I understand your comment about a 14 year old being exposed to the camp but I'm going to say that probably it's MORE important that the YOUNG people see that then even the older people here!! It might be traumatizing for a 14-year-old but they damn sure will NEVER forget what they saw!! And it goes a step towards hoping that it never happens again!!!
That’s true, we see both sides of the scenario. I (swizz) was just thinking seeing second hand vs first hand, having to smell, touch, bury, etc would do a lot of damage BUT in that same breath, expose them to never let it happen like you said.
@@DaKidsReact I like to take this opportunity to say that you guys are doing a great job reacting to the series!! Have I shared with you the link to the Dick Winters interview!???
There is controversy over whether he said it or not, but I'd like to think he did: “Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945
There is NO controversy over what General Eisenhower said or did: He pulled troops off the line who were not engaged in combat. He had them go through the camps and stated, "That they should look at what was done here, because in ten- or fifteen-years people are going to say this never happened". They also as you saw made the Germans from surrounding towns come and look at the camps and bury the dead. A poll was taken about 25 years ago, and 20% of high school students said that the Holocaust was fake.
@@Easy_Skanking A lot of countries funded Germany before 1939. It was one of the main reasons that H went to war, all the loans he took out were coming due for his "economic miracle" and Germany couldn't even pay a third of them back.
One thing that Allied commanders figured out really, really quick was that people would eventually deny the Holocaust happened. A number of steps were taken to prevent that. Forcing nearby towns to help bury the bodies was a very pointed way spread the knowledge in an unforgettable way. Yes, it traumatized the townspeople but that's sort of the point. The other reason to draft locals for burial detail is that it frees up troops for other work and speeds the advance of Allied forces toward Berlin.
That’s what I (Sheim) was thinking. There’s just no way my mind can wrap around that this information was so discrete that no one in that town knew or spread word about it. Also, with that it would be hard to do anything about that situation without putting your life and your family members’ lives in jeopardy.
Absolutely. They absolutely knew. The Jewish people knew through rumor and innuendo even back in the ghettos what was happening so it is IMPOSSIBLE that Germans in surrounding towns near to camps didn't know. And like, the whole country isn't stupid. They had Jewish friends and neighbors before the war, where did they think they went when they rounded them all up? They all knew. Millions of people don't just disappear unless you disappear them.
@@Lina_unchainedYes! Exactly!!! Of course they knew it. Whether they wanted to play dumb to save their skin, or for any reason, it's very different. I mean, the same german people denounced the “enemies of the state” ,they themselves handed them over to the nazis. I don't believe them when they say they didn't knew.
Two things. First, when I was a kid in Kansas City, (late 1960s) there were business owners we knew who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Young people today wouldn't be able to see that the same as I did. Second, one of my buddies (now deceased) was in the Army in Germany starting in 1950. He said every adult knew what had gone on, and when they denied it, they were lying to save face
@@DaKidsReact I think thats the point. Even if you knew what are you supposed to do as a normal citizen. If you look at the Scholl siblings - they were murderd to basically revolt against the Nazis. You also gotta keep in mind that during that time there was no social media or free press. How could you even form a resistance group, as networking was super hard. Also i truly believe not everyone knew about the camps. People didn't travel as much as today so you never really left your town. And if the nearest camp was like 100miles away you might just might get some information from hearsay. But as I said before - media was totally controlled by the Nazis. Like if normal citizes would have known, the allies would have surely found out aswell - but they also just heard of general stuff going on. I think it was common knowledge that Jews were taken by force out of their homes but the extend of the holocaust was probably a secret (e.g. gas chambers, mass shootings ,..)
in the cities and larger towns, the people definitely knew because the discrimination, persecution and roundup of Jews were very public. in the small towns in the boonies, they may not have known what was going on.
While there were many in Germany who did know the extent of the horrors of the concentration camps there’s all but zero chance people in the towns near the camps wouldn’t have had a pretty good idea of what was going on. They’d have had to be aware of the trains full of prisoners coming and going. The prisoners who were deemed fit to work would have been worked to death as slave labor in factories especially war factories built near the camps for the access to the slave labor pool. The SS soldiers in charge of the camp would have been socializing with the locals in town. And not to mention there’s no way the town wouldn’t have at least at many times been able to smell the unmistakable smell of death and disease from the camps.
I agree and I feel like the reason that they kept quiet obviously was because if they spoke up against it they would be dead themselves!!! Was one of those situations where you saw stuff happening and you knew it wasn't right but you also knew you needed to be quiet in order to stay alive yourself!!!
I watched a documentary about a camp in Poland, she was a kid during ww2 and she said herself that one time she went against her parents wishes and walked to the barbed wire, she was then screamed at to move away by a guard. But yes you're right the Germans did know, it was common knowledge.
This is why myself and others get mad when the term “Nazi” gets thrown around. Certain people don’t like other peoples political views or whatever but they have no idea what that word really means. It’s a curse word for a reason because they did the stuff that’s been dramatized in this series here. Now days people don’t wanna look back and see what happened and if they fail to read the part their only doomed to repeat it, I’ll leave it there
Totally correct. History must be taught in order to understand what happened and to prevent certain things from ever happening again. Hit the nail on the head.
Part of the reason that it gets thrown around is because far-right and neo-nazi viewpoints have had a huge resurgence. A lot of nazi ideas and concepts have not gone away, and in certain parts of the online space they're thrown around and embraced with gusto. There are certainly people who over-use it as a term of insult, but there are also inarguably plenty of people to whom it applies.
@@DaKidsReact nice.If you are interesting in not famous videos.The Margraten adoption is a nice one to watch.There is a American cemetery in the Netherlands. The graves of the Americans are still adopted to Dutch people. Thousands of americans rest there
Thanks for your genuine reaction. Band of Brothers is a masterpiece. You hit the nail on the head when you reacted to the scene at around 14 minutes: "He thought it was all sweet and games. Well, this is what it really is." Happy Independence Day, brothers! Greetings from Denmark.
There were 26,000 concentration camps in the Nazi system. There is no way the population didn't know what was going on. Where I was stationed in Germany was a satellite camp. Prisoners brought up from Dachau. You can't move 6 million people and the train stations, the towns, the populace didn't know. Not only Jews were rounded up. There were gypsies, homosexuals, any Slavic (Polish, Czechoslovakian, Russians). Those from the Baltic area. The Russians lost between 22 and 27 million people. Now, the German people likely weren't aware of what was going on in places like Auschwitz, but there were enough camps in France, Germany and surrounding areas. I've been to those camps, you can still sense death in those places. It sounds strange it's like you can smell it still. Right now the college campuses are erupting with cries to annihilate the Jews. Antisemitism is on on the rise. Give things a couple of generations, and this stuff starts up all over again. Our government has been trying to turn a blind eye for a few months now. Maybe they are stepping up to the plate with what has gone on in the last few days.
One thing i think a lot of people forget is that while they may have known about what was happening that's not the same thing as "knowing" what was happening, it's easy to push something aside, make excuses, delude yourself when don't personally see it with your own eyes.
The German people knew but were either afraid or agreed with the effort. Regardless, they should have done something. To basically take people, kids and adults and simply kill them is such a crime against humanity. HAMAS believes the same by the way as they have already shown.
Read the book Witness it breaks down the involvement of the German Reichbahn. The German railroad was the primary method of movement for the victims. 3 years, West Berlin in the belly of the beast.
One thing you have to keep in mind is, the allied forces (American, English, French, soviets, ext) had no clue that these camps were even a thing until they started stumbling across them. It’s crazy that there are people today that insist that this never happened. Insist that the allied forces made this up in order to justify the war. I can’t remember the name of the camp but Eisenhower order that pictures be taken and video recorded of every atrocity they found so that everyone would believe the murder that had taken place. We have to remember these kind of unpleasant situations in human history because there are people out there that would love to start this kind of thing up again.
That is not correct, the Allies were getting reports as early as 1942 of the existence of the camps. People brushed it off as Jewish propaganda. FDR himself saw reports of the camps as early as 1943, but because it could not be corroborated by Allied intelligence, they were dismissed as false.
The scene of Webster pulling the pistol on the civilian is accurate, a lot of the soldiers who liberated Dachau and who were first there, gave some prisoners guns and they lined up the surrendering SS guards, and shot them dead. On another side of the camp at the same time, a high ranking squad officer pulled his gun and threatened his own Colonel. Most US soldiers quickly stopped taking prisoners after this, understandably so
There is a series of podcasts, celebrating the 20th anniversary of BofB, that features the actors/writers/directors from each episode. In "Why We Fight," there was a lot of discussion among cast/crew about "springing" the concentration camps on the audience, but the ultimate decision was that since it was sprung on Easy Company in realtime when they found this camp, it was fitting to spring it on the audience as well. I agree. Another excellent reaction, fellas. Thanks for sharing.
