The Last Days of Auschwitz - War Against Humanity 126

When the SS evacuate the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex in the second half of January 1945, their intent is to make sure that no live prisoners get into the hands of the approaching Red Army. The death marches that follow are a final act of mass murder at the camp, that brings the death toll to close to 1.1 million murdered.
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[@WorldWarTwo]

Never Forget! It is our mission to make sure that the souls lost to these tragic atrocities are not forgotten, for they deserve that we remember them, and do our best to not hate our fellow humans, but honor each others rights, so that one day we can all learn to live together in respect. Join the Time Ghost Army: www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory

[@ArmenianBishop]

Did you ever mention the Armenian Genocide (1915 -- 1923), or is that forgotten, as usual? The Young Turks got away with it then, and Azeri Turks are at it again now. I guess that when things are forgotten, history repeats itself.

[@spartacus-olsson]

⁠@@ArmenianBishopperhaps you didn’t notice which war we’re covering here… it’s World War Two, which took place three decades after the Armenian Genocide. So mentioning it in this series would be a bit odd, wouldn’t you say? However, since we _have_ covered The Great War previously, the answer is yes, we have mentioned it. In fact far more than just mentioning it, Indy did several videos about it back then.

[@ted1045]

Shared to Facebook. Never forget.

[@PumaTwoU]

Excellent presentation.

[@ArmenianBishop]

@@spartacus-olsson Thanks for your reply, and I didn't see that this is your WW2 Channel (specifically about WWII), so you figured right. I'm usually more diligent, but this time I wasn't careful, sorry about that. I'm sure that Indy did cover it well. I've been subscribed to your community's channels for many years now. All of your work is awesome. I simply am trying to raise awareness about it. There's been a historical precedent of Turkey going to the highest levels of government to lobbying against the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, but even today, Turkey's ally, Azerbaijan, is engaged in a 21st Century Armenian Genocide Project. Sometimes I get a bit overzealous. to combat their information warfare. I continue to support your wonderful channels, with my subscription. Blessings!

[@alexamerling79]

The fact that people still deny this today is sickening. I've seen numerous instagram comments saying it was "exaggerated" or "didn't happen" how the history books tell us. Thank you Sparty for your important work in keeping the memory of the victims alive. It is more important than ever these days. Never again.

[@diegotrejos5780]

If the record keeping the Germans did on the camps said they did something there's no reason to doubt them, it was internal paperwork never meant to reach Allies hands, that much can be the extent of their crimes, the rest can just be assumed given their track record.

[@alexamerling79]

Exactly. The Germans were meticulous in their record keeping. @@diegotrejos5780

[@kosta2875]

I mean... There is literally a politician that has made a PhD on holocaust denying. So insta morons should not really be surprising...

[@TrickiVicBB71]

It is way worse on TikTok

[@rb239rtr]

I met a senior Bahamian police officer who said that the Nazis didn't kill 6m, it was more like 2 million. I asked him why he would take a stand on that number, even if 2 m is better than 6m?

[@d.watamate8231]

When I was in school, we had a trip to Poland. We visited many places related to the Holocaust, including Auschwitz. The sites were horrifying, and in a long book I found the names of some of my old family. Where I really broke down was Treblinka. Nothing is left there, but I broke. Perhaps because that’s where most of my family was killed, perhaps because it was all up to the imagination rather than what I saw. I couldn’t handle it and broke down in tears. Never forget, never again

[@BradySharrett]

Vasily Grossman has a harrowing account of Treblinka. Truly one of humanitys worst crimes

[@WorldWarTwo]

It's incredibly powerful and heart-wrenching to confront such a significant part of history, especially when it's so intimately connected to your family's past. You sharing this experience contributes to that remembrance, never forget. Thank you.

[@sonoftherabbitpeople4737]

I was a boy in Germany, my dad was in the US Army. He took us to Dachau. I had no idea that such things ever happened and was in no way prepared for what I was going to see. I got very ill, physically ill.

[@modernista6056]

Absolute disgrace and people in Britain today complain constantly about Britain not being British anymore, these people make me puke lest we forget yet many already do and with the constant rise of right wing extremist thinking in Britain and American I fear they to actually deny the level of atomicity and would sadly happily oversee the exact same thing again to get their wishes of keeping Britain British. Makese ashamed of being white British how the fuck do these people think their wishes to only look after our own are going to be achieved without such horrors happening all over again, calls of sink the boats etc. right leaning propaganda telling everyone it's because all the migrants take our homes, our jobs, nonsense but they believe it is THE problem, well this is their short sighted solution they may not say it aloud but it's what is in their minds. It was the German solution, just how do these selfish weak minded people intent on wanting Britain ' pure' think their wishes will be solved?? Sickening. Disgraceful, send them home they all say. Yeah the Germans said that too. Look at how that turned out. ☹️😭 I pray we wake up before we allow the lunatics to take over again. Because we are fighting a losing battle against extremist thinking

[@JPriz416]

When I was fifteen our landlord, hish wife and daughter and husband all had numbered tattoos on their fore arms. About a year later I asked them about the tattoos. The old man told me when I have a free afternoon he would sit me down and tell his story. I was in tears and honored to have known these brave people.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for sharing this, and thank you for watching.

