African's Emotional First Reaction To Learning more The Holocaust
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- African's Emotional First Reaction To Learning The Holocaust
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I understand why most of you are shocked to learn that I didn’t know much about the holocaust but The Holocaust is not a standard part of the curriculum in Nigerian schools. The educational focus in Nigeria typically emphasizes national history, regional issues, and broader African history rather than European history. Some private or international schools in Nigeria might include the Holocaust as part of their world history or social studies programs, (I was in a public school) but this is not widespread. The general curriculum set by the Nigerian Ministry of Education does not mandate detailed teaching of the Holocaust.. I am literally just learning about the world through this channel. PLEASE BE KIND WITH YOUR WORDS
Apparently they don't teach it in American schools anymore either. Maybe there wouldn't be so many pro Hamas demonstrations. God bless you all .
I do not fault anyone for the lack of knowledge taught to them. The world is rewritten history. No mentions of the Inquestions that occurred, I am Christian. But people need to know how barbaric people could be and still are. Africa has been ravaged and little is taught. I am an American so my knowledge of how history is taught in other countries. Sadly genocide still occurs today.
And I guess you also never heard of American movies like Schindler's list or other movies which won oscars and were stories related to the holocaust. You also never heard it mentioned on international news or anything like that and then never bothered to mosey over to wikipedia and read up on what this apparently famous event was folks were referring to? Sure
Don't feel guilty about not knowing things from history, how could you know about something that you were never taught. That was then and this is now, and now you're learning about it and there's nothing wrong with that. Being curious and learning things is always a good thing at any age. Remember knowledge is power. You seem to be a very good-hearted and nice person from what I can see here on CZcams I've enjoyed plenty of your other music reaction videos too.
@@reddragonready Be kind! Many people, especially the younger generations, are completely unaware of most of the history that boomers were routinely taught. You must know that schools today are not for education but are for the indoctrination of people who are to learn only to keep their mouth shut and uncomplainingly work. Witness the rampant destruction of our historical artifacts and the PC renaming of our institutions. In addition, there are those who are almost criminally misleading inn trying to convince the world that the Holocaust never happened... that Auschwitz was only a detainment camp.
You didn’t know, but you CHOOSE to learn, and that by itself is more of an achievement. They say knowledge is power, and that saying is true, but the one’s who seek it are by far more powerful than those who refuse learn.
I couldn't have said it better!
@@bluesapphire170 this !! Love that you choose to learn xx
Beautifully said!
There are actually people who deny that this happened. It's unimaginable.
This angers me beyond reason when people say they don't believe it happened. They argue against Photographs, film archives and peoples testimonies and interviews with out any evidence to support their raci*t denialist viewpoint.
@@meghanmonroe They deny it, because they want to do it again
@@meghanmonroe and is also a criminal offence in my country
there are people who are brainwashed to listen to everything allies say...
Have you ever wondered how a wooden door could contain deadly gas? have you ever asked yourself why the germans in the middle of a war, with a whole lot of workers, just started to kill their workers for no reason? And have you ever googled (dont use google) prussioan blue?
Hitler did not invent antisemitism. He tapped into a thousand's of years hatred. In the US Henry Ford was notorious for his view on Jews. Racism exists for many peoples. Thank you for having the curiosity to learn and you bravery doing this in public.
You might like the miniseries podcast Ultra by Rachel Maddow. It is very well researched and they providelots of primary sources too. It's about the rise of antisemitism and Naziism in the US about the same time.
The Greatest Story Never Told is a good one as well.
Once in history or religion class we had to assign quotes to either Hitler or Luther (the one who created Protestantism), and it was extremely hard. We ended up so shocked.
3 thousand years. The reason why we're called Jews is because going to Babylon we were asked where we came from. Judea the area that liars call The West Bank saying we were from Judea like somebody saying if you're from America you're an American.
Don't forget Charles Lindbergh. He made himself the US's biggest Nazi Sympathizer.
In Germany, we learn as children that the Holocaust happened. Schoolchildren visit the concentration camps. When I visited Dachau concentration camp for the first time about 38 years ago, I cried. It is unimaginable. You still can't comprehend it today. I also visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Many people lay painted stones at the memorial site. When you see with your own eyes how big the concentration camps were, it touches you even more. Many people in Germany and Europe are doing a lot to ensure that something like this never happens again. It doesn't matter what color your skin is, what nationality you are or what religion you belong to. We should all respect each other.
but we dont all respect each other. there are many things humans should do but dont.
Unfortunately, that's the case. National pride is terrible. The US never learns either. According to the German press, Trump with his statement "America first" has a good chance of becoming president again. When it comes to wars, the United States is almost always involved. I will never understand how you spend so much money on the military and at the same time people have to live in slums. Mensch is stupid. He does not appreciate what God has given him.
Very well said.
I assume you didn’t learn AT ALL about the Bolshevik revolution, western learning…
@@spacewalker4866 Laughing, really? Smh.
Thank you for crying for my people, I was right there with you; your empathy was making me cry too with you, our fear is that it will happen again soon. Thank you so much for learning about this.
It is happening, to Palestine people, by jews.. the hypocrisy is astounding.
@@ssocar96 yeah it amazes me that it's happening mostly happening in the countries that liberated the camps back then. Sad how the roles are reversing... and all I hear is freedom and democracy, freedom and democracy freedom and democracy. Practice what you preach...
@ssocar96 One month later, the situation is worse than it ever was since 1945.
This is why stopping history in schools in case it offends people is so wrong we must never forget
@wolfman22 Correct history, I agree. The truth and not history with a spin on it or parts left out. Unfortunately, school time is compressed with other subjects that are just as important. People should also research it on their own. Seeking the truth.
@wolfman22 agreed, lest we forget history we are doomed to repeat it.
@@wolfman22 well in Portugal I also learned about the world war two but not the horrible details. When I had phylosophy at 15 years old, the school took all the stufents from 10th year to watch the movie “The Shindler’s List” at the cinema. I got curiouse to learn more about it but there was no internet, at least not were I lived. But has an adult I have watched a lot of documentaries about the subject. And many horríble thing happened. The Naz… were a horrible beast but there were other like Rússia and even USA.
I was born in the late 1940s and I can remember being shown films of the Holocaust when I was in 6th grade. The television stations ran films periodically on the horrors of the Holocaust. My history teacher in college made "The Rise and Fall of The Third Riech" mandatory reading and then we discussed it for weeks. Yes, history can and sometimes is messy, ugly, painful and can scare us, embarrass us but it is necessary to know it, to learn from it or we repeat it, especially the ugly, hurtful parts. Knowledge of our history is an armor for our future.
@@gatroy13 Idk, as a french, we had history during every year of primary and secondary school. (so basically from age 7 to 17-18). We also had to learn 2 language in addition to french classes during that time. During the 4 years of history in primary school, we visited all the European history, from prehistory to modern times. Then we did it again in the first 4 years of secondary school. In the last 3 years of primary school, we did it again, with a greater focus on modern history. And I was in a science major program for those last 3 years. So... I think there is plenty of time to learn history in school, it's just that a lot of countries don't put an emphasis on it or discard it as a less useful subject, so less important. Of course we mainly learned history centred around France and french culture, but we still learned about American history for example, with the American Revolution etc.
