Yes let's hope so Steve never to be forgotten. Although I think many young people aren't taught about the atrocities that happened in both wars. I wasn't taught about them at school and I'm 57. My elders never talked about it themselves.
Donald Trump and every right wing politician are avenues towards this human disgrace happening again. The right wing should have been outlawed after WW2. How many more times do we allow such vile scum to have such enormous power? Antifa has gotten a bad name in America and Britain. How has that happened? The same filth have even stained the word “Liberal”. Calling people who aren’t in favour of their evil politics “Libtards”!!!! Freedom of speech comes with a little responsibility. That’s what those right wing scumbags don’t get or want to get.
I can’t even begin to imagine how terrifying it must have been waiting in line and hearing the screams of people being gassed to death while waiting for your turn. That’s heartbreaking and unbelievably terrible that so many people could do things like that to other humans.
Auschwitz-Birkenau had 4-5 gas chambers disguised as shower rooms running 24 hours a day. I don't know how many Sobibor or Treblinka or Belzec had. But Auschwitz-Birkenau could easily gas up to 1,200-1,500 victims per gas chamber. That's 4,800 - 6,000 in the morning till the afternoon and then the SonderKommando would work the afternoon cremating the bodies in the crematorium. Then the night transports would arrive around 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm and the process would restart. Auschwitz-Birkenau would gas about 9,600 - 12,000 people a day and that's why Sobibor came in as the "Lowest" in exterminating Jews, Poles, Russian-Jews, Hungarian-Jews, German-Jews, Austrian-Jews, Dutch-Jews, Czechoslovakian-Jews, English-Jews, Italian-Jews. There were so many various Jewish groups and the SS couldn't keep track "who was who" I even found out that the Spaniards from Spain were targeted for extermination at Mauthausen concentration camp and Bergen-Belzec
A few years ago, I was gifted a DVD copy of Escape from Sobibor. When I sat down to watch it, I didn't think it was too great but kept watching it. As I did, the shock and horror set in. By the time I had finished it, I was sobbing but cheering on the escapees, shouting run! Get to the forest!
The movie trembilka (probably spelled wrong) I had to skip over the first scenes. I can't stand to see or hear anybody getting lashes! It really, really, gets to me. Those so called guards weren't guards at all. They were monsters. Real monsters. No way God created them.
Excellent. Accurate. For our “delectation”? No, definitely not for those who lived through those years. I am one of them. Watching your documentary is a deeply sad and angering experience, but I am very grateful indeed for the enormous amount of work you must surely have put into it. I had forgotten that Mr Pechersky (my spelling?) was Russian; imagined him as having been a Czech citizen. But the rest of it I’ve not forgotten. Many, many thanks.
I've been lurking for awhile now, and on this momentous occasion decided to tell me how much I love your meticulously researched work and dry sense of humor. I'll always be lurking and liking. Your stuff is so good.
I thought everyone believed this happened but I had a 73 year old man that said he didn't think it really happened because he didn't think people could be so heartless. I ask him if it didn't happen then where did all. Of those Jews go to?
Thank you for your videos. I have had a fascination with WWII and the Holocaust which began at age 12. I never understood how this could happen so I went on a quest to learn about it and I did a lot of research over the years. Anyway, your videos are very informative and detailed. I appreciate all of the time and research you did into making your videos. I saw many survivors of sobibor interviews throughout the years. They really went through hell and were very courageous to have gotten out of there.
I got to meet and chat with Thomas "Toivi" Blatt one of the survivors back in 2004 when he and several Auschwitz-Birkenau sondercommando survivors visited my high school. It was a very interesting experience and I first learned about Sobibor from that day. I was just cringing 😬 the whole time Mr. Blatt was talking about the SS administration at Sobibor. That's when I first learned about Gustav Wagner, Johann Niemann, Franz Stangl, Rudolf Beckman, Franz Reichleitner and their tormentous war crimes and crimes against humanity. I actually can't wait to watch this episode 🙌🏽
It’s crazy how Johann Niemann is the only reason we have as many photos of Sobibor as we do, well I guess more so his family who showed his photo albums in 2020. My wife is a huge history nerd especially with WW2 and the Holocaust. She enjoys your videos very much. Thank you for all you do!
My Bubbe’s family was murdered by Einsatzgruppen in Kovno, Lithuania. There were thirteen siblings, most grown with their own little children, plus her parents, and over-seventy extended family, including in-laws. My Bubbe (grandmother) and one brother survived. Two persons, out-of-over seventy. She, and her family, lived in Jonava, near Kovno/ Kaunas.
