Helena Citrónová - Forbidden Love Affair at Auschwitz Between a Slovak Jew & Sadistic Nazi Guard

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4 ай бұрын

Helena Citrónová, one of 4 children of Jewish parents, was born on the 26 August 1922 in Humenné, then part of Czechoslovakia. Her father was a cantor and because Helena liked not only to sing but also dance, her older brother joked that one day he would take her to Prague to exercise her talent. In 1934, Helena’s sister Róžika together with her husband emigrated to Palestine. However, because he could not find work there, in 1939 the two decided to return to Czechoslovakia together with their daughter though the Jews in Palestine had warned them by saying: "What? Are you crazy?! There's a war brewing.” By the time the family realized their mistake, it was too late.
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@allegory7638 4 ай бұрын

Moving back to Czechoslavakia in 1939...That's got to be in the top 10 of worst decisions ever.

@marvin2678 3 ай бұрын

why ?

@eileengleeson7851 3 ай бұрын

@@marvin2678start if the 2nd world war i guess

@locuacidadsindiluir1696 3 ай бұрын

¿¿¿¿¡¡¡TOP 10, YOU SAID!!!!?? I´d say TOP 1, ¡hahahaha!

@3rrlia661 2 ай бұрын

better than settling in Palestine

@geraldinelafayette1838 2 ай бұрын

Which ultimately killed her sisters two babies. Ohhh I couldn’t imagine the horror. I just would have went with them to be in heaven with them. The instinct to survive in this horrendous world is INSANE. It can cause unimaginable sorrow although.

@ashenshugar8650 4 ай бұрын

He saved her life, and, no doubt, in the end, she felt obligated to repay the debt. How she actually felt about him in later life is anyone's guess...likely she had strongly mixed feelings.

@francesbernard2445 2 ай бұрын

She did nothing to repay that so called according to you a 'debt'. She only told the truth whenever being asked to. Being genuine, truthful and kind has a kind of power all its own.

@mikeplake6861 Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing! That she wanted to return the favor..

@BCTMB 16 күн бұрын

She was the housekeeper of Amon Göth in Schindler’s List.

@SynnJynn 5 сағат бұрын

Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome

@peterdragon6367 4 ай бұрын

Even in the worst place on earth at the time, she still had a great smile

@frenzalrhomb6919 4 ай бұрын

There's no denying that the Woman was damn attractive!!

@jmajesty79 4 ай бұрын

A very beautiful smile...

@costealucia5357 4 ай бұрын

She was not starving, no wonder she could smile...

@dellathegamer687 3 ай бұрын

Because a German loved her . And that was privilege in so many ways

@Schoolsaredisease 3 ай бұрын

She looked majestic ❤

@TheDigitalApple 4 ай бұрын

If you ask me, Franz Wunsch was possibly the only war criminal of the Second World War to actually be remorseful of his actions even if it was due to his relationship with Helena.

@MrMickthemonster 4 ай бұрын

A lot of Japanese generals were ashamed at their actions too

@colinwinship1231 4 ай бұрын

Another nazi was Karl Plagge

@Donathon-qx8kq 4 ай бұрын

Just remember that a leopard can't change his spots

@christopher9727 4 ай бұрын

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@sassycat6487 4 ай бұрын

He was not remorseful tho. He said in a letter to her he wished that Germany would have won lol

@shearwave7885 4 ай бұрын

She was very beautiful, and he was a handsome guy. Sad the circumstances….

@pimpompoom93726 3 ай бұрын

Indeed. He had the feelings inside to be a decent person, but it was tainted by his involvement with the SS. War destroys a lot of goodness in people and brings out the worst. Thankfully she and her sister survived.

@FC-hj9ub Ай бұрын

So? Good looking people don't fall for other good looking people for their looks

@nangel270 Ай бұрын

It’s disgusting to worship beauty as the standard for achieving happiness in a relationship.

@niamtxiv Ай бұрын

Beauty is important @@nangel270

@javayna2353 4 күн бұрын

@@nangel270well ugly people are gross. We don’t have to accept the negligence. They don’t take care of themselves so there’s nothing to be attracted to. They bring it upon their lazy selves and we have every right to reject them. Go to dentist. Eat healthy. Good hygiene and grooming. Smell good. Get an education. Make money. Have something attractive. It’s attainable.

