1945: The Final Collapse Of Nazi Germany | World War II In Colour

Witness the Allied Forces' relentless push from the west and the Red Army's advance from the east as they close in on Berlin. Discover the dramatic battles, key figures, and pivotal moments leading to Hitler's downfall and Germany's ultimate defeat
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[@chrisjohnson5363]

Who else literally has seen all of these at least 1000 times? No joke these are my bed time stories

[@JohnBickner]

I have only seen the Soviet flag over the Reichstag 25 times, the view of two buildings at Omaha Beach from a landing craft 75 times, the Whermacht driving somewhere 200 times, Yalta 40 times, the movie Patton three times, Guadalcanal Diary five times, but The Longest Day only once. It all still fascinates me and every time I wonder, how could they do that?

[@computerengineering390]

my whole life. I'm literally in my bed watching it.

[@greathornedowl3644]

Ditto, I keep watching to see if the story has changed, did the Germans win at Stalingrad, were the Allies pushed back into the sea at Normandy. Don't spoil it for me

[@iamgermane]

This was on late night TV I think.

[@TheVoiceofLosha]

I fall asleep every night to WW II stories. Wierd!

[@malikijumbe6040]

People should be aware of how horrific war really is.

[@CoryAY82383]

Literally

[@spannaspinna]

They can just buy the originals if they want to see bodies that bad

[@jimc.goodfellas]

This WW2 stuff never gets old

[@user-kj6sw3to4m]

It dont😂 but no matter how many times we watch Germany never wins

[@_BigEllie]

Yooo my friends are really confused by my obsession with WW2. I can make it relate to so much stuff. 😂😂

[@Napolean46]

True

[@everettyoung6596]

😢 Who's going to be alive for the WW3 youtube documentaries?

[@Irishlad92]

@@everettyoung6596 no one 😂

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

This old school History Channel intro is the best.

[@NBALLC]

Im black

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

@@NBALLC That's too bad. Sorry.

[@MrClicker100]

Was Napoleon Bonaparte correct, when he is quoted to have said, "HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS."?

[@Denny-ok5dj]

The Zionists control War Stories and the History Channel. There telling you their Propaganda

[@johnmorrison9758]

@@MrClicker100 that is an utterly stupid line. Do you really think we have no books written by the Germans about WW2 or WW1, and do you really believe that the losers of wars are silent ?? We know lots from the nations that have lost wars.

[@justinkauffman731]

Battle of Berlin reached high levels of the surreal. I will never be able to wrap my head around it all.

[@matchpoint14]

As a 6 year old kid in the 70s we went to a rural church in GA for a homecoming service, I walked around the cemetery and could not believe at how many of the gravestones mentioned died in WW2 or either served in WW2. I though to myself wow, that war was huge. I have been interested in it ever since that day. Also WW1

[@Marshmobilise]

America lost the least amount of men out of the major powers. You should see Russian graveyards. Or ww1 graveyards in France. It’s horrendous

[@euphan123]

Jeez, to be the guys that were told to cross the bridge and cut any suspicious wires they saw…

[@beowulf1312]

I doubt they were told to do it. They wanted to save the bridge.

[@johnmcclain2848]

Then they succeed and fall in anyway

[@SuperOdyss]

That is how meth makes you act. We forget these men were fed drugs that are illegal today.

[@ScogginsWB]

@@SuperOdyssAmerican soldiers were given adderall, Germans were given meth. Americans invented adderall, the Germans invented meth.

[@9lokkNine47]

This theme music is magical

[@smuendo]

This was a painful time in human history

[@teedtad2534]

Amazing footage and very well narrated!!

[@The_Great_Darino]

Roosevelt died from a massive stroke, not a heart attack

[@Crashed131963]

So much better watching on Dailymotion without the blurred out censorship parts

[@DBEdwards]

Thank you for the heads up

[@ericscottstevens]

Grandmother talked about the waiting. It was reported US soldiers were throwing grenades in any cellar they encountered instead of looking down the dark staircases. When the US finally approached her town in the Steigerwald in April 1945, she and some others went into the cellar at the family brauerei seeking shelter. Maybe not the most sane move but they were expecting artillery. In the confusion grandmother left my 1 year old mother in her carriage at the bottom of the stairway in the cellar The door flung open and the US soldiers saw a baby carriage down below and did not make any hasty moves with weapons. My 1 year old mother saved the inhabitants of that cellar....she latter married a US serviceman 20 years later and moved across the Atlantic.

