German Prisoners of War in Frankenberg (March 1945, HD film scan)

On March 29 1945, tanks of the US-Army entered Frankenberg in Nordhessen, Germany. Fanatical Nazis still tried to gather enough wounded soldiers, old men and young boys for the “Volkssturm”, but it is thanks to prudent people who had the courage to hang bedsheets out of the window or even went out to meet the Americans with white flags that a bloodshed could be prevented. Contemporary witnesses remember that there were hundreds of bazookas stored at the municipal bleachery (today's Bauhof) of Frankenau, which would have been enough to destroy an entire armored division. Fortunately, they were not used.
1:30 German soldier of the Panzertruppe
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The camera pans over several hundreds, possibly a thousand captured German soldiers that are filing into trucks. An american GI climbs on the truck, reaching into soldiers with his stick. Another GI sends soldiers up the hill. They run to the truck. Germans in trucks wave to comrades left behind.

[@worldwarfootage]

Dear Community, please help us to find the places and locations in this footage video. Write us what you know in the comments. Don't forget to include the timecodes (mm:ss). Thank you!

[@dany_diy8680]

3:33 I think it was filmed from here; 51°05'18.0"N 8°55'51.4"E s

[@df289]

Well the yellow signpost on the Town entrance tells you all you need to know. At 2.20 the Town of Frankenau. the Community of Frankenberg, in the district of Kassel.

[@binnebesling4860]

Please make a video about the Rhine Meadow camps.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

​@@binnebesling4860 There are such videos. See Mark Felton's - utterly disproves the poisonous nonesense propagated in certain quarters.

[@nookybooky2301]

Village Frankenau : www.google.com/maps/@51.0882016,8.9313195,204m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=de&entry=ttu : The Location from the Video are at the left down corner!

[@charlesmartella]

A couple of them looked like they were glad it was all over.

[@mirrorblue100]

They were fortunate to be captured by Americans and not Soviets (who would have shot many immediately or worked them to death in prison camps); nevertheless - thousands of these men starved to death in Allied POW camps due to inadequate rations and poor medical care. But - thats war.

[@nickcurran3105]

I'm sure they were all glad it was over. No doubt at this point they just wanted to get home to wives, children, and parents if they could.

[@livinginalbertanow]

And glad they were in American hands and not Russian.

[@Faceless166]

⁠@@livinginalbertanowI’m sure they were, after killing 27 millions of the Soviets I bet they preferred Americans

[@paulbaratta1566]

My Dad was there and amazed at how cooperative the Germans were and said families showed up with picnic baskets

[@lesegarten]

Genau, haben dann schön die Seele baumeln lassen und die Zeit miteinander genossen

[@brandongardner9829]

Exactly, the Germans and the Americans and English got along very well as young men, they were decent people.

[@shadows_of_a_forgotten_time]

Русские с тобой не согласны ​@@brandongardner9829

[@aporem6889]

@@lesegarten 👍😂

[@user-re3sj5me4y]

Оо, а какие "отзывчивые" немцы были в Советском Союзе. 27 миллионов погибших не дадут соврать

[@user-xh3wr1do7k]

Note that the panzer crew member at 1:30 has removed the Death’s Head collar patches. Some tank crews were mistaken for SS due to these patches so they removed them.

[@_ArsNova]

Many cases of them being murdered by Allied troops for being mistaken as SS. Another reason why extrajudicial killings are bad.

[@user-xh3wr1do7k]

@@_ArsNova Depends who they are. If it’s Taliban or Da’esh, I’d kill them without batting an eyelid. If I was fighting in Ukraine against ruSSians, I wouldn’t.

[@KK-rg1wz]

@@_ArsNova ... fake news, do you have a source ? ....

[@vitya9011]

@@KK-rg1wz is not fake

[@tom170670]

or they were stolen by a western liberator

[@kevindavies7423]

If you open your eyes these are just normal wermacht..... no hard core . They had no choice but fight because of the regime . Not all did wrong .

[@Mark-vq5dz]

I think you need to open your eyes, whilst there are always decent people in any organisation, thousands committed horrendous atrocities whether Wehrmacht or Waffen SS, their ideological cruelty knew no bounds particularly in the East. This rose tinted view does a disservice to those millions who found themselves on the receiving end of the 'Master Race'.

[@stipedomazet8169]

👍👍

[@robinmcewan8473]

The Wehrmacht were implicated in war crimes on the Eastern Front

[@mikebrown383]

Most of the war,comes down to the banking system. Aryan countries around the globe are suffering from government greed...

[@nuchvadir]

Ignorance is bliss

[@davevogelar9965]

You can bet they were happy. The United States captured them and not that USSR.

[@boondocker7964]

Exactamondo!!😁

[@cookiemonstakjs]

If the German soldiers and their SS death squads weren't such brutal killers of innocent civilians as well as combatants in the Soviet territories, the Russians may not have been so brutal in response. But these Germans weren't taking any chances by surrendering to the Americans

[@ngiimeigaming8210]

Exactly

[@saskwatch123]

60 % of Russian POW's, over 3 million of them died in German POW camps. Western history forgets this....

