German Newsreel: Die Deutsche Wochenschau

(31 Dec 1945) Story 3: 12:19:43:00
242 MID MID 3444, DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU, 1945
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[@williamtell5365]

These old newsreels are endlessly fascinating to a modern history addict like me.

[@willigordon8143]

International historic films has the series from 1939 to 1945

[@angelbelas7313]

I'M A JEW ISRAELI AND I LOVE IT?

[@daveypanzermeijer7285]

Jep

[@christo6068]

i can understand it, what about u

[@bloqk16]

@@christo6068 I use the CC closed caption option with the auto translate feature it has. Not all YT posts have it, but this one does.

[@PaulMcCartGuitarTracks]

I'm always impressed with the quality of the music here.

[@billtate2835]

Because it's DEUSTCHLAND

[@eddiewillers1]

Especially the opening fanfare.

[@ahronthegreat]

Why? U think music only became good in the last 70 years or sumet?

[@carlwedderkopp4710]

The music is the key !

[@jorgtungler7348]

Guten Abend,mein Opa war in der Heeresgruppe B Westfeldzug

[@lynn0MA]

December ‘44 or Jan 1945, near Aachen in early scenes.

[@SUBLIMINAL_ANGEMERKT]

The US Army took Aachen in Oct. 1944 !

[@naguerea]

At that time, me, after lunch in my school I would layed on on my bed for a sleep. (Dear Miss Grey).

[@josepherhardt164]

"As the war progresses, our situation continues to improve, as our supply lines become shorter and shorter!"

[@tomcummings711]

Funny !

[@toddwebb7521]

Just wait until Steiner's big counteroffensive

[@waldemarsh9201]

😂😂😂

[@peterdiepenthal4090]

All these old war reals should be shown so we never forget and repeat the tears of war

[@Lemmi7810]

Well as long as America and Russia are existing there will always be war!

[@user-ze9dt6bh5c]

Похоже забыли

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Putin is recreating all this today

[@bloqk16]

There is a means to auto-generate a translation of this video with using the CC _closed-caption_ option. First, click on the _CC_ to activate the "closed-caption," then click onto the _sprocket icon_ and click onto the "subtitles," which may lead you to a selection of languages to translate the closed-caption. I use the word *may* in that some CC and subtitle menus *may not* provide the option of _CC auto-translate._ Good luck!

[@292Nigel]

I've tried all that.. it doesn't work!

[@michaelmccartney8506]

Same here

[@bloqk16]

@@michaelmccartney8506 I'm commenting here with what I earlier wrote to Nigel on another newsreel video, as his name is in this comment thread: I feel badly that the English subtitles aren't showing up for you, but I do appreciate the feedback. The only thing that comes to mind is with the operating system (OS) "browser" being used. KZbin can be temperamental with the type of browser used to view the videos. Although YT is a part of Google, which also created the Chrome OS, which is what I use for viewing YT with my desktop PC, there have been times when I've had to switch to the Firefox OS to get full functionality out of YT. _And I'm adding this:_ The OS of the device you are using to view YT videos may not be the same as what I'm using; which may explain the different results. My result of English subtitles came about using a Windows 10 PC with Chrome browser. If you are using an Apple or some other device that uses a different OS and browser, the functionality could differ with viewing YT.

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Some times its hilarious.

[@blueindigo1000]

Thank you! I was not aware of this capability. I could get the general idea, but it is nice to have a translation!

[@filimaykelwarnes]

This is addictive

[@gunterschneider700]

Great !!

[@Love.life.ashigzoya]

Excellent film

[@user-ps3vo1xe8l]

¡Hacia Adelante! ¡Adelante y Arriba! ¡Siempre y Para Siempre! ✨✨✨🇧🇬❤️🇩🇪✨✨✨

[@user-ej2rh1kq3d]

THE HEROIC STRUGGLE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE

[@jorgtungler7348]

Guten Abend,meine Familie ist aus Ostpreußen Königsberg.

[@tomjones7593]

I can't trace an English subtitle but it seems to me-with limited German- that even the thickest must have known it was all over by this time-constant references to the defensive; perhaps it was just too much to take in after years of conditioning

[@bloqk16]

If your browser allows it, click onto the CC option to activate the closed-caption; then click onto the sprocket icon where there could be the option, under _subtitles_ to selection an auto-generated translation that will display with subtitles.

