THE FINAL SOLUTION // Sabaton // Historian Reaction

[@tanktop8572]

Pär the basist in Sabaton visited Auschwich and siad he was happy he did it but he will not do it again. It was such a strong experiance.

[@danorott]

Yeah, in Czechia our schools used to organise trips to Auschwitz but we've stopped because of the psychological effects it had on the students.

[@jgkitarel]

Going to Auscwitz is one of those experiences you never forget from one of the people I know who has visited there.He told me that he could just feel and taste the malice and despair in the air there decades later. You get a similar feeling at battlefields, by the way. Having been to more than one battlefield myself, though only in the US, I can attest to that. And those were, from what I have heard, far more muted than visiting a Nazi Concentration Camp or the WW1 battlefields, especially Verdun is like.

[@ShaneWalta]

Pär has also said that on later times when they toured in the area, he strongly encouraged other members of the band and crew who hadn't visited before to go and experience it, but he couldn't bring himself to go again

[@mannistef]

I was there a couple of years ago and anyone should go there once. Seeing this from TV and films is not the same as being there.

[@mojolotz]

Visited Dachau a couple of times and man is it haunting.

[@kylehoffman7396]

What I found chilling about the song is that after the lines “ Auschwitz awaits” you can hear the guitar in the background. I believe they said in an interview once that it is mimicking the sounds of a train going over tracks. Just stumbled across your channel with your reaction to no bullets fly - it’s so cool to watch someone that knows about the history of the songs! Anything off their Great War album is great; or their Heroes album! Keep up the great work :D

[@Davidkiser13]

look up sabaton history channel.... they literally sit for like 20 min and explain the history behind the songs... so bloody cool

[@papamauryc2300]

I also found the channel at the no bullets fly song

[@ThePuma1707]

The whole train things starts with the line "ever since its started" the whole songs just mimics a steam train approaching a train station, in this case, Auschwitz. Just listen a bit closely, you will notice

[@TheSimon253]

The drums are doing that in the whole song...

[@robertpeel3771]

I heard my father call my name as that happened

[@NoMercy745]

On my mother's side, I lost family to this "Final Solution". On my father's side, my great grandfather was a guard at a camp.

[@erikdahlgren6656]

How is that dynamic handeled?

[@NoMercy745]

@@erikdahlgren6656 Both sides haven't met and we didn't find out about my great grandfather until a few years back.

[@erikdahlgren6656]

@@NoMercy745 Ok interesting. As Long as it doesn't tear the family apart, the younger generation have nothing to do with the older ones.

[@nox5555]

@@NoMercy745 being a guard wasnt something you could be proud of. it was a job for woman and guys who werent fit for normal duty.

[@ignitris]

I get this Prince Zuko vibe here... Great-Grandfather on paternal side was bad/evil and on maternal side innocent/good. Nethertheless you are the first person I hear of, where both sides ended up together.

[@mdtrava1619]

My dad was stationed in England when I was younger, which allowed us to do a lot of traveling in Europe. We were in Germany on a ski trip in Garmisch, and at the resort I saw a brochure for Dachau, which was about an hour and a half from our resort. I've been a history buff since I was younger and my Navy vet grandfather would babysit me and all we watched were world war two documentaries. I was about 11 years old at that time, and I begged and begged my dad to take me there since I thought it would be just like any other WW2 landmark but I was sorely mistaken. At that age, seeing where some of the most horrible crimes against humanity were committed, really opened my eyes, and to this day I think it has affected my outlook on life the most. If anyone can get the opportunity to go, I think you 100% should. It was one of the most humbling experiences I've ever had, and even at 11 years old it put a lot of things in perspective for me. Love the videos, keep up the hard work!

[@pavelius140]

I was in similar age when I visited Auschwitz, I have pretty same conclusion about it, seeing all that horrible things changes you buy you have to go there fully aware where you go, as you said, dont treat it as a tourist attraction

[@Plaxer02]

When i was in Auschwitz i was really disappointed by the people going there. Many people don't pay the respect to the people who lost their life there. From what i saw, people see it as a tourist attraction... this is disgusting. Thank you so much for reacting to Sabaton its always a pleasure for me to see your Reaction Videos. Greetings from Germany! I would appreciate a Reaction Video to Night Witches by Sabaton :)

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I've heard others say the same about Auschwitz. Very sad. I'll definitely be checking out Night Witches soon! Guten tag!

[@Noname-ur4ct]

Ah mal n Deutscher

[@nenne7253]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Then look up the 7 minut long animated song of Night witshes

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

@@nenne7253 I did a video for that one.

[@luanaxoxo2905]

Ich weiß genau was du meinst. Leider war ich damals genauso ignorant gewesen. Wir haben zwar nicht Ausschwitz, sondern Buchenwald mit der Klasse besucht als ich 15 Jahre alt war, und wie Jugendliche nun mal meistens so sind hatten wir auf Geschichte so gar keine Lust und sind eher gelangweilt da durch gelaufen und haben nur mit dem halben Ohr zugehört. Daher erinnere ich mich auch nicht mehr so gut an die Dinge, die uns dort gezeigt wurden. Ich bin jetzt Mitte 30, es ist schon lange her. Ich schäme mich heute für mein 15jähriges Ich, dass ich und meine Klassenkameraden dem allen damals nicht den nötigen Respekt vor all dem aus Mangel an Interesse an Geschichte gezollt haben. Ich habe erst im Erwachsenenalter angefangen mich für Geschichte zu interessieren. Wäre ich heute nochmal dort, würde ich das alles aus einem ganz anderem Blickwinkel betrachten, und würde vermutlich heulen wie ein Schlosshund. Genauso wie ich beim Film "Schindlers Liste" geheult habe wie ein Schlosshund. Diese Grausamkeiten dürfen NIEMALS vergessen werden, und niemals darf sich so etwas wiederholen.

[@jemrockton]

The song: Honestly? I love it. Once I saw Sabaton live and they performed it. I remember standing quite in front of the stage, in all that warmth of the venue- pyro, stage lights, many people around me transpiring, sweatting myself- and with this song, I got chills, shudders, goosebumps over my whole body. That was a... strange feeling to say the least. The next two or three weeks, I couln't sleep without listening to this song. Such an impact has it had on me... I love Joakim's voice anyway, but it simply fits the song in an amazing way. The vid fits also, the pictures, the dark atmosphere it radiates. The topic? Very interested since I was fourteen. My grand aunt gave me two books, experience novels about concentration camps. I was still interested when our history teacher showed us original documentations of CCs, piles of bodies, thousands of flies around them, piles of hair, tooth gold (?) and so on. I'm a history nerd anyway but this special topic haunts me, perhaps because I'm German.

