Inside The First Concentration Camps: A US Soldier's Harrowing Testimony | Remember WWII
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Today we know more of the true horror of The Holocaust, but at the time, Art Newell and his buddies were entirely unprepared for what they'd find as they forced the retreating Nazis back towards Germany. The sheer scale of human suffering is virtually unimaginable to us today. Please listen to this testimony so that we as a society can better understand how such crimes were able to be committed, and on such scale. You will hear dark stories about the grim reality of the mass extermination of human beings during World War II. This is the reality of history, and it is incumbent on all of us to learn from people who where there, and saw (or themselves fell victim to) these crimes first-hand.
Art Newell's war service record saw him facing down the Nazi war machine and all of its horrors. Mr Newell's actions in Europe, often accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow soldier, include tales of terrifying encounters with tanks and snipers, and the loss of many of his friends in violent and traumatic moments in the heat of battle. Perhaps the toughest experience in his war testimony is his detailed account of what it was like, as an American soldier unaware at the time of the true nature of Hitler's "Final Solution", to be amongst the first liberators into one of the very first concentration camps to be discovered by Allied forces. What did those first witnesses make of the crimes being committed against European Jews and others deemed "undesirable" by the Nazi regime? In this video you will hear, in his own words, a detailed first-person account of that horror. Viewer discretion is advised.
Thank you Mr Newell for your service and sacrifice, and for your willingness to share your experiences with the Remember WWII community.
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War stories hit hard when they are told in first person.
My grandfather was part 506th parachute infantry division. He made it home from the war and took his own life in Clemson, SC in 1948I never got thank him but the horrors he had to go through bothered him until the end. I never got to meet him only heard stories from my grandma and mother.
I am truly sorry for your loss. My father survive the South Pacific New Guinea the Philippines set an a major battles fought in that South Pacific theater that people don’t know about this but Suicide rate was extremely high, especially one shoulders are sailors. Marines got dear John letters , often times they would go off alone but their platoon members would hear a gunshot and that was their way out of that unimaginable nightmare! Hell on earth. God bless your grandfather.
This one of the best story telling I have heard. Thank you Mr. Newell for telling us what it was like. You have our admiration.
What he lived through.
We cannot comprehend.
The horrors this brave man has lived with must be unimaginable, but he has managed to live to a ripe old age, had a life and thrived! God bless him and all those like him.
My dad was a front line infantryman in the ETO. He said he never participated, but American soldiers killing surrendering SS men was not rare. War is Hell.
Think that shooting of SS soldiers only really started after the Malmedy (sp?) massacre of surrendered American troops? Two wrong don’t make a right but yeah war is hell.
Not just American soldiers did it. And not just SS, though it was often harder for SS to surrender, or stay alive after surrendering. Which was a bit unfair, as well as a war crime, since by that time in the war the SS were often just draftees indistinguishable from other German troops. As you say, war is hell.
Sounds like after hitting Metz, his unit operated from west to east much farther south than the 95th Infantry Division that my Dad was in. The details of Mr. Newell’s experiences are absolutely fascinating. My Dad told of many dangerous situations like running out of ammo and being surrounded but making it through until he received his wound near Metz. He never mentioned reprisal executions.
I was riveted too. Just he and his buddy GI Harry captured 200 enemy who were still in combat mode. By shooting the two officers, the one wounded who, never seeing them in the brush, ran up and urinated on his buddy's rifle barrel tip. That officer was the one he put the tip of his M1 to his head and told him to call out all of the enemy soldiers to surrender after shooting dead the 2nd officer investigating what happened.
He says to the enemy officer still alive, wounded by Harry, "call them out to surrender or I'll shoot your head off".
The entire interview is jam-packed with details of extreme point blank Infantry combat. One description after another, end to end. I've rarely heard such ground foot soldier WW2 testimony. This interview by this Veteran WW2 Infantryman is a rarity.
Excellent interview. Loved it
God Bless you for your story, dedication, sacrifice, courage and service ❤🇺🇸
What a great story. I can't imagine being thar young and going thru that. We salute you sir.
This man's story is so captivating it's remarkable :) happy to see you alive sir and thank you so much for your service. if it was not for men like you we would be speaking German now! Iam a combat vet myself but i don't hold myself to that high of standard i was in the meek war of Iraq such a waste of time in my book. But on a good note thank you sir and god bless!
Thank you for your service.
Damn. What a story.
I know he doesn't consider himself a hero, but telling his experience, he is a hero.🙏🏼 Rest peacefully knowing your service was/is not in vain
Great interview. Thank you
The most amazing story of all time
Amazing honorable veteran great historical interview and good mind still with this older veteran .
