Restored colour footage from Buchenwald and Dachau

LiveLeak.com - Buchenwald & Dachau Death Camp Liberations In Restored Color **Graphic Warning**

 

so difficult to see..

All those innocent lives lost.


"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."

Elie Weisel - Survivor of Buchanwald concentration camp.

 

It is. Colour footage gives even more depth and emotion to those images and make them feel more real.

 

Cheers Ed, very emotional and moving , it makes it even more tragic and horrible

 

Color footage makes it seem not so long ago. What a horrible time in history.

 

Terrible..

At one place you see a beaten up SS'er ( take that ) & at the end a woman runs through the camp. and one cry's. ( They knew it all along! )

 

who is that little fellow with a political triangle at the end? Was he a convict or is wearing that out of solidarity?

 

It is a pole, Political Prisoners had a Red Triangle.

 

Little boy at the end is Polish. Political prisoner... for what?

 

I have never been able to get used to this. Every time I see footage I am shocked at the level of barbarity people have sunk to. I wonder what impact it had on the youngest of the German citizens that had to tour the camp? Did it change their lives?

 

Reason is irrelevant. Fact is, children's lifespan was very short at these camps, he was lucky to survive.

 

Agreed! Hopefully he got through to adult age and had the chance to live good life.

 

How can a little boy even be a political prisoner?

 

Yeah those getting led through past the pile of bodies looking so glum ,Four year's before they would be giving it loads for Hitler no sympathy from me

 

Hideous and just plain WRONG! A warning from history about the possible consequences extremism and power.
JeffinMNUSA
PS. And before I get into any high handed moralizing I tend to think of my side's bombing of civilian targets. Were the aerial campaigns justifiable? Well it has not been done since.