Nazi's photo album shows life of a top Auschwitz officer | 60 Minutes

A Nazi’s photo album shows top officers at Auschwitz singing, socializing, and lighting a Christmas tree at a time when hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the concentration camp.
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[@Audacious-grunt]

Her final words are truly profound! "Man is an animal, all he needs is permission"

[@billkingston4402]

So true

[@Georgina602]

“It’s happening, it has not stopped”

[@billkingston4402]

@@Georgina602 afraid it never will, insane world

[@schott43]

Animals don't do these things, not a fair word to use use.

[@schott43]

Permission is given by .more Americans than I dare to admit. For this current genocide. The shame is overwhelming and our police are beating young people shouting to stop it.😊

[@to2burger]

9:57 - “The heart keeps working but the soul never forgets”. What a statement.

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

I'm sick.....

[@jwincovitch4312]

i started crying listening to her story

[@asbisi]

That is why it is so important to speak up against evil.

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

@@jwincovitch4312 dad wood cry in sleep being in ETO AND WAKE UP..WHY IS DADDY CRYING?

[@jwincovitch4312]

@@asbisi 💯

[@SoberOKMoments]

"We couldn't cry ... This is beyond crying." She is the voice for her family. The voice for them all.

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Dad wood cry up until mid sixties he in chem MOTAR battalion saw 120days combat and wood wake up. At night calling names and commands...scary to a six yr old

[@padawanmage71]

"...it's never stopped.' the most damning last words.

[@kevinkiso4579]

It's still going as hellish as ever in the West Bank & Gaza.

[@davidschalit907]

​@@kevinkiso4579 Holocaust inversion is anti-Semitism.

[@gabriellemurphy6330]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@IEATU95]

Lmao cope

[@greenlime1997]

@@gabriellemurphy6330free them from what? Lol

[@hickmanandcompany567]

"tears are for normal pain" -- that stopped me in my tracks! What a powerful statement. Great reporting 60 Mins, thank you.

[@susie5254]

This may help explain why my mother never cried.

[@jamesmanolakis2420]

Really why aren't they reporting about the genocide happening in Palestine?

[@gumbopie]

@@jamesmanolakis2420 Because that's another story. A crucially important one, yes, but it's another story. It's perfectly fine to tell one story at a time.

[@Hanna1968]

"The heart keeps working, but the soul never forget"😥😢

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Dad and others in ETO NEVER BOUGHT A GERMAN CAR

[@nolongerblocked6210]

People don't realize how quickly society would breakdown in a war/catastrophic situation

[@schott43]

Shut down the internet for a week.in the US and you'll see just how violent this country is. BANKS, STORES, everything closed....the AR will rule!

[@goettling]

Society is nothing but a veneer!

[@Rotwold]

This isn't societal breakdown, it's a society built on domination working in overdrive.

[@sandarahcatmom9897]

I think many of us can see that now with all of the open political hatred around us, thanks to DJT for drawing it out into the open.

[@katana258]

usa 2024

[@richlewis1879]

Still blows my mind this all took place only 80 years ago

[@sheilatt9589]

Yes and history seems to be repeating itself. I met a young lady in a bookstore who did not know what the Holocaust was. She was a junior in college. Never forget!!!

[@shyper_]

I thought about that today like it feesl like a complete different era like it took place so long ago but it really wasnt that long ago

[@c.gibson6349]

"All he needs is permission......" - no truer, on point words have been spoken.

[@Georgina602]

“It’s happening, it has not stopped”.

[@tobehonest7541]

Germany, UK, US funding Israel are doing the exact same thing in Gaza

[@rickallen6378]

trump gives that permission

[@tobehonest7541]

@@rickallen6378 UK, US, Germany give it permission...see Gaza

[@SVNopq]

@@tobehonest7541 Yeah, it's happening now...in Palestine.

[@joeanderson8839]

I find truth in this quote "It's happening, it's never stopped".

[@Georgina602]

Same. Truth.

[@LynxStarAuto]

What the German's did, has been repeated over and over again throughout human history.

[@JackieDaytona1776]

It did stop. The allied forces stopped it. The battle for progress still continues, but don't put the future generations in the same breath as the Holocaust.

[@Anniebee3300]

@@JackieDaytona1776it didn’t stop. Listen to Donald Trump and his followers. Pay attention. This is what they want to impose on the United States

[@Georgina602]

@@JackieDaytona1776 the Holocaust gives the road map to understanding how it was done and how it is being done today.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

As the Reverend Martin Niemoller said, "First they came for the Communists. And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then the came for the Jews. And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics. And I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me. And by then, there was no one left to speak up." All it takes for evil to happen is for good people to do nothing,

[@ApriliaRacer14]

Will we all rise up and resist liberalism and wokeness? It will lead to the same as the 40s unless stopped.

