How Concentration Camp Memorials Keep The Memory Of The Holocaust alive

How to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive? Concentration camp memorials are reaching out to young people on social media.
In part 2 of our seven-part series with Neuengamme Memorial, we met the first TikToker at a former concentration camp - 23 year old Daniel Cartwright from the UK who works as a volunteer for a German organization. He explains what it’s like making TikToks explaining concentration camps and Nazi atrocities.
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[@MedievalSolutions]

There's something ironic about the UK sending brittish men around the planet to make countries account for their past mistakes.

[@Axeolyte2903]

Because they aren’t the leading cause for Most independence day’s

[@chazbarr]

The ARSP are a German organisation that sent him to Germany

[@zurgalon1304]

ASF is a German organisation (Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste)

[@benw6952]

It’s a German organisation, they just recruited this guy who happens to be British but also speaks German.

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

It's also important to remember that Britain invented the concentration camp in The Second Boer War.

[@kellyrhoads1067]

Never met a German that denied their past

[@yaelabramovitz8608]

Sadly there are some who do..

[@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot]

I've only met Germans who live up to it to do better than the past

[@scrip83]

Met many Japanese that deny there past

[@RLBKiva]

There are some (or those that are proud of it), but they are universally hated by other germans too.

[@Ryzeex.]

Well they may have commit one of the worse atrocities in history.. but at least the own up to it 😐

[@user-zj8uc2hl5h]

"The prisoners we had here" Wait a second

[@gavvinschubie4253]

I was finna comment the same 🤣

[@jacobbriand7716]

I was thinking the same thing

[@wolventiger]

He's smiling how disrespectful

[@walltermite3489]

We?

[@Kae_S]

Sent from England thinking Germany should own up to it's mistakes, meanwhile British museum full of stolen goods on display

[@Ryzeex.]

""stolen""

[@beundelboss9782]

@@Ryzeex. yeah?

[@pickle4422]

@@Ryzeex. stolen.

[@racooninatrenchcoat4257]

We stole all of that. It's no secret

[@ABunchOfSpanners]

Don’t you mean permanently borrowed?

[@mathismuller6033]

As a German I have to say that we are doing quite a lot to not forget what happened so that it can never happen again. As others mentioned it is mandatory to visit a concentration camp in about 8th grade and we are tought a great deal about that time in history class. I also think it is rather inapropriate to showcase a concentration camp on TikTok. These places are not ment to be tourist attractions neither are they some haunted house Disney World. Actual people were murdered there and the concentration camps are not some kind of museum that needs advertising. They are Gedenkstätten „memorials“ to commemorate the suffering of the murdered and should be treated as such.

[@Lillith.]

England sent you? I've seen Germany do more owning up to just WWII than England for its entire history.

[@DonStinko]

Now we need a German to be sent to former British colonies to educate people on atrocities committed by the British.

[@dweuromaxx]

Daniel works for a German organisation. He just happens to be British.

[@blakegoulds8313]

I'd say Germany has beat itself up enough by far at this point. Japan was just as bad and they refuse to so much as apologize but nobody bothers them.

[@longoak3144]

I know right it’s ridiculous

[@lesouth0348]

Why should we bother them? Why is it the responsibility of people who weren't even alive at the time

[@longoak3144]

@@lesouth0348 ?? We think if a country does something bad THEY should accept they did something bad but this person is going to Germany who already accepted it Japan hasn’t

[@arielanonymous7270]

Japan also had nukes dropped on them soooooo idk

[@longoak3144]

@@arielanonymous7270 ?? Germany was bombed worse with normal bombs because American And British bombers could reach Germany they couldn’t reach Japan till they took the home islands

[@fraeuleinsommer75]

Yes, your work is important. Though, would love to see the british reaction to germany sending their people to England to educate Brits about their history and past atrocities and, even more annoying, building a social media/influencer presence off of it...

[@celinewilliams3626]

Wow. Just wow. They have monuments to commemorate the atrocities of WW2 and concentration camps in Germany. Berlin has some very wonderful ones. They have so many things in place to remember this so it never happens again. They own up to this so much.

[@undeadcatlady986]

It would take quite some time to find a German who has never seen a concentration camp (it's a regular destination for school trips). Learning about our own history, especially WW2 and its impacts is one of the most important parts of school education (and there is no such thing as homeschooling in Germany).

[@talialawee5997]

It's do great how the Germans really do own up to their past. It's just sad how all the other European countries don't. The Germans had many allies.