@@JaimeMesChiensThanks for sharing. You’re keeping history alive by telling your grandmother’s tragic story. Thank you and blessings to you and your family. ❤
I am so happy to see that the channel has been getting the recognition needed for the great and detailed content! Another excellent albeit chilling video! Let us not forget what happened at that time for it is meant to be repeated if we allow it.
My childhood friend was Sasha Pecherskys grandson. He was definitely the most intelligent and he also survived being run over by a bus. His name is Yaakov Pechersky.
I can only imagine the stories that Sasha told his grandson about his experiences in Sobibor and how he was able to help people escape from the camp. They of course were probably very sad like the testimony’s of many Holocaust survivors were.
Great video and an excellent choice for your anniversary video. Places like Sobibor are proof that evil is a real thing, and humans are perfectly capable of truly horrific acts against their own kind. It is very sad, but these things should be taught in every school so people really understand. Congrats on 40k and keep up the great work.
An absolute masterpiece. Excellent research, a brilliant narration and both a pleasure and privilege to be so well informed about a part of history that demonstrated the true spirit of man and their capacity to resist against such terrifying odds.
Extraordinary channel, absolutely incredible episode to honor your anniversary. You produce such quality work, it is always with anticipation for insight and knowledge that I watch your videos, and am never disappointed. I wish you’d narrate a history book on this period. Thank you for taking time and care with all of your research, and for putting these small masterpieces together, such important history cannot be forgotten.
So wonderful there were survivors, so courageous all 300 who tried to escape, and all those who fought in the camp to give them a chance, just knowing it was almost certain desth. So, 60 witnesses made it, so few, but when you look at what they were up against, a good number. Thank you, these events need to be remembered.
Absolutely there is a bloom of right wing political movements in the world who adopt Christian like themes JUST LIKE THE NAZIS did unfortunately they whip their followers into frenzy over issues in the long run mean little but these followers are BLIND they accept leaders who preach Christian values but their own lives do the opposite just like THE NAZI'S they steal lie are charged with crimes their followers foam at the mouth when you even politely challenge them violence has been used by them ITS HISTORY REPEATING
Really looking forward to this one! Congrats on 40k mate you deserve ten times that for your quality of content, especially the HMS Victoria and Treblinka vids
@@DiD86yeah its one of mine as well. I don't think you'll remember but i proposed an alliance with Drachinifel 😂. When I'm in a better place financially I'm definitely becoming a Patron!
I most definitely do remember you proposing an alliance between myself and Drach! And I really wish one day it will happen. I doubt he’s even aware of my existence at present, though. 😂
Another well done historic video on a time that must be remembered.Sad to say as time goes full circle many forget or deny such things really happened and it happens again in new areas but for almost the same reasons.
I have had the great privilege of being associated with this outstanding channel since the beginning. I'm proud of the effort and work you put in to maintain such excellence! Happy Anniversary and blessings to you!
Just started watching your channel and I think that you do a great job, you really do a deep dive into what you’re presenting and I do love your own opinion on the different topics,I really enjoy your videos ….
Recent subscriber and well worth the effort of clicking the subscribe button. Well researched, documented, presented and narrated. Its very obvious the work put into your presentations. Congrats on your 1 yr anniversary and 40K subs, it wont be long until you hit triple figures. Escape from Sobibor was a movie i watched many years ago that started my fascination with WW2, the Holocaust and history in general. Looking forward to future posts.
Thank you very much. I do have something of a dogged deterrmination when it comes to research. Of course, I do get things wrong here and there but I'm always willing to correct the record. It is a lot of fun researching and writing, I find it the most fun part of the process. Thank you again and welcome to the Dark Legion!
Hi, first time viewer of your work. I'd like to say you have done an awesome job on this. It's complete, comprehensive and inclusive of all relevant info which is no easy task. And I'[m no novice so props! David
Thank you for saying so. My mind works in such a way that arrangement and seeking out details are something of a forté 😅 I’m glad you enjoyed it. Might I direct you toward my Treblinka video, also?
This must have been a tough one to research and put together. Thank you so much for all you do! The nightmares you must have my friend are probably incredibly frightening
You did the memory of these people very well. May your subscribers be a hundred times more than they are. BRAVO ZULU!👍 And cheers from the west side of the pond.