[@georgfriedrichhandel4390]

@@ApriliaRacer14 I believe we're starting to now that we understand what wokeism really is and what a nefarious movement it is.

[@danm3532]

@@ApriliaRacer14 " liberalism and wokeness" did not cause this. Quite the opposite. It was fascism. The fact you posted what you did shows you know nothing about the " liberalism and wokeness" or fascism.

[@danm3532]

@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 You have no clue what you are talking about. "wokeism" is awareness of the social injustices that have become "baked" into our society. Wokeism is against racism and other social discrimination, the direct opposite of fascism.

[@acs5928]

@@ApriliaRacer14 Dude, you dont even know what being woke means.......being woke simply means that YOU are AWARE of social injustices. If youre NOT aware....you are the problem.

[@marsharowaihy6725]

I can’t wrap my mind around the story of the lady that was 13 teen yrs old. It’s too much to even comprehend that human beings could do such a thing. Sickening

[@adriancarmona7416]

And then the surreal feeling of actually seeing a colorized photo of that moment in her life that she horrifically endured. A photo she did not know existed. She was able to see herself as the 13 year old again and relive that horrific moment of being separated from her sister there. Truly sad

[@lesleyheller2271]

It happened to my two cousins, both sisters. At the death camp, they were forced on one line and their mother and toddler sister on the other. The younger of the two cried to be with their mother. The older sister said, "Stop crying! We'll see her later!" They never saw their mother and little sister again - they went straight to the showers.

[@cc83jc85]

We visited Auschwitz on a bus tour. It was horrifying, it made my stomach turn…. I wanted to get out of there…BUT, the guide explained that high school students are shown some of Hitkers buildings, so that they realise that IT WAS ALL TEUE! Apparently many young people think that because it’s on the internet, it was all made up…sad…

[@Sum-Ting-Wong71]

Are we still telling these fairytales about showers?

[@jaquanpowell4605]

The same thing was happening in the south.

[@latinaalma1947]

The lack of tears is profound trauma...

[@winstonoboogie2424]

That white haired old woman just told us the meaning of life.

[@richardbocanegra5945]

I wonder what her opinion would be when she sees innocent mothers and children being SLAUGHTERED in Gaza?

[@kbanghart]

​@@richardbocanegra5945lemme guess... That it's bad?

[@miriamstevens]

@@richardbocanegra5945 Why didn't they get these children out when told to leave Gaza?

[@DanielF892]

@@richardbocanegra5945because Hamas is evil from October 7th.

[@mrivas3610]

Irene’s final statement about Man being the most dangerous animal is true. It also sheds light on our world situation today.

[@blackawana]

You said it.

[@Daydreamerr13]

Yep!!!

[@abrahamlevi3556]

Rebecca from the USHMM is a knowledgeable historian and a very kind woman. She and Ms. Cohen personally handled all the collection of historical documents and photos of my family from Germany that I donated to the museum.

[@naerwyn239]

Thank you for your donation.

[@Georgina602]

“It’s happening, it has not stopped”

[@Kian139]

Now is done at concerts and in peoples homes. Another difference is that the butchers are celebrates with chants that they should have a racially pure state and things like that.

[@jamesdooling4139]

The last few seconds of this clip hold a message for all of us...

[@Dovelunalove]

yes explains what isreal is doing to Palestiniane💔

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Subtle yet true..

[@softballbryan]

The challenge… determining which group is the bad guys.

[@kenscar]

@@Dovelunalove more like what Hamas wants to do to Isreal

[@LynxStarAuto]

@@kenscarAnd this is precisely why these type of events happen throughout human history. It's not about what is right or wrong, only who is strong enough to pull it off. 🤷‍♂️

[@ronineditor9920]

8:29 -- This picture is the one where I went from choked-up to crying. It's unthinkable, how people could treat other people like waste... especially children.

[@Maddiehere89]

How this woman overcame the heartbreaking life she lived in Hotler’s Germany is amazing! I wish I could just met her and hug her.

[@EdgarRiverHernan]

When I was 10 years old I was changing channels on my grandmother's television and then, I don't know if it was on the PBS channel, they were showing a Holocaust documentary... I will never forget it because I didn't understand anything!! I saw women without clothes in the mud and prisoners loading corpses into wheelbarrows and throwing them into a ditch. I didn't understand until I finally started reading...but my life changed forever. God bless everyone.

[@judit1783]

Her final words are very profound! I went to Germany to visit a friend and went to Dachau......I was outside the entrance when the hair on my arms stood up, when I went into Dachau I could not talk above a whisper and I was feeling very very sad. Do not ever tell me, a Christian, that nothing happen there. Bad things happen there. I walked through the buildings with tears rolling down my cheeks as I felt the past pain. So acutely I was shaking.

