My grandfather, survived the Mauthausen concentration camp. He, along with his two sisters and parents were all deported to one of the labour camps in 1944 after the Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. They managed to escape along with some other Slovenians and walked for more than 100 km, avoiding beeing seen from any patrols or local population. I wanted him to tell me many times about his ordeal in detail, but he got so emotional and almost started crying that I stopped at that point. He passed away in April at age 87.
Mine too, except he didn't escape. Never met him, but they tell me that the only story he wanted to share about Mauthausen was about typhus that took many lives there, and how he apparently had some sort of a resistance to that disease. He spoke German fluently, but never let anyone from the family to learn that language in the school.
My grandfather was there. He was arrested as normal citizen in 1942... He survived a lot of tortures, and beatings.. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945... He told many sad and frightening stories. On the first day when he got there, he accidentally looked the German officer in the eyes and because of that he received several strong punches to the head and body... He also told me about the hard work, carrying a stone down and up the stairs, about the food which was sawdust and beet soup!!!
I visited Dachau in 1996 and it was the same thing the silence was overwhelming. Never knew silence to be so loud anywhere else in the world. We went as a highschool group and when we left you could hear a pin drop for hours afterwards. Rip to all that lost their lives in this sad sad part of human history. May we never forget what happened.
Violin music is painfully Loud in places, but this is a common issue with many Holocaust videos...Not sure why, the words are so important. However...Subtitles on with volume off solves the clash between loud music and quiet narration.Edit: The uploader filmed the footage himself, and added official narration in English...Helps those of us who don't speak Russian.
My uncle was in the 82nd airborne. He helped liberate one of the camps. He told my father about it when he got drunk one night. My dad made a mistake and mentioned it to my uncle the next day when he was sober. He never did that again.
A very detailed and realistic look at this camp. Thank you for taking the effort to do this. As for the 187 dislikes, i say to them, why does your conscience allow you to do this?
It maybe that the dislikes are in response to the "musik" which at times almost drowns out the commentary and does nothing to help or improve the experience.
I wish I could have heard this better. When I worked in Germany in the late 1960’s, I was friends with a Polish gentleman who had been interred here as a teenager after seeing his mother shot. He worked mainly in the crematorium. I have never seen this place before.
I wonder if those buried there would be happy that their final resting place is inside the monstrous camp where they suffered and died. They were never able to escape, even in death.
Painful and hard to watch. The hate that made this happen exists and thrives in today’s politics. Nationalistic and racist politicians are being “elected “ around the world.
Thanks for sharing this video. I've been there many times. I teach history, and Mauthausen is only 30 minutes from our town, so I often visit this place with school children.
Very well done and informative. The music ( I recognized it from the OST from Schindler's List) is beautiful, but a bit loud in some parts. The final salt-in-the-wound of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis was the fact that SO MANY of them went unpunished, either because they were considered low-level, the allies did not have the resources to bring them all to trial, or they were aided in their escape to Argentina by various groups, including the Catholic Church, and others. They too, have blood on their hands. Unfortunately, man is quite good at NOT learning from history and repeating genocide all over the planet.
it is not HUMAN RACE! This is one specific race. Well, according to definition they are not race. They financed 1WW, then 2WW, got enormous benefits of them (especially 2WW) and they still make profits under Hocoloust Company plus some asid jobs like petrol wars in the middle east.
The background music makes watching impossible. Too moody, too loud. I understand that violin music is often used to create a certain feeling, but if videos like this one are mainly supposed to be historical, then the violin music is all wrong because the music overwhelms the narration.
The nazis in their perversity graded their concentration camps by harshness. Mauthausen was one of their harshest ones. It was extermination through labor not an extermination camp as such. A lot of soviet POWs perished there and captured agents.
Nazi German. And how Nazi German could financed it? Germany was completely broken after 1WW. So how is it possible that this broken country was able to finance enormous project like 2WW within 20 years? Maybe someone gave them money then? Who were they... hmmm... yeah, that is interesting question.
Interesting video; I have visited the area, although not the camp, and I'm sure the cold in winter would readily have killed off a high percentage of the prisoners. The music level wasn't as bad as might have been expected from some of the comments, but I think it would be better without any at all.
I thought the Mauthausen Cafe was tasteless. Both in flavor and in terms of appropriateness. If the poor victims of Mauthausen were always starving…why are you cramming your face with pizzas, fries and burgers?
