In memory of Elisabeth “ Betsie” Ten Boom, prisoner number 66729, resident of Baracks 28. She was the elder sister of Corrie Ten Boom. Betsie died in Ravensbruck 12-16-1944. Her sister, Corrie was also with her at Ravensbruck. She was released due to a clerical error. After her release, all women her age were sent to the gas chambers.
Love Corrie Ten Boom’s book “The Hiding Place”, in which she writes about her and Betsy’s experiences in Ravensbrook. They were brave Christians who helped save Jewish lives in Holland.
A close cousin of mine discovered that a very distant (and previously unknown) cousin was shot in Ravensbruck. Her name was Lilian Rolfe and she was a member of the Special Operations Executive. Having been parachuted into France, she worked with the French Resistance as a radio operator sending information to England. Sadly she was betrayed to and arrested by the Gestapo, who sent her to Ravensbruck. On the day of her execution, she was led out with Violette Szabo and Denise Bloch. Lilian was unable to walk & had to be carried. Denise had gangrene. They were all shot in the back of the head execution-style. A small group of us from our side of the family were able to visit Ravensbruck and enabled to lay flowers at the memorial there to these three brave women.
The SOE (special operations executive or Churchills secret army) were beyond brave ppl should watch the movie “carve her name with pride”. About Violet Sabo (forgive me if I spelled her name wrong) wonderful movie
Seems this tactic of shooting innocent prisoners in the back of the head has been revived by the IDF. Only days ago hundreds of Palestinian bodied were dug up inside the grounds of a large hospital in Gaza. Many of the victims were found to have their hands bound behind their backs and shot point blank in the back of the head. Other bodies still had hospital garb on and others were still attached to drip feeds. Same atrocities just a different gang of thugs perpetrating them.
@@PaulineYao-dx1cono... not full of hate... every single generation NEEDS to see the history of the world we all live in. WW ll... every single aspect needs to be learned about, the good, the bad and the in between... the term history repeats itself can, does and will happen if we forget...lest we forget those who died who made sure evil is thwarted... they do not cannot and will not be forgotten.. they did not die in vain... look at the photos taken when the camps were liberated by the Allies... and never forget the stories of those who survived those camps. No, it's not to fill them with hate... it's to show them what evil can do, what it can look like, what is was disguised as. And to never forget how hate can destroy lives.
I have to say that anyone that survived one of the concentration camps, is a very strong person. I feel bad for what these ladies had to endure. I listened to a lot of videos on the concentration camps and the horrors that were going on, but this shows the depth of depravity and violence that was committed. I still can’t wrap my head around all of this.
Well, I don't think it's just strength that helped them. Sure enough - having some flesh on your bones might have helped to fend off disease, but just dumb luck was also a big factor I'm afraid....😢😢
My great grandmother served time in Ravensbrück for stealing food ration cards and distributing them to Jews in hiding in Amsterdam. Our family also knew Corrie Ten Boom’s family and even provided her with a safehouse after her release.
I am so thankful to your family for giving Corrie a home to go to. I love Corrie though I never met her but from the movie and book The Hiding Place and other bio and autobiographicals I felt I knew her and felt her love for the Lord Jesus Christ. I will never forget dear loving Betsy. Wow! How she helped Corrie during and after her life. Sorry I took up so much room but you really can’t say too much about those 2 sisters.
ruclips.net/video/dVd2WvUQNmM/видео.htmlsi=nKajkXGYEYhW57sj As the Western Countries are the only ones NOT YOUR FAULT THEIRS NO HANDED DOWN SINS OF THE PAST DEEDS!! AWAKEN WE ARE WALKING INTO THE LEFT AND THEIR TRAP, THATS BEEN IN THE MAKING FOR 30 YEARS, ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES AWAKEN STEP BACK SEE WHOLE PICTURE NOT THESE LOUSY DISTRACTIONS, OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL LOSE EVERYTHING IF WE DONT TRULY AWAKEN.. WHOM HAVE EVER APOLOGIZED. DO YOU SEE ANY COUNTRY IN AFRICA APOLOGIZING FOR THEIR PAST IMPERIALISM TRIBES CAPTURING THEIR ENEMY TRIBES AND SELLING THEM INTO SLAVERY? YOU EVER SEE ANY MOSLOMS TRIBES APOLOGIZING FOR 1000 YEARS OF SLAVE TRADING WHITES, WESTERN AFRICAN SLAVES??? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA APOLOGIES FOR SLAVERY OF MANY PAST HUMANS, Christians, Jews?? Nope AN AS OUR LEFT LETS KNOW TERRORISTS LEADERS, TRIBES, THE ENEMIES IN ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD FREE US??? IF WE FAIL TO SEE AS POLAND CAN AND HOLLAND, THOSE SAYING NO WHO, WHERE WOULD WE GO, WHO WOULD SAVE US??? NOBODY WE WOULD HAVE NO WHERE TO RUN TO. REPEAT IS BECAUSE ITS A NEW GROUP IN A DIFFERENT WAYS, THATS WHAT REPEATING, WHITE DEMORALIZING, YET NO OTHER GROUP WOULD NEVER APOLOGIES ASK SAUDI, ASK IRAN, ASK HAMAS, NEVER ALONG WITH PN WHO SERVE THEM.. t as it's not who did it no handed down sins of past generations. It will just be a different group. A
Andree de Jongh leader of The Comet line the Belgium evasion line survived Ravensbruck along with Andree Dumon another member of The Comet Line who is still alive at 101. Both these incredible brave women never gave a thing away to their interrigators. Their bravery must never be forgotten. The Comet Line got over 800 Allied airman back to the UK.
Corrie Ten Boom talked a little about this in her books and video's ,having experienced the horror of Ravensbruck with her sister Betsie who died there. I applaud the documentary makers of this film, and Sarah Helm for her research. It was a hard film to watch because it really happened. Have we learned anything regarding the outcome of hatred, whether as a world of humans or individuals ,that has made us look to becoming a gentler , caring world? Torture continues, children and women suffer the world over as they are trafficked, forced into slavery, anti-semitism continues and is increasing, and it seems most of the world looks the other way. By our silence we are guilty.
@@doriangray7723 the Bible also says the end days won't happen until everyone has heard of Him. We are nowhere near the end days. As long as north korea remains a prison, it's not the end days. Unless, of course, the Bible is wrong, but I don't think it is.
Why? Your country learned from an atrocity long ago. You are taught about its horrors in school, are reminded ol the bad and have laws to prevent it from happening again. You have VERY long history (that was a short period) to be proud of. Many countries are still committing such evil deeds now, we know and are powerless. - from an American who emigrated to Holland long ago. I'm ashamed of much of our past and present.
Very good documentary. Unfortunately, the film makers missed the cruelty of a former Nazi guard who got her start at the camp, Irma Grese. Her evil contributions to the camp were sorely overlooked.
@@SLICE_Full_DocAnother quality documentary! There is a group that wasn't mentioned in this documentary. Like the resistance, they also wore a triangle patch, but it was purple. I learned about this group when I was writing a paper on Ravensbruck. I was surprised that I hadn't heard about this group before. I have seen so many documentaries and read quite a lot about the subject. When doing research for my paper I spoke with a professor at the H museum. I wanted to understand why this group was and still is almost never mentioned in the mainstream. The professor and I have heard of one theory, but it sounds fake. Supposedly, a certain group who controls Hollywood and TV doesn't want people to know about this group. It makes little to no sense. An interesting point is the one thing that sets this group apart from all the others in the camps. Because they were all either German or Austrian, they could have signed a paper renouncing their beliefs and be released. We have all heard German and Austrian people from that time say that they had no choice but to join the knotsee party. Well, these people, along with those in the resistance, prove that there were many brave Germans and Austrians who stood up against the knotsee party. Steven Spielberg made several video interviews with female survivors for the H museum. There's also some amazing stories found in the Ravensbruck section in the online H museum encyclopedia. I have to use term H museum instead of the full term or the comment is automatically removed.
@@Jonathan.D Wikipedia states that 10,000 of them were sent to nazi concentration camps. Between 2,000 and 5,000 died there including 250 who were executed. Other Christian groups also suffered persecution. Jehovah was, and is, watching.
This was a hard one to watch. I did out of respect to the children that lived and died in that hell hole. It takes hope and courage and the will to live. I sat and watched this with a bad tooth ache. At the end of this video I realized that when the end came I had not one time thought or felt my tooth ache.
Imagine having painful medical issues in that diabolically horrible incarnation😈. With no medical attention-!!!😳.. A nightmare the incarcerated never wake up from-!!!😳.
A shocking video, very well produced . Hard to watch , but what strong women to hide those sentenced to death, risking all . Thank you for telling this so well .
It's big possibility, the constant exposure of someone toward evil in young age that ending them with disassociate from their emotions, it could create cold-hearted tendency, and wrong mindset and anger issue etc Some will appear on intense malice and hatred for other human The sadness become anger and it result in violence However some did get out of this vicious cycle, however stuff like this will impact their mental one way to another, mild effect could be people-pleaser tendency
Correction: IGNORANT people don't "believe" that this happened. That is because they are wilfully ignorant and are usually also always the same type of people who are primarily concerned only with issues that pertain to themselves, self centered, narcissistic brutes!!! (They are therefore NOT worth worrying about!!) *NEVER FORGET!!*
*Correction: Wilfully IGNORANT people don't "believe" that this happened - mostly because they are selfish, self centered, narcissistic, emotionally deficient Brutes, who are only ever concerned with what happens to themselves - they have no concern or regard for other human beings, and are therefore NOT worth worrying about as a general rule!!!* (Everything else you say I agree with)
It’s an amazingly detailed book! Yes it’s a very big, long book but it’s so worth the read. The women’s stories show every part of human behaviour, personalities and struggle with such empathy, sadness and sometimes with dark humour. The friendships and bonds made were heartbreaking yet wonderful. If you have thought about finding or reading Sarah Helm’s book please do, this is your push to do it!