Holy shit, your narrators voice is fantastic....reminds me of the phenomenal BBC's The World at War million dollar documentary series from childhood.... except,yours is better Wow
It took so much Strength, and Courage just to stay Alive! And to have The Incredible Bravery to Resist is beyond Imagination! Rest In Peace 🕊🕊🕊🕊🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏 The Escapees were Incredibly Courageous, too.
Wow, this is so well researched. Unbelievable how this just went on nonchalantly. Order 72 people to be executed without a second thought. Extremely sad and shocking 😢😮.
History is repeating itself right now at XinJiang Province in NW China to the Uyghur People. Concentration Camps holding millions in which organ harvesting is happening on an industrial scale. Here in the US, kidney transplant recipients wait months for a donor. In China it's not uncommon for a recipient who's body rejected the first organ to then receive 2and 3 donated kidneys in one month. One lady had 3 different heart transplants within weeks of each other. The atrocities are a horror movie come to life... and yet the world does nothing
Thank you just finished reading the comments not a bad one in the whole bunch. You are becoming a great historian only a year wow that means I have been here from your beginning great work. See you next time DD
Once again a great and interesting but saddening video. It amazes me how a supposedly cultured, educated country could fall so deeply into the depravity of the nazis. I'm not religious but I hope that if there is a God he takes these souls to his heart and gives them peace. Thank you for what you do and I'm sure we all hope that history never repeats like these atrocities again.
When we visited here and Treblinka both my wife were filled with a profound sense of horror and sadness. It will never leave either of us. To think that murder on an industrial scale occurred here is beyond belief. Never again!!!!!!!!
Literal hell on earth this place was, so many people tormented and suffered, the fear that all of these innocent people went through must have been terrible 😢 the Nazi were demons and Hitler was Satan 😢
Impeccably researched, as always. No other words come to mind regarding Sobibor, really... But congratulations are in order, I believe! One year and a 40.000-strong legion 🙂 All of us loyal, I hope. May our numbers continue to grow! I don't know what to say about the idea floating about in your head. I'd love an autograph, but perhaps on something else. 🙁 The Ghosts of York?
Another great video, and might I add that you have a great voice and a keen knack for accents,really top notch. I think it would be real cool if you did some poetry, like Kipling's Tommy, or Boots Boots Boots, or even like Charge of the light brigade or the Saint Crispin's Day speech..and I reckon I'm not alone in that.
If you check my other channel “DiD Reads…” I’ve already done Kipling’s If and Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade. The latter can also be found in my video on this channel about the said Charge.
I was in Krakow 2 weeks ago as part of a Europe trip and made the day trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. It's a strange feeling as you make your way in with "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" overhead. The display of shoes from some 40,000 people, with one single shoe in its own, separate enclosure with no description attached. It needed none as it was barely the size of the average cellphone. The Zyklon B pellets. The eyeglasses, prosthetic limbs, crutches and the human hair. Then the shower block, then the ovens. Oddly, what I kept thinking of was the day my old man was born (23/5/1943) and what poor, doomed soul was standing where I am right now on that day? Worse, what bastard Nazi? I definitely recommend going, I think it's something that should be seen by all personally, but it is neither enjoyable nor for the faint of heart.
Good video and Sobibor should never be forgotten. I commented a few weeks ago if there was gonna be a video about this escape as it’s very little known about. There’s a lot of talk of the RAF rupperts breaking out of a POW camp and that escape was no where near as amazing as this one. In that so called “great escape” 76 made it out and only 3 made the home run. Where in the Sobibor, 300 out of 600 made it out and like you say 60 survived the war, I thought it was 53 but still not heard any definite number. Just hope none of the descendants of the Russian POWs in that escape/camp are up to no good today for Putin.
I’ve already cover Unit 731 for the Japanese, although a specific look into their treatment of POWs wouldn’t go amiss, for sure. As for the Reds, I’m thinking I shall probably start with Lavrenty Beria….
@@DiD86 I binge on your WWII Nazi history content. Crim de la crim. Very well researched and super in depth detail. I watch a lot of WWII history on RUclips and yours is the best!
Imagine... the smell of death and rotting flesh by opening the cattle waggons in the midsummer heat of Sobibor. The station PA plays the greatest hits of Richard Wagner, in more recent times it would have been probably Ennio Morricone, only disturbed by the moaning & crying of the sick and injured, lying in their faeces on the floor of the waggons and the sound of millions of flies, participating in this whole spectacle. And on the station ramp stands this SS Scherge, smoking a cigarette with his deer leather gloves and his freshly ironed uniform, staring with glassy, emotionless eyes on the "content" of a waggon, maybe joking with his neighbor, or choosing his next female "victim". How disgusting and scary is this scene...