[@arturoyescas4175]

Thanks for sharing that. I hear you never want to go there alone the weight is so heavy

[@sakitoby1581]

I appreciate you sharing your experience there. Thank you.

[@axelhopfinger533]

And most bad things happening there were done by inmates to their fellow inmates.

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

@@axelhopfinger533 That is a lie.

[@scarfgirlss]

I took a tour at Dachau and the lady explaining everything told us Dachau wasn't as bad as other camps. It wasn't a death camp.. it made me so angry and I was only 17... like we saw the showers.. she was downplaying it

[@barb-jm7990]

I have an elderly friend who grew up in Germany. She said Hitler acted like he was very concerned for the German citizens and made sure to get people who happened to be out of the country safely back into Germany as the war broke out. She was in another country and was told to take a certain train which she missed. That was lucky, because it was bombed and no one survived. She was a young teen member of the Hilter youth group for girls. Girls were not required to join, but that they were chastized by others if they didn't. During the war, she was assigned the job of cooking and being a nanny at the home of an SS Officer. As the war was coming to a close, she was told by the officer that it was no longer safe for her to be there and it was time for her to go home. She ended up working in a canteen feeding soldiers after that and received several marriage proposals from soldiers from England and the US. An American soldier was the one she said "yes" to and she ended up spending the rest of her life in America. Germany was very torn apart by bombings from the war and so many young men had died in battle that she felt there was nothing left there for her. She took a chance on being a War Bride to someone she barely knew and it ended up being a good choice. She said that they had no idea that the exterminations were going on the the prisoner of war camps.

[@jamesmanolakis2420]

Just like Netanyaho. The similarities are striking.

[@J0lker]

@@jamesmanolakis2420 unless the jews became so good at playing victim card from II w. w. that it became their second character trait. Only (hopefully) time will tell.

[@TEverettReynolds]

@@jamesmanolakis2420 Give it a break, James; it's not even close to comparing what is happening in Gaza to the systematic extermination of 2/3rds of all the Jews in Europe.

[@psychologicalprojectionist]

​@@jamesmanolakis2420The differences are striking. The Israelis are fighting an organisation whose stated goal is to commit genocide amongst a population which supports them. I would advise you to compare Israel's constitution with that of Hamas. Thankfully Hamas is criminally incompetent and corrupt, except they have somehow managed to garner uninformed or biased political opinion.

[@louisemiller3784]

Look people knew what was going on, everyone in Germany had witnessed Jews being rounded up, being transported, I will never believe that the German population didn’t know didn’t have some incline , I’m not judging cause I don’t know what I’d do, tho today we are seeing the same things happening in our cities that happened in Germany, and the populations are standing by watching the rise of anti semitism. The fact she married a man she barely knew, just to get out of Germany, says perhaps more than you know. No I’ll never believe anyone who says they were ignorant of what was going on

[@joefarina9266]

I’m watching this video while my 94 year old mother in law is in her room slowly fading away from Parkinson’s. She was separated from her parents in 42 or 43 and never saw them again. She along with her older sister were one of the last groups to leave Düsseldorf. It’s just maddening to see these images of monsters so convinced of their superiority living what looks like a carefree life.

[@lisaanndavis3289]

Prayers for you and your family.

[@InternetVigilante]

I dunno Joe, there was some pretty nasty stuff happening in the Weimar Republic. They were probably just happy to see that it was over.

[@dc-gs9qx]

🙏

[@andyroo9381]

I would like a story done on the German grandson and his grandfather. I seems like his grandfather was never arrested for war crimes. What was his grandfather like? What did his grandfather talk about? Did his grandfather talk about the war? What did the grandson think his grandfather did during the war? This is a story to be told.

[@paulbradford8240]

There were many SS and other soldiers that were not arrested for their crimes. Some were spirited away down the 'Ratlines' with the collusion of the Catholic church, others were used to administer the defeated Germany as they were needed to run the Country.

[@BuilderPete13]

I looked him up, he did indeed perform hard labor in a Soviet gulag until 1956, and was also rearrested in West Germany afterwards (although not imprisoned because they considered the gulag stint as time served). So yes, he was arrested, although I don't think it was enough punishment.

[@eugenfuchs6420]

​@@BuilderPete13 What would be "enough punishment?"

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Living with those memories the rest of his putrid life and have to bear

[@ShangHighRoller]

Many former Nazis became senior officials in the West German government after the war. I probably don't need to add that the US approved of this---after all, we needed strong, competent allies against the Soviet Union. Disgusting, but true.

[@kenscar]

"Man can turn into animal - all he needs is permission" wow

[@wildolan]

putting actual names to the photos is so powerful. Monsters dont have horns and fangs, they look like us. 9 of the 15 attendees at the Wannasee conference were lawyers who ensured it was all within their definition of legal, they gave themselves permission.