[@vinycrimbo8692]

Whilst in American and French camps, nearly one million German prisoners died. Not something that is spoken about.

[@Sultan-r8h]

Им повезло и ещё больше, что не к большевикам в плен.

[@juanguillermomunozuribe4240]

Suerte jajaja suerte que el mundo se unió si no habrían arrasado con cualquiera americanos rusos ingleses no hubiesen sido culo con el ejército alemán solos

[@mikebrown383]

Hats off too you. Someone with intelligence. Most people know nothing about the war. Most don't know what a Bolshevik was . God Bless my friend.

[@Sultan-r8h]

​@@mikebrown383Amen.

[@lordemed1]

That is for sure...and they knew it.

[@camokoy]

Unfortunately the Americans and British did hand lots of people over to the Soviets even though they knew the fate that awaited them .

[@gm5052]

George Stevens a famous Hollywood movie director and his Signal Corp camera men filmed, this scene, he appears at the 2:05 mark in the film, he is the American Army Officer who is close's to the camera, he turns and faces the camera and turns back. Stevens Camera men shot mostly with 16mm color Kodachrome.

[@paulhank7967]

There are more POWs there than in the modern day British armed forces combined.

[@edthebumblingfool]

and? the British army then was alseo massive

[@jimhafer212]

Even as POWs Germans were more deadly than the Brits...

[@denbrown8301]

С одной стороны их жаль как людей. Большая часть из них была мобилизована режимом, против которого, как всем понятно, не попрешь. Или на войну или в тюрьму/могилу. С другой стороны зверства, которые творили эти люди, не могут быть оправданы и не имеют срока давности. Это очень грустный момент истории человечества, который выпал на долю нашей цивилизации.

[@peterhagen8908]

Ты говоришь ровно то же самое, что сегодня относится к Путину и его войскам "Специальной военной операции" в Украине.

[@denbrown8301]

@@peterhagen8908 не отрицаю. Ровно то же самое исполняют все режимы США, а еще то же самое делали Французы в своих колониях, Германия, Голландия, Испания, Португалия, Англия, Япония и все «цивилизованные» страны. Вырезали местное население. Но! Никто их не обвинял в геноциде. Так что носик у всех припудрен.

[@peterhagen8908]

@@denbrown8301 Именно Московия является колонией Киевской Руси. Орда ее монголизировала, и сегодня эти калмыки выкладывают такие записи на KZbin, потому что узнали, какие клавиши нажимать на клавиатуре в обмен на банан.

[@nitdiver5]

Agreed, but it is about to happen again and very much worse. At least two world wars are about to unfold. First, Ezekiel 38-39 and about 7 years later the battle of Armageddon.

[@Vladimir_Saf]

Русь пришла из Новгорода, забрала Киев у местных и перенесла туда столицу, "мать городов..."@@peterhagen8908

[@coyotedust]

It makes me sad to look at all the waste of human lives on all sides. This world would've been a better place if all these people could've lived and contributed to humanity and society from WW2 Europe. And all the lives lost in defending the allies from those countries.

[@Melior_Traiano]

My grandfather fought for Germany during WWII as a 17 year old. His older brother was a 21 year old Lieutenant (second-incommand) on a U-Boat. He was send on a suicide mission and he knew that it was highly unlikely that he'd ever return from this mission, because he told this to my grandfather before he departed. My grandfather always became very sad when talking about his older brother. He said he could have been Chancellor of Germany one day, because he was such a great guy. When he received his officer commission a Nazi official asked him what his highest aspiration in life was and expected an answer along party lines, but he simply said that his highest goal in life was to one day own a BMW 328 and when my grandfather visited him in Danzig, my grandfather wore his Hitler Youth uniform to make an impression, but his older brother made him change his clothes back to civilian clothes before he toured the U-Boat with him.

[@charlesmartella]

My grandfather on my mother's side was in Australia's 2/28th and he actually saw Rommel when he was captured at the siege of Tobruk. He was born in Scotland and had good Nordic blood and was seen as an equal by the Germans. Under the circumstances he was treated relatively well by the Germans.

[@Travis1.979]

yes, i´ve read that English, and other ethnicities related to nordic people were treated differently by Germans. What he said about Rommel? He just saw him briefly or could hear him talk, inspecting the prisoners?

[@jammer3618]

Rommel was never captured

[@charlesmartella]

@@Travis1.979 he just drove by in the tank he was in .

[@Travis1.979]

@@charlesmartella 👍

[@johnpatrick9610]

@@jammer3618 he does not say rommel was captured....it was his grandfather who was captured

[@bps7209]

Seems to me, that we haven’t learned much from the past. Atrocities are still committed today. So many lives lost due to those in power. For the poor souls who had no real choice but to go to war, RIP. Manford von Richthofen said it best, “if I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains. I like to fly, not to kill” as we know he didn’t survive the war. He also said “Murder is still murder even in wartime”

[@garywebb8086]

A window to our past. Thank you.

[@rosesprog1722]

These men were so relieved, they had found a way to surrender to the western Allies rather than to the Soviets. They had no idea that these trucks would dump them out in open fields, and leave them there to slowly die from exposure, illness and starvation. Some called those fields the Rhine Meadows camps, others the Eisenhower camps, the prisoners didn't care.

