The Execution Of The Female Commandant Of Bergen-Belsen

After the Second World War, the true crimes of the Nazi Regime would emerge as the Allies and the Red Army liberated many different concentration camps. Camps such as Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen told the true story of the Holocaust, and the liberators were greeted with horrific scenes of mass murder and extermination. The prisoners told of the barbaric treatment they had suffered at the hands of the SS and the Nazi guards. At Bergen-Belsen, the typhus infested camp saw thousands of corpses discovered, along with a number of SS guards who refused to flee the camp.
One of these was Elisabeth Volkenrath, a female guard who had served at Belsen and also Auschwitz. She was known as an incredibly brutal woman and after her arrest, the true stories of Volkenrath's brutality would emerge. Victims told the Belsen Trial that she regularly beat prisoners unconscious with a truncheon, and even at one point pushed an elderly prisoner down some stairs to her death. She was known for carrying out some beatings that were so severe that prisoners were killed by her.
Volkenrath also took part in many of the selections that took place at the concentration camps, deciding who would live and work at Auschwitz and then who would be sent straight to the gas chambers. Elisabeth Volkenrath was placed on trial and for her horrific crimes of the Holocaust, she was sentenced to death and executed.
So join us today as we look at, 'The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Elisabeth Volkenrath - The Witch Of Auschwitz.'
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[@kittymervine6115]

what was sad was so many of those liberated, died after being freed. Same with all prisoners of war. The Red Cross actually had a "menu" they made up once they realized that too much food would kill most of those starved. Many that died, made sure they had given their testimony, before dying. One French prisoner, stayed up almost all night, giving his story... as he knew he was too weak and indeed died the next morning. Being freed did not mean living, but it did mean a chance for their story to be heard.

[@maximillianphoenix9374]

The camps were well run prior to allied bombings and influx of inmates from the eastern camps actually majority died of typhus and continued to die under british Germans actually left guards behind to help the camp when brits came allied propaganda as created a lot of misinformation 🇬🇧

[@Rizzlelid]

Re-feeding syndrome

[@pippadawg7037]

I read Exudus by Aldous Huxley and I know some of his accounts were untrue (like the lampshade story) but way too many horrific accounts were true. One I will never forget is of US soldiers meeting some starving children and giving them all this candy and the children died. The soldiers felt enormous and crippling guilt. I have since seen that account appear in many TV series and movies. It is so sad I am crying writing this. Every time I saw it unfolding in a drama I would just want to scream, "No, don't give them the candy." Well I am glad that hung that b!tch. May God have mercy on her soul.

[@milosmods]

It is very sad it absolutely is and I encourage a lot of people to watch things like this the reason being is it is history yes and there's a saying in the United States that goes something like this those who do not understand history or dismiss history are doomed to repeat it This is one thing that should never be repeated in any way shape or form most sane people know if you're in a military situation no matter what size you're on or whatever it is still very illegal to liquidate a civilian population or any parts of a civilian population and of course it's a war crime but people still do it I don't know what drives hate like that through people I've been trying to understand that for years and I still have no answers

[@nicoleparry5103]

Heart breaking

[@MrCrystalwarrior1]

My dad was one of the first British troops into Belsen camp, and told me about what happened to a German woman who lifted her skirt to expose her naked genitalia every day to the inmates. The freed inmates literally tore her to pieces in front of the British liberating troops, who saw it as suitable punishment after what they'd just been exposed to. Some of the inmates were given chocolate by my dad and other troops, only to die instantly due to shock, after being starved for so long, and the chocolate sent them into diabetic heart failure. A simple act of kindness by my dad and his fellow troops had such a devastating impact on those they felt such empathy for. The medics ordered that no food be given to the inmates until medical treatment had stabilised their physical condition.

[@callanightshade8079]

That's so sad. I'm sorry your father had to experience that. I hope that the prisoners were at least happy they got some revenge on those horrible people

[@tiffanylove6713]

Exposing your naked genitals means you deserve rape...? did the German women who were violated in the rape of Berlin deserve it too...? despicable. To hell with those animals, glad the chocolate killed them.

[@tiffanywhitman9372]

@@tiffanylove6713 it doesn’t say she was raped… it says they beat her to death.

[@nielszindel1151]

What was learned about food for malnourished or starving people, still used today, was written because of the camps. I am sorry your father had such an awful experience. Delia Morris

[@AYVYN]

I’m confused. Why did they tear her to pieces? German women have always been kinky

[@lsrryford7335]

My uncle was among the troops liberating Belsen. According to my father what bothered him the most was the complete indifference of the remaining guards to the appalling suffering of the inmates.

[@daleburrell6273]

...PEOPLE CAN GET USED TO DAM NEAR ANYTHING- AND THAT'S THE TRUTH!!!!

[@geezerp1982]

did any of soldiers shoot some of the guards after seeing what they did ?

[@frankdiscussion2069]

@@geezerp1982 I would not be surprised if some German guards were shot trying to "escape" however this would be a war crime if they were just shot because of being prison guards.

[@leonardkrol4481]

@@geezerp1982 yes

[@gerwulfthered154]

@@geezerp1982 My grandad who was British told my mother that some of the guards were beaten to death.

[@pascalgallez1126]

What is really shocking is that so few of those witches were sent to trial and condemned. Men were sent (quite rightfully) to the gallow, but so few of those barbarous women...

[@ejcostin3070]

Therez a vid about the women guards executed for war crime

[@bighands69]

Most of the guards were victims them self. Many allies took pity on them hence why they tried as much as they could to avoid executing them. The real monsters did a runner and tried to hide but many of them got caught.

[@rzk2f875]

99% of those who committed these atrocities were never even charged.

[@graceg3250]

So many of these people look like people you’d run into in everyday life. Makes you think what those around us are capable of today.

[@cassiecraft8856]

I have thought that exact same thing many times. It does make you think.

[@daleburrell6273]

....AND WHILE YOU'RE POINTING FINGERS AT OTHER PEOPLE- WHY DON'T YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN A MIRROR?!!