[@TheScouseB]

And all the time, there many people who are normal who probably would have done the same thing if in there shoes. Anyone has the ability to do a lot of things when scared or the alternative is death and punishment. Jordan Peterson explains it the best about the Nazis.

[@Gesus111]

Just how they’re doing the same thing to the Palestinians

[@lisaanndavis3289]

The WEF.

[@phillipp5538]

@@TheScouseB The alternative wasn't always death and punishment but ostracization and shame. You would be a rather immoral person in Germany if you were German and at the time were you to say aid Jewish people who were in trouble over other Germans who were trouble You would be a social outcast. If you were in the military and you asked for resource to be diverted to feed prisoners at a time when famine was killing Germans in great number, you would at minimum lose the trust and respect of your fellow soldiers. Social pressure has a greater effect than people realize, and it was also just seen as immoral to help strangers over your countrymen especially when that help always comes at the cost of your countrymen.

[@JL-uu3lv]

Her story about how they killed the mothers and children... I cant imagine

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

I can. Polish friend was kid son a work farm. Only reason they survived was to work for. SS UNIT AND SUPPLY FOODS TO THEM

[@rickallen6378]

the trump administration separated mothers and children at our border; his thinking is the same as these people and his level of hate politics give permission for others to hate and hurt others

[@MikeBarbarossa]

They only kept young healthy adults, to be the most productive workers (slaves). Children and older folks died

[@raphaelgerarddelacruz6774]

The album shows the awfulness of the fact that SS men and women are chilling and enjoying life while their prisoners are inexperiencing an idescribable hell.

[@michaelsanger7795]

Same with Vietnam. All the Americans danced ..throwing flowers, etc. ...I see no difference..

[@evansquilt]

@@michaelsanger7795 - not the same. Not even close.

[@michaelsanger7795]

@@evansquilt ummmm as you like

[@eugene7145]

@@michaelsanger7795 Yeah, that's why hundred of thousands of Vietnamese fled to Hong Kong and the US after the Vietnam war, because they just couldn't comprehend the Communist heaven of Vietnam right?

[@susankeith326]

😢​@@michaelsanger7795

[@kasiapek7575]

My great grandfather lost his life in Auschwitz. He was Polish, he was 27. He left wife and 3 little children. He survived only 3 months, in 1941. His photo from Auschwitz is the only one my family have. IT will never stop to traumatizme me, the fact that people did that horibble things to other pople. I hate that.

[@astropioneer3296]

Hate begets evil.

[@Gesus111]

Look at 🇮🇱

[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

Hate did not die in 1945 hate lives on

[@billkingston4402]

Afraid you are right, the water is always on simmer

[@JeepCherokeeful]

Humans will always be human…

[@an-cx1ho]

yes but now it dons perverted rainbow colors

[@phillipp5538]

Hate won the war, after the war loving your people and advocating for them became the greatest sin in the western world.

[@raoul3719]

Hate is someone telling you how good we are doing when anyone with reason sees this as a huge lie.

[@TR8jhlo]

The permission: the state says it’s ok and is service to country. That’s how people can do the most horrible of things.

[@JackieDaytona1776]

That's why people shouldn't elect leaders who fear monger and lead by division.

[@venkateshjagadeeshwara6269]

@@JackieDaytona1776that text book fascism 101

[@JackieDaytona1776]

@venkateshjagadeeshwara6269 exactly...which is why education is the greatest long-term investment a society can make. It's nothing personal. Fascists are fascists. Fascists are bad. End of story.

[@SVNopq]

And now the Israeli soldiers are doing it to the Palestinians. Horrible things that are not allowed on U.S. news media's "news" reports.

[@phillipp5538]

@@venkateshjagadeeshwara6269 American education moment

[@jacksonsparrow8865]

How about a documentary on Japans Unit 731 ?

[@janettebecerra2788]

Permission… so true and so real today in the US!

[@Hexaroot785]

My god this is evil.

[@PaulusMichael]

No, its human. History is full of cruelties beyond all imagination. Ruanda is just 30 years from today....

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

@@PaulusMichaelit’s just war

[@giovannidibravato5576]

Holodomor was terrible

[@HandleOne]

Like those people in the photos, we are all capable of it when our ideologies, or religions give us permission.

[@Loumag-ky9bz]

Happening now in the USA withMAGA

[@kasession]

I recently watched the movie "Zone of Interest". "the film focuses on the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family in a home in the "Zone of Interest" next to the concentration camp (Auschwitz). It was troubling...

[@claudetteholloway1126]

To put it mildly...

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

That movie is… a lot.

[@thEannoyingE]

I’ll have to check that out.