[@lisapet160]

Within 4 hours, the dumpster trucks deliver them to Rhein Meadows death camps to be starved to death and tossed into Rhein River. What a relieve, German could not even think against US, so effective denazification program was in West Germany.

[@lisapet160]

On the other hand, survival rate in brutal Soviet labor camps was 87%, including wounded and frozen in Stalingrad and other burned by Germans places. The Russian atrocities included early release of weak and unable to work from labor camps starting Autumn 1945 and becoming the mandatory procedure in 1946. In many cases, Germans were not even guarded, they were on payroll and worked at construction sites, factories and mines together with Russian workers. It was analogue to release on parol in USA, the country that has more prisoners than GULAG ever head.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@lisapet160 That's possible, I never heard about that, those Gulags were told to be worse that any other camps and from a group of 90,000 Germans who were sent there apparently only 5,000 survived but the atrocities committed by the Red Army during the invasion of Germany were indeed terrible so that the Germans would prefer surrendering to the western allies would be understandable. Of course they had no idea that the Americans would dump them in open fields without even the minimum to survive and that about 1.7 million would die there. The US, UK and French brutality went much further than anyone had expected and, for the most part is still secret to this day. As to the Soviets it was clear, no secrets there you would suffer.

[@lisapet160]

@@rosesprog1722 Depends on the captivity time and soldier's condition. The highest death rate was, as I mentioned, for wounded and frost bitten Germans at Stalingrad. Their mortality during temporary allocation alarmed the supreme commando, so they issued the order on immediate relocation of sick and wounded into detention facilities with better heating and medical services. Most Germans served 5 years, war criminals 10 years with many pardoned early.. Total Germans captured: 2,388,443 , returned home 2,031,743, died 356,700. The order to returning home of sick and unable to work was issues on June 18th, 1946. That did not include war criminals and SS members, although some SS members, based on their memoirs, were working in unguarded environment, doing not physical job when not in good health condition. Most worked effectively and were surprising Russian Engineering staff, how fast they could have quality job done without showing "I work hard" virtue and other visual signs of hassle.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@lisapet160 That's all new for me, if you could give me some references I would really appreciate, learning new stuff is fun, as long as there's a way to confirm it's true.

[@mmmoroi]

Some of them looked happy about their fate of being captured by the Allied rather than the Red Army (meaning Gulag in Siberia). Unfortunately 1.5 million of these POWs could not survive the winter of 1945 in the concentration camps in their own country (without being allowed to go home) thanks to the far inadequate food, heating and other supplies. Very few history books mention this tragedy.

[@eugenemurray2708]

Eisenhower camps, open air prisons made to cull as many as they could. Very cruel fate.

[@ahmedakhan1]

Read the excellent book by James Bacque, Other Losses, about the ill treatment of German POWs by the allies (meaning French, British and the Americans) after the war.

[@glaubnix1458]

Danke an alle, die für Deutschland gekämpft haben. Ihr seid unvergessen.

[@r.schraven4580]

Genau. Ihre Gräueltaten für die Nazis sind unvergessen. Und Du bist nicht besser.

[@roadtonowhere6965]

.und für was haben sie 6 Jahre gekämpft...??? ..und für was sind ihre Kameraden gestorben...??? ...am Ende hat man sie alle um ihr Leben betrogen... Verraten von gewissenlosen Führern

[@jero3034]

Danke für was? 🤨🤷🏼‍♂️

[@peterg6956]

Sie können doch lesen, oder?@@jero3034

[@peterg6956]

Kannst du nicht lesen?@@jero3034

[@BenStone_]

Made to stand in open fields for months on end without adequate shelter, starved on purpose. Shameful 🇬🇧

[@Thereishope664]

We stepped straight from that war to the Cold War, literally overnight.

[@davidrivero7943]

War is over for them . Some were sent as far away as Miami Fla to workcamps . Fixing roads & picking crops . They were ALL lucky.

[@ellebelle8515]

One of the POW camps in the Canadian west where my family was from, had 10,000 POW, more than the actual population of the city. The German POW were so well treated that many of them returned after peace and repatriation.

[@rainergrass887]

Bullshit.... They were carried to various camps at the Rheinwiesen or some were delivered to the French. Most of the time were not even treated as POWs but so called Disarmed enemy forces

[@lacertabilineata9337]

It is against international law to deport POWs for forced labour after end of war! Just saying...Is this your idea of ​​morality that prisoners of war are deported after the end of war and have to do slave labor for 5 years while their wives and children starve and have to clean up the war rubble? And then the Germans should fall on their knees and kiss your feet in gratitude? Wow!

[@ngiimeigaming8210]

I don't hate the soldiers i hate the Leaders

[@skipintroux4444]

Their leaders tried to save them from the horrors going on in Germany now. Now in Germany it is dangerous for indigenous young girls to go out in many places lest risk sexual assault from the recently imported shadow Germans.

[@paulbasq]

Passed through there today. Beautiful country.

