What’s sadly ironic is those same governing bodies…that would “preserve” are the same institutions that have rewritten history! It’s absolutely scary AF what is happening now…then…idk anymore but it’s taken me 57 years ti open my eyes to history..media..it’s insane and I am terrified. Let’s just say…government finally admit to aliens…can’t wait for the rest😑 We are sheep 🐑 its true😭
@@amazingspiderlad You believe that like it's an article of faith. But what if it didn't happen the way we've been taught? What if we've been fed a steady diet of lies, 'just-so' stories and manipulative fairy-tales for 80 years?
@@devekut2 There's literal photographic evidence, first hand accounts and about a hundred other kinds of proof that it happened, you fucking edgelord moron. If you somehow don't believe that this happened, you're either braindead or a sociopath. How the fuck else would you explain the millions of innocent people dying at once? How else do you explain the camps that are STILL THERE, filled with all the possessions of these people? Read a fucking book. Touch grass.
In his autobiography, Rudolph Hoss recounted that story about the man who had seen his wife's corpse. He said that 30 minutes later, the man was eating his lunch as though nothing had happened, so Hoss used that as evidence that Jews were incapable of forming the same kinds of strong familial bonds that Aryans possessed. Rather than acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, a human being was pushed beyond the psychological breaking point, he just used the experience to justify his ability to dehumanize others. It's an insane book to read.
That's so sinister because it shows that they actively wanted them to Suffer as opposed to just "quickly exterminating them", that very sterile vocab we hear them use.
I started a book a couple months called a Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. I never got to finish it but he was a prisoner at one of the concentration camps and he observed not only his own mind but the prisoners around him psychologically. He came to a conclusion that the are 3 main stages a prisoner goes through. First stage being utter shock. Second being Apathy , self- preservation. Third , the period after liberation if they lived to be free. The amount of derealization a person must go through to survive this horrifying transition from being stripped from their everyday lives to being tortured and in agony is something I can’t ever imagine. It really is crazy how the mind works. The way the man who had seen his wife reacted afterwards was his mind being in a raw state of survival mode. It really is so awful how humans can do this to each other.
@BelizeHunni They didn't use that vocabulary though. That's a Hollywood fabrication. There are zero documents or speeches between 1939-1945 where Hitler or any of his subordinates call for the killing of Jews at all.
Its horrible how Israel is encouraging an event just as evil as this, as long as they are the ones with the keys to the jail. They want revenge, not peace. They want us to feel concentration camps as well. End Zionism.@@Jennybando
@@tubeguy4066 mfers on their way to unironically say "it wasn't real" like that's gonna epically own everyone, my man what are you even arguing for? even if it wasn't real it doesn't mean that was happened wasn't absolutely horrifying.
@@AndroCubed_>"It was real, in my mind"_ If crematoriums need 2 hours to incinerate a human corpse, then for 6M people that's 12M hours, which is 500K days, and that's 1'400 years. Learn math.
@Sadshorts007 people in North Korea are not given tools to seek out/verify the truth. You and I do. I'd suggest using them rather than making a fool of yourself.
@Sadshorts007 "people who made the tools are also the ones making the lies" yeah, real convenient isn't it? Anything to keep believing that history is against you i guess. You telling me that France prevented you from verifying facts using the internet? Give me a break. Even flat earthers aren't suppressed on the internet so it would be pretty easy for you to fact check almost anything. Cut the bs.
I watched a film once about a SonderKommando who found his son in the Gas Chambers, still living for a short time. He steals his body from the doctors who want to dissect him to find a Rabbi to give his son funeral rites, one last duty he can perform as his father. It was tragic.
Yet another case of a person's opinion on the holocaust derived from movies and media and not historical fact. Gas chambers were never used to execute jews, majority of deaths were from typhus, cholera or exposure. So many that they had to build coal crematorium to deal with the death.
I visited Auschwitz with my class when I was 15. One thing the guide told us about that I will never forget is about the toilet situation. The "toilets" were basically just long holes in the ground where everyone had to do their business quickly. One of the most sought after jobs of the camps was to clean those dumping areas. Why? Normal inmates were only allowed to use those toilets two times a day. With diseases like cholera spreading everywhere these led to horrible hygienic circumstances. The toilet cleaners at least could use those toilet areas frequently. It is just horrible, horrible what human beings can do to each other.
It was all made up. They push horrifying stories on young children because that is the easiest way to indoctrinate and not wind up with adults that question the inconsistencies of the narratives.
I cant imagine fathom. How much hate you would need to do this heinous acts against other human beings. the sonderkommando how much guilt they must’ve felt.
I had no idea this happened, when you think these camps can’t get worse. Truly truly heartbreaking; especially the man who recognised his wife. Absolutely brutal
Do you mind if I ask what country you went to school in? I'm just curious since I had a very robust introduction to the horrors of what we in Swedish call "The Annihilation" (the Holocaust) in 7th grade onwards. It wasn't sugar coated to say the least and it went into detail about just how inhuman it was. There was some serious reverence for the whole subject too, several days that we had been prepared for in advance where the only subject was the holocaust. There was also a councillor there during those days that you could go talk to at any time. I remember some gruesome photographs so clearly. They were kept in a big book with only photos that we were encouraged to look at if we could handle it psychologically (but didn't have to) as a reminder of what could happen if we just follow orders without thinking about it.
I had the same reaction, regardless of how much I learn about the Holocaust, there always seems to be new details that deepen my knowledge…. And leave me aghast at the true evils of the world
@@SuperVaIleI can’t speak for the commenter you asked, but as for me I went to school in US…. And I can confidently say, we could learn much from your country’s approach. Things *may* have improved since my days in school (Class of ‘06), but at that time I’m certain there were absolutely no counseling, or preparation for the class, although I don’t recall them showing us many pictures. I honestly feel almost as if they are trying to minimize the Holocaust…. I didn’t even begin to wrap my head around the level of sheer evil, violence, hate and death involved until researching for myself in my 20’s
One thing that always gets me about the camps is the fact that the victims of the gas chamber didn't always die, so they were incinerated while they were still breathing. A fucking terrifying image to imagine.
@@denisepleines1513 worse part is that the majority of these perpetrators aren't exactly what you could call evil as you'd expect then to be. Between the bystander effect, the peer pressure to go along with it and the ideological brainwashing, many of these Germans, even the camp staff, were far from despicable before the war. As sick as it sounds, when the status quo is evil, most people will do evil, regardless of their own individual preexisting character. Its easier just to go along and hope what you're doing isn't wrong.
they also had masterbation machines that would jerk the victim off to death... sad sick messed up world......my grandpa was a survivor of the holocost,, he told me
In Poland, we actually learn all of this in high school. There's a book from one of the Auschwitz survivors with all of these facts etc. and we have to read, and analyze it. I'm glad this is the case because the horrible fate of these people won't be forgotten.
@@borkistshorts7267 It's a series of stories by Tadeusz Borowski. The ones we mainly focus on are "This way for the gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" and "Here in our Auschwitz"
Yes it's getting to a point that even saying Nazi isn't allowed on RUclips. When you fail to teach history despite the reason the lessons taught are forgotten
In Messenger, one cannot find ANY gifs about Nazis . . . erased from history not even within a century and doomed to repeat it, likely within this century.
@@MMeltingButter Talking to you, is like talking to CHAT GPT . . . from the river to the sea there's not one gif of a nazi and you can't see there is a repeat of history! Not immediately But easy to foresee
How anyone that survived the concentration camps managed to live their lives in any kind of normal fashion, is hard to understand. The mental torture would never leave you and the survivor's guilt must be all encompassing..bless all those who were murdered - you will never be forgotten🕊🥀
My grandma's neighbours were Auschwitz survivors. They were Mengele's test subjects and were basically... missing some organs because of that. According to my grandma, even though they went through such hell, they were really kind people.
You should read MAUS by Art Spiegelman. It’s about his parents who were survivors, and the way the way affected them forever. The fact that that book is getting banned is terrifying.
@@archravenineteenseventeen I can see that point. But I think it's more of a testament to what can happen if people aren't taught to stand up for themselves and others and not to allow themselves to be subjugated. It's unfortunate.
@@archravenineteenseventeenmy point was that I believe that if people had been raised with more of a sense of the importance of freedom and standing up for themselves then what happened in Germany never would have happened to begin with. Things of that magnitude only happen in countries where those values are not instilled in people. Russia under Stalin is another excellent example. People were raised to believe "Mother Russia before all else" and look what happened to them as well. The indoctrination is more about not standing up for yourself and for others than it is about not seeing others as human. There was that, of course, mostly with high ranking Nazis. But that is why you hear so many stories about guards in the concentration camps wanting to desert their post but being too afraid they'd be killing, which of course they would have. I hate to sound crass and it's not my intention to belittle the victims of this atrocity in any way, but it's a matter of the collective not having had a backbone. I know that's an awful way to put it but it's the most accurate description I can think of right now.
the let me ask you, how did hitler and then nazis made it to become the leader of germany? revolution? coup de etat? nope. it was election. german people choose them. it was a freedom that they chose nazism. russians were also chosen communism over monarchy. it was freedom that they chose .
I have never heard this story about the Sonderkommando, i didn't even know there was a term for it. My grandfather was a Czechoslovakian partisan who was captured by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz where he was given the job of being a "Sonderkommando." He was tasked with maning the incinerators. He survived by living off potato peels given to him by some guards who pittied him.... I wish I knew more of the story but my grandfather never spoke to me about the horrors he lived through (I only know small details from my parents and aunties). Thank you for narrating this story in a respectful manner. RIP Jozef Klamo
@@devekut2 you know nothing about me, my ethnicity or my family story, yet you sit there being all cocky and accusing me of stealing someone's story to pass off as a fake pretend version of what happened to my grandfather? I rarely ever comment on videos that I watch on RUclips and straight off the bat I get accused of faking a story... for what? A couple of thumbs up?? Plz get back in your box, there were literally thousands of "Sonderkommandos" across the concentration camps during WW2 and up until I had watched this video I had only ever heard of my grandfather's story, his name was Jozef Klamo he was born in Slovakia (frmr Czechoslovakia) he was fighting alongside the Czechoslovakian army when they all got cornered by the Germans, the high ranking army officials fled the scene leaving the Partisans which included my grandfather behind. He was then captured and to the best of my knowledge sent to Birkenau Auschwitz 2. Where his role was carrying the corpses from the gas chambers to the incinerator..... My grandfather on my mother's side was too young to fight in the war, and I also have a story of my children's great grandfather who was born in Australia and sent to Hiroshima to clean up after the nuclear bomb was set off... but maybe I've stolen that story too. I also have accounts from my parents about the day the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, to crack down on the country's slack stance on communism. There's also stories of myself growing up in a communist country and then fleeing to Austria with nothing but the clothes on our backs and living in a refugee camp.... but sure I'm making those up too. Please learn to be kind and listen to people's stories Instead of just accusing people of making up crap. Millions of lives were affected by WW2 at some stage the stories are going to be similar don't you think. Please feel free to do your own research about the partisan POWs in the war, about the Czechoslovakian army etc
I don’t know why people find history boring. It’s not only stranger than fiction, it’s infinitely crueler. Full of warfare, violence, and atrocities of all kinds. That should shock and horrify people, not bore them.
Truely dark and horrifying, I had always assumed some kind of low ranking nazis would have done this evil work, this revelation to me makes it worse. I have no idea how I have gone 40 years on this planet not knowing this.
Japanese were even worse if that is possible. Inform yourself about Squadron 721 and their awful experiments on alive civilians. I recommend you watch the movie "The men behind the Sun", which is just a depiction but never I witnessed such a depiction of malice and pure evil or could even imagine something like that.
@@Ucho469After reading through accounts of Nazis and Japanese, it honestly feels like there was no "worse", there's no real metric to measure depravity and say one is somehow lesser when both sides were opening up children while alive and exposing innocents to what belongs in hell.
My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. He lost every. single. family. member. His father was one of six brothers. No one lived. My granddad survived only because he enrolled to the army at the age of 17. He never spoke about his life before the Holocaust, only on his deathbed at the age of 88 he told a bit about his childhood. Rest in peace my favorite person, granddad Leib. I hope that somewhere you have your big family back.
@@danielmiller2886 indeed, because at the end of the day some real life humans are the real monsters, and some of them are bigger monsters than anything in popular fiction.
This happened 80 years ago. My mind cannot comprehend this. It's worse than the most depraved fiction. This happened around one human life's worth of time ago. I'm trying to like think about it but I'm just stun locked. I have watched thousands of videos regarding morbid reality but this is legit one of the most traumatic things I have ever heard. I don't think I've ever heard of anything so cruel in my life. Genocide wasn't a necessary evil to them, they intentionally made it as cruel as they possibly could. Knowing what those people went through, I hereby swear down to never complain about anything ever again in my life. I'm not much of a complainer anyway but like. How can you feel sorry for yourself when you know this.
i am really sad now. this basically happened yesterday man. how is that possible man. i mean i know how its possible and how it happened yada yada. but like. the fact that it did. cant get over it
What is just absolutely shocking is the fact that you still have people who will argue and say that this never happened, none of it. The worst event I've ever heard of and pray every night that there isn't another. It truly is unbelievable 😢
I’m sure there are weird people like the ones you describe but honestly I’ve never seen anyone like that. One way or another please forget about them, they’re clearly not well
@@MassHysterics yeah I just noticed as I scrolled… so they do exist. I withdraw what I said. At least, those people are the odd loners on social media.
