Unique footage of the surrender and disarmament of german troops. Lots a detailed uniform and equipement can be seen in good quality. The location is between Soest and Hilversum, may 1945.
Пікірлер: 1 100
@MrWolf-kd8yh3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was in the 6th panzer army and survived the battle of Stalingrad where he was captured by the Russians. His resolve and unbreakable spirit saw him coming back home to his family in 1956. He out lived everyone he knew and made it into his 100 birthday. He is a good man and always proud of him. Don't let bad leadership paint the broad brush for good honorable everyday men
@santaclause42853 жыл бұрын
TO todays millenials would give up the first day without their phones or starbucks coffee
@KR-jt4ut3 жыл бұрын
Who invited him to Russia? How many civilians did he executed? How many Russian houses did he burn? I presume he never told about that.
@antjack26023 жыл бұрын
@@KR-jt4ut Not nearly enough
@meljenkins10163 жыл бұрын
Dude, I would have loved to hear war stories from your dad especially of Stalingrad with a tall liter mug of Bitburger Bier. BTW it was the 6th Army & the 4th Panzer Army that went to Stalingrad.
@KR-jt4ut3 жыл бұрын
@@meljenkins1016 Indeed, the fact that "Mr Wolf" even doesn't know that, makes his story (only 5000 Nazi soldiers came back in 1955 - not 1956 -) unbelievable. And now, ... getting the age of 100??? After such experiences ....
@frankteunissen61183 жыл бұрын
My Father was from Nijmegen. He was 17 at the time and he had learned English in school and spoke fluent German because Nijmegen is right next to the German border. He worked as an interpreter first for the Americans and later the Canadians. One of his tasks was interpreting the interrogation of POWs. He said that on the whole it was a sad business. Some of the things he saw caused him nightmares, making him sit screaming upright in bed in the middle of the night from time to time, right until he died in 2004. My Mother learned to cope with his episodes fairly early on in her marriage. She never complained or anything, just reckoned it was part of the deal she had made at the altar.
@reneegiese63153 жыл бұрын
That’s all sad, let’s hope for a better future.
@9lettere6683 жыл бұрын
@@reneegiese6315 amen
@9lettere6683 жыл бұрын
like what ? executions ?
@roybean71663 жыл бұрын
Why, was your father a nazi sympathizer ?
@frankteunissen61183 жыл бұрын
@@9lettere668, he saw German soldiers who wanted to surrender being shot in the back by the SS. Many of the POWs that were brought in had been wounded, some very badly. There was apparently one instance of a man who was brought in who had both arms and both legs ripped off. He was obviously dying and my Father went over to ask him if he perhaps wanted a message to be forwarded to his next of kin, but the man died as he bent over him. It goes on and on, men being burned alive by flamethrower tanks etc. Towns that had been captured were rubble heaps where the dead bodies of men, women and children, some severely mutilated, were lying around in the streets.
@fleetwoodmac41233 жыл бұрын
My father was an RAF pilot who worked with BAOR after the war. He told me that most Germans regretted having lost the war but few showed any contrition about having been part of it.
@brucemarsico63 жыл бұрын
Why would they?....they thought that they were right. I knew a german woman, some ten years ago, who said that those who were sent to the concentration camps deserved what they got. She was in her mid forties then. Born in 1965. Only twenty years after the surrender.....her mother and father had no serious pangs of conscious or guilt.
@woodenseagull18993 жыл бұрын
@@brucemarsico6 Sounds like it is still the nation of the damned.
@brucemarsico63 жыл бұрын
@@woodenseagull1899 For a nation that's perceived as a model of precision and efficiency, well run and culturally superior, they've made a lot of really stupid mistakes. Just think, if they hadn't begun the Great War in 1914, and stayed as large in area as they were then, they'd be a huge influence on the world stage. German would probably be a 'must learn' language in U.S. schools. Sure, it's got a strong economy and is influential in Europe but on the world stage it's a pistol shit nation. Opportunity lost......
@tjb72842 жыл бұрын
@@brucemarsico6 You really believe that this stupid woman you met ten years ago speaks for the majority of Germans today? I neither believe that you are so naive nor do I believe that you deliberately want to paint a false picture of Germany and the Germans.
@tjb72842 жыл бұрын
@@woodenseagull1899 Sounds like you were taken in by fake news.
@boudiccasbattalion69113 жыл бұрын
yep this is my dads battalion ( 1st Leicestershire Reg, 147th Brigade, 49th division , The Polar Bears ) enjoying themselves disarming these German units. My dad ( lance cpl Les Hall )was in Blackpool at this time eating dinner I expect , as he had just been liberated from a prisoner of war camp by the Yanks and flown back to blighty after being captured at Arnhem .He had spent 6 months being starved , beaten up and forced march across Europe in the worst winter in living memory so even he was glad to go to Blackpool, where he put back on the 4 and ahalf stone he had lost...Incidentally, the Leicestershires replaced the 6th Duke of Wellington Reg in July of 44 after the Dukes suffered fantastic bad luck and very heavy casualties, so heavy in fact, that they were returned to England to reform .My father was in both regiments and like most vets never talked about his war experiences however reading the war diaries of the regiments its amazing he survived especially when you consider he was shot in the head..,which is never great ..lots of mess and missing teeth..and as he said to me one drunken time .." I got the rest kicked out playing Rugby league" ...i dont think they make them like that any more ...needless to say he was very bitter about the war particularly his lost friends ...I dont think he ever got over his experiences, PTSD wasnt a thing in those days and like all his generation never complain about his lot he just got on with things ...ps he was just turned 19 years old when he landed in Normandy D plus 7...
@barrybarnes963 жыл бұрын
Many of them with PTSD didn't just "get on with things"...lots of them drank themselves to death and/or beat their wives and children due to the psychological damage, stress etc. They just did it behind closed doors. My grandfather survived Beaumont Hamel, barely uttered a word ever after, and walked down the hallway linoleum from constant pacing 12 hours a day the rest of his life.