@AmethystEyes 4 ай бұрын

I wish this was mentioned in the video, but Helena‘s sister was tricked into thinking that her children were alive. She did not know that they were going into the gas chambers. If she had known that they were gas chambers, she would’ve died with them. For months, Helena told her sister that her children were alive once her sister found out that they weren’t, she was completely devastated.

@chickenlover657 4 ай бұрын

Maybe, maybe not. One thing is certain tho, Helena had nothing to do with her sister's children's death. She had zero power to prevent it. If the sister had to blame anyone, it should have been herself. Because her stupid decision to return from Jerusalem is THE crucial bad choice that ended in fatality.

@norrishude6177 4 ай бұрын

This deserves a mention too. Auschwitz : 4 Million Jews were allegedly gassed, incinerated and bones buried, if this was over 4 years, 2739 were exterminated daily. If this happened over the "Final Solution" years 1943-45 ,then 5.400 were exterminated daily. I have a bridge for sale if you are interested.

@barbaratraininblank4103 4 ай бұрын

neither was Franz really responsible. Children had very little chance of living in Auschwitz, and what could he say, that they had been misplaced from his unit?@@chickenlover657

@marvin2678 3 ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657how exactly ? am i mssing somethign ?

@chickenlover657 3 ай бұрын

@@marvin2678 Huh? What part is not clear to you? Sounds like you didn't watch the video or weren't paying attention.

@pimpompoom93726 3 ай бұрын

It is so hard to know what to feel about this story. Helena obviously awakened some sense of decency in this young man. He obviously impacted her as well, or she wouldn't have turned up at his trial. I guess the real story is how war degrades all aspects of humanity, even love. But, something remained. Hopefully they both carried that good part with them to their last days?

@locuacidadsindiluir1696 3 ай бұрын

Very WELL PUT.

@sassycat6487 2 ай бұрын

He killed some young guys in the camp. He also beat a girl so bad she still had pain until her last days. He was a horrible person.

@mikeplake6861 Ай бұрын

I love your comment! Well said!!!

@gerganakoleva4137 26 күн бұрын

Life is so complicated. I would be happy if a bad person never did a good deed and a good person - a bad one. But sometimes is sooo not black and white. Still I think he should not have been acquitted at the trial.

@BCTMB 16 күн бұрын

She was the housekeeper of Amon Göth in Schindler’s List.

@philism7829 3 ай бұрын

Humans are made to love each other, nor hate neither kill... Let us keep this in our minds and hearts for ever...

@aqifkopertoni6217 23 күн бұрын

tell this to the jews they are killing a lot without mercy

@PhonoDirect 16 күн бұрын

Humans are evolutionary much better equipped for fight than for a cooperation. Love is mostly just a romantic concept. Sorry.

@nataliemeenakshithegreat7780 10 күн бұрын

Yes dear but each has a different nature and that is the quintessential truth about the human race humanity is about being human human is about being authentic fait correct etc

@danielfernandes711 4 ай бұрын

I would have rather died with my children than stay alive without them

@j0nnyism 2 ай бұрын

Easy to say that in the comfort that you will never have to make that choice

@danielfernandes711 2 ай бұрын

@@j0nnyism It's actually an easier decision to make in that situation

@mary-gael7633 2 ай бұрын

Clearly! Me too, I think I'd kill myself. Having my children taken away to die on their own... I couldn't bear it. The worst part of it is letting them alone without me to confort them: this is even worst than death. I think that the people questioning the validity of this claim aren't parents. If they were, they would know.

@dolanddrumpf6344 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely. 😢

@iamlightsunshine6628 2 ай бұрын

@fritula6200 2 ай бұрын

He saved her life first... after the war she saved his life:

@AnnamariaLeprini 2 ай бұрын

The fact that he risked his life to save her makes me understand that it wasn't selfishness, but love. He was certainly very much in love with her, and I think that in a normal world and without indoctrination he would have been a good person. I think she loved him too, I don't want to romanticize the story, but she herself said she loved him in interviews. But once the war was over it wouldn't have been possible for them to get married (can you imagine their wedding? and family dinners?) So she did the right thing.

@aqifkopertoni6217 23 күн бұрын

he saved her life ,he did much more than she did for him , he was an ss if the other ss members would findout him he could had risk all his family in germany .

@AnnamariaLeprini 21 күн бұрын

@@aqifkopertoni6217 I think some ss men around him knew this, they just played along. The relationship wasn't that secret, even the other prisoners close to her knew it as you can see from the testimonies

@VersusARCH 3 ай бұрын

Still a better love story than "Twilight".