[@alexs7189]

The important thing is to remember and commemorate the victims, and to ensure that such an event never happens again. "What happened cannot be undone, but it can be prevented from happening again." Anne Frank

[@mannistef]

I was sad to hear your great uncle destroyed the pictures. Even though it is horrifying we must remember. Thanks for the reaction, greetings from Iceland.

[@kugelblitzkrieg]

Yes. So much important history was lost in that stove. I don’t blame him for doing so, but it’s still so tragic.

[@painvillegaming4119]

@@kugelblitzkrieg am not sur anybody could have saw those photos without losing hope in humanity

[@danielrupp7578]

There's a pretty intense holocaust museum in Michigan as well. Took my wife and kids there last year. You mentioned wanting to visit Auschwitz and I cannot imagine it. I try every veterans day to visit a local veteran cemetary and it breaks me every time. I've thought about going to some famous battlefields or famous military cemeteries and can't. Don't think I could handle it. Auschwitz would be worse.

[@Dingusdoofus]

There is a massive one in Skokie Illinois. The museum is built as a maze that goes in chronological order and in the center of the whole building is an old railroad (that never was removed) that had a German Cattle Car placed on it. The whole museum was built around this car. I was in 8th grade when I visited the museum on a school trip and when we got to the car only a few of us (including me) had the courage to go inside this harmless looking Cattle Car knowing that 100 at a time, minorities were crammed into this car and sent into horrific places.

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

Been to normandy, really chilling but also beautiful because these people gave me freedom and more importantly life

[@KajtekBeary]

Yeah, if you have empathy, it's... unbelievable hard experience... I'm visited other concentration camp "Majdanek" and it's terrifying experience... Auschwitz was bigger, but other than that, there's no that big difference between other concentration camps and Auschwitz. Maybe with few exceptions...

[@DeputatKaktus]

Visiting Auschwitz or any other concentration camp is a harrowing experience. I visited both Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, as well as the "Wolfsschanze" Bunker memorial, where Stauffenberg tried to assassinate Hitler. If you go to any of the camps, do not go alone if your are in any way sensitive. Do not try to "be brave". Go with friends or family and talk about your experience afterwards. And there is no shame in crying. This happens regularly at some of the memorials.

[@arashirena4317]

Visiting concentration camps is hard, no matter the size and history of it. In my former school it's mandatory to visit 'Strutthof' in France when we're 14/15 years old. The experimention chamber was the worst there for me. To see it and know what horrifying things were done to living people... it was rough for the whole class. Later in my last years of school we went to 'Buchenwald' when we went to a trip in Weimar. There was a room before the chamber with the ovens where the had memorial tablets from some of the people who died there. Putting names to the people who were burned just behind you removed the anonymity of the mass and makes everything so much more heartbreaking. But seeing these concentration camps was important. To see and feel the proof of what happens if you let fear, animosity, discrimination and hatred go to far. It consilidates something for me. We may not be able to change the past, but we can ensure that something like this never happens again.

[@QueenVoodo0]

This song is a weird one for me It hurts like hell to watch but at the same time I can’t stop listening, I cried multiple times when I first listened to it And while making this comment I read another one talking about the Guitars and drums emulating trains when Joakim said “Auschwitz Awaits” it made me shake and break down when that part played

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I understand what you mean, completely.

[@Toyotatracktor]

I have the same feeling

[@Naffurie]

its one of my favorite songs made by Sabaton, but I cant listen to it very often because it tells of a horrifying part of our history.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Understandable.

[@robertpeel3771]

Yeah it does but i dont mind it because i know that hearing this will prevent it from happening again

[@Hockey-gn2tj]

@@robertpeel3771 if we don’t learn history we are dammed to repeat it- I forgot who said it

[@robertpeel3771]

@@Hockey-gn2tj i don't either but that's why i read into history

[@jettmthebluedragon]

I understand it’s a banger 😎but god dam 😐 the more I listen to this song the more chills I get as my family suffered from my dads side first hand in war 😳as my grandma told me she saw people getting shot in point blank range 😳I can forgive Germany in their role in ww2 as not all Germany was in quote ( evil ) 😐but even to this day I 100% no doubt HATE😡dousebags people like the proud boys people like trump hitler etc people who don’t care about anything or anyone but them selfs as screw you 🤬🖕🏻

[@stingl203]

Hey, I love your reaction. I grew up in a small village in Braunau and when my class visited Braunau in 3rd grade, the first thing we looked at, was his birthhouse. This was when we were only 8-9 years old. I only realised, how soon that was, about a year or 2 ago, im 21 now. Still, we all understood, even that young. About every class here in Austria visits Mauthausen in 8th grade at about 14 years. Most of our history class is about WWII, and most of the time we took a trip through the city, i visited a school in Salzburg, we went to some kind of memorial. One time, we visited the late Marko Feingold. He was the president of the Jewish community in Salzburg and he told us about how he fled to Prague, was deported to Poland and was then arrested in Prague again. He survived Auschwitz, Dachau and a few other camps. His story was so morbid and so fascinating. He died a few years ago at 106 and was the oldest survivor here in Austria.

[@Chris-fr2gm]

I am from Austria and we visited Mauthausen from School because the story must not die. It was overwhelming and shocking and ashaming what our nations did. But we have to learn from history and do everything in our might that this doesnt happen again!

[@martinjacobsen2992]

The sins of the father does not pass on to the son, likewise, the sins of a nations leaders, wont pass on to the next ones, you have nothing to be ashamed over..

[@sharischoll9411]

Even though people knew about it what could they do about it. Any person who stands up against a Communist will be slaughtered. Just walking down the street got you raped or shot. The Polish underground took several Nazis out but had to be careful to only take the worst criminals out since if one was missing, they would kill like 10 prisoners as payback. Didn't have power or weapons to fight them.

[@h.t.h.4086]

Same here Bro. Greetings from another Austrian.