[@williamkeefer3336]

@@GetBenched2010 that sure is truth

[@joshuatheargonaut4412]

I think it’s shocking because we like to demonize villains and make them more then they actually are. But it’s the everyday person who with a little push here a little nudge there turns into this. She might’ve thought she was doing good. A choice made by desperation and a want to make her country “great again”. Remind you of anyone?

[@daleburrell6273]

@@joshuatheargonaut4412 ACTUALLY, NO- THAT DOESN'T REMIND ME OF ANYONE-!!! CAN YOU BE MORE SPECIFIC?!

[@stonecut4u2now]

My Father and my two Uncles served during WW2, Two served in Europe. One nearly died there and was reported KIA, he was 19 at the time. Louis Moreno was not killed there. He was found alive in a Hospital in England or a Hospital Ship headed for America. He never spoke about his time there. It was hell on earth. My Father served in France, Bavaria and a short time in Germany during Occupation. My other uncle served in the Army Air Corp. They all survived the war. But they brought home many ghosts that tortured there thoughts till the time they all died.

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

As a veteran, I salute your family members who served and thank them for their service.

[@micheldekam3491]

So? Wtf has your story to do with the camps? Or are you trying to be interesting because your misled family fought a war?

[@kimsullivan5576]

I am grateful and thankful for your generous family. God Bless You.

[@SophieBird07]

@@micheldekam3491 Jerk. War is traumatizing for everyone involved in the actual dealings.

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

@@kimsullivan5576 No, God bless you and your family.

[@slumdogpreacher6964]

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton

[@bettylaselli2048]

Yeah! I agree

[@mikethomas4423]

I thought this was an akala quote

[@skar5541]

Steady on. Ur not a philosopher. But u are incredibly right. To a point.

[@skar5541]

@@mikethomas4423 u need an education.

[@harbourdogNL]

Thomas Hobbes, actually.

[@barbaratreadway4052]

My dad was in ww2 and he helped free the remaining prisoners. He was mentally ill from it. Ptsd and angry. Rip DAD.

[@mariacullati2371]

So many families were happy their loved ones survived but the trauma brought them home very different people. My Dad was on a PT boat, I understand. Love does not cure PTSD.

[@thorlo1278]

Thank you so much for these videos. I'm almost 70 and both my dad and my dad in law went through WW2. My father in law went through the Battle of the Bulge! We must remember what happened before we let it happen again!

[@scottlaplantelaplante990]

From other information regarding the female guards at the concentration camps, it seems that many of them were relatively young. Should not be too surprising since it has been a common technique used by extremists - past and present - to target youth with propaganda to create a dedicated following.

[@johnjohnon8767]

Look what our govt is teaching in public schools. Those that are not liberal are nazis. Never mind the fact there are no concentration camps for liberals. Or reeducation camps for the same. But those not like them are to be canceled for the time being. And some have advocated for extreme measures. Who's the marxist?

[@scottlaplantelaplante990]

@@johnjohnon8767 Correct. How many times in the past couple years have we heard about "deprogramming" of conservatives from prominent leftists.

[@ChauncyFatsack]

Look at isis

[@krisushi1]

Look at the ages of those who participate in North Korean and Chinese events to celebrate their military might!

[@oceanhome2023]

Look how young the Jihadi are!

[@lapensulo4684]

Thank you, my father was a Doctor during the war. One of the many things he did was to help bring those prisoners who were at 'Death's Door,' back to life. Once he told me that there is nothing like burning flesh, we would begin to smell it when we were a week away from these camps.

[@dawnadriana1764]

The faces behind the barbed wire are so haunting. To think of this in human terms is impossible to imagine, but in those eyes, the truth is told.

[@cindychin7746]

Those faces behind the barbed wire where mental patients yes the camps gave mental patients there own space now why wouldn’t the Germans simply gas them if gassing was the rule why make provision for psychiatric patients people who could not work and they or most of the prisoners don’t look starving this should make you think before you jump to conclusions maybe it wasn’t a death camp but a concentration camp 🤔

[@conclavecabal.h0rriphic]

@@cindychin7746 you are a special type of clown aren’t you...

[@bwell6555]

I had to quit watching just listening.

[@elsab2710]

@@conclavecabal.h0rriphic Agreed.

[@cindychin7746]

@@conclavecabal.h0rriphic it’s clowns like you who fall for allied /Bolshevik propaganda good luck with that 🤗

[@itsapittie]

Every time I hear these stories I'm amazed at how many of the guards didn't try to flee. That seems to imply that they believed they had done nothing wrong or that the allies would see it as simply a normal part of fighting a war.

[@joebrumfield8487]

They thought better to be captured by British than Russians!

[@bettylaselli2048]

@@joebrumfield8487 yes!

[@catadvocateNy]

Them Believing they done something wrong would be sign of guilt and guilt is a moral emotion. These a hole had no conscious or emotions. I'm not surprised at all!

[@seadog2396]

Agreed. The camp guards, as guilty as they were, knew their chances were better with the Allies versus the Russians. They were SCARED TO DEATH of the Russians. The Russians would, when they felt like it, peel their skin off in strips while they were alive. Great entertainment.

[@saucerfull1]

Kelton Oliver...Baby, the guards did it voluntarily, no one made them. But they were stupid and poor enough to do what was asked of them.

[@cassiecraft8856]

Ladies first. Chivalry wasn’t lost to the war.

[@dovidell]

....but these were no ladies

[@dovidell]

if one is to talk about chivalry ( during WW2 ) , then one must note ironically that (some of ) the SS were taught to play cricket , a most chivalrous sport if ever there was one !!

[@georgebrown8312]

So shameful and troubling that a woman like Elisabeth Volkenrath would inflict such barbarous and cruel treatment on helpless inmates at a concentration camp. I suspect that she was trained by the SS to shut out all empathy for other people. At least she, like many other captured war criminals, met justice at the hangman's noose.

[@pri.sci.lla.]

You cannot be trained to have no empathy. She was just a psychopath like many other high ranking officials. They were evil.

