How the Nazis used uniforms to differentiate concentration camp prisoners

This is Part 5 of our educational series on concentration camps. In Part 6, we ask young Germans what it’s like visiting a former concentration camp for the first time.
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[@AloutkaKazawa]

My great-grandfather was a prisoner in KL Buchenwald. I found his documentation in archives and it said he was a political prisoner (after the Warsaw Uprising), but they kept him alive because he was a qualified metalworker. I must say, their archives are amazingly detailed. Pity it documents the oceans of suffering

[@kittykat5197]

Ironically and fortunately it’s something that brought a lot of them to justice. Those extremely organized records!

[@AloutkaKazawa]

@@kittykat5197 true

[@petergates8570]

My heart goes out to you and your family

[@PiriPiri175]

My greatgrandfather was in the Wehrmacht 😮.

[@dineshpatel4438]

Where to look for archives

[@BrianHAviation]

I've been to a few different camps trying to understand what they went through. I can't even begin to understand how they felt in these camps but i believe we should never let them be forgotten.

[@angelperazzo9096]

Tal vez se hayan sentido de la misma manera que los Boers cuando eran prisioneros de los ingleses siendo que éstos fueron los q los crearon...!!!😢

[@shawnstone4949]

Looks like they are doing a good job preserving the history…. Those cards were in crazy shape. Beyond ridiculous what went on there and in other camps…so sad

[@duaneday5474]

I'm not sure if it's real but there is information indicating modern western women are less happy than female concentration camp prisoners which is incredible if true

[@toonstierney1170]

How was the swimming pool?

[@Frenchblue8]

​​@@toonstierney1170how was the swimming pool.... Where? So what exactly is it about this video that baffles you?

[@robbieanderson5902]

A registered nurse that I worked with in the 60s and early 70s had been a prisoner in one of the well-known camps. She got tears in her eyes when talking about getting a bag of potatoes for everyone to eat in there and what a treasure it was.. Nothing else, but a potato, but they had been so hungry with nothing to eat…. potatoes were gourmet to them. I can still see her talking about this and the horrible things that they went through. We must never forget.

[@jannaedwards5219]

That's what happens when supply chains are cut off from the invading armies. Pretty crazy they were even considered to be fed since they were all supposed to be exterminated anyway. Much different from the Russian Gulags.

[@EhsanAfridi]

Much worse is happening in Gaza,gone is gone, stop the current genocide happening as we speak

[@Kloetenhenne]

​@@jannaedwards5219everyone was to be exterminated? Umm, no.

[@jannaedwards5219]

@Kloetenhenne I was being facetious. That's the false understanding, that the camps' sole purpose was to exterminate the prisoners. It can easily be disproven, but the narrative never changes.

[@JosGoebbels]

@@jannaedwards5219tell that to the gazans

[@obtr32]

In high school, we were able to meet 2 camp survivors. It is one of my greatest moments of my life. Feel sad for future generations that will never be able to meet people that actually were there

[@Rampart.X]

Why don't you visit a hospital burns unit?

[@RuthGeller-q5z]

Ignore ignorant irrelevant comments that try to minimize evil. I appreciate your comment and the feelings and sensibilities they portray.

[@luananana4679]

​@@Rampart.XYou are a VERY sad person😕

[@Rampart.X]

@@luananana4679 and you have no soul

[@MacGyver2154]

We might be seeing this again soon. 😢

[@jst2708]

I read a story about a woman whose job it was to sort the clothes. She would put on rags from the other prisoners & go to work. There she would exchange her clothing & shoes for better stuff & then go back to her place & give the new clothes to the other prisoners . She did this her entire stay so others would have good & warm clothes. Very brave lady

[@MoonIbis]

​@MacSkiver How?

[@l.plantagenet]

​@justanotherinternetuser5000in what way?

[@olililiomart3472]

Thank you for bringing light to this and not letting this tragedy be forgotten

[@CoolCoolsoCool]

What does bribing mean😭🙏

[@merlebarney]

@@CoolCoolsoCoolI think they probably meant bringing. Autocorrect can have a mind of its own at times.

[@rickycoverrubias6176]

Now their descendants are killing Palestinians

[@mujtabaleghari8284]

Yes it's bribing 😂 trying to distract from the genocide going on in Palestine

[@Doomedmandy77]

Glad you said *_bribing_* You accidentally spoke the truth.