What you watched - and I salute you for watching it - barely scratches the surface of the true horror that was the Holocaust. I have studied WW2 for the last 40 years, and it took me over 20 of those to begin to conceive of the scope of it. I heard an interview with a survivor who told how the younger generation, upon learning about his past, asked him how he could still laugh. He said (paraphrased, to the best of my memory) "If I had never laughed again, I might as well have let them k!ll me."
That is true strenght.
And remember dont take stuff out on modern Germans because of it its sad growing up and getting picked on for growing up in Bavaria and being part German but for some reason as soon as you speak and have a German accent Americans like to call you names even when its a adult to a young kid like I was its ridicules considering how long ago it happened I tell people off like dude i was born in 1985 :( I think a lot of Americans need to stop with the name calling of people of different races and grow up a lil bit.
My grandfather was in the US Army in WWII and I grew up in a mostly Jewish neighborhood, so I grew up constantly learning about the Holocaust (Shoa), and had the immense privilege to meet multiple survivors. I’ve never stopped learning about this horrific period in human history.
There's a movie called> The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It's amazing.
powerful words. 👍❤
Israeli Jew & descendant of a Holocaust survivor here.
I'm glad to see people outside of Jewish communities, especially individuals who chose to learn about it on their own.
My grandpa was the only survivor of his entire large family from my father's side, and from my mother's side more survived thanks to secretly moving to Israel.
If anybody's interested, I can share my grandpa's story, but I cannot promise I'll notice notifications... 😅
My grandpa always said, "hope is the strongest", even when you could see trauma in his eyes.
it has always been so deeply heartbreaking knowing what the Jewish community went through during this time. it's even more heartbreaking knowing that now, Israel is trying to repeat history by slaughtering innocents over a strip of land. I hope someday "never again" truly means "never again" for everyone.
@@ShYeager I'd love to hear about your grandpa! I'm french and a quarter of my family lived in Elsace while fighting against the germans secretly (my aunt hid jewish kids at her home). Two of them even went to a concentration camp and survived.
I am a 52 years old nurse in Europe. I've met a few Holocaust survivors in person during my work, and saw the numbers they tattoed into their forearms. I can't even begin to imagine what they've been through and how they can live with their horrible memories - and with the constant reminder on their skin...😢
When people deny this happened, they need to explain where the tattoos came from.
@@bkbff Why were they kicked from 109 countries?
"Europe has not yet learned to be multicultural. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were, jews are going to be at the center of that , it's a huge transformation for Europe to make and they are now going into a multicultural mode and jews will be resented because of our leading role" - Barbara Lerner Spectre
@@bkbff "Europe has not yet learned to be multicultural. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were, jews are going to be at the center of that , it's a huge transformation for Europe to make and they are now going into a multicultural mode and jews will be resented because of our leading role" - Barbara Lerner Spectre
@@bkbffkicked out of 109 countries for a reason.
When I was very young, the maintenance man at our apartment building had a tattooed number on his forearm and my mom pointed it out and told me about it after he left. Of course, at that time I was far too young to understand.
The issue is not the hatred of one man. The issue is how easily an entire country can be convinced that a culture of hate should be the norm. The conclusion is, sadly, that many do not take much convincing. The idea of seeing yourself as part of a superior group and seeing others as inferior is common throughout history. Race, gender, religion, physical or mental ability or any combination of traits. The key to power is to convince people that their problems can be blamed on 'The Other' and then it's a small step to dictatorship..Just look at the USA right now...
@@lizrobins85 very well said - it only takes a few people to convince the gullible to hate “ different “
Germany was in really rough shape after losing WWI, many men were dead, civilians felt humiliated, they owed restitution for the war and inflation was out of control. There were lots of successful Jews and we were a very easy scapegoat.
the gullible believe what they want to believe,
Has anyone seen the movie ORIGIN
Thank you for writing this ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I am an American living in Korea and I’ve taught German culture and language as well as world history. Many years ago I took a group of American high school students to Germany and one day we visited one of the death camps (now a memorial to teach everyone what happened). It was a somber day, but necessary I think. I applaud you for taking the initiative to teach yourself. Genocide is all too common, tragically. Keep up the learning and spread knowledge to others so we may live in a more peaceful world. Thank you.
I am a historian, I taught at Yonsei U for six years.
It is going to happen again when Christ comes down. I hate thinking about it. So many signs, hatred, anger, pride, no respect.
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it and those who do study it are doomed to watch others repeat it.”
I'm Dutch, I'm 53 and until some years ago I never knew what atrocities Leopold II of Belgium commited in the Congo. I never knew about the crimes (Royal Dutch) Shell commited in Nigeria. It takes many years and a thirst for knowledge to get educated. Keep on learning 💪
Thank you Sarah for watching this. It's only a small portion of what happened. My partner is a case manager for Holocaust survivors. They are aging out, but still fiercely, amazingly and incredibly SO positive for life. I'm always honored to meet these wonderful people. Keep up the good work dear.
It's an amazing achievement, gotta give them that. To keep a scam running for so many decades by exploiting gullible kids, and still to this day leech of the German taxpayers.
My great grandfather was in the holocaust and he was a chief and fed the potato peels to his freinds and even killed a few nazis. After the war he found out that he lost all 6 of his siblings and both of his parents. And he went to America and started giving away food every week for shabbas to anyone who wanted.
I am glad to be a descendent of such a hero
Where was your great grandfather from, if you don't mind me asking? Just curious.
@@creattiva90 Hungary
@Foyay_Red :( what a legacy!! Wow. I cant imagine
Potato peels saved lives there. My grandmother's sister used to sneak to the garbage behind the area where the kitchen was and she stole potato peels and brought them back to share with my grandmother. My grandmother said she was too scared to steal them herself.
@@t.ackerman8368 that’s amazing
You didn't mention "Shindler's List". If you haven't seen it, grab a box of tissues before hand! Great reaction.
...and Sophie's Choice...
And; "Anne Frank (The whole Story)" which is on CZcams
@@darrenwhitecross5932 The Pianist and Escape from Sobibor are also solid
Also Kenneth Branagh's movie on the Wannsee Conference.
And "Der Untergang (Downfall)". Its about the last months of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Goverment.
And today we are close to that happening all over again. People have forgotten history.
@@law685 The Native Americans have a saying: "It takes three generations to forget a war."
My two centra: Each generation starts anew. But it means repeating old sins too.
Sadly, in school when we learn about these things we are too young to care or understand the processes that lead to this being allowed. We only had a few years of hard times in Europe and extremist populist parties are already on the rise.
@@SpyGooseFella indeed. It just goes to show that if you're rich beyond the dreams of avarice, it doesn't make you omnipotent.
So everybody in every democracy has to choose carefully who gets his vote. The extrem right wing Partys are rising. We all have to fight for democracy. Greetings from Germany! This mustn't happen again.
You're right and it's completely terrifying. We can't let it happen again 😢
I wish more people looked at the World as you do, Young Lady. If they did, it would be a much kinder place. God bless you and your loved ones.
From a friend in England.
Not just Jewish people. But anyone and everyone that Hitler didn't approve of.
True. Slavic people were next.
Romany gypsies, Polish, gays, political apponents etc. anyone who didn’t agree or fit in to his beliefs.
@@ninajones1175 I did read somewhere, some of the more sadistic guards would treat them like fighting dogs and put one group against the other. Sickening part of history.
Also many Christians who opposed Hitler. One the most known was Diedrich Bonhoffer who rebeled against Hitler and helped many Jews to flee fron Germany.
