The Executions Of The Guards of Dachau Concentration Camp

[@zainabsiddiqui7358]

My Father, RAF radio engineer, was bi-lingual and was sent to two camps as a translator. He never spoke about this to us until the year he passed. 1994. It had affected his whole life the tragedies he witnessed. Thank you from Scotland.

[@merlin6625]

My Grandfather Rodney Dean was that way also, never spoke one word of the horrific things they had seen. Good Day Sir!! #supportourtroops 🇺🇸

[@wzukr]

You mean from the RAF which bombed the Boelcke Barracks, a subcamp of the concentration camp Mittelbau, on April 3rd and 4th 1945 and thus caused the death of more than 1000 inmates only a few weeks before WWII ended?

[@socaldualsport2244]

God bless your father

[@zainabsiddiqui7358]

@@socaldualsport2244 Thank you. God Bless all our service men and women.

[@WillyEckaslike]

do u think he was the only one who suffered or do u think millions who survived on all sides were damaged mentally emotionally and physically too

[@merlin6625]

This was the camp that my Grandfather helped to liberate.

[@aregularperson7573]

May god bless his soul

[@vgrshaker4851]

Nic meeting you brother lot's of love you are grand father

[@marcoshermogenes3545]

Your grandfather must have been a brave man. I just can't fathom the sort of human misery and degradation he stumbled across at that time.

[@merlin6625]

He would never speak about his service to our Country, it was that horrible!! And Grampa is why I also joined the special forces.

[@tisme2888]

Bless him. 🙌

[@hkobel3358]

My father survived Dachau by listening to his uncle. My great uncle fed my father the bottom of the soup bowl, so he was able to survive. Sadly, my great uncle and father saw my grandfather die in the camp. Thank God for the liberators

[@marlonthomas8042]

Dumb question: why the bottom of the soup? Is this more nutrient dense or something

[@hkobel3358]

@@marlonthomas8042 yes

[@marlonthomas8042]

@@hkobel3358 ah thanks Damn this percentages make the difference when life is that in jeopardy

[@mugurstefan68]

so he wasn t killed and tortured in an appaling way ?

[@marlonthomas8042]

@@mugurstefan68 well… op did say his father and great uncle saw his grandfather pass on there so I’m gonna say no his father wasn’t This is on the basis his story is true of course - it is a KZbin comments section but it does sound somewhat believable

[@Benyan1763]

Visited Dachau a few years ago. Everyone should go and witness what happened there so that we NEVER FORGET! The place felt like pure evil, which it was. God bless those who were imprisoned there and to the American liberators who freed them.

[@michaelallen1396]

The Bolsheviks in Russia had already killed 25 million people before Dachau opened, they attacked Bavaria and took the government, what would you do?

[@drpoundsign]

@@michaelallen1396 But...what does THAT have to do with murdering millions of Jews, Seventh Day Adventists, Gypsies, LGBT, POWs (yes-Many Soviet), a goodly number of Poles, and those merely suspected of having different beliefs?!? Stalin was a Brute-NO question! But, ironically, Germany's actions in both World Wars actually spread Communism. They weakened Czarist Russia in The First World War, ensuring the Bolshevik takeover. And then, when they attacked the USSR, and lost the Second World War, the Soviet Union took Eastern Europe as a trumped up self defense move.

[@mugurstefan68]

How can You witness something that happened decay s ago ?

[@ruthietaylor8756]

And never forgive

[@ivancvecic6541]

We all often say "NEVER FORGET", visiting konzkamps etc., on the other side observing our own countries' armed forces to collaborate in same story every day of the history... nazism is like old church described Satan, it changes its face, it's very seductive. I'm not reffering to you personally, talking to myself and all of us...

[@jamesb.9155]

The photos and films of these chapters of events are so numerous and of high quality. It is a testament of the research work behind this entire documentary series!

[@ericgirardet1848]

My Grandmother was in that camp. She was arrested in northern France, in Lorraine. She was a member of the resistance. She was 19 years old. She survived but spent months in a hospital recovering. She returned home in 1946 . When she arrived, she ran crying " Mom I am back home". She was stopped by a neighbor telling her that she didn’t need to run "Your mother is dead". Awful people, terrible times.

[@eddiemoran8044]

I’m sorry, your grandmother is a hero as well as her parents. They fought tyranny at its heart.

[@kathieawoyomi66]

Amazing lady how much violence that the survivors went through and the horrors they have seen god bless her

[@genehollon1472]

Such a SAD time for a young lady to face such reality.

[@susiebilk9905]

Ohhhhhh, my heart, that is so awful

[@jhoughjr1]

so a terrorist. Thats what we call those who resisted American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. We did some war crimes too but we won so no executions for us.

[@anthonydouglascontares3471]

My uncle Lacy was a combat field medic with the 45th out of Oklahoma he was there on liberation day April 29 1945. My mom's birthday, she turned 5 years old on that day. These were great men of a great time that liberated people from the clutches of monsters. God was surely on their side.

[@carmengonzales2458]

The camps were not "liberated." They were handed over properly by the Germans. In return they were killed by the Anglo-American heavy war criminals. These so-called "men" were like self-absorbed megalomaniac 8-year-old boy-monsters. Serious war criminals. Surely they have a lot of fun in their hell today!

[@robertwilliamson922]

If there was a good all powerful god, there would be no wars.

[@donaldpolson5450]

Just why was it it 'morose' for these murderers to see their names on their coffins as they walked to their deaths? Given what they'd been found guilty of they were fortunate the allies gave them humane executions - instantaneous therefore minimal suffering - unlike the barbaric treatment of their victims

[@marklivingstone3710]

I do not have the compassion to view these executions as brutal. They received a trial, were held in better facilities and treated more humanely than they treated any of the prisoners they were responsible for. They were fed and did not get tortured. They were given trials, received legal representation and were given the opportunity to defend and try and justify themselves. They were given time to prepare themselves for their fate and had benefit of clergy and their dignity was largely protected. Not all of the accused were given the death sentence unlike the trainloads of victims they processed . I’m sure people who survived the horrors of the camps saw no problem with the executions but may have regretted the large numbers who escaped justice.

[@seanmanwill2002]

@ Mark Livingstone, you must be a carpenter? You nailed it! Best comment I've read in some time! You nailed it!👈👍👋

[@marklivingstone3710]

Thank you Sean

[@MarkoVukovic0]

Spot on, mate. It's hard to imagine how many of these people could be so brainwashed to commit such terrible acts, yet we see it happen again and again.

[@jonathankilarab8040]

Mark! You said it all. The Germans didn’t change much. They are following their government blindly. Unfortunately this situation may occur again.

[@mattjack3983]

Very well stated, my friend. I wish I could like this comment 1000x

[@rosshemmings9384]

So many of the Nazis escaped the punishment they deserved going on to live full lives. Justice betrayed

[@peteacher52]

The yanks saved many because they wanted their expertise in building up yank technology leading up to the space age. It is nauseating to find out that inhumane psychos escaped death to be coddled in the usa developing rockets, jets, weaponry and medical procedures from vivisections performed on living subjects without anesthesia. This is akin to kicking surviving prisoners in the balls and telling them to "grow up".