[@MartinHernandez-ui9lo]

My Dad served with the 63rd ID. The normal German soldier would try to surrender but the SS troops behind them would shoot them in the back. When they did catch up to the SS troops not many, if any would survive.

[@legalmexican]

They should have been elated that they were not captured by the Russians.

[@mikekenyon8483]

Hundreds of thousands of German POWs were kept in horrific conditions.

[@johnwiddowson7240]

Don't know of many that were staved to death or gassed

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

So? Defending terrorists are you?

[@Hunterfinn625]

Go check out Eisenhower and the Rhine meadow camps. May change your view.

[@markofsatan9617]

Yeah, who cares?

[@paulrisson3780]

Funny that, so were many in concentration camps including Soviet prisons of war

[@reneebartok1816]

Sie wurden da zu tausenden abgeschlachtet oder verhungerten. Ruhetag in Frieden ,ihr seit unvergessen !

[@KK-rg1wz]

fake news, ...

[@eddieoi9444]

You mean just like the concentration camp prisoners?…

[@vladcraioveanu233]

​@@eddieoi9444Yes, or even worse. The yankees were not prepared for such mass of prisoners so they basically threw them inside barbed wire surrounded and left them to die or shot those trying to get out.

[@user-sp4pc8cs7u]

@@vladcraioveanu233not prepared...funny.....ridiculous.

[@lacertabilineata9337]

@@eddieoi9444 These men were surrenderd soldiers, they were not guilty of anything! On Eisenhower's orders, 5.2 million POWs were fenced in like animals, without shelter, without food or water! And hundreds of thousands have died. That was intentional! We Germans are always portrayed as the worst criminals. But your crimes are simply denied. Shame on you!

[@Exotic3000]

Many of them look like "I'm glad it's over"!

[@mistervacation23]

This is like something out of a book and you're the Swiss Family Clyde

[@frankk.2865]

Sei ihnen zu wünschen, dass sie auch die Kriegsgefangenschaft überlebt haben.

[@richardsimms251]

As much as I held the Germans in low esteem in the 1920’s, the 1930’s, the 1940’s and the 1950’s NOT all of them were bad people.

[@fez3416]

wow you have braincells congrats

[@Elitist20]

We should never think 'It can't happen here, not in my country' - fascism seems to be making a comeback now, in many self-proclaimed 'democratic' countries.

[@ianjenkins8114]

This is the most recycled comment on WW2 theme videos. Saying not all Germans were bad people during wartime offers no value. Bad things happen during war, good things happen. This isn’t insightful

[@jammer3618]

Tell that to those slaughtered by the wermact

[@nitdiver5]

General Patton supposedly said that the Germans were fine people and that our real enemy was the communists.

[@alexandersmoky2568]

Hach dort war mein Opa auch in Kriegsgefangenschaft aber dem ists dort blendend gegangen bekam so viel und gutes Essen von der Gastfamilie wie daheim nie.Natürlich musste er dort auch anpacken,war aber kein Problem für ihn da er es von Kind an nicht anders kannte😏

[@Ugh800]

1:57 This is not Frankenberg. I think it's Frankenau. It's a bit smaller and maybe 14-15km away from Frankenberg. In 2:23 you can see it clearly. I guess all the footage was taken in Frankenau. Maybe you wanna edit your titel and description.

[@worldwarfootage]

Frankenberg is the county and Frankenau a small city with today approx. 3.000 inhabitants, just next to Frankenberg. The video contains footage taken at both places. We already mentioned this in the description. However, thanks for your comment.

[@Ugh800]

Frankenberg used to be the county. Today it's Waldeck-Frankenberg. I live there.@@worldwarfootage

[@waltersen85]

​@@worldwarfootage All scenes are from Frankenau. The Scene ist mostly build with houses and gardens today.

[@eglin32]

maybe we don't give a damn where in that damned country it is

[@Ugh800]

@@eglin32Who is "we"? I guess you rather mean "you" in singular. And when you don't care where it is, why do you watch it? LUL

[@angloaust1575]

The french recruited them for service in indochina Foreign legion paratroops infantry and armour!

[@Julia.A05]

Ein Wahnsinn.....was sie erleiden mussten...

[@user-sp4pc8cs7u]

@@Lewis347yeah. or he was shot by Soviets just before repatriation...how do you know?

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

What suffering they inflicted! I heard today that nazis were responsible for 36 million deaths.

[@gerdrichter9242]

Jetzt beginnt die amerikanische Demokratie und Freiheit in Deutschland, Besatzungsideologie

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

Ja bis heute

[@giancarlopegoraro4024]

Many may have been simple soldiers fighting because they had to, but amongst them for sure there were criminals who killed civilians.

[@fanda789]

Velká většina byli svině,co mysleli,že dobudou svět.Po Stalingradu už věděli,že je to jejich konec.Pak jen utíkali a snažili se dostat do zajetí kamarádů Američanů.Zahazovali nejen odznaky,ale i zbraně a uniformy.

[@janetannerevans2320]

The Blitz and bombing of London, The bombing of the Netherlands killed hundreds and thousands. What you think that was done by just a few criminals?

[@user-sp4pc8cs7u]

@@janetannerevans2320you are really uneducated...

