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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It is sad the humanity would even stoop to this level, and worse that some would deny it even happened. As long as Islam exists it will continue.
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.
What no one talks about is the smells…and the feeling of the ground walking the camp…
There are no depths of Hell deep enough for those who had anything to do with this atrocity. May their torment last an eternity before their final Resurrection.
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This was a surreal episode. Never forget.
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Never Forget.
Thank you Spartacus and the whole Time Ghost team for all your efforts to make sure the world never forgets.
So many episodes. The fact that you can fill them is disheartening. Luckily, I have a cat.
No point telling, we forgot everything.
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It is one of the most important question in philosophy what is good and was it evil. It may never really be answerable, but I know one thing. What my forefathers did in Auschwitz and other camps, on the fields of Ukraine, Belarus and various other countries was without a doubt evil. Never forget.
My heritage is half German (and Czech) and half Greek. I never knew that side of the family because my parents divorced when I was very young. When anyone asked, I said my ancestors were German. Now I've been watching this series, every episode, with sadness and disgust at the Germans. Last week, when someone asked about my ancestry, I said Greek, and left it at that. I have new fondness for me Greek last name because it's not German. For every atrocity the Red army committed against the Germans, fuck 'em, they had it coming. 😡🤬
The Polish Home Army(AK) provided the Western Allies with detailed maps of Auschwitz, they BEGGED the British and Americans to BOMB the camp and coordinate the bombing with an attack from the outside to free the prisoners, knowing that this would entail casualties, but the the Western Allies did not prioritize Auschwitz…and so the horror continued, everyone knew and everyone did nothing because after all it was just Poles who were dying.
I drive the highway of death every night when i sleep. That was nothing compared to just one death camp. How low can we sink when we are allowed to do this without fear of reprisal. Many of the criminals lived entire lives before they were captured and tried. We need a good and just God in our life. For no other reason than each of us is a lurking monster underneath.
The greatness of this whole WAH series is unsurpassable.
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.
You serve a function that we need to keep being reminded of. No matter how horrible, as you say "NEVER FORGET"
My neighbor's aunt was a survivor. I need to ask her more, but she was rounded up and sent to Auschwitz for being a non-Jewish German who married a Jewish man and was rounded up with him of the entire German apartment block at the time.
It's easy to hear the numbers that we've all heard a hundred times and feel like it's all a statistic. This series has really given so much life to the story. It's one thing to hear about the cruel murder of millions of people but to see it play out with this level of detail and how deliberate and planned it all was and how so many different people from so many different places all met this same fate is just staggering in an entirely different way. They didn't just kill millions of people. They killed millions of people like it was another day at the waste disposal plant. It's unfathomable.
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.
Does the 100k enslaved people who died also count those who died because of starvation? I thought over hakf of the zonda commandos died.
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Lots of love to Sparty ❤❤❤❤
126 episodes of WAH and still 3 more months of WW2 to come … this is Hercules work! I follow this channel since it still was doing the WW1 series.
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
Thank you.
Never FORGET!!!
I recently watched a mini documentary on the American liberation of Dachau and that in anger the U.S. soldiers straight out shot German guards where they stood. Then the American soldiers shot all the guard dogs in their kennels. Quite apart from the horrors committed on these sites, I had no sympathy for the German guards shot by the Americans but I felt anger and sorrow for the dogs who, like all animals caught up in our bloody wars, they are always unwilling participants in human atrocity.
To add further sadness to the suffering and loss of life, as other commenters have said, it's abhorrent that our new woke culture is seeking to rewrite history and chooses to ignore or even try to exert the narrative that the holocaust was exaggerated or didn't happen at all. Of course youtube won't permit the showing of the true scale of the horror but we must never allow the new world culture to forget or erase the memory.
I knew a Polish guy with a tattooed number on his hand, around 400. The Poles were randomly swept of the streets by the Germans during the whole occupation and sent to the concentration camps or to do slave work in Germany. Horrible. Percentually, they lost most population but not many talk about it in the mainstream media and definitely not in Germany – unlike the talk about the Jewish victims. Kind of weird.
Great video Sparty. Have you ever considered doing a special on "The Good Man of Auschwitz." It might be a good video.
my birthday is on the 27th of januari…
it gives me a mixed feeling to be born on that date. there is the "Auschwitz liberation day", which is saddening me, however, to cheer me up, it is also the date of birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, my favorite Austrian.
4 years ago, on the 20th of januari, my dear friend and old neighbor, Betty van Dam, died. she was of jewish decent and lost the majority of her family in ww2. i was one of her caregivers in the last year of her live and i'm glad to have known her and have her trust. she hardly ever spoke of her experiences during the war, but it sure made her very wary of everyone she did not know. i was with her when she died and i'm glad i was her friend…
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.
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Thank you for providing these truths to the world. Never Forget.
Never again is now.
And yet, Hamas murdered as many people as they could on 7th of Oct for exactly the same reason: They were Jewish.
It's hard to imagine the mood of both prisoners and guards. The prisoners, trying to survive until their liberation and the guards hanging on for some reason. Being aware of the crimes perpetrated, I would have high-tailed it.
I want to know what happened to Angela and György. They could reasonably still be alive today
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
Such a timely episode – and series – as the world, once again, falls in love with populist authoritarianism and Fascism. Let's hope that come November enough of the American public see sense and keep Donald Trump out of office and away from power for ever. What really worries me is the amount of support that he and others like him in other countries have from those countries' general publics. Just like Germany and Italy in the late 1920s and 1930s. Well done and well said, Sparty. Never forget.
I couldn't stop crying throughout this whole episode. Thank you for your work.