[@rosaburgs6019]

@Lilly B absolutely, people are saying in the comments that germany shouldn't own up to it's past because others don't, how about instead everyone does?

[@kanikabhatia9514]

It’s amazing how England thinks it has an upper hand over Germany after all that it did in the name of ‘civilising’ it’s colonies. Jalia wala bagh and the Bengal famine are just two examples

[@Sirisma]

Not to mention the fact that they were extremely active in the slave trade stealing people from their homes in Ireland and bringing them to North America.

[@Ryzeex.]

Yeah a famine isn't the same as rounding up people, putting them in camps and gassing them.

[@republican4u2nv78]

@@Sirisma Ignore my last reply lol! I thought you made both of those replies and was talking about African slavery instead of Irish slavery :)

[@fallen-zc9uj]

There's no doubt Germany did much worse things than England in its history

[@republican4u2nv78]

@@fallen-zc9uj You must not know England's full history then. Slavery (Irish and Africans), tons and tons of religious slaughterings (is it really much different than WW2 era Germany?), too many to possibly count that died over that lovely crown for centuries and centuries, etc. I don't think it's possible to rate such histories and say one was "much worse" when both were bad. In fact, I have yet to find a country with a perfect slate.

[@Jays-Dream]

"they believe that germany should own up to its past" bruh what do you think germany has been doing for the last 50+ years?? If anything I think germany is one of the few countries in the world who actually acknowledge the past atrocities of the country. Unlike other countries like.. the UK for example...

[@gabinrichter3330]

My grandfather was imprisoned at this site, Hamburg-Neuengamme. Together with the last former prisoner Pierre vignes who unfortunately recently passed away. He was the last living witness.

[@anyone.really]

I'm not sure why a guy from England is needed to preserve concentration camps in Germany. Let me explain. I myself am from Germany. Our government is very very very serious about preserving the memorials in good condition and educating people on the history of our country. In Bavaria everyone as part of their school curriculum needs to visit a concentration camp. Our school even went as far as going it only in winter to give us an accurate impression of how bad the conditions there could get. Apart from that in school we are taught everything from why exactly something like this could happen, why no one spoke up about it and what tactics of propaganda were used to keep the public quiet, all the way to moder day dictatorships. We are thought to see the signs and question our government. Germany has the lowest national pride rates in the world, despite none of the Germans living right now have been part of that regime. So I don't exactly see why you, who seems to not have experienced the German culture in this day and age, would feel intitled to claim that you are responsible for keeping our national heritage (be that not one we may be proud of) alive.

[@goodvibes5220]

Genau!

[@republican4u2nv78]

Very ironic, right? A country that has centuries upon centuries of "atrocities" sent to make another country own up to their past. Maybe Germany should start sending their citizens to England to remind the English to "remember and own up to the atrocities of their past as well as working on reconciliation in the present"! I've noticed quite a trend in certain Europeans always thinking their country is superior to other countries. Either these people are completely in denial, or they have no clue of their own country's history.

[@anyone.really]

@@republican4u2nv78 It is really sad that people seem to believe that WW2 was the peak of human cruelty. Not to say that what happened wasn't horrific, but even in the present there are many many examples of much similar cruelty all over the world. It is almost funny how the exact same scenario keeps repeating itself and people just don't seem to get any smarter. It's not the responsibility of one single country to learn from its history, because believe it or not WW2 started because of many many different factors that many nations played part in. So shouldn't it be responsibility of all people in this world to provide the new generation with the education they need to prevent history from repeating itself? Not just one country, but everyone.

[@republican4u2nv78]

@@anyone.really I agree 100%! I think current generations are very much letting down each generation after them by not educating them properly on all subjects- especially history! I also think being well educated helps prevent history from repeating itself. These days, people are more interested in sugar coating everything, giving one part of a story, or just completely making history up (or changing it to suit their own agendas!) Here in the states, we cannot even get our own media to report on current events properly let alone past events! Instead of reporting the news, they are too busy being the news, making up the news, or twisting partial stories to fit their political agendas. It's truly a shame and I believe a big reason of what has been leading us in the wrong direction the past couple decades. If anybody wants the realctruth anymore, they must research it themselves! Unfortunately, most people are too lazy to do that.

[@09tomforeman]

Own up to its past and work on reconciliation? Like Germans have been pretending it never happened or something? What a load of rubbish. You’re English as well, do you not know our own history?