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

​​@@janetannerevans2320You forgot Dresden, Hamburg ,Stuttgart, Heilbron etc BERLIN so this was exceptable in your eyes give you head a shake

[@lacertabilineata9337]

@@janetannerevans2320 I could laugh my ass off at this comment if it weren't so sad! No country has ever been bombed as mercilessly as Germany! Every German civilian city was reduced to rubble and 43% of all living space was completely destroyed. My grandmother with 5 children was bombed out twice. Our entire culture from the past millennium destroyed forever. And don't tell me "Germany started", no! GB and FR declared war on Germany and the London Blitz was a response to a large number of British bombing raids. Until the 1960s, it was said that over 2 million German civilians had died in air raids. This number was continuously lied down to 500,000 deaths. Believe me, there were more! The 15-minute bombing of Rotterdam in the Netherlands followed an ultimatum from the Germans to surrender, which the Dutch authorities left until the last second! Most of the planes could still be stopped, but some could not. This cost over 700 people their lives. My mother, born in 1932, lived in Nuremberg. Nuremberg was bombed 28 times. When my grandmother's birthplace, the then beautiful Augsburg, was bombed, the firelight could be seen 200km away. You have no idea, really...

[@Gmac86.]

Sad…

[@RomanS.-qi2dg]

Ile lat mógł mieć ten chłopak mam nadzieję że doczekał spokojnej starości mieli dużo szczęścia że nie dostali się w ręce Rosjan nigdy więcej wojny.

[@tomaszkalina4570]

Wszyscy mieli iść na wczasy do ruskich i do piachu za wszystkie zbrodnie, rycerze Adolfa :D

[@ic8611]

Поздрав из Србије 🇷🇸

[@pAThomies]

They are SO lucky the Americans got them before the soviets made an example of them, I have ZERO respect for fascists and nazis but these men, in the end defended Germany with zero regard to their own lives, a weird mixture of courage and iron grit, may god forgive them🇩🇪

[@KK-rg1wz]

They were not fighting "to defend Germany", ... they were fighting for Hitler, paying the price for what they did in other countries, murdering millions of innocent people....

[@the_lost_navigator]

Most of these men aren't going to make it out of the local postwar collection camps due to starvation, disease or simply the elements. These men waited too long to surrender and have no chance of being shipped to PoW camps Stateside. Respect

[@pAThomies]

All this because someone wanted to be an artist, so many lives lost. I cannot imagine Britain recovering from losing TWO wars. Germany went down a deep road of glory from the old days of the Prussians and defeating the Romans to evil in Hitlers Third Reich, their history is arguably one of the greatest that’s ever been written into existence, even England is a bi product of mass German Migration, our languages have common ancestry. Always considered the German people brothers from distant times, we cannot make the same mistakes again and let facism and racism corrupt our society’s . We have to learn to stand together united. Petty beliefs aside. Only then can we be strong. Du gehst nie alleine. ❤️

[@nostalgiadelpassato5621]

@@pAThomies Quel semplice pittore che definisci "diavolo" (Hitler) per raggiungere il potere ha ottenuto finanziamenti da Wall Street, senza quest'ultimi sarebbe rimasto una persona comune! Le cause di due guerre mondiali vanno ricercate non dalle azioni dei singoli capi di stato ma da chi trae profitto nel far fruttare i capitali! Durante il secondo conflitto mondiale il famoso Ford costruiva autocarri per la Germania di Hitler, per l'URSS di Stalin e per l'esercito americano! Gli unici che hanno pagato con la vita per il business di pochi sono stati i civili dell'Europa intera!

[@ic8611]

Поздрав из Србије 🇷🇸

[@dejavu666wampas9]

When watching the Germans climbing into the truck, I couldn’t help but think about how many Jews had to climb into trucks like that, knowing that they were on the way to be shot. These Germans had no fears like that fear.

[@MM-ux8bx]

Was denkst Du was mit Soldaten passiert ist die nicht mehr kämpfen wollten?

[@charlesmartella]

The Jewish babies were thrown into the fire. Now the Jews throw the fire onto the Palestinian babies.

[@mautoban66]

What so you think might have happened to them. Starved and Freezed to death at Rheinwiesenlager !?!

[@dejavu666wampas9]

@@mautoban66 - Bad things happened to them. Surely. However, the Jews who were climbing onto such trucks had not fought, had not attempted to do any harm, to the people loading them onto the trucks. Therein lies the difference. These soldiers, just hours or days before these videos were taken, were actively trying to kill the truck drivers and American guards. The Jews were just trying to peacefully lead their lives, and suddenly they were being shot en masse, even though they presented no threat to the soldiers taking them away. My only point was that the psychological stresses of the Germans climbing into trucks was VERY different from the stresses and fears that the Jews were experiencing.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

There was a story that one tanker, artillery or AA officer told a war recorder in 1975, who was brought back to train the West German troops, after the fall of the USSR he was shown a picture by either Mossad or a French agent the story gets weird about a chemical researcher from the SS that was chief in chemical warfare, nobody knew his name, but his work kept on showing up in the Middle East, with gas grenades that had cyanide that had the same compositions as the one in the gas chamber, he told them "when a man, tells you the names of your parents, wife, siblings or children there is no choice"

[@lacertabilineata9337]

Bullshit!!!