I couldn’t hear the speaker with the violin playing… Gosh what a horrible horrific place Just been watching this and I feel much sadness for the people what they went through and much more hurt for the people who were murdered here may they R.I.P.
It is so sad to watch these videos about the camps. It is so hard to understand how a racial group could try to wipe out another entire racial group, especially in such a sadistic way. If all these Jewish people were not killed, things would have been so much different. God gives everyone special talents. There could have been a lot of future doctors that could have saved a lot of lives. There could have been many future artist, pianist and writers. There could have been future scientists that could have found cures for deadly diseases.
You should have mentioned Francisco Boix who was imprisoned here with other Spanish guys, risked his life here, and managed to save the films that were done in the camp (supposed to be destroyed), that were used at the Nurnberg trials.
@Kristie C Yes, i've watched the movie on Netflix. It was so powerful I watched bits and pieces. I also speak Spanish but I am not at all fluent. There is another amazing Norwegian movie about a real case from WWII -The 12th man (Den12 Mann). It's on Netflix.
How on earth did they identify the exhumed corpses? The only thing that I can think of is their tattooed numbers but these would only be any good with camp records.
idiotic comment. so if conditions "aren't as bad" as these then we should sit by and do nothing? is this where we set the bar of whether we should care or not? spoiler: the nazi's didn't jump straight to this level of inhumanity.
I love Austria, Germany, the Alps but I cannot help to look up the war and pre-war history of all those lovely places I have vacationed or visited. It learned me that the Austrians were among the most fanatic Nazi’s. Austrians were over represented in the party in general and in the SS in specific. Yet, somehow they’ve succeeded in looking like a victim after the war.
Several years ago, I drank Kosher Schlivovitz and Kosher Vodka at the kitchen table at Martin Small, a survivor of Mauthausen. He was pulled off a pile of bodies when the Americans liberated the camp. He survived from being near dead. He gave me a beautiful Mezuzah that he created. I have it mounted on my door.
@flikedout I was born in Austria. I did not know that this camp exhisted until I saw the Netflix movie. A mutual friend later told me that Martin was in this camp.
@Craig F. Thompson You are crazier than a shithouse rat. I hope you don't live in the United States, and if you do then why don't you leave if you hate it so much? Your comments are insane including the ones blubbering about prison conditions here in America. Here's an idea: Don't commit criminal acts and you won't end up in prisons. It's pretty easy to follow the laws set forth in this Constitutional Republic, and if you can't abide by these laws then you are a pretty stupid failure as a human being.
It's a pity that the camera man didn't pay more attention to notices on walls etc., to see what they said. I had to be a bit quick on the pause button to read the ones I could. I think back ground music should have been limited for open shots of places where there is no commentary, otherwise to me, it interferes with the commentary. But over all, it is a chilling video of the place where so much death an suffering by the inmates took place.
I agree. The problem is, very few people have seen the camps and conditions in the Soviet Union at the time because Stalin ruled with an iron fist. If it wasn't seen, it didn't exist. We know what we do about Germany because we occupied it and saw first hand the atrocities they committed. Stalin was no better, however.
We were there in Sept. 2017 as well. I remember seeing from the top of the quarry the beautiful nearby rolling hills. Also from up on the walls one can see the distant Alps. I remember thinking it must have been terrible to see such beauty off in the distance from such a hell hole. The walk up from the bus stop was through such a beautiful neighborhood too.
My wife and I visited here. We had been to Buchenwald, Auschwitz 1, 2, and 3, the site of thePlaszow Work Camp, Mauthausen, and finally Dachau. I'm not sure why, but Dachau was the worst for me... Maybe because it was the first camp built for its purpose by the Nazis. They were all bad in their own way, but Dachau stood out.
My dad was reportedly the very first American into the camp via a hole blasted by a tank. He also was said to have shot the camp’s commander. I do know and saw some of the photographs he took of the crematoriums but my mother discarded them all. After the war he was assigned drive German soldiers and concentration victims home.
On this day 27th of March 1945 Ricardo my grandfather died at Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp a month before the Americans liberated the CC. He was first interned at Dachau CC on his birthday the 1st of Feb 1944 and then transported to Mauthausen in August of 1944...
