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![Leonas Stonkus, whose Nazi-led Lithuanian battalion shot the Jews of Kopyl in Belarus: Interviewer: “Were they shot lying on the ground, or in the pits?” Stonkus: “The women knelt, I think. The children were jumping about. They had no idea this was a death zone. [...] The children stood in front. Behind them, all were already shot. They did not realize their parents were dead. The older boys or girls understood. The little ones just carried on fooling around.” Interviewer: “So how were the children driven to the pit?” Stonkus: “The women led the children. The order was that a mother must not leave her child behind. You must take your child with you. If you don't have the child, give it to a neighbor to lead.” Interviewer: “Mothers and children?” Stonkus: “Together. They crammed them into that pit, one on top of another. No one paid any attention. They fired, and that was it.” This comes from USHMM’s interviews with Lithuanian witnesses (Leonas Stonkus interview, 1998, RG-50.473.0023). English captions translated from USHMM's transcript of Stonkus’s Lithuanian. Cut and captioned by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2114802146738590095/amplify_video_thumb/2114801081498693632/img/MSjaKH8NDXht6LKQ.jpg)
Leonas Stonkus, whose Nazi-led Lithuanian battalion shot the Jews of Kopyl in Belarus: Interviewer: “Were they shot lying on the ground, or in the pits?” Stonkus: “The women knelt, I think. The children were jumping about. They had no idea this was a death zone. [...] The children stood in front. Behind them, all were already shot. They did not realize their parents were dead. The older boys or girls understood. The little ones just carried on fooling around.” Interviewer: “So how were the children driven to the pit?” Stonkus: “The women led the children. The order was that a mother must not leave her child behind. You must take your child with you. If you don't have the child, give it to a neighbor to lead.” Interviewer: “Mothers and children?” Stonkus: “Together. They crammed them into that pit, one on top of another. No one paid any attention. They fired, and that was it.” This comes from USHMM’s interviews with Lithuanian witnesses (Leonas Stonkus interview, 1998, RG-50.473.0023). English captions translated from USHMM's transcript of Stonkus’s Lithuanian. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p601,037 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen
![Josef Klehr, an SS medic at Auschwitz who was sentenced to life for at least 475 murders, most by injection, and for helping gas more than 2,000 people: “[Death by injection] wasn’t as cruel as gassing. Gassing was a cruel death.” “I saw the bodies coming out. [...] With the injection, I tell you, he collapsed before the syringe was empty. With gassing, though, the humming went on for at least ten minutes. And it kept growing fainter.” Interviewer: “No one ever pleaded with you, begged you to let them live?” Klehr: “No, never. That is exactly what I always wondered about, you know. They could always have said, ‘Please let me live,’ or something. Not a sound. Not a sound was uttered.” He was tried in Frankfurt and found guilty of leading the camp’s gassing squad and of having at least once poured the Zyklon B into the gas chamber. The interesting part is that he never denied the gassings, just his part in them. You see this over and over in the testimony, where everyone agrees on what happened, but almost no one admits to being the one who did it. This is sourced from a 1978 interview from Ebbo Demant’s 1999 doc Drei deutsche Morder. I clipped the footage and added English subtitles translated from his German, which were checked and edited by Gams , a native speaker who has been a huge help with this.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2115123857883385861/amplify_video_thumb/2115123652769271808/img/K4om_v-hN3SVXPMr.jpg)
Josef Klehr, an SS medic at Auschwitz who was sentenced to life for at least 475 murders, most by injection, and for helping gas more than 2,000 people: “[Death by injection] wasn’t as cruel as gassing. Gassing was a cruel death.” “I saw the bodies coming out. [...] With the injection, I tell you, he collapsed before the syringe was empty. With gassing, though, the humming went on for at least ten minutes. And it kept growing fainter.” Interviewer: “No one ever pleaded with you, begged you to let them live?” Klehr: “No, never. That is exactly what I always wondered about, you know. They could always have said, ‘Please let me live,’ or something. Not a sound. Not a sound was uttered.” He was tried in Frankfurt and found guilty of leading the camp’s gassing squad and of having at least once poured the Zyklon B into the gas chamber. The interesting part is that he never denied the gassings, just his part in them. You see this over and over in the testimony, where everyone agrees on what happened, but almost no one admits to being the one who did it. This is sourced from a 1978 interview from Ebbo Demant’s 1999 doc Drei deutsche Morder. I clipped the footage and added English subtitles translated from his German, which were checked and edited by Gams , a native speaker who has been a huge help with this.