[@657449]

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950’s. I still remember all the adults with tattooed arms.

[@Ira88881]

@@657449 Me too. Canarsie. I had several friends’ parents who were tattooed too. These people were everywhere.

[@user-dc7pf9kb9e]

I think. Power hungry people today could repeat the nazi experience if they thought they could gat away with it. Look no further than what the left is doing to Donald Trump currently.

[@odysseusrex5908]

It's remarkable that an entire intact family survived. Do you remember which camp they were in?

[@loanstowalruses]

This is perhaps the most important series in the history of the internet. Never Forget.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for your words and thank you for watching.

[@bloodrave9578]

Me and a couple of others on a Discord server we're on have been saying that people need to see this and this must be taught in it's full context. We've said that this must be required viewing as to keep the victims' memories alive so they are not forgotten. This one made me take a step back and five minutes out just to process it.

[@kevinramsey417]

We say Never Forget not to remind us that it happened, but to remind us that it can happen again.

[@videodistro]

No. It's for both.

[@benjaminhenderson5025]

And yet we seem to be embracing a new genocide even now...

[@AlexSDU]

And yet it happened, to other people, caused by their descendants.

[@jamesbinns8528]

I might be incorrect, but I think it was Golda Meir who said, and I paraphrase, "When Jews say 'never forget,' we don't mean that a holocaust cannot happen again...what we mean is that never again will Jews die in a defenseless state."

[@modernista6056]

It is already on the rise in ordinary ( supposedly) peoples minds they may deny this is what they want but how else do they think those extremist Ideals will end up being 'solved' ordo Germans looked away, ordinary Britains are doing exactly the same thing now. It shouldn't be our problem they say...but it is, and this will again be the solution if people don't wake the fuck up and understand exactly were extemism leads too. Looking away caused this atrocious happening, looking away, thinking it's not our problem will see it happen again. I fear for our future. I really do. Social media fuels it. Stupid people do nothing because it's not our problem they say. Well actually it is. This can NEVER happen again.

[@angusmacdonald7187]

I am of a dwindling group of people. My father fought in WWII; through him I met a number of vets. My high school best friend's father survived the camps; through him I met a handful of others. Videos such as this are so important -- we must not forget the price that was paid, the horrors inflicted, when one group of people simply decide that another group of people are not human beings 😞

[@virginiasoskin9082]

I wish the films were not blurred. People need to see the horror to gain SOME understanding of how Nazi Germany tried to exterminate every person of "non-Aryan" blood in Europe. They need to see the corpses to understand the degree or hateful horror inflicted on the innocent.

[@Canofasahi]

A good friend of mine survived because he was given to a Dutch woman directly after he was born, a few days later his parents and older brother where taken away to Auschwitz, his mother and his older brother named David where gassed upon arrival, his father lived for another three months as a slave labourer, this was summer 1943. There are three Stolpersteine where they lived in Rotterdam, his brother is also remembered at Loods 24 and Jewish Children's Monument in Rotterdam.

[@RavshanE]

From the perspective of one of the first Soviet soldiers to enter the camp, Georgii Elisavetskii, who admitted in 1980 that "My blood runs cold when I mention Auschwitz, even now". He described the liberation in dramatic detail: "When I entered the barrack, I saw living skeletons lying on the three tiered bunks. As in fog, I hear my soldiers saying: 'You are free, comrades!' I sense that they do not understand [us] and begin speaking to them in Russian, Polish, German, Ukranian dialects; unbotting my leather jacket, I show them my medals... Then I use Yiddish. Their reaction is undpredictable. They think I am provoking them. They begin to hide. And only when I said to them: 'Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of Soviet Army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you'... Finally, as if the barrier collapsed... they rushed towards us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs. And we could not move, stood motionless while unexpected tears ran down our cheeks". 'The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath' by Dan Stone

[@hohooooooooify]

I once met a couple who survived that madness and that response is quite literally what they described when the Russians came in as they said it was as if angel's had come massive angel's compared to them

[@junesmallwood4921]

And yet, there are people today who say this never happened. It should be a law that this knowledge and films are shown in high school and in colleges and it is mandatory for all students to watch

[@josephberrie9550]

in the uk and other countries its a criminal offence to deny the holocaust

[@virginiasoskin9082]

@@josephberrie9550 Good! Denying the Holocaust or calling immigrants at American borders inhuman vermin who will spoil our pure blood is EXACTLY how Hitler justified killing Jews whom HE considered inhuman vermin undeserving of life. At the least this is hate speech and should be shut down completely.