[@258E]

They can't open up to it if they're dead

[@AmpomaGehring]

@Lilly B so why does Germany still keep getting put on the forefront of “needing to keep history alive”. That’s literally his job even tho about everybody is dead? England never took real accountability for their actions. Look up what England did in their times of colonialism and how many people were killed. Accountability is key and England doesn’t have the key.

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

I do know, I believe there are videos on KZbin, that after the war was basically over, once the Allies occupied Germany, they forced the German citizens to watch videos of the camps, those who didn’t live near the camps themselves. My grandfather was there when they liberated one of the camps (he was British, RIP) and he said there was no way that those nearby couldn’t know because he could smell the burning bodies miles away. He also never ate shrimp again because bodies pulled from the water were covered in shrimp.

[@respectallpeople4512]

I'm English and let me explain something about our history. We do not get taught it in schools. We are all taught about how amazing we are and how bad other countries are (which could be why England is as racist as it is) and if I hadn't done research I'd have never found out about my ansestors being slave owners and stealing from other countries, including our very own crown jewels being stolen too. I'm going to assume he is just doing his job because it seems the worse out of two evils but I completely agree its horrible on both accounts. Not a lot of English people are fully aware of the things England has done and only know about wars and things. We are taught about inventions of the English even tho we stole those ideas too. Its corrupt man

[@theaverageitaliandon998]

The irony of an English man telling a German to be accountable for his history while glossing over the barbarism of the Empire is bewildering

[@Investing-Insights1]

Wait england the same country who did what to the Caribbean countries funny!

[@TR-ds9ux]

Not to forget native Australians and in Indian subcontinent... They are no saints... and the fact that they have sent this guy... seems fishy... looks like a propaganda to me

[@silverbloodborne9495]

Ever country has they messed up past ( just some where better at hiding it )

[@melaninqueen1286]

Then British tourists come back here(to the Caribbean) to vacation and call us savages.

[@suaadbarrow711]

Bro and African countries too..

[@RealDavidChipman]

@@TR-ds9ux there are no saints, only sinners wearing masks of saints.

[@AmpomaGehring]

England should first start off with owning up all their mistakes before pointing at another country to be honest Especially Germany teaching in schools about their own atrocities and keeping the memory alive. England can actually learn from Germany

[@uglycommander008]

Should the Germans today feel guilt for what their ancestors did?

[@sophiebell4758]

No. We should feel that it was wrong, but We shouldnt feel that We are guilty as it wasnt our fault/responsibility.

[@whatthe8090]

Meanwhile Japan be like... . . .

[@socialist0189]

The brother of my great grandfather actually died in neuengamme concentration camp. He was one of the man of Putten during the razia of 1944 in Putten.

[@srividyarao7820]

Right ... The same organisation that sent you there should start educating everyone about the atrocities the British Empire committed around the world in their colonies.....way way worse than than what Germans did

[@ABunchOfSpanners]

You know two things can be bad at once, right?

[@258E]

@@ABunchOfSpanners exactly

[@zurgalon1304]

The organisation the he volunteered with is German. Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste

[@not_a_cat1392]

@Lilly B yeah sure and England's colonial attempts were such a nice break for a change for almost the entire world. Oh what would've the nations done if not for the white supremacists

[@pastaisgood6681]

My entire side of my grandmas family died in dachau. I never knew them obviously but also wanted to visit to see their records.

[@neiiiiiiyyyy]

"We had here" at the camp

[@Nullifiziert]

Don’t ever start a Coversation with Hi I‘m … and I work at a Concentraion Camp

[@yoxero4305]

The empire on which the sun never sets

[@Usrthsbcufeh]

we?? who’s we bro

[@ChrystinamarieWellington]

If only the USA could hop onto this bandwagon. Our history is bad but it is the past. It happened, we can't undo it, just learn from it so we never do it again.

[@faithfulwolf1935]

That England organization should be focusing on RETURNING historical items and architect they stole from countries that are asking for them back.

[@Noam_.Menashe]

Let's return artificats to warzones that will be shattered in a few months.

[@Loudbish]

Germany doesn't deny it they are embarrassed by it, do you talk about your mistakes or things you posted online that make you cringe? It's the same thing

[@user-om5tv5fd9s]

I don’t really think the majority of the younger generation feels embarrassed or ashamed anymore. But we all learn early on in life that learning about our history, why it was bad and how it could possibly happen, is important to understand the danger of nationalism (which is by no means a uniquely German trait) and why we must avoid repetition of history at all cost. We don’t feel responsible for our past but we are taught that we’re responsible for shaping the present and future especially with that in mind.