@philipnestor50343 жыл бұрын
God bless your dad, he’s one of the Greatest Generation that saved us!
@greybirdo3 жыл бұрын
@@barrybarnes96 , plenty of them ended their own lives.too. PTSD has probably been a ‘thing’ since Gronk first clubbed Shag’s brains out over a Wooly Mammoth carcass.
@davidakins85862 жыл бұрын
:mm
@kevinhughes7202 жыл бұрын
BS.
@mbabist013 жыл бұрын
My late father was drafted near the end of WW II and served in the Army of Occupation. One time he had to guard a work detail of German POW's. The Germans learned that an American colonel was coming for an inspection. They asked dad if it was true that American officers carried their own kit (instead of a batman), and dad affirmed it. So, instead of taking the chow truck back to camp, they all waited behind to see if what dad told them was true. Sure enough, this colonel got out of this jeep carrying his own luggage. It really made the Germans day seeing that.
@sailormanoyster18492 жыл бұрын
The land of the free😁
@laserprop2 жыл бұрын
If I was one of those soldiers, either side, I'd be sitting there all day counting and recounting my fingers and toes, ecstatic that I had survived the slaughter.
@Channel-os4uk2 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't have started it then pal, by following the Austrian corporal...
@philmellor48852 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you can almost hear the sighs of relief.
@jamiecrable35112 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@Lumotaku2 жыл бұрын
you can say that but the germans were not sure what awaited them or what was left of their homes.
@dr.wilfriedhitzler18852 жыл бұрын
Every third Wehrmacht-Soldier didn't make it. You must have been clever, night and day, to survive. Ans you must have had luck.
@micahjamesfilms3 жыл бұрын
This is haunting. What a stark contrast to see some calm after so much violence. War is asinine.
@LouishWaltz2 жыл бұрын
I knew a man who fought in this war, who we used to talk to walking his dog around the local park. I visited him sometime in the early 2000's and he showed me photos he had taken during his time fighting in the war. I never forget the ones he took of them all celebrating with a beer in a makeshift beer tent, when the war was declared 'over'. I only hope his photos were kept, treasured and perhaps shared by his family.
@nero74693 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather fought from 1944 to 1945; he was apart of the 69th Infantry Division 273rd Infantry Regiment. Although I don't no much since he pasted when I was little. My Gram told me he never really talked about it since he hated it, he hated war. I get that since he was just a farmer and only 18 and thrown into a war.
@karstenpaulsen16653 жыл бұрын
My father fought until 4th May 1945 as a member of the Alarmbattallion 1. He was wounded and captured by Canadian soldiers in the near of Oldersum. In this area the last hard fights where done.
@schmutza_54263 жыл бұрын
Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt.
@distantthunder12ck553 жыл бұрын
And you would have fought too had you been in his place and his time.
@dimasgestas71903 жыл бұрын
I have to send the most respects to him. My grandpa still alive. He is 97 now .... He defended Moscow, 3 wounds. He cannot talk anymore, but as I remember, He said the Cold was overwhelming.
@karstenpaulsen16653 жыл бұрын
@@dimasgestas7190 Hi Dimas, my father died 1999, he would be also 97 if still alive. Honour to your grandpa and keep your family hero in a good mind. Thanks.
@karstenpaulsen16653 жыл бұрын
@@DustySenecal33 Hi, the C ist now corrected, thanks for info and comment.
@graemedurie90943 жыл бұрын
Some of those troops on both sides, captors and captives, look so young. There's one captive who looks no more than 15.
@davidgifford81123 жыл бұрын
They were young. This is true of all wars. The biggest lie in war movies is the age of the actors play soldier.
@henryseidel54693 жыл бұрын
@@davidgifford8112 Wars are usually started and made with very young people who believe in all the propaganda shit because they don't know any better. Elderly, experienced people will immediately know that they are being cheated and lied to.
@philiplagomarsino40863 жыл бұрын
Wars R fought by the young
@graemedurie90943 жыл бұрын
@@philiplagomarsino4086 Young men, yes, of course. The ones I was referring to look to be boys, not yet men.
@kilertobi3 жыл бұрын
Yes, at the end of the war the nazis used also child soldiers. If you didn't know it and want more information you can watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haKpmamBlteMoLc&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
@ariesrcn3 жыл бұрын
1:27 you see a German military police on the right. They were the last to disarm and often worked with allied forces to keep the peace after Germanys surrender.
@Fox-One19373 жыл бұрын
The fieldgendarmerie
@folkestender20253 жыл бұрын
But these people were also the ones who made sure to the last that no German soldier could desert. In the last days of the war this military police "Feldgendarmerie" shot dead over ten thousand German deserters or hung them on trees. The German soldiers called these military police "chain dogs" because of the chain they wore around their necks. Some of them were worse than the SS.
@Fox-One19373 жыл бұрын
@@folkestender2025 that are rules of war. Do you know that allied forces alloued the application of judgments rendered before surrendering by German military courts, many soldiers passed through the execution pluton (German soldiers) with the supervision and approbation of allied forces
@None-zc5vg3 жыл бұрын
@@Fox-One1937 ...and homosexuals went from the camps into prisons.
@mebsrea3 жыл бұрын
@@None-zc5vg That’s an interesting point. The vast majority of people imprisoned in Germany toward the end the war were in captivity either as POWs or for “crimes” that weren’t crimes under the laws of the Allies, but some were ordinary thieves, fraudsters, etc. Were they all just released when the Allies arrived, or was there some sort of double-checking by the Allies before opening the gates?
@buttersstotch79813 жыл бұрын
That Luftwaffe officer with sunglasses on the car looks like a coolest dude of the WWII 1:02
@neinnein93063 жыл бұрын
Captain K. finally survived!