[@alkirk-ws4co]

@@martinjacobsen2992 Correct So Long as you NEVER allow history to repeat itself on 'Your Watch.'

[@gidi3250]

My people where also in a concentration camp some 40 years earlier by the British but it didn't get to the scale the Germans did it in the second world war. We Boers as a people group of some od 150 thousand at the time(in counting those already living under Britsh rule) lost 27 thousand in the British camps and it's quite common to hear of a British person coming here to see the meuseam and saying it was not real and is a conspiracy to make the britsh look bad and the Boers should have just bought their freedom and when people bring up the britsh only allowed them to take clothes and then burned their farms down the britsh tourists usually say it's not their problem. Still Hitler did say he got inspired from hearing about the britsh concentration camps and how my people died of starvation and disease

[@erikdahlgren6656]

Have a similar thing here in Sweden that I had not heard about until like last year. A comedian and political commentator wrote a book about our swedish consetration camps (among other things) and how they also was an inspiration for the german ones. In them there were some of the Sami (native to nordic Sweden, Norway and Finland however not ethnic to any of the countries even by thier own words), people with dissabilities and so on. To get best possible info he had to get it from the US. beacause the swedish government had sealed the information. The book is called "det här är en svensk tiger" or "this is a swedish tiger" and is a reference to a painting.

[@alexs7189]

On Hitler's speech this is controversial, some say that he was inspired by the genocide of Native Americans carried out by the British and then by the United States, especially in 700/800, but it may be that they are inspired by more things at the same time. Before the Second World War, the internment camp had another meaning, of course they were often brutal places where prisoners died very often, we Italians for example used it against Africans during the colonial period, but the purpose was not to make a genocide, certainly genocides unfortunately did not begin with the holocaust, and unfortunately they did not end with the holocaust, albeit on a much smaller scale.

[@etherealhawk]

The Boer camps weren't DEATH camps though. The Brits didn't want to exterminate the Boers. They were at war with you and it was an opportunity to secure territory. There's prisons in South America with the same benign neglect going on. Concentration camp =/= death camp.

[@etherealhawk]

@@alexs7189 Britain didn't genocide native Americans, almost at all. That wasn't colonial policy. In fact, in the War of 1812, a big part of the British allied forces were a huge coalition of Natives.

[@gidi3250]

@@etherealhawk never said that they where death camps tho the German ones started out as concentration camps aswell but was changed into death camps later on and the British army didn't care about Boer casualties and made no attempts to hide what they where doing the cape governer begged and was successful in getting the British army to hand over the camps to the colony's administration and no one attempted to stop miss emily hobhouse from giving the European newspapers her story. The Boer camps where not a case of neglect it was the strategy to get Boer kommandos out of the country side and to surrender, some did. This was not the first appearance of internment camps, as the Spanish had used internment in Cuba in the Ten Years' War, but the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time that a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which whole regions had been depopulated. I'd recommend reading the concentration camps section to get the general idea en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

[@bornofthenight3871]

I haven't seen a suggestion for the Sabaton song "White Death" yet, so here it is. It's a really well done song covering Simo Häya.

[@Blackferret66]

Your story of your great-uncle reminds me of my oldest uncle. He took part in D-Day at Normandy, although I'm not sure which beach. He never spoke of it, at least not to any of us in the extended family. From what little I heard about it through my life, I think he lost most of his unit and it was just too much for him to want to talk about.

[@xJamesLaughx]

For a first hand account of the Holocaust I recommend the book "Transcending Darkness" by Estelle Glaser Laughlin, my stepfather's mother, who was a survivor and lived through the concentration camps along with her sister and mother who all survived as well.

[@heatherwheeler8330]

The saddest part is that there are still people out there that believed it didnt happen

[@jettmthebluedragon]

They are ether trolls or just don’t care about anything 😑their are some people who still think god is real and the earth is flat 😑sometimes you just have to move on 😐as like hitler you become so angry and so deep at something or someone that you become insane 😐literally I know that feeling 😑you can’t save everyone just like I can’t save every animal from being abused 😐the best way you can help is do what you CAN do not what you want to do 😑and think about the bright side 🙂if we never exist again then no one will suffer ever again as fuck you dousebags 😂🖕🏻and if we are repeating our lives well….😐all of our memories will be gone forever good and bad and we would be doing this all over again 😐

[@susannea4196]

It still happens today in China, North Korea and in sure many many other countries

[@stollkoloss2689]

The one thing, that always shocks me, as a german, is what was written on these KZs. It would say atop of the gate: "Arbeit macht frei" which translates to : "Work is liberating". And once, they entered the KZ and were past the gate, on the inside, it would read :"Jedem das seine" which roughly translates to: " to each one, what he deserves". I knew about the phrase "Arbeit macht Frei", but learning in history class about the second inscripture, the whole class went silent. It truly is... yeah literally sick... on another note: They performed this song in Germany, when i was at their concert, i think it was in Hamburg, a few years ago. I have been to a few concerts in my life, but i have never seen a crowd being this silent during a song. As in, i think more than 90% of the crowd was german, and they truly performed well, it is just... i dont know, you just cannot enjoy the song like you can enjoy other Sabaton songs. We just stood there, watching them perform and being utterly silent. It was memorable to say the least

[@warrior7ra]

I went to Dachau while I was stationed in Germany with the Big Red One. You could still smell burned human flesh 10 yrds outside the cremetorium even 60 years after the furnaces were last used. Just approaching the camp made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, entering the courtyard is oppressive and approaching the crematorium sickened and enraged me an anger so deep I know with out a doubt what I would have done to those who perpeteated or helped perpetrate that horror. After we left I was physically exhausted we stayed in Munchin (Munich) because I couldn't make the 2.25 hr drive back to Bliedorn Kasserne, Ansbach. Two other times in my life I have felt that same rage and absolute hatred for other people, Somalia (the total disregard for any and all life) and Bosnia/ Hetsoslovenia I provided cover and security for the UN War Crimes investigators while they documented and recovered genocide victims from mass graves. I have seen war enough to last till the end of time there is no word or phrase in any language I speak or have heard that can explain or convey that level of Evil nor is there any words that can convey help me explain the anger I still harbor and retribution I want to deliver onto those who were responsible at any level for any of these... atrocities perpetrated by Soul Less, Evil, Twisted Abominations pretending to be Human.