Things were much much worse in Ravensbruck. Sexual violence and torture was prevalent. Women were deported systematically to be used to the Auschwitz "brothel" for sexual services to kapos and members of the sonderkommando, and they had the fate of horribly exploited commodities, that in many case resulted to death. Hygiene facilities were horrific. Starvation was the norm. Unfortunately, several women were raped by the Russian liberators. Actions against women that were beyond vile.
Man, I just recovered from a leg injury and it was easily an 8/10 pain. Seeing the experiments just makes me shudder, leg and feet injuries are beyond painful let alone some madman just being a quack Nazi on your legs.
I'm 53 and it was all but forgotten by the time I was in school heck my kids have only heard about WW2 not even a sentence in there history books now I say BS nds to b taught
My grandaunt Ilse Hirsch; maiden name de-Beer; prisoner No.23138; Jewess; born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony on 22/07/08; deported with her husband Hermann Julius; born in Hamburg on 04/05/02; Jew; both deported on Transport 37 to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Berlin on 19/04/43; Hermann's date of death in Birkenau unknown; Ilse was then transferred to Ravensbrueck on the 16/09/43; perished there on 20/07/44.
I'm so very sorry for the sins of humanity, perpetrated by barbaric, inhumane and inhuman monsters against your beloved relatives. May God grant them eternal peaceful rest!! Never to be forgotten. RIP. XxX 🥹🥲😔
I will never understand how those people could have such hate in their hearts to torture people. Babies, children, teens , adults elderly. It sickens & saddens me. My sincere condolences & love to all the survivors, the people who passed & the people who were murdered, you will never be forgotten 💜🌻🌻
It could be if those people have exposure with abuses Coz it did screw your mindset and can make children disassociate from their emotions, and have not in touch with emotions could make you cold-hearted and full with anger and malice You will need object to project your pains and hatred However i must say, it's better for someone to not understand these things coz it's quite fucked up, and to get out of this vicious cycle need quite lots of work and good guidance and good environment Coz it mean they must learn emotions and healing traumas from the core. These abusers was once victims of abuses that never healed I dont agree with what they done to their victims but it's make sense coz human mentality is quite fragile in childhood
Sometimes people make me frustrated with their beliefs and desire to make others believe what they do. I get tired of people telling me the only salvation is via Jesus. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. I get tired of Muslims and their dress codes and behavior codes for women. I get tired of Mormon people telling me Joseph Smith saw an angel who buried golden plates in his backyard in New York I get tired of Jehovah witnesses telling me I shouldn't celebrate birthdays I get tired of people telling me Friday the 13 is cursed I get tired of all that stuff that causes people to be antagonistic and kill each other. Primitive stuff you can't even say out loud because it may get you killed for speaking your mind
I just went there last year. It is in the country in a beautiful setting on a lake. The guard barrack houses outside the camp are now youth hostels. I am sure they enjoyed the lovely scenery on their time off and I am sure the prisoners never knew what a lovely site was outside the walls.
How human beings could reach this level of evil and depravity is beyond my understanding! It’s a frightening thing to realize that another human being could fall to this level of sardonic darkness!
I have to wonder if the “men that wrote history”, were actually not interested in ravensbruck or if they thought that the crimes were so heinous that the world wasn’t ready to hear about them ? Al of the crimes in each and every camp should have been told immediately, so that the world could see just how deprived and sadistic they guards were.
The Israelis are purposely targeting members of the media in order to prevent the world seeing the attrocities they are committing against the Palestinians. The Germans built most of the death camps in Poland and in eastern Germany in order to keep what they were doing away from the eyes of the general population.
Thank your for this tribute tp all who suffered and died. I am sure it only scratches the surface of the horrors these people endured. The women of the Resistance were some of the bravest in the war effort, It remains unimaginable that this occurred merely 80 years ago in a civilized world. Many of the evil women guards got off too easy during the trials.
I can't believe this camp's story. I've never heard about the horrors of ravensbruck. It makes sense though, men have never cared about women's history. So sad. Thank you for this history lesson.
That's 110% right and hopefully they keep teaching in school about the history of world war II and why these people went through in the concentration camps but from what I hear teachers are such burning bleeding heart liberals that they don't even believe the Holocaust happen or any of these atrocities occurred and not concentration camps
Are you blind? The state of Israel is doing this and so much more, and using your sympathy for these victims of history to justify their worse cruelty.
THIS is the "VERY FIRST" Documentary that I have watched that "FINIALLY" gives respect to "all persons" whom occupied the camp. Not just speaking of the jewish community. Germans, Hungarians, French, Polish all others are finially homaged. Thank you for that! Finially consciousness is growing amongst the reporters of that era in time. People also need to know that there were also Jews amongst the Nazi Party, whom also freely made choices to kill their very own jewish countryman. No one talks about that. My blood chilled as she said: "No european country which wasn't represented in Ravensburg". Let that sink in.
@@annmareeskinner6997 "that's not in debate nor in question". My viewpoint remains steadfast that: it's nice to finally see a RUclips reporter create a neutral reporting of events that took place; acknowledged "all souls" and not single merely 1/4th out to be homaged. No disrespect intended to the jewish community but they weren't the only ones out of "the whole", there were many other cultures right there alongside them. They hugged each other, they shared with another whatever they had, they wept together, prayed together and they died together. So therefor it's only morally correct to homage them together. Until we as a society can do that and not be hyped by indoctrinated reporters w/ a motive... we haven't learned to be/do better.
I speak this truth for 16 Hungarians, 8 Romas, 9 Germans, 2 Russians, 5 Polish, 8 Dutchman whom all of which died there, and all of which lived in the same town as my grandfather and none of which were jewish. I expect their lives to be honored just the same as a jewish concentration camp Inmate and not be lessened in value. And this Video honored their journey without prejudice.
While as I do not condone what atrocities took place under that Regime I am 3rd Generation after that war. My grandparents, my parents, my older siblings and lastly "myself" have paid reparations to the Jewish Government until late 90's for that which a "government" had done. Included in that Government were all city and state officials, all attorneys, judges, police officers, nurses, doctors and military personnel and Corporations, Churches, Reporters/ Media alike. I am German born. My family were Farmers, nothing more at the time, but we paid not only with loss of Familymembers, but also paid hard earned cash for something we "after war Generations" had absolutely "nothing" to do with. I do not take responsibility for that war which the Governments of that time decided for the Country I was born into. I harbor no shame for that which the Government of that time did. I am here now and thank God for "all" of the souls whom sacrificed their physical lives for such a horrid example, not just the jews, but the Hungarians, Dutch, Germans, Russians, Polish, and many more which parishad in the camps; so that YOU & I speak openly about "how NOT allow Governments, Officials, people in positions to be; how NOT to allow Governments to go haywire and how to speak up and use your voice"! Are you & I going to allow history to repeat itself under false flags, hatred, anger, indifference again?
Horrific indeed. These women are to be commended for sharing their stories for the historical record. It had to be painful emotionally. I only hope there is still real historical teaching taking place, so the young are aware of the dangers of tyranny and tyrant's promises to their people.
I really hope they still teach this in school as you said for when I've heard teachers don't teach the history of world war 2 anymore a lot of people don't even believe it happen I just can't believe that man
@@jimmorrison6421 It is disheartening. I used to be a public school history teacher. When I was told discussing September 11th on September 11th with my students was too controversial, I knew I had to get out.
It is horrifying what these people went through. They did nothing wrong and were tormented and then killed. I appreciate it only because it's a piece of history
I had the privilege to hear her story. I was young..but I remember her strong voice telling her story. It wasn't until I watched this documentary that I associated her with Ravensbruck concentration camp. Thanks for connecting this part of the memory. 🥀
I can't understand the level of cruelty and evil within humans. Especially to hurt an innocent precious child is beyond conscience. These poor women, I pray that they have peace now.
I wonder where the guards humanity went. Very hard to watch! Very hard to believe that there was such inhumanity. However, it's something that we ought to never forget.
@@lindabaggio5859 Where can I find documentation that the guards were using LSD? I've done some considerable research on the death camps and have never heard this.
The prisoner sketches by one of the Resistance inmates were astonishing. Detailed and crudely accurate, they speak volumes. Ghastly images and impossible to forget.
Every one of these documentaries I watch I literally feel sick to my stomach but that is how everyone should feel and then these poor people will never be forgotten. God bless them all.
The correct response is empathy, not shame. You need not feel ashamed for what you didn't do. The next step is to teach your children to respect all people of all different nationalities and learn compassion for others who struggle to survive in a difficult world.
With everything they write in the description, it’d “be nice” if somewhere they give the year(s) when the interviews were taken and maybe let us know where they lived the majority of the rest of their lives after their nightmare?