[@crotononhudson7309]

German army saved Europe from that animal stalin and his herd of bolsheviks , imagine undamaged stalin in 1944 all over Europe , Genghis khan comes to mind

[@michellearmstrong7903]

@@crotononhudson7309 it should be cretin on hudson

[@andyrob3259]

You do understand in a dictatorship you don’t have an option to ‘know it’s over’ and talk about it openly. You keep your thoughts to yourself or your family pays. Although I believe in private the Nazis did do ‘listening in’ reports of conversations and these were reported back as a ‘mood of the nation’ report (non person specific - much like a survey but in secret) to the elites. So they had an idea of the general public’s mood. And yes most but the fanatics knew.

[@valicourt]

Yeah I was thinking exactly that as well. But I suppose that if you have been told for the last 15 years that people from the east are “untermenschen” and that your people are superior you just don’t want that penny to drop.

[@matrixredpill9817]

Meine Hormone sind in die Höhe geschickt worden .

[@p47thunderbolt68]

I read somewhere that the reconstruction of Germany or maybe Europe in general took untill sometime in the 1980's. If true ,forty years to repair what was destroyed in a little over in six years is mind boggling to think about .

[@alexgorski5031]

Most of Western Europe was "repaired " by late 50'. Eastern Europe however was beyond that. Many were still lacking a lot by the 80'. However those that shook off socialism within 10-15 years they caught up. The hardest part was to get rid of the antiquated Soviet infrastructures "gifted" after the war.

[@valicourt]

And the war debt was only recently payed off

[@markhasleton6403]

Thanks to George Marshall

[@joelonzello4189]

There were still London Blitz ruins into the 60's I have read. Schools should cover WW I & II extensively in class. I also believe concentration camp films should be viewed uncensored. Screw sensitive feelings. Insulting to camp victims and liberators who filmed atrocities so the world would never forget !

[@user-tn9dx1en7j]

Ты дебил! СССР уничтожался почти четыре года и посмотри за сколько восстановились.Читай адекватную историю,скоро вам всем пиздец придёт.

[@joehinojosa8030]

Die Muzak SOUNDS LIKE THEY WINNING!

[@johnalanelson]

They were overly optimistic at times!

[@user-ik2tz6rn2t]

Друг мой солдаты во все времена несли всю тяжесть .Хоть немец хоть наш солдата уважать надо.Но солдата а не палача.

[@andyrob3259]

Funny how bias KZbin is. Censors anyone else putting these up but the AP, a large corporate friend it’s all ok.

[@michaelsalmon9832]

its copyrighted

[@stevek8829]

@@michaelsalmon9832 the work was created over fifty years ago by Germany. What copyright could AP have?

[@user-td9pk7bz6k]

日本でも時代が変わってナチのプロパガンダ！映像が、なかなか手に入らん？うぽつ👍

[@elinovias9884]

ademas ALEMANIA SE RETIRO VENCIDA TOTALMENTE

[@Love.life.ashigzoya]

What hashappened to todays Germany is not proud to be Germans . Wars can be lost but identity and pride must not. Thank you Indian Veterans

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Poor Volksstürmer. First they fought in WW1; now, in WW2.

[@charlesjames1442]

Into the meat grinder.

[@marks.6480]

The brave Gauleiter Hanke ordered the people of Breslau to remain and defend their city. He slipped away and got out just before the Red Army arrived.

[@nnnnnn3647]

They destroyed city.

[@epaminon6196]

🎶🎵 _Brave Sir Hanke ran away._ _Bravely ran away away..._ _When danger reared its ugly head,_ _He bravery turned his tail and fled._ _Yes brave Sir Hanke turned about..._ _And gallantly he chickened out._ _Bravely taking to his feet,_ _He beat a very brave retreat._ _Bravest of the brave, Sir Hanke._ 🐔🐓🐔🐓🐔🐓🐔🐓

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Lol so brave

[@sledgehammer9739]

@@epaminon6196 He can trace his lineage all the way back to Sir Robin!!!

[@Milicnik1933]

He was killed just before the war ended.

[@DeiDei9999]

How is the songs name at 9:00min?

[@joelonzello4189]

Wrap Your Schnitzel !!

