Germany - May 1945

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Germany - May 1945
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[@TBrown0440]

The Japanese with the Bushido code and the refusal to ever surrender believed it would lead to ultimate victory. The Germans felt their Prussian discipline, leadership and training would lead to ultimate victory. The Americans felt the the most trucks would lead to ultimate victory. The most trucks won.

[@oledahammer8393]

...and planes, and tanks, and ships...

[@meh.7539]

Uh... The trucks did not win. The Russians throwing waves and waves of humans at it ended the war.

[@thomask.9850]

The search for simple answers . It might also have been: diplomacy and alliances, ideology, geography, intelligence, technology, economy, logistics, numbers, recources, strategy ... or maybe all of it.

[@paulomendes4892]

yanks couldnt win a battle without air support

[@stevenalvarado-doc7334]

@@paulomendes4892 Never send a soldier to do a job that an artillery shell or bomb can accomplish.

[@BillMorse-jr2ou]

thank you, Sgt. Stindt, for taking these movies....

[@MrJal67]

Combat Camera methinks...

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Interesting seeing the M3 halftrack pulling a Pak 40.

[@daltonagre]

I live in Brazil. Between 1940 and 1945, a gradfateer of one brother-in-law was slave of Nazi Germany. After these nightmarish years, he returned to Belgium and had upper midle class life.

[@RobertGames2030]

👏👏👏

[@kevinindublin]

Sound was a seaparate job. Cameras didn't have mics back then. Sound had to be recorded on a separate machine.

[@JosephMalone-mg3yh]

Thank you for helping us remember.

[@mikeyratcliff3400]

Cracking footage! Meanwhile my father was still in Italy after being released from pow status since feb 1940 (1st batt buffs east kent regiment) didn't get back to England till 46...

[@zcam1969]

my dad fought along side British soldiers in Italy 1943 ,82nd airborne U.S Army

[@sabrekai8706]

Der Krieg ist zum ende. The look of relief and joy on the faces of the German POWs is pretty obvious on most them. Soon they'd be going home, to find out if family, home and friends also survived.

[@theinspectah3438]

Or they will be kept in captivity until they starved to death. That was a warcrime by some Allies. Was ment to be some kind of revenche. To SS and also ordinary soldiers, following orders.

[@sabrekai8706]

@@theinspectah3438 Yeah I know. When that book came out about, my mom got tears in her eyes. A very good friend and classmate was last seen alive in the pen by Remagen. All that his parents ever got was a letter saying he'd died. No cause, no anything.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

@@theinspectah3438, during its aggression, the Third Reich destroyed industry, agriculture, many cities, hundreds of villages almost throughout the European territory of the USSR. German prisoners of war in the USSR after the war restored what they had destroyed. About 15% of the total number of German prisoners of war died from wounds received at the front, illness and exhaustion. In the USSR, they were not specifically starved and overworked, but the country was in a very difficult situation at that time, the population was starving. Prisoners of war were provided for as much as possible in a country ravaged by war. In 47-50, all German prisoners of war returned to their homeland. Третий рейх уничтожил во время своей агрессии промышленность, сельское хозяйство, многие города, сотни сёл и деревень почти на всей европейской территории СССР. Немецкие военнопленные в СССР после войны восстанавливали то, что они разрушили. От ран, полученных на фронте, болезне и истощения умерло около 15% от общей численности немецких военнопленных. В СССР их специально не морили голодом и непосильным трудом, но страна тогда находилась в очень тяжелом положении, население голодало. Военнопленных обеспечивали на столько, насколько было возможно в стране, разорённой войной. В 47-50 гг.. все военнопленные немцы вернулись на Родину.

[@user-iv3wg5fv2d]

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР не мечите бисер перед ними, безполезно. Глас вопиющего в пустыне.

[@TheJojoaruba52]

The look on everyone’s face: “How did I ever get into this?”

[@namcat53]

Thanks! My uncle was in D Day+2 and the Battle of the Bulge, my Dad in Italy 5th Army. This footage helps me see some of what they saw; they never talked about it; too horrible.

[@garymorris1856]

This is remarkable footage to watch.

[@mmaxwell16]

I always find this kind of stuff intriguing.

[@schnurrbert]

9:00 - 9:52 which town?

[@randallsmith5631]

The German soldiers looked happy the war was over.

