Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp

Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during World War II. More than a million people - the vast majority of them Jews - died there between 1940, when it was built, and 1945, when it was liberated by the Soviet army.

Railway tracks into Auschwitz-Birkenau - Trains filled with victims from throughout occupied Europe arrived at the camp almost every day between 1942 and the summer of 1944.

Ruins of wooden huts at Birkenau - Birkenau (or Auschwitz II) was erected in 1941 solely as a death camp, the wooden huts are now in ruins with only brick fireplaces and chimneys remaining.

Entrance to Auschwitz I -The wrought-iron sign over the entrance bears the words Arbeit Macht Frei - "Work sets you free".

Auschwitz I - The brick-built buildings were the former cavalry barracks of the Polish Army.

Courtyard between blocks 10 and 11 at Auschwitz I - Block 11 was called "the Block of Death" by prisoners. Executions took place between Block 10 and Block 11 and posts in the yard were used to string up prisoners by their wrists.

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-2 1. sux2bu commented 9 years ago

Hitler tried his best to exterminate the Jews but he was defeated and
now it is still some of the Muslims that are still determined to do it.

http://arabisraeliconflict.info/arab-israel-facts/fact-6-palestinians-nazis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world
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+1 2. djacy commented 9 years ago

Terrible sight, imagine how will feel people who were there after watching this video.
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+15 3. oliverjantar commented 9 years ago

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
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+10 4. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago

In case some holocaust-denier feels the urge to comment: Fuck off!
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+4 5. ughlah commented 9 years ago

According to a documentary I heard a few days back everyone had to stand in the court, if someone managed to escape, till they caught that person, both hands in their neck. The only way to stop that was to fall unconscious in which case that had to be checked by brutal beatings. Despite being a rather big facility very few people escaped.
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-12 6. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago

Auschwitz and the German Nazi monsters who ran it, is beyond the imagination of most of the rest of humanity. Psychologists can explain how given the power that the 'Staff' had over their captives in this camp and others like it, it was relatively easy to distance themselves from their fellow humans by considering them as somehow subhuman.
But to cold bloodedly design and build a place like this and spend years and years systematically murdering men, women, children & babies everyday, well it is just unthinkable. And today we worry about a small group of pathetic terrorists dressed in black who shoot a few people and blow up the odd building! We ought to say *uck off we've had it so much worse :|
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+9 7. Pyranthos commented 9 years ago

#6, sometimes you just say stupid shit that irks me. Its not a competition. Its ALL fuct up. Just because John doe has had it worse than James, doesn't mean john needs to be a rude, unsympathetic ass to James. Esp considering john wasn't even alive when his people suffered like that.. James's people are suffering through their situation to this very day... so ditch the discrepancy. Life is life. Be it 500 people or 5 billion people. ANY senseless death is tragic. And thus, deserves more damn respect than "*uck off" just because its smaller scale tragedy.

That aside, I do agree with pretty much the rest of your post. It stirs anger to think what those people suffered at the hands of other people and the scale of it all. Its shameful, the level of hatred and disrespect toward fellow human beings, and life itself, that people can have.
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+6 8. watsonlr commented 9 years ago

One of the most poignant comments I've heard from a survivor visiting the camps was that there was grass. She said there never would have been grass at the time becuase they would have eaten it.

It's barbaric the ways we can treat each other. Simply barbaric.
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+2 9. snotraddict commented 9 years ago

#5 or someone, sounds interesting but I don't fully understand, please try explaining your point again.

#6 I was with you till the end of your thoughts with regards to terrorists. Don't under estimate nor discount these terrorists, this is just the beginning I believe.
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-3 10. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago

#4. Interestingly, holocaust denial is illegal in several European countries, (not in the UK). Dreadful though the actions of Germany was, I am against the restraint of free speech in this way.
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0 11. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago

#10 There is absolutely no reason to be against free speech if the free speech is speaking about an event with over 5 million witnesses dead and alive. Speech isn't required free or otherwise it happened end of. :S
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-2 12. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago

#11. Yes, I believe it happened. But I wasn't there and neither were you. And no matter how objectionable I might find people who believe otherwise, and promote an opposing view, I do not feel they should be punished for holding that view. They should be as free to express their views as are you and I.
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+1 13. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago

#10 I am from Germany, where holocaust-denial and the display of Nazisymbols are a crime, and completely on one page with you. They absolutely should have the right to spew their nonsense. The silencing is only fuel to the flames of their twisted conspiracy theory anyways. But that does not mean their views are to be respected by the public, whose duty is to tell them to "Fuck off!".
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-1 14. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago

#13. Wir uns einig sind. :)
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+2 15. ughlah commented 9 years ago

@rosekatie "Wir sind uns einig."

@kirkelicious: Coming from germany you should take a look at why this law was passed. Freedom of speech is something that is honoured very highly in germany, nowadays.

It's not like germans were the dumbest people in the world at that time or they just stupidly wanted to follow an austrian leader that had a dream of killing all jews. Over 50% of all scientific publications a hundred years ago were written in german. It is propaganda and lies that allowed the nazis to come to power. This is why this may never ever happen again and this is why this one topic is the exception to the freedom of speech.

Just one short example: The family Tietz are the first founders of malls in germany (Hermann Tietz founded Hertie, his brother Kaufhof), basically everything you want under one roof. They managed to give the customers more variety at lower prices and traditional german shop owners struggled. Poverty and hunger was a huge problem with high reperation payments and a worldwide financial crisis. No government stands in power for the full 4 years and you have nine election in 14 years (1919-1933), five of those in the final 5 years. Now the nazi propaganda blames the jews in form of the family Tietz for becoming richer and richer while traditional small german shops are driven into poverty. Then they start rewriting the events of the first world war, start blaming the jews for murdering christ. And if you had the guts to tell the truth, there was some nazis visiting you.
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0 16. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago

#15 I am fully aware of the dilemma. All holocaust denial is driven by antisemitism. I just dont think threatening a single idea with prosecution, while allowing people to spread misinformation about other topics and minorities will make much of a difference, other than reinforcing the forbidden belief. You could threaten all people who circulate potential dangerous false facts about race, gender, nationalities, sexuality, medicine, technology, religion... with jail-time or you have to make every thought open for discussion and hope that an educated society can deal with it.

A law, that exclusively protects the Jewish people in this way is a bit anachronistic, given the fact that if something similar to what you describe where to happen today in Germany, it would probably be directed against the German Muslims.

We will yet have to see if an unrestricted exchange of (mis)information will work especially in the age of social media, but i would be willing to give it a try.
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0 17. Pepperoni39 commented 9 years ago

Die Amis sollten sich lieber mal an die eigene Nase fassen...
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+2 18. Sizzlik (admin) commented 9 years ago

#17 Wird nich passieren..gibt genügend andere nasen nach denen man fassen kann..leider.
But still..lets keep the comments in english ;)