@@portwillsthey're not "the odd loner". There are entire groups who believe this very thing, among a bunch of other disgusting things. Those people live around you, work at places you visit and can be your neighbors. Thinking they don't exist or that there are only a few who are lovers who only speak out on the internet every once in awhile is dangerous- in fact, that's exactly how the Nazis were able to get as much power as they did. People denying their existence or believing it was just a few randos with crazy beliefs. These groups are bigger than ever and quite widespread and commit acts of domestic terrorism.
I really really hate how blind people can be to objective fact, they'd rather believe in some bombastic conspiracy rather than the stuff consistently and blatantly out in the open. They didn't build Auschwitz for shits and giggles and they didn't stage a single photo with those guys all shrunk up to skeletons I've *lived* with extreme hunger before and even I never got that bad, the only way someone could ever get that skinny is if they just outright weren't fed for weeks. Yet somehow all this stuff was staged. In the middle of a war, involving massive amounts of cooperation between countries that all hated each other, apparently. People will just believe anything to make themselves feel "special" and smarter than the flock, even if it means ignoring basic fact. Like we're supposed to believe that the Russian and U.S militaries, alongside Germany itself all *mutually* agreed to make some shit up and Germany was just okay with that black eye, they're just okay with being known as the place that murdered millions of innocents in a story they made up. Sure, sure buddy.
No-one's trying to ''shrug it off''. But everybody involved is dead now, and things like this aren't something people should be dwelling on too much. Focusing on the war crimes of the past never stopped the war crimes of the present. All war is a crime, but here we are, carrying the crimes of the last wars before us, like some macabre banner that shapes our respective national identities. Perpetual simmering resentment, passed from generation to generation.
@@nodiggity9472this is just your opinion, many are of the opinion it should never be forgotten & yes there are some that like to downplay or even deny the holocaust even happened & history however grotesque needs to be told.
@@nodiggity9472 There are plenty of people who deny the Holocaust or act like it wasn't serious. I know humans are not great at learning from history, but we should at least make an effort.
In 1944, sonderkommandos in Auschwitz launched a doomed uprising with pistols and grenades made from gunpowder and sardine cans. They killed four SS guards and blew up a crematorium. They were killed and the women who supplied the sonderkommandos the gunpowder were hanged as an example.
“He has just recognized his wife” This is the only thing I’m gonna think about this whole weak. I almost cried I’m Russian and my great grandpa served for the Soviet Union, and I remember how my grandma would tell me how he escaped a concentration camp while only weighing 30 or so pounds. And he also had metals from bombs in his head during that time, yet he still survived and lived till 80
My great grandpa was also in soviet army, lieutenant in mortar squad, he surrendered when soviets were retreating in 1941 and sent him to concentranion camp. He escaped . I still remember what he said to his family is that he had a dream how to escape the camp, i mean exact night and day were patrols didn't catch him. It's so bad to think what would happen if they catch him... i wouldn't be there now and talking this story to you. As your and my great grandpa escaped and gave us a chance to be born. To be born in peaceful times and enjoy our lives.
Marian Kolodziej (survived 5 years in several concentration camps until liberation 1945) created horrific and haunting drawings depicting the atmosphere and people imprisoned at Auschwitz. His work is displayed at St. Maksymilian in Harmęże, Poland in an exhibition called -Cliches of memory. "Labyrinths"- They are extremely detailed and gut wrenching.
@@MissCellanious1They are remembered, you have to make the effort to actually read about them. Just because survivors and relatives of a people overwhelmingly targeted by Nazis for execution did a good job at preserving the injustice and the memory of their dead relatives doesn't mean they're doing something wrong. If you want to blame someone, start with the nazi sympathiser here and don't blame the Jews for surviving and telling their stories.
The one thing we must never forget is that it was not just 'those horrible people back then'. This kind of cruelty lies in the heart of each and every one of us, waiting to emerge at the first opportunity it sees. We can never let that happen.
This cruelty is nurtured and created from hatred it's not innately in us. We have to believe we're doing good for any of this to be justified, and that's the truly evil part of this whole thing.
It's really disturbing seeing it happen now. I've seen members of government in Israel referring to Palestinians as "human animals" and videos of soldiers laughing and dancing around dead Palestinians. Today I saw a young Israeli woman laughing at a video she was shown of dead babies in Gaza. It's like people don't learn from history. Ofc many Israelis are against what's happening, but it's surprising how large a number are outspokenly genocidal right now.
I think the best way that someone described the way that evil lays in every one of us in this case is when it was stated that the ss officers were not evil but instead terrifyingly normal
I feel like I'm pretty jaded and cynical but by God the horror here is just too much. It's just too much. Thank you for making sure it's not forgotten. God forbid it ever be repeated.
Looks like it might be repeated, (if things keep going the way of the transphobes) and if homophobes continue to be in power. Not saying it would be nearly as horrific; but the alt right is beginning to speak out about ‘getting rid of’ trans people and drag performers.
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyouthe difference you can choose to hide your sexual identity but you can not easily hide your color/race. Pretty gross people like you want to be vitimized so bad.
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyouthat's so unbelievably stupid that I don't even know where to start. I'm part of the queer community, but if you think that some fringe right wing militia is going to put us into camps like what happened in the holocaust then you must be legitimately insane. Where did you hear about these so-called legitimate nazi plans? 4chan? 😂
@@Warriorunderyahusha wow! An average unempathetic 12 year old who desperately wants attention, and they want it so much that they are willing to mock the deaths of millions and millions of innocent souls. You can say womp womp to my comment all you want, but you are truly disgusting. Get help
Learning about the Holocaust in school, the sheer numbers were impossible to conceptualize. It’s crushing to revisit as an adult and in so much more detail.
In germany you learn this topic in school. It must have been horrific. My history teacher started to cry as she was telling us about this. I also read the diary of anne frank and you could really feel the anxiaty they must have felt. Especially children. They had no regrets and no remourse
Why are you pinpointing 'in Germany'? Something as widespread and evil like the holocaust should be taught in the schools throughout the world, isn't it?
This is truly horrifying, those poor men. recognising family members and knowing what their fate would be, but not being able to stop it. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how that would feel. My heart breaks for them. Thanks for an amazing video SH. You are making sure their stories are not forgotten.
The slaughter of an entire people due to the belief that they are inhuman was bad enough but to make those said “inhuman” individuals do the same horrendous things to their own family,friends,and people was monumentally terrible and that’s why I don’t see how people can deny this event
it bothers me how you talk as if only jews were killed the 6million figure is an estimate of the total loss of life caused by the camps its so fucking disrespectful to the non jewish deaths to just talk of the jews as you did
It wasn't for their beliefs! Where do you get that nonsense? It was because they DESTROYED the Weimar Republic and the very fabric of society! Just like they are currently doing to North America and Europe!!
It wasn't for their beliefs! Where do you get that nonsense? It was because they DESTROYED the Weimar Republic and the very fabric of society! Just like they are currently doing to North America and Europe!!
Thank you for bringing light to these horrors. This is how we keep the memories of these victims alive, even tho these stories are beyond horrible. We must never forget.
It ain't nothing new. Hell, the Armenian Genocide was an inspiration to Hitler since the lack of proper justice served made him believe he could pull off the holocaust.
right??? personally we got taught all throughout middle school and highschool about it, but i feel they never really got deep enough. So many people deny it even happened..
I never heard about this uprising against the SS, in conditions such as this, the fact that they had strength to cause chaos against their sadistic abusers is commendable.
I think there was a movie made about this at least I saw a movie about a rebellion in camp and not the better-known movie about the Sobibor escape. I saw that one twice
Actually I thought quite the opposite. I look at events in history and wonder how people endure them and actually go through with being so obedient. I understand it scientifically, but I don't understand it personally, as I'm barely willing to lift a finger for anyone come hell or high water.
I love learning about wars, but this... This is absolutely terrible. I cannot comprehend how evil humanity is. Truly heartbreaking, brings tears to my eyes. Demons are among us. Rest in peace, victims of WWII. 🤍
What is evil? Is humanity evil because those who are branded wicked will always have their name remembered? Is humanity evil because of the actions and manipulation of one influential person. Is an Australian evil because a Canadian was the leader of a death cult. Of course humanity will do awful things. But looking forward, the most important thing is to remember these atrocities and become better than what they were. One cannot dwell on evil if they wish to make a good difference.
For those interested, I would highly recommend the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. It is a memoir where he recounts how he and his family endured this very death camp- by the time the war was over he was the only one left. He managed to survive the death camp plus the Auschwitz Death March to Berlin. "March" is a bit of a misnomer here since the prisoners weren't so much marched, as they were expected to *run* from Poland to Germany, nonstop, for 350 miles. Those who couldn't keep up simply fell down an died in the road, trampled by scared prisoners and military vehicles, while those who started to fall behind were simply shot and left for dead. It's a quick read, and something I think every person should use to educate themselves. In my opinion, it's among the most important literary texts in human history.
I agree. I had to read it in High School. And we also had to watch a movie called "Night and Fog" which was truly horrific, showing actual footage. One girl fainted during the showing and fell out of her chair. At the time, I was going to a Christian Youth group and the subject of the Holocaust came up. I am half Jewish so I was particularly upset. The Youth leader said blandly that the Holocaust was God's punishment to the Jews for rejecting Jesus, and that these victims deaths didn't end their suffering, because they all went straight to hell. I was so furious and disgusted I got up and left, it was nighttime in Illinois in the Winter and I had no ride, so I walked 5 miles home on the adrenaline of my fury. I never went back to group again. The Youth leader had the audacity to call me and chew me out for leaving, and I just handed the phone to my dad who had a few choice words for him.
I read it my junior year of high school, the night before my notes were due since I had quite the bad habit of procrastination, and I sobbed when his father was dying. It is one of the most haunting books I have ever read, and I still think about it from time to time. I think everyone should read it.
All that gold must still be in circulation.... we are brutes, absolute brutes. Very solemn work 'hand, well done mate. Very respectfully telling a sad tale.
@@GLING17Na, humanity is msotly brutes...some just much worse than others. A good man is the rarest thing on Earth....and no, I am under no delusions that I am a good man.
i cannot imagine the heartbreak of being forced to lie to people who are about to be sent to their deaths, and move and burn their bodies, only to then be called a collaborator to the people who put you through that hell. i'm glad some of them decided to testify and that the truth about their ordeal came out in the end.
Hmmm, but wouldn't you be suspicious of someone who survived that time, came out the other side fit and healthy? Wouldn't you suspect they might have been a little less of a victim than some of those who ended up as a corpse? Some may have used stories like this as cover for their collaboration during the Nazi regime.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname i think it's inevitable that a lot of people would be suspicious of that, of course. what i mean is that it must have been awful for the people who were innocent to have been grouped in together with nazis. even if people have a lot of reasons to be suspicious of you, it still feels terrible to be called a monster when you're in fact a victim.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmynameI don't think any captive in a death camp could be considered fit or healthy by any means, even the people who were used and forced into doing unspeakable evil to other people. Those who survived did so most likely due to their "term" not being completed before they could be rescued or could escape, before their time in "rotation" was ended and they were killed. In some ways, I think the survivors may have had it worse than the dead; they had to continue living with the guilt of knowing that they were powerless and committed horrible things, the horror of being compelled to do evil with their own hands, utterly unable to resist. While suspicion is a logical feeling to an extent, just hearing the accounts from them shows how abused and to what level of depravity they were forced to partake in and experienced themselves. Unless by fit and healthy you mean that they managed to survive when so many didn't, I suppose they are. But the trauma experienced is something I do not even want to fathom. And while it is possible I suppose that some Nazi officers disguised themselves as their victims, I'm not sure it matters enough, especially when that suspicion is used in a way that entirely invalidates the horrific experiences of real victims like the men mentioned in this video.
Human cruelty truly has no limit. Thank you for this video. It's up to us to remember the sheer trauma of this global atrocity so that it hopefully may never be repeated.
My friends grandfather was sent here with his twin brother. The brother died but Granndpa survives to this day. He farms, hunts, goes to church, spends time with family and is doing quite well. I can't imagine the horrors he lived through.
I can't imagine the horrors of having a soccer team, a band, plays and their own currency. Imagine the atrocious act of Nazi guards playing soccer with the prisoners.... Some of them on the Jewish teams.
I've seen many videos on WWII, Auschwitz, and the Nazis. It's fascinating to know how cruel, cold, and terrifyingly calculating humanity can be to themselves. This video captures that very idea of pure fear, knowing you are working for death itself.