[@thEannoyingE]

This play looks terrible.

[@thEannoyingE]

Why are they not using archival gloves when handling the album?

[@2fast2nick]

Insane that there are people in this world that don’t believe this even happened

[@anncoster7458]

One of the worst days I've experienced was at the Holocaust Museum in Wash.DC. While we were visiting, several school buses of children arrived. They ran through the museum wildly, screaming and laughing. There was no adult supervision. It was total chaos. There was no lesson taught. They were like total animals. It was heartbreaking to witness. We had the same experience at other museums, but this day stays in my memory and my soul. 😢

[@zachhoward9099]

DC/Baltimore area public schools for you

[@kellyharper8072]

Did you think of going to the museum supervisors?

[@TxBrazos]

When we went children were well behaved. I hate to hear that you experienced that.

[@blackawana]

Horrible!!!!!!!

[@Heythere920]

that lady’s words are extremely profound.

[@bicyclist2]

What many people may not know is that Mr Bayer is the same guy who started the big pharma company of the same name. The Men's fashion company Hugo Boss also made the uniforms for all the SS officers. IBM made punch card machines so that they could keep track of how many people they were k!lling in the camps. And when they broke down, IBM sent their technicians to the concentration camps to fix the machines. It's even chronicled in a book titled "IBM and the Holocaust". At this time General Motors owned Opel, which made many tanks and trucks for the Germans. Several big US companies made many millions doing business with the Germans. This is another part of the story that no one in the major media likes to talk about. Thanks.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

Opel never made tanks. And I don't think that IF any technician from IBM ever went to a camp he would be allowed to see what was really happening. Furthermore: when the death camps started to operate full-time the US was already at war for some time, so no technician would be called to Germany. The IBM machines were not to track "how many people" they were killing, but to catalogue who were the Jews, addresses, ages etc. This kind of data. So the Nazis would find them easily and send them to the camps when those places were ready. Of course, probably nobody on IBM knew the machines would serve to control people in the way the Germans did.

[@robertw1962]

Ford Motor and Koch Industries also lent a hand to the Nazis.

[@wesleyking5739]

And,,,,, Ford set up in Switzerland a repair depot for German army trucks ( made by Ford in Koln) with replacement parts made in the good ole USA. Built Ford Tough! Ask any veteran what he thought when he saw all the 1934 model Ford trucks with painted German insignia in service for Herr Hitler.

[@Wayno90sk8]

No it isn't Bayer was founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer

[@christianedriesen1624]

Les guerres sont le moteur des civilisations humaines….

[@nikolairomanoff6969]

This is the real “ Zone of Interest”

[@Sara-hhhh]

Pretty sure the subject matter in that movie really happened

[@MsJaneth5]

The family from Zone of Interest did exist & did live right outside the camp

[@underthetable2747]

i’ve never seen photos that put the banality of evil in so clear a focus.

[@SFoureman]

Watch how Irene Weiss's eyes go into a fast blinking motion, as she is remembering and telling what she remembers. It is exactly the same with someone who is suffering a concussion or brain injury, in real time. I pray that each remaining survivor know peace and find joy in some part of their lives. May they feel the sun's warmth; and, rest amongst the cradles of the moon's night light.

[@caeserhuitron9967]

A two generations removed and I’m so upset at this. I cant even fathom what actual survivors are feeling. We must never forget.

[@coldshot1723]

It's also unbelievable that there are people who deny that the holocaust ever happened!

[@jonpostigo4381]

They are sure horrified with the palestinian genocide

[@lisaclark1181]

The feelings i have as she speaks about what she saw and experienced is really very visceral. I physically have pain in my heart and gut for her and the millions of people that were murdered and were also witnesses!!

[@goettling]

Yet there are people in this country who denied it ever happened!

[@MikeBarbarossa]

"This is the group going to the gas chamber" 7:56 (top of pic) If you look at the photo, they sorted out all the older folks too old to work to the bone. Shockingly evil

[@michaelangeloh.5383]

That last thing is what I’ve been saying for years: Lots of people will jump at the opportunity to lash out, like a child that can’t help themselves.

[@chrismaggio7879]

"Tears are for normal pain..." Damn. That is so powerful.

[@anaa03899]

This is SO SAD

[@sloboz8787]

I wish youtube would just let us say how we really feel about this.

[@Johnny-rj9on]

I had a comment removed for "hate speech" because I quoted a fact about Zyklon B use in the US pre-WW2 (we used it on Mexicans at the southern border) and then the statement "ask questions". A statement of fact + "ask questions" = hate speech. "The truth is like a lion. It doesn't need you to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself." There is only ONE REASON to make it illegal to ask questions--they are afraid of the answers.

