[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1946) A Defeated People: Life in Germany after WWII.

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[@benoitcacheux5030]

✡️ murdered 12 millions germans between 1945 and 1950.

[@gravefrightn5720]

You can thank secret societies, diversity and the false science that has corrupted the minds of the young to fit their desires.

[@Single.White.Female]

I'm so glad someone thought enough of these people to take their pictures. Times forgotten, people long lost, but forever trapped in time.

[@BabbleOn777]

Yeah... And when they look back to the garbage dumps of data, they will find tiktok.

[@argha-qi5hf]

Tiktok is the greatest curse to befall Earth since Nazism.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

They were not " trapped in time" and they were not " lost". They went on to build a Germany that instead of being feared is being respected. They started at rock bottom? Well, yes, we had earned that big time. But they got help and a second chance. They took it. We still do.

[@herrlich1461]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 This stinking woke garbage can is "respected"? 🤣 How delusional can a person be?

[@williamyoung9401]

"Come on, Germans! Rebuild your stuff! We got Stalin to fight!" =P

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

It really is truly stunning how both Japan and Germany recovered following the war. In less then 20 years Japan became a leader in home electronics. In 1958 Sony Corporation, formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo introduced the Sony TR-610 transistor radio, its what launched Sony into the American electronics market, then again in 1961 when Sony introduced the TV8-301W transistorized television, the first “direct view” transistorized TV. Germany became a massive automotive manufacturing nation thanks to Volkswagen and the Type 1 Beetle as well as the Type 2 Bus. It was Germany and Japan that flooded the United States with compact and subcompact cars in the late 1950s and 60s. Forcing even the likes of Ford, GM, and Chrysler to begin introducing their own cars to attempt to compete. It’s crazy to look back at post war history and see just how recovery and cleanup took place even during the separation of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Funny how they only recovered because of help from the US and Europe

[@k.k.8394]

@@OffendingTheOffendable Funny how that's BS. It's called mentality.

[@k.k.8394]

@DeathSeller You think that the ERP was the reason for Germany's recovery after the war? The volume of these credits was miniscule in comparison and Germany had already payed back the money in 1966. Most of the money went to the UK and France anyway.

[@srccde]

@DeathSeller Then why didn't the UK or France become economic powerhouses? They got even more money from the US than Germany.

[@J1mston]

@@k.k.8394 Did you not watch the film? They say in the film that to rebuild they needed steel and to get steel they needed coal and to get coal they needed to rebuild. They were stuck in a situation that meant that they could only start to rebuild with outside help. Volkswagen was ran by the British government for a time and they got production started by ordering 20k cars when they really couldn't afford them or have an obvious use for that many. They ordered them simply to get production going. Similar things happened all around the country, the allies took control of everything and gave it the spark it needed to start over.

[@kingjoe3rd]

The coloring isn't always correct, but the best thing is does is that it gives each scene more depth, which allows your own depth perception to kick in. This gives the scene more life, which gives history a more life like face. Brilliant!

[@UberOcelot]

It also makes these moments less removed from the present, as this was really not that long ago. Black and white imaging and rudimentary audio recording really distorts our perception of time and place.

[@williamyoung9401]

Looking for loved ones. Now they know how the Jews and other "untermensch" felt. The kids, though...god damn all war.

[@cincin4515]

No it doesn't. It crushes the authenticity out of it and we all know how people like to change things to suit themselves.

[@idan1242]

👌

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

@@cincin4515 lol

[@davidca96]

WW2 was almost impossible to understand for us generations that came after, the destruction and loss of life was on a scale you cant fathom. Most of the people hurt by it did nothing wrong and were not even involved in fighting, they suffered horribly.

[@dewilew2137]

They voted for naziism. They bought into those hateful, destructive ideas. That’s what was meant by “a war they started” and “of their own making”.

[@greenlime1997]

The Second World War frankly makes the conflicts of today look like leisurely strolls in the park.

[@nurdane2850]

💯💯💯💫💫💫

[@greg_4201]

What's not to understand about it? The Zionists mobilized the western world to demolish Germany and butcher its people so as to plunder them with impunity and destroy the power of nations, ushering in the Neo-Marxist Globalist NWO technocracy and economic slavery... The only reason such a war isn't happening in our time is because the Second World War victors cut everything worth fighting for out of society and disunited western nations' base ethnic populations to the extent that they can't even imagine forming a unified front against tyranny.

[@Larrypint]

the education system and mainstream media don't want you to understand it, they just want you to judge good and evil like in Hollywood war movies

[@OswaldOstfalen]

My grandmother experienced this time in Germany. She will be 99 years old in March. She is the best grandma in the world for me 💞.

[@DaenaeraTargaryen]

My Oma was about 6 years old at the end of the war, but still remembers everything. It was difficult for so many people, especially children, and I think the effects on children who grew up in that time is not really spoken about enough.

[@carmenpozzi7357]

❤❤❤

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

Same for me. She had to leave Hinterpommern.

[@OswaldOstfalen]

@@checkcommentsfirst3335 Meine kam aus Schlesien..

[@svetlanamandic9785]

Ich hoffe, deiner tapferen Großmutter geht es gut. Es war damals nicht einfach, Deutscher zu sein. Ich sende Ihnen herzliche Grüße ❤️

[@seandelap8587]

It was similar in all the other war affected countries war is no joke it leads to mass displacements and misery the decisions of physcopathic individuals has always affected ordinary people and still continues to this very day.

[@JoDo777]

Psychopaths EXACTLY! Master manipulators!!

[@INRamos13]

Psycopaths that we keep electing

[@macknights1911]

Just look at Russia

[@patriciagriffith7402]

Misery is their agenda

[@derbeisser8777]

the Versailles dictate created new injustice and was the basis for the development leading to the Second World War.

[@tonig.1546]

I love this channel’s dedication and craft to giving the past some more color and also making it accessible.

[@dereksuddreth8672]

My Stepdad was drafted into the US Army and posted in Kaiserslautern, Germany as part of the Allied Occupation Forces in 1958. My mom and I joined him there in 1960. My brother was born at the Army Hospital. We had a small apartment off base among the locals of the town. Mother loved Europe, and Stepdad took a 30 day leave to travel the continent with the family on vacation. Even though I was young, I was amazed by the rebound of the German people, as well as the rest of war torn Europe. Most were friendly towards us, but I realize now that was a matter of survival. Germany was still a dangerous place, especially for those who wore the Allied uniforms. As tensions escalated between the USSR and the other former Allies, Berlin was cut off from the rest of the world. My Mom, brother and I were evacuated back to the US. It seemed now we had a new enemy, the Soviet Union.

[@annas.8487]

I am sorry, that you think to have had an enemy. So it also seems propaganda has worked. At least there are some military forces who have an interest in resources and power. That is not the best quality we have as humanity. Any idea of having (or needing) enemys is not bringing us any further in our development.