Seeing the photos of hundreds of thousands prisoners of war being marched to the rear always moved me as, at this point, so many were young boys or old men
I cried so much in this episode! So you guys have to watch Schindlers List. I say this because one of you said you didn't know there was a woman's concentration camp. Schindlers List will give you the insite on that portion of the war. I watched it my freshman year of high school in my history class back in 99-00, and the movie made such an impact on me that I not only own it, but I highly recommend it. One of my all time favorite movies hands down. Thank you for watching this series guys wish I could join patreon but I'll continue supporting you guys here.
That song they sing during the car ride around 11:00, yall should listen to that and read the lyrics. It's truly a marvel of a song about the worst possible things that could happen to a paratrooper and a very gruesome song sung in a happy tone. Always appreciated that detail. Song Title: Blood on the risers
Agreed it's harsh for younger teens to bear witness but the idea was to be sure this horror would not be denied, covered up or forgotten. Eisenhower and the brass knew this and they were right. It had to be that way.
I grew up watching actual film of these camps, observing photographs, watching the movie Judgement At Nuremberg, and my Elementary and Junior High Schools would host Jewish Concentration Camp survivors. My grandfather saw these things in person as an Army veteran. The message was never forget and never allow genocide anywhere for any reason against any race of people. Education has failed in this message for the last 25-years.
Just FYI The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has been widely criticized by Holocaust historians as perpetuating "a number of dangerous inaccuracies and fallacies” about the Holocaust. The gist of it is that the events of the story couldn't have possibly happened. The main character is portrayed as having no idea about Jewish people, Hitler, Nazism, etc. when in reality he would have been legally required to be a member of the Hitler Youth, swearing oaths to Hitler daily, and subjected to constant anti-semitic propaganda. It perpetuates the myth that many Germans may have been ignorant of the atrocities committed by the Nazi party, when in fact the general public in Germany and in occupied Europe were well aware that Jewish people were being persecuted, forced to emigrate and eventually deported. There were also many who knew that Jewish people were being killed, and many that attacked and killed Jews before they were deported. Many Germans profited from the Holocaust as Jewish properties and belongings were ‘Aryanised’, which meant they were taken from their Jewish owners and given instead to ‘ethnic’ Germans. TL;DR if you were a German citizen during the Holocaust and weren't actively resisting the Nazi party, you were a Nazi, and you knew what was happening. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas essentially tells a story intended to make the audience sympathize with Nazi citizens. It's essentially a form of Holocaust revisionism.
Crazy thing is atrocities committed by Japan are just as if not worse, but they got sort of a free pass. What they did to the Chinese and to prisoners of war was beyond words.
Interesting fact: They had cancer patients as well as other terminally ill people play the concentration camp prisoners. They didn't want to force any actors to get that thin for the role, and they didn't want to sugarcoat it so they found a balance by finding people who were already that emaciated to participate in the filming. I thought it was a very interesting way to make sure that they were being semi-true-to-life and also I find it cool that they allowed people who wouldn't live long to be a part of something that would live forever by being a part of telling such an important true story.
The IRL camps were 100x worse they not only had women camps but the children were mixed in with the women and men’s camp and if the mother had a baby they’d force the mom to hold the baby over the mothers heart so when they’d shoot the mother they wouldn’t waste ammo and get “two birds with one stone” straight up beyond horrible and horrific honestly words can’t describe it
All these sorts of regimes rely on turning folks against each other. When you’re terrified your own neighbors will turn you in people either do nothing or only engage in the kind of low-level resistance that is no threat to the Party. The Gestapo was tiny but generally very effective because folks would come to them, unasked, and inform on each other. Sometimes they benefited financially, other times it was just for the proverbial pat on the head.
One thing i think a lot of people forget is that while they may have known about what was happening that's not the same thing as "knowing" what was happening, it's easy to push something aside, make excuses, delude yourself when don't personally see it with your own eyes.
I spent 3 years in Germany, and I heard ALL the excuses from Germans, and the only one that was true, was that you don't ask questions. Most Germans went along whole heartedly with the final solution. Many who went along with it, paint themselves as victims. They were not.
The extras who acted has the prisoners where actual Cancer Patients getting or awaiting treatment. When making the concentration camp scene, behind the scenes people asked many of the actors if they want to see a memorial in order to get ready for it, all of them said no because they wanted to see the concentration camp with virgin eyes like the real E Company did over 80 years ago. The shock and awe from the actors are raw and real. I cry every time when I reach to Episode 9 because has someone who has a degree in history, we can never forget the atrocistes of the Holocaust. (Side Note: Babe Heffron said that the depiction in BoB wasn't accurate - in reality it was 1000 times worse.) Many people of today especially the young who are forgetting that the Jewish people have lost so much because of one man and many of his followers did to them. That is why Mossad was created in Israel "Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations," because when Nazi Germany was losing the war, many high level Nazis escaped to other countries especially to Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Mossad agents get information on a Nazi escapee's they go and get them, send them back to Israel, put them on trial, and finally hanged. Mossad even today are still looking for any Nazis from WWII, even though many are old men and women, Mossad still will hang them for murdering their people.
The most disturbing thing I remember from my youth was being 13 and working as a bag boy in a grocery market. This little old later, that looked like she weighed 100 pounds use to come in every Saturday at the same time. She always had a ghostly look. In the summer she wore short sleeves and you could see the tattoo from the concentration camp she was in as a child.
When I was 14-15 I went on a school trip and we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau - it was haunting the scale and the sights. Its horrible, but I fully recommend the trip but it will effect you.
I suggest the film Sophie’s Choice. It’s incredibly complex. Also, important to remember Joe Liebgott is Jewish and was the translator that had to tell them to return to the camp.
it wasnt Easy company that found the camp,, they just showed it being them for story purposes,, if i remember correctly it was troops from second battalion,,,
Hey guys. Sorry I'm a bit late. I really enjoy your reaction videos. I know your watch list is already long but you've jumped into the WWII rabbit hole, which is wide and deep. A movie which is related to the subject of this episode that you really need to watch is Conspiracy (2001). It depicts the meeting where they planned the elimination of millions of people. And after that watch Anthropoid (2016) which, in a way, continues the history. You won't regret it.
This is the hardest episode to watch, but historically speaking, the only thing that any of the allied leadership had heard was rumors, and those rumors were so horrific, that they did not believe them, it is doubtful that even Dwight D. Eisenhower had heard any of those rumors, going by the accounts of witnesses of how he reacted when he first saw one of the camps, Allied forces DID NOT know anything about the camps till they started stumbling across them in the final days of the war, the first one found was Auschwitz, the Russians found it about 20 days before the war in Europe came to an end, The British found one in France the following day, then the U.S. started finding them all over the place, as hard as it is for me to watch this episode every time, I can't help but to think that what they filmed here for this mini series, was probably watered down 1,000 to 1, possibly more, having seen some of the original pictures taken in 1945, which will absolutely rip your heart out, I am guessing that is WHY General Eisenhower ordered as many pictures and as much film to be used to document the horrors of what they found, he did not care how expensive it was going to be.
To get honest reactions none of the easy company actors were shown the camp until filming. Most of the camp survivors are played by terminal disease patients, many of whom didn't live to see the episode aired. They or their families were payed several times the normal extra salary. Some of them just flat out had all their medical bills payed.
As bad as this film was it was watered down or it could not have been shown. i have seen the uncensored footage filmed by the army and it is beyond horrific. i am a very strong minded man but it broke me and once seen it can not be unseen. the biggest part of the ones that survived had lost everything no home no family no friends no where to go. as for a lot of the soldiers that liberated these camps they were never the same when they went home they had seen death on a big scale but nothing could have prepared them for what they found. i knew 2 men who were part of the army who first found these camps and for the rest of their lives they had screaming nightmares every single night untill they passed away 50 and 54 years later they never told of what they saw and if asked they would leave the room crying and visibly shaking and i understand why after seeing the real filming. I Hope all that suffered now rest in eternal peace...
