Dachau: A Light in the Darkness (the cell of Martin Niemöller) | History Traveler Episode 271
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- Martin Niemöller was a Lutheran pastor in Germany in the years after WWI. At first, he was an enthusiastic supporter of Adolf Hitler but that would change as the Third Reich began showing it's true colors. Niemöller's resistance would land him in Dachau where he would undergo a radical transformation that would change him forever. In this episode, we're going to the place where that transformation took place.
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Despite CZcams's attempts to silence you, you keep fighting on. Thank you.
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@Perry J why are CZcams wanting the truth to be hidden?! Shame on them 😕
@@TheHistoryUnderground Really, CZcams is messing with you? I can’t believe it, after following you for awhile now and listening to hour’s of your excellent video’s.
You truly are a Gentleman. I strive to be like you, you are a role model for great behavior and excellent content, if anyone loves history they love you. I’m starting to think we don’t live in a free country anymore which makes me angry.
@@SGTDuckButter yep check his community page
@@TheHistoryUnderground would love to see you on Utreon, JD.
About 10 years ago I ran in to an elderly lady in the cat food section of a grocery store in Rockford, IL. She was frail and in her late eighties. She started talking to me and I saw numbers tattooed on the inside of her left arm. She was a survivor of the holocaust and she was the only survivor of her family. She married an American and moved Herr. I will never forget the long conversation with her. She really wanted someone to talk to and I loved talking to her as well.
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Fellow No. Illinois resident here,, inspiring.
Sounds like bs you came up with for likes
@@corydunawaywhat a nob head comment!
I LIVED IN ROCHELLE,ILLINOIS 25 MILES SOUTH OF ROCKFORD. I SEEN THE TRAGEDY THAT HAPPENED HERE MY HUSBAND WAS STATIONE IN GERMANY IN. THE 1970. ONE NEVER FORGETS THIS TERRIBLE THING .
My father was with the 45 th infantry
The Thunderbirds, it wasn't until Dad was in his 80's that he started to share his 4 yrs in the Army when his story came to the Liberation of Dachau and he told me what he saw with unbelievable sadness I never knew what he had seen. He left his father's ranch when he was 17 yrs old, he was enlisted right off, he said he mailed his cowboy hat & boots to the ranch. He made it thew 6 months in Anzio. My father became a man at 17 yrs old.
Thank You for putting together this video.
Thanks for bringing us the stories of prisoners from Dachau and the horrors that took place there. History no matter how horrific should not be hidden or erased.
What if the history is, say, altered and exaggerated? ie. Skinlamps etc
@@dmurray2978 exaggeration or altered history should be corrected, not silence what actually happened
@@dmurray2978 The first thing you have to do is recognize it when you see it. When people of power and influence point fingers at other Americans and try to twist your thoughts.
Past laws against women’s, against voting rights, gerrymander states, ban book, put their spin on what to teach in schools, stop teaching Black history, Don’t Say Gay, allow pretend news to lie and spread conspiracy and call journalist fake news.
Half our government backs white supremacy groups and is trying to overthrow our government.
Half the country is so brainwashed they have lost the ability of critical thinking.
They go to rallies and blindly act like those that cheered for Hitler's nonsense.
Just looking for me, and my wanting to know the real history, if you look hard enough on you tube, you will find some very real stories with real news reel images, from the start of the war and these camps til the end. It is so hard for me to see these people treated like this, but those movies are out there, just saying.
JD, you show these stories with such sensitivity and respect... it really brings history out of the past and highlights the lessons we NEED to learn. Thank you so much for another important lesson! Keep fighting to get your voice heard!
just...still can't wrap my head around standing in the middle of that kind of history all these years later. It has to feel so heavy to know the footsteps you're walking in and what they endured for so long.
My heart is heavy with what happened to these human beings.
Powerful! Thank you. I too stood in and toured the “Bunker”. Standing in a cell, I found myself running my fingers over the door, around the door frame, along the walls, bending down and touching the floor with full assurance I could on my own free will leave. I had let our tour group get ahead of me as we toured the bunker. Then I stepped back into a cell.
I tried (without success) to place myself inside that cell as a prisoner, to try to understand the impact of the door closing, not knowing if I would live to see another day. That was powerful. One of my most memorable stops in our Dachau tour.
And yes God did not say we would enjoy a life of ease away from evil. Rather the opposite is to be expected. The battle against evil is all around us. This particular evil reared it’s ugly head and “no one spoke up.” Let us use our voices to speak up while we can! Thank you Martin Niemoller for standing tall!
I remember reading about this man. His saying is still alive today, but not as much as it used to be. A great man and testimony he had for the world, if anyone will lend an ear.
I am 63 years old and have only known of a fraction of what I have learned from your CZcams program. Another fantastic program!
Thank you JD!