Many Christians were killed.
One of the details that still haunts me about Nazi Germany is that they kept meticulous records of their crimes. It’s hard to understand the scope of the destruction and the urge to document it, without remorse, without shame.
What is worse in this topic of keeping details of Jews is fact that German needed data base with anthrpological data to select Jews from their society to persecute them - and they get this data from IBM WHO had to know this is for racist segregation.
@@teenageenaballerina8350 That is because they didn’t think that jews were real humans. My great grandmothers brother deportated many jews from the getto‘s to the death camps and never got punished. I don‘t think he regreted it either.
Funny how that works isn't it. With every single document ordering camps to kill people, specifically by locking them up in gas chambers magically vanish beyond trace just before liberation of the camps. Millions of documents on prison transports, but nothing about genocide. All the camps just simultaneously, completely by their own initiative, and for absolutely no reason at all started to waste expensive zykon-b to kill their much needed prisoners. 🤡🌎
Then there's this Nazi, who's name I have forgotten, who was captured in Argentina (or nearby) that decided to deny what he'd been part of despite him being the go-to guy for logistics and transportation of people to concentration camps. He was especially proud of the logistics in Romania (I think it was Romania).
He was brought to Israel for the court case against him. A film was made about his capture, but they filmmakers decided to twist truth a bit. Again, me and names... 🙄
compartmentalization. the guy keeping records doesn't know what the guy guarding the prisoners is doing, and the guy running the trains doesn't know what the guy in central command is doing, so unless they see the faces they can distance themselves. just like reading the comment section. i'm not a human to you until you see me. and it's the same in every government, it's just that most governments don't engage in mass slaughter. usually just the western ones do. the "civilized" ones.
Adolf Hitler didn't commit suicide because he felt bad for what he had done. In April 1945, he knew that the Red Army was closing in and were in Berlin, and that he would go down in defeat. A couple weeks prior, his Italian Ally and fellow Dictator Benito Mussolini had been captured in Italy and murdered, his body beaten and abused, documented and photographed for the world. Adolf Hitler feared that this would happen to him if captured by the Red Army. Adolf Hitler expected his own army and the civilians to fight to the last man but he was a coward and took his own life and had his body burned in hopes that his body wouldn't be found. Dictators expect their own people to suffer and die for their cause but will always take the easy way out when they know that they are defeated.
@@LegalVideoMan
I dont believe he did commit suicide. I think he got out.
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That’s what she said, that he killed himself to take the easy way out, not that he regretted it.
@@seanpaula8924 😂
@@LegalVideoMan There’s a slightly more nuanced view that says Hitler knew he was terminally ill, we know for example he had Parkinson’s Disease, and notes indicate he was receiving early cancer medication and took his life to prevent his people from seeing his decline. He also believed that his senior commanders would regroup in the South of the country to launch a counteroffensive but it would be a fatal blow to morale if he left Berlin so he took his life rather than be captured.
When dealing with a truly evil enemy that you know you can't beat, you would take the easy way out too. Civilians, including women and children were targeted in this evil war. The enemy wanted every single German dead and raped.
All young people need to see this!!!! It is hard for me to think they don't teach this horror in school! I am 75 years old and started to learn about this before I was 10 years old!
I'm 66 and a lifelong history lover and I have to say that the schools did a pretty good job of teaching history back then. They don't teach about world war II hardly at all I mean it's the biggest thing that happened to the human race since the Black death and such recent history that we still have people walking around who fought in the war. It's inexcusable. What if you teach about world war II you might accidentally cause some of the kids to have some pride in America and we can't have that now can we
@@rbh3482 It makes sense that in schools in Africa they would focus more on the history of their own region over European history.
Many African nations have had their own fair share of trauma throughout history.
But was it true?
It's a short film perfect for Middle School or High School. It could lead to great discussions about other horrible acts of aggression and what people can do to prevent or counter it.
@@andonsea2803Yes, of course!
The worst thing is, this video doesn´t even go into the ´details´. Thousands of people died at every single step towards the camps. In the trains, in the death marches when trains were too full (there were hundreds of people in just one wagon, often for days, having to pee and defecate right where they´re standing, leading to more deaths due to starvation, disease or getting pushed/stomped to death due to there being absolutely NO space for the people to move a single inch). People were absolutely dehumanized every single day in camps, forced to run naked in freezing temps, having to sleep in freezing warehouses on wooden bed frames in groups and on the cold cement floors and so on, sometimes when people were coming in to check on the well-fare of the people in the camps (because of course, all other citizens were lied to as to what was actually happening to the people in camps), everyone was put into nice clean clothes, put in front of food after starving for months and if someone actually tried to eat the food, they´d be executed as well and this list just goes on and on, It´s honestly impossible to even wrap your head around how fucked up it all was. The sheer brutality and utter lack of any empathy is just, absolutely insane. And It´s even more sad that TODAY camps like these still exist in some parts of the world...
When I was in high school we had a survivor come to talk in front of the school. I remember at the beginning people were just being loud and you could hardly hear her speak. Soon, things got quieter when she started talking about what happened to her. How she watched her entire family thrown into the ovens alive. By the time she was talking about how she was liberated by the U.S. army you could have heard a pin drop. Afterwards I walked up to her and thanked her for coming to our school and talking to us. I remember seeing the number tattooed on her wrist when I shook her hand. That whole experience has stayed in my memory for 35 years now. I will never forget it.
@@pauljefferies2091 I was in elementary school during the late 1970’s when I found out about the Holocaust
It was seeing the tattoo, as a child, that changed me. 6 digits on her arm. I've heard others speak about their experience, but that first one, her tattoo, her story, has sat in my heart and mind ever since.
because of those tattoos they were barred from being buried in their faith's cemeteries with their loved ones. i went to the museum in dc. it was incredibly sad and the door of the chamber with the claw marks chilled my soul.
@@pauljefferies2091 in Catholic school we had a Rabbi come in to talk about the holocaust. But it wasn’t until I saw Schindler’s list I felt it.
My Father was with Patton when they went into the camp in Germany, It destroyed him for life. He cold not and would not talk about it only after his death did I know his hell, and he was called back for the Korean war. Photo in local newspaper. I am old man, pleas learn younger folks we are all just human beings at heart. Side note so bad Patton went aside and vomited.
I am from South Africa and grew up learning about WW2 because my grandfather fought in Italy against the Nazis. He never spoke of the horrors he saw, but it haunted him his whole life. My grandmother told me he saw survivors of the death camps and he said they were like walking skeletons. We cannot let anything like that happen again❤❤ Love your channel!
South Africa has a similar history
@LouiseVenter-dj8yb My grandpa (Polish II Corps) fought in Italy at the battle of Monte Cassino. He moved to Canada after the war. May they rest in peace❤❤
Sadly, greed and hatred will not go away, but education, exposure, and heartfelt reaction like you have given us will help. Thank you.
You are very brave tackling this subject and admitting you didn’t know much about it. Totally understandable not having been taught. Your reaction was very touching.
We must never let this happen again
In answer to your question, "Did they find out why Hitler hated the Jews?" No, scholars have speculated he had Jewish heritage, but antisemitism was extremely commonplace in not just Germany but most of the world at that point. You have to understand that when the video you're reacting to says Jews tried to flee Germany once the Nazis held control of Germany,, most of the nations which fought against the Axis Powers of WWII--including England and the USA--rejected Jewish refugees and dismissed claims that extermination camps were being built and run to wipe out the Jews.