The most terrifying thing is, this could happen today. You or I could end up supporting this, or taking part in this, all it takes is the wrong person, to say the wrong words, to the wrong people, at the wrong time. And suddenly you have a group of people who are supporting this. Look at Israel’s current attack on Palestine, look at the recent race riots in England, look at the success of Trump, look at the rapidly growing nationalist movements across the globe. This can happen again, this isn’t just history.
My grandpa was born in Pennsylvania in 1917. His dad was born somewhere around 1890 in Bavaria DEU. Rudolf Stoiber. He abandoned his wife and my grandpa to go back to Germany in 1935. I always wondered why my dad's side of the family never acknowledged our ethnicity, until i did the math. I dont even wanna VAGUELY know what Rudolph did.
It terrifies me that a lot of the nazis were able to escape to the west and Argentina etc. The idea that these demons still exist, had children, and spread their memes in secret is disturbing. May God never afford them another breath.
sadly, Perón agreed to let them enter and go to the south of Argentina. Bariloche is the most common example of the cities where nazis lived post war. Mengele was here as well and then escaped to Brasil. There's a movie called Wakolda, based on the book with the same name, which tells about his passing through a hotel near Bariloche.
And guess who ran CDC, WHO, NATO and the UN. It amazes me Americans have absolutely no knowledge of operation paperclip or think it was just people like Von Braun.l, who designed the V1 and V2 which terrorised the UK, then ran Apollo. Nope, it was tens of thousands of doctors and scientists a hell of a lot were responsible for the most disgusting behaviour Fun fact, the companies that made zyklon b all still operate freely.
Never forget that human beings haven't changed since this happened. We haven't gone through some sort of evolution or grand awakening. We can never forget that this happened. We can never let our history be erased or censored.
I heard of most of these horrors in elementary school at age 8, but without the photographs. The story was told by a teacher with such passion for teaching that we could draw the picture in our mind. It truly was hell on Earth, no question about it. The world vowed "Never again", but we broke that promise every chance we got and are still letting this happen on numerous places on the planet. I hope for peace but know different.
My father was a World War II veteran. He was with a corps of engineers. This corps visited the concentration camp at Dachau shortly after its liberation by U.S. combat troops. Some of the men took photos, some of which my father retained. My brother showed these photos to me when I was a child. The pictures frightened me, but also led to a lifelong fascination with World War II, Germany, and the Holocaust.
It's not often that I struggle to finish a video, but I really struggled with this. I just can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like to experience this horror. How can anyone do this to another human? My heart absolutely breaks hearing about these stories.
The fact that people that are alive today still try to refute such an atrocity is sinful. Groups of humans have done such things, on various scales, throughout recorded history. There's physical evidence! We need to learn, not ignore. Thanks Shrouded, for shining the light.
I am Polish. My great grandmother (from my grandmas side) was taken to a concentration camp, though she wasn't Jewish- she was Christian with money. As she was ready to board her train with her husband (a very popular doctor at the time) and my grandma and her sister, she was taken away by a German officer who saw her semi expensive jewellery. She survived the camp, although I was never told which camp she was sent to, but it was so horrifyingly terrible that she refused to answer any of my family's questions, the only question she was willing to answer was the food she was given which she said was "beetroot soup" or as she put it "lukewarm water with a small cut of a beetroot" sometimes pared with a piece of stale bread. I do not know what job she was given but assuming her survival which lasted around a few months maybe up to a year she could have worked in the kitchen. What sickens me is todays high school education, especially the one I got in Britain, twists the truth a lot, for example my class was not taught about the incompetence of Britain and France while Poland sent out a distress signal when our first battle began. Many people here do not know about the crimes committed by Chamberlain, including the fact that he helped Russia get Poland under communism. Many polish immigrants were forced into the British army and 16 squadrons of the British army were polish, yet England did not include Poland during the celebratory parade. The fact that British history also talks about Poland as just victims who couldn't do anything by ourselves while praising themselves, France and USA is actually sickening, because the truth is we did fight, my great grandpa helped many war survivors, and before my grandmother went to the camp he was also in the army fighting, specifically, he was a distributor of highly classified information between the small scattered army hideouts in the mountains - he cycled ON A BIKE through the polish mountains back and forth through months, and the saddest thing is we recently found his war documents in our old home, along with his dog tags. So whenever I see an American, a brit or any other western country saying look at us, we had it rough but we were also victorious, I just want to look in their eyes without a word, because there aren't any words I could say my honest hurt and disbelief. For one, I am glad you started this video by saying that the camp included mainly Jews and not just Jews, many Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Austrian etc were taken in, anyone the officers disliked, anyone that posed a financial threat was gotten rid of in the most horrific way. I hope that one day history classes around the world aren't afraid to teach proper history and how to prevent history from repeating itself. I hope anyone else with my experience doesn't have to listen to stupid people much either, if you care about your family's history, make sure you tell it to the ignorant person, scream it if you need to, even if it wasn't as big as WW2 events, please don't give up the true history for the sake of it being easier to tell others, don't simplify it just because some people are too close minded to comprehend what really happened.
Im from Poland too and I've heard people make fun of me because apparently Polish people didn't fight back during the war. It angers me a lot, the cluelessness of those people and the audacity to speak about this stuff like it's the truth.
What are you on about? Perpetuating a lie isn't keeping one's history alive. Quite the opposite. One breath it's all "my poor family was victimized for simply who they were" then the next breath it's "my family ran a spy network" lol. Yeah I'm guessing that's why they ended up where they did .
You dragged the USA into your comments. The USA lost a lot of people in the fight to free Europe. Maybe you should show some appreciation in between your snide remarks.
There is a story written by a former sonderkomando member that gives a glimpse into such a persons mind. He describes how after some time unloading the people from trains, he no longer felt pity for them, but hated them for being there and needing to be unloaded. He also mentions how sick, disabled and eldery people who were to weak to fight would be separated and taken straight to the crematorium to be burned alive. It is very disturbing but i think worth reading. It's polish title is ,,Proszę Państwa do gazu" whitch would translate approximately to ,,Ladies and Gentlemen please head to the gas" but i'm not sure if it was translated to english
We've seen many difficult to watch stories on this channel, this one has broken my mind. The very definition of True Horror, never again 🤞. Best wishes everyone.
Just started the video and I am so glad it shows the living faces of those who may not be here anymore to tell the tale. They solidify the memories and are an example of why we should NEVER forget. Especially in todays day and age where genocide is running rampant. Its so pointless. We should celebrate lives, not extinguish them.
evil isnt the word, deluded more like, the nazis thought they were truly doing the right thing, none of them were evil, but they were victims of countless lies and propaganda
We learn about all of this in Poland, understandably. One survivor, Tadeusz Borowski, wrote several stories from the perspective of a "Kanada" worker (Kanada being their name for the """privileged""" prisoners), a required reading in schools. They are chilling. He committed suicide in 1951, though his life after the war was quite good and he was described as witty and cheerful by other people. His spouse, Maria, also survived the Holocaust, although in different camps. A fascinating and tragic figure.
Actually "Kanada" refers to the part of the camp were luggages from incoming transports were collected and sorted out. The name coming from the fact that Canada was seen as a land of plenty by people at the time. Prisoners working there were seen as privileged since they were able to take food leftovers, or bargain stolen items to increase their rations.
I cant believe my great grandma had to go directly through this, im just so glad she made it out and came to america, i didnt get a chance to really talk to her before she passed but i still hold honor and respect for her forever, appreciate your familys history it is the root of you
My grandfather was amongst the first 500 who infiltrated the camps in ‘45 and even after he died some 10 years ago, he still is awarded medals for that raid. Truly crazy that he spoke about these men that told him what they were doing after the raid.
Everyone who is interested in this topic I recommend collection of short stories writen by Tadeusz Borowski. He was a polish poet and Auschwitz prisoner, working on a railway ramp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He welcomed people arriving and watched them being transferred directly from the trains to the gas chambers. This experience inspired him to write „This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen”. His fiancee (who was a part of resistence movement) was also a prisoner there and they even found a way to comunicate with each other. They both survived the camps and got married. Unfortunately few days after their baby was born Tadeusz commited suicide by breathing in gas from a gas stove... Back in the day his writing was heavily criticized for being too raw. Now it’s a mandatory read in literature class in polish high school
How twisted were they to get them to kill there own or die. What a dilemma to be put in. You would have no choice but have to take that job, unless you wanted to die. Very sad. R.I.P. to the millions who were taken.🙏
The sounds during the oven section added so much more horror imagine silence aside from mechanical sounds as you're driven past your breaking point and dare say that your task has become monotonous. Truly horrific. One could easily think the end of the world was literally taking place for humanity in such a place.
Shrouded Hand has a video about art of people who managed to escape from North Korean detention camps. That video has haunted me for a long time because that are basically concentration camps and it is happening right now...
Wow! You just gave me one heck of an eye opener in history that I never knew existed! How gut wrenching to make these people lie and do such horrendous deeds! My jaw is still on the floor! Very well told story with empathy and respect. A gift you have that makes your stories even more enjoyable. Thank you! ❤
Believe me there's so much more. The amount of depravity I've read in books about various histories (mainly ww2) you'd be gobsmacked. The Sonderkommando are a pretty well known unit that the SS recruited in the camps made up of Jews or other minorities eager to grasp onto the slender promise of survival even though the SS would ultimately exterminate them as well. The Jews saw these brothers as collaborators so even if the SS didn't get round to dealing with the recruits in the Sonderkommando then the Jews would exact revenge on these "collaborators" even though people who joined the Sonderkommando were doing it purely for survival purposes.
Always glad when Non Germans learn about this. Now you can probably feel my anger about HC deniers even more. 2 more interesting facts you might not knew: denying the HC is illegal in Germany and punished with fines or even jailtime (which i find good!). And its mandatory for German students to visit concentration camps (depending in which state you live though). I personally visited every single CC in Germany as a teenager (from school) and Im grateful for it! Nothing humbles you quiet like standing in front of the ovens and a neck shot system disguised as a person scale.
It's crazy that they were seen as collaborators in the beginning. And even more crazy how few actually survived. May they have found some kind of peace in their life after witnessing those horrors. I can't even begin to imagine what might've gone through their heads when they were confronted with those choices and sceneries
There is a book called The Scrolls of Auschwitz, which is a compilation of some of the journals of the Sonderkommando that were buried around the crematorium. Heartbreaking, but essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about what these men experienced.
Went to auschwitz for a schooltrip. It revealed the ugliest of humans, the most disgusting views of human beings. Birkenau was so fucking big, and the lodges they were kept in were tiny. Cramped. Cold. Seeing the ghostly places now, it's heartbreaking knowing how many died there and that you're walking where many MANY walked, having been lied to about work and dying on the very streets you're walking on. The most soulless, devoid of humanity shit ever. The trip left a huge pit in my very being and I can never ever forget all the things i saw on it.
Master Sergeant John C. Woods made many of the SS suffer for this. He was supposed to engineer a long-drop hanging which would break their necks. Their necks did NOT break. Many remained alive for just under a half-hour.
So, so sad. Once, I got a new resident at the nursing home I worked at and I caught just a glimpse of a tattoo on her arm. Not enough to see what it was. I said, unthinkingly, "oh I love tattoos, what is it?" She just held up her arm wordlessly, and I saw it was a tattoo from Auschwitz. I was mortified. She just told me that she was a nurse in Germany during the war, and left it at that. A very nice lady, but too quiet and pale. I can't imagine the horrors she must have witnessed and survived. Every time I think I've heard the worst of it, it gets worse. It's like a never-ending rabbit hole to hell. I hope Hitler and Mengele are burning there as we speak and forever.
So what got her a spell in Auschwitz? That was the only camp that tattooed, and if she was a nurse in Germany, she wouldn't have been deported to Poland. Even if she'd transgressed, she'd have gone to Ravensbruck or similar. Auschwitz was a very specific destination for certain people.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname I don’t know man. Her grandkids told me that because she didn’t talk about it and I didn’t want to be rude and ask. Unless the grandkids got her location wrong. 🤷🏼♀️
@@13fyrefli This is the problem - whilst your account may well be true (it sounds plausible), other people then go on to extrapolate other things. Before you know it, this has turned into a solid gold "true" tale of you meeting a woman who escaped the gas chambers, as confirmed by her grandkids - who may well be wrong. For years I thought my grandfather was a certain place int he war and found out recently he was somewhere completely different! He didn't bother to put me right, just left me believing he liberated Europe single-handed!
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmynameno the problem is people like you going around and commenting on everything trying to poke holes in people's personal stories,, we know these things happen there we know that it happened to millions of people why do you need to try to discredit people who are saying this happened to so and so...