He must have known Francisco Boix. He was also interred in Mauthausen. He was the photograph from Mauthausen, and smuggled the films out of the camp. They were used at Nuremberg trials. Unfortunately, Francisco died soon after he got out of the camp.
Jeezus! That incessant background music is OPPRESSIVELY overwhelming! At times drowning out the narration almost completely! I can totally understand adding a little dramatic ambiance, a little light violin playing, just to enhance the script. But this is wholly unnecessary and ridiculous lol it makes this otherwise perfectly interesting and worthwhile video virtually unwatchable. 👎 Edit; Clearly I'm not the only one who thinks so, either lol judging by the content of the majority of the comments underneath! 🤣
The Nazis used many concentration camps to initially kill or starve 2.5 million Soviet prisoners of war originally from all Soviet provinces. These POW's surrendered immediately when the Nazi armies started crossing the borders to enter the Soviet union. Soviet soldiers who laid down their weapons to Nazi armies crossing the borders: "We are not commies. Take us to some resorts in Nazi Germany!" About year later, FINALLY, the same concentration camps , and a few more, were re-used by the Nazi management used to house Jews from across Europe, as a FINAL solution to the Jewish problem. Why? The Nazi invasion was a logistical mess. As the Nazi Germans were invading countries, food supplied from Germany wasn't enough to feed millions of surrendering soldiers of countries being invaded by the Nazi war Machine.
Just gonna point out that our generation is the LAST generation to be able to see WW2 veterans alive. They are now over 90 and probably will die in a few years.
On May 5, 1945, US Troops liberated the Mauthausen death camp. A platoon of 23 men from the 11th Armored Division of the US Third Army, led by Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek, arrived at the main camp near the town of Mauthausen and liberated it.
Liberated? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... all SS guards were already gone!!!! Only prisoners were there. US soldiers were just passing by and poped up. Typical for US to join the war when it is coming to the end.
I visited this camp in 1982, - 37 years ago as a 22 year old. The images are still vivid but other aspects of this place are not portrayed in the video clip tour. These other sites were even more breathtaking as they were real: soap made from humans, lamp shades made of tattooed human skin, rooms full of shoes and left luggage. The gas chamber with shower head and tiled walls, the rusted heat treated gurney for placing corpses into a furnace. This gurney was heavy by itself and difficult to manage. The sobering visit has stayed with me for decades and has always reinforced my view to be grateful to the military who stood between us and this; to be thankful for where I live - a peaceful country by comparison.
So it has been proven that the Nazis actually made soap from human beings? I thought that was controversial because there has never been any substantive proof for that claim. Just curious, thanks.
Thank you for this documentary. Dad was a slave/prisoner in Mauthausen and Auschwitz. He confided in me about this time of his life only once, when he got sick. Sadly, only then did I realize that he suffered every day the Shoah. When he was a patient at Mt. Sinai hospital, I would sit with him and we would listen to lectures and music. (He was legally blind.) Every time there was a mention of the Holocaust or the Kaddish was sung his ventilator’s alarms started ringing. So that trauma sat there always, the elephant in the room. His life was difficult and he fought and he won. He wanted to live. L’chaim. His motto, “get into line, I will overcome”. However, the hospital and their oaths to only heal the sick is run as a business. The Natzi’s couldn’t finish him off, but the butchers at the hospital did.
Every time you watch video clips The guy explains about the building with loud music in the same time, it annoyed me why do they do that,. May aswell don't Watch them
Finally somebody that knows the terminology of narration for that particular concentration camp video finally somebody had a brain to narrate it and tell the story behind it that's the way it's supposed to be done but the cheesy music behind it could have been left out and the audio could have been turned up a little bit for what the guy was saying otherwise it was a really good video
Thank you for the positive feedback. I have taken the audio guide extras to edit this video, yet it was a bit of a challenge to shot all the needed footage on the site and then to edit. Sorry for the loudness of the music. I would continue to make 'WW2' videos in the future.