@mrphatmunkeyspew69693 жыл бұрын
He is actually a time traveller
@Hakkeholt3 жыл бұрын
It's Claus (Junker) von Amsberg, later he married the Dutch queen :lol:
@spitfiremkiv3393 жыл бұрын
That's Captain Klenzendorf AKA Captain K. Looks like he survived the firing squad.
@Wally-H3 жыл бұрын
@@Hakkeholt No it is not. The guy in the Kubelwagen is a Luftwaffe General, as shown by his shoulder patches. von Amsberg wasn't conscripted until 1944. He was put into the 90th Panzergrenadier division in March 1945 but saw no action before surrendering to the Americans.
@PauloPereira-jj4jv3 жыл бұрын
I just can't imagine how sad is the end of such a war, when everything is over - and at the same time is not. There are so many work ahead.
@PauloPereira-jj4jv3 жыл бұрын
@@kaa13 .. yes, for survivors. Time to think about what was lost, time to rebuild, to cry...it' s all over, and at the same time it's not.
@schmutza_54263 жыл бұрын
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv bro I 100% can understand you
@graemesydney383 жыл бұрын
The germans in the vid seemed pretty pleased.
@mochamadvitoyanuar49033 жыл бұрын
The harsh experience if my country or other people's country got invaded and defeated, and the economy just collapse. Not just that, we dont know what happen to our family or our friends in home when we back from war. Some people missing, some people got ptsd, some people got killed, some people got raped. I hope we dont experience that such thing.
@Interdiction2 жыл бұрын
@@graemesydney38 Pleased because they are not in the hands of the RUSSIANS
@geraldwilson681 Жыл бұрын
I would imagine these German soldiers and officers were relieved to surrender to the British rather than the Red Army.😬
@paulgabolinscy25023 жыл бұрын
Great footage. Some of those soldiers were so young. Thanks for posting 🇬🇧
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
BECAUSE THE EARLIER ARMIES WERE MOSTLY DEAD.
@ndie80755 ай бұрын
Thanks for beeing a friend...british cousin
@milanSK19803 жыл бұрын
At aprox. 0:53 or 1:15 it looks like the German officers were allowed to keep pistols. Anybody knows if it was usual?
@ivywilliams94273 жыл бұрын
I have noticed that too
@alo94093 жыл бұрын
Yes standard Geneva convention - to keep order among their own men. "As of June 16, 1945, the U.S., France, and the U.K. held a combined total of 7,500,000 German POWs and DEFs. By June 18, the U.S. had discharged 1,200,000 of these." Soldiers who surrendered after hostilities ended were possibly under a more moderate regime.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmed_Enemy_Forces en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Surrendered_Personnel
@trelawneychipepera44543 жыл бұрын
Another aspect is that the Allies had a secret admiration for the German officer class and trusted them enough to maintain disclipine amongst the POW. However this was not the same on the Eastern Soviet controlled front
@harimurtiwibowo56973 жыл бұрын
No more war. War just makes people suffering, pain, starving and crying. Let peace comes into the world forever.
@Baskerville223 жыл бұрын
And how do you propose doing that, Harimurti ? By writing your thought bubbles on KZbin ? I had an 'idea' about a jetplane that could fly from London to New York in just 5 minutes, but I have still not worked out how it can be done. But it's certainly a great idea, isn't it ? I've also had a great 'idea' about eliminating every disease known to man, from the common cold to cancer, but I still haven't figured out how it can be achieved. DO YOU GET MY POINT ?
@lukeconnolly47363 жыл бұрын
@@Baskerville22 Jesus man, calm down. The guy was just speaking his opinion
@ichibanmanekineko3 жыл бұрын
@@Baskerville22 thanks for volunteering on my behalf bud. I'll be with Harimurti living a life of peace and good will...
@brucemarsico63 жыл бұрын
Just like in the mid 1960s. 'War isn't healthy for children or other living things'.
@caesarvalentin63323 жыл бұрын
No war iwas good but WW2 was necessary to wipe the fascist and imperialist attitude out of Germany and Japan evil criminal mindsets
@Antagraber3 жыл бұрын
Peace....at least for many of them. Time to rebuild their lifes.
@commisarmichael80973 жыл бұрын
Welp, not for those in East Germany. There is Poland from Oder to Bug Rivers.
@mudmen3 Жыл бұрын
thank you for introducing me to Ólafur Arnalds music... i had never heard him before
@lorenzbroll1012 жыл бұрын
All very odd to believe that these kids were trying to kill one other off just a few months previous.
@Fox-One19373 жыл бұрын
Those former German soldiers captured in the west were who rebuild Germany and alloued this country to have strong economy
@semsemeini79053 жыл бұрын
You mean the Nazis who Chancellor Adenauer gave Senior positions to in the post German Government? Wow how impressive.
@mjoelnir583 жыл бұрын
@@semsemeini7905 Terrorists from the Haganah got high political positions in Israel,so what?Happened in a lot of countries by the way in whole history.
@Marco-bf4uu3 жыл бұрын
@@semsemeini7905 Yes and that's ok.
@swaldron55583 жыл бұрын
We British paying our debts, not fair.
@nikosz662 жыл бұрын
Yes, with a massive American economic aid and the cheap working hands of Greeks and other nations that they had just destroyed.
@rolfagten8572 жыл бұрын
Commander Krueger's golden cigarette box was used as a metaphor. In the end asks Captain Schmidt to Lt. Hartman when he comes to the cigarette box. "Through a friend" replies Hartman. At that point, Schmidt thought the battle had been betrayed by Krueger.
@kylerb23 жыл бұрын
How old is that young lad @2.09 ?
@Scottie4043 жыл бұрын
These German soldiers should thank God they weren't taken prisoner by the Red Army.
@jpip13823 ай бұрын
Exactly, Red Army and the Soviets were nothing but bandits.
@user-yp5id7id8xАй бұрын
Yes! Siberia is very cold!
@ludogayko2512Ай бұрын
How many times do we have to listen to this??
@annettaharris9269Ай бұрын
Why do you think they are headed west?
