Her final words are truly profound! "Man is an animal, all he needs is permission"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="597">9:57</a> - “The heart keeps working but the soul never forgets”. What a statement.

"We couldn't cry ... This is beyond crying." She is the voice for her family. The voice for them all.

Insane that there are people in this world that don’t believe this even happened

"tears are for normal pain" -- that stopped me in my tracks! What a powerful statement. Great reporting 60 Mins, thank you.

My great grandfather lost his life in Auschwitz. He was Polish, he was 27. He left wife and 3 little children. He survived only 3 months, in 1941. His photo from Auschwitz is the only one my family have. IT will never stop to traumatizme me, the fact that people did that horibble things to other pople. I hate that.

People don't realize how quickly society would breakdown in a war/catastrophic situation

Still blows my mind this all took place only 80 years ago

"The heart keeps working, but the soul never forget"😥😢

"...it's never stopped.' the most damning last words.

I find truth in this quote "It's happening, it's never stopped".

I can’t wrap my mind around the story of the lady that was 13 teen yrs old. It’s too much to even comprehend that human beings could do such a thing. Sickening

"All he needs is permission......" - no truer, on point words have been spoken.

As the Reverend Martin Niemoller said, "First they came for the Communists. And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then the came for the Jews. And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics. And I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me. And by then, there was no one left to speak up." All it takes for evil to happen is for good people to do nothing,

That white haired old woman just told us the meaning of life.

The lack of tears is profound trauma...

Irene’s final statement about Man being the most dangerous animal is true. It also sheds light on our world situation today.

Rebecca from the USHMM is a knowledgeable historian and a very kind woman. She and Ms. Cohen personally handled all the collection of historical documents and photos of my family from Germany that I donated to the museum.

I’m watching this video while my 94 year old mother in law is in her room slowly fading away from Parkinson’s. She was separated from her parents in 42 or 43 and never saw them again. She along with her older sister were one of the last groups to leave Düsseldorf. It’s just maddening to see these images of monsters so convinced of their superiority living what looks like a carefree life.

putting actual names to the photos is so powerful. Monsters dont have horns and fangs, they look like us. 9 of the 15 attendees at the Wannasee conference were lawyers who ensured it was all within their definition of legal, they gave themselves permission.

The last few seconds of this clip hold a message for all of us...

I would like a story done on the German grandson and his grandfather. I seems like his grandfather was never arrested for war crimes. What was his grandfather like? What did his grandfather talk about? Did his grandfather talk about the war? What did the grandson think his grandfather did during the war? This is a story to be told.

Her final words are very profound! I went to Germany to visit a friend and went to Dachau......I was outside the entrance when the hair on my arms stood up, when I went into Dachau I could not talk above a whisper and I was feeling very very sad. Do not ever tell me, a Christian, that nothing happen there. Bad things happen there. I walked through the buildings with tears rolling down my cheeks as I felt the past pain. So acutely I was shaking.

"Man can turn into animal - all he needs is permission" wow

The album shows the awfulness of the fact that SS men and women are chilling and enjoying life while their prisoners are inexperiencing an idescribable hell.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="509">8:29</a> -- This picture is the one where I went from choked-up to crying. It's unthinkable, how people could treat other people like waste... especially children.

When I was 10 years old I was changing channels on my grandmother's television and then, I don't know if it was on the PBS channel, they were showing a Holocaust documentary... I will never forget it because I didn't understand anything!! I saw women without clothes in the mud and prisoners loading corpses into wheelbarrows and throwing them into a ditch. I didn't understand until I finally started reading...but my life changed forever. God bless everyone.

Her story about how they killed the mothers and children... I cant imagine

A two generations removed and I’m so upset at this. I cant even fathom what actual survivors are feeling. We must never forget.

i’ve never seen photos that put the banality of evil in so clear a focus.

How this woman overcame the heartbreaking life she lived in Hotler’s Germany is amazing! I wish I could just met her and hug her.

I recently watched the movie "Zone of Interest". "the film focuses on the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family in a home in the "Zone of Interest" next to the concentration camp (Auschwitz). It was troubling...

I have an elderly friend who grew up in Germany. She said Hitler acted like he was very concerned for the German citizens and made sure to get people who happened to be out of the country safely back into Germany as the war broke out. She was in another country and was told to take a certain train which she missed. That was lucky, because it was bombed and no one survived. She was a young teen member of the Hilter youth group for girls. Girls were not required to join, but that they were chastized by others if they didn't. During the war, she was assigned the job of cooking and being a nanny at the home of an SS Officer. As the war was coming to a close, she was told by the officer that it was no longer safe for her to be there and it was time for her to go home. She ended up working in a canteen feeding soldiers after that and received several marriage proposals from soldiers from England and the US. An American soldier was the one she said "yes" to and she ended up spending the rest of her life in America. Germany was very torn apart by bombings from the war and so many young men had died in battle that she felt there was nothing left there for her. She took a chance on being a War Bride to someone she barely knew and it ended up being a good choice. She said that they had no idea that the exterminations were going on the the prisoner of war camps.