I read that Mauthausen had a subcamp named Gusen.It was said to be the most brutal of all-worse than Mauthausen itself.Many claimed it was even worse than the death camps(as opposed to concentration camps) like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
@flikedout Jesus,sorry,I can't imagine.Seems like the Austrian camps (Mauthausen,Gusen,Ebensee)were as if not more sadistic than those in Germany and Poland.I wish they'd all get more recognition,but there were so few survivors to bear witness.If you haven't seen it,Remembering The Camps,narrated by Hitchcock,has a segment on Ebensee.
you are right, i live very near the camp and thus we have been educated ob this topic very specifically. gusen was probably even more cruel, and only very few who were sent there survived
@@toniixxx8046 Thanks,I remember reading that decades ago.Austria's beautiful though,isn't it? Those mountains would be quite a change from where I'm living now.
Pity of the music. It is suited to the subject but much too present, difficult to concentrate on the commentary with this music so prominently in the background.
It’s terrible how those savages didn’t follow the rules of war pertaining to the treatment of prisoners , and when I think about how good and well feed the enemy was treated in the us prison camps, it makes me sick to my stomach .
My grandfather, survived the Mauthausen concentration camp. He, along with his two sisters and parents were all deported to one of the labour camps in 1944 after the Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. They managed to escape along with some other Slovenians and walked for more than 100 km, avoiding beeing seen from any patrols or local population. I wanted him to tell me many times about his ordeal in detail, but he got so emotional and almost started crying that I stopped at that point. He passed away in April at age 87.
gunzoline93 I’m so sorry. My condolences to you and your family. He will always be by your side.
@maksim lukjan keep you're uneducated comments to yourself
Bless his heart..Rest easy ..
@maksim lukjan time to grow up junior
Mine too, except he didn't escape. Never met him, but they tell me that the only story he wanted to share about Mauthausen was about typhus that took many lives there, and how he apparently had some sort of a resistance to that disease. He spoke German fluently, but never let anyone from the family to learn that language in the school.
Well done. However could you turn down the background music. It's good music for this story, just to loud. 🍁🍂😊
Don't worry. The story stands. ¿O.k.?
I agree the music was a little distracting I couldn’t concentrate on what the he was saying but great vid though
It is probably necessary for avoiding copyright claim and takedown by making the detection harder.
Respect your opinion but for me it sets the mood of how somber and sad the history of this place is. But everyone is different of course.
Thanks to laud background music I am leaving after two minutes. Could you notify me when you have turned it down?
My grandfather was there. He was arrested as normal citizen in 1942... He survived a lot of tortures, and beatings.. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945...
He told many sad and frightening stories. On the first day when he got there, he accidentally looked the German officer in the eyes and because of that he received several strong punches to the head and body... He also told me about the hard work, carrying a stone down and up the stairs, about the food which was sawdust and beet soup!!!
Get rid of the back ground music. An annoying distraction.
Didn't even notice. Too into the story.
How cud u not notice/hear it? Kinda defeats the purpose of narrating....
Laser focus 🤗
@@Lisa1111 hahaha...✌👌👍👊
Agreed. The music competes with the narrator.
The violin music in the background just gives you a headache when you’re trying to listen to the narrator.
Yes....too loud !
Too bad!
ruins the video, i stopped watching
@@tram84mvp My solution is to turn the audio all the way down and use subtitles.
It's like they're trying to turn it into a "Schindler's List" film. It is a bit too overbearing for the narration.
I was here in 1969. The silence was overwhelming. It seemed there were no birds. Chilling and gut-wrenching!
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I visited Dachau in 1996 and it was the same thing the silence was overwhelming. Never knew silence to be so loud anywhere else in the world. We went as a highschool group and when we left you could hear a pin drop for hours afterwards. Rip to all that lost their lives in this sad sad part of human history. May we never forget what happened.
Violin music is painfully Loud in places, but this is a common issue with many Holocaust videos...Not sure why, the words are so important.
However...Subtitles on with volume off solves the clash between loud music and quiet narration.Edit: The uploader filmed the footage himself, and added official narration in English...Helps those of us who don't speak Russian.
Very informative but please turn down the beautiful music!
Sorry, but the music detracts from the content
My grandfather was one of the liberators.
My uncle was in the 82nd airborne. He helped liberate one of the camps. He told my father about it when he got drunk one night. My dad made a mistake and mentioned it to my uncle the next day when he was sober. He never did that again.
A very detailed and realistic look at this camp. Thank you for taking the effort to do this. As for the 187 dislikes, i say to them, why does your conscience allow you to do this?
Interesting. As of 2022.12.18 I see zero dislikes.
It maybe that the dislikes are in response to the "musik" which at times almost drowns out the commentary and does nothing to help or improve the experience.