[@DawnBrown-hc1ty]

Lots of my older ancestors went to concentration camps luckily my grandma didn’t and survived she wrote a book on her life she was 6 when it happened

[@naomiwebber536]

Can you share the book's title and author please.

[@DawnBrown-hc1ty]

@@naomiwebber536 it’s called the second scar

[@OtaBengaBokongo]

also my grandma survived, she stopped breathing for 30 minutes then jumped out of a window and immobilized 3 guards

[@_ID_as_Non_Bidenary]

My great aunts and uncles suffered a similar fate in occupied Poland. My grandmother and grandfather met while fleeing Europe. I am incredibly lucky to be here.

[@DawnBrown-hc1ty]

@@magnusbrockman9623 we aren’t putting Palestinian people in camps. Hamas is a terrorist group that kidnapped Israelis. We didn’t start the fighting we had this land and my aunt who lives in Israel is a doctor. She calls my mom in the middle of the night(it’s day for us when she calls) she tells us about how she has to work with people who got raped and killed it’s devastating and I’m sure that whatever is happening to Palestinians is very devastating too. That’s the problem though I don’t want my family’s country to go through this and I don’t want anyone is Palestine to go through this but as someone’s family who’s from Israel that’s heard all the terrible story’s I haven’t really heard what’s been happening in Palestine

[@tracycobb9499]

RIP to all those who perished. You will always be remembered and loved❤😢

[@stutzbearcat5624]

RIP? You mean you can't type (or say) Rest In Peace?

[@MoonIbis]

​@@stutzbearcat5624 I'm pretty sure they mean Rest In Peace

[@seanthermes3707]

Shouldn't be making jokes and comments like that! Y'know I'd a great gran-uncle who died in one of those camps😑😑😑😑 was his own fault though, he got drunk and fell out of the guard-tower🤧

[@cristipratt2844]

This should be taught in all schools We must NEVER forget😢

[@r.westerling4280]

They bothered us at school about it until we got sick of it and then we forgot about it.

[@mujtabaleghari8284]

Stop the genocide of the Palestinians by Zionists if you are truly against genocide

[@bobbytreetop1701]

@@r.westerling4280lost your crayons 😢

[@caba3995]

But when the west slaughters 100s of millions of non white people through colonialism then the east is useless and it's okay to forgot? I am not saying two bads make one good it's called hypocrisy. You always say we must never forget the problem isnt with forgetting its with ignoring.

[@Thememebro123]

@@bobbytreetop1701tf kind of kid wants to sit down and learn about death camps all day

[@Gamma-wu2fj]

Thank you for keeping history alive!

[@Gamma-wu2fj]

Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.

[@l.plantagenet]

​@@Gamma-wu2fjpeople know about this and some still want it to happen again. It has happened since too.

[@rosieE121]

I could never understand how anyone could treat anyone else so unfeelingly. Hearts of stone.

[@jpcaretta8847]

7 oct !

[@spike6643]

​@@jpcaretta88476 Oct. 5 Oct. 4 Oct... ad infinitum😢

[@rosieE121]

@@jpcaretta8847 yes, it still happens. The "religious" are oftentimes not that all.

[@Nechyfer6006]

No hearts, horrific monsters!!!

[@kimberlypfleuger4261]

Spiritual warfare has been happening since satan was cast from Heaven . There are many demons running the world .

[@christinehoughton8591]

Anything to do with these camps literally makes me feel physically sick. I find it so painful that humans treated other humans like they did.and then went home to their families and acted normal. And I’m not Jewish but I feel their pain.

[@CaseyMullin]

I was stationed in west Germany, 1986-88, I went to Dachau

[@alikarakoc8371]

Did you go to Gazza?

[@Lisamarie732]

I visited Dachau as well.

[@CaseyMullin]

@@Lisamarie732 it was a spooky place. When I went it wasn’t to see the prison, I went to the Dachau dark beer fest, because I was 18 and didn’t know anything.

[@kennybachman35]

@@CaseyMullin🤣😂🤣 that’s awesome. Did you get a t-shirt?

[@Mo11y666]

Oh wow you were there in 86-88?!? Im sure you have stories. You should write a book about your experiences in the camp. Id love to read it.

[@Alecsander0219]

Before this I only knew of the yellow triangle/star and the pink triangle thank you for sharing this!