And that was partly because at the time many Christians in those countries were anti Jewish.
And if you read Das Kapital, you will see WHERE the idea of the "JudenFrage" came from. Giovanni Gentille picked up on that and AH was inspired by it, which AH openly ACKNOWLEDGES in "Mein Kampf. That inspiration from Karl Marx was WHY AH used the word SOCIALIST in the name for his NSDAP party !
"The Final Solution" was to "The Jewish Question" FIRST posited by KARL MARX
@@sovereigndayyouthkafir3943 Hi, I always wondered that... Since I know now that Lise Meitner, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein and Edmund Teller were jews and have the Nuclear Weapons know-how and I think If not persecuted and extermined, actually my comments were written in german. But tankfully, opposite result of what they intended occurr. Serves by lesson to future or actual politics. Stay safe and have prosperous life.
Not so. "Did they find out why Hitler hated the Jews?" Hitler's Nazis were founded in his National Socialist Party. They were not 'right-wing' but racially distinct, ideologically 'left-wing', socialists who despised free-market capitalism. Hitler, and many Germans, hated Jewish people because they considered them capitalists. In particular they hated Jewish bankers, blaming them for the fall of post-WWI Germany (just Google this for more detail). Although also socialists (National Socialists), Nazis considered International Socialism (left-wing Communism) to be a Jewish conspiracy. You need to read 'Mein Kampf', wherein the origins of Hitler's ideology are described. The Nazis and Communism were both left-wing ideologies. The Book "Nietzsche and the Nazis" by Stephen Hicks describes this very well.
It's very hard to claim being "The master race". When the Jewish community were more educated and accomplished.
This should be compulsory learning in all schools around the world. Especially now that the survivors of the camps have passed and can no longer tell their story. It needs to be kept alive for future generations. All people should know about the holocaust and the dangers of fascism by the time they reach adulthood.
My Oma and Opa were still in The Netherlands during WWII. And My Opa's dad dug out a little cubby under the floor, so whenever the Nazi's came to my grandparents house to make my Opa work in the Factories for the Nazi's, he would go in the cubby, my Oma would cover the hole and put a rug down and tell the Soldiers that my Opa wasn't home.
This is not my story, it is my father's, recounted to me a few times over the course of his life.
My father was a teenager during world war two, living in occupied Holland. His last name was Cohen. Fortunately he and his immediate family were able to procure forged papers to change their name. The forged papers were not enough to save my grandfather who died in front of my father when the gestapo came for him, but somehow they ignored the boy. I suspect there was some humanity left in those Germans.
The contact that allowed him those papers allowed him to join the resistance, or perhaps it was the inverse. My father wanted to fight, but he was still too young and too small to be given a fighting role. His youth however allowed him to not be seen as a threat by the enemy, to pass much more easily. He was given the job of runner, he kept communication between several cells of the resistance. He was however still affiliated with a particular cell, with whom he spent much time.
One day he was going to join his cell at their 'headquarters', and saw that there was an unusual level of activity by the Germans in the immediate area. They were clearly getting ready to assault my father's cell. Rather than running, which might well have been the smart thing to do from a civilian perspective, he snuck through the Germans to get inside to his friends, to warn them.
Warn them he did and they set to arming themselves, getting ready to sell themselves dearly. My father wanted to fight, but his compatriots were steadfast in their refusal. He had a job to do they told him, he had to report the destruction of the cell. It was too late for him or anyone to escape, so they had him crawl up the chimney to hide. Shortly thereafter, the gunfire started.
He stayed there for hours after the gunfire ended, waiting for silence, and when he finally came out, there were no Germans present. The bodies of all his friends though still were.
The whole of his life afterwards, virtually every waking moment from that point forth was spent atoning for the guilt of surviving. It had profound, devastating effects on the quality of his life after that, and domino effects on the people around him. His personal life was a perpetual shambles and his dreams haunted. However he became a doctor, one of the first emergency medical specialists and spent his life crusading to improve emergency medicine. He was personally responsible for saving thousands of lives and indirectly countless more.
@@LilFireFox a righteous man, also I don't know why I'm surprised but it caught me off guard as that's what we call our grandparents
My parents were teenagers in the Netherlands during WWII. My dad had several places with other families where he'd go to pretend he was someone else when the Nazi's came with their list of young men to take off to the factories. It was only in 2010 that he recounted a close encounter with the soldiers. They surprised him by showing up at one of his locations, so he ducked into a chicken coop just before they caught sight of him. It was tiny, cramped, dusty and smelly in there, but he crouched down and stayed absolutely still as they questioned the family RIGHT outside the coop. At one point a bomb dropped nearby enough to shake the ground and the coop filled up with all the fine dust from the chickens. But he couldn't make a sound. He couldn't breathe, but a cough would have given him away. He held his breath as long as possible, nearly passing out until the dust settled enough he could breathe again.
He told me this while helping me build a chicken coop for our place.
Went I was station in Fulda Germany, went was in the US Army
I was on this detailed, delivering government issued furniture to soldiers family's who were living off base. While delivering the items, there were a old Jewish gentleman, who rented apartments to the GI. I seen the tattoo on his left arm. I asked about the tattoo, he looked at me, and said, every one in the camp have too have one. He only rented apartments for GI's . He was liberated by the US Army in Dachau. All of us had no hope, we where all dying, then the American came.I will remember that until I die. Sgt. Hicks US Army.
Voluntary tattoos are forbidden in Jewish law. It was of the many insults.
@@beannathrach2417?
@@stanfordhicks8502 thank you for your service.
@@beannathrach2417 The reason for your statement is not clear to me, but the post refers to the ID number tattoos that were applied by the Nazis to the arms of the ghetto's "residents".
Was it not the Americans who liberated every concentration camp?
The Boy in the Striped Pyjama is a story about a boy and his jewish friend in the KZ... My daughter (14) Had to read it in school this year. She was crying so much...😢 In Germany the second world war ist a huge topic in our History classes
I am not a Jew but my father was one of the first medical officers into the after liberation. He also had a contract with the German consulate, who had to pay for all medical costs of survivors, to take care of the Jewish survivors. I knew many of these survivors Shuffle grew up around us as when I was young. Well I've never been able to understand is all these people who scream about slavery and how it affected them never mention the 5,000 year history of the Jews being persecuted. You have the biblical story of Egypt but all throughout the Western world Jews were persecuted on a regular basis. When people wonder why Israel is so militant about their country and freedom.
@@mbh2743 There is no evidence for some of the Biblical stories such as the Exodus. Jews were not persecuted for 5000 years. In fact, one could argue the majority of the persecution they experienced was at the hands of Christians once Christianity became widespread. Jews tended to fare better under Muslim governance, though they were still largely considered second-class citizens.
@@dorarie3167 The Jews persecuted the Christians. IF you talk about catholic's those aren't Christians even they say they aren't! I don't think you understand history at all. I do not condone hatred of people or persecution. I just wanted to be 100% clear that you are wrong.
@@MSBowen-pk6ww To be precise and clear: Christians have persecuted Jews for about 2000 years...