I wish I could have heard this better. When I worked in Germany in the late 1960’s, I was friends with a Polish gentleman who had been interred here as a teenager after seeing his mother shot. He worked mainly in the crematorium. I have never seen this place before.
Hitler was a diehard criminal and a megalomaniac.
@@dibyendudasgupta7468 so was Churchill
So was Stalin
@@jaiminsangar7531 I see no
@@vinnierose8992 read Bengal femin
Squash the stupid morbid music (if that's what it's called) so we can hear the narrator!
I wonder if those buried there would be happy that their final resting place is inside the monstrous camp where they suffered and died. They were never able to escape, even in death.
That thought did occur to me too.
Painful and hard to watch. The hate that made this happen exists and thrives in today’s politics. Nationalistic and racist politicians are being “elected “ around the world.
Sadly the music was too loud to hear the narration properly , good film otherwise.
Thanks for sharing this video. I've been there many times. I teach history, and Mauthausen is only 30 minutes from our town, so I often visit this place with school children.
Thank you. If you will find time, please write me a letter on e-mail
Throughout the years.., what is the narrative of the locals? especially the elders.
I was there in 1969. There seemed to be a lack of oxygen surrounding the place! 😱
This seems very well done.....but I had to turn it off at the 2 min mark......the music makes the narration a strain to listen to.
Very well done and informative. The music ( I recognized it from the OST from Schindler's List) is beautiful, but a bit loud in some parts.
The final salt-in-the-wound of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis was the fact that SO MANY of them went unpunished, either because they were considered low-level, the allies did not have the resources to bring them all to trial, or they were aided in their escape to Argentina by various groups, including the Catholic Church, and others. They too, have blood on their hands. Unfortunately, man is quite good at NOT learning from history and repeating genocide all over the planet.
How can the human race be so evil to do this I saw Dachau Concentration Camp it was an awful feeling
it is not HUMAN RACE! This is one specific race. Well, according to definition they are not race. They financed 1WW, then 2WW, got enormous benefits of them (especially 2WW) and they still make profits under Hocoloust Company plus some asid jobs like petrol wars in the middle east.
How can the human race murder unborn children?
The background music makes watching impossible. Too moody, too loud. I understand that violin music is often used to create a certain feeling, but if videos like this one are mainly supposed to be historical, then the violin music is all wrong because the music overwhelms the narration.
Like the world trade center it is very sad.
Terrible. people need to know. it happened. The music is a bit distracting. Thank you for sharing.
....my heart breaks....may the dead RIP
And the evil rot in HELL.
The nazis in their perversity graded their concentration camps by harshness. Mauthausen was one of their harshest ones. It was extermination through labor not an extermination camp as such. A lot of soviet POWs perished there and captured agents.
Graham Lowe and allied airmen
Nazi German. And how Nazi German could financed it? Germany was completely broken after 1WW. So how is it possible that this broken country was able to finance enormous project like 2WW within 20 years? Maybe someone gave them money then? Who were they... hmmm... yeah, that is interesting question.
Yes I couldnt take the sad music in the background besides that it took away from watching the whole doc sorry to say..
My dad survived this camp with his brother.
My great uncle did too with his brother, who nearly died. Now great great granchildren growing up in Israel. עם ישראל חי
Music volume supersedes the narrator's voice. Pathetic video editing!
We all are free because of the brave god bless all please pray for Ukraine 🇺🇦 🙏 💙💛💙💛💙💛
The background music makes this unwatchable.
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was just going to comment on that now.
Interesting video; I have visited the area, although not the camp, and I'm sure the cold in winter would readily have killed off a high percentage of the prisoners.
The music level wasn't as bad as might have been expected from some of the comments, but I think it would be better without any at all.
I thought the Mauthausen Cafe was tasteless. Both in flavor and in terms of appropriateness. If the poor victims of Mauthausen were always starving…why are you cramming your face with pizzas, fries and burgers?
Yes...the music is way too loud, I did not finish the video
Dear Максим Черный,
You have made an impressive and good video. Thank you for that.
Kind regards, Patrick
Thank you for your feedback
I couldn’t hear the speaker with the violin playing…
Gosh what a horrible horrific place
Just been watching this and I feel much sadness for the people what they went through and much more hurt for the people who were murdered here may they R.I.P.
