Inside the Holocaust Railways - Hitler's Holocaust Railways with Chris Tarrant

[@2dogsmowing]

I just wanted to say to the channel. Thank you very much for not blurring out history. It's sickening to see channels blurr out the deaths and dead. It's the part of history that needs to be seen to make a true impact on the horror that acured.

[@ustoopia]

agreee

[@missasinenomine]

I agree.

[@Mike-jw4xh]

Extremely well done! Such detail, in depth explanation. Have been searching for information such as the RR and the common workers who maintained the tracks, wagons full of jews, repairs when some broke out, what they saw at the death camps. Shared this with high school students, we would like MORE info on books or interviews with rr personnel who transported to camps like treblinka, belzec, sobibor. Claude lanzman did great interview with driver of locomotive to treblinka in SHOAH film.

[@Crashed131963]

There is a new 2023 Movie about this called "One Life" Starring Anthony Hopkins . He plays Nicky Winton and closely worked with Doreen Warriner .

[@jbrown7403]

Great movie and important story. 👍

[@jotteisaksson]

What a well told documentary. I will not forget!! All my love to you all. ❤❤

[@CasaOsso]

Great documentary thank you

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

WHEN GERMANY WENT PSYCHOTIC😢

[@invisibleman4827]

In some ways, it was just unlucky. Fascism came from Italy and could've emerged anywhere potentially. Unfortunately, Germany had the conditions for fascism to grow in the 1930s.

[@terryhinton9910]

Eric is the most amazing person to go through that and then to go back to the places of his worst nightmare.

[@requiscatinpace7392]

Arik was a very brave and resourceful person to survive like that.

[@abrahamlevi3556]

Berlin Grunewald Station Platform 17 is an interesting place to visit with dates and destinations and the number of deportees on each transport. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has photocopies of each transport number which includes the list of names of the deportees.

[@1Harold2345]

Never Again.

[@jim7544]

The Kriegsloks were a masterpiece of engineering - which worked all over Europe for 50 years. They were not tools of the holocaust.

[@CoryAY82383]

It's the same as saying anyone who used German leftover war machines supported the holocaust. Machines are not responsible nor can they be held liable

[@invisibleman4827]

​@CoryAY82383 True. The Poles decided that they were too useful to dispose of on that basis, and kept using them for decades after the war.

[@christiankastorf4836]

They were a piece of junk right from the beginning. What did happen? Carefully designed locos like the class-50 freight locomotives consisted of some 6000 bits and pieces. The class 52 had only 5000 parts. Production started in 1942. Whatever was not essential was left out. Poor quality mild steel that was easy to weld but corroded quickly was used for the boilers. When the war was over they were still needed but upgraded with new boilers and many better fittings and elements that secured that they would keep running and not blow up.

[@Discobaby988]

Of course the civilians knew, not only in Germany, but also in occupied countries. They quite simply didn’t care, they were indifferent, most were raised with a certain degree of antipathy towards Jews. In fact, all these years later, the animus still exists and you needn’t look far to see it, because it’s a cancerous tumor many refuse to excise.

[@goclunker]

Horrible thing to say. Many people were afraid of dying themselves. It wasn't just the jewish people that were sent to camps. Please use your brain.

[@spannaspinna]

Is that why Netanyahu has war crimes arrest warrants out ?

[@christiankastorf4836]

My grandfather's brother was a mechanic and the navy drafted him early in the war. He was posted on a fleet auxiliary ship in the Baltic, repairing weapons and machinery that had failed or been damaged at the frontline. Shortly before Christmas 1941 they were moored in the port of Riga. Latvia had just been occupied. My grand-uncle got shore leave and when he strolled through that town he heard yells, screams and machinegun-fire. He followed that sounds and witnessed the "evacuation" of the ghetto. A ditch had been excavated and the Jews were being lined up and shot down. (The background: The ghetto was overcrowded with Latvian and Soviet Jews already and orders had come that Jews from within Germany were now deported eastwards and room had to be found for them. So local SS-authority decided to make room for the newcomers by murdering the ones who were already there.) In horror my grand-uncle ran back to his ship and told his mates about what he had seen. Some crew member pulled him aside and said that he better kept his mouth shut if he valued his life. Well, he told his brother about it when he was home for Christmas but my grandfather did not want to believe him. When my grandfather's hairdresser (my aunt and his daughter were playmates) was not seen from one day to the next some time before the war, grandfather told my aunt they had emigrated to Palestine. I have no idea whether grandfather really believed what he told his daughter or whether he just did not want to alarm his child.

[@bobdebouwer7835]

Hard truth indeed. 99% of humans are either horrible or don't care.

[@lorrainehamilton5051]

The bucket was not for washing...!

[@missasinenomine]

Yes, I thought that as well!

[@astridvallati4762]

Try to calculate the Wasted Logistical Railway Capacity which could have been used to support the German War effort. The Development of the BR52 War Locomotive did help, but the diversion of them to non-military uses by the SS, was a typical cutting off the nose to spite the face".

[@mannymota3442]

Nie Wieder

[@bartboesten]

Don't forget us the Dutch Jews and Christians. I am both my mothers brother went to Bergen Belsen.

[@England....]

Chris : Who wants to be a millionaire? Me, I'll take six please!