@5ch4rn3 жыл бұрын
1:16, the lufty officer being allowed to retain a pistol?
@jimmypage6323 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy Greene go back to bed man, sleepy Jimmy!
@The_BobFather3 жыл бұрын
Captured officers are allowed to keep their sidearms. Rule of war.
@DailyBrusher3 жыл бұрын
Oh Jam got it right - Grant did the same with Lee's officers, at Appomattox.
@The_BobFather3 жыл бұрын
@@DailyBrusher Correction: my bad: "Surrendering" officers.... There's a fine distinction.
@The_BobFather3 жыл бұрын
@Marc H. I really don't like doing research for lazy people. It's a tradition, and is one of the terms in surrender negotiations: Sidearm (weapon) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidearm_(weapon) In the protocol of courtesy, the surrender of a commander's sidearm is the final act in the general surrender of a unit. If no ill will is meant, and a strict interpretation of military courtesy is applied, a surrendering commander may be allowed to keep his sidearm in order to exercise his right of command over his men. Honours of war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honours_of_war "For example, it may be appropriate to allow surrendering officers to keep their side arms." The Surrender Meeting www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm "Grant also allowed Confederate officers to keep their mounts and side arms." www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/18/sprj.irq.chemical/index.html U.S.: Iraqi forces may have mustard, VX gases "Iraqi officers would be permitted to keep sidearms."
@bluebirdrage3 жыл бұрын
What is the music please?
@ramonlucas20322 жыл бұрын
The Good has Triumphed,Evil is Beaten
@rogercude1459 Жыл бұрын
Not till Putins dead!
@tristanzz163010 ай бұрын
The Evil has Triumphed,Good is Beaten*
@ahronthegreat10 ай бұрын
@@tristanzz1630ok edgelord 😂
@nocopyright795711 күн бұрын
@@ahronthegreatwhat's edgy in this? Call Patton an edgelord?
@johnwalker46423 жыл бұрын
Grateful to be alive.
@kandicebrown44363 жыл бұрын
Yes but not in a gas chamber I don't think some of their regular military new what was really happening. Most soldiers followed orders until they changed.
@alancameron24332 жыл бұрын
My Uncle was stationed in Soest.Last tour of duty.Bless the sacred memory.
@johanloudzan18503 жыл бұрын
à 0,56 =ils se sont rendus ,pourquoi ce shako est il encore armé ?
@Hakkeholt3 жыл бұрын
1:20 Please return my grandmothers bicycle!
@rikspring3 жыл бұрын
🥴🥱
@ichabodon3 жыл бұрын
War is chaos, but so is the aftermath
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
''War is Hell, but the main thing is, that you WIN, YOU BLOODY-WELL WIN, then to Hell with it''. Sir Arthur ''BOMBER'' Harris. HERO.
@sonnyburnett87253 жыл бұрын
Two of my Uncles fought in WWll, one in Europe and the other against Japan. “WHEN” I could get a story out of them they would always try to make the stories not sound awful, but you knew it had to. How do you tell a humorous story about people trying to kill you. They genuinely sacrificed themselves for our good. Thank you vets!
@georgecapstick72303 жыл бұрын
According to my father (NW Europe 44-45) war is "99% boredom and 1% sheer fucking terror".
@walthermodel012 жыл бұрын
R. E. T. A. R. D the world is a mess because of those worms. Bad guys won.
@kevinhughes7202 жыл бұрын
For our good? are you having a joke?
@hairydogstail Жыл бұрын
I had friends and relatives who fought in both the Pacific and Europe. I never heard the hatred for the Germans they had for the Japanese. They hated them until they died..
@robbertadriaansen3 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me who the composer of the music score is? Thanks in advance :)
@alo94093 жыл бұрын
Song Beth's Theme Artist Ólafur Arnalds It's in another video by the same channel too ..Hilversum 1945
@robbertadriaansen3 жыл бұрын
@@alo9409 Thank you very much
@1daddy573 жыл бұрын
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Milling Around Surrenders
@lunafringe102 жыл бұрын
I met a guy how never stopped talking about the war, my girlfriends dad.
@crzyndncwby2 жыл бұрын
The guy that should've never stop telling me about the war, (my mother's father) never got to.... HE NEVER CAME HOME. He's buried near where he fell, in France.
@photoisca73862 жыл бұрын
I guess he was a REMF. Two of my school friends fathers and my uncle were cases in point. My uncle was a marine and one father a tank driver, they never spoke a word. The other father was an electrician and he was full of stories of hi-jinks, liberation and souvenirs. His boss, the brigadier, was like the officer in Kelly's heroes, he acquired a string of hunters in France and had them shipped back to his farm in Ireland.
@189hosp63 жыл бұрын
And most of them are gone, now history... Life is fleeting.
@VolkerGerman3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but most of them went on living in peace time with their families--on both sides--had children and watched them grow up, helped rebuilding their countries, lived their lives, happy and sad moments ... So, it is true, life is fleeting, but at the end you may look back and still say, it was good.
@189hosp63 жыл бұрын
@@VolkerGerman Absolutely...but the fussing and fighting at the end makes no sense.
@randycox35223 жыл бұрын
what is this soundtrack ?
@Kent-Eric6 ай бұрын
About 1.17 in the video, that german unteroffizier, is it a side arm he puts back into his right back pocket? 😮
@caesarvalentin63323 жыл бұрын
My father from Puerto 🇵🇷 Rico joined the US army in 1940 and left it in 1946. He was a lucky guy since he wasn't involved in any battle.
@berzerker11002 жыл бұрын
Vaya bro- der ! 🪖👍
@railfanadam19443 жыл бұрын
At least they weren't surrendering to the Soviets.
@nubeirothropic3 жыл бұрын
Same thing... millions of Germans were massacred in both sides... unfortunately.