"Tears are for normal pain..." Damn. That is so powerful.

Watch how Irene Weiss's eyes go into a fast blinking motion, as she is remembering and telling what she remembers. It is exactly the same with someone who is suffering a concussion or brain injury, in real time. I pray that each remaining survivor know peace and find joy in some part of their lives. May they feel the sun's warmth; and, rest amongst the cradles of the moon's night light.

The permission: the state says it’s ok and is service to country. That’s how people can do the most horrible of things.

Hate begets evil.

Her overview of this horrific situation was so deep and brilliant that I watched it 4 times to wrap my brain around her explanation.

One of the worst days I've experienced was at the Holocaust Museum in Wash.DC. While we were visiting, several school buses of children arrived. They ran through the museum wildly, screaming and laughing. There was no adult supervision. It was total chaos. There was no lesson taught. They were like total animals. It was heartbreaking to witness. We had the same experience at other museums, but this day stays in my memory and my soul. 😢

reminds me of Alan Moore who wrote V for Vendetta. "They were not from space. They were people who made their choices out of fear, power, opportunity..etc."

This is the real “ Zone of Interest”

that lady’s words are extremely profound.

One of the most barbaric periods in human history. Deplorable, disgusting, beyond belief... There are no words to describe such cruelty and lack of empathy.

This is SO SAD

How about a documentary on Japans Unit 731 ?

All I could think of as I watched it is how similar this is to what’s happening now. And the dark irony of it all.

Permission… so true and so real today in the US!

My god this is evil.

Crazy to think this was only around 80 years ago. Just a lifetime ago.

Anderson, you are such an amazing interviewer. Thank you.

That last thing is what I’ve been saying for years: Lots of people will jump at the opportunity to lash out, like a child that can’t help themselves.

Hate did not die in 1945 hate lives on

What many people may not know is that Mr Bayer is the same guy who started the big pharma company of the same name. The Men's fashion company Hugo Boss also made the uniforms for all the SS officers. IBM made punch card machines so that they could keep track of how many people they were k!lling in the camps. And when they broke down, IBM sent their technicians to the concentration camps to fix the machines. It's even chronicled in a book titled "IBM and the Holocaust". At this time General Motors owned Opel, which made many tanks and trucks for the Germans. Several big US companies made many millions doing business with the Germans. This is another part of the story that no one in the major media likes to talk about. Thanks.

As heartbreaking this is, I wonder if it brings comfort seeing pictures of her mom and brothers. I couldn’t imagine what she went through and then to see her younger self there 😢

The woman talking about working at the camp is amazing. She is such a strong human being to be able to talk about her experience.

I am a physician who cared for an older woman who was German and had a nervous breakdown. Her family lived next to a German extermination camp. The father was employed there. Each day he would clock in and out. He would come home for lunch with the family. The Nazis were big on family support for their workers. He killed people for a living. For him, it was like working at a slaughter house for cattle. A job. A nice job, he thought. His family had a nice home, plenty of food, everything. Then he began to drink. He beat his family and fell apart. The job was too much. It was stressful when people cried and begged for mercy. He was a good Christian. This was not right that the people to be killed should disturb him and stress him. On his deathbed he asked my patient for forgiveness. She refused.

What the album shows is that once social controls are gone we become animals

Just amazing. Let this be a reminder, we must *never* allow this again!

My grandfather was in the Stalag next to Auschwitz.... we had to visit them every other week... and you could see the rage in his eyes... it scared the crap out of me...

A long time ago a friend of mine said "civilization is a thin veneer". I never forgot that.

It always astounds me what humanity is capeable of .......mind-boggling

I always find it hilarious that many people seem to think that Nazis or any group who commits similar atrocities are literal monsters with horns, hooves, and/or a tail. You'd have to have the mind of a child to be surprised by these photos. Do you really think these people were always sulking around crying because they thought that what they were doing was evil? For them, their "work" at the camp was literally like destroying a wasp nest or an ant hill.

Choose daily never to hate others or to turn a blind eye to their very real suffering. Choose to change things for their benefit. In helping others, you make this a better world for yourself, too.

This is sad, when she said "tears are for normal pain" and she couldn't cry.

