It's no wonder that many war veterans refuse to talk about the horrors they witnessed. The freedom we enjoy didn't come cheap. Much respect for our military people.
I could not imagine what combat soldiers went through. The two world wars really introduced horrors on an incredibly grand scale. Sadly, it's still happening.
Liars are also often uncomfortable trying to recall and recount lies from past decades. Afraid to contradict themselves, their fellows and the sacrosanct historical narrative.
@@JoeSmith-tc6eg So, the soldiers who liberated the camps were lying about what they saw? They faked the pictures and the footage of the camps? The logistics of pulling off a hoax like that, in the middle of a global war, and doing it so that the hoax isn't detected for nearly a century, would be daunting. Occam's razor by itself says that's unlikely, let alone all the other evidence.
My father was there and quite proud to be one of the liberators of Dachau. I was lucky to have a friend as my father. Rest easy Dad. Your dedication to the Allied Forces made for great re-telling to myself, since I was the only one you shared your history of WWII with.❤
My grandfather was part of the unit that first liberated this camp. He died before I was born, but my grandmother had told me much about him because I grew up getting into things and found a box with his medals in it and became very interested. She said he was a combat medic. Before the war, he was vibrant and full of life and energy. Always smiling. Never drank alcohol or smoked, and when he returned, he was a completely different person. He drank heavily from the time he woke up and smoked almost 3 packs of cigarettes a day. He would have terrible nightmares where she would sometimes be thrown from the bed as he was fighting and screaming, and he refused to ever talk about the war. She had somehow put together through news and his paperwork that he was part of the unit that went to the camp, but she learned very quickly to never try to ask him about it. He ultimately died of heart failure. She said his body just couldn't cope with what was in his mind. Back then, there was no help with dealing with those things
My father was part of the 7th Army what my father and your grandfather Witness was some of the worst atrocities against mankind ever performed. Your grandfather was a hero
I had a chance to meet Felix Sparks who was in charge of the unit that liberated Dachau and was likely your grandfather's CO. This telling of the tale is full of exaggerations. I have images provided by General Sparks of the incident at the coal yard. This piece says a Lt ordered the shooting and that none of the guards survived. I have an image of Sparks firing a .45 into the air to stop the guy on the machine gun. In the background, you can clearly see germans still standing and a few who ducked when bullets flew. I do suspect that gunner, who claimed he saw one move, was reacting to what they had all been seeing.
@MrJimbelt you're absolutely right. They were all hero's. They did their duty and destroyed this evil at great cost to themselves. Many paid the highest price. Though I didn't get to know my grandpa, any WW2 vet that I've ever talked to said if they ever had to, they would do it all over again to stand against such evil people. The greatest generation of men
The lasting effects of war that until recently, were never talked about nor were these vets ever encouraged to talk about what war had done to them psychologically. They were just supposed to 'buck up and take it like a man'! Luckily, the First Gulf War acknowledgement of PTSD which in turn really helped Viet Nam vets start to receive treatment and also be looked at in a different way. I even had a Korean War Vet that I connected with the VA
It's hard for me to handle just seeing this so I can only imagine the hell your grandfather endured. Much respect and gratitude for his service. He certainly paid with his life.
My grand grand father was among the prisoners. He was there for political reasons . Two days after the liberation he died of typhus. Thank you for this video and footage. Now the conditions in which his life ended are more clear to me.
@@ksb2112 Thank you very much. Like many other Germans, he dared to oppose Hitler and paid with his life. Sometimes, I wonder what I would have done if i was in his situation.
@@rameye My Grampa went through Belsen a couple of days after Belsen was liberated and was briefly billeted there. He didn't talk about it much as everything he saw was outside his frame of reference. How do you understand that kind of bestiality.
@@Hartley_Hare You cant understand it, Honestly when he told me the stories of what happened during the initial assault and the things that happened afterwards I honestly thought he might be embellishing just a bit, to my horror I've come to learn he was spot on with the events as he described them. There was no youtube back in the day when he would speak to me about it to verify. I was the only family member he would speak to about it and I feel fortunate that he did, I hoped it would help him heal a little. He was an Captain in charge of Howitzers, when i look a his pictures I can see the company patch but not his unit, wish I could, sadly he passed on 2001.
There is NO WAY that the Germans did NOT know about the camps and what happened to the prisoners. My German mother was born 1939, my German father 1934. I was born a long time after the war. When I asked my parents about the war a couple of times, while at Grammar School at the age of about 15 discussing the Holocaust, all they coldly said was: "But Hitler built the Autobahn". Shame on my Parents. I am so sorry about these cruelties.
Actually this is a lie, Konrad Adenauer (Bundeskanzler after the war) was the Mayor of Köln and build the first Autobahn in Germany in 1932 between Köln and Bonn (the A 555).
@@garysmith5586 Right now??? You´ve been brainwashed since generations, now you got the bill, three jobs, 6 days per week and still no money to live decent. Get ready what is coming.
None. Absolutely NONE! Today, that would be like shedding tears for Mexican Cartel members who deal in death, drugs, and human trafficking. That's probably the next thing this channel will highlight.
I don't know which, but my uncke, John Rice, was in an American unit that liberated a concentration camp. My cousin displays a swastika flag my uncle seized. All the members of his unit singen, some even added a brief comments in his house. After he convinces his guests that he's not a NAZI, my cousin will tell you the story of how his father obtained the flag. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY!!! Thank you for your presentation.
My father was in the US Army, and said that he was detailed to drive a truck with supplies to Dachau a few days after it was liberated. He spoke in later years of the smell and the bodies laying about. He said that while he was there the prisoners beat a former guard to death who had been trying to masquerade as a prisoner but was known, and obviously too well fed. Dad said that none of the GIs did a thing to intervene but watched it, feeling that it was justice and the prisoners had the right to get revenge. He said that some officers made trouble for them for not protecting the guard, but it was quickly brushed aside. He had nightmares about the stuff he saw for most of the rest of his life. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry. trump _IS_ the American Hitler, and all of his actions from the time he declared he was running until yesterday, his words and actions perfectly fit the definition of “fascist,” and now two of the most respected generals in our military, who worked for president trump, have finally said it. Look it up in an online dictionary, if you don’t have one, and you can approach it clinically. trump didn’t become a fascist simply because Generals Milley and Kelly said so; *they were also talking about his actions as president.*
My grandfather helped liberate Dachau in WWII. He was A Fighting Thunderbird, in the 45th infantry. (I have his insignia as my profile pic. He didn’t talk much about the things he seen. But towards the end, in his last few years, he would tell me stories. This documentary pretty much verified everything he told me. Thank you Pop.
My family still have Opa's ID card, ty to your pop for saving him. He didnt talk about it much either, did apparently make occasional (very dark) jokes when pressed.
I;ve read books on Dachau. The horror was so overwhelming US Officers were drawing guns on their commanding officers. Lt Col Sparks drawing his pistol on General Linden when Linden insisted his unit take command, was an example. THEN Linden's subordinate says "I'll see you after the war" which Sparks replied "What's wrong with now?"
My grandmother was an army nurse and was in the first non-combative unit who entered Dachau. She told me quite a bit about the battle of the Bulge and other areas she was in. We didn't find out she had witnessed Dachau until the last couple years of her life.
There's an old saying that comes to mind: those who were there don't talk, and those who talk weren't there. That generation was something special, and I fear we'll never have another like them.
My father was in the lead element of the 45th. Division. He was 82nd Airborne assigned to the OSS. Their job was to secure important facilities. His unit was one of the first to arrive on the scene. He said that 175 SS guards were executed, and for the rest of his days, he was haunted by what happened there.He had been in combat since North Africa and had seen many atrocities perpetrated by the SS and Dachau was the proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back.
My grandfather was sent to Dachau after Kristallnacht, then later to Buchenwald and finally was murdered in Lodz, Poland. The US liberators are to be heralded and never forgotten as these camps were finally closed. The human toil is unbelievable.
Die 175 Ermordeten sollen ihn auch verfolgen! Bis in die Hölle und zurück! Die SS Männer waren nicht rechtskräftig Verurteilt! Somit ist es vorsätzlicher Mord und die US Mörder hätten vor ein Tribunal und nach schuldspruch Aufgehängt gehört! Genauso,wie die Erschlossenen.
Those American soldiers had fought their way across north west Europe, seen their friends die and be maimed, witnessing what they thought were the lowest depths of humanity, and then they found this. If you had been there, had suffered like them, and had a loaded gun at your side, what would you have done?
Let's just say that somewhere, there would be a High Ranking Nazi without hands or feet, his tongue and eyeballs carved out and cauterized... Teeth broken, and so horribly scarred that you wouldn't be able to look upon him without a deep curdling chill ruining your last meal... AND every single recoil, every outcry, and every time someone couldn't stop themselves from asking, "What the actual f*ck...?" would be his to cherish... I'd give up a kidney, and go hunting for donors... find blood and even PAY TOP DOLLAR for anyone to help keep the miserable wretch alive longer... NOBODY would be allowed to pull his plug. He'd try 10,000 times over to beg for death before I'd even contemplate letting the son of a b*tch die... WHATEVER it took. You wanted to know... The worst problem is I WOULD NOT want the motherf*cker to get the easy way out... I'd find a fairly young one, too... torment that motherf*cker to the ends of the earth... Whatever happens to his buddies??? I don't care, as long as he has to watch... the last thing he gets to see before I carve up his f*cking face... ;o)
When I was a kid in the seventies, one of my 6 grade trips was to Dachau Concentration camp. It's a site you never forget. Watch some movies and you have an idea of how these people were treated the cruelty Was unreal. All I can say is I hope the world never let's this happen again. What happened to the SS officers was well deserved. Only cowards treat another human being like that........
A unique Experience visiting those camps! ! Those were guards, the SS officer's most of them and the Hard Ranking Nazi's scape justice; Nuremberg Judgment was only as one examples to the World Justice, (just a little group was condemn! The majority scape to other countries, and great many returns to Germany and to the same jobs they had before! Incredible Injustices!!! About the same horrible Atrocities they happen soon after Nazi Germany, and are happening since that time all over the planet! Remember all the war massacre's in Africa, Russia, Ukraine's now, The killing Fields Etc. The entirely World its a homicide victim! The biggest one its coming soon! The Antichrist is alive and his rule its already prepared his Mark will be by choice, most people will receive it because they want to be able to purchased things and selling things, they rejected Jesus Christ and only believers Left behind would have to be decapitated because of their faith, they would got a choice if they deny Jesus as Lord and Savior, but since they refused the Mark of the Devil they know God is by our side and we are secure on His Hands!! Read, Revelations chapter 13- Mathew 24- The prophets tell us all on God's words!! Just search Rev, Daniel. Old and New testament is Gods testament for us! Jesus Is The Way, The Truth and The Life! No one comes to The Father, but by Jesus!! Read John chapter 14 and see everything He has prepared for the ones who become His children! Hitler was a carbon copy of the Antichrist, but like him since Christ walk the earth many like them had been with that spirit. The Apostle Paul wrote about that; In his time he said......The spirit of the Antichrist is here,..meaning Satan spirit is here, He's all Around living on the hearts of Evil people! *He even has His ministers in Some So called Christian Churches* Many like Him perform throughout Satan, being A monsters of destruction! Staling was like or wort's than Hitler the World have suffers many like them! Imagine now days were evil its call good, and good its call evil! Please read the bible! God's Love is so great, that He give His only Son as sacrifice like a perfect Lamb to die for us....John 3:16 God bless you Amway's!🍑
@Altered State Adventures: I believe the narrator is Matt Berry and if so it does seem rather a bizarre choice. Here in the UK he is mainly known for being a comedy actor in such series as The IT crowd and What We Do in the Shadows, he is also a rather talented musician.
@@AlteredStateAdventures You're likely right Altered' but whoever it really is does have a very similar voice to Matt Berry. P.s Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and 'yours'.