After visiting Dachau, where both my Grandfathers where held at the same time. One as a political prisoner, and one as a Jew. It was a somber experience. I never met either, but felt them both there.
I’m so grateful to these women & all survivors, who;have shared their stories. Now, it seems more than ever, these voices must be amplified ! I never thought I’d see antisemitism grow, in my lifetime. Twitter, one of the most mainstream social media sites, gives a platform to this hateful rhetoric ! We absolutely can’t allow this hate to become mainstream again… Never again!
I'm german, and I am ashamed that this is our legacy , I'm so sorry , we can not let this happen again ever , wake up America we need to stand by Israel and our Jewish friends, and what is currently taking place is absolutely vile and horrific and must not be tolerated
America won't wake up sorry to say for they were never made to atone for imprisoning a whole race of people in their own concentration camps namely Japanese Americans born in America of Japanese ancestry and made an deliberate enemy of America after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Never again means never again for everyone. The once tortured have turned into the torturers. Israel is doing the same thing the Nazis did to Jews. Call it what it is, a genocide. You are supporting a genocide!
You're allowing your guilt over what was done in the past to ignore what Israel is doing right now. Millions of people have no support for Israel and they're beginning to lose the support of people like you who supported them at first. They are doing to others what was done to them and worse. I have no sympathy for them. You ought to recognize war crimes when you see them and you choose not to see them. It IS happening again and once again, spectators are allowing it to happen.
Agreed. The rising level of antisemitism around the world is not only mindboggling but terrifying. I hope I'm wrong but I think it's only going to get worse within the next decade or so with the way things are looking at the moment.
I read a book called Rabbits of Ravensberg. I don’t recall her name but there was a female Dr. who experimented on how to treat battle field wounds. Wounds would be created, being shot in your knees for example, then protocols were developed to heal that injury.
It's being repeated right now in Gaza, only it's the Zionists who are the perpetrators. (I won't say Jews because there are many Jews around the world who reject their narrative.)
It's being repeated right now before our eyes in Gaza and it's the Zionists who are the perpetrators (I won't say Jews because there are many Jews around the world who reject the narrative of the Israelis.)
"And I am afraid of my dreams" by Wanda Półtawska Istrongly recommend this excellent book true story written by surviver of this camp and experiments .
I am 77 now and have studied and watched more about Nazis and Japanese than is healthy for the mind. I try to avoid more but keep finding myself viewing it even now. I have traveled to many countries but cannot bring myself to step inside Germany or Japan. I know the current generation is not responsible but I simply never want to be in a country that had this much evil. The bottom line is we allow hatred to be spewed by great orators and follow like sheep to the slaughter without serious thought. I know it will always be thus so I am almost glad I won't be here much longer.
I hope you add Israel to the list of countries not to set foot in ! The atrocities which took place in the Japanese camp called "Unit 731" surpass anything encountered in Germany or Russia during that period. The movie " the men behind the sun " illustrates in brutal detail the depravity of the Japanese medical doctors who operated on living victims with no anesthetics in order to observe theirs reactions during the procedure. If you have not watched it , do so and then compare who were the bigger monsters .
@@den264 Not sure about that one. It seems to me Israel has never initiated a war or an attack but respond with all when attacked. What happened to them was worse than 9/11 statically and everyone seems to forget that part. The Palestinians need to revolt against Hamas as that is what will save them. You cannot let terrorists use hospitals and schools to operate and expect those building not to be destroyed when you allowed it.
It was mostly for Women BUT attached to the Camp separately were a Mens Camp and a large Youth Camp. People ask why didn't the locals know. Let me explain - main road has a checkpoint to a minor road leading off - no sign of Camp from there. Today passing down that road reveals large chalet type buildings for the guards Little remains of the camp the barracks have gone. Visit the main buiding - upstairs a large plan layout shows the sections of the Camp Outside is the bunker cells which is on two stories. Finding it unlocked revealed two lady guides. They did not know of Odette Sansome - a British Agent. Near the bunkers is a plaque - the place where 3 British Agents were execut 11:32 ed by a shot in the neck as they knelt and held hands. The crematorium ovens were close by .Towards the end of the War a wooden gas chamber was constructed and used. At the end of the War many women were evacuated to Sweden by the Red Cross. Thr Russians liberated the Camp AND used it as a Prison Camp
Absolutely fantastic documentary. The testimonials of these warrior women were gripping and emotive. I recommend reading Sarah Helms book - "If this is a woman." It's about Ravensbruck and i think it's a must-read because looked the documentary stated, there isn't much interest in what happened there and we owe the victims and survivors to listen and absorb what they went through.
NOT QUITE TRUE! THERE WAS AN AMERICAN HANGMAN WHO WAS EITHER BAD AT HIS JOB, OR PRETENDED TO BE, AND SOME OF THE WORST NAZI GUARDS WERE HUNG BY SLOW STRANGULATION, INSTEAD OF A QUICKER DEATH BY THEIR NECK BEING BROKEN!
My father was British SAS ww2 veteran and discovered Belsen Bergen…he hunted SS and Gestapo..and interrogate them. He was such a gentle man but fought evil. If we take revenge we become like the evil doers. God preserved his sanity.
I knew the name Ravensbruck but knew very little about the horrific events. This was so very hard to watch and hear of the brutality perpetrated by women against women. Crimes against humanity hardly adequately describes what went on here. Eternal Hell awaits them, of that there is no doubt.
This video is good but y'all left out that the first 400 women sent there were Jehovah Witnesses and between 1939-1944 1200 JW's were held there.They wore purple triangle for identification
Some got compensation but not too many probably,my mother was taken as a slave labourer to a farm in Germany,never was compensated for that ,not in communist country Poland
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures drawings. . Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to the surviving guest speakers. Sharing personal information/experiences pertaining to. Life @ the concentration camp.😳. An extremely diabolically unhealthy Unsantary environment. Guaranteed slow agonizing death. The fortunate prisoners sent to the camps late (1944 )into (1945). Survived to tell of their diabolically horrible incarnation😈. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉💵😉.
Well said! Theres a book that may interest you called "eyewitness Auschwitz" by Filip Muller. He was in the sonderkommando for nearly 3 years, rare as they were usually gassed after a few months. It might interest you
"Ravensbruck " by Sara Helm. A must read book 📖 The horror &: torture these beautiful women endured is unimaginable !! May their souls rest in peace!!! They will never be forgotten!!!
Im ashamed to say that the situation of the contractions camp has fascinated, if that is the right word. I've watched many videos about it. And even if I absolutely KNOW 100% that its real. It's like it can't be so. The torture, evil and horrible things done to these completely innocent people, is so beyond and hard to imagine that something like this can even happen. There's no words for it really. And it isn't that long ago either. That the guards could be so cold. So heartless. So evil. That death wasn't enough, they had to suffer. The amount of men, women and children, who had to endure their evil, omg my heart breaks for them all. The total organization of it as well. It was very planned out and thought threw. How can people, humans, sit and plan this. Their's no words for this, not none that's enough. That's why I find it "fascinating". I'm not some sicko who likes to see people suffer and die. Absolutely NOT! But this's so extreme, that I'll NEVER EVER understand this evil. It's out of this world. And scary. Very scary that humans can do this to other humans. If you even can call this horrible guards and people humans. I think not.
I agree. There is nothing as evil as the human mind. And so many people are still suffering because of it. It will only stop when humans no longer exist. The sooner the better. God bless the animals whe never harm this beautiful world. ❤
My PaPa left Germany before WWI he said he saw the writing on the wall, and he changed his last name from Muller to Miller, my maiden last name that would have been Muller!!! He was an American, and he never spoke about being German to me as a child, I only knew later because my mom told me where he came from, when I was older, after he had long passed!!! Apparently, he hated Hitler and the Nazi's with a passion she told me, I suppose he was almost ashamed of his heritage past being an American and my Mimmie never said she was polish either. My mom said she referred to her heritage as white Russsian , apparently even though she was born here, she was ashamed of being polish, she was born in Bosten and had a very proper upbringing, finishing school and the rest! She was very reserved and formal!? She insisted that I her only granddaughter should learn proper eticate, how to set a table and proper manners. Which pn grade school I was teased and called little miss dainty!? Until I rebelled and my dad called me his flower child, I have never ventured far from that hippy style in clothing and basic state of character, although now I am a Christian, closest thing I could find to the love and peace mentality minus the drugs now, of course!!!🙏 Peace🕊🫶🏻
This a very adjusted (?) report. There is so much horror committed in these camps that is not mentioned. The forgotten women, the sexual horror of rape and mutilation must be mentioned. We cannot gloss over the horror of what men did to these people (and sadly still are). Only now are we seeing in Australia some minor form of fixing the violence to women, but it has taken the horrendous fact that one woman in Australia is killed every four days by male partners. It is because of this omission of violence to women that has happened in these camps and the attitude to reporting this violence and the continuing violence that some men (?) are still perpetrating this violence.
I was married to a monster, yet women like me feel embarrassed and ashamed of what happened to us - we don’t talk about it, except to others like ourselves. In 21st century Australia it’s still an uneasy ‘talk’ and an uneasy ‘listen’. If your situation was/is bad you find yourself scanning the face of the person you are talking to - searching for the slightest sign of disbelief. More needs to be done in schools to teach our young people that dv is never ever acceptable, to any degree. It knows no social or economic boundaries, a lady in the refuge like me was married to a Dr.