[@lerevedekasimir3716]

It is irritating that the voice of the narrator Harry Giese sounds so unusually high in these final issues of the German war newsreels. I suspect that this has technical reasons, and is not due to his jaundice disease, which prevented him from continuing his work for many months of 1944

[@HanneloreLonzello]

This isnt a great copy...

[@johnlawson2984]

Gauleiter Hanke has quite a long and interesting career, replacing Himmler as RF SS . Captured by Czech partisans, he was beaten to death during an attempted escape.

[@crotononhudson7309]

German army saved Europe from that animal stalin and his herd of bolsheviks , imagine undamaged stalin in 1944 all over Europe , Genghis khan comes to mind

[@billtate2835]

@@crotononhudson7309 amerikanische made their choice back then...

[@nnnnnn3647]

@@crotononhudson7309 Yes, Poland was saved. ;) They save millions of people killing them.

[@nnnnnn3647]

Hanke escape to south america.

[@aristedecomgmailcom]

Excellent。The Nazi Hanke deserved it。He should not have tried to escape。

[@jaimelarroyo5368]

Always german soldier hsigt moral and clean

[@user-tn9dx1en7j]

Ты , надеюсь, пошутил?

[@aenon6048]

Ob jemand den ganzen Murks zu dem Zeitpunkt noch geglaubt hat?

[@andreaswei8380]

Sie musten das leider glauben.

[@louismart]

Sie mussten dran glauben.

[@alexanderfiebrandt6732]

Nein.

[@karlragnar]

@@andreaswei8380 richtig ... und sie wollten es auch .. niemand aus unserem volk ausser chaoten wollte dieses land kapitulieren sehen .

[@jaimelarroyo5368]

So much pin to my German People no good

[@ugniusstackunas8915]

WoW! Doo? Yuo'are? Sy? Hau, GERMAN ( katiucha ) Works!

[@bunnebacke100]

Alte Männer gegen sowjetische Gardedivisionen was für ein Wahnsinn.

[@tomootetsu]

Kanonenfutter......

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

😂

[@myhonorwasloyalty]

@@tomootetsu no

[@myhonorwasloyalty]

@@tomootetsu fought to the bitter end. Loyalty

[@user-tn9dx1en7j]

А сначало были 17 летние против отборных войск Вермахта.Среди них был мой дед.Так что немецкое пушечное мясо совсем не жалко!

[@genekelly8467]

Gee-by 1945 the Germans realized that their soldiers needed winter clothing! Brilliant!

[@thelearninghistorian]

Respect.

[@elrjames7799]

The AH 'no withdrawal' obsession rather than sacking Schörner and then allowing Guderian a free hand.

[@aristedecomgmailcom]

The result would have been the same whether Schorner or Guderian was in charge。The Allies were not going to stop until Nazi Germany no longer existed。

[@elrjames7799]

@@aristedecomgmailcom The irony being that the Nazi hampering of the effectiveness of their own Army hastened their demise.

[@michaelvanderwal7390]

Guderian had his place, but he wasn't all there either. The man actually suggested that his tanks should roam free behind enemy lines and be completely supplied by air.

[@elrjames7799]

@@michaelvanderwal7390 Good observational critique: but if you were commander in chief facing such a dire situation: Guderian or Schorner, given a choice?

[@michaelvanderwal7390]

@@elrjames7799 Probably Guderian on a very tight leash.

[@kal.50bmg32]

Und jetzt schaut euch mal diese Wochenschau ohne die ach so tolle Marschmusik und das zweckoptimistische Geschwätz des Sprechers an ... So sah es dort nämlich wirklich aus.

[@bergbaubergbau]

Ziemlich genau solche Gedanken hatte ich beim Ansehen auch. Durch die Winterlandschaft und den vielen Schlamm wird dieses apokalyptische Elend noch deutlich verstärkt. Diese Wochenschau hat schon fast sowas wie einen bitteren unfreiwilligen Humor.: "Auf diesem Boden wird und muss Deutschland für Europa die Wende erzwingen". Ich mag zum Beispiel die Filme "Der Untergang" und auch "Der Soldat James Ryan" gern, aber auch diese erscheinen mir immer noch glatt und unabsichtlich geschönt. Die realen Bilder haben eine niederschmetternde Wirkung.