[@charlesxavier9978]

reminds me of Alan Moore who wrote V for Vendetta. "They were not from space. They were people who made their choices out of fear, power, opportunity..etc."

[@TallerSunquPop]

All I could think of as I watched it is how similar this is to what’s happening now. And the dark irony of it all.

[@BillPritchard]

Just amazing. Let this be a reminder, we must *never* allow this again!

[@hughjass6646]

Tell this to our antisemitic academia, corrupted by the decades of multimillion donations from wealthy Arab countries driving antisemitic narratives into our childrens minds

[@cameronevans9516]

What about slavery?

[@wexomixo]

We literally did allow it happen again, in Cambodia, China, and Rwanda. But, we always focus on the holocaust instead of those atrocities. Why? Why are new movies about the holocaust released every year and not these other terrible events?

[@iqueque]

It’s happening right now in Gaza

[@MisterJaay]

Isn't it what's happening to Palestinians in Gaza? Just a thought

[@michaelhill6451]

I always find it hilarious that many people seem to think that Nazis or any group who commits similar atrocities are literal monsters with horns, hooves, and/or a tail. You'd have to have the mind of a child to be surprised by these photos. Do you really think these people were always sulking around crying because they thought that what they were doing was evil? For them, their "work" at the camp was literally like destroying a wasp nest or an ant hill.

[@haroldgoodman130]

I am a physician who cared for an older woman who was German and had a nervous breakdown. Her family lived next to a German extermination camp. The father was employed there. Each day he would clock in and out. He would come home for lunch with the family. The Nazis were big on family support for their workers. He killed people for a living. For him, it was like working at a slaughter house for cattle. A job. A nice job, he thought. His family had a nice home, plenty of food, everything. Then he began to drink. He beat his family and fell apart. The job was too much. It was stressful when people cried and begged for mercy. He was a good Christian. This was not right that the people to be killed should disturb him and stress him. On his deathbed he asked my patient for forgiveness. She refused.

[@markhugo8270]

Sent on to a HIGHER COURT. Alas, for many people they had better HOPE there is "No God" and no "afterlife"... for if there is, their time on Earth will appear as HEAVEN in contrast to where they are going.

[@TheWolfsnack]

This is timely......given the number of normal looking university students calling for boycotts of Jewish stores, shooting at a Jewish girls school....chanting "from the river to the sea. It is good to see just how twisted, yet normal appearing these people were....and these SS and Gestapo members were former university students, often with advanced degrees.

[@Hayyyward]

Crazy to think this was only around 80 years ago. Just a lifetime ago.

[@factuallyotherwise]

... yet, the Zionist Israelis seem to have forgotten that already !!!

[@pokemonpro8438]

It was only roughly twenty five years before I was born, but to a child seemed so long ago, unttil I had lived as long. I could not get over that segregation still existed when I was a child. It blew my mind, and of course, I thought my young parents should have gone right away to end it when they knew and became adults. They had me young.

[@ehaaron]

was a bigger crime invented to cover up the actual war crime that happened during allied bombings? more German civilians were killed during the allied bombings. nobody talks about that.

[@greglamm5986]

@@ehaaron The numbers are not even close. You do know about Google, right?

[@frankgrabasse4642]

Martinsville? German civilians were bombed. It's called war. Big difference between bombing people who worked in factories and supported the nazis vs loading jews into an oven. You should be more concerned with the neonazis Siding with the American far right.

[@dondon6655]

Anderson, you are such an amazing interviewer. Thank you.

[@LV-pv9np]

The irony is that the same thing is happening RIGHT NOW in Russia and Ukraine, and NOBODY can stop this.

[@SVNopq]

The irony is that you are totally clueless. It's happening to the Palestinians right now. It's been going on since 1948. Get a clue.

[@constancedenchy9801]

​@@SVNopq 100% agreed

[@8machines62]

Yes, many Christian men, who do not want to fight in the war, are being forced to do so. Prayers are needed. History will repeat itself.

[@SVNopq]

@@8machines62 It's happening in Palestine right now. The world is watching.

[@jarvissdot7700]

This is sad, when she said "tears are for normal pain" and she couldn't cry.

[@stephenwallace7288]

My grandfather was in the Stalag next to Auschwitz.... we had to visit them every other week... and you could see the rage in his eyes... it scared the crap out of me...

[@CamberHill]

Her overview of this horrific situation was so deep and brilliant that I watched it 4 times to wrap my brain around her explanation.

[@tarabennett6643]

As heartbreaking this is, I wonder if it brings comfort seeing pictures of her mom and brothers. I couldn’t imagine what she went through and then to see her younger self there 😢

[@stevieandthebluescasters5947]

"Man is an animal, all he needs is permission". My mother was a Hungarian Jew born in 1921. I remember asking her what she thought of the Nazis and what they did. She said, "It wasn't the Nazis. It was the Hungarians.The Nazis just gave the Hungarians permission to do whatever they wanted to to the Jews. And they did."