When I was young both WW1 and 2 were taught and shown without fear of upsetting someones sensitive nature. Our parents and Grandparents (all of mine fought in both world wars) knew they had to teach us also, although they sanitised much. Then, in 1973 “World at War” a 26 episode documentary chronology on WW2 was released on British television, narrated by Lord Olivier. Again, un sanitised (as Google now seems to believe is relevant). This tv series (and many others from other countries) should be shown as part of educational curriculum at a certain age. It takes generations to recover from such horror, but unfortunately human recovery tends to mean “forgotten”.
It was an informative, wonderful historical coverage and incredible historical coverage documentary... about the Nazism brutality towards Jewish ✡️women, European resistant women, other deported women...
I can never understand how inhumane some humans can be I once heard that some Germans still refuse to believe this all happened 😡. Only thing I can think of is they have been brainwashed for yrs. i saw a video of the camps when they were liberated I was around 15 in high school some found it too hard to watch and walked out others (me included) sat and cried it’s a tough thing to watch God bless everyone who survived and RIP all those who didn’t make it 😭😭😭 such an awful thing Thing is they wanted a true Arian race blue eyes blonde hair. Yet Hitler (I hate even mentioning that monsters name) was Dark haired It’s a huge shame Joseph Mengele didn’t face justice he was the worst monster of all
Hitler's grandmother was a maid in the household of a wealthy Jewish businessman and she got pregnant - like many maids - by her employer. So Hitler was part Jewish.
@@mr.pickles810 Flossenbürg / Flossenbuerg They have really good documentation there. There is a website with good but short documentation. But the subcamps were farly spread, there were dozens of them, you'd need to know the name of the subcamp to find out more. I'm not sure, but you might have a list of the subcamps as well, so if you know where your grandfather was, you could find out the name of the camp.
If you found this documentary interesting please read “If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women” by Sarah Helm. It’s a 768 paged book which details everything that happened in the camp from everyday life to experimentations on the rabbits to the forced prostitution huts. Yes it’s an absolutely heartbreaking and awfully disturbing but there are so many amazing souls that shine light through the darkness of the camps. There are so many stories of friendships, relationships, bonds and families formed to bring some happiness and a tiny bit of joy. It’s a big book but it’s such an important part of so many people’s history!
My children lost a lot of their ancestors at Auschwitz & this camp! two sets of their great grandparents died and a great grandmother was here… they also lost great aunts, uncles cousins some of their cousins and their grandfather survived God rest his soul, he passed away two years ago now last name was Exler. It breaks my heart. My soul feels heavy when I think of all of this horrific terrible things that happened and when people want to minimize this nowadays and pretend it wasn’t real or pretend it didn’t happen and they say it was all propaganda. It makes me so angry.
Interesting/informative entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures/reenactments. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator & guest speakers were describing-!!!😉. Amazing how many survived to describe their experiences.!!!😳.
I have heard that two Americans died in Ravensbruck; they were bomber crewmen who had bailed out and were sent there as punishment for being...bomber crewmen...
I met Henry Greenbaum. He was a great man. He was a Jewish holocaust survivor. He was in a concentration camp. He said that a raw potato tasted like a navel orange to him. Let’s respect the survivors who educate us. They are all almost gone.
Now that the Jews face a new threat in the world today we must remember. It is our duty to mankind. What amazing articulate women and through their testimonies we get a little of their experiences.
Excellent documentary and the Sarah Helm book is highly recommended. However, one quibble: the woman identified as Johanna Langefeld is definitely not her. She was a smallish rotund middle aged woman, totally different from this one.
@@danarzechula3769 THE PROBLEM WAS NOT THAT POLAND WAS NEAR LARGE COUNTRIES, BUT THAT IT WAS SITUATED NEAR LARGE, BARBARIC COUNTRIES, NAMELY GERMANY AND RUSSIA!😮
Thank you to my teacher in high school Ms.Maulas for teaching us about Holocaust. She even booked the whole auditorium for the special viewing of The Schindler's List ❤❤❤ it instilled on my mind. It shows that history should teach in school. We can learn a lot from history, it's our blueprint to move forward. If we forget our past history imagine our future will be without a framework or guidance from the past.
In memory of Elisabeth “ Betsie” Ten Boom, prisoner number 66729, resident of Baracks 28. She was the elder sister of Corrie Ten Boom. Betsie died in Ravensbruck 12-16-1944. Her sister, Corrie was also with her at Ravensbruck. She was released due to a clerical error. After her release, all women her age were sent to the gas chambers.
😢❤😢
Love Corrie Ten Boom’s book “The Hiding Place”, in which she writes about her and Betsy’s experiences in Ravensbrook. They were brave Christians who helped save Jewish lives in Holland.
Sounds dutch
@@Thug-12Na Yes!
@@theabrescia1955 never heard from her im dutch
A close cousin of mine discovered that a very distant (and previously unknown) cousin was shot in Ravensbruck. Her name was Lilian Rolfe and she was a member of the Special Operations Executive.
Having been parachuted into France, she worked with the French Resistance as a radio operator sending information to England. Sadly she was betrayed to and arrested by the Gestapo, who sent her to Ravensbruck. On the day of her execution, she was led out with Violette Szabo and Denise Bloch. Lilian was unable to walk & had to be carried. Denise had gangrene. They were all shot in the back of the head execution-style.
A small group of us from our side of the family were able to visit Ravensbruck and enabled to lay flowers at the memorial there to these three brave women.
The SOE (special operations executive or Churchills secret army) were beyond brave ppl should watch the movie “carve her name with pride”. About Violet Sabo (forgive me if I spelled her name wrong) wonderful movie
Agreed - it’s an amazing film starring Virginia McKenna who was brilliant as Violette Szabo.
Amazing women sorry I spelled Violette Szabo wrong 🥹
RIP brave souls
Seems this tactic of shooting innocent prisoners in the back of the head has been revived by the IDF. Only days ago hundreds of Palestinian bodied were dug up inside the grounds of a large hospital in Gaza. Many of the victims were found to have their hands bound behind their backs and shot point blank in the back of the head. Other bodies still had hospital garb on and others were still attached to drip feeds. Same atrocities just a different gang of thugs perpetrating them.
This should be mandatory in all schools, this must never been forgotten.
I Dont Know HOW Corrie Hid Her Cross During The Shower Scene
@@PaulineYao-dx1cono... not full of hate... every single generation NEEDS to see the history of the world we all live in. WW ll... every single aspect needs to be learned about, the good, the bad and the in between... the term history repeats itself can, does and will happen if we forget...lest we forget those who died who made sure evil is thwarted... they do not cannot and will not be forgotten.. they did not die in vain... look at the photos taken when the camps were liberated by the Allies... and never forget the stories of those who survived those camps. No, it's not to fill them with hate... it's to show them what evil can do, what it can look like, what is was disguised as. And to never forget how hate can destroy lives.
yes IN ALL SCHOOLS DON'T TEACH ANYTHING AS SCHOOL only with some only Reading The Diary of Anne Frank
I couldn’t agree more
@@shannonburrell1424 "Well Said"
We are privileged to hear these brave women speak ❤
The German women are tanks!!!Horrible demons!!!!
Oh, yes! We are very privileged to hear these first-hand accounts. It is our responsibility to tell our children and young people.
I have to say that anyone that survived one of the concentration camps, is a very strong person. I feel bad for what these ladies had to endure. I listened to a lot of videos on the concentration camps and the horrors that were going on, but this shows the depth of depravity and violence that was committed. I still can’t wrap my head around all of this.
Well, I don't think it's just strength that helped them. Sure enough - having some flesh on your bones might have helped to fend off disease, but just dumb luck was also a big factor I'm afraid....😢😢
You want to see something horrible look up Nazi sleep deprivation. That was the most gruesome s*** the Nazis did
Even the Nazis found out what was going on and was like we got to stop that right now
My mother survived as an orphan 4yrs old. She died 80yrs later in her sleep😊
My great grandmother served time in Ravensbrück for stealing food ration cards and distributing them to Jews in hiding in Amsterdam. Our family also knew Corrie Ten Boom’s family and even provided her with a safehouse after her release.
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I am so thankful to your family for giving Corrie a home to go to. I love Corrie though I never met her but from the movie and book The Hiding Place and other bio and autobiographicals I felt I knew her and felt her love for the Lord Jesus Christ. I will never forget dear loving Betsy. Wow! How she helped Corrie during and after her life. Sorry I took up so much room but you really can’t say too much about those 2 sisters.
That is awesome. Your family must be blessed because Corrie was anointed!
@@exercisehabitcoachofficial - I don’t know if I’d call my family ‘blessed’. We’ve had our share of hardships.
Oh bless her heart❤
Somehow the horror of Ravensbruck is lost on modern man. We must ALWAYS remember.
"Never again " but not if you are Palestinians !
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As the Western Countries are the only ones NOT YOUR FAULT THEIRS NO HANDED DOWN SINS OF THE PAST DEEDS!! AWAKEN WE ARE WALKING INTO THE LEFT AND THEIR TRAP, THATS BEEN IN THE MAKING FOR 30 YEARS, ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES AWAKEN STEP BACK SEE WHOLE PICTURE NOT THESE LOUSY DISTRACTIONS, OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL LOSE EVERYTHING IF WE DONT TRULY AWAKEN..