[@user-yp9nz6bs9q]

Does AP have footage of the surrender of German troops to the Soviet Union?

[@humanspower4404]

Дураков сдаваться СОВЕТСКОЙ армии не было. Что бы ты знал "Русские" воевали за Германию тоже.

[@ricardocalderon5859]

1914-1945 , the 30 year war in 20th century, some historians say.

[@mariametler4910]

Proszę dodać komentarz, jakie to są tereny Niemiec.

[@jaminova_1969]

The slate at 2:40 says , "April 8, 45" . Hope that helps. Amazing footage!

[@fly4bux1]

If it was spliced properly

[@johnsmith100]

It’s very unfortunate, even frustrating that there’s no sound in many of these videos. Sound was of course already available in movies back then. So, why not have it here?

[@davideldridge4479]

The cameras that were used were small and portable, they did not have big setups like movie sets. They are combat photographers documenting what is being seen not heard.

[@mireknovacek9680]

why 360p? You should scan it in bigger resolution.

[@fascistalien]

Probably is an late 90s or early 2000s scan

[@bhoward9378]

Sad. Many such cases

[@mikesch1960]

Great film shots. Thanks to the Americans for treating German prisoners relatively humanely. Even if there were exceptions - the poor prisoners who fell into the hands of the Russians did not fare so well. My grandfather reported that American soldiers treated me properly.

[@missiavu]

You are right, @@bibarsbundukdari , the horrors of war didn't touch the American territory.

[@MyCarmenus]

Rheinwiesenlager, have you ever heard about it? Inform you about the inhuman conditions in which hundreds of thousands german POW were held there. Find ouț how many died there !!!

[@jamesdiamond2302]

Look into the Rhine meadows death camp!!!!! Now that's really how to exterminate people.

[@psotos]

@@MyCarmenus That has been debunked. The myth came from one single book.

[@badschbenza8126]

​@@psotoswho has debunked, your american goverment???

[@hardangel5737]

Incredbile to see coal and wood powered cars!

[@jaminova_1969]

It's called a "gasifier". One of the welders in my class constructed one and gave us a demo!

[@jacqueslefave4296]

Was it like the "Stanley Steamer," fuel running a pistn steam engine? Or???

[@enscroggs]

13:53 Notice the GI inspecting the prisoners' belongings. I can't tell for certain, but his weapon looks like a Beretta M38/42 submachine gun. This was one of the best SMGs of WWII -- accurate, controllable, and rugged. When the Fascist regime collapsed in 1943, the Wehrmacht captured and disarmed thousands of Italian soldiers. Their Carcano rifles were placed in storage and later issued to the Volkssturm, but their excellent Beretta SMGs were put into immediate German service. Not only did the Germans forces use captured Italian M38s, they dismantled Berreta's production line and took it to Germany where they made 231,193 additional M38 SMGs between 1944 and the end of the war in Europe. Allied forces admired and used the M38 as well, but this is the first photographic evidence I've seen of that.

[@rickb4806]

I'm thinking that it's stolen goods from homes, silver ware, money.

[@jacqueslefave4296]

I remember that about ten years ago, some Carcanos converted to 8mm x 57 mm German ammo turned up. The Italians had started a replacement plan for the Carcano round to .30 cal. (7.6mm), and produced almost a million carbines and lots more ammo, but the war started before this conversion could be implemented, so Mussolini sent them all to Finland to fight the Russians during the Winter War. They put them to good use.

[@kingjoe3rd]

Some of these men were French POW's that were finally getting to take the long walk home. They had been in captivity for 5 long years.

[@craigstarling4704]

My grandmother's, Brother was KIA on April, 11th 1945. He was in the 101st Calvary Reconnaissance Squadron. They were a National Guard unit based out of N.Y. He was from Harkers Island N.C. I don't know the details of how he died.

[@sebastianbattaglia6330]

in a expedition to the Titanic

[@mbmochinski]

Not funny!

[@sebastianbattaglia6330]

@@mbmochinski 🤣

[@gynechiatrist]

Was in Germany 10 years post WW2. Was still digging out.

[@taliabraver]

Good we should have left them

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

@@taliabraverGermany should have won. It was a mistake we British fighting the nazis. Look at Europe now and what it is becoming. White Europeans are being driven to extinction by Middle Eastern and African invaders.