[@hebedabber2770]

​@annas.8487 When the soviets purposefully cut off Berlin, they made themselves an enemy.

[@Cream2773]

@@hebedabber2770 the truthof the üpast is not that kind of simple stereotypical: the allies didn't want to corperate with the east... in history earlier, french and british always have had some problems with the east, the german and eastern european states/tribes collaborates

[@gotthatswag4502]

KAISERSLAUTERN MENTIONED!!!

[@nightwish1000]

We could make a propaganda film nowadays of that kind displaying the US as the country that has set fire around the world like no second in the postwar era.

[@jonfisher9214]

What always gets me in these war documentaries is seeing the little kids. Then imagining what it would be like to have to care for and raise a family while there's a whole bloody war going on.

[@arthurwebber-g4l]

My poor mum had to do that. One day in a raid she grabbed me and ran out into the street. She said that she wanted us to die in the open air, and not under the rubble. I was two years old.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

yeah, it was a terrible time to be European.

[@hawkhillfalconer3529]

and yet so few people have compassion for families escaping such situations by coming to the US today.

[@user-gj5yy6rk2q]

and think of what happened to every single mother, daughter, women there. all of them got raped by Russians, British, US, soldiers out of anger for what the germans have done.

[@p1tz0n16]

@@hawkhillfalconer3529 lmao they're not fleeing war they're fleeing bad economies. Especially the ones fleeing across to Europe moving past 7-8 countries to get into countries with the highest social welfare like Sweden *facepalms*

[@marquisdehoto1638]

Letting them starve after WW1 was one reason that let to WW2.

[@tempejkl]

It’s all the fucking treaty of Versailles!!!

[@josephmarrison4606]

Hence why lessons were learned here.

[@Hard_Knockz]

Go fight the war in your own country

[@redbrick146]

@@tempejkl it's all the one serbian dude's fault!!!

[@IfeoluwaAdesanya-b7e]

@@tempejkl🌚

[@abbalite]

Surprised to see that the commentator is William Hartnell, who two decades later would become the first Doctor Who.

[@1944GPW]

First thing that I noticed too. Very interesting!

[@kokonutz6920]

I made my post before seeing yours. You were definitely first, my fellow Whovian!

[@MountainRaven1960]

That’s the very first thing I noticed!

[@bitch8205]

We live in a small world!

[@herrlich1461]

More propaganda from more actors. It seems to be the trend in the free West. 🤣

[@dharkbizkit]

seeing this makes me understand better, why my grandfather was such a bitter person. when ww2 ended, he was 11. spending his kid and teenage years in rubble, poverty, in the cold and hungry. seein friends from school and neighborhood die from freezing in the winter 45, seeing his dad not coming back from the war. seeing his mum beeing raped by russian soldier. then spending years of sweat rebuilding, just for my generation, to have a normal life and beeing spoiled, by sitting on a table at christmas, in a heated home, a table full of food, playing gameboy, and beeing picky about what the family should watch on tv that christmas eve, while the only thing he needed with 10, was socks and food

[@Hunterbidenscrackrock]

One could argue your grandfather and his generation suffered rebuilding so we wouldn’t have to worry about survival. But i get your point and it is complicated. I have noticed that no struggle make you soft. But struggling too much, like you mentioned, breaks you and makes you bitter.

[@dharkbizkit]

@@Hunterbidenscrackrock he knew that. and in a way, he was happy that we had it better. but on the other hand, he wished his days as a kid, would have been good too. it wasnt his fault, he didnt cause the war, he didnt take part in it, yet he and his friends, had so suffer to consequences. he always knew, that it was neighter his, nor my fault, but he couldnthelp feeling angry and sad about this unfair part of life

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@Hunterbidenscrackrock Nah, they suffered rebuilding because France and Britain declared war on them. Two countries invaded Poland. One got a declaration of war, the other got an alliance. No coincidence the ruling part of France were the "Radical Socialists". France was Soviet-aligned, or flipping that way pre-war. See also: the President of France being assassinated at the Rothschild Hotel in 1932 by a White Russian who felt betrayed.

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@excelynite Like the Japanese, when they attacked warships stationed at a military base enforcing an oil embargo against them, in in an act of justice and karma, cities full of civilians were righteously nuked.

[@dharkbizkit]

@@excelynite ...So, sins of the fathers, eh? since he was 11 at that point

[@davidboinonen9613]

1946 production crews deserve a lot of credit documenting most of what happened

[@vergil8833]

Proudly saying that they must make another countrys children hate their fathers... Doesn't sound like the good guys. They did all this because they opposed their political system, and that alone. Pure evil if you ask me.

[@v1ncestan607]

agreed including the ones who documented the concentration camps built after the war

[@AnnaBluelueluep]

There are no winners in war - perhaps for the state, but not for the people. There was so much misery, so much loss and grief. I find the comment "They asked for the war" totally stupid, because most of those who were in favour died at the front or cowardly executed themselves. It was mainly women and children who were left behind ... My grandparents grew up during this time. They were 12 and 15 years old. My grandmother saw terrible things during the war, even as a child. I feel sorry for all the people who had to suffer such a fate because of the greed of individuals.

[@Don_Ramiro]

Of course there are winners in war, and if the State wins, so does the people. With the proper regime, that is. Sadly, that's not what happened with the winners of WW2

[@AnnaBluelueluep]

@@Don_Ramiro I see you dont understand what I was saying.

[@Don_Ramiro]

@@AnnaBluelueluep I understood, but is nonsense

[@AnnaBluelueluep]

@Don_Ramiro Yeah you totally understand it. I can tell. Don't worry, it's not your fault if you lagg wisdom

[@Don_Ramiro]

@@AnnaBluelueluep There's exactly 0 wisdom in your comment, morón

[@Dontleavemedimi]

The survivors of the war were excellent examples of perseverance and overcoming hardship with hard work and grit. Their children were the young batteries that would fuel the resurgence of Germany as a world power not through armaments and conquest but through manufacturing and finance among others. I was stationed in Germany in 1981-1983 and I got to see firsthand how the Germans were and they were very organized.

[@XIXbacktolife]

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[@derin111]

My Mother was born in Hannover in 1940. This was one of the most heavily bombed German cities with 90% of the city centre destroyed. By the age of 5 years old, at war’s end, they had been bombed out of their accommodation twice and narrowly survived being burned to death in a cellar. She remembers the starvation in the year’s immediately after the war and the feeling that the city could never be rebuilt. Even when I used to go there each summer to stay with my Grandparents from London during the 1960s, I still remember playing on ground that was still bomb sights. It’s a very long story but my Mother was also one of the few children in her class at school who actually had two parents. However, she/we didn’t know that the man we thought was her father wasn’t her real father until his death in 1979. Her real father had been captured by the Russians and survived a prison camp there but no one in Germany knew this. They had presumed he had been killed on the Front only for him to return in the mid-1950s !

