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    A Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau – the Death Factory of the Holocaust



    A Visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau – the Death Factory of the Holocaust

    The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial takes visitors into the darkest chapter of German history. This extermination camp was established in Germany-occupied Poland and at least 1.1 million people mostly Jews, were murdered there by the Nazi regime. The Soviet Army liberated the camp on 27 January 1945. We take you to a tour through one of the world’s most visited places.

    CREDITS:
    Report: Kerstin Schmidt, Lukas Stege 
    Camera: Holm Weber 
    Editing: Klaus Hellmig 
    Supervising editor: Christina Deicke 
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    48 Comments

    1. @DWTravel on

      Many of you are bothered by the fact that we frequently use the word "Nazis" instead of "Germans." We understand your point. We by no means wish to convey the impression that these crimes were not committed in the name of the German people.

    2. @shaunedwards6365 on

      German people should be made to visit this place and see what happened and see what there ancestors did to these people this they cannot escape I was heart broken what I witnessed on visiting the camps I will never forget and never forgive

    3. @shaunedwards6365 on

      German people should be made to visit this place and see what happened and see what there ancestors did to these people this they cannot escape I was heart broken what I witnessed on visiting the camps I will never forget and never forgive

    8. @debraherring-fallert5784 on

      It is not the "right wing", but the left. Keep political views out of this. In America, it is the leftist that are supporting the Palestinians and terrorists that want to kill innocents. If you are going to do this content, at least represent the facts whether you like them or not.

    9. @VickiBee on

      Twenty four members of my Jewish foster family died in Auschwitz. The only ones who survived was her dad, who became a Kapo, and her cousin, who lied and said she wasn't Jewish due to the fact she had blond hair and blue eyes. They bought her story and she escaped to Queens NYC.
      Her mom was in Bergen-Belson, which made her first child (my foster mother) have lifelong poor health that began right after her birth. Everyone in her mom's family was starved or beaten to death. Her mom gave birth to her 4 years after Liberation. Her birthday is Feb 22, 1949.
      I went to Shul [temple] with them. I never figured out what There was to hate so damn much about them.

    13. @Schlipperschlopper on

      Have you ever heard about the story that during end of October 1944 Germans used a special weapon to vaporize 20000 prisoners 20km south of Birkenau in a mock town errected on the green fields north of Wilamowice to try out a "more effective" method how to get rid of humen instead of gasing and burning? Its horrible! They tested their victory special weapon on the one side and killed at the same time 20000 souls?

    16. @bearcatXF on

      The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says that 1.1 million were murdered – and by "murdered" they include deaths by disease and lack of food. But at Nuremberg the commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess confessed to "2,500,000 by gassing and burning and another half million by starvation and disease making a total dead of about 3 million". So the USHMM says 1.1 million and yet Hoess confessed to 3 million. Strange that he would do that.

    19. @laby187kk on

      Im not jew or polish but when i have been there i couldn't stop crying… how human can do this to another human. Its so hard to walk there, i cant breathe and talk…

    20. @laby187kk on

      Im not jew or polish but when i have been there i couldn't stop crying… how human can do this to another human. Its so hard to walk there, i cant breathe and talk…

    29. @geordiejones2 on

      Id love to make an honest comment, but YouTube blocks you for 24 hours for honesty.

      I have just been contacted and told most of the moderators are Jewish, I understand now.

    34. @global425 on

      I pilgrimage to Auschwitz yearly to ensure the names, voices , and memories are never forgotten. It is a place of solemn remembrance , and your video disrespects the victims.

      You filmed in 100% forbidden areas

      You further filled 30-40% of your content with “you” in the frame. Example , why do we need to see you walking around a gas chamber? Why do we need to see you walking in a corridor looking at dead inmates photos . Why do we need to see “you” constantly. It’s not about you .

      Clearly , you miss the point . There are numerous videos online of honourable coverage.

      I believe your intentions are good , but the execution was horrendous

    35. @Anonymas880 on

      Make a documentry about jaliwalabagh massacars by britishers.where they killed innocent men,women,and childern,in a open ground..
      Also make an documentary on Indigo cultivation where europeans(bririshers) brutally tourtured and murderd innocent farmers if They were refused to cultivate indigo ..

    42. @jemschannel81 on

      I've watched one of the video of the Concentration camp survivor ,
      " she said animals are treated way better than Human
      the way they treated the human there was worse and worse than animals
      the food to the animals even when dog are sick and they called the animal doctor and taken to animal hospital right away
      but to the prisoners' there being kill like the garbage to them. you can not describe it. it was horrible """"

    44. @lizzapaolia959 on

      Thank you for sharing. Let's not forget what both Bush s have done to Iraq and other places. The death and destruction seems to be ignored. The death toll is still ongoing. Only God knows how many innocent people were killed and still suffer.

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