@rodneymcdermott5303 2 ай бұрын

To be fair, that’s a mighty low bar set there😂 but yes, you’re correct

@gypsylei777 20 күн бұрын

still a better love story than mine

@ThouSwell-zx3fd 4 ай бұрын

What a beautiful woman Helena was.

@dorothyblair6741 4 ай бұрын

Stunning

@Lara-xc1mf 4 ай бұрын

What a wonderful and nuanced story, which I have never heard before. Thank you so much for your recording of it.

@AmethystEyes 4 ай бұрын

If anyone wants to know more I highly recommend a documentary called “Love It Was Not”. It has interviews with almost everyone who was there. It’s beautiful too, the way they set up the story.

@barbaratraininblank4103 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful and informative, yes, but with a misleading title. many believe it was mutual.

@itwantsrevenge 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm gonna check it out.

@barbaratraininblank4103 2 ай бұрын

I've seen the documentary several times and agree with what you said overall. However, the title suggests a certain prejudice on the filmmaker's part, which she eventually conceded. But definitely moving and eye-opening.

@barbaratraininblank4103 2 ай бұрын

By the way, the first shorter documentary by the same filmmaker, "The Most Beautiful Woman," is also worth seeing. And an upcoming documentary called "999" casts light on the first Jewish girls and young women brought to Auschwitz, of which Helena was one.

@BCTMB 16 күн бұрын

She was the housekeeper of Amon Göth in Schindler’s List.

@sierraleonediamondexplorat2080 3 ай бұрын

A lot of bad things happens in wars and its far too easy for us sitting in the comfort of our own homes to judge.

@marvin2678 3 ай бұрын

yp but still no excuse

@LegumesEtFleurs 2 ай бұрын

As what people say; we will never know unless we are in the same situation.

@StephenLuke 4 ай бұрын

RIP Helena Citrónová (1922-2007)

@foreverlovesophie 3 ай бұрын

Maybe in another time or different situation they may have truly loved each other and had a chance

@moyhsxwplqhg 2 ай бұрын

@@foreverlovesophiewhy do u care?

@foreverlovesophie 2 ай бұрын

⁠oh shut up 😂

@KimberlyBishh 4 ай бұрын

No matter how much I watch about world war II I will never know everything This was a wonderful story, it was a story about human beings

@marilyn6556 3 ай бұрын

None of us will, and maybe that’s a good thing. It is hard to realize just how low humanity can fall.

@Disco-Mike 4 ай бұрын

Its crazy she looked so gorgeous in the picture where she smiled wearing the "pijama" in front of Baracks, still good fed. He definitely saved her life and this story was very beautiful. I am German and I always wondered whether something like this happened This story shows love is stronger than hate. I missed such a story.

@Chris-wyt 4 ай бұрын

Most were over weight, stop feeling bad. You've been beaten down for to many years. Chin up.

@elligilberg1564 4 ай бұрын

A Romeo and Juliet story

@Disco-Mike 4 ай бұрын

@@Chris-wyt Not most... Maybe some... You cant say they were better fed than our soldiers who also didnt had anything. Even the population of Germany starved. Its illogical that all of them were fed like her

@fallcolors05 4 ай бұрын

@@Chris-wyt Churchill starved 8 million Indians and took their food and grains to ENgland to feed the UK population during ww2. Indians who grew the grains and farmed them died of starvation. The Bengal famine artificially caused by churchill did it. Stop with white washing.

@Disco-Mike 4 ай бұрын

@@Chris-wyt but yes. It's 80 years ago and the Israelis still use the Holocaust as an excuse for Genocide. We Germans are paying and paying and paying for everyone. We definitely need to chin up.

@marcelamrekajova5088 2 ай бұрын

Huge appreciation for the narrator who researched the correct pronunciation of all Slovak names a cities and try to mimic it as closely as he could ❤ Usually, the pronunciation is so bad that I cannot even guess what it is supposed to be.

@robertsanford6786 4 ай бұрын

What a story!!! THIS is one of the best stories to come along in a long time! Keep it up! I subscribed! Good job.