[@klausbischoff6287]

Das ist Frankenau im Altkreis Frankenberg, heute Waldeck- Frankenberg

[@fredfinks]

from the scene at 3:23 , we can see that its in the field at 51°05'17.0"N 8°55'48.5"E on googlemaps

[@user-ij1vd2ww5g]

they wanted to go home. They were done.

[@lacertabilineata9337]

They ALL went to forced labour. They returned after many years, traumatized by war, humiliated and alienated from their families.

[@Joe_Peroni]

At least THEY survived, to live on in the new, rebuilt Germany.

[@badchefi]

Note 1:08 American officer wearing trophy German dress bayonet while hitting prisoners with a walking stick.

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

Why is he hitting the soldiers with a stick ?

[@badchefi]

@@rolandgeorgschramm1839 he takes the stick away from someone?

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

​@@badchefiI doubt it very much that this prisoners had sticks on them if you look closely it was an American soldier. But it is ok if you believe this as I believe in Santa Claus....

[@badchefi]

@@rolandgeorgschramm1839 watch it a few times - first you ask stupid questions, then you play smart. Volltrottel Roland.

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

@@badchefi Why should I waste my time watching something over and over. Haben sie ein Vogel ? Or where you born this way 😂 Verstanden ?

[@edelvanmezomomaurer6399]

Quem olha esses prisioneiros tão sorridentes não consegue imaginar o que eles faziam com uma arma na mão, liberte-os e não acreditará do que são capazes.

[@jcguerrin]

Merci de poster des vidéos en français où au moins sous titrées en français, Isabelle, France

[@pigafettalyon1270]

First observation: none of them exist. 2nd observation: they smile as they were spared the experience of being shot by SS for surrendering, spared being maimed by incoming ordnance, spared the witnessing of atrocities inflicted on fellow beings. 3rd observation; they then sought every opportunity to place their seed in the nether parts of a female, a female that had only two drives: owning a puppy and extracting ressources from a male; 4th observation: the progeny thus generated starts all over again, in parts of the world chosen by chance, to repeat these experiences.

[@mongoliy_o_o9911]

Братья моего деда. Все прибыли на фронт с Казахской ССР. 3 Брата были на этой жёстокой войне. 1. Без вести пропал (погиб) освобождая Латвию. 2. Погиб сражаясь в Австрии. 3. Вернулся живым. Но в глазах была ярость. За то что он видел. Что творил Третий рейх. Никогда не говорил. Но так и не простил их. Я смотря на это видео. Союзники спасли их от той участи той что они творили в Советском союзе. А расплата должна была быть. Ее отобрали у Советских войск. Понимаю что у меня нет к ним жалости. У меня в душе сейчас Злость и боль...

[@ayanaurmanbetova5547]

нет, союзник не спасли. они выбросили эти грузы на открытие поля и оставили умирать.

[@user-mf8te6xx6g]

Most, if not all, were just thankful to have made it through the war, and not dying like so many of their comrades in arms. Just soldiers, that most, were just following orders

[@johnmcdonald157]

And here you see the luckiest men in Germany in 1945.

[@alexandrospolitae129]

One million of them died about diseases, cold and starvation from 1,945 to 1,946. After war crimes.

[@through-faith-alone]

muh war crimes

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

Eisenhower death camps , that nobody talks about....

[@richardstamp5068]

False. Mark Felton discusses this false rumor about starving German POWS.

[@davidphillips6803]

Alot of closeted nazis in the comment section.

[@lewwer9707]

Wyobrażacie sobie co by się działo jakby tak to niemcy byli wtedy na miejscu amerykanów

[@andreasherrmann1129]

Und du weißt das genau??

[@lewwer9707]

​@@andreasherrmann1129Na pewno hitlerowcy jako panowie życia i śmierci i nieopisanego okrucieństwa we krwi względem podbitych narodów by się w nich zakochali Pozdrawiam uprzejmie

[@KPSX1]

​@@lewwer9707 💯

[@LawrenceofIsrael]

Yes. Nothing.

[@vwgolfdiesel]

@@andreasherrmann1129 Ja, 1939-1945 in Polen, aus Erfahrung. Die Bestialität hatte kein Ende. Was ist das für eine dumme Frage?

[@MrLuckytrucker21]

They were so glad to surrender to the Americans and live! The pow's in Russia not so lucky!

[@lacertabilineata9337]

Tell this to those Germans, who starved to death in US-captivity.

[@proud64]

Der Sieger erzählt wie es war. (wahr) Nur der/die Sieger. Wer im Glashaus sitzt, sollte nicht mit Steinen werfen.

[@user-ol5xp3cm8v]

Очень интересное видео 👍

[@Uwelein40]

Helden 🇩🇪💪

[@horstbluesman54]

Kriegsgefangene.

[@ic8611]

Поздрав из Србије 🇷🇸. Још смо ту.

[@biglebowski5737]

eher loser!

[@ChadwickTheChad]

germany is supposed to be part of the US.