I know this is a dumb question, but why can humans be so cruel? The Holocaust is known by everyone, but it doesn't diminish the pain that was inflicted. It still gets me so upset that these kind of events happen frequently. Be well everyone 💜
@@Puppy45 Ofc I agree 100% with you but careful with the word ‘many’. People can be selfish but most people are just trying to live a decent life. They’re not exactly being evil, they’re just trying to be well in this life and that’s not something we can blame them for. And most people are kind and decent to one another and have good morals. Saying ‘many’ people are truly evil is kind of playing with perspectives, and on social media that’s only blowing things out of proportion further. Real evil people are like as rare as they come, at least that’s the way I see it.
How can people be so cruel? Assuming the question is not rhetorical, the answer is this: Politicians and power-hungry people figured out a long time ago that getting one group to hate (or fear, which is functionally the same thing) another group is an extremely effective way to manufacture group loyalty. And stoking that hate is an extremely effective way to make lots of people support you. Always easier to feel like you have a cohesive group if you have an Other to hate. And the people who follow this thought, who can blame and hate an Other, will eagerly do this to feel safer. They feel like they understand the world because of what they blame the Other for, and will resist indications to the contrary. They don't consider the Other to be as fully human as themselves, or as deserving of human rights. Simply put, they don't care about people who are different from them. And then it goes downhill from there, to say the least. Avoiding this requires recognizing the humanity in the people you are instructed to hate.
Eh , ur spouse dying back then wasn’t as big of a deal . Ur husband can die in war or during myriad of dangerous occupations. Since safety regulations didn’t exist . Ur Wife during childbirth or just plain disease which affected men and women .
@@unknownbannana8241 I debated whether or not to give this a response as it is just mindboggling how you think of this as fact...... it doesn't matter the time period.... If a person loves someone then sees the person they love dead in front of them... it is gonna mess with them in some way... people process grief in different ways.. from the sound of it... the man was struggling to process his grief seeing his wife dead and his brain not knowing how to go about that information... he just froze. Hell even Spartans... warriors from a society build upon warfare where weakness was seen as a contagious disease still grieved... one of the members of the 500 saw his son get beheaded right in front of him he cried out and lashed out angrily.... you cannot say "it is nothing" when it is infact something... something major.... every human is capable of grief no matter how numb they are from trauma... they just process it differently...
@@unknownbannana8241I think you grossly misunderstand the time period, a woman's death during childbirth was not common during the 1940s like it was before and a man dying in war wasn't seen as an everyday thing unless during WW1 and WW2, your very close ancestors weren't cavemen who would replace their spouse like a broken tool, there were many widows and widowers who didn't remarry, even if you were open to remarrying seeing your spouse being hauled to their death is traumatic, learn more about humanity, the touch of the people from those 80 years ago is still prevalent, underestimating their innate humanity is underestimating your own. If your wife died during complications with her pregnancy or your husband died during a work accident, you wouldn't see it as an everyday thing would you? especially if you thought you could prevent it.
@@ШишанХухановић lol that’s why I said “as big of a deal” . I’m not saying they totally didn’t care . Maternal mortality rates only started to decline in the late 1930s. And didn’t really drop that much until 1950s with advancements in medical field like antibiotics, blood transfusions services and surgical procedures were only starting to be provided. As for the men health and safety regulations weren’t created until much later. Death was still super common
@@unknownbannana8241 doesn't change much, if you know about victorian era grief culture, death was a big deal even predating the two world wars, it's disingenuous to pretend "oh well my wife died that sucks oh well happens" or whatever was the regular response, sure it was, for a sociopath.
Good job. Respectful to those who suffered and died, but not shying away from the details. This is the kind of thing I will show my children when they are old enough to understand. It can't be forgotten, and I fear it already is.
Thank you for making this harrowing but important video. And thank you for including the ex-sommerkomando's art. It reminded me of your other videos covering prisoner's drawings of their own torture, and how they contain a horror that can't be conveyed even with all the rigorous documentation of statistics, written descriptions, and artifacts. We can't let this be forgotten.
What made the "sonderkommando" even worse was that, periodically, this working crew would be "turned over" and slung into the very death chambers that they were servicing. One of Hoss's grandsons turned up at the Auschwitz museum, and there is a video of him talking to a Jewish school age group on an educational visit. The grandson made it quite clear that he in no way condoned the actions of his infamous relative. Unlike some children of Nazi bigwigs like Gudrun Himmler and Emmy Goering, who could never publicly proclaim their opposition to the monstrous sins of their forebears
I live in Tychy (city 30 km away of Oświęcim - where Auschwitz is located). Each year highschool senior year students are going there just to witness these monstrosities and to see what humans are capable of. So this will never repeat. Germans did to Poland something no nation has done
You mean the labour camp where children had been born, an inmate orchestra was formed and soccer matches with mixed teams of guards and inmates took place was horror beyond belief ? The chamber with wooden doors and glas windows? Look at American execution chambers that were in use until recently and tell me these shower rooms have the exact same purpose.
The inmate orchestras and the sports teams were free entertainment for the guards, until they has used up their usefulness and they were also executed. The babies that were born were used in experiments, as were the pregnant and postpartum mothers, then they most often if not always also died or were executed. As far as the American execution chambers, they were for the worst of the worst criminals, those sentenced to death for heinous crimes (a total of 593 executions all said and done). If someone r*ped and beat your mother, sister, or daughter to death, I would bet you would be front and center to watch a person die in this manner.@@dezinke3862
Having to pause this video several times because its just hitting me. I can not fathom the excrusiating torture, and of so many people. So many people gone, destroyed, abused at the highest levels. It is completely unbelievable and truly gut wrenching.
Omg. This is so heartbreaking to hear. I knew a little about the death camps but didn't know anything about these poor souls who had to endure this kind of nightmare. This truly had to have been the worst job in hell. 😢. As horrible as the content is, it's a great video. Your narration is perfect for these videos.
love love love history content! i was never taught this in schools and i know most others weren't either. thank you for further educating us. I would love more of these style videos! longer videos too if you can. Long form content is all the rage now and I love sitting back and watching 30m+ long videos. great job with this brilliant piece of media and keep up the hard work
We must fight to preserve this history. Those that would censor history that is “upsetting” are begging for it to happen again.
I wholeheartedly agree. Take the USS Liberty for instance. That was a heck of a read.
What’s sadly ironic is those same governing bodies…that would “preserve” are the same institutions that have rewritten history! It’s absolutely scary AF what is happening now…then…idk anymore but it’s taken me 57 years ti open my eyes to history..media..it’s insane and I am terrified. Let’s just say…government finally admit to aliens…can’t wait for the rest😑
We are sheep 🐑 its true😭
@@devekut2 Tf do you mean? Of course it happened
@@amazingspiderlad You believe that like it's an article of faith. But what if it didn't happen the way we've been taught? What if we've been fed a steady diet of lies, 'just-so' stories and manipulative fairy-tales for 80 years?
@@devekut2 There's literal photographic evidence, first hand accounts and about a hundred other kinds of proof that it happened, you fucking edgelord moron.
If you somehow don't believe that this happened, you're either braindead or a sociopath. How the fuck else would you explain the millions of innocent people dying at once? How else do you explain the camps that are STILL THERE, filled with all the possessions of these people?
Read a fucking book. Touch grass.
In his autobiography, Rudolph Hoss recounted that story about the man who had seen his wife's corpse. He said that 30 minutes later, the man was eating his lunch as though nothing had happened, so Hoss used that as evidence that Jews were incapable of forming the same kinds of strong familial bonds that Aryans possessed. Rather than acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, a human being was pushed beyond the psychological breaking point, he just used the experience to justify his ability to dehumanize others. It's an insane book to read.
That's so sinister because it shows that they actively wanted them to
Suffer as opposed to just "quickly exterminating them", that very sterile vocab we hear them use.
I started a book a couple months called a Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. I never got to finish it but he was a prisoner at one of the concentration camps and he observed not only his own mind but the prisoners around him psychologically. He came to a conclusion that the are 3 main stages a prisoner goes through. First stage being utter shock. Second being Apathy , self- preservation. Third , the period after liberation if they lived to be free. The amount of derealization a person must go through to survive this horrifying transition from being stripped from their everyday lives to being tortured and in agony is something I can’t ever imagine. It really is crazy how the mind works. The way the man who had seen his wife reacted afterwards was his mind being in a raw state of survival mode. It really is so awful how humans can do this to each other.
@BelizeHunni They didn't use that vocabulary though. That's a Hollywood fabrication. There are zero documents or speeches between 1939-1945 where Hitler or any of his subordinates call for the killing of Jews at all.
Its horrible how Israel is encouraging an event just as evil as this, as long as they are the ones with the keys to the jail. They want revenge, not peace. They want us to feel concentration camps as well. End Zionism.@@Jennybando
@@stuart6478 Non-Fiction*
"he's just recognised his wife"
that's beyond horrible. I have no words
@@tubeguy4066 are you broken?
Pretty heavy
@@tubeguy4066you must have no brain
@@tubeguy4066 mfers on their way to unironically say "it wasn't real" like that's gonna epically own everyone, my man what are you even arguing for? even if it wasn't real it doesn't mean that was happened wasn't absolutely horrifying.
@@AndroCubed_>"It was real, in my mind"_
If crematoriums need 2 hours to incinerate a human corpse, then for 6M people that's 12M hours, which is 500K days, and that's 1'400 years.
Learn math.
Can you imagine there are thousands and thousands of people that deny that this even happened. My heart goes out.
@Sadshorts007
No it's not.
in germany, holocaust denial will get you criminally charged and rightfully so
@Sadshorts007 proper education and common sense/decency
@Sadshorts007 people in North Korea are not given tools to seek out/verify the truth. You and I do. I'd suggest using them rather than making a fool of yourself.
@Sadshorts007 "people who made the tools are also the ones making the lies" yeah, real convenient isn't it? Anything to keep believing that history is against you i guess. You telling me that France prevented you from verifying facts using the internet? Give me a break. Even flat earthers aren't suppressed on the internet so it would be pretty easy for you to fact check almost anything. Cut the bs.
I never knew inmates were forced to operate the gas chambers. Absolutely evil. Thank you for shedding light on this.
Didn't exist. Most deaths were from typhus.
Any group evil enough to have a death factory, probably wouldn’t blink at making inmates do those grisly tasks.
Probably not.
@fry285 I'm sorry what?
@@chupacabra-smith I think they were replying to the other comment under yours
I watched a film once about a SonderKommando who found his son in the Gas Chambers, still living for a short time. He steals his body from the doctors who want to dissect him to find a Rabbi to give his son funeral rites, one last duty he can perform as his father.
It was tragic.
For whoever comes across this and is interested, the movie is called Son of Saul
Yet another case of a person's opinion on the holocaust derived from movies and media and not historical fact. Gas chambers were never used to execute jews, majority of deaths were from typhus, cholera or exposure. So many that they had to build coal crematorium to deal with the death.
Movies are fake.
movie
That is a movie I never want to see.
I visited Auschwitz with my class when I was 15. One thing the guide told us about that I will never forget is about the toilet situation. The "toilets" were basically just long holes in the ground where everyone had to do their business quickly. One of the most sought after jobs of the camps was to clean those dumping areas. Why? Normal inmates were only allowed to use those toilets two times a day. With diseases like cholera spreading everywhere these led to horrible hygienic circumstances. The toilet cleaners at least could use those toilet areas frequently.
It is just horrible, horrible what human beings can do to each other.
really puts in perspective the things we take for granted
sneaky prisoners
It was all made up. They push horrifying stories on young children because that is the easiest way to indoctrinate and not wind up with adults that question the inconsistencies of the narratives.
I keep forgetting how absolutely awful we can be to one another. It's good I was reminded today.
Where did u hear they were restricted to bathroom use to twice a day?
“we are the sonderkommando. we are broken. we’ve wasted away. this is our way out of this hell.” such a chilling series of words.
I cant imagine fathom. How much hate you would need to do this heinous acts against other human beings.
the sonderkommando how much guilt they must’ve felt.
can you time stamp it ?
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“Behind that door is death”
Fuck man. The absolute deepest pit of hell behind a door.
I had no idea this happened, when you think these camps can’t get worse. Truly truly heartbreaking; especially the man who recognised his wife. Absolutely brutal
Do you mind if I ask what country you went to school in? I'm just curious since I had a very robust introduction to the horrors of what we in Swedish call "The Annihilation" (the Holocaust) in 7th grade onwards. It wasn't sugar coated to say the least and it went into detail about just how inhuman it was. There was some serious reverence for the whole subject too, several days that we had been prepared for in advance where the only subject was the holocaust. There was also a councillor there during those days that you could go talk to at any time. I remember some gruesome photographs so clearly. They were kept in a big book with only photos that we were encouraged to look at if we could handle it psychologically (but didn't have to) as a reminder of what could happen if we just follow orders without thinking about it.