@Skippy-id9yt3 жыл бұрын
@@nubeirothropic yeah but the Germans probably should not have starved 3 million Soviet POWs
@dimasgestas71903 жыл бұрын
Germans first newer applied Geneva convention tu the soviets, them they were afraid of surrendering to them. Why would it be? lol
@massimobernardo-3 жыл бұрын
@@nubeirothropic Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ?
@lynn0MA3 жыл бұрын
They were relieved not surrender to the Soviets after the savage murders of whole towns in Russia. So yeah, they were happy.
@msmunir2012 Жыл бұрын
what language they used for communication between British and German? I don't see translator
@damienmayne72056 ай бұрын
Dutch men used to be translators, some of those men are Dutch Underground operatives.
@ndie80755 ай бұрын
Anglo Saxon
@pogmothoin13423 жыл бұрын
They didnt look vanquished, just glad it was over, and when wars were fought with 15 year olds,on both sides.
@avginkel3 жыл бұрын
At the end of the reel (2:09 - 2:15), you see the second British guard having grabbed a war souvenir from the pile behind him. He is shouldering a German Mauser Kar-98 rifle!
@brucemcnair23 жыл бұрын
Wow. Amazing footage. Hopefully never again.
@AnonAnonAnon3 жыл бұрын
Its happened many, many times since but on smaller scales. The newly created United Nations stated in 1945 that genocide would never happen again. Its happened again, and again, and again. Even happening as I type this.
@vtlomboy3 жыл бұрын
unfortunately, America is the world policeman, we will always be in the middle of some conflict.
@mampe88983 жыл бұрын
People never learn. Never
@andrewh54573 жыл бұрын
@@vtlomboy with great power comes great responsibility.
@HarryB-lb1fb3 жыл бұрын
Where were you on January 6, 2021? The Nazis attacked our nations capitol.
@neilyoung90642 жыл бұрын
My grandad wanted to be military police and my other grandad was chief mechanic on the hurricanes 🙂
@mexicanfries53363 жыл бұрын
The sale of these weapons benefited whom?
@bryancoombesart3 жыл бұрын
2:00 gun collector's wet-dream
@blueskdragonFX3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes the Netherlands. Not far from my home. Besides the weapons and ammo they dumped everything into massive holes in the ground. Sadly this is on modern days military ground and is very difficult to get access to. But pictures on the web show people unearthing mass amounts of all kinds of items but mostly helmets and gasmask tins.
@pauljamison33403 жыл бұрын
That kid in the jumper at the end???
@SK-lt1so3 жыл бұрын
It's good to see, that even to the very end, there was hair styling oil in Germany.
@wirelessone29863 жыл бұрын
Axle grease...its everywhere
@BOB-wx3fq3 жыл бұрын
They could've powered a me 262 with that low grade fuel
@deg67883 жыл бұрын
It's oil f
@jenniferlarson64263 жыл бұрын
Some of those German soldiers had very modern haircuts. You can't see too much in this film, but in other war films you can see the finely cut and chiseled hair on many Nazis. Some of them looked really good too. I want to know where these guys were going for their haircuts.
@steinargangasster96183 жыл бұрын
@mdo686 The Litle Drummer
@franceleeparis373 жыл бұрын
The Germans must have been gritting their teeth as the Brits patted them down... just 5 years earlier they thought they could walk all over England ... schadenfreude comes to mind...still, bet they were glad it was the Brits and not the Russians...
@swaldron55583 жыл бұрын
Even now I’m still can’t believe that powerful Nazi German lost the war.
@franceleeparis373 жыл бұрын
@@swaldron5558 … why do you think America is always after oil.. without oil you can’t do sweet FA … now, if Germany had invented coal fired tanks…
@affectionatepunch2 жыл бұрын
@@swaldron5558 Nazi Germany declared war on the world they were doomed
@affectionatepunch2 жыл бұрын
@@franceleeparis37 What the fuck are you rambling on about what German oil?
@lookup493 жыл бұрын
At 1:10 do I see the german officer allowed to keep his pistol?
@michaelbevan32853 жыл бұрын
Officers and field police were allowed to keep their sidearms.
@t18amgr3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelbevan3285 Why? Pls.
@frankstippel59883 жыл бұрын
@@t18amgr It is a traditional way to show respect, that officers keep their sidearms. Especially if the fought well enough. The German MP "Feldjäger (Kettenhunde - because of the silver tags around their neck)" were allowed to keep there sidearms to maintain discipline.
@t18amgr3 жыл бұрын
@@frankstippel5988 Tks for your reply Sir. Obviously unloaded?
@frankstippel59883 жыл бұрын
@@t18amgr Usually the officers would unload the weapon as a mutual sing of respect. The Feldjäger kept their weapon laoded.
@eppewillem3 жыл бұрын
That's in the Netherlands near Soest. Just around the corner at Paleis Soestdijk.
@vaughanr.collinson35583 жыл бұрын
I live there. Wished I could identify exactly where this was filmed, so I could do some shots to compare - then and now.
@rikspring3 жыл бұрын
@@vaughanr.collinson3558 according to this source, this must have been the location. data.collectienederland.nl/page/aggregation/archief-eemland-beeldbank/9f161f87-3243-dd01-c936-08484d8d2dd8
@j.manuelconigliogiulcovich45383 жыл бұрын
Pero si no estuviera la cámara cuantas cosas se metían en los bolsillos
@Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil3 жыл бұрын
This video makes me cry
@RubyBandUSA3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I cried too thinking about how the brave German soldiers could have instead fought the evil dirty rat hitler instead, and spared their country near-total annihilation by the Allies.
@jenniferlarson64263 жыл бұрын
So many young kids in German uniforms. My heart goes out to them. They had their childhoods stolen from them and i wonder how many of them turned out as adults after being completely brainwashed and ruined.
@twinsonic3 жыл бұрын
Like today's average American
@fishyc1503 жыл бұрын
Isnt the very last guy actually marching with a german K98 rifle???