[@SVNopq]

And now the Jews are doing to the Palestinians what was done to them. And don't say it started on Oct. 7th. Gaza has been an open-air prison for YEARS. The occupation of Palestine is not a new thing. Children are, and have been, imprisoned for throwing rocks. Ten year old children are set to jail. That's Israel now.

[@playinglifeoneasy9226]

My grandfather left hungry when he was seven years old World War I had just been declared, and there was dancing in the streets and people passing at candies and treats and his mother who was midwife and on the horse farm, took him sold everything and came to the US a week later. He would tell us the antisemitism was passed through mothers milk. It was part of every day, living and hungry even back then, and the priests would sermonize Jew hatred that was part of the religious services was hating on and dehumanizing of the Jews so Absolutely the Hungarians were incredibly anti-Semitic.

[@jgg204]

This is the powerful statement that needs to be said everywhere. The Nazis simply gave these conquered nations the permission and enabling to commit violence against jewish people. They did it in Hungary, they did it in Ukraine, they did it in Russia, and all other nations the Nazis invaded.

[@joytiller5920]

The people of Poland did not resist either & many were complicit

[@theoldar]

Civilization is a thin veneer. Without laws and boundaries anything is possible

[@justrosy5]

Choose daily never to hate others or to turn a blind eye to their very real suffering. Choose to change things for their benefit. In helping others, you make this a better world for yourself, too.

[@justrosy5]

​@@SVNopq Bully. You assumed that without any justifiable reason to. Bully.

[@user-wt8pw9eb8d]

It always astounds me what humanity is capeable of .......mind-boggling

[@jwincovitch4312]

my biggest question is how did the german ppl who lived near these places not know what was happening?

[@brucecampbell4528]

​@@jwincovitch4312 Of course they knew, people don't just disappear.

[@annaaagpalsa]

The "heart keeps working but the soul never forgets.. " Big word.. 🙏🙏❤❤😢

[@deeprose8598]

So glad you showed this, it makes the atrocity more evident.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

What the album shows is that once social controls are gone we become animals

[@cq9882]

Animals do not choose to arbitrarily behave this way. These people who choose to do this with “free will”, are compelled to do so by a much more evil validation, way beyond that of an animal. 😢🌎

[@codyskaggles4782]

“Tears are for normal pain”. Yeah that’s a rough one to swallow there wow

[@luciareeck4347]

The woman talking about working at the camp is amazing. She is such a strong human being to be able to talk about her experience.

[@lisaanndavis3289]

A person either has to be strong or fold. After going through that experience, nothing else could hurt you.

[@jillbryant8644]

I cried while watching this, but I think it's important for us to remember the horrific events in the hope that history isn't repeated.

[@salpah09]

“As long as permission is given by higher up” truer words are spoken by the survivor. It is applicable even these days. It is imperative that good men and women stand and stop evil. If you think “What can I do?” Register and vote to make your voice be heard!

[@thecompanysingersph]

I literally cried watching this piece. When will we ever learn? Lord have mercy on us.

[@thisiswhatimgetting]

When I was real little about 3 years old, my mom was friends with an older couple who would come over for coffee. They both had numbers tattooed on their arms. I was learning my numbers so I would read the tattooed numbers. I remember mom yelled at me to stop. But the man said it was fine and held out his arm. Mom didn't tell me til I was in high school and we were studying the Holocaust that they were survivors of Auschwitz. The woman couldn't have children so they liked to come over to spend time with me and my new baby brother. The couple never directly said it but Mom believes it was because they did experiments on her based on the few things they did say about their time in the camp.

[@vFANGv]

Patton.

[@marieslabbert6009]

How could his grandfather, Heinz Baumgarter, have been allowed to have a life with a family, etc. when he killed thousands! 😡

[@holocaustchampion9978]

The sad truth is that many high ranking Nazis escaped justice and went on to live normal lives with their families.

[@jwincovitch4312]

if i had found out something like this about my grandfather, i would have disowned him.

[@FoodNerds]

Exactly

[@raymondkamery3376]

Very Very few of the German Monsters were ever brought to Justice. We all are complicit in That!

[@jwincovitch4312]

@@raymondkamery3376 i cant believe we allowed them to hide here in the US

[@SuperiorHound]

I’ve visited Dachau twice, and both times the thing that atonished me most was how close a normal neighborhood was to the camp. You really can’t imagine until you see for yourself how nearby normal German citizens were.

[@RoyJNg]

My friend's grandfather has the iron cross with diamonds that was taken from a Waffen S.S. officer who was executed by the American unit and rightfully too. I held that iron cross and it had bad energy and evil on it for sure.