[@justaroot4315]

I dont think many of these women died the way they reported. Lotta paperclips and many of these women have genetic offspring in US. Either they survived or were cloned.

[@kasketchayne]

you first have to HAVE empathy before you can lose it or shut it out.......most of the people capable of these atrocities most likely never had it to begin with.

[@johnsinger8503]

My mother was a survivor of both Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen , gratifying to know that the those who abused and tortured helpless women were held accountable and had their lives ended with as much mercy as they showed the inmates. Justice was done

[@danielkinn782]

My Grandmother was in Dachau. My great grandmother died there. My uncle was born there.

[@georgemallory4639]

@@danielkinn782 my great uncle was a soldier in Dachau......but he was an American infantry men who helped liberated it. He's gone now, but when he was alive he would acknowledge that he was there, but he would never talk about it. He would tell other war stories, but Dachau was something he tried unsuccessfully to forget his whole life.

[@kamikazefilmproductions]

@@georgemallory4639 i had an uncle that help liberated dachau too

[@danielkinn782]

@@georgemallory4639 My grandfather was a marine and also helped liberate it. That's how they met. It was instant love and they were together till the end.

[@apacifistmachinegunner669]

@@danielkinn782 US Marines were not in the European theater nor liberated any Nazi Concentration Camps. They were in the Pacific (Im a US Marine) Why on earth would you lie about that????

[@ernestclements7398]

By Pierpoints version the first woman to be hanged was not Volkenrath but Irma Grese, as he felt that she being the youngest would be the most terrified, and therefore the one likeliest to give trouble.

[@FlyingSi]

Also this channel says it was Grese in that video!!

[@daleburrell6273]

...CRY ME A RIVER-!!!

[@TomHill665]

Pierpont made their punishment painless. They got off easy

[@daleburrell6273]

...DOES IT REALLY FRICKIN' MATTER?!!

[@shamusfarmer]

Give trouble, ha. She should've gotten more trouble for all the trouble she gave.

[@adrienneterzen2604]

I have always thought that such atrocities surely would signify the end of the world. I am incredulous that so much time and so many more evil events have occured since then. I am ashamed of humanity.

[@jamescook5487]

It does but God's time is different than ours. It was apart of the "dry bones" prophecy which is endtimes prophecy and it goes into another prophecy about Israel becoming a nation again. We are at the very end of the signs now before the rapture happens which is very soon possibly this year, which is what I believe personally. God gives everyone plenty of time and many signs before he does something because he is fair and gives everyone ample chance to get right with him.

[@barbarastrayhorn4667]

I hear you. The horrors that happen every day should make me hard but it just makes me sad. Ego over brains.

[@TonySlug]

@@JaEDLanc Um, all three monotheistic religions come from the middle east.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

It’ll probably be America that causes that considering they are always starting wars.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

@@jamescook5487 😂😂😂don’t be so rediculous,it’s an old book of fiction that you lot can’t seem to grasp,god didn’t write it you know🤫

[@lajoyalobos2009]

This is what can happen when people worship political parties and politicians. This is a lesson to us all. It rarely starts off so horrific, but gets worse over time, continually eroding the conscious over time until people start doing things that are unspeakable and think nothing of it.

[@r.c.b.8087]

Well said!!

[@sanjosemike3137]

Perfectly said. It's called "negative operant conditioning." Gradually, a person starts to accept what is required of them, as a matter of habit. But it is equally important to remember that this started with Darwinist survival of the fittest atheism. This philosophy is still present in universities and other institutions that teach and promote Darwinist atheist materialism. I have had arguments with atheists on the net over this. Typically, they charge that "religious wars" have killed millions of people as well, referring to European religious wars of the 14-1600's. However, their numbers are way off. Unfortunately, this becomes an issue of body count. But by any metric you choose, Darwinist atheist killing (National N**i Socialism and Communism) vastly eclipses body counts of any ancient European wars. At least the religious wars have declined and become rare. But Darwinist racial atheism is not. Far from it. My opinion is that it IS possible for atheists to live decent lives. Millions do. But I make the "earnest" suggestion that they "pretend" there is a God and that they "might" be punished for their sins. They consider that ridiculous. But in the light of Intelligent design, "smart" coded DNA and the Big Bang, perhaps science is pointing out that there may be a God. I wonder how they can be so SURE there is no God? What if they are wrong? Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@nationalsocialist6590]

For the state by the state nothing outside of the state. National Socialism is we're all equal in the collective, anyone outside needs to be taken care of.

[@barbaralucas1220]

Such a wonderfully informative video. Thank you for posting 😊

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks! :)

[@Longtack55]

"There are no witches." Christopher Hitchens. She simply enjoyed cruelty.

[@fmorris1563]

Just like the Ashkenazi do today

[@anthonyryan9706]

You have never been to a Kate bush concert clearly...although ma am has not got an evil bone in her very beautiful body never say there are no such things as witches....I remember ma.am on the 20th September 2014 at Hammersmith and being entertai

[@luvwaltdisney1]

@@fmorris1563 🙄🙄🙄

[@ClaytonBigsby93]

Foolish to believe just about anything Hitchens said.

[@jeg5438]

Why did these people deny what they did? Weren't they so Proud to be doing this to other people? It seems they knew what they were doing was wrong but just kept doing it day after day. I don't know how they could live a life like that.

[@brozjoszip6401]

Of course you can not imagine, because you grew up in a safe country, where law and order rules. You have food, you have safety and you can heat your home in wintertime. You were never forced to work for others for free and you never saw how war looks like. Those were different times when true words attracked punishment and common sense tought to swim with the main stream. Otherwise you could end up in shit holes easily.

[@TesterAnimal1]

@@brozjoszip6401 there was the rule of law in Nazi Germany.

[@gemmag.2988]

@@brozjoszip6401 We are approaching a universal totalitarian society so we must resist. 1940's all over again.

[@micheldekam3491]

@@gemmag.2988 Any examples besides your lack of knowledge about ww2?

[@micheldekam3491]

Maybe because they did not do it?

[@countdread6467]

Love your videos. So informative. Appreciate all you do. Plus the way you talk is just awesome!

