Flossenburg Concentration Camp

The following movie was written and directed by John J. Kurash, using footage shot by US Army Signal Corps photographer, Sgt Aron Lubitsch. The film was edited by Sam Deprospo and Nathan Morgan. The original footage is part of the Audio Visual Collection at the Army Heritage and Education Center

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Film & Animation

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• Flossenburg
• concentration
• camp
• holocaust
• ww2
• wwii
• mass
• murder

[wicek777]

my Grandfather Michael Szymanski of Malochwiej Maly, Lublin province Poland,was there for over 4 years,after being transfered from Auschwitz.He came back home in 1945 having broken ribs and not a single tooth.He died in 1964.I wrote an letter to the board of museum in Flossenburg,and they asked me of photos of Him after the war mostly like happy times with familly,christmas and stuff like that.I refused.I think they needed them to show that they werent all bad if he made throught it.

[tubby775]

Too bad the Allies were not able to kill hitler personally.

[maunten66]

 "el maldito aleman por siempre "

[andrewwatson39]

One question is in my head right now. "How could a civilized people turn into viscious, cold-blooded killers?"

[andrewwatson39]

@FrankieOC562 He was and still is among the ultimate evil.

[thompson8305]

@PlebScrubber of ocurse it's worse. let us not compare but remember that those 30000 people had families and lives of their own and using logic and common sense it is horrible for such an act. what about the cambodian massacres. if you google the Rape of Nanking you'd see why the chinese people don't like the japanese so much. there are thousands of violent acts daily. some violent acts are more tolerable than others?

[PlebScrubber]

@thompson8305 its important to examine history using logic and reason and comparison... and not to let our emotions cloud our judgement.

As bad as 30000 deaths sounds, auchwitz would kill twice that in one week... is that not worse?

[thompson8305]

@PlebScrubber doesn't seem so bad? but if you look at the 30000 people that did die, in a few short years, it's still alot. one is more than enough. the hell is wrong with you?

[thompson8305]

@golddiamond1st ok i'm seeing a pattern that your giving up on man and giving your life to god. tell me very quickly, if god existed, why would he allow this to happen in the first place? is he able but not willing to stop such acts? then he is malevolent. is he willing but not able? then he is not all powerful. is he neither willing nor able? then why call him god? and for your information, hitler was a believer in perhaps the same god as you.

[1533Montaigne]

maybe the most beautiful concentration camp ever built

[golddiamond1st]

I visited this Concentration Camp when visiting Germany- I wept when we walked into the museum & up to the desk thru the front door - I hadn't seen anything yet - but the knowledge & impact of 'where we were' - what had happened there & what we would see grahpic pictures - information & artifacts of overwhelmed me - broke my heart & grieved me as though it had had happened to me & my family - which it actually had because mankind IS 'ALL ONE PEOPLE' 'ONE BLOOD' - CREATED BY GOD - IN HIS IMAGE -