[@Pookleberry]

I have often reflected on how Germany in a 75 year period, from 1871 to 1945*, not even an average lifetime, tried to realize its military supremacy in Europe and it all ended with those asperations completely crushed for all time. (That they gained economical supremacy afterwards is another conversation!) * Franco-Prussian war 1875, WWI 1914-18 & WWII 1939-45 The Irony is that a man born in 1860 would have been too young to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, too old to fight in WWII and WWII. A unique history.

[@bumarangnebula2589]

Franco-Prussian War was in 1870/71

[@Pookleberry]

@@bumarangnebula2589 I stand corrected, Sir!!🙂

[@Ah01]

WW1 was pretty much a brit affair, they could have pushed the brake during the summer crisis of 1914. But instead they chose to live up to their 400 year tradition of balancing the continental powers, not let any of them become too strong compared to other. So, the german empire had to be crushed in the most futile of the futile wars. The Britain had nothing to do with the continental problems and should nit have interfered. And without the WW1, we would have been left without the nazies and bolshies..

[@bumarangnebula2589]

@@Ah01 From 1914 to 1945 we saw 75 Million excess deaths in Europe and Russia. Still overlooked in my Opinion

[@BasementEngineer]

Germany NEVER declared any wars. Wars were always foisted on Germany by France and Britain.

[@jabi2511]

Song remains the same ! (Now)

[@jacqueslefave4296]

"Amateurs study strategy, experts study logistics."

[@Matthew_Eitzman]

1:56 tank crewman checking his iPhone to see if the Amazon drone is getting close, going to be dropping the case of Red Bull he ordered on Prime.

[@IGS1989]

This interesting footage looks familiar. I saw it a few years ago in better resolution elsewhere on KZbin... At 20:21 a group of German officers is seen surrendering their side arms. In the background, a young leutnant standing by a lamppost first removes the magazine from his pistol and then lowers and safely points the pistol away from his comrades to eject a chambered round before nonchalantly parting with his weapon. He then hands in the loaded magazine. In better resolution one can see the cartridge fly away from the ejection port. The cavalier and sarcastic expression on the officer's face goes along with his body language and the defiant glance to counter the humiliation of defeat and being disarmed. A farewell to arms! The war is over for him but he doesn't know yet how lucky he is to emerge from it unscathed and that he will be part of a new Germany.

[@hernanbet7768]

💎

[@zcam1969]

good stuff ,my dad was in Cologne Germany at the end of the war .82nd Airborne

[@mautoban66]

Today cologne is Muslimland

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

What a time to have been alive and not just witness history, but be part of it.

[@tomatin6437]

12:38 The big escape from east to west😢

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

May 1945? Looks like February to April to me. The trees would be in bloom in may and the captured soldiers wouldn’t be wearing greatcoats in may

[@enscroggs]

1945 was one of the coldest years of the 20th century in Europe. The last films of Hitler were shot in the Reichskanzlei garden within a few days of these clips. Hitler and several others are seen wearing greatcoats. Here's another thing to consider, many of these captured Germans had been marching westward for weeks trying to escape the Red Army and surrender to the Anglo-American forces. They bivouacked in the open often without shelter of any kind, so keeping their coats on made sense.

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

@@enscroggs it’s never cold in Europe in may it’s spring time only a few weeks from summer. April it is sometimes cold I know because I live there

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

@@enscroggs it already says April in one of the scenes. It’s not filmed in may. Any European would know that

[@enscroggs]

@@KuwaharaBMXRider Hitler was dead before MAY, idiot. That first clip plainly says APRIL 5, 33 days before the surrender, and 25 days before Hitler shot himself. Your experience of European springs does not include the spring of 1945. Furthermore, thanks to the Gulf Stream England has a milder climate than eastern Germany and Poland where these surrendering Wehrmacht troops came from. In fact, England has a milder climate than North America at the same latitudes. Today at 9:07 UTC the temperature in St. John's Newfoundland is 19 degrees F colder than London, and its still daylight and 4 degrees of latitude further south. Yes, you live in Europe, but one would be rather stupid to assume one's local experience of the weather holds true for an entire continent.

[@diddl77]

Think its Rudel at the end

[@mandelbrot2232]

heartbreaking 💔

[@johnwilliamknox7156]

G.I. to the German P.O.W.s ? " Ok Fritz! Give uz your watches medals and your Hitler knives"!!!!!