That’s so sad to hear about the 2 men you knew. It goes to show how much people sacrificed going into this war. It was a lifetime commitment for generational changes so all those men should be praised for what they gave up for us.
all German school children are made to go on field trips to see some of the death camps they kept standing and are still there my niece went to one when she was in Germany she said most people were in shock seeing what was there
Ayeeeeeeeee my fav reactors ❤❤❤. I really really hope you guys react to The Pacific series after you are done with BOB. It is also made my Tom Hanks and Spielberg. It’s also an excellent series and it’s way more brutal to me. It gets more on the personal side of war and what it does to you. Love y’all ❤❤
If you feel bad about the looting, know that the German Army systematically looted occupied zones as well. My grandmother was alone in her farm (grandfather prisoner of war in Germany for 5 years) and had German soldiers come to steal her chicken. She hid in fear. Two wrongs don't make a right, but it puts things in perspective. In WWI, the retreating Germans looted the French and Belgian industries by stealing their machines.
If you watched this, you need to watch The Pacific. God. The absolute carnage in that will scare you. (It was also made by Steven Spielberg and the same team as this show.)
Moving from the death camp scene to the men playing violins shows the insane juxtaposition of Germany at that time. Germany was probably the most cultured nation in Europe prior to the war (represented by the classical music & the violins), but it bought into an ideology that made it simultaneously the most barbaric nation in Europe (the camps).
I (Sheim) can see how all that can be looked past because of all the atrocities that were done during the war. That shadow is always going to be casted over Germany.
One day I think you both should watch the mini-series Winds of War & its sequel War and Remembrance (its one story but broken into two mini-series). Not even to review if you don't want, just to watch them. The story is more of a drama, but it includes lots of historical characters, and really showcases the impact the war had all over the world...and not just to the soldiers but to everyone. It also gives the POV of several German leaders, many of whom wanted to overthrow Hitler. It is also delves into the plight of the Jews, and showcases the horrors of the Holocaust, more so than any other production. I highly recommend it. Just be aware that there was a 5 year gap between the two series, so some of the characters have new actors playing them in the 2nd series. But don't let that throw you off. It works.
Nixon never fired a shot because that wasn't his job. Nixon was military intelligence. His job was to rely information from the front lines to the command post which would send it to high command. Which would then send orders back. Then Nixon would carry orders to the front lines. So Nixon's weapons were solely for self defense.
I (Sheim) think that if you aren’t well informed in position of the military you can easily think that everyone’s job is just to go fight in the war. Nixon had a specific job and has been executing it since the beginning. Nixon and Winters have been great together.
The roughest part is that whether or not any towns folk knew about the camps, there was nothing they could do about it. Who were they going to tell? The Nazis were the authority so whoever would have tried to do anything about the camps would have been either thrown into a camp themselves or simply executed on the spot and THAT is a fact that the citizens understood. The German people didn't all support what was happening by any means, but they were under just as much threat to keep quiet as anyone who would have been under constant threat of being considered one of the "undesireables" who would disappear at the hands of the Nazis.
Digestion takes energy. A starving body has very little energy to spare, so giving these people too much to eat to quickly could cause their bodies to shut down completely, mainly from electrolyte imbalance. This is called refeeding syndrome
hey lads!!! i’m not sure if you’ve covered this or someone else has already mentioned it… but if you actually remember back to the first episode.. liebgott(the translator) mentioned he was a jew on the boat before he had a scuffle with guarnere.. so you can imagine how much pain he’s in to see his people get fucked up like this and then having to tell them they can’t get anymore food and locked back up.. 😮💨
It was one of the most efficient genocides (horrific) but not the worst. Stalin and Lenin each killed over 20 million of their own people. Mao killed 100 million. Doesn’t make this any less horrific.
@@DaKidsReact y’all didn’t. I was just pointing out there were worse genocides while also stating the fact there were worse ones doesn’t detract from this one (which some idiots on the internet seem to think my statement would infer).
I (Sheim) had some knowledge on the Great Leap Forward and the Congolese genocide. All in all, they were all terrible and in no way shape or form should be praised for being worse than the other.
That German officer (in the picture) had been killed in combat, (Black ribbon on the edge of the picture frame.) There's no reason to believe he was involved with the camps. This certainly was a reason as to "why we fought" but It was just one reason why. They Allied troops had already liberated most of France, and all of Holland and Belgium. They were there to liberate all they could, not just one type of people. Meanwhile, the US was not really under threat from Germany. It was simply a battle against evil for them.
The words of the vets in the beginning have a double meaning. It's to remind us that the soldiers of an enemy are just men too. They could be just like you. They have families, hopes, fears, and are trapped in that war. The other part is a warning. The Germans had a progressive democratic society. The people were not evil. They had things in common with us. But they fell hard. They found their way down the path of committing great evil. It can happen to us too.
There is an historical error here. The first military to arrive there was the 12th Armored Division. They arrived later. Also there were two types of camps. Slave labor camps, and execution camps. Schindler's list camps were slave labor camps and you get a good idea what they were like. They were basically camps to work people to death. I knew people who were in the camps for multiple years. The process was that they first gathered Jews in various ghettos. For example in Schindler's list it was Krakow. My relatives were in Lodz. Then they were transferred for selection to other camps like Auschwitz. There Dr Mengele would point to which side the person would go. Those not able to work, like the old or very young or pregnant women went to immediate death. The other's would be given numbers and sent to camps to work. They were given very little to eat and shot if they were not able to work anymore. You cannot imagine how bad it was unless you were there. I heard many stories from survivors. After the wart many had forgotten what it was like to do simple things like eating on a table. What you see here is very sanitized.
We haven’t but we are definitely going to put that in our list! And we’ll have to do some digging on the Ann Frank documentary and see if we can get that on the schedule some time down the line.
They didnt know about the final solution. The plan to exterminate jews aswell as most of eastern europe qt some point was openly stated by hitler many times since mein kampf @@FrenchieQc
In 1943, US government was perfectly aware what's going on, what the camps were, what was their purpose and how they were operating. There were many eyewitness' reports delivered to them from Polish resistance and international diplomats. Politicians decided not to disseminate the knowledge in US populace for reasons not entirely known - there's more conspiracy theories about this decision then there are facts known. Google the name of Szmul Zygielbojm - his story summarizes the issue of allied non-response to Holocaust the best.
Frm 1933-'45 Germans rounded up Jews in every town & city. Homes given away& none returned. It was against the law to hide Jews. They might not have known everything but everyone they weren't meant to return. Ever. You turned away & got on w/ your daily concerns.
300 000 nazis didn't surrender, 300 000 soldiers did. Not all German soldiers were nazis Anyway, can't wait to see you guys react to the finale. I hope you react to the documentary We Stand Alone Together too. A must see.
@@Easy_Skanking Plunder and stealing Jewish money as they threw them in concentration camps. Before that mostly by spending money they didn't have. The National Socialist Party ran a lot of work programs on debt to appear solvent. Once in power they didn't actually get out of debt until they annexed the Rhineland as that was the economic heart of Czechoslovakia. Ironically the previous german government, in an attempt to keep the Nazi's out, took huge loans from JP Morgan and other International bankers to undo the damage WWI and the heinously high reparations they were forced to pay did to the german economy. Once in power Hitler took credit for the economic improvements Chancellor Hindenburg had actually orchestrated years earlier. This is pretty common for dictators Mussolini did the same with the italian infrastructure that was modernized by the government he overthrew.
@@antonioramirez3676 Rothschilds (Bank of London), Rockefellers, Union Bank (Prescott Bush's bank). Plus tank parts from Ford Motors, as well as oil from Standard Oil (also Prescott Bush's).
My father was a sergeant in the 423rd Inf. Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, and was captured on December the 19th, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. He was about 6'1", and weighed about 180lbs when he was captured. When he escaped from the prisoner of war camp, in May, he weighed less than 100lbs, and never weighed over 140 the rest of his life. The prisoners were eating grass, if they could find it, and the rations (bread) they did receive was 20% SAWDUST. He died in 1965 at age 44. I say all that, because I can't imagine how those people in the concentration camps managed to survive for YEARS under much worse conditions than what my father endured.
I'm sorry that your father was captured and went through that. Starvation like that can cause liver, kidney, and heart damage. Most people didn't survive long in camps, well certainly not the death camps. But even the work camps had a very high turnover. People were starved and worked to death, unless they had particularly useful or unique skills. My father survived a ghetto, as a partisan for 2 years, and then two weeks in captivity and a concentration camp. He saw friends of his beaten to death in front of him in far too many people shot. He survived being tortured for information and to break another soldier. (Men who won't break themselves will be broken by the sight of a child being tortured) He said the worst thing was starving and watching people starve to death or die from easily treatable diseases caused by starvation. It's one of the reasons my dad became a doctor.
