Nazi Concentration Camps
On conditions found in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Belgium by advancing Allied Armies during World War II. Consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture. Map of Europe shows locations of various camps. At Leipsig Concentration Camp, piles of dead bodies, and many living Russian, Czechoslovakian, Polish and French prisoners. U.S. Red Cross workers move them to German Air Force hospital where their former captors are forced to care for them.
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Similar situation in Sri Lanka Happening to Minority Tamils. Sri Lankan Government is Causing Genocide against Tamils with a Help of India.
While there is lots of terrible things going on in Sri Lanka saying this is the same type of thing is cheapening the meaning of this. Please feel free to demonstrate how similar this is. There does not seem to be a concerted effort to wipe out all Tamils, no laws removing all civil rights of people simply as they are Tamil, no large scale deportation to death camps. Lots of problems, lots of ****** decisions, lots of killing, but nothing at all like this.
You can’t compare sri lanka with 2 nd world war
travis just die
I agree.
I am nearly speechless.
I cannot possibly fathom the pain and suffering these people experienced. My heart aches with sorrow..
Oh how we humans are such animals. may “god” forgive us all.
ya know there is one word that I don’t hear over and over.As a matter of fact I hear the opposite the narrator keeps saying that there are all races from all countries.Not just the jewish please don’t hate on me,i’m not anti-semite,It just seems extremely tacky to me that one group of people would want to step forward and claim that the camps were all about them.The nazis didn’t just hate jews,no i don’t think hate, it was more like total indifference.Indifference to all humanity tnat was not Aryan.
One of the founding percepts of the Nazi State, was the insane belief in the superiority of one group of people, above all others.
Antisemitism has a long and deeply established history throughout Europe. The Nazi hatred of Jews was neither unique, nor unprecedented.
What was unique about the Nazis, was theirs was the first modern state, so utterly devoid of common human decency that, given the means, they set about creating the mechanism for mass murder on an industrial scale. That many other despised peoples were swept up into that killing machine, is a given. But it must be remembered that the machine itself, was planned and built, for the extermination of the Jews.
Concentrating despised minorities is also neither new, nor unique to the Nazis. The Americans inflicted such on the Indian populations with the Reservation system throughout the 19th century, and it still exists, to some extent, today. The British invented the modern concept of the Concentration Camp, during the Boar War.
Whether from the medieval European Jewish Ghetto, to the Negro ghettos of the United States, to Palestinian refugee camps, to the high-rise ghettos that France reserves for her Muslim immigrants, or to ‘China Towns’ all over the world, States have, either by design or fiat, sought to better control despised minorities by isolating them from the general populace.
Such is the case today, with the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. The Tamils have lost a particularly nasty war with the Sri Lankan government. Tamils have been rounded up, and forced from their homes, at gunpoint, into concentration camps. That much is fact. That conditions in those camps are deplorable, and people are dying as a result, is also a fact. That the Sri Lankan government is not bothered by this, seems clear.
I believe one can, without in any way diminishing the horror of the Nazi death camps, compare the two.
In both cases, a despised minority was forced, under threat of death, behind barbed wire. That the Sri Lankan government is allowing a captive people to die from hunger or disease, but refrains from out-right murder, demonstrates only a difference in degree.
Is this an out-and-out genocide? No. Not yet. But is it a viscous example of inhumanity?
Think about this – Am I better person, because I only killed one of your children, and not the rest?
What is happening to the Tamils is a tragedy, but moreover, it is a crime. And as with the case of the Jews, the world has chosen to do nothing.
Where is the UN sanctioned embargo of trade goods, that might so effectively force the Sri Lankan government to change their ways?
The answer is as simple, as it is shameful.
The Tamils are a small people, without wealth or friends.
During their war, the Tamils confined their terrorism to Sri Lanka. While condemning all terrorism, we need to ask: If they’d hijacked airliners, or leveled an office tower in a western city, would we hear them now?
As it is, no one cares.
And that, in the end, says something very sad about us.
it may not be like sri lanka but its definately the same as what the jews are doing in palestine
waaow you are so mistaken!! Give me a freakin break. You are actually comparing this to Palestine? What a misinformed ignorant media induced comment! Let me guess another Jew hater..are you?!
loli, it is you who are more than mistaken. In one sense, you are right, you can’t compare this to what’s happening in the ever shrinking country of Palestine. The Zionists have been subjecting them to similar atrocities. For over 60 years, murder and theft of Palestinian land has become the norm. It is absurd to call it ‘self-defense’ considering their might. Because of Israeli blockades, the Gaza Strip and West Bank have become the world’s largest open-air prisons; that is a fact. Oh and your smearing of waaow of being a ‘jew hater’ is becoming a tired Zionist ploy of silencing the truth. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism; it is completely opposite and responsible for most of the anti-Semitism in the world BECAUSE of their terrorist acts. Oh, and speaking of Semites, Palestinians are Semites as well – another thing the Zionists have stolen.