[@peterloedden9716]

May 7, 1945 at 2AM the peace treaty was signed. I was born a few hours later in Central Germany. Thanks, mom, for waiting.

[@conveyor2]

Peace treaty? No that was the surrender. "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (1990) This treaty, signed on September 12, 1990, officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers."

[@peterloedden9716]

@@conveyor2 My bad, right you are.

[@Stevesautopartsify]

Can't imagine the WW2 coverage with cell phones and HD TV broadcasts!

[@RW4X4X3006]

Came close. My dad listened to the live radio broadcasts of the fighting in the Philippines and Okinawa - Reporters on the ground with the troops.

[@uhiguess]

​@RW4X4X3006 that is no where close to what we have now lol

[@RW4X4X3006]

@@uhiguess It's play by play.

[@asher3262]

You should put all of these ones in a playlist and order them, the same ones by the narrator, it was a little difficult to follow the story and order with the other posts in between. Great series and really good narrator

[@Crom85]

It’s a tv show called WW2 in color. It’s on Netflix and Amazon. All the episodes are there

[@asher3262]

@@Crom85 ah cheers mate

[@RW4X4X3006]

............And there was still the war in the Pacific to be won.

[@Tystlaten028]

DLC edition

[@apostlesmourelatos4047]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW OUR GOVERNMENT GAVE ONLY ONE DAY HOLIDAY IN MEMORY OF SOMEMANY YOUNG GUYS THE GAVE THEIR LIFES FOR US TO BE FREE TODAY...BUT THEY GAVE 30 DAYS AND A FLAG TO LGTQ MOVEMENT..ITS SO UNFAIR ITS BREAKS MY HEART.

[@elitedeadlockedhd2007]

the flag is unrelated(to this), i think the memorial should be given more days.

[@Rrrrrkdjx]

The story of war should never be blurred. Everybody should know the horrific events that happened back then to prevent history on repeating itself.

[@squeguinquack2570]

KZbin corporate shills don’t care about preserving history

[@MartinNicol-bk7ny]

Who want ta 👀 wit they done eh the Jews u must b sick😮😮crackpots lot of uzz

[@Acer_Maximinus]

War Stories, Now that you have a colorized version of this video, you can go back and re-release the black-and-white version without the censorship.

[@rosscampbell1173]

Pretty sure that it’s KZbin making them do it . They’re the stewards of our perceptions.

[@Acer_Maximinus]

@@rosscampbell1173 “…yt makes them do it…” Yes, yt makes them do it, if they want their videos monetized. No censorship, no money.

[@ryancoke9301]

@@Acer_Maximinus Its WW2 in Colour. You can download this popular doc anywhere uncensored if youd like.

[@Shadowsoftrees]

I agree. It’s so annoying!

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

If I owned KZbin, I'd allow every gory detail of every video to be seen. This woke bullsh*t has to end.

[@Bfair123]

curiousity about the holocost that bought me here😮

[@billow9721]

How could one man be the author of so many deaths heart-breaking

[@SeamHead33]

I always watch these and hope that somehow the ending will be different

[@HaiKarate718]

wishes are for bitc---

[@Thouser-yv9xl]

So something like Man in the High Castle or The New Order: Last days of Europe

[@squeguinquack2570]

You mean you hope the Nazis win?

[@ZionIst-liessssss]

THE BEST DOCUMENTARY IS EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE. ALL 12HRS OF IT

[@hadyabisaleh8322]

Where can i find it? Can you share a link?

[@ZionIst-liessssss]

@@hadyabisaleh8322 bit

[@ZionIst-liessssss]

@@hadyabisaleh8322 chute

[@ZionIst-liessssss]

@@hadyabisaleh8322 captain cyril

[@ZionIst-liessssss]

@@hadyabisaleh8322 bit

[@TUKANGKAYUSAMADUA]

Video sejarah yang bagus

[@aintdatsnipes177]

Bridge at Remagen.

[@kevinhealey6540]

01:47 You can see in the back of the there are dead chickens hanging. They probably went to a farm and got them. A US vet who was there told me that his division went into Holland. The Dutch were happy to see the American Army and said that the Germans had evacuated the day before. However the people kept a distance from the US soldiers because they hadn't showered for days. So each family would invite a US soldier into their home and let him shower, wash all his clothes and give him a meal of whatever they had. And the soldiers would reciprocate by giving the family whatever MREs they had, cigarettes and so on of which the Dutch were highly grateful, because the food chain had broken down and everyone was in need.