[@kyle18934]

Thankyou for sharing that

[@GregoryGeilman]

I have seen them in 77 and we got a lot closer that 10 yds. We could actually touch them if we wanted. Of course we were told they were never actually used (a big lie!)

[@pawebroszko4737]

better start preparing for war again. china just beat all others in crimes against humanity

[@Lord_Juvens]

@@pawebroszko4737 Yeah, no one is save. Their recent Quantum Network and Jack Ma gone missing just shows us, something is going on there and it's not just COVID. Thank you for sharing, D McGregor, nothing to add.

[@ncrranger6409]

Damm I don’t think I Evan went near the crematorium I just stayed in the museum and listened to survivor interviews

[@andrewludwig9251]

Visiting Auschwitz is on my bucket list as well, along with being in the center square of Warsaw on August 1st at 5PM to observe "W" Hour, commemorating the start of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. I have been to Dachau twice, and I will be seeing it again in 2022.

[@viceroy3016]

I'd love to see your reaction to "Last stand" and "40 to 1" both are Sabaton songs. Also I don't know if you know but there is a Sabaton history channel were the guys from the band talk about their music and the history behind it.

[@Amelia-vk4jt]

A friend of mine (also a neighbour) but also so much more, took me in as a teenager as I had a bad family situation. I'd go to their house and they'd feed me. The husband (my friend) Albert, though me to fish, hunt, cook and grow/breed my own food. We'd go fishing every Wednesday afternoon for years untill his death. During our fishing trips he'd always tell me stories of what our hometown used to be like, his childhood, how he met his wife and his life as a soldier in WWII. I felt like I knew his whole life story he told me so much and he was good at telling stories as well. When he died I saw on his death note it said that he had survived and escaped a labour camp in Germany (were Belgian). After a while I brought it up with his wife (Benedicta) during dinner. She proceeded to tell me that during the war he was taking as a prisoner of war and sent to a labour camp in Germany, he escaped and with the help of resistance movement he managed to travel true France, cross the Pyrenees get into Spain and from there to England. Where he served there (I knew that part but I always assumed he smuggled to the UK via a ship in Zeebrugge). Wed spend hours together where he'd tell me all about his life (and his life as a soldier during the war) I thought I knew him well and I did. But he never told me anything about being a prisoner of war, it just goes to show that you can never know everything about someone. A year after Albert's death Benedicta also died, I was 18 then and I got out of my home situation. I still miss them and am honoured that I got to grow up with their support. They lived a happy life, they never had any children of their own but I like to think that I was kind of like a child to them. They never slowed down even into their 90s they still lived active lives untill they suddenly died in their sleep.

[@whitechapel8959]

My great great grandmothers only regret from the war was she could not save more from the camps.

[@danorott]

Little known fact is that Patton got to Pilsen and wanted to get all the way to Prague before the Soviets but Eisenhower stopped him.

[@Wanys123]

Geopolitics costing lives again there. Prague uprising, calling for help over radios, and those men just had to stand there and do nothing. Americans could have been in Prague like 4-5 days earlier than Soviets. Also being part of Western Bloc rather than Eastern would sound fantastic to me.

[@danorott]

@@Wanys123 Yeah, it's a shame.

[@sharischoll9411]

Russian released documents, saw video of General Paton & troops in Moscow standing accross from Russian troops. Paton staring ahead and Russians whispering. Roosevelt ordered them to go make friends with Russian troops. He was in Poland and called for orders to help the Polish and told to "stand down". He stated, " I will follow orders and come here but after what I saw those savages do to the Polish people, I will not make friends. We were on the wrong side. Also read he was furious with the US. He said you told the American people we were there to free the people from Communists and you left the Polish and East German under Communist rule!!! They lied about almost everything. The events were so much more horrible than we were told it is like 2 different events. Just recently agreed to list Holodomar as a famine. Bit was NOT a famine, it was evil cruel crime against humanity of starvation. Refused to admit the Armenian genocide . Another one going on today. Don't get me started on our genocide.

[@elitetanker6090]

Next you should listen to their life performance of "En livstid I krig" from their 2020 tour. It's about the 30 years war and is one of their best performances. Also, have subs on since they sing in Swedish

[@philiphalpin1997]

I went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin a couple of years back. As a 57 year old man I cried like a baby at what i was seeing and hearing. This must never happen again.

[@livianegidius9772]

this is one of their finest... salute to SABATON

[@k.aeffchen]

When I stand on my balcony I see the Ettersberg on its backside is camp "Buchenwald" so each day reminds me what people can do to each other

[@alexlambert-cole9789]

When I was a big WWII buff back in high school and early college, I remember reading a few surviving journals of SS officers (many were destroyed prior to the Nuremburg trials) that detailed the daily lives of a concentration camp commandant. Was my first shock realization how normal non senior personnel were. And in my current profession as a CPA, got into looking at the accounting of The Final Solution.

[@stevenreyngold1166]

I visited the Holocaust museum in Israel when I was 13. I still feel chills when I think about that visit and I am 45. My grandfather fought in Stalingrad and a German stick grenade was waiting for him just after landing. That stick grenade probably saved his life because most of his unit died. A truly horrifying time in our history, and nobody today could even come close to understanding what it was like, including myself. The WWII generation that fought the Axis was truly the greatest generation.

[@marcwittkowski5146]

It is obvious how hard this song hits you when watching/listening. It always brings tears to my eyes and chills down my spine whenever I listen to it. Such a powerful song.

[@ukaszjanowski2183]

Listening your stories is hard, looking at your face is hard. So emotional... Terrifying. And to think that there are people who pretend it never happened. May it never happen again. Grettings from Poland. Sorry for my english

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Your English is very good...we must never forget. I am with you, may we never let it happen again.

[@wurstsalatplays523]

I was to Dachau camp near Munich once, and there was a small section of woodland where the ashes of the Burned were shoveled into. Knowing there are the ashes of over 200.000 people in just a few squaremetres of woodland gives you chills. The place had something dark and scary to it. Knowing what happend there just 75 years ago is unimagineble.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

wow....I can't imagine.

[@PorcusDivinus]

As "Kristallnacht" is mentioned: It was called like that for many years, but today in german speaking countries it is widely seen as cynical and/or euphemistic and therefore terms like "Reichspogromnacht" or "Novemberpogrome" are used quite often, too (I guess this is different among historians as historians of other origin still use and always used "Kristallnacht"as a term). Thank you for your videos from Germany, I camhe here for Sabaton, but I pretyy sure will watch your other stuff, too)!