[@mochispaces]

Oh my, that's sad to think that nobody knows you are alive. Thank goodness he comes out alive in the camp and can come home.

[@derin111]

@@mochispaces Yes, he survived and started a new life. Got married and had three children. My mother only met one of them and never met her real father.

[@doniramdoni3884]

​​​@@derin111Ar u ever said "hello" to ur real grandpa ?

[@derin111]

@@doniramdoni3884 no...I never met him. He died after the man I had grown up thinking was my Grandfather and who I knew very well. He died in 1979 when I was 16. But my real Grandfather died in about 1985 but I never ever met him.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yes, very sad, War is hell, theysay 50 million died. Best not begin it eh?

[@kriugeris1994]

Imagine the scale of economical repair and mass social restart. This takes some serious ability from the leaders to accomplish this immense task. It's just prove that people are truly capable more than we personally believe . Great window in to the past, really enjoying these videos .

[@katharynemartins565]

Funny how they never did this social repair in Japan,they did the opposite...

[@DutchGuyMike]

@@katharynemartins565 Yeah, the elite wanted Germany destroyed - which was the center of nationalism in Europe, so they could create the European Union and introduce the central banks (Rothschild owned).

[@monilip]

It's easy to rebuild, if you get money from gry USA to do that. Germany's victims (like Poland) weren't that lucky. We got left to rot under Russia's communism

[@ToreDL87]

@@katharynemartins565 Would mean another Marshall plan, which we could scantly afford.

[@fantastichound]

Marshall plan ?

[@richardmcgowan1651]

Right after the war the UK was utterly broke. The British people wanted nothing to do with Europe anymore and wanted all troops home. They were done with it all. So many people were dead or horribly affect by it all. The government knew it had to stay in Germany in part to stand against the growing USSR threat and to stop Germany from sliding into utter chaos. So films like this were made to show how bad it was in Germany right after the war.

[@tempejkl]

⁠@@sergiy01Were the people starving? I thought with the liberation of Ukraine and much of Russia they would be fine, no? Also yes. The amount of Soviets that died compared to British is incomparable. 26.6 million Soviets dead

[@sliftyy]

Yes, the Soviet famine of 1946-47 wherein 2 million people starved to death. For the parts of the country which were occupied by Germany since 1941, there was famine the entire war too.

[@МаринаКислая-у5ф]

​@@sliftyyКакая глупость,вот это чушь.Было трудно,но кто вам донёс ерунду?

[@sliftyy]

@@МаринаКислая-у5ф i read about the war and post-war famine somewhere, i checked the death toll on english wikipedia and on there it says that up to 2 million people died. on the russian version, it says that up to 1.5 million died

[@bobchoate4403]

I like your passion for history and I really enjoy your videos

[@williamyoung9401]

The fact that Germany are our (lazy) allies today is nothing short of amazing compared to how horrible this war was.

[@knechtgottes9109]

​@@williamyoung9401 Hitler hat für die Engländer gearbeitet, der widerliche Edomiter!

[@marcelgowa]

i got chills down my spine as a german listening to them look for their husbands and wifes, thats some deep depressing stuff here. say no to wars!

[@marysunshine2498]

These Germans waged the filthy war against the world, taking over countries, murdering and torturing millions and millions and millions of men, women, and children in the worst disregard for human life. In this 1945 film they brought whatever misery they are experiencing, on themselves. Absolutely no sympathy. Most of these German beasts were never punished for their horrific crimes, but went on to live wonderful lives. And now, in 2022, Jew-hatred is fashionable again and getting worse every day. Wake up. Nothing has changed.

[@vipr1142]

"say no to wars" lol. doesn't work, because the elite will manipulate you to think you are doing the good thing. Look at Libya and Gaddafi, probably the best leader a African country ever had, and he tried to free Africa from neo-colonialism and also make Africa a super power by introducing the "golden dinar". As soon as he proposed the "golden dinar" invasion happened (he wanted to sell oil for real gold instead of dollar, similar to what Saddam of Iraq did, but Saddam wanted to sell oil for Euro instead of dollar). Had this succeeded, then African countries economy would rival US and Europe. But mainstream media managed to indoctrinate the commoners that Gaddafi was an evil man who was ONLY evil, and never said the good things he did for his country, his people and Africa. The one who controls the media, controls the thoughts of the people.

[@erickrohn2970]

Yes and worse imagine all the Jews and non germans that went through concentration camps that had there families all split up. Also not knowing were there family members may be or if there still alive in which most cases they weren't.

[@shadetreader]

To be anti-war is to be anti-fascist.

[@vipr1142]

@@shadetreader thats a low intelligence statement

[@letsgetturnt9759]

We need to cherish this channel we can learn a lot from it thank you 👏🏾👍🏾

[@leeriches8841]

Humans are evidently unable/unwilling to learn from the past.

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart6267]

learning about the war you sometimes forget about its aftermath. great video

[@zakkyummms]

Can you imagine the amount of rubble moved by cart and wheel barrow? It must have felt impossible to ever be finished.

[@monilip]

Try to find footage from Warsaw (city of Poland) after war. Germany destroyed 95% of city, as punishment for Warsaw Uprisings. 95% od city - just rubble and ash.

[@andreimatheus9306]

​@@monilip to be honest, i don't think it's right to say that was the Germany - the whole country did that? - but the german army - Wermacht - and some sick psycho platoons, like the Dirlewanger's death unit made solely by rapists, bandits, etc.

[@MrBrewman95]

It took until 1980 to completely rebuild everything in Germany.

[@DrClock-il8ij]

​​@@MrBrewman95Kinda crazy that 1980 was closer to the start of WW2 than to today ngl

[@rare6499]

@@MrBrewman95longer surely.

[@Naza_44]

"They were just left wandering. Searching, looking for food, looking for their homes, and looking for each other." 😔

[@wizwizington1758]

satisfying justice

[@domerame5913]

edgy 14 yr old@@wizwizington1758

[@Anders127]

@@wizwizington1758 In a war like WW2 there could be no justice. Prevention is the best medicine as the nature of mankind allows unimaginable atrocities.

[@AA-jp9cj]

@@wizwizington1758 Unfortunately there is no justice in war

[@harrynikken]

Great documentary, such a witness to the immediate aftermath of WWII for the ordinary Germans at the time. The problems look unsurmountable. Still they managed to get their lives back on track in a couple of years.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

Problems we brought on ourselves.

[@g.f.w.6402]

That was not everyday life after the war. The people who removed rubble with their bare hands did exist. But it was rather a propagandistically used randerscheinung.

[@hohohehe1417]

@kathrinscharrer3923 Judea declares war on germany. New York Times 1933. "You must understand that this war is not against national socialism but against the strengh of the german people which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless if it is in the hands of hitler or a Jesuit priest." Winston Churchill, 1936

[@BasementEngineer]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Who is "ourselves"?

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

@@BasementEngineer The German people. Our ancestors.