The subtitles seems mostly onpoint on this one, so Subs on, Sound off. 👌
It is so sad to watch these videos about the camps. It is so hard to understand how a racial group could try to wipe out another entire racial group, especially in such a sadistic way. If all these Jewish people were not killed, things would have been so much different. God gives everyone special talents. There could have been a lot of future doctors that could have saved a lot of lives. There could have been many future artist, pianist and writers. There could have been future scientists that could have found cures for deadly diseases.
You should have mentioned Francisco Boix who was imprisoned here with other Spanish guys, risked his life here, and managed to save the films that were done in the camp (supposed to be destroyed), that were used at the Nurnberg trials.
@Kristie C Yes, i've watched the movie on Netflix. It was so powerful I watched bits and pieces. I also speak Spanish but I am not at all fluent. There is another amazing Norwegian movie about a real case from WWII -The 12th man (Den12 Mann). It's on Netflix.
How on earth did they identify the exhumed corpses? The only thing that I can think of is their tattooed numbers but these would only be any good with camp records.
The music please too laud!!!
Let's pretend we were trained by the BBC and play music over the spoken word as they do
Someone needs to show this to AOC so she can get an education about what a real Concentration Camp looks like.
idiotic comment. so if conditions "aren't as bad" as these then we should sit by and do nothing? is this where we set the bar of whether we should care or not?
spoiler: the nazi's didn't jump straight to this level of inhumanity.
Baby please die violently with the rest of your disgusting liberal rats. You people are becoming obsolete. Fucking rats.
You are stupid as hell!
so far no one has made any valid arguments against my point so ok
Thr guy who composed that music should be locked away somewhere dark.....
He probably was locked away in a standing cell which was a special type of torment.
@@peterrodby2786 The music is from John Williams Schindler's List soundtrack. He is still writing and composing.
There's a movie about this camp called the Photographer of Mauthausen.
I love Austria, Germany, the Alps but I cannot help to look up the war and pre-war history of all those lovely places I have vacationed or visited. It learned me that the Austrians were among the most fanatic Nazi’s. Austrians were over represented in the party in general and in the SS in specific. Yet, somehow they’ve succeeded in looking like a victim after the war.
I once got told the Austrians were prime ss (and/or gestapo?) material due to their natural arrogance.
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Background music is way too loud
You can't fully appreciate the importance and value of sewers until you live in a prison camp without them.
I have visited Mauthausen. The silence is deafening.
What the Nazis did was the most horrible display of human behavior..
Should have deleted the annoying violin, it really distracts from whet the narrator explains....
Background music is too loud.
Where is information about thousands of Poles killed there?
Several years ago, I drank Kosher Schlivovitz and Kosher Vodka at the kitchen table at Martin Small, a survivor of Mauthausen. He was pulled off a pile of bodies when the Americans liberated the camp. He survived from being near dead. He gave me a beautiful Mezuzah that he created. I have it mounted on my door.
@flikedout I was born in Austria. I did not know that this camp exhisted until I saw the Netflix movie. A mutual friend later told me that Martin was in this camp.
Stopped watching at 1.57 cos of that awful music.
Why would someone make the music louder than spech?
A very very very dark history!!
@Craig F. Thompson You fucking asshole. What an ignorant thing to say. America fought the Nazis and ended this horror. Douchebag.
@Craig F. Thompson You are crazier than a shithouse rat. I hope you don't live in the United States, and if you do then why don't you leave if you hate it so much?
Your comments are insane including the ones blubbering about prison conditions here in America. Here's an idea: Don't commit criminal acts and you won't end up in prisons. It's pretty easy to follow the laws set forth in this Constitutional Republic, and if you can't abide by these laws then you are a pretty stupid failure as a human being.
Craig doesn’t have brain one.
It's a pity that the camera man didn't pay more attention to notices on walls etc., to see what they said. I had to be a bit quick on the pause button to read the ones I could.
I think back ground music should have been limited for open shots of places where there is no commentary, otherwise to me, it interferes with the commentary.
But over all, it is a chilling video of the place where so much death an suffering by the inmates took place.
Awesome video,the music is just a little to loud for me,but that’s my opinion. History should become a school must watch.
Do a video about Stalin's camps. That will show ya something
I agree. The problem is, very few people have seen the camps and conditions in the Soviet Union at the time because Stalin ruled with an iron fist. If it wasn't seen, it didn't exist.