[@fareast_de]

"...and your Luger, if you got one". German G.I.: Halt´s Maul, Ami, rueck erst deine Zigaretten raus !" Peaceful conversation between two soldiers in spring 1945. 😆

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Don't forget the cameras, flags & women😂😂😂😂.

[@adriannarobeson4758]

Fascinating , as visiting France 🇫🇷 now from America 🇺🇸 you can still see some of the scars & damage from the second World War to this day as certain regions we vist.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Of all European Countries, FRANCE, must have the most Blood spilled on it's land. So many wars have been fought over the centuries.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@MrDaiseymay They should not have declared war on Germany, twice, and invaded German territory 40 times!

[@alparker8661]

Saw them in Frankfurt and our aircraft hangers at Fliegerhorst Kaserne Hanau Army Airfield 1970 71 machine gun tracks on buildings

[@jacqueslefave4296]

There are even scars from WWI. The farm fields of Northern France were mostly demined and ordinance from unexploded bombs and artillery shells removed, but with the freeze/thaw cycle, occasionally one squeezes up to the surface. These are mostly British artillery shells, most of their artillery was modeled after their naval artillery and in order to rationalize production, they used wheeled land versions of their naval guns, I believe they called them "Long Toms." They also used their naval shells, and herein lies the problem. The fuses were set for hitting the armor or deck of a ship, which worked fine for concrete pillboxes, concrete and metal armor bullet shields on guns, and if it hit a rock on the ground or near the surface, it worked well, and of course on paved roads. But if it hit soft, rain soaked mud, the fuse would often not go off and remain buried for a long time. After the war, the French did as well as they could with the primitive and bulky metal detectors that they had at the time, but there were not many of them, they would look for craters of a characteristic configuration and dig carefully, but there was a manpower shortage and an economic depression in the way. After WWII, the work continued with the added periphenalia of the second world war added in. The steady removal discontinued at some point, but there is still an emergency unit that, when they get a call from a farmer, goes out and, if there is enough empty space around it, they will detonate it in place, if it is near a building, they will carefully remove it. It is a good system, but about once or twice a year, a farmer that is using a tractor plow and hit one, and often get killed. Usually wounding is lethal because medical aid can't get to remote areas soon enough. So, more than a hundred years later, WWI is still killing people. 😰

[@huntyfla]

crazy to see the indian legion (indian waffen SS regiment) at 8:50

[@jamesdiamond2302]

How do you involve America in a world war? You tell them its nearly over🤠

[@chipschannel9494]

America got a personal invitation from all the axis , so of course they are going to make quick work of it , mechanized, none of that horse drawn crawl.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

The next one,Europe is on its own. America has had enough.

[@Dryhten1801]

@@shirleybalinski4535 Europe was alone for practically all of WW1 and the first two years of WW2, too. But don't worry even Britain and Germany are enough to beat Russia.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

@@Dryhten1801 ....yes, I'll give you that. Please remember that the US, at the time, had no standing Army. We had a few civilian guard units in each state for natural emergencies, civil unrest,etc. These were on a part time basis not fully employed. In other words they were civilians employed on regular jobs, who got togather on week ends to " drill". The US had app. the World's 16th size standing military, behind such power houses as Romania & several other power houses. Even the regular officier class was fairly small, composing something like 2,500 people. Americans were isolationist & strictly against going to war to fight European fracas. Distance had to have played a part as even the Navy was small & obselete. Folks like to think the US has always had brute strength, unlimited resources,etc. Not so. Up until WW2 we always disbanded & sent everyone home. Perhaps, there was a deal reached with Roosevelt/ Churchill, who realized, saw that deficiency, that we needed time to come up to strength both militarily & on the home front with our resource/ factory capabilities. Until 1941, when attacked, we were effectively out of the War. We started basically from a scratch & within 2 years sent close to 3 million plus citizens into battle & did our best to equip, feed & sustain the World.

[@chipschannel9494]

@@shirleybalinski4535 they said that before WW2, the American position (“THE”Big Guy)dictates that we participate .

[@666sdkfz]

Those times !!

[@ianhall702]

They were treated better than my father in Stalag 18a, released around the same time. He was captured in Greece and came home almost a skeleton.

[@marine4lyfe85]

I'm glad he made it. Most didn't. If we, the Americans, were smart, we would have allowed the German army to join the Allies and turned on the Soviets. Things would look a lot different in the former Soviet bloc if we would have.

