Als die Amerikaner kamen 2/11 - Bomb war

In the spring of 1945, allied troops occupy the whole of westphalia within a few weeks. The advancing troops are accompanied by small camera teams, that record the occupation on camera. Spectacular pictures show victory and defeat, the end of the war and new beginnings. The "LWL-Medienzentrum für Westfalen" used the US-Americans' recordings to produce a documentary that shows the end of the war out of the American troops' perspective.
0:00 Bomb war
0:58 "Moral Bombing"
2:00 "Battle of the Ruhr"
4:08 Bombing of Münster
5:24 Bombing of Paderborn
We are releasing this documentary through eleven seperate chapters:
Chap. 1: Westphalia in spring 1945
Chap. 2: Bomb war
Chap. 3: American military logistics
Chap. 4: Advance on the "Sauerland"
Chap. 5: The "Ruhrkessel"
Chap. 6: German prisoners of war
Chap. 7: White flags
Chap. 8: Liberation of the forced labourers
Chap. 9: Confronting war crime
Chap. 10: Internment of war criminals
Chap. 11: Winners and Losers
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[@vivienmarieamrhein5297]

Vielen dank

[@adalbert74]

*thx für´s hochladen* 👍

[@aliendrum4310]

Hallo aus Mexiko. Ich fand diese Filme äusserst interessant. Vielen Dank.

[@LWLMedienzentrum]

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[@michel7065]

Unter heutigen Gesichtspunkten könnte man es als Kriegsverbrechen bezeichnen!

[@heinzlenniger6885]

Von Deutschland aus das groesste Kriegsverbrechen aller Zeiten.

[@theonlymadmac4771]

Deutschlands Existenz von 1933 - 1945 sicher

[@menthoh648]

So wie Gernica, London, Coventry, Liverpool, Warsaw....aso....

[@michel7065]

@@menthoh648 ja richtig, so ist das!

[@patrickh4540]

Wer hat gleich zweimal den Krieg angefangen?

[@lakemenomin5348]

I sure like it if you would add english sub-titles.

[@LWLMedienzentrum]

We're working on it but it will take some time.

[@Chiller01]

@@LWLMedienzentrum Thank you. These are excellent clips. Thanks for the uploads. What a momentous time. It should be studied and understood so it’s not repeated.

[@LWLMedienzentrum]

We're happy to tell you that English subtitles are now available for all 11 episodes of the series!

[@petergarbe2459]

Die Rache....

[@KK-rg1wz]

Rache? Wer Wind säht, ...

[@janwozniak322]

Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm.

[@martinneumeyer9282]

Yes, America will soon collapse and will get the bill for its worldwide warcrimes

[@clemenstee9532]

Blödsinn...informier dich mal..Der Krieg der viele Väter hatte.

[@jbtc-zn9ih]

Normale Menschen wollen niemals Krieg. Die Bombardierung der deutschen Städte war ein Kriegsverbrechen. Aber Sieger sind selbstverständlich niemals schuldig. Der Amerikaner haben nach dem 2.Weltkrieg oft genug gezeigt, wie verbrecherisch ihre Politik ist. Selbstverständlich war auch Hitler einer der größten Verbrecher des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.

[@martinneumeyer9282]

@@jbtc-zn9ih Die Amerikaner hatten Deutschland bereits OHNE Kriegserklärung angegriffen. Deutschland hat England allein 12 Friedensangebote gemacht. Wird heute alles dem deutschen Volk verschwiegen

[@dietmarueffink3368]

Ja! Churchill wollte deutsche braten!

[@mongo2022]

¿Yo recuerdo mal, o la aviación alemana bombardeó sin piedad Londres y otras ciudades británicas en 1940? ¿Y sus aliados japoneses no bombardearon las islas Hawaii en 1941?

[@Wum763]

Und sie kammen als Brüder. Freunde kann man sich aussuchen und gegenfalls auch wieder loswerden, einen Bruder .... woll kaum!

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

@@martinneumeyer9282 America 🇺🇲 Uber alles. You'd be speaking Russian if we had left. You're welcome.

[@martinneumeyer9282]

@@heywoodjablowme8120 Europe would not go down the drain - as your USA - if you would not have fought for the zionist bankers who ruin you today

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

@@martinneumeyer9282 Absolutely laughable to think the Soviet Union in 1945 would have played nice if America would have just went home. Russia has a tendency to annex land that isn't theirs sort of like how Germany did until American put a stop to that twice in the span of 30yrs. Like it or not military bases in Germany are here to stay. There's a reason why 800 miliary bases around the world have US personnel. We keep your country from becoming the Ukraine 🇺🇦. Once again, from America with pride...you are most welcome for our protection.

[@martinneumeyer9282]

@@heywoodjablowme8120 The USA and the communist regime worked together against Germany and Europe. That`s a fact, man!

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

@@martinneumeyer9282 Hmmm...worked together against Germany and Europe, you say. USSR was a quasi ally of America and the allied powers. We gave them a lot of shit before the war, but we never trusted them. If we hadn't dropped the bomb on Japan the Soviet Union was preparing to grab more land in the east...well documented fact, but thought twice and just decided to throw up the steel curtain in the west and make occupied countries speak Russian.... another fact. Brush up on your history before you spout off like an ignorant fool.