We know what we do about Germany because we occupied it and saw first hand the atrocities they committed. Stalin was no better, however.
Why don’t you make one?
One big cemetery. So much murder and torture. And for what? Power, hate, and greed.
Just so sad.
My Grandfather was liberated from there.
I think it's safe to say that the music is to loud 😬.
4:35 A soda vending machine? Seriously? Put that crap outside the site in a visitors' center or something.
We were there in Sept. 2017 as well. I remember seeing from the top of the quarry the beautiful nearby rolling hills. Also from up on the walls one can see the distant Alps. I remember thinking it must have been terrible to see such beauty off in the distance from such a hell hole. The walk up from the bus stop was through such a beautiful neighborhood too.
Though extremely hard to watch it is very fitting that you took the time to remind the World of the Reality that existed, and still exists..R.I.P.
My wife and I visited here. We had been to Buchenwald, Auschwitz 1, 2, and 3, the site of thePlaszow Work Camp, Mauthausen, and finally Dachau. I'm not sure why, but Dachau was the worst for me... Maybe because it was the first camp built for its purpose by the Nazis. They were all bad in their own way, but Dachau stood out.
I will go there one day. Those poor, innocent men, mothers and children and those warped and wicked people.
@N/A N/A FAKEstinians you mean !
My uncle, Jack King, helped liberate Mauthausen and took out a few SS in the process.
My dad was reportedly the very first American into the camp via a hole blasted by a tank. He also was said to have shot the camp’s commander. I do know and saw some of the photographs he took of the crematoriums but my mother discarded them all. After the war he was assigned drive German soldiers and concentration victims home.
On this day 27th of March 1945 Ricardo my grandfather died at Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp a month before the Americans liberated the CC. He was first interned at Dachau CC on his birthday the 1st of Feb 1944 and then transported to Mauthausen in August of 1944...
He must have known Francisco Boix. He was also interred in Mauthausen. He was the photograph from Mauthausen, and smuggled the films out of the camp. They were used at Nuremberg trials. Unfortunately, Francisco died soon after he got out of the camp.
13tumare Aww hope your grandfather is at peace.
most of the Evil people running & working in the camp got away with MURDER , every last one should have paid for what they done
Good film and the specifics of mass cruelty too our brothers and sisters.😢😥
Jeezus! That incessant background music is OPPRESSIVELY overwhelming!
At times drowning out the narration almost completely!
I can totally understand adding a little dramatic ambiance, a little light violin playing, just to enhance the script. But this is wholly unnecessary and ridiculous lol it makes this otherwise perfectly interesting and worthwhile video virtually unwatchable. 👎
Edit; Clearly I'm not the only one who thinks so, either lol judging by the content of the majority of the comments underneath! 🤣
May aswell MUTE THE SOUND
The Nazis used many concentration camps to initially kill or starve 2.5 million Soviet prisoners of war originally from all Soviet provinces. These POW's surrendered immediately when the Nazi armies started crossing the borders to enter the Soviet union. Soviet soldiers who laid down their weapons to Nazi armies crossing the borders: "We are not commies. Take us to some resorts in Nazi Germany!" About year later, FINALLY, the same concentration camps , and a few more, were re-used by the Nazi management used to house Jews from across Europe, as a FINAL solution to the Jewish problem. Why? The Nazi invasion was a logistical mess. As the Nazi Germans were invading countries, food supplied from Germany wasn't enough to feed millions of surrendering soldiers of countries being invaded by the Nazi war Machine.
Just gonna point out that our generation is the LAST generation to be able to see WW2 veterans alive. They are now over 90 and probably will die in a few years.
Yes. It us a shame that horrific deeds will continue after they have gone
why so bad music
Shame about the music. Too loud, but just not needed. Not with this subject. We don't need emotive music for this - it was hideous enough.
Music badly affecting narration. Should have been avoided. Better to remove so called background music.
On May 5, 1945, US Troops liberated the Mauthausen death camp. A platoon of 23 men from the 11th Armored Division of the US Third Army, led by Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek, arrived at the main camp near the town of Mauthausen and liberated it.
Liberated? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... all SS guards were already gone!!!! Only prisoners were there. US soldiers were just passing by and poped up. Typical for US to join the war when it is coming to the end.