[@andrewyork3869]

@@peteacher52 the Russians did the same.

[@tedf1471]

@@andrewyork3869 That doesn't make it any better.

[@keithtids]

Don't worry about that too much. As much as we would all like to see them get the punishment they deserved there and then they will NEVER get away with their crimes even after their own death. I expect many people may not believe this but they will have MANY lives going forward of tremendous suffering with physical and mental limitation until they have evolved enough to become better humans. Karma is exact and real make no mistake about that. Even those that were caught and executed after their trials will go through the same evolutionary process as the others who escaped.

[@crescentmoonchild4031]

I don’t believe in many lives…I believe in one life and one punishment or reward…that is what helps me handle this awfulness. One thing I have learned is these guards didn’t think they were wrong. Just doing their job. Awful

[@heluce174]

My father-in-law was in the 45th infantry that liberated Dachau. He never spoke of it, and none of his children knew of it. At his funeral we found one photo, "(Name) at Dachau." Previously uninterested in politics, he spent the rest of his life active in civil rights protests.

[@blusnuby2]

My Father was also with the U.S. 45th Infantry Division on 29 April 1945 & witnessed the locks of the main gate being blown off, among 'other things'...He was a ((combat veteran)) who saw action from Normandy to Vienna & partook in The Battle Of The Bulge, etc...He also never talked about his experiences in The War---except that day at/in Dachau...Whenever 'weight loss diets' were mentioned through subsequent years on tv, radio, etc., it always prompted him to say: NO POW WALKED OUT OF DACHAU FAT. And yes, the culmination of horrific events he witnessed 'affected' my Dad till the end of his trail.......

[@garylong2692]

My father was part of the US Army that arrived after the liberation of Dachau. He guarded German prisoners and helped capture Nazi officers that fled the camp. He never told us about his involvement until a few years before this passing. He saw the horrors of the gas chambers and the furnaces. He said they “vibrated” with evil”.

[@johnhenni7558]

I have read accounts of the period of the liberation and takeover of Dachau. By your description, it isn't made clear that some of the SS camp guards had been recently assigned to duty there. Many of them had not participated in the atrocities, mass killings of inmates. Did you not consider that of any importance?

[@Delphisteve]

@@blusnuby2 Your father was a hero...

[@blusnuby2]

@@Delphisteve ALL combatants who fought against TYRANNY in 'that war,' were heros.....Yes.

[@SirGalahadCtny]

It would be worth mentioning that US army soldiers also gathered many german civilians from nearby villages and cities, so they could witness what was going on in these camps for their own eyes and therefore could no longer pretend it was all just "labor camps".

[@soniathomass]

there was a footage of this but i can't find it anymore...

[@Div3r]

@@soniathomass 05:12 a short clip I can't imagine many prisoners wore fur coats.

[@mikeveis6393]

My Uncle helped to liberate Dachau. Afterwards, he refused to talk about it.

[@victoriaaletaaustria2817]

I've been to Dachau Concentration Camps in 2015. Even if there are no barracks left, some structures like the gas chamber and crematorium remain, could be there was no time to destroy it by the retreating Nazis. The feeling was sad, even heavy especially inside the gas chamber rooms. There was nobody, but the anguish, hurt, and hardships of the poor Jews seemed to linger in the room. Rest in peace for those who perished 🙏

[@poopoopeepee4233]

Or maybe they rebuilt it for other reasons???

[@erichaynes7502]

I went in 2001. I believe they had to eventually burn the barracks to stop/slow the spread of disease. Amazingly Dachau was used as a DP(displaced persons) camp for years after the war. The gas chambers at Dachau were never used, although there were murders by shooting, beatings, and they would torture/hang people in the same room as the crematoriums. They rebuilt 2 barracks for historical purposes. The old museum inside the main building used to have pictures of Nazi's as they progressed from 1933 to 1945. Someone had burned off every Nazi symbol with a lighter, the museum was updated about 10-15 years ago.

[@dave5065]

Our dad was with Patton when these camps where liberated he told me a lot about how these guards were beating, shot by US troops when they witnessed what was going on by Nazi's a lot of top brass did nothing to stop US troops from shooting these guards. But after a while it was stopped but most of the beatings still happened, he was also in charge of a group to take photos and film of everything, bodies, the ovens, paperwork, all photos they found in records, the number of glasses, shoes, false teeth, real teeth where gold fillings they took out, suite cases full of clothes, toys children had. Then came the real hard part filming those in the death camps, living quarters, narrow wood beds, nasty cloths they were forced to wear and how bad it stank. Bothered him till his death in 2012 at the age of 93.

[@justanotherguy4339]

Your dad was a legend

[@gregdavis8284]

God bless your father.. he was a soldier doing his duty. He saw things that no man should ever have seen or witnessed. You should be very proud of this man you call your father. God bless you and your family.

[@wzukr]

"Our dad was with Patton when these camps where liberated he told me a lot about how these guards were beating, shot by US troops when they witnessed what was going on by Nazi's a lot of top brass did nothing to stop US troops from shooting these guards." Niced distortion of history, ROFL! You mean that the US-offiicers of this unit did nothing to stop this murder. But thank God the US-troops were so dumb to record even their own violations of the Geneva Conventions in this camp, eg. holding a German POW with a white flag (!) at gunpoint to enable a former inmate to torture him. On the other hand doesn´t the latter surprise, they even record themself nowadays when they kill wounded (!) enemy fighters.

[@jamessullivan1348]

Thank you for his service

[@WillyEckaslike]

reason?..the chaos at the end of the war where 50+ countries V Germany ..the Germans were the only honorable side in the war..the rest is PG

[@jamesdrynan]

My father was a lawyer who served as Lieutenant in the war. After the conflict, he was charged with investigating crimes against humanity in small towns throughout Germany. As news of the death camps started to emerge, he and his colleagues were appalled. He never talked about his experiences the rest of his life.

[@WILLNEVERCONFORM]

🍿😂

[@carmengonzales2458]

Of course he didn't, or he would have been discredited for aiding and abetting the murder of innocent people. He can now do that quietly in his hell.

[@georgebenson6330]

They only became death camps when supply lines were bombed out of existence. Do some research!

[@WILLNEVERCONFORM]

@@georgebenson6330 exactly

[@fredharvey2720]

Yeah it was heavily-laden with atrocity propaganda. He was probably sworn to secrecy to not let the cat out of the bag.

[@JustOneSue]

The other messed up thing is that the so called rules in the camps were changed at will so the prisoners never really knew what could cause punishment or even death. Poor souls.

[@hillaryclinton2415]

This is characteristic of fascist and communist organizations....

[@ExRhodesian]

The day to day running of the camp was in the hands of the prisoners just like any Prison even today.

[@jhoughjr1]

sounds like. most prisons.

[@matthewwhitton5720]

My family lost one direct relative in the death camps, and numerous other distant relatives, from both Latvia and the USSR.Amongst whom included a young mother and her baby son, who were shot to death on the dunes of the beaches of Courland. To this very day the German government has issued neither recognition, let alone an apology, for what was done to helpless, innocent, inoffensive members of my family.