[@stephenbrough8132]

Thank you for making these videos.

[@markking6563]

According to Pierrepoint’s autobiography, It was actually Irma Grese to be the first female prisoner executed

[@schorpioen7466]

Yes. Because she was the youngest

[@geoffmcmahon4453]

I watched the Irma Grese one first it sounds like the same narrator doing both didnt he realise the wording was wrong or were they recorded quite a while apart

[@DRay-or4tc]

Pity there’s little, if any, film of Stalin’s equally sadistic atrocities.

[@peterlewis8040]

What a pathetic whaboutism attempt. So she's ok because someone else was a monster.

[@troywalt4834]

@@peterlewis8040 if you read his comment you won't find any mention of nazism atrocities being okay, i agree with him it's a shame stalin's atrocities are not more known.

[@peterlewis8040]

@@troywalt4834 but utterly irrelevant as a comment on this. Why mention it here? Adds nothing, just tries to divert attention.why do that?

[@troywalt4834]

@@peterlewis8040 because stalins crimes are even greater in terms of number and it's difficult to quantify but probably as brutal or even more. And that nowadays you can freely say you are a communist as if the history of communism is not one of mass murdering. So it's dangerous that we tolerate these people claiming communism is okay. It's à valid point on a true danger of our times.

[@peterlewis8040]

@@troywalt4834 still has sod all to do with this story. Why not list the crimes of religion? Because it also has sod all to do with the story. Seems you are just using any excuse to push your own agenda.

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

On a programme about Albert Pierpoint apparently Irma Grese was executed the first because she was the youngest Albert did everything in a very methodical way because he was a true professional apparently Field Marshall Montgomery picked him for this, it was not personal for Albert he was just doing his job.

[@annewren8845]

When Pierpoint was asked why he chose to execute her first, he replied “because she’s the most frightened’.

[@ChauncyFatsack]

He also was a strong advocate against the death penalty in his later life! Its not a deterrent he said!

[@ranichso735]

@@ChauncyFatsack Execution is not a deterrent and if a murderer was being considered for release back into society where that would be important it would be illogical. In cases where like mass murder where you cannot consider release it is an act of mercy. I am completely opposed to the death sentence for individual murders where rehabilitation can be considered but for multiple murder where it is clearly part of the person's psyche there is no choice. Unfortunately many of those involved in the German camps had no part in the decision making and therefore the decision was more about group guilt for our part in the awful event.

[@stephensmith4480]

A friend of mine actually met him in Southport many years ago.

[@mariaevans7811]

@@annewren8845 Did he take her first, out of compassion, for it to be over for her, I hope so!!! 🐩🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@michaeljohnson404]

I spent 28 months in Germany in the 80s on border patrol and it was unreal the way people in the really small towns still showed appreciation for the us military.

[@kittymervine6115]

I will say, that no one talks much about what life was like for the East Germans after the war. Many of Hitlers officers, just became officers in the new East German army. Many SS lead the NKVD, the even WORSE than the KGB, who tortured and raped and kept East Germans in fear. The reason Germans ran toward US troops, and away from the Soviets, was they knew that Stalin was going to be as bad as Hitler or worse. They already knew American troops treated areas they took over with kindness, and the Soviets, with horrible revenge. Even Soviets that were prisoners of war, were often killed or became prisoners by Stalin as he felt they had been cowards to not have died in action. Americans have a good reputation, and the way the US military behaves is a large part of that.

[@thunderbird1921]

@@kittymervine6115 For the most part, the American troops were merciful and just, but there were exceptions. When they discovered the concentration camp at Dachau, many GIs flew into a rage and actually began killing the captured SS and army guards (officers finally started firing pistols in the air to force them to stop).

[@wendyladybug355laurie4]

@@thunderbird1921 TBH, I Can Understand What They Did.I Mean, We Feel Overwhelmed When a We see News Footage Of These Atrocities, I Can ONLY Imagine How UnBelievably Overwhelming & Gut -Wrenching Of An Assault On Their Senses , Sights, Smells, The Sound Of The Prisoners In Pain, I Bet ALL Of Those Haunted Every Soldier Who Has EVER Been In That Situation.I Feel Enraged Whenever I Think About Or See Footage Of The Holocaust.I Give Credit To Anyone In Those Situations That DON'T React In This Way.May God Bless ALL MAY WE STAND DTRONG TOGETHER IN FAITH WWG1WGA PRAYERSNLUV 👼👼✝️✝️

[@chaz725]

I was at the Hameln bridging camp in the 80s lovely town .

[@annierossi3589]

Why do you Capitalize Every Single Word In Your Sentences? Besides being incorrect it’s also very odd. Makes reading it very awkward, I don’t get it.

[@beccaboo3040]

Very interesting thanks again untoldpast 👍🙂

[@marktessier9441]

I wasnt there so I cant imagine what the prisoners and liberators went thru. Should have put the guards into the camp and thrown away the keys. Those who were executed got off lightly.

[@dave-d-grunt]

It’s hard to comprehend the savagery of these women! This one so young!

[@fmorris1563]

Look at the Ashkenazi today what they do

[@chino3796]

Not only the women, but the German's in general. The sad part is I could see it happening again, today in the USA. That's something I never thought I'd say. 😥

[@fmorris1563]

They were protecting there homeland from the Ashkenazi take a look what happened in palistine

[@elisabethdakak878]

No, it is not hard to comprehend that a woman can be heinous and brutal. In our own nature, we all are degenerate. Read the Ghetto of Kishinev to see that the Germans had very little involvement in killing the Jews. Rumanians were infinitely brutal toward the Jews regardless their age

[@illfindyou9003]

Amazing!! Well documented. Keep up the good work

[@cannpdx781]

I love your channel, you are doing a service by keeping history alive, by learning the past we learn lessons of how hopefully we will never repeat it.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thank you for your kind words, it means a lot!

[@michaelcostello6991]

Imagine what people do in the workplace in order to please their boss. Truly scary. Some of these folk would gladly operate a gas chamber to secure their job or a promotion.

