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Memory of the Camps

Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.

FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London’s Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, ‘Memory of the Camps.

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  1. This is all truly horrible and brutal but let’s just get the whole picture here!! This barbarity and brutality is not specific to any country or race and actually has stalked mankind since the beginning. Before the modern era, the biggest killers were the chinese emperors who approximately killed over 35 million people!!!

    Since the modern era, here are the whole picture:
    -Mao Zedong killed anywhere from 50 to over 70 million of his own people in a peacetime, the largest democide in all of human history. The 45 million peasants who starved to death from his policy of great leap forward were worse than the slave laborers at auschwitz and two chinese authors claim by that that he was even more diabolical villain than Hitler or Stalin!!

    -Imperial Japan invaded china and southeast asia, the pacific during ww2 and japanese scientists and researchers committed some of the worst atrocities like human experiments in what is known as Unit 731. Most of the guinea pigs were either chinese or korean ( innocent civilians snatched from the street ) and even allied pows!! It is estimated that up to 25 million people died during the pacific theatre of war!!!

    -Cambodian genocide where one man named Pol Pot killed up to 25% of his own people in less than four years!! Majority died of execution, hunger or worked to death!! The united states bombed cambodia in the vietnam war but it is recently come to light that the chinese communist government aided and supplied the pol pot regime every step of the way as it was massacring its own people. The chinese government did not even protest the killing of ethnic chinese and that regime would have collapsed in a week without chinese aid lol….
    ( Terrorism has roots in Maoism and the terror tactics and brutality during the cultural revolution inspired Pol Pot’s khmer rouge regime lol……)

    -The Bangladeshi genocide then known as east pakistan where the leaders of the west pakistan now just pakistan planned a systemic destruction and murder against the east pakistan ( now bangladesh ). Estimates range from anywhere between hundred thousands to millions!!! The topic is still not popular in pakistan lol…..

    -The Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocide committed by the muslim turks in the early 20th century!! It is estimated up to two million armenians were massacred during that genocide!!
    And there was a population exchange between greece and turkey after the whole thing lol…..
    And ever since islam was invented, it waged war in every direction and perhaps killed as many as 270 million people!!! They had white slaves until it was stopped by the europeans and muhammad had black slaves!!! The arab slave trade has a very long history of raiding and kidnapping christian ( today ) or hindu girls and they would end up in shitty brothels deep in the interior of the caliphate lol…..The arab slave trade was very long and expansive and even today, women are virtually enslaved in arab/muslim countries, something which is conveniently ignored by the western leftist feminists!!!!!!! Islam is inherently expansionist and imperialistic!!
    Turkey was once christian, Egypt was once christian and Afghanistan was once buddhist!!!
    So, let’s just not make the totally stupid and ignorant conclusion that it was only the germans awful because they murdered six million jews!!! Historical facts tell us that it has gone on all over the world not limited to any country or race!!!

  2. this is propaganda holohoax .search[ spielbergs hoax last day of the big lie ] and hellstorm documentary.com for real holocaust.

  3. Wen I was a kid and went to school, I was told Germany and Hitler invated in 1940 and millions of people got killed because Hiter wanted a certain race. As I grew older I learned that Hitler and his allies made it up because they wanted money and with no descendants left they could claim entire estates. The Deutsche bank made a fortune!

  4. Fucking Germans they are bad people from the very begining mean and cruel… Unreal worse than animals what they did to other human beings hope they rotten in hell forever!

  5. I don’t know how so many Germans did not know about these camps.  Their denial would have had to have been stronger than the stench of the dead and rotting bodies.

  6. I am always fascinated by the events of the Holocaust.  Not because I think it was OK to do or anything but by how such an unimaginable atrocity was carried out and how they got away with it for so long.  The number of dead and the way they were killed is just staggering.  I saw a few things here that I had not seen in other documentaries or accounts like the burning of live people in barns to get rid of them and the barbed wire beds.  I would remind the other posters below me that most of the camps were different and their policies and methods of torture relied heavily upon the administrator overseeing the camp and how ruthless and psychopathic they were.

  7. British and American forces entered the camps well after the Russians had been there. The majority of deaths occurred following the ‘allied’ bombings of utilities and supply routes to the camps. The narrator sounds half-cut and is typical of the mindset of these Elites; guilessly promoting progaganda, hiding their dirty deeds behind the Hitlerian smokescreen. What about the so-called allied gulags? Don’t here much about them, do we? ‘skins tanned and made into lampshades’ I bail out here, amidst laughter.

  8. British and American forces entered the camps well after the Russians had been there. The majority of deaths occurred following the ‘allied’ bombings of utilities and supply routes to the camps. The narrator sounds half-cut and is typical of the mindset of these Elites; guilessly promoting progaganda, hiding their dirty deeds behind the Hitlerian smokescreen. What about the so-called allied gulags? Don’t here much about them, do we? ‘skins tanned and made into lampshades’ I bail out here, amidst laughter.

    • How do you know of what you speak young man  ?

      Let’s say for the sake of argument that the rate of deaths did increase in the more westward camps like Belsen in the wake of Allied bombings and the general disruption of the invasion forces.    Does that justify in any way the intent and the methods of the camps, and in particular the death mills to the east, hellish places like Auschwitz and Treblinka ?   Come now.

