(1939) WWII begins: Siege of Warsaw.[4k, 50fps,colorized]

[@XIXbacktolife]

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[@husar5543]

disgraceful

[@solivagant1170]

@@husar5543 What’s disgraceful?

[@husar5543]

@@solivagant1170 If you don't see it I can't help you

[@TheCleansingx]

This is unreal to watch.. The colorization, fps increase and sharpness of the film removes the disconnect. You see that they're real people and not just history on an old blurry, black and white, stuttery film. The emotional impact is so much greater.

[@qwer55555555]

yeah. You are absolutely right

[@greenretro9015]

yes its hard to see :/

[@railgun9992]

Thanks to "Film stock" that doesn't have fixed resolution, basically photo moving at high speed

[@mauriciomarquez9314]

Its unreal until you realize that the same is happening right now in middle east.

[@MartinBergnerGuitar]

@@mauriciomarquez9314 there and many more places. It's absurd if you think about the thousands of years of war all over the world... all the pain and suffering of billions, you would think mankind would advance and stop pillaging & murdering at some point and yet there we are 2021. I mean how can you face that and not turn into a nihilist?

[@arnonuhm6234]

People tend to think WW2 was a long time ago, and so did I, especially as a child. But now I'm 45 (born 1976) and thinking that the timespan between these pictures and my birth is now already a lot shorter than the time between my birth and today, puts the whole thing into a completely different perspective.

[@bishbosh1962]

I can really relate to your comment. I was born in 1962 - just 17 years after the end of the war. My abiding memory of my grandparents is their regular references to life during the war, and stories my father and mother (now all dead) told me of what they suffered as teenagers. It seems so unreal to me at 59 but memories of it were fresh in minds of my elders during my childhood.

[@Pingz53]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2jaaqyomLJ8bMU&ab_channel=AbovetheEarth-BelowtheSky

[@yttelbruinsma9503]

I was thinking the same

[@liamb5378]

Exactly. Same can be said for the Jim Crow South and segregation which was even more recent. People like to think these things were so far in the past

[@danpearce4547]

I'm 46 and feel exactly the same. 30 years ago I left school, the same period of time between the end of WW2 and my birth.

[@ysy662]

These pictures were taken by Julen Bryan an American reporter, the ONLY one foreign reporter with balls enough to stay during the siege. He was able to smuggle the reels despite being searched by the Germans after the city fell.

[@jamesb.9155]

He may have had help smuggling his film out of the city. Even so, he was lucky to get out of there alive and not taken to the Gestapo for interrogation first.

[@ysy662]

@@jamesb.9155 At this time US was neutral and all Gestapo could have done was to confiscate the material.

[@uncletimo6059]

@@ysy662 well..... "accident" could have happened. who would know then what really happened?

[@uncletimo6059]

@General Bismarck LOL history books do not fail to talk about the camps for "enemy aliens".

[@uncletimo6059]

@General Bismarck do tell. wanna talk about the morgenthau plan and how in reality it was put into effect? which does not make the germans some sort of poor victims. you started it, by bombing and strafing women and children in the fields and especially on the roads. no forgivness.

[@peetam51]

I'm watching this from the safe comfort of my home, where my family also lives. I know it's easy to just write down words but, man, watching this, watching the lives of these people broke my heart.

[@ghostifacation]

truly heart breaking.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

What worse was even civilians doing their daily lives as farming or cultivating crops were affected by war and often casualties

[@ПетърСтанев-с1к]

Absolutely heartbreaking seeing those poor children next to their parents' bodies.

[@immortalxd6190]

It really is ☹️

[@Mike_Olee]

@Yeah, I said it ur so edgy

[@Joski2011]

@Yeah, I said it oooo ur ard

[@XxxX-wx3er]

Men men men. WW2 was a result of fragile male egos. 80 years later and men still won’t change.

[@ПетърСтанев-с1к]

@@XxxX-wx3er One way to look at it. Disgusting amount of men suffered as well my friend and paid the highest price. Some things are inevitable

[@BecomingAMan]

The little boy just staring at his mother’s corpse, not sure what to do was so saddening

[@mayjf481]

Te da mucha tristeza, pobre niño

[@krzysztofp7846]

4 days old casuality.....

[@enriquegranados5179]

A los europeos siempre les ha gustado organizar masacres.

[@ScrappyKitty15]

@@creatineenjoyer7345 No, el diablo es el diablo. Europeos son humanos, lo mismo de latinoamericanos.

[@Gnome5555]

@@enriquegranados5179 y Japón?

[@missraven88]

My grandmother was living in Poland when this happened. The whole family had to separate and planned to meet back up after the war. It never happened. My grandmother had to survive WW2 by herself at 14 years old.

[@celvsmachine]

I was thinking about how some of those kids or babies might be grandparents to generations here in the us today

[@zuzusangry7129]

@@celvsmachine Yes, my grandma was 3 years old in Krakow, Poland when Nazis invaded. She moved to Chicago with her daughters (my mom) in the 80s as communism was falling apart in eastern europe. She's still living in the Chicago area today!

[@JayPixx]

@@zuzusangry7129 let's be honest and straight forward about it. It was Germans. Germany started second World War.

[@KonglomeratYT]

@@JayPixx Well yeah. The Nazis were a political party/affiliation in Germany. That doesn't make them not-German. Most of the country was Nazi at the time. That is why they are referred to as Nazis. The Nazis were the unifying force of Germany. The only reason you don't see other countries referred to in the same way is because they are rarely ever as unified.

[@Erosistheonlyreal]

Big respect to your ancestors.

[@kingacastus8915]

It's weird seeing their faces in such detail, people don't look "real' in documentaries due to the low quality of the pictures and the use of actors to recreate scenes. Here I can really see the hopelessness in their eyes.

[@bpcgos]

Yeah, you're right. All seems very in pain.

[@D33Lux]

The hospital scenes remind me of the movie The Pianist. Very powerful movie about the warsaw ghetto's.

[@maywalker997]

You can see so much worry written in the lines of these people's faces...A lot of the people also seem prematurely aged by the effects of the war (even the children hold expressions far too old for them). Its like the effect of a constant background sense of anxiety, a deep unwavering state of stress & distress, a cumalative effect of tragedy compounded by tragedy, has been etched deep into their faces. So much pointless death & destruction, and for what? You can see that these people have been victim to some of the worst & most pointless barbarism and brutalities of war. Next time your media is trying to paint pictures that make you dislike another people, question it. The newspapers are not there to educate you, they are there to manipulate your attention to generate profits for media moguls and to be used as tools by politicians. Lets find our common ground and not focus so much our differences- most of us just want to live quiet, peaceful, good lives, and most of us want the same sort of rights in life (fair treatment, fair pay, safe streets, a right to a decent home, good schools and good healthcare). We could achieve so much if we only didn't let others above divide us so much (and that others do seek to divide us, is by no innocent nor accidental intention). The universal Golden Rule: Christianity: The Good Samaritan: "Love your neighbor as yourself" Islam: Hadith 13 "You're not truly a believer until you love one another" Judaism: Rabbi Akiva ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ Hinduism: Hitopadesa "One should always treat others as they themselves wish to be treated." Confucianism: Analects "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Buddhism: Udanavarga "Hurt not others with that which pains yourself."

[@katiekawaii]

And you can see, and feel, that they're just like us. They could be us.

[@mrgonk871]

Shot dead whilst picking potatoes, what a wonderful specimen of life the human race is. Then we get people today like Harry and Meghan moaning about their life, unbelievable.

[@OstblockLatina]

Julien Bryan, the author of those photographs and recordings, did Warsaw and Poland a great service by documenting what he saw while potentially risking his own life, and managing to bring it out of the occupied lands. I salute him for his work.

[@AxxLAfriku]

Please stop giving me mean comments. My mother reads the comments I get and she cries a lot because of it. Please be nice, dear os

[@maxpayne69.]

@@AxxLAfriku Ok zoomer👌🏻

[@zada4a]

@@AxxLAfriku you're cool dude

[@scaroian]

@@AxxLAfriku lol

[@outlawedTV88]

you folks really do not know the real reason as why Germany went into war?? Why they really attacked the neighboring Poland and other countries but in reality they didn't want a war and Adolf was trying to evade it - but your fellow englishman bankers wanted the war by any means necessary!? - Of course you didn't = you all have been fed nothing but lies ever since .... such a shame you do not even know who your true enemy is to this day

[@colecooper5836]

"While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her...The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me" Depressing stuff

[@ingridsommer2232]

Thank you for providing the photographer's commentary 😞

[@Nakaska]

He's talking specifically about this girl at 1:01 kneeling over her dead sister.

