The Final Solution - Sabaton History - Historian Reaction and Thoughts on the Holocaust

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Komentáře • 213

  • @baruteku
    @baruteku Před 3 lety +213

    As a Pole myself I had sort of mandatory trip to Auschwitz and a closer concentration camp in Sztutowo (Stutthof). And cannot understand Holocaust deniers. And it is true that nothing can prepare you for this. The gloom sips from everywhere out there.

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +43

      We were doing the same in Czechia (at least here in Silesia), but we've stopped organising these "trips" because it had a bad affect on the kids. I believe that everyone should go there, we have to forgive, yet we must not forget.

    • @chozer1
      @chozer1 Před 3 lety +12

      @@danorott its important for everyone to go so they understand even if its grim, i wish i could go to auschitz and see it myself and give my respect to the fallen

    • @plurk7397
      @plurk7397 Před 3 lety +10

      @@danorott yeah exactly i mostly would advice and even say don't go there under 18.
      I was 13 when we went there with school and it was kinda traumatizing.
      It's smelled to death.

    • @livianegidius9772
      @livianegidius9772 Před 3 lety +4

      you have to watch Shoah a docu by late Claude Lantzman. Because most of the capos were Poles and from Ukraine you have to say sorry. .Half of my family were gassed i Auswitz other half died as partisans with gun in their hands.NEVER FORGIVE , NEVER FORGET , never never again.

    • @cramirez318
      @cramirez318 Před 3 lety

      It's like the american election deniers now🤣🤣

  • @mats7492
    @mats7492 Před 3 lety +152

    Seeing the toys and the little shoes of the murdered children at block 5 in auschwitz was among the worst things I’ve seen in my life.. still tearing up when thinking about it. there is no blood, no screams, no visible violence that you can see in that moment.. but once you’re in there, you will see everything that happened in your mind.. and for me, being German myself, seeing all of that was and still an extra punch into my gut...being able to read all the signage and the reports there in my own language cause this was committed in the name of Germany.
    I still encourage everyone to go and see it for themselves... we have to make sure that this will never be forgotten!
    Thank you for this video. Nie wieder!

    • @jimmy12234
      @jimmy12234 Před 3 lety +4

      I took german I'm high school and can read some of the signs and thats bad enough I can't imagine what being there in person is like and then also you being german aswell

    • @kelvinth117
      @kelvinth117 Před rokem +2

      i know how you feel, and me and my brother went there, when we where in the dutch military (we are dutch ) as a learnig experience on what the worst that mankind can do, and i can honestly say it was for both of us an experience we would never forget especially after we told our parents and grandparents that we went there, they told us that familie died there as part of a twin experiment. some familie members where twins even though they where full blooded germans but didn't look like it, it hit home then.

  • @swhan
    @swhan Před 3 lety +151

    A gut-wrenching video. One that is not easy to watch. And I'm so glad that Sabaton History produced it! It's vital we don't forget about this, or else future generations could well recreate it.
    Thank you, Chris, for having the mental and intestinal fortitude to cover this in your channel.

    • @phillee2814
      @phillee2814 Před 3 lety +6

      And look to the CCP and North Korea for current examples, still going on right now.
      It will not be over until ALL who perpetrate such crimes are held to account.

    • @dennislp3
      @dennislp3 Před 3 lety +1

      @@phillee2814 you speak of a dream that is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes...you cite the CCP and NK...but these things are going on in many other places as well, you literally just mentioned the "most popular" versions of the problem....its the same as everyone saying Hitler was the worst person in the world while ignoring Japanese, Chinese, or Russian atrocities before, during, and after the war....humans are humans....until we ALL live in a sort of Utopia where ALL mental health concerns are addressed and ALL base needs are provided, such things will continue

    • @_somerandomguyontheinternet_
      @_somerandomguyontheinternet_ Před 2 lety +1

      I made the mistake of watching this during my lunch break.
      Suffice it to say I did not finish my lunch.

  • @Kude1707
    @Kude1707 Před 3 lety +229

    Profiting from this? In my mind Sabaton are modern day bards singing the tales of history, these events can and should be remembered

    • @vareckthehistoricaldemon196
      @vareckthehistoricaldemon196 Před 3 lety +13

      I am Jewish and i agree with you

    • @vonx9813
      @vonx9813 Před 2 lety +3

      I mean I don't agree with them but I understand how people can think that, nowadays history is typically thought through written accounts, not through music, so when something as controversial as the Holocaust in sung about I can understand that people perceive it as them trying to make money from one of histories greatest tragedies (sorry if it's a bit all over the place English isn't my first language hope you understood it)

    • @elijazfrazelsassafraz3100
      @elijazfrazelsassafraz3100 Před 2 lety +1

      @@vonx9813 You're better than many Native English speakers!

    • @vonx9813
      @vonx9813 Před 2 lety

      @@elijazfrazelsassafraz3100 thank you :)

    • @_somerandomguyontheinternet_
      @_somerandomguyontheinternet_ Před rokem

      I am Jewish and 100% I agree. Their songs are amazing and this one makes the Holocaust that much more difficult to forget.
      Never again.

  • @bosunbones.8815
    @bosunbones.8815 Před 3 lety +86

    I find it hard to press the Like Button on such a grim topic but thank you for the content.

    • @VloggingThroughHistory
      @VloggingThroughHistory  Před 3 lety +40

      I understand completely.

    • @bigham1jb
      @bigham1jb Před 3 lety +34

      Like it for this reason. If we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.
      Content like this is vital for the remembrance.

    • @coxmosia1
      @coxmosia1 Před rokem

      @@VloggingThroughHistory Also the 1984 move titled Wanzee Conference in German with English subtitles. It's even more chilling and historical.

  • @Archerfish1977
    @Archerfish1977 Před 3 lety +27

    When my dad was stationed in Germany in the early 1980's the forstmeister who lived on the mountain behind our housing area had survived the camps. He and my dad used to meet and talk. The stories he told were heartbreaking and have stuck with me over the years.

  • @Fazz25
    @Fazz25 Před 3 lety +34

    I went to Auschwitz a few years ago in winter and it left one hell of a mark. From seeing how things started in Auschwitz 1, the photos of the people from when they started the camp, later leading to just the barcode tattoos. The collections of belongings, the hair, empty cannisters. Heading down to Birkenau later on, the sheer scale and emptiness of the place. The place was lifeless, no sounds of wildlife or anything else, the only word I can think to describe it was Harrowing.
    I feel every person should be made to go there, I think that if people saw and felt it first hand, it'd be less likely to ever happen again. I will go back again to learn more despite I know I shouldn't as I will only come away feeling worse than I did the first time.

    • @marleyjr00
      @marleyjr00 Před 3 lety +2

      Idk if I could go to a place like that. I absorb energy from people and places and I feel like that place has so much bad energy I'd get overloded the second I walked through the gate.

    • @verdipauwnz3458
      @verdipauwnz3458 Před rokem +1

      Im quite a bit late to this but im still gonna say something. Im from germany and we went on a school trip to Berlin when i was around 15 or 16 and visited the concentracion camp Sachsenhausen and that was really tough. I mean i cant imagine how it must feel like to be there as someone who has/had family of jewish belief or any other Group of people that were sent to the Camps and im not even gonna try to imagine cause i will never be able to. But i as a german was just ashamed the entire time espacially because there were people that didnt take it that seriously. I mean we learn quit a lot about ww2, the Nazi regime and the Holocaust in school but that trip was a completely different experience and something everyone should experience. Like pär said you come out "scared" even if its not auschwitz itself but a different camp it leaves a mark for sure.

    • @Fraggelmann
      @Fraggelmann Před 2 dny

      @@marleyjr00That is how I feel too. There's a part of me that really want to go there if I get the chance, but I also feel like, even though I have not "broken down" in my life, I feel like I will cry and cry and cry if I get there. I could try to keep it together, but at the same time, even if I could manage (however unlikely), I feel like I would want to take it all in and feel it and that would be extremely rough and emotional.

  • @hellermartialarts1518
    @hellermartialarts1518 Před 3 lety +14

    I did a study abroad in Berlin back in college. I didn't think I'd visit any of the camps, but I ended up visiting Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Dachau. I am glad I did. You learn and read about it, but visiting the sites is a much more impactful experience. I took the Auschwitz tour and we asked the guide how she can do the tour, she said she only did two a week and felt it was her duty as her family was from the nearby city. I highly recommend visiting any of the sites, each has its own stories as well as its own impact, which is hard to put into words. I tried with an essay for a course over my Auschwitz visit, which reading back on it I still feel I can do better.

  • @Kevichkovil
    @Kevichkovil Před 3 lety +24

    As someone from the Netherlands i know the story of Anne Frank pretty well. They teach us about it in middle school. I think i was 11. After that i also read her diary. And in high school when i was 13/14 we had a school trip to Amsterdam(i live about 150 km from Amsterdam so that's why) and one of the two mandatory excursions that day was to visit the Anne Frank House. And it just makes you feel so small and humble when you walk there through the attic knowing what happened there.
    If you ever visit the Netherlands or Amsterdam i really recommend visiting it.

  • @felixjohnson2734
    @felixjohnson2734 Před 3 lety +22

    I still remember as i was in konzentration camp in Dachau near Munich just two years ago. For all of the students in munich it is mandetory to visit Dachau konzentration camp to learn about it. It was a frightening experince to walk through the konzentration camp and i can only hope that something like this never happen going to happen again. #neverforget

    • @Jumper1155
      @Jumper1155 Před 3 lety +5

      @@alexlaw1892 In Germany we still have a pretty big right wing scene, and a lot of Neonazis too.
      These topics are brought to us in education to further discussion and understanding of what transpired back under the Nazi regime in that time.
      It isn't mandatory either, your parents still need to sign the waiver for that, but it's encouraged.
      Also it's not really psychologically scarring anyone. Obviously the atmosphere there makes you uncomfortable and it may be difficult to handle for some, but it's not like people break down in panic attacks or anything.
      Working out your history and what went wrong is an important step for all countries, but still most don't do it. If everyone learned what the people on the suffering sided went through these events are more unlikely to be repeated. Wether it's the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the killing of native Americans, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade or the colonisation of Africa.

  • @killer99701
    @killer99701 Před 3 lety +9

    My father, when he was still in the Army, was sent to Europe, and his battalion when to Dachau. He told me when I got older that he could still smell death and he would never return for any reason

  • @Pih_TV
    @Pih_TV Před 3 lety +85

    My grandmother was a jew and fled from Denmark to Sweden during the german occupation. Her father rowed a boat by himself for over 30km during the night with the whole family in it.
    Also, there is a genocide going on as we speak in China. Yet no one seems to bat an eye.

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +8

      Nobody says anything whilst horrible acts are happening.

    • @Austin1723
      @Austin1723 Před 3 lety +20

      I'm fully aware of the plight of the Uighurs in occupied East Turkestan, and it just screams Final Solution all over again

    • @init100
      @init100 Před 3 lety +12

      The Chinese government actually has the gall to lecture the US about racism while keeping over a million Uighurs in concentration camps.

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +6

      @@init100 that's communism for ya.

    • @kyleheins
      @kyleheins Před 3 lety +6

      @@danorott Governments say nothing, even if the people condemn the perpetrators.

  • @DarthMalgusThaGoat
    @DarthMalgusThaGoat Před 3 lety +15

    I have seen dead bodies but when I visited Birkenau before I enlisted joining active duty infantry, I came out with part of my soul damaged. As a full German, I am disgusted to have this part of history related to my blood. This should ALWAYS be remembered but never forgiven. Everybody should visit at least once in their lives

  • @heatherwheeler8330
    @heatherwheeler8330 Před 3 lety +12

    The ninth episode of Band Of Brothers , Why We Fight, has the arguably best and most effective scenes of the men finding a concentration camp. They even used extras that were going through treatment for cancer to play the inmate that they find in the camp.

    • @redtube8667
      @redtube8667 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Liebgott translating for the victim was one of the most emotional moments I've seen on TV. The realization on Liebgott's face gives me goosebumps every time I've seen it

  • @XxSolvexX
    @XxSolvexX Před 3 lety +7

    I started with watching your WWII videos, WW1 videos, amount of deaths from WWII and ended up here. I haven’t learned history like this since high school and it’s very interesting to learn with a new perspective 10+ years later as a more mature adult, and think about how as an American citizen I fit into the year 2021. Thank you for making these videos to remind us of what we can learn

  • @BloggerMusicMan
    @BloggerMusicMan Před 3 lety +22

    I've been to Auschwitz and Birkenau. No matter how chilling you think it is from seeing photos and reading, it's much more intense when you're there. (If you're uncomfortable being there, that's good. Given what the people who were murdered there experienced, you should be able to stand a bit of discomfort.)
    You're allowed to take pictures anywhere on the tour except in some of the basement rooms and (I believe) the crematorium, which had a sign in front of it saying to be particularly silent and respectful (no kidding ...). The basement is not an issue of sensitivity, but it's darker down there and the flash might compromise the old paint on pipes.
    The survivors generally encourage people to see the camps as a witness to what happened. The staff want you to document your experience.
    What's completely frowned upon is any kind of frivolousness. If you're taking smiling selfies with your friends, if you're talking while the tour guide is trying to explain something, things like that, you will probably incur the wrath of everyone there or get kicked out.

    • @BloggerMusicMan
      @BloggerMusicMan Před 3 lety +2

      EDIT: It's the basement in Block 11 and the room with the hair you can't take pictures in.
      auschwitz.org/en/visiting/basic-information/

  • @Nattfare
    @Nattfare Před 3 lety +30

    It's a travesty that we commit acts like this over and over again. Creating a scapegoat like this to unite a population under you has always been a useful tool for terrible leaders.
    We also shouldn't forget all the Romani and homosexuals who were sent to the camps as well, along with Slavic people in general.

  • @crashingatom6755
    @crashingatom6755 Před 3 lety +6

    The uncle I'm named after was born in Auschwitz in 1945. His mom lived through 3 camps, and my mom said that lady was the toughest woman she ever met.

  • @slymanpoor7913
    @slymanpoor7913 Před 3 lety +3

    Hey boss.. love the channel.. just have to say that the vlogging through history is powerful stuff. The episode of the first WW and the Holocaust really pull at the heart strings.

  • @MeNoWorryYouNoWorry
    @MeNoWorryYouNoWorry Před 3 lety +7

    This reaction video of yours is heavy to watch but highly informative. I also have no patience who are deniers of this dark event in world history.

  • @tyrannosaurusrhett
    @tyrannosaurusrhett Před 3 lety +5

    I've not been to Auschwitz, but I do remember going to the Holocaust Museum in DC. I can't imagine it's anywhere near as intense as going to one of the actual camps, that'll still hollow you out in its own way. I remember the shoe room. Just the piles of old shoes representing lives lost. It's amazing how something so mundane can be so impacting.

  • @NatalieJ22
    @NatalieJ22 Před 3 lety +2

    I went to Krakow a couple years ago and decided to visit aushwitz while I was there. For me I just found it so hard for it to actually sink in that all of those horrifying things I’d learned about happened where I was standing. It’s almost just so intense that it couldn’t even sink in because I just couldn’t wrap my head around how anyone could do something so utterly cruel and horrific. I’ve heard a lot of people say things like the man in the video did and while it was devastating my overwhelming feeling while I was there and after I left was just astonishment. It’s one thing to learn about these events but to actually visit the place where it happened and to be shown the room of all the glasses and where they slept and trying to imagine how terrifying it must’ve been for them is just impossible to truly wrap your brain around. It’s something I think everyone should do but it is certainly something you’ll never forget.

  • @Lifeisasecret-
    @Lifeisasecret- Před 3 lety +7

    Sabaton - the best history teacher I ever had !👍♥️

  • @mariosecen8403
    @mariosecen8403 Před 3 lety +5

    Soldier of three armies please :D And nice to see you react from this history channels all the way to the end..Even when band memebers speak about the song :)

  • @yZack_Mills
    @yZack_Mills Před 3 lety +4

    I had just finished Band of Brothers last night and I believe it’s episode 9 where they go to the camp, it’s unbelievable the conditions these people went through

    • @marleyjr00
      @marleyjr00 Před 3 lety +2

      Band of Brothers is so damn good. If you like it check out The Pacific. It's BoB in the Pacific.

  • @melkor3496
    @melkor3496 Před 3 lety +15

    Will you react to some of Sabaton music for Swedish history and their Sabaton history videos? Like Carolus Rex and carolean prayers as well as Lion from the north official my video. regards from Sweden

  • @Noname-ur4ct
    @Noname-ur4ct Před 3 lety +18

    Great reaction pls react to Soldier of three armies

  • @TheOne-ow2cv
    @TheOne-ow2cv Před 3 lety +4

    I came across your channel a few days ago and love the content and I would love to see you watch Ghost Division-Rommels 7th panther division

  • @Jonsson474
    @Jonsson474 Před 3 lety +1

    There are actually surviving documents from the Wannsee conference, on which the movie mentioned is based. Most documents were destroyed in January 1945 but the foreign office files survived and were found by US forces. The documents are called the Wannsee protocol and was compiled from notes taken by Eichmann during the conference. Even though it’s heavily edited it identifies the participants and the carefully revised minutes of the meeting.

  • @christopherjones1937
    @christopherjones1937 Před 3 lety +1

    Man sooo DEEP!!! I recently found out my DNA and I have Jewish roots we believe from Spain. Alot of Hispanics have Jewish roots and do not know! I am very very proud of those roots! I would also like to say that I cannot believe why anybody would dislike this video or any others that you do!! HGG you make me proud and glad to be supporting all that you do!! Thanks for such a eye opener!!! God Bless EVERYONE!!!

    • @kerrycon
      @kerrycon Před 3 lety

      It was a Latino jew in france that shot the German official in france look up his picture in Google.

    • @christopherjones1937
      @christopherjones1937 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kerrycon Oh wow ! I didn't know that... thanks for the info. I absolutely will thanks Kerry con.

    • @kerrycon
      @kerrycon Před 3 lety +1

      @@christopherjones1937 your family got kicked out of spain in March 1492, columbus discovered the americas in October 1492

    • @christopherjones1937
      @christopherjones1937 Před 3 lety

      @@kerrycon yes that about sums it up! My family even has a cancer gene and I have done some research and come to find out that alot of Hispanics just finding out that they have Jewish DNA also have this cancer gene. Its pretty interesting!

    • @alexcaballero8372
      @alexcaballero8372 Před 3 lety +1

      Jews where kicked out of spain during the inquisition era, thats prob why you have jewish roots. I obviously wouldent know, however thats my assumption.

  • @Nebtor
    @Nebtor Před 3 lety +1

    I´m living near a former Concentration camp in Flossenbürg. So this camp is a place the school classes go for a trip during the history lessons. I think you go there in the 9th grade or something like this (so you´re about 14-15 years old), and I have to say that my thoughts in during the whole time were "dead". Usually I try to get a joke or a funny thing from every situation i get into with my friends. But in a place like this, my whole mentality changed completely. It´s a mix of fear and respect, solidarity i especially feel as a German although I don´t have anything to do with it. It was extremely difficult for me to stand in front of an "Erschießungswand" without showing tears of fear. It´s a wall, where the inmates would stand in order to get shot from behind. Although it´s very hard to see something like this, it has to be remembered now and in the future. Let´s hope mass extinctions like the holocaust will never happen again... Thank you for taking this day and it´s topic for your video.

  • @TheTimzorz
    @TheTimzorz Před 3 lety +6

    When learning about the Holocaust, it almost amazes me how people could get so brainwashed so quickly and easily, let alone how people would be able to do this to eachother in the first place

    • @StevenMRA
      @StevenMRA Před 3 lety +6

      Look around - regardless of your political stance - at how many folks will believe anything told to them by our press.
      The ability to think critically is NOT being taught in our schools. Many universities no longer teach "Logical Fallacies" because, I suspect, many of the OTHER things they teach would fall apart if logical fallacies were applied.
      Our schools are turning out "good little activists" who are shown "the ends justifies the means" and never teach "how you get there is how you will act once you arrive"

    • @TheTimzorz
      @TheTimzorz Před 3 lety +1

      @@StevenMRA Yeah very true

    • @kniazjarema5809
      @kniazjarema5809 Před 3 lety +4

      @@StevenMRA yes and it is also because people are beginning to mix fact with opinion.

  • @dannesism
    @dannesism Před 3 lety +4

    It's not just the Holocaust that people deny has happened sadly. For example the Armenian genocide is also denied on a pretty big scale and stuff like that just leaves me with no hope for future generations if I'm honest..

  • @Nethr
    @Nethr Před 3 lety +3

    I already knew all of this but this was still incredibly difficult to watch. I will never be able to understand how people can participate in acts so atrocious. After seeing so many of these barbarous acts that have happened over the years it truly makes me question the nature of humanity.
    I have seen not only people that deny that these things have happened but also people that wish that they were worse. That such people have come to be can be nothing more than a grave failure of our society. It is beyond appalling.

  • @sgtmcallen9891
    @sgtmcallen9891 Před 3 lety +2

    for anybody who wants to learn more about what it was like in Auschwitz there is a book called The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery that is about a polish cavalry officer who spent 3 years there then escaped the book is a translated report that he wrote about what was happening

    • @baruteku
      @baruteku Před 3 lety +1

      Thats Witold Pilecki. Sabaton has a song about him "Inmate 4859"

    • @sgtmcallen9891
      @sgtmcallen9891 Před 3 lety

      @@baruteku indeed a great song about an incredible person

  • @mauricioramirez5948
    @mauricioramirez5948 Před 3 lety +1

    A lot of people always want to avoid movies like Schindler's List or The Boy in the Stripped Pijamas because of how grim they are but I think everyone should watch them because it reminds us what happened and how we should never repeat it. It should also remind us what not to become. I try to watch them at least once a year.

  • @nfw4747
    @nfw4747 Před 3 lety

    I love how they put music in the background, great video from you and Sabaton history such a sad topic and we must not forget it otherwise we will be screwed in the History

  • @Vijay007-
    @Vijay007- Před 3 lety +7

    Sabaton 1648 song next?
    One of them is in Engslich and describes the point of view of the Czechs defending Prague.
    One of them is in Swedish and describes the point of view of the Swedes attacking Prague.

    • @vaclavblazek
      @vaclavblazek Před 3 lety

      I second that, please do 1648 next.
      1648 is the only Sabaton's song about events in the lands of the Czech Crown/Czechoslovakia/Czechia. Which is kinda sad, knowing that Joakim holds Czech citizenship (alongside with Swedish one).

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +1

      @@vaclavblazek don't forget far from the fame and aces in exile

    • @vaclavblazek
      @vaclavblazek Před 3 lety

      @@danorott Yes, of course, thank tou for mentioning these two songs. But I meant events that happened directly here in CZ.

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +1

      @@vaclavblazek well far from the fame talks about events in Czechoslovakia

    • @vaclavblazek
      @vaclavblazek Před 3 lety

      @@danorott I read "Far From the Fame" lyrics and stand corrected. Damn, just reading through those verses makes my blood to boil.
      It's just few days I discussed something on Quora about Czech words that made it to the world and I ended the "tale of dollar" in the Uranium mines of Jáchymov.

  • @Empire6669
    @Empire6669 Před 3 lety +2

    The hair etc is not allowed to be photographed because its catagorized as human remains. something I had never even thought of before I stood there with my own hair standing at attention..

  • @JayStrun
    @JayStrun Před 3 lety +4

    I remember when we learned about the Holocaust and Anne Frank in 8th grade. I remember there being two girls in my class, twins, whose parents didn't sign the form permitting them to watch the movie nor read the book. I remember kids making fun of them. I remember them speaking to the teacher about why they said no; their grandmother had survived "the Holocaust."
    At the time I remember not understanding the significance. "So what?" I thought, "Hundreds of thousands of people survived it, just living through the events in Germany at the time is 'surviving.' They probably just didn't want extra work." I never joined in the teasing, but shamefully I agreed with those that did internally. I remember some kids making jokes about the Diary of Anne Frank, and how....cold-hearted they were. Questioning the authenticity of the accounts.
    "Wasn't she like...11? Probably making most of this up!" and the subsequent laughter from some kids.
    Having gotten to know them a little bit better through after school activities and group projects, I realize now exactly what they meant. They came to tell me that their grandmother survived one of the camps, and didn't want her grandchildren exposed to that kind of horror. At least not in the cold, indifferent manner of public schooling.
    But it all just speaks to how indifferent and judgemental people can be when they don't have "a stake" in the events, so to speak.

  • @IsaRican810
    @IsaRican810 Před 2 lety

    Reading the secret diaries of men working in the SonderKommandos in Auschwitz Birkenau has to be one of the most haunting experiences I’ve had. Reading in their own words their reactions when they realized that their “special” job for the next few months was dragging the bodies of the dead to the crematoria and incinerating then. Knowing that they were themselves murdered and burned by the next group to be assigned… I think we honor those lost by continuing to hear and tell their stories; making sure that no one forgets what happened to them and doing whatever it takes to ensure it never happens to anyone again.

  • @onionn3814
    @onionn3814 Před 3 lety +1

    Please make a video about operation Anthropoid. As you mention in video, the successful attempt to assassinate Heydrich.

  • @TheRychanek
    @TheRychanek Před 3 lety

    I am loving your content. As a lover of history, have you heard of extra credits channel? They do a very good, which I had no idea about, on the Irish Potato Famine. Would love to see a reaction of that. Or do Sabaton Aces in Exile.

  • @eidolonis
    @eidolonis Před 3 lety +2

    React to The Lost Battalion if you haven’t already, it’s personally my favorite song from them.

  • @Tomikchomik1
    @Tomikchomik1 Před 3 lety

    Im Polish, From my familly 5 person, whose killed in concentration camps. My grandfather (father of my dad), been 4 years in Matthausen-gusen, until he was liberated (i have still papers from liberation, sign by some sergeant in Patton army)

  • @StevenMRA
    @StevenMRA Před 3 lety +1

    Hey - we do know what was said at Wannsee - in the movie ("Conspiracy") they explain that one transcript survived.

    • @VloggingThroughHistory
      @VloggingThroughHistory  Před 3 lety +1

      You're right...I was just reading the translation of it. It's not a word-for-word transcript but rather minutes of the meeting. Looks like the movie stuck pretty close to what is contained in those minutes.

    • @StevenMRA
      @StevenMRA Před 3 lety +1

      @@VloggingThroughHistory
      Just wanting to be helpful. My wife and I watched it just last night, due to the current memorial time related to the story.
      The summer before my 1L year (2019) we visited the Holocaust Museum in DC - it was ... difficult.
      I am currently reading a book called "Ordinary Men" - it tells the story of the police battalions during WWII, manned by middled aged German men. Good normal men who were slowly socialized to become a liquidation unit. It's like wading through a sewer - trying to "get" how things they did became "normalized."
      Loved your video and enjoy your channel - please continue producing your excellent content.

  • @tomi_9212
    @tomi_9212 Před 3 lety +1

    You arent late as ww2 week-by week. "world war 2" channel´s sub-series war against humanity covered june 1942 as a month when Anne Frank begins to write hers diary.
    Greetings from Finland, you are doing great reactions, i can see you have some knowledge in you aswell.

  • @benswaggerty331
    @benswaggerty331 Před 2 lety

    If you’re ever in Dallas, there’s an excellent museum regarding the holocaust that I recommend you check out

  • @Robocline
    @Robocline Před 3 lety +1

    I have never in my life hated anyone so much that I wished harm on them (not even my ex wife). I cannot imagine how twisted your heart and mind has to be to justify what these people did. The holocaust has always sickened me. I do think that this event overshadows other atrocities committed during the 20th century though. What the Japanese did in China, Burma and The Philippines gets very little exposure. What the Russians did also largely flies under the radar of mainstream historical education. Don't even get me started on Pol Pot. I do think we need to highlight these people and events so they never happen again.

  • @samuel10125
    @samuel10125 Před 3 lety +2

    I don't understand how people can sit there and say this never happened. Those people disgust me.

  • @jamesblackwell7752
    @jamesblackwell7752 Před rokem

    I won't forget and I have taught my children who will teach their children and I hope will continue on down the line.
    Never forget!

  • @bryde1968
    @bryde1968 Před 3 lety +8

    Thinking how could anybody belive theese ideas, "somebody beliving a secret society is to blame, for all bad things" then I watch the US in the news and understands

  • @argantyr5154
    @argantyr5154 Před 3 lety

    If I remember correct Sabaton does not play this Song live anymore because it feels wrong to rock out to this Song.
    I came to think of the khmer rouge genocide, when you said before and after, and I'm sure there are several others horrific things all around the world that is not that well known.

  • @handleofswod
    @handleofswod Před rokem

    "blessed be man merciful and kind" the irony in these words are painfully clear

  • @vaclavblazek
    @vaclavblazek Před 3 lety

    Re Heydrich: He was named an Acting (or Deputy) Protector of Bohemia and Moravia sent to enfroce Nazi policies and fight resistance of local population in the occupied parts of Czechoslovakia. He became know as "the Butcher of Prague", "the Hangman", "the Blond Beast" and by other names. Czechoslovak government in exile in London sent two paratrooper unit (one was Czech, well, actually Moravian and the other one Slovak) to assassinate Heydrich in an operation code-named Operation Anthropoid ("human-like" or "humanoid", not considering him even human). They wounded him and he later succumbed to sepsis. Both paratroopers and others from other units were killed in an gun battle in a church crypt three weeks later. They kept last bullet form themselves and some used it.
    The terror that ensued the assassination in the so-called "Protectorate" caused a death of thousands. The village of Lidice, (falsely) deemed to have connections to assassins (called "terrorists" by the "authorities") was razed to ground. This was the first event of mass murder that Nazis bragged about. In the aftermath of the assasination the Allies withdrew their signatures from the infamous Munich aggreement and Czechoslovakia was restored in its original boundaries after the war. Heydrich was the only high-ranking Nazi successfully assasinated during the war.
    Heydrich was a "function collector". He was a head of the Reich Main Securit Office, thus head of Kripo (criminal police), Gestapo (secret police) and SD (SS secret service). When Austria became part of the Reich the Vienna based Internation Criminal Police Commission, later known as Interpol, fell in the Nazi lap. It became a puppet organization of the Nazi regime and other nations stopped funding it. Can you guess who became its president? Yes, this murdering c***, a war criminal and an archarchitect of the industrialized genocide was once a president of Interpol. Absolutely insane.

  • @Sion1231000
    @Sion1231000 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Never forget, never forgive.

  • @kenw.1520
    @kenw.1520 Před rokem

    Hmm. He (the song writer) did not want to get into addressing those who deny the Holocaust happened.
    On one hand, I get it. Those people feel like a lost cause. On the other hand, people need to speak up and address those people who are wrong. This did happen and we can never accept the idea that it just didn't. And we can't just ignore those people, because they'll just teach others. Which is unacceptable.

  • @animehuntress9018
    @animehuntress9018 Před 2 lety

    It is painful when people deny atrocities. Its not about being the "victim" but that seems to be what people want to focus on. I'm Native American, but for me that ancestry, it didn't used to mean that much beyond some of the customs and traditions of my family. It took learning about the hell my grandmother went through in the name of "civilizing" her for me to start to understand what it meant. Claiming it, wasn't something "cool". It was the success and the failures. It was the stories of loss and survival. It wasn't the hell my grandmother went through, but that she had survived and was able to preserve even a small part of our culture. Denying that she went through that hell of being treated as an animal was denying that she had survived and persevered in protecting some of our culture.
    As a modern child of America I can't understand nor fathom the atrocities that humans are capable of. I can see it on the news and read it in a book, but is that understanding? Who knows... but I do think that learning about it is only part of the equation. You also have to be aware that while humanity has grown and progressed... we are still human, and unless we keep our eyes and ears open to the world around us, history will repeat. It will repeat not because we aren't aware that it had happened, but because we turn a blind eye to it happening again.

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug92 Před 3 lety

    7:41: The frog-experiment is misstated - in the experiment the brain of the frog was removed

  • @EerieV23
    @EerieV23 Před 3 lety

    Conspiracy is excellent. It was an HBO movie and it is available on HBO MAX. This is so horrible, that is why we need to remember

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 Před 2 lety

    Such a powerful song. Never forget.

  • @j.lebowski3917
    @j.lebowski3917 Před 2 lety

    The similarities between the early days of the Reich and post civil war reconstruction/Jim Crow is scary.

  • @Nmccarville
    @Nmccarville Před 3 lety +1

    Conspiracy is a excellent movie but i also Love Nuremburg an the Last Hangman (base on the British Hang expert that did the Hangings in Nuremburg) but more over its the Bio of the man him self

  • @MsElias64
    @MsElias64 Před rokem

    Käy , on tosi kauhea kokemus . Luojalle kiitos Hoss kuoli siellä.

  • @houseslippers7732
    @houseslippers7732 Před 3 lety +1

    And think that mass genocide happened in the 90s in the war in Yugoslavia.

  • @aymanatiia4435
    @aymanatiia4435 Před 2 lety

    this was a fun reaction video

  • @MsElias64
    @MsElias64 Před rokem

    Shalom . Thank's ❤.

  • @chwilhogyn
    @chwilhogyn Před 3 lety +1

    The Former Yugoslavia War in the 90s the genocide of Bosnian Muslims by mainly Serbs to name one group there was some justice by ICC that convicted perpetrators on all sides, but I feel the Europe and the West as whole let the Balkans down!! It was Germany who took the stand who only reunified 5 years previously to get the UN involved even that was useless!! Even today with all the evidence some still think it was hoax!!

  • @sawmaniac
    @sawmaniac Před 3 lety +1

    We don't say Reichskristallnacht anymore, since this name was a sarcastic name given by the nazis as a reference to all the shattered glass, we say Reichsprogromnacht now. At least that's what I was taught in school. #neverforget

  • @lazarbauk1343
    @lazarbauk1343 Před 3 lety +1

    can you react to last dying breath by sabaton?

  • @dannesism
    @dannesism Před 3 lety

    Something that always strikes me aswell is how easily people brush off the camp guys as they must've been really evil and such things could never happen in todays society. But if you look at how people reacted during the Milgram Experiment that really shows what people actually are capable of.

  • @JayTillaeon
    @JayTillaeon Před 3 lety

    Also the fact that the Nazi Party learned how to segerate and tried to made it legal with the help of looking at America at that time and how it was treating Black Americans and other minorities.

  • @asabatonlessarmour4372

    Should also check out there war against humanity series

  • @TheZiering
    @TheZiering Před 3 lety

    There is also a german movie wanseekonferenz from the 80's or 90's.
    I have seen bove Versions and it seams to me the old german is more authentic but i don't no if there is an english synchro of it

  • @ryan55124
    @ryan55124 Před 3 lety

    If you have the time I would suggest watching the short movie “Jehovah’s witnesses stand firm against Nazi assault”

  • @sircdrom
    @sircdrom Před 3 lety

    Pär very accurately describes how you think you're prepared and already know all this stuff when you enter Auschwitz, but it's exactly like he says. You're can't get prepared for that.

  • @lisafoster4468
    @lisafoster4468 Před 2 lety

    I am grateful to Sabaton for covering this. Our government is trying to tell us that it never happened. If we are to avoid it happening again, we must remember.

    • @Ashpect
      @Ashpect Před 2 lety +1

      What government are you talking about?

    • @lisafoster4468
      @lisafoster4468 Před 2 lety

      @@Ashpect USA. I don't know if it's still happening, but it was a hot topic when I was in high school - that they were trying to pull it from the books.

    • @Ashpect
      @Ashpect Před 2 lety

      @@lisafoster4468 Okay, thank you for clarifying.

  • @Heroinexoxo
    @Heroinexoxo Před 3 lety

    You should watch WW2 in real time or WW1 in real time, if you want more history from Indy (Who is the guy talking most of the time.)

  • @gmanor20
    @gmanor20 Před 3 lety

    Please check out Carolus Rex next.