      My uncle was a Polish political prisoner, an inmate at Auschwitz for a couple of years, and his eyewitness testimony of gassings and other forms of murder are beyond questioning.

      I hope you are young, because  if you are old enough to know better you may be beyond hope.

      RP

    • Ignorant and blind. The perfect sheep.

    • Ignorant and blind. The perfect sheep.

  9. @e6842847d7903fef79486251a3bb9b6e:disqus , Is this all you do all day? Obsess over the Holocaust? You really need to get a life, and stop commenting on the Holocaust videos, no one really cares for your opinion.

  10. @e6842847d7903fef79486251a3bb9b6e:disqus , Is this all you do all day? Obsess over the Holocaust? You really need to get a life, and stop commenting on the Holocaust videos, no one really cares for your opinion.

    • No it’s not all I do, and if you didn’t care you wouldn’t have bothered responding. You don’t get annoyed by something you don’t care about.

      I didn’t make the Holocaust the single most important event in the past century, I’m sorry that something so important to millions of people on this planet is important to me as well.

      My main ‘obsession’ is in helping gain support for the International Solidarity Movement(and Christian Peacemaker Teams) and saving the Palestinian people, but the Holocaust and Zionism are an integral part of that.

      What you call a (social)’life’ I call pathetic ignorance to the world around you, a waste of a life.

      You have fun with your “life”, I prefer to do something worthwhile with mine.

      Of course I doubt helping the Palestinian people is worthwhile to you as in your “life” all that matters is having a “life” that other people think is cool, right?

      Pathetic.

      Here’s a real Jew who understands why myself and many others feel the way we do and why the Zionist lies need to exposed:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDODrMkO7jI

      http://palsolidarity.org/

      http://www.cpt.org/

      I’d wish you peace and happiness but you seem like the type of person who would only wish death upon me, so instead I will just say I hope your “life” comes crashing down and you come to understand that there are far more important things in this world than having a social life.

    • No it’s not all I do, and if you didn’t care you wouldn’t have bothered responding. You don’t get annoyed by something you don’t care about.

      I didn’t make the Holocaust the single most important event in the past century, I’m sorry that something so important to millions of people on this planet is important to me as well.

      My main ‘obsession’ is in helping gain support for the International Solidarity Movement(and Christian Peacemaker Teams) and saving the Palestinian people, but the Holocaust and Zionism are an integral part of that.

      What you call a (social)’life’ I call pathetic ignorance to the world around you, a waste of a life.

      You have fun with your “life”, I prefer to do something worthwhile with mine.

      Of course I doubt helping the Palestinian people is worthwhile to you as in your “life” all that matters is having a “life” that other people think is cool, right?

      Pathetic.

      Here’s a real Jew who understands why myself and many others feel the way we do and why the Zionist lies need to exposed:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDODrMkO7jI

      http://palsolidarity.org/

      http://www.cpt.org/

      I’d wish you peace and happiness but you seem like the type of person who would only wish death upon me, so instead I will just say I hope your “life” comes crashing down and you come to understand that there are far more important things in this world than having a social life.

  11. This was an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece I believe.

    The reason this film was never finished is the same reason the American PWD’s Buchenwald film was never finished, they were propaganda “atrocity” films being created for the purpose of “deNazification’ of the German people.

    Note the picture used as the icon here – it contradicts the official stories of the Holocaust.

    Note young, healthy looking children – they should be corpses since women and children incapable of working were supposedly sent to and ‘gassed upon arrival’ at the “death camps”.

    Dachau is an interesting thing – the ‘fake shower’ where the gas was supposedly piped in to the chamber…until the Allies realized there was no way to actually do that as they had claimed and then it became ‘tins of Zyklon B pellets dropped in’ to the chambers and the Dachau camp faded away from the gas chamber stories.

    Skip to the 34 minute mark to see the part about the gas being pumped in through the ‘fake showers’ – abandoned in 1945 already – probably why this film was abandoned.

    Of course the cut the audio in this version of the part showing the ‘control system’ and describing how it works and it’s silent until you hear about the guard ‘at the controls’ and then images of the pipes…

    Shady editing…

    • Also note that they mention and show in this film how the Allies made the Germans get rid of the bodies by creating mass graves where the bodies are just tossed in haphazardly – take note of those images.

      Many times now I’ve come across official websites and unofficial internet posters passing off photo’s of the mass graves the Allies created to dispose of diseased(not gassed) bodies as being photo’s taken by the Germans of their gas chamber mass-exterminations when they were supposedly ‘digging up’ hundreds of thousands of bodies to cremate them.

      Whether you support the Holocaust stories or not you should be outraged by the faking of evidence like that, if for no other reason than it gives us ‘deniers’ justification to continue ‘denying’ and spreading our “hate”.

  12. i had tears in my eyes within 5 minutes, i was lucky for the time and place i was born but if you think this kind of henious crime is gone you are not wrong but ill-informed.

  13. First they came for the Jews
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for the Communists
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a Communist.
    Then they came for the trade unionists
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they came for me
    and there was no one left
    to speak out for me.

    Pastor Martin Niemöller

  14. This was something I have never seen before, it stuned me, it kicked me, and it killed me to see the full impact of what my haritage has done to so many.