WHOM HAVE EVER APOLOGIZED. DO YOU SEE ANY COUNTRY IN AFRICA APOLOGIZING FOR THEIR PAST IMPERIALISM TRIBES CAPTURING THEIR ENEMY TRIBES AND SELLING THEM INTO SLAVERY? YOU EVER SEE ANY MOSLOMS TRIBES APOLOGIZING FOR 1000 YEARS OF SLAVE TRADING WHITES, WESTERN AFRICAN SLAVES??? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA APOLOGIES FOR SLAVERY OF MANY PAST HUMANS, Christians, Jews?? Nope AN AS OUR LEFT LETS KNOW TERRORISTS LEADERS, TRIBES, THE ENEMIES IN ALL WESTERN COUNTRIES WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD FREE US??? IF WE FAIL TO SEE AS POLAND CAN AND HOLLAND, THOSE SAYING NO WHO, WHERE WOULD WE GO, WHO WOULD SAVE US??? NOBODY WE WOULD HAVE NO WHERE TO RUN TO. REPEAT IS BECAUSE ITS A NEW GROUP IN A DIFFERENT WAYS, THATS WHAT REPEATING, WHITE DEMORALIZING, YET NO OTHER GROUP WOULD NEVER APOLOGIES ASK SAUDI, ASK IRAN, ASK HAMAS, NEVER ALONG WITH PN WHO SERVE THEM..
t as it's not who did it no handed down sins of past generations. It will just be a different group. A
Yes and support Israel
We all know society don't give a fuk about women that's why it's being lost
But see: Donald Trump’s call for “a unified reich.”
Andree de Jongh leader of The Comet line the Belgium evasion line survived Ravensbruck along with Andree Dumon another member of The Comet Line who is still alive at 101. Both these incredible brave women never gave a thing away to their interrigators. Their bravery must never be forgotten. The Comet Line got over 800 Allied airman back to the UK.
They are beyond heroines
This has to be the ONE camp I didn’t even know about. Very enlightening. My heart goes out to all the women who suffered at the hands of these PSYCHOS
There were about 45000 camps ! Not all were death camps
@sabinegroe2006 be respectful please. No need to lecture in a condescending manner.
Corrie Ten Boom talked a little about this in her books and video's ,having experienced the horror of Ravensbruck with her sister Betsie who died there. I applaud the documentary makers of this film, and Sarah Helm for her research. It was a hard film to watch because it really happened. Have we learned anything regarding the outcome of hatred, whether as a world of humans or individuals ,that has made us look to becoming a gentler , caring world? Torture continues, children and women suffer the world over as they are trafficked, forced into slavery, anti-semitism continues and is increasing, and it seems most of the world looks the other way. By our silence we are guilty.
And now Donald Trump is promoting hatred.
It's sad indeed. The Bible says that the last days will be worse than the days of Noah.
@@doriangray7723 the Bible also says the end days won't happen until everyone has heard of Him. We are nowhere near the end days. As long as north korea remains a prison, it's not the end days. Unless, of course, the Bible is wrong, but I don't think it is.
She wrote in a book. She did not talk 😢
I am German and feel so ashamed about our history.
My heart goes out to all the victims. My Jewish friends know I love them ❤
It is good of you to say but you have no need for shame. You were not born so the crime was not yours. Be happy in your life.
Well it's time you harden up because your country is being re-colonised before your eyes
DON'T BE ASHAMED, Just Realize that some German people then were BARBARIC
Most wealthy Jews drive AUDI, MERCEDES, BMW....I guess they are not that mad.
Why? Your country learned from an atrocity long ago. You are taught about its horrors in school, are reminded ol the bad and have laws to prevent it from happening again. You have VERY long history (that was a short period) to be proud of.
Many countries are still committing such evil deeds now, we know and are powerless.
- from an American who emigrated to Holland long ago. I'm ashamed of much of our past and present.
Very good documentary. Unfortunately, the film makers missed the cruelty of a former Nazi guard who got her start at the camp, Irma Grese. Her evil contributions to the camp were sorely overlooked.
I am familiar w her
Psychopath
There is a separate documentary video devoted to her. It is on the world history channel.
@@genevieve730 Yes I know. I worked on the 2nd video on Irma Grese for The World History channel with the content creator.
It’s strange how she seems to be overlooked so often.
Very tough watch, but thank you for posting.
Thank you so much for watching !
@@SLICE_Full_DocAnother quality documentary!
There is a group that wasn't mentioned in this documentary. Like the resistance, they also wore a triangle patch, but it was purple. I learned about this group when I was writing a paper on Ravensbruck. I was surprised that I hadn't heard about this group before. I have seen so many documentaries and read quite a lot about the subject.
When doing research for my paper I spoke with a professor at the H museum. I wanted to understand why this group was and still is almost never mentioned in the mainstream. The professor and I have heard of one theory, but it sounds fake. Supposedly, a certain group who controls Hollywood and TV doesn't want people to know about this group. It makes little to no sense.
An interesting point is the one thing that sets this group apart from all the others in the camps. Because they were all either German or Austrian, they could have signed a paper renouncing their beliefs and be released.
We have all heard German and Austrian people from that time say that they had no choice but to join the knotsee party. Well, these people, along with those in the resistance, prove that there were many brave Germans and Austrians who stood up against the knotsee party.
Steven Spielberg made several video interviews with female survivors for the H museum. There's also some amazing stories found in the Ravensbruck section in the online H museum encyclopedia.
I have to use term H museum instead of the full term or the comment is automatically removed.
@@Jonathan.D Wikipedia states that 10,000 of them were sent to nazi concentration camps. Between 2,000 and 5,000 died there including 250 who were executed. Other Christian groups also suffered persecution. Jehovah was, and is, watching.
This was a hard one to watch. I did out of respect to the children that lived and died in that hell hole. It takes hope and courage and the will to live. I sat and watched this with a bad tooth ache. At the end of this video I realized that when the end came I had not one time thought or felt my tooth ache.
These documentaries are humbling, makes you realise how lucky you are. RIP poor souls
Imagine having painful medical issues in that diabolically horrible incarnation😈. With no medical attention-!!!😳.. A nightmare the incarcerated never wake up from-!!!😳.
LP p to😊 I'll
Never forget 100000000000% god/source/spirits fault
No exceptions
No excuses
Praise the skid mark that is god
amen
@@geoffra-s7w What are you even trying to write there? Because that makes no sense at all.
A shocking video, very well produced . Hard to watch , but what strong women to hide those sentenced to death, risking all . Thank you for telling this so well .
Thank you so much for watching it 🙏
This man is less than a minute into it. Can’t watch it. My mind goes to a dark place. May all those poor souls rest in peace.😢
Amen 🙏
I will never understand how any "human being" could be so cruel.
Just watch what the state of Israel is doing even as we speak. They are weaponizing the suffering of these women to justify their worse cruelty.
Same ones that wish dead to the unvax
It's big possibility, the constant exposure of someone toward evil in young age that ending them with disassociate from their emotions, it could create cold-hearted tendency, and wrong mindset and anger issue etc
Some will appear on intense malice and hatred for other human
The sadness become anger and it result in violence
However some did get out of this vicious cycle, however stuff like this will impact their mental one way to another, mild effect could be people-pleaser tendency
77142 that was my mothers number in Ravensbrück she will turn now 94 . I show her the dokumentation
Happy birthday to your Mum.
Blessings to you All
Happy birthday to your Mum. God bless her
Happy birthday from the USA!
She is an amazing strong woman ❤
Horrifying to even put this in your mind. But it needs to be known in this generation most young people don't believe it really happend.
Correction: IGNORANT people don't "believe" that this happened. That is because they are wilfully ignorant and are usually also always the same type of people who are primarily concerned only with issues that pertain to themselves, self centered, narcissistic brutes!!! (They are therefore NOT worth worrying about!!) *NEVER FORGET!!*
*Correction: Wilfully IGNORANT people don't "believe" that this happened - mostly because they are selfish, self centered, narcissistic, emotionally deficient Brutes, who are only ever concerned with what happens to themselves - they have no concern or regard for other human beings, and are therefore NOT worth worrying about as a general rule!!!*
(Everything else you say I agree with)
Where did you get that foolish notion ?
My son
I don't think "most" young people don't know about the Holocaust, or deny it.
The Sarah Helm book re: Ravensbruck is meticulously researched and well-written. Highly recommend it.
absolutely incredible. the rabbits shall never be forgotten
The Rabbits of Ravensbrook is an excellent book. I’ve reread several times. I’m absolutely horrified every time.
I was looking for this comment. It’s not an easy read but so worth it.
The horrid attacks by the liberators killed many of the prisoners.
It’s an amazingly detailed book! Yes it’s a very big, long book but it’s so worth the read. The women’s stories show every part of human behaviour, personalities and struggle with such empathy, sadness and sometimes with dark humour. The friendships and bonds made were heartbreaking yet wonderful. If you have thought about finding or reading Sarah Helm’s book please do, this is your push to do it!
EXCELLENT film. Just EXCELLENT.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching!
I CANT EVEN IMAGINE GOING THRU ALL THAT MISERY...PAIN...& SUFFERING.....THATS GOTTA MESS WITH YOUR HEAD THE REST OF YOUR LIFE..