That is how 18 year old Americans ended the war . God bless these boys who came home .
Hi many thanks for your great Service Sir. Thank you for your continuous contribution in educating us all as well as the upcoming generations. This is invaluable information and I hope you know how much your service and experience will help bring truth to the world m
And for you behind the camera my sincere gratitude and gratitude and thanks for your initiative! Something I hope you are able to maintain due to the great value and the real important these videos provid. Very much appreciated.
Thank you Thank you Thank you
Respectfully, Grace 🫡🩰
1st rate video you do damm good work bless you👍👍
God bless these iron men,they don’t make them like this anymore.
#greatestgeneration ❤
He looks so much, like my father in law, Don. Don was a private in the American Army, who was present when the Americans approached the very gates of Ohrdurf work/concentration camp, 4 April 1945. He said there was a discussion among his group before they opened the gates because they had no orders on how to proceed in this situation. It was The first such camp liberated by any Americans. He confirmed the horrors of bodies and emaciated prisoners. He was assigned guard duty on German military camp guards so they wouldn't be summarily executed! Some German guards had already been executed by machine gun against a brick wall. I was able to actually obtain film of this execution and pictures of the same brick building held guard. There were American photographers present. Don confirmed that the photographers were among the first to enter the camp when they opened the gate. Don went on to have a brilliant career, and a wonderful family. I remember talking to him about this in about 1986, about a year after I married his daughter.
Thank you for your service, Mr Newell 🙏❤️
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They used the ashes of the bones of people as fertilizer.
The nazis *sold* the remains of *individuals* as *fertilizer*
😥
🙏
The crops grew up.
Standing as People.
And fed the masses.
Let us pray now,
*for* *each* of *Them* .
Thank you for your service ❤❤❤❤❤
👍🇨🇦 thank you
I wonder is he still alive
God bless our service members ❤.
This sounds like some of the stories my grandfather told me about the Korean War he was in just some wild shit and he had pictures to back it up
They surrendered..... and are shot anyway. That's awful
Allan Dulles the first head of OSI when the information came back about those camps his response was, so it's true. He thought the smuggled information was an exaggeration.
From what I've learned the US just pushed the tiger teeth aside with Bull dozers like they were nothing
They were called dragon teeth
@@Jere. that's right! I'm polish so i tend to screw things up like that
Wow
In the first month of 1961 I arrived in West Germany in the American Army and was assigned to an infantry outfit whose assignment was as a first alert unit for Berlin in case trouble broke out with the Soviet Block. One of the sergeants in my platoon was German who had managed to immigrate to the United States after WW2. He had been a young boy living in Eastern Germany during the war. He said, his whole village were starving to death with nothing to eat but ground up grass and leaves. Several people had already died. Then one day a truck came to his village with a load of small cans of meat. He said they would find fingernails and even sometimes a tooth in the cans. Their choice was to eat it are die. The truck continued to come periodically. I never seen combat but did get in on the alert to fly into Berlin one night in August 1961. The wall started being built after that. So many memories. The Army put an American jail for U.S. soldiers in Dachau (not in the old concentration camp) and at one time I went there weekly to get some of our incarcerated guys to come an clean our dispensary. After bringing them back I would stop for a beer at a little German cantin. I was very immature,maybe still eighteen, and I talked to the local older Germans in the cantin. I once asked, "What did you do in the war?" A couple of them said they worked in the concentration camp there at Dachau. I was stupid enough to ask them why. Of course if asked to work there you did it, or you were inside. Never trust the names of people like Putin, Trump, Kim Jong or Netanyahu of this world, nor their followers. Social democracy is our freedom.
"Putin, Trump, Kim Jong or Netanyahu"
One of these is not remotely like the others.
You do realize that Israel is a functioning democracy?
your point is?
@@davidsilman4600 Now it's that I can't fix stupid.
I don’t think you learned much in the army bud should of left you in Germany .
We’re a constitutional republic not a democracy
Nazi prïçķ: I didn’t see you
Badass Hero: you weren’t supposed to, we’re Americans😎
They don’t make men like this anymore! 🇺🇸
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When supply lines are bombed lmao
Probably why they built gas chambers and human ovens…
The truncation of "the very first concentration camps to be discovered by Allied forces" to "First Concentration Camps" in the title of the video was... inadvisable, and probably just inaccurate. There are so many ways in which those camps were not the first concentration camps. (The term goes back at least to the Boer War; the first German concentration camps were elsewhere in Germany... and I wonder about that "Allied forces" bit, too. The Soviets don't count? The Remember WWII channel is embarrassing itself with its provinciality.)
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