[@mushinbujin]

Thanks for doing this one. Sabaton has a few oddities--they have some really powerful songs about the German side in WWII, not just battle songs like Ghost Division but also this and The Rise of Evil. It's a hard subject to approach but I think it should be done. I was fortunate enough to visit the Holocaust Museum in D.C. I also met Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke where she talked to my unit about the tail-end of the war. She mentioned that she likes visiting the Americans because it was the US Army that liberated the camp her mother was in. If they had come a day later, she probably would not have survived.

[@thejamppa]

This song gets me every time. When I recently opened TV listen news from Bucha, this song came in my mind and broke down in tears. People had not learned....

[@saxen2399]

As someone who have visited Auschwich I defently recomend it if you have the chance. For me Auschwich 1 was defently a more touching than Birkenau. I think this was the case since Birkenau today is just a huge open space with only chimneys left while 1 is still intact just as it was when it was used. Touching the same stairrails, walking the same worn down steps and seeing exactly what the thousands of prisoners saw really moved me. What suprised me and was hard to understand was how apsolutly huge Birkenau is. Its a neverending open green place that used to be a muddy hellhole

[@Alatreonmaster6292]

One thing I enjoy about your channel is that whenever you see these horrendous moments in history, moments where thousands and thousands of people died, you adopt an expression of incredible remorse and empathy that is rare amongst people. I can see that it pains you to try to understand these abysmal moments in history

[@ylvarasmussen625]

I visited Auschwitz in my teens with my history class. My history teacher was Jewish and she lead the trip. My god that place haunt me, but what sticks with me the most is I just glanced over at my teacher at one point, and the look in her eyes was harrowing. So much pain and sadness. I took her hand and she gripped it painfully tight as we walked around. I know some of her family were killed in the holocaust, though she never told us more than that. She never went to Auschwitz with any more of her history classes after that trip. I think one visit is enough to paint the history of the place on your soul forever.

[@fredrikolofsson2320]

And yet we are in a situation where are in a time where history keeps repeating its self and you are dined to speak out

[@jirikupr2599]

My Grandma, who is now almost 80 has interesting memory on Auschwitz. No she's not a Jew or was there any other way. She was with my grandpa (R.I.P.) on holiday trip somewhere in bulgaria and grandma forgot something in hotel room, so she had to go back and almost didn't catch a train, where my grandpa was, but someone helped her, gave her a hand a pulled her into the train. She told him, that he is very kind and he responded in our motherlanguage (czech), that he was glad to help. Then my grandma saw his pulled sleeve and at the forearm were tattooed numbers. She asked him, if he's is a jew. He agreed. And on question where was he, he said in Auschwitz. His name was Jiří Steiner (1928/1929-2012).

[@thargs9184]

When I was around 16 years old, I moved to an appartment building. There was a flag proudly floating at an old man house, the 22nd Royal Infantry regiment from the canadian army. They took part in WW2(all of them being french canadian). when I joined the reserve regiment a few month later(as long as parent agreed and I would attend school daily, I was allowed), I went to talk to the old man, he was a survivor of D-Day and took part in the Netherland liberation. He never saw the concentration camp in person..but he saw the effect it had on canadian soldier who saw them..the way he described it.... They looked like empty shell having had their soul ripped out of their body. The life, the hope..it was gone from their face. The old man died the same month I was oathed in within the 22nd Royal Infantry regiment. I never knew the name of the man. But he was a big impact and factor in my decision of making a military career..I wad discharged 2 years after I was Oathed in. Due to wound sustained that would impede my ability to do my duty. I share your hope to one day visit Auschwitz. To pay my respect at the very least.

[@HeyNobody_OG]

I can highly recommend 82nd all the way and To Hell and Back from Sabaton bit only just because they are some of my favourites but because of the history behind them too. Sabaton keeps surprising me how well they tell the stories in music, cant say a lot of bad about them even on topics like these that are fairly brutal they dont scare you away from listening to it again and again. This topic is one of the hardest to talk about not because we dont know anything about it but because we dont want to, and than there are the few others that are kind of the same. Keep up the good work loving the content on both this and the gaming channel, and btw the mission for UAD is done and dusted

[@grishakaleesh4207]

Two of my favorite songs. Amaranthe did a cover of 82nd All the Way.

[@maizhing]

have been to auschwitz and Dachau as part of a schooltrip and you can still feel the hopelessness and despair they must have felt, visited one of the "showers" and i could not bring myself to walk in there no matter what, that was how bad the place made me feel.

[@metatron76]

When i was in highschool we took a school learning excursion. Basically, we went to visit Buchenwald memorial, where we were guided around by a survivor of that very camp. It was a surreal experience. I feel priviledged to have been given the chance to see that place and learn from someone who was actually there. It is a humbling and haunting experience.

[@adanhu]

Conspiracy is a pretty brutal film, despite being all talk. It was based on what was left of the original transcripts from the whansee convention. If you ever make it to Europe, don't forget to visit Belgium. Born and raised in Mechelen (malines. SS samellager Mecheln) we get confronted with these dark pages of history on a daily base. In front of kazerne dossin there's a restored version of the train wagons used, the kazerne itself housing a holocaust museum now.

[@kpcraftster6580]

just over a decade ago I saw Sabaton live in Nijmegen the Netherlands. During the concert they announced that they had received many many requests to perform "the final solution" live..which they usually never do. they asked the audience for permission ...and the whole room..that was headbanging and going crazy minute's before...stood there arm in arm..hand in hand..many with tears in their eyes...it was one of the most memorable moments of my life...the feeling of unity and rejecting the evil..that feeling said " never again" stronger than I have ever felt it before or since

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

That's awesome. Appreciate you sharing.

[@kpcraftster6580]

@@VloggingThroughHistory thank you for your reactions and your work in teaching history. it is so important!

[@666bluegreen]

That story with the photos taken really puts what we know into perspective. Sure we know a fair amount about what happened, but we will never know the true horror of what it was like. What we know is what people were willing to talk about, but there is so much more that was sealed from others who absolutely didn't want anyone else to experience what they seen.