Calling Himmler cruel is a massive understatement
Incarnated monster
Actually he only visited a concentration camp once. Had to vomit. Then never went to one again. Cruel? In some sense yes. But a coward
Things were much much worse in Ravensbruck. Sexual violence and torture was prevalent. Women were deported systematically to be used to the Auschwitz "brothel" for sexual services to kapos and members of the sonderkommando, and they had the fate of horribly exploited commodities, that in many case resulted to death. Hygiene facilities were horrific. Starvation was the norm. Unfortunately, several women were raped by the Russian liberators. Actions against women that were beyond vile.
Always have been.
Maybe that's why male historians don't care.
That seems to be a thing with Russians very disgusting
Man, I just recovered from a leg injury and it was easily an 8/10 pain. Seeing the experiments just makes me shudder, leg and feet injuries are beyond painful let alone some madman just being a quack Nazi on your legs.
I became fascinated in such topics in high school. I'm 63 now and I don't think I want to see any more of this or any other depravity anymore.
Seems some never learned
I'm 53 and it was all but forgotten by the time I was in school heck my kids have only heard about WW2 not even a sentence in there history books now I say BS nds to b taught
Sadly, IT'S MUCH WORSE! There is so much Anti-Semitism in the entire world. It is heart breaking!
@@pamelaperkins2507 I know. And I truly have no clue why the Jewish people are so despised by so many. Baffling
@@Steve-slack69I'm 61. I saw The World At War when I was a kid. I've known about the Holocaust since then. So did most of my friends.
My grandaunt Ilse Hirsch; maiden name de-Beer; prisoner No.23138; Jewess; born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony on 22/07/08; deported with her husband Hermann Julius; born in Hamburg on 04/05/02; Jew; both deported on Transport 37 to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Berlin on 19/04/43; Hermann's date of death in Birkenau unknown; Ilse was then transferred to Ravensbrueck on the 16/09/43; perished there on 20/07/44.
💔 sad. RIP. Never forgotten
😢😢
I'm so very sorry for the sins of humanity, perpetrated by barbaric, inhumane and inhuman monsters against your beloved relatives. May God grant them eternal peaceful rest!! Never to be forgotten. RIP. XxX 🥹🥲😔
RIP 🙏
Very sorry for the loss of your family in such a heartbreaking way. RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Im so touched by this documentary. Very well done, and i learned new facts. These women are strong and im grateful to hear their stories.
I will never understand how those people could have such hate in their hearts to torture people. Babies, children, teens , adults elderly. It sickens & saddens me.
My sincere condolences & love to all the survivors, the people who passed & the people who were murdered, you will never be forgotten 💜🌻🌻
The rapes and atrocities that happened during liberation are not equally horrific but also committed against innocents.
The Jews who held the $$ in Germany showed no compassion .
Look it up .
It could be if those people have exposure with abuses
Coz it did screw your mindset and can make children disassociate from their emotions, and have not in touch with emotions could make you cold-hearted and full with anger and malice
You will need object to project your pains and hatred
However i must say, it's better for someone to not understand these things coz it's quite fucked up, and to get out of this vicious cycle need quite lots of work and good guidance and good environment
Coz it mean they must learn emotions and healing traumas from the core. These abusers was once victims of abuses that never healed
I dont agree with what they done to their victims but it's make sense coz human mentality is quite fragile in childhood
The Japanese tortured American soldiers
Sometimes people make me frustrated with their beliefs and desire to make others believe what they do. I get tired of people telling me the only salvation is via Jesus. Maybe it is maybe it isn't. I get tired of Muslims and their dress codes and behavior codes for women. I get tired of Mormon people telling me Joseph Smith saw an angel who buried golden plates in his backyard in New York I get tired of Jehovah witnesses telling me I shouldn't celebrate birthdays I get tired of people telling me Friday the 13 is cursed I get tired of all that stuff that causes people to be antagonistic and kill each other. Primitive stuff you can't even say out loud because it may get you killed for speaking your mind
Such unbelievable evil but these excellent documentaries must be seen.
💯specially now with the current state of affairs.
I just went there last year. It is in the country in a beautiful setting on a lake. The guard barrack houses outside the camp are now youth hostels. I am sure they enjoyed the lovely scenery on their time off and I am sure the prisoners never knew what a lovely site was outside the walls.
How human beings could reach this level of evil and depravity is beyond my understanding!
It’s a frightening thing to realize that another human being could fall to this level of sardonic darkness!
I have to wonder if the “men that wrote history”, were actually not interested in ravensbruck or if they thought that the crimes were so heinous that the world wasn’t ready to hear about them ? Al of the crimes in each and every camp should have been told immediately, so that the world could see just how deprived and sadistic they guards were.
The Israelis are purposely targeting members of the media in order to prevent the world seeing the attrocities they are committing against the Palestinians.
The Germans built most of the death camps in Poland and in eastern Germany in order to keep what they were doing away from the eyes of the general population.
No, it's just that, to men, the suffering of women is nothing compared to their own suffering.
After all, women's suffering is business as usual.
Thank your for this tribute tp all who suffered and died. I am sure it only scratches the surface of the horrors these people endured. The women of the Resistance were some of the bravest in the war effort, It remains unimaginable that this occurred merely 80 years ago in a civilized world. Many of the evil women guards got off too easy during the trials.
Thank you so much 🙏
I can't believe this camp's story. I've never heard about the horrors of ravensbruck. It makes sense though, men have never cared about women's history. So sad. Thank you for this history lesson.
Thank yous so much for taking an interest in it 🫶
This must never be forgotten, must never ever be blotted out in books or film.
Because what is erased or forgotten, will be soon repeated.
That's 110% right and hopefully they keep teaching in school about the history of world war II and why these people went through in the concentration camps but from what I hear teachers are such burning bleeding heart liberals that they don't even believe the Holocaust happen or any of these atrocities occurred and not concentration camps
History is repeating via 7 Oct,
Are you blind?
The state of Israel is doing this and so much more, and using your sympathy for these victims of history to justify their worse cruelty.
@lindabaggio5859 ye in Palestine 🇵🇸
THIS is the "VERY FIRST" Documentary that I have watched that "FINIALLY" gives respect to "all persons" whom occupied the camp. Not just speaking of the jewish community. Germans, Hungarians, French, Polish all others are finially homaged. Thank you for that!
Finially consciousness is growing amongst the reporters of that era in time. People also need to know that there were also Jews amongst the Nazi Party, whom also freely made choices to kill their very own jewish countryman. No one talks about that.
My blood chilled as she said: "No european country which wasn't represented in Ravensburg". Let that sink in.
As prisoners or soldiers I think prisoners as the Germans wanted to be pure blood remember
The US military wrote the history of WW2.
@@annmareeskinner6997 "that's not in debate nor in question". My viewpoint remains steadfast that: it's nice to finally see a RUclips reporter create a neutral reporting of events that took place; acknowledged "all souls" and not single merely 1/4th out to be homaged. No disrespect intended to the jewish community but they weren't the only ones out of "the whole", there were many other cultures right there alongside them. They hugged each other, they shared with another whatever they had, they wept together, prayed together and they died together. So therefor it's only morally correct to homage them together. Until we as a society can do that and not be hyped by indoctrinated reporters w/ a motive... we haven't learned to be/do better.
I speak this truth for 16 Hungarians, 8 Romas, 9 Germans, 2 Russians, 5 Polish, 8 Dutchman whom all of which died there, and all of which lived in the same town as my grandfather and none of which were jewish. I expect their lives to be honored just the same as a jewish concentration camp Inmate and not be lessened in value. And this Video honored their journey without prejudice.
While as I do not condone what atrocities took place under that Regime I am 3rd Generation after that war. My grandparents, my parents, my older siblings and lastly "myself" have paid reparations to the Jewish Government until late 90's for that which a "government" had done. Included in that Government were all city and state officials, all attorneys, judges, police officers, nurses, doctors and military personnel and Corporations, Churches, Reporters/ Media alike. I am German born. My family were Farmers, nothing more at the time, but we paid not only with loss of Familymembers, but also paid hard earned cash for something we "after war Generations" had absolutely "nothing" to do with. I do not take responsibility for that war which the Governments of that time decided for the Country I was born into. I harbor no shame for that which the Government of that time did. I am here now and thank God for "all" of the souls whom sacrificed their physical lives for such a horrid example, not just the jews, but the Hungarians, Dutch, Germans, Russians, Polish, and many more which parishad in the camps; so that YOU & I speak openly about "how NOT allow Governments, Officials, people in positions to be; how NOT to allow Governments to go haywire and how to speak up and use your voice"!
Are you & I going to allow history to repeat itself under false flags, hatred, anger, indifference again?
Horrific indeed. These women are to be commended for sharing their stories for the historical record. It had to be painful emotionally. I only hope there is still real historical teaching taking place, so the young are aware of the dangers of tyranny and tyrant's promises to their people.
Sounds like " Rocket🚀Mans " North Korea😳
I really hope they still teach this in school as you said for when I've heard teachers don't teach the history of world war 2 anymore a lot of people don't even believe it happen I just can't believe that man
@@jimmorrison6421 It is disheartening. I used to be a public school history teacher. When I was told discussing September 11th on September 11th with my students was too controversial, I knew I had to get out.
It is horrifying what these people went through. They did nothing wrong and were tormented and then killed. I appreciate it only because it's a piece of history
Not forgotten. Corrie Tenn Boom's story "The Hiding Place." I know it from that.