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

I knew none of them. And I couldn't understand the last 6 or so words she said!

[@l.plantagenet]

Jehovah's Witnesses had the purple triangle and yes, it was more than horrible what happened to the prisoners. People try to deny it happened or that it was justified. None of what happened in those camps was ever justified.

[@johanpeens7129]

We should not forget the Anglo Boer war in the 1900 between British and the Boers. Many women and children died in British concentration camps in South Africa during the second Anglo boer war. 24000 women and 3400 children died. If it was not for British English women Emily Hophouse more women and children would have died.

[@seanthermes3707]

And they're conservative numbers, unfortunately winners are the ones who get to write the history books 🤷🏻

[@frankvancauwenberghe9529]

Dont forget one thing the word ' Apartheid ' is a Dutch denomination and try to find a translation. In any language we use Apartheid, so who is the bad guys here!!! 😂😂😂

[@cameleonfleuri]

​@seanthermes3707 It sadly is totally true !

[@seanthermes3707]

@@frankvancauwenberghe9529 What point are you trying to make?

[@angelicbean7635]

I understand your point . All lives count and should be remembered

[@velkmareltop2814]

It is also worth noting how the colour you wore could affect treatment by both guards and prisoners. In many cases those who wore pink triangles were persecuted by guards and prisoners alike. these people suffered one of the highest death rates in the camps by category. People charged under 175 were not allowed to access financial aid postwar unlike other survivors

[@4dx3n]

I heard that pink triangles meant that the prisoners were homosexual, is that true? maybe that’s the reason they were treated so badly

[@jimmyarmijo2252]

​@@4dx3nYes, that's true. Not necessarily on morals, but rather they wouldn't, couldn't re-populate the earth.

[@FartInYourFace234]

@@JDaLightskin your insecurity is showing

[@jellyidk5681]

​@@JDaLightskinif you are referring to the fact that homosexuals were persecuted in the camps, then that is awful, no one deserves to be treated as sub-human, no one, no matter religion beliefs, gender or sexuality

[@jellyidk5681]

The guy who made that awful comment deleted it, that says something

[@lorrainelaeng3116]

The horrors those people endured…..

[@Z.S1992]

And now their off spring are doing the exact same thing to another set of people. Go figure.

[@qqqwww-dh7dt]

@@Z.S1992 I don't think you've read much history

[@therovingrobin5938]

Well, the red triangle is back in use across the West...what a proud achievement...

[@bonghittaz1502]

And now the same people are doing the same thing to Palestinians

[@Atayyy247]

@@Z.S1992Losing a war that you started does not make you a victim.

[@BrodieTV]

Here’s some more info I found on the meanings of the different color triangles: Red triangle - political prisoners: social democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, gentiles who assisted Jews; trade unionists and Freemasons Green triangle - convicts and criminals (often working as kapos) Blue triangle - foreign forced laborers and emigrants. Purple triangle - primarily Jehovah’s Witnesses (over 99%) as well as members of other small pacifist religious groups. Pink triangle - primarily homosexual men and those identified as such at the time (e.g., bisexual men, trans women) and sexual offenders as well as pedophiles and zoophiles. Black triangle - people who were deemed asocial elements (asozial) and work-shy (arbeitsscheu), including Roma and Sinti.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

& the green triangle capos were also German

[@JonathanB138]

Thank you for posting this.

[@sten260]

wait why would they imprison socialists when they called themselves socialists? I thought they didn't like communists

[@petertea2393]

What about Black people? I’m assuming Black triangle or Blue.

[@brute6896]

​@@petertea2393since they weren't the focus of the Germans cleansing it was a "little" easier to be black. Sure you you had to deal with sterilization programs and the Nuremberg laws. The minimum of blacks that were sent to convention camps were at least 2 dozens, but there are several cases that they were allowed to join the Wehrmacht

[@Cale-kr4yt]

Makes me so sad to see what people went through 😢

[@userfile007]

Still are in Gaza 😢

[@Beowulf__]

@@userfile007Not the same in the slightest.

[@mfuller1957]

Hanas did that to the Palestinians. Did you think they cared about those people? What did they think would happen? Israel would just cry? No. ​@@userfile007

[@azlanbinismail]

Not the same but worse. All those innocent children were murdered, and the Z can laugh while murdering them.