[@starcapture3040]

@@Nakaska its fake

[@Fleetk90]

@@starcapture3040 you spend too much time on the internet

[@mif4731]

@@starcapture3040 how is it fake, there is even full video on the internet where you can see her body with bullet holes and blood all over. Its redacted here because youtube wouldn't allow it.

[@justaguy328]

1:01 I've seen this clip a few years ago, and it's always stuck with me. One of the heartbreaking things i've ever seen. A little girl just had a loved one killed right in front of her May God bless her and keep her.

[@SuperLn1991]

I once found an interview of her, she had survived the war. The body she was crying over was her older sister. She was a bit like a mother to her apparently.

[@theghost6061]

It's a propaganda lie: the planes shown are Polish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.11; not German ones: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109

[@PlagueDoctor22]

Where could I find this interview of her? Really wanna watch it​@@SuperLn1991

[@ljmcdonald2703]

@@SuperLn1991her sister was 14 at the time of her death, they had a younger brother who was only 3 months old when the war broke out. He died of malnutrition a year later

[@mortiel84]

And it's happening again and again, we learn nothing

[@tnetroP]

Some of these images such as the boy at 00:58 and girl at 1:00 absolutely break my heart. I can't imagine what it was like for those children with their mother laying dead and probably no-one to look after them during this horror. I want to reach into the screen and help them.

[@islamicschoolofmemestudies]

I would've constantly had my head across the sky...Knowing full well these German planes can came out any time.

[@matejorsag6515]

Such pictures appeare again and again during every war. That's why war is never solution. There is always unbelievable suffering and for what?

[@matejorsag6515]

@@islamicschoolofmemestudies these planes could approach you from side, flying several hundreds miles per hour low above ground. You are with your children in the middle of totally exposed potato field. Where can you hide? If the pilot selects you as his target, you have no chance. I am wondering what kind of person is willing to shoot to death women with children working on field.

[@islamicschoolofmemestudies]

@@matejorsag6515 The Luftwaffe dropped 500 kg of Bomb right above a school in UK. 38 Children died some completely unrecognizable. Sometimes shits happened, you dropped the bomb of target and hits civilian.

[@JohnJones-ct9pr]

It was her sister Anna who had been killed and who she was crying over. They had been digging for food.

[@aleksander9712]

My grandfather was 16 during that time. Siege of Warsaw was one of the most vivid memory of his. He lived in the village 40km away. One night in the early days of September he and his family went to to their backyard and noticed everything was bright like in the day. It was a fire from the burning Warsaw which illuminated darkness. They all held together and cried out of sadness and powerlessness. One year after he enrolled to the resistant forces. To seek a revenge on those who did it.

[@Christmas-dg5xc]

What was his opinion of the Soviets, who had attacked 16 days after Hitler did, and had even been at war with Poland in 1919-20? The world somehow won't see them as also having been perpetrators.

[@aleksander9712]

@@Christmas-dg5xc Here people usually consider both sides equally bad. Describing Soviet attack as a stab in the back when we were most vulnerable. When it comes to my grandpa it's a quite an interesting issue. Many years after the war he forgive regular Germans for what they did. He knew German very well so he had many conversation with German soldiers. He had to as Germany army sized half of his house as a military outpost since it was the biggest and only brick house around. When I was a kid he always told me that most of the German soldiers where just a regular boys like he was. But they fathers mostly died in the previous war, they had no good examples of behaving and it was easier to attract them into such an evil ideology (that was his theory). After all those years he even developed some kind of pitty while thinking about Germans training in his garden in the very harsh winter of 1940, preparing for the upcoming invasion to the east. He knew they very enemies, but also human beings. On the other hand he described Soviet soldiers with one word: savages. In the 1944 when Soviet Union was pushing through, bunch of Soviet soldiers went to his house. The wanted to stole everything which had any value. They sat to the kitchen table and ordered him to gave all vodka he had. When they had drunk everything they started to looking for more in cabinets and found... a huge bottle of vinegar. They've never seen anything like this so they thought it was some kind of alkohol and try to drink it as well. When vinegar started to burn their guts they wanted to beat my grandpa to death as they tough he was some kind a Germany spy who tried to poisson them. Such an unrealistic and tragicomedy scene. In fact his opinions were not very unusual for the people of his generation. Germans were much more destructive and cruel, driven by the bunch of psychopaths. But some of the regular soldiers still remained humans. While Soviets did not intended to make that much damage to the civilians, but they act like a savage barbarians.

[@АлександрДухин-р3ц]

@@aleksander9712 The savage barbarians didn't kill your grandfather and the Germans would have. The USSR lost 15 million civilians as a result of the war , 30,000 villages were burned down along with their inhabitants , 7,000 cities were destroyed to the ground , 40% of industry was lost to the USSR as a result of the war. As for the treaty , Stalin agreed to sign it after the negotiations between the USSR , France and Britain on the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition broke down and he had no choice. Here is what Churchill wrote about this. Churchill writes: "The fact that such an agreement was possible marks the depth of the failure of English and French politics and diplomacy over the years. In favor of the Soviets, it must be said that it was vital for the Soviet Union to push the original positions of the German armies as far West as possible, so that the Russians could gain time and gather strength from all parts of their colossal Empire. In the minds of the Russian red-hot iron imprinted disaster that suffered their army in 1914, when they rushed to attack the Germans, not yet finished mobilization. And now their borders were much more to the East than during the first war. They needed to occupy the Baltic States and most of Poland by force or deception before they were attacked. If their policies were coldly calculating, they were also highly realistic at the time."

[@Goodkidjr43]

@@АлександрДухин-р3ц Oh, Please stop. Stalin was murdering, torturing, and imprisoning millions of his own people sending them to death in the Gulags BEFORE 1939 starting when Stalin seized power. He murdered his own generals BEFORE the war started. Have you not read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's, "Gulag Archipelago"?

[@АлександрДухин-р3ц]

@@Goodkidjr43 You know, I don't read dreamers like Solzhenitsyn. I read such serious historians as E. Spitsyn, E. Yakovlev, A. Isaev, K. Zhukov, Yu. Zhukov, E. Prudnikova, M. Mukhin, V. Zemskov, etc. I am very touched when Western people judge communism without knowing anything about it. The actual results of Stalin's rule are as follows: from 1921 to 1953 4 060 306 people were convicted for all types of crimes: 799 455 people were shot, 2 631 397 people were imprisoned, 413 512 people were exiled, etc. 215 942 people Respectively 2,15%: 0,42%, 1,39%, 0,22%, 0,11% population of the USSR in 1953. Total killed in the camps 606 748, i.e., of 0.85% of the population. During the war 367 thousand Germans, 228 thousand were deported from the Western regions. Tatars and others. citizens of Crimea, 24 thousand Azerbaijanis, 20 thousand Armenians, 45 thousand Turks, 164 thousand Latvians and Estonians, only 848 thousand people. From the famine of 1932-1933, the population decreased by 2.5 million people. Having survived the devastating losses of the great Patriotic war, for 26 years from 1928 to 1954, the national income of the Soviet Union increased by 12.9 times. The population increased from 137 million to 200 million between 1920 and 1956. The number of students from 1914 to 1954 in schools increased 3.2 times, in technical schools, etc. 34 times, in higher education-13.6 times. The number of researchers increased 21-fold from 1913 to 1954. The number of doctors from 1913 to 1954 increased by 12.6 times. Housing stock in cities and towns increased 2.8-fold from 1926 to 1954. The real income of the workers from 1918 to 1954, the workers grew 6 times, the peasants 6.5 times. These figures were derived by American scientists together with the Russian historian V. N. Zemskov in 1995. en.topwar.ru/121727-stalinskie-repressii-30-h-godov-a-vy-uvereny-chto-oni-stalinskie.html kzbin.info/www/bejne/nam8lXqJfrVjmpI

[@philmarsh5593]

God, that was powerful. Colorising and upscaling really brings them all back to life. Very moving.

[@philmarsh5593]

@None None you're so right. Here you are after all, wasting bandwidth and oxygen.

[@Ziggle-ky9kv]

There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.

[@Humptydumpty_5]

I know this may seem a tad rude but could you sell me on this book a bit more? Why should I buy it?

[@mingching2480]

Could it reference who started WW2? and why. The Deepstate Cabal was well involved. And the ones behind it were the rich globalist of a certain religion that Shicklgruber tried to rid??

[@Griff00]

​@@Humptydumpty_5the website for the book has an AI generated description with a bunch of fake reviews

[@JustSomePerson8]

This comments likes are definitely bot likes too

[@MyDestinyDear]

@@Humptydumpty_5it’s a book written by chatgpt

[@stahppls2293]

It's heartbreaking to see this and knowing the worst is yet to come for them

[@donaldlyons17]

Really I think there was a cartoon that predicted war in the future. I don't think anyone thought there would not be another war they just were not sure when!!!