[@enscroggs]

@@marine4lyfe85 Smart? I doubt someone who would be so foolish as to advocate allying with Hitler to fight Stalin knows smart from stupid.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@marine4lyfe85 Stalin tried that and it didn't go well for him. Hitler would have never ever join with the Americans who he saw as inferior. To him British, Dutch and Belgium people were just like the Germans and the other were just inferior. And Greece was too nice with that German soldier (monster) cause at least it kept him alive. German soldiers tortured and starved their prisoners.

[@pluribustah1856]

As Patton said.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

​@@marine4lyfe85, are you crazy or are you deliberately making yourself look like an idiot? Don't you understand what Nazism and fascism are? What's wrong with the Soviet Union? What did the USSR do to you personally? You are an unfortunate victim of anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda, like most of the commentators here. You are being fed lies by all sorts of unscrupulous propagandists, and you don't even understand it. Ты сумасшедший или намеренно выставляешь себя идиотом? Неужели вы не понимаете, что такое нацизм и фашизм? Чем вам не нравится Советский Союз? Что плохого сделал вам лично СССР? Вы - несчастная жертва антисоветской и антикоммунистической пропаганды, как и большинство здешних комментаторов. Вас кормят ложью всякие бессовестные пропагандоны, а вы этого даже не понимаете.

[@user-jn5dm2hw4h]

вот так американцы и победили во второй мировой войне.прошли практически без сопротивления немцев.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Ok big shot..go study your own history. F***** Russians would never have left Russian soil without the US. We gave you oil, gas, fed your Army, provided your trucks, provided medical equipment. Your commanders put machine guns at the backs of their own troops( not a joke). Us fighting in Pacific. Russia refused to help fight Japanese. Russia waited to War s end than invaded northern Japan...Skating Islands. GO 😢TAKE A HIKE.

[@beroukhiaeliana2435]

@@humanspower4404 encore un fleeper du cerveau qui s'exprime aller vas en psychiatrie c'est ta place et n'en sort plus jamais !

[@baronbustin]

@@humanspower4404are you saying you prefer Hitler to Putin?

[@humanspower4404]

@@baronbustin Hitler did not have offshore billions and did not lie to people.

[@kennymccormick8889]

@@baronbustin Zelensky!

[@USNVA11]

Those guys should be happy to be in a POW camp. The war is over for them and they get to live.

[@MrSloika]

1945: RUN! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! 2023: RUN! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

[@mirquellasantos2716]

I'm more afraid of the Ukrainians than the Russians. After all Ukrainians committed atrocities during ww2. Ukrainians were as evil as the Germans.

[@2200Stinger]

Very depressing. I think Patton saw that as well as anyone else.

[@petertauschek9329]

Was ist mitden ton !!!

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

А что со звуком? Это кинохроника без звука.

[@charlesayache6801]

Those Germans are not as proud in 1945 as in 1940 ha!

[@Chainyanker007]

The 1,000 year 3rd Reich lasted around 6 years and cost 10s of millions of lives and ruined countries. These days Gaza is following the same script. Bottomline: Don’t start a war, esp. against a superior force. Hitler miscalculated big time, now we see Hamas leadership also miscalculated, or maybe not.

[@johnadm3479]

😢

[@richardsimms251]

-The German hierarchy and the German military seemed committed to having Germany totally destroyed. -Crazy thinking

[@fspiassociatesfspiassociat8135]

Great movies

[@markphelps588]

At around 2:00 - American tanker apparently changing the sim card in his cell phone.😉

[@namcat53]

not humorous. Have respect for your betters, kid.

[@markphelps588]

@@namcat53 certainly no disrespect intended.

[@davidaustrian9455]

General George Patton wanted to continue on to Moscow. There would have been no Cold War, no Russian nukes to threaten the West with, like Putin is doing now. A missed opportunity to tame the Russian bear.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

You probably don't have any brains. 🤔 У вас, видимо, нет мозгов.

[@pangkaji]

😂

[@michaelnelson9140]

Yeah, if we won?

[@pangkaji]

Hitler and Napoleon before him thought the same thing. March to Moscow and defeat the enemy. We all know how that turned out.

[@BillyColeII-dr6dk]

If Truman had listened to both Gen Patton and Gen MacArthur, we would have probably not had a "Cold war" or communism.....