[@spike6643]

Worse in many ways. Fish in a barrel. ​@@Beowulf__

[@CoopedUp74]

This breaks my heart

[@fuddrucker74]

I worked at a psych hospital in the late 90's. It was in westchester ny. We had some floridly psychotic patients come in, and one had a large amount of bugs on them. After delousing, i felt absolutely contaminated. I went to the mall and had my head shaved as i was going to meet up with a girl after work. When I came back, multiple dr s and social workers said i looked horribly intimidating. A dr who didn’t usually come in said, "he looks wonderdul, and you know who he is. Stop being obnoxious. With that, everyone was silent. I said thank you. She patted my leg and stood up. As she did for the dirst time, i noticed the tattoo on her arm. It was the dirst time i saw someone with a concentration camp tattoo. I have to admit. I nearly burst into tears. And im not a cry in public kind of cat.

[@maikelslotboom7141]

My greatgrandfather died there in Neuengamme, november 1942, he would have worn a red triangle.

[@mariaguadalupedominguez89]

I'm so sorry 😞.! That's so sad 😢

[@aimeekrieg9932]

Very sorry for your loss, so tragic.

[@Occident.]

The Reds killed millions!

[@maikelslotboom7141]

@@aimeekrieg9932 thank you. Indeed. I visited in 2016, very moving experience.

[@maikelslotboom7141]

@@mariaguadalupedominguez89 thank you. Indeed. I visited in 2016, very moving experience.

[@charliehendrix168]

Also, a pink triangle to designate that a person was homosexual. Pink was worn by many men before WWII, but afterward the color was stigmatized and often still is today.

[@jennyh4025]

Which is absolutely stupid, because it used to be the „princes color“ (red for the king and light red for the prince).

[@ifirizauviir2052]

I’m surprised they didn’t mention that in the video. I saw the pink triangle and was like, oh hey! That’s the thing!

[@juliusdauksys2183]

​@@colonizedgrain4034nice rage bait

[@marionmarcetic7287]

Thanks For The Info Charlie Hendrix! I Never Heard That Until Right Now! Shalom And Amen!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤❤❤‼️

[@Bigdog789stone]

@@jennyh4025you mean princess?

[@gingerbread101]

Thats actually very interesting, thank you for the information!

[@Muslim_YM.26]

Let her talk about what happening in palestine

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Careers jobs to poor people

[@jrmckim]

​@@Muslim_YM.26 You only care about Palestinians while there's actual genocides happening around the world. Look at Myanmar, China Syria and Sudan. It's been happening for years and none of you ever said a word.

[@randilevson9547]

So amazing that these printed records survived. Thank you for helping these dead souls speak for themselves. Don't forget that prisoners had their numbers tattooed on their arms. This was a way of dehumanizing the prisoners, taking away their names, and turning them into mere numbers. I live in Canada and I have seen the arm tattoos of many people as I was growing up. I always had to fight back tears. I can't begin to imagine the horrors that these brave people endured. Yes, yellow for Jewish people, and pink for gays. NEVER AGAIN.

[@12yearssober]

The numbers were a way to identify and track them. The system was developed and ran by IBM.

[@jimifash]

​@@12yearssober IBM? Goddamit!

[@12yearssober]

@jimifash Absolutely true. Research the corporations and banks that helped them launder money. Prescott Bush the father to one president and grandfather to another was involved and had to pay out alot of money to avoid prosecution for helping them. It's a very interesting rabbit hole once you start looking into it.

[@PatBly-zb3dk]

They are still being used today by our corporate Paperclip overseers😢

[@bradprice8040]

​@@PatBly-zb3dkexactly, you just keep your number card safe somewhere.

[@joshr223]

Wow, that penciled picture at the end really hit home.

[@patriciatinkey2677]

So horrible.

[@daydreamcaged7450]

My great-great-grandfather was actually a prisoner in this concentration camp for not wanting to fight in the war. He and his brother escaped from the frontlines but while his brother had the 'excuse' of marrying his wife, he himself didn't have enough reasons not to fight and was sent to Neuengamme. After the war, he died of a sickness he caught there. A few years ago I visited with my class and before that my grandma told me about this, makes the topic even heavier if you know your own family was affected.

[@dweuromaxx]

@Daydreamcaged Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@patta8388]

Escaped the frontline? How wasn't he shot for desertion?