I can't imagine being a soldier and coming upon a concentration camp like this, being at ground zero of one of the worst crimes against humanity without any warning would break me. The Nazis did something so evil that there wasn't an existing protocol in the US Army that could protect them from the immediate rage of those soldiers and prisoners. It's definitely a war crime but how can you expect a soldier to not do something like that when suddenly they're in the midst of all that death and suffering, with the survivors begging you to just take those who tortured them out of existence
Is it a war crime? We were carpet bombing cities indiscriminately and we nukes a country twice. I have no empathy from the Nazis who were killed. Zero. My empathy is for the allied soldiers who had to bare those scars from what they were forced to do. My empathy is for the survivors who against all odds survived. Even the US Military just swept this entire thing under the rug. By the way I’m not even disagreeing with anything you said. I might sound intense, but that’s just because I’m having trouble controlling my emotions after watching multiple of these liberation videos. I watch them once a month, so that I never forget what happened.
I visited Dachau many years ago. Upon arriving in the town I asked several locals where the camp was; none of them were inclined to give me directions. The fact that the townspeople said they werent aware of what was happening there is pure bs. Dachau is a small city & no way they couldnt have smelled the death emanating from the nearby camp. For sure they knew what was going on.
Besides that Dachau is reachable by car in 30 minutes from central Munich or like 10 minutes on RE Bahn. This proximity was super-obvious to me when I visited. Besides everything that happened on Kristallnacht, deportation of people thru other camps, and the 200,000 prisoners who passed thru Dachau over >10 years... it is unbelievable that most Munich residents knew nothing about the operation of this camp so nearby to their city (basically on the edge of Munich pop ~1M). Dachau, on the whole, has chosen to deny and hide this history just like in WWII. If not for survivors there would be nothing there. Dachau (County Commissioner Junker) managed to destroy the crematoriums in 1955, and continue over the decades to lament the reputation damage the camp has had on their town and claim victimhood of the Nazis (rather than actually feel any shame or own it).
I am a Vietnam Veteran. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I would like to say R.I.P. allied troops, and offer a hand salute to your memory. You are truly THE GREATEST GENERATION. And to the millions of people who suffered the horrors perpetrated by these devil possessed beasts I would like to say, REST in Peace and God Bless all the memories of you. And to Hitler and and the demon possessed hordes that blindly followed him I would say, burn in hell forever!!
@@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Tell your Dad that a fellow Vietnam Vet said, Welcome Home. Do you know where he was stationed in 70-71 ? That's when I was there.
Another amazing video. The amount of work it must take to edit these videos must be utterly exhausting. We commend your incredible efforts in bringing a voice to so many of the forgotten victims of WWII
@@WorldHistoryVideos so that's what the US army still does with the Geneva Convention? Those where pow's and should first be locked up and questioned. But they shoot people with they're hands up and white flags? Then the poor prisoners who were all dead or almost dying hit them to death? I've seen people hit to death but never by a living corpse! I think this whole series is made to hate Germany and Germans more! Come with something new, like what Stalin did to the jews en pow's or make a nice serie about Pol Pot or what the Japanese army did to the Chinese people or maybe something more in this time, guantanamo bay.... or that might be too scary for @worldhistory because then the Americans are in the shame and you know what is worse than concentration camps? Throwing nuclear bombs on 2 city's full of woman and children. You can do 2 things now, erase my comment that I made screenshots from and will be spread on social media or answer me in a proper way! The choice is yours @world history
@@ArnieC1974 Our videos are not made to hate anyone. Instead, they are educational and informative. We plan to focus on Russia and Japan next year ... Thanks for watching
When I was stationed in Germany the first time way back in the late 80’s I visited Dachau, the first thing I noticed was that there were no signs pointing the way there. The second thing I noticed was how green the grass was in November. It was a humbling experience and I have never forgotten it. On my last tour of Germany, we lived near Weiden and we visited the Flossenberg sub camp. Where the barracks on the hill had been, new houses had been built. I was stunned by the fact that these people would want to live in a place where countless people had suffered and died. It’s madness.
@@davidschwartz6380 one death is as valid as another...or are you saying your’s are at a premium? Our soldiers died on battlefields for your lot! and you have the audacity to infer they are not as worthy....says it all!...troll!
My late X- Father in Law, PVT Charlie Lovelace was one who fired the 30 caliber machine gun mentioned at 11.01 in the video. His machine gun fire team were the first three Americans in the camp. At the local VFW he was regarded as a hero. Privately every man who knew anything about it, said that had they been there, they would have killed every NAZI there if given the chance. There is SO much more to this story that was never mentioned in this video that he shared with me before he died, that I still have nightmares about. I later found out he never spoke about the details to anyone but me. There was a typewriter in the commandant office that he sent home to his sister who was in business school in Memphis. It was converted to English. My x wife who I haven’t spoken to in years may actually have it still because no museum would accept it.
My dad served with the U.S. Coast Guard, in WWII, in the European Theater. On a brief visit to Munich, I made it a point to take a tour of Dachau. When our tour group was standing in the courtyard area, I was overwhelmed by an intense feeling and blacked out. After watching this video, it now makes sense why I had such a feeling, given the executions there. I had also experienced the same feeling on a tour of Dublin’s Kilmainham Prison, where political prisoners where shot to death in an outdoor courtyard. I can only imagine what the liberators must’ve felt, not to mention those poor souls who barely survived the camp.
My great uncle was drafted into the Army at 34 years old because the area he lived in was having trouble meeting their quota. He served in the Battle of the Bulge but was also there when Dachau was liberated. He was there when one of the train "wagons" was opened and among the carload of corpses, only one living soul was found. In my family's archives is a newspaper clipping of when that rescued man later arrived in New York. My uncle was an avid photographer. In my mother's basement is a box of black and white photographs he took during the war - many at Dachau. I have yet to be able to get through them all without getting physically sick. He had what we would now call PTSD for years and refused to talk about any part of the war, other than occasionally driving the mail truck and being sniped at. Maybe I was too young to be told, but the execution of the SS guards was a part of the story I never heard. I am not surprised...
@@obvi890 I'm not clear on details but I understand initially they were offered to a museum or historical society. Whoever it was took several, so I guess these were the rejects. Right now they are not my responsibility but I assure you they will not be discarded.
My grandfather was in the 45th infantry for the Fighting Thunderbirds.(I have his insignia for my profile). He told me some stories this documentary touched on. He was also part of the Battle of the Bulge. He told us that although his unit didn’t get much credit for it, but they were there first and laid the ground work for backup. He told us some really messed up stories and the things he saw, from WWII. But he said, “you couldn’t imagine the things we seen. It’s something that will never leave you…” But he always told us, “you can smell death, miles away.” He told us many stories, like on the way to Dachau, they saw wild dogs and pigs, eating dead bodies, left decaying in fields. And once at Dachau, Gen.Patton showed after the liberation and took account of the happenings there, including an investigation of the execution of unarmed Nazis that were surrendering or captured by American soldiers. After seeing what the Nazis had done to those people, Gen. Patton tore up all the reports and threw them in a fire, saying something like, “The hell with those Nazis!” He told us the story of the German civilians supposedly not knowing of what was going on at Dachau and ordering American solders, to round up those German civilians, so they can bury the dead.I wish I can share more stories he told me but…Man, if I walked a mile in his shoes! Thank You Pop. You’re a part of History and an American Hero. I love you and miss you.
But In War there is no winner or losers.. No Triumph or Defeat.. Only Anguish, Suffering, Lost, Sadness and Death.. War will Change you.. It will change you physically and especially Mentally.
@@garyt19651 You are so right , Gary ! I would be doing more positive things ....dog walking eg I find gardening very relaxing . Everyone needs a hobby, eh?
Imagine living in a city whose name is synonymous with the worst human evil. I visited this camp in 2009 on a trip to Germany. I couldn’t help but cry when I thought of the horrors that so many thousands lived through at that place. Torturing and killing so many defenseless people. Mankind can’t sink any lower than that.
Mankind was lower before and will be lower after. Comments like this show some strong emotional affection (for good reason) but lack knowledge of history and even modern society. Just a look at Taliban doings, Ruanda genocide, red khmer, stalins gulags (more death than nazi concentration camps), japanese war crimes (especially 731) and what the US did to children with Napalm during VW. And here we are just talking about things happened after 1940 - imagine what happened in darker, medieval times without a civil society...
Thank you for working on this video and for posting it. We must never forget or being told by people that this never occurred. It did happen and it was horrific.
My father was part of the 7th I can remember him talking once briefly about Dachau. About the smells and how grateful the prisoners were. He started to cry when he was talking about the all the dead bodies. The level of death was inconceivable I believe the the atrocities at Dachau effect of my father greatly.
@@debbie845 I'm sure by the time they fought their way all the way to Germany they thought they seen it all but nothing could prepare them for what they're about to see.
My dad was there for liberation. He took many pictures. I have been there many years later (1980). They also went to Austria, another camp "Gunskirchenlauger".
I learned in 2018 that my sister's father differed from mine. Her father survived 11 mo's in Dachau later dating my mother. Very charitable man. Without him, I would not exist. Thanks Johnny.
I visited Dachau almost 50+ yrs ago. More than 20 yrs had passed since the atrocities had ended, My visit thru the buildings w 4 toilets that served 100 or more people, the stark Gun towers, the big big photos of what went on there were in stark contrast to a sunny day with birds flying and singing.I visited with my Jewish girlfriend who simply could not take in the horror of what we saw. Holocaust deniers are as evil and complicit as those SS guards were long ago. I have never forgotten that day and i likely never will,
Holocaust deniers are deceived people. And they're the same as those who choose to ignore communist atrocities in places like East Prusdia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Afghanistan and so many more I could mention. Sadly, a majority of people would sooner believe a lie or prefer to forget things that aren't convenient for them. So Holocaust deniers are no better and no worse than communism deniers.
@@nathanielgreer2764 Thanks for your grandfather service. I believe that all pictures taken by veterans on those days should be posted or used in a museum just to never forget what happened there.
My Uncle was there.He was an Officer. Witnessed that horror 1st hand. Never, ever spoke a word about it. But he always had this haunted look is his eyes. He's buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
My late father was there! Having turned twenty-years-old just two weeks prior, Dad was a heavy machine gunner (MOS 605) in C Company, 163rd Engineer (Combat) Battalion; C company were attached to the liberating forces. Dad was remarkably candid and unemotional when relating his experiences in the war, which included significant action from landing on Utah Beach not long after D-Day through the end of the war. (Some unknown person even took a potshot at him after the official surrender when he was exploring a German town.) I learned about WW2, including the incident mentioned in this video of GI's forcing the German civilian population to view the evidence (and help bury bodies of victims) of concentration camp atrocities, from my father before I ever heard the subject addressed in school. As I mentioned, Dad was remarkably candid. However, he confided that there was one incident or experience in the war that he had never revealed to anyone other than his own father. Knowing my father's character, it puzzled me what could have been so horrible. It's only in recent years after learning about the reprisals at Dachau (through another video that touched upon the subject) that I have a clue.
@@ariadneschild8460 Thank you, that he was! My father was conscientious and responsible from an early age, worked after-school jobs during the last years of the Great Depression to buy his own clothes and still contributed money to the family's needs. His dad, my paternal grandfather, said that Dad was born an old soul.
Humans all humans with scars 💔 deep trenches of slurry and hatred ...we need help all of us those incarcerated and those guards who held such deep hatred
Michael Ferguson - Human nature holds good and evil in it. It's up to each person to chose what path to follow. But, of course, if people are directed and in the hands of an evil individual like Hitler, mentally ill, capable of convincing people about his delusional ideals that he said would be able to solve Germany's problems, and brain washed them since their childhood...Well...we all know what that led to. Cruelty was needed to obey his orders...and cruelty can be contagious.
@@jamesricker3997 - Does that mean they were screened to know if they were cruel, sadistic enough? Well, if they volunteered for the job...that was already a proof of their evil nature.
My uncle was in General Paytons 3rd Army .He was 17 years old .He spoke about the ss guards herding about 100 POWs in to a huge barn and set it ablaze .And many attempted to dig out under the barns foundation .But were burned 🔥 alive with their chard bodies half way out .. Afterwards my uncle , was assigned to security police duty ,guarding Herman Going and the others at the Nuremberg Trials ..!
I doubt if any one volunteered for that - if given any option it would be between that and the Russian front... but when will people look behind the curtain at the "financiers" who fund these wars at huge interest and then scoop up the ruined towns, cities, farmlands and lay claim or buy them for a song... Only then will these atrocities cease.