[@jont2576]

"we cant afford to let this new life flow where it wants" sends chills down ur spine...behind the innocent sounding, sometimes sweet and flowery words in the american verbiage....words like "freedom" and "democracy" hides a dark and dystopian meaning, much like how US shaped and molded Japan's political and

[@mikespangler98]

Go read "Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila". By James Scott. Then you will see why Japan's culture needed a hard reset. You can also consider the rape of Nanking and Section 731, the Bataan Death March, and the Army's activities in Malaysia and Singapore.

[@dubistverrueckt]

You neonazis really love misusing language. Freedom doesn’t include the freedom to enslave and kill others. Freedom of speech doesn’t include freedom to bring such things about. Your fallacy is that this must be said with words and that it cannot you speciously give as “reason” that this is not freedom. Get over it, bud. LOVE HATES hate.

[@bigpagla]

Its the nooks and crannies nestled between timelines that really help put history into a clearer perspective.

[@CaribouOrange]

'the war they started' The war people in power started.

[@scottread]

The people in power who they elected.

[@tcrijwanachoudhury]

@@scottread the people in power who, regardless of who they voted for, would've been elected anyway.

[@Explorer55612]

the people who they elected and gave power

[@justsayin644]

@@Explorer55612 Many of them didn't vote for them. Also don't forget the nazis changed their tune once they were in power and many germans just wanted a fresh start and out with the old corrupt self-serving politicians, that same story we see today in politics, broken promises incompetence. So when a radically different-looking new party came along that promised to restore Germany to her former beauty and put the people first of course most got sucked in. Little did they know what horrors and misery would await and the ultimate downfall and destruction of the country that this new party would bring with it.

[@33Donner77]

Industrialists said "We can control him." An old system is overthrown, a demagogue rises up, and millions die. This has happened over and over and over again.

[@wisemysticaltree8804]

It's sad that some people are just born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@nanipanini]

everyone incarnates with purpose

[@davidh9844]

Yep, like my wife's family. 54 people murdered, shot, hanged by those people in this film because they were born Jews. The youngest was 12, running in fear in a snowy Czech forest, chased by dogs. The Germans didn't kill him until after he saw his dead father hanging from a tree. My son shared his Bar Mitzvah in America with that child's ghost. (We know the story, because by the grace of God, his brother Kubah was shot and played dead, and somehow managed to survive. He made it to America in 1949, the family's only survivor)

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@davidh9844 So how many palestinians have been shot by israelis since they had their country taken from them by the british? 🤔🤭

[@aloedark5221]

@@davidh9844 ok

[@Proud_GOY_Not_juwish]

@@davidh9844oyy veyy the forever victim juuuw!

[@MicahGCom]

Can’t believe this narrator decided to say “A war they started” over a picture of some 5 year olds.

[@kevinjohnston4923]

Britain attacked Germany first.

[@j.f.1979]

​@@kevinjohnston4923You do not know much about cause and effect, do you?

[@kevinjohnston4923]

@@j.f.1979 Britain attacked Germany first, escalated it into a huge conflict, allied with the communists, and committed war crimes against Germans. “Defending” Poland just to hand Poland over to the communists was one of the dumbest decisions in history. Churchill was a power-mad drunk who lost Britain’s empire and allowed the communists to take over.

[@LoveHammerMan]

@@kevinjohnston4923 You don't think it had anything to do with the invasion of all of the other countries and Germanys own violation of the treaty of versai? You're really making excuses for the guys that spent the entire prewar period GEARING UP for a full invasion of Europe?

[@kevinjohnston4923]

@@LoveHammerMan the Treaty of Versailles was cruel, greedy, and too harsh. There is a risk of retaliation when you’re too greedy, and the other countries found out the hard way.

[@breebw]

My German language teacher in high school(in New Zealand) was a child in Berlin at this time post war. She said there were two types of Berliners, ones that chewed chewing gum obtained from Americans, and those that didn't. It became a trend, But it was a sore point from those who chose not too.

[@RandoBurner]

What is incredible to me is that even though they lived in a bombed out country, they had clean clothes, nice clothes, they look better dressed than most people today.

[@JoDo777]

I've heard that most Germans are very clean people.

[@INRamos13]

Well, if life goes on, you find a way to wash them and you keep moving forward. You don't just stay in the dirt with the debris.

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

Most people back then, rich or poor, took great pride in their appearance. Going out in public looking disheveled was unthinkable to many and would have you branded insane or eccentric. It wasn't the shameless society of today.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

My parents were children back then and no, people didn't always wear clean clothes. The things don't look dirty in the video, because of the quality of the video. People back then had usually one set of good clothes to wear to church, for weddings and other festivities and one, maybe two sets of clothes for working days. Clothes were washed on Saturdays by hand. My parents had to stay in bed until their clothes had dried on the Saturdays. Usually they'd also take a bath on Saturdays and only on Saturdays. Some of the clothes you see in the video were specific garments worn above the regular clothes to protect them when doing manual work. Women often wore what's called "Kittelschürze".

[@herrinvonribbeck]

Not everyone had though. Going through pictures of my grandparents you can clearly see that some people just couldn‘t afford nice / intact / fitting clothes at all.

[@mikek4288]

I spent 3 years in germany starting in the late 80's. It was suprising the old generation looked at us soldiers with respect and thanks and the kids were not happy with us.

[@aryanbhuta3382]

It's the history. The older folks were probably around during the Berlin Airlift. America stopped them from starving, and still found it within their (taxpayer funded!) budget to airdrop chocolates to the children. To the new ones, you were a foreign occupier responsible for the continued partition of their country - the Cold War, in their eyes, must have been a Soviet-American conflict that you had dragged Germany into the middle of. The older folks were probably just happy to not be under the Reich.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

People are truly grateful for allies actions in Germany. But then we became an ally too. An ally is not a servant (unlike Belarus to Russia). One can be grateful for US boys landing on Omaha beach ( I am, every day) and still be critical of actions like Vietnam or Iraq. Even inside the US people were critical of those wars, or, US intervention in Latin America . In democracy one can not be an adoring follower of whatever policy. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing in democracy, Germany has disagreed with US policy and also the other way round. That has not made transatlantic relations weaker, quite the opposite. If being grateful means we have to approve of everything the US does it would be servitude. Democracy means being able to disagree and to work out differences peacefully, which we have.

[@wimschmied3800]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Thankful for the Allies? They bombed and slaughtered your people without mercy.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

@@wimschmied3800 They bombed until they achieved victory. They did not slaughter anyone. They gave back sovereignity after 4 years and gave financial aid and in the case of west Berlin, humanitarian aid. Defensive war is not the same as attack war. If we had not started attack war for landgrab nobody would have bombed us. Everyone knows this. They freed us from criminal regime, a regime that did slaughter millions of Germans ( and people from other countries). We took the second chance we got, and we got it 40 years before the other part of Germany. Here we are♥️🇪🇺

[@wimschmied3800]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Propaganda has gotten to your brain. It's likely pointless for me to debunk everything you just said as you wouldn't change your mind anyway.