In 2015, my wife and I saw the first concentration camp, Dachau, that Hitler built in 1934. That camp was real close to town, and it was there for twelve years. As the war went on, more and more people were packed into it. It was built to hold 5,000, and when the war ended, it held 30,000. You can't tell me that it was a secret all those years. When they burned bodies in those ovens, ashes rained down in town.
The first camp that the US Army liberated was Ohrdruf. At that place, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower brought General George S Patton and General Omar Bradley with him to see for themselves. What they witnessed there made 'Ol Blood n Guts' Patton become violently sick and he threw up against a wall, later refusing to go into a building where bodies were stacked like cordwood. Eisenhower sent communications to every unit within range not engaging in active combat operations to also come see, he also sent communications to the press and Congress to send representatives to witness this horror document it. Ohrdruf was the first place they ordered the locals to be marched through it to see for themselves. At the end of their tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife went home and hanged themselves in their living room. "“We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, we know what he is fighting against.” -General Dwight D Eiseenhower.
There were reports of these alleged reports of these atrocities, but the stories of these atrocities were so unbelievable that the foreign press did not believe it was real. To this day I still find it unbelievable that people did this to each other. But its still happening today in some parts of the world.
When you have a chance, check out The Best Years of Our Lives. A telling of three soldiers on the eastern and western fronts coming home and realizing home changed without them. One of the best films, ever.
Yall hit it again!! My father’s family were all Eastern European Jews and they were forced out of their towns well before WW2, but I am thankful to know that nobody in my family had to endure the atrocities of Hitler’s “final solution”. 16:52 I’ve watched that movie, and it brought me near tears. That and shindler’s list. Keep it up gang
We are sorry to hear that but happy they were able to make it out beforehand! Schindler’s list is added to the list of movies we are going to get to this year! Much love💙
My read on the guy saying the women's camp was at the next RR stop was that when he said it out loud, he realized it was probably a lie and that all the women were killed. But he'd been hanging onto that hope.
Good job, gentlemen. Loved your reaction. Especially seeing the symbolism of the violin case closing like a coffin, because if a cultured people like the Germans could do something like The Final Solution, ANYBODY else could do it too. Nobody has a monopoly on evil.
There is actual footage which can be seen on YT of locals being forced to take a look at the concentration camps near where they lived. It starts by showing the local Germans laughing and joking (it's possible some really didn't know what was happening) as if they didn't have a care in the world as they make their way to the camps. Boy, did their demeanor change quickly when confronted by the horrors perpetuated in their name.
Many of the items taken from victims of concentration camps were then regifted to many senior officers and wives of the German Army. They knew from where they got the gifts and many loved it.
This was a sub camp of Dachau. I just visited the main camp this week. There are not enough words to describe the scale of horrors that were committed. The sheer size of the place was astonishing, and it was a fraction of the size of Auschwitz. My grandfather was part of the liberating forces of the main camp at Dachau - the things he must have seen…
22:55 actually, the biggest problem is what is known as “refeeding syndrome” (I have experienced it due to a bad GI condition I have and earlier in life due to an eating disorder) … when one is fasting/starved/unable to take in nutrients for whatever reason, the body switches from a metabolism focused first on carbs to one focused on fat and proteins/amino acids. And since there’s o outside source, the body basically begins eating itself up. One begins to break down fatty tissue and eventually, muscle mass (as a source of amino acids which make up protein. Amino acids are needed to keep cells dividing as you need to create more DNA for each cell and each one needs those AA’s.) Also, glucagon increases (hormone that hold on to sugars) and insulin production is halted (makes sense, no outside source, the body tries to preserve what little is there.) in any case, the many minerals and electrolytes (these especially) very quickly start going down. A lot of other stuff occurs such as a “weird” type of carbohydrate being made (it leads to lower cellular oxygenation.) what’s most important is that the electrolytes phosphate (low enough levels can lead to coma), potassium (when this gets low it’s bad. It’s vital in keeping muscles going. The heart is a muscle. With hypokalemia, low potassium, different irregular and potentially fatal heart rhythms start to occur. If you’ve muscles cramp up or have little twitches when you’ve run for a long time, not hydrated etc. Well, similar things start happening in areas of the heart, one of the most devastating being “ventricular fibrillation” which is when the bottom chambers just stop coordinating their pumping motion and start “seizing” or spasming.) Most deaths via refeeding syndrome are due to a fatal arrhythmia (be it v. Fib, atrial fib, sinus bradycardia or a very slow heart rate. And why are they fatal? More or less because when the heart enters these weird rhythms, there’s no proper blood output from the heart …. One last cause of death can be due to seizure related medical issues. They literally meant the prisoners could die. They had little to no idea until a similar camp was found in Ebensee, Austria (within 2 days of giving them food, many had died of this syndrome. It was actually, sad as it seems, better to keep them in that state and slowly begin hydration, IV fluids, and a VERY slow intake of calories while resting.) see: my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23228-refeeding-syndrome Also, in December 1945 an experiment was undertaken to better understand the impact of starvation on the human body (and they surprisingly found out a lot about the human mind. SEE: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Those who were in the Civilian Public Service either because their religion forbade them from going to war such as Mennonites, Quakers etc were the trial subjects. What happened was …well, in some it was highly disturbing….but mostly an OBSESSION with food was noted, lowered libido, an obsession with the body, th scale, etc and this has since been looked to for eating disorder research. With an ED, one reason recovery is hard is because aside from a deeper issue than food being the true problem, the cycle is self-sustaining, it just by drastically lowering food intake one can cause a lot of the the signs seen in an ED.)
If you want to see the long term effects of having everyone "clean up" the camps and putting it front and center, look up any of the docs about "how does Germany teach WW2 history" they pull NO punches about it.
My father went into Germany right after D day to drive the germans out of France they pushed them back to germany and then he was part of a liberation of a nazi death camp it had 15,000 prisoners he was there a few weeks to help bury and get the prisoners back to a living less zombie state. 25 years later my father still would wake up some nights sweating and crying remembering the walking dead all the corpses and the smell he said you never got over the smell of cooked people and rotting flesh
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I understand your comment about a 14 year old being exposed to the camp but I'm going to say that probably it's MORE important that the YOUNG people see that then even the older people here!! It might be traumatizing for a 14-year-old but they damn sure will NEVER forget what they saw!! And it goes a step towards hoping that it never happens again!!!
That’s true, we see both sides of the scenario. I (swizz) was just thinking seeing second hand vs first hand, having to smell, touch, bury, etc would do a lot of damage BUT in that same breath, expose them to never let it happen like you said.
@@DaKidsReact I like to take this opportunity to say that you guys are doing a great job reacting to the series!! Have I shared with you the link to the Dick Winters interview!???
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That was the point that no one could say it didn't happen & they didn't know how bad it was
guys, wtf, they all knew. and it is happening again.
There is controversy over whether he said it or not, but I'd like to think he did:
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945
it's happening as i type this, never forget? they already have.
@@tekay44 Who funded the Germans in WWII?
Do you remember that?
There is NO controversy over what General Eisenhower said or did: He pulled troops off the line who were not engaged in combat. He had them go through the camps and stated, "That they should look at what was done here, because in ten- or fifteen-years people are going to say this never happened". They also as you saw made the Germans from surrounding towns come and look at the camps and bury the dead. A poll was taken about 25 years ago, and 20% of high school students said that the Holocaust was fake.
@@Easy_Skanking A lot of countries funded Germany before 1939. It was one of the main reasons that H went to war, all the loans he took out were coming due for his "economic miracle" and Germany couldn't even pay a third of them back.
He said it, and it's happening just as he predicted.
One thing that Allied commanders figured out really, really quick was that people would eventually deny the Holocaust happened. A number of steps were taken to prevent that. Forcing nearby towns to help bury the bodies was a very pointed way spread the knowledge in an unforgettable way. Yes, it traumatized the townspeople but that's sort of the point. The other reason to draft locals for burial detail is that it frees up troops for other work and speeds the advance of Allied forces toward Berlin.
The locals knew.
That’s what I (Sheim) was thinking. There’s just no way my mind can wrap around that this information was so discrete that no one in that town knew or spread word about it. Also, with that it would be hard to do anything about that situation without putting your life and your family members’ lives in jeopardy.
Absolutely. They absolutely knew. The Jewish people knew through rumor and innuendo even back in the ghettos what was happening so it is IMPOSSIBLE that Germans in surrounding towns near to camps didn't know. And like, the whole country isn't stupid. They had Jewish friends and neighbors before the war, where did they think they went when they rounded them all up? They all knew. Millions of people don't just disappear unless you disappear them.