Im not Jewish but this was a disgrace to humanity. Pure Evil.

I hate it when people compare bad people to animals. Only humans are as horrible as we are. Animals can't touch our hems when it comes to evil.

“Tears are for normal pain”. Yeah that’s a rough one to swallow there wow

I wish youtube would just let us say how we really feel about this.

I’ve visited Dachau twice, and both times the thing that atonished me most was how close a normal neighborhood was to the camp. You really can’t imagine until you see for yourself how nearby normal German citizens were.

How could his grandfather, Heinz Baumgarter, have been allowed to have a life with a family, etc. when he killed thousands! 😡

So glad you showed this, it makes the atrocity more evident.

I cried while watching this, but I think it's important for us to remember the horrific events in the hope that history isn't repeated.

Civilization is a thin veneer. Without laws and boundaries anything is possible

"Man is an animal, all he needs is permission". My mother was a Hungarian Jew born in 1921. I remember asking her what she thought of the Nazis and what they did. She said, "It wasn't the Nazis. It was the Hungarians.The Nazis just gave the Hungarians permission to do whatever they wanted to to the Jews. And they did."

What’s really scary is this. The conditions that created this madness, could repeat itself. At any time.

The "heart keeps working but the soul never forgets.. " Big word.. 🙏🙏❤❤😢

Patton.

“As long as permission is given by higher up” truer words are spoken by the survivor. It is applicable even these days. It is imperative that good men and women stand and stop evil. If you think “What can I do?” Register and vote to make your voice be heard!

I visited the holocaust exhibit here in Kansas City when it came a while back. My visit was in the late morning, and toward the end of the dates the exhibit would be there. As I entered the exhibit area, I realized I was alone. I suddenly became very overwhelmed with emotion as I realized I was among some of the last physical traces of the lives these Jewish people had, before being murdered. It's something that haunts all of us, as a united global community. I am not surprised these Nazis lived an everyday, normal life, as captured in these photos. It only shows you how indoctrinated and brainwashed these people were. The normalcy displayed in these photos betrays this haunting fact.

just when you think you have the worst day, you watch his news clip. It really makes you appreciate what you have

I literally cried watching this piece. When will we ever learn? Lord have mercy on us.

How could one human being stand by and watch others being " exterminated" ......HOW TRAGIC

How is this woman functioning after experiencing such horror? What a beautiful and courageous person. It’s so hard to watch the survivors because I think of all the people we lost.

I asked myself all these years how people could be so brainwashed and evil, then I see what's happening on college campuses today 😢 still so much hate for my Jewish neighbors and friends.

Wow, this was a VERY Interesting piece. Thank you for the way this was reported and conveyed

When I was real little about 3 years old, my mom was friends with an older couple who would come over for coffee. They both had numbers tattooed on their arms. I was learning my numbers so I would read the tattooed numbers. I remember mom yelled at me to stop. But the man said it was fine and held out his arm. Mom didn't tell me til I was in high school and we were studying the Holocaust that they were survivors of Auschwitz. The woman couldn't have children so they liked to come over to spend time with me and my new baby brother. The couple never directly said it but Mom believes it was because they did experiments on her based on the few things they did say about their time in the camp.

The fact that these despicable people could behave as if things were normal and they were not beasts, is incredibly disturbing.

Awful past. Awful present.

This is timely......given the number of normal looking university students calling for boycotts of Jewish stores, shooting at a Jewish girls school....chanting "from the river to the sea. It is good to see just how twisted, yet normal appearing these people were....and these SS and Gestapo members were former university students, often with advanced degrees.

Man can justify anything it seems. Right now, at this very moment, innocent people are dying in wars around the world. Each side thinks they are justified.

Wow. That lady’s testimony is powerful. The memories must be unbearable. So sad what man can do to his fellow man.

Incredible to hear the story of a survivor and even more incredible to see a rare photo with the survivor in it

Sheer evil...

I appreciate this so much....thank you!

“Tears are for normal things.” … WOW

These are impossible to ignore and to forget.

So true: 'The most dangerous animal is man'

It’s called COMPARTMENTALIZATION It’s what the world is sadly once again doing…. Sad but true BOTH sides of the conflict compartmentalize to go on with their daily activities

😢I have no words, I am in tears with rage and sorrow. 😢💔

Wow that was truly profound and soul searching. I met a man who survived the concentration camps, he showed me the number on his forearm. He told the story of his whole family being murdered. He was kept alive to cut the soldiers hair and do other random tasks. The things he witnessed were truly horrifying. Shes right mankind is truly the worst and most terrifying animal! We must be vigilant to never let this happen again! Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it!