[@johnporter4628]

It looks earlier in the spring than May. There are barely any buds on the trees.

[@clydeblair9622]

Lesson don't look to a lunatic for salvation.

[@ivovaljan8491]

Surrendered German soldiers by the Western states or the Russians isnt same. We all feel sorrow to these surrendred to Russians and partisans. And these are not only German soldiers. In this picture and story are surrendered German soldiers to Western soldiers. They had more luck.

[@harryfineberg5075]

After what they did in the Soviet Union they deserved all they got as pows in the east.

[@ivovaljan8491]

@@harryfineberg5075 Sorry, but most of the German soldiers didnt deserv that. Hitler shamed them all and put in bad situation. Like wright now doing this Putin to his own nation.

[@user-nu7fl2dz5q]

​@@ivovaljan8491you so idiot!

[@BasementEngineer]

@@harryfineberg5075 So the Germans should have done nothing to stop the USSR from invading Germany and western Europe? Read "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov.

[@mandelbrot2232]

@@ivovaljan8491 German soldiers did not go to this war on their own - they were forced to...my grand Uncle who is missed in Staningrad didnt want to be a soldier...he was only 22 years old 😔

[@mr.d6296]

The frisking at 6:18 was classic.

[@humanspower4404]

Imagine that an American would be searched like this in his native land

[@McIntyreBible]

I heard from a WWII historian that the Americans became rougher with the German prisoners when they came across the death camps!

[@humanspower4404]

@@McIntyreBible the Americans are occupiers, no one invited them to Europe

[@mhdz]

Imagine these guys celebrating pride month.

[@BOZOSMITH-xw3ms]

😂🤣😅

[@billlombard9911]

I grew up in the 1970s , WW2 and Korea veterans were the adults in the United States they were hard nosed , no bS , they saw real battles in real blood and guts. They wouldn’t tolerate any type of funny business.

[@wombatwilly1002]

They're spinning in their graves at the thought of such degenerate behaviour as this Pride crap.

[@xNevikKx]

Man have things fallen.

[@jaminova_1969]

I thought they were fighting for freedom?

[@lapplandsjagare]

Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@davidmallory2945]

Hello from America

[@peterritchie2990]

From Canada: Too bad the German nation couldn’t see this footage in the 1930s. Also too bad today’s Russian nation can’t see the upcoming 2025 footage.

[@jeffjeff4477]

???

[@paulbaratta1566]

My dad was there, landing first at Lucky Stripe and headed out near the end of the war. He told me once that German families would arrive with picnic baskets looking for their husbands and brothers. Happy to find them with Americans and not Russians.

[@bearlutz8114]

I LOVE 7:36!!!! reminds me of a quote ive read ..."Amercans chew gum, like cows chew grass" every G.I. "food box" (sorry I cant think of the correct naME?)also came w/cigarettes, CHEWING GUM, and most importantly a nintendo switch w/a copy of zombie army haha

[@user-cp4bz5we3b]

Glad I was born in 1952 not 1922

[@jorgesoares5734]

Houveram mortes do físico, do esporte da alma... Isso basta !!!

[@alparker8661]

I was part of Fifth Corps or V Corp 1970 71 Hanau Germany

[@jamesdiamond2302]

We fought the wrong army. Patton.

[@fareast_de]

That was Patton´s opinion, but not Eisenhowers. He hated the people of his own forefathers.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@fareast_de That's because Eisenhower was a war criminal. Read about Rhine Meadows Camps.

[@timburr4453]

that's why patton was a self serving moron that thankfully went through a windshield

[@SixDayWar67]

@@fareast_de Eisenhower did not hate his forefathers but saw what wrongs they incurred to others.

[@fareast_de]

@@SixDayWar67 Agreed. But this doesn´t excuse the installation of the "Rheinwiesenlager" for which they modified the law.

[@hansgruber650]

Approx. 1.8 million German POW's were starved to death or machine gunned in camps at wars end.

[@anthonyruggiero3112]

No Valium 😢

[@Rinstra1]

PLAN MORGUENTHAU

[@humanspower4404]

Ой ой, это все выыыдумки вот 666 миллионов бого избранного народа это правда 😤

[@paranoidandroid6095]

m 15:17

[@gpn854]

People use to work then . They didn't talk about what Pronoun they go by .