@ChasingRainbows67 3 ай бұрын

This made me sad in a way. There are good in people just as there are bad people. They both lived a long life. How hard it must have been, however they both made the best of it and ended up with their own families.❤ RIP to both ❤🙏🇺🇸

@nikiniki1284 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely unusual story. Only love can break the walls even in such a terrible place ❤ ❤ ❤

@Swellington_ 4 ай бұрын

Theirs a documentary on this on Tubi and it’s one of the most extraordinary and strange stories I’ve ever heard from the war or anytime actually, and her sister held it against her over her “saving” her but not her daughter,just an unimaginable position to be in,absolutely heartbreaking

@christopher9727 4 ай бұрын

@sassycat6487 4 ай бұрын

I think saving her sister was selfish. She had to spend the rest of her life in agony and grief over losing her two children including an infant.

@chickenlover657 4 ай бұрын

@@sassycat6487 Nothing selfish about it and I have no clue how such silly idea could come into your mind. If anyone was selfish it was her sister who blamed her for not saving her children, even tho she obviously couldn't have done anything about it. The death of any child is of course the most tragic thing, but she had no say in the matter. It was not her fault in any way.

@cgee6867 4 ай бұрын

Thanks...I love Tubi....will look it up,

@MagdalenaIsaiah431 3 ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657💯💯 agreed! I lived with an older Israeli lady for a while in my student days and she told me of the heartbreaking story of her Mother whose first husband and a son were murdered in those Nazi extermination camps. She said even though her Mother immigrated to Israel met and married another loving man, the father of this lady and her brother the Mother never got over her grief and depression over the loss of her first family😭 She told me her mother was almost never happy her whole life that she could remember and later died still in her grief😢 Not hard to understand considering the unimaginable trauma of living through such utterly senseless suffering 😭🙏💙🙏✝️✝️✝️

@dennisjohnsen7297 4 ай бұрын

But what do you think would have happened to her if she had rejected his advances? She saved her life, and more likely the lives of many others.

@galsh634 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, there's no "no".

@missypuffin8985 4 ай бұрын

She survived. Thats all that matters

@j0nnyism 2 ай бұрын

I’m sure the nazi guards felt the same way when their only other option was the eastern front

@markjamison9677 9 күн бұрын

@@j0nnyismI would have went to the eastern front some things isn’t worth being a part of .

@emi12 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video, I'm Slovak but I have never heard about Helena, very strong story

@angeladoutre59 4 ай бұрын

That was a very sweet story. Thank you for posting it.

@b.bernal6151 4 ай бұрын

I’m sure there are a lot more stories like this. Some true love stories, others women and men just trying to survive.

@Marlenkaminta Күн бұрын

Calling it 'love affair' is disgusting. This is the survival story of a woman. Man was a raging monster.

@tiernanwearen8096 Ай бұрын

Well, if life has taught me anything so far, it's this. You can not control who you fall in love with.

@farfaraway4285 3 ай бұрын

Disgusting part of our history. This needs to be taught in schools. Never forget.

@Izzy-oo5rm 2 ай бұрын

It was taught and history is repeating itself today with the oppressed becoming the oppressors

@yaminaamer236 2 ай бұрын

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@galsh634 2 ай бұрын

Nope, just dirty Muslims being nazis. They were before WW2, during and after. Just Islam.

@margaretcaponigro1507 2 ай бұрын

That’s the sad part they don’t teach this in schools

@leep7136 Ай бұрын

@@yaminaamer236 Wrong video buddy

@katarinasimoncicova4766 4 ай бұрын

Such a touching story🥲❤️I am from Slovakia

@WorldHistoryVideos 3 ай бұрын

Katarina, dakujeme za Vas komentar. a sme velmi radi, ze sa Vam video pacilo :) Pozdravujeme a dakujeme, ze nas sledujete :)

@robertbickford4149 4 ай бұрын

Love works. Even when the world is at its cruelest. He did bad things, and had to live with it. Maybe this enough punishment. Forgive him, Lord. Amen.

@MagdalenaIsaiah431 3 ай бұрын

💯💯 True!!! Not for nothing does The Bible say Love is the greatest of the three Theological Virtues. (1 Corinthians 13:13) And"that it is as strong as death!" (Song of Solomon 8:6) May his soul through the MERCY of GOD rest in PEACE 🌹🌹🌹🙏💙🙏✝️

@enjoying1515 2 ай бұрын

No ! Living with the memory of your crimes is not enough! Our God forgives but we are required to suffer the consequences of our crimes.