[@thomasfeltes1041]

It was criminal that we allied with russia

[@gillchambers9008]

they had to fight for their country the same as the British had too

[@johnmanning5568]

As the British had to.

[@rebelcave8556]

​@@johnmanning5568 The British had to too

[@slide4180]

Watch on mute. The 'soundtrack' is some kind of techno torture.

[@fredericlormeau1947]

La fameuse whermarht finir comme ça c'est triste 🇨🇵☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@mikebrase5161]

The truck from 3rd PanzerGrenadier Division is a 1941 Ford.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pz]

Ford was quite happy selling the Germans vehicles, just business!

[@mikebrase5161]

@@JohnSmith-ei2pz there were Ford Factories in Germany, Belgium, Norway and the USSR long before WW2 started.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

Ford was a nazi at heart.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

They were only sad because they lost.

[@bepivisintainer2975]

I love those yanks in denial. 1. 500. 000 of Axis POW died of starvation on Allied concentration camps. But, we are not got under evil Soviets hands. We die in for the land of Freedom Fries❤❤❤

[@carlogambacurta548]

unbelievable? ! is it true, sure?

[@lacertabilineata9337]

@@carlogambacurta548 Sadly it´s true, they were starved to death on purpose.

[@shannonVwalker]

German soldiers happy at the hands of American soldiers knowing they will live, and don't have to fight a crazy man war no more.

[@user-sp4pc8cs7u]

happy for being overpowered by too many idiots?

[@neilcrowesongs9768]

They look to outnumber the Americans. Where aere they taken?

[@GerrikdiCoronelli]

There are many reports that many German soldiers were completely starved, physically and mentally exhausted. There was no reason to fight at all, but many were happy that there was a prospect of food and safety

[@user-sy9yu4sf7u]

ENDE.

[@zigman8550]

Love that guy's black jacket with the pink piping at 1:30. I think only panzer crews wore those.

[@hanswerner6527]

You are absolut right.👍 Its a Panzerfahrer Uniform of the Wehrmacht, because the eagle is on the breast not on the sleeve (SS).

[@andik859]

This was designed by Hugo Boss.

[@hanswerner6527]

@@andik859 No, Hugo Boss did not design the Uniforms (Walter Heck & Karl Diebitsch did it). Boss only manufactured some of them.

[@andik859]

@@hanswerner6527 ok i know they are from Hugo Boss.

[@AltIng9154]

Right. They could be regarded to be SS members, what they were not. The skull was a tradition of cavallery .... .

[@CharlesHenriBatjoens]

J'ai mal au coeur de voir tous ces gamins..

[@kal.50bmg32]

The spirit of liberation? My ass!

[@lmc4964]

love the period music

[@michelsmet2611]

Prisoners - but happy to be in American or British hands, ad not in Soviet ones ...

[@johnmanning5568]

Otherwise they wouldn’t be going home until 1954

[@michelsmet2611]

I think that the last German prisoners of war were finally back in Germany in 1955 ... @@johnmanning5568

[@AnnelieseWozniak]

Bachweg in Frankenau Hessen 51°05`22" N8°55´55"E Lagerplatz

[@worldwarfootage]

Hallo, danke für diese Angabe, aber an welcher Stelle im Video soll der Bachweg zu sehen sein? Bitte in mm:ss angeben.

[@ripvanwinkle1819]

USA fought the junior varsity team in Europe mostly. Japan was a different test however

[@Rinstra1]

¿¿ Por que no hablais nunca de los campos de exterminio de Eisenhower ?? ¿o es un tema prohibido este que está fuera de la historia oficial de la 2GM?

[@ChadwickTheChad]

The US didn't do anything wrong in WWII. That's your answer.

[@Rinstra1]

​@@ChadwickTheChad Si Hubiera habido un juicio de verdad tras el final de la 2ª GM 1º Por mentiras e injurias para entrar en la guerra 2º Crimenes de guerra y violaciones de mujeres. 3º Bombardeo Sistemático y nocturno de poblaciones civiles sin interés militar con bombas incendiarias y de fosforo blanco que provocaban las tipificadas "tormentas de fuego" 4º Tirar bombas nucleares en dos ciudades sin interes militar a poblaciones civiles una vez se estaba negociando las condiciones de la rendición de Japon 5º Establecimiento oficial mediante legislación expresa para no atender ni siquiera en lo mas mínimo la " Convención de Ginebra" sobre los 5 m9illones y medio de prisioneros alemanes que se vieron avocados a morir en las mas horribles condiciones de presidio en campos cuya única infraestructuras eran las alambradas de espino para que no escaparan. Te podría contar mas detalles pero eso espero que la historia y la verdad de los hechos ponga algún día a los aliados en su verdadero lugar.

[@bepivisintainer2975]

😂😂😂​@@ChadwickTheChad true

[@rolandgeorgschramm1839]

​@@ChadwickTheChadThat is false and you know this. Check( read) Eisenhower death camps trust me it is not fake. Eventually as time goes on more closed information will appear . We won't be around when all of the truth will be to our availability ...

[@kekstruppe1263]

This town looks just like Germany in 2024. Unbelievable! 😮

[@biglebowski5737]

Vielleicht da wo Du wohnst......im Asoviertel!