@@SuperVaIlefirst week, slavery
Second week, Holocaust
After that, big test
@SuperVaIle doesn't really matter what country could be taught differently throughout that whole country depends on what school you go too
I had the same reaction, regardless of how much I learn about the Holocaust, there always seems to be new details that deepen my knowledge…. And leave me aghast at the true evils of the world
@@SuperVaIleI can’t speak for the commenter you asked, but as for me I went to school in US…. And I can confidently say, we could learn much from your country’s approach. Things *may* have improved since my days in school (Class of ‘06), but at that time I’m certain there were absolutely no counseling, or preparation for the class, although I don’t recall them showing us many pictures. I honestly feel almost as if they are trying to minimize the Holocaust…. I didn’t even begin to wrap my head around the level of sheer evil, violence, hate and death involved until researching for myself in my 20’s
One thing that always gets me about the camps is the fact that the victims of the gas chamber didn't always die, so they were incinerated while they were still breathing. A fucking terrifying image to imagine.
Oh yeezus some were cremated alive??!! It doesn't get much worse than that! These people were evil sent straight from hell
@@denisepleines1513 worse part is that the majority of these perpetrators aren't exactly what you could call evil as you'd expect then to be. Between the bystander effect, the peer pressure to go along with it and the ideological brainwashing, many of these Germans, even the camp staff, were far from despicable before the war. As sick as it sounds, when the status quo is evil, most people will do evil, regardless of their own individual preexisting character. Its easier just to go along and hope what you're doing isn't wrong.
That, like 90% of the other stuff about this event, are made up fiction
Shit must’ve hurt. I can’t even imagine
they also had masterbation machines that would jerk the victim off to death... sad sick messed up world......my grandpa was a survivor of the holocost,, he told me
In Poland, we actually learn all of this in high school. There's a book from one of the Auschwitz survivors with all of these facts etc. and we have to read, and analyze it. I'm glad this is the case because the horrible fate of these people won't be forgotten.
"Night" by Eli Wisel right? Good book, I read it in my English class and it was heart breaking
Thats probably why Poland has in my opinion the only respectable politicians in Europe.
@@borkistshorts7267 It's a series of stories by Tadeusz Borowski. The ones we mainly focus on are "This way for the gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" and "Here in our Auschwitz"
@@hxllxw5527 if its in my local library I will read it, thanks for telling me!
@@borkistshorts7267Yes I did that one. I should read it again as an adult with a brand new, much graver perception of the world.
Yes it's getting to a point that even saying Nazi isn't allowed on RUclips. When you fail to teach history despite the reason the lessons taught are forgotten
In Messenger, one cannot find ANY gifs about Nazis . . . erased from history not even within a century and doomed to repeat it, likely within this century.
@@censorbleep3018 your foresight is faulty.
@@MMeltingButter From the river to the sea . . . I've never heard of a Nazi.
@@censorbleep3018 your poetry is faulty.
@@MMeltingButter Talking to you, is like talking to CHAT GPT . . .
from the river to the sea
there's not one gif of a nazi
and you can't see
there is a repeat of history!
Not immediately
But easy to foresee
How anyone that survived the concentration camps managed to live their lives in any kind of normal fashion, is hard to understand. The mental torture would never leave you and the survivor's guilt must be all encompassing..bless all those who were murdered - you will never be forgotten🕊🥀
They went and murdered palestinians and cry victim. Dogs
My grandma's neighbours were Auschwitz survivors. They were Mengele's test subjects and were basically... missing some organs because of that. According to my grandma, even though they went through such hell, they were really kind people.
You should read MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
It’s about his parents who were survivors, and the way the way affected them forever.
The fact that that book is getting banned is terrifying.
@@ms.annthropic6341i read Maus last month. Art Spiegelman father and mother ended up psichologicaly destroyed
People were mentally stronger back then.
I can't even fathom the mental trauma these poor men went through. The story about the baby surviving only to be shot broke my heart in two.
This is what happens if you are doctrinated to see another human as non human
@@archravenineteenseventeen I can see that point. But I think it's more of a testament to what can happen if people aren't taught to stand up for themselves and others and not to allow themselves to be subjugated. It's unfortunate.
@@DeadboltDame they don't have a way to get out. They were given an ultimatum to be deported way back in 1938 but the western nations refused them.
@@archravenineteenseventeenmy point was that I believe that if people had been raised with more of a sense of the importance of freedom and standing up for themselves then what happened in Germany never would have happened to begin with. Things of that magnitude only happen in countries where those values are not instilled in people. Russia under Stalin is another excellent example. People were raised to believe "Mother Russia before all else" and look what happened to them as well. The indoctrination is more about not standing up for yourself and for others than it is about not seeing others as human. There was that, of course, mostly with high ranking Nazis. But that is why you hear so many stories about guards in the concentration camps wanting to desert their post but being too afraid they'd be killing, which of course they would have. I hate to sound crass and it's not my intention to belittle the victims of this atrocity in any way, but it's a matter of the collective not having had a backbone. I know that's an awful way to put it but it's the most accurate description I can think of right now.
the let me ask you, how did hitler and then nazis made it to become the leader of germany? revolution? coup de etat? nope. it was election. german people choose them. it was a freedom that they chose nazism. russians were also chosen communism over monarchy. it was freedom that they chose .
I have never heard this story about the Sonderkommando, i didn't even know there was a term for it. My grandfather was a Czechoslovakian partisan who was captured by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz where he was given the job of being a "Sonderkommando." He was tasked with maning the incinerators. He survived by living off potato peels given to him by some guards who pittied him.... I wish I knew more of the story but my grandfather never spoke to me about the horrors he lived through (I only know small details from my parents and aunties). Thank you for narrating this story in a respectful manner. RIP Jozef Klamo
Oh, I see you've read Elie Weisel's "Night" and appropriated scenes from that book into your family "history". Well done.
@@devekut2 have you taken your medication today?
@@ivetak8439 Your rabbi must be very proud of your dishonesty.
@@devekut2 you know nothing about me, my ethnicity or my family story, yet you sit there being all cocky and accusing me of stealing someone's story to pass off as a fake pretend version of what happened to my grandfather? I rarely ever comment on videos that I watch on RUclips and straight off the bat I get accused of faking a story... for what? A couple of thumbs up?? Plz get back in your box, there were literally thousands of "Sonderkommandos" across the concentration camps during WW2 and up until I had watched this video I had only ever heard of my grandfather's story, his name was Jozef Klamo he was born in Slovakia (frmr Czechoslovakia) he was fighting alongside the Czechoslovakian army when they all got cornered by the Germans, the high ranking army officials fled the scene leaving the Partisans which included my grandfather behind. He was then captured and to the best of my knowledge sent to Birkenau Auschwitz 2. Where his role was carrying the corpses from the gas chambers to the incinerator..... My grandfather on my mother's side was too young to fight in the war, and I also have a story of my children's great grandfather who was born in Australia and sent to Hiroshima to clean up after the nuclear bomb was set off... but maybe I've stolen that story too. I also have accounts from my parents about the day the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, to crack down on the country's slack stance on communism. There's also stories of myself growing up in a communist country and then fleeing to Austria with nothing but the clothes on our backs and living in a refugee camp.... but sure I'm making those up too.
Please learn to be kind and listen to people's stories Instead of just accusing people of making up crap. Millions of lives were affected by WW2 at some stage the stories are going to be similar don't you think. Please feel free to do your own research about the partisan POWs in the war, about the Czechoslovakian army etc
@@devekut2 I'm Catholic so was my grandfather so are my children, in fact my children still attend Catholic school. Auschwitz2 didn't just house Jews.
You told this piece of history with the utmost respect to history, and those lost. Thank you.
No science fiction horror can come close to the reality of what humans can do to one another.
Think about what you just said
what's scarier is how 7 people read that and thought it was a coherent sentence and gave it a thumbs up@@mediocreshotplacement
I don’t know why people find history boring. It’s not only stranger than fiction, it’s infinitely crueler. Full of warfare, violence, and atrocities of all kinds. That should shock and horrify people, not bore them.
how many languages do you speak, @@tom4208 ?
thats not the point here. if you gonna speak a language speak it right... or else you cant actually speak it then@@LeUtubeAcc
Truely dark and horrifying, I had always assumed some kind of low ranking nazis would have done this evil work, this revelation to me makes it worse. I have no idea how I have gone 40 years on this planet not knowing this.
The shoah foundation has I think 2 interviews of surviving sonderkommando. Very informative and harrowing.
Goes to show you know absolutely nothing about people.
Japanese were even worse if that is possible. Inform yourself about Squadron 721 and their awful experiments on alive civilians. I recommend you watch the movie "The men behind the Sun", which is just a depiction but never I witnessed such a depiction of malice and pure evil or could even imagine something like that.
😢
@@Ucho469After reading through accounts of Nazis and Japanese, it honestly feels like there was no "worse", there's no real metric to measure depravity and say one is somehow lesser when both sides were opening up children while alive and exposing innocents to what belongs in hell.
My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. He lost every. single. family. member. His father was one of six brothers. No one lived. My granddad survived only because he enrolled to the army at the age of 17. He never spoke about his life before the Holocaust, only on his deathbed at the age of 88 he told a bit about his childhood.
Rest in peace my favorite person, granddad Leib. I hope that somewhere you have your big family back.
My condolences.
I give my condolences.
Durisimo, que en paz descanse
your grandfather must've been an incredible person and such a strong survivor. may he and his family rest in peace.
nice joke schlomo
Nightmares don’t scare me, horror media doesn’t scare me, but stories from genocide survivors terrify me.
Have you read Elie Weisel's book? He was taken by the SS as a teenager and was marched out of auschwitz.
My freshman English class had to read it.
@@charlesshelton7989 yes I forget which holocaust book it was but I remember reading one written by him
@spingebill8551 it was called night.
Reality is far more horrific than fiction.
@@danielmiller2886 indeed, because at the end of the day some real life humans are the real monsters, and some of them are bigger monsters than anything in popular fiction.
This happened 80 years ago. My mind cannot comprehend this. It's worse than the most depraved fiction. This happened around one human life's worth of time ago. I'm trying to like think about it but I'm just stun locked. I have watched thousands of videos regarding morbid reality but this is legit one of the most traumatic things I have ever heard. I don't think I've ever heard of anything so cruel in my life. Genocide wasn't a necessary evil to them, they intentionally made it as cruel as they possibly could.
Knowing what those people went through, I hereby swear down to never complain about anything ever again in my life. I'm not much of a complainer anyway but like. How can you feel sorry for yourself when you know this.
i am really sad now. this basically happened yesterday man. how is that possible man. i mean i know how its possible and how it happened yada yada. but like. the fact that it did. cant get over it
Doesn't that key you in, worse than the worst fiction 😂
Why were they setting up elaborate looney tunes traps in the middle of a 2 front war for survival?
@@sureokk LOL
@@Imperium83 ay tone, if we was gonna whack somebody, would we be making them a pool?
What is just absolutely shocking is the fact that you still have people who will argue and say that this never happened, none of it. The worst event I've ever heard of and pray every night that there isn't another. It truly is unbelievable 😢
I’m sure there are weird people like the ones you describe but honestly I’ve never seen anyone like that. One way or another please forget about them, they’re clearly not well
@@portwillsthey’re all over this comment section lol
@@MassHysterics yeah I just noticed as I scrolled… so they do exist. I withdraw what I said. At least, those people are the odd loners on social media.
@@portwillsthey're not "the odd loner". There are entire groups who believe this very thing, among a bunch of other disgusting things. Those people live around you, work at places you visit and can be your neighbors. Thinking they don't exist or that there are only a few who are lovers who only speak out on the internet every once in awhile is dangerous- in fact, that's exactly how the Nazis were able to get as much power as they did. People denying their existence or believing it was just a few randos with crazy beliefs. These groups are bigger than ever and quite widespread and commit acts of domestic terrorism.
There are flat earthers too lol.
This is why it pisses me off when people try to shrug this atrocity off. This is some evil stuff.
I really really hate how blind people can be to objective fact, they'd rather believe in some bombastic conspiracy rather than the stuff consistently and blatantly out in the open. They didn't build Auschwitz for shits and giggles and they didn't stage a single photo with those guys all shrunk up to skeletons
I've *lived* with extreme hunger before and even I never got that bad, the only way someone could ever get that skinny is if they just outright weren't fed for weeks.
Yet somehow all this stuff was staged. In the middle of a war, involving massive amounts of cooperation between countries that all hated each other, apparently. People will just believe anything to make themselves feel "special" and smarter than the flock, even if it means ignoring basic fact.
Like we're supposed to believe that the Russian and U.S militaries, alongside Germany itself all *mutually* agreed to make some shit up and Germany was just okay with that black eye, they're just okay with being known as the place that murdered millions of innocents in a story they made up.
Sure, sure buddy.
No-one's trying to ''shrug it off''. But everybody involved is dead now, and things like this aren't something people should be dwelling on too much. Focusing on the war crimes of the past never stopped the war crimes of the present. All war is a crime, but here we are, carrying the crimes of the last wars before us, like some macabre banner that shapes our respective national identities. Perpetual simmering resentment, passed from generation to generation.
@@nodiggity9472out here shrugging the holocaust off
@@nodiggity9472this is just your opinion, many are of the opinion it should never be forgotten & yes there are some that like to downplay or even deny the holocaust even happened & history however grotesque needs to be told.