@@DeirdreMcNamara the evidence says the opposite, camp postings were prestigious and well rewarded, they were very happy and safe there. Youre right about the latter, though. We dont mention that everyone behind it just got rewarded. Their economic model was all about rewarding and protecting big business for their 'contribution' to the economy and workers (sound familiar?), and we saw those companies as essential to maintaining output to compete with 'the reds' so we just kept them and their owners in place, kept the burgemeisters etc in place to preserve 'order'. The brass protected the brass (its not like they care about what you fight for, the other guys were fighting for their country, they respected them), the scientists were too valuable to lose. The only justice was swift, the failure to prosecute everyone who put my Opa in a camp, everyone who knew they existed and did nothing, is almost as big an atrocity as their existence.
I heard a story years ago where the prisoners found an ss guard hiding, borrowed a pair of pliers from a US signal company guy and used them to disassemble the guard.
How sweet that sounds about the Guard being tearing apart him piece by piece oh yes The United States knew about the prisoners they did nothing! for the Jewish people there until when ? after the fact . Germany death camp guards was horrible beyond words during this time a quick death of the guards was not enough like the town didn’t know what went on lol crazy lies
I visited Dachau in December 1970, six months after discharge from service with Big Red One in Vietnam. Germans in Munich feigned no knowledge when asked directions to get there. You could feel the evil, much as you could feel Anne Frank’s spirit in her house in Amsterdam. We arrived very late in the afternoon, the only 3 visitors. Snowy and cold, we were almost locked in at closing.
I would have wasted every guard I came across or I would give them to their former prisoners. This isn’t a war crime. This is justice. I would have settled all cases out of court.
So what are your thoughts on Slavery in the US and our Founding Fathers? Or how about Great Britain and the slave trade and all the colonies around the globe? Same with France? And what do you think about all those killed in the Soviet Union such as the 10 million Ukrainians that died during the H0I0domor? That happened in the early 1930's and you wonder why Germany was concerned? Maybe you should get a clue.
@@republitarian484why people always bring that up.first all founding fathers was not slave owners and infant some of them was against it and even at that they was not being killed on purpose because they was investments and can't get your money back if they dead and I know that truth will hurt a snowflake like you
@@BeeHatGuy . . . nah. ..this is about white erasure. We've heard about the small mustache man bad almost every day of our lives. Time for people to start looking at things from a different perspective. You're pathetic.
1998 while stationed in Germany with the USAF had the oppurtunity to visit the Dachua camp. I can't speak for anyone else but when I walked into the camp thru that gate it was physically like walking thru a door from a world of light and the sounds of birds chirping into a world darkness and oppression. Even more than fifty years later I could still sense the evil that permiates that place.
@@mickeypip1524 I’ve been a history nerd since I was a kid. Also, I’m a US Air Force brat and lived in Germany…but it wasn’t until we moved back to the US that I found out that I’d lived in the midst of all that history (after the fact). Essentially, I went to Dachau for the same reason I took the White House tour, to “stand on historical ground.” I’d go to the White House again…but I’m “one and done” with concentration camps. I think a park on Dachau’s grounds would literally be too haunted to enjoy, but I agree with your sentiment. Perhaps, however, a way to prevent past horror from being repeated is to preserve the sites and be brutally honest about the events that took place there.
i befriended a very old man named arthur at our local cafe. he'd get his small cup and give me his wheezy chuckle, point to it and say 'used to be bourbon!' then he'd smile, say 'you're so pretty', and shuffle off. at one point he told me without preamble that he had helped to liberate dachau. his face that was usually so expressive went completely blank, and he never spoke of it again. i miss him.
What really horrifies my as well, besides it being one of the most heinous acts ever conducted in human history - is that the camp guards where so accustomed and ingrained with death that they could no longer sense the stench of it. In stark contrast to the allies who started to vomit, and even cry.
I was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. My unit took a trip to Dachau in civilian clothes of course. it was very surreal. It was overwhelming with sadness. We took a tour and you learn that Dachau was the first concentration camp. I remember seeing numbers on the Wall and the tour guide told us the Guards would have competition on who could kill the most in day. You learn about these horrible things in school but to go there in person is really overwhelming and just insane. I cant find the words to describe it.
@Tony Leamon I'm the last class of an all girls Catholic school. So we did learn about WW2 but only to the term of camps. Until my senior year one of my favorite all time teacher. She brought in a VHS tape and hit play. I can't remember the name of the movie. But I will never forget where I sat and that 32 girls didn't move, talk or goof off. That movie is etched in my mind. It started from the ghetto up and including the end of the camps. That year my teacher was award an award at the National Liberty museum. I probably will not get to Germany or stand on the soil. I can only imagine getting a chance to touch the wall with numbers or look out where the buildings were. Or stand where some one was beaten or worst killed. But one person can make a huge difference. My favorite teacher past a few years ago but I think of her watching these types of video. I agree schools should be teaching this subject. It did happen the stories are still coming out. Even our boys were terrorized. Now years later I have tons of questions and research just curious. This was a good video.
Your president Barack O. has found words to describe it! He described it as "Polish concentration camps"!! You can imagine how angry we are about it. And this idiot received the Nobel Peace Prize! Unbelivable....
I was stationed in Baumholder in 86 2/29th FA 8th ID and I took a tour of that camp. It was surreal and showed me just how dark humans can be. I hope this is never repeated.
@@kellysimmons6142 Why should we keep banging on about this piece of ancient history ? If the Jews feel a little piqued by this , let them care: we have our own agonies and more recent deaths.i am sick of seeing memorial after memorial in our parks and streets.
I knew a Polish-American guy who was taken from occupied Poland as a teenager to work in a factory in Germany. When that part of the Reich was liberated, he joined the US Army and then was assigned to Dachau, where he arrived soon after the camp was liberated. He told me that he and other Poles in the US Army would purposefully turn a blind eye to any violence that the former prisoners would inflict upon the German guards (I guess there were other nationals, not just Germans who were guards at Dachau, but I do not want to diminish the overall German responsibility by using the generic term "Nazi"), and that the US Army officers would pretty much allow them (the Polish-American soldiers) to let the ex-prisoners do whatever they wanted to their former captors.
We had a Polish priest that survived the medical experiments in Dachau and came to Oklahoma after the liberation. As a teenager, I was in awe by some of the stories he would tell us.
Used to work with a fellow veteran named " Frank " and he told me about his grandfather, who was a POW in or near Dresden, Germany. After the firebombing of Dresden, the German SS force marched the prisoners to clean up the destruction , his grandfather picked up burnt and crumbling corpses like cordwood and stacked them in piles. Frank wrote a book about his grandfather's and other POWs' experiences in a book called Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five." It's grim and grisly reading, better have a strong stomach or better yet -an empty one. Deeds are too horrible to contemplate occurring.
Seriously. If I were an American soldier liberating Dachau in 1945, I would have taken one of the camp's Nazi flags and pissed on it and then burn it! Booyah! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇲🇺🇲
Arent the jews that fled to palestina opressing and killing the locals till this day? Im just saying in reality there is never a real villain and a real hero.
1977 Spring on a school trip to Germany. Toured Dachau. Horrible cried through all. Was 17. Now 63 still remember the evil feeling so heavy. Spent my life as an RN trying to hold to christian values. Pray daily for all.
It doesn't matter how many of these videos I watch, I just can't imagine how any of them survived. Perhaps the will to continue and perhaps wishing the ultimate bodily harm on their evil captors is what kept them going. Talk about an intense will to live and I'd imagine that after liberation, nothing in the world could ever be fully comprehended as to why. Yes I understand some of the why but man I could never understand what they lived through in all of the concentration camps. May they all rest in peace.
This is the first time that I am hearing that the Americans killed the German guards at Dachau. I am glad that some of the prisoners were able to get some revenge for the horror they endure at that camp. I visited Dauchau many years ago while I was on a tour of Germany. That place was huge. It is just mind boggling to think of all the people that were tortured and killed there. It is a shame that human beings can be so cruel to other human beings.
My grandpa Albert Carter all black trucking company the 88 pursuit was the first in there he said there were lamp shades of human flesh with tattoos and the ovens were still smoking and hot , he said he smelled it 3 miles away coming into it. also first across the reign river . they went first to North Africa and defeated Romel. I miss him so much we worked together 37 years hauling scrap metals.
In the house I was growing up in during the 60s[UK], I too saw 2 lampshades that were supposedly made from human flesh. They were a hexagonal shape, yellowed waxy type material, tightly strung on a wire frame with quite broad stitching; suitable as bedside lamps, eerie..
It's always very sad to hear about this. It always shocks me that with so much information available, some people refuse to believe that any of this happened.
@@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle actually they are in the Dem party-for example, the despicable sods proposing camps for the unvaxed, denying health care, denying jobs, let the unvaxed die.
There's evidence that these were not the camp officers for the duration of the war, but bought in at the very end to keep some order to the spread of a deadly epidemic called typhus. So they killed people that were actually trying to save the lives of the inmates. Also no gassing took place here, so do we simply murder all prison guards for doing a job of containing prisoners??
@@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle Some? They all become complicit, way too easily. The only reason anyone quits the Republican party is when the guilt becomes unbearable. Then they are replace by someone more complicit.
Justice would have only been served if the entire country had been brought to smoldering ruins. It took millions of Germans to make this possible, and they never paid for their collusion.
Years ago, I read that when Patton entered Dachau for the first inspection he pulled his handgun and had to be restrained by several aides from shooting the Nazi guards himself! On the road back to headquarters his aide -- after Patton's death -- said the general sat quietly in the back seat and sobbed. I believe he was deeply ashamed to be part of the same species as the camp guards. We do ourselves a terrible disservice if we call them "beasts". They were just as human as any of us. We must never NEVER forget what every one of us is capable of.
Back in the 90’s the S.H.O.A.H. Foundation was started. Steven Spielberg was a big part of it. The idea was to get video interviews of all survivors of the Holocaust while they’re still alive. I was a video shooter for several interviews. Old Jewish folks telling the stories of how they survived. Was fascinating. The Foundation is in Washington DC.
To J Gee, Been there too in 1989. I was there with my ex wife. She was born in Munich. I told her that I was going to visit Dachau, but when we got there, she refused to get out of the car. I told her I could be gone for hours, which I was. A very harrowing experience to say the least. It is hard to take photographs when tears are clouding your eyes I just thought that you might like to know......
@R2R Your point being? What do the actions of US military units when they saw the horrors have to do with that? Surely THEY were not hypocritical? Don't you understand that these facts are totally not related? Are you anti-American or just stupid?
@R2R you’re acting and wording it as if the Germans weren’t wrong. Yes the victors always write the history books and I condone what these us troops did but I do not condemn them like i condemn the ss troops who killed millions. They knew what they were doing. They were fanatics.
I am a U.S. Army Veteran. Even visiting Dachau a couple times in 1985 & 1986 it’s the most horrific feeling I’ve ever felt in my life. I walked through the “Ovens”; can’t describe what that felt like. But I will say this, the cruelty of the Muslim Fundamentalists is even worse.
I was stationed there in 1967 to 1969 and sure it had changed in appearance sense the war years but not so much to hide the scars. A very sad place. I was in the 3rd battalion 37th artillery.
American soldiers upon seeing these horrible things did not hesitate to exact revenge, not that they had anything to do with the prisoners but affectively as human beings, Moreover, the prisoners themselves who endured so much, I cannot imagine the immensity of anger and hatred.
I visited Dachau one day in 1998 by myself. It's hard to describe what it's like and how you feel afterwards. It affected me deeply and I didn't speak about it much to my coworkers after. I just didn't know what to say. It's almost like there is a thick cloud that hangs over the entire place. I don't think I'll ever experience something like standing in The Block ever again.
My father was an American Army officer of German ancestry during WWII. He never saw Dachau but heard the stories from his fellow soldiers who had seen what had been done to other humans. Dad never spoke about the four years he served his country; some experiences simply can't be talked about by those who witnessed them. I believe he supported the executions of the guards by the prisoners, and I'm surprised that they didn't know what was coming. To my dying day I'll never understand why they didn't run from the Allied liberators and change their names to hide their identities.