[@hanshartz218]

Propaganda gab es in jedem Krieg.Und auch heute noch,lassen sich die Menschen davon beinflussen.Leider.😡

[@lmc4964]

you would love to know what the people watching were thinking, they must have known it all BS

[@user-nt9nd8uk3m]

Молодцы немцы умели воевать и были профессионалами!

[@user-ux8by2tb2y]

В чём их умение? Судя по фильму хреновые дела у них. Одно упоминание " фольксдойч" говорит о многом, а как они минируют и взрывают свои предприятия и заводы.

[@user-nt9nd8uk3m]

@@user-ux8by2tb2y вы бы русская троль промолчали бы - вам ли говорить! Мир говорит вам надо помолчать! После ВОВ ( невзирая что вы русские урки обокрали немецкий народ вплоть до вашего тупого Жукова) они создали вновь сильное государство а вы снова оказались в дерьме! Вы обосрались и развалили все что хоть и не законно приобрели а они нет!!! Так что заткнитесь трепло

[@solarismerkava]

@@user-nt9nd8uk3m в трудные времена русские мобилизуются и дают всем звездЫ..

[@ruhisky682]

Короче фольксштурму капец,не остановить ему ,,орды большевиков".

[@uwalter2]

Well some scenes are reflecting the situation in Ukraine today. Unbelieveable

[@kalleknall1220]

SU=US?

[@johnalanelson]

In what context? Why wouldn't it be Soviet Union?

[@user-ustin]

Перевод- ух как мы им морды бьём. Правда они уже под Берлином.

[@mjoelnir58]

Count your losses Einstein,who got slapped?😂

[@davegoldfarb]

free the uighurs

[@daveypanzermeijer7285]

I love this to match haha, perfect

[@Lemmi7810]

Make Germany great again!

[@eugenkuptsov9290]

Да здравствует СССР-2 под руководством коммунистической партии Китая ! Да здравствует Дзен-Коммунизм ! Да здравствует НОАК !

[@soulplexis]

0:10 this is the tune of horst-wessel lied

[@saxsnotundthurelaynez111]

Heilig Vaterland! In Gefahren deine Söhne sich um dich scharen. Von Gefahr umringt, heilig Vaterland, alle stehen wir Hand in Hand.

[@eugenkuptsov9290]

Да хуйли толку, если есть богатые и бедные

[@rok2085]

stg 44 ???? 10,28

[@kayroy9213]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@a.g.4843]

Die Siege Deutschlands kamen immer näher an die Heimat!!

[@davidprice7162]

The AP, keeping the dream of goebbles alive

[@markhasleton6403]

Bullshit , Nazi

[@emilobe]

Poor Fools...

[@johannesfilley8933]

Unsere Helden sterben nie !!

[@Sumisha88]

based 0/

[@eugenkuptsov9290]

Все умирают..

[@snr.puente5109]

falscher Kanal

[@jandenijmegen5842]

Hanke fled Breslau. the coward left behind many wounded to the russians. In the end he was beaten to death. These "Helden", they only fertilize the soil.

[@user-ix5bf6lb5z]

И снова Европа представлена на нашей Украине танками с крестами, но горят они не хуже чем 80 лет назад!

[@BackBruck]

The Germans had better cameras; I'm sure of this. 😌

[@dobejai]

🇩🇪💪❤

[@nickstevens3139]

It’s hard to understand why the Germans fought to the bitter end.

[@michaelneuwirth3414]

...unter anderem, weil viele wussten, dass es für sie kein ziviles Leben nach dem Krieg geben wird. Z.B. von den Soldaten der Jahrgänge ab 1920 hatte viele keinen richtigen Zivilberuf erlernt oder ausgeübt, sondern sie sind direkt nach der Schule/Lehre eingezogen worden. Wer sich jahrelang mit dem Töten von Menschen beschäftigt hat, findet sich einfach im Frieden nicht mehr zurecht.

[@oldtimer3824]

No other choice, as no mercy was expected from USSR.

[@timkey_4542]

1st some of them didn't know anything else to do 2nd Also because of the nazi propaganda which reported from the massacres the allies commited against german civilians. Of course it was propaganda but there also was a true element behind those news so most german soldiers in the end didn't fight for Hitler, but for their own family and their country

[@alexanderfiebrandt6732]

naja, die Japaner waren ja noch krasser.