[@LuisLopez2]

Just consider for a second back then there was no such a thing to stock music libraries. Someone actually wrote the music for this documentary and they actually recorded with a real orchestra.

[@Domino13334]

I am from Germany. My grandmother lived and lives still 15 minutes away from the building the Nurnberg trials took place. At 94 of age she is still able to tell you about living in WW2 and day to day protocol of the trials.

[@DJSwezzleMusic]

My grandmother is 156 years old

[@rgbforever4561]

​@@DJSwezzleMusicbruh, It's not uncommon. My grandpa and Grandma too.

[@hattorihanzo562]

Im from nürnberg only a few minutes on bike away from the court

[@lanthanumlanthanium6373]

Can't call something a trial when no evidence is presented.

[@Daddy-Maggus]

@@lanthanumlanthanium6373 bruh rlly ?

[@zomer7101]

This was a great watch, thanks for uploading.

[@katiedickson0820]

“We just cannot afford to let them stew in their own juice” 😮 lol holy crap 😅

[@jazzmart0412]

I love that the first incarnation of the doctor is giving us a history lesson.

[@mariagraziazollo9180]

In 1948 a film was made: "Germany year zero" (Germania anno zero) . Directed by Roberto Rossellini.

[@giancarlofilacchione7371]

Aggiungi al film di Rossellini, anche "Odissea Tragica": con Montgomery Clift, soldato americano che cerca un bambino fra le rovine di Berlino.

[@Singapom888]

My father, aged just 18, was over there as part of the British Army of Occupation. Fascinating to see what he must have seen, and been part of. An absolutely spell-binding and thought-provoking film.

[@xjuhox]

Was he a rapist?

[@mysticmystery7300]

@@xjuhox eh?

[@davidh9844]

Be grateful he saw the devastation of Berlin and its citizens. He could have been liberating their concentration death camps. I don't think any kid who went through that ever fully recovered from the psychological damage they had to live through.

[@daniele5349]

​@@davidh9844do you think that the concentration camps were the worst thing? Think at german women that see come the Russian

[@TheBucketSkill]

@@daniele5349 It was absolutely the worse thing lol? They literally did medical experiments on jewish children. German women taking cock isn't nearly as bad.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

I can't imagine this situation. Ive been thru 2 hurricanes that were quite destructive but even those situations paled in comparison to the destruction of war.

[@hughy897]

Its not just war. They were thought to no be proud of their soldiers, to just move on, most of them were persecuted and are still today, just because they needed to follow orders. You cant imagine that

[@rare6499]

Amazing footage, thank you for sharing. A truly trying time for so many people. The loss of life was staggering in Germany, so many of these people lost someone close to them but managed to rebuild their nation. Of course it was the same across Europe. Can’t fathom how hard these post war years were, the task must have seemed essentially impossible.

[@bokser75]

Демографические потери СССР составили 25-27 млн человек Общие демографические потери Германии, Венгрии, Италии, Румынии, Финляндии и Словакии составили 11,9 млн человек На счет того же самого вы немножко ошиблись

[@bladder1010]

My father's family was from Wuppertal. This movie is very interesting. My dad didn't have a bad thing to say about the British. I get the impression that in general German civilians had a great deal of respect for the British and their generally humane treatment. My dad, as a young teenager said they had more disdain for German civilian police than the British.

[@g.f.w.6402]

Die Engländer waren wirklich d******. Die konnten einfach nicht verstehen, dass die Deutschen sie ohne Not niemals angegriffen oder in ihre Einflusssphären eingedrungen wären.

[@stylembonkers1094]

The luckiest thing that could have happened to them was to be conquered by the British.

[@herrlich1461]

Sure, the Terror Bombing of Germany really earned the British the reputation of being "humane", especially after Hamburg and Dresden and many many other cities being burned to the ground by thousands of bombers dropping incendiaries and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, men, women and children, even POWs were victims of this unprecedented war crime.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

My Opa was from Wuppertal. Condolences to your dad's family. . . their town was leveled. Opa always humorously said he awarded himself a high school diploma since his high school was burned down. Tell me more about your family! Super interested in that town. I have a Bible that was printed there. Used to be quite the successful place before the war.

[@Flutschfingerbaron]

@@stylembonkers1094 british,French,American, whatever... It only was Bad in the ussr side

[@CercateRogneCheLeTrovate]

Never seen before. Exceptional Documentation. Very Moving. Thanks for Sharing

[@BabbleOn777]

My grandfather was brought over through Normandy on that fateful day, he was in the 29th infantry to destroy and rebuild bridges, roads, and lifelines whilst so many men fought the beach to get him and his through; it was the greater good to get those engineers over the lines to do their jobs. He ended up going back for more in Korea , and finally came home to raise his son that he left for that tour. That only son, my father, joined the USMC and did two tours of Nam at 19, coming home with holes and stories, to have me and my sister. I wouldn't be here had either one died. Its strange to think it is being poor, having nothing, but everyone getting up to rebuild after a war is the best way to make a statement about the never ending human condition being tested. Everyone was too busy rebuilding that racism, inequality, identity rights and pronouns, etc doesn't have a place or time for here. Puts how fortunate we really are to the past that got us here today. " Deprogramming Citizens" becoming an epidemic of help that are scared to be found. They say History repeats itself. It has been proven time and again the human condition never changes in the long run. Thank you for all of your videos, literally gorging myself.

[@erickrohn2970]

Yes history repeats itself for sure. War will never be stopped. Its human nature to be evil and to take away from others been like that since the beginning of time. And unfortunately it will always be that way.

[@valentineespinoza8836]

Shutcho bitch ass up nigga

[@ptownRandy1]

As an American, I gladly support the ending of racism, inequality and identity rights. So sorry that you don't approve.

[@SandyCheeks1896]

All of the utter nonsense evaporates when you’re fighting for your life or breaking your back to rebuild your own life and society. And then 3 or 4 generations on, almost no one remembers how hard it was to build what we have, and they become ungrateful and unsatisfied with their easy lives and invent new things to fight for and over, and in the process bring about the conditions for another true conflict and mass death.

[@ptownRandy1]

@@SandyCheeks1896 Correct, just like when the racist and moronic Republicans have declared war on women, the LBQT community, the transsexual community, minorities, migrants, etc.

[@eloquentia7207]

Little children are always innocent, and they suffer the most when adults make horrible mistakes.

[@O.Mundo.Dos.Mandocas]

From what I've seen and unfortunately, adults are big children...

[@luckynedpepper9030]

No more brother wars.

[@miwi9883]

Too late, white British school children are less than two decades away from becoming a minority in their own country.

[@roadgent7921]

Well said.