[@nickinurse6433]

Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.

[@JM-yx1lm]

That's just an old stupid saying people say. Truth is, even those who know history, and those who don't, are gonna repeat it anyway. It all comes again. You think this is the first time something like this has happened in the world

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

lol regional heads need more resources and nationalist would rather those heads to take from others. War as long as we are tied to the planet will occur.

[@willdixon2349]

I think what you mean to say is :War is a monstrous human mistake that we seem doomed to repeat over and over. Everything possible should be done to avoid it.

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

@@JM-yx1lm How do you "learn" from history? Is there a thing we are doing different. If so I don't see it.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

I remember growing up watching the television series The World At War. It was really good. At least they didn't blur anything out 😊

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Nothing blurred-out; it was never put in . . .

[@simcy1720]

The very definition of ''Don't fix something If its' not broken''

[@kuidaorekitchen5850]

Watching this now after watching 2 1/2 years of the Ukraine//Russian war, every day, really gives me a completely new view of this war and these videos. It gives it a much easier understandability of what had to be endured every day!!!

[@uhiguess]

Minus the whole lining up millions of ppl and sending them to their deaths simply because they're Jewish.

[@BenjaminCintron-e8j]

Enoy war stories 🎉 I believe it's #1 in my book.

[@odinungsangjamir6217]

Please show Down Fall movie as soon as possible.

[@joenickell6323]

Sad. What could have been. 😥

[@SpaceWarlock]

It sounds corny but seeing it in colour really does bring it to life. So used to blurry black n white footage.

[@MartinThomas-m1g]

What ever about the war, this is a brilliant documentary.

[@cpmooremusic]

thanks for these videos! See: Dads Happiness Part 4-6; my Dad was a sergeant in WW 2; these Part 4-6 has some pics & stories of his great work in WW 2.

[@gabrielrodriguez821]

Side story: while the Soviets were advancing on the Reichstag a group of communist Berliners decided the revolution is now and started taking pot shots at a group of SS Nordland. SS Nordland were the most elite German forces involved in the battle of Berlin. The SS were frankly more offended than worried, entered the building the German communists were holed up in and liquidated all of them in a few hours while still fighting the Soviets the next block over.

[@PatrickW-en6cj]

Lame story

[@bhewi1982]

I've had an unhealthy obsession with ww2 since like '89 when i was playing with those little green army men

[@zillsburyy1]

thumbs DOWN for censor stories

[@GregDunne-zf2ep]

Every kid over 10 should watch this in school so they know what happens when you go to war Everyone suffers no winners

[@stischer47]

The Western Allies allowed Russia to take Berlin...big mistake.

[@cbradiochannel.19-whiskyalfa]

Whawhawha 😂😂😂

[@user-kj6sw3to4m]

Why they split Germany in four in the end. Let them waste man and material not only that over 200 or so scientists and stuff came to America and got a free gold life

[@karlhinrikjonsson8924]

not realy worked out in the end

[@donl1846]

The Allies knew it was going to be a brutal street fight and many would be killed, hence why they let Russia do the dirty work. Was it a mistake, probably but hindsight is always 20/20.

[@Seagull0011]

On the contrary, USSR allowed the Western forces to take west Germany. You really need to watch the animated maps of WW2. In there, you will see that in 1945, the Red Army occupied east Germany and stopped there. The Red Army waited the rest of Germany to be occupied by USA, UK and French forces. This was in accordance with the agreement achieved in Yalta Conference. Back in 1945, USSR and the West were allies.

[@fswatyahoocom]

The German loses in the eastern front was 85% vs 15% in the western front.

[@erockromulan9329]

These guys were the "Make Germany Great Again" people.

[@KankerYouTube]

And of course the Russian orcs

[@michaelcolton4593]

That bloke with the moustache must be Netanyahu’s brother!

[@michaeltelson9798]

It had been suggested that Borman’s body had been placed in Berlin after his death in South America. The red laterite soil clinging to the skull is common in tropical regions but not Germany.

[@greathornedowl3644]

Roosevelt died of a heart attack? Thought it was a brain aneurysm

[@boathousejoed1126]

Can anyone explain why Denmark always gets a pass for WWII?

[@moomoo7167]

cause its not 'fashionable"

[@JoMarieM]

Denmark helped to save the lives of several hundred of its Jews, by sending them to Sweden, which was a neutral country who accepted them, rather than letting the Nazis cart them off to concentration camps. They were also a very tiny country that had no choice but to surrender, but the Resistance was still very active there!