[@Loudbish]

@@user-om5tv5fd9s I think the shame has gone away for sure but they definitely know their history, I have a friend who grew up in Germany and they didn't try to hide it

[@halejandrohd2955]

imagine just hearing the start of this video then nothing after

[@rue80]

Daniel could have just worked from home and had a lot more work. I always want to find out about the past of a lot of british stately homes.

[@dragonking7836]

Someone here who thought from like the first five seconds he works at a still working concentration camp?

[@colasalz2]

we already work on it, so what is this about?

[@lewis8290]

I kinda find it annoying that Germany has to somehow feel bad for what a completely different generation did.

[@MsJoChannel]

Contents very much needed

[@hiiambarney4489]

Know your history before you criticize others.

[@viligerm6592]

Bulgaria should own up to there mistakes too

[@cadenadelreino1442]

Educate your people to behave at places like this!

[@dweuromaxx]

Do you find that visitors are disrespectful?

[@maddinkn]

What does "should own up" mean? I want to be sure.

[@tim_1184]

I went there in June

[@purplemanatee]

England of all places demanding Germany, who has been very good about admitting past horrors, is so ironic

[@dweuromaxx]

The organisation Daniel works for is German, not British :)

[@siggerz8637]

When are we just going to leave Germany alone? At what point have they apologised enough? Literally nobody left from this point who was there at this time. My Great Grandfather went back there after being a prisoner of war after 20 years, he said he never even held a grudge! 🇬🇧 ❤ 🇩🇪

[@lucky3589]

I think British people should be the last one on earth to say this because they own more apologize to the world then any other country. Yes Germany has done wrong but Britain had done worse then that.

[@mememan5466]

This guy: makes a career about educating people about atrocities of the past so that they won't be repeated The comments: BuT yOu caN't say ANytHinG ABouT ThE paST BecaUse BRiTaIN Had A DarK HiSToRY Too 🤓🤓🤓

[@velocevayford8054]

how about we work on making Russia apologise for its USSR mistakes - oh wait I forgot it's not an easy punching bag like Germany

[@preetisingh1700]

Wow... When will England own up to its past

[@dougtheviking6503]

After reading all the comments from others . They pretty much say it all . I wonder why Japan never got held so responsible. Still hunting 97 year Olds From Europe.

[@erinzys]

Let's not continue to blame Germany huh

[@SimsyHazel]

Yes

[@georgewilliamsiii4677]

It's not blame. It's accepting what they did. Not hide it.

[@businessgoose6057]

I mean.... yeah but that's not why people do this. This isn't a German thing it's a fascist thing. America is similarly culpable of atrocities and unlike Germany we refuse to own up to it.

[@oskar4764]

U are misunderstanding the content

[@RandomGuy-bb6ru]

@@georgewilliamsiii4677 Germany hasn't hid it at all? I've seen multiple accounts of people from Germany saying the schools drill that Germany was wrong back then into the students

[@claudettelampley1287]

Thanks for what you do.

[@kevinjasak8420]

Imagine if he passed out at the last sec of the video 💀

[@carvitqmilate9244]

Wao that interested job😲

[@mrcrunchies8688]

Good work

[@Nina-kl6sv]

Cause the British haven’t stolen jewels and colonized countries. No the jewel on the queens crown is from England, not India.

[@Nina-kl6sv]

@Sad Russian Ruble ik, I’m Indian. I was being sarcastic…

[@aminasafi8481]

The irony and the audacity!

[@dweuromaxx]

How come?

[@nanolog522]

Kind of entitled, don’t you think? Shouldn’t it be up to, you know, the Germans to live up to their (our) mistakes? Like we do, by the way, without the help of someone sent to us by some self entitled organisation?

[@juicymango8400]

Him saying that now: 😄 Him saying that back then 😳

[@bluefalco8784]

Own up to its past? We are germany. We know Our history. Other than, i dont know: Japan, USA, England, russia.

[@kylebieth3678]

So your blaming a country who most of their citizens weren't even alive during ww2 at this point? I'm all for education, I'd love to see the tour, but let's be realistic and move forward

[@JennyAlaska]

You need to learn about the past as much as possible to learn how to navigate the future well. Learning from not only your mistakes but others is essential. We would not be as technologically and medically as advanced as we are if we did it pull information from humanities past mistakes and wins. The past also creates bonds and ties that grow in strength. The past is important. The atrocities, the worst the best and amazing things all teach us how to move humanity forward. Just like you can’t shake your memories like an etchesketch, as shitty as life might have been at times for you, the information was useful in your decision making and will be useful to your children and their children and so on. Our water systems, growing food, language etc all learned and created from records and using history.