patrick p530,352 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen
Juozas Aleksynas, whose Nazi-led Lithuanian police battalion shot Jews across Belarus in 1941: Interviewer: “If a parent was holding a child, did they lie down together in the pit?” Aleksynas: “They lay down beside the child, with an arm over the child.” Interviewer: “Did you choose whom to shoot, the father or the child?” Aleksynas: “You shot the father first. That’s how it was. The father. A child doesn’t feel anything. You put yourself in his place. How would the father feel if his child was shot beside him? That’s how it was.” Interviewer: “Did they scream as you shot?” Aleksynas: “Women sometimes cried as they walked. Mostly not. They didn’t scream or anything.” This comes from USHMM’s interviews with Lithuanian witnesses (Juozas Aleksynas interview, RG-50.473.0010). English captions translated from Aleksynas’s Lithuanian. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p350,162 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen
![In interview after interview with Poles in the villages around the Reinhard extermination camps, they knew what was happening. Here Lanzmann asks a farmer in Poniatowo, the closest village to Treblinka, whether he knew the Jews were being exterminated there: Farmer: “Oh, come on, sir. Come on. Is that even something to ask?” Lanzmann: “Did the stench of the bodies reach here too?” Farmer: “It did. With the wind… Very strong. Mornings, like now, or evenings, you heard the crying, everything.” Farmer: “Twenty cars, a hundred people each, on average, because those were cattle cars, of course, right? Those from abroad came in normal cars, all in order… Jews from abroad didn't even believe they were going to die. They believed it was the colonies. People warned them there, and they laughed at it.” Lanzmann: “How did you warn those Jews?” Farmer: “We said: you're going there. [draws a finger across his throat] No common language. That was the simplest way.” This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Treblinka, RG-60.5077), filmed in 1978. USHMM has no transcript for this reel, so I subtitled it from the Polish audio, checked against the interpreter's French. Cut and captioned by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2115933142070562936/amplify_video_thumb/2115930823245385728/img/RpWLnqEUsAjCpoTK.jpg)
In interview after interview with Poles in the villages around the Reinhard extermination camps, they knew what was happening. Here Lanzmann asks a farmer in Poniatowo, the closest village to Treblinka, whether he knew the Jews were being exterminated there: Farmer: “Oh, come on, sir. Come on. Is that even something to ask?” Lanzmann: “Did the stench of the bodies reach here too?” Farmer: “It did. With the wind… Very strong. Mornings, like now, or evenings, you heard the crying, everything.” Farmer: “Twenty cars, a hundred people each, on average, because those were cattle cars, of course, right? Those from abroad came in normal cars, all in order… Jews from abroad didn't even believe they were going to die. They believed it was the colonies. People warned them there, and they laughed at it.” Lanzmann: “How did you warn those Jews?” Farmer: “We said: you're going there. [draws a finger across his throat] No common language. That was the simplest way.” This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Treblinka, RG-60.5077), filmed in 1978. USHMM has no transcript for this reel, so I subtitled it from the Polish audio, checked against the interpreter's French. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p184,828 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Franz Suchomel, an SS sergeant at Treblinka, on hidden camera explaining that the Jews believed in the beginning they were actually being resettled, but as time went on, more of them understood what was happening. But even when they knew what was going to happen: "The people were already so poor and so demoralized that they no longer defended themselves. And could not defend themselves either. They couldn't defend themselves, because they would have been shot in the ghettos, on the transport or in Treblinka." Sourced from Claude Lanzmann's Shoah outtakes at USHMM (RG-60.5046, reels FV3761 and FV3762). English captions drawn from the USHMM's translation, with corrections from the German and lots of help from Gams. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p52,226 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
Franz Schalling was a police guard at Chelmno, where ~150,000 Jews were murdered in gas vans. Filmed by Lanzmann with a hidden camera, he explained why he never told his wife: “Until my dying day she'd call me a murderer.” On telling his son: “He would despise me.” Lanzmann: “And not with your wife either.” Schalling: “Tell my wife that? For God's sake.” Lanzmann: “And during the war, you never spoke about it with your wife? She never knew you were in Chelmno.” Schalling: “Never. Never. I can't tell her that. For God's sake.” Watching and captioning all this testimony, I've noticed how often these guys talk about never telling their families. This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (RG-60.5034). I clipped the footage and added English subtitles, with a ton of help from Gams.