@@Lina_unchainedYes! Exactly!!! Of course they knew it. Whether they wanted to play dumb to save their skin, or for any reason, it's very different. I mean, the same german people denounced the “enemies of the state” ,they themselves handed them over to the nazis. I don't believe them when they say they didn't knew.
@@anahivega4281it's not like they could do anything about it regardless
@@maralinekozial9131 obviously they couldn’t do much, but what they definitely could do, was accept that they knew
Credit to you two for doing such shows and putting in the effort to learn and understand.
Much love💙
Two things. First, when I was a kid in Kansas City, (late 1960s) there were business owners we knew who had numbers tattooed on their arms. Young people today wouldn't be able to see that the same as I did. Second, one of my buddies (now deceased) was in the Army in Germany starting in 1950. He said every adult knew what had gone on, and when they denied it, they were lying to save face
That’s truly sad😢 in an instance like that, who would you go to, to tell in Germany during that time?
@@DaKidsReact I think thats the point. Even if you knew what are you supposed to do as a normal citizen. If you look at the Scholl siblings - they were murderd to basically revolt against the Nazis. You also gotta keep in mind that during that time there was no social media or free press. How could you even form a resistance group, as networking was super hard. Also i truly believe not everyone knew about the camps. People didn't travel as much as today so you never really left your town. And if the nearest camp was like 100miles away you might just might get some information from hearsay. But as I said before - media was totally controlled by the Nazis.
Like if normal citizes would have known, the allies would have surely found out aswell - but they also just heard of general stuff going on.
I think it was common knowledge that Jews were taken by force out of their homes but the extend of the holocaust was probably a secret (e.g. gas chambers, mass shootings ,..)
in the cities and larger towns, the people definitely knew because the discrimination, persecution and roundup of Jews were very public. in the small towns in the boonies, they may not have known what was going on.
You believe everything people tell you?
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I honestly think it’s one of the best tv episodes ever made
Definitely was an amazing episode (both amazing & sad)
While there were many in Germany who did know the extent of the horrors of the concentration camps there’s all but zero chance people in the towns near the camps wouldn’t have had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
They’d have had to be aware of the trains full of prisoners coming and going. The prisoners who were deemed fit to work would have been worked to death as slave labor in factories especially war factories built near the camps for the access to the slave labor pool. The SS soldiers in charge of the camp would have been socializing with the locals in town. And not to mention there’s no way the town wouldn’t have at least at many times been able to smell the unmistakable smell of death and disease from the camps.
I agree and I feel like the reason that they kept quiet obviously was because if they spoke up against it they would be dead themselves!!!
Was one of those situations where you saw stuff happening and you knew it wasn't right but you also knew you needed to be quiet in order to stay alive yourself!!!
I watched a documentary about a camp in Poland, she was a kid during ww2 and she said herself that one time she went against her parents wishes and walked to the barbed wire, she was then screamed at to move away by a guard. But yes you're right the Germans did know, it was common knowledge.
This is why myself and others get mad when the term “Nazi” gets thrown around. Certain people don’t like other peoples political views or whatever but they have no idea what that word really means. It’s a curse word for a reason because they did the stuff that’s been dramatized in this series here. Now days people don’t wanna look back and see what happened and if they fail to read the part their only doomed to repeat it, I’ll leave it there
Totally correct. History must be taught in order to understand what happened and to prevent certain things from ever happening again. Hit the nail on the head.
Part of the reason that it gets thrown around is because far-right and neo-nazi viewpoints have had a huge resurgence. A lot of nazi ideas and concepts have not gone away, and in certain parts of the online space they're thrown around and embraced with gusto. There are certainly people who over-use it as a term of insult, but there are also inarguably plenty of people to whom it applies.
You two are such sweethearts! This episode really chokes me up, can't understand how anyone could treat another human like this. Great reaction lads ❤
Appreciate the love! This episode was hard to watch but we are happy you enjoyed this reaction!
schindlers list tells you more.
Planning on watching that soon🙏🏾
@@DaKidsReact nice.If you are interesting in not famous videos.The Margraten adoption is a nice one to watch.There is a American cemetery in the Netherlands. The graves of the Americans are still adopted to Dutch people. Thousands of americans rest there
"The Short Life of Sophie Scholl" tells the story of her & the White Rose society who tried to counter Nazi propaganda & tell the truth abt the War.
Thanks for your genuine reaction. Band of Brothers is a masterpiece. You hit the nail on the head when you reacted to the scene at around 14 minutes: "He thought it was all sweet and games. Well, this is what it really is." Happy Independence Day, brothers! Greetings from Denmark.
Appreciate the love! We really enjoyed this series. We learned a lot and with that an awesome experience on some history. Happy Independence Day!
There were 26,000 concentration camps in the Nazi system. There is no way the population didn't know what was going on. Where I was stationed in Germany was a satellite camp. Prisoners brought up from Dachau. You can't move 6 million people and the train stations, the towns, the populace didn't know. Not only Jews were rounded up. There were gypsies, homosexuals, any Slavic (Polish, Czechoslovakian, Russians). Those from the Baltic area. The Russians lost between 22 and 27 million people. Now, the German people likely weren't aware of what was going on in places like Auschwitz, but there were enough camps in France, Germany and surrounding areas. I've been to those camps, you can still sense death in those places. It sounds strange it's like you can smell it still.
Right now the college campuses are erupting with cries to annihilate the Jews. Antisemitism is on on the rise. Give things a couple of generations, and this stuff starts up all over again. Our government has been trying to turn a blind eye for a few months now. Maybe they are stepping up to the plate with what has gone on in the last few days.
One thing i think a lot of people forget is that while they may have known about what was happening that's not the same thing as "knowing" what was happening, it's easy to push something aside, make excuses, delude yourself when don't personally see it with your own eyes.
The German people knew but were either afraid or agreed with the effort. Regardless, they should have done something. To basically take people, kids and adults and simply kill them is such a crime against humanity. HAMAS believes the same by the way as they have already shown.
Read the book Witness it breaks down the involvement of the German Reichbahn. The German railroad was the primary method of movement for the victims. 3 years, West Berlin in the belly of the beast.
One thing you have to keep in mind is, the allied forces (American, English, French, soviets, ext) had no clue that these camps were even a thing until they started stumbling across them. It’s crazy that there are people today that insist that this never happened. Insist that the allied forces made this up in order to justify the war. I can’t remember the name of the camp but Eisenhower order that pictures be taken and video recorded of every atrocity they found so that everyone would believe the murder that had taken place. We have to remember these kind of unpleasant situations in human history because there are people out there that would love to start this kind of thing up again.
That is not correct, the Allies were getting reports as early as 1942 of the existence of the camps. People brushed it off as Jewish propaganda. FDR himself saw reports of the camps as early as 1943, but because it could not be corroborated by Allied intelligence, they were dismissed as false.
The scene of Webster pulling the pistol on the civilian is accurate, a lot of the soldiers who liberated Dachau and who were first there, gave some prisoners guns and they lined up the surrendering SS guards, and shot them dead. On another side of the camp at the same time, a high ranking squad officer pulled his gun and threatened his own Colonel. Most US soldiers quickly stopped taking prisoners after this, understandably so
Meanwhile, the Soviets held trials and gathered evidence….when Americans snap and shoot you, but the Soviets plan a trial, you know it’s bad.
There is a series of podcasts, celebrating the 20th anniversary of BofB, that features the actors/writers/directors from each episode. In "Why We Fight," there was a lot of discussion among cast/crew about "springing" the concentration camps on the audience, but the ultimate decision was that since it was sprung on Easy Company in realtime when they found this camp, it was fitting to spring it on the audience as well. I agree. Another excellent reaction, fellas. Thanks for sharing.
Seeing the photos of hundreds of thousands prisoners of war being marched to the rear always moved me as, at this point, so many were young boys or old men
I cried so much in this episode! So you guys have to watch Schindlers List. I say this because one of you said you didn't know there was a woman's concentration camp. Schindlers List will give you the insite on that portion of the war. I watched it my freshman year of high school in my history class back in 99-00, and the movie made such an impact on me that I not only own it, but I highly recommend it. One of my all time favorite movies hands down. Thank you for watching this series guys wish I could join patreon but I'll continue supporting you guys here.
That song they sing during the car ride around 11:00, yall should listen to that and read the lyrics. It's truly a marvel of a song about the worst possible things that could happen to a paratrooper and a very gruesome song sung in a happy tone. Always appreciated that detail.