[@andrewregan5292]

The Germans did the same thing to the Greeks. They did it to all countries they conquered.

[@lunafringe10]

Monsters who now tell others to behave.

[@andrewallason4530]

My grandfather was a Chaplain in the Canadian army, having landed late on D-Day, and was later a Chaplain for German personnel at the Nuremberg trials. He became very good friends with General Geyr von Schweppenburg, officer of the Panzertruppe. They remained in contact until the General’s death. He was an honest, Righteous man, and was absolutely horrified by what was done to so many individuals by the German government and it’s citizens. Yes, there were those who did not know what was being done in their name, but there were also many who knew, and did nothing, both from fear for themselves and their loved ones, and those who wholeheartedly believed in Total War. We must NEVER forget, and never allow it to happen again.

[@genehollon1472]

ABSOLUTELY, Andrew.

[@raphaelklaussen1951]

So, your grandfather was close friends with a German war criminal - very nice. If you inherited something of your grandfather's "morality" then you must be a passionate Trump worshiper.

[@andrewallason4530]

@@raphaelklaussen1951 two very interesting points, which are both completely false. Firstly, my grandfather was friends with a German Officer, who was NOT a Nazi, and was actually at Nuremberg to give evidence against them. He was respected by the allies for his professionalism, and his insistence that his soldiers acted fully within the rules of warfare ( such as they are), He was a career soldier, and actually continued in the German Army after the war. Secondly, I despise Trump, and his entire ‘brand’ of Pseudo-FarRight Ultra-Capitalism. I’m not a Seppo, either. I abhor the Trumpian/Far Right mindset as I do Trolls like yourself. Try to learn the different between a German and a Nazi, there is a very big difference.

[@sanjosemike3137]

@@andrewallason4530 I regret absolutely that "Trump" was brought into this discussion, by whomever started it. This has nothing to do with Trump. Surely there were some Germans who did what they could to stop the Holocaust. We all "tremble" at the courage of Bonhoeffer, who essentially "traded place" with Jesus and went to the gallows knowing he did whatever he could to stop it. Sophie Scholl (and her cohorts) went to the guillotine to try to save the Country. I cannot even imagine her courage. It is beyond expression. Trump is just a name some use for "inflammatory purposes." I see no value in that whether you support his presidency or not. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@andrewallason4530]

@@sanjosemike3137 thanks Mike. Have a good one, mate.

[@meme4one]

I visited Dachau in 2001. Very unnerving and unsettling place. I was also a witness to the genocide in Kosovo. The lessons of ww2 have been forgotten too many times.

[@kentfuqua9634]

I was there in 1990 and as I walked in, the weight of history fell over me and was so humbling. I was walking on hallowed ground!

[@lisavauhti7675]

I doubt anyone in kosovo or in the former communist state knew what the nazis did and therefore re-created the worst in the 90s due to their lack of knowledge what happened 50 years earlier. Serbia repeated that to kosovo but putin's russia just didn't have guts to intercept kosovo's independence

[@meme4one]

@@lisavauhti7675 they knew very well mate, 1. Yugoslavia was quiet open for a communist state, people were educated about fascism. 2. The Croatians in ww2 were more powerful and operated some of the worst concentration camps, as bad or worse than the German run camps, killing Serbians and anyone they disliked. Look up "Jasenovac".

[@jessfrankel5212]

When I was a little boy, my father drove my over to a cheese shop in our city, Toronto. A man attended to my father. He had a blue number tattooed on his forearm. I was maybe six at the time, and outside, I asked my father what it meant. He told me that he'd explain it to me at home. He never did, but I found out later on. I never knew what concentration camp that man had been in, but they were horrible places, places of pure evil, dreamed up by evil people, and operated by even worse people. If there is a hell, then they deserve to burn in it forever.

[@wzukr]

"I never knew what concentration camp that man had been in, " You don´t know that only in Auschwitz inmates got tattooed? And even there not all of them. Esepcially in fall 1944 many got not tattooed at all or only weeks/months later. They were so called "exchange/deposit Jews" which they transfered deeper onto the Reich to factories and thus ommited to tattoo them.

[@marknewkirk4322]

I was a freshman in college in 1982 as a music major. I went to my first lesson with my college violin teacher on a hot day in September. He always wore a sports jacket and tie, but that day it was hot enough that he took the jacket off. He was wearing a short-sleeve dress shirt, and I saw the numbers tattooed on his arm for the first time. I knew exactly what it was, and I instantly felt nauseated and had to excuse myself. Luckily he did not know what was wrong. He remained a musical mentor for me even after I graduated. I had great respect for him as a man and a musician. He achieved so much in life after going through hell.

[@SuperDirk1965]

I hope you think about that man every time you're in the voting booth. It was normal people who put those beasts in power and it can happen again.

[@edwinthompson6510]

to think the perpetrators of all Nazi war crimes were ordinary every day German Citizens 99.9% of all Germany supported him to be a party member meant you had the best,,,,, schooling medical care and food from party ran stores

[@jessfrankel5212]

@@edwinthompson6510 That's the true horror. They were your average people who wanted to be a little less average, and all they had to do was swear allegiance to a party that hated Jews and gays and anyone not 'Aryan' enough. Perhaps those people thought, "Oh, well, Hitler isn't going to do anything bad." Then, when it started, they might have thought, "Oh, just a few people." After that, they stopped thinking. Anti-Semitism is as old as the hills. It was there well before Adolph took over, gave it free rein, made it fashionable, and anyone who agreed to do his bidding got promoted. Today's political climate isn't much different.

[@maryaldaco7228]

When I was pretty young I watched the trial of Hitlers henchmen ( can’t remember his name) on tv. He was protected in a bulletproof glass . I remember the court room was so packed with people. It aired late at night but my parents let me stay up and watch it, by myself. Even then I knew how important it was- I now remember it was Adolf Eichmann ! He was stone faced and looked so proud. I believe by watching the trial it helped me grow up with out judging people by their skin color, the 2 world war should be taught in school, least we all forget the horrible things of wars.

[@jeffadams9807]

That Henchman Was Adolf Eichman... He Was On Trial For War Crimes In Israel & Was Later Hanged...

[@ruthietaylor8756]

Never forget and never forgive

[@neillp3827]

Adolf Eichmann

[@daleslover2771]

Station in Germany 75/ 78 went on tour to Dachau, every time I hear of its name I will never forget that the oak planks that were in the prisoners barracks, They were 3" thick by 10" wide, the planks themselves were wore down to 1" in areas but the knots were protuding upright by 3 " I could never fathom of how many tens of thousands of people walked across those boards to wear those boards down to leave those knots upright and polished... Also to the fact that there wasn't one nationality in the world or religion that didn't come to their demise there.

[@lyndonwatson757]

The guards got off easy.

[@jhoughjr1]

@@lyndonwatson757 Not as easy as the guards at gitmo and abu Ghraib

[@harrylongabaugh7402]

@@jhoughjr1 gitmo and abu weren't death camps or slave camps. In fact they were paradise compared to the camps in ww2.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@jhoughjr1 No comparison... unless the commentator is a Nazi.