[@user-zp1dj7bb9z]

I am a British Army Veteran with over 20 years service. A few years ago 3 of us, all veterans had served in combat zones. We did a trip to Auschwitz. It was very moving the images and the show cases of "looted" items, Taken from the victims. Going there we were chatting and enjoying the journey, after our trip not one of us spoke.

[@prince_julius]

This seems like a good video to share as a start to the series (Historian reacts to Sabaton).

[@eriadin]

I remember having literal chills watching the official video for the first time... Sabaton played this song acoustically a few times and it's absolutely beautiful, I recommend you see those recordings (live in Prague and/or Antwerp, if I remember correctly). Again, the Final Solution's history is a big part of my country's history (camps like Auschwitz or Treblinka were stationed in Poland), and it's just... horryfying. But I think people should know about all of it. And for other songs from Sabaton, I'd say anything from The Great War (their newest album, released in 2019).

[@edwardnelson9807]

I missed this reaction from you. This is legitimately one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard. And everyone should hear it

[@kuroikaelric120]

I am german and when I was back in school we had an exchange school in Israel. So one year we visited our exchange school and also stayed one week in Jerusalem. We all were around 18-19 years old back then. And one day an old man came to visit us. He was a survivor of the Holocaust I think he also was in Auschwitz as far as I remember (it was 12 years ago now). And he just sat down with that german school class and told them just in a normal tone (his voice did break away at some points but that was perfectly understandable) and told them about his experiences in the concentration camps and how and why he survived. I can still remember how it really impressed me how he really could draw the line between the generations and how he patiently answered all our questions. It is so important we don't forget about what happened. We also visited Wad Jashem which is a huge memorial for the holocaust in Israel. You saw so many pictures there and in every room you could her some person in the background talking about what she witnessed. I can totally understand how horrifying it had to be for him when he saw his young girl looking at that kind of pictures. I will never forget the feeling I had back then when I saw and heard all that and when we visited the memorial in Birkenau Ausschwitz also with school. You can't describe that kind of feeling when you really realize how it felt out of the perspective of a person who survived that... there are truly no words for it

[@cremza4174]

I remember when I was in Bełżec with my classmates. Everything was destroyed and buried in the ground, only a monument with names of every victim of this camp is there. The ground is covered in many rocks now, but I still remember how a guide told us that this soil was so filled with bodies it could erupt (it wasn't a big one of course, but still) and Germans had to cover it with rocks to prevent it. It was an experience I will never forget, the whole class went perfectly silent when we saw this, it was so intimidating and sad. I can't imagine how hard it can be to enter the camp like Auschwitz that is fully preserved. I want to visit it though, I want to never forget these people that was there, they deserve to be remembered. We were also in Majdanek on the same day, we entered every building, barracs, museum, incinerator, we could see where people worked, how they were treated, heard stories about the victims, everything. It was something I will never forget and can't even be described.

[@GuyFreeman5041]

It is so amazing you work for the Scott family. I read thier book Rachel's Tears and she was an amazing person who was killed for her beliefs. Im sorry for her loss and wish them all the best!

[@DivusMagus]

The best part about sabaton is they are making sure these events, battles, heroes are not forgot. Its important to remember the past so we can move into the future better. Right now we are seeing the same things happening china with their slave camps. but most the world would rather turn a blind eye and pretend its not happening.

[@vandrirlost430]

Just listening to the song reminds me of a story I was told of my grandfather on my dad’s side. He was a soldier during WWII for the US and took part in several areas though which I don’t exactly remember. He helped free one of the concentration camps which one I don’t know. But all I know is my grandfather even before he passed due to Alzheimer’s, he still remembered what he saw. The fact that he remembered that is horrifying. I remember my dad was told that he could still remember the smell and the sight of seeing the people

[@painvillegaming4119]

How could anybody forget these horrors are unforgettable

[@vildachaya6462]

Appreciate Sabaton raising awareness

[@DaMasterPilot]

I'm surprised nobody noticed the little mistake they made with the tanks. Didn't know Germany used T-55As in the Panzer divisions.

[@Jorakful]

"The lots Battailion', has a music Video with Russian Soldiers, SU-85 and stuff rendered from the Video game "Men of War" in the background.

[@backdrop6950]

These lines hurt me so much. Turning neighbour's into foes. When liberty died. And the truth was denied.

[@sebastianarnold948]

“Hearts of Iron” fantastic song fantastic story

[@russcohen471]

Amazing commentary. Thank you! Please look at more Sabaton. I heard yesterday that they are putting together a new album!

[@mioszstaczek3740]

I would like to recommend you another sabaton song. Story is absolutely mind-blowing. There is also great video on sabaton history chanel. The song im talking about is Inmate 4859

[@nachbarstein8807]

He really was one of the bravest human beings to ever live. He was a polish officer and head of an intelligence network reaching all around of today's Poland. This meant he *knew* what happened in Auschwitz. He *deliberately* went to Auschwitz to gain knowledge and carve up the concentration camp. He later (after the war) researched the soviets' cruelties they've done in the war and was sentenced by the polish (under the pressure of the soviets) to work in a labor camp. It's believed (but not confirmed) that he said before his death, that that what the Germans did in Auschwitz was incomparably milder than what the soviets did.

[@Kude1707]

@@nachbarstein8807 Both Imperial Japan and the Soviets were more ruthless than even the Nazis in WWII, no one really mentions it though as Japans country got obliterated so i guess they can consider justice done (no disrespected intended for the innocents lost) and the Soviets well the victors write the history dont they

[@nachbarstein8807]

@@Kude1707 The problem with the Japanese is that they held onto their emperor and thus still had sympathies to their past. This quickly led to stigmatism about the atrocities done by them. Also, as far as I remember, they had no pendant to the Nuremberg Trials, so coping with the past also wasn't as prominent as in Germany. And concerning the soviets: You're definitely right, the winner writes the history. And also: Who would believe the ones doing the holocaust (which you knew about) that the soviets are even more ruthless. They had to imagine the latter and with the images of Auschwitz or other concentration/eradication camps this is nearly impossible.