[@ShaneJones-rn3nl]

The worst is yet to come for us as well.

[@tk9839]

a lot worse...

[@generalpatton7876]

Germany taking half of Poland with Russia taking the other half. How terrible.

[@texasforever6950]

@@ShaneJones-rn3nl very very true

[@lostinthewoods8032]

These people had plans, hopes, dreams. Their faces show that the brutal reality of our fragile humanity can take everything in an instant.

[@uncleTedK]

Poles don’t have plans, hopes, or dreams.

[@chisathot750]

@@uncleTedK For soviets, no.

[@julz3tt3]

Absolutely horrendous 😓😓😓

[@mirola73]

And it's about to happen again and again and again. Hell even China has publicly stated they want to invade Taiwan. That's WW3. We humans think we are intelligent, we're just utter morons !

[@timmo491]

they're also the ones who voted Hitler in

[@taffelost6221]

The polish people suffered horrendously during WWII. So much terrible suffering. My heart will forever be with the poles in solidarity. Love from Norway.

[@Jackal999xx]

Respects from Poland my friend

[@seva809]

@@user-vf3cb7vk8z Goebels would be happy seeing how people still tend to repeat his lies, my friend.

[@taffelost6221]

@@user-vf3cb7vk8z you can take that neo-nazi history falsification bullshit somewhere else. I'm not an ignorant imbecile.

[@user-vf3cb7vk8z]

@@taffelost6221 It's just a fact.

[@Modretz]

@α & Ω LoL, there's no resource that can be trusted nowadays

[@philiptaylor8223]

We look back on all this knowing how it ended. Imagine being there at the time - it must have felt like the end of the world.

[@qaterius1433]

It surely must have felt like it's never ending.

[@apachebill]

For many, it was.

[@innocentbystander8038]

It basically didn't end for another 50 years. Until the soviets left.

[@baronnuuke7821]

I remember reading the journal of a young guy "living" back then, it was very depressing. At first he was optimistic and patriotic, then shocked by the defeat, and then happy and hopeful when France and UK declared war on Germany, then depressed because France was conquered next summer... At some point he heard the Soviets were advancing so he thought they were going to save them, until he realized they were just there to take the back of the country for themselves...Then the famine, and hoping for years that maybe the US would come to Europe to fight the Germans. He wrote about his dad stealing food from his own daughter. And then at the end of the book, he stopped writing, because he died from hunger.

[@artlover4997]

@@baronnuuke7821 This short summary you have provided is already depressing enough, don't know if I could read the entire book without breaking down. I have already read "All Quiet On The Western Front" which was then turned into a film. The book is filled with the deaths of young men and teen boys on the front lines and I couldn't help but cry.

[@Jauzness87]

This video is both extremely interesting and terrifying to watch. The scene with the newborns especially got to me. It saddens me that so many people lived so short lives in fear and horror.

[@smieszek8080]

Small children, not more than a month old and already wounded and scarred. I know how fragile newborns are and its unthinkable that these little ones could be the target of a gunfire or bombings. Germans were known for their cruelty during the war. They were shooting paratroopers and pilots who catapulted from burning planes, starving people to death in camps, making soap from dead bodies, executing women and children in public... They were treated very well after the war if compared to what they did to other nations, especially Jews and Poles.

[@ПетърСтанев-с1к]

Thinking back, history is full of such events. Now I realise what the staying : "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it" really means.

[@Squee7e]

@@smieszek8080 Shooting pilots in their parachutes wasn't a purely German thing. Many German pilots didn't do that at all. The creation of soap from corpses just shows how desperate they were just a few years after the war had begun. I don't think that it is a bad thing though. Maybe for religious people but technically there is not much wrong about it. The worst things were the concentration camps (and even worse death camps) and mass executions. Those were really terrible war crimes. It shows how far humans can go if manipulated enough and if there is enough hatred among them. I don't think punishing the Germans would have done any good. What can be learned from the two world wars is that repressions don't cure problems. They make them worse.

[@jibjab1255]

Julius Bryan revisited Warsaw in 1959. When he did, he discovered that the twin baby boys, who appear in this video, had died in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The twins died along with their father, on September 5th, which was also the twins' birthday.

[@lesleybrown1583]

Read the Gospel of John -this world is only an anti-room for eternity!Watch Bill Weise 23 minuets in hell and see what your maker Jesus is trying to save you from! Jesus took me to heaven 26 yrs ago,3 months after i was saved! He longs to save you also! Be blessed!

[@PavltheRobot]

I'm really glad you revitalised this footage. Greetings from Poland

[@XIXbacktolife]

It's a pity and a danger young people don't learn history and watch these films just because they look "old".

[@PavltheRobot]

@@XIXbacktolife Indeed.

[@wabisabi7755]

Accessibility is also an issue. But thanks to KZbin and channels like this, it's getting more possi le

[@darwin7460]

@@XIXbacktolife 20 and enjoying all your videos!

[@skrrttz]

@@XIXbacktolife I do, always loved history especially ww2 and the Tudors. I am 27 now tho not exactly young 🙂 I really appreciate your channel

[@CanadianPrepper]

We as modern people have no idea what hard times are

[@elmago8268]

What do you mean "We"? In a place where you live you have no idea what hard times are. What about the kids in Africa in this modern time?

[@historypandas7]

often our most vulnerable people who get to hospitals get the camp treatment in there

[@ChudLife]

@@elmago8268 Lol they literally explained what they meant as "We" in their sentence. *Simplified:* Neither you or I know what it's like to be in a World War.

[@elmago8268]

@@ChudLife I don't live in USA. In fact, I live in Ukraine.

[@shadowsinmymind9]

So wrong. Both my parents lived in poverty and this was in the 60s and 70s

[@StainsStainsStains]

My heart hurts so badly for these poor people. There's a literal pain in my chest when looking at some of these shots, particularly towards the end... I feel like I could cry with them. May they rest in peace.

[@clintschroeder5717]

Bird

[@BlvxkByrd]

lol imagine being this fragile

[@honiahakaa]

same for gaza happening now :(

[@StainsStainsStains]

@@BlvxkByrdoh I get ya. Empathy… which a fragile concept.

[@BlvxkByrd]

@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197 Very, actually. I wish I could go through life being as naive as you, I really do but that's not the reality we live in

[@anobanir]

My dear great-grandmother alongside other young girls was captured by nazis in her small polish village. She was only 16 and got separeted from her family. She was convinced they're taking her to the camp and she was preparing for her death. But actually she was taken to a big private farm house in Germany, right outside of polish border where she and a few other polish and romanian people were made to work on a field. She had to dig for potatoes all day and was basically a slave. Speaking polish or any other language was prohibited so everybody had to learn german just by listniening to the guards. As a meal they used to give them a few potatoes and a glass of milk for a whole day of work. Nearby was a small forest and the girls used to sneak there to pick wild berries or mushrooms. She met my great-grandfather on this farm. He was forced to work in a cowshed and used to steal milk to give it to the others and in exchange those working on a field started stealing potatoes. That's how they met and fell in love with each other. They spend 4 years of their life working there until they managed to escape. And my great-grandmother came all the way back to her village where a lot of the houses were bombed and her family was gone. She never saw them again. I don't know what happened to my great-grandpas family since my great-grandma has already forgot it when she was telling me her story. My great-grandparents got married and stayed in this village till their deaths. I never got to meet my great-grandfather since he died before my birth but I used to visit my great-grandmother every summer and her son, granddaughters and and other great-grandchildren still live there. She died 5 years ago but had a life full of miracles as well as awful pain. She used to write poems while working on the farm and I have copies of some of them. A shame she didn't write a book about her life while she still remembered more details because it would be a really interesting read.

[@pontiusporcius8430]

What was one of the poems she wrote?

[@sipeb587]

Could you please publish those poems? I would love to read em.

[@pumpkinpepsi]

It would be amazing if you published her poems so her words and experiences live on.

[@tutsebhatu6495]

:(

[@boris_js]

Thanks for writing this. So much to reflect. Everybody has their own unique stories. Not so long ago your great-grandparents were young and now look at us. How time flies. Our time would also come eventually and the world would go on.

[@seaweedseaside5905]

The sight of the children kneeling beside their dead mothers just crushed me. Their moms were the most beautiful and special people in the world to them and there they laid dead because a madman decided that his ideology was more important than the lives of other humans. Never let ideology blind you to the fact that human life is more precious than anything else.

[@angry80sguy]

Kinda like our future if the cancel culture and Democrats keep up the way they are using Nazi tactics to win elections and bully and punish people for voting against their party like they have been in America & Europe! Keep voting for people like AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, Harris, Lohan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Joe Biden... Keep listening to the American/Chinese Propaganda coming from CNN & MSNBC OR TWITTER N' FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM EXT...