I am 60 and I was just having this very thought. As a result of this series, I have taken a deep dive into WWII history and just ordered some books and watching some 'younger' and exceptional historians on YT.
I toured Dachau a couple times in the late 1970s when I was stationed in Germany, but I've learned more about this place from you than I did touring it myself. Thank you for your research.
Our family did as well back then we were also stationed in Germany... I still remember it too this day and the somber feeling I had as a young teenager but I will never forget this horrific atrocities that took place there.
Thank you for keeping history alive and remembered!
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History is written by the victors
@@dmurray2978 No it aint. Not really. Only those who wished things were different say that
Well done once again! I so like how J. D. shares with us the biographies of ordinary, largely unknown people who suffered at the hands of the Third Reich. The story of Martin Niemöller reminds me of another German pastor who spoke out against the evils of the NSDAP, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. J. D. is so right. Jesus never said that living for Christ would be free of tribulation; in fact, he says quite the opposite. " In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33
It's tragedies like this that leave me speechless. Man is capable of such horrific things.
Thank you for your hard work.
This is excellent! They’d better not touch this one!
Thank you. I certainly hope that it remains free of any suppression.
I didn't know about Mr Niemoller beforehand and I think you gave this gravitas and grace. You are gifted at this. Keep it going.
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Thank you for doing what you do and for fighting to get this history out to the world.
Production value never ceases to amaze me!
Thank you.
More outstanding clarity of the shadows of humanity.
Always Remembered, Never Forgotten. From the proud daughter of a Canadian Military Veteran and a Retired Paramedic in Ontario, Canada, Jenn. 💖
Really appreciate you and your videos, keep educating “we” in this country need it. Thank You
You're an absolute gift to the history lover! Best history channel on YT - bar none!
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Thanks for putting this video together. It is important that younger generations are aware of such a terrible time in history. You have a good speaking voice and demeanor that suits the subject matter.
Keep this content coming. I hope that YT sees the value in what you're doing here.
Well done. Good research work upfront. The tone of your voice is particularly well adapted to the topic. Thank you for your job.
Let's hope the CZcams gestapo doesn't shut this one down.
Well, let’s hope that they don’t.
"The same sun that melts the ice, hardens the clay" great quote!
Watching your videos and following what you do brings me sweet sorrow and pride feelings. I’m Polish and I lost family in Auschwitz and I feel encouraged to know people like you do their best to keep history alive.
It would be wonderful to see a historical documentary of Auschwitz from you.
Thank you. I most certainly plan on going there some day.
Was a bit afraid after your episode about Dachau that you forgot about the prison cells. I have visited all major concentration camps and also some small ones and every camp has something special, I find this cell block of Dachau the most impressive. Incidentally, I would like to mention that Martin Niemöller was also a very successful U boat captain in WW 1.
Thanks for the info. Most likely the reason he survived.
Emil Schubert (my husband's grandfather),was also a WW1 veteran and was transferred to Dachau after spending 10 years in prisons (Papenburg, Frankfurt...) being put on work crews sent to and from the growing Concentration camps, all for being a Chairman of the SPD in Frankfurt (1932)and for being a member of the Reichsbanner...he was convicted of treason for resisting fascism.
His term of incarceration at Dachau was listed as undetermined...a death sentence.
Emil Schubert 1887-1945.
Emil Schubert, a German, survived almost two years in Dachau before being sent to Mauthausen at Gusen, suffering a fall and infection which was cured by a murderous shot of petrol to his heart on 02/19/1945.
Thank you for keeping History alive, show and telling the stories that we should have learned in school. Your videos are always interesting, but this episode, not only very interesting but a great message! Very powerful, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Very good presentation from Dachau. I toured it back in 2000. Looks like they have more exhibits open than when I was there. I have photos of me opening the iron door in the front entrance and remembering how heavy it felt. You showed where that door had been stolen and recovered and is now in the museum. I also went to Belsen. So much suffering and death happened at these places. They should not be forgotten.
I love these videos. I watch every second. Great job! 🙂👍
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These are the hardest videos of yours to watch. The unspeakable atrocities committed want to make to make you turn away, yet one has to endure to learn more of what happened. I find it difficult to think that ordinary people could sink to such depths of depravity toward their own kind. Surely, they weren't like that to begin with, but to be willing and able to do such things is nearly beyond my understanding. Just incredible.
This is why people deny it happened. And why such things continue to happen. 🥺🥺
@@simonsmith1974 As hard as it is to accept, this happened.
I know just so much hatred 😢
Thank you JD for your resilience and not abandoning this project.
Thanks for your hard work JD!
Wow! Pastor Niemoller’s story is so inspiring! Well told JD! Well told indeed! Great episode
Another wonderfully done video,thank you for doing these videos
Great job JD👍 Without your videos a lot of people wouldn’t be able to see places like this.