@ella35791 4 ай бұрын

L’amour fait des miracles ❤

@ReyOfLight 4 ай бұрын

Seeing I'm here super early. I just want to thank you for all the informative videos! But also want to let you know that there's a spam issue on some of your videos where someone starts a thread about being blessed and then it turns into how they invested money. This to me sounds very much like a pyramid scheme or worse, I have reported the thread on at least one previous video, but would really appreciate for everyone's sake if you could just take a look at the comment sections to get rid of those likely spam bots before people fall for it and get scammed

@MrMickthemonster 4 ай бұрын

Chanels with lots of views always get millions of them... they're like weeds they get rid of one and 3 more pop up. Just report comments for all the good it does but there's not much that can be done about it except the application of common sense...

@conceptalfa 4 ай бұрын

Great and at the same time very sad story!!!👍👍👍

@nonoribeiro9568 4 ай бұрын

I think love really touched his heart and changed it for the good

@j2248 2 ай бұрын

This story would make a really powerful movie

@sassycat6487 2 ай бұрын

The documentary 'love it was not' was excellent.

@jak3589 3 ай бұрын

That is an amazing story in such a brutal place.

@ivanaramirez6709 3 ай бұрын

I heard this story before. I would love to hear his side. I wonder if there is an Interview that was made with him as well but I highly doubt it. They all ran away into hiding.

@sergboxer7785 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@WorldHistoryVideos 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

@user-ck5ux4zm2o 2 ай бұрын

May I ask how did you do the money thing?I've wanted to give money on here and can't figure it out

@Akaneve Ай бұрын

@user-ck5ux4zm2o it's below the subscribe button with a dollar sign

@WorldHistoryVideos 14 күн бұрын

@@user-ck5ux4zm2o Thank you. Click on " Thanks " which is below the video next to " share" and there you can send us money. Thank you

@aw7331 3 ай бұрын

Excellent story!

@WorldHistoryVideos 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rubenoteiza9261 4 ай бұрын

I once saw the movie Portier de Nuit with Dick Bogarde playing a Nazi officer in charge of a death camp and falling in love with a prisoner played by Charlotte Rampling. Weird as it seems, it is a love story, kind of. They keep on with their relation after the war and in the end they are murdered by his Nazi pals who see him like a traitor and a danger to their survival.

@user-op6eu3tt9j 4 ай бұрын

Strange story in a place of madness.

@DA-bp8lf 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like in the end, they both saved each other’s lives?

@wildcolonialman 4 ай бұрын

Fascinating.

@mariedupuis7802 4 ай бұрын

Incredible story...

@Jenjen2021 3 ай бұрын

We, humans, are very strange creatures.

@komk78 Ай бұрын

Very interesting and very moving 😢

@TheRetirednavy92 4 ай бұрын

God rest her soul.

@bezagebremedhine5102 4 ай бұрын

❤

@ichiban6004 3 ай бұрын

Weird watching history slowly repeat itself

@st3ppenwolf 4 ай бұрын

Amazing story

@SmellyMellyization 21 күн бұрын

Fascinating story!

@lsdarius8702 3 ай бұрын

Love the story

@renskeconnell8038 4 ай бұрын

Evil and Goodness literally in one body. Why would her sister hold her responsible for her daughter's murder? Thank you for exposing this tragic story.. Many tears to be shed..

@christopher9727 4 ай бұрын

@besscollins3163 4 ай бұрын

The sister was upset that her children died alone. She felt she should have died with them.

@chickenlover657 4 ай бұрын

Her sister, like most people, needed someone to blame. Unfairly, as it usually happens. I wonder if she blamed herself too, for making the stupid and fatal decision to come back from Jerusalem. Because in reality, her children died due to that one bad choice.

@lucybarrington4634 4 ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657 I was thinking the same thing. Holding herself responsible for coming back to the danger of Nazis may have been too much to bear. Easier to blame her sister.

@jercor45 Ай бұрын

Thanks

@WorldHistoryVideos Ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

@darkPegasista 3 ай бұрын

One of the saddest irl love stories

@kenlewis11 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting

@CYCLONE4499 2 ай бұрын

Helena did was she had to do to survive. Im quite sure the love was one sided. Years later when Franz tried to contact her she ignored him and during a trial she did admit he was kind to her but also the fact he tortured and hurt other jews so i would only take this with a grain of salt.