[@kekstruppe1263]

😂😂

[@Iazzaboyce]

The US soldier wielding the walking stick must have forgot he had a German bayonet on his belt.

[@harry.h7838]

I think it's an SS dagger..

[@tomservo5347]

The Germans seem more amused at his gestures rather than actually fearful....probably some REMF with his SS dagger trophy.

[@andrewtomlinson18]

Strange that their was no German resistance as their was with the French when they were invaded

[@AlphaChinoz]

There were, but the situation was quite different. The Germans knew they had lost the war, there was no real point in continuing the fight. But you did have the Volkssturm (I believe most notably in the Battle of Berlin), and certain cases of German military units fighting on - the most interesting one, to me, being the battle for Schloss Itter (or Itter Castle). At this castle, the German Army units had surrendered to the Americans, but the SS units had not and the Americans were waiting for reinforcements. They decided they were out of time, so they actually rearmed the German Army units and had them fight the SS soldiers hiding in the castle (and the Army won). So literally Germans fighting Germans at the end, although I believe this was a fairly isolated case/incident.

[@johnpatrick9610]

@@AlphaChinoz Shouldn't that be a war crime on the AMERICANS SIDE?

[@janetannerevans2320]

you can't be serious. @@johnpatrick9610

[@westmister]

Very sad to see it.

[@wesleygomes1518]

While the others? They died in battle. This is war.

[@MB-hv3ic]

min 1.12: tiene una daga de honor el soldado americano .

[@lacertabilineata9337]

Yes, stolen!

[@user-lf4tj6rg9h]

Повезло,,,живы остались

[@rpcclo]

rank meant nothing for the germans in the end …

[@shanefrance5071]

How did they manage going to the toilet as there was none 😮

[@trumphair3519]

Малой залез на кузов и клюкой его клюкой:)

[@cracoviancrusader6184]

Read about the Rhine Meadows if you want the facts.

[@Thorscauldron]

2:13 What is the film makers interest in this sweet, sensitive young man?

[@TheBaraneck]

They were probably wondering how such sweet, sensitive young men could carry out the cruellest orders without blinking an eye.

[@Thorscauldron]

@TheBaraneck right he looks nervous. I wondered if he had been used as an interpreter? If he was american-born.. They did single him out for some reason.

[@vladcraioveanu233]

​@@TheBaraneckobviously he did not followed orders as he surrendered instead of fighting to the death.

[@TheBaraneck]

@@vladcraioveanu233 Yeah, just when the going got tough a lot of them got insubordinate, humane and antifascist all of a sudden.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

At 1:07 what is the American soldier doing with that cane?

[@fcamiola]

I was wondering the same thing.......

[@johnpatrick9610]

@@fcamiola Being a prick

[@martinwarner1178]

Acting like a big shot, usual yankee.

[@raoulvolfoni1800]

He’s explaining what discipline means .

[@SteveSmith-eb6ze]

They sure look defeated. A whole army in rags and worn out clothing.

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

Yes them Yankees sure are scruffy bud 👍

[@jcgirardeau1432]

et la convention de geneve

[@EDURASTELLIBORDIGNON6806]

Um homem só fez esse estrago, tudo pelo poder e agora morto e por tudo que fez perdeu salvação vida eterna .

[@lacertabilineata9337]

So simpel war es nicht. An diesem Weltkrieg waren viele beteiligt und ich spreche nicht von den Deutschen. Und der Krieg hatte eine lange Vorgeschichte, die man nicht ausblenden darf, weil man es sonst nicht verstehen kann.

[@comprandobien]

Héroes derrotados deseando volver a casa veían ya cerca el momento

[@lacertabilineata9337]

Der Moment dauerte noch ein paar Jahre. Erst Lagerhaft überleben und dann ein paar Jahre Zwangsarbeit überleben. Die Frauen und Kinder mussten die Kriegstrümmer ohne die Männer wegräumen.

[@samorayee420]

If you are a political person this video give you lessons 😢

[@e30325ikiller]

crazy how dirty their clothes are after all these horrors they gone thru

[@Daniel-ss1cy]

My. Guess. Is. They. Were. Glad. To. Go. Back. Home. To. Their. 70,000. Towns, hamlets and. Villages. And. Made. It. Out. Alive...luke any repatriated. Soldier. Would. Be

[@lacertabilineata9337]

They all went to forced labour for years! And very often their "home" was no more!

[@martinwhittenbury5517]

"A defeated Army, but not always a broken one!"

[@user-ml5tu3tq6i]

한 때 온 유럽을 호령하더니 항복해서 당하는 모습이 참...

[@meinemeinung2626]

Die Hintergrundmusik nervt extrem.

[@geoffreymarks-9034]

Yes just normal people like us

[@user-oj9ei6gv3m]

この映像のドイツ兵は愛する家族や愛する人の元に生きて帰れたのだろうか?戦争は勝っても負けても必ず悲しい死が降りかかる。戦争は,しては,いけない!!

[@lacertabilineata9337]

All of them were sent to prisoner camps and after to forced labour for about 2-5 years.