[@thebutton]

Hypocrite

[@TheFaderland]

@Michael Costello, it is just do or die. Exception as always on the winning side! Why did the allies in WW2 keep all eyes and ears closed and let it go for years?

[@anonymousbosch9265]

I’m thinking she was a psychological sadist

[@margomazzeo1680]

@@anonymousbosch9265 She was a physical sadist too..obviously..

[@jimbobaggans1564]

And many would do it for fun.

[@marythurber7230]

I have a friend who is Jewish! Her great ,great grand mother and great,great aunt were killed in auswitcz!! My friend went to the museum that has pictures of that concentration camp,and the train cars they came in!!! We both cried and I threw up!! So much misery !!!

[@scottbutkowski5803]

My father told me that his adopted father had been part of a unit that killed some prison camp guards. Apparently, They were to face pretty serious military discipline for their actions, But in the end were simply given bad conduct discharges, And sent on their way. My adopted grandfather died when I was very young, So I never got to speak to him about anything, Let alone something like this.

[@windwoman3549]

Love the ironically beautiful moment when he says “hairdresser” & it’s superimposed over a photo of Volkenrath’s very, very screwed-up hair. 😁

[@grandpapete417]

Don't judge by appearance

[@windwoman3549]

@@grandpapete417 🤔 . . . 😑 . . . 👹

[@windwoman3549]

@David Well, NO SHIT. And?

[@larrywhalen596]

Well, just look at some of the hairstyles EnVogue today, some of which are terrifying in their own right.

[@GeraldoluizAprendiz]

I would never notice it.

[@amaccama3267]

One thing that occurs to me. All these girls who were working these camps were so young.

[@TheWolfsnack]

Young, and had spent their formative years being indoctrinated with Nazi ideology.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Definitely, their hatred had been engrained at such a young age. Indoctrinated,

[@clarkhull7546]

and frumpy looking

[@ernestclements7398]

Because they were the ones raised on a steady diet of propaganda and indoctrination frightfully like our school children today!

[@KingDrogba999]

U forgot ugly

[@vivangreco1710]

I will never understand how human minds can become so twisted and evil. Her death was justice being done.

[@daleburrell6273]

...EVER SEE THE 2000 MOVIE: "NUREMBERG"? ONE DEFINITION OF EVIL IS THE "TOTAL LACK OF EMPATHY" FOR OTHERS.

[@firebeard7]

Just convince people that what they are doing is the right thing, and they will become devils for you.

[@rightwingreactionary]

@@daleburrell6273 Writing in all caps again?

[@Rhyno9750]

But to call nazis evil, is inaccurate, evil doesn't exist, it's just the twisted sick, and deranged side of society manifesting itself

[@gypsytreasures3856]

@@rightwingreactionary so what? Dont you have a life? Troll.

[@carlosdanger947]

Yes and the equally evil atrocities of the Soviets and Japanese are not talked about . Ever

[@VideoSaySo]

I was talking about the Bataan Death March in the company of my kids and their friends (they're 19 and 25) and they had never even heard of it...

[@patchescessna7348]

Carlos, Read OReillys book: Killing the Rising Sun.

[@c.j.rogers2422]

@@noah366 Hardly the same thing, not even remotely.

[@Redemption7825]

I know they only seem to talk about the Germans. Stalin killed many more before WW2 even started. The German people are decent people. If you think this can’t happen to your community your wrong. Fear rules the masses. People fall in line. But the Japanese were brutal. Brutal to US POWs but no one talks about it.

[@jameswithers2334]

How did you find out then?

[@Dancingonthesun]

Just when I think you are out of monsters to try, you bring more.

[@georgedonnellan36]

One born every 5 minutes.?

[@lenapistone7135]

keep creating and I'll keep watching

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thank you Lena.

[@lenapistone7135]

@@TheUntoldPast Thanks so much for your work my friend.

[@TheUntoldPast]

@@lenapistone7135 No problem, thank you again :)

[@RubyJeans943]

Evil. I can't see how these Nazis went anywhere but to hell after they died.

[@paulskopic5844]

It is a shame that she was afforded a painless execution.

[@philiptownsend4026]

Her executioner was a human being. That is the difference.

[@Bwiser63]

What is shocking is still the brutality of young adults at such a young age these days and I’m not comparing them to the Nazis brutality but still brutal.

[@graceg3250]

Kids and older adults are in my experience the rudest, most selfish, and cruelest of any age.

[@krisushi1]

The Nazi regime appealed very much to the unstable amongst Germanic Society as well as the sadistic. Brought them out in droves and were only to willing to participate in horrific abuses and murderous atrocities. This woman should have been left in the hands of those she abused.

[@richardphillips1971]

Hi mate i like watching your videos they are very informative, can you tell me who was the female guard who led prisoners out of a camp, she would lie down with them and comfort the upset prisoners?

[@UnholyByChoice]

From the look of things, it appears history is about to repeat itself.

[@peterzang]

You’re my homeboy!

[@AliceRoche-ii2ke]

How??

[@UnholyByChoice]

@@AliceRoche-ii2ke Keep your eyes on Russia and Ukraine.

[@jacobthomas8423]

She was buried at Hamelin prison. Her body along with many others were excavated and reburied at am wehl cemetery. She wasn’t creamated.

[@davidluna8372]

It doesn't matter if she wasn't cremated , were she is now it's being done .

[@patriley9449]

When people speak of these horrible camps they often complain that the German people or the allies did nothing to help these poor people before liberation, but know that nothing of real affect could be done. If any Germans had tried to help, they would have ended up as inmates themselves. Some say precision bombing of the camps could have blown up the crematoriums and caused the killing to slow down. Not possible. Bombing was considered to be precise if the bombs hit within a hundred yards of the targets. Bombs often landed more than a mile from the target, thus killing lots of people who weren't supposed to be bombed. There was simply no way to save these people until the allied armies advanced to a point where their superior forces could push through and liberate the camps.