[@virginiasoskin9082]

They should be dragged to the US Holocaust Museum and forced to read the entire exhibits on all floors to see for themselves how Nazis bit by bit wore away human rights, used false anthropological systems they MADE UP to classify human beings as inhuman vermin who did not deserve to live. DT is calling immigrants inhuman vermin, drug dealers and rapists when in reality they are trying to escape violence in their own nations. This is how fascists and would-be dictators begin -- study how Hitler rose to power and you will see. DT claims he did not know that Hitler called human beings inhuman vermin as he is doing. If he is that ignorant of history, he does not deserve to lead America -- never again.

[@ChenAnPin]

The staggering numbers of victims is difficult to wrap ones head around.

[@mister_jayHD]

In Auschwitz, there is a book with "all" (surely many are missing) the names of the inmates who had been in Auschwitz. The book is meters thick and I mean literally 10+ meters with 100x40 cm pages full of names. When you see this book (if I remember right, they split it into several books), it really shows you the magnituted of the whole thing.

[@pinochetscommiecopter9984]

ya i cant believe 6 grillion jews died by the hands of those evil nazis

[@damienhudson8028]

This history must be told and remembered in one of the most important struggles, the struggle against hate.

[@ericfunk5838]

Hey Spartacus, I saw you on the verge of crying at the end of this episode. I share this feeling and thus respect your commitment to present all this horror to us in a way that let’s us get close to understanding the sheer size of the murder, but also to let us understand the inhumanity of this whole antisemitic genocide.

[@bainfinch]

Don't think there is a single WAH episode Spartacus eyes are not a bit watery as some point. What I do enjoy is his control over all the myriad of emotions, leaking thru, like THE BEST ending "Never Forget" on this episode at 23:54

[@lauradekeyzer1945]

I am always on the verge of crying too! This is what empathic and indignant people do.

[@spartacus-olsson]

Thank you. It went beyond being on the verge, I cried - the tears were already flowing when I ended. But that’s OK, this is something worth crying about, and it’s cathartic and important for me to do. I spent a week writing this, and much of my life researching these events. Oddly, I can write for days on end most often without a tear. Then when I speak the words I have written, they become emotions, and a shared memory that is extremely painful, but that is why I do this - it’s an honor to be allowed to give these people a voice they were robbed of so many years ago.

[@faenethlorhalien]

@@spartacus-olssonThis is one of those moments when one can understand with total clarity why you switched from long episodes with lower periodicity to shorter episodes more frequently. Having to deal with three quarters of hour of horror (and however many hours it takes to record it) must be an experience very few (if any) are equipped to deal with. Thank you so much for what you're doing.

[@germanogirardelli]

Fuck me i can barely watch them, let alone be the one reading and writing

[@snappyc_bg8697]

Spartacus was on the verge of crying at the end of this episode. Never Forget.

[@spartacus-olsson]

Beyond the verge - I cried.

[@Deridus]

Guess I'm just too used to these things to be moved much. Compare numbers to numbers, it pales compared to CCP/USSR actions. Get granular and it changes the character, sure. Break it down to the most base reasons and it's just tribalism. Once you see things that way, the why hardly matters when you see we are all capable of it.

[@spartacus-olsson]

@@Deridus well making it numbers is where you lose the emotional connection. In general it’s a terrible idea to compare atrocities for that very reason - for the victims and for us all, it’s rather academic if it’s one or ten million - both are terrible tragedies, and damage to our species. Also a comparison of straight numbers between the Nazis and the Soviets is pretty useless. The special horror of Naziism becomes clearer when you factor in time. The Soviet democides took place over a period of 72 years and is estimated to have taken 60 million lives. The Nazis murdered 17 million in 12 years. So Nazi kill rates per year at 1.4 million is almost twice that of the Soviet kill rate of 0.8 million per year. Moreover the Nazi genocide of Jewish Europeans is the biggest genocide in known history. Within that genocide, during 100 days between July and November 1942 in Operation Reinhard they performed the biggest single act of mass murder known to us, murdering close to 15,000 men, women, and children per day for a total of 1.5 million. But like I said… these are just numbers. Behind every one of these numbers are massive human losses that you can’t understand if you stare at the digits. If you do… well then you’re right, it’s not very moving at all. Doing that dehumanizes the victims further and makes us complicit to what is as you indicate a recurring failure of our species.

[@Deridus]

@@spartacus-olsson Thing is, you're 100% correct. Be it the Assyrians or NSDAP, Bolschevics or Mongols, the gritty details start to go from immediate horror almost directly to cold calculation the second it's reduced to a number. I honestly don't know what to do about it. Edit: Thank you for what you do.

[@pathutchison7688]

You ripped my heart out as always Sparty. It’s a necessary pain though. Thank you for helping us all keep the memory alive. None of us can afford to forget.