It was the same with my dad. Not one word from him. He suffered from ptsd(?) whatever, and I never knew why he was so distant. Had to figure that out for myself. OK bye
It's odd, but maybe it was because the Western Allies were coming. Indeed you'd think they would have at least tried to flee and pass as regular army in the field. The Auschwitz guards all fled, but I think that's because it was the Soviets who were coming on that front.
@@krisaaron5771 I doubt that. They may even have thought it would count in their favor that they'd 'stayed to look after them'. It's not that illogical from their point of view: they had no real say in what went on, apart from the Camp Commandant and probably believed military would understand this. They may have also known that the Americans were racist too and have considered them not personally involved (no blitz on NY or LA, etc). If the liberators had been British or French, they might have fled before them.
My Grandfather was an American soldier that was there. He took photos with a brownie camera that he carried with him. He couldn’t believe his eyes, and thought that this would be covered up from the public. So he took many photos, I saw them as a very young man. He told my grandmother and my father that he forced the townspeople to clean up the bodies. He told me directly, if someone is a nazi you are to kill them. He saw what they did first hand. My grandmother told me that he wept when he recalled the tragedy.
Your comment deserved better my friend. Your grandad was correct. I'm surprised he told your dad that, and I admire him for his honesty and integrity. And for telling the stripped down truth. Fair play to your Grandad. From Ireland
No tears should be shed for the SS. They weren't exactly giving their prisoners the mercy they wanted. I'm human. I respect life. But this. This has no rule book or manual on how to handle walking Into a death camp. If there is it was written after this. Great work. Till next time
Another horrific thing is that the SS running these places had the power to recruit the locals as 'auxiliary' SS who they then dumped in camps as guards. Of course when these hell holes got liberated then the locals - who might have had no real knowledge - got the thrashing whilst the real culprits were on the run from their crimes. Patsy as they were once called.
I visited Dachau on a trip about 15 years ago. I can remember how quiet everyone was walking around what was left. There was a very heavy energy at that place. It’s something I’ll never forget.
My uncle Wilhelm and his two brothers almost ended up there. Jews, they had served in the German Army in WWI. That didn't matter to the Nazis. Wilhelm's brothers, both engineers, were allowed to emigrate in 1934 coming to the US, where they worked for the military. Wilhelm was a cop. He was dismissed as a Jew. When the Gestapo finally came for him, he killed the agents, stolen their vehicle, and made a mad dash for the Swiss border, where he bribed and threatened the border guards to get across. He came to America after the war. I visited Dachau in 1974 as he'd told me that he nearly ended up there. It was nearly too much to take.
@@slowery43 Liar. It was incredibly interesting, and I'm glad he shared it. A keyboard warrior coward like you has nobody half as heroic or interesting as Howard's family.
I went to Dachau in 1990..when i arrived to live in Munich. It was said there was still a stench that emanated off the ground from the mass graves in hot weather. Also local folklore of the residents of the village being in denial...it was suggested they would have been able to smell at least the crematoria...so were lying.
I am Polish I was in Germany from 1983-85. Can you believe that I haven't met one Greman who was in Poland from 1939 to 1945. They all were in the West front or in Russia. Makes me wonder who was in Poland?
@@sochaoracza1506 Who was in Poland? The East Prussians. They were all destroyed when Koenigsberg fell. None are left. /s -- for the idjits who need the hint.
I went there in 1989, at the height of summer. There weren't any odd smells. In fact, the place seemed oddly sanitised, with its lawns and flower gardens. Another, strong memory was how the bus driver to Dachau announced the stop, "Concentration Camp" in such a nonchalant manner, it seemed deliberately disrespectful. Nevertheless, it was an emotionally overwhelming experience.
My dad has defended the Jews a d called out anti semitism since he was 11 and saw thr liberation of Dachau on the news. I visited Dachau in 1987 and cried... the evil of nazis cannot be forgotten. Shalom Israeli people
The scariest part of learning about individual Nazi officials is just how *ordinary* many of them are. Sure, many of them are well-heeled descendants of conservative aristocrats, nationalists, and military men, but just as many were simple soldiers, merchants, day-laborers, or even straight up criminals prior to their affiliations with the NSDAP. It makes one realize that one could walk past such a monster, and never even realize it. Moreover, it makes me consider just what it could take for me to (God forbid) walk that path. If those seemingly well-adjusted individuals could commit such inhumane acts then it seems, at least to me, foolish to think that I could be an exception. At any rate, I typed all that out to thank the World History team for the labor they clearly put into all of their videos-and at no cost to us. You all do humanity a service. Never again.
"conservative aristocrats, nationalists, and military men" This doesn't make any man more susceptible to evil than other types. What is truly astounding about the Germans in WWII is that their actions were so psychopathic, sociopathic, etc., but that the psychopathologies of any given general population is mostly normal. This means that with a little push here or there, normal people with normal minds, devoid of deviant psychological dispositions and considered healthy and mentally competent, would not only defer to psychopaths like Göth or Mengels, but themselves carry out insanely violent and dispassionate atrocities.
What's relevant is if you take one insane idea and run with it, "that the Jewish race" was the cause of every problem, everything that followed was inevitable and its happened throughout history, from the inquisition, Stalin, present day China!
Seemingly well adjusted is what people look like . I thought for awhile that there are more mentally sick people around us than we know . They just haven’t been diagnosed . This level of cruelty is deplorable . Unfortunately the nature of mankind is bent on evil .Selfishness, pride, a haughty spirit … amoung them . God be with us all . Deliver us from evil 🙏🏻🇨🇦💞
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It's no wonder that many war veterans refuse to talk about the horrors they witnessed. The freedom we enjoy didn't come cheap. Much respect for our military people.
I could not imagine what combat soldiers went through. The two world wars really introduced horrors on an incredibly grand scale. Sadly, it's still happening.
Liars are also often uncomfortable trying to recall and recount lies from past decades. Afraid to contradict themselves, their fellows and the sacrosanct historical narrative.
You're blessed to enjoy freedom
@@JoeSmith-tc6eg it's all on video baboon! The only liars are nazis like you. It's what national socialist nazis do.
@@JoeSmith-tc6eg So, the soldiers who liberated the camps were lying about what they saw? They faked the pictures and the footage of the camps? The logistics of pulling off a hoax like that, in the middle of a global war, and doing it so that the hoax isn't detected for nearly a century, would be daunting. Occam's razor by itself says that's unlikely, let alone all the other evidence.
My father was there and quite proud to be one of the liberators of Dachau. I was lucky to have a friend as my father. Rest easy Dad. Your dedication to the Allied Forces made for great re-telling to myself, since I was the only one you shared your history of WWII with.❤
You, sir, are more than welcome.
A great father! A hero!
Wanna say Thanks to ur Father
Make sure not to vote for Socialists.
@jasonvoorhees5640
He was never there. ...
He only told chicks at home this b******t
My grandfather was part of the unit that first liberated this camp. He died before I was born, but my grandmother had told me much about him because I grew up getting into things and found a box with his medals in it and became very interested. She said he was a combat medic. Before the war, he was vibrant and full of life and energy. Always smiling. Never drank alcohol or smoked, and when he returned, he was a completely different person. He drank heavily from the time he woke up and smoked almost 3 packs of cigarettes a day. He would have terrible nightmares where she would sometimes be thrown from the bed as he was fighting and screaming, and he refused to ever talk about the war. She had somehow put together through news and his paperwork that he was part of the unit that went to the camp, but she learned very quickly to never try to ask him about it. He ultimately died of heart failure. She said his body just couldn't cope with what was in his mind. Back then, there was no help with dealing with those things
My father was part of the 7th Army what my father and your grandfather Witness was some of the worst atrocities against mankind ever performed. Your grandfather was a hero
I had a chance to meet Felix Sparks who was in charge of the unit that liberated Dachau and was likely your grandfather's CO. This telling of the tale is full of exaggerations. I have images provided by General Sparks of the incident at the coal yard. This piece says a Lt ordered the shooting and that none of the guards survived. I have an image of Sparks firing a .45 into the air to stop the guy on the machine gun. In the background, you can clearly see germans still standing and a few who ducked when bullets flew. I do suspect that gunner, who claimed he saw one move, was reacting to what they had all been seeing.
@MrJimbelt you're absolutely right. They were all hero's. They did their duty and destroyed this evil at great cost to themselves. Many paid the highest price. Though I didn't get to know my grandpa, any WW2 vet that I've ever talked to said if they ever had to, they would do it all over again to stand against such evil people. The greatest generation of men
The lasting effects of war that until recently, were never talked about nor were these vets ever encouraged to talk about what war had done to them psychologically. They were just supposed to 'buck up and take it like a man'! Luckily, the First Gulf War acknowledgement of PTSD which in turn really helped Viet Nam vets start to receive treatment and also be looked at in a different way. I even had a Korean War Vet that I connected with the VA
It's hard for me to handle just seeing this so I can only imagine the hell your grandfather endured. Much respect and gratitude for his service. He certainly paid with his life.
My grand grand father was among the prisoners. He was there for political reasons . Two days after the liberation he died of typhus. Thank you for this video and footage. Now the conditions in which his life ended are more clear to me.
That is just so damned heart breaking. I am sorry....
@@ksb2112 Thank you very much. Like many other Germans, he dared to oppose Hitler and paid with his life. Sometimes, I wonder what I would have done if i was in his situation.
im sorry for your loss, my grandfather was part of the liberation force, he never got over what he saw there....unreal
@@rameye My Grampa went through Belsen a couple of days after Belsen was liberated and was briefly billeted there. He didn't talk about it much as everything he saw was outside his frame of reference. How do you understand that kind of bestiality.
@@Hartley_Hare You cant understand it, Honestly when he told me the stories of what happened during the initial assault and the things that happened afterwards I honestly thought he might be embellishing just a bit, to my horror I've come to learn he was spot on with the events as he described them. There was no youtube back in the day when he would speak to me about it to verify. I was the only family member he would speak to about it and I feel fortunate that he did, I hoped it would help him heal a little. He was an Captain in charge of Howitzers, when i look a his pictures I can see the company patch but not his unit, wish I could, sadly he passed on 2001.
There is NO WAY that the Germans did NOT know about the camps and what happened to the prisoners. My German mother was born 1939, my German father 1934. I was born a long time after the war. When I asked my parents about the war a couple of times, while at Grammar School at the age of about 15 discussing the Holocaust, all they coldly said was: "But Hitler built the Autobahn". Shame on my Parents. I am so sorry about these cruelties.
Actually this is a lie, Konrad Adenauer (Bundeskanzler after the war) was the Mayor of Köln and build the first Autobahn in Germany in 1932 between Köln and Bonn (the A 555).
The German population was brainwashed. Kinda what is going on in America right now.
@@garysmith5586 Right now??? You´ve been brainwashed since generations, now you got the bill, three jobs, 6 days per week and still no money to live decent. Get ready what is coming.
They knew, they knew
Yea but if you dared to speak out you and your whole family would be slaughtered
No tears were shed for the guards of Dachau.
and hopefully none will be shed now
those people are so brutish and inhuman, no wonder the nazi wanted to exterminate them
@@insertnamehere1258Why, because they’re gay?
@@mickeypip1524 no because they were fascists who tortured innocents.
None. Absolutely NONE! Today, that would be like shedding tears for Mexican Cartel members who deal in death, drugs, and human trafficking. That's probably the next thing this channel will highlight.
I don't know which, but my uncke, John Rice, was in an American unit that liberated a concentration camp. My cousin displays a swastika flag my uncle seized. All the members of his unit singen, some even added a brief comments in his house. After he convinces his guests that he's not a NAZI, my cousin will tell you the story of how his father obtained the flag. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY!!!
Thank you for your presentation.
My father was in the US Army, and said that he was detailed to drive a truck with supplies to Dachau a few days after it was liberated. He spoke in later years of the smell and the bodies laying about. He said that while he was there the prisoners beat a former guard to death who had been trying to masquerade as a prisoner but was known, and obviously too well fed. Dad said that none of the GIs did a thing to intervene but watched it, feeling that it was justice and the prisoners had the right to get revenge. He said that some officers made trouble for them for not protecting the guard, but it was quickly brushed aside. He had nightmares about the stuff he saw for most of the rest of his life. Thanks for sharing.