Yes! The boy in the striped pajamas was about death camps and the accidental death of one of the leaders children who befriended a Jewish child
Sorry but that movie had nothing to do with reality. No one, including the child of a Nazi, could have even had come close to a death camp like the boy did in that movie. As a daughter of childsurvivors ridiculous, unrealistic holocaust movies like that simply infuriate me. If you want to know the truth Watch Claude Lanzmann's epic entire Shoah. There there a few good more realistic holocaust movies out there. Not all of them in English though but do have subtitles. But at least they are close to reality as far as reality can be shown in a movie, and they are based on the experiences of actual survivors (collaboration with ).
I don't expect my comment to be seen by many in amongst the ~2500 comments, but for anyone who sees this, remember it was NOT just one man. No one man could do this - he had thousands and thousands of accomplices. Not just in the Nazi government and the SS, but in towns and villages.
One Lithuanian survivor tells that a neighbour took his coat from him, when the Nazis came and rounded up the Jewish people of the town, saying "you won't need this anymore." A witness recounts a few soldiers lining up men, women, and god help us, little children, in front of ditches to be shot to death. Major sites of murder yes, and major players and architects of this horror, but also little acts of cruelty and individuals in a forest somewhere choosing to be barbaric murderers. The scale of this nightmare is almost too much to comprehend.
It's never just one man.
Evil beyond cruelty! As Russia is making their move after a weak ex President praises him as a smart strong man! Almosta million men have died for a war criminal The German people were living in poverty and under the thumb of the French Armistead & easily induced with propaganda! Germany’s slogan “We will never forget”
One man’s hate & ideology joined by cowards who wanted nothing more than to impress him with their evil actions! The saddest time in history, While the bravest people in World history made the ultimate sacrifices, Never Forget!!!
@@crowfoot1199 you're very right about that. It comforts me a little that I am from the village that is considered the only place in Germany to have protested Hitler and tried to boycott him getting sworn in by many different actions, right the next day after he was selected to be chancellor. All our tiny villages rolled up against him, most of them workers at the factory who organized the general strikes and stood up for their neighbour's. There were so many arrests following, but at least they tried to do something.
I don't doubt a second that there were bad eggs in those villages as well. There always are. But I am still glad that where I come from, the morals of the ordinary people were strong enough to stand up against something that was so fundamentally wrong despite the danger.
Also, hundred-thousand Jews joined the Nazi
You seem to confuse the National Socialists with USSR.
Thank you from Germany.😢 Do not forget what happened!
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As an Israeli Gay Jew that just came back from London last week i can tell you that the same voices are being heard again at these days
Am Yisrael Chai from the U.S.A., my Jewish Brother.
#IStandWithIsraelForever 🇺🇲🇮🇱
Simon, yes, it is frightening that there are still ignorant people in our presence; please know there are folk who will stand, resist, and fight for you. Be safe, live well!
I guess its because of rising poverty and increasing failed education. Its easy to blame others and gives the day structure.
Gay Jew in London ????
You are a warrior ^^
If you come in France , be careful, we have a lot of crazy left woke people pro hamas here .
Oh well
I have been on a guided tour to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Polen. It took me hours, after the tour, before I was abel to be myself again. There was an atmosphere of sadness all over the place, in both camps 😢
Same
They took my dad to work on a German airfield.
He survived ,thank God, or I was'nt talking to you right now.
My granddad sheltered some Jewish people in his cellar,and some German soldiers.
Not all German soldiers were evil,but if they didn't follow orders ,they were killed too.
Verry bad times here in the Netherlands in 1940- 1945.
Your tears made me tear up.
Do I say thanks?
Yes always, thank you,sweet Sarah, for this one 💪👍❤️
My grandfather came out of Germany was happy to find world war II against Germany
I agree with you on that my grandfather came from Germany and it was happy to fight in the United States with the United States against Germany because of the Adolf Hitler was evil
I want to echo your comment sir ! That sequence of little 6 or 7 year old CHILDREN showing their tattoos, ALWAYS brings my tears. I was "blessed" by knowing Hannah at infant school, whose Mum and Dad had survived Auschwitz and Belsen. Hannah always asked me round for tea, and it was only when I was much older, that I realised just WHAT the Tattoos on Manny and Frieda's forearms meant !
TOTAL respect to your Granddad, my friend ! What a wonderful Gentleman
@@petervandervlies6427 My grandfather was in the Nazi army cause he had no other choice. He was newly married with a child (my mom) on the way and he had to join to protect my grandmother. He didn’t like to talk about it. The few things he did say was he believed he didn’t kill anyone. He said he always had his gun aimed high enough that he was shooting over everyone’s heads. He only lasted a few months before he was captured by the Russians and spent the rest of the war in a Russian prison camp. He, with a few others, escaped eventually and he made it back to Germany. My grandmother said he weighed less than a hundred pounds (he was 6’5” tall, so he was basically a walking skeleton) and was so sick and diseased that you couldn’t touch his skin without hurting him. It took a few years but he was eventually healthy enough to work and save money to move to the U.S., where he vowed he would never set foot in Germany again. They built a pretty good life here in the States. He died in 1987 and never returned to Germany, not even to visit family.
@@ChirumboloFilmAs far as I know the situation for the common Germans was also not that great. Youth had to be a member of the Hitler Jugend and were brainwashed into believing that the Arian Race was superior. Their parents could not trust them anymore. If they did/said anything against the government, the children were expected to rat them out. The boys did military kinds of stuff, girls were taugth to be housewives and raise Arian children. At the end of the war Hitler sent 16-17 years old into war. My mother told me that there were German soldiers that tried to be human, like if their leader was out of sigth pointing at things indicating the family was hiding people. Or opening a cabinet with a hidden person in it and closing while saying it was empty
Hi from Germany. It's very brave of you to watch this alone when hearing the first time of all these horrible things or learning more about this. I really want to come over and hug you and talk with you about what you have seen and heard. All this cruel stuff needs time to understand, well at least trying to understand and you are there completely alone with all this information learning them for the first time. I hope you are ok and girl you have my full respect for putting your first reaction to THIS without knowing much about it out to the whole world to see. ❤
What gets me is that the Roman Catholic church low-key supported Hitler, he was never ex-communicated from the church for his evil, Ghandi also was not against him
Hi, I am from Germany and I am so happy that people like you and others inform themself and keep in mind what happened. So guys like you will always remember and teach others!
History like that should ALWAYS be taught in school so that something like this doesn't happen again, but the sad tragedy is that tragedies like this will happen again, again and again, cause people don't listen, see or do not want to
Still I have hope, that with you guys informing and telling people will help to set people right on track and tell what REALLY happend!
❤
Pay close attention. History repeats itself to those that don't, and it seems a LOT have forgotten the past..
Yes, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was by far one of the most heart destroying movies I've ever watched. My Grandma was a Holocaust survivor so I've been raised knowing all of this, but that movie absolutely destroyed me. I was sobbing uncontrollably at the end.
One man cant do this much damage without the support of the people under him Brought together with their hatred for people unlike them
You are correct about that we are actually seeing it right now in this day and age. It's called the Democrat party.
When Hitler disarmed the people [which is one of the very first things he did], the people had no hope of taking on the military, the SS, and the Gestapo. Count your blessings for being protected by neighbors who are armed and capable of resistance.
I think you underestimate power of a dictatorship. Im not German, but I grew up in a communist country. My parents, relatives, everyone I knew hated our government, but it was impossible to do anything about it. It was almost impossible to even just plan a revolt, because secret police was everywhere, undercover agents were listening to peoples conversations and you never knew if there was an agent among the people you were talking to. Even just saying something prohibited meant the risk of you ending up in prison or even dead. I think people who never lived in a dictatorship cannot imagine the level of fear ordinary people have saying or doing anything.