[@daydreamcaged7450]

@@patta8388 he didn't escape literally right from the frontline, he escaped while he was supposed to be at the frontline, probably from the camp (I'm not sure what it's called in English, sorry)

[@Jeiskma]

The film ' boy in the strips pajamas ' (slow start ... but....) a movie that really made me go whoa* and has never left my mind.

[@cheflynne1359]

Amazing movie‼️

[@KittynFranky7643]

As soon as I read the name of the movie, I remembered the awful heartache. Beautifully told, so sad.

[@VioletJoy]

I'm haunted forever from that movie. What a horrifying time in history.

[@jameswood231]

Reality check up indeed.😮

[@roselynn816]

Yeah, I've watched it and it was very sad. I wonder if it's true, and, if that made his father, or anyone who authorized or participated in such terrible things, to think differently about what they were doing to people.

[@JoeyVanderLaag]

And yet there is a growing number of people saying this is all fake 😒😞

[@DragonBourne]

Because it is. Sometimes the truth hurts.

[@Jasonwithadot]

​@@DragonBourneyour fallen ancestors are ashamed of you

[@DragonBourne]

@Jasonwithadot Do you honestly believe that any of the 18 year old draftees who were torn apart by machine guns making beach heads in France would prefer America today over Germany, then? Blinding yourself to the consequences of your mistakes is immoral. We were wrong. Our mistakes have likely destroyed everything good in the world. We were the bad guys and all of these kooky stories are told to try to justify what we did and the power structure that arose after.

[@LTPhantom451]

​@@DragonBourne Meme

[@LTPhantom451]

​@@DragonBourneLet me guses europa or greatest story? Which I have watched both and debunked them.

[@cowplatter5320]

This is the only good reason to film a tiktok at a concentration camp

[@animaljustice7774]

Tik tok sucks

[@drpillz6985]

I can think of other reasons of filming at work camps

[@tanyaglover4129]

​@@drpillz6985aside frim education? Pls, do tell about other good reasons to film at *death* camps.

[@drpillz6985]

@@tanyaglover4129 what death camps?

[@Mike_Jones68]

​@@drpillz6985Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein Und das heißt Erika

[@DKDUBBA8165]

Thank you 🙏 I thought it was just the yellow star. Very informative!!❤️

[@janetmalcolm6191]

There were so many groups treated badly. An officers wife ended up in there. She was killed. They were ruthless.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

We must continue to teach this to future generations. We must never forget.

[@kungfoochicken08]

I learned about it every year, this and black history. I didn’t learn who Martin Luther was until I was 19 years old, but I learned about Martin Luther Kang every year in school.

[@zombies4evadude24]

@@kungfoochicken08 racist

[@kungfoochicken08]

@@zombies4evadude24 🤷

[@aaronjones5314]

Purple triangles were Jehovas Witneses

[@walkwithshelley3827]

I never knew there were so many different patches that could be worn. Great video.

[@dweuromaxx]

Thank you for watching. Glad to educate on such a sad and sensitive topic.

[@ICee712]

I felt like this was all pretty common and well-known information. It’s interesting to see all the commenters that are just learning about this

[@amoritarandall6738]

🤔 sometimes you can get old and forgetful. Esp if it never happened to you. Or maybe it was never told to that person before. While it was pretty common that they wore a Jewish star on them. Knowing they had taken others to the camps etc. I wouldn't have immediately known what or how they classified the rest. You learn as you go through life.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

There will be MANY that don't know things related to this. Older generations maybe yes. The younger ones possibly not. The full extent of their crimes are not usually shown. The war was a long time ago.

[@stacynels4]

Thank you for this video This was Never taught to us...

[@JJJ-pj8ts]

Thank you for content that makes humanity better.

[@dweuromaxx]

🤗

[@KirkWatts]

Thank you for sharing this information

[@Thelivingliv]

We’re learning about this in school!

[@janetmalcolm6191]

A good thing. Bad things like this should not be repeated!

[@kungfoochicken08]

@@janetmalcolm6191They’re happening right now in Palestine and China in much larger numbers than what happened in Europe.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

​@@kungfoochicken08Not much can be done in China. Who can regulate them?

[@isabelleroy3692]

Thank you for telling their story.

[@GaryArmstrongmacgh]

I'd like to see this complete broadcast.