[@LauraleeHaller]

The content is very good

[@bookaufman9643]

This documentary makes it sound like Montgomery was the first guy to move his troops across the Rhine. There were many many troops who got across at Remagen. Even though the bridge was eventually wrecked they had built mini pontoon bridges when that happened. Also it was a couple weeks of having the bridge open. This documentary makes it sound like they were never able to take advantage of it. Also George Patton brought his troops across the Rhine before Montgomery as well. I guess this was made for a British audience.😊

[@MartinNicol-bk7ny]

No it tell u all tht wit ubbeen wachin 😮

[@Gamer-do7qv]

@bookaufman9643 Get a grip man you sound so hurt, there’s more to take from this video then the British arriving first

[@bookaufman9643]

@@Gamer-do7qv thank you for telling me how to watch a video. I forgot to pay attention to everything else so I feel really lucky that you're out there guiding me through the process. Montgomery was a ponce. 😆

[@IanCross-xj2gj]

​@@Gamer-do7qvPatten's 3rd Army crossed the Rhine before Monty's army group.

[@Gamer-do7qv]

@@IanCross-xj2gj as I did there’s more to learn from this video than Britain being first to cross the line

[@andrewkalait9515]

With enhanced AI tech you think we could sharpen the image.

[@mett420]

16:21 ,,doing nothing.''?!?!? There where SIX! Battles from October 1944 to March 1945!

[@ExcavationNation]

He meant those troops holding that land... how did you not understand that?

[@simonmakacha5810]

Now i understand the beef between Germany and the Dutch

[@endeavor4178]

As a German, I can say that the Dutch and ourselves do not have any kind of beef as of today

[@fleshboundtobone]

It's ironic that Adolf's belief in 'struggle' wound up with the Soviets demanding unconditional surrender or they would just continue to decimate the Germans.

[@markbanash921]

"They lose me in the bunker scene." - AH

[@itsobvious23]

A history of the war with blurred death and destruction

[@syahrulazrai2717]

Fighting on the 2 front versus 3 superpowers

[@Theone-e-a]

What platform do you use to create the army tactics

[@MalevolentBite]

I enjoy these videos but can we see other wars besides WW2/WW1 or Vietnam? Korean War, Gulf War, Russia- Afghanistan war, Russia - Japan, Six Day War, Yugoslavia civil war, Boar War, Rhodesian War, Darfur would be a nice change of pace.

[@SeamHead33]

WW2 was Man vs. Evil and Man lost

[@spritbong5285]

I would say the complete opposite.

[@SeamHead33]

@spritbong5285 yes. I too, believed the lies told to me, until recently I discovered the TRUTH

[@xffalcon4752]

why do you keep blurring the images for.Everyone should see the cost of ww2

[@bernhardwall6876]

Please fix your captions!

[@AudreyJean-22]

34:06 FDR died on April 12th 1945 to a stroke

[@joechiodi5529]

Why blur out the shots? Stop!

[@danto_collins]

who recorded this

[@FrankFernandez-wi4sq]

We defeated the wrong enemy - George Patton 1945

[@chrislivingston6955]

So true

[@-khosroemamiahari2883]

Great and very educational!

[@noonenoone1628]

Stop blurring out history

[@bezllama3325]

May as well just not included the final 20 or so days, since then it would just be "Downfall: the documentary"

[@skyjockbill]

It does seem rather bizarre and patronising that you blur out many images in this series, when the same series can be viewed on other channels on KZbin without that censorship. Why did the people who created this version of it feel that it was necessary to do that? Pretty irritating and annoying.

[@thefreestylefrEaK]

I DEMAND you work for free. Do we have a deal?

[@shandon360]

You obviously have not watched or read the same thing recirculated over and over and over and over and over again. Trust me it gets old AF. Sometimes it even makes me DISLIKE WW2 hitstory, which is something i simply cannot comprehend myself.

[@LawGuanLinPrcss]

now just after 79 years after ww2 ended it became u.s.a, EU, Nato VS BRICS from usa uk russia and france vs Japan Germany and italy

[@mistervacation23]

Amber Schmidt witness the rise of that system. As a child growing up in Germany I was in third grade in school in the school. Uniform main came to our school. We put our posters of it's a inscribed post. To say you saint on the old club meaning the Jews are downfall. I had information coming from all sides. That were the posters, the weather. The soldiers coming in and setting Germany is the greatest. The best. The finest and our beloved feeler on those filter. Who's a high skillet to feel? You know what stuff like that in America? People would fall off their chairs screaming with laughter if we had to call any of our leaders heartly beloved

[@facetious_1]

To me,this is like a new horror movie, the most fascinating evil horror ever released on the earth. To this point. It never gets old. There's soo much footage, opinions,facts,lies,scandal, truth,wild speculation etc, and death, Lots of It.