[@jeromecavanna4016]

N'est

[@panjimahesa]

24:06 wow collectors items 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@garrisonnichols807]

So sad for the German citizens who had to endure this. Lots of scared hungry women and children who didn't do anything wrong and were subjected to horrible conditions by their terrible occupiers most of them being drunk PTSD 20 something year old American or worse Russian soldiers who had lost alot of their humanity from years of violence due to warfare and propaganda. We are all witnessing just how brutal and cruel the Russians can be right now under Putin. Imagine if it was Stalin's Red Army.

[@volkergreve1684]

The Germans havee had enough opportunities to prevent Hitler. This guy told them years before what he wanted to do. We have witnessed the same cowardness during covid and today.

[@enscroggs]

Nonsense. Nazi fan bois have no concept of reality.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Germans were the most evil people that ever existed and the fact that they tortured and gassed small children proofs that.

[@fazole]

Most of the original US soldiers from D-Day were either KIA or WIA. There was such a shortage of men by Dec. 1944 that the training was being considerably shortened. George Wilson's memoir, "If You Survive", recounts that as a ww2 platoon and company commander the new troops received at the Battle of the Bulge, were inadequately trained and didn't even know how to properly care for their weapons. By May of 1945, most of the soldiers had only been in the ETO a few months. Wilson lost all but 6 of his company fighting in and around the Hürtgenwald.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@mirquellasantos2716 You are sick in the mind! Transference,much?

[@andrzejandrzej8908]

to jeszcze dali im papierosy i tytoń

[@ktg8030]

Are those coal burning cars that I see? Really some amazing footage here. Towards the end you see a US Jeep with a 50 cal. I think that represents what uphill battle the Germans had with us. I mean we had so much firepower we were mounting 50 cals on Jeeps. The Germans had nothing equivalent, and we had hundreds of thousands of them.

[@MrSloika]

It's not a coal. Google "Wood gas generator".

[@getuliocavalcante5215]

Mil anos durou 12 anos kkkkkkkkkk

[@c-qw6qs]

Дж

[@donalddamian5690]

That's real sour kruts 😅😊

[@valeriaboman8539]

Ei mitään armoa toinen toisensa ampuivat👺

[@rocksteel44]

...AUSGEZEICHNET!!!!!

[@Dr.Freeman_]

6:28 Ein großer Fang für die US-Army! Ein Fahnenjunker-Unterfeldwebel.

[@kal.50bmg32]

And?

[@naradaian]

Being a real bully to that unarmed kid who hardly fits his uniform...disgusting behaviour

[@chipschannel9494]

Millions died, He shouldn’t have been there .

[@mandelbrot2232]

😔

[@michaelnelson9140]

That kid might have been trying to kill him yesterday!

[@namcat53]

How naive.

[@user-vy7yu7vg9y]

Загибель цивілізації.

[@humanspower4404]

Что нам дала "их" победа? Анархия и войны в мире снова.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

Где гибель цивилизации? И какой цивилизации?

[@user-vy7yu7vg9y]

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР Ну тобі то цивілізація не потрібна .

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

@@user-vy7yu7vg9y, экой ты, дурачина цивилизованный! 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnmcdonald157]

Yeah. Hurry up and get to the American lines.

[@greatadventures7378]

To Europe: you’re welcome! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[@tomcummings711]

If not for Stalin ,maybe Russia and America Could have been friends ! A Big Maybe !

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

Seriously? But then there was no Russia. There was the USSR. Do you know that the USA is a capitalist state, and the USSR was a socialist state? What is the difference between these political systems, do you understand? Figure it out. And it will be funny for you to read what you have written. Серьёзно? Так не было никакой России. Был СССР. Вам известно, что США - капиталистическое государство, а СССР был социалистическим государством? В чём разница между этими политическими системами понимаете? Разберитесь в этом. И вам будет смешно читать, то что вы написали.

[@tomcummings711]

I know the difference . I was hoping never a Stalin , maybe Russia would not in slave Eastern Europe and start heading toward Freedom and Capitalism . Just a Hope @@ДмитрийТихомировСССР

[@paddy.7784]

Good job .. No sympathy at all for them ..Try to imagine a world, if they had won.

[@billlombard9911]

Exactly!! A second middle age

[@rogerwilliams2902]

Bloody right mate !. They murdered their way across Europe , among those were 6 million jewish civilians, of which roughly 800,000 were young children for christs sake. I realise all Germans werent murderers , but the big percentage were. So bollocks to them and the Japs.