[@Deridus]

I guess I've just read too many heinous activities to be overly moved by this one. As something of a fan of history... This particular atrocity is only different by degrees. In the past thirty years we have watched too many smaller once happened and virtually no one has done a thing. They just put up flags and banners on their social media, never actually strap on their boots and get to work. If there's a reason I do not believe in justice any more, it's because the victims become perps far too often for my liking.

[@barclayjb]

Thank you Spatacus and Indy for carrying the torch. This must be illuminated. Never forget.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@rogyn8484]

One of the very last camps to be liberated in a whole Europe that was still operational until the very end was Jasenovac in Croatia and I think that just like Auschwitz it deserves to be mentioned for the end of April episode especially because inmates despite being like a skeletons organized in the very last moment and crush into the fully armed guards who were rushing to "end their job" before Partisans arrival. From 600 inmates trying to escape only 92 survived but was very rare occasion that something like this had happen, couple of days after this Partisans enter and liberated camp which was fully deserted.

[@unyieldingsarcasm2505]

Iv been rewatching this whole series from the start (on furlough atm), and its horrifying to think of when that camp started to operate, to NOW, is how long that madness went on. Every single day, for alllll that time... just my god there are no words. Thank you for all your work in making this series, its deeply important that the memory of these events are kept alive.

[@Deridus]

There is a truism that states the longer an unusual event is prolonged the more mundane it seems. Once you get past all of the politics and get down to the base primal reason, namely tribalism, if it just seems so petty, that means you're sane. People committing heinous acts all over unprovable metaphysical nonsense is so common as to be mundane to me now. What happened over there is different only by degrees... We have a long way to go before we evolve past it.

[@asgardlegacy]

WAH episodes are often a tough - but necessary - watch. This one was tougher than most. I needed a couple of minutes to properly compose myself. Alexander Vorontsov's footage is a visage of hell, and even that can only show us the aftermath of the events themselves; may we never see its like again.

[@PleaseHold-il5eq]

Auschwitz: a name etched in infamy, here brought to memory with unflinching clarity. Thank you for incredible work and how much soul you put into it, Spartacus and the whole team.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

According to the graphic novel "Maus", written and illustrated by his son Art, Vladek Spiegelman and many other prisoners able to walk were marched from Auschwitz northwest, towards the Gross Rosen camp complex in Silesia.

[@corymalik1324]

My grandfather survived that hell....Richard Malik. We all have 2 deaths one is your physical the other is the last time someone says your name.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@sylvananas7923]

This episode was a strong one, that final speech from Spartacus left me close to tears.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for watching. Never forget.

[@stoffls]

Finally a day of jubilee in this gruesome series. The date, Jan 27th 1945 will always be remembered as the day that the biggest piece of the concentration camps puzzle fell. But there are still other camps, where the suffering will go on for months, like Mauthausen, which was liberated only a few days before the war ended. And thank you Sparty for giving us those exact numbers, they are too many to tell all their names and for so many the names have never been recorded. But they did exist and they did nothing wrong, when they were brought to this factory of death and selected either to be worked to death or killed immediately. And thank you to the brave prisoners who stayed behind and took care of those who were too weak. So humanity has been restored in the final days of the camp. Never forget!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Indeed! -TimeGhost Ambassador

[@naveenraj2008eee]

Hi Sparty Saddest moment in history. Most innocent people died and their life lost. We have to remember these souls and make sure create awareness so that this horrible scenario not repeated in future and avoid hatred among humans. Your mission will create this. Never forget these souls.

[@paulheinrich7645]

To watch this channel without weeping is nearly impossible. To study, document, and bring these stories to life must be truly exhausting - stepping day after day into the shoes of the countless victims and those of their tormentors, re-living the horror, the terror, the insanity. The victims of the Holocaust could only hope that they and their stories were remembered. They should rest in peace knowing the TGA historians (and countless others like them) are willing to suffer alongside them. It is an absolute certainty that every viewer of TGA content is another one who will "never forget." Thank you to all at TGA.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@paulheinrich7645]

@@spartacus-olsson I don't know how you guys cope. You certainly aren't getting rich from Patreon donations and KZbin doesn't pay THAT much, so you can't be in it for the money. I imagine you must rely heavily on the great pride and satisfaction doing such important work brings to you and your team. Thanks again. I wish I could give you more support.

[@dbl_jinx]

Never Forget. Never Again.

[@billvan3319]

when i watch this series, and others too, i pause the film, and look, really look, at each of the victims faces. i do this to "see" the people. i do this for respect. never forget. ever.

[@theblackbear211]

I have no words that can express the depth of my feelings. Thank you for this channel and looking these facts so squarely in the face.