Song Title: Blood on the risers
Agreed it's harsh for younger teens to bear witness but the idea was to be sure this horror would not be denied, covered up or forgotten. Eisenhower and the brass knew this and they were right. It had to be that way.
I grew up watching actual film of these camps, observing photographs, watching the movie Judgement At Nuremberg, and my Elementary and Junior High Schools would host Jewish Concentration Camp survivors. My grandfather saw these things in person as an Army veteran. The message was never forget and never allow genocide anywhere for any reason against any race of people. Education has failed in this message for the last 25-years.
There were such happenings to the Kurds in Iraq, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others. We have said never again too many times.
Just FYI The Boy in the Striped Pajamas has been widely criticized by Holocaust historians as perpetuating "a number of dangerous inaccuracies and fallacies” about the Holocaust. The gist of it is that the events of the story couldn't have possibly happened. The main character is portrayed as having no idea about Jewish people, Hitler, Nazism, etc. when in reality he would have been legally required to be a member of the Hitler Youth, swearing oaths to Hitler daily, and subjected to constant anti-semitic propaganda.
It perpetuates the myth that many Germans may have been ignorant of the atrocities committed by the Nazi party, when in fact the general public in Germany and in occupied Europe were well aware that Jewish people were being persecuted, forced to emigrate and eventually deported. There were also many who knew that Jewish people were being killed, and many that attacked and killed Jews before they were deported. Many Germans profited from the Holocaust as Jewish properties and belongings were ‘Aryanised’, which meant they were taken from their Jewish owners and given instead to ‘ethnic’ Germans.
TL;DR if you were a German citizen during the Holocaust and weren't actively resisting the Nazi party, you were a Nazi, and you knew what was happening. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas essentially tells a story intended to make the audience sympathize with Nazi citizens. It's essentially a form of Holocaust revisionism.
Oh I have been waiting for this one!!!
Hope you enjoy💙
Crazy thing is atrocities committed by Japan are just as if not worse, but they got sort of a free pass. What they did to the Chinese and to prisoners of war was beyond words.
Interesting fact: They had cancer patients as well as other terminally ill people play the concentration camp prisoners. They didn't want to force any actors to get that thin for the role, and they didn't want to sugarcoat it so they found a balance by finding people who were already that emaciated to participate in the filming. I thought it was a very interesting way to make sure that they were being semi-true-to-life and also I find it cool that they allowed people who wouldn't live long to be a part of something that would live forever by being a part of telling such an important true story.
The IRL camps were 100x worse they not only had women camps but the children were mixed in with the women and men’s camp and if the mother had a baby they’d force the mom to hold the baby over the mothers heart so when they’d shoot the mother they wouldn’t waste ammo and get “two birds with one stone” straight up beyond horrible and horrific honestly words can’t describe it
These people knew what was happening , they turned a blind eye , who would you complain to
All these sorts of regimes rely on turning folks against each other. When you’re terrified your own neighbors will turn you in people either do nothing or only engage in the kind of low-level resistance that is no threat to the Party. The Gestapo was tiny but generally very effective because folks would come to them, unasked, and inform on each other. Sometimes they benefited financially, other times it was just for the proverbial pat on the head.
One thing i think a lot of people forget is that while they may have known about what was happening that's not the same thing as "knowing" what was happening, it's easy to push something aside, make excuses, delude yourself when don't personally see it with your own eyes.
I spent 3 years in Germany, and I heard ALL the excuses from Germans, and the only one that was true, was that you don't ask questions. Most Germans went along whole heartedly with the final solution. Many who went along with it, paint themselves as victims. They were not.
The extras who acted has the prisoners where actual Cancer Patients getting or awaiting treatment. When making the concentration camp scene, behind the scenes people asked many of the actors if they want to see a memorial in order to get ready for it, all of them said no because they wanted to see the concentration camp with virgin eyes like the real E Company did over 80 years ago. The shock and awe from the actors are raw and real. I cry every time when I reach to Episode 9 because has someone who has a degree in history, we can never forget the atrocistes of the Holocaust. (Side Note: Babe Heffron said that the depiction in BoB wasn't accurate - in reality it was 1000 times worse.)
Many people of today especially the young who are forgetting that the Jewish people have lost so much because of one man and many of his followers did to them. That is why Mossad was created in Israel "Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations," because when Nazi Germany was losing the war, many high level Nazis escaped to other countries especially to Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Mossad agents get information on a Nazi escapee's they go and get them, send them back to Israel, put them on trial, and finally hanged. Mossad even today are still looking for any Nazis from WWII, even though many are old men and women, Mossad still will hang them for murdering their people.
So then what is the worst genocide?
The most disturbing thing I remember from my youth was being 13 and working as a bag boy in a grocery market. This little old later, that looked like she weighed 100 pounds use to come in every Saturday at the same time. She always had a ghostly look. In the summer she wore short sleeves and you could see the tattoo from the concentration camp she was in as a child.
That’s so sad. Goes to show you never know what people have went through so you should lead with kindness. This was a crazy time in history.
When I was 14-15 I went on a school trip and we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau - it was haunting the scale and the sights. Its horrible, but I fully recommend the trip but it will effect you.
Thanks for sharing your experience watching this with us. It's been very enjoyable. Looking forward to the last episode.
I suggest the film Sophie’s Choice. It’s incredibly complex.
Also, important to remember Joe Liebgott is Jewish and was the translator that had to tell them to return to the camp.
The camp is supposed to be Kaufering III, a subcamp of Dachau.
it wasnt Easy company that found the camp,, they just showed it being them for story purposes,, if i remember correctly it was troops from second battalion,,,
Hey guys. Sorry I'm a bit late. I really enjoy your reaction videos. I know your watch list is already long but you've jumped into the WWII rabbit hole, which is wide and deep. A movie which is related to the subject of this episode that you really need to watch is Conspiracy (2001). It depicts the meeting where they planned the elimination of millions of people. And after that watch Anthropoid (2016) which, in a way, continues the history. You won't regret it.
This is the hardest episode to watch, but historically speaking, the only thing that any of the allied leadership had heard was rumors, and those rumors were so horrific, that they did not believe them, it is doubtful that even Dwight D. Eisenhower had heard any of those rumors, going by the accounts of witnesses of how he reacted when he first saw one of the camps, Allied forces DID NOT know anything about the camps till they started stumbling across them in the final days of the war, the first one found was Auschwitz, the Russians found it about 20 days before the war in Europe came to an end, The British found one in France the following day, then the U.S. started finding them all over the place, as hard as it is for me to watch this episode every time, I can't help but to think that what they filmed here for this mini series, was probably watered down 1,000 to 1, possibly more, having seen some of the original pictures taken in 1945, which will absolutely rip your heart out, I am guessing that is WHY General Eisenhower ordered as many pictures and as much film to be used to document the horrors of what they found, he did not care how expensive it was going to be.
They knew. Remember what Nixon said someone in town warned then guards. They knew.
To get honest reactions none of the easy company actors were shown the camp until filming. Most of the camp survivors are played by terminal disease patients, many of whom didn't live to see the episode aired. They or their families were payed several times the normal extra salary. Some of them just flat out had all their medical bills payed.
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The Jews of Israel will never ever be done this way again, there it is!😊👍✌️🇺🇸
and to think what is going on right now. People need to know their history.
As bad as this film was it was watered down or it could not have been shown. i have seen the uncensored footage filmed by the army and it is beyond horrific. i am a very strong minded man but it broke me and once seen it can not be unseen. the biggest part of the ones that survived had lost everything no home no family no friends no where to go. as for a lot of the soldiers that liberated these camps they were never the same when they went home they had seen death on a big scale but nothing could have prepared them for what they found. i knew 2 men who were part of the army who first found these camps and for the rest of their lives they had screaming nightmares every single night untill they passed away 50 and 54 years later they never told of what they saw and if asked they would leave the room crying and visibly shaking and i understand why after seeing the real filming. I Hope all that suffered now rest in eternal peace...
That’s so sad to hear about the 2 men you knew. It goes to show how much people sacrificed going into this war. It was a lifetime commitment for generational changes so all those men should be praised for what they gave up for us.
@@DaKidsReact Thank you for understanding and your kind words.
all German school children are made to go on field trips to see some of the death camps they kept standing and are still there my niece went to one when she was in Germany she said most people were in shock seeing what was there
Ayeeeeeeeee my fav reactors ❤❤❤. I really really hope you guys react to The Pacific series after you are done with BOB. It is also made my Tom Hanks and Spielberg. It’s also an excellent series and it’s way more brutal to me. It gets more on the personal side of war and what it does to you. Love y’all ❤❤
If you feel bad about the looting, know that the German Army systematically looted occupied zones as well. My grandmother was alone in her farm (grandfather prisoner of war in Germany for 5 years) and had German soldiers come to steal her chicken. She hid in fear. Two wrongs don't make a right, but it puts things in perspective. In WWI, the retreating Germans looted the French and Belgian industries by stealing their machines.