@@nodiggity9472 There are plenty of people who deny the Holocaust or act like it wasn't serious. I know humans are not great at learning from history, but we should at least make an effort.
In 1944, sonderkommandos in Auschwitz launched a doomed uprising with pistols and grenades made from gunpowder and sardine cans. They killed four SS guards and blew up a crematorium. They were killed and the women who supplied the sonderkommandos the gunpowder were hanged as an example.
Yes this is literally in the video.
“When we die we will die with our arms unbound, This is why we fight” the uprising made me cry at the end but they were such brave souls.
Mmmmmhmmmm decemberists
@@Seekthedaywut?
@@Windwalker88 the above quote is from a decemberists song
@@Seektheday is that a band or a movement? 😂
You consider this brave?
“He has just recognized his wife”
This is the only thing I’m gonna think about this whole weak. I almost cried
I’m Russian and my great grandpa served for the Soviet Union, and I remember how my grandma would tell me how he escaped a concentration camp while only weighing 30 or so pounds. And he also had metals from bombs in his head during that time, yet he still survived and lived till 80
I recognized the importance of history and would want to hear more about your great grandpa, if you’re comfortable sharing
My great grandpa was also in soviet army, lieutenant in mortar squad, he surrendered when soviets were retreating in 1941 and sent him to concentranion camp. He escaped . I still remember what he said to his family is that he had a dream how to escape the camp, i mean exact night and day were patrols didn't catch him. It's so bad to think what would happen if they catch him... i wouldn't be there now and talking this story to you. As your and my great grandpa escaped and gave us a chance to be born. To be born in peaceful times and enjoy our lives.
*week
🫡
You mean 30 kilograms?
David Olere's artwork is chilling - how haunted that man must have been..how could you ever turn off the horrors of what you were forced to do.😞
Marian Kolodziej (survived 5 years in several concentration camps until liberation 1945) created horrific and haunting drawings depicting the atmosphere and people imprisoned at Auschwitz. His work is displayed at St. Maksymilian in Harmęże, Poland in an exhibition called -Cliches of memory. "Labyrinths"- They are extremely detailed and gut wrenching.
Thank you for sharing that. I will see if I can find out more about him .@@stasia072
They should never be forgotten. R.I. P to all of the victims.
Indeed
Who shouldn’t be forgotten? The brave German soldiers who manned the camps? I agree
MANY were because they're not Jewish. Yall gotta start being real about that and the why too
@@MissCellanious1They are remembered, you have to make the effort to actually read about them. Just because survivors and relatives of a people overwhelmingly targeted by Nazis for execution did a good job at preserving the injustice and the memory of their dead relatives doesn't mean they're doing something wrong. If you want to blame someone, start with the nazi sympathiser here and don't blame the Jews for surviving and telling their stories.
@@RabbiSchmuelGoldsteinTreeofLif
Bait or mental retardation
The one thing we must never forget is that it was not just 'those horrible people back then'. This kind of cruelty lies in the heart of each and every one of us, waiting to emerge at the first opportunity it sees. We can never let that happen.
This cruelty is nurtured and created from hatred it's not innately in us. We have to believe we're doing good for any of this to be justified, and that's the truly evil part of this whole thing.
It's really disturbing seeing it happen now. I've seen members of government in Israel referring to Palestinians as "human animals" and videos of soldiers laughing and dancing around dead Palestinians. Today I saw a young Israeli woman laughing at a video she was shown of dead babies in Gaza. It's like people don't learn from history. Ofc many Israelis are against what's happening, but it's surprising how large a number are outspokenly genocidal right now.
AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH MINE IS COMING OUT RUUUUUNNNNNN AAAAAAHHHHHHHH... just a fart
This was not so long ago. We like to think it’s far away in the past, but it isn’t.
I think the best way that someone described the way that evil lays in every one of us in this case is when it was stated that the ss officers were not evil but instead terrifyingly normal
I feel like I'm pretty jaded and cynical but by God the horror here is just too much. It's just too much. Thank you for making sure it's not forgotten. God forbid it ever be repeated.
Looks like it might be repeated, (if things keep going the way of the transphobes) and if homophobes continue to be in power. Not saying it would be nearly as horrific; but the alt right is beginning to speak out about ‘getting rid of’ trans people and drag performers.
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyouthe difference you can choose to hide your sexual identity but you can not easily hide your color/race. Pretty gross people like you want to be vitimized so bad.
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyou lol
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyouthat's so unbelievably stupid that I don't even know where to start. I'm part of the queer community, but if you think that some fringe right wing militia is going to put us into camps like what happened in the holocaust then you must be legitimately insane. Where did you hear about these so-called legitimate nazi plans? 4chan? 😂
@@EmmaGoldmanlovesyouthe left has ruined everything I love…
industrialised murder is the most brutal thing in human history
Womp womp
@@WarriorunderyahushaYou are a disgusting human being...
@@Warriorunderyahusha wow! An average unempathetic 12 year old who desperately wants attention, and they want it so much that they are willing to mock the deaths of millions and millions of innocent souls. You can say womp womp to my comment all you want, but you are truly disgusting. Get help
@@Warriorunderyahusha You must be the cool kid in school
@@Warriorunderyahusha
where u beaten Up at School again?
Poor kiddo u cant Defend yourself i suppose
Learning about the Holocaust in school, the sheer numbers were impossible to conceptualize. It’s crushing to revisit as an adult and in so much more detail.
I know . I found the numbers to be impossible as well
In germany you learn this topic in school. It must have been horrific.
My history teacher started to cry as she was telling us about this.
I also read the diary of anne frank and you could really feel the anxiaty they must have felt. Especially children. They had no regrets and no remourse
You might read some books written by the actual author and come up with a sane conclusion.
The book was partially written by her father.
@@mwittmann68 ie. the real diary was boring nonsense, so the father jazzed it up a bit. In biro.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname im... guessing you never read that book. or honestly from how you talk, any book
Why are you pinpointing 'in Germany'? Something as widespread and evil like the holocaust should be taught in the schools throughout the world, isn't it?
This is truly horrifying, those poor men. recognising family members and knowing what their fate would be, but not being able to stop it. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how that would feel. My heart breaks for them. Thanks for an amazing video SH. You are making sure their stories are not forgotten.
So sad 😞
The slaughter of an entire people due to the belief that they are inhuman was bad enough but to make those said “inhuman” individuals do the same horrendous things to their own family,friends,and people was monumentally terrible and that’s why I don’t see how people can deny this event
it bothers me how you talk as if only jews were killed the 6million figure is an estimate of the total loss of life caused by the camps its so fucking disrespectful to the non jewish deaths to just talk of the jews as you did
It wasn't for their beliefs!
Where do you get that nonsense?
It was because they DESTROYED the Weimar Republic and the very fabric of society! Just like they are currently doing to North America and Europe!!
It wasn't for their beliefs!
Where do you get that nonsense?
It was because they DESTROYED the Weimar Republic and the very fabric of society! Just like they are currently doing to North America and Europe!!
It wasn't for their beliefs!
Where do you get that nonsense?
Thank you for bringing light to these horrors. This is how we keep the memories of these victims alive, even tho these stories are beyond horrible. We must never forget.
How in the fuck can humans do this to one another. Fucking tearful stuff man. Thanks for sharing.
It ain't nothing new. Hell, the Armenian Genocide was an inspiration to Hitler since the lack of proper justice served made him believe he could pull off the holocaust.
I see humans but no humanity.
Because they didn't see them as human. Do you think twice about swatting a fly that's annoying you in your kitchen? No. Same principle.
That what you call propaganda, indoctrination mass psychology. Still happening,
Humanity is this way. Always has been.
In just 16:54 minutes this man has surpassed every History teacher I had through out my student years! Brilliantly done, Mate 👍👍
not being cheeky here but History class is mostly propaganda ime
You're not being smart here, period.@@john-ic5pz
right??? personally we got taught all throughout middle school and highschool about it, but i feel they never really got deep enough. So many people deny it even happened..
Government schools are just as inefficient as the department of transportation and the DMV.
@@toebiter69 Why is it ppl deny The Holocaust but don't deny other genocides like The Killing Fields or Mao's Great Leap Forward or The Red Terror?
It feels wrong even liking a video like this in support of your content; but thank you for maintaining the history, as horiffic it is so hear.
I never heard about this uprising against the SS, in conditions such as this, the fact that they had strength to cause chaos against their sadistic abusers is commendable.
when you know its freedom vs agonizing death, the human becomes capable of everything.
I think there was a movie made about this at least I saw a movie about a rebellion in camp and not the better-known movie about the Sobibor escape. I saw that one twice
The Grey Zone
Actually I thought quite the opposite. I look at events in history and wonder how people endure them and actually go through with being so obedient. I understand it scientifically, but I don't understand it personally, as I'm barely willing to lift a finger for anyone come hell or high water.
Baaa! Baaa! that's how it happens, over and over and over@@abramjones9091
I love learning about wars, but this... This is absolutely terrible. I cannot comprehend how evil humanity is. Truly heartbreaking, brings tears to my eyes. Demons are among us. Rest in peace, victims of WWII. 🤍
What is evil? Is humanity evil because those who are branded wicked will always have their name remembered? Is humanity evil because of the actions and manipulation of one influential person. Is an Australian evil because a Canadian was the leader of a death cult. Of course humanity will do awful things. But looking forward, the most important thing is to remember these atrocities and become better than what they were. One cannot dwell on evil if they wish to make a good difference.
@@crapmostanky k
@@ScurvySeamateThat's wrong, not enough education is why we have the rise of fascism again.
For those interested, I would highly recommend the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. It is a memoir where he recounts how he and his family endured this very death camp- by the time the war was over he was the only one left.
He managed to survive the death camp plus the Auschwitz Death March to Berlin. "March" is a bit of a misnomer here since the prisoners weren't so much marched, as they were expected to *run* from Poland to Germany, nonstop, for 350 miles. Those who couldn't keep up simply fell down an died in the road, trampled by scared prisoners and military vehicles, while those who started to fall behind were simply shot and left for dead.
It's a quick read, and something I think every person should use to educate themselves. In my opinion, it's among the most important literary texts in human history.
I agree. I had to read it in High School. And we also had to watch a movie called "Night and Fog" which was truly horrific, showing actual footage. One girl fainted during the showing and fell out of her chair. At the time, I was going to a Christian Youth group and the subject of the Holocaust came up. I am half Jewish so I was particularly upset. The Youth leader said blandly that the Holocaust was God's punishment to the Jews for rejecting Jesus, and that these victims deaths didn't end their suffering, because they all went straight to hell. I was so furious and disgusted I got up and left, it was nighttime in Illinois in the Winter and I had no ride, so I walked 5 miles home on the adrenaline of my fury. I never went back to group again. The Youth leader had the audacity to call me and chew me out for leaving, and I just handed the phone to my dad who had a few choice words for him.
I remember reading it in year 9 History classes. It’s a powerfully emotional book but incredible to see what it was truly like.
Night, is simply the most terrifying book I have ever read.
I read it my junior year of high school, the night before my notes were due since I had quite the bad habit of procrastination, and I sobbed when his father was dying. It is one of the most haunting books I have ever read, and I still think about it from time to time. I think everyone should read it.
Another book I would recommend is bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. the stuff the Nazis and Soviets did in their massacres are beyond sadistic
did my school research project on this; this is genuinely so disturbing, i can’t imagine the emotional scarring of this job
Who needs Satan when you have humans?
Nah who needs hell when you have a quite literal camp based on death
The greatest lie Satan ever told was that he didn’t exist
In the words of the band Cattle Decapitation "Now we know the devil is the human race"
@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ True, human race are slaves to him unless you turn to Christ.
@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_no the greatest lie man ever told was that satan exists
All that gold must still be in circulation.... we are brutes, absolute brutes. Very solemn work 'hand, well done mate. Very respectfully telling a sad tale.
yeah i agree, must be in switzerland or luxembourg
Speak for yourself!
@@GLING17Na, humanity is msotly brutes...some just much worse than others. A good man is the rarest thing on Earth....and no, I am under no delusions that I am a good man.
@@GLING17 touché, let those without GLING cast the first stone....
@@GLING17 You're a fool if you think you can't commit inhumane acts under certain circumstances. We're a very flawed race.
i cannot imagine the heartbreak of being forced to lie to people who are about to be sent to their deaths, and move and burn their bodies, only to then be called a collaborator to the people who put you through that hell. i'm glad some of them decided to testify and that the truth about their ordeal came out in the end.