[@TheMalfean]

@@angry80sguy yeah.... you failed to mention that madman trump who actually attempted a coup. You would have done better to scorn all the politicians. They’re all manure.

[@outsidechambaz]

@@randomguyintheinternet8300 You too, wake the fuck up you have access to the internet which means you have access to factual information. Get off youtube stop watching ABC MSNBC and CNN.

[@lovejetfuel4071]

Forced to pick potatos to live but a chance that you will get shot from the air. People in 2021- Im not wearing a mask

[@mahdimaiche4615]

It always astonishes me that people say "one madman" as if they were 2 sides good and evil, every fucking country wanted to start a war back then and were just waiting for a pretext, they didn't fight evil, they were just wanting to expand and would have killed millions of moms if it was necessary to do so, grow up people!

[@tinak.7577]

always amazed by how much more "real" these become, when they colorize the pictures and videos

[@msDanielp369]

“Oh. All my life and never realized… That actually happened."

[@Dinco422]

They were very much real before colorization.

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

Ironically it’s less real because the neural network is picking the colors which often are not accurate. Colorists can research the buildings, clothes, etc and get closer but unless you shot the black and white footage with color filters there’s no real way to accurately convey the color. The black and white footage meanwhile is more accurate as a document because it’s not changing anything, it’s recording what it could record which was luminance.

[@normie2716]

@@Dinco422 No shit. That's why she put quotes around "real", just remarking on how coloration has an ability to bring old film to life, so-to-speak.

[@tinak.7577]

@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss that's why I say "real". I mean the fact that most people can imagine this to really took place when they see it in colors, even if they are not the right ones.

[@icet8915]

I'm so very much into these videos, keep finding and putting these out, please!

[@TheBluefox13]

My grandmother was a child in Poland at the time. Lost her sister in a camp. Barely escaped with her life. I always wondered about how it looked and felt, as asking her brings up too much trauma to handle. The ramifications of this has run through multiple generations all throughout my extended family. This has given me some much needed insight.

[@Katarzyna1886]

If you have a chance watch the movie Pianist. It was an eye opening movie for me, showing the devastation of the city I have grew up in.

[@VargVikernes1488]

I am really sorry she died from typhus and malnutrition that was a result of "Allies" bombing the supply lines.

[@romiansobieszczanskipaszteski]

@@VargVikernes1488 what?

[@VargVikernes1488]

@@romiansobieszczanskipaszteski What "what"?

[@sizor3ds]

@@VargVikernes1488 what now?

[@ej8967]

It crazy how simply colorizing videos like this it seems to bridge the gap of separation between then and now in our minds - somehow it makes it even more heartbreaking and relatable.

[@dieglhix]

I wonder about the Syrian war, the first one we saw really high quality videos on the internet and was really shocking, but these wars have been happening all the time, especially Africa and Asia

[@williamyoung9401]

It makes it looks like it happened last week. ALL of World War 2 needs to be remastered, in 4K and in COLOR for future generations. Otherwise...we are condemned to repeat History...

[@kikoredog]

personally, its less about the colorizing and more about it being brought up from like 10 fps original to 50 fps.

[@SL4PSH0CK]

For me it wasn't a crazy concept, its heartbreaking in itself alone how civilians is the main lost in these documentations

[@athelstan1143]

Poland has such a tragic history. So much suffering. I hope your future will be peaceful and prosperous. Greetings from Finland.

[@marceldabrowskii]

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 🗿

[@pollenzx]

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat average musky mcdonalds headass to mald over video games and somehow impose a threat over "letting someone partition them" as if you have any economical or diplomatic meaning

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

​@@pollenzx TIL Polish people can't take a joke.

[@soheell]

poland is one of the most racist countries in the world today lol, 0 sympathy or empathy for what happened to them.

[@bcv864]

​@@soheell WTF man? 0 empathy for milion of victims? Innocent kids? II WW destroyed this country forever. I'm 4 generation after this war, it still have impact on us. Poland was a different country before war. Different nations lived here in peace with each other. First try to understand history of this region of Europe, before you say bullshit about racism.

[@Rayza82]

Wow, that was emotional. Great work by the original creator and the colorization process. I been to some of those areas I think in Poland.

[@rich_edwards79]

The quality of this footage brings home the horror to a modern audience. It could just as easily have been shot in Beirut in the 1970s, Sarajevo in 1992, Mogadishu in 1996, Kosovo in 1999, Basra in 2006, Aleppo in 2013 or Yemen right now.

[@leontrotsky6530]

Gotta add Palestine to the list as well.

[@chris93703]

@@leontrotsky6530 Palestine has brought on their own suffering by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. For starters they could stop sending suicide bombings and stop launching rockets. If the Palestinians would simply stop attacking then Israel could stop taking some of the measures they are taking to protect themselves.

[@badmonkey2222]

@@chris93703 Israel could stop stealing land that in no way belongs to them and evicting people with little to no notice putting them on the streets with nowhere to go by force, bombing apartment blocks full of civilians, women and children, constantly harassing and belittling the Palestinians, worst thing that ever happened was giving them their own country and on top of it letting them have heavy weapons.

[@chris93703]

​@@badmonkey2222 I feel sorry for the Palestinian children who are suffering and dying but unfortunately they are victims of their own terrorism. Their leaders care little about their own people and think nothing about using innocent civilians as human shields. And yet the Israelis will give a warning for people to clear out before a place is bombed. And speaking of weapons if they would just put their money and resources into improving their lives and accepting that Israel is not going away rather than into terrorism their lives would be so much better. I would also never support a people who do things like using children as suicide bombers. That is something only a wicked, twisted person would do.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Palestine and Chicago on a long weekend

[@MadDadLad]

Whoever remastered this footage deserves serious praise. This hit like a truck and the feeling of it being distant and disconnected disappears when you see the absolute heartbreak and resignation carved into their faces and hearts. The eyes are somewhat present but moreso distant from the shock of how quickly their lives so drastically changed. And my god, those images of the kids next to their dead mother's is beyond heartbreaking. What they must have endured in the years that followed after seeing such horror happen right in frontvid them......war isn't worth this.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

They run it through AI

[@MR.GetOVERiT333]

BUILD A SEA WALL!!!

[@xxxxx409]

lmfao you mean whoever created the AI upscaling machine learning algorithm deserves praise not the man that ran it through a program

[@xxxxx409]

buddy you could do any video you want with like 10 clicks

[@RandomDudeOne]

Not distant at all really, still millions of people alive today who lived through WWII. The young girl at 1:00 crying over the body of her sister, Kazimiera Mika, died just three short years ago.

[@matjb]

This is so tragic that this wasn't even 100 years ago. My grandparents were all alive when this was happening...

[@ssj3vegett0]

imagine had they died...you wouldnt be here today cause your parents most likely werent born for another 20 years..

[@someonefar5600]

And that we seem to be heading towards the third 😢

[@saebbi]

This still happens regularily today and has no particular meaning to the perspective of western way of living today.

[@sinane.y]

Have you heard of this place called the middle east?

[@rilanavaders314]

Ever heard of uyghur muslims in china that are right now being persecuted just for being muslim? But nooo what happened to the jews we will never let that happen. Apperently they mean we will never let this happen to jews anymore. If its muslims we dont care.

[@zarikepunzulis4238]

Im 39 weeks pregnant, and seeing the mothers holding new borns who were already hurt and traumatized by war breaks me into a million pieces.. I cried so hard. This world is evil. Poor little babies and mommas 😢

[@MagisterVeritas]

The span between the most beautiful things a human can do and the most terrible things the same human is capable of doing is absolutely terrifying.

[@keetahbrough]

people are dying RIGHT NOW of suicide, poverty, isolation and societies aggression. because you voted; people are dying.

[@hoticeparty]

@@keetahbrough yeah i agree alex is to blame!

[@fifervonpiper6707]

@@eciekoc Darn Alex's causing wars all over the world!

[@karlheinz6545]

@@keetahbrough will you guys shut up one and stop bringing up your hateful agenda?

[@displaychicken]

@@keetahbrough We can’t keep letting Alex get away with it! /s

[@ewbait]

War is such a horrible, horrible ordeal. Often times forced upon common people who want nothing to do with it.

[@adonaiyah2196]

Its true. Poland has nothing to do with Germanys desire for expansion

[@yuletide4452]

That face shall haunt me till the end of my days... even in death... even after...