If you watched this, you need to watch The Pacific. God. The absolute carnage in that will scare you. (It was also made by Steven Spielberg and the same team as this show.)
We have gotten a lot of recommendations for that we will have to hit that at some point!
Moving from the death camp scene to the men playing violins shows the insane juxtaposition of Germany at that time. Germany was probably the most cultured nation in Europe prior to the war (represented by the classical music & the violins), but it bought into an ideology that made it simultaneously the most barbaric nation in Europe (the camps).
I (Sheim) can see how all that can be looked past because of all the atrocities that were done during the war. That shadow is always going to be casted over Germany.
One day I think you both should watch the mini-series Winds of War & its sequel War and Remembrance (its one story but broken into two mini-series). Not even to review if you don't want, just to watch them. The story is more of a drama, but it includes lots of historical characters, and really showcases the impact the war had all over the world...and not just to the soldiers but to everyone. It also gives the POV of several German leaders, many of whom wanted to overthrow Hitler. It is also delves into the plight of the Jews, and showcases the horrors of the Holocaust, more so than any other production. I highly recommend it. Just be aware that there was a 5 year gap between the two series, so some of the characters have new actors playing them in the 2nd series. But don't let that throw you off. It works.
Nixon never fired a shot because that wasn't his job.
Nixon was military intelligence. His job was to rely information from the front lines to the command post which would send it to high command. Which would then send orders back. Then Nixon would carry orders to the front lines. So Nixon's weapons were solely for self defense.
I (Sheim) think that if you aren’t well informed in position of the military you can easily think that everyone’s job is just to go fight in the war. Nixon had a specific job and has been executing it since the beginning. Nixon and Winters have been great together.
The roughest part is that whether or not any towns folk knew about the camps, there was nothing they could do about it. Who were they going to tell? The Nazis were the authority so whoever would have tried to do anything about the camps would have been either thrown into a camp themselves or simply executed on the spot and THAT is a fact that the citizens understood. The German people didn't all support what was happening by any means, but they were under just as much threat to keep quiet as anyone who would have been under constant threat of being considered one of the "undesireables" who would disappear at the hands of the Nazis.
Digestion takes energy. A starving body has very little energy to spare, so giving these people too much to eat to quickly could cause their bodies to shut down completely, mainly from electrolyte imbalance. This is called refeeding syndrome
24:22 we the people are responsible for the horrors of our nation's actions. Vote is important because we should know better.
hey lads!!! i’m not sure if you’ve covered this or someone else has already mentioned it… but if you actually remember back to the first episode.. liebgott(the translator) mentioned he was a jew on the boat before he had a scuffle with guarnere.. so you can imagine how much pain he’s in to see his people get fucked up like this and then having to tell them they can’t get anymore food and locked back up.. 😮💨
It was one of the most efficient genocides (horrific) but not the worst. Stalin and Lenin each killed over 20 million of their own people. Mao killed 100 million. Doesn’t make this any less horrific.
We definitely weren’t trying to downplay how bad this was!
@@DaKidsReact y’all didn’t. I was just pointing out there were worse genocides while also stating the fact there were worse ones doesn’t detract from this one (which some idiots on the internet seem to think my statement would infer).
they didnt shoot prisoners at the side of the road they where caught hiding after the ordered surrender meaning they are fair game.
I'm curious what you guys believe is the worst genocide in human history if it's not the holocaust.
I (Sheim) had some knowledge on the Great Leap Forward and the Congolese genocide. All in all, they were all terrible and in no way shape or form should be praised for being worse than the other.
That German officer (in the picture) had been killed in combat, (Black ribbon on the edge of the picture frame.) There's no reason to believe he was involved with the camps.
This certainly was a reason as to "why we fought" but It was just one reason why. They Allied troops had already liberated most of France, and all of Holland and Belgium. They were there to liberate all they could, not just one type of people. Meanwhile, the US was not really under threat from Germany. It was simply a battle against evil for them.
Have you guys watched Schindler's List? Again a haunting movie, but well worth a watch
Yes, if you scroll down our page it’s within this month
The words of the vets in the beginning have a double meaning. It's to remind us that the soldiers of an enemy are just men too. They could be just like you. They have families, hopes, fears, and are trapped in that war. The other part is a warning. The Germans had a progressive democratic society. The people were not evil. They had things in common with us. But they fell hard. They found their way down the path of committing great evil. It can happen to us too.
You all need to watch Schindlers list!!!
And "The Pianist"
There is an historical error here. The first military to arrive there was the 12th Armored Division. They arrived later. Also there were two types of camps. Slave labor camps, and execution camps. Schindler's list camps were slave labor camps and you get a good idea what they were like. They were basically camps to work people to death. I knew people who were in the camps for multiple years. The process was that they first gathered Jews in various ghettos. For example in Schindler's list it was Krakow. My relatives were in Lodz. Then they were transferred for selection to other camps like Auschwitz. There Dr Mengele would point to which side the person would go. Those not able to work, like the old or very young or pregnant women went to immediate death. The other's would be given numbers and sent to camps to work. They were given very little to eat and shot if they were not able to work anymore. You cannot imagine how bad it was unless you were there. I heard many stories from survivors. After the wart many had forgotten what it was like to do simple things like eating on a table. What you see here is very sanitized.
The people in the town knew, the prisoners worked in the town
13:42 - He’s criticizing the Germans as citizens, not soldiers.
Have you reviewed Schindler’s List yet?also checkout any film or documentary on Ann Frank too.
We haven’t but we are definitely going to put that in our list! And we’ll have to do some digging on the Ann Frank documentary and see if we can get that on the schedule some time down the line.
They knew.
That’s what we were thinking, not all but some definitely did!
The high command, yes. The rank and file, very likely not.
@@FrenchieQcbullshit ….. every one knew
They didnt know about the final solution. The plan to exterminate jews aswell as most of eastern europe qt some point was openly stated by hitler many times since mein kampf @@FrenchieQc
please react to shōgun. Thank you!
We are planning on doing so! It will be on Patreon about 4-5 months before YT
Sadly Allied Leadership had to have an idea these camps existed - aircraft would have flown over them at the very least
In 1943, US government was perfectly aware what's going on, what the camps were, what was their purpose and how they were operating. There were many eyewitness' reports delivered to them from Polish resistance and international diplomats. Politicians decided not to disseminate the knowledge in US populace for reasons not entirely known - there's more conspiracy theories about this decision then there are facts known. Google the name of Szmul Zygielbojm - his story summarizes the issue of allied non-response to Holocaust the best.
Webster grew up tolerating cursing, heck, he never cursed or swore himself, thus that scene never happened.
You two should react to come and see maybe the best ww2 movie about nazi atrocitys
What do you think was the worst Genocide in world history?
Have you guys watched Schindler's List yet?
Just shows you how evil Hitler and the SS battalion was.
Frm 1933-'45 Germans rounded up Jews in every town & city. Homes given away& none returned. It was against the law to hide Jews. They might not have known everything but everyone they weren't meant to return. Ever. You turned away & got on w/ your daily concerns.
What do you mean this wasn’t the worst genocide?
Please name the genocide or genocides that were worse?
26:23 Ssshhh you’re not supposed to say that (even though it’s totally true:)). Hoping y’all won’t get demonetized for that
If you ask me I think all the nazis and German soldiers were evil.
300 000 nazis didn't surrender, 300 000 soldiers did. Not all German soldiers were nazis
Anyway, can't wait to see you guys react to the finale. I hope you react to the documentary We Stand Alone Together too. A must see.
Have y'all watched Schindler's List yet? You should.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides#List_of_genocides
Its sad that today that there are people today who deny this happened and are still antisemitic
They protesting and calling for the deaths of Jews on college campuses all around our nation. It’s sickening seeing these modern day Nazis
Who funded the German war machine?
@@Easy_Skanking Plunder and stealing Jewish money as they threw them in concentration camps. Before that mostly by spending money they didn't have. The National Socialist Party ran a lot of work programs on debt to appear solvent. Once in power they didn't actually get out of debt until they annexed the Rhineland as that was the economic heart of Czechoslovakia. Ironically the previous german government, in an attempt to keep the Nazi's out, took huge loans from JP Morgan and other International bankers to undo the damage WWI and the heinously high reparations they were forced to pay did to the german economy. Once in power Hitler took credit for the economic improvements Chancellor Hindenburg had actually orchestrated years earlier. This is pretty common for dictators Mussolini did the same with the italian infrastructure that was modernized by the government he overthrew.