patrick p57,762 Aufrufe • vor 3 Tagen
![Czeslaw Sikorski, a Polish railway worker, on the Jews of Sokolow being driven onto trains to Treblinka: “And while they were driving them along, one woman had a dead child in her arms. I saw it. Only its legs and little hands were swinging. They just kept driving them on. [...] Anyone who fell behind was shot. They were left on the road. Later they gathered the bodies onto a cart and took them away. I don't even know where, those killed. [...] And of those who ran away, I saw one young woman who ran for almost a kilometer. They shot at her but couldn't hit her. They caught her, brought her back to the wagon and put her inside. They caught up with her on motorcycles.” It was an open secret what it meant to be sent on a train to Treblinka. A lot of the Jews knew too, and some tore out the barbed wire and jumped from the moving trains. Sikorski: “Everyone knew about that. About the persecution and deportations, that this was the end of the line. Some of the people traveling there knew, the people in those transports. While a transport was moving, they escaped, jumped out after tearing apart the barbed wire. They jumped from the moving train, at stations and along the line. The SS men stood on the wagon steps the whole time, on the footboards of the wagon, and whoever tried to escape, they shot. After a train like that passed, people lay there, killed. It wasn't only me who knew. Those people knew too, the people in Siedlce. Everyone knew. They were just waiting for it to happen.” Keep in mind deniers claim these were "transit" camps. Transit camps that smelled of burning flesh, that people would rather be shot than reach, and from which only ~70 of the ~900,000 people sent there were alive at the end of the war. Sourced from USHMM's interviews with Polish witnesses to the Holocaust (Czeslaw Sikorski interview, July 7, 1999, RG-50.488.0076). English captions translated from Sikorski's Polish. Cut and captioned by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2116241078755934623/amplify_video_thumb/2116238528442978304/img/IJjS9TNheRXUSd5Q.jpg)
Czeslaw Sikorski, a Polish railway worker, on the Jews of Sokolow being driven onto trains to Treblinka: “And while they were driving them along, one woman had a dead child in her arms. I saw it. Only its legs and little hands were swinging. They just kept driving them on. [...] Anyone who fell behind was shot. They were left on the road. Later they gathered the bodies onto a cart and took them away. I don't even know where, those killed. [...] And of those who ran away, I saw one young woman who ran for almost a kilometer. They shot at her but couldn't hit her. They caught her, brought her back to the wagon and put her inside. They caught up with her on motorcycles.” It was an open secret what it meant to be sent on a train to Treblinka. A lot of the Jews knew too, and some tore out the barbed wire and jumped from the moving trains. Sikorski: “Everyone knew about that. About the persecution and deportations, that this was the end of the line. Some of the people traveling there knew, the people in those transports. While a transport was moving, they escaped, jumped out after tearing apart the barbed wire. They jumped from the moving train, at stations and along the line. The SS men stood on the wagon steps the whole time, on the footboards of the wagon, and whoever tried to escape, they shot. After a train like that passed, people lay there, killed. It wasn't only me who knew. Those people knew too, the people in Siedlce. Everyone knew. They were just waiting for it to happen.” Keep in mind deniers claim these were "transit" camps. Transit camps that smelled of burning flesh, that people would rather be shot than reach, and from which only ~70 of the ~900,000 people sent there were alive at the end of the war. Sourced from USHMM's interviews with Polish witnesses to the Holocaust (Czeslaw Sikorski interview, July 7, 1999, RG-50.488.0076). English captions translated from Sikorski's Polish. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p63,638 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen
Ella Lingens, an Austrian doctor and political prisoner at Auschwitz: “They kept filling up the camp, and everyone for whom there was no room went straight into the crematorium, to the gas chambers. “What terrified me was another train coming in when we were already full. My patients lay four, three to a bed in the infirmary. There were no blankets, no sheets, no medicines, nothing at all. And the thought, ‘Now more are coming in,’ was simply terrifying. And then you were horrified at yourself, because your first thought was: ‘If only they wouldn’t come to us.’ And your second thought was: ‘Yes, but if they don’t come to us, then they’re gassed.’” On SS doctor Fritz Klein: “I said to him: ‘How can you reconcile this with your Hippocratic oath?’ And he replied: ‘Because I’ve sworn a Hippocratic oath, I cut a festering appendix out of a human body. Jews are the festering appendix in the body of Europe and must be cut out.’” Sourced from the documentary “Der Judenmord - Deutsche und Österreicher berichten” (Michel Alexandre, WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Lingens’s German, with help from Gams, a native speaker who has been a huge help with this. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p45,392 Aufrufe • vor 7 Tagen
![Wehrmacht officer Axel von dem Bussche recounting the massacre of ~5,000 Jews in Dubno, Ukraine: “That line of naked people, men, women, children, old people, moved forward a few meters and stopped. [...] [The SS man] had twelve naked people at a time climb down into the pit and then he fired. Twelve, fourteen, fifteen shots. Then the line moved up.” Interviewer: “What was your reaction?” Bussche: “… Murder, yes. Mass murder, yes. But beyond that, the notion of extermination was quite clear.” “The truly Christian reaction would have been to strip on the spot and join that line.” There were ~11,000 Jews in the Dubno ghetto in 1942, and by the end of the war only 300 had survived. Sourced from the documentary “Der Judenmord - Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten” (Michel Alexandre, WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Bussche’s German, with lots of importanthelp from Gams. Cut and captioned by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2111949972363260080/amplify_video_thumb/2111949649221173248/img/7xOK6Sn5tnEQUIQ8.jpg)
Wehrmacht officer Axel von dem Bussche recounting the massacre of ~5,000 Jews in Dubno, Ukraine: “That line of naked people, men, women, children, old people, moved forward a few meters and stopped. [...] [The SS man] had twelve naked people at a time climb down into the pit and then he fired. Twelve, fourteen, fifteen shots. Then the line moved up.” Interviewer: “What was your reaction?” Bussche: “… Murder, yes. Mass murder, yes. But beyond that, the notion of extermination was quite clear.” “The truly Christian reaction would have been to strip on the spot and join that line.” There were ~11,000 Jews in the Dubno ghetto in 1942, and by the end of the war only 300 had survived. Sourced from the documentary “Der Judenmord - Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten” (Michel Alexandre, WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Bussche’s German, with lots of importanthelp from Gams. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p86,458 Aufrufe • vor 17 Tagen
Franz Suchomel, a former SS guard at the Treblinka extermination camp, recalls recognizing a former schoolmate who arrived from Theresienstadt with his family. He says the man refused his offer to save him after learning that his pregnant wife had already been gassed. “I said, ‘Hey, do you want to stay with me?’” “He said, ‘I’m not alone, I have a wife.’ I said, ‘I can get her out too.’ ‘Yes, but she’s pregnant.’ I said, ‘In which month?’ ‘In the third.’ I said, ‘That’ll work.’” “I went into the women’s barrack and yelled, ‘Marie Rubinowa, is she here? Marie Rubinowa!’ I yelled a few times, was told that she’s gone already. Went out. “… and said, ‘Unfortunately, your wife is gone already, but please, stay here.’ He said, ‘No’.” Lanzmann asks whether the man understood what Suchomel meant by “gone already.” “Of course he knew what it was. He said, ‘No, I’m going to my wife. Thank you.’” This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Franz Suchomel interview, RG-60.5046). I clipped the footage and added English subtitles using USHMM’s translation of the interview, timed to the original German audio.