[@davenhla]

This is what I try to tell people in current days. The US has a bunch of people running the country that are trying to destroy it. No one wants to believe that the country could be in danger. So I ask people: "Do you think when WW2 started, that the average person saw it coming and prepared and knew that they would be bombed and shot and killed and otherwise destroyed?" Of course they don;t. the average person just wants to live their life and go about their business and work and have their family and such. Even when faced with a severe pending threat, they try to turn a blind eye, both in the hope it will not come to pass, or that they will be spared for their insignificance when it does. But that is not how it works. That is why people need to stay vigilant, and make sure their leaders do not take action to destroy their lives, that power hungry few do not sacrifice the many for their own benefit. These poor souls trying to dig in the fields to live getting destroyed by a war machine they do not want to be part of is a very relevant example of what is on the close horizon in modern times. The west watches as the elite flood the borders with illegal people, destroys the value of the money, shuts down commerce, taxes everything until there is bankruptcy, makes things unstable and passes laws to enslave the common person, and the people watch and do nothing as they try to turn a blind eye and hope it does not come to pass, or at least come to them. But it will, just as it came for these poor people in WW2. People must stand and fight to win to stop it. Better to risk your fate in an attempt to better your life, even at the cost of your life, then to die anyway as a slave. The sooner people realize this, the sooner humanity can move past these dark times.

[@echox000]

Where is your profile pic from?

[@KiyoPapi]

@@echox000 attack on titan. the image is a meme image tho

[@1aniztop]

"Between war and Hell, war is worse." "How do you figure?" "Think about it, Father. Who goes to hell?" "Well, sinners." "Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in hell." -Hawkeye Pierce.

[@randmiller88]

Well, that's bullshit. What about people never exposed to Christianity, or any other religion that believes in eternal damnation? Perfectly reasonable people who, just because of the place or time of their birth, would go to Hell according to rules they never learned.

[@1aniztop]

@@randmiller88 well, tks for exposing your point of view.

[@Goodkidjr43]

@@randmiller88 As a Catholic, I agree with you. St. Paul said each man will be judged according to what he/she knows about God.

[@gavanwhatever8196]

@@randmiller88 I thought only christians could go to hell? As in you had to be a christian AND a sinner. Doesn't everyone else go to purgatory or something? Although now that I've written that down it seems rather charitable....

[@sonsofliberty7516]

@@randmiller88 In my Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, we believe that children are innocent and guiltless of sin until the age of accountability, which is age 8. Also we believe that those who never heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can have the chance to do so in the world of Spirits. That's why Christ went and preached to those ignorant of the gospel and those who disobeyed in times of Noah in the world of Spirits. God is very merciful.

[@junechevalier]

My late grandma passed away in 2019, and to think that she was older than these babies who were just born under the rubble gives me some perspective on how recent WW2 was. She was born in 1928 and often told me stories on the japanese occupation in my country during the war.

[@pedrocorreia2957]

Innocents don't start wars and don't end them, but they're the ones who suffer the most.

[@worekziemniakov1810]

@Duplizapper wtf dude. What makes you think Poland wasn’t innocent

[@Smykuu96]

​@Duplizapper What a bullshit, you only repeating goebbles nazi propaganda, this innocent german minorities on "blood sunday", in large part they were subversives and traitors, good that they had been smeared on the floors.

[@aestheticcx3]

@Duplizapper ahhahaah what crack have they been feedin ya mate

[@MrJ0lly]

@Duplizapper get a grip on yourself, some polish nationalists warrant the invasion and annexation of a country? guess the czechs also had a hand in starting the war too right? honestly wtf you thinking

[@bartacomuskidd775]

Its good to be objective. Nazi Germany came around.. and Socialists sprung up in EVERY nation. Political ideologues rose to power, Dividing countries, corrupting government. When the Nazis came, government was complicit, some people helped, some resigned to fate.

[@JaleelJohanson62]

Let all who speak so lightly of having a war today see reels like this.

[@zad_rasera]

I hated all those World War 3 memes

[@anotherrandominternetguy404]

@@zad_rasera they were funny because ww3 wont happen (in this decade ofc, but ww3 was a threat nonetheless), but people who dream about going to war are just trying to be quirky (or they don't know what a real war is) P.S. oh god oh no what have I done

[@_BangDroid_]

@@anotherrandominternetguy404 Both WWI and WWII had large parts of the world completely unaffected by them, like wise today there are parts unaffected by warfare currently happening. But the destruction and death is just as tragic, only most of us are conditioned to dehumanize these victims. If you include the cyber domain of warfare, which all militaries now do, the entire world is at war with more engaged countries than ever.

[@anotherrandominternetguy404]

@@_BangDroid_ exactly

[@Victor_Victory]

War is good

[@nickc8729]

"Get it all on record now- get in on film, get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[@theRatPackwasthebest]

@Dru Baxter you're really missing the point then.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@Dru Baxter If you ignore the past you're doomed to repeat it

[@whiteman6399]

A shame we didn't get the firebombings of every Japanese city on film. Or the rape of millions of German women by Russian soldiers. Or the concentration camps the allied made and kept millions of Germans in after May 1945. You know: _The war crimes of the allies._

[@evagineer9165]

@@whiteman6399 The victor changes history

[@jambocochelli9189]

@@whiteman6399 well, they started it…

[@Lechoslaw8546]

In September 1939 my mother was 17. She was living in Łódź, 140 km southwest of Warsaw. 3 weeks after German takeover the city they arrested my grandfather on grounds being a Polish patriot, as he was enlisted by a German spy prior to war. He was automatically sentenced to death by shooting. Never the less, my grandmother did not give up trying to find behind the scene ways to the Gestapo, which she did by o son of a German descent industrialist. Finally she bribed Germans with all jewelry and money she had. His sentence was exchanged for immediate deportation to the GG- a/k/a Polish Reserve. They survived but the Germans confiscated/stole all their property i.e. house and automobile, furniture and library. Family got deported to misery but survived until the were liberated by the allied Russian and Polish troops in 18th January 1945, which was the happiest day in the lifetime of my mother .

[@No_jews_allowed]

The poles were massacring ethnic Germans living in Poland! The Bloody Sunday massacres! Bromberg!

[@Весна-ъ9й]

Спасибо, thank you for comment. My grand father was tankist , was in Poland, never told about these battles. Another grandfather was killed in fathist camp in 1943.He was fighting that year near Orel. Then he was taken by fathists to the camp... Before the war He was a teacher in a Village tatar school,had big family. And my aunt remembers him saying to all of them in a railwaystation in 1941-,, Good bye, my dear!,,

[@Lechoslaw8546]

@@No_jews_allowed STOP spreading preposterous propaganda, your VICIOUS LIES. BTW, my whole family was and is Catholic.

[@ЕленаАлиева-з1ю]

Мой дед тоже был танкистом,до победы не дожил 9 дней.Погиб в Чехословакии.

[@legate5923]

@@Весна-ъ9й 😥

[@b.o.4492]

One lady look just like my Grandma did. Thank you for sharing.

[@stevem2323]

Poland always in my heart, brave people, from Croatia.

[@KasiaWesoek]

Pozdrav iz Poljske!

[@faelbeltran]

Ustasha?

[@stevem2323]

@@faelbeltran Nope, just a Croat, dopey.

[@SolunacKosovojesrpsko]

Ustasa Jasenovac pobijeno milion srba od ante Pavelićai njegovih sledbenika

[@Melika990]

My grandpa lived there with his family during the WWII. Almost everyone died. His brother committed suicide to avoid getting killed. My grandpa was put in concentration camp. Amazingly he survived several years in different concentration camps and death marches. He was saved by the white busses. In Sweden he met my grandma and they had one child, my father. They never married because he was still married to his wife in Poland. He nerver spoke of the war or what happened to him. He had been an great violin player in Poland but he never played again after he got out of the concentration camp. He never went back but he sent lots of letters and almost all his money to his wife who had ended up on the streets. I feel very distanced to what my grandpa experienced but videos like this makes me grasp just a tiny bit of what it must have been like.

[@anythingchannel9326]

That’s messed up how he had a child with another women while he was still married to his wife.

[@tiadanama]

@@anythingchannel9326 that is what you got out of it????

[@xesxblackarrow7912]

“Grim reaper relentlessly determined they should not leave; here were youngsters, starting out life, hidden away from death.”

[@youtubecansukkadik]

The restoration of these old videos is just incredible. It really is like looking into a window of a time machine & seeing the improved videos, after years of only ever seeing world war footage in black & white, is like a blind guy seeing again

[@JordiumZ]

I feel the same

[@luckystars1632]

This was a year before my mother was born. When she came into this world her family watched soldiers throw infants into the air only to be impaled. Her family and over 100 others fled their village and hid in a cave until the brink of starvation. My grandfather risked his life by going back in search of food only to narrowly escape being put in a firing line. Fate would have it that the enemy commander and my grandfather were friends before the war broke out. Only by the grace of God was my grandfather saved and ultimately my existence as well. To everyone who listened to the stories of your parents and grandparents - tell your children the stories. Tell them often so that we never forget the sacrifices our families made nor the warning signs.