[@daleburrell6273]

...THERE'S AN OLD SAYING: "EITHER YOU STAND UP AND FIGHT AGAINST EVIL- OR ELSE YOU ARE A PART OF IT- BECAUSE YOU ARE LETTING YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS BE DESTROYED BY IT!!" EVER HEARD OF PASTOR MARTIN NEIMOLLER?! THE BEST TIME TO GET INVOLVED FIGHTING AGAINST EVIL, IS BEFORE IT AFFECTS YOU PERSONALLY- BECAUSE IF YOU WAIT UNTIL IT AFFECTS YOU PERSONALLY- YOU JUST MIGHT BE FIGHTING IT ALL BY YOURSELF!!! THE GERMAN CITIZENS WHO "LOOKED THE OTHER WAY" AT WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING MAY HAVE SURVIVED: BUT THEY SURVIVED AS WHAT- AS ACCESSORIES TO WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING?!! I'M INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO DIE TRYING TO STOP WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING- RATHER THAN HAVE TO FACE GOD SOME DAY, FOR NOT TRYING TO STOP WHAT THE NAZIS WERE DOING!!!

[@055deltic]

@@daleburrell6273 Its very easy to declare you would die rather than "look the other way". But the security apparatus was such that you risked not only yourself but your immediate and extended family. Would you be so quick to condemn your own mother, children, etc. to the camps - just so you could claim the moral high ground? I think not - I hope not, for the sake of your other family members. I also come to resent the growing sense that the whole of WW11 was fought around the holocaust. I know for a fact that some of my own relatives fought - and died - to defend this country from an expansionist and fascist Germany. They had absolutely NO knowledge of what was going on internally within the third reich. I am equally sure no-one had any knowledge of this anywhere in the asia theatre of war. It was tragic, but only a part of the whole WORLD war!

[@Valornetdude]

@@daleburrell6273 ....so you would risk the rest of your family to this type of torture and death? I imagine if you were an orphan you could rock on without any reservations but for people with a family they might not share your hero obsession.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@Valornetdude ...IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE THAT I WASN'T ONE DAM BIT SORRY THAT GERMANY WAS IN RUINS AT THE END OF WW2!!! TO KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT- AND NOT DO IT- IS THE WORST KIND OF COWARDICE!!!

[@Zipcom69]

@@daleburrell6273 Those who shout are rarely right. It's so easy to be a hero from your sofa. And so naive.

[@johnhorse5551]

My Grandad parked his tank outside Belsen,he was Coldstream Guards Armoured division 21st army,the 11rh armoured brigade burnt camp down with open top bren gun carrier flamethrower units

[@beckyfarley60]

Go Granddad.

[@Strawhalo]

I bet he hated black People

[@ashsherman]

@@Strawhalo who the hell didn't back then, especially white christians.

[@chino3796]

Your grandpa is a hero.

[@paulsimminger4441]

@@Strawhalo Where did you pull that accusation from? Wow, Guess that YOUR Racism is just oozing out of you...

[@kershum4624]

It amazes me what people are willing to do for their motherland. Imagine if the world was United, what we would be capable of accomplishing.

[@TheUntoldPast]

I agree!

[@juliusfucik4011]

These people do it for ideology. National socialism. Very similar to communism. We are seeing a rise of the same principles in modern day liberalism. Eternal sowing of division based on class, race, ethnicity. Antifascists who use big cooperation to silence anyone who does not agree.. How ironically fascist. But these people do not see it. They believe they are "right". It is like a stick in their hands. They are very eager to beat people with it because they are "right". You can experience the same by not wearing a mask when going shopping. The healthy have become the spreaders of death. Stop killing grandma, et cetera. It will not end well.

[@GorGob]

Owners of the world don't want that it's bad business.

[@themedbvll1114]

There can be no 'United World'. At best, a united Europe

[@eddieds312]

This type of thing is probably going on right now in some Chinese gulag

[@numalesoybea1348]

That's an exaggeration. The camps in China are more like regular prison for innocent people than nazi concentration camps.

[@eddieds312]

@@numalesoybea1348 pay attention I used the word (probably) because I can't this as fact and neither can you.

[@numalesoybea1348]

@@eddieds312 if inmates were regularly beaten to death or beaten unconscious we'd have heard about it.

[@dam11232]

@@numalesoybea1348 How? China censor like a notherfucker.

[@nostalgia545]

@@numalesoybea1348 We do know that hundreds of protestors were killed in Iran in November 2019. Countless are executed on a daily basis. In China the Uyghuirs are persecuted rounded up and placed in camps. We know about it but we ignore it because “never again” only applied to European and western countries. You might not know about it because the media doesn’t talk about it, but it still happens.

[@theenglishalpinist5031]

I've reached 53 and had a good education so of course I've heard all about the Nazis, their various atrocities, and familiar with many of their names. Even so, I find I'm discovering more and more names I've never heard of. I've decided the most shocking thing about the entire holocaust is not the mass murders themselves, the tortures or the bigotry - seriously disturbing though they all are - but the sheer number of people involved in it right down through the ranks. There seems to be no end to how many were willing to jump onto the dogma, the hate, the hysteria and enjoy their own sadistic roles in it. This speaks very profound volumes for the human race. Nobody - not one of us - can look away and say "Well, I could never be like that" or "The Nazis were psychopaths" or think there is some fundamental morality or genetic difference that sets us apart. No - WE are the Nazis. All it takes is circumstances. Don't judge until you're in a position of 'opportunity', and then start by judging yourself.

[@patrickmulroney9452]

and now we have herr trump!!

[@bighands69]

Since you have a good education you are aware that the Nazis were socialists.

[@seadog2396]

Your self-righteousness is Such a downer....

[@lesleybrown1583]

@@seadog2396 he's actually speaking the truth!something this world hates!

[@philiptownsend4026]

I believe you may be right. I like to think of myself as a kind, generous and compassionate person. But there is one large group in the world that in the wrong circumstances may cause me to change. Those who are cruel and abusive towards helpless innocent animals. I truly hate them.

[@paulmunro3175]

The devil's greatest triumph is his convincing everyone that he doesn't exist.

[@tycorp1971]

He doesn't exist. Humans are capable of evil all by themselves.