[@terrygernstl7405]

@@lyndonwatson757 lest you forget,the guards at dachau were forced to do their jobs by the nazis. Failure to comply? Then you would become a candidate for "re-education", and maybe your family too. My opa didn't agree with the nazis, he was sent to the Russian front, never to return. 95% of the Germans hated the nazis, yet history books have failed to tell the real story

[@wisecoonie]

Judging from the number of guards and other SS personnel staffing the concentration camps, this was a very very small number who were punished for their appalling crimes. This can hardly be called rightful retribution, as so many were able to flee or, indeed, continue to live a comfortable life after the war in Western Germany, which was not interested at all in bringing these monsters to justice or even protected them. It will forever be a shameful stain on its history. Good that History is there to condemn them forever.

[@truecinnamon]

Due to U.S. influence the personnel at German Ministry of "Justice" after WW2 were approximately 75% ex N@zi Party members. Name Foster Dulles, US Sec. of State then, was prominent in forming executive policy. Look into his pre-WW2 dealings as a lawyer with and for Germany. You might be surprised. (West) German Ministry of Justice thus in no hurry to pursue cases. N@zi influence is now waning, by just dying out. Thus see momentum to get persons taken to trial. Unfortunately aged 90+, after enjoying their fulfilled existences. Just in case you wonder why it was not done before.

[@carlodave9]

As the future will certainly condemn us for making much of the world uninhabitable with colossally wasteful fossil fuel use, long after knowing the future of billions would be sacrificed for our short term conveniences. Would it be just for those bearing the brunt of coming starvation and atrocities to execute autoworkers and car dealers for not overthrowing their bosses? My point is that it is ridiculous to think that THE Holocaust has nothing to do with the capacity for callousness-for-the-sake-of-expediency within all of us. Did the Stanford Prison Experiment teach us nothing? If you were a wealthy white man living in 18th century Southern U.S., chances are you would own slaves. If you were a German male drafted into the Nazi war effort after being warped by brilliant propaganda, and were then stationed at Dachau, chances are you would do your job. To think otherwise, I believe, is to completely miss the lesson of the Holocaust entirely. Mick Jagger put it more succinctly: "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?!' when after all, it was you and me."

[@drpoundsign]

@@carlodave9 "I rode a tank with a General's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank." Gotta Admit: "Sympathy for the Devil" is my favorite song by them. "Gimme Shelter" is dated, and everyone knows its' about Vietnam. BUT: Where tf is "Jigsaw Puzzle?!?" Absolutely Brilliant, and almost unknown. The local DJ in NYC (I lived in Northern New Jersey at the time) got a wild hair up his Ass and played it. I was absolutely blown away! Normally, you only hear stuff like that on "Deep Tracks" on the Sirius station. NO-the Nazis didn't have a monopoly on Cruelty. But, they built a bunch of Death Factories and sent millions to their Doom. The Holocaust was also the culmination of 2000 years of Religious persecution of the Jewish People. "I laughed with glee while your Kings and Queens fought for ten decades for the Gods they made."

[@justinneill5003]

I had the exact same impression. It looks like they arrested and punished only a handful compared to the hundreds who must have worked there, given the size of the camp. In an age before the internet, automatic data exchange etc, the vast majority must have got clean away and never had to answer for their crimes.

[@MrVasja46]

The biggest tragedy, however, was that the Americans took many of these criminals to America because they were useful to them. There they were given a nice life and work instead of being punished like everyone else!

[@jamestakacs]

Thank you again for your programs. The United States 7th Army 45th Division were the liberators. When I was in High School our Social Studies teacher brought in a survivor of Dachau. She told us they prayed and prayed that The Americans would come to save them. We did. We saw her number on her wrist. It was chilling for a 17 year old to see and hear about the pure sadness and evil that went on.

[@wzukr]

"We saw her number on her wrist. " On the wrist? Concentration camp inmates got tattooed only in Auschwitz on the lower arm, and even there not all of them. I can only shake my head about so mcuh ignorance, but no wonder as in the USA only in a handful states Holocaust education is offered. I encountered one who got liberated from Dachau but was before in Auschwitz and has his Dachau inmate number tattooed after WWII! For whatever reason. Another one claimed a few years ago that she never saw her family again after being separated for deportation. Surprisingly immedialy after WWII she knew that two of her brothers lived in the same city as she and so did her husband (which she married after WWII). Nowadays everything can get doublechecked and misinformations corrected/lies debunked. God bless the Arolsen Archives for publishing those Holocaust files!

[@haroldgeorge4222]

Excellent film showed many areas of interest. Never again =Never forget least history repeats itself !!!

[@ankles632]

Footnote. The executioner for the 1946 executions was Johann Reichart. He had been official executioner for Germany since 1924. He carried out executions under the Nazi government right up until the end of the war. With the Guillotine being the official German method, he had to trained to use the " long drop" method ( possibly by Albert Pierrepoint). In total he executed 156 people at Landsberg prison.

[@davidlynch9049]

That was only the official method for traitors and spys. The average criminal got the noose.

[@Hundert1]

Don't forget the horrors and brutal killings of human beings by the Napoleons, Stalin and even Mr. Perfect himself General George Washington who killed to get what he wanted 😉 Note the millions of original true Americans who were slaughtered butchered, had all their land stolen and the few remaining placed on Indian reservations. Then, for well over 200 years the abuse, exploitation, torture, murder and hanging of the blacks in America. Not until as late as 1965 were the blacks treated as s equals. Basically all nations have attacked, brutalized and murdered other people at one time or another, since the beginning of history to get their way. According to Tom Cotton, Republican Congressman " I think that Americans-and this is not true just now, but over the years-are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars." So we all think war is good and don't mind the endless and eternal wars of these maniacs? Bullshit! Creedence Clearwater Revival ( Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, the Guthries all against American military ideology and war) wrote a song years ago about this attitude of today's Republican party: It aint me either. I'm not rich, nor is my son or grandson a Senators son. I don't have star spangled eyes and see clearly. I don't give a damn who the rich people and their government want to make war on. That's their problem. I am sick of wars, and ashamed: for the 11 million Iraqis the US killed, all the dead Afghans and others. Our body count far outnumbers that of Jews killed by Nazis. I have no enemies and refuse to help in any way; and will prevent my grandchildren from being sucked into the war machine. Personally, I hope and pray the Russians kick their ass soon, so it can temper the arrogant hubris of asswipes like Cotton et al and stop the US from its reign of terror in the world. Let the fat rich donate their treasures and send their children to fight their wars. Don't let your children be used as cannon fodder by these evil bastards. Starve the war pigs!