[@krzysztof4068]

I have been your fan for years now. As a Pole I find the content of your videos extremely interesting. My family lost many of it’s members during WW2. I want to say thank you for honest portrayal of the events. I also am angry that even today many prominent politicians will call Auschwitz a „polish” concentration camp. Ursula Von Der Leyen being one of them not even a week ago. Anyway thank you for your amazing work!

[@EricKL97]

Ursula von der Leyen didn't call it a "Polish" camp. She posted that the victims were “Murdered in Auschwitz, Poland,”, and later changed it (rightfully so) to "Auschwitz, German Nazi extermination camp." It's an important distinction to make, because while yes, one should always clarify that it was a Nazi camp, to say that she called it a "Polish" camp is simply untrue, and disregarding the specifics leads to misinformation and is dangerous. Her original post regrettably didn't contain a very key fact and she rightfully fixed it. ~ Sincerely, a fellow Pole

[@Deridus]

As an American of Polish heritage, I want you two to be well. Stay safe, my distant kinsmen.

[@Splattle101]

Another harrowing episode, Sparty. I don't know how you're not in tears by the end of these scripts.

[@spartacus-olsson]

On this one I was in tears when I finished… researching and writing I can control the emotions, but reading and acting it out with restraint often breaks me… this one definitely did.

[@evorock]

​@@spartacus-olssonthank you for your dedication to this awfully harrowing project. Your resilience is remarkable!

[@Deridus]

There is a truism that states that the more a strange event takes place the more mundane it becomes. Don't allow it to become mundane.

[@Godzilla0815_VfB]

That was tough to watch and yet everybody should see this.

[@WorldWarTwo]

We appreciate the comment, thank you for watching.

[@fritsmosselman4597]

Impressive as usual. It must be very hard to research and recount this massive crime without getting angry or emotional at some point. Hats off to the Olsson family.

[@samuelkatz1124]

Being Jewish, one of my grandparents a child on the Kindertransport, many of the stories you have told of the German crimes against humanity are not revelations But this and Babi Yar have been the only ones on the Holocaust I have learned so much from, and cried at. I have cried at other episodes, those of peoples whose stories I never knew of. But this one, these past 20 minutes have been difficult. A rehash, blunt and tragic, of all the lives lost. All the families and friends turned to ash. Even the arrival of the Russians, who fed and took care of the inmates feels hollow because so many more died, and many of them without the dignity of the Nazis even writing down their names.

[@xmikexsack02]

Geez Sparticus. Im a 40 year old man, ive served my country. i have watched every ww2 in real time episode. Yet i sit here in tears still. Thank you for what u do.

[@davesharp8376]

Powerful, powerful speech at the end. Those numbers are actually mind blowing and difficult to process. I agree with a previous comment. I think this is the most important series on WW2 ever made.

[@LuGer212]

it's hard to overstate the importance of these videos. thank you. Just, thank you - for the documentary service.

[@Deridus]

Jaded as I am, even I see the use and importance of them. Every little bit helps.

[@coconut4219]

A good friend of mine visited Auschwitz a few months ago. I'd say he has a pretty irreverent sense of humor but even he seemed shaken by the experience of standing in such a place. Never forget

[@WorldWarTwo]

Hard not to be shaken by an experience like that, thank you for watching.

[@simonburi3293]

Thank you for another incredibly important episode. I've visited Auschwitz and Birkenau. The buildings look almost untouched, as if they had been left just some months or weeks ago. To learn what happened during the last days is just terrifying and heartbreaking. And all important at the same time. Thank you so much. I really advice anyone who has the possibility to go and visit the camp. Never forget.

[@LightFykki]

That ending was so powerful. You can clearly see the sincerity of Spartacus and that is was anything but easy for him to end this episode with those last words

[@carlospargamendez4784]

Never again. Never again to EVERYONE!!! No one deserves to be a victim of genocide. NOBODY. There are no first category victims and no tenth category victims. Any authority that orders a genocide is criminal in nature, no matter what excuse you look for.

[@user-ui9xm2oo5p]

Is this supposed to be a veiled pro Palestine comment?

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

​​@@user-ui9xm2oo5pThis same user above left another comment in this section that is unambiguously pro-Palestine.

[@garretth8224]

​@@user-ui9xm2oo5pNo. It's just in general.

[@carlospargamendez4784]

@@user-ui9xm2oo5p it is a comment against every genocide. Are you supporting any genocide?

[@carlospargamendez4784]

@@sirhenrymorgan1187 I condemn absolutely all genocide, in fact, I condemn all war crimes, which are clearly established in the IV Geneva Convention. I recommend you read it. That is the moral and ethical position of humanism and democratic thought. Perhaps there are people who condemn a genocide but applaud others, depending on the victim and the executioner. As we know, the Holocaust would not have been possible without the support or indifference that immorality, hatred, prejudice and racism had entered many minds. Are you perhaps trying to force someone to feign indifference or remain silent in the face of genocide?