[@Kude1707]

@@nachbarstein8807 reports from Poland stated they preferred Nazi occupation to Soviet, also a testament to the Soviets cruelty was the fact that Germans rushed to surrender to the allies for "protection" from the Soviets. In the last stages of the war the Germans only fought so hard in the east to make sure the Soviets captured as little of their people as possible and buy time for them to make it to allied territory at which point they reportedly laid down their weapons as they had no intention of fighting the allies

[@nachbarstein8807]

@@Kude1707 Couldn't the allies have thought that this is just because they treated their prisoners better than the soviets? Also about the polish occupation: When did they said this? Probably after the soviet occupation/fall of the Warsaw Pact. It could be that people researching for soviet war crimes/atrocities like Pilecki were sentenced to go to a gulag, and thus preventing the outside world from getting large amounts of intel (I think the situation of the occupation would be no priority for espionage, but I could be wrong)

[@88Whatanick88]

Being from Austria you learn a lot about WW2, the Nazis and the Holocaust in school. Even though I had a great teacher back then, what I have learned about WW2 and the Holocaust always felt "distant" and somewhat "unimaginable". I will never forget that moment, walking through Auschwitz, looking at an exhibit, a handwritten list, some kind of work schedule and realizing that I am able to read and understand every single word. That suddenly made it feel very real and personal. I hope you get the chance to visit Auschwitz, I can honestly say it is an experience you will not forget.

[@Hornsifter]

I allways tear up when ever I listen to this song... It just hits that hard

[@Happymali10]

I sadly don't know if it's available in english, but there's a book called "Damals war es Friedrich" ("Back then it was Friedrich) describing general people's lives at the time at the example of a schoolboy and his jewish friend, and how, while unaware of the full extend, the horrible stuff started to "creep in", how people started to realize things weren't alright but also that they couldn't do much about it at that point.

[@WhackyRavenLand]

Cheers from Norway. I went with my school on a trip to Poland and Germany when I was in the 10th grade and I've visited Auschwitz, Auschwitz II: Birkenau and Sachsenhausen. Reading about it, watching pictures, documenteries and movies is nothing after you've walked through those camps. It's surreal, disturbing, ominous and it sent chills down my spine (as a 15 year old). In my mind at the time, I could not stop the thought of millions of people who lived, suffered and died on the very ground where I walked. Suicides against the fence that was a mere armslength away from me. This trip was a yearly school event for my school. Arranged through a organization known as Aktive Fredsreiser (Active Peacetravels). Schools in Norway aren't allowed to accept gifts or donations (i.e: our parents couldn't cover the cost for us). Thus we spent most of the 9th grade selling cookies, doing chores around town and various services to earn money to cover for the expenses of a trip. Both my sisters (older and younger) went on the same trip as well (and as far as I know is still a yearly thing to this day). I would highly recommend a trip to these camps to everyone. It's something you'll absolutely never forget and such an important piece of our history that must never be repeated.

[@Toyotatracktor]

Normally i would headbang and vibe to sabaton but i just cant even move when listening to this song

[@devinmorse3607]

A couple songs I think you'd enjoy from Sabaton are "Screaming Eagles" (about the 101st AB) and "To Hell and Back" (about Audie Murphy).

[@albertskyking]

Thank you for your reaction. I always look forward to historian reactions to videos such as these, as they always add an educated opinion to them. I am Jewish, but my family did not live through the Shoah (Holocaust). I am descended from a different Jewish extermination, the Spanish Inquisition (Sephardic Jews). My grandmother knowing our Hebraic roots assisted in the effort of assisting rescued Ashkenazi Jews arriving at the port of Veracruz in Mexico. The stories she repeated to us from the survivors were beyond belief and comprehension. Some of those stories kept me awake at night. The possibility of this ever happening again is so real it should make everyone shiver. May we never see this kind of darkness in the world again. Oh, and yes, it was not only Jews, so many other "undesirable" minorities were persecuted under the Nazi regime. Two people of interest are the Saints of Auschwitz, Maximilian Kobe and Saint Edith Stein (Theresa Benedicta of the Cross), a Catholic Jew. Their stories are amazing and inspiring.

[@albertskyking]

Just another note. I was in DC for 2 weeks some years ago. I made the line to enter the Holocaust Museum, and right at the entrance I turned back. Not once but 5 times. I was unable to bring myself inside. I was consumed with emotion and grief each time.

[@fhillipus8360]

Sabaton the last battle Was one of the strangest battle of ww2

[@KNGZigg]

Learning about the history of Auschwitz and other camps of its type has been one of the most emotional and important steps I ever took on my journey to accumulate historical knowledge. I listen to Sabaton regularly, but this is a song I try not to skip when it comes on just to pay my due to the people who perished under Nazi occupation. I hope to be able to visit Auschwitz one day, if nothing else than to recognize the evil that was bred there and be able to fight against it. Your reaction to this song is one of my favorites; I first discovered your video about the Fallen of World War II and the genuine respect you showed to the lives lost, as well as your interesting additions, has kept me watching. Thank you for your contributions!

[@thedolbea5906]

React to War Thunder's Trailer: "Victory Is Ours" (DAY 3)

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

I've been to that museum/memorial at the Wannsee when we went to Berlin in college. It's so weird when you're standing there outside in the garden in really good weather having a good time and at the same time realize what was discussed there.

[@markknudsen1755]

Definitely a moving song. My Oma grew up in Rotterdam during the War. There was always a gap in her life she would not talk about. I just wonder at times how many, if any, of those she knew ended up in one of these camps.

[@bradk12fan]

I had been hesitant to listen to and watch this video by Sabaton. To be honest, it had put me off to them to know that they had a song called The Final Solution. I hadn’t listened to any of their music until I came across The Christmas Truce. I’m Jewish, and my grandparents survived the Holocaust. My grandfather was in Auschwitz, my grandmother was in Bergen-Belsen. I had, by my count, 70 relatives deported. 9 survived. The Christmas Truce reaction that you did @vloggingthroughthistory actually taught me that Sabaton’s music is a mix of music and history lessons.

[@mishaDorjan]

Auschwitz was hands down the “heaviest” place I’ve ever been. I remember feeling, as soon as I passed under the gates, that I couldn’t remember how to laugh; like a physical weight feeling around my shoulders that I would never smile again. Visiting this place changed me.

[@masterlamacra2997]

if you want to go further into detail what these camps were like i recommend reading "Naked among wolves" my father gave it to me when i was like 14 and this book was really insightful on what was going on in those times. I just had finished it when our school decided it was time for us to actually go and visit Buchenwald which made the whole tour even more uncanny since i could relate to places in the Camp without ever seing them before.