[@BasementEngineer]

Much much better than the cess pool we are facing now. A second middle age??? With rockets and jet aircraft?

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

Yeah imagine a Europe if Germany had won. Full of happy contented white Europeans, living in a modern age. Centuries ahead in terms of technology than we currently are. Europeans full of pride of having landed on the moon first with our rocket technology. A Europe full of super modern autobahns and efficient cars. A country respectful and wealthy in terms of its own culture heritage and traditions. A Europe not being invaded weakened and made poorer by mass Middle Eastern and African invasion. A Europe where people would be free to walk the streets without fear of being stabbed by African invaders. A Europe free from malign Jewish influence Yeah just imagine if Germany had won

[@namcat53]

Always fight fascism foreign or domestic.

[@wolfganggall8239]

We fought against the imperialistic Russia twice and were attacked from the ignorant west

[@harryfineberg5075]

Self pitying lies

[@wolfganggall8239]

@@harryfineberg5075 typical answer of an historic ignorant

[@BasementEngineer]

True that. Why else is the world turning into cess pools? Because of the "victorious" allies.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

Бредишь, парень?

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

@@harryfineberg5075world war 2 was a fight of two ideologies nazism and communism. Sadly communism won and Europe is facing defeat from invasion

[@josefilipecardosodiasteixe6983]

Die ganze Euforie umsonst und dann noch 2 Mal, PEINLICH!!!! 🤨🤨

[@valeriaboman8539]

Mun faijalla oli Venäjän vanha vossikka🤮

[@browngreen933]

Big mistake destroying Germany.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

Was Germany destroyed? When was it destroyed and by whom? А что, Германию уничтожили? Когда её уничтожили и кто?

[@RobertGames2030]

​@@ДмитрийТихомировСССРUnião Soviética.

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

@@RobertGames2030 , but this is not true. Nazism was destroyed, not Germany. Germany was not destroyed, it remained and became much better without the Nazis. Но это не верно. Был уничтожен нацизм, а не Германия. Германия не была уничтожена, она осталась и стала на много лучше без нацистов.

[@RobertGames2030]

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР So Germany must destroy Progressivism, otherwise Progressivism will destroy Germany.

[@browngreen933]

@@ДмитрийТихомировСССР 1945 -- Russia and her idiot Allies done it.

[@vedattekin8196]

Like Palestinian people...😢😢

[@BloodyBrilliant437]

Exactly. The Germans were the same antisemitic aggressors as the Palestinians nowadays.

[@frankfrankfurtde9130]

Occupation américaine de l Europe

[@ingosippel9653]

Glory to Germany, glory to the german army

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

Yeah imagine a Europe if Germany had won. Full of happy contented white Europeans, living in a modern age. Centuries ahead in terms of technology than we currently are. Europeans full of pride of having landed on the moon first with our rocket technology. A Europe full of super modern autobahns and efficient cars. A country respectful and wealthy in terms of its own culture heritage and traditions. A Europe not being invaded weakened and made poorer by mass Middle Eastern and African invasion. A Europe where people would be free to walk the streets without fear of being stabbed by African invaders

[@edwardbernthal160]

and gas chambers for undesirables, no Jews, gypsies or mentally ill. You sir are a sack of shytte and I wish you a speedy trip to the fires of hell.

[@bieni78]

Do not shame the English here with your Nazi BS

[@marine4lyfe85]

I wish I would have visited Europe before it was ruined by foreigners.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Nah, knowing Nazis and many whites they would have kill each by creating more wars. The Nazis would have killed or enslaved all non-whites. The Nazis would have destroyed most animals and the world.

[@josephtein3835]

If Hitler had won the war, we can imagine how many more millions of innocent minorities would have been exterminated. Maybe a concentration camp in every town do do away with undesirable Jews, Communists, Jehova's Witnesses, mentally retarded children? Enough to make anyone contented and proud, no? Have you ever watched footage of concentration camps being liberated? These are very respectful scenes, enough to make any white European or English patriot proud.

[@amirafridi3313]

Wah wah😂😂😂😂😂 the war is beautiful thing 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@kkw880]

why?

[@ДмитрийТихомировСССР]

Может быть, если тебя не отправляют в газовую печь.