A fantastic account, as per usual! Luv ur channel 😊 I was thinking…it’s incredible the amount of suffering and atrocity humans can propagate when they decide to be like sheep, using flimsy rationalizations under peer pressure to ignore the true consequences of what they’re doing.
This is a great video on Sobibor! May the victims of Sobibor & all the concentration camps never be forgotten. Congrats on 40K subscribers!
even the concentration camps, which is a brit invention, in the boer war genocide.
Yes let's hope so Steve never to be forgotten. Although I think many young people aren't taught about the atrocities that happened in both wars. I wasn't taught about them at school and I'm 57. My elders never talked about it themselves.
Donald Trump and every right wing politician are avenues towards this human disgrace happening again. The right wing should have been outlawed after WW2. How many more times do we allow such vile scum to have such enormous power? Antifa has gotten a bad name in America and Britain. How has that happened? The same filth have even stained the word “Liberal”. Calling people who aren’t in favour of their evil politics “Libtards”!!!! Freedom of speech comes with a little responsibility. That’s what those right wing scumbags don’t get or want to get.
@@anthonyhudson3136 They're not even remotely similar, you fool.
May the 10k Palestinian victims of zionist genocide on Gaza also not be forgotten.
My father lost an uncle, an aunt and four cousins in Sobibor. They had tried to get them out of Germnay without success.
that’s so saddening to hear literally 🥺 Sobibor was a ZERO chance of surviving when people arrived there ..
I can’t even begin to imagine how terrifying it must have been waiting in line and hearing the screams of people being gassed to death while waiting for your turn. That’s heartbreaking and unbelievably terrible that so many people could do things like that to other humans.
Watch " Europa the last battle " and wake up .
Auschwitz-Birkenau had 4-5 gas chambers disguised as shower rooms running 24 hours a day. I don't know how many Sobibor or Treblinka or Belzec had. But Auschwitz-Birkenau could easily gas up to 1,200-1,500 victims per gas chamber. That's 4,800 - 6,000 in the morning till the afternoon and then the SonderKommando would work the afternoon cremating the bodies in the crematorium. Then the night transports would arrive around 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm and the process would restart. Auschwitz-Birkenau would gas about 9,600 - 12,000 people a day and that's why Sobibor came in as the "Lowest" in exterminating Jews, Poles, Russian-Jews, Hungarian-Jews, German-Jews, Austrian-Jews, Dutch-Jews, Czechoslovakian-Jews, English-Jews, Italian-Jews. There were so many various Jewish groups and the SS couldn't keep track "who was who" I even found out that the Spaniards from Spain were targeted for extermination at Mauthausen concentration camp and Bergen-Belzec
It's a relief that it never happened
@@HHHKingofKings58Are you ok? It’s ok that some like yourself struggle to come to terms with this and choose denial. Why?
@@chriskessell4579Just admit your antisemitism, and wake up.
Congratulations on passing the 40K milestone! It is well deserved. Your work is fantastic.
Yes...EXCEPT for the intrusive ADVERTISING! totally destroyed the continuity!
A few years ago, I was gifted a DVD copy of Escape from Sobibor. When I sat down to watch it, I didn't think it was too great but kept watching it. As I did, the shock and horror set in. By the time I had finished it, I was sobbing but cheering on the escapees, shouting run! Get to the forest!
The movie trembilka (probably spelled wrong) I had to skip over the first scenes. I can't stand to see or hear anybody getting lashes! It really, really, gets to me. Those so called guards weren't guards at all. They were monsters. Real monsters. No way God created them.
@@Crystal-cs3gm my god your face is cute 😊
@@ChairmanPaulieDUr weird. Go live in the real world creeper
Excellent. Accurate. For our “delectation”? No, definitely not for those who lived through those years. I am one of them. Watching your documentary is a deeply sad and angering experience, but I am very grateful indeed for the enormous amount of work you must surely have put into it. I had forgotten that Mr Pechersky (my spelling?) was Russian; imagined him as having been a Czech citizen. But the rest of it I’ve not forgotten. Many, many thanks.
I've been lurking for awhile now, and on this momentous occasion decided to tell me how much I love your meticulously researched work and dry sense of humor. I'll always be lurking and liking. Your stuff is so good.