Unspeakable
I'm deeply horrified 😮
This is why I personally get pissed off when the word nazi is so loosely thrown around today.
Disgusting and sad.
Peace❤
Sorry. trump _IS_ the American Hitler, and all of his actions from the time he declared he was running until yesterday, his words and actions perfectly fit the definition of “fascist,” and now two of the most respected generals in our military, who worked for president trump, have finally said it. Look it up in an online dictionary, if you don’t have one, and you can approach it clinically. trump didn’t become a fascist simply because Generals Milley and Kelly said so; *they were also talking about his actions as president.*
My grandfather helped liberate Dachau in WWII. He was A Fighting Thunderbird, in the 45th infantry.
(I have his insignia as my profile pic. He didn’t talk much about the things he seen. But towards the end, in his last few years, he would tell me
stories. This documentary pretty
much verified everything he told me.
Thank you Pop.
My family still have Opa's ID card, ty to your pop for saving him. He didnt talk about it much either, did apparently make occasional (very dark) jokes when pressed.
You really can’t blame them for killing the guards. The emotional response to seeing that would have been overwhelming.
The western allies bombed western Europe to oblivion. You think the western allies were innocent?? 60 million died in Europe! 60 million!
I;ve read books on Dachau. The horror was so overwhelming US Officers were drawing guns on their commanding officers. Lt Col Sparks drawing his pistol on General Linden when Linden insisted his unit take command, was an example. THEN Linden's subordinate says "I'll see you after the war" which Sparks replied "What's wrong with now?"
That was really just an ego thing because they both thought they were in command of the camp@@luigivincenz3843
My grandmother was an army nurse and was in the first non-combative unit who entered Dachau. She told me quite a bit about the battle of the Bulge and other areas she was in. We didn't find out she had witnessed Dachau until the last couple years of her life.
There's an old saying that comes to mind: those who were there don't talk, and those who talk weren't there. That generation was something special, and I fear we'll never have another like them.
@@juno6602 It's called a gag order.
My father was in the lead element of the 45th. Division. He was 82nd Airborne assigned to the OSS. Their job was to secure important facilities. His unit was one of the first to arrive on the scene. He said that 175 SS guards were executed, and for the rest of his days, he was haunted by what happened there.He had been in combat since North Africa and had seen many atrocities perpetrated by the SS and Dachau was the proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back.
My oldest late uncle was in the Army CORPS of Engineers in 1945 his group went into Buchenwald. These camps were Hell on Earth
My grandfather was sent to Dachau after Kristallnacht, then later to Buchenwald and finally was murdered in Lodz, Poland. The US liberators are to be heralded and never forgotten as these camps were finally closed. The human toil is unbelievable.
@@canadiantraveller604 shalom Phil I'm so sorry
Die 175 Ermordeten sollen ihn auch verfolgen! Bis in die Hölle und zurück! Die SS Männer waren nicht rechtskräftig Verurteilt! Somit ist es vorsätzlicher Mord und die US Mörder hätten vor ein Tribunal und nach schuldspruch Aufgehängt gehört! Genauso,wie die Erschlossenen.
So what's with the Kraut name Jerry lover?
Those American soldiers had fought their way across north west Europe, seen their friends die and be maimed, witnessing what they thought were the lowest depths of humanity, and then they found this. If you had been there, had suffered like them, and had a loaded gun at your side, what would you have done?
exactly that or even worst
Emptied my magazine and reloaded.
exactly. No way these bastards would have lived another day.
I'd have handed it to prisoners and allowed each one round.
Let's just say that somewhere, there would be a High Ranking Nazi without hands or feet, his tongue and eyeballs carved out and cauterized... Teeth broken, and so horribly scarred that you wouldn't be able to look upon him without a deep curdling chill ruining your last meal...
AND every single recoil, every outcry, and every time someone couldn't stop themselves from asking, "What the actual f*ck...?" would be his to cherish... I'd give up a kidney, and go hunting for donors... find blood and even PAY TOP DOLLAR for anyone to help keep the miserable wretch alive longer... NOBODY would be allowed to pull his plug. He'd try 10,000 times over to beg for death before I'd even contemplate letting the son of a b*tch die... WHATEVER it took.
You wanted to know... The worst problem is I WOULD NOT want the motherf*cker to get the easy way out... I'd find a fairly young one, too... torment that motherf*cker to the ends of the earth...
Whatever happens to his buddies??? I don't care, as long as he has to watch... the last thing he gets to see before I carve up his f*cking face... ;o)
Thank you for the upload respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 rest in peace to all them poor victims 🙏
TANK C Wasn't Ireland a supporter of the Nazis?
@@ticketyboo2456 Ireland was a neutral country during the war and without doubt not a supporter
@@tankc6474 Good to be neutral .....no blood : just carry on eating potatoes and drinking moonshine!
When I was a kid in the seventies, one of my 6 grade trips was to Dachau Concentration camp. It's a site you never forget. Watch some movies and you have an idea of how these people were treated the cruelty Was unreal. All I can say is I hope the world never let's this happen again. What happened to the SS officers was well deserved. Only cowards treat another human being like that........
This is happening all the time, now in Ukraine.
Holy shit as a kid..wow..well thwef just almost did it again.foiled!!!
A unique Experience visiting those camps! !
Those were guards, the SS officer's most of them and the Hard Ranking Nazi's scape justice; Nuremberg Judgment was only as one examples to the World Justice, (just a little group was condemn! The majority scape to other countries, and great many returns to Germany and to the same jobs they had before! Incredible Injustices!!!
About the same horrible Atrocities they happen soon after Nazi Germany, and are happening since that time all over the planet! Remember all the war massacre's in Africa, Russia, Ukraine's now, The killing Fields Etc.
The entirely World its a homicide victim! The biggest one its coming soon! The Antichrist is alive and his rule its already prepared his Mark will be by choice, most people will receive it because they want to be able to purchased things and selling things, they rejected Jesus Christ and only believers Left behind would have to be decapitated because of their faith, they would got a choice if they deny Jesus as Lord and Savior, but since they refused the Mark of the Devil they know God is by our side and we are secure on His Hands!!
Read, Revelations chapter 13- Mathew 24- The prophets tell us all on God's words!! Just search Rev, Daniel. Old and New testament is Gods testament for us! Jesus Is The Way, The Truth and The Life! No one comes to The Father, but by Jesus!!
Read John chapter 14 and see everything He has prepared for the ones who become His children!
Hitler was a carbon copy of the Antichrist, but like him since Christ walk the earth many like them had been with that spirit. The Apostle Paul wrote about that; In his time he said......The spirit of the Antichrist is here,..meaning Satan spirit is here, He's all Around living on the hearts of Evil people! *He even has His ministers in Some So called Christian Churches*
Many like Him perform throughout Satan, being A monsters of destruction!
Staling was like or wort's than Hitler the World have suffers many like them!
Imagine now days were evil its call good, and good its call evil! Please read the bible! God's Love is so great, that He give His only Son as sacrifice like a perfect Lamb to die for us....John 3:16 God bless you Amway's!🍑
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 for your Father, who was there to end this barbarians and monsters.
@@vinayakdasaka4605 i add lets pray for All fathers...more.
The Narrator really nailed it on this one too. When he spoke of the revenge being exacted i got chills
happy those prisoners got some payback against those monsters
Not revenge, justice!
@Altered State Adventures: I believe the narrator is Matt Berry and if so it does seem rather a bizarre choice. Here in the UK he is mainly known for being a comedy actor in such series as The IT crowd and What We Do in the Shadows, he is also a rather talented musician.
@@RUSH2112RUSH lol it's not Matt Berry
@@AlteredStateAdventures You're likely right Altered' but whoever it really is does have a very similar voice to Matt Berry.
P.s Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and 'yours'.
I can't imagine being a soldier and coming upon a concentration camp like this, being at ground zero of one of the worst crimes against humanity without any warning would break me. The Nazis did something so evil that there wasn't an existing protocol in the US Army that could protect them from the immediate rage of those soldiers and prisoners. It's definitely a war crime but how can you expect a soldier to not do something like that when suddenly they're in the midst of all that death and suffering, with the survivors begging you to just take those who tortured them out of existence
Is it a war crime? We were carpet bombing cities indiscriminately and we nukes a country twice. I have no empathy from the Nazis who were killed. Zero. My empathy is for the allied soldiers who had to bare those scars from what they were forced to do. My empathy is for the survivors who against all odds survived. Even the US Military just swept this entire thing under the rug.
By the way I’m not even disagreeing with anything you said. I might sound intense, but that’s just because I’m having trouble controlling my emotions after watching multiple of these liberation videos. I watch them once a month, so that I never forget what happened.
@@MikeySkywalkerMe too I feel you brother, the fact this happened is surreal and people who follow these ideologies make my blood boil
it's not a war crime to put down rabid dogs. Sorry, calling them dogs is an insult to dogs.
Patton didn't act as if it was a war.
@MikeySkywalker it's funny japanese knew why the bombs had to be dropped but a cupcake like you can't understand
I visited Dachau many years ago. Upon arriving in the town I asked several locals where the camp was; none of them were inclined to give me directions. The fact that the townspeople said they werent aware of what was happening there is pure bs. Dachau is a small city & no way they couldnt have smelled the death emanating from the nearby camp. For sure they knew what was going on.
Hell on earth, will be repeated I'll bet, people are animals of worst kind
Besides that Dachau is reachable by car in 30 minutes from central Munich or like 10 minutes on RE Bahn. This proximity was super-obvious to me when I visited. Besides everything that happened on Kristallnacht, deportation of people thru other camps, and the 200,000 prisoners who passed thru Dachau over >10 years... it is unbelievable that most Munich residents knew nothing about the operation of this camp so nearby to their city (basically on the edge of Munich pop ~1M).
Dachau, on the whole, has chosen to deny and hide this history just like in WWII. If not for survivors there would be nothing there. Dachau (County Commissioner Junker) managed to destroy the crematoriums in 1955, and continue over the decades to lament the reputation damage the camp has had on their town and claim victimhood of the Nazis (rather than actually feel any shame or own it).
@@squig808 have you never thought germans lived under a dictatorship and there was no free press and you have should kept eyes mouth shut ?
You can't blame German civilians or even most of the military. They had as much power over what happened as do Russians under Putin: zero.
I am a Vietnam Veteran. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I would like to say R.I.P. allied troops, and offer a hand salute to your memory. You are truly THE GREATEST GENERATION. And to the millions of people who suffered the horrors perpetrated by these devil possessed beasts I would like to say, REST in Peace and God Bless all the memories of you.
And to Hitler and and the demon possessed hordes that blindly followed him I would say, burn in hell forever!!
My dad was there 67-68 and 70-71.
Thank you for your service
@@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Tell your Dad that a fellow Vietnam Vet said, Welcome Home. Do you know where he was stationed in 70-71 ? That's when I was there.
@@Regular_1094 Thank you for caring my friend.
@@Patrick-sb2sb He says: DMZ Fire Support Base Charlie 2 1st battalion 61st infantry 1M
Best new historically educational channel on RUclips. Narrator is a badass.
Another amazing video. The amount of work it must take to edit these videos must be utterly exhausting. We commend your incredible efforts in bringing a voice to so many of the forgotten victims of WWII
thank you
@@WorldHistoryVideos so that's what the US army still does with the Geneva Convention? Those where pow's and should first be locked up and questioned. But they shoot people with they're hands up and white flags? Then the poor prisoners who were all dead or almost dying hit them to death? I've seen people hit to death but never by a living corpse! I think this whole series is made to hate Germany and Germans more! Come with something new, like what Stalin did to the jews en pow's or make a nice serie about Pol Pot or what the Japanese army did to the Chinese people or maybe something more in this time, guantanamo bay.... or that might be too scary for @worldhistory because then the Americans are in the shame and you know what is worse than concentration camps? Throwing nuclear bombs on 2 city's full of woman and children. You can do 2 things now, erase my comment that I made screenshots from and will be spread on social media or answer me in a proper way! The choice is yours @world history
The narrator is stellar too!
@@ArnieC1974 Our videos are not made to hate anyone. Instead, they are educational and informative. We plan to focus on Russia and Japan next year ... Thanks for watching
@@KimFsharpHarp Yes, he is amazing :) Thank you for your nice comment and watching our videos.