I watched this with horror, that man can be so wicked. It does not matter what nationality or religion these poor people were it should never have been allowed to happen. I am ashamed that the German’s got the idea of the camp’s from the U.K. I was born in Scotland and I will never forgive or forget the brutality that was inflicted on those people during the 2nd world war and I hope we learn that this should never happen again.
Linda
jewish are doing the same to palastinans they kill them without any merci they never differentiate men women children.they steal the lands, destroy homes, terify children, deprive palastinian from all forms of life. gaza is like a big prison with no water,no food, no fuel. why should we remmember their miserable past while they are doing the same..this vedio is terrible but what they are doing is worse.
To compare the scale of the holocaust to anything else in history is futile – no matter how similar it may seem.
Many people construe the holocaust as merely a basis for the extermination of Jewish people and Jewish people alone and anyone else caught in the mix was just bad luck. However, this is not the case. Russians, those from the Baltic states, even – as how the nazi party started to gain power – percieved political/intellectual enemies (the first sent to concentration camps).
Yet – what many people don’t seem to grasp is the meaning of a concentration camp. Upon hearing those words a majority of people will think of a mass murder environment – again this is not the case. Although the environment may be extremely harsh and unforgiving – the concept, and indeed the early camps used by the nazis for political enemies, was never designed to be so. The death camp was merely an evolution that enveloped under a harsh regime that saw them ideal for their extreme racial ideals.
When managed upon such an industrial scale it was indeed the perfect way for the systematic eradication for an entire people. Through no media attention, obviously due to the times, the Nazis perfected this system to an insane level. If any other nation were to achieve such success with their racial goals ever again in history then we may as well send ourselves to such camps. That is why I say you can’t compare what they did to anything, however deplorable, that may happen in our time.
If you believe it to be that deplorable – then do something about it – don’t just moan on a video comment string. (contradiction with this comment duly noted)
I completely agree with Dave …
There is only one thing that needs to be said and that is:
Death is death is death is death is death is death is death.
Who cares who is dying?! All that matters is that we send our children to kill other people’s children, and they die.
‘I completely agree with’ Anon (sorry for the cut & paiste), except that we ALL should care; who and who is not dying. This, and all of this IS weather we are or aren’t.
Live and let live. That’s what someone used to say, and it doesn’t have to talk about a history that was written by the victors.
The truth is the first casualty of war, let it not be the last.
‘The meek shall inherit the Earth’. S***, I don’t even qualify for that; who does?
I was wanting to puke up during this film. It’s left me with a very bad taste in the mouth. I have smelt dead bodies before and it’s not pleasant. Yet the scale of this disgusting savagery is still utterly shocking.
This is one film I’d tell people to watch. This is also the same film I’d like people not to watch. If anyone can look upon those corpses and learn nothing, I despair.
What really got me was the flies. Oh my god.
F’in Nazis. I’m not a fighter but you made me into one.
To John M whatever-your-name is – shut up you prick.
This is like what is happening in palestine.
If you argue otherwise, yo uare a fool in complete denial.
Jews are hypocitical murderers.
People that deny the holocaust is on some way or another mentally ill! Humans need to find a social structure that is somewhere between religion and atheism for this to never happen again!!
I heard Hitler killed himself at the end of WW2 when he got the gas bill in the mail.
I knew there was a reason I had never investigated concentration camps. My god… The footage and figures quoted is almost too much for my brain to fathom.
I must admit, I did enjoy the idea of the US making the SS and townsfolk witness then clean up their mess.
Very confronting stuff, not for the easily upset.
We should stop comparing and start accepting human nature and all it’s cruelties.
It is here to stay with us and any attempt to change this will be futile.
Only then we can be prepared for the next time.
Wonder why we have little faith in are fellow man.
@SimonW
LOL that’s rich good joke ROFLMAO! We needed that after this doc. Try watching this together with this : http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/faces-of-death/
If you can do it nothing will get to you ever again. I dare YOU!
week is always wrong, strong is always right, this is the way of life. we will never learn from our past. mistaks, no these r not mistaks. killing any 1 innocent person is like killing all humanity, what about killing wast number of peoples.
question now is what about now, where we go from hare.
Whatever happened was so wrong!
But ever wondered why jews are singled out for vehement world wide sympathies when pre and aftermath of world wars or any genocide wasn’t kind to anyone. Shouldn’t we then sympathize in equal measure with the Japanese, Vietnamese, Kashmiris and belief-wise with the Palestinian muslims, Irish christians, tibetan monks etc etc.
The scale is far too tipped to make brainwashed media loyalists actually see what Israeli jews are doing with impunity holding out the shield of antisemitism and holocaust memories for every criticism they face. Too bad they haven’t learned anything yet.