NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP - Ohrdruf Liberated April 1945

[Raul26320]

my dad was an inmate at this camp, and was always so thankful to the americans that liberated him, he was 22y.o.

[atfdmike]

My father was one soldeier in Pattons Headquarter Company that overran the Ohrdruf camp and resulted in the exposure of the atrocities there. His image and that of his fellow soldiers now hangs in the National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. It is the first image you see when you step out of the elevators to begin the tour. Ohrdruf in all its ugliness and inhumanity! God Bless all the men and women who serve our Country!

[Warmmmtouch]

@atfdmike Very nice to hear from you. I was just in DC last month. Wish I had dropped by the Holocaust Museum. Will watch for the image when I visit again. My father was not present when Ohrdruf was overrun, but was among the many soldiers Eisenhower asked to witness the carnage.

[kazan188]

Edit "have looked LIKE if USA had been bombed".

[kazan188]

These scenes comes from undeliberate starvation and typhus. Typhus is characterized by an extremely emaciated condition. And about starvation, Dr Russell Barton, a doctor who spent one month in Bergen Belsen (which offered more terrible views) with the British troops and found canteen registers, declared "I became convinced, contrary to the common opinion, that there has never been any deliberate starvation policy." (Dr R. BARTON, « Belsen », 1975, p. 3025-3029.)

[kazan188]

For those who really want to understand those scenes, watch the beginning of the video "A defeated people" on youtube, a British propaganda film where the winners proudly explain their last bombings had destroyed all German communications. How could a state take care of his prisoners and keep them healthy without any food and medicine deliveries? How would the Japanese prisoners jailed in the camps located on the American soil have looked if USA had been bombed? Probably like those of Ohrdruf...

[Warmmmtouch]

It would be interesting to hear them. Thanks for your comment.

[monkeyfeatherz]

My mother was an innocent 9 year old civilian in Ohrdruf directly across th railroad tracks from the camp......many...many stories.....

[julesol]

6,5 millionen zivilisten starben allein bei den Allierten bombenangriffen auf das deutsche reich! Russiche nicht mitgezählt... Und das innterresiert keinen...

[julesol]

Meine Großmutter ist ein dorf weiter aufgewachsen und erzählt das die amerikaner damals in ihrem wahn wahrlos verdachtige erschossen haben und Mädchen und Frauen die in den dörfern herum wohnten vergewaltigt haben! darunter auch 14 jährige... Auge um Auge und die welt wird blind! I Hate Amerika!

Ihr habt seid ende des 2. weltkrieges 10 mal so viele ethnische minderheiten umgebracht und keiner weis damit umzugehehen... Ihr werdet langsam untergehen! Die welt brauch euch nicht!

[DudeAbidesNoMore]

every nation that has conspired to employ the "Holocaust" fraud against Germany has suffered great damage as result. The jews though always remain unaffected since they are grafted from Lucifer. When history is written it will be determined that the "Holocaust" fraud did greater harm to the USA than Germany.

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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous." -- Frederick Douglass

[WiiLDCHiiLD64]

First 5 second's.....AMAZING!

[seven6pro]

I was just reading through my Dad's army papers and saw that his company "M" marched along the outskirts of Ohrdruf concentration camp in early April 1945. It said they saw no one in the camp but saw the burial pits outside it. This video brought that event home to me. Thanks for posting it. Your photo of your Dad brought back great memories for me. My Dad passed away in 2001.

[Warmmmtouch]

@seven6pro Your comment on the Ohrdruf photostory was very touching. Called my mom and read it to her. . . she practically cried.  My Dad passed away in 2008. Wish he could have seen the video.

[seven6pro]

@Warmmmtouch - I'm so sorry about your Dad passing. I think of my Dad everyday and memories of him make me feel better. Another friend of mine marched that way before April 1945. He was an American prisoner of war and spent time in Stalag 13. He told me he saw Jewish prisoners marching as they came in. Very sad.

[seven6pro]

@Warmmmtouch - I'm so sorry about your Dad passing. I think of my Dad everyday and memories of him make me feel better. Another friend of mine marched that way before April 1945. He was an American prisoner of war and spent time in Stalag 13. He told me he saw Jewish prisoners marching as they came in. Very sad.

[MsTazzer]

Was a little shocked by the choice of music let the bodies hit the floor, by Disturbed! Won't be listening to that track in the same frame of mind again! Terrible, is all I can say about things like that, but we have to learn from it for the future.

[kazan188]

@MsTazzer

If there is something "to learn from it for the future", it is that it's not a good idea to bomb the communication ways of a country which have so many prisoners to take care of as Germany had in that time... ;-)

[johneunson]

and many people insist this did not happen. i wonder how your father feels when he comes up against the deniers. i dont know this camp, but the site must have been near dachau. your father bore witness to the most horrific crime the world ever saw. he was there, he saw, and i hope he spoke out. only through him, and his colleagues, can we make sure this never happens again. thank you so much for this, it is more pertinent than 1000 documentaries.