patrick p210,309 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Interviewer: "When the mothers tried to protect their children, who did you aim at first?" "First we shot the parents, then the children. So the parents wouldn't have to see their kids die. The little ones... It's monstrous! The older children knew their fate. They lay down in the pit. But the little ones tried to crawl over to their dead parents. They crawled on all fours." Lithuanian Nazi auxiliary rifleman discussing the Jewish genocide, and his role shooting Jewish women and children, on how the Germans orchestrated and supervised the murders, how they brought POWs in to cover the bodies, and how the Germans walked on the bodies afterward, shooting anyone still alive. Content warning because this is incredibly disturbing. I cut the interview together from different segments in the amazing documentary, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades
patrick p258,192 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Franz Suchomel, an SS sergeant at Treblinka, on hidden camera, describing the Lazarett, a fake infirmary where the old, the sick and children were shot at the edge of a burning pit: “There was a white flag with a red cross. They didn’t know yet that they would be shot there.” Lanzmann: “And children too?” Suchomel: “Children too.” Lanzmann: “Which children were sent to the Lazarett?” Suchomel: “Sick children. Or if the mother was sick or the grandmother was old … then the children were sent along with the grandmother.” Lanzmann: “How many people were shot in the Lazarett?” Suchomel: “Let’s take it per day, not per transport. … Could have been twenty, but also two hundred.” This is qt'ing a model I posted the other day of the Lazarett, to give some context to what it looked like. Sourced from Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes at USHMM (RG-60.5046, reels FV3755 and FV3757). English captions translated from Suchomel’s German, with important help from Gams. I joined four sections of the interview into one clip. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p70,558 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
A farmer who worked a field across from the Treblinka extermination camp, describing what he saw when deportation trains pulled into the nearby station: “The corpses lay there. They sat on them. No room. Imagine August or July heat, with all the doors shut. About 150 inside, travelling for who knows how many days. No water, nothing. Of course they died.” He also described what happened when the Jewish deportees tried to get water: “When the convoys arrived, it was often very hot. The Jews were very thirsty. They tried to get out. As they got out, Ukrainians opened fire. Here there was blood and brain matter.” Sourced from Shoah outtakes, USHMM (RG-60.5077, reel FV3811). English captions translated from the farmer’s Polish and the interpreter’s French, timed to the audio and clipped by me.
patrick p59,378 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
Inna Evgenieva, a Christian girl from Kiev who witnessed the mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar: "I remember a group of four or five girls who absolutely refused to undress. The Germans pulled on their clothing. 'Undress!' they shrieked. And they refused. They attacked the Germans. We could hear. The Germans cursed them, and shot them then and there, fully dressed. They died with their clothes on. They were dragged to the ravine and thrown in." Evgenieva watched from the attic of her family's house. I put together a map showing how close she was to the ravine, and am going to attach it to a reply to this post. She recalls at the end of the day's shooting: "We could see the outlines of the bodies. At the end of a day, they built a circular sand dike. In its centre we could see a black pool of blood and fat. A lake of black liquid. So many people had been killed... The wounded bled. You could see the blood through the sand." Sourced from Michael Prazan's doc, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (2009), Part I. I kept the documentary's English subtitles.