@Sneaky10109 4 ай бұрын

It's truly something we can never comprehend the power of ❤️

@blackapples4744 3 ай бұрын

Helena is very Beautiful. She sort of reminds me of Barbara Streisand. I’m glad she survived. 🕊🙏🏾💛

@vaughantutty2227 4 ай бұрын

I think what we look over alot with this, is despite atrocities from the Nazis, there was always a shining light because obviously not all German soldiers or Commanders were inhumane

@shaunbat5097 4 ай бұрын

There is a 2018 film 'Where hands touch' which may be of interest.

@irishsakura1 4 ай бұрын

This is the second time I have heard this story and I still feel extremely conflicted. It is so rare to see a human side of a Nazi. I’m so interested in their story. I guess this was a real love at first sight. I have so many mixed emotions 🥵

@lindaraterink6451 4 ай бұрын

Not condoning Nazis. There were humans among them that just lived in a terrible time. They felt they had no choice. It was kill or be killed. Some people do terrible things for their own or their families survival. You can not walk in their shoes until you lived it. Even Jews betrayed their own kind if it could help them. Like the Frank family, who was betrayed by a Jew to save his own.

@lulugoulart5014 4 ай бұрын

It was all about surviving that horrific time in the history of mankind!

@peterrodby2786 3 ай бұрын

Look up Karl Plagge, Oskar Schindler, Kurt Gerstein, Wm Hosenfeld and you'll find humanitarians amongst monsters.

@fatdaddy1996 3 ай бұрын

Lindaraterink. What a lot of nonsense! Lots of Germans didn't participate in genocide.

@toko631 17 күн бұрын

That was a game of mind games to survive between so called friends.

@matteowatteo1296 4 ай бұрын

Wow. She was beautiful.

@kendrahansen1175 4 ай бұрын

Yes, she was. Her temporary lover was not bad looking either but I have no interest in murderers no matter what they might look like.

@wendybarton5565 2 ай бұрын

This should be a movie!

@fatguyinlittlecoat8411 4 ай бұрын

Can anyone tell me the background music? Thank you

@user-ss8jm8lz1p 4 ай бұрын

Probably love is rhe most powerful force in the universe!

@Dzanarika1 4 ай бұрын

Yet so lacking

@user-ss8jm8lz1p 4 ай бұрын

I think there are different kind of live. But we can divide it into two.: altruistic and the egoistic . Sadly your right most of us are egoistic. My German great great grandfather left may great grandfather in care of a Spanish priest in the Philippine Islands in the late 1800 because the Americans told all German nationals should leave the country or they would be killed or put in jail. The Spanish priest gave my great grandfather his surname so the Americans would not harm him and brought him up just like his true son. One of those positive stories of war ❤️

@l.plantagenet Ай бұрын

@@user-ss8jm8lz1pa lot of Germans decided to stay in America after the war. They didn't have to go home to a starving decimated country.

@alliibee4015 3 ай бұрын

I cannot believe the world allowed this to happen

@richardbullwood5941 3 ай бұрын

As long as she didn't hurt anyone else, she had to do what she had to do to survive.

@marvin2678 3 ай бұрын

what do you meanN?

@juliadubin5277 2 ай бұрын

And after everything that my nation had to overcome the world nowadays seems to repeat the same mistakes done in the past- as sad as it is, history repeats itself😢

@brianna3340 4 ай бұрын

11:57 sheeesh helena was so pretty

@CORLEONESPORTS97 4 ай бұрын

this story has been told several times, and if he was so sadistic then why did he save her life and try to save other members of her family??

@idontcare4490 4 ай бұрын

He wasn’t sadistic. He was just a young adult born in Germany trying to survive the war. That’s what most people don’t realize - most SS guards were just normal people.

@a.grimes4202 4 ай бұрын

She testified to witnessing him commit crimes against other prisoners as stated in the video. That’s the definition of sadistic whether you want it to be or not.

@CORLEONESPORTS97 4 ай бұрын

its 2023 does it matter?@@a.grimes4202

@CORLEONESPORTS97 4 ай бұрын

he nursed her back to health when she was sick, gave her extra food and clothes, u dont know what your talking about, he saved her life asshole @@a.grimes4202

@Cybermat47 4 ай бұрын

Because he was infatuated with her, and saw *her* as human. He didn’t see the other Jews as human.

@donnadees1971 3 ай бұрын

It is so horrible to hear these tales… breaks my heart.