[@sergie2822]

6:24 I just imagined Bro literally stole his paper. He wasn't done copying. 😂😂

[@Gizmetti]

Guy Warrack went absolutely nuts on the soundtrack

[@sugabopp]

the bit about how it all came back to needing coal reminded me off a strategy game 😂

[@MaestroDraven]

Imagine trying to shake off a war like that. How hard it must have been to come back to some semblance of normalcy and happiness, knowing what your country did.

[@heathermartin7459]

I always think of that. Cant even imagine

[@tempejkl]

Yes. I wish Britain had to feel like that, for all the horrendous acts they committed. Destroyed our country and any chance we had to prosper. Took our food, culture, and language

[@jonpwnd]

Thanks for sharing, I had never looked into or learned about the allied occupation of Germany. Makes me want to learn more about how long it lasted how effective it was etc

[@redhen2123]

Well, as you can see from the shifting demographics and increasing crime rates, it was too effective !

[@jonpwnd]

As a follow up it lasted about 5 years. And ended with Germany being split up into different governing factions. Which ultimately led to the German reunification almost 45 years later!

[@TheZINGularity]

Mark Felton has fantastic content about the war and most likely anything you could wonder about it

[@hanshandkante5055]

@@redhen2123 I don't get what you are trying to say. The shifting demographics is a direct result of wealth and prosperity. The higher the living standard the lower the birth rates. And the crime rate in germany is decreasing since six years in a row and japans crime rate isn't even worth mentioning.

[@herrlich1461]

It lasts until this very day. Germany has gotten the "refugee" treatment since 2015 and now the US State Department is managing the deindustrialisation of Germany. And it's going fantastic. Germany will be reduced to a shadow of its former self.

[@jeanmarcu1446]

These documentaries from the 40s and the 50s are very charming and informative.

[@GiorgioArmani-r3r]

And now we witness that those defeated people came up the most prosperous, successful nation culturally, academically and financially with their commitment to bring up Germany again with a brighter future.

[@sukhmaidickoff]

Well, there were still a LOT of old Nazis in the management of big companies / in the industry, in high positions in the public sector up until the 1960s / 1970s in Germany - so I guess everything wasn´t as great as you claim. I am not in ANY way sympathizing with the RAF, but why do you think they "kidnapped" Hanns Martin-Schleyer and killed hum? Not only because he was a high ranking industry representative, but also because he was a good old SS-Officer

[@thelowlytrinity]

The allies learned a bitter lesson from the first world war - do not punish your defeated enemy. Rather than kicking them while they're down, as they did with the treaty of Versaille, help them rebuild so seeds of disdain don't grow into a new fascism.

[@svetchannel2998]

А мне казалось корни нацизма в том, что немцы наоборот не ощутили на себе тяготы войны, ведь кайзеровская армия внезапно капитулировала на территории России и Франции, а Германия, не считая небольшого голодания, не страдала от бомбежек и разрушений, что дало почву для антисемитских теорий. Немцы подумали что их обманули и предали, во второй раз, если они не будут наивными, они обязательно победят благодаря своей природной мощи. Вторая мировая война им показала что нет, они ошиблись. Немцы обычная европейская нация как и остальные и завоевывать никого не надо, надо развивать то, что есть. Короче говоря, ВМВ произошла потому что ПМВ закончилась мягко для немцев.

[@Mcfunface]

​@@svetchannel2998Public opinion is not very good for your nation, vlad...😅

[@709466ok]

God bless these brave people.. 🙌

[@davidh9844]

They have been cursed for many, many generations to come.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

The resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity is truly remarkable. Despite the devastation, there's a glimmer of hope as communities come together to rebuild. Let's continue supporting each other on this journey towards a brighter future.

[@jeshuadedic3373]

It’s so sad once you realize that so many of those people looking for relatives and friends would not be reunited with them until the Berlin Wall was taken down decades later

[@sirjuaffreblumpkins9396]

9:56 these people are just riding the train but the music makes it seem like Godzilla is about drop in and start some shlt.

[@wildwildItaly]

Wow, amazing how with the color it looks so much real! Poor people.

[@merlean8358]

Meine Großmutter/Oma geboren in 1994 erzählte mal, dass sie mit anderen Kindern für Monate von den Eltern getrennt und in eine Kinderstätte gebracht wurden, da alle damit beschäftig waren den Schutt und Asche wegzuräumen. In den Kinderstätten wurde viele mit Betäubungsmitteln still gehalten.

[@zer0sixx]

Breaks my heart seen young children laying in those ruines, its true watching it on black and white makes it feel like its not real but seen it in color makes it more real. To be honest, i really wish schools would show this in classes, alot damn kids now days knows nothing about WW1 or WW2..

[@Valchrist1313]

They would NEVET teach about the post-war (both world wars) starvation policies in public school.

[@SwedishNationalist]

My grandfather was one of those children

[@0tt0z]

Can't teach that. It may hurt somebody's feelings.

[@zer0sixx]

somebodys feelings aint a prio. ¤¤¤¤ somebody feelings.@@0tt0z

[@Valchrist1313]

Everyone should see the war propaganda by Theodore Geisel (AKA Dr Seuss) called "Your Job in Germany" made for US soldiers occupying Germany, talking about how they should mix excess food with sewage to enforce the punitive starvation policy, and about how evil runs in the blood of the German race, especially in the children, and it has existed there for centuries.

[@darrenrock3387]

Fun fact the man who's narrating the film is no other than the first doctor William Hartnell

[@Neverpullingitout]

Who is That

[@darrenrock3387]

@@Neverpullingitout the first doctor who

[@WatchfulHunter]

Yesterday determines today. Today determines tomorrow. Be kind.

[@made3]

1:51 It feels so good to hear a slip of the tongue. Simply makes the speaker more human.

[@alexhemsath6235]

Technically he's a Time Lord

[@kilikdudley]

Filmmakers today must capture life more candidly for future generations. Too much hype capture and shallow depth of field nowadays

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

They have plenty of scrap metal, bricks, wood, etc. I just cannot wrap my mind around how many years this would take. Talk about a mega project.

[@markcantemail8018]

The Marshall Plan .

[@BasementEngineer]

@@markcantemail8018 It speeded up recovery only a little.

[@TheHesseJames]

@@markcantemail8018 The Marshall Plan enabled the people to rebuild quicker. But it was the people themselves who rebuilt.

[@emfraza7953]

The narration is rather self-righteous considering all the horrific crimes of Imperial Britain already unleashed upon the world, but such was the time.

[@jonathanglzplz894]

Hipocresía

[@adammillar6860]

I mean around the time this was made Germany had just killed around 20-25 million innocents (including 6 million Jews) and Japan had just killed around 10 million innocents too. All within the space of just over 5 years... You can't kind of understand the tone?

[@steadyeddie639]

We fought our own blood...