[@carlfernandes1275]

I agree completely

[@gemmag.2988]

@@tycorp1971 Rubbish.

[@micheldekam3491]

Another christian leaving dumb comments...better ask yourself why that loving "good" god most of you adore let this happen...

[@TheGuitarReb]

@@micheldekam3491 BECAUSE He gave human kind FREE WILL! We can do as we wish. It's not like the laws of physics. You seem to be the "dumb ass in this equation.

[@chadweekley9664]

God Rest all there souls who were taken away from this kind've evil .

[@gblueslover8807]

*@**1:10** ...And afterward she became a hairdresser"* *...Looking at that picture and hearing that simultaneously made me 😂🤣 lol.*

[@johnmacfarlane6444]

Just goes to show that wee bit power and evil comes out.

[@SC-jh9qp]

So true, everyone has the potential to commit great cruelty and power facilitates this.

[@MyXxx77]

There have been plenty in history with tremendous power who never turned evil. The problem is evil people attaining power (see the history of socialism for some fine examples of authority junkies)

[@recceeboy1237]

Just look at the covid cops and health advisers to various polititians.

[@kenbesford2656]

Yeah just look at what it done for Winston Churchill haha turned him in to a mass murdering maniac

[@CHRS98962]

Watch becoming evil: How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing. He does a very good job at finding out the why.

[@AO-ip6yx]

Thanks for the video, I had never heard of this awful woman! Something about the narration made it hard to distinguish what was being said at times, not sure what it was, the timing/cadence, or possibly a little flat, not sure. Thanks though!

[@bbsaid218]

👍 thanks for telling us these things. Please consider other historical atrocities such as done by Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mao, area 731, Rwanda, Suharto in Indonesia (1965-66)…so, so many.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Thanks! Many more videos coming out this week and over the next few. Will be looking at a few different eras also.

[@janee7995]

Don't forget : Nixon,Reagan, Bush, Clinton, obama, trump, Biden.

[@bbsaid218]

@@janee7995 👍

[@franceskronenwett3539]

That is a good idea. Mass genocides have been performed since Hitler's time. Under Mao over 70 million Chinese were murdered. Funnily enough nobody seems to be bothered about it.

[@timphillian8963]

@@TheUntoldPast An excerpt from Hitler's document listed by the Nuremburg Tribunal as L-3 or USA-28. "Who, after all, speaks today, of the annihilation of THE ARMENIANS? " Unfortunately, this statement still rings true.....

[@jerrygereckegod8224]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@_the_antichrist_6633]

The Red Army had saved my uncle 4-5 other Americans my uncle was with them they got to Auschwitz. He told me the story of the "20 mile walk into hell" he told me that was the closes to hell he ever wanted to get. I get sick thinking of what happened. He once said "what you think you know is a lie. Nobody can ever tell the truth of what really happened. If they did one would go completely mad."

[@joejones9520]

saved by a different version of what he was saved from...

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

She got off easy. Thanks for the upload.

[@miltonhollis703]

What makes someone that Wicked with no heart nor Soul" no compassion for others 💔?????

[@jonnieluscombe5360]

''she was placed over a trap door in which Pierpoint had written a chalked X on the ground'' gotta say that getting history delivered in English as a third language is always adds that little spice you longed for but never found in those fuddy duddy old books eh .. love yoo yootooooobe..!!

[@ronaldwhite1730]

THANK - YOU .

[@jamestakacs]

One was so bad Ike had the towns people rounded up and led them through the camp to see the horrors of the Nazi's.

[@cindychin7746]

And everyone of them would have known about the war crimes of the allied bombings of the German cities and the cities were more deadly then the camps if you had to have a choice where would you and your family like to stay in a camp or in a carpet bombed German city

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

And they forced the townspeople to tend to the corpses.

[@robertwillis4061]

@@cindychin7746 If the Luftwaffe had had enough aircraft they would have done the same to London, Coventry etc.

[@cindychin7746]

@Grace Bax and that includes my own family on both sides

[@cindychin7746]

@@robertwillis4061 it’s a big if Robert I take your point but you seem to have missed mine I have both read and spoken to former r a f bomber crews and they no more then the Germans liked bombing civilians they knew it was immoral so it makes little sense to keep labelling the Germans as some how more evil

[@kenmayfield3739]

I’ve had the misfortune to live among and work with some ‘women’ who were well qualified to be included in this

[@shamusfarmer]

Seriously? Equal to death camp guards? I very much doubt it unless you live in North Korea. You shouldn't joke about such things.

[@novadhd]

Not sure what age has to do with it. Yeah she was young but this hatred is ingrained at an early age. Too bad they dont show the execution. These people were despicable.

[@TheUntoldPast]

They truly were awful.

[@margomazzeo1680]

Human Monsters..

[@shamusfarmer]

Too bad they don't show mob justice is more like it.

[@galdavonalgerri2101]

In German language, some names, like „Ruth“ have a „h“ at the end. Anyway, this has no effect on how it is spoken. So, e.g. Ruth is spoken like Rut, which is like 'root' (no use of 'th'). Therefore, the name Vokenrath has a „h“ at the end, which is *not* to be heard when spoken. The name sounds like „Folknrat“, where the „a“ is like in „car“

[@stringalongmike1953]

Thanks for the info.

[@daleburrell6273]

...WHO GIVES A DAM?!!

[@krisushi1]

Thank you for teaching us to understand another language better. It is a shame that not everyone wishes to educate themselves.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@krisushi1 THERE'S AN OLD SAYING: "The ONE thing that NOBODY can EVER take AWAY from YOU is your EDUCATION!!"

[@krisushi1]

@@daleburrell6273 How is that supposed to relate to my reply?

[@smudgealdrin1512]

My Grandads Regiment liberated Belsen .. A day later they paraded the whole town thro the camp past the mass graves.