He is sincerely my favorite RUclips narrator voice. It's just like butter even when telling us about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
When I was stationed in Germany the first time way back in the late 80’s I visited Dachau, the first thing I noticed was that there were no signs pointing the way there. The second thing I noticed was how green the grass was in November. It was a humbling experience and I have never forgotten it. On my last tour of Germany, we lived near Weiden and we visited the Flossenberg sub camp. Where the barracks on the hill had been, new houses had been built. I was stunned by the fact that these people would want to live in a place where countless people had suffered and died. It’s madness.
The grass was so green i bet because so many bodies burried there.
@@harukrentz435 Good thinking : also the bone meal element.
People have houses on old battlefields . This is ancient history ...soooooooo long agooooooo! Zzzzzzzzzzzz
@@mickeypip1524 except this was not a battlefield...old or otherwise
@@davidschwartz6380 one death is as valid as another...or are you saying your’s are at a premium?
Our soldiers died on battlefields for your lot!
and you have the audacity to infer they are not as worthy....says it all!...troll!
My late X- Father in Law, PVT Charlie Lovelace was one who fired the 30 caliber machine gun mentioned at 11.01 in the video. His machine gun fire team were the first three Americans in the camp. At the local VFW he was regarded as a hero. Privately every man who knew anything about it, said that had they been there, they would have killed every NAZI there if given the chance.
There is SO much more to this story that was never mentioned in this video that he shared with me before he died, that I still have nightmares about. I later found out he never spoke about the details to anyone but me.
There was a typewriter in the commandant office that he sent home to his sister who was in business school in Memphis. It was converted to English. My x wife who I haven’t spoken to in years may actually have it still because no museum would accept it.
your dad was a hero,,may he rest in eternal peace
My father also fought in the war his name was Edgar Lovelace he never spoke about the war he said the real heroes were left over there 🙏
Write down the stories or his heroics will fade away. He earned our eternal respect but writing is the key. Bless you and your father.
@@stanlogan7504 I was just about to type this. Write down everything he shared with you.
@@31webseries must you?
My dad served with the U.S. Coast Guard, in WWII, in the European Theater. On a brief visit to Munich, I made it a point to take a tour of Dachau. When our tour group was standing in the courtyard area, I was overwhelmed by an intense feeling and blacked out. After watching this video, it now makes sense why I had such a feeling, given the executions there. I had also experienced the same feeling on a tour of Dublin’s Kilmainham Prison, where political prisoners where shot to death in an outdoor courtyard. I can only imagine what the liberators must’ve felt, not to mention those poor souls who barely survived the camp.
My great uncle was drafted into the Army at 34 years old because the area he lived in was having trouble meeting their quota. He served in the Battle of the Bulge but was also there when Dachau was liberated. He was there when one of the train "wagons" was opened and among the carload of corpses, only one living soul was found. In my family's archives is a newspaper clipping of when that rescued man later arrived in New York. My uncle was an avid photographer. In my mother's basement is a box of black and white photographs he took during the war - many at Dachau. I have yet to be able to get through them all without getting physically sick. He had what we would now call PTSD for years and refused to talk about any part of the war, other than occasionally driving the mail truck and being sniped at. Maybe I was too young to be told, but the execution of the SS guards was a part of the story I never heard. I am not surprised...
@@obvi890 I'm not clear on details but I understand initially they were offered to a museum or historical society. Whoever it was took several, so I guess these were the rejects. Right now they are not my responsibility but I assure you they will not be discarded.
@@jwdeeming yeah im sure alot of that is historic, although a dark past, i always felt should be preserved to remind us of what we're capable of.
My grandfather was in the 45th infantry for the Fighting Thunderbirds.(I have his insignia for my profile). He told me some stories this documentary touched on. He was also part of the Battle of the Bulge. He told us that although his unit didn’t get much credit for it, but they were there first and laid the ground work for backup. He told us some really messed up stories and the things he saw, from WWII. But he said, “you couldn’t imagine the things we seen. It’s something that will never leave you…” But he always told us, “you can smell death, miles away.”
He told us many stories, like on the way to Dachau, they saw wild dogs and pigs, eating dead bodies, left decaying in fields. And once at Dachau, Gen.Patton showed after the liberation and took account of the happenings there, including an investigation of the execution of unarmed Nazis that were surrendering or captured by American soldiers. After seeing what the Nazis had done to those people, Gen. Patton tore up all the
reports and threw them in a fire, saying something like, “The hell with those Nazis!” He told us the story of the German civilians supposedly not knowing of what was going on at Dachau and ordering American solders, to round up those German civilians, so they can bury the dead.I wish I can share more stories he told me but…Man, if I walked a mile in his shoes!
Thank You Pop. You’re a part of History and an American Hero.
I love you and miss you.
@@JM3jUiCe I'd love to hear more, These videos barely touch on all that happened then, just unbelievable
@@JM3jUiCe 💞💞🙏🏻🇨🇦to you
Completely understandable how seeing atrocities like that could push already stressed soldiers over the edge.
But In War there is no winner or losers..
No Triumph or Defeat..
Only Anguish, Suffering, Lost, Sadness and Death..
War will Change you..
It will change you physically and especially Mentally.
@@doctorslayer2106the only winner is death.
if that war was not won you wouldn't be writing this and neither would I
@@garyt19651 You are so right , Gary !
I would be doing more positive things ....dog walking eg
I find gardening very relaxing .
Everyone needs a hobby, eh?
@@alanh1406 You really are a laugh a minute!
Imagine living in a city whose name is synonymous with the worst human evil. I visited this camp in 2009 on a trip to Germany. I couldn’t help but cry when I thought of the horrors that so many thousands lived through at that place. Torturing and killing so many defenseless people. Mankind can’t sink any lower than that.
Unfortunately mankind probably can sink lower.
Wanna bet ?
Mankind was lower before and will be lower after.
Comments like this show some strong emotional affection (for good reason) but lack knowledge of history and even modern society.
Just a look at Taliban doings, Ruanda genocide, red khmer, stalins gulags (more death than nazi concentration camps), japanese war crimes (especially 731) and what the US did to children with Napalm during VW.
And here we are just talking about things happened after 1940 - imagine what happened in darker, medieval times without a civil society...
Thank you for working on this video and for posting it. We must never forget or being told by people that this never occurred. It did happen and it was horrific.
Thank you
spot on.
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Mahmoud Ahmadinejab, most Iranians, Indonesians, many in the muslim world will claim this is zionist hoax.
Good afternoon, and as ALWAYS, Thank You for your Excellent videos. I appreciate everything that goes into each one.
My father was part of the 7th I can remember him talking once briefly about Dachau. About the smells and how grateful the prisoners were. He started to cry when he was talking about the all the dead bodies. The level of death was inconceivable I believe the the atrocities at Dachau effect of my father greatly.
God bless your father.
My father was part of the 7th. Daddy wouldn’t talk about it.
@@debbie845 I'm sure by the time they fought their way all the way to Germany they thought they seen it all but nothing could prepare them for what they're about to see.
@@MrJimbelt I believe that because he never talked of it.
My dad was there for liberation. He took many pictures.
I have been there many years later (1980).
They also went to Austria, another camp "Gunskirchenlauger".
Treatment of their prisoners were more than brutal.
thank you Cpt Obvious
You mean the vengeful Jews’and Yanks’ who murdered innocent German Guards who had arrived only the day before?
How pitty that Josef Kramer,Maria Mandl,Irma Grese and Johanna Borman werent among them.
They got hung
@@thorawilson6253 : Hung! But yes you are right!
That is my point,their death was too easy...
YEAH SHITTY!
And don't forget that other genocidal sadist, ILSA KOCH.
I learned in 2018 that my sister's father differed from mine. Her father survived 11 mo's in Dachau later dating my mother. Very charitable man. Without him, I would not exist. Thanks Johnny.
I visited Dachau almost 50+ yrs ago. More than 20 yrs had passed since the atrocities had ended, My visit thru the buildings w 4 toilets that served 100 or more people, the stark Gun towers, the big big photos of what went on there were in stark contrast to a sunny day with birds flying and singing.I visited with my Jewish girlfriend who simply could not take in the horror of what we saw. Holocaust deniers are as evil and complicit as those SS guards were long ago. I have never forgotten that day and i likely never will,
The scariest part is it looks like it's happening again.
@@ProjectShinkaiWhere?
@@solvingpolitics3172 alot of people in us quoting Hitler, and hate against jews is on the rise.
Holocaust deniers are deceived people. And they're the same as those who choose to ignore communist atrocities in places like East Prusdia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Afghanistan and so many more I could mention. Sadly, a majority of people would sooner believe a lie or prefer to forget things that aren't convenient for them. So Holocaust deniers are no better and no worse than communism deniers.
@@peterkin1010 I heard people recently say the jews deserved it. Scary times.
My grandfather was a medic in WWII and was at the liberation of Dachau. The photos he took were beyond awful.
Do you have those?
@@arnavkhandekar166 my dad has the originals. I have digital copies.
@@nathanielgreer2764 Thanks for your grandfather service. I believe that all pictures taken by veterans on those days should be posted or used in a museum just to never forget what happened there.
@@nathanielgreer2764 is it possible to share?
@@arnavkhandekar166 I’ll send them to a friend and have him turn them into a video and upload it. I’ll post a link when it is done.
My Uncle was there.He was an Officer. Witnessed that horror 1st hand. Never, ever spoke a word about it. But he always had this haunted look is his eyes. He's buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
My late father was there! Having turned twenty-years-old just two weeks prior, Dad was a heavy machine gunner (MOS 605) in C Company, 163rd Engineer (Combat) Battalion; C company were attached to the liberating forces. Dad was remarkably candid and unemotional when relating his experiences in the war, which included significant action from landing on Utah Beach not long after D-Day through the end of the war. (Some unknown person even took a potshot at him after the official surrender when he was exploring a German town.) I learned about WW2, including the incident mentioned in this video of GI's forcing the German civilian population to view the evidence (and help bury bodies of victims) of concentration camp atrocities, from my father before I ever heard the subject addressed in school.
As I mentioned, Dad was remarkably candid. However, he confided that there was one incident or experience in the war that he had never revealed to anyone other than his own father. Knowing my father's character, it puzzled me what could have been so horrible. It's only in recent years after learning about the reprisals at Dachau (through another video that touched upon the subject) that I have a clue.
RIP thanks to your father and his generation.
@@sochaoracza1506 🙏
He seems like he was a rare steady individual, may he rest in peace.
@@ariadneschild8460 Thank you, that he was! My father was conscientious and responsible from an early age, worked after-school jobs during the last years of the Great Depression to buy his own clothes and still contributed money to the family's needs. His dad, my paternal grandfather, said that Dad was born an old soul.
@@willong1000 there's not many like him, you're lucky to have had a father like that.
No tears were shed for those nazi guards.
I'd be clapping mate.
Or the new nazis either..
@@deejcole9102 🙄 found the idiot.
Humans all humans with scars 💔 deep trenches of slurry and hatred ...we need help all of us those incarcerated and those guards who held such deep hatred
Nor should there be any...
If you don't know how SS guards could be so cruel, you don't know human nature.
Michael Ferguson - Human nature holds good and evil in it. It's up to each person to chose what path to follow. But, of course, if people are directed and in the hands of an evil individual like Hitler, mentally ill, capable of convincing people about his delusional ideals that he said would be able to solve Germany's problems, and brain washed them since their childhood...Well...we all know what that led to. Cruelty was needed to obey his orders...and cruelty can be contagious.
Being a guard at a concentration camp was voluntary
All applicants were screened to make sure they were emotionally suited for the job
@@jamesricker3997 - Does that mean they were screened to know if they were cruel, sadistic enough? Well, if they volunteered for the job...that was already a proof of their evil nature.
@@jamesricker3997 I read a book called Hitlers Willing Executioners. It's an interesting read. And of course, Milgram experiment.
@@michaelferguson3127 the fact you think something like that is interesting shows how dangerous you are.