@@johnroberts1206What are you eve talking about? There are extremists on both sides. However, it's much of the Republican party that is heading toward fascistic beliefs.
@@SK-lk3iu Can you give any examples of their actions that point to that?
In Scandinavia we learn about ww2 from a young age. When I was a teenager, my school took us to one of the camps, Theresienstadt. Nothing has ever impacted me harder then walking amongst the buildings, seeing the "showers". In the end, we all placed rocks on a wall and cried.
Learnt about in school also, and visit the online sites that has hours upon hours of documents about it.... it never surprises me on what new information I find about what Evil did.
From the bottom of my heart I sincerely thank you for your reaction.
I have tears in my eyes listening to you...
Thank you, thank you.
Sincerely... thank you.
There was a woman who came every year to speak at our high school. She did not hold back any information about the horrors she survived and the stories were horrendous. It took her many years to be able to speak about it, but once she did, she made sure to educate as many people as she could. Seeing the faded tattoo on her arm made it so real.
Sarah I was born in Germany right after the war, I was put into an orphanage. I was adopted by American people after WWII, I grew up in Ca USA. I was privileged to be able to care for a Jewish woman who had escaped a camp. She was very old, was one huge scar. Don't know if she was burned badly or beaten so badly. I was a certified nursing assistant in a hospital. and I was able to care for her. She had night terrors. I loved her. She use to call us "my heart' She was such a sweet lady. Not all Germans felt like Hitler and his kind. Many of us Germans hated what he did.
The old lady you mention it would not surprise me if she was a victim of the experiments in those camps...
This video is the rated G version of what actually happened
Sarah, your beautiful heart shows out in your music reactions, but never as strongly as with this. As an old Jewish man whose family mostly escaped western Poland before Hitler gained power, while a few remained and perished, I am glad to see you take on this subject - certainly not an easy one. Thank you so much. You are a joy to me.
I'm an indigenous American. I know well what hate and genocide can do. The attempted extermination of a people. There are few of us left. But genocide is never accomplished. There's always resistance. There's always good people who try to help and great things can be accomplished through the love of humanity. The Allies defeated the Nazis. The sun rose on people with hope because that's what it means to be human. We care about each other. And no hatred can be stronger than that.
Amen & God bless ❤
Sadly, sometimes it is accomplished. There are societies/cultures we only know ever existed because records talk about how they were whiped out. And the excuses why they were whiped out are often the only thing we know about them, which of course doesn't say much about who they really were.
@@nagranoth_ Many of those were assimilated into other cultures
@@MW_Asura But not all. There are no full-blooded Tasmanians left in the world as far as I know, for example.
@nagranoth_ You really think I don't know that? That it needed to be said? I've lived my life bereft of my tribe because of genocide. The few of us who remain are only shadows in the conscience of history. No one knows we're still here because we don't matter. We were exterminated, but we went down fighting. I can't express to you what that means. Also: what's with the underscore? Makes it harder to reply to your comments. Fist bump.
“How can someone have so much hatred in their heart?” Many of us ask ourselves this everyday as we see many hateful acts being committed. 😢
My family lived in an old papal residence on the only golf course in Rome during WWII, and my bisnonno was managed the course and hosted many dignitaries, both Allied and Axis leaders, including Hitler and Mussolini, who was a frequent dinner guest.
My family did not agree with the Italian government, but toed the line for safety, however my Nonna and Zia, aged in 10 and 14, hid Jewish refugees fleeing persecution under the enemy’s nose.
My nonna passed away several years ago, but my Zia and I are close and in frequent contact. I visit whenever I can, and finally convinced her this summer before I left to write her story.
It’s priceless. I am so proud to be their descendant, and can only hope to live up to their expectations, especially my Nonna. I am honored to be her namesake, and inspire to be half of the woman she was.
Sarah, the term “Nazi” has been bantered around of late. This shows how ignorant those people are. 🇺🇸
Not so ignorant if they recognize how history is repeating itself when Trump attacks and divides people based on race, religion etc and copies the language of Hitler. "Former President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for embracing some of the rhetoric of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the campaign trail, praised the genocidal German dictator while he was in the White House, his former chief of staff Marine General John Kelly, and other top aides told CNN. “He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things.’ I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing,’” retired Marine Gen. John Kelly said. “It’s pretty hard to believe he missed the Holocaust, though, and pretty hard to understand how he missed the 400,000 American GIs that were killed in the European theater.”
Have you missed the White Nationalist marches of late in Tennessee, or glossed over Congress Representatives MTG and Boebert saying there’s nothing wrong with White Nationalist Pride and other GOP members appearing on stage at public events with prominent members of the White Nationalist Party? Nazis? Maybe not yet, but brick by brick a wall is built, it doesn’t just appear. While the good standby and shake their collective heads and the naysayers say “that’s not enough to be really bad “ by the time they see the evil for what it is the time to act is past. So shake your head and believe whatever makes you feel safe, but there is no rest for the wicked and evil does not rest, it just grows.
Read project 2025! It's a Nazi blueprint for his administration.
@@marilynwhite8763 yes, so true!
when people openly wear a swastika and parade through streets spouting hate, are you really surprised?
I've learnt about this in school. My parents talked to me about it, I can't remember a time where I didn't know. It's refreshing to see a grown woman's reaction to it. It reminds me to not grow numb to the horrors that were commited. Thank you for this video.
Girl though I'm 73 yo & know this story pretty good your emotion almost made me cry too. Love from Buenos Aires, Argentina
4:11 -- That wasn't just his personal opinion. anti-Semitism was widespread. Here you can clearly see what the final stage of a hate-filled ideology looks like. In our time, countless ideologies are emerging that see themselves as victims and declare other groups to be perpetrators. If such hatred is spread widely enough in a society, a mass psychosis arises that leads to cruel acts of violence.
As soon as Schindler’s List came out on video (1994?) my high school German teacher would play the movie each grading period to all his classes. He never wanted this to happen again. I’m from a German area in Texas after during and after WW2, locals were not allowed to speak their Texas German dialect again.
One of the most famous victims of the Nazi’s was Anne Frank. Her story was tragic… I’d recommend reading her book as well as The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. Both had me sobbing as a child when I read them.. I may not have any Jewish ancestry but I am human.. My heart always breaks when I learn the stories of these victims. Hitler was pure evil personified if you ask me.
I’m grateful you’re learning more about this tragedy in history. May these events never happen again! 💔
Now you have this information it makes it more it more understandable that they refuse to give up on those hostages in GAZA . The fear of this happening again to them must be in their minds once again when they were attacked on October last year.
It is hard to go back through the past and find out about the horrors and atrocities made against the Jews.
Hitler was a madman and good people stood aside and allowed the menace that was NAZI o rise to a great evil power that was so hard for others to stop.
And yet we still haven't really learnt anything. We show so much potential for good yet brutality and evil is always hiding in the Wings to overpower any adversary.
I wonder what would happen should the armies etc of the countries if EARTH refuse to fight and instead do the right thing by ALL citizens of earth for PEACE.
@robertzoomer9886 which is why good people now need to speak up against the atrocities that the state of Israel is now committing! From the victim to the perpetrator!
An other great book is Elli: Coming of age in the holocaust. An other must read.