[@bigdaddypiggy]

The music in these type of films from this era are just …🤔….priceless 😉

[@karlheven8328]

Imagine the stupidity of saying "Germany was freed/liberated"

[@gabrieljorfen9192]

Pobre gente! Qué duro habrá Sido reconstruir todo. Es admirable cómo lograron salir adelante.

[@uioplkhj]

Pity the victims of war. The German people loved the war they started when it was going their way.

[@WhoopsieDayZ]

@@uioplkhj Germany itself was one of the biggest victims of the war. Your view on WW2 is so simplistic.

[@uioplkhj]

@@WhoopsieDayZ Germany started the war. They exterminated innocent women and children by the millions with gas. The Holocaust succeeded in many countries, killing 99.9 percent of Jews. Were 99.9 percent of Germans gassed and burnt?

[@yarizsanchez6961]

Asi es

[@jameshill8493]

@@uioplkhjmindset of a child who doesn’t understand the world and history

[@jalumbuquay6625]

My grandpa was born in a mid-sized industrial city on the Rhein river in 1935, so he essentially had over half his early childhood spent in wartime. I can't even begin to imagine growing up or having to raise a child under such turmoil. Over 80% of the city was practically wiped off the earth, he and his mom got lucky I guess. Unlike another branch of the family living in the East, who apparently committed suicide upon arrival of the Red Army. They tended to be a bit more nasty to the population than the Americans it seems. Though he said that living conditions weren't back to normal until the mid 60s.

[@blakitka3083]

Red army is sucks 😢 USA army is better, coz they’re not so poor, as russian soldiers as always. Russian’s soldiers near my city… stolen even man’s and women’s underwear 😅 I don’t even know how it’s possible… in 2022. Germans (nazi) in 1941 was nice, especially with children, but in 1944-1945, burned as much as possible villages 😢

[@raam1666]

The red army raped every woman and child in germany they could find.

[@Jonyi100]

seeing this video parts from that time and now watching out of my window in germany it feels like a different world.........

[@LinuxGalore]

My father was stationed in Germany during the 1950s, he was surprised how the Germans had cleared up their nation and rebuilt. Meanwhile, in his home town, Liverpool (UK) the place was still a mess and showed wartime damage right through to the 1970s when he last visited.

[@ManteIIo]

What kind of wartime damage? I am pretty sure German planes couldn't fly further past London.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

​@ManteIIo German planes made it all the way to Belfast. Hull was the worst hit due to its central location, the docks and the large river it's on. The german bombers would branch off from Hull to Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.

[@Shell2164]

Probably because Germany had a shit ton of help to rebuild their country, we didn’t.

[@EgoRaptorLP]

Well, depends on the city. There were more than enough cities that still had ruins in the 70s. East germany still had them after the wall fell.

[@personpersonson1771]

Your country shouldn't exist @@Shell2164

[@snails6997]

We will see another forty in twenty years. These scene is as close as now to the Back to the Future movie. Time flies.

[@linajurgensen4698]

“stunned by the war they started“ no stunned by the war Britain and France started through the treaty of Versailles.

[@Please_allow_me]

Thing is though despite the treaty of Versailles that was in place it was violated by Hitler anyway, and the allies allowed it to happen, wishing not to risk another war with Germany. Then despite being allowed to violate the treaty (increasing the the size of their army etc) Germany then invaded Poland which was what caused the allies to then declare war on Germany. Either way, it was Germany's fault.

[@yvonnekaul1028]

Deutschland wollte nie einen Krieg...die USA ( Juden und Freimaurer) Rothschild Rockefäller haben hinterhältig den Krieg begonnen...der damalige Deutsche Kaiser hat noch versucht den Krieg zu verhindern... auch der zweite Weltkrieg wurde von den Juden begonnen.. die Rotschilds, Rockefäller Blackrock...es sind immer die gleichen, bis heute ..die USA hat die Ukraine und Israel gegründet...

[@jwsuicides8095]

Anyone else notice that the narrator is the first Dr Who, William Hartnell?

[@zakur0hako]

They are lucky to be not in the russian zone

[@sluckydog657]

you are absolutely right, no nation in the world has suffered such bloody losses as the Russians from nazi terror

[@GlobalTossPot]

Literally, all the Russian soldiers did during and after the war was rape the German women even the teens

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

Rape of Berlin

[@TheFuturePerfectChannel]

You can ask any historian or contemporary witnesses of that time that out of all four occupation forces the British one was the most gracious one (probably closely followed by the Americans with both the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift, which delivered essential goods to isolated West Berlin later on). As explained in the film, the Britons organised the coal mining and quarrying for liberated countries (as a form of reparation, I suppose), but they also let the country rebuild itself in the process by organising the reinstallation of the electricity system and its power lines, streets and roads (for transport) as well as other factors necessary to keep the transport of the coal going. In contrast to that, the Soviets chose a much easier path to get the desired reparations: They started to massively deconstruct machines and factories in the east not long after surrendering. Here in Germany, these differences are seen as major reasons why the east couldn't keep up with the west economically and not just for a few years until 1949 or a bit after that, but for decades. Even today, 32 years after reunification, we take a look at where we stand in both former German states every year and although the differences are getting smaller, they're still visible.

[@johnroberts6326]

The British Zone had the greatest population, the Americans had the scenery, and the Russians had the food. The French? They had a chance at payback.

[@BasementEngineer]

You would be wrong. The only reason Germany was permitted to rebuild was to be a barrier for Soviet expansion across Europe. The allies knew full and well that only German soldiers could defeat the Soviets.

[@tocu9808]

@@BasementEngineer How many German soldiers are there in NATO ?

[@BasementEngineer]

@@tocu9808 I don't know or care.

[@tocu9808]

@@BasementEngineer How can you conclude that the allies know only German soldiers could defeat the Soviets while they actually account for just a small % of the total NATO forces ?

[@kayjay7585]

3:27 for a moment I thought that's John Cleese and that I clicked on an obscure Monty Python skit

[@davidxdavis]

This film highlights the very conscious desire to socially engineer a society. From their physical to phychololical behaviours. It raises questions to the extent our present day societies are manipulated. And to what end this engineering is directed. We can only have become more proficient at this after so much experience and with the tools technology provides.

[@heliosho]

Do you agree that it was justified and good?

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Exactly. It’s not a question that we our minds are being socially engineered today - it’s a fact. After watching the doc Europa, I have to question wether or not the Germans were the bad guys.

[@chant9064]

Reminds me of brave new world

[@zsoltbartus169]

Anything about japanese civilians after Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[@chepechapin5809]

The common people never star a war, but their politicians & their elites.

[@olgfried3630]

"... stunned by the war they started." - meanwhile showing innocent little kids. -.-"

[@Lalalauren1117]

Ally propaganda at its finest.

[@xXAlmdudlerXx]

The quality of these clips is astonishing.