patrick p47,331 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
![Franz Suchomel, an SS guard at Treblinka, describing the Jewish women waiting in the "tube," a narrow fenced path from the undressing area to the gas chamber: "The women in the tube had to wait. They heard the motors of the gas chamber." "Well, while they were standing there, mortal fear gripped them." "[Wirth] was an organizer. As much as he was a beast, he was that good an organizer. You constantly had to be on the look-out. It had to be fast, because the removal of the corpses, that took longer, because if the corpses had gold teeth, those still had to be pulled out." This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Franz Suchomel interview, RG-60.5046). Thanks to Gams who went over it and pointed out a few mistakes in the original USHMM transcript. Cut and captioned, and timed to the original German by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2102908436451332463/amplify_video_thumb/2102908234587643905/img/m3iRgZ0iuXy2hwy_.jpg)
Franz Suchomel, an SS guard at Treblinka, describing the Jewish women waiting in the "tube," a narrow fenced path from the undressing area to the gas chamber: "The women in the tube had to wait. They heard the motors of the gas chamber." "Well, while they were standing there, mortal fear gripped them." "[Wirth] was an organizer. As much as he was a beast, he was that good an organizer. You constantly had to be on the look-out. It had to be fast, because the removal of the corpses, that took longer, because if the corpses had gold teeth, those still had to be pulled out." This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Franz Suchomel interview, RG-60.5046). Thanks to Gams who went over it and pointed out a few mistakes in the original USHMM transcript. Cut and captioned, and timed to the original German by me.
patrick p123,409 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
The leaders of Al-Qaeda, and the participants of 9/11 all freely confessing over and over and over video thread. None of these were made in custody. They span 2001 to 2008: - Bin Laden, 2006: "I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers with those raids." - Bin Laden, 2004: "We had agreed with the overall commander, Mohammed Atta, that he complete all the operations within twenty minutes." - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 2002, a year before his arrest: "We began planning the two raids on Washington and New York two and a half years before them." - Ramzi Binalshibh, 2002, months before arrest: "This is not just a single hijacking operation, but four." - Ahmed al-Haznawi, Flight 93 hijacker, 2001, martyrdom video: "But the truth is as you have seen: we have killed them outside America, thanks to Allah, but today, we shall kill them in their homeland." - Zawahiri, 2008: "we have declared more than once, with the utmost clarity, that we were the ones who carried out not only the destruction of the Trade Center but the Pentagon as well." This is just a sample of a larger set of 30+ recordings from 2000 to 2011, most of them on video and none in custody.
patrick p150,939 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Heinz Schubert, an Einsatzgruppen officer and convicted war criminal, on hidden camera discussing his role in the Simferopol massacre, where 14,000 Jews and Roma were shot in less than a week. At one point, his wife interjects, telling him to make sure he says someone else gave the orders. He responds: 'But I'm not in front of a tribunal here.' This comes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah outtakes at USHMM (Heinz Schubert interview, RG-60.5013). I clipped the footage and added English subtitles using USHMM’s translation of the interview, timed to the original German audio.
patrick p112,457 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
!["[The Jews] ran the gauntlet because, of course, they hesitated at the first shots. Then they were jabbed with bayonets and ran into the pit. And I was outraged that this SS officer, with a captured Russian rifle, even joined in the shooting from two meters away, so that after half an hour he stood there, his Klepper coat splattered with brains and blood down to his knees." This is from Klaus Hornig, a German police officer and lawyer who served with Police Battalion 306 in occupied Poland. He refused an order to shoot Jewish prisoners in 1941, and was imprisoned and sent to Buchenwald. More on his life here: Sourced from the documentary Der Judenmord: Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten (WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Hornig's German, with lots of help from Gams. Cut and captioned by me.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2107530983318618266/amplify_video_thumb/2107527671886348289/img/D_Bf8SOKz71u3UIz.jpg)
"[The Jews] ran the gauntlet because, of course, they hesitated at the first shots. Then they were jabbed with bayonets and ran into the pit. And I was outraged that this SS officer, with a captured Russian rifle, even joined in the shooting from two meters away, so that after half an hour he stood there, his Klepper coat splattered with brains and blood down to his knees." This is from Klaus Hornig, a German police officer and lawyer who served with Police Battalion 306 in occupied Poland. He refused an order to shoot Jewish prisoners in 1941, and was imprisoned and sent to Buchenwald. More on his life here: Sourced from the documentary Der Judenmord: Deutsche und Osterreicher berichten (WDR, 1998). English captions translated from Hornig's German, with lots of help from Gams. Cut and captioned by me.