[@ruskiydude9987]

@@Hundert1 Amin

[@low-resboy477]

My Grand-pa survived Dachau, it was mostly war prisonners. He was experimented on, they wanted to find ways for soldiers to not feel pain, so they would experiment on them without anesthesia. They also wanted to know at what point the body would fail, so slowly, they would remove veins and arteries to see when the body would necrose. Before dying from these experiments, they transfered him to mining work where the mine collapsed and he was buried alive. Thankfully he was by the entrance and they rescued him from the rubble. This was his tipping point, he developped a solf psychosis filled with fantasy, a way for the brain to invent whatever story to stay alive. I carried this all of his life and did not commit suicide thanks to this mental disorder, it's an odd thing to say but this is how the human brain works. You have to understand that this horror afflicted pretty much every non-german involved in this war. Capturing the narrative and claiming "it was just X type of people" is a dishonor to history and the suffering of everyone. The political commodification of victimhood. That attitude is extremely evil, especially if you know the back story behind this. My recommendation is to be compassionate towards every human soul.

[@GlennaVan]

😪😪😪

[@fredharvey2720]

Dachau was stuffed with Communists.

[@hogtownhenry]

What a blight on humanity. Unfortunately it is still happening.

[@rishibeauty8889]

I was there in the early 90s & it still smelled like a burnt hair dryer. It was a drizzly, overcast day. I dont think I spoke a word that day. My family is Polish, we lost half our family to the Nazis.

[@johnfrancis2215]

Hard to imagine, Germany was the centre of European culture

[@privatuser5609]

Europe - the Last Battle

[@AnimatedBlast]

Not really. They were truly efficient and produced high quality merchandise. If it wasn’t for the Holocaust, they’d be viewed in a different light.

[@travisn2875]

Very well done documentary. May those horrible monsters rot in hell for eternity.

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

Is the text read by a human being or by a robot?

[@kevinjohnson7693]

If you were lucky, the allies did the long drop. Soviets did the short drop.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

There is a classic "Twilight Zone" episode titled "Deaths-Head Revisited" that centers around an escaped Nazi guard who returns to a still standing concentration camp out of nostalgia, only to be given cosmic justice by the spirits of the dead prisoners. The concentration camp was Dachau.

[@alfredagain]

The guy who played the Nazi was very convincing and was, I believe, of Jewish descent. Can't recall his name offhand, but he was good at playing that sort of role. I remember him as the Commandant of Devil's Island in some old show.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@alfredagain You are correct that the actor you are referring to was Jewish. His name was Oscar Beregi, and he also appeared in two more TZ episodes: "Mute" and "The Rip Van Winkle Caper." "Deaths-Head Revisited" was still the finest of the three, widely considered one of the best episodes in the entire wonderful series.

[@jeffreyval9665]

Definitely one of the top 5 twilight zones.

[@alfredagain]

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns I thought the scene where he spoke to the German proprietress at the inn and still inspired terror in her, even after the War, was brilliant. A great actor. Damn, that I forgot his name.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@alfredagain So right. The way he seemed to delight in making her uncomfortable was brilliantly acted, and she played her own role perfectly. Even before she mentions Dachau and the context had yet to be revealed, they played their roles so well that you just *know* he is some kind of monster.

[@brianallsopp69]

My dad visited Belsen in the 50s while he was serving with the 17/21st lancers it was a trip organised by the Army Educational Department he said it was so cold and even the birds stayed away because they knew it was an evil place

[@nectafarious8842]

My father (37 years in the RAF from 1929) was posted to RAF Celle in 1956 with my mother and me as a 2 year old toddler. I have photographs of a visit we made to Belsen and my parents said it was a tear jerking, desolate, eerily silent site, and they too made the comment that they saw no birds.

[@pashvonderc381]

Quite true about the birds, my mother recounted the time when she was stationed in Germany in the 60’s and said that the birds flew around the camp..

[@wzukr]

I saw birds in many former concentration camps and ghettos. Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Dachau, Theresienstadt, etc...

[@wzukr]

@@pashvonderc381 haha, that´s a good one.

[@pashvonderc381]

@@wzukr ha ha so it is. I take it that you have been in that neck of the woods?

[@mycosmos5234]

Monsters! I am German and deeply ashamed. I believe something like this is possible again at any time if we are not careful.

[@tedschmitt178]

Hanging them seems a bit lenient based on what they did.

[@zeroceiling]

What would you suggest instead?

[@lesseirgpapers9245]

Just like our Nazi police...."just following orders"

[@pt6guy27]

@@zeroceiling How 'bout hand them over to half a dozen former prisoners? They'd sort it out.

[@zeroceiling]

pt6guy well that’s probably true…by I think that having that last sleep…the long walk…the hood over your head…waiting for the drop…likely has in it a pretty full measure of terror…

[@hidenwatch8219]

Thank you so much for this channel I love it so good what you are doing, THANK YOU!!

[@eleanorkett1129]

Your videos are so wonderful. Thank you so much and may you enjoy the holiday and the year to come.

[@Dobviews]

6.4 k upvote! Cool beans. I just want to say, "Thank you for concise Historical shorts. Our citizens all need to subscribe to your channel. Great job! Keep up the excellent work."

[@loisreese2692]

Another top-notch episode. Thank you so much! @TheUntoldPast

[@lindagallaway-moore4158]

Such an indescribable horror. Thank-you soldiers for your service!

[@carmengonzales2458]

Don't thank them until they have sentenced you yourself to death innocently and only out of blood lust.

[@alanparedes2427]

I don't think they had a choice

[@trj1442]

Another excellent episode. Thankyou.

[@davidbutler4113]

Some SS killers were incredibly lucky, like Heinz Reineforth and Waldemar Fegelein, Herman Fegelein’s brother. Not only were these 2 mass killers never tried, they both went back to their respective hometowns and peacefully lived out the rest of their lives, dying of natural causes.

[@hazeldmello5800]

They may have escaped justice in this world but be sure they will never escape the justice of the Supreme Judge and Creator of this Universe.

[@aaronjaggers3117]

Can’t escape god . They only delayed it

[@derekgiesbrecht2929]

@@aaronjaggers3117 God, good joke there

[@edwinthompson6510]

those who did escape justice will not be tried in the after life,,, it is a myth,,, dead is dead we are just animals the same as any other animal on this planet difference we humans have a much greater intelligence the ende

[@davidbutler4113]

@@edwinthompson6510 : you keep believing that.

[@gusengledo]

I visited the camp in 76, even though I have a reasonable amount of knowledge of what occurred there. It featured in my dreams that night. Actually seeing those places really brings it home.

[@philipbrazill2155]

Love this channel. Great job! I just subscribed.

[@mickhorrocks3644]

yet another fantastic video how can some humans be such evil monsters ?words fail me.

[@lucyterrier7905]

Both of my parents survived Hitler's occupation in Poland. The stories are horrific & amazing. They were the lucky ones raised outside the city limits in farm country , where they did not starve , catch disease ( tuberculosis was rampant ) or got bombed regularly. My Dad just died less than 2 months ago. He was 91 years old & worked so hard since he was 9 years old , because his father became very ill & died. He was always a very quiet man and spoiled us kids with everything. Yet, he would still stitch his old shoes together if the sole came off. My Mom would darn his docks rather than getting new ones. It was all for us. He was so proud of each of us & he had many special times with his grandchildren ( my children). His joy was to live through us. Our smiles is what he lived for. Dementia took his mind, then his life. I miss you, Dad.