[@haraldramminger]

Und was ist mit den Zivilisten? Und den Kindern?😡

[@stevediederich9830]

Wer Wind sät wird Sturm ernten. 1940 wurde London bombardiert, interessierte die Deutschen auch nicht, oder?Veteranen sagten später dass die Deutschen noch nicht genug Bomben abbekommen hätten!

[@suzannee6673]

Poland would like a word with you. Yugoslavia would like a word with you. Britain would like a word with you. For the ground-based crimes of the Luftwaffe, all of Eastern and Central Europe would like a word with you.

[@KK-rg1wz]

Zivilisten? 22 Million Zivilisten sind von Deutsche Soldaten ermordet worden....

[@js1423]

@@suzannee6673You’re kinda pushing the goal post. Also the luftwaffe was condemned after the war for its actions

[@rubenesparza2497]

I guess you can conveniently forget all the British citizens that were bombed and killed. And who exactly started the bombings?

[@henryluebberstedt7819]

That's a convenient answer as well. During the two days of Operation Gomorah the RAF killed almost the same number of civilians as the Luftwaffe did in five years during the bombing of british targets. While the Luftwaffe was due the lack of long range heavy bombers not capable of large scale bombing the RAF formed a new weapon to do exactly this: The RAF Bomber Command. Their main goal was destroying civilian targets at night. Harris called it "dehousing" or "moral bombing". The USAAF went for industrial targets by day. At the end of 1943 the bombings were a fine running machinery. The RAF extended the bombings in 1944. After all bigger cities had been destroyed, they went for the smaller ones. At the end around 1000 German cities, towns and even villages had been bombed. The level of destruction was 60 - 90 % of the buildings. Some towns just had the bad luck to be on the "B-Target-List". Alternative targets just in case the bombers couldn't find the main target. Operation Razzle attempted to destroy the German grain crop by mass dropping incendiary tiles. Aprox. 600.000 German civilians died and over one million were disabled. Most of the German architectural heritage was lost. Did you ever wonder why the bombings by the Luftwaffe were no topic at the Nürnberg trials?

[@rubenesparza2497]

Nice story, the question remains: Who started the bombings?

[@henryluebberstedt7819]

@@rubenesparza2497 Whoever started this does not exonerate the actions of the Allies, foremost the British when it comes to bombing. The war against Nazi-Germany was the last righteous war with a clearly good and evil. "Who started it?" can not be the question which justifies every action of the "good" side. Especially not in the case of killing women, children and elder people. The allied also fought for freedom, human rights and democracy (at least in Europe). They knew their moral standards had to be higher than the inhuman system of the NS-system. Winston Churchill saw it very clearly that Arthur Harris had crossed that line. In his "Dehousing Paper" Harris didn't' went for industrial targets but for the workforce, their homes and families. The USAAF flew by daylight trying to hit industrial targets with higher precision, but at the end they also burned down whole towns. Thanks to the Americans and the British Nürnberg was not set up as an stand court but as an proper court which had to follow the rules of the US system of justice. Therefore they exclude the Luftwaffe bombings at the Nuremberg war crimes trial. It would have been an easy game for the defence to put the allied on the bench before the court. And Arthur Harris? He didn't made a political career after the war like the most of other generals or high ranked leaders. Harris was cold-cocked by Churchill and went into exile in South Africa. In 1949 area bombing of civilian targets were counted as war crimes by the Geneva convention. (one year later US-B-29s destroyed every major city in north Korea...)

[@clemenstee9532]

Der Krieg der viele Väter hatte.

[@henryluebberstedt7819]

@@clemenstee9532 Nun ja, beim II WK ist die Lage eindeutig. Mich stört jedoch die vor allem in GB verbreitete Einstellung, das gezielte Töten von Zivilisten durch Bombardierung von Wohngebieten sei völlig ok gewesen - weil die Deutschen begonnen hätten. Das greift mir nach 80Jahren Abstand zu kurz. BTW Gibt eine ausgezeichnete, weil ausgewogene Diskussion dazu: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZKQZ6OIarhoj7s

[@jerzyszewczyk568]

W ten sam sposób były bombardowane przez lotnictwo niemieckie polskie miasta i miejscowości w 1939 roku

[@filippodavi1964pa]

Die Polen unter General Beck haben die deutsche Regierung bis aufs Blut gereizt , die Danzig Passage wurde von den Alliierten ausgenutzt um die Polen in den Krieg zu treiben.

[@alfredquak3214]

Das kann man nicht vergleichen

[@wernervolkner2371]

Kann man

[@alfredquak3214]

@@wernervolkner2371 nein

[@wernervolkner2371]

@@alfredquak3214 doch

[@jerzyszewczyk568]

A kto rozpoczął tak tragiczną w skutkach II wojnę światową i czym się ona zakończyła ? Niech to będzie przestroga i ostrzeżenie dla nas wszystkich dzisiaj !

[@waldizestuttgartu5971]

DLA NAS POLAKOW NIE ,popierdolilo sie tobie cos w lepetynie, szkopom to zgoda

[@dietmarueffink3368]

Der Krieg, der viele Väter hatte.

[@suzannee6673]

​@@dietmarueffink3368 It really didn't.

[@williamramos1280]

Wunderbar, all as ist gut, ha ha ha ha!