you for the information too!

  • @jeffreyedwards609
    @jeffreyedwards609 4 года назад +2

    Very well done sir, all the best to you from Wales.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  4 года назад +1

      Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

  • @scott49140
    @scott49140 Год назад

    the room of names still gets me even now, really puts it into perspective dosent it

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  Год назад

      Yes... Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @Valeriaamaradei
    @Valeriaamaradei 6 лет назад +5

    Very sad !! but thank you for the show us !

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  6 лет назад

      Thank you for your comments...

  • @jessicamilestone4026
    @jessicamilestone4026 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for shining a light on this dark chapter of history

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍

  • @graemecouch5010
    @graemecouch5010 2 года назад +2

    Why in all pictures of the ovens isnt the chimney connected to them ?

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  2 года назад +2

      Read this article here: littlegreyrabbit.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/mauthausen-madness/

  • @MrJpartridge
    @MrJpartridge 5 лет назад +3

    you did not include the most infamous aspect of Mauthausen the notorious steps of death

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      The steps were closed at the time of my visit, a tourist had fallen on the previous day, unfortunately

  • @Lilia4102
    @Lilia4102 3 года назад +2

    Nice video

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Thank you!! 👍👍👍

  • @sharoncarrier18
    @sharoncarrier18 5 лет назад +5

    your video was well done
    I found it interesting & heartbreaking. I did not know the stairs of death and quarry were temporarily closed. However, I think you should have mentioned them in your video and perhaps shown pictures of them so viewers not familiar with Mauthausen's history could get the full picture of what these poor people actually went through. I still enjoyed your video and hope you do more.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Thank you for getting back to me and for the suggestions...

  • @Apseyboy
    @Apseyboy 5 лет назад

    Likewise very informing,thankyou.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  5 лет назад +1

      Hello, thank you for viewing my videos!!

  • @siggyretburns7523
    @siggyretburns7523 3 года назад +2

    You should find the night watchman and interview him on what he sees at night. Probably interesting.

    • @VicStefanu
      @VicStefanu  3 года назад +1

      Great idea.. 👍👍👍