[@SuperiorHound]

@@RoyJNg Wow!!! Spirits are known to attach to metal or similarly “permanent” objects, and you sure experienced one!

[@Petra44YT]

You know how, after the war, many said they had no idea what was happening? I'm not buying that. I have a cousin who lives directly next to a train track. And she can tell you exactly, "okay, that was the last train for tonight". She knows her trains. ... You don't really think all those cattle trains would not have been noticed. Those who live near the tracks know their trains. And that's a lot of people.

[@RoyJNg]

@@Petra44YT The same is said for the normal soldiers who were told to assist the S.S. Einsatzgruppen where some even witness it too. "They knew, They don't know, they didn't want to know."

[@differenttakethanmost]

You realize, of course that what’s there now may not have been there then, right?

[@ZBeets720]

How is this woman functioning after experiencing such horror? What a beautiful and courageous person. It’s so hard to watch the survivors because I think of all the people we lost.

[@vickiewallace415]

“Tears are for normal things.” … WOW

[@mason96575]

Wow, this was a VERY Interesting piece. Thank you for the way this was reported and conveyed

[@atsu6165]

Man can justify anything it seems. Right now, at this very moment, innocent people are dying in wars around the world. Each side thinks they are justified.

[@gregv79]

Im not Jewish but this was a disgrace to humanity. Pure Evil.

[@Farzan.1991]

So true: 'The most dangerous animal is man'

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

How could one human being stand by and watch others being " exterminated" ......HOW TRAGIC

[@factuallyotherwise]

The VERY SAME IS being played out in GAZA . .. exterminating the Palestinians by articulating the plausibly convenient excuse of getting rid of Hamas - an entity created by ultraright Government of Israel to split the Palestinians into piecemeal manageable factions.

[@user-ht1xu4gv2u]

Dad was there ETO. ORDERED TO ROUND UP NEIGHBOURING TOWNSPEOPLE AND PARADE THE PEOPLE IN FRONTAL OF. THE VICTIMS.... HORRORS IN. THEIR BACKYARD

[@frankgrabasse4642]

And now some people in the US say it never happened. And those people vote republican. Remember trump and martinsville?

[@jwincovitch4312]

@@user-ht1xu4gv2umy god :( im so sorry he had to experience that

[@chibakutensei8799]

@@frankgrabasse4642and some people in the US are standing by angry at others protesting while the same thing is happening AGAIN

[@JohannaVanWinkle]

I appreciate this so much....thank you!

[@truegrit7697]

I hate it when people compare bad people to animals. Only humans are as horrible as we are. Animals can't touch our hems when it comes to evil.

[@maguffintop2596]

People think “That could never happen in the US!” They are wrong. We edge nearer every day.

[@goldenhawk9322]

Sheer evil...

[@successfulperson3304]

The biggest atrocity to mankind.

[@harryshriver6223]

😢I have no words, I am in tears with rage and sorrow. 😢💔

[@raymondclark1458]

Wow. That lady’s testimony is powerful. The memories must be unbearable. So sad what man can do to his fellow man.

[@DA-bp8lf]

What’s really scary is this. The conditions that created this madness, could repeat itself. At any time.

[@gerardo8av]

You mean, like in Gaza?

[@aviwinegarten3859]

@@gerardo8avno, Gaza has nothing to do with it. Gaza is a war zone, how could you even comprehend that the holocaust is the same as Gaza? Sorry but no.

[@jeremyjackson7429]

@@aviwinegarten3859 The rape of Nanking was also a war zone.

[@gabriellemurphy6330]

So scary that so many people can’t see this is exactly what’s happening in Palestine. And you’re so quick to make excuses for it.

[@gerardo8av]

@@aviwinegarten3859 I entirely agree: what happens now in Gaza is, proportionately and qualitatively, way worse than the WWII holocaust. Full stop.

[@horton3311]

It’s called COMPARTMENTALIZATION It’s what the world is sadly once again doing…. Sad but true BOTH sides of the conflict compartmentalize to go on with their daily activities

[@negativejed1021]

"It's never stopped," Chilling.

[@RobVespa]

This was a moving and powerful piece. Despite bringing with it such sadness, I only wish it were longer. The thought that any human might become this if the situation were right is terrifying. There are places in the world where stars are aligning for such things. Please don't allow it to happen.

[@dallasfamily3]

Never forget the banality of evil.

[@anaussieinvietnam]

People gave one man too much power and he turned a society into the history's worst killers... Let's hope it never happens again. Remember America - You have the power to stop it by not electing the wrong person.

[@ristube3319]

2:33 Answer: Fear, complacency, brainwashing, conditioning, and misplaced national pride.

[@kerry8880]

‘Zone of Interest’-esque. It is a terrifying reality about humankind.