Lurk away, my friend. And thank you. 😇
@@DiD86 Obviously that was supposed to have been "decided to tell you." 🤦♀
I thought it was funny and I was hooked straight away, but got lucky in this channel! Welcome, now in non lurk mode. 😂🎉
I thought everyone believed this happened but I had a 73 year old man that said he didn't think it really happened because he didn't think people could be so heartless. I ask him if it didn't happen then where did all. Of those Jews go to?
365 days of brilliance. Congrats and thank you for covering these difficult subjects with such clarity and poise. Here's to another year!
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Thank you for your videos. I have had a fascination with WWII and the Holocaust which began at age 12. I never understood how this could happen so I went on a quest to learn about it and I did a lot of research over the years. Anyway, your videos are very informative and detailed. I appreciate all of the time and research you did into making your videos.
I saw many survivors of sobibor interviews throughout the years. They really went through hell and were very courageous to have gotten out of there.
I got to meet and chat with Thomas "Toivi" Blatt one of the survivors back in 2004 when he and several Auschwitz-Birkenau sondercommando survivors visited my high school. It was a very interesting experience and I first learned about Sobibor from that day. I was just cringing 😬 the whole time Mr. Blatt was talking about the SS administration at Sobibor. That's when I first learned about Gustav Wagner, Johann Niemann, Franz Stangl, Rudolf Beckman, Franz Reichleitner and their tormentous war crimes and crimes against humanity. I actually can't wait to watch this episode 🙌🏽
My interest began at 9!
It’s crazy how Johann Niemann is the only reason we have as many photos of Sobibor as we do, well I guess more so his family who showed his photo albums in 2020. My wife is a huge history nerd especially with WW2 and the Holocaust. She enjoys your videos very much. Thank you for all you do!
Thank you for paying such respect to the survivors. The things they had to face were unimaginable.
My Bubbe’s family was murdered by Einsatzgruppen in Kovno, Lithuania.
There were thirteen siblings, most grown with their own little children, plus her parents, and over-seventy extended family, including in-laws.
My Bubbe (grandmother) and one brother survived.
Two persons, out-of-over seventy.
She, and her family, lived in Jonava, near Kovno/ Kaunas.
I left out that many were murdered on the same day, at the Ninth Fort near Kovno.
Horrible. I’m sorry for your loss. Never again may this happen
@@JaimeMesChiensThanks for sharing. You’re keeping history alive by telling your grandmother’s tragic story. Thank you and blessings to you and your family. ❤
I am so happy to see that the channel has been getting the recognition needed for the great and detailed content!
Another excellent albeit chilling video! Let us not forget what happened at that time for it is meant to be repeated if we allow it.
Just need to get my lesser known videos up to the level of recognition of my more popular ones. 😎
My childhood friend was Sasha Pecherskys grandson. He was definitely the most intelligent and he also survived being run over by a bus. His name is Yaakov Pechersky.
That's so awesome 👍🏽
I can only imagine the stories that Sasha told his grandson about his experiences in Sobibor and how he was able to help people escape from the camp. They of course were probably very sad like the testimony’s of many Holocaust survivors were.
@@jfournerat1274 hello, I believe he passed away a year before my friends birth although I’m sure his grandmother and mother told him some stories
@@IronSouledWarrior oh I see then. It is sad that he wasn’t able to meet his grandson. At least he is watching over him in heaven.
@@jfournerat1274 🫡🫡🫡
Congratulations on 1 year my bro . Really love your work. Here's to many more 🎉 .
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I'm so happy that both my grandfathers fought against the Nazis and they got a chest full of medals from doing something more than just punching them.
They did good work!
Cringe
@@HHHKingofKings58You are extremely cringe, yes.
@@woowah32 I love it when they self identify. :P
@@cautionTosser Absolutely lol
Great video and an excellent choice for your anniversary video. Places like Sobibor are proof that evil is a real thing, and humans are perfectly capable of truly horrific acts against their own kind. It is very sad, but these things should be taught in every school so people really understand. Congrats on 40k and keep up the great work.
An absolute masterpiece. Excellent research, a brilliant narration and both a pleasure and privilege to be so well informed about a part of history that demonstrated the true spirit of man and their capacity to resist against such terrifying odds.
Extraordinary channel, absolutely incredible episode to honor your anniversary. You produce such quality work, it is always with anticipation for insight and knowledge that I watch your videos, and am never disappointed. I wish you’d narrate a history book on this period. Thank you for taking time and care with all of your research, and for putting these small masterpieces together, such important history cannot be forgotten.