[@kevingeorge644]

Never forget, history Never repeat,God bless their souls

[@donnellhicks]

The sad part of this is it happened and people have forgotten what hate does. 😢

[@Rampart.X]

That comment makes absolutely no sense.

[@SunshineinUS]

Yes. Always remember so it never happens again.

[@karenplante2593]

ALSO, HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT ITSELF, IF PEOPLE FORGET OR DO NOT BELIEVE IT EVER HAPPENED.

[@kungfoochicken08]

@@karenplante2593There are concentration camps in Palestine and China right now. There’s a good chance you own something built by a Chinese prisoner. These camps are just used to silence any criticism of certain ethic groups that advocate for the destruction of everything European people stand for.

[@jenniferwaugh8796]

It is so sad, what people had to go through. It brings me to tears watching this. It is unbelievable, how badly people were treated.

[@marymitchell8986]

On top of my sadness I'm also angry that there are some people who deny any of this ever happened and not even out of shame. How blinkered does a person have to be? We don't forget...ever!

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Nowadays people are even demanding that it be allowed to happen again

[@calicojack928]

​@@jonathanwilliams1065 It is in the middle east

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

@@calicojack928 and people cheer for Hamas for some reason

[@debraowen6723]

Agree 😢

[@kongi2348]

Neuengamme is the name of the former concentration camp she is in. These places must be remembered

[@Beowulf__]

It says in the video.

[@TheGrobe]

Pretty sure everyone in Israel already forgot!

[@J383n]

Other symbols not discussed in video - Circle under the triangle meant flight risk and line on top meant youre a multiple offender. If you had "relations" with a Jewish person youd get a triangle for that too

[@Emppu_T.]

Gotta love german matculousness, efficiency and attention to detail.. 👀 very technical

[@Little_Sidhe]

I was at an army barracks in Scotland recently called Cultybraggan where they had a N@zi uniform on display, it really was a thing of beauty, so well tailored, silk lining, immaculate stitching. Makes sense to learn Hugo Boss designed them.

[@Emppu_T.]

@@Little_Sidhe I thought they just manufactured them

[@Torrestorres2624]

My grandfather died at a concentration camp. He fell from the tower.

[@Mike_Jones68]

Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein Und das heißt Erika

[@AhmedDilshad-vi3nh]

Your Prime Minister Netanyahu is Doing the Same thing to Palestinians Today.

[@MP-fv1wc]

Talk about the Holodomor now 🙃

[@Orthanderis]

It's not the oppression olympics

[@jennyh4025]

DW is a German public news outlet from Germany. I think they do have enough work to do with explaining Germany (past and current).

[@biogamer0291]

Still the Holodomor is part of the cold war in which germany greatly partake in, as it is one of the reasons it existed in the first place

[@byngostar6895]

I will look for a site that explains all that. Thanks for the idea.

[@therovingrobin5938]

​@@jennyh4025problem is, the Germans never learn and are in full swing to revert back to the horrors of Socialism for a third time now

[@MattsBookPro]

God bless anyone who had to live through this horrible time. Rest in peace

[@jessicas4295]

Wow I have never learned this. This should be placed in history books.

[@bogdan9057]

For Germans all other countries know that.

[@thiskamg]

It already is.

[@petemavus2948]

Even in most accurate movies about Nazism, if not pointed out and explained, it could be surmised and confirmed.

[@rashmisingh-ug7bt]

​@@petemavus2948any movie that you can suggest?

[@derfuhrer3345]

hahhahaha damn those americans

[@NishaKumari-eb6up]

Thanks for this.I badly needed it

[@regzzuse280]

It was a working camp.

[@zebra-kt2gq]

and a death camp

[@LTPhantom451]

Nah bro they had swimming pools/j 🤣

[@kungfoochicken08]

@@LTPhantom451How did so many survive, and why aren’t we allowed to audit the number of dead?

[@LTPhantom451]

@@kungfoochicken08 only around 300k survived. Mostly because the ones that didn't die were used for slavery to support the war effort. And the audit of dead is just silly

[@travisr82]

More consideration than Isreal gives to Palestinians

[@Jake-tc2bs]

Stop making everything about palestine

[@liammorrison209]

Very, very interesting. I never knew about this practice.