My uncle was in General Paytons 3rd Army .He was 17 years old .He spoke about the ss guards herding about 100 POWs in to a huge barn and set it ablaze .And many attempted to dig out under the barns foundation .But were burned 🔥 alive with their chard bodies half way out .. Afterwards my uncle , was assigned to security police duty ,guarding Herman Going and the others at the Nuremberg Trials ..!
They got their just reward for the horror they caused. Couldn't shed a tear for such beasts.
And yet some of their ancestors defend their actions, pride is a terrible thing.
I doubt if any one volunteered for that - if given any option it would be between that and the Russian front... but when will people look behind the curtain at the "financiers" who fund these wars at huge interest and then scoop up the ruined towns, cities, farmlands and lay claim or buy them for a song... Only then will these atrocities cease.
As if Great Britain or the Soviet Union were saints. Get a clue. Maybe you'll begin to realize why the West is in the condition it's in.
@@DeirdreMcNamara the evidence says the opposite, camp postings were prestigious and well rewarded, they were very happy and safe there.
Youre right about the latter, though. We dont mention that everyone behind it just got rewarded. Their economic model was all about rewarding and protecting big business for their 'contribution' to the economy and workers (sound familiar?), and we saw those companies as essential to maintaining output to compete with 'the reds' so we just kept them and their owners in place, kept the burgemeisters etc in place to preserve 'order'. The brass protected the brass (its not like they care about what you fight for, the other guys were fighting for their country, they respected them), the scientists were too valuable to lose.
The only justice was swift, the failure to prosecute everyone who put my Opa in a camp, everyone who knew they existed and did nothing, is almost as big an atrocity as their existence.
I heard a story years ago where the prisoners found an ss guard hiding, borrowed a pair of pliers from a US signal company guy and used them to disassemble the guard.
Now that's what I call symmetry!
nobody cares about sjupposed stories you heard, this isn't about you or rumors
"Disassemble a guard" hahahahaha
How sweet that sounds about the Guard being tearing apart him piece by piece oh yes The United States knew about the prisoners they did nothing! for the Jewish people there until when ? after the fact . Germany death camp guards was horrible beyond words during this time a quick death of the guards was not enough like the town didn’t know what went on lol crazy lies
Visited Dachau in 1989. For me, the most poignant thing wasn't the crematorium or gas chamber.
It was the massive pile of inmates shoes.
I visited Dachau in December 1970, six months after discharge from service with Big Red One in Vietnam. Germans in Munich feigned no knowledge when asked directions to get there. You could feel the evil, much as you could feel Anne Frank’s spirit in her house in Amsterdam. We arrived very late in the afternoon, the only 3 visitors. Snowy and cold, we were almost locked in at closing.
I would have wasted every guard I came across or I would give them to their former prisoners. This isn’t a war crime. This is justice. I would have settled all cases out of court.
You think you’re capable of killing? We will see.
So what are your thoughts on Slavery in the US and our Founding Fathers? Or how about Great Britain and the slave trade and all the colonies around the globe? Same with France? And what do you think about all those killed in the Soviet Union such as the 10 million Ukrainians that died during the H0I0domor? That happened in the early 1930's and you wonder why Germany was concerned? Maybe you should get a clue.
@@republitarian484why people always bring that up.first all founding fathers was not slave owners and infant some of them was against it and even at that they was not being killed on purpose because they was investments and can't get your money back if they dead and I know that truth will hurt a snowflake like you
@@republitarian484irrelevant because this is about nazis. Clearly killing nazis upsets you, which is pathetic
@@BeeHatGuy . . . nah. ..this is about white erasure. We've heard about the small mustache man bad almost every day of our lives. Time for people to start looking at things from a different perspective. You're pathetic.
1998 while stationed in Germany with the USAF had the oppurtunity to visit the Dachua camp. I can't speak for anyone else but when I walked into the camp thru that gate it was physically like walking thru a door from a world of light and the sounds of birds chirping into a world darkness and oppression. Even more than fifty years later I could still sense the evil that permiates that place.
I went there in 1988 while in the Army. After about 15 minutes I was so “weirded out” that I had to leave. Awful, awful place.
@@mickeypip1524 I’ve been a history nerd since I was a kid. Also, I’m a US Air Force brat and lived in Germany…but it wasn’t until we moved back to the US that I found out that I’d lived in the midst of all that history (after the fact). Essentially, I went to Dachau for the same reason I took the White House tour, to “stand on historical ground.” I’d go to the White House again…but I’m “one and done” with concentration camps. I think a park on Dachau’s grounds would literally be too haunted to enjoy, but I agree with your sentiment. Perhaps, however, a way to prevent past horror from being repeated is to preserve the sites and be brutally honest about the events that took place there.
@@mickeypip1524 Very eloquent comment! Seriously, you gave me something to think about here🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
i befriended a very old man named arthur at our local cafe. he'd get his small cup and give me his wheezy chuckle, point to it and say 'used to be bourbon!' then he'd smile, say 'you're so pretty', and shuffle off. at one point he told me without preamble that he had helped to liberate dachau. his face that was usually so expressive went completely blank, and he never spoke of it again. i miss him.
What really horrifies my as well, besides it being one of the most heinous acts ever conducted in human history - is that the camp guards where so accustomed and ingrained with death that they could no longer sense the stench of it. In stark contrast to the allies who started to vomit, and even cry.
Himmler hurled at the ditches!
@@ralphshelley9586 yes exactly, because even he didn't spend time there like the guards did.
Look up the Holodomor
That's what happens when you "Brainwash" Children in school.
@@ralphshelley9586 that's cause Himmler was a specky right "see you next Tues".
I was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany. My unit took a trip to Dachau in civilian clothes of course. it was very surreal. It was overwhelming with sadness. We took a tour and you learn that Dachau was the first concentration camp. I remember seeing numbers on the Wall and the tour guide told us the Guards would have competition on who could kill the most in day. You learn about these horrible things in school but to go there in person is really overwhelming and just insane. I cant find the words to describe it.
Complete and utter BULLSHIT.
@Tony Leamon I'm the last class of an all girls Catholic school. So we did learn about WW2 but only to the term of camps. Until my senior year one of my favorite all time teacher. She brought in a VHS tape and hit play. I can't remember the name of the movie. But I will never forget where I sat and that 32 girls didn't move, talk or goof off. That movie is etched in my mind. It started from the ghetto up and including the end of the camps. That year my teacher was award an award at the National Liberty museum. I probably will not get to Germany or stand on the soil. I can only imagine getting a chance to touch the wall with numbers or look out where the buildings were. Or stand where some one was beaten or worst killed. But one person can make a huge difference. My favorite teacher past a few years ago but I think of her watching these types of video. I agree schools should be teaching this subject. It did happen the stories are still coming out. Even our boys were terrorized. Now years later I have tons of questions and research just curious. This was a good video.
Your president Barack O. has found words to describe it! He described it as "Polish concentration camps"!! You can imagine how angry we are about it. And this idiot received the Nobel Peace Prize! Unbelivable....
I was stationed in Baumholder in 86 2/29th FA 8th ID and I took a tour of that camp. It was surreal and showed me just how dark humans can be. I hope this is never repeated.
@@kellysimmons6142 Why should we keep banging on about this piece of ancient history ?
If the Jews feel a little piqued by this , let them care: we have our own agonies and more recent deaths.i am sick of seeing memorial after memorial in our parks and streets.
I knew a Polish-American guy who was taken from occupied Poland as a teenager to work in a factory in Germany. When that part of the Reich was liberated, he joined the US Army and then was assigned to Dachau, where he arrived soon after the camp was liberated. He told me that he and other Poles in the US Army would purposefully turn a blind eye to any violence that the former prisoners would inflict upon the German guards (I guess there were other nationals, not just Germans who were guards at Dachau, but I do not want to diminish the overall German responsibility by using the generic term "Nazi"), and that the US Army officers would pretty much allow them (the Polish-American soldiers) to let the ex-prisoners do whatever they wanted to their former captors.
My great-grandfather was one of the survivors of Dachau.
Am Yisroel Chai!
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this isn't about you
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may your family have peace
What a well narrated video!!!
We had a Polish priest that survived the medical experiments in Dachau and came to Oklahoma after the liberation. As a teenager, I was in awe by some of the stories he would tell us.
I visited dachau when I lived in Munich in the mid 80’s. Hearing the stories from some survivors was gut wrenching. Seeing the pictures was worse.
I also Appreciate the Narrator 's voice, and elegant manner of speaking! Perfect for these videos!
I was actually wondering if it is an actual person that narrated this. It’s almost too perfect, with regularity in accent and steady cadance…
Used to work with a fellow veteran named " Frank " and he told me about his grandfather, who was a POW in or near Dresden, Germany. After the firebombing of Dresden, the German SS force marched the prisoners to clean up the destruction , his grandfather picked up burnt and crumbling corpses like cordwood and stacked them in piles. Frank wrote a book about his grandfather's and other POWs' experiences in a book called Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five." It's grim and grisly reading, better have a strong stomach or better yet -an empty one. Deeds are too horrible to contemplate occurring.
Terrific video. Sweet revenge for the prisoners who suffered so much.
Yep. Beware the weak who suddenly become strong.
Seriously. If I were an American soldier liberating Dachau in 1945, I would have taken one of the camp's Nazi flags and pissed on it and then burn it! Booyah! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇲🇺🇲
I am happy I saw the end when the prisoners got revenge. It was a small token to give them any relief of the horror they endured. Never forget!
Arent the jews that fled to palestina opressing and killing the locals till this day? Im just saying in reality there is never a real villain and a real hero.
1977 Spring on a school trip to Germany. Toured Dachau. Horrible cried through all. Was 17. Now 63 still remember the evil feeling so heavy. Spent my life as an RN trying to hold to christian values. Pray daily for all.
Just imagine the fear that these ss guards must have felt before finally being killed in a horrific way. A fitting end for these monsters.
The people there knew. They watched as human skeletons walked by.
Sure they knew👍
the majority look well fed....
@@estebanmex1072 The thinish fellas had Typhus!
I love this channel, especially the closing statements.
It doesn't matter how many of these videos I watch, I just can't imagine how any of them survived. Perhaps the will to continue and perhaps wishing the ultimate bodily harm on their evil captors is what kept them going. Talk about an intense will to live and I'd imagine that after liberation, nothing in the world could ever be fully comprehended as to why. Yes I understand some of the why but man I could never understand what they lived through in all of the concentration camps. May they all rest in peace.
@Adcox Robert Such an important book.
@adcoxrobert3786 there's only one who thought like Victor Frankl and that's Victor Frankl.
I feel the same. I cannot i agine their strength, their will to live. Unreal. The death marches? I would never have survived.
@@charlenerathgeb8217 Thank you for that nugget of info.Charlene.
This is the first time that I am hearing that the Americans killed the German guards at Dachau. I am glad that some of the prisoners were able to get some revenge for the horror they endure at that camp. I visited Dauchau many years ago while I was on a tour of Germany. That place was huge. It is just mind boggling to think of all the people that were tortured and killed there. It is a shame that human beings can be so cruel to other human beings.
Even with all that, those fiends got off so easy and deserved so much worse.
My grandpa Albert Carter all black trucking company the 88 pursuit was the first in there he said there were lamp shades of human flesh with tattoos and the ovens were still smoking and hot , he said he smelled it 3 miles away coming into it. also first across the reign river . they went first to North Africa and defeated Romel. I miss him so much we worked together 37 years hauling scrap metals.
you gramps was a hero..he lives on in your heart,,,so therefore hes still alive!
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God bless your grandpa.
In the house I was growing up in during the 60s[UK], I too saw 2 lampshades that were supposedly made from human flesh. They were a hexagonal shape, yellowed waxy type material, tightly strung on a wire frame with quite broad stitching; suitable as bedside lamps, eerie..
It's always very sad to hear about this. It always shocks me that with so much information available, some people refuse to believe that any of this happened.
Wilful ignorance. Some people choose to deny it happened because it goes against their indoctrination.
:::Trump had entered the chatroom:::
Revisionists do not claim that no atrocities were committed. They simply dispute the numbers and the methodology.
I think maybe their minds can’t accept that humans are capable of such horror.
@@lorraineconejo4143 Nah ! That’s codswallop ...perhaps people are so fed up with 80 years of bellyaching....