So wonderful there were survivors, so courageous all 300 who tried to escape, and all those who fought in the camp to give
them a chance, just knowing it was almost certain desth.
So, 60 witnesses made it, so few, but when you look at what they were up against, a good number.
Thank you, these events need to be remembered.
The sad & scary thing is it can & will happen again if we are not carefull🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely there is a bloom of right wing political movements in the world who adopt Christian like themes JUST LIKE THE NAZIS did unfortunately they whip their followers into frenzy over issues in the long run mean little but these followers are BLIND they accept leaders who preach Christian values but their own lives do the opposite just like THE NAZI'S they steal lie are charged with crimes their followers foam at the mouth when you even politely challenge them violence has been used by them ITS HISTORY REPEATING
Really looking forward to this one! Congrats on 40k mate you deserve ten times that for your quality of content, especially the HMS Victoria and Treblinka vids
I really enjoyed making the HMS Victoria one. Naval history is a particular favourite of mine.
@@DiD86yeah its one of mine as well. I don't think you'll remember but i proposed an alliance with Drachinifel 😂. When I'm in a better place financially I'm definitely becoming a Patron!
I most definitely do remember you proposing an alliance between myself and Drach! And I really wish one day it will happen. I doubt he’s even aware of my existence at present, though. 😂
Looking forward to this one :) and hearty congrats on 40K subs! Thoroughly deserved ❤
Thank you very much. 😁👍🏻
Incredible upload DiD. Congratulations on the one year anniversary and here's to the channels continued success.
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congrats on 40k DiD! so happy for you bro!
😁😁😁😁 much appreciated, mon ami!
Another well done historic video on a time that must be remembered.Sad to say as time goes full circle many forget or deny such things really happened and it happens again in new areas but for almost the same reasons.
It's insane that this happened & the depravity of man. Thank you for this video.
Happy 1 Year DID❤🎉 Literally one of my favorite channels
You have a fantastic ability to tell dire stories of the past. Big fan of the channel. RIP the victims of sobibor
Thank you.
This was highly anticipated and totally worth the wait. Many congratulations on 40k & happy RUclips birthday x
Been a sweet ride this year, congratulations on 12 months
Thank you!
I have had the great privilege of being associated with this outstanding channel since the beginning. I'm proud of the effort and work you put in to maintain such excellence! Happy Anniversary and blessings to you!
Thanks again!
Just found your channel and I'm hooked. Well researched, well presented, and well narrated! I'll be busy binge watching your earlier videos tonight!
Just started watching your channel and I think that you do a great job, you really do a deep dive into what you’re presenting and I do love your own opinion on the different topics,I really enjoy your videos ….
I appreciate that!
Prayers the Survivors were able to find 🙏 🙏🙏🙏 Peace
Awesome video! Love the content and the detailed presentation of it. Keep this part of history alive! All should know it!
"Escape from Sobibor" is on TUBI. A movie about 30 years old but very well done nonetheless.
Thts where I watched it extremely moving
So many of these brave people only recently died, I hope their lives were OK for them. Your channel is absolutely brilliant by the way
Excellent work on the video. Very informative. Thanks!
I absolutely love these war documentaries. Fantastic story telling as usual and wonderful visuals.
Excellent video/memorial. Love the movie 'Escape from Sobibor'. And yes, a book on serial killers with your knowledge and insight would be great!
Hello, and again, Thank You for these Important, and Informative videos. Each one is Impeccable.
Glad you like them!
Fantastic video mate... 👍
Recent subscriber and well worth the effort of clicking the subscribe button. Well researched, documented, presented and narrated. Its very obvious the work put into your presentations. Congrats on your 1 yr anniversary and 40K subs, it wont be long until you hit triple figures. Escape from Sobibor was a movie i watched many years ago that started my fascination with WW2, the Holocaust and history in general. Looking forward to future posts.
Thank you very much. I do have something of a dogged deterrmination when it comes to research. Of course, I do get things wrong here and there but I'm always willing to correct the record.
It is a lot of fun researching and writing, I find it the most fun part of the process.
Thank you again and welcome to the Dark Legion!
Hi, first time viewer of your work. I'd like to say you have done an awesome job on this. It's complete, comprehensive and inclusive of all relevant info which is no easy task. And I'[m no novice so props! David
Thank you for saying so.
My mind works in such a way that arrangement and seeking out details are something of a forté 😅
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Might I direct you toward my Treblinka video, also?