[@Based_location]

Source: trust me bro 💀

[@knight9907]

It’s true though

[@nathaliestoll12]

Be sure to also visite other concentrationcamps. Not all camps are looking the same. Neuengamme ,Hamburg is a good place to start diving into this historic event :)

[@totalwomanja9105]

It’s so heartbreaking and sad to know that human beings went through this. Hate caused all of this. May all the souls of the victims rest in peace. The was one of the darkest times for humanity. It’s unimaginable to think what they went through.

[@augusto3113]

Do a show about the human rights in Palestine, if you really care about human rights for all peoples

[@derin111]

I'm currently staying near Belsen. Every day I can't decide if I should go there or not.

[@beverlystraus9300]

My parents were liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany by British troops on April 15, 1945. Thank you, troops!

[@aimeekrieg9932]

Thats where Anne & Margot Frank were...😢

[@beverlystraus9300]

@@aimeekrieg9932 Yep! Unfortunately, they perished just a few weeks BEFORE liberation from typhus & malnutrition! 😢😢😢

[@beverlystraus9300]

@@aimeekrieg9932 My first stop in Europe ever was Amsterdam so I could visit the Anne Frank House; the family's hiding place in the attic for two years before someone exposed their secret hiding place! 😢

[@susanstancliff2937]

Being held against your will. Beaten and harnessed, some lived a very short time doing manual labor until they died from being beat for not working fast enough. Let us never forget who they were and what they went through. Thank you for bringing this to light.

[@larscain3282]

The men with the pink triangles were treated the worse

[@pissyjorts3993]

Why?

[@levy9595]

​@@pissyjorts3993 pink triangles were for gay men

[@pissyjorts3993]

@@levy9595 yea i learned

[@QueenOfPugs]

Not worse than Jews. Many were allowed to take on positions of power within the camps.

[@ReeferSmoker]

@@Blazdragon34 they threw beans at the homosexuals to see if they would explode

[@n.miller907]

We also need to understand that IBM was directly involved in tracking all of the prisoners using card reader technology. It started out with their expertise in census taking. This naturally translated to categorizing all of the different Jews and where they came from. It also tracked their heritage.

[@MIA2023A]

Thank you. If we forget history, we will repeat it.

[@aaa_7532]

The irony of that statement

[@suenelan267]

Very very sad situation! God bless all of them and their families

[@arintheseatsesh6242]

Thanks I was looking for more examples other than the pink triangle and the star of David

[@pinup_charmer3348]

Every single person on this Earth needs to go visit the remains of those concentration camps at least once in their life. It is vitally important for us to never forget the atrocities perpetrated on human beings by other human beings. We can't let this kind of thing be forgotten.

[@toxicwaste2051]

The pegs through the cards is horrifying. They were never leaving.

[@AloutkaKazawa]

That was the usual thing in archives and libraries, very useful in fact. Actually the cards were removable, once you took out the drawer.b

[@simaturna9765]

Never forget Never again True for all human beings 🧚🕊

[@dylanrich5256]

My great Grandfather was in the Wehrmacht

[@YoutubeEntertainer-k9p]

Where did he fight?

[@dylanrich5256]

@user-hn7iv9bh8o Operation Barbarossa, I wasn't alive at the time but my family has pictures. He was a part of history.

[@jimsharp5044]

Had a neighbor growing up that served in the army during World War II in Europe and his outfit liberated a concentration camp I don’t know which one but he said that to himself I’m gonna be nice to everybody I ever see he was always nice to me. I never knew that he was in the army during World War II, I heard about these stories after he had died

[@limeallens6160]

What a beautiful German voice. I could listen all day.

[@barbaraspector6689]

Scares me.

[@wentadi]

The labels system was also supported by the IBM computer system which played major role in helping SS to run the camps

[@QueengeminiFF]

Very thankful for the story

[@estherbradley-detally9803]

Never knew that. I have read a great deal tho. Thank u so much. Blessings

[@itsjustme7487]

We MUST NOT forget.😢

[@kathrynbrown6955]

Those with pink triangles were likely persecuted by other prisoners, but never those who wore purple triangles, who always tried to be kind and supportive....as they could be anyway. Interesting because the Bible that they followed so stoically, condemmned homosexual acts. Acts, not the people.

[@Beowulf__]

Why are you acting like Jehovah’s witnesses didn’t hate the gays? They were just as hateful towards them as any at the time. If not more than say, an atheist.