Pee eeP Popped. I know. Damn Yankees!
@@peeeep766 Your colossal stupidity is tiring.
I visited this camp in 1982, - 37 years ago as a 22 year old. The images are still vivid but other aspects of this place are not portrayed in the video clip tour. These other sites were even more breathtaking as they were real: soap made from humans, lamp shades made of tattooed human skin, rooms full of shoes and left luggage. The gas chamber with shower head and tiled walls, the rusted heat treated gurney for placing corpses into a furnace. This gurney was heavy by itself and difficult to manage.
The sobering visit has stayed with me for decades and has always reinforced my view to be grateful to the military who stood between us and this; to be thankful for where I live - a peaceful country by comparison.
So it has been proven that the Nazis actually made soap from human beings? I thought that was controversial because there has never been any substantive proof for that claim. Just curious, thanks.
Excellently made film. Thank you.
Thank you for this documentary. Dad was a slave/prisoner in Mauthausen and Auschwitz. He confided in me about this time of his life only once, when he got sick. Sadly, only then did I realize that he suffered every day the Shoah. When he was a patient at Mt. Sinai hospital, I would sit with him and we would listen to lectures and music. (He was legally blind.) Every time there was a mention of the Holocaust or the Kaddish was sung his ventilator’s alarms started ringing. So that trauma sat there always, the elephant in the room. His life was difficult and he fought and he won. He wanted to live. L’chaim. His motto, “get into line, I will overcome”. However, the hospital and their oaths to only heal the sick is run as a business. The Natzi’s couldn’t finish him off, but the butchers at the hospital did.
Remembering the auschwitz concentration camps in Poland😢😑😥
Every time you watch video clips
The guy explains about the building with loud music in the same time, it annoyed me why do they do that,. May aswell don't
Watch them
Interesting and very informative, but could have done without that dreadful music.
Urghhhhh wanted to watch....music bit overpowering.. sorry
Finally somebody that knows the terminology of narration for that particular concentration camp video finally somebody had a brain to narrate it and tell the story behind it that's the way it's supposed to be done but the cheesy music behind it could have been left out and the audio could have been turned up a little bit for what the guy was saying otherwise it was a really good video
Thank you for the positive feedback. I have taken the audio guide extras to edit this video, yet it was a bit of a challenge to shot all the needed footage on the site and then to edit. Sorry for the loudness of the music. I would continue to make 'WW2' videos in the future.
@@maxim-chornyi Virtually inaudible due to the violin, had to stop watching 1 minute in. Please post a version without the muzak.
@@maxim-chornyi I did not see all the graves. They were there in 1996 when we visited.
So many interesting docs are ruined with unesscary music
...there's ALWAYS a critic!
I read that Mauthausen had a subcamp named Gusen.It was said to be the most brutal of all-worse than Mauthausen itself.Many claimed it was even worse than the death camps(as opposed to concentration camps) like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
@flikedout Jesus,sorry,I can't imagine.Seems like the Austrian camps (Mauthausen,Gusen,Ebensee)were as if not more sadistic than those in Germany and Poland.I wish they'd all get more recognition,but there were so few survivors to bear witness.If you haven't seen it,Remembering The Camps,narrated by Hitchcock,has a segment on Ebensee.
you are right, i live very near the camp and thus we have been educated ob this topic very specifically. gusen was probably even more cruel, and only very few who were sent there survived
@@toniixxx8046 Thanks,I remember reading that decades ago.Austria's beautiful though,isn't it? Those mountains would be quite a change from where I'm living now.
Potentially interesting but impossible to listen to because of the loud music.
Very annoying music.
music is pain in the ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's up with that God awful music. Couldn't get more than 3 minutes in.
Why is the music bothering so many viewers? It is beautiful and appropriate.
Thank you for telling the truth
To make a video find annoying music the proceed to make a video,,Views hate this and move on ..like me
Pity of the music. It is suited to the subject but much too present, difficult to concentrate on the commentary with this music so prominently in the background.
It’s terrible how those savages didn’t follow the rules of war pertaining to the treatment of prisoners , and when I think about how good and well feed the enemy was treated in the us prison camps, it makes me sick to my stomach .
My great grandfather was there the day it was liberated. I have original Polaroids that he took of that day.
MUSIC TO LOUD other then that awesome video