This must have been a tough one to research and put together. Thank you so much for all you do! The nightmares you must have my friend are probably incredibly frightening
Thank you so very much.
@@DiD86You are very welcome! Have a good day sir!
You did the memory of these people very well.
May your subscribers be a hundred times more than they are.
BRAVO ZULU!👍
And cheers from the west side of the pond.
Thank you very much!
Very interesting and fascinating insight to how that story came across. Fantastic video on the camp
Thankyou love your channel been looking forward too this. Just watching your others again ❤
Always a pleasure to bring out a new video. 😁
Holy shit, your narrators voice is fantastic....reminds me of the phenomenal BBC's The World at War million dollar documentary series from childhood.... except,yours is better Wow
Now there’s REAL high praise! DANG!
His name is Mark Felton, Author and Historian. English author and historian. He has written over a dozen non-fiction books.
Congratulations on the anniversary and the subscription growth, I am looking forward to the second anniversary and 100k subs you will earn.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for this video and the tribute to the survivors.
It took so much Strength, and Courage just to stay Alive! And to have The Incredible Bravery to Resist is beyond Imagination! Rest In Peace 🕊🕊🕊🕊🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏 The Escapees were Incredibly Courageous, too.
Congrats on 1yr DiD :)
Wow, this is so well researched. Unbelievable how this just went on nonchalantly. Order 72 people to be executed without a second thought. Extremely sad and shocking 😢😮.
History is repeating itself right now at XinJiang Province in NW China to the Uyghur People. Concentration Camps holding millions in which organ harvesting is happening on an industrial scale. Here in the US, kidney transplant recipients wait months for a donor. In China it's not uncommon for a recipient who's body rejected the first organ to then receive 2and 3 donated kidneys in one month. One lady had 3 different heart transplants within weeks of each other. The atrocities are a horror movie come to life... and yet the world does nothing
Excellent episode!
Thank you just finished reading the comments not a bad one in the whole bunch. You are becoming a great historian only a year wow that means I have been here from your beginning great work. See you next time DD
Thank you too!
You are welcome
Excellent documentary. Never forget.
Excellent video and description. This should be shown to schools in Germany and Austria.
Another excellent video
Happy RUclips anniversary and 40k subscription .
Once again a great and interesting but saddening video. It amazes me how a supposedly cultured, educated country could fall so deeply into the depravity of the nazis. I'm not religious but I hope that if there is a God he takes these souls to his heart and gives them peace. Thank you for what you do and I'm sure we all hope that history never repeats like these atrocities again.
When we visited here and Treblinka both my wife were filled with a profound sense of horror and sadness. It will never leave either of us. To think that murder on an industrial scale occurred here is beyond belief. Never again!!!!!!!!
I've watched the movie "Escape from Sobibor", and I can confirm that seeing it is a must!
Congratulations to DiD on Birthday #1!!! Yes, Temus Figit! Looking forward the stories that will lead us to Birthday #2, Birthday #3, etc. Cheers!!!
Looks like I’ll be watching Escape From Sobibor this Saturday (14 October 2023) - 80th anniversary coming up.
Hopefully I can catch the premiere, if not I will definitely watch it on catch-up ❤
Literal hell on earth this place was, so many people tormented and suffered, the fear that all of these innocent people went through must have been terrible 😢 the Nazi were demons and Hitler was Satan 😢
Congratulations on 40K🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Congrats on the One year and 40K subs
Thank you so much 😀
Well done 40K you feature the best most researched videos
Thank you very much.
Great job. You ae very informative. I saw that movie forever ago and you're it's worth the watch. So much so I got it on DVD.
Glad to have along for the ride so far! Here's hoping it's long and Dark.
I hope so too!
Excellent!!!
Great videos
Well researched
Thank You for Teaching me so much!
You are so welcome!
I highly recommend everyone watch the 1980s film Escape from Sobibor
Brilliant, thank you.
You're very welcome
Impeccably researched, as always. No other words come to mind regarding Sobibor, really...
But congratulations are in order, I believe! One year and a 40.000-strong legion 🙂 All of us loyal, I hope. May our numbers continue to grow!
I don't know what to say about the idea floating about in your head. I'd love an autograph, but perhaps on something else. 🙁 The Ghosts of York?
Thank you kindly!
I could absolutely produce a ghost book about York. I’ve experienced stuff there, myself, to be fair!
@@DiD86 I'd buy that! ❤️❤️❤️An autographed copy, naturally 🙂
Only found thìs channel recently, enjoy the content always interesting and informative
Welcome aboard!