[@asliceofcake7941]

@King Charles ✔ 🤦‍♀️

[@yan2503]

@King Charles ✔ i second that. Throw infants to be impalled maybe happened during the Roman invasion. Not WW2. What a propaganda.

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

@King Charles ✔ why is that so unbelivable? there u have literally eye wittnesses who tell that that happned but u still dont belive it? are u stupid? The germans waged a war of extermination, and killing infants by throwing them in the air, agianst the wall is a common practice in genocides, just look at bosnia or rwanda where the same thing happened

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

@King Charles ✔ it did happen and its been proven several times

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

@King Charles ✔ no but the germans did kill newborns and most historians agree on that

[@kokonana4086]

It's tremendously heart-wrenching to see the close-up faces of those who miserably suffered during the war in this film. My thoughts and prayers go out to Poland and her people.

[@TB12710]

Amazing footage of those WW2 times to see colorized, it’s almost like being in a time machine.

[@hoodlucas2633]

No one would know how the war ends at that time.

[@sketchpad7116]

No one would know if the war would end

[@SexyPenis]

магия.. всегда зачаровывало в хрониках.. все из них уже не существуют в нашей реальности...но вот я смотрю на них и они как живые навеки вечные!

[@XIXbacktolife]

Какие мудрые слова ...

[@miranda9691]

Did It really ever end?

[@janjanic3123]

@@miranda9691 no. We as humans do lots of harm to eachother still, we slaughter bilions of animals every day and we do lots of harm to our nature. Until this wont end we are at war.

[@riquelmeone]

As a German this is sad and spooky to watch, but so powerful. Well done on the American photographer (and the editing). I hope this video gets a lot of views as it is a strong reminder of humanity being able to achieve more if we all work together rather than hating on our differences. Thanks for uploading.

[@kosior2859]

for deutch ?

[@folksurvival]

Your people were the heroes of the war.

[@aurorasdawn4681]

What do you mean by "hating on our differences"? That's not what happened. Poland was run by a military dictatorship who preferred to annex Danzig by force rather than attend the negotiation table in order to find a peaceful solution. Their invasion plans also included the conquest of East Prussia and with French and British help they expected it to be an easy win. That's why the photographer says "A nation deceived" in the clip.

[@aurorasdawn4681]

@@averagegigel1448 Has there ever been a war that was "race-related"?

[@Kolderup2]

@@aurorasdawn4681 He doesn’t talk about a „deceived“ nation. His words are „These are the faces of a nation besieged.“

[@patrickbateman4148]

My Grandpa fought for Warsaw until the very end, he died and left two kids, i wish i could have met him once. I miss you Wilhelm!

[@oggeeboggee]

On which side? Wilhelm doesn’t sound like a Polish name...

[@patrickbateman4148]

@@oggeeboggee Oh dont worry, he fought for the good guys

[@ArturKwaszyn]

@@oggeeboggee there were plenty of Polish Wilhelms. I can't say that it was a popular name, but it certainly wasn't rare pre-war.

[@WeedisMedicin]

My great grandma is Jewish and polish and she remembered when they were sitting in a barn and they saw tanks and soldiers coming, they warned the whole little town, but they didn’t have enough time to escape themselves, her and here friends hid in different houses, my great grandma hid under some sacks of potatoes, after a few minutes passed she heard a soldier walk down the stairs, then said something in German and dragged her out of her hiding spot, then he shined the flashlight in her face, then stopped. My great grandma said she thought the German soldier saw her and realized how young she was, she was 13 I think but she looked way younger probably. The German soldier walked out and no one came back in. She never saw her friends again. If that German soldier did anything differently I wouldn’t exist today. And my great grandma is still alive today!

[@Minako9888]

@@WeedisMedicin İncredible story! How mind boggling it is to know that one person can change fate.

[@philipklenn3036]

Warsaw was the only capital that Hitler obliterated in WWII. The hatred of the Russians and the Germans toward Poland was pathological. Yet she stands today.

[@fidei829]

😂

[@Maxi_Maxi_2005]

XDDDDDDD słaby

[@OmmerSyssel]

Imagine Polacks without these ongoing victimisation stories! What would they do with their life and obsessed minds? Growing up and moving on is part of being human, even as Polack! Good luck becoming civilised instead of pulling each other down in a endless spiral of hate and envy! RuZZian occupation and oppression is also gone, and rest of EU are sharing its wealth and success with Poland. No reason to steal or threaten other successful Europeans!!

[@danteonkhu1669]

Imagine if we could also have images from the medieval times, how much more vivid History would look. Thank you for the upload, this footage is amazing.

[@charwie4849]

These colorized videos and pictures makes everything feel much more real. In modern-day we often forget how devastating these events actually were, but colorizing them makes me realize how real these events were.

[@Smooth_Collision]

any one else have hard time watching the vidoe? it sort of strained my eyes

[@Armis71]

The girl crying over her dead sister, I've seen on so many war documentaries since I was a kid. Nice to finally have a name that identifies her.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Her picture in the thumbnail is haunting

[@MeaHeaR]

She livéd ripé agé of 93 Yars

[@JustinCase99999]

What name?

[@MeaHeaR]

@@JustinCase99999 Kazimiera Mika

[@JustinCase99999]

@@MeaHeaR Thank you! Amazing and moving story.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

If you're like me and had grandparents that went through this war you know now watching this why they were so steadfast the rest of their days. They knew what hard times really were. The rest of life they were thankful every day.

[@joshuanassar8991]

This should be shown in every school out of respect to the suffering of our unfortunate predecessors

[@rupedo1]

I agree, but the leftist/BLM lot don't, as it doesn't show the contribution made by black people or transgender people.

[@Nine-Signs]

@Adriano Castellano So were mine and like most Italians they hated Mussolini and damned near starved to death.

[@Nine-Signs]

@@rupedo1 What on earth are you talking about? History is taught as a part of school curriculum, what is taught and how it is taught is a matter that governments decide not individuals nor minority groups who primarily only ask for more accurate representation on historical matters which results in addition of historical fact to the curriculum, not its removal. The days when the world catered primarily for and served primarily the interests of white straight western Christian men are over my friend, have been for at least 40 years, and with it various walls of silence over matters of history have crumbled. This is nothing to be afraid of, nor any reason to bemoan people who have no money and no power, being exploited equally next to you by those above you who tell you to blame them for it so you never angry at the economic system that has done this all to you while the few on top make out like bandits having divided the working masses against each other. This has been going on since a thousand years before the Romans, time to stop playing the same game expecting a different result my friend, punch up, not to the left of you where you will only find a majority of people in increasing poverty and despair.

[@sonwig5186]

@@rupedo1 They are living rent free in your head my friend

[@rupedo1]

@@sonwig5186 your post makes no legible sense whatsoever

[@mallorga1965]

God bless Poland. All my respect from Chile.

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

Gracias. Viva Chile 🇨🇱

[@KasiaWesoek]

¡Viva Chile!

[@krulmondry]

@Kayra Kara o/

[@BobbyDick22785]

@Kayra Kara Sen türk misin ?

[@czyzyk6627]

GREETINGS FROM POLAND

[@froogsleegs]

I'm really grateful we have the technology now to restore and colourise old footage, especially from wartime. Seeing history in grainy black and white it can be difficult to fully grasp that it was real, like it's from another far-off, distant dimension almost. Although it's terrible and heartbreaking to see it's important that we can see it like this because it's much more relatable to a 21st Century viewer and lets us keep in touch with history. It really drives home that all of this was carried out by and affected human beings, nothing more and nothing less. Also having these films preserved digitally for future generations to see and understand is very important, so that we never forget what happened. The Auschwitz Museum has been doing the same with their archives, it's very valuable and important work. Honestly being able to see these records in living, breathing colour has given me a new perspective on the war that I never had before.

[@dupajasio4801]

Videos like this should be mandatory to watch in schools. Maybe one day wars would end. I'm Polish and I watched quite a bit of the history of the war. This footage really shows what the war looks like for everyday people.

[@GaiusCaligula234]

Nope

[@Sadzi7]

why not showing Iraq right now? what about live broadcast :)

[@Teddy-ez9qq]

Wars will never end unfortunately. Too much money to be made by the elite.

[@GaiusCaligula234]

@@Teddy-ez9qq That's not even related, violence is in human nature

[@Teddy-ez9qq]

@@GaiusCaligula234 Of course its related. Money and war go hand in hand.

[@matthewhunting7526]

The colorization and frame rate editing is fantastic. It really brings what they went through to life

[@cyrylski]

It’s extremely important to revitalize this footage. I’ve seen numerous documents and almost all of Polish and US-made WWII movies that truly wrench the guts, but seeing these real people so realistically brought back to life on screen is still makes me cry over the hopeless trap they were left in.