@@Easy_Skankinggermany any other answer is woke left wing democrat revisionist history
@@antonioramirez3676 Rothschilds (Bank of London), Rockefellers, Union Bank (Prescott Bush's bank). Plus tank parts from Ford Motors, as well as oil from Standard Oil (also Prescott Bush's).
My father was a sergeant in the 423rd Inf. Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, and was captured on December the 19th, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. He was about 6'1", and weighed about 180lbs when he was captured. When he escaped from the prisoner of war camp, in May, he weighed less than 100lbs, and never weighed over 140 the rest of his life. The prisoners were eating grass, if they could find it, and the rations (bread) they did receive was 20% SAWDUST. He died in 1965 at age 44. I say all that, because I can't imagine how those people in the concentration camps managed to survive for YEARS under much worse conditions than what my father endured.
I'm sorry that your father was captured and went through that. Starvation like that can cause liver, kidney, and heart damage.
Most people didn't survive long in camps, well certainly not the death camps. But even the work camps had a very high turnover. People were starved and worked to death, unless they had particularly useful or unique skills.
My father survived a ghetto, as a partisan for 2 years, and then two weeks in captivity and a concentration camp. He saw friends of his beaten to death in front of him in far too many people shot. He survived being tortured for information and to break another soldier. (Men who won't break themselves will be broken by the sight of a child being tortured) He said the worst thing was starving and watching people starve to death or die from easily treatable diseases caused by starvation. It's one of the reasons my dad became a doctor.
@@ronmaximilian6953 , my deepest respect to your father.
True. Horrible horrible war. My grandfather died of starvation and disease in Dachau, February 1945. Two months before liberation.
In 2015, my wife and I saw the first concentration camp, Dachau, that Hitler built in 1934. That camp was real close to town, and it was there for twelve years. As the war went on, more and more people were packed into it. It was built to hold 5,000, and when the war ended, it held 30,000. You can't tell me that it was a secret all those years. When they burned bodies in those ovens, ashes rained down in town.
Because it was not a secret. Everyone in Germany knew what was happening. While, the Americans knew Krystallnacht occurred.
The first camp that the US Army liberated was Ohrdruf. At that place, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower brought General George S Patton and General Omar Bradley with him to see for themselves. What they witnessed there made 'Ol Blood n Guts' Patton become violently sick and he threw up against a wall, later refusing to go into a building where bodies were stacked like cordwood. Eisenhower sent communications to every unit within range not engaging in active combat operations to also come see, he also sent communications to the press and Congress to send representatives to witness this horror document it. Ohrdruf was the first place they ordered the locals to be marched through it to see for themselves. At the end of their tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife went home and hanged themselves in their living room. "“We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, we know what he is fighting against.” -General Dwight D Eiseenhower.
There were reports of these alleged reports of these atrocities, but the stories of these atrocities were so unbelievable that the foreign press did not believe it was real. To this day I still find it unbelievable that people did this to each other. But its still happening today in some parts of the world.
When you have a chance, check out The Best Years of Our Lives. A telling of three soldiers on the eastern and western fronts coming home and realizing home changed without them. One of the best films, ever.
Great choice
Yall hit it again!!
My father’s family were all Eastern European Jews and they were forced out of their towns well before WW2, but I am thankful to know that nobody in my family had to endure the atrocities of Hitler’s “final solution”.
16:52 I’ve watched that movie, and it brought me near tears. That and shindler’s list.
Keep it up gang
We are sorry to hear that but happy they were able to make it out beforehand! Schindler’s list is added to the list of movies we are going to get to this year! Much love💙
UNFORUNATLY, everything you see is stilling on in the world.
Sad to think that history like this repeats itself.
My read on the guy saying the women's camp was at the next RR stop was that when he said it out loud, he realized it was probably a lie and that all the women were killed. But he'd been hanging onto that hope.
Good job, gentlemen. Loved your reaction. Especially seeing the symbolism of the violin case closing like a coffin, because if a cultured people like the Germans could do something like The Final Solution, ANYBODY else could do it too. Nobody has a monopoly on evil.
For your information, this was the worst genocide in history. 7,000,000.
My understanding is Stalin was responsible for over 20 million…including millions of Jews.
Been enjoying your content fellas bring in the LOTR extended cut trilogy… cmon blow your channel up! 🎉
We appreciate you & it’s coming once we finish Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part 2🔥
There is actual footage which can be seen on YT of locals being forced to take a look at the concentration camps near where they lived. It starts by showing the local Germans laughing and joking (it's possible some really didn't know what was happening) as if they didn't have a care in the world as they make their way to the camps. Boy, did their demeanor change quickly when confronted by the horrors perpetuated in their name.
Many of the items taken from victims of concentration camps were then regifted to many senior officers and wives of the German Army. They knew from where they got the gifts and many loved it.
This was a sub camp of Dachau. I just visited the main camp this week. There are not enough words to describe the scale of horrors that were committed. The sheer size of the place was astonishing, and it was a fraction of the size of Auschwitz. My grandfather was part of the liberating forces of the main camp at Dachau - the things he must have seen…
22:55 actually, the biggest problem is what is known as “refeeding syndrome” (I have experienced it due to a bad GI condition I have and earlier in life due to an eating disorder) … when one is fasting/starved/unable to take in nutrients for whatever reason, the body switches from a metabolism focused first on carbs to one focused on fat and proteins/amino acids. And since there’s o outside source, the body basically begins eating itself up. One begins to break down fatty tissue and eventually, muscle mass (as a source of amino acids which make up protein. Amino acids are needed to keep cells dividing as you need to create more DNA for each cell and each one needs those AA’s.)
Also, glucagon increases (hormone that hold on to sugars) and insulin production is halted (makes sense, no outside source, the body tries to preserve what little is there.) in any case, the many minerals and electrolytes (these especially) very quickly start going down. A lot of other stuff occurs such as a “weird” type of carbohydrate being made (it leads to lower cellular oxygenation.) what’s most important is that the electrolytes phosphate (low enough levels can lead to coma), potassium (when this gets low it’s bad. It’s vital in keeping muscles going. The heart is a muscle. With hypokalemia, low potassium, different irregular and potentially fatal heart rhythms start to occur. If you’ve muscles cramp up or have little twitches when you’ve run for a long time, not hydrated etc. Well, similar things start happening in areas of the heart, one of the most devastating being “ventricular fibrillation” which is when the bottom chambers just stop coordinating their pumping motion and start “seizing” or spasming.)
Most deaths via refeeding syndrome are due to a fatal arrhythmia (be it v. Fib, atrial fib, sinus bradycardia or a very slow heart rate. And why are they fatal? More or less because when the heart enters these weird rhythms, there’s no proper blood output from the heart …. One last cause of death can be due to seizure related medical issues.
They literally meant the prisoners could die. They had little to no idea until a similar camp was found in Ebensee, Austria (within 2 days of giving them food, many had died of this syndrome. It was actually, sad as it seems, better to keep them in that state and slowly begin hydration, IV fluids, and a VERY slow intake of calories while resting.)
see: my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23228-refeeding-syndrome
Also, in December 1945 an experiment was undertaken to better understand the impact of starvation on the human body (and they surprisingly found out a lot about the human mind. SEE: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Those who were in the Civilian Public Service either because their religion forbade them from going to war such as Mennonites, Quakers etc were the trial subjects. What happened was …well, in some it was highly disturbing….but mostly an OBSESSION with food was noted, lowered libido, an obsession with the body, th scale, etc and this has since been looked to for eating disorder research. With an ED, one reason recovery is hard is because aside from a deeper issue than food being the true problem, the cycle is self-sustaining, it just by drastically lowering food intake one can cause a lot of the the signs seen in an ED.)
If you want to see the long term effects of having everyone "clean up" the camps and putting it front and center, look up any of the docs about "how does Germany teach WW2 history" they pull NO punches about it.
My father went into Germany right after D day to drive the germans out of France they pushed them back to germany and then he was part of a liberation of a nazi death camp it had 15,000 prisoners he was there a few weeks to help bury and get the prisoners back to a living less zombie state. 25 years later my father still would wake up some nights sweating and crying remembering the walking dead all the corpses and the smell he said you never got over the smell of cooked people and rotting flesh