@lesliesauceman8093 4 ай бұрын

Because of her she made the news human to him, but it's sad he and so many others were brainwashed to think they never were.

@user-yd1du5ny2i 2 ай бұрын

I have the book The Girl In The Striped Dress by Ellie Midwood, that is based on this strange love story.

@sikemo9432 Ай бұрын

May god take bitter revenge on all who wronged others with cold cruelty and still treat innocent people as dirt.

@johnweeda6490 Ай бұрын

There is no god and even if there was one, it's a cruel god. Who wants to believe in a god after what happened with the jews?

@redtobertshateshandles 4 ай бұрын

Quite beautiful. Both of them.

@dianeshannon7988 3 ай бұрын

The bare facts if genocide are still shocking.She did what she had to do humanity has to overcome cruelty.

@clairep2823 3 ай бұрын

They were both SOOOO GOOD LOOKING! their babies would've been models

@moyhsxwplqhg 2 ай бұрын

U re weirdo

@zachgilchrist669 Ай бұрын

What a story!

@TheNaturemama Күн бұрын

He was a sick man. Helena did what she needed to survive, he only stopped certain actions because of his feelings for Helena. He was a hideous man. He regretted his actions in court because he was desperate to stay out of prison. This isn’t a love story at all. It is a man’s obsession and a woman’s desperation to survive.

@francesblabey3055 4 ай бұрын

How this world continues to fall into decay from power greed and eventually depravity. I hope that these despicably foul beings were punished by God not man and the millions of innocent were given heavenly statues for their much suffering. To the victims RIP.

@francesbernard2445 2 ай бұрын

What an interesting true story. My mother who was born in Canada along with her mother too worked in a warehouse. That was the only paid employment position she could find. Same as one of my aunts from a French Canadian family too.

@janpierzchala2004 4 ай бұрын

Canada was a huge storage space, where they could get intimate - the account covers only inconvient places...

@CaesarInVa 3 ай бұрын

Is this the basis of Dirk Bogard's "The Night Porter"?

@charliemckeown7521 2 ай бұрын

Such a sad story

@MAY051260 2 ай бұрын

So sad😢

@moyhsxwplqhg 2 ай бұрын

Why the Hell do u call it love? He used her. And she did not refuse. Disgusting.

@eloquentia7207 2 ай бұрын

Could not refuse

@ich6636 4 ай бұрын

He was so beautiful

@user-ow8zj8st3g 2 ай бұрын

A bloody nazi. Who cares how did he looked like

@jeanniewarren4643 4 ай бұрын

My great grandpa Joseph Felix was a Jew. He was from Czechoslovakia and he hid the fact. My family didn't find out until the 1980s. His wife Bertha also from Czechoslovakia was Catholic. They immigrated to America in the 1900s and met in this Country.

@annabelle1471 4 ай бұрын

I know what you mean

@sarahpiaggio2693 2 ай бұрын

she ended up caring for him, and testified at his trial. But this was not a love relationship in the way that we understand it. It's not as if she had many options, it was allow this man to love and protect you, or you die. Allow this man to protect those around you and at least you'll be able to do some good. I'm not surprised that she avoided him after the war.

@ondaride777 4 ай бұрын

Movie "The Night Porter" 1974

@brielarson2028 14 сағат бұрын

god bless you both

@Mapqwerry 3 ай бұрын

She was beautiful. Sometimes, music does soothe the savage beast.

@kristinam7928 3 ай бұрын

They were both good looking nonetheless tragic story

@thorbeorn4295 2 ай бұрын

This story NEEDS a movie! Jesus Christ she was gorgeous.

@DarkNJuju 3 ай бұрын

This monster took advantage of a woman who had no choice in the matter and as usual you try to spin it as if it was some great romance story. It was a predator using the power of life or death over a woman.

@jasmine8926 Ай бұрын

I’m glad someone else said it. They weren’t star crossed lovers, this was a woman trying to survive in hell and a predator who took advantage of that

@Nova-Franconia Күн бұрын

Tf? It was (for the majority of the time, up until the very end) a very one sided love, that was pretty much purely platonic in nature. He probably thought she was very pretty, and therefore gave her preferential treatment in order to get her to look his way every now and then. You guys are the morons in this situation. You’re making it sound like he locked her up in some dark dingy room against her will, and then proceeded to brutally r-p- her every day until their liberation.