[@Mr_Oggie]

At 9:55 you were saying they were asked for any final words and those were recorded... I would assume it was like that for most of the WW2 Nazi executions? Is there a video you can do on that? I couldn't find anything really online, but its more a curiosity to see if any had anything profound to say, how many went down apologizing, begging for their life or shouting propaganda, or chose to just say nothing

[@loisreese2692]

@Mr Oggie @TheUntoldPast I would also be very interested to see am episode like that.

[@jds6206]

Most said nothing.

[@liam6170]

The fact they even said they were not guilty for what they did just proves they were monsters

[@philipmcglasson533]

Ironic that priests accompanied the condemned. There was no group more blood guilty than the German Catholic Church along with the Vatican.

[@kensellers4082]

I believe Landsberg Prison was where Adolf Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” while he was a prisoner there in 1924. My late father helped to liberate and evacuate the survivors of that German prison as a member of the 36th Infantry Division in 1945. I remember him telling me how horrific it was to see the piles of the dead bodies of the prisoners, stacked like piles of wood in the open train freight cars. My father said the American soldiers didn’t want to eat for several days after the sight and smell of so many decomposing bodies at that prison. A couple of months later, my father was wounded by German mortar fire and his wartime service was concluded just before the final German surrender in May of 1945. Ironically, as pointed out in this excellent video, many of the convicted Nazi war criminals were later executed at Landsberg Prison, which seemed to be a fitting place for those evil men to face justice for their terrible crimes.

[@MrSkokiaan]

I visited Dachau in 1972 and 1992. On both occasions there were several groups of German High school kids visiting with their teachers. I was told that (back then at least) these school trips were mandatory and that many of the kids were furious with their parents and grandparents for letting it happen.

[@wzukr]

"and that many of the kids were furious with their parents and grandparents for letting it happen." You did add that part to your story obviously. Because German kids learn in school what the punishment for desertion in peace time is, they knew that their ancestors were DRAFTED to the military. They also learn what the punishment for desertion/leaving the troop unallowed is during war time. Hind: court martial, beheading or execution by a firing squad, deportation in a concentration camp, and leaving their family without social support as deserters were considered enemies of the nation/folk. And in a time where people had very few to eat social support was a benefit to survive. NSDAP authorities did choose if people get leave for harvesting, of they were needed at home or were only good cannon food, etc..

[@MrSkokiaan]

@@wzukr Not a 'story'. Told to me personally by a German friend who was with me. He didn't buy the 'we were just following orders' and 'we didn't know' excuses he had been given. Get your facts straight.

[@p1b1harper]

@@MrSkokiaan true, Germans have been taught to hate themselves and their ancestors. They are doing the same thing in America and Canada now.

[@MrSkokiaan]

@@p1b1harper ??? You're missing the whole point. When I went in 1992 I was managing a band on tour in Germany. We had a day off in Munich and the promoter asked if we wanted to do anything. I told him I'll be visiting Dachau and he could take the band wherever they wanted. His response: "Let's ALL go". Same tour in Flensburg the owner of the night club gave us dinner, which was roast pork. I politely told him I'll pass because I don't eat pork and i'll just get a sandwich down the street. He told me to wait, and he cooked a seperate meal for me. Decent people who just couldn't comprehend their parents' prejudices. t

[@p1b1harper]

@@MrSkokiaan decent people yes and their parents were guided by self preservation not prejudice. The entirety of the western world is now experiencing what the Germans experienced during the weimar_republic. You get it?

[@aureliusmaximus3]

You did not talk about the 4 of the 40 who were not executed. Their stories are interesting. How long were their prison sentences, or were they found not guilty? Did any survive their sentences and then released?

[@wzukr]

He did neither talk about the Dachau Liberarion Massacre. Maybe he don´t know about or more likely he tries to hide the dark spots of the USA. Those whom the involved US-soldiers murdered were not the people responsible for what happened in Dachau during its existence, they were there only since a few days! While the real culprits left the camp days earlier before US-forces arrived. And in consequence he doesn´t also inform the trial were they murderer got away unpunished as their commander the war criminal Patton did even praise them for their deed immedialy after the trial!

[@aureliusmaximus3]

@@wzukr I was just commenting that I would like to know the story about those Nazis found not guilty or how those, who served their sentences, faired after they were released. It was just a suggestion basically, perhaps for future videos. In all, TheUntoldPast does an outstanding job covering history that most people are ignorant concerning the facts.

[@terrygernstl7405]

My step-opa became a guard at dachau after he lost his hand fighting the Russians. HE was not at camp when it was liberated.he had to live with the nightmares for 60 more years, of things that he, and other Germans were forced to do, under penalty of death for them, and possibly their family members.war is hell,it's not the German people to blame,it was their leaders and the gestapo/ss who were the EVIL ones

[@aureliusmaximus3]

@@terrygernstl7405 - The Germans allowed the Nazis to take control. They were brainwashed after the dishonour and the pain of the economic collapse post-WWI. The victors of war must allow the losers to slowly rebuild their dignity and their economies. The U.S. did Germany and Japan right after WWII. Unfortunately, Europe treated Germany wrong (Treaty of Versailles) after WWI; thereby, sowing a bad seed in Germany. However, Germany pride is the main culprit for the growth of the Nazis. Terry, the German people are not blameless. I pray that your step-opa came to terms with his actions as a guard, and that he was right with God before he died. I believe that we are all sinners and need to repent for our wrong doings. Obviously, his 60 years of nightmares is a consequence of being part of an evil system.

[@ronniebishop2496]

The 45th infantry division from my state of Oklahoma were the first guys there. My dad was in the 104th Timberwolves division, but he was wounded in Belgium, and got there later, and told me the entire country of Germany was a sick mess.

[@bobkrohn8053]

Years ago my Dad had a friend that was part of the troops that liberated Dachau. He gave me some items that he took from that place. Among them was the large flag that flew over the train station.

[@belindaloux8354]

The soldiers that saved these poor souls experienced horrible memories.

[@Boogeyman1435]

As I watch these videos, I'm struck by the fact that I (born in the mid-fifties) never read much about this in the newspaper. It was only about 15 years later when I had taught myself to read by staring at the newspaper daily. And then, I don't even recall learning about the Holocaust in school. I think that it was so horrible that we must have tried to bury it from our consciences. Now in my 60's...I'm learning about atrocities that occurred just 10 yrs before I was born. Mind-blowing. History never leaves us.

[@kevinstuart5394]

Maybe because it was later politicized and made worse? In all of this footage, I don't see any heinous scenes other than some obviously poorly nourished prisoners of war; a terrible consequence of any war where food supply lines are often the first casualty.

[@Boogeyman1435]

@@kevinstuart5394 The Holocaust was not 'politicized'. It was a human atrocity. You're not going to find any 'heinous' scenes...as the Nazis made it a point to hide their dirty deeds.

[@universeconsciouscitizensc592]

If you ever hear someone dehumanize any group of people, know that THIS is what it can lead to.

[@womanbread]

Like when people who chose to not be experimented on, in the past year and a half, by an injection (or series of injections, sometimes called 'boosters') 'for the greater good' being called 'plague rats' and 'granny killers.'