[@lucifie]

Vladek Speigelman, father of cartoonist Arthur Spiegelman who created the graphic novel 'Maus,' underwent all the horrors discussed in this video, and survived.....barely. His story was the subject of his son's graphic novel. 'Maus' did a brilliant job of helping to insure that what happened at Auschwitz is never to be forgotten. I highly recommend it as a piece of historical reading. Vladek Spiegelman's greatest tribulations were at the time of the evacuation of Auschwitz.

[@dawnlawrence3372]

Thank you for this. We should never forget. Our kids, then their kids and all the children of the future need to know about these horrific atrocities so that it never happens again.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for your comment. -TimeGhost Ambassador

[@CeeCeeOy]

I visited Auschwitz/ Birkenau two years ago. Never forget.

[@PPekka]

I just visited Dachau a few months ago. It is truly a humbling experience. 😢 To stand on the edge of an unremarkable looking pit and to know there lies the ashes of thousands of indivuduals murdered is truly sobering. To stand in front of the wall where the firing squad shot their victims and see the gutter that was dug to lead all the blood. To see the bullet holes on the wall. Never forget.

[@marvinmartin4692]

I found out the day of my father’s funeral that he had been part of the American troops that liberated two of these camps. His brother told me he was not the same after returning home. Anyone who says that this wasn’t real best not run into me!

[@hannahskipper2764]

This was a surreal episode. Never forget.

[@bobtaylor170]

I can't recall ever having seen a video presentation as moving and, yes, it is surreal. As far as I know ( and I know very little about the cyber world ), there are no awards given for KZbin videos which are of the greatest seriousness and moral excellence, but if there were, nothing could match let alone beat this.

[@TheMarkRich]

Hard too watch and listen without tears. Humanity is so terrible when it wants to be.

[@prophet7774]

My old me about my grand grandpa's from her side, one was in Auschwitz and survived but his tein brother didn't... Another liberated Auschwitz she knew that from her mother, I don't remember it well, but I remember that she told me that she asked her granpa what is the number on his hand and he will fall silent for the rest of the day lock himself in a room and cry, the horrors those people went through are beyond imagination, I broke into tears watching this video and remembering what my parents and grandma told me about my grad grandparents, Never forget.

[@FR-kb1fc]

I've watched nearly all the videos in this series. Nearly all of my relatives on one side of my family were murdered in Auschwitz. I don't think I can watch this, but maybe later.

[@mcfahk]

You'll never forget. There is no need to watch it. Be kind to yourself.

[@spartacus-olsson]

Bless them, their memory, and you ❤

[@bobtaylor170]

The greatness of this whole WAH series is unsurpassable.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@evorock]

Absolutely agree. It's a shame that one of the tv companies like Netflix wouldn't take this excellent series ( including the whole WWII in real time) on. This series is too bloody good to be stuck on KZbin. It needs far greater exposure

[@spartacus-olsson]

We'd have to change the format to fit their time-slots@@evorock and their ideas of 'view-ability' are still very large screen oriented. They would expect 90% b-roll (archive) at least, and that would make the series unfathomably expensive to make. To not mention the they tend towards broad entertainment value even when tackling tough subject matters, and I'm not sure we fit that slot... that said - I would love for that to happen.

[@evorock]

@@spartacus-olsson damn shame that, because in my opinion as a hobbyist historian, your stuff is AS GOOD as the "World at war" series (the best war series ever made), and would not look out of place on something like the history channel It would certainly be a better addition than "Iceroad truckers" or "Ancient bloody Aliens"!

[@spartacus-olsson]

I would hope so@@evorock ;-) I do however fear that advertisers, and thus media executives would disagree with us...

[@bloodrave9578]

Spartacus, it's a hard subject to even stomach and you do an excellent job of telling the human side of this war.

[@jonathanellis6097]

The numbers are mind boggling, difficult to fathom. The fact that most Nazis never faced any kind of justice is a stain on humanity.

[@modernista6056]

The fact it is on the rise again oh they call it something different now it's being patriotic now, well this will be the solution once again if extemism again takes control over normal people who again turn a blind eye to that migrant being hounded, those boats being allowed to sink..as some loosely say our loud to stupid to realise that this was no different, this is what happens with intolerance. Eventually. Extemism is on the rise in normal communities, it must be drummed home that this is the solution for extemism. This is how just looking after your own gets solved people wake up before history repeats itself with those living at this time still alive. We are heading the exact same way. Lest we forget most already have. And think the same thinking will have a different outcome, it won't that is insanity if you think the same outcome from the same problems will not be the case.

[@49kittypretty1]

The way that you pronounce the German names is excellent and at the same time your pronunciation of English is also excellent. That’s not easy to do. My mother language is english and I speak french and I’m told I do it well, without letting my french to be altered by improper English pronunciation.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you very much for your kind words

[@ironthir8477]

I was on the brink of crying through the most of this video.