[@talialawee5997]

That's amazing! Keep it up

[@kalle19]

Should Brittan own up to its past?

[@KssN27]

Pot calling the kettle black

[@juannfd5976]

We

[@naomimota8623]

Those who live in the past cannot see the future

[@wolventiger]

Why are you smiling?????

[@blitzkrug]

Do you have an Instagram account?

[@kagami7962]

People don't even know what your people did to India...never apologised, even our people don't know the horror their ancestors went through, all brainwashed

[@lisahinton9682]

I swear, he has a German English accent. Living in Germany is making his English English sound more Germanic. So odd.

[@jacksonsauder8248]

Those damn germans. Lucky the english are here to make them own up to their mistakes! 😂

[@dweuromaxx]

Daniel works for a German organisation.

[@CaligulaInvictus]

This building housed the holocoaster.

[@Microphonecheckher]

*What would you all think of this was turned into an air bnb and the former natzi family who owned the land continue to profit?*

[@Rezipe]

How do you even think of that

[@Rezipe]

@Lilly B oh i didn’t now thx

[@Microphonecheckher]

@Lilly B thank you for knowing and answering

[@hansdaimler865]

Never met a german that still was actively involved in any of that. But yea. What 2 generations before did is something i should feel bad for. sure. Not like there was nothing like that in america, africa and asia.

[@sarahjane9692]

What a JOKE 🙄

[@Andrzej451]

I wonder if reconciliation includes paying Poland long due reparations 🤔

[@kartalusta3159]

So guys 6.5 million dead *does a tiktok dance*

[@dweuromaxx]

Daniel isn't dancing. He is using the platform to educate

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

Beautiful video however the current living Germans (not someone who is old and was an SS or whatnot) aren’t guilty of the crimes of their ancestors. What did Tyrion say, children aren’t their fathers? I believe we need to teach about these atrocities to try and make sure it doesn’t happen again yet it has (Armenian genocide, Rwanda, Darfur and plenty of others that have occurred or are occuring). However the idea of making someone guilty of the crime of their ancestors (things like reparations or punishing someone for their current “privilege” - which would mean we would have to punish Will Smith and every other celebrity or millionaire/billionaires child/children) is a communist idea. This is what happened when the Bolshevik Revolution occurred in Russia. They pushed the idea that the landowners should be punished for their privilege kept the poor down causing them to be pulled from their homes, placed on trains and sent to Siberia to be killed. Then six million Ukrainians (which then was part of Russia) starved because those they killed, those land owners, were the ones who knew how to grow surplus food to feed an entire country. So learning history is great because we don’t want to make the same mistakes but be wary when they begin pushing the idea that an individual should be punished for an ancestors act. Every communist country murdered millions to get there (like Mao)

[@rickdarris6152]

What, you thought folks that heard a Brit talkin this trash wouldn't come and dunk on you for it?

[@acerbburn]

How about you educate yourself on the atrocities ENGLAND and the British empire has committed across the entire world for hundreds of years!! You are so out of touch.

[@hansloyalitat9774]

We need to forget this past and move on and stop "apologising" for something our generation didnt even do. Im tired of people talking about these things.

[@dweuromaxx]

Hopefully we neuer forget.

[@kingbac0n289]

Yeah let’s just made people that didn’t do anything pay for their ancestors mistakes foot in genius idea that worked out so well for us here in the US

[@dajitag8550]

Haha I love propaganda delete this

[@sophiebell4758]

What about that is Propaganda

[@dajitag8550]

What right do the brits have to force modern Germans to pay reparations. I do not see the brits apologizing to any of the numerous nations they subjugated, as recently as the 60s in India so

[@mrtobiasreiper4714]

Its ironic when Britishers talking about owning up to past when they themselves have never owned up to their past and have not paid reparations to countries they colonised.

[@SpongeBob-bs5kx]

Damn bro concentration camp still active

[@sophiebell4758]

Yeah as a Museum Not as a concentrationcamp

[@logcabininaforest]

Spread the awareness and how socialism can ruin the world.

[@SimsyHazel]

I am the second comment