@BigSkyCurmudgeon3 жыл бұрын
it wasn't a 303 for damn sure, and it wasn't a USA rifle, good chance it was a mauser
@deadhorse13913 жыл бұрын
Yes he is, probably grabbed it up for the posed photo op. I don’t think they were actually guarding anything.
@gundam52813 жыл бұрын
Music?
@triblues70653 жыл бұрын
So high ranking officers can still keep their sidearm?
@DailyBrusher3 жыл бұрын
Yes, that has been a custom in many wars. There is a great deal of lawlessness in a war torn country, hunger and disease, until social order is restored, again. Grant did the same with Lee's officers at Appomattox.
@wayneantoniazzi27062 жыл бұрын
@@DailyBrusher That's kind of a "It depends" situation. Grant allowed Confederate officers surrendering at Appomattox to keep their sidearms (pistols and swords) as they were the officer's personal property. Back in those days officers weren't issued anything, everthing they had was purchased by them. As far as officers surrendering during WW2 I'd be very surprised if they were allowed to keep their sidearms, whether they were issued or personal property. It was a different time from the 1860's.
@johnfranklin19143 жыл бұрын
"Next to battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won" A quote from the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo.
@johnrogan94203 жыл бұрын
A phrric us 🇺🇸victory at best...on d day one German corporal Erik Severlow killed 2500 Americans on Omaha Beach over a 9 hour period...before being captured...his position was just a trench he dug out not a pillbox But he had a perfect spot to slaughter Ike's lambs.
@lightfootpathfinder82182 жыл бұрын
@@johnrogan9420 I think most British service personnel and civilians were just glad it was over. Six years of fighting, Nearly half a million of there countrymen dead and the UK in ruins from years of air raids. Peace must have seemed unfamiliar to them
@geoffroberts11263 жыл бұрын
1:27 What is the significance of the crescent shaped device the guy in the dark jacket is wearing? Is that German MP?
@MrSimonmcc3 жыл бұрын
It's a gorget.
@geoffroberts11263 жыл бұрын
@@MrSimonmcc Thought so, what does it represent?
@danemon84233 жыл бұрын
@@geoffroberts1126 it's a ancient officer sign that whas used al over europe mostly in the 18th century but in ww2 it was moslty worn byt eh german police, wich would cooperate with allied troops to manage the pows
@rikspring3 жыл бұрын
@@geoffroberts1126 Military Police
@kleinweichkleinweich2 жыл бұрын
MP Kettenhund
@anthonymitchell97437 ай бұрын
My late father RIP-served in the British Army in World War 2 as a young teenager and was with the 49th West Riding division “ Polar Bear “ the same as shown in this film clip a recumbent bear on ice as depicted on their shoulder badge. Landed on Normandy beach ( Juno I believe with the Canadians ) fighting through Belgium, Holland and finally at Wars end in Dortmund Germany.
@barkingstarz47303 жыл бұрын
Some of those Germans look really happy!
@Marco-bf4uu3 жыл бұрын
The war is over..
@Marco-bf4uu3 жыл бұрын
@Justus Immelmann Ehrenhafter Nachname.. Sie sind nicht zufällig mit dem Flieger Immelmann verwandt?
@peteredeson56473 жыл бұрын
It is sad,you may of seen mates get injured,or making the supreme sacrifice, regardless of side they were all brave men!
@antuanmorilli76053 жыл бұрын
I keep hearing this sentence - "regardless of what side they were" . Not only from you, but from a lot of commenters in all kinds of videos on this subject, here on KZbin. Let me say you this: It does matter which side the soldiers were on. The damn Nazis had to be shot dead, everyone to the last man (well, "man" is an insult here to the human kind) at the end of this war and that's it. They were the bad side in this whole war, they were the killer side and they were the ones who invented the whole issue of taking over the world. They are the bad guys at this story and do not dare to forget it.
@kyokogodai-ir6hy3 жыл бұрын
@@antuanmorilli7605 Do you really believe the majority of those Germans, in this film, wanted to kill or die? Also, I didn't see any Waffen SS among them. Had there been some, I wouldn't have commented. When the shooting stopped, those Germans who did their duty (as soldiers), became just men. `Nuff said.
@antuanmorilli76053 жыл бұрын
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy Why "enough said"? What are you afraid of? Yes. I agree. Of course. No way. They did not want to murder, conquer, rape, burn alive and loot. The truth is that they wanted to travel in friendship in other countries not in order to conquer them for Lebensraum, but in order to be sociable, learn other cultures and help the elderly women cross the streets. Do you really think they did their duty as soldiers? Do you know what the definition of war crime is? Do you know that every person, even if he is a soldier who receives orders, has a conscience and discretion? Besides - what has it got to do with SS soldiers? Were only they the "bad guy" in the story? All the other Nazis were sweet and kind? I always argue that comments like yours are dangerous. I understand from them that entire populations did not internalize, did not learn a lesson, and certainly did not open history books. In my opinion, when it comes to the actions of the Germans in World Wars (yes, the 2 wars started because of the Germans, do not forget) one should condemn en masse and not start looking and finding out who in the army was a Nazi, who was SS and who was SA or a collaborator. Such justifications are dangerous and have no place in modern society and indicate ignorance and lack of knowledge.
@danemon84233 жыл бұрын
@@antuanmorilli7605 are you stupid ? yes i think Cause if you are interested in ww2 and have a working brain ,you will be able to see that not all german troops did commit warcrimes and most of the troops being captured at the end of the war were young soldiers that the only "crime" was to be in the army
@patriciabrenner92163 жыл бұрын
@@antuanmorilli7605 I agree. This is why I am sorry any soldier in the East stayed alive. They should have been shot for their collaboration in murders!
@schnellguy3 жыл бұрын
Look at all the goodies on the ground(P08s P38s PPKs,K98 rifles,all worth lots now a days!
@BelloBudo0073 жыл бұрын
The only images I seem to come across as friendly / relieved German troops with smiles on dials or perhaps slightly apprehensive. I do wonder if there were incidents of a German pulling a gun or dagger and having to be dealt with. Anyone?