Hmmm, but wouldn't you be suspicious of someone who survived that time, came out the other side fit and healthy? Wouldn't you suspect they might have been a little less of a victim than some of those who ended up as a corpse? Some may have used stories like this as cover for their collaboration during the Nazi regime.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname i think it's inevitable that a lot of people would be suspicious of that, of course. what i mean is that it must have been awful for the people who were innocent to have been grouped in together with nazis. even if people have a lot of reasons to be suspicious of you, it still feels terrible to be called a monster when you're in fact a victim.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmynameI don't think any captive in a death camp could be considered fit or healthy by any means, even the people who were used and forced into doing unspeakable evil to other people. Those who survived did so most likely due to their "term" not being completed before they could be rescued or could escape, before their time in "rotation" was ended and they were killed. In some ways, I think the survivors may have had it worse than the dead; they had to continue living with the guilt of knowing that they were powerless and committed horrible things, the horror of being compelled to do evil with their own hands, utterly unable to resist. While suspicion is a logical feeling to an extent, just hearing the accounts from them shows how abused and to what level of depravity they were forced to partake in and experienced themselves. Unless by fit and healthy you mean that they managed to survive when so many didn't, I suppose they are. But the trauma experienced is something I do not even want to fathom. And while it is possible I suppose that some Nazi officers disguised themselves as their victims, I'm not sure it matters enough, especially when that suspicion is used in a way that entirely invalidates the horrific experiences of real victims like the men mentioned in this video.
Thank you for telling these hard stories that we should never forget.
The Palestinians haven't forgotten. They are living this NOW.
Human cruelty truly has no limit. Thank you for this video. It's up to us to remember the sheer trauma of this global atrocity so that it hopefully may never be repeated.
Just Look at China they Do it right now
@@dennisdreck563 Our western civ is no better. While the meatgrinder keeps running in Ukraine, who is talking about ceace fire and peace?
@@t16205 RUclips cant compare selling Weapons with executing people from different religeous groups
@@dennisdreck563 Just vatnik stuff, leave him be.
@@dennisdreck563you mean isreal. China isn't actively committing genocide. What quack website did you hear that from?
My friends grandfather was sent here with his twin brother. The brother died but Granndpa survives to this day. He farms, hunts, goes to church, spends time with family and is doing quite well. I can't imagine the horrors he lived through.
As a twin, he got off lucky then.
I can't imagine the horrors of having a soccer team, a band, plays and their own currency. Imagine the atrocious act of Nazi guards playing soccer with the prisoners.... Some of them on the Jewish teams.
@@DankBirdGang52 Pretty weird for a place like that... doesn't exactly make sense.
Did he ever get to go swimming in the pool or go to any of the symphony concerts they had for the prisoners?
@@DankBirdGang52this is antisemitic.
I've seen many videos on WWII, Auschwitz, and the Nazis. It's fascinating to know how cruel, cold, and terrifyingly calculating humanity can be to themselves.
This video captures that very idea of pure fear, knowing you are working for death itself.
The most terrifying thing is, this could happen today.
You or I could end up supporting this, or taking part in this, all it takes is the wrong person, to say the wrong words, to the wrong people, at the wrong time. And suddenly you have a group of people who are supporting this.
Look at Israel’s current attack on Palestine, look at the recent race riots in England, look at the success of Trump, look at the rapidly growing nationalist movements across the globe.
This can happen again, this isn’t just history.
My grandpa was born in Pennsylvania in 1917. His dad was born somewhere around 1890 in Bavaria DEU.
Rudolf Stoiber.
He abandoned his wife and my grandpa to go back to Germany in 1935.
I always wondered why my dad's side of the family never acknowledged our ethnicity, until i did the math.
I dont even wanna VAGUELY know what Rudolph did.
hearing that an SS officer was thrown alive into a crematorium's oven was music to my fuckin ears
And the rest of them escaped through the agarthan portal or something
It terrifies me that a lot of the nazis were able to escape to the west and Argentina etc. The idea that these demons still exist, had children, and spread their memes in secret is disturbing. May God never afford them another breath.
sadly, Perón agreed to let them enter and go to the south of Argentina. Bariloche is the most common example of the cities where nazis lived post war. Mengele was here as well and then escaped to Brasil. There's a movie called Wakolda, based on the book with the same name, which tells about his passing through a hotel near Bariloche.
Reality: they live out nice, easy lives.
Why did you use the word "memes" in a serious matter?
@@justsomeguyontheinternet562 Google it. The word meme existed decades before the internet existed. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
And guess who ran CDC, WHO, NATO and the UN.
It amazes me Americans have absolutely no knowledge of operation paperclip or think it was just people like Von Braun.l, who designed the V1 and V2 which terrorised the UK, then ran Apollo. Nope, it was tens of thousands of doctors and scientists a hell of a lot were responsible for the most disgusting behaviour
Fun fact, the companies that made zyklon b all still operate freely.
This is so sad it hurts. It's appalling that people will deny this history. Thank you for sharing.
A not-so-fun fact is that Fritz Haber, the man who created ammonia, which was made into Zyclon B by the Nazis, was German-Jewish.
Fun fact for you Zyklon B is used to get rid of lice
Created ammonia?
@@eljefehuevon54 yes! He created the synthesis for ammonia.
Nobel prize for the Haber-Bosch Ammonia synthesis, the reason we can feed 8 billion people.
@@Cara220 Creating the synthesis for ammonia and creating ammonia are not the same thing. Ammonia occurs naturally.
This was so beautifully done. How tragic and appropriate a title for such a horrid time in our history. Something we must remember. ❤
Never forget that human beings haven't changed since this happened. We haven't gone through some sort of evolution or grand awakening. We can never forget that this happened. We can never let our history be erased or censored.
I heard of most of these horrors in elementary school at age 8, but without the photographs. The story was told by a teacher with such passion for teaching that we could draw the picture in our mind.
It truly was hell on Earth, no question about it.
The world vowed "Never again", but we broke that promise every chance we got and are still letting this happen on numerous places on the planet. I hope for peace but know different.
I remember very little from school. I remember watching the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Pianist in history, that's about it.
My father was a World War II veteran. He was with a corps of engineers. This corps visited the concentration camp at Dachau shortly after its liberation by U.S. combat troops. Some of the men took photos, some of which my father retained. My brother showed these photos to me when I was a child. The pictures frightened me, but also led to a lifelong fascination with World War II, Germany, and the Holocaust.
It's not often that I struggle to finish a video, but I really struggled with this. I just can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like to experience this horror. How can anyone do this to another human? My heart absolutely breaks hearing about these stories.
simple: you are so indoctrinated that you think that your prisoners aren't human, just pests.
Same. Wanted to turn it off a couple of minutes in.
Humans are capable of anything. From the noblest altruism, to the most bestial cruelty.
The fact that people that are alive today still try to refute such an atrocity is sinful. Groups of humans have done such things, on various scales, throughout recorded history. There's physical evidence! We need to learn, not ignore. Thanks Shrouded, for shining the light.
I am Polish. My great grandmother (from my grandmas side) was taken to a concentration camp, though she wasn't Jewish- she was Christian with money.
As she was ready to board her train with her husband (a very popular doctor at the time) and my grandma and her sister, she was taken away by a German officer who saw her semi expensive jewellery. She survived the camp, although I was never told which camp she was sent to, but it was so horrifyingly terrible that she refused to answer any of my family's questions, the only question she was willing to answer was the food she was given which she said was "beetroot soup" or as she put it "lukewarm water with a small cut of a beetroot" sometimes pared with a piece of stale bread. I do not know what job she was given but assuming her survival which lasted around a few months maybe up to a year she could have worked in the kitchen.
What sickens me is todays high school education, especially the one I got in Britain, twists the truth a lot, for example my class was not taught about the incompetence of Britain and France while Poland sent out a distress signal when our first battle began. Many people here do not know about the crimes committed by Chamberlain, including the fact that he helped Russia get Poland under communism.
Many polish immigrants were forced into the British army and 16 squadrons of the British army were polish, yet England did not include Poland during the celebratory parade. The fact that British history also talks about Poland as just victims who couldn't do anything by ourselves while praising themselves, France and USA is actually sickening, because the truth is we did fight, my great grandpa helped many war survivors, and before my grandmother went to the camp he was also in the army fighting, specifically, he was a distributor of highly classified information between the small scattered army hideouts in the mountains - he cycled ON A BIKE through the polish mountains back and forth through months, and the saddest thing is we recently found his war documents in our old home, along with his dog tags.
So whenever I see an American, a brit or any other western country saying look at us, we had it rough but we were also victorious, I just want to look in their eyes without a word, because there aren't any words I could say my honest hurt and disbelief.
For one, I am glad you started this video by saying that the camp included mainly Jews and not just Jews, many Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Austrian etc were taken in, anyone the officers disliked, anyone that posed a financial threat was gotten rid of in the most horrific way. I hope that one day history classes around the world aren't afraid to teach proper history and how to prevent history from repeating itself.
I hope anyone else with my experience doesn't have to listen to stupid people much either, if you care about your family's history, make sure you tell it to the ignorant person, scream it if you need to, even if it wasn't as big as WW2 events, please don't give up the true history for the sake of it being easier to tell others, don't simplify it just because some people are too close minded to comprehend what really happened.
Im from Poland too and I've heard people make fun of me because apparently Polish people didn't fight back during the war.
It angers me a lot, the cluelessness of those people and the audacity to speak about this stuff like it's the truth.
What are you on about? Perpetuating a lie isn't keeping one's history alive. Quite the opposite. One breath it's all "my poor family was victimized for simply who they were" then the next breath it's "my family ran a spy network" lol. Yeah I'm guessing that's why they ended up where they did .
Sounds like Poland fumbled to me idk
You dragged the USA into your comments. The USA lost a lot of people in the fight to free Europe. Maybe you should show some appreciation in between your snide remarks.
Poland gave a good fight to Germany and Russia. Germany, alone, lost 25 % of their tanks to Polish fighters.
There is a story written by a former sonderkomando member that gives a glimpse into such a persons mind. He describes how after some time unloading the people from trains, he no longer felt pity for them, but hated them for being there and needing to be unloaded. He also mentions how sick, disabled and eldery people who were to weak to fight would be separated and taken straight to the crematorium to be burned alive. It is very disturbing but i think worth reading. It's polish title is ,,Proszę Państwa do gazu" whitch would translate approximately to ,,Ladies and Gentlemen please head to the gas" but i'm not sure if it was translated to english
In fact Sonderkommandos got to welcome train loads. It meant the plunder of what those Jews left in the undressing room/area - perks of the job
We've seen many difficult to watch stories on this channel, this one has broken my mind. The very definition of True Horror, never again 🤞. Best wishes everyone.
Just started the video and I am so glad it shows the living faces of those who may not be here anymore to tell the tale. They solidify the memories and are an example of why we should NEVER forget. Especially in todays day and age where genocide is running rampant.
Its so pointless. We should celebrate lives, not extinguish them.
It's unbelievable how evil the nazis were... thank you for making this to fight the good fight of keeping history known.
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So evil I can't believe they killed young boys with masturbation machines and had a roller coaster that dumped living people into the ovens.
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evil isnt the word, deluded more like, the nazis thought they were truly doing the right thing, none of them were evil, but they were victims of countless lies and propaganda
Never heard of this before. Sometimes it is hard to comprehend the extent of the depravity of man. Top tier as always. Thanks Mr. Hand! ❤
You’ve never heard of the Holocaust? Or just this specific role forced upon people?
The fact that some people claim all of this never happend makes me sick to my stomach.
@@glatzenhopper4655What never happened?
@@NickyBlue99 people who deny the holocaust happend
Idk if he wants to be called Mr hands! That name has a pretty well known association already 😅
We learn about all of this in Poland, understandably. One survivor, Tadeusz Borowski, wrote several stories from the perspective of a "Kanada" worker (Kanada being their name for the """privileged""" prisoners), a required reading in schools. They are chilling.
He committed suicide in 1951, though his life after the war was quite good and he was described as witty and cheerful by other people. His spouse, Maria, also survived the Holocaust, although in different camps. A fascinating and tragic figure.
Actually "Kanada" refers to the part of the camp were luggages from incoming transports were collected and sorted out. The name coming from the fact that Canada was seen as a land of plenty by people at the time.
Prisoners working there were seen as privileged since they were able to take food leftovers, or bargain stolen items to increase their rations.
I cant believe my great grandma had to go directly through this, im just so glad she made it out and came to america, i didnt get a chance to really talk to her before she passed but i still hold honor and respect for her forever, appreciate your familys history it is the root of you
This is heartbreaking 💔
Thank you for sharing their stories.
Womp womp
for those who are wondering - Sonderkommando means "special unit"
This is a whole new kind of evil. Well done shedding light on this topic. These are important details that too few people know about.
My grandfather was amongst the first 500 who infiltrated the camps in ‘45 and even after he died some 10 years ago, he still is awarded medals for that raid. Truly crazy that he spoke about these men that told him what they were doing after the raid.