Another great video, and might I add that you have a great voice and a keen knack for accents,really top notch. I think it would be real cool if you did some poetry, like Kipling's Tommy, or Boots Boots Boots, or even like Charge of the light brigade or the Saint Crispin's Day speech..and I reckon I'm not alone in that.
If you check my other channel “DiD Reads…” I’ve already done Kipling’s If and Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade. The latter can also be found in my video on this channel about the said Charge.
@DiD86 OH Fantastic! And thank you for that prompt response,sir.
I was in Krakow 2 weeks ago as part of a Europe trip and made the day trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. It's a strange feeling as you make your way in with "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" overhead. The display of shoes from some 40,000 people, with one single shoe in its own, separate enclosure with no description attached. It needed none as it was barely the size of the average cellphone. The Zyklon B pellets. The eyeglasses, prosthetic limbs, crutches and the human hair.
Then the shower block, then the ovens.
Oddly, what I kept thinking of was the day my old man was born (23/5/1943) and what poor, doomed soul was standing where I am right now on that day? Worse, what bastard Nazi?
I definitely recommend going, I think it's something that should be seen by all personally, but it is neither enjoyable nor for the faint of heart.
Those gas vans look menacing in a badass way. I’d sh@t my pants if one showed up at my house one day
Not to sound too dystopian, BUUUUUT……
I wouldn’t put it past some regimes.
Good video and Sobibor should never be forgotten.
I commented a few weeks ago if there was gonna be a video about this escape as it’s very little known about.
There’s a lot of talk of the RAF rupperts breaking out of a POW camp and that escape was no where near as amazing as this one. In that so called “great escape” 76 made it out and only 3 made the home run. Where in the Sobibor, 300 out of 600 made it out and like you say 60 survived the war, I thought it was 53 but still not heard any definite number.
Just hope none of the descendants of the Russian POWs in that escape/camp are up to no good today for Putin.
Great job... Keep it going..
Thank you, I will, don’t you worry.
Another great video. So what's next, the Japanese atrocities of WW2? Better yet, that Stalin lunatic! Dealer's choice.
I’ve already cover Unit 731 for the Japanese, although a specific look into their treatment of POWs wouldn’t go amiss, for sure.
As for the Reds, I’m thinking I shall probably start with Lavrenty Beria….
@@DiD86 My bad, I've actually seen it! (Along with everything else you've made). Bad memory, so Stalin it is!
There is know way I could live on the Sobibor site knowing what happened there.
Congrats. This bud's for you. 👍🍻
Thank you! Cheers!
Can’t stop reading about sobibor,the late survivor Thomas Blatt Toivi’s Book THE FORGOTTEN REVOLT says late of what happened in sobibor
This is like the greatest channel ever
I like to think so but I’m biased 😂😂
@@DiD86 I binge on your WWII Nazi history content. Crim de la crim. Very well researched and super in depth detail. I watch a lot of WWII history on RUclips and yours is the best!
This narrator has the perfect voice for this channel. Can’t imagine the horrors these innocent men, women and children went through. 😢😢😢😢😢
Thank you very much.
And yes, doesn’t even bare thinking about.
Congratulations my Man I fucking love descendant into darkness
Imagine... the smell of death and rotting flesh by opening the cattle waggons in the midsummer heat of Sobibor. The station PA plays the greatest hits of Richard Wagner, in more recent times it would have been probably Ennio Morricone, only disturbed by the moaning & crying of the sick and injured, lying in their faeces on the floor of the waggons and the sound of millions of flies, participating in this whole spectacle.
And on the station ramp stands this SS Scherge, smoking a cigarette with his deer leather gloves and his freshly ironed uniform, staring with glassy, emotionless eyes on the "content" of a waggon, maybe joking with his neighbor, or choosing his next female "victim". How disgusting and scary is this scene...
Poland is a beautiful country.
I’ve heard so. Definitely want to visit, hopefully next year.
great channel
My Prayers for All of the Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those that Fought for Them. 💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🥀🥀🥀🥀
My great uncle was in Sobibor.
hahaha. the end helped cheered me up after the grim content.
This is excellant.
😁👌🏻
A fantastic account, as per usual!
Luv ur channel 😊
I was thinking…it’s incredible the amount of suffering and atrocity humans can propagate when they decide to be like sheep, using flimsy rationalizations under peer pressure to ignore the true consequences of what they’re doing.