@Belfreyite3 жыл бұрын
It must have happened, but I imagine both sides were under strict orders to behave in a tolerable manner. Remember that all German Soldiers were still under command and they would be disciplined to honour the surrender, so to the Allies, who had the difficult task of showing decency in the face of such loss of comrades.
@JohnCosmas3 жыл бұрын
Looks like British boys from 49th (West Riding and Midland) Infantry Division from Leicestershire
@JohnCosmas3 жыл бұрын
@Hugo Holesch I am so proud to see the humane and polite way our boys had treated their prisoners especially after what they must have already experienced in combat up to that point. It could easily have been so different.
@JayKayKay73 жыл бұрын
2:02 To have those piles of weapons in today's market. I can't imagine.
@MisterBethany2 жыл бұрын
Remember, if they had all been kept they'd be worth next to nothing now. It is only the rarity that gives them value. Sometimes - the equation is old+rare+DEMAND=value - if no one wants it even old rare things are essentially worthless.
@wayneantoniazzi27062 жыл бұрын
The Russians cleaned and warehoused a LOT of the German rifles they captured. Many started showing up here in the US in the 1990's. Not in the best of shape but still serviceable and good historic pieces to boot.
@leedunne79362 жыл бұрын
Old men argue, young men die
@Twirlyhead2 жыл бұрын
About 12 soldiers in that first Universal Carrier.
@deadhorse13913 жыл бұрын
Amazing to see the piles of Mauser rifles...wouldnt they be surprised if they knew what they would be worth in 2020 and how desirable they would be.
@andrewh54573 жыл бұрын
They are only worth something because they are so few left.
@deadhorse13913 жыл бұрын
@@andrewh5457 wwii German K98 rifles are still common though there are some rare variations
@swaldron55583 жыл бұрын
Thousand each
@kleinweichkleinweich2 жыл бұрын
no ...
@Agislife19603 жыл бұрын
That one German pulled a pistol out of his back pocket, and the Brit let him keep it.
@kennethsmith27583 жыл бұрын
Officers allowed to keep side arms. Always that distinction between other ranks aka enlisted men. The yanks would have pinched it anyway lol
@whiteclifffl3 жыл бұрын
There used to be honor in warfare.
@nightjarflying3 жыл бұрын
Not a pistol. It's his wallet/ID - you can't carry a pistol in your back pocket & anyway we see him put it in his pocket & it's square & flat.
@swaldron55583 жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying otherwise it’s would’ve painful if a Luger go off!
@johnaugsburger61923 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@kixigvak2 жыл бұрын
My father, who was involved in all this in the American Army, would say "Direct those prisoners to the Russian lines. They can surrender to the Russians." Did you know the Germans shot on the spot Soviet women in uniform when taken prisoner? Not just the SS, but the Wehrmacht as well. Nurses were the only exception.
@rnstoo13 жыл бұрын
Opening shot appears to show young German paratrooper still having his rifle?
@hobmoor20423 жыл бұрын
The video says the film was made in the Hilversum area (Netherlands), so the soldier is probably in the Dutch Army.
@flitsertheo2 жыл бұрын
@@hobmoor2042 If you mean he was in the Dutch resistance, I doubt he would be wearing a full German uniform, especially one of an elite unit. Just a matter of not being shot by mistake.
@jamesavery35593 жыл бұрын
lucky fellow's, my mum father ended up in Siberia.
@dyer2cycle3 жыл бұрын
..I get the sense that most of these German soldiers, while apprehensive about surrender and what the future will bring, are weary of the fighting and glad, in some way, that it has come to an end....
@franzbauer49062 жыл бұрын
enjoy war, peace will be terribly
@toetufilipo98753 жыл бұрын
The Samoan rap says they we're electric engineering and rely on Chinese to fix electricity generator , I'm so proud of you Sa!
@omegaman14093 жыл бұрын
What you see here is the human side. These are the lucky ones to make it alive and reach the west side.
@danemon84233 жыл бұрын
a lot of people who served on estern front were sent to the russian
What did the British do with all the surrended arms ?
@cu48702 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... 01:15 - 01:20 I wasn't aware that the sidearms were allowed to be kept. Probably, to officers only.
@wayneantoniazzi27062 жыл бұрын
He probably hasn't been relieved of it yet. He's only just shown up at the surrender post.
@scottlewisparsons95513 жыл бұрын
Very interesting to watch the body language. I have met a lot of people who were involved in WW2, men, women and Jews. I have read many of the comments, some very emotional. This terrible thing happened a long time ago, we should try to not be emotional, I certainly can be, study the history about what caused it and what actually happened during those long six years. The people then were of that time. We are in the here and now. We can try to avoid something like this happening again by better understanding other people and better communication. Wow, this is a long complicated comment! Have a good day.
@jeffguss3502 жыл бұрын
Interesting comment about meeting “a lot of people involved in WW2, men, women and Jews”. FYI- Jews are men and women.
@scottlewisparsons95512 жыл бұрын
@@jeffguss350 thank you for pointing out my error. Very badly written, my apologies. What I should have said was that I knew Jewish people who had been directly affected by the Nazi regime.
@mickp2223 жыл бұрын
Would the Germans have shown us the same humility?? Proud to be British. We do not need any more wars.
@alejo76252 жыл бұрын
They did, notice that the Western Allies were treated very well in the German camps. many Germans were mistreated by Americans, French and Soviets
@sherlocklucifer11902 жыл бұрын
@@alejo7625 You are correct. And he is british, its his narrative to say this. They are indoctrinated until today. The war crimes were done by allied forces. Hear what prof William Toel has to say.
@schoolssection2 жыл бұрын
Humility??
@ndie80755 ай бұрын
Yes....because germans adore their english cousins...Anglo Saxons....