Me too
So much worse than corrie told
So do I.
I had the privilege to hear her story. I was young..but I remember her strong voice telling her story. It wasn't until I watched this documentary that I associated her with Ravensbruck concentration camp. Thanks for connecting this part of the memory. 🥀
@@tinaroney9383 Whoa! How amazing. Thx for sharing
These strong women many who were imprisoned for resisting the Germans lived through so much horror. God bless their souls.
And heal their minds bodies and spirits😢
Extremely courageous ❤
I can't understand the level of cruelty and evil within humans. Especially to hurt an innocent precious child is beyond conscience. These poor women, I pray that they have peace now.
I wonder where the guards humanity went. Very hard to watch! Very hard to believe that there was such inhumanity. However, it's something that we ought to never forget.
Don't forget, they were on schnapps and drugs (LSD). What humanity?
@@lindabaggio5859 Where can I find documentation that the guards were using LSD? I've done some considerable research on the death camps and have never heard this.
NEVER FORGET !!
The prisoner sketches by one of the Resistance inmates were astonishing. Detailed and crudely accurate, they speak volumes. Ghastly images and impossible to forget.
We said never again. Yet, here we are....again. peace must be sought to save all lives of the innocent.
Every one of these documentaries I watch I literally feel sick to my stomach but that is how everyone should feel and then these poor people will never be forgotten. God bless them all.
I can't say that Ravensbruck is à forgotten camp,not in France, the nièce of de Gaulle was there. Among many others.
Anna,France
My grandfather was hung because he was a guard at one of the camps. We all pay for the things we do
Well was he inocent ?
The correct response is empathy, not shame. You need not feel ashamed for what you didn't do. The next step is to teach your children to respect all people of all different nationalities and learn compassion for others who struggle to survive in a difficult world.
With everything they write in the description, it’d “be nice” if somewhere they give the year(s) when the interviews were taken and maybe let us know where they lived the majority of the rest of their lives after their nightmare?
most likely 1945-1950 and then later in the late 70s and 80s
After visiting Dachau, where both my Grandfathers where held at the same time. One as a political prisoner, and one as a Jew. It was a somber experience. I never met either, but felt them both there.
I’m so grateful to these women & all survivors, who;have shared their stories. Now, it seems more than ever, these voices must be amplified ! I never thought I’d see antisemitism grow, in my lifetime. Twitter, one of the most mainstream social media sites, gives a platform to this hateful rhetoric ! We absolutely can’t allow this hate to become mainstream again… Never again!
I'm german, and I am ashamed that this is our legacy , I'm so sorry , we can not let this happen again ever , wake up America we need to stand by Israel and our Jewish friends, and what is currently taking place is absolutely vile and horrific and must not be tolerated
America won't wake up sorry to say for they were never made to atone for imprisoning a whole race of people in their own concentration camps namely Japanese Americans born in America of Japanese ancestry and made an deliberate enemy of America after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Never again means never again for everyone. The once tortured have turned into the torturers. Israel is doing the same thing the Nazis did to Jews. Call it what it is, a genocide. You are supporting a genocide!
@@AussiePomDon’t pretend Australians have not been racist. Your country has a history of mistreating non whites. Especially Aboriginals.
You're allowing your guilt over what was done in the past to ignore what Israel is doing right now. Millions of people have no support for Israel and they're beginning to lose the support of people like you who supported them at first.
They are doing to others what was done to them and worse. I have no sympathy for them. You ought to recognize war crimes when you see them and you choose not to see them.
It IS happening again and once again, spectators are allowing it to happen.
Agreed. The rising level of antisemitism around the world is not only mindboggling but terrifying. I hope I'm wrong but I think it's only going to get worse within the next decade or so with the way things are looking at the moment.
This is news to me. An excellent documentary. Incredible how people survived this horror
Jesus you need to be educated
I read a book called Rabbits of Ravensberg. I don’t recall her name but there was a female Dr. who experimented on how to treat battle field wounds. Wounds would be created, being shot in your knees for example, then protocols were developed to heal that injury.
This is incredibly sad.
Wow
So sad…we must remember so this is never repeated…😔🙏
🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hmmmmm! The irony of it all!
@@keta9479 not sure what you are trying to say
It's being repeated right now in Gaza, only it's the Zionists who are the perpetrators. (I won't say Jews because there are many Jews around the world who reject their narrative.)
It's being repeated right now before our eyes in Gaza and it's the Zionists who are the perpetrators (I won't say Jews because there are many Jews around the world who reject the narrative of the Israelis.)
"And I am afraid of my dreams" by
Wanda Półtawska Istrongly recommend this excellent book true story written by surviver of this camp and experiments .
I am 77 now and have studied and watched more about Nazis and Japanese than is healthy for the mind. I try to avoid more but keep finding myself viewing it even now. I have traveled to many countries but cannot bring myself to step inside Germany or Japan. I know the current generation is not responsible but I simply never want to be in a country that had this much evil. The bottom line is we allow hatred to be spewed by great orators and follow like sheep to the slaughter without serious thought. I know it will always be thus so I am almost glad I won't be here much longer.
I lived in Germany for a little over six months. That was enough for me. I never want to spend anymore time in that country.
I hope you add Israel to the list of countries not to set foot in ! The atrocities which took place in the Japanese camp called "Unit 731" surpass anything encountered in Germany or Russia during that period. The movie " the men behind the sun " illustrates in brutal detail the depravity of the Japanese medical doctors who operated on living victims with no anesthetics in order to observe theirs reactions during the procedure. If you have not watched it , do so and then compare who were the bigger monsters .
@@den264 Not sure about that one. It seems to me Israel has never initiated a war or an attack but respond with all when attacked. What happened to them was worse than 9/11 statically and everyone seems to forget that part. The Palestinians need to revolt against Hamas as that is what will save them. You cannot let terrorists use hospitals and schools to operate and expect those building not to be destroyed when you allowed it.
Well it's never like that for everyone though so take heart❤
" You know women are sometimes the worst."
I have felt that for years.
It was mostly for Women BUT attached to the Camp separately were a Mens Camp and a large Youth Camp.
People ask why didn't the locals know. Let me explain - main road has a checkpoint to a minor road leading off - no sign of Camp from there. Today passing down that road reveals large chalet type buildings for the guards
Little remains of the camp the barracks have gone. Visit the main buiding - upstairs a large plan layout shows the sections of the Camp
Outside is the bunker cells which is on two stories. Finding it unlocked revealed two lady guides. They did not know of Odette Sansome - a British Agent.
Near the bunkers is a plaque - the place where 3 British Agents were execut 11:32 ed by a shot in the neck as they knelt and held hands.
The crematorium ovens were close by
.Towards the end of the War a wooden gas chamber was constructed and used.
At the end of the War many women were evacuated to Sweden by the Red Cross.
Thr Russians liberated the Camp AND used it as a Prison Camp
The people knew. They either turned a blind eye or enjoyed the thought of the exterminations. If they said they didn't know, they lied.
@@Gertiemarie50people also made their living providing goods to the camps and getting cheap labor. They turned a blind eye for profit.
This was awful to watch.....and people don't believe these things happened...
I am blessed for the life I have
Absolutely fantastic documentary. The testimonials of these warrior women were gripping and emotive.
I recommend reading Sarah Helms book - "If this is a woman." It's about Ravensbruck and i think it's a must-read because looked the documentary stated, there isn't much interest in what happened there and we owe the victims and survivors to listen and absorb what they went through.
The animals who ran this show were shown way too much compassion in the way they were executed.
NOT QUITE TRUE! THERE WAS AN AMERICAN HANGMAN WHO WAS EITHER BAD AT HIS JOB, OR PRETENDED TO BE, AND SOME OF THE WORST NAZI GUARDS WERE HUNG BY SLOW STRANGULATION, INSTEAD OF A QUICKER DEATH BY THEIR NECK BEING BROKEN!
My father was British SAS ww2 veteran and discovered Belsen Bergen…he hunted SS and Gestapo..and interrogate them. He was such a gentle man but fought evil. If we take revenge we become like the evil doers. God preserved his sanity.
I knew the name Ravensbruck but knew very little about the horrific events. This was so very hard to watch and hear of the brutality perpetrated by women against women. Crimes against humanity hardly adequately describes what went on here. Eternal Hell awaits them, of that there is no doubt.
U are self righteous
Do u believe a abortions are a sin?
@@a.f.7246Personally no . Why bring abortion into this?
This video is good but y'all left out that the first 400 women sent there were Jehovah Witnesses and between 1939-1944 1200 JW's were held there.They wore purple triangle for identification
And pretty much all they had to do to get out was to deny their faith, or do the Nazi salute. (If my memory serves me correctly)
It is disgusting how Siemens and Bayer and other companies never held accountable
Some got compensation but not too many probably,my mother was taken as a slave labourer to a farm in Germany,never was compensated for that ,not in communist country Poland
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures drawings. . Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to the surviving guest speakers. Sharing personal information/experiences pertaining to. Life @ the concentration camp.😳. An extremely diabolically unhealthy Unsantary environment. Guaranteed slow agonizing death. The fortunate prisoners sent to the camps late (1944 )into (1945). Survived to tell of their diabolically horrible incarnation😈. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉💵😉.