@@christiandengler6689 There has never been a significant Israel ideology, movement, policy or plan to exterminate the Palestinian population. Trying to equate what is happening in Palestine to the Holocaust is an anti-Semitic tactic of trying to demonize the Jewish people.
@@christiandengler6689 Do not blame the Jews for Israel's current leadership under Netanyahu, many are not in favor of him. And what about Hamas that started the murderous rampage with no provocation?
It's sad some of the younger generation does not know this happened well done for learning it, never forget.
Thank you. As a person that grew up in Europe, all the facts and number often become no more than that, facts and numbers from history class. Watching someone learn it for the first time puts the reality back into it.
And while very simplified ofc, that's a great resource video you had
Young lady your reaction alone gives me hope for this world!
I am so impressed with you for tackling this. Good for you.
I could not imagine learning about this in it's entirety from scratch, I slowly learned more about it over the years so It doesn't weigh as much on westerners. so much respect for choosing to learn about such a brutal subject, much love from America.
I’m sorry but the first minute and a half sounds a little familiar to our present times
Doesn’t it though?
Yes their has been some concerning disdain toward people who are religious
@@moabman6803 Really? The Jews or the Muslims who killed the Jews?
@@moabman6803 Somehow I don't think that was the point.
Hello from France. You are absolutely right, Hitler hated himself, this has been proven by multiple testimonies from members of his entourage. My grandfather was in two camps during this war and he managed to escape. He is my greatest pride in my family. Thanks for this video.
Hello, can you give a source for Hitler's self-loathing? I would like to check it out and learn more.
@@tintinismybelgian After his niece's death, Hitler fell into a deep depression, slipping into a near-coma, according to close family members. He had to be monitored because he talked about suicide. "Geli's death had such a devastating effect on Hitler that... it changed his relationship with everyone," Hermann Göring, the second most important man in Nazi Germany, told the Nuremberg Tribunals, which tried Nazi crimes.
I should mention, it wasn't the Russian army which won, but the USSR army. Which included people from all countries from USSR. My great grandfather participated in the II war and invaded Berlin in 1945, all his friends were blown by the bomb that attacked their tank, my great grandfather stayed alive by miracle.
This can never be forgotten and it needs to be taught in schools. There are a lot of people out there who complain and complain without realizing that if that sick bastard Hitler had won, the same people would not be alive today to complain AND we would not be making comments on the internet. Thanks for posting.
Complain about what, exactly?
You are a beautiful person because of your empathy.
Thank you for daring to educate yourself on those topics! If everyone was like you, the world would be a much better place ❤
Its not hate, Its pure Evil, period!!!
Its pure propaganda! Your a grown man, read and research by yourself instead of being a fool
Good and Evil do not exist in absolutes, it is an extremely childish vision of the reality of things. For what ? Because those are only mental productions nourished by one's own opinions. Everyone has their own vision of Good and Evil and everyone thinks that they are valid because they are precisely theirs.
Please understand what I'm saying: your "He is Pure Evil" view is, ultimately, no more different than those who think their actions causing suffering are justified. It is this type of discourse fueled by attachment and madness - for the most serious cases - which is the creator and driving force of discord and hatred.
For Hitler and his supporters, the Jews (to name but a few) were the Evil that was consuming society and their ambitions were justified for them. Unfortunately, the conditions were ripe for them to carry out their abominable madness.
But don't think that Hitler and his followers were the only ones...in truth, friend, opinions are the wheels of the world, attachment is the hub. This crazy world has never stopped spinning for millennia and it is not ready to stop...
And this is why it's so VITALLY important that we all learn the truth of history. We don't want anything like this to happen ever again....to anyone.
But it has. It happened again on Oct 7th when Hamas INVADED Israel and had a massacre of Jewish people and kidnapped around 250 others which they took into gaza. Of which over 100 are still being held there.
The biggest genocide in history was and is the slaughter of over 100 million indigenous people in the Americas by the European colonists
(Rosie the Riveter) was the name given the women working in the factories, my mother was building tank's, we saw movie's and heard storie's of WW2, I'll never forget what happened, now I'm 70 and so many young people never heard of WW2. Thanks to video's like this we can inform them, Thanks to your reaction video we can show them how inhumane people can be. Peace✌️ and Love❤️ Gary😊 great reaction 😢 VOTE!😅
There's a black and white film from the US army showing the liberation of a death camp. It was long ago I can't remember the name of it. Just look for Americans liberate death camp 1945 you should find it. I watched it with my son I don't think he will ever be an anti-semite. God bless the United States, God bless Israel. God bless you for wanting to know. No I'm not jewish, just merican
I saw it on PBS a long time ago with my sons, I just can't remember the name of it. I know it was US army film taken at the time.
Band of Brothers’s episode 9 “Why We Fight” does a good job of encapsulating the horror of what happened in the Holocaust.
This is one of the most heartbreaking moments of history I have ever had to learn about. I am so grateful that survivors were around when I was in school, because I had the blessing of hearing their experiences from their mouths. Looking back, their messages went way over my head because of age. I understand today it was the message of empathy, love, tolerance and compassion for others that I was supposed to hear. I really wish I could go back today to re-hear, and re-engage to give them the proper respect they deserved by sharing of their very personal life experiences. Those survivors & their messages were gifts.
My grandfather was a pert of the resistance when Nazi Germany occupied my country.
Even though we surrendered, danish citizens helped jews flee to sweeden and avoid capture.
We are 5.8 million danes. We had to surrender to survive. But we kept fighting, bloeing uo infrastructure and factories and doing everything we could to sabotage the german warmachine.
I am proud of how my grandparents and their generation protected my country and the jews.
Not one man. He wasn't alone in his hatred. He stoked the prejudice of many, many people who felt emboldened to behave in this hateful way because of his charismatic leadership. That's why we must always be vigilant against anyone telling us to blame the "other group", especially when we should be looking towards those in power. It's happening again in the USA. We're hating each other instead of uniting against the oligarchs.
🎯💯 it is terrifying
I have a certain passion about this period in history because of the amazing stories of people willing to risk their lives to protect others and to stop the indecency of what was happening. The estimated death toll for WWII is around 50 million people. May it never happen again! We don't need a war the likes of this for people to be heros, to care for others, to stop inhumain treatment of others and to make a positive differece in this world. LOVE EACH OTHER! PLEASE
Africa is no stranger to genocide as of late. I think it's the sheer numbers that was shocking to her.
There is a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Also Africa is a continent, not a country
I’m a Nurse from the US, also Jewish. It gets very hard to take care of those child survivors that are now seniors. I cry when I see their tattoo. It hurts deeply inside. Knowing there are ppl that say this never happened is ugly to hear. As far as Hitler… He wanted someone to blame. Oddly, he thought the “perfect” race was Blonde, Blue eyed, & White. He didn’t even meet his own ideals. I also, feel bad for the German youth that were “matched up” to breed the perfect race.
Thank you for this video. Thank you for taking the time to learn about history that wasn't taught to you in school and having the courage to connect with it emotionally. I'm an American (half Filipino, half Jewish) who comes from a family that was killed at Belzec. I know it's painful, and I hope you're taking care of yourself. This is how empathy is built. I'm proud of you for doing this. ❤
The boy in the striped pajamas is a movie about the son of a Natzi who befriends a Jewish boy stuck in a camp. That movie really hurt my soul.