[@guardinner]

I lived very close (within a 7km or so) of Belsen as a kid in the mid-60s (Dad was in the Army) and can still remember the camp because it was still pretty intact

[@boum62]

I did not realise that after the Nazis beat up prisoners they sent them to hospital !! 2.30

[@ranipaul100]

Thank you Brother

[@stephaniehand503]

thank you

[@Robsay01]

Volkenrath has a scary angry face. She has those deep set in eyes. There’s a photo of her walking with others and she’s looking ahead and looks really crazy and mad at 6:11 of the video.

[@dirtyharry1844]

Give people power and you'll know who they really are.

[@CatsEyethePsycho]

I thought you already did this episode.

[@TheUntoldPast]

I released it last week, however there was a sound issue and I brought it down shortly after. Fixed the issue, and now back online. Hope you enjoy.

[@CatsEyethePsycho]

@@TheUntoldPast Ah, ok understandable. I will.

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

Your reporting is very accurate. The world must never forget. The world must always be reminded. Keep doing what you are doing.

[@WillyEckaslike]

no Tony its just allies PG

[@tonymcdonnly6492]

@@WillyEckaslike who is pg?

[@marksmith6785]

At least the Red Cross was sending packages to the concentration camps... wait, what?

[@nonamegame9857]

Take a good look at those that have given Karens inspiration the world over. The only thing they don't have yet in modern times is the power of death over life but if we as a nation and the world don't wake our butts up, this could be happening to many people.

[@gunnersdream8204]

Great, great comment. Nazis have already gained a lot in europe and south america. Shockingly in america one of them actually found himself in the white house. No more complacency, in order to prevent american volkenraths to gleefully kill and maim we should involve ourselves in true grass-roots activism.

[@nonamegame9857]

@@gunnersdream8204 maybe start a new political party called The Green Grass party 🤔🤔

[@gunnersdream8204]

@@nonamegame9857lol. . I'm all for it, had to spark one up after watching that nasty video. Have a good one.

[@gemmag.2988]

True. And unless folk wake up to the depopulation agenda we are screwed.

[@nonamegame9857]

@@gemmag.2988 Definitely on the depopulation part because the Nazis called those people useless eaters.

[@didimagnin3744]

Lepa, I hope that you wîll never be forgotten. . Thank you Mark.

[@handlebar41]

I’m always amazed why some have such hate in them..her beating people to death.where does all that come from

[@trishazechel8402]

What's interesting about these photos of these women they never smiled or even grid.

[@kimsullivan5576]

They were heartless without any remorse.

[@leefithian3704]

Mmm if you look at old photos , you’ll find smiling took a while as a behavior to catch on , it did happen , but the “say cheese” photography was in its infancy then

[@germslover6662]

They also didn’t smile because they knew their time on earth was coming to an end and they’d be swinging from a rope in short order. These women were treated a lot better than those they took great pleasure in tormenting and brutalizing which in some ways was a shame because there was a time when they would have wished they could have traded places with their victims because they were going to be treated to something ten times worse than they were convicted of doing to the poor souls who had the unlucky life path meeting those poisonous vipers.

[@torstenkiessling2933]

I have read at the Internet, that Elisabeth Volkenrath got a sister also served as a concentration camp guard. Does some body got more details. She marryed a SS man (Volkenrath) Does somebody has more informations if one of them survived the war and what happened to them?

[@gerwulfthered154]

Torten Kiessling@ Her sister who was at the camp was called Weinniger. It is believed she escaped prosecution and lived in Germany after the war.

[@thomasmarciano6133]

Places like Auschwitz-Birkenau are also the graveyards of the souls of people like Volkenrath, who completely lost their moral compass and humanity and empathy for their fellow human beings and turned into monsters...

[@isaacs8528]

It's so sad what people can do to each other

[@cassiecraft8856]

These videos show that EVIL and CRUELTY ARE A SPIRIT,not a human.

[@dawood121derful]

People who are not born again carry that evil spirit with them from the day they are born.

[@cassiecraft8856]

@@dawood121derful we all have since the day we were born. Replacement with the Holy Spirit is the only way to change it, but people sometimes turn back.

[@mrhamburger6936]

They didn't waste any time finding these women guilty they executed them in short order

[@janee7995]

If only they did the same with the witches/butchers of : guantanamo, Cia prisons, Abu graib and all those other places the terror state brings peace and democracy.

[@RossM3838]

@@janee7995 note you ignored the gulags. Tells you something.

[@janee7995]

@@RossM3838 gulags and democracy... Don't see the connection

[@johne619]

@@janee7995 what an ignorant comment. Are you really making a comparison to the Holocaust? That’s just stupid

[@Tansea]

They were of no value with respect to rebuilding Germany and intelligence against the Soviet Union. Thus their easy disposability.

[@shamusfarmer]

There was a hospital at the death camp..?

[@Allyourbase1990]

After watching so many of these videos , it still just doesn’t make sense how this many people have that much evil in them

[@devinsword5777]

"so violent at such a younge age" "so younge to be so violent" "such violence at just 26" yeah so i dont know why your making such a big deal of her youth. people mellow and become less violent as they age. young people are the most violent, and have always been the most violent

[@alexgramm5170]

"All those whom we call monsters are human beings "...Jesse Kelly.

[@carbunkle5643]

@Alex Gramm Everyone is a child of god. No matter what they do or how they turn out. For eternity, they will remain a spark of god.

[@livewireOrourke]

@@carbunkle5643 Jesus was clear that what you said is wrong. "The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

[@shamusfarmer]

@@carbunkle5643 That in and of itself does nothing for you.

[@pauldavidhaynes8243]

The Long drop was too easy for her.

[@tinythebulldog4552]

There should be no documentary on this psycho monster..she was responsible for horrific crimes against innocent sweet people. Sick

[@justogarcia175]

Irma Grese was the first of three SS women executed followed by Volkenrath and Bormann.

[@z.weertje7209]

Irma was sexy

[@johnfrank4084]

To Martel- it's a lot safer , god bless DOGS!

[@gerardbosvonhohenfels1866]

I like this channel due to its content, but what I don't like is that in almost every different chapter the use of practical the same film clips.

[@susansullivan7292]

I'm reminded of a warehouse Oompa Loompa coworker and I don't know why...