[@pippafinland]

I've visited Auschwitch. It was a beautiful spring day, the birds were singing really loud and all I could think of was did the birds sing back then, when people were suffering, tortured and dying. I love war history and I love Sabaton for their music and for telling these stories that people need to hear. ❤

[@pippafinland]

My grandpa fought against the Russians in WW2, but he never wanted to share the war stories.

[@eriksward6894]

Auschwitz is a horrible place.. the fear, the death, the horror its so burnt into the ground there that you cant help feeling it when you walk there and look at the houses and the exibits. I cried when I walked there. All these lifes lost in these ways. All the children that should just be allowed to play and learn and now had to live in this hell while the rest of their family burned. I went there before I became a father, I dont think I could ever visit it again now that I have children of my own. Just the memory makes the tears come back.

[@shardironclaw5936]

I have visited Dachau concentration camp. As soon as I entered the gates, every fibre in my body was telling me that something was wrong there. I can't explain it well, but it's almost like you could sense the death, as if I had a sixth sense. I'm glad I went to further my knowledge of the events, but I will never do it again. I still get chills when thinking about it.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Appreciate your observations. They are quite understandable.

[@shardironclaw5936]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I definitely recommend going once for the sake of the history, but once you do you'll understand why it's something you'd only do once. Edit: just be warned that you will feel... wrong (for lack of a better explanation) the entire time.

[@theronraam23]

My great uncle in my moms side brought a wife home from ww2. She lived 5 miles away from a camp, and as a result, couldnt stand the 4th of July as the barbeques reminded her to much of the burning corpses and the fireworks reminded her of the gunfire and bombs. She would hide under their bed every year, cry and urinate herself from the trauma. I never knew her but I wholeheartedly hope she at peace now.

[@SightUnseen555]

Your story about your great uncle and his daughter reminded me of the story in the song "What Did You Do In the War, Dad?" by Sonata Arctica. While not strictly speaking a historical song like Sabaton's, the lyrics are about a father with PTSD from a war he was in and trying to hide his trauma from his son so that his son never has to experience what he went through. Maybe you should check it out if you're interested. It's a really good song IMO.

[@keharacek]

We went to Auschwitz as a part of high school class trip. It's an experience I will never forgive. The experience of walking through the shower rooms and crematorium rooms where all these people died, seeing the torture cells and the horrible housing they were staying in... What struck me hard aswell was the sheer huge scale of it all. Seeing it is an experience that's not pleasant but very much needed so this crazyness doesn't happen again.

[@rylandw6130]

You talked about wanting to visit Auschwitz. I had the opportunity do so with both Auschwitz and Dachau in 2019, it was a very humbling and powerful experience. I'm glad I went, but I don't think I will again. You can almost feel the hate and despair in the air as you walk through the place.

[@cray1996]

One place I would like to visit at some point is Auschwitz. The Holocaust section within the Imperial War Museum in London, Is soul destroying and depressing, going through the reports and eye witness accounts. When get into the room with items recovering, it hits you right to your soul like anything.

[@xxxNERIxxx1994]

My great grandfather was rescued by Americans from one of the camps in Germany (buchenwald). I remember that he told me that got offers from military people to go back with them to USA, however he already had child which was my grandfather, so he went on foot to find his family , three months later he found them alive in village of bukowice. Thats my familys history (im Polish). Stories that Old people i Poland have are like movie plots sometimes, but then you look at their faces and you can see that its no bs.

[@Samkra-xt6rc]

I'm German and I graduated last spring, but before I was in Advanced History Class during my Abitur (Collage) where we went over Every little detail from 1923 to 1949 for over a Year. I live in the West of Germany, where the KZs are less dense so we never visited one, as most were too far for a day trip.

[@lauribleu7558]

I am 67. I grew up in CA. There was a required documentary all students were shown during their history classes. It was comprised entirely of film footage the Nazis took to archive what went on in the concentration camps. Horrifying stuff, real footage of severely starved emaciated people, exections, those emaciated bodies dumped into mass graves. "Dehumanization" is too pale a word to describe it. It took three days to watch the entire thing. I am glad I had that opportunity to see it. Any time I hear the phrase, "Lest we forget," I remember that documentary.

[@shadowspirit2826]

i listen to this song on my way to school everyday and i still find it sad

[@kadenmckibben9986]

I’ve been to the Holocaust museum in DC and it hit DIFFERENT. The second I walked in I was overcome with a cold air and a crazy feeling of sadness and despair. Great experience. Everyone should go.

[@lordwar7678]

The best Sabaton song ever in my opinion.

[@STGCHAOS907]

Out of nowhere but I found you. I love history .

[@AECX99]

I've been to Auschwitz 4 years ago, can definitely recommend doing so if you ever have the chance. I can't really describe how I felt but it's definitely worth it... You won't forget it either.

[@GtaSpartan7596]

I was able to meet Rachel Scott's uncle several years back their family is truly something else.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Larry! Love that guy. He and his wife Mary are great people and dear friends of ours.

[@McCostaMc]

Norwegian schools used to have (or still has), school trips to concentration camps during year 10 -16yrs. We bussed 10 days through Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Amongst the camps we visited were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen and Ravenbrück. Entirely horrific experience but not something I regret doing. Absolutely worth it.

[@Somecrippledboy5]

I visited this place as a teenager, I knew it was, that it was one of the worst places on the planet. What I wasn't ready for was for the feeling I got when I was there. I am disabled, obviously disabled. I arrived there in a wheelchair. I saw the two paths (one for (useful) people) and one for (Useless) people. I would've gone left to be disposed of like something that didn't matter. On that day I chose to stand, to limp, to hobble but to stand because if I hadn't I'dve died. I couldn't walk for a month because of that choice and I don't regret a second of it. People have so much to give, let them give it.

[@Strupern1]

Through the school program I had during both middle school and high school, I've been lucky enough to visit the camps, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Birkenau. These visits are the strongest experiences I've had, certainly glad I got to experience it, but I would probably never do it again unless I get the opportunity to take my kids to visit.

[@darthrevan2118]

I, as a German, am ashamed of this mass murder that my ancestors committed and one must never forget something like that

[@GregoryGeilman]

When I was 21 we went to Dachau as part of a European Studies group I was on. This was bad enough. It was a lifechanging experience for me and really opened my eyes.