[@simplegirlslifestyle261]

My grandma was born just 4 months prior…there’s nothing worse than a war.

[@strayghostABS]

Imagine being de-humanised to the point of being willing to machine gun a field of women simply digging potatoes....

[@PressurenFlames]

That's what indoctrination in a totalitarian regime does with many people.

[@WickedScott]

Ever been on Twitter? It's not so hard to imagine.

[@chilled-cheetah]

That's what happens when you give in to fearmongering and propaganda done by the state, corrupted media or whoever's in power. Some guy in my country literally said he would be glad if the government would just start hunting down with helicopters the people that didn't get vaccinated. Not far off a nazi's or bolshevik's mentality.

[@heamizator]

I'm not prejudice but You think Germans are so far away of what they grandparents did? Wrong they feel morally/mentaly higher than rest of the Europe AGAIN. Cynically try to play ball take crap/ propaganda from Putin, USA, China for some strange interests not for the EU but lecturing other country's it will end badly for whole Europe AGAIN.

[@laurieeno2118]

Well said.

[@US395Official]

I think videos like these are insanely important. It's gold when anything like this (no matter the year) is recorded, because it gives context that war is brutal. These things still happen, and it's important to sympathize with the civilians who are on the other side.

[@tinglingdingaling]

What a crazy time. Visiting Warsaw and learning they rebuilt that city out of their own pockets for years is inspiring. Their pride and determination. I couldn't believe the stories we were told visiting Old Town. What brave souls.

[@whiterose6186]

Thank you for visiting Warsaw

[@2460z_htdja]

this remind me of my own aunts, uncles, and relatives who had been through such hateful unspoken despair and bitterness

[@as_below_so_above]

Every moment of this video is horrifying, but I couldn't help but well up with tears seeing the newborn babies... No child, no matter what age, should ever be subject to such atrocities... One could only imagine what it had been like being a mother or father at that time... all that fear and death and destruction..

[@VogtTD]

As I was scrolling through the comments I saw your avatar and my first thought was that I had left the comment on this video and forgotten about it.

[@MM-wp5sp]

I do not need to imagine, in my country there was a war when I was 9 yrs old. I vividly remember the pointless carnage, the burnt bodies, hand and arms lying on the streets... The detonations, the idiocy. Human race is an idiotic type of animal.

[@turczyn2000]

I often get back to this scene... It makes me think about may life, my family a lot...

[@ary9344]

​@@VogtTD didn't expect to meet TOOL army here

[@markwaldron8954]

It's possible that at at least one of those babies could still be alive. If they were born in 1939 they would be 82 now.

[@octopusmagnificens]

The girl in 1:01, Kazimiera Kostewicz, died in 2020.

[@stevejauncey3086]

I hope she's reunited with her sister

[@flutterflowexpert]

From covid-19?

[@dabouye]

❤️

[@Kuzyn]

@@flutterflowexpert She was 93, problably due to old age.

[@youareon2something]

@@dutchman063 that is a chilling thought

[@Yodavid1]

if there's a lesson to be learnt, it's this: the nazis were not aliens, they weren't of a different species. They were people just like us which means this could all happen again if we're not careful.

[@MezzoForte4]

It's already happening. Americans are turning into Nazis and they don't even realize it.

[@Doofinon]

@@MezzoForte4 Americans capitalised on child abuse through the entire "troubled teen industry " which not only tortured thousands of children, people find children buried around some of the camps that were closed. Of course those camps have been very popular in most countries so its not only US. USA was the one that made it an actual business, which is why it became more difficult to have those banned. In America case where you said they're becoming nazis. Well. Many of them are just showing their true colors. They're not nazis per say and there's plenty of good people too but they've been pretty ignorant to what they've allowed to happen all those years.

[@sakyojapan8224]

War is war , each side defend his interests and there no good or evil if you have blood on your hands , today is not different there is always poeple killed everywhere, so it's not about nazi but men who do everything to get power and control

[@dolamekart3747]

It has never stopped... different forms or names but same outcome

[@wackey2k10]

@@MezzoForte4 yeah the nazis are the anti-nazis, or anti-fascists that are just one side of the same leaf

[@lanimal.nokturn]

your channel is crazy, thank u

[@mauriciolazon3996]

Thank you sou much for uploading this. Magnificent.

[@masteryoda394]

This somehow more informative than all these WWII documentaries that go on forever without showing the real losses.

[@jumboJetPilot]

Several of my engineering professors were Polish plus I served joint tours with several Polish pilots. I already had tremendous respect for the Polish before seeing this. And now, all the more so.

[@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub]

The exact same is happening right now in places like Ukraine and Gaza. We learned nothing.

[@ЛалалалаАлаллкоел-л5щ]

На украине идет процесс денацификации. Недобитые любители гитлера, чьи деды воевали на стороне фашистов, сейчас воюют в батальонах с теми же самыми названиями что и их трусливые предки со знаками "СС" и нашивками с молниями и крестами. А русские воюют за свою землю, за своих людей, и за правду. А значит и в этот раз победа будет за нами, чего бы она не стоила. Потому что сила в правде

[@griechland]

@@ЛалалалаАлаллкоел-л5щ 23% of the Soviet forces during WW2 were Ukrainians. The majority of Nazi collaborators from the Soviet Union during WW2 were ethnic Russians. There is indeed power in truth. Too bad you only speak lies because you are secretly ashamed that your country behaves the same way that Germany did back in the day. Scum.

[@czlowiekzhuty]

1:01 - 12 years old Kazia crying over body of Andzia, her sister

[@Mercmad]

A freind of my late father was there .He was a Brit, caught in Poland in 1939. He became an Intelligence officer,fought alongside the Polish underground and inserted into the Gestapo, travelling about Europe with real German officers. For this he gained the Polish medal of valour.

[@roksana1736]

Amazing story. What a hero ❤

[@jordanzdebski5132]

plz share his name, i want to remember. He needs not to be frogotten

[@PlumbuM871]

He is ashamed to say his name, because he was a Nazi and was defeated

[@capralmarines4043]

My grandmother told me stories about when she was in the field with other ppl, german pilots were shooting and bombarding them. Helpless civilians. She had to hide in a ditch to not be killed by these savage animals. She's still alive, at the age of 93. We will never forget.

[@arminiuscherusci4410]

Yup it has always been the plan of the Nazi to completely destroy the Slavic peoples and their identities, thus killing civilians have been seen as a honorable act for those wicked basdards...

[@Badjazy]

Worst is that almost every country that has been in a war and had the chance to kill innocent civilians have taken the opportunity to do it.

[@jarzenica]

​@@arminiuscherusci4410 not the Nazis but the Germans

[@hannahdyson7129]

I can believe it. My grandad from Yorkshire recalls German bombers being shot doen and the gunners shooting at civllian passers-by as they went down The Polish where excellent pilots and we owe a lot too Poland

[@micky100]

The video quality is INSANE.

[@ryan8737]

I just recently lost both my grandparents on my mother's side. They were from Poland and escaped to America during the Nazi occupation. My babcia, before she died, told us stories of how she and her young siblings would hide from the Nazis as they came into town. She said the best hiding spot was in the mass graves underneath rotting corpses. She told me she used to braid the hair of the corpses (her neighbors) to make them look pretty as she laid there hidden for sometimes days on end. To avoid starvation, she used to make soup consisting of boiled shoe leather and flowers and grasses. I hope that one day I am able to travel to my ancestral homeland. She said Poland was very beautiful, but could never go back because of the memories.

[@schoolgang597]

not Nazis fam, just Germans

[@ok0_0]

@@schoolgang597 So... Nazi's? The Nazi's were a German party, after all.

[@eurovicious]

Poland is wonderful Ryan, I hope you get the chance to go.

[@alenaparkr5570]

@@schoolgang597 No Germans, nazi germans. Not all germans were nazi supporting the III Reich.

[@-dy5ku]

Poland is back in bloom❤️❤️!

[@blinkroot8]

I am thankful for these restorations, thank you for uploading this. For something as as large as this period I learn something new about it almost everyday. I visited Poland's St Mary's Basilica in Krakow in 2019 on a college trip and was honoured to gaze upon such a beautiful and ancient cathedral.