[@marshhen]

Remember the ordinary, innocent people who are daily victims of war in Ukraine, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo. The Tigrayans in Ethiopia. This is all still going on people. The mass casualties, the mass rapes. Madmen committing atrocities on innocent fellow human beings. When are we going to stop this insanity? Yet people in safe countries complain about the cost of gas to put in their bloated SUVs, they complain about a small rise in taxes or a small decrease. Self-interest keeps us from doing anything. So bleak. What must our youth think of us adults.

[@frechesferkel2749]

What they call a small increase in taxes and gas prices makes the difference here in Germany whether you have a minimum standard of quality of life or end up on the streets. There are already pensioners here who can hardly afford anything to eat. And what is all this for? So that the US can expand NATO behind the scenes to be able to turn to China after Russia. It's easy to talk when you live in the USA, but here we sometimes have 10-20 times the energy costs. Why do we need to support Ukraine? They are not in NATO and should never be, and Ukraine is a highly corrupt country.

[@madmoiselle007]

Yeah the poor people of the Donbass and Luganks regions bombed merciless by the Ukrainian azov battalion shitheads

[@stuartwray6175]

Ukraine and Yemen - wars fuelled by US geopolitical/geostrategic goals

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

@@frechesferkel2749 over 100 billion dollars sent to a country that's not even part of NATO.. funny right

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@frechesferkel2749So is Russia who wants a European Empire and revenge on Germany They will come for you in Ukraine falls

[@TheWhiskydaniel]

heartbreaking.. and even now i east Ukraine, kids are expiring the same... sometimes i have no hope for humanity...

[@retiredcolonel6492]

I was stationed in Nurenberg from 79-82. Even that many years after the war the Germans were still restoring some buildings. They did a truly remarkable job. Brick by brick, using whatever materials they could salvage from the original, the beautiful baroque buildings of Germany were reconstructed in such a manner it’s impossible to tell that it was bombed to its foundation during the war. I was favorably impressed with the Germans I knew and met. It was incongruent to me that the fathers and grandfathers of the Germans I knew were Nazis. It was and still is a stark reminder that radicalism bubbles just below the surface in all peoples even the very cultured and educated such as the Weimar Germans were. Can a Hitler or Stalin rise in the US? Yes, if the circumstances are right.

[@Deadman1000]

It's sad because seeing those children, they knew nothing of what happened and to explain it would only confuse them even more. Not every German wanted the war and had to pay for it simply because a mad man came into power.

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

Don't look into the rape of Berlin.. the soviets showed no mercy to children

[@christianbell8347]

You mean a genius, right? They elected him and they loved him.

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

@@christianbell8347 so did everyone else.. He was Man of the Year in TIME Magazine... Biden supposedly had the most votes in history and look where we're at now compared to a few years ago.. Propaganda will make people do stupid things

[@BasementEngineer]

Only the British, French. and USA wanted war. Do you wish to argue this?

[@igorsagdeev7881]

​@@christianbell8347He was not elected, never had a majority of the popular vote, until he was made a coalition Chancellor and pulled a coup.

[@shinsenshogun900]

Oldenburg seems quite out of the boundaries of the British Zone in the introductory credits...

[@mikeborgmann]

My father came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 10, they lived in an old barn in a part of germany that is now Poland. My grandparents used to sneak onto farms at night and steal food, it was a matter of survival.

[@tiglatus]

unbelievable, 10 years after war the citys and infrastructure were completely repuild!!!! respect, much respect!

[@GooseGumlizzard]

thanks the the US.

[@artos9406]

@@GooseGumlizzard not only, ussr also won the war, now look how russian cities look

[@Valchrist1313]

Two countries invaded Poland. One got war declared on them. The other got an Alliance and a cut of the loot.

[@Valchrist1313]

@Wirsindimmernochhier Trucks full of Peace, bringing joy to the holiday season.

[@arthurwebber-g4l]

You have a valid point.

[@cyberneticbutterfly8506]

The other was too big to deal with at the time. That is all.

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 Nothing to do with the "Radical Socialist Party" in power in France, or socialist leanings of the British Parliament, and Clement Atlee, Deputy Prime Minister during the war and Prime Minister after. After the war, Labour Party's Atlee imposed a 95% tax that destroyed what was left of the UK economy for decades. They made the alliance with the Soviet, because they were Socialists sympathetic to Communism. The guy was literally a member of the Fabian Society! He was a member of the Socialist League!

[@cyberneticbutterfly8506]

@@Valchrist1313 I don't doubt it.

[@Magicwillnz]

My grandmother was one of the first allied civilians inside the Eagle's Nest, AH's bunker. When she arrived, she was dirty and needed to clean off - they took her to AH's personal bathroom, where she washed herself. She said AH's bathroom was tastelessly gaudy. RIP grandma. I wish I had the wisdom back then to ask more.

[@richardnixon4345]

The eagles nest wasn’t the bunker. 2 totally different locations

[@Magicwillnz]

@@richardnixon4345 You're right, I thought the Eagle's Nest was a bunker. It was the Eagle's Nest though.

[@TheonlyLarsNelson]

How is the human still yearns after war is beyond any understanding.

[@johnlavery6116]

Since the dawn of time man is unable to live side by side with his neighbours, and it looks like its going to continue for the foreseeable future.

[@DaniG.German883]

@@johnlavery6116it’s called history and it will never be over. Globalist pig

[@bigbadbillb]

Stuff you never learned about in high school history class.

[@uioplkhj]

I don't know about you but most learn about WW2 and it's aftermath.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

you never learned about WWII in high school??

[@homeblankingK]

American public high school, while I was in honors and ap classes, BARELY discussed how post-war policies affected citizens, and they definitely gloss over WWI entirely. I've learned more about the Great War from news reels and youtube docs than I ever did in school. History goes: Columbus, Forefathers, Great Depression, Normandy, Hiroshima, Berlin Wall, 9/11. I went to a decent school, too. International uni was a huge wake up call. US public does not learn historical interconnectedness at base level. @@GooseGumlizzard

[@williamlebotschy2729]

By the end of 1946, 5 million Germans had died since May 1945. Starved to death or from related illnesses. Food was not supplied to Germans unless they paid in hard currencies or gold. Seeing as though all Central Bank cash and gold holdings had been confiscated by the Western allies, this was hardly possible. This did not happen to the same extent, on the Soviet occupied Germany.By the end of 1946, the US decided to give some food aid, after Truman accepted the Marshall plan , instead of continuing to implement the Morgenthau plan, of starving them .

[@TheJustADream]

Wait, arent soviet bad?

[@Jan-kh6co]

Western Allies and Soviets were and still are very bad and evil.

[@Freigeist2008]

Little fun fact: The Marshall plan was financed with the stolen gold of the Reichsbank

[@erica3162]

Sounds like they had it better than the Jews still.

[@williamlebotschy2729]

Actually rations were a bit less than Auschwitz in calories per day . Under 900. It’s just of historical interest, of a subject seldom written about, by the winner of the war.@@erica3162