[@zibabird]

Thank you. Shared.

[@jethrobodean8585]

David Cole did an excellent documentary about this.

[@aliciacoble7854]

My History teacher was part of the infantrymen that discovered these camps in Poland ! And stayed until they were fully liberated , the stories are overwel.ing and hard to believe because of the extent of the dev truths behind it. His stories actually turned many of us against our government teacher who disagreed with the war altogether and discouraged people joining the military

[@grez9842]

You should probably consider correcting your statement as these camps were in the Nazi-germany occupied Poland

[@BubbaSimmz]

Going there in person, to visit the camp as it stands in modern times, is one of the best experiences of my life. Why, you ask? For perspective. Understanding. Clarity. Never, ever, can we forget the existence of concentration camps such as Dachau. Never. And my blood is 80% German. Love your neighbors, love them for all they are. Their similarities, their differences. We are ALL HUMAN.

[@rudolfschock8492]

Yes and we are guilty till the end of times. But there ist one thing we can do: Pay and support the crap of the world.

[@johncitizen3927]

Only 5% were ever punished...

[@zachjacob-1]

I visited Dachau in 2012, you could smell death till now. I pray that the Lord protect the innocent. The horror that I saw in the photos and the gas chamber and in Nurenberg court room videos and pictures are so sad.

[@aliciacoble7854]

Yea death smell can linger esp at the multitude of these camps

[@shutup2751]

sad thing is most of the evil sadist guards probably fled before the americans arrived and most executed here were probably young auxiliaries drafted in during the final days

[@dukadarodear2176]

Yes. No doubt hundreds of these sub-humans who shot innocent people at will and for fun escaped and settled down in Germany as normal citizens. They reared families and sat grandchildren on their knees into the 1970s and 1980s.

[@novadhd]

not necessarily Some looked pretty old.

[@shutup2751]

@@novadhd yep at this stage of the war many elderly men and teenagers were being drafted into the nazi party militia the volkssturm

[@wzukr]

Not the most evil sadist guards but those who ran the camp since 1933. Those the Americans murdered or allowed to murder (instead to put them on trial) in the Dacau Liberation Massacre were fresh ones who arrived only days before.

[@arthursmith6854]

Most of the guards of the camp (as well as the Commandant) left the camp several days prior to liberation, leading a death march of about 7000 prisoners away from the camp. A large percentage of the prisoners on the death march died. Himmler (the head of the SS) had given instructions that no prisoners were to be left alive, but the SS camp personnel did not have the resources to do the job.

[@phillipsexton9543]

If these executions are justified SURELY hanging murderers in the modern age is just the same? A British MP was slaughtered in his constituency recently. If the accused is found guilty SURELY he merits going to the gallows as well? It's a debate isn't it.

[@TheLAGopher]

The executions of Nazi war criminals was conducted using the standard means of execution on the books in most European countries and many American states of the era. The Electric chair and gas chamber were also alternatives in the US at that time. Since pretty much nobody uses hanging in the developed world anymore it is not a justified punishment

[@muhesienhassen7791]

My girlfriend and I just visited there this past December. It was a very snowy day in Dachu, as 2 veterans from the US military this experience was surreal.

[@alicebu8698]

Paying respect for the poor souls who had to suffer in these places. May they rest in peace away from these horrible crimes. 🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌼🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@davidsiracuse6672]

This is a great KZbin channel. Keep up the good work.

[@PittManGaming]

“You can be sure of this, your sins will find you out” Jesus Christ.

[@MarkoVukovic0]

what does this even mean?

[@Phillip713]

Take the quotation marks away or attribute that comment to the person who said it.

[@tinsoldier7758]

This video proves gods not with us. No god would allow such evil.

[@ruthietaylor8756]

God!

[@prestonsalmans6002]

My father Staff Sargent Charles A Salmans was in the 71 Division who first came upon the box cars full of bodies he said you could smell the bodies from five miles away. He told my brother and myself of fighting their way into the camp with the SS guards. Afterwards they went into the town to ask the citizens if they knew what was happening in the camp. The Answer was no. I was about 11 years old when I watched a program called “ The Final Solution “ I didn’t understand what this was about then our Father set us down and told us what he had seen and the smell. It’s hard to believe what he encountered those days he was there. He told me the nightmares

[@edwinthompson6510]

in 1945 if you asked any German citizen were you a in the Nazi party " answer came back " me sir no no no i was not a Nazi party member ( so where were the thousands of Hitler followers,,, ) i lost family membrs in those horror camps Edwin John

[@Ragnar6000]

Red China has camps like this right now, sadly the world is asleep!

[@nofriendofmine9880]

North Korea as well.

[@ruthietaylor8756]

Not the same! Nothing worse then what the Germans did!

[@diana-rq2vr]

I've been to all concentration camps in Germany and Poland. The worst, by far, were in Poland - Treblinka, Auschwitz and Majdenek. They have so sanitized Dachau over the years, It just looks like a parade ground.

[@dovidell]

until the covid outbreak , Israeli school kids used to visit Auschwitz , Auschwitz 2 ( Birkenau ) and Treblinka , as part of their holocaust awareness studies

[@garethjames1300]

I doubt anybody in dachau would have said lucky me glad I'm here not treblinka what a daft comment they were all bad!

[@jeffreyval9665]

@@garethjames1300 yes they were all horrible but Treblinka was purely an extermination camp. Only a handful of workers that helped with the executions survived. At least in Dachau there was a chance you would be used for work and not immediately killed on arrival like Treblinka. I've never been but I'm not sure they even had barracks at Treblinka because everyone was killed pretty much immediately.

[@garethjames1300]

@@jeffreyval9665 why do you assume I'm not aware of what treblinka was and give me a lecture another daft comment not to mention condescending to try and make up for your first one !

[@jeffreyval9665]

@@garethjames1300 it doesn't seem like you know the difference between a concentration camp, work camp, or just a death camp. People that were put in camps were actually lucky to be in Dachau instead of Treblinka or Auscwitch.

[@backagain5216]

I think I’m a good guy but executing these heartless demons would not raise my heartbeat one extra beat. They are not human anyway so……

[@828enigma6]

No disagreement here, but that's the same sentiment the Nazi expressed about the Jews.

[@marylandria]

My father was with the 42nd Rainbow Division & was one of the liberators. He never spoke of it, but in a letter he said that what happened to the Jewish people in WW2 must never be forgotten.

[@AMQ11]

Yours is the only comment that mentions the Jewish people. I find that strange.

[@hazeldmello5800]

May Almighty God grant Eternal Rest to the souls of the unfortunate victims of those dreadful days. May the evil-doers face God's justice.

[@christopherrobertson7723]

Amen.