[@tb8448]

Love Poland from Hungary. May the Eagle and the Hawk bring propsperity and peace for us

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺

[@KasiaWesoek]

Magyar Lengyel ket jo barat 🇭🇺🇵🇱

[@tb8448]

@@KasiaWesoek Braterstwo polsko-węgierskie jest wieczne Pozdrowienia z Węgier

[@czyzyk6627]

LOVE HUNGARY FROM POLAND ! HUNGARY HELPED POLAND DURING WAR WITH RUSSIA IN 1920 AND II WAR ! WE WERE TOGETHER IN 1956 ! GOD BLESS HUNGARY

[@nicolasuj]

I am from Poland. God bless your countries and God bless Poland. That's all what I want to say here. BE WISE. I am a proud Pole and I cannot listen to them slander and lie about my homeland.

[@OmmerSyssel]

You are pathetic and aggressive! Liars and thieves aren't admirable just because they come from your desolate country! Remember that, next time you have choices to make ... 😴

[@OmmerSyssel]

Unpleasant facts isn't slander! Even an obsessed Polack has to adapt to reality! Grow up instead of imitating rotten RuZZian traits, they are gone and you're free to develop a civilised society, even paid by other Europeans wealth and achievements!!

[@goanna83]

I am speechless and shocked at how raw and uncensored this is in all its clarity. So heartbreaking 😢

[@V.D.22]

My heart weeps when I see Polish cousins suffer the same way we did. Greetings from Romania!

[@V.D.22]

@@briansharritts2688 true...I was referring to the suffering our country faced during the same war, when it was invaded by USSR. When Romania joined Nazi Germany, the situation was very complex. The big evil was Russia. Romania lost 4 regions because of USSR, so it teamed up with Nazi Germany hoping to get those regions back, which they did...temporarily. Then lost 3 of them for good, but Transylvania remained and is still a part of Romania. Romania also fought Germany, but only in 1944, to kick them out of the country and to help liberate Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

[@SuperWilwood]

@@V.D.22 Oh yes, "Russia is a big evil". If there was no Russia and Russian people, you wouldn't even be born to write this nonsense today. Now, reading your crazy comments, I understand that my ancestors in vain liberated you - they should have stopped at the USSR border line of in 1941 and not to waste the lives of our people, time and resources for the liberation of your countries. Times don't change, for you it is still "Russia is an evil", not your corrupt governments. It's not for nothing that we still have a popular saying throughout the country "European countries have a long tradition - once in 100 years they unite to get a kick in the a*s in a war against Russia"

[@V.D.22]

​@@SuperWilwood ha ha ha :))) you are not even funny! I would not even be born???? ha ha...please tell me how. Russia and USSR and people in that lived in those regions always had imperialist intentions towards us and our neighbours (poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc), throughout history. In 1941 USSR kicked us out of our own region Baserabia (Today's Moldova) just like that. That is one of the resons we joined Nazis in the war, to get that region back. As for WWII, if USSR had stopped at their filthy border, it would have been heaven on earth for all the countries in the region. Romania had already turned against the Nazi before Russians entered our country. But NO, communist plague couldn't stop and had to spread. Stalin wanted as much influence as possible so he spread his rotten regime in all eastern europe. We didn't need russian sacrifice, as the enemy was already in retreat from us. There are hundreds of accounts of how Russian soldiers raped civilian women during the "liberation", drank wine to their death, beat the old people, they were a disgust. German soldiers, even thoug part of a horrible regime that we still hate, were much more educated, gave our children chocolate and paid for the food they received. They were mean to jews because of thei stupid ideology, but were good to Romanians and other nations. IF russians had stopped at their border, our country, and all eastern europe, would have been democratic republics, not communist totalitarian regimes. After the communist occupation, USSR sucked resources out of our country for 20 years through SOVROMs and succumbed us into communism for 40 years, a regime that stealed peasants land, killed students and intelectuals, tortured opposants, transformed the country into a prison and kept eastern europe 50 yewars behind occident. I guess you now understand why we think that communism and USSR is the biggest evil that ever happened to our country. Our courrupt government is today's evil, but all Romanians (and eastern europeans, russians included) are corrupt, not only their government. We have the politicians we deserve.

[@fillgollinsdergroarticheme8442]

My German grandparents lived in Romania when the war started. They then had to flee from the Russians. Hitler invited them back to Germany. So that's the other side of the story. Also a lot of innocent German people suffered.

[@pullermatz5677]

Every person suffered not just the polish people

[@robedmund9948]

Makes me realize just how lucky I am that my grandfather and his brother made it out of Poland and to America in 1914.

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

Tell that to the spoiled loudmouth DemocRATS who chant racist, was never great, America, sitting on their ***, overweight, on gov't assistance but never LEAVE.

[@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget]

Same

[@stephenfisher5129]

This is very disturbing to watch. It was a horrible event from the very beginning.

[@bluesowy3899]

My grandfather was a partisan in Odrzywół, he escaped from the gestapo twice through the window. Told how he was returning to Poland through Warsaw in 1945, everything was destroyed and there the stench of corpses in the city...

[@josephdockemeyer6782]

How did he like communism?

[@bluesowy3899]

@@josephdockemeyer6782 my grandfather dont like communism, he hated politics. Afted war, my grandfather spend time in jail, because they thought he was from AK. (Communist authorites murdered AK) he was be so happy when communism is over.

[@randymillhouse791]

@@josephdockemeyer6782 Tell us how much you like communism. You know, social security checks, local fire departments, the national U.S. Mail Service, etc.

[@josephdockemeyer6782]

@@randymillhouse791 Honey, you're confusing communism with socialism.

[@Kropotkin2000]

@@josephdockemeyer6782 "Communism" is only the purported end aim of Marxist-Leninists. By their own framework, it was a form of socialism (debatable) and not communism.

[@meanathradon]

I visited Warsaw a few years ago and still to this day, you can see bullet holes in some of the surviving buildings from WWII... Amongst my many journeys in Europe and visiting WWII museums is the one constant for all of those exhibits: Resiliency in the face of evil.

[@michaelg362]

As a new parent I paused at 4:43 and just stared at it. How I wish I could help this woman who I will never know the name of. How I can't imagine going through what she WENT through. Completely no words to describe this scene. All that mother wanted was the best for her daughter and now all lives for is to keep her alive. Unbelievable. How I wish I knew their story. Tragic.

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

You do know she at minimum died of old age by now, right?

[@michaelg362]

@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Yes, I assumed it was a given that I was speaking about helping her during her time - right after the event in Warsaw took place.

[@Kubulek17]

@@spaniardsrmoors6817 the daughter is probably still alive

[@marcin123G]

The most terrifying thing about old videos like that is the fact that everyone we see on them are either dead or very old, if this little girl survived, shes most likely an 84 year old woman, crazy to think

[@shorerocks]

With all we know, it is so easy to understand how profoundly wrong any kind of war is. I am writing this in March 2024. It never ends.

[@hyizoo]

This is so surreal, to imagine that this is not a movie, it was real people, suffering during the war because of something they were not even to blame for... and to think that my grandmother was born a year after the capture of this video leaves me astonished.

[@triaprima6]

And this movie is now replayed, but in Ukraine and not in cinemas...

[@Jackal999xx]

Astonishing work! Julien Bryan - Respect for showing the world horrors of war...

[@sugarlove]

My thoughts to Poland a country I love very much and my love to polish people ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jesuschrist872]

They brought that upon themselves.

[@fordymacka7865]

@@jesuschrist872 Sorry what did i bring upon myself?

[@zbigniewhanula7303]

@@jesuschrist872 You're real genius you know. And you're sure you know the truth ..yeah ?? Don't worry there will come the day in your life that you will learn and face “The Truth” The truth about “Who or What you are “ may God have mercy on you.

[@jesuschrist872]

@@fordymacka7865 Poland should behave. Don't forget the lessons taught to hitler during ww2. It seems poland haven't learned a thing yet.

[@jesuschrist872]

@@zbigniewhanula7303 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[@elident7828]

Love the narrator’s voice , illustrates vocally what is happening visually and ads depth and realism. This is one of the most saddest things I’ve ever seen , the German Army of WW1 and WW2 were truly ruthless and unapologetic , I guess that’s what made them such effective killing machines , terrible that man rely’s on sanctioned killing to solve matters.

[@VOLightPortal]

And to think, these people saw themselves as modern peoples as we see ourselves today as pretty much modern. Imagine a war like this happening again in our time. The shock and horror and disbelief would feel more than surreal.

[@stevecarter8810]

It's still happening, it's just relocated to the Levant

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Kind of, remember WW1 was probably a bigger hit to their psyche, and may have somewhat prepped them for this. But no one could’ve foreseen the Holocaust happening so abruptly

[@wetandsandy1]

@@stevecarter8810 not even remotely close in scale

[@stevecarter8810]

@@wetandsandy1 I'm not saying it's another war of a similar scale, I'm saying it's the same war

[@jp-sn6si]

@@wetandsandy1 the suffering is the same for the humans on the ground. listen to the OP, it's a child who thinks this would be unimaginable in our time, don't make the same mistake.