Everyone who is interested in this topic I recommend collection of short stories writen by Tadeusz Borowski. He was a polish poet and Auschwitz prisoner, working on a railway ramp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He welcomed people arriving and watched them being transferred directly from the trains to the gas chambers. This experience inspired him to write „This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen”. His fiancee (who was a part of resistence movement) was also a prisoner there and they even found a way to comunicate with each other. They both survived the camps and got married. Unfortunately few days after their baby was born Tadeusz commited suicide by breathing in gas from a gas stove... Back in the day his writing was heavily criticized for being too raw. Now it’s a mandatory read in literature class in polish high school
That man who saw his wife, I cry for him now
How twisted were they to get them to kill there own or die. What a dilemma to be put in. You would have no choice but have to take that job, unless you wanted to die. Very sad. R.I.P. to the millions who were taken.🙏
The sounds during the oven section added so much more horror imagine silence aside from mechanical sounds as you're driven past your breaking point and dare say that your task has become monotonous. Truly horrific. One could easily think the end of the world was literally taking place for humanity in such a place.
What's really scary is that this kind of thing could happen again. In fact, it could be happening right now...
Shrouded Hand has a video about art of people who managed to escape from North Korean detention camps. That video has haunted me for a long time because that are basically concentration camps and it is happening right now...
it is in china, look at the Uyghurs
East turkeministan by the Chinese
@@ihaveajojoaddiction9592being took into a camp and told to not be a terrorist then let out is not even comparable to the holocaust
@@ellerose9164prison labour isnt comparable to the holocaust
Wow! You just gave me one heck of an eye opener in history that I never knew existed! How gut wrenching to make these people lie and do such horrendous deeds! My jaw is still on the floor! Very well told story with empathy and respect. A gift you have that makes your stories even more enjoyable. Thank you! ❤
Yeah wait till you hear there were even worse genocides! And that we don't even get taught them
Believe me there's so much more. The amount of depravity I've read in books about various histories (mainly ww2) you'd be gobsmacked. The Sonderkommando are a pretty well known unit that the SS recruited in the camps made up of Jews or other minorities eager to grasp onto the slender promise of survival even though the SS would ultimately exterminate them as well. The Jews saw these brothers as collaborators so even if the SS didn't get round to dealing with the recruits in the Sonderkommando then the Jews would exact revenge on these "collaborators" even though people who joined the Sonderkommando were doing it purely for survival purposes.
Oh yeah there's definitely much more. Know of Nanjing?@@leesaunders1930
Always glad when Non Germans learn about this. Now you can probably feel my anger about HC deniers even more. 2 more interesting facts you might not knew: denying the HC is illegal in Germany and punished with fines or even jailtime (which i find good!). And its mandatory for German students to visit concentration camps (depending in which state you live though). I personally visited every single CC in Germany as a teenager (from school) and Im grateful for it! Nothing humbles you quiet like standing in front of the ovens and a neck shot system disguised as a person scale.
Just curious, where are you from ?
It's crazy that they were seen as collaborators in the beginning. And even more crazy how few actually survived. May they have found some kind of peace in their life after witnessing those horrors. I can't even begin to imagine what might've gone through their heads when they were confronted with those choices and sceneries
There is a book called The Scrolls of Auschwitz, which is a compilation of some of the journals of the Sonderkommando that were buried around the crematorium. Heartbreaking, but essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about what these men experienced.
Went to auschwitz for a schooltrip. It revealed the ugliest of humans, the most disgusting views of human beings. Birkenau was so fucking big, and the lodges they were kept in were tiny. Cramped. Cold. Seeing the ghostly places now, it's heartbreaking knowing how many died there and that you're walking where many MANY walked, having been lied to about work and dying on the very streets you're walking on. The most soulless, devoid of humanity shit ever. The trip left a huge pit in my very being and I can never ever forget all the things i saw on it.
Master Sergeant John C. Woods made many of the SS suffer for this. He was supposed to engineer a long-drop hanging which would break their necks. Their necks did NOT break. Many remained alive for just under a half-hour.
thanks for telling this story. i didn’t know until you told us this now. brilliant!
you're definitely my favorite RUclipsr that covers disturbing topics. always putting out the best each video, I appreciate you man
Imagine as a people going through this and then inflicting it on another group of people not even 100 years later
Fascism is powerful unfortunately
So, so sad. Once, I got a new resident at the nursing home I worked at and I caught just a glimpse of a tattoo on her arm. Not enough to see what it was. I said, unthinkingly, "oh I love tattoos, what is it?" She just held up her arm wordlessly, and I saw it was a tattoo from Auschwitz. I was mortified. She just told me that she was a nurse in Germany during the war, and left it at that. A very nice lady, but too quiet and pale. I can't imagine the horrors she must have witnessed and survived. Every time I think I've heard the worst of it, it gets worse. It's like a never-ending rabbit hole to hell. I hope Hitler and Mengele are burning there as we speak and forever.
So what got her a spell in Auschwitz? That was the only camp that tattooed, and if she was a nurse in Germany, she wouldn't have been deported to Poland. Even if she'd transgressed, she'd have gone to Ravensbruck or similar. Auschwitz was a very specific destination for certain people.
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname I don’t know man. Her grandkids told me that because she didn’t talk about it and I didn’t want to be rude and ask. Unless the grandkids got her location wrong. 🤷🏼♀️
@@13fyrefli This is the problem - whilst your account may well be true (it sounds plausible), other people then go on to extrapolate other things. Before you know it, this has turned into a solid gold "true" tale of you meeting a woman who escaped the gas chambers, as confirmed by her grandkids - who may well be wrong. For years I thought my grandfather was a certain place int he war and found out recently he was somewhere completely different! He didn't bother to put me right, just left me believing he liberated Europe single-handed!
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmynameno the problem is people like you going around and commenting on everything trying to poke holes in people's personal stories,, we know these things happen there we know that it happened to millions of people why do you need to try to discredit people who are saying this happened to so and so...
Fiction
I know this is a dumb question, but why can humans be so cruel? The Holocaust is known by everyone, but it doesn't diminish the pain that was inflicted. It still gets me so upset that these kind of events happen frequently. Be well everyone 💜
Sadly.. Many people only care about themselves, and are truly evil. I don’t know why or how people can be so cruel though.
Anger
Angering the population and then diverting that anger towards a group of people
@@Puppy45 Ofc I agree 100% with you but careful with the word ‘many’. People can be selfish but most people are just trying to live a decent life. They’re not exactly being evil, they’re just trying to be well in this life and that’s not something we can blame them for. And most people are kind and decent to one another and have good morals. Saying ‘many’ people are truly evil is kind of playing with perspectives, and on social media that’s only blowing things out of proportion further. Real evil people are like as rare as they come, at least that’s the way I see it.
You severally underestimate the power of dehumanization
How can people be so cruel? Assuming the question is not rhetorical, the answer is this: Politicians and power-hungry people figured out a long time ago that getting one group to hate (or fear, which is functionally the same thing) another group is an extremely effective way to manufacture group loyalty. And stoking that hate is an extremely effective way to make lots of people support you. Always easier to feel like you have a cohesive group if you have an Other to hate. And the people who follow this thought, who can blame and hate an Other, will eagerly do this to feel safer. They feel like they understand the world because of what they blame the Other for, and will resist indications to the contrary. They don't consider the Other to be as fully human as themselves, or as deserving of human rights. Simply put, they don't care about people who are different from them. And then it goes downhill from there, to say the least. Avoiding this requires recognizing the humanity in the people you are instructed to hate.
"he's just recognized his wife"
nah... i'd punch my ticket right there and then... life wouldn't be worth living at that point.
Eh , ur spouse dying back then wasn’t as big of a deal . Ur husband can die in war or during myriad of dangerous occupations. Since safety regulations didn’t exist . Ur Wife during childbirth or just plain disease which affected men and women .
@@unknownbannana8241 I debated whether or not to give this a response as it is just mindboggling how you think of this as fact...... it doesn't matter the time period.... If a person loves someone then sees the person they love dead in front of them... it is gonna mess with them in some way... people process grief in different ways.. from the sound of it... the man was struggling to process his grief seeing his wife dead and his brain not knowing how to go about that information... he just froze. Hell even Spartans... warriors from a society build upon warfare where weakness was seen as a contagious disease still grieved... one of the members of the 500 saw his son get beheaded right in front of him he cried out and lashed out angrily.... you cannot say "it is nothing" when it is infact something... something major.... every human is capable of grief no matter how numb they are from trauma... they just process it differently...
@@unknownbannana8241I think you grossly misunderstand the time period, a woman's death during childbirth was not common during the 1940s like it was before and a man dying in war wasn't seen as an everyday thing unless during WW1 and WW2, your very close ancestors weren't cavemen who would replace their spouse like a broken tool, there were many widows and widowers who didn't remarry, even if you were open to remarrying seeing your spouse being hauled to their death is traumatic, learn more about humanity, the touch of the people from those 80 years ago is still prevalent, underestimating their innate humanity is underestimating your own. If your wife died during complications with her pregnancy or your husband died during a work accident, you wouldn't see it as an everyday thing would you? especially if you thought you could prevent it.
@@ШишанХухановић lol that’s why I said “as big of a deal” . I’m not saying they totally didn’t care . Maternal mortality rates only started to decline in the late 1930s. And didn’t really drop that much until 1950s with advancements in medical field like antibiotics, blood transfusions services and surgical procedures were only starting to be provided. As for the men health and safety regulations weren’t created until much later. Death was still super common
@@unknownbannana8241 doesn't change much, if you know about victorian era grief culture, death was a big deal even predating the two world wars, it's disingenuous to pretend "oh well my wife died that sucks oh well happens" or whatever was the regular response, sure it was, for a sociopath.
He who forgets his own history is doomed to repeat it.
I really appreciated the inclusion of David Olere's artwork. He created very haunting masterpieces of his personal torment.
Good job. Respectful to those who suffered and died, but not shying away from the details. This is the kind of thing I will show my children when they are old enough to understand. It can't be forgotten, and I fear it already is.
Thank you for making this harrowing but important video. And thank you for including the ex-sommerkomando's art. It reminded me of your other videos covering prisoner's drawings of their own torture, and how they contain a horror that can't be conveyed even with all the rigorous documentation of statistics, written descriptions, and artifacts. We can't let this be forgotten.
What made the "sonderkommando" even worse was that, periodically, this working crew would be "turned over" and slung into the very death chambers that they were servicing.
One of Hoss's grandsons turned up at the Auschwitz museum, and there is a video of him talking to a Jewish school age group on an educational visit.
The grandson made it quite clear that he in no way condoned the actions of his infamous relative.
Unlike some children of Nazi bigwigs like Gudrun Himmler and Emmy Goering, who could never publicly proclaim their opposition to the monstrous sins of their forebears
I live in Tychy (city 30 km away of Oświęcim - where Auschwitz is located). Each year highschool senior year students are going there just to witness these monstrosities and to see what humans are capable of. So this will never repeat.
Germans did to Poland something no nation has done
You mean the labour camp where children had been born, an inmate orchestra was formed and soccer matches with mixed teams of guards and inmates took place was horror beyond belief ? The chamber with wooden doors and glas windows? Look at American execution chambers that were in use until recently and tell me these shower rooms have the exact same purpose.
@@dezinke3862 People like you make me sick.
The inmate orchestras and the sports teams were free entertainment for the guards, until they has used up their usefulness and they were also executed. The babies that were born were used in experiments, as were the pregnant and postpartum mothers, then they most often if not always also died or were executed. As far as the American execution chambers, they were for the worst of the worst criminals, those sentenced to death for heinous crimes (a total of 593 executions all said and done). If someone r*ped and beat your mother, sister, or daughter to death, I would bet you would be front and center to watch a person die in this manner.@@dezinke3862
Fred leuchter opened my eyes to this.
@@dezinke3862 The world would be better off with you as a pile of ash.
Horrid and terrifying part of history :/ so sad that people had to lie to their own family members
This is devastating. Those poor men suffered a life that only the highest evil could create and force onto them.
@@OliverFlack69 Millions of people were killed. Your comment couldn’t get any lower
@@portwills I was referring to this tale in particular. yes millions died it was a world war , duh.
@@OliverFlack69 The Holocaust is a ‘tale’?
@@OliverFlack69incels found
@@gunman598 I’m married but ok 👌
Thank you for giving us the story of the Sonder Kommandos in such a respectful and informative way
Having to pause this video several times because its just hitting me. I can not fathom the excrusiating torture, and of so many people. So many people gone, destroyed, abused at the highest levels. It is completely unbelievable and truly gut wrenching.
Omg. This is so heartbreaking to hear. I knew a little about the death camps but didn't know anything about these poor souls who had to endure this kind of nightmare. This truly had to have been the worst job in hell. 😢. As horrible as the content is, it's a great video. Your narration is perfect for these videos.
love love love history content! i was never taught this in schools and i know most others weren't either. thank you for further educating us. I would love more of these style videos! longer videos too if you can. Long form content is all the rage now and I love sitting back and watching 30m+ long videos. great job with this brilliant piece of media and keep up the hard work
I wasnt taught any of it in school. A very different version i was taught. School has failed us.
@@MyFriendlyPupI mean the stories change all the time hard to keep up right
@@OliverFlack69piss off, denialist
Excellent commentary. Just the right tone to explain the sheer horror of what took place.