Good to know that some justice was carried out. A shame that it was only a small proportion of the total.
Not enough IMHO.
Perhaps when it's God's turn. Not sure if we'll know. We have deniers and those that support them (some in the GOP) amongst
SMH
Their still out here folks, don’t think this will never happen again.
@@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle actually they are in the Dem party-for example, the despicable sods proposing camps for the unvaxed, denying health care, denying jobs, let the unvaxed die.
There's evidence that these were not the camp officers for the duration of the war, but bought in at the very end to keep some order to the spread of a deadly epidemic called typhus. So they killed people that were actually trying to save the lives of the inmates. Also no gassing took place here, so do we simply murder all prison guards for doing a job of containing prisoners??
@@UpsheetscreekWOapaddle Some? They all become complicit, way too easily. The only reason anyone quits the Republican party is when the guilt becomes unbearable. Then they are replace by someone more complicit.
The video needs to be renamed, Justice served.
Justice would have only been served if the entire country had been brought to smoldering ruins. It took millions of Germans to make this possible, and they never paid for their collusion.
Thank you! For this video. Truly! 💚💐💚
Its not a brutal execution of guards, but justice being delivered on spot for all the sufferings inflicted on the weak.
Sounds like a great decision. Excellent leadership on the part of Gen Patton. Eye for an eye!!!!
Love Patton biggest set of balls for a General!
Years ago, I read that when Patton entered Dachau for the first inspection he pulled his handgun and had to be restrained by several aides from shooting the Nazi guards himself! On the road back to headquarters his aide -- after Patton's death -- said the general sat quietly in the back seat and sobbed. I believe he was deeply ashamed to be part of the same species as the camp guards.
We do ourselves a terrible disservice if we call them "beasts". They were just as human as any of us. We must never NEVER forget what every one of us is capable of.
Back in the 90’s the S.H.O.A.H. Foundation was started. Steven Spielberg was a big part of it. The idea was to get video interviews of all survivors of the Holocaust while they’re still alive. I was a video shooter for several interviews. Old Jewish folks telling the stories of how they survived. Was fascinating. The Foundation is in Washington DC.
Prayers for The Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those That Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Save your prayers
What Devine purpose is there in killing
that's some excellent virtue signaling there Princess great job
There is no god
No more !
I can’t stand any more of this hand- wringing...80 years ago....its doing my head in!
@@mickeypip1524 i am sure Lady Karma has some special plan for you
To J Gee,
Been there too in 1989. I was there with my ex wife. She was born in Munich. I told her that I was going to visit Dachau, but when we got there, she refused to get out of the car.
I told her I could be gone for hours, which I was. A very harrowing experience to say the least. It is hard to take photographs when tears are clouding your eyes
I just thought that you might like to know......
Very well put together
Justice was delivered.
Why would you call that "brutal" when you know what happened? "Vengeful" is the correct term.
@R2R Your point being? What do the actions of US military units when they saw the horrors have to do with that? Surely THEY were not hypocritical? Don't you understand that these facts are totally not related? Are you anti-American or just stupid?
@R2R you’re acting and wording it as if the Germans weren’t wrong. Yes the victors always write the history books and I condone what these us troops did but I do not condemn them like i condemn the ss troops who killed millions. They knew what they were doing. They were fanatics.
I am a U.S. Army Veteran. Even visiting Dachau a couple times in 1985 & 1986 it’s the most horrific feeling I’ve ever felt in my life. I walked through the “Ovens”; can’t describe what that felt like. But I will say this, the cruelty of the Muslim Fundamentalists is even worse.
Lmao STFU with that bullshit. "Yes the Nazis were bad, but the brown people are worse"
How can People Be so Brutal against other human Beings its Deplorable
Because they are Germans!
How indeed Gazzer? The whole thing boggles the mind, it sickens me.I find it so difficult to watch it.
why don't you go ask that question to the Jews that were in those camps before you wonder and ask yourself such a stupid question...idiot!
Wish they would teach the details of the transatlantic slave trade it was just as brutal
Wish you would have said this about the slave trade
I was stationed there in 1967 to 1969 and sure it had changed in appearance sense the war years but not so much to hide the scars. A very sad place. I was in the 3rd battalion 37th artillery.
American soldiers upon seeing these horrible things did not hesitate to exact revenge, not that they had anything to do with the prisoners but affectively as human beings, Moreover, the prisoners themselves who endured so much, I cannot imagine the immensity of anger and hatred.
Excellent documentary coverage video that condemned Nazism regimes at Atrocious, brutalized behavior. Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much
Movies like Schindlers list bring tears to my eyes. He did what he could but alas there were too few like him.
@@ronskancke1489 I do like The Sound Of Music.......I liked it when the Family Von Trappe got away over the mountains to Switzerland at the end.
That is NOT Revenge.
That is Justice in its Smallest degree of Comparison.
Putting Evil Out.
I visited Dachau one day in 1998 by myself. It's hard to describe what it's like and how you feel afterwards. It affected me deeply and I didn't speak about it much to my coworkers after. I just didn't know what to say. It's almost like there is a thick cloud that hangs over the entire place. I don't think I'll ever experience something like standing in The Block ever again.
There were no tears shed for the guards of DACCHA.
I visited Dachau years ago. It is something I won’t forget.
My father was an American Army officer of German ancestry during WWII. He never saw Dachau but heard the stories from his fellow soldiers who had seen what had been done to other humans. Dad never spoke about the four years he served his country; some experiences simply can't be talked about by those who witnessed them. I believe he supported the executions of the guards by the prisoners, and I'm surprised that they didn't know what was coming.
To my dying day I'll never understand why they didn't run from the Allied liberators and change their names to hide their identities.
It was the same with my dad. Not one word from him. He suffered from ptsd(?) whatever, and I never knew why he was so distant. Had to figure that out for myself. OK bye
It's odd, but maybe it was because the Western Allies were coming. Indeed you'd think they would have at least tried to flee and pass as regular army in the field.
The Auschwitz guards all fled, but I think that's because it was the Soviets who were coming on that front.
@@Jimmy911ism I wonder if not only witnessing but being partly responsible for those horrors destroyed their motivation to survive.
@@krisaaron5771 I doubt that. They may even have thought it would count in their favor that they'd 'stayed to look after them'.
It's not that illogical from their point of view: they had no real say in what went on, apart from the Camp Commandant and probably believed military would understand this. They may have also known that the Americans were racist too and have considered them not personally involved (no blitz on NY or LA, etc). If the liberators had been British or French, they might have fled before them.
My Grandfather was an American soldier that was there. He took photos with a brownie camera that he carried with him. He couldn’t believe his eyes, and thought that this would be covered up from the public. So he took many photos, I saw them as a very young man. He told my grandmother and my father that he forced the townspeople to clean up the bodies. He told me directly, if someone is a nazi you are to kill them. He saw what they did first hand. My grandmother told me that he wept when he recalled the tragedy.
Your comment deserved better my friend. Your grandad was correct. I'm surprised he told your dad that, and I admire him for his honesty and integrity. And for telling the stripped down truth. Fair play to your Grandad. From Ireland
1970 my dad took me there i was 6 never forgot it mans inhumanity hasn't changed we must always be on guard peace and love
No tears should be shed for the SS. They weren't exactly giving their prisoners the mercy they wanted. I'm human. I respect life. But this. This has no rule book or manual on how to handle walking Into a death camp. If there is it was written after this. Great work. Till next time
Another horrific thing is that the SS running these places had the power to recruit the locals as 'auxiliary' SS who they then dumped in camps as guards.
Of course when these hell holes got liberated then the locals - who might have had no real knowledge - got the thrashing whilst the real culprits were on the run from their crimes.
Patsy as they were once called.
You really think hundreds of thousands of people could be murdered in your city and you'd not know about it?
I visited Dachau on a trip about 15 years ago. I can remember how quiet everyone was walking around what was left. There was a very heavy energy at that place. It’s something I’ll never forget.
Viel Leid.... sehr viel Hoffnung.... es ist ein trauriges Ereignis in der Deutschen Geschichte
My uncle Wilhelm and his two brothers almost ended up there. Jews, they had served in the German Army in WWI. That didn't matter to the Nazis. Wilhelm's brothers, both engineers, were allowed to emigrate in 1934 coming to the US, where they worked for the military. Wilhelm was a cop. He was dismissed as a Jew. When the Gestapo finally came for him, he killed the agents, stolen their vehicle, and made a mad dash for the Swiss border, where he bribed and threatened the border guards to get across. He came to America after the war. I visited Dachau in 1974 as he'd told me that he nearly ended up there. It was nearly too much to take.
Wow that is so not interesting, this isn't about you no one came here hoping to find out if Howard's family may have gone there
One of the few who resisted. Never ever let the government disarm you.
@@ronskancke1489 Wyatt Earp would've shot you dead for not disarming
Leave your guns at home, Bill
Don't take your guns to town
@@slowery43 Tf is wrong with you?
@@slowery43 Liar. It was incredibly interesting, and I'm glad he shared it. A keyboard warrior coward like you has nobody half as heroic or interesting as Howard's family.
I went to Dachau in 1990..when i arrived to live in Munich. It was said there was still a stench that emanated off the ground from the mass graves in hot weather. Also local folklore of the residents of the village being in denial...it was suggested they would have been able to smell at least the crematoria...so were lying.
I am Polish I was in Germany from 1983-85. Can you believe that I haven't met one Greman who was in Poland from 1939 to 1945. They all were in the West front or in Russia. Makes me wonder who was in Poland?
BS - there is no smell from corpse after 45 years nice try though in embelishing your story to seem interesting
@@sochaoracza1506 Who was in Poland? The East Prussians. They were all destroyed when Koenigsberg fell. None are left.
/s -- for the idjits who need the hint.
I went there in 1989, at the height of summer. There weren't any odd smells. In fact, the place seemed oddly sanitised, with its lawns and flower gardens. Another, strong memory was how the bus driver to Dachau announced the stop, "Concentration Camp" in such a nonchalant manner, it seemed deliberately disrespectful. Nevertheless, it was an emotionally overwhelming experience.
so. disappointed? 🤨
I bet they were crying for their mommies too as if they didn't throw children into a glorified oven. 😒
My dad has defended the Jews a d called out anti semitism since he was 11 and saw thr liberation of Dachau on the news. I visited Dachau in 1987 and cried... the evil of nazis cannot be forgotten. Shalom Israeli people
The scariest part of learning about individual Nazi officials is just how *ordinary* many of them are. Sure, many of them are well-heeled descendants of conservative aristocrats, nationalists, and military men, but just as many were simple soldiers, merchants, day-laborers, or even straight up criminals prior to their affiliations with the NSDAP.
It makes one realize that one could walk past such a monster, and never even realize it. Moreover, it makes me consider just what it could take for me to (God forbid) walk that path. If those seemingly well-adjusted individuals could commit such inhumane acts then it seems, at least to me, foolish to think that I could be an exception.
At any rate, I typed all that out to thank the World History team for the labor they clearly put into all of their videos-and at no cost to us. You all do humanity a service.
Never again.
Adolf Eichmann was a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. He went on the organize the murder of 1.5 million people. It boggles the mind.
"conservative aristocrats, nationalists, and military men" This doesn't make any man more susceptible to evil than other types.
What is truly astounding about the Germans in WWII is that their actions were so psychopathic, sociopathic, etc., but that the psychopathologies of any given general population is mostly normal. This means that with a little push here or there, normal people with normal minds, devoid of deviant psychological dispositions and considered healthy and mentally competent, would not only defer to psychopaths like Göth or Mengels, but themselves carry out insanely violent and dispassionate atrocities.
What's relevant is if you take one insane idea and run with it, "that the Jewish race" was the cause of every problem, everything that followed was inevitable and its happened throughout history, from the inquisition, Stalin, present day China!
Seemingly well adjusted is what people look like . I thought for awhile that there are more mentally sick people around us than we know . They just haven’t been diagnosed . This level of cruelty is deplorable . Unfortunately the nature of mankind is bent on evil .Selfishness, pride, a haughty spirit … amoung them . God be with us all . Deliver us from evil 🙏🏻🇨🇦💞
@@Nancie6290 ps God does not exist , actually: sorry to be a party - poop!...sadly, man does exist !