[@yoonz23]

never forget that after the liberation by the allied forces prisoners with a pink triangle were either left to die in the camps or re arrested and imprisoned by the same allies

[@TheBlaze4000]

Why?

[@yoonz23]

@@TheBlaze4000 it was and still is in many countries illegal to be homosexual

[@Mtrix3345]

Great educational video. Seeing it done by DW fills me with joy. Good to have German people on the good side of history this time around :) Germans should be proud of themselves, not about the dark history but how You overcame it.

[@jennyh4025]

Thanks, I think many of us are. Not proud to be German (that’s just luck), but proud to be an active member of a society, that learns to acknowledge and learn from its past and strive to a better future.

[@Dragon-wl5ic]

​@@jennyh4025that's actually funny because as someone being born and growing up in Germany, I find it shocking how horrible the country has become and what happened during covid. I don't see how anything has changed, or how people have learned anything from their mistakes at all!!

[@MrMeme6000k]

Great video

[@Loumag-ky9bz]

The pink triangle are gays. They still use that as a symbol of theirs.

[@joankearney4029]

I never knew this. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@dweuromaxx]

Hi @joankearney4029! Thanks for watching!

[@michellejade3272]

Look up how the treated the purple triangles

[@Daisybeans803]

Are you a sister?

[@dweuromaxx]

Yes, purple triangles were used to identify Jehovah's Witnesses. As Jehovah's Witnesses refused to bear arms in WW2, they were taken to concentration camps.

[@kaybonette]

I am a sister too. I just left a comment about the purple triangle and Jehovah's Witnesses.

[@beans1557]

Pink ones too! Was a whole chart of different peoples the fascists hated!

[@AaronPunkoney]

​@DoIgopyatWhat's a "cult" ?

[@hectorleon465]

I love the way you talk 😁

[@dinomorell5163]

Upside down Purple Triangle were for Jehovahs Witnesses.

[@vicmorrison8128]

It's good to keep the stories alive! Education of the young is the only way to keep this cycle from repeating itself!

[@Great_Scot]

Purple triangles

[@fionamort5837]

I hope & pray that history never repeats itself what suffering that these men, women & children went through was pure evil, may God bless all the souls who never made it mat they rest in eternal peace🙏🌹💔😪☘️🇮🇪

[@intothewoods-ke7om]

We can’t let this ever happen again 😢may they Rest In Peace 🕊

[@lucassevey5989]

Hopefully it never does

[@IWouldHaveGoneWithYouToTheEnd]

I mean technically it is in China but instead of targeting Jews they target Muslims

[@kkemp221]

Sorry to dissapoint you but in the 90s the serbs had a concentration camp. camp omarska. It shocked alot of people when it was discovered. War makes animals of some people.

[@muxailo289]

​@@kkemp221 Concentration camps still exist. People just don't know about them because of high security. For example, Guantanamo.

[@genericyoutubeuser8957]

Yet Weimerica here we come.

[@patkearney9320]

They also used tags to house them they didn’t want political prisoners mixing with others it’s so horrible.

[@joselopez1544]

Jehová Witness. What triangle they got.?

[@dweuromaxx]

@joselopez1544 The Nazis used the purple triangle as concentration camp badge to identify Jehovah's Witnesses and few members of other small pacifist religious groups.

[@johnhoward6933]

Purple

[@mangopod2417]

A German working as a tour guide for a place like this give mortician vibes

[@yuh_uh420]

very interesting!

[@johnnycox9825]

Wow😮 Happy this time is over. You are Awesome ❤

[@aarongrim375]

No explanation was given tisk tisk

[@CMepTb7426]

They would sometimes gun down U.S soldiers who were put in the camps as a PO. It was a dark war but it has brought people closer from hating a common enemy.

[@BB-rt9nc]

Yeah right. How did they tell who got pool privileges and who didn’t

[@imfloridano5448]

In 1978 as the dependent of a US Army father our middle School in Schweinfurt Germany had a class trip to Dachau. The photos if how the people were treated caused me to have strange dreams. The smell of the unwashed people was still strong in the wooden barracks they were kept in. We were shown the gas chamber, the ovens used to cremate, labs where the experiments happened, and the guards quarters. Humans can be so ignorant and heartless to treat each other and earth like trash