You have my full support like many other who watch your channel. Keep going people need to see places like this. It doesn’t need to be hidden away like it never happened. It’s history and it’s never going to go away. Thank you!👍😊
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Just want to share my appreciation and respect for you, JD! Thank you for your persistence and perspective! Always powerful and so well done.
I’ve watched your excellent videos for about a year. I’ve wondered where you were trained. Your choice of music adds to the image and some of the camera moves are impressive. And I’m a retired combat photographer who went to USC Film School.
As we say continually. Never Forget !
Don’t ever stop working to keep history remembered. It is right to do this. I’m not the only one who is standing with you in this. Thank you for being on the ‘front line’. 🙏🏻🙏🏻💜
Thank you for keeping these memories alive.
Aloha! Another great educational and greatly done video, J.D. Mahalo for keeping their history and stories alive, lest we forget. Keep up all your hard work it is appreciated. God bless and safe travels
Thanks again for the great work you do. Very sobering.
Much appreciated
Thank you for your wisdom. I enjoy your content. It is true that none of this can be forgotten and swept under the “rug”. These people that suffered and left a legacy for the rest of us to learn from should be lifted. God bless
Another thoughtful, insightful, sensitively presented video of a difficult chapter of history. You did a commendable job, JD! Keep speaking the truth and exposing the darkness. You are not only instructing and informing, but you are ministering as well! God bless you! ❤️🕊️
These videos are so well done keep up the great worker people need to learn all this history
This one was especially powerful. Niemöller’s quote is used on the New England Holocaust memorial in Boston. It’s near Faneuil Hall. I wonder if you saw it when you were here. It’s extremely impactful, along the lines of Yad Vashem, but of course much smaller.
Another who came out of the Holocaust stronger was Corrie Ten Boom. I read her book, The Hiding Place, as a teenager and have been inspired by it ever since. Even with all she went through, her faith was strengthened. I would highly recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
LOVE the Hiding Place
This has to be one of your most profound videos, JD. Kudos!
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I can not say it too many times, Thank You! The curriculum grows!
Lest we never forget one of the most poignant events in World history!
God Bless.
Way to keep doing your thing! Can’t blur out history, good or bad it happened.
Thank you so much for taking the time to show this! And show how w/Martin Niemöller some things in life can strengthen your faith or show that you never had any to begin with. God bless! 🙏
Thank you for sharing. This is a tough subject, but you presented it. These crimes again humans should not be forgotten.
Appreciate that. We can't allow these stories to be suppressed.
@@TheHistoryUnderground certainly not. When I was a middle school special education teacher, I always taught a unit on Anne Frank. I stressed the fact the bystanders could have impacted what happened to the Jewish people and those who opposed Hitler.
I think that wing must be a recent exhibit. I don't remember it from when I was there 10 years ago. I'm glad they continue to develop the camp and tell the stories.
I pray CZcams doesn't consider this "harmful."
Me too.
Dad was a teenage soldier in Bavaria where he learned German to become an interpreter at Dachau. As teenagers we went to Dachau, then met Annie and her family who befriended Dad. He really liked the Germans he knew there. At the Berlin Wall as I tried taking a photo of an East German guard on top of the wall he pointed his rifle at me. The gas chambers were still in place then, 1965.
Thank you seems so inadequate but I thank you just the same. We must never forget the inhumanity and cruelty inflicted upon so many during this period. 🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻
i don’t know how i found you way back then, but i’ve been subscribed since you had 9k subscribers. i appreciate your work so much. i attempted to go to Gettysburg to maybe run into you back in 2021 coming from Nashville, but was unable so instead i just explored the historic areas. keep up the great work man. your content helps me in ways you cannot imagine 🙏🏼
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Thank you for putting this episode together and publishing it. I catch most of your videos as I am an amateur historian and appreciate the content you provide. I am also an Anglican (Episcopal) priest who studied and wrote about Martin Niemöller while in graduate theological school. His life and testimony is so important for others to know about and I thank you for this glimpse into the life of a man who was a U-Boat officer during WWI, a national hero (in that war), a pastor and voice of conscience captivated by the word of God who, at one time, confronted Hitler face to face. This is an important theological case-study that we do well not to forget.
Thank you for taking us with you when you visit these places. And thank you for teaching me more about about these horrible times. We must never forget.