Dont give in for their propaganda
I live in Washington state, and I homeschooled my 2 children, so they learned of the atrocities. But I took in my godson, which had gone to Public school till he was 14. I was having health issues, so I put them in an online school. But I would add onto the history lessons. My boys learned of the interment camps, but nothing of what was also happening. I am part Japanese and had family that suffered. I am also part German. I sat my godson down and showed him the horrors of the war. He looked at me and asked, "Why are you showing me this. I told him this is the truth, and we also discussed slavery. I told him the United States is not the evil they taught him. My eldest had friends come to me for help on their school work. Because they had absentee parents, or both parents working and had no or very little time to be there. They are destroying our youth.
The USA has not always been great either, our treatment of the natives was atrocious for most of our history and we were one of the last western European democracies to outlaw slavery. Yes the USA has done some truly great things, so has Germany, so has every country. I am a teacher (Math/Geology/Chemistry), no teacher teaches that the USA is "evil", but they also don't ignore when the USA has not lived upto its own ideals and in fact flouted them for economic gain. And in fact a xenophobic fear of immigrants kept the USA from accepting a lot of Jewish refugees both before and after WW2 who later died in the Holocaust. So please dismount from the high horse, nobody is "destroying our youth" except for the people teaching xenophobia and a reluctance to work with the other side.
@@allenporter6586 well said.
@@allenporter6586 You choose very careful phrasing in order to make your very misleading point. "The US was one of the last western democracies to outlaw slavery."
The US was the second "western democracy" to outlaw slavery. However, there only were THREE western democracies in 1865, so the US was among the last as well. The vast majority of the western world were still MONARCHIES at that point in time.
Wording matters. You can word it how you did, trying to make the US look badly, or you can say the US was among the first nations in the world to outlaw slavery.
@@bobprivate8575 US was nowhere near first. A simple online search would have told you.
@allenporter6586 High horse? I never said that America doesn't have its sins and stains on humanity. God, our country is such a mess right now. I do not know where or what age you teach. You have one of the hardest jobs. You are not paid or respected the way people should. But you can not say that the kids are not more violent now, that they have little respect. Many believe all that police need to be defunded, that most of the police are corrupt. I lived in Los Angeles during the LA riots, just towns over, and I had friends with it on their streets. They were terrified to step out of their homes. Also, my friends' parent's had a small market that was looted so bad they almost lost their business. It was too dangerous to check if their business were destroyed. I also live near when people occupied areas in Seattle, not long ago.
There are people alive in the world today who are exactly like this guy was. And they are the leaders of countries.
This was a quick overview, but the horrors that were unleashed upon the Jewish far exceeded murder. The worst kinds of atrocities were carried out on the men, women and children. The photographs that exist are absolutely horrific but seeing them is the only way to truly grasp the magnitude of the evil that was allowed to flourish for far too long.
I have a problem with this yelling of history. Don't get me wrong, I know that I am somewhat better informed than many these days. But there is one mistake that upsets me. First, the number of massacred people should be twelve million not six. Half of those who were murdered were Jewish but that does not mean that the rest were not there and do not count. Twelve million human beings were slaughtered in those caps. Second, the atrocities were not limited to the camps. Millions were killed in villages, cities, and the countryside. It was the largest set of atrocities in human history.
@@daniellandreaux137 The Holocaust refers to the genocide that hit Jews. 6 million Jews so the number is correct. Everyone knows that not only jews were murdered. Statista refers to about 17 Million Humans killed by the Nazis in total.
Thank you for posting this! I’m currently being called a nazi for supporting Israel when my great grandmother was the only family member of ours who survived. It’s such an insult to us.
I remember her late in her life, hiding under her bed due to
Alzheimer’s thinking every plane was going to bomb her.
Did your grandmother support bombing children in gaza ?
I'd presume that someone that went through such Trauma as her would've have something to say about this, but that's not my grandma, so what do I know.
I commend you for getting through that. As a Jewish person, I can tell you this video barely scratches the surface of the real atrocities and scope of the Holocaust, or the ramifications all involved communities are still facing. Thank you for choosing to learn, as brutal and heartbreaking as it is to do so.
My great grandmother had the infamous tattoo on her arm. She was one of the fortunate to survive the camps. I can attest to atrocities that happened. I still cry when I think about what my great grandmother told me.
You're just learning about the holocaust. For me it's an embodiment of living history. I grew up with this knowledge.
We have much yet to learn.
To me as Italian is crazy that people dont know the history....
Dear sarah it is never too late to learn and educate yourself thankyou for being open minded enough to learn
It’s hard to believe that a human can be capable of such atrocities. And to understand how he so many people to enforce his evil deeds.We have to be careful not to let dictators in control anymore. Never again
And yet it is happening now...
For starters, I adore youSarah Dengler. I am glad you did this video because I do not think you are alone in not knowing how awful this was. Worldwide, not just Nigeria. And there are actually people in this world who say this never happened. Personally, I have to take it slowly when I learn about terrible periods in history like this because it really upsets me. I have never watched the film Schindlers's List because I know how much it will hurt. Take it slow if you want to learn more. It really is that bad.
Years ago I wanted to know what happened in more detail. The things I learned will haunt me for the rest of my life.
@@wackyvorlon 100% agree. But even today, I still watch the documentaries about the nazis. I truly believe it is a period in the world's history that everyone should know about.
6:25 that one person had so much power BECAUSE nobody would stand up to him.
@@daniel-marcinkowski well there were many people against him or fighting against his regime, but most of them ended up dead because of many reasons, it was pretty dangerous to go openly against him so most people would have gone after him in secret, even then it was only a matter of time before they would have been found out… then there was also the matter of what germany was like then and the hate towards jews didn’t come from nowhere, learning history this wasn’t the only wrong thing that happened as humanity did many bad things… but I don’t want to tell you more as I m not an historian and I get thinks wrong too so you need to look up stuff like that yourself 😅🙈
Just consider what is happening across the university campuses and in the streets of the world? Can it never happen again? I’m very very sad to see such happenings when I thought the world had learned a lesson.
To be clear. People are protesting about what they consider to be a genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinians.
Did you ever study up on the hitler youth?
I learned about the horrors while in school but I'm 55 now so when I learned these things, it was a lot closer in time to when it took place. I think the further away we get from this period in time, the less it is taught perhaps? Sadly these details will always be relevant and I truly hope that it is still talked about and taught in history in hundreds of years. I am Australian and visited Dachau while backpacking in Europe. Visiting a concentration camp really brings it home. The Berlin wall came down just before I visited and the whole idea that just a few years previous to my visit that people could still be shot for attempting to cross the wall was mindblowing for me.
Thank you for reacting to this. The more people understand what happened the more likely we are to protect against. You’re emotional horror is good for the soul. I promise. You did a lovely job.
We've had so much evil in the world, and it looks like such things can arise swiftly without any resistance.
In Germany, there was resistance. The very term “Nazi” comes from the name Ignaz, which was a common name in the region where they started. It was also slang for a fool or country bumpkin. Every time you call them Nazis, you are calling them fools. I’m quite fond of that fact.
Adolph Hitler survived more than 40 assassination attempts. Not everyone fell in line. Too many did. But not everyone.
Our time has its own hate-filled ideologies. they are just applauded as modern and fair.
@@schauseil187 IMO, it's the same stuff going on since the French Revolution. Marx and others were contemporaries to that event. That's when these Orwellian philosophies were forged. It's when the fuse was lit. In revolution after revolution, we see a similar pattern.