Well said! Theres a book that may interest you called "eyewitness Auschwitz" by Filip Muller. He was in the sonderkommando for nearly 3 years, rare as they were usually gassed after a few months. It might interest you
Thank you for telling the story which I have never heard frankly cannot believe how other humans would treat these people these poor people
Thank you so much for informing yourself, it is important!
"Ravensbruck " by Sara Helm. A must read book 📖 The horror &: torture these beautiful women endured is unimaginable !! May their souls rest in peace!!! They will never be forgotten!!!
Very exciting documentary., thanx a lot. R from Denmark.
Thank you very much!
ja den er sgu barsk..enig robin
Im ashamed to say that the situation of the contractions camp has fascinated, if that is the right word. I've watched many videos about it. And even if I absolutely KNOW 100% that its real. It's like it can't be so. The torture, evil and horrible things done to these completely innocent people, is so beyond and hard to imagine that something like this can even happen. There's no words for it really. And it isn't that long ago either.
That the guards could be so cold. So heartless. So evil. That death wasn't enough, they had to suffer.
The amount of men, women and children, who had to endure their evil, omg my heart breaks for them all.
The total organization of it as well. It was very planned out and thought threw. How can people, humans, sit and plan this. Their's no words for this, not none that's enough.
That's why I find it "fascinating". I'm not some sicko who likes to see people suffer and die. Absolutely NOT! But this's so extreme, that I'll NEVER EVER understand this evil. It's out of this world. And scary. Very scary that humans can do this to other humans. If you even can call this horrible guards and people humans. I think not.
I agree. There is nothing as evil as the human mind. And so many people are still suffering because of it. It will only stop when humans no longer exist. The sooner the better. God bless the animals whe never harm this beautiful world. ❤
My PaPa left Germany before WWI he said he saw the writing on the wall, and he changed his last name from Muller to Miller, my maiden last name that would have been Muller!!! He was an American, and he never spoke about being German to me as a child, I only knew later because my mom told me where he came from, when I was older, after he had long passed!!! Apparently, he hated Hitler and the Nazi's with a passion she told me, I suppose he was almost ashamed of his heritage past being an American
and my Mimmie never said she was polish either. My mom said she referred to her heritage as white Russsian , apparently even though she was born here, she was ashamed of being polish, she was born in Bosten and had a very proper upbringing, finishing school and the rest! She was very reserved and formal!? She insisted that I her only granddaughter should learn proper eticate, how to set a table and proper manners. Which pn grade school I was teased and called little miss dainty!? Until I rebelled and my dad called me his flower child, I have never ventured far from that hippy style in clothing and basic state of character, although now I am a Christian, closest thing I could find to the love and peace mentality minus the drugs now, of course!!!🙏 Peace🕊🫶🏻
This a very adjusted (?) report. There is so much horror committed in these camps that is not mentioned. The forgotten women, the sexual horror of rape and mutilation must be mentioned. We cannot gloss over the horror of what men did to these people (and sadly still are). Only now are we seeing in Australia some minor form of fixing the violence to women, but it has taken the horrendous fact that one woman in Australia is killed every four days by male partners. It is because of this omission of violence to women that has happened in these camps and the attitude to reporting this violence and the continuing violence that some men (?) are still perpetrating this violence.
I was married to a monster, yet women like me feel embarrassed and ashamed of what happened to us - we don’t talk about it, except to others like ourselves. In 21st century Australia it’s still an uneasy ‘talk’ and an uneasy ‘listen’. If your situation was/is
bad you find yourself scanning the face of the person you are talking to - searching for the slightest sign of disbelief. More needs to be done in schools to teach our young people that dv is never ever acceptable, to any degree. It knows no social or economic boundaries, a lady in the refuge like me was married to a Dr.
When I was young both WW1 and 2 were taught and shown without fear of upsetting someones sensitive nature. Our parents and Grandparents (all of mine fought in both world wars) knew they had to teach us also, although they sanitised much. Then, in 1973 “World at War” a 26 episode documentary chronology on WW2 was released on British television, narrated by Lord Olivier. Again, un sanitised (as Google now seems to believe is relevant). This tv series (and many others from other countries) should be shown as part of educational curriculum at a certain age. It takes generations to recover from such horror, but unfortunately human recovery tends to mean “forgotten”.
And sadly, today, we have professors at universities and young people in the US and European countries who would gladly repeat these atrocities.
You mean Israelis doing the same thing the Nazis did. Israel is committing a genocide.
I believe Himmler had a house across the lake for his mistress and their children. Very good video, Thankyou
What a demon that will rot in hell
It was an informative, wonderful historical coverage and incredible historical coverage documentary... about the Nazism brutality towards Jewish ✡️women, European resistant women, other deported women...
Thank you!
What about your ppl persecuting Christians?
Thank you
Thank you!
Truly a sad time 😢
I can never understand how inhumane some humans can be I once heard that some Germans still refuse to believe this all happened 😡. Only thing I can think of is they have been brainwashed for yrs. i saw a video of the camps when they were liberated I was around 15 in high school some found it too hard to watch and walked out others (me included) sat and cried it’s a tough thing to watch God bless everyone who survived and RIP all those who didn’t make it 😭😭😭 such an awful thing Thing is they wanted a true Arian race blue eyes blonde hair. Yet Hitler (I hate even mentioning that monsters name) was Dark haired It’s a huge shame Joseph Mengele didn’t face justice he was the worst monster of all
Hitler looked dark to me. U think he was Aryan?
@@a.f.7246No, 😔 he was part Jewish.
Hitler's grandmother was a maid in the household of a wealthy Jewish businessman and she got pregnant - like many maids - by her employer. So Hitler was part Jewish.
What a travesty...That the programme continually disturbs the advertising...
It's almost as if it's not free and advertising is required for revenue.
All these atrocities carried out by so called well educated & civilized people?
Do a video on flossburg. My grandfather was with the 9th armored when they came across flossburg subcamps with women and children.
@@mr.pickles810 Flossenbürg / Flossenbuerg
They have really good documentation there. There is a website with good but short documentation.
But the subcamps were farly spread, there were dozens of them, you'd need to know the name of the subcamp to find out more. I'm not sure, but you might have a list of the subcamps as well, so if you know where your grandfather was, you could find out the name of the camp.
If you found this documentary interesting please read “If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women” by Sarah Helm. It’s a 768 paged book which details everything that happened in the camp from everyday life to experimentations on the rabbits to the forced prostitution huts. Yes it’s an absolutely heartbreaking and awfully disturbing but there are so many amazing souls that shine light through the darkness of the camps. There are so many stories of friendships, relationships, bonds and families formed to bring some happiness and a tiny bit of joy. It’s a big book but it’s such an important part of so many people’s history!
May we never ever forget this part of history 🙏.
My children lost a lot of their ancestors at Auschwitz & this camp! two sets of their great grandparents died and a great grandmother was here… they also lost great aunts, uncles cousins some of their cousins and their grandfather survived God rest his soul, he passed away two years ago now last name was Exler. It breaks my heart. My soul feels heavy when I think of all of this horrific terrible things that happened and when people want to minimize this nowadays and pretend it wasn’t real or pretend it didn’t happen and they say it was all propaganda. It makes me so angry.
God bless all those women!
Interesting/informative entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures/reenactments. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator & guest speakers were describing-!!!😉. Amazing how many survived to describe their experiences.!!!😳.
Thank you so much!!
I have heard that two Americans died in Ravensbruck; they were bomber crewmen who had bailed out and were sent there as punishment for being...bomber crewmen...
I met Henry Greenbaum. He was a great man. He was a Jewish holocaust survivor. He was in a concentration camp. He said that a raw potato tasted like a navel orange to him. Let’s respect the survivors who educate us. They are all almost gone.
These documentaries need to be shown in Germany televisions to discourage the hate groups
In every country not just Germany
The re-enacted scenes fail because those women were truly starving no actor can duplicate that.
Now that the Jews face a new threat in the world today we must remember. It is our duty to mankind. What amazing articulate women and through their testimonies we get a little of their experiences.
Far too many adverts spoilt the continuity.
Excellent documentary and the Sarah Helm book is highly recommended. However, one quibble: the woman identified as Johanna Langefeld is definitely not her. She was a smallish rotund middle aged woman, totally different from this one.
My family are descendants of the list so I am a Schindler, Jew, as my family had a farm in Poland.
Oh Poland. It's hard to be a small country near large ones😢
@@danarzechula3769IT IS NOT THAT POLAND WAS NEAR LARGE COUNTRIES, BUT THAT POLAND WAS NEAR BARBARIC COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY GERMANY AND RUSSIA!😮
@@danarzechula3769 THE PROBLEM WAS NOT THAT POLAND WAS NEAR LARGE COUNTRIES, BUT THAT IT WAS SITUATED NEAR LARGE, BARBARIC COUNTRIES, NAMELY GERMANY AND RUSSIA!😮
We must ALWAYS remember.
However, the warden shown here is not Johanna Langefeld, but Hildegard Neumann.
Thank you to my teacher in high school Ms.Maulas for teaching us about Holocaust. She even booked the whole auditorium for the special viewing of The Schindler's List ❤❤❤ it instilled on my mind. It shows that history should teach in school. We can learn a lot from history, it's our blueprint to move forward. If we forget our past history imagine our future will be without a framework or guidance from the past.
Why did you remove the credits?