@1987JohnMcClane19872 ай бұрын
Don't forget Dunkirk for example
@karl-p.schlor90223 жыл бұрын
the title should b e changed in "Army, Air Force and Marine, in "Army" including "Waffen-SS" or in English Armed SS, which was a strategical part of the Army, under their High Command, but the discipline war ruled by the head of the whole SS named Heinrich Himmler. The parashooters were part of the Air Force, but since the bloody invasion of the Creta Isle may 1941 these troops were never used as parashooters but at the end of war as infantry troops by the high army command. Or in German: Die bedingungslose Kapitu= lation erfolgte durch das Oberkommanda der Wehrmacht gleichzeitig für die Streitkräfte zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft, also für die Oberkommandos des Heeres, der Marine und der Ludtwaffe. The state named "Großdeutsches Reich" did not participate at this declaration, but existed further on at the city of Flensburg near Danish border, represented by the new president Karl Dönitz and his goverment. The order number one in june 1945 of the Allied Control Council confirmed this sight of the facts, the allies stated in that order "that they didnt destroyed the state of the German Empire"!
@JayKayKay73 жыл бұрын
1:16 Was that a handgun he was allowed to keep?
@DailyBrusher3 жыл бұрын
Yes, if you see the other comments, here, it is a convention of war to take all the long arms (rifles), but to allow officers to retain their side arm.
@derekambler3 жыл бұрын
looked like a wallet to me, stuffed in his back pocket; look carefully.
@Kernklager3 жыл бұрын
At :52 that is a Luger holster on the Germans belt.
@joealp81963 жыл бұрын
Statistically, if you were German, your best chance of surviving the war was to be captured by the British.
@nikosz662 жыл бұрын
Brother genes !
@sherlocklucifer11902 жыл бұрын
Yes thats true but the british implentated the genocide on germans until today. Just hear what Prof William Toel has to say.
@dr.wilfriedhitzler18852 жыл бұрын
Thats right. My dad was captured 1944 by british soldiers. Only every second soldier of the Wehrmacht had a weapon. He spent fife years in Oxford and was treated well. He served almost 10 years in the Wehrmacht and at the end of his life, it was important for him to say....I am shure, I shot no one. Thats Wehrmacht too!
@texas_germanic70733 жыл бұрын
Dang that is a big stack of rifles....my Opa help occupy France and returned to Mannheim Germany alive ...
@geraldmiller52323 жыл бұрын
look at all of those k98s. a collectors dream come true.
@chasein70192 жыл бұрын
My father was in the Army. It was near the end of the war. Nobody wanted to kill anyone. There was a house that had German officers in it. They were told to take prisoners. There was a kid maybe 15 guarding the outside gate. They figured they would sneak up on him and knock him out with the butt of a .45. When they hit him he started yelling because it hurt. lol The officers came out of the house and were SO SO SO glad to be taken prisoners. I have awesome pictures of all the German officers in a tent with other GI's drinking, eating and smoking. It was over for them and they were happy.
@yellowbelly84023 жыл бұрын
Average age German soldier towards end of war was 50% 15yrs and 50% 45yrs equals 30yrs Must have been strange teenagers ffighting with WW1 VETS or alongside your Dad.
@danemon84233 жыл бұрын
yeah and lot of dumb people still thinks taht these young boys and ww1 vet did exterminate jews and soviet troops in the east whil some not even being able to hold rifle at this time
@aurathedraak79093 жыл бұрын
Sure had a lot of recycling to do with those weapons. Lol
@mollyfilms3 жыл бұрын
Lol? Seriously?
@rafaelstekla78392 жыл бұрын
Sind es nicht Gebirgsjäger?
@Jack519712 жыл бұрын
Das icsht ze einde? Ze krieg ischt kaput ja? Did I say that right?
@bjmartinphotography3 жыл бұрын
It's weird, as a defeated nation they were allowed to keep their side arm. But as a free nation, no side arm is allowed.
@guickdotto4552 Жыл бұрын
Yes, Germany would be much better if any 18 year old were able to freely buy a semi-automatic rifle from their nearest supermarket. Wonder what's stopping them.
@AccordionJoe13 жыл бұрын
How good to see Hitler's supermen surrendering to mere mortals. They don't look so super in this film, do they?
@shelbynamels973 Жыл бұрын
The piles and piles of rifles at the end reminded me of the same thing with disarmed troops on the eastern front. The USSR stored them by the tens of thousands, and then ten years later shipped them to Vietnam to supply the Vietcong.
@richardjames18126 ай бұрын
In the early 21st century, even in recent years, the USSR sold large lots of the captured German Mauser K98k's to the US surplus market. The USSR, interestingly, didn't just store them all those year. They refurbished them. I own one, a 1942-produced rifle.
@damienmayne72056 ай бұрын
You lucky man, an amazing rifle that will last forever.@@richardjames1812
@vdmarame3 жыл бұрын
I thought officers are allowed to keep their side weapon?
@dbergerac96323 жыл бұрын
It is a courtesy sometimes extended to officers, sometimes not. It is up to the commander who accepts the surrender. Sometimes it is useful to let the officers keep their sidearm to retain "authority" over their troops. Often the rank and file of the troops receiving the prisoners will take those sidearms once the prisoners have reached their destination. Remember, a LOT of officers were being sought for trial as war criminals. Otto Skorzeny was permitted to retain his pistol until his arrest.
@Kernklager3 жыл бұрын
Look at :52 in the video. The German clearly still has his Luger holster on his belt.
@dbergerac96323 жыл бұрын
@@Kernklager They do collect those from officers upon entry into processing centers. Where they are identified and the Red Cross is notified. That is when officers and enlisted are absolutely segregated. The officers are expected to honor the formal surrender and oblige those under their command to do so as well. When a whole country surrenders, there is lot of chaos. Otto Skorzeny made several attempts to surrender and was just directed farther to the rear, with his pistol and vehicle despite an ongoing manhunt for him. On occasion a front line NCO might take the sidearm as a souvenir, that's what my uncle did.