[@alexaduncan9887]

It's hard to press the thumbs up button with tears in your eyes. Never forget!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Well said. Thank you for supporting this channel! - TG Ambassador

[@jjChibi]

Thank you, Spartacus, and TimeGhost, for keeping these memories alive, and this education accessible.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@michellever9785]

Thank you so very much Sparty and the team. Much love from Canada... NEVER FORGET !!!

[@Sigma-95715]

Never Forget.

[@tobyrowallan6037]

Never Forget. Thank you Spartacus and the whole Time Ghost team for all your efforts to make sure the world never forgets.

[@n7grenadieryt831]

I was very lucky to have a friend who i met through a family friend who survived Drancy and another camp. I was able to go to several talks and also got to see her awarded for her work. We talked a long time about me getting into politics and how she was proud of that. Never forget

[@brucebartup6161]

Once more Sparty, bravo

[@habibaghasafari2237]

This is define one of the best episodes of WAH ever. Well said and thanks to the Spartacus and Timeghost team for their excellent writing that best captured the the final days of Auschwitz.

[@spartacus-olsson]

Credit goes to the camp resistance organization for making sure the documentation was not destroyed, and to Danuta Czech - the scholar who compiled all the salvaged reports, and witness statements into the day by day chronicles of the camp. It’s _the_ reference work on life and death at Auschwitz, and without it, I couldn’t have written this. My hope is that I could make that very dry, terrifyingly statistical work come to life to bring back at least a faint echo of the countless souls that suffered through this, and the even more who didn’t make it.

[@HGmusiclist]

Always the tuff one's these episodes, as they should be. Presented with so much dignity, only Sparty can do!

[@Sierra026]

I remember reading Elie Wiesel's book "Night", and one of the parts that stood out to me was when the camps were finally liberated by the Americans. The inmates were taken to train cars full of food and many immediately tore open the crates and began stuffing themselves full of food. Hours later, many of them lay dead, their bodies too used to a starvation diet suddenly filled with nutrients too rich for their enfeebled and weak stomachs, thus rejecting it. I wonder if something similar occurred after the Soviets liberated Auschwitz. How many people died receiving food that their frail bodies couldn't even handle, from their liberators trying to help them survive? Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Thank you, Spartacus, for leading us through this dark chapter of human history. May we never forget.

[@Alex.HFA1]

Inmates in the Soviet-liberated zone were luckier here. The doctors from the Soviet Union knew what hunger is like and what food is needed to bring a starved prisoner from the brink. They knew to provide soup and limit the food intake in the beginning, etc. More inmates survived.

[@gunman47]

Thank you for this episode of the War Against Humanity as always. Never forget.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for the kind comment, never forget.

[@patmcbride9853]

And the cycle constantly tries to repeat itself. We have modern day Brownshirts in our streets screaming their hatred of the scapegoats their leaders have identified.

[@ingloriuspumpkinpie9367]

In Slovakia a lot of school children have educational trips to Auschwitz, I heard about people passing out puking and crying during their visits. So I excused myself and pretended to be sick on day of the excursion. Thinking back I at the same time regret not going and am thankful for it.

[@sebastianahlin9677]

I was in Poland 🇵🇱 June 28 2018. I was 19 years old. me and my Family arrival to Kraków and then 2 days later on June 30 2018. We come to visit Camp Auschwitz for 2 hours for listen and explain. This is all i remember this place 😢 Never Forget. never again😔

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

Thank you for all your hard work Sparty & team. Never Forget.

[@johntipper29]

Another episode of horror and heartbreak - but that's the daunting truth of it all. Good work Spartacus and the TimeGhost team for your excellent endeavours. This is not easy work.

[@gdinoteimoso]

Gosh...I've no words. That's so sad, it churns out the already gut-wrenched stomach. Thanks for the video Sparty. *Never forget!*

[@puffapuffarice]

You serve a function that we need to keep being reminded of. No matter how horrible, as you say "NEVER FORGET"

[@SandwichKing-lj4ej]

It’s hard to believe people can be capable of such terrible evil, but they can and that capacity to do this kind of thing still exists. This is why we must remember history to avoid repeating similar conduct.

[@differentboy9697]

This is my problem with people that claim that just reading books will help you be better. The germans were one of the most cultural people on the continent, yet this same land perpetuated this madness

[@samuelranz6436]

Sparty, you have made me cry again with one of your videos. We can't thank you enough for keeping the memory alive, for telling what cannot be forgotten so that the worst of history doesn't come back. Never forget!

[@shannonsullivan1968]

We must never ever forget. The recitation of the numbers of the victims just boggles the mind. Thank you for posting the irrefutable evidence of the holocaust by the Nazis.