[@hazeldmello5800]

@@christopherrobertson7723 Amen

[@bonniefoerster8526]

Hi my name is bonnie and I am almost eighty years young and I live in salt like city utah u s a, My grandfather and grandmother met on a boat in 1899 coming to a free country. My grandmother was from poland and my grandfather was from russia they were both jewish, All of their families left in the old country are all murdered. I remember my aunt telling me that my grandmother who I've never knew met her name was Mary busky. Would get a letter from the old country and cry. It is so hard to believe all this happened and no one stopped it. Thank you for sharing this. I find the history fascinating but the world should never forget god bless you for doing this Love Bonnie❤😢

[@carsilk2492]

Imagine seeing the atrocities and then wanting only pure vengeance.. that would follow you forever

[@williammccuskey7056]

My uncle was assistant prosecutor on the Dachau trials. He told me at age ten that the verdict was not prounounced "Guilty", but was said aloud "Hang the Bastards",of course i never forgot that moment and the serious look on his face for the rest of my life

[@cybermuff]

My uncle was under Patton as a adjutant He told Patton he had papers for the court martial of an Army Corporal who executed 12 German officers. Patton read the charges, paused and looked at my uncle and said "This Corporal was suffering from war related fatigue....... give him 30 days leave to get well". My uncle said Patton then tore up the paper work.

[@bz7924]

My husband hit the roof when we went here, I didn't speak the language but I clearly understood what was being said. There was someone at the entrance taking parking fees, I thought my husband was going to knock him out cold he was that furious, told the guy he thought the final insult was the soap from the bones they were selling all those years ago but no, they were still making money to this day. We parked elsewhere. The place has such a stillness about it, a strange odour in the air and no birdsong, a really emotional experience. We lived just on the edge of Munich and as much as I was drawn to this place and wanted to go back so many times I always turned away just yards from the entrance. 42 years later I still wish that I could go just one more time

[@GeorgeHutchins]

What about the temporary Waffen SS Ukrainian guards who committed no crimes, and turned Dachau over to the US Army, and were shot on sight???

[@aliciacoble7854]

Those guards were guilty by association because they did not formally protocol the release of property and prisoner victims ...you have to remember at this time information was sketchy at best and it was hard for them to trust especially with the we still going on .that's how my history teacher explained it anyways

[@ruthietaylor8756]

Most ukrainians poles etc volunteerd in the killings!

[@jrgensenbo2999]

My wife's uncle died in that camp - German soldiers fired their weapons after my father - at least at two occations - I'm still suspicious of any German I meet ! Can't help it !

[@redsky8763]

Actually the "untold past" is still mostly untold and this thread will never talk about that. In fact so much truth has been destroyed by those who are guilty of committing atrocities, then blaming others while their crimes never make it into the history books. So then people believe the lies. This site just reinforces the lies in the books.

[@privatuser5609]

Europe - the Last Battle

[@matthewstott1661]

Judges 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love Him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. Amen and Amen. Praise ye the LORD!

[@shainblair7785]

I give it to the army I would have never been able to walk into that hell on earth I would cry

[@albowman6852]

Mario Maglieri, who passed away in 2018, was a 21 year old tank commander who was first to arrive at Dachau. Once our troops settled in, his job was to go round up local civilians to come and help bury the bodies and view the carnage first hand. Mario told me about what would happen to those locals who refused to participate. A rifle butt to the face was first, followed by a severe beating. Mario would go on to have memorable life. He was the owner of the Rose Restaurant in Chicago followed by the Whisky A Go-Go, Rainbow Bar & Grill and Roxy Theater in West Hollywood. He was a great man and a true American hero.

[@mortalclown3812]

When I think of what happened on Jan 6, I can only pray our vets from WWII weren't still here to see it. Fascism will always have its allure to the cruel, dense in society: it's just hard to believe there are so many of them in the US who would support Hitler today. Here's to the heroes who fight them every step of the way. Rest in peace, Mario.

[@pamelatraves6524]

A Cross on their coffins was discussing. I don't believe they went to Heaven.😢😒🤷‍♀️👹

[@sigridbohne]

at least the way into the coffins lead over the gallows

[@angiechambless1092]

Nope. They didn't deserve crosses. Not after what they did. They were evil.

[@christinecallahan5512]

If anybody steals food, because they are hungry, IT IS NOT a crime.....

[@1iculungman]

When my mother attempted suicide many years ago it was only then that she told me of her working as a Munich telephone operator as a teenager, all she would say in therapy was "I knew, I Knew". It was when I took my wife on a vacation trip to visit my cousins in Germany from Oklahoma that I put what she told me together.

[@wzukr]

What did she know? Even in Auschwitz Jews arrived and didn´t know what will happen to the in one or the other way. BTW, German, Austrian and Jews from the Sudety were deported to the Minsk area BEFORE WWII and had to build their own ghetto. It wasn´t closed and so they strolled aorund and tried to escape to the Soviet Union. But to no avail, many got simply shot by Soviet border patrols or caught and handed over to the NKVD ad put to show trials - shot as alleged spies immedialy afterwards or sent to GULAG camps for no return. And when we are at it, Austrian Jews who were supporters of the Communist party also "escaped" to the Soviet Union. Many were not allowed to return to their country even years after WWII and other simply considered foreign spies and shot or sent also to Gulag camps for several years. It was not only the Nazis/SS/Einsatzgruppen who murdered Jews ad other Nazi opponents. As remembrance to 780 Austrian victims of Stalin´s terror: www.doew.at/erinnern/biographien/oesterreichische-stalin-opfer-bis-1945

[@patriciabrenner9216]

So a criminal. A pity she missed

[@aliciacoble7854]

She had an opportunity to help and didn't ,wow that sucks to have that kind of ignorance , to know and still turn the other cheek ..I'm sorry you have to deal with that

[@robertafierro5592]

So many people looked away. Just like today..

[@whatda7705]

two wrongs don't make a right. Killing is wrong

[@geodude7116]

It helps make it right for me.

[@frankt285]

Incredible how they said: we were only following orders, we did as we were told.. Did they pawn their hearts n, feelings??? Simply Horrible...

[@garethjames1300]

Yet not one USA soldier was prosecuted for killing unarmed Germans at dachau ! Make of that what u will !

[@artieschwartz2446]

Unarmed? Did the Nazis ever killed unarmed people? I heard that they did, a lot. This was war in case you didn't know.

[@Hillcapper1]

If you are in the Munich area it is well worth paying for a guided tour of Dachau, it’s very sobering.

[@fjbutchbragg8129]

did that...

[@mva5533]

I have seen the whole footage uncut of this and it shook me to the bone.Boys and men naked stacked on top of each other on their backs with their eyes and mouth wide open ,they would have been gasping for air in their final moments.So sad to see ,I also visited Dachau camp in 2014 😞

[@lunafringe10]

I got fined 2700€ by a German court, cause I called a female lawyer Hitler Baby. 🤣🤣🤣

[@AMQ11]

Not enough.

[@donaldcrawford3596]

Imagine the constant daily executions on prisoners,who were justly condemned. Soldiers were used to death from fighting, but, the executions were a different experience. How many felt traumatised, long after it all ended.

[@genehollon1472]

JUSTLY CONDEMNED ???? OF W H A T ?????

[@donsimon34]

My uncle Sargent MajorFranklin Harris was at Dachau, it was like pulling people out of the common graves, some luckily were safe. They shot guards, out of the disgust with what they found. Thousands of dying people starving to death.