[@ruscador1]

very interesting

[@Strom_gamerOfficial]

The whole world fighting German. German lost....but the history changes if German vs Great Britain alone.

[@sayvory]

Russians targeting civilian ships back then too? :/

[@brianmaitai7685]

31:15...Stalin walking like he has the "clap".

[@historytalesandterrors]

In both ww1 and ww2, it was almost the whole world VS the German forces alone at closing stages of a war. Incredible display of German military power. I think if they had resources then maybe war is prolonged for few more years.

[@divacroft1034]

There has never been such country with allies made up word

[@jackiehanley6274]

What this is about was said in this terrible war 😢

[@jonmcfarmer6954]

42:45 You say a DNA testing in the nineties confermed that is was Bormann they found there in mid seventies. The Germans confermed in the seventies that they kremated Bormanns remains and spread his ashes in the Baltic Sea! So what did they DNA test in the nineties❓

[@NEMESIS8000-o4l]

This video is only 1 day old and allready has 55k views...

[@nickinurse6433]

I love that the researcher for this program was German

[@petergeorge2232]

This sentence is perlexing, "Witness the Allied Forces' relentless push from the west and the Red Army's advance from the east as they close in on Berlin". It talks as if they are they were two different things. The Soviets were part of the Allied Forces, and the allied forces advanced on two fronts, east and west.

[@PatrickW-en6cj]

Shut up

[@Adam-qc6mg]

The blurring of "uncomfortable images" in this video is a travesty. To stoop so low to this level of censorship is a rebuke to those who fought, died, and suffered during this conflict. Is this your mandate, KZbin? You're pathetic.

[@jasonbeale6875]

All that senseless blurring…

[@robderiche]

Why is it British narrators seem to disregard proper pronunciation of names? Seriously. “Remiggin”? Anyone who’s watched It’s A Wonderful Life knows it’s Re-mah-gen.

[@おだいふく-x6t]

この戦争にかかわった人々にとって1945年は多種多様な思いをもって過ごしたのではないのかなと思います。　ヒトラーも前年の相次ぐ敗戦、西と東の戦況の絶望的状況に暗澹たる気持ちでいたのではないでしょうか。ヒトラーの秘書で後年ヒトラーの身近な生活についてのい描写をされた方の著書を読むと、ヒトラーの最後の敏の心情が垣間見れて興味深いですね。

[@gggmmmxspace]

Not so interesting… historically for sure…

[@thomaskeil1437]

A picture is worth a thosand words, I've heard. Certain images in this video were censored, but those images were made to show what words could not convey, yet here and in other videos, images are set aside. Truth be told this video in it's original form used the images, however sensitive precautions were deleted.

[@matchpoint14]

It is mentioned here that Germans as young as 14 fought defending Berlin. But there were many boys younger than that lots of 10-14 age range and reports of 8 and 9 year olds. After all the American vets are dead and gone there will be for another 10 years or so many German vets still alive.

[@SeeYouInHellDad]

Imagine losing 2 world wars? That’s embarrassing even today.

[@woodenseagull1899]

Germans are slow learning...Over educated = no common sense!

[@g_men2121]

May my fellow Germans rest in power!

[@Josh-vy2zq]

i used my royalty for good to exalt the name of my king my lord my god amen.jesus amen.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

6:25 highly inaccurate. The US had a pontoon bridge up before the Remagen bridge collapsed and that did nothing to block the US advance. This was the "first full scale invasion of the German heartland". Montgomery and the Brits were 2nd.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary about last Nazism stand confronted allies

[@brianmaitai7685]

How did the Italians surrender when they barely fought in the first place?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@neilreading3552]

The elite Russian troops warned German civilians about the units who followed, they were Mongolians and convicts and they committed the excesses.

[@EmilieKope]

fierce

[@noelmcgivern5246]

Patten nd Montgomery wasted a lot of lives with their egos

[@MartinNicol-bk7ny]

Patton did not monty

[@WickJ]

where was China, North Korea and Russia in WW2 never heard of them now most of the other country afraid of them...

[@DaniboyBR2]

The communists took over Russia and called it Soviet Union, did you ever go to a history class.