GERMAN VERSION OF THE D-DAY INVASION FILM MADE BY O.S.S. IN WWII 22554

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[@Vack91]

@@warrun8681 From KