Thank you for putting together this video. I’m extremely proud to say my grandpa was the leader of the 42nd Rainbow Division and was the one that ordered the troops to take the wall so they could liberate this camp. He also stood guard at the Nuremberg Trials.
I visited this place a few years back. The feeling of just standing there was absolutely terrifying. The moment we entered I could feel all the horrors and couldn’t stay there for more than 15 minutes. The place is so haunting I could not stand being there.
@John Fabio well they are not criminals. yes there prisoners but they were hurt from being a jew or one of the other targeted people during the nazi gennocide.
I was in the army in Neuremberg from 90-92. took a trip to Dachau prison camp. It's such an erie feeling and you can still feel the presence of the souls. may god bless who suffered for many years.
God? GOD??? Are you joking? How you, or anyone, in their right mind can even entertain a hope that god exists after seeing this and countless other atrocities that man has committed against man since then is nothing less than forcing yourself to be blind. You're looking and forcing yourself to see what does not exist. A whole country rationalized that the destruction of a people was just and right and those who saw and continue to see what that country did rationalize that there is a just and righteous god. Man chooses to be blind!
Tina S .......if he ever existed ...he should have been there for them at the time....more to the point allowing it to happen...if everything is supposed to be planned by him...what the hell purpose was this and others like it for.
Rosemary Ritchie My Uncle was wounded in WWII. He never talked about it and when my dad died, we were sitting around the pool and he started talking about the war. I was eyeing my other uncles and male cousins. They all came and sat around him and we finally heard what happened to him. He was in a foxhole and a mortar shell came down and killed everyone but him and he caught some shrapnel in the back. The Germans over ran the area and he grabbed a few bodies and rolled them over him. Then the Americans fought back and found him. Two medics took him in a stretcher and a mortar hit and killed them both and hit my uncle in the face. He always had that scar. He woke up in a hospital in Italy. The army thought that he was dead and sent a telegram to my Grandma. My Uncle Tony was young and holding her hand when she got the telegram. She started screaming and a uncle Tony didn’t know why until this story was told. The next day, they corrected this error. My uncle tried to find who the medics were so that he could thank their families, but was never able to find out. When he died, we were able to read the hand written letter of apology to my Grandma by the company commander as well as a typed letter from the DOD. God bless these men.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 wow, what a story. He’s a true hero along with the others that passed and sacrificed themselves for what was right. I hope our citizenry returns to this mindset soon. God bless him.
In 1988 my sister and I visited the Dachau camp-Prior to this trip, I would say, several months before I even knew I was going to take this trip, I had a dream of crossing ditches. Upon arriving at the gate, we walked around the grounds and I took off on my own. I got to a place where there was a shallow ditch, sort like a sewer discharge type of ditch. I immediately remembered it in my dream. I walked along and suddenly a fetid odor of decaying flesh over came me. There was nothing around or graves nor recent excavations- It was just a ditch-I told my sister about it and she said that some people still have the ability to detect the smell of dead people inside the camp, whereas others cannot.
My Dad was in the 42nd Rainbow Division. Dad didn't talk about the camp much. He did stress any work to be down there, the townspeople were made to do the work. Thank you for this video.
My relatives on my grandmother's side all ceased to be. She came to America from upper Germany near Macklinburg with three young sister and was given to farmers in the heartland. Thank you American soldiers for your bravery and honor.
My dad was one of the men too free the remaining people, in ww2, yes this is a death camp, I lived and grew up with a father who was mentally ill from ww2. From seeing what man has done. My dad was a hero. Rip Staff Sgt In the army. Kenneth Petre.
Barbara Treadway must have been an awful sight to behold. Your right he was a saviour and hero god bless him and keep him safe and warm till the day you meet again.Gary
My Great Great Grandpa was born around the 1910s, he was taken to Westerbork Transit Camp, then Auschwitz, then spent 2 months at Dachau until the liberation of the camp. He remembered hearing screaming from the gas chambers, as he told me before he died in 2020 at age 101. I’m just so happy he made it out alive and he started spreading his story from ‘46 to ‘92. A friend of his, named Kyle Gorbñanaes, was one of the liberators. He told me, “I remember seeing corpses everywhere. I heard screaming from the gas chambers before we liberated the camp”, I was shocked.
I was here a month ago. When we were walking in the prison building it felt very heavy trying to walk. Thank you for sharing this video. We must never forget.
I have been to the Dachau Concentration Camp twice - once on a bright and sunny day in Summer and the second time on a dark, overcast, snowy and freezing cold day in the middle of Winter. While both visits had an tremendous impact on me as a human being, the second of my two visits in the Winter was a completely different experience as compared to the first. The sense of fear, foreboding and depression was perhaps magnified many times over in the all encompassing, bone chilling, life stealing gloom and doom of a German Winter! This up close and personal view of just how inhumane and overwhelmingly cruel one individual or group of human beings can be to others defies all logic, understanding and. explanation. And this type of mass cruelty is by no means a strictly German invention either, because it has cropped up in almost all people's of all races throughout our history on this planet. My only question that still remains unanswered to this day is WHY?
Continue: we stored our luggage and trunks in these "jail cells"... I was not allowed to see the camp itself..I was too young.We were transferred to Munich were my brother was born 1956. On October 21, I will be 71yrs...& realize now, as that little girl who had nightmares growing up there,Dachau was haunted.
I had the very great honor to be friends with a gentleman who survived the concentration camps. Joe was a very quiet gentle man who went on to raise a good family here in the states. He was arrested as a teenager helping the dutch underground smuggle in needed supplies. He told of not remembering his 21st birthday while a prisoner. He never talked much about his imprisonment just lived his life. I am a better person for knowing him. I miss my friend.
Exactly. Pregnant women being cut open alive and having to witness their newborn babies being stabbed or stepped on to death. Little girls and women (pregnant or not) being raped. Being lined up to be shot in the back/neck/chest or heart just like they were some sort of animals. not even animals were treated the way those people were. my mom was young, worked as a nurse and was at risk everyday of being shot, bombarded or raped. People forced to leave Serbia (their home country) out of fear for their life (my father was born in Serbia but had to move away cause he could've been murdered because of his religion). Tons of concentration camps and brothels for thousands of innocent people. So many more horrors happened that i cannot talk about cause this comment is probably gonna be removed anyway.... all that because of religion and ignorance.
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This scary thought is always lingering into my mind. It only takes one lunatic to destroy humanity from the face of the planet. Thanks to the invention of all this weapons of mass destructions one day in the future everybody is doomed to be eradicated unless God himself step in and do something about it.
Eisenhauer cried and Patton vomitted when they saw these camps for the first time.....many soldiers vomitted and cried .....i have seen the pictures fo stacks of skin over bone bodies and some on the bottom of the stack were not dead when they were buried.......according to the bible we will see these times and worse again it says we will eat our own.....God i hope i'm dead before these times of many Hitlers .....he walks to and fro seeking those he might devour...God forgive us all...
Yes, I read that too , I've seen the pictures of dead or near dead piled on top of each other, I cried - how can humanity be so inhumane towards each other?? The prince of darkness is alive & well, but one day, God will throw Satan into the bottomless pit for eternity
I have toured Dachau, this video doesn't portray a fraction of the horror. When I went it was a beautiful day, sun shining, birds singing, yet when you stepped thru the gates, not one bird flew over. I still to this day remember the tiny white shoes with the pink ribbons thrown on the pile of shoes and boots that were confiscated, and the suit of paper that three prisoners had worn. Sad.
A very humbling , somber place . To visit is to be overwhelmed with an unforgettable sorrow . My visit was a very cold January day , the silence was deafening . Respect to all souls forever lost here.
I used tracks from the Black Hawk Down soundtrack First track was Hunger Second track was Gortoz a ran thank you and everybody else for watching this video...
I was there in 1986. 41 years after The War the crematoria still stunk of burnt flesh and death. I even had a physical reaction when watching your video and the pictures of the crematorium appeared. As others have indicated, the air and feeling is heavy. The buildings and the Earth are forever scarred from what went on there.
My father was also a liberators of the auswich camp. He had Polaroid of body's 30 feet high. It has affected me to this day. He showed me when I was 10. He also, I believe , became mentally ill from the war.
OMG, of course he was sickened dear Steve. I understand. How can a human treat another human or animal so cruelly? It is simply incomprehensible! Your father and the other heroes who were on the assignment, were Americans, reverent and respectful of the gift of life. But they were tasked and taught to kill. That’s totally contradicting their sensibilities and natural survival instincts. I can’t imagine how one learns to kill; I bet millions of American men experienced similar emotions. It was a terrible dilemma for a human being. Opening the gates of a concentration camp and seeing these victims had to be mortifying! I had several friends who had been there, some as prisoners, some as liberators. I pray to God the world will never allow such a horrible tragedy to be perpetuated. As distasteful as it is to discuss, unless we teach this historical truth and show the evidence, I’m afraid history will repeat itself. Your dad is a hero, God bless you.
I visited Dachau myself in 1997. Also made possible due to my parents who were able to give me a most unforgettable trip through eroup February 1997. We went to Italy Austria and Germany. Dachau was the last stop we made before going back to America on a highschool trip. A bunch of teenagers you can only imagine the noise on the way there we were 200 students. When we arrived there I remember getting off the bus at the main gate.. what has always remained ingrained in me was the silence. It was so profound it was literally defenating. No birds, no one talking besides the tour directors... Just complete and total silence. Someone left yellow daisies on the memorial for block number 22 I'll never forget any of it. Changed my perspective on so many things from that day foward. God bless the men who liberated these camps and please pray for all of the lost souls, victims of genocide all 6million of them. Never forget what happened here.
Thank you for remembering the lives that have been lost and to the survivors. We shall never have peace until w rule the world with love and tolerance. Thank you to the army for being there saviours. We shall never forget all the lives lost thank you
It is my hope that each generation teaches the next about the atrocities the nazis inflicted upon so many innocent people. This must never be forgotten about.
Thank you for honoring our 🇺🇸 heroes for their participation in the liberation of Europe’s hell. Imagine what they went thru before they even arrived at those camps. My family was part of the European & Pacific conflicts, some never returned. Thank you for educating others & God has all who perished.
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I was stationed in Munich for 5 years when I was in the Army in the 1980's . I have been to the Dauchau camp 5 or 6 times and every time I was in tears and overwhelmed about what happened there. I don't think I could ever go to another camp because of how it makes me feel. It hurts my heart.
I really enjoyed this wonderful,moving and sad video. There’s those who completely missed the point,too worried about stupid misspellings! This was very professional and I hope you consider a learning to put together ,produce and edit films for a living . You have quite a talent.
Thank you, Kenny, for this doco. Very well done. As this was the first camp opened by the nazi regime in 1933, the German people had 6 years to realize what lay ahead, and act, before war was imposed on the world by Hitler and his henchmen. Yet, look what ultimately happened.
I've always been wondering what kind of minds could possibly think up such systematic evil. Is there no limit for the darkness that can actually exist in a human mind?
I feel that we owe their generation our full attention. I have spent the last few years researching and learning more about ww2 and these atrocities. Thanks for your contribution. I’m wondering why the Arabic music was chosen, but I can tell you did your best to communicate the solemnity and horror of these surroundings.
When we went through every thing was locked except the reception building. What I mean is we couldn't go into the dorms (sick word) nor the crematorium. I am so sad of spirit that I couldn't see it all. Thank you for freeing them. The town is right on the perimeter of the town so no one can tell me they didn't know.🇨🇦😢
A very loving and forgiving people too. I had two female patients with the tattoos on their forearms. They both said it was only a fraction of people, most Germans were good people. One lady lost half of her body weight and had to drink her own urine and she felt no ill will. Amazing wonderful people the Jewish are. Jesus said, “Those who smite the Jews, smite me.”
You forgot to add a couple of important details--- the horrifying stench of death and human squalor that the liberating troops could smell from a mile away as they approached the camp. And the local townspeople who lived nearby and pretended they knew nothing about it at all. Footage of them being forced to go to the camp to see and bury the dead is one of the most classic examples of the German attitudes of the time.
My great uncle was a Major with the 263rd Engineer Combat Battalion and was there to "clean up." I donated several artifacts to a holocaust museum that he had sent to my dad.
My dad was shot in France so he was left behind while his outfit freed this camp. His younger brother my uncle Victor walked through this hell a week after liberation.
The truth was much more horrifying than this film shows. Seeing the actual photos of those in the camp were unbelievable, seeing how they existed there, their despicable environment--realizing anyone would be treated so inhumanely. I was asked why I would go there--it actually happened and I honestly felt that, in a small way, we were remembering and honoring those victims. We were told the people who lived in the town surrounding the area did not know what was happening in the camp. The victims were transported by train.
That was the strenght of the nazi's/ ss, they were charming and polite ( not real but in a very sadistic way) most of the civilians in Europe did not know about the huge deportations by cattle trains. I'm dutch and my parents lived WO2, they didn't know about the camps because the nazi's covered it up and there was no communication on large scale like nowadays. It was Evil from the highest rank... 😱
i just came back from visiting this camp two days ago this camp was a base model for various other camps set up through out europe sum 35000 lives were taken here nothing compared to others set up in poland ect but beileve me this place has a very strange presence about it
Dachau was primarily a camp for dissidents and political prisoners.. It was NOT an extermination camp.. but the treatment of the prisoners at Dachau caused Thousands of deaths
I visited many years ago. I have not forgotten the sadness and the level of cruelty that took place here. I'm passing it along. Never forget what happened here.
I visited Dachau concentration camp a few years ago it was so clean and pristine it falsely represented the true horror of it, the billets were newly built not the original ones there was grass and clean gravel the gates were original and the crematoriums which I have to say we're horrific but apart from them there was no representation of how it truly must have been in the day
@@sebcharb7313 And you would't want to destroy the place where you lost your family your friends and suffered 24 hours a day not knowing when or how are you going to die?
@@sebcharb7313 So is that the "leftist mob" in Germany you're talking about, Seb, or is that just the looney voices in your head messing with you again?
Thank you for this superb rendering of hell. Every time I attempt to work this through my mind I fail. Perhaps institutionalized depravity is so counterintuitive to the characteristics of civilization that those who attempt to reason their way to comprehension are defeated. Unfortunately man’s capabilities for torture are limitless. That’s why we remember. . . all of this.
It is like "trying to work out in your mind" a serial killer. A normal human being will have trouble, because these are not normal human beings who are granted the 20 BILLION dollars like Germany was so their monster leaders could "devise" this. The second reason this cannot be fathomed by a normal human being is that superhuman evil is generally scoffed at. Superhuman evil is well beyond a normal person to even want to really comprehend. To "comprehend" it, a person would have to enjoy murder, then they can understand it. But, certain human murderers, not all, are also at a scale beyond mere human in evil. Be glad you cannot comprehend it, but be glad it will not be permitted forever. It was all a lesson in letting monsters rule nations. People simply "follow the leader", so it repeats over and over. And it still is yet to repeat in greater form, with "new and improved" systems, because those true "sub-human" monsters are still here for a while longer. In fact, with Operation Paperclip and others, America housed more ex-Nazis than it hung. Few people research where the German war-machine got the BILLIONS to even think of engineering this event. That is where the real story lay.
I visited Dachau when I served in Minden Germany .... what a place not a bird sang ... very very humbling place I left in tears and it’s stayed with me can’t imagine what those poor souls went through .... god bless 😞😞
@@Barrymacockkiner3050 Japan did not need to involve themselves in this war by attacking us at Pearl Harbor . They choose to jump in , when they could have stayed home and minded their own business .
@@deonnesingh5309 Afraid not. Read "Mit brennender Sorge", a Papal encyclical written in German, rather than the customary Latin, in 1937 and smuggled into Germany to be read from every Catholic pulpit. And what, exactly, could the Vatican have done about the Nazis in physical terms? As Stalin said in not dissimilar circumstances: "How many divisions does the Pope have?
Once I visited cellular Jail in Port Blair, Andaman Islands where Britishers kept indian freedom fighters during the Raj. When I saw torture equipment and gallow and the stone slab where condemned prisioners had had their bath before being executed I began to sob openly as though I had lost my only child. When people saw me in the that state they also started crying. For months I remained spaced out after that. English were also inhumanly cruel but thanks to the status English language enjoys worldwide we know about others savagery but not of the English.
every single time that i see things of concentration camps i cry...my heart really feels sad...and i never will understand how in this world could happen something like this. i hope that i can visit someday Dachau. thanks for share
I went there in 1982 as part of the introduction the first week in germany in the army. I swear it gave me the creeps because i though of alk those people thst did not make it out
There were a lot of ss guards who were shot or hung etc for not carrying out their orders. A lot of them had to cause if they didn't their seniors would execute them. And a lot of them who were sadist and really hated people on their differences To be in the SS u had to be affiliated to nazi party soo majority of then wanted to punish other people
The barracks that are there are reconstructions because the US troops that liberated the camp burned the original ones due to them being bug infested and what not. The same army built the barracks you see based on what they saw and they wanted people that would come later to have an idea of what they saw.
Dachau ... no words.. you could still feel the heavyness in the air. Heart breaking! My grandpa fought to free the innocent,God rest their beautiful souls
I went to this atrocity in 1990. When we got to the crematorium I almost vomited. I don't know if it was my imagination, but I swear I could still smell burning flesh!!
I relate more to this video than the other one I saw. I stood in the shower room (and smelt the gas still in the bricks) before stepping next door to the crematorium. I walked in the huts where they tried to sleep, saw the blood stained clothes they wore. The stained bunks. I stood and looked at the Memorial that had been built. I must say though, the most eerie part was the silence. Absolute silence. No birds to be seen or heard over the entire camp. EVIL pure EVIL....... 😔😔❤😔😔❤😔😔
Animals smell death their sense of smell is very high so if a human can sense death and feel it around them... Then Birds surely will... God rest their souls they are all free in the Lords home now they are at peace...
@TheTruthIsRacist you are mistaken. There was. It was disguised as a Shower room. I stood in it with the Guide. He explained all to us. I do NOT lie. Please do not accuse me of something I DON'T do !!
@EL GRECO 777 Thank you so very much for your friendly and kind comment. I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions once you have had a chance to visit the Camps but this is probably not possible. Again, many thanks for your comment. ☺🌹☺
It saddens me knowing how people were treated and how they died god bless the people who suffered here and god bless the people who died here…but thank you for sharing this video xx
1:07 and 1:17 is the building (Barracks X) with the "new crematorium, gas chamber (which was never used), makeshift gallows in front of the retorts, and delousing area. 1:13 and 1:36 are the old crematorium.
Somehow at another site the words I choose did not reflect properly my thoughts as somehow deletion of text occurred. I had mentioned I was not concerned how death occurred as in referencing suicide specifically. It is with great saddness that the method leading to death is often horrible. Respect I do seek to give and that the horrors of the Holocaust, (abortions) and other events of brutality are deminished from occurrance. That the spirits of those exposed to such, are in enternal peace and receive that blessing from our creator . In kindness, hopefully this message will remain in as I offered it.
Thank you for putting together this video. I’m extremely proud to say my grandpa was the leader of the 42nd Rainbow Division and was the one that ordered the troops to take the wall so they could liberate this camp. He also stood guard at the Nuremberg Trials.
Respect to your Grandpa, and to all those who were involved in the liberation of these death camps. From London, England.
Not.
Maj Generals didn’t do guard duty at Nuremberg.
You Cappin bruh
WOW! And my Dad was in the Rainbow Division.
I visited this place a few years back. The feeling of just standing there was absolutely terrifying. The moment we entered I could feel all the horrors and couldn’t stay there for more than 15 minutes. The place is so haunting I could not stand being there.
Yulia Evdokmov How did being at dachau make you feel?
Same here …
My dad was in Dachau and walked in the Death March when the allies closed in. He survived a bullet wound during that march. Salute to US Armed Forces!
Checkpoint Charlie Deep Respect.
Proudly saluting!
glad he made it out ok bro :)
@John Fabio well they are not criminals. yes there prisoners but they were hurt from being a jew or one of the other targeted people during the nazi gennocide.
Checkpoint Charlie
I was in the army in Neuremberg from 90-92. took a trip to Dachau prison camp. It's such an erie feeling and you can still feel the presence of the souls. may god bless who suffered for many years.
How. Devisyatimg. I have heard this before about another CAMP
I think of them a lot, not sure why, but perhaps we are meant to never forget them........we have a connection in spirit and can still send up prayer.
The useless god indeed
Ameeeen
I've always wanted to go there but ik me I cry at documentaries about this but I don't think I could make myself walk through there
Respect is due when visiting such place, be kind to the victims, even when they are not there!! such a sad place to visit!!
Believe me when I say they are still there. You feel them walk with you. It is a place of profound sadness like I have never felt before or since.
I have been there, it has a heavy, sad feeling as you enter the gates, that goes away when you exit. Will never forget that feeling. Very sad
Okievette 78 ...You are so right.When I visited Dachau I noticed the absolute silence, even birds seem to avoid this evil place
A friend was.their in 47. He said you could still smell death in the air.
My mom went there in 1964. She said as the bells chimed, it sent shivers down her spine. (Not sure if the bells are still there?)
Only cos you know what happened. If you didn't you would feel nothing.
Me too. It was a cold, windy hardship and there was two people there. It was horrible as you walked in Dachau. I would never be the same.
I am so sorry my brothers and sisters, may you all rest in the Kingdom of God.
God? GOD??? Are you joking?
How you, or anyone, in their right mind can even entertain a hope that god exists after seeing this and countless other atrocities that man has committed against man since then is nothing less than forcing yourself to be blind. You're looking and forcing yourself to see what does not exist.
A whole country rationalized that the destruction of a people was just and right and those who saw and continue to see what that country did rationalize that there is a just and righteous god.
Man chooses to be blind!
My God, my heart gets so heavy when I see the remnants of these evil workshops. I only pray that the victims are in eternal peace now.
Hahaha
I also pray that the perpetrators of these horrors are in eternal damnation.
Mark they are at peace only tears of joy for them now not tears of fear.
Poor people
Omg I can't imagine what these people went through. God bless them.
The god had been so useless
That little was in any event useless, maybe it should keep its blessings
The god never cared anyway
Tina S .......if he ever existed ...he should have been there for them at the time....more to the point allowing it to happen...if everything is supposed to be planned by him...what the hell purpose was this and others like it for.
No one can't imagine the horrors
Every single person who was imprisoned there deserves my utmost respect
My father was one of the army liberators. He was not comfortable talking about what he saw.
Another hero to be honored and admired.
My father too was also another liberator of Dachau and he wasn't able to talk about it either.
Rosemary Ritchie My Uncle was wounded in WWII. He never talked about it and when my dad died, we were sitting around the pool and he started talking about the war. I was eyeing my other uncles and male cousins. They all came and sat around him and we finally heard what happened to him. He was in a foxhole and a mortar shell came down and killed everyone but him and he caught some shrapnel in the back. The Germans over ran the area and he grabbed a few bodies and rolled them over him. Then the Americans fought back and found him. Two medics took him in a stretcher and a mortar hit and killed them both and hit my uncle in the face. He always had that scar. He woke up in a hospital in Italy. The army thought that he was dead and sent a telegram to my Grandma. My Uncle Tony was young and holding her hand when she got the telegram. She started screaming and a uncle Tony didn’t know why until this story was told. The next day, they corrected this error. My uncle tried to find who the medics were so that he could thank their families, but was never able to find out. When he died, we were able to read the hand written letter of apology to my Grandma by the company commander as well as a typed letter from the DOD. God bless these men.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 wow, what a story. He’s a true hero along with the others that passed and sacrificed themselves for what was right. I hope our citizenry returns to this mindset soon. God bless him.
In 1988 my sister and I visited the Dachau camp-Prior to this trip, I would say, several months before I even knew I was going to take this trip, I had a dream of crossing ditches. Upon arriving at the gate, we walked around the grounds and I took off on my own. I got to a place where there was a shallow ditch, sort like a sewer discharge type of ditch. I immediately remembered it in my dream. I walked along and suddenly a fetid odor of decaying flesh over came me. There was nothing around or graves nor recent excavations- It was just a ditch-I told my sister about it and she said that some people still have the ability to detect the smell of dead people inside the camp, whereas others cannot.
Bullshit.
Wow
Went to Dachau in July '69 while stationed in Germany. Was even more horrific back then. So sad to see what those people had to endure. God bless.
My Dad was in the 42nd Rainbow Division. Dad didn't talk about the camp much. He did stress any work to be down there, the townspeople were made to do the work. Thank you for this video.
My relatives on my grandmother's side all ceased to be. She came to America from upper Germany near Macklinburg with three young sister and was given to farmers in the heartland. Thank you American soldiers for your bravery and honor.
Bravery? BRAVERY?? You call the bombing of civilians from 20,000 feet bravery?
I have lost family here. anyone of BLM or Antifa ever calls me a Nazi to my Face will not live to see the next day !
My dad was one of the men too free the remaining people, in ww2, yes this is a death camp, I lived and grew up with a father who was mentally ill from ww2. From seeing what man has done. My dad was a hero. Rip Staff Sgt In the army. Kenneth Petre.
RIP Sir
Barbara Treadway must have been an awful sight to behold. Your right he was a saviour and hero god bless him and keep him safe and warm till the day you meet again.Gary
@Malcom Canning so called?
@Reg Johnson ........ Whats the point?
Reg Johnson you are to be pitied
My Great Great Grandpa was born around the 1910s, he was taken to Westerbork Transit Camp, then Auschwitz, then spent 2 months at Dachau until the liberation of the camp. He remembered hearing screaming from the gas chambers, as he told me before he died in 2020 at age 101. I’m just so happy he made it out alive and he started spreading his story from ‘46 to ‘92. A friend of his, named Kyle Gorbñanaes, was one of the liberators. He told me, “I remember seeing corpses everywhere. I heard screaming from the gas chambers before we liberated the camp”, I was shocked.
I was here a month ago. When we were walking in the prison building it felt very heavy trying to walk. Thank you for sharing this video. We must never forget.
I have been to the Dachau Concentration Camp twice - once on a bright and sunny day in Summer and the second time on a dark, overcast, snowy and freezing cold day in the middle of Winter. While both visits had an tremendous impact on me as a human being, the second of my two visits in the Winter was a completely different experience as compared to the first. The sense of fear, foreboding and depression was perhaps magnified many times over in the all encompassing, bone chilling, life stealing gloom and doom of a German Winter! This up close and personal view of just how inhumane and overwhelmingly cruel one individual or group of human beings can be to others defies all logic, understanding and. explanation. And this type of mass cruelty is by no means a strictly German invention either, because it has cropped up in almost all people's of all races throughout our history on this planet. My only question that still remains unanswered to this day is WHY?
Answer is very simple, lack of prayer. Pray the mighty holy Rosary daily.
Continue: we stored our luggage and
trunks in these "jail cells"... I was not
allowed to see the camp itself..I was
too young.We were transferred to
Munich were my brother was born 1956.
On October 21, I will be 71yrs...& realize now,
as that little girl who had
nightmares growing up there,Dachau was haunted.
I had the very great honor to be friends with a gentleman who survived the concentration camps. Joe was a very quiet gentle man who went on to raise a good family here in the states. He was arrested as a teenager helping the dutch underground smuggle in needed supplies. He told of not remembering his 21st birthday while a prisoner. He never talked much about his imprisonment just lived his life. I am a better person for knowing him. I miss my friend.
And it happened again (Bosnia/Herzegovina). Unfortunately, history repeats itself yet we never seem to learn from past mistakes.
I remember that . No one stepped in to help them. It was like natzis. It was sick.
Exactly. Pregnant women being cut open alive and having to witness their newborn babies being stabbed or stepped on to death. Little girls and women (pregnant or not) being raped. Being lined up to be shot in the back/neck/chest or heart just like they were some sort of animals. not even animals were treated the way those people were. my mom was young, worked as a nurse and was at risk everyday of being shot, bombarded or raped. People forced to leave Serbia (their home country) out of fear for their life (my father was born in Serbia but had to move away cause he could've been murdered because of his religion). Tons of concentration camps and brothels for thousands of innocent people. So many more horrors happened that i cannot talk about cause this comment is probably gonna be removed anyway.... all that because of religion and ignorance.
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This scary thought is always lingering into my mind. It only takes one lunatic to destroy humanity from the face of the planet. Thanks to the invention of all this weapons of mass destructions one day in the future everybody is doomed to be eradicated unless God himself step in and do something about it.
Polish Hero Witold Pilecki - So we are reduced to talking about degrees of depravity?
The music is haunting
Same type of music is played in blackhawk down I believe it's Celtic I could be wrong
Eisenhauer cried and Patton vomitted when they saw these camps for the first time.....many soldiers vomitted and cried .....i have seen the pictures fo stacks of skin over bone bodies and some on the bottom of the stack were not dead when they were buried.......according to the bible we will see these times and worse again it says we will eat our own.....God i hope i'm dead before these times of many Hitlers .....he walks to and fro seeking those he might devour...God forgive us all...
Rubbish
Yes, I read that too , I've seen the pictures of dead or near dead piled on top of each other, I cried - how can humanity be so inhumane towards each other?? The prince of darkness is alive & well, but one day, God will throw Satan into the bottomless pit for eternity
@@andreasvehmer8516 Nazibot.
@@tedstout7439 and you are an fool old.my grandfather was SS....sturmscharfuhrer rank.
Dianne Shaw Patton visited buchenwald not dachau
I have toured Dachau, this video doesn't portray a fraction of the horror. When I went it was a beautiful day, sun shining, birds singing, yet when you stepped thru the gates, not one bird flew over. I still to this day remember the tiny white shoes with the pink ribbons thrown on the pile of shoes and boots that were confiscated, and the suit of paper that three prisoners had worn. Sad.
A very humbling , somber place . To visit is to be overwhelmed with an unforgettable sorrow . My visit was a very cold January day , the silence was deafening . Respect to all souls forever lost here.
I used tracks from the Black Hawk Down soundtrack
First track was Hunger
Second track was Gortoz a ran
thank you and everybody else for watching this video...
Kenny thank you for sharing the soundtrack. I love it. It's hauntingly beautiful.
Actually the black hawk down track is senegalese singer Baba Maal.
I was there in 1986. 41 years after The War the crematoria still stunk of burnt flesh and death. I even had a physical reaction when watching your video and the pictures of the crematorium appeared. As others have indicated, the air and feeling is heavy. The buildings and the Earth are forever scarred from what went on there.
My father was also a liberators of the auswich camp. He had Polaroid of body's 30 feet high. It has affected me to this day. He showed me when I was 10. He also, I believe , became mentally ill from the war.
May he rest in peace, Steve, he was a hero.
OMG, of course he was sickened dear Steve. I understand. How can a human treat another human or animal so cruelly? It is simply incomprehensible!
Your father and the other heroes who were on the assignment, were Americans, reverent and respectful of the gift of life. But they were tasked and taught to kill. That’s totally contradicting their sensibilities and natural survival instincts. I can’t imagine how one learns to kill; I bet millions of American men experienced similar emotions. It was a terrible dilemma for a human being. Opening the gates of a concentration camp and seeing these victims had to be mortifying! I had several friends who had been there, some as prisoners, some as liberators. I pray to God the world will never allow such a horrible tragedy to be perpetuated. As distasteful as it is to discuss, unless we teach this historical truth and show the evidence, I’m afraid history will repeat itself. Your dad is a hero, God bless you.
We'll said. Thank you
I visited Dachau myself in 1997. Also made possible due to my parents who were able to give me a most unforgettable trip through eroup February 1997. We went to Italy Austria and Germany. Dachau was the last stop we made before going back to America on a highschool trip. A bunch of teenagers you can only imagine the noise on the way there we were 200 students. When we arrived there I remember getting off the bus at the main gate.. what has always remained ingrained in me was the silence. It was so profound it was literally defenating. No birds, no one talking besides the tour directors... Just complete and total silence. Someone left yellow daisies on the memorial for block number 22 I'll never forget any of it. Changed my perspective on so many things from that day foward. God bless the men who liberated these camps and please pray for all of the lost souls, victims of genocide all 6million of them. Never forget what happened here.
I thought was a very well put together video. I think the message the video gave has got through to many people. Thank you.
Thank you for remembering the lives that have been lost and to the survivors. We shall never have peace until w rule the world with love and tolerance. Thank you to the army for being there saviours. We shall never forget all the lives lost thank you
Absolutely haunting music and film. Very hard to capture the devastation of this Genocide , well done on your account. Thankyou.
It is my hope that each generation teaches the next about the atrocities the nazis inflicted upon so many innocent people. This must never be forgotten about.
Thank you for honoring our 🇺🇸 heroes for their participation in the liberation of Europe’s hell. Imagine what they went thru before they even arrived at those camps. My family was part of the European & Pacific conflicts, some never returned. Thank you for educating others & God has all who perished.
The greatest story never told.
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I was stationed in Munich for 5 years when I was in the Army in the 1980's . I have been to the Dauchau camp 5 or 6 times and every time I was in tears and overwhelmed about what happened there. I don't think I could ever go to another camp because of how it makes me feel. It hurts my heart.
I really enjoyed this wonderful,moving and sad video. There’s those who completely missed the point,too worried about stupid misspellings! This was very professional and I hope you consider a learning to put together ,produce and edit films for a living . You have quite a talent.
Let us hope that it never ever happens again
Shirley Woodfield already has my friend.
Already is.
It's in progress. It begins with socialism.
Already is in progress. It begins with socialism.
Don't worry it won't happen again , nuclear weapons will see to that.
It's so sad. My hope is that every victim would be in heaven with God.
It's sad you believe that there is a heaven. Must be kind of crowded by now.
Thank you, Kenny, for this doco. Very well done. As this was the first camp opened by the nazi regime in 1933, the German people had 6 years to realize what lay ahead, and act, before war was imposed on the world by Hitler and his henchmen. Yet, look what ultimately happened.
I went to Dachau with my family when we went to visit my husband's mother who lived in Germany..It is something that you never forget..
I've always been wondering what kind of minds could possibly think up such systematic evil. Is there no limit for the darkness that can actually exist in a human mind?
I feel that we owe their generation our full attention. I have spent the last few years researching and learning more about ww2 and these atrocities. Thanks for your contribution. I’m wondering why the Arabic music was chosen, but I can tell you did your best to communicate the solemnity and horror of these surroundings.
When we went through every thing was locked except the reception building. What I mean is we couldn't go into the dorms (sick word) nor the crematorium. I am so sad of spirit that I couldn't see it all. Thank you for freeing them. The town is right on the perimeter of the town so no one can tell me they didn't know.🇨🇦😢
Great video.
Thank you very much!
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My heart breaks for these people, so hard to think how sick a people can be to there fellow human beings.
What a horror
Let us bless the memory of those that died. What a waste of a wonderful talented and proud people.
A very loving and forgiving people too. I had two female patients with the tattoos on their forearms. They both said it was only a fraction of people, most Germans were good people. One lady lost half of her body weight and had to drink her own urine and she felt no ill will. Amazing wonderful people the Jewish are. Jesus said, “Those who smite the Jews, smite me.”
what do you think is wring with it?
You forgot to add a couple of important details--- the horrifying stench of death and human squalor that the liberating troops could smell from a mile away as they approached the camp. And the local townspeople who lived nearby and pretended they knew nothing about it at all. Footage of them being forced to go to the camp to see and bury the dead is one of the most classic examples of the German attitudes of the time.
Devastating film! NEVER FORGET!
May they rest in peace, all these innocent men, women and children.
I was there in 1982. You could not believe how it feels to stand in that cursed place.
My uncle liberated one of those camps w/ PATTON. Didn't talk about it much. Couldn't blame him.
Go to Gaza almost similar
My great uncle was a Major with the 263rd Engineer Combat Battalion and was there to "clean up." I donated several artifacts to a holocaust museum that he had sent to my dad.
My dad was shot in France so he was left behind while his outfit freed this camp. His younger brother my uncle Victor walked through this hell a week after liberation.
I am so sorry. He was very courageous and we all are thankful for his service.
my grandfather helped liberate this camp. I can't imagine the horrible shit that man had seen
My uncle Ernie was a British soldier who were among the first troops in to Bergen Belsen.
Diese Zeit habe ich glücklicherweise nicht mit erlebt.Ich kann es mir kaum vorstellen wie entsetzlich es gewesen sein muss.
The truth was much more horrifying than this film shows. Seeing the actual photos of those in the camp were unbelievable, seeing how they existed there, their despicable environment--realizing anyone would be treated so inhumanely. I was asked why I would go there--it actually happened and I honestly felt that, in a small way, we were remembering and honoring those victims. We were told the people who lived in the town surrounding the area did not know what was happening in the camp. The victims were transported by train.
That was the strenght of the nazi's/ ss, they were charming and polite ( not real but in a very sadistic way) most of the civilians in Europe did not know about the huge deportations by cattle trains. I'm dutch and my parents lived WO2, they didn't know about the camps because the nazi's covered it up and there was no communication on large scale like nowadays. It was Evil from the highest rank... 😱
.......and dat’s de truth, eh? The ‘Official’ report is undocumented and a load of bovine fertilizer.
i just came back from visiting this camp two days ago this camp was a base model for various other camps set up through out europe sum 35000 lives were taken here nothing compared to others set up in poland ect but beileve me this place has a very strange presence about it
You are right, I felt it as well
Many of the liberators would’ve been young men... I can’t imagine how horrific the sights n smells would’ve been... probably scarred them for life
Haunting place! Please please can you send me links to the music in your video. Beautifully thought out.
grey line its from the film black hark down. you can get the sound track on amazon
Dachau was primarily a camp for dissidents and political prisoners.. It was NOT an extermination camp.. but the treatment of the prisoners at Dachau caused Thousands of deaths
Oh Lord God, please never let this happen again 😪😪
why didt he let it hapen the first time!!!
Richard Smeekers that’s so true. Maybe he just can’t control the maniacs we have in this life.
Your so right that he cant controle these maniacs
@@apocalypticraids It was humans that made this happened, not god.
btw, it happened in a smaller scale again in NZ few weeks ago.
There is no god
I visited many years ago. I have not forgotten the sadness and the level of cruelty that took place here. I'm passing it along. Never forget what happened here.
I visited Dachau concentration camp a few years ago it was so clean and pristine it falsely represented the true horror of it, the billets were newly built not the original ones there was grass and clean gravel the gates were original and the crematoriums which I have to say we're horrific but apart from them there was no representation of how it truly must have been in the day
Me too, you had pictures on every wall how it was there, camp was destoryed after people left the camp, and most of it is recreated
@@sebcharb7313 And you would't want to destroy the place where you lost your family your friends and suffered 24 hours a day not knowing when or how are you going to die?
@@sebcharb7313 So is that the "leftist mob" in Germany you're talking about, Seb, or is that just the looney voices in your head messing with you again?
I thank Mike Kominsky of the 43rd Rainbow Division who crys everyday. The most honorable WW2 Veteran almost 93.
Thank you for this superb rendering of hell. Every time I attempt to work this through my mind I fail. Perhaps institutionalized depravity is so counterintuitive to the characteristics of civilization that those who attempt to reason their way to comprehension are defeated.
Unfortunately man’s capabilities for torture are limitless. That’s why we remember. . . all of this.
It is like "trying to work out in your mind" a serial killer. A normal human being will have trouble, because these are not normal human beings who are granted the 20 BILLION dollars like Germany was so their monster leaders could "devise" this.
The second reason this cannot be fathomed by a normal human being is that superhuman evil is generally scoffed at. Superhuman evil is well beyond a normal person to even want to really comprehend.
To "comprehend" it, a person would have to enjoy murder, then they can understand it. But, certain human murderers, not all, are also at a scale beyond mere human in evil.
Be glad you cannot comprehend it, but be glad it will not be permitted forever. It was all a lesson in letting monsters rule nations. People simply "follow the leader", so it repeats over and over. And it still is yet to repeat in greater form, with "new and improved" systems, because those true "sub-human" monsters are still here for a while longer.
In fact, with Operation Paperclip and others, America housed more ex-Nazis than it hung. Few people research where the German war-machine got the BILLIONS to even think of engineering this event. That is where the real story lay.
I visited Dachau when I served in Minden Germany .... what a place not a bird sang ... very very humbling place I left in tears and it’s stayed with me can’t imagine what those poor souls went through .... god bless 😞😞
Had it not been for the US armed forces we wouldn't know about the atrocities inflicted on so many Innocent people
The US already knew about these atrocities, they only chose to do something about it when it suited them. As with the Vatican and most of the world.
Soviets liberated most if not all the camps! US is far from liberators just ask Japan!
@@Barrymacockkiner3050 Japan did not need to involve themselves in this war by attacking us at Pearl Harbor . They choose to jump in , when they could have stayed home and minded their own business .
@@deonnesingh5309 Afraid not. Read "Mit brennender Sorge", a Papal encyclical written in German, rather than the customary Latin, in 1937 and smuggled into Germany to be read from every Catholic pulpit. And what, exactly, could the Vatican have done about the Nazis in physical terms? As Stalin said in not dissimilar circumstances: "How many divisions does the Pope have?
@@Barrymacockkiner3050 Well, the Soviet Union did advance from the east..................
Great video turn the volume down when you watch it.
I was there while in the U.S. Army. Sept. of '69. Nobody would pull guard duty at night for obvious reasons!
Hauntingly beautiful music and lyrics for a truly horrid place; there are no words...
Amazing place. Ingenious setup.
Music and song originally from the movie black hawk down
Once I visited cellular Jail in Port Blair, Andaman Islands where Britishers kept indian freedom fighters during the Raj. When I saw torture equipment and gallow and the stone slab where condemned prisioners had had their bath before being executed I began to sob openly as though I had lost my only child. When people saw me in the that state they also started crying. For months I remained spaced out after that. English were also inhumanly cruel but thanks to the status English language enjoys worldwide we know about others savagery but not of the English.
Very good video, Thank You
every single time that i see things of concentration camps i cry...my heart really feels sad...and i never will understand how in this world could happen something like this.
i hope that i can visit someday Dachau.
thanks for share
Don't cry pray for them
The same is happening in Occupied Kashmir..Indian forces are killing innocent people in Kashmir. 😢
I went there in 1982 as part of the introduction the first week in germany in the army. I swear it gave me the creeps because i though of alk those people thst did not make it out
So many guards sadists, there must have been the odd one or two who could have been compassionate
There were a lot of ss guards who were shot or hung etc for not carrying out their orders.
A lot of them had to cause if they didn't their seniors would execute them.
And a lot of them who were sadist and really hated people on their differences
To be in the SS u had to be affiliated to nazi party soo majority of then wanted to punish other people
Respectfully done. So close in time. Heartbreaking. We must educate ourselves regarding mans inhumanity.
Tyvm for the wonderful comments about my dad, he would be smiling.
The barracks that are there are reconstructions because the US troops that liberated the camp burned the original ones due to them being bug infested and what not. The same army built the barracks you see based on what they saw and they wanted people that would come later to have an idea of what they saw.
So it was easier to burn them all than spray a little raid
@@barryhollon468 i mean they did raid in the camp in liberation so... my humor
@@barryhollon468 Real appropriate humor there, Barry. You have a future in stand-up.
Dachau ... no words.. you could still feel the heavyness in the air. Heart breaking! My grandpa fought to free the innocent,God rest their beautiful souls
I honor the people who rescued those victims
Wonderful
Where could I find lists with the names of the remaining survivors?
What an absolutely odd question.
I went to this atrocity in 1990. When we got to the crematorium I almost vomited. I don't know if it was my imagination, but I swear I could still smell burning flesh!!
I'm guessing imagination
Remember typhus was rampant in this camp just as it was in all the camp's.my uncle Ernie was in the first British troops in to Bergen Belsen.
I relate more to this video than the other one I saw. I stood in the shower room (and smelt the gas still in the bricks) before stepping next door to the crematorium. I walked in the huts where they tried to sleep, saw the blood stained clothes they wore. The stained bunks. I stood and looked at the Memorial that had been built. I must say though, the most eerie part was the silence. Absolute silence. No birds to be seen or heard over the entire camp. EVIL pure EVIL....... 😔😔❤😔😔❤😔😔
Animals smell death their sense of smell is very high so if a human can sense death and feel it around them... Then Birds surely will... God rest their souls they are all free in the Lords home now they are at peace...
@TheTruthIsRacist you are mistaken. There was. It was disguised as a Shower room. I stood in it with the Guide. He explained all to us. I do NOT lie. Please do not accuse me of something I DON'T do !!
@EL GRECO 777 Thank you so very much for your friendly and kind comment. I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions once you have had a chance to visit the Camps but this is probably not possible. Again, many thanks for your comment. ☺🌹☺
The song has added the horror menifold and chilled me to the bones. What is this song? Could smbody tell me please.
My god the horrors these poor people had to indure.The music is hauntingly beautiful.
The music really creeps me out
The music? What is it?
Is this music from "Black Hawk Down" movie?
Daily, yes, #1 Hunger
Daily....Yes soundtrack of Blackhawk Down #1 Hunger
#2 Gortoz
It saddens me knowing how people were treated and how they died god bless the people who suffered here and god bless the people who died here…but thank you for sharing this video xx
Spookiest atmosphere of any place I ever visited. You could sense the death in the air.
this vid give me chills down my spine
1:07 and 1:17 is the building (Barracks X) with the "new crematorium, gas chamber (which was never used), makeshift gallows in front of the retorts, and delousing area. 1:13 and 1:36 are the old crematorium.
My cousin Nere Aakhus died in Dachau in 1945. He was with the Norwegian resistance against Germany.
Nere Aakhus was a hero!
Somehow at another site the words I choose did not reflect properly my thoughts as somehow deletion of text occurred. I had mentioned I was not concerned how death occurred as in referencing suicide specifically. It is with great saddness that the method leading to death is often horrible. Respect I do seek to give and that the horrors of the Holocaust, (abortions) and other events of brutality are deminished from occurrance. That the spirits of those exposed to such, are in enternal peace and receive that blessing from our creator . In kindness, hopefully this message will remain in as I offered it.