  • @erika_itsumi5141
    @erika_itsumi5141 Před 2 lety

    You know another great movie about these horrific acts. Shindler's list.

  • @Sapphire_Dicson_Official

    Speaking as someone who is far and removed from these events in history, I don't want to believe that people are capable of doing these horrible things to someone else, but I know that these things happened because they have been recorded across the world and it makes me very sad and disappointed that these things were able to happen at all. I learn history to better understand the world around me and the people of places I haven't been to, when I view Germany I feel no hate because that is in their past, they have accepted it, and are moving on to be better than those before them. The holocaust didn't happen because of just one person, no historical event ever can be pinned on one person and I think that is something that is constantly forgotten. There are reasons to do things just as there are reasons to not do things, it is up to the person to decide what they think is worth doing for what ever reason they may have to do it. We may not understand them, we may not agree with them, but we are not them and can't decide what they do for them. I never want to see a series of events such as world war 2 and the Holocaust come to pass again at any point in time, whether I am alive to see it or not, but I have no control over what happens to the world except the choices that I make and how they affect people around me. You like me have the same ability to choose, and I hope you choose wisely. You can only make choices for so long before you are gone. Death is certain, the future is not. The future depends on every single one of us, on how we educate ourselves, and how we treat others. Everything matters, don't let someone tell you different.

  • @APersonOnYouTubeX
    @APersonOnYouTubeX Před 3 lety

    19:10 I understand the reaction it’s just horrible regardless of propaganda it’s just savage

  • @65TossTrap
    @65TossTrap Před 5 měsíci

    Are you claiming that the historical fiction in the film “Conspiracy” should be taken as historical fact?

  • @TheUstasha101
    @TheUstasha101 Před 3 lety

    For those who don't know the infamous Gas van was originally invented in the USSR in the early 1930s (during the Holodomor to be used againts the Kulaks) by Isai Davidovich Berg.

  • @jakobchristensen2845
    @jakobchristensen2845 Před 3 lety

    Never forget

  • @_somerandomguyontheinternet_

    Never again.

  • @gamelandmaster3680
    @gamelandmaster3680 Před 3 lety

    That Anne Frank quote was the final straw. I died then.

  • @shaelisenberg8533
    @shaelisenberg8533 Před 3 lety +1

    I’m surprised he didn’t mention China now when bringing up similar events in history considering it’s a current even happening right now. 2 million muslims currently being castrated and are force to work in internment camps by the Chinese gov...

  • @Whitewolfericb
    @Whitewolfericb Před 3 lety

    Hi. As I was watching this I was wondering how the view in America was, with regards to the segregation of Jews in Germany? Keeping in mind that the USA had it's own segregation system well past the second war.

  • @vonstroheim7531
    @vonstroheim7531 Před 3 lety

    It really upsets me that my generation today makes fun and jokes about our history and events that were the darkest times for man I figured out that the people of today are humiliating and destroying a statue of Winston Churchill and the reason was because they claimed that he was a racist and that really bothered my soul because without this man none of these people would be here today to do that to his statue but again people now a days take things for granted and I too fall in the category

  • @chrissherwoodthedoctor
    @chrissherwoodthedoctor Před 3 lety +1

    The Chinese CCP literally doing this rn

  • @siervodedios5952
    @siervodedios5952 Před 2 lety

    Horrible no doubt about it. Unfortunately I find that the genocide of Native Americans throughout the Americas at the hands of various Europeans and other powers isn't talked about nearly enough. Heck they're still experiencing them to this very day, especially in places like Brazil.

  • @jordanstreib3898
    @jordanstreib3898 Před 3 lety +1

    Why couldn't/wouldn't they just leave to another country before this happend?

    • @DisneyBar
      @DisneyBar Před 3 lety +2

      Because you can't just take all your life and go to a different country just like this in such short period of time. Lots of countries rejected immigrants and didn't let them enter their country, also people couldn't believe this will happen. Can you now in your home believe your own government can do something like this to you? Can you take all you can cary on yourself, leave your other stuff, job family and friends to a place that maybe won't accept you? Also so many jews left Germany only for the new country to get invaded by Germany so it was a lose cause

    • @Manimmut
      @Manimmut Před 2 lety

      A Lot actualy did but Not everyone managed to get away

  • @wattsy4468
    @wattsy4468 Před 3 lety

    After hearing that quote from Anne Frank, I’m going to carry it with me for the rest of my life and make it my mission in life to make sure that every day I make at least one person happy by spreading positivity and kindness.

  • @piomiko3190
    @piomiko3190 Před 2 lety

    German Camp in Polen.

  • @pennywisenibbles4949
    @pennywisenibbles4949 Před 3 lety

    I’m sorry to say this but as an American I have never heard of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

  • @obyn3755
    @obyn3755 Před 3 lety

    I gave this video like 1.) because it was good and 2.) so it didn't have 666 likes

  • @zacharypayne4080
    @zacharypayne4080 Před 3 lety

    Irish Catholics suffered a lot too gets over looked..but nothing like this..

  • @weybye91
    @weybye91 Před 3 lety +3

    I find it funny that no one never mention the atrocious that the soviets did

  • @scottrobinson9752
    @scottrobinson9752 Před 2 lety

    Is it untrue that the International Jewish community pulled the string behind Bolshevism and western capitalism?