[@andreygorew5412]

Eventuell haben Sie vergessen, wer hat im Jahr 1941 auf die Sowiet Union angegriffen!??? Ruhm und die große Ehre der Roten Armee. И нехуй пиздеть тут

[@jurm2661]

a w fabrykach same kobiety. I najczęściej stare.

[@aenon6048]

31 Dec 1945...really? :-)

[@banquo60615]

I’m thinking that’s when the War Department released it.

[@emilobe]

This is obviously wrong! Probably 31. Dec. 1944! The war ended 08. May 1945.

[@bumarangnebula765]

Mid of February 1945. 11 Weaks before the End.

[@jandenijmegen5842]

@@emilobe Gauleiter Hanke fled the city of Breslau by plane on May 5th. Not staying with the troops was he?

[@SUBLIMINAL_ANGEMERKT]

@@bumarangnebula765 Sorry - No ! Before 16/12/1944 . The Ardennen offensive had not yet begun...

[@LeonNew]

Напоминает оптимизм федеральных каналов для нашего вороватого фюрера, но 1945 уже близко .

[@UnknownUnknown-tb4mw]

Надеюсь

[@RicardiTurpoMamani]

Viva Vladimir Putin, el mejor presidente del mundo, viva Rusia y su santa cruzada en el Donbas

[@RicardiTurpoMamani]

Primero cae Zelenski

[@xaverit]

99% киножурнала посвящено Восточному фронту, что и соответствует истинному положению на то время. Бессмертная слава советским воинам!

[@Karl-nv5ok]

Glory to Soviet soldiers? For murdering,raping and pillaging in their path?

[@mjoelnir58]

Rapists and murderers of civilians,not to forget

[@imsandr040]

Eigentlich intressant war aber zu viel propaganda damals und die warheit wurde oftmals nicht korrekt dargestellt

[@joelonzello4189]

Just like most of U.S. Criminal Media. Media Heads should be hung and replacements urged to do a better job...

[@NACHTFLIEGER]

Bei den Alliierten war es nicht anders .Tapfer hin oder her , diese unglaubliche Übermacht war einfach nicht zu schlagen.Von daher wäre eine frühere Kapitulation schon besser gewesen.

[@klaus-dieterkoch363]

Nothing worth to die for.

[@JCinerea]

"We just lost Hamburg. The entire city is carbonized. But look how much twine we're making! Everything's fine...."

[@hubertkaiser8581]

Immer mehr alte deutsche Wochenschauen 2.WW auf You Tube. Hat man frueher nicht gesehen, sollen wohl stimulieren, werden aber verlieren.

[@eugenkuptsov9290]

Смотреть интересно. Когда я жил в СССР, то ни разу не видел настоящей Геббельс-пропаганды.

[@krampsy]

@@eugenkuptsov9290 у тебя для этого есть украина. смотреть их пропаганду сейчас не пересмотреть. Единственный минус, что со времён геббельса они ничего нового не так и не придумали.

[@michaelthomas7178]

If d day were to have been delayed another year, and eight Air Force grounded that Stalin would have had to move east.

[@howboutyomama]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@ugniusstackunas8915]

🔴🔴🔴 🔴➕🔴 🔴🔴🔴

[@ugniusstackunas8915]

Hi -- Good, LUCKY! Bro! ------/^ SORRY, for, Bjutiful! Flage!!

[@jean-claudeansaelens9457]

The Allies had better fought together with the Germans against the Soviet bunch.

[@user-tn9dx1en7j]

У меня лично 20 человек родственников погибло,половина из них не воевали.Вам,мрази,скоро всем придет пиздец!

[@andrzejkorotarz3446]

Thanks Red Army....

[@crotononhudson7309]

imagine undamaged stalin in 1944 all over Europe Genghis khan comes to mind

[@crotononhudson7309]

how many pols and Czechs ended in Gulags after war ? DUMBO

[@TrueChannelFor1]

​@@crotononhudson7309 how many? don't fight with red army and you not will be in red prison

[@michaelsalmon9832]

@@crotononhudson7309 if you think the nazis were better than the iron curtain for the czechs and the poles then you are either beyond stupid or a nazi yourself

[@mjoelnir58]

Y Bolshevik murderers