patrick p69,564 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
![“They all started screaming. It was a huge crowd of people. Not a dozen or so, but 7,500. They started screaming. There weren’t many Germans. There were Ukrainian policemen, but not many Germans. A girl, probably about 6, got away from the group. Crawling through the clover, she got as far as my cart. A policeman saw her, and ran over to tell a German. And the German came and shot her, right beside my cart. You see what a terrible tragedy it was.” - Kazymyr Vychnevsky, a Ukrainian farmer forced to push bodies into a mass grave with his plow, describing what he saw in 1942. He also describes two teenage girls left standing beside the killing pit while the Germans drank: “[Another German] brought two young girls. [...] He stood the girls by the pit. They were young, about 16 or 18. They were white as a sheet. [...] The two girls stayed by the pit. There was no place for them to run. It wasn’t the same, back then. There were no hiding places. The poor things just stood there, waiting. “Then the German remembered them. He sent one of the others over. That guy took his gun and walked to the pit, totally drunk. Forgive me saying it, but he gave the girl a kick in the ass. She fell in the water, and swam. “He shot at her, in the water. But he couldn’t hit her. He was too drunk. He kept missing.” Sourced from Michael Prazan’s amazing doc, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (2009), Part II. I clipped and joined Vychnevsky's two sections, and kept the documentary's English subtitles.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2110047076042133711/amplify_video_thumb/2110045006073327618/img/eEpdpaXl2drLNAUI.jpg)
“They all started screaming. It was a huge crowd of people. Not a dozen or so, but 7,500. They started screaming. There weren’t many Germans. There were Ukrainian policemen, but not many Germans. A girl, probably about 6, got away from the group. Crawling through the clover, she got as far as my cart. A policeman saw her, and ran over to tell a German. And the German came and shot her, right beside my cart. You see what a terrible tragedy it was.” - Kazymyr Vychnevsky, a Ukrainian farmer forced to push bodies into a mass grave with his plow, describing what he saw in 1942. He also describes two teenage girls left standing beside the killing pit while the Germans drank: “[Another German] brought two young girls. [...] He stood the girls by the pit. They were young, about 16 or 18. They were white as a sheet. [...] The two girls stayed by the pit. There was no place for them to run. It wasn’t the same, back then. There were no hiding places. The poor things just stood there, waiting. “Then the German remembered them. He sent one of the others over. That guy took his gun and walked to the pit, totally drunk. Forgive me saying it, but he gave the girl a kick in the ass. She fell in the water, and swam. “He shot at her, in the water. But he couldn’t hit her. He was too drunk. He kept missing.” Sourced from Michael Prazan’s amazing doc, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades (2009), Part II. I clipped and joined Vychnevsky's two sections, and kept the documentary's English subtitles.
patrick p39,910 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
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Lukas Reiter of the Waffen-SS on hidden camera explaining how prisoners were made to dig up bodies from mass graves and burn them, promised freedom, then murdered in gas vans: "We used a little trick on them. We told them, 'You’ll be freed.' They had to sign release papers. Do you know where they were taken next?" Interviewer: "To the East?" Reiter: "No, to gas vans. They were liquidated." Later in the interview: Interviewer: "Did they get in the gas vans willingly?" Reiter: "Yes, they had to go. No one was freed." This is clipped from Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades, Part II, an incredible documentary with lots of primary testimony. Many thanks to Moshe Rosenstein for turning me onto it. You can watch it here:
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