I just want to say your video series has only made me want to visit Europe and the Far East. I'm 63 and an amputee above the knee with my right leg. Much like Garnier (sp). But mine is from poor circulation. My wife and I were discussing over our 29th-anniversary dinner, "What do you want to do for our 30th?" She wants to visit her family heritage in Ireland, as I do too with my step-grandfather's heritage. He served as one of the first UDT Frogs in WWII at 18-19 yo, going in first to blow pathways for landing craft. When he passed, I found a note he saved, "Thank you for saving my life "Kelly. (his last name and always called). I told her I wanted to visit the former Army Air Corp fields in England, even if not there now. Then follow "Easy Company's" trek through Europe. From the flight from England to Normandy drop zones, their fox holes in the Arden, maybe Holland, and of course, to the Eagle's nest. My wife knows I am a WWII enthusiast. We were supposed to visit the WWII Museum in New Orleans, but I started having issues with my right leg a few months before losing it and canceled. For my 65th birthday, I want to follow the paths of the Pacific Campaign. Your tours and history are great, just in case I don't make it. A consolation would be visiting the Civil War sites, including your museum. Stay well, stay safe, and I have a saying, "Keep smilin'!"
Your commentary on this video was very moving. Keep up the very good work that you are sharing.
JD thank you for your videos. Keep fighting for your right to show us history.
No matter what it shows it's history
I visited Dachau in 1976. I still remember the feeling of sadness.
As always; excellent video! Keep up the great work!
thanks JD...somber video but important history to be remembered and never repeated.
Great story! Keep telling them! Never forget! The quote at the end gave me chills. I had heard it before but never knew who said it.
Dachau was a place I will never forget as a teenager when my family travelled Europe in 1985.
Thank you for bringing us some of the stories of people who suffered horrific conditions and agonising deaths in the concentration camps Well researched and narrated.
What a moving experience, JD. I know you are not the same man after visiting here. I can’t imagine how people can do this to other people. They were like demons in the flesh. I’m sure each place changes you in one way or another. Just by watching, and I am sure there are others who can say the same thing, I am changed by what you have shown us. I can say a prayer of thanksgiving that God has allowed me to find your channel on CZcams. Blessings to you JD and all who watch.
A very interesting insight into some of the people who went through that place. Brilliantly presented as always
Thank you for a well done video on such a tragic event. It breaks my heart to see what they endured.
Visited Dachau, solemn, amazing….you brought back great memories! Well done, thank you, Andrew
Thank you, JD, for your continued efforts to keep this particular history alive. I’ve been to Dachau twice. Each time was a privilege & opportunity to honor those killed there.
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Your finishing words made my shoulders lighter. Thank you sir.
Powerful story. Thank you JD for these stories.
Thank you.
Oh my. There was just a feeling of great sadness coming thru this video. These beautiful people endured so much pain and loss. But, we need to see where history happened. There is no wiping it out...the horrible things took place, and we just have to see it and hear about it to make sure it isn't repeated in our lifetimes. Thank you, J.D. for being our eyes and ears.
@The History Underground this is one of your best videos ever. Interesting. Very solemn and respectful as well
As always is the case thank you JD for posting yet another one of your excellent videos of WW2 history! Places such as Dachau must forever remain standing so the world will never forget the horror and suffering and the living hell that took place there and at other concentration camps too.
Best CZcams channel out there I watch this over Netflix or history channel man great videos
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It was so sad what happened there really interesting what happened can't wait for the next one
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These is the best one I have seen from you. And I have been subscribed to your channels for years now
This one hit close to home with me, I went through a “rough patch “ shall we say, it absolutely turned me into the man I am today! As bad as it was, I wouldn’t change a thing. Thank you, this was a great video
There are people everywhere trying to rewrite and suppress true history. You are doing a wonderful job.
Dude, this series is so AWESOME! thank you and everybody involved in it!Topics like this NEED to be presented so it NEVER happens again!
Thank you. Hopefully, people are sharing these videos out with others.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I KNOW I am!
Amazing video this entire seris you are doing is amazing and so respectful to the horror that happened at the hands of evil men. Your channel is amazing
Thank you JD for your continued work and amazing videos. They can try to erase history but they shall not prevail.
Must say I’m very thankful for you going out there and showing us and documenting such places ! God Bless you Sir thank you always 🙏
Preach it Brother! You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you. The world needs truth now more than ever.
I never cease to learn from your videos. Great subjects, amazing music and studio quality video.
sir, this was by far the best episode by far. Thank you.
Thank you for this episode, and this entire series!
Thank you for more education and an ability to see these places in real time.
Keep fighting the good fight brother. As a Dutchman I’m very interested in your content involving the Second World War but also the civil war in America. Thank you.
Another great video!
Thank you.
I’ve watched a few of your videos today and this one just really is incredible. Thank you for bringing these stories to light.
It’s amazing and sad how man can be so cruel
You have really outdone yourself with this one.
thank you when I was a College student. We of course went to the museum. as we were leaving there that Gray day we saw flurries coming almost like it was ash from the crematorium. I will never forget that January day.
Thank you for all the hard work and research you put into these videos. It's truly appreciated. You show us sights many of us may never be able to visit.