[@bangkokney8708]

Thank you so much for your time and effort in preparing and showing this. Your presentation was flawless. I visited Auschwitz a few years ago, and intend doing so again this year, to spend more time gazing around and trying to imagine the suffering, sorrow, and downright cruelty that happened there. I doubt I will even come close to visualising what went on, but I will say many silent prayers for those that cannot.

[@suzyrichins7958]

Thank you, Sparty. I know this is difficult to talk about the deaths and violence that occurred in Auschwitz, but I am glad you are speaking for those who have been murdered here during a time when people have forgotten or willfully believe this wasn't real.

[@yulimoonshine]

Thank you for your work. We appreciate you greatly. I am Ukrainian and Jewish. My family members were murdered and escaped from the village massacres done by the nazi kill squads. Your work is necessary and vital at this time. Thank you.

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@williamdonnelly224]

A tough episode. As human beings, it our duty to never forget, and to pass these memories on to all the generations who shall come after us. Again, thank you Spartacus and the entire Time Ghost team for speaking of those long gone, whose voices were never heard.

[@spartacus-olsson]

❤

[@Liam_Nielsen]

Thank you for your work.

[@iamnolegend2519]

Never forget; keep teaching this history.

[@fearofmusic1312]

Just wanted to say thank you very much to Spartacus for both making these extremely tough but also extremely important videos. And for making me aware of a serious error I previously made in/by a comment. Thank you!

[@spartacus-olsson]

Thank you, and it wasn’t _that_ serious an error. Very standup of you to see it that way though. ❤

[@TheEvertw]

Tolkien has called mortality "The blessing of [God]". Because all suffering will end, no matter how great. And by implication, also the perpetrators of evil will not be able to continue their evil indefinitely. Every generation has its own time to do good or to do evil. May God rest the souls of the victims of the holocaust, and may God help us to do the right thing in our days.

[@rosawoxo]

a comment to be placed at the altar of the algorithm gods! i don't have much to say that others haven't, but i deeply respect the contributions y'all are making by the production of this series.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for your comment and kind words, they mean a lot to us! -TimeGhost Ambassador

[@jackmoorehead2036]

I have read several autobiographies of Soviet Officers that were there at the liberation. The common thread among all of them was that after that day the war changed for them. From a war of liberation of their lands to a war of retribution.

[@spartacus-olsson]

While I fully understand that sentiment, and I believe they were honest in as much as that is how they remembered it, I think it’s a bit of a post construction. The very brutal, and bloody war of retribution started two weeks before they liberated Auschwitz, at the very moment the Red Army entered the Reich. While only a very small part of the Red Army saw the liberated camps, the vast majority of soldiers and officers took part in horrific acts of revenge. It was meticulously prepared by propaganda, and relaxed rules of conduct. Wait for next week’s episode to see.

[@stuartmangold595]

as hard as this series is to watch sometimes, I wish it was allowed to be even harder, to help drive the message home even more

[@billd2635]

Thank you for providing these truths to the world. Never Forget.

[@gregoryfilin8040]

I remember being a child and being babysat at times at a synagogue while my mother went to run errands. Many of them were surviving Holocaust victims. Older people, but wonderful people! And as I got a bit older, I wound up hearing nearly 40 stories. The horror and depth of what those people is horrific. And my family is Soviet military as well. Many of my relatives fought on the Eastern front from Khalkin Gol to Berlin, and nothing was more horrific than the stories of those from the ghettos and camps. What evil and truly.... indescribably evil places these were. What will always haunt me is the systematized killing. How honed and intentional it was.

[@sarge6870]

Well done presentation!! I subscribed!!

[@stuweiss-zi9rc]

I can never forget because I’m reminded by hate rhetoric about “vermin” and “poisoning the blood of the nation” on an almost daily basis. The horror is so close to the surface, we know where the words lead, you have amply documented War Against Humanity but it is never enough reminding. Thank you Sparty, Indy, and the Time Ghost crew

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for the support! - TG Community Ambassador

[@somecargoship]

Poor people

[@tugadmundo]

Never forget !

[@theemperorschosen7607]

Thank you for all your work documenting these events and providing them for free for the world to see. The Holocaust cost my family and my people nearly everything, thank you again. Never Forget ❤

[@spartacus-olsson]

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[@Khariss]

I made the trek to Auschwitz years ago and it has stayed with me. You cannot see the horror, yet somehow it is there. Please, God - never again.

[@TheRemiCay]

Great video, thank you. Truly horrifying, Never Forget.

[@scottdonohue6486]

My great grandfather survived Auschwitz. I’m not sure if he was among the 8,000 liberated by the Red Army, or if he was among those who survived the death march evacuations. That anyone could have survived this place is hard to believe.

[@spartacus-olsson]

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[@rosstapson]

As always, this is so important. Thank you Spartacus for tackling this, I have no other words.

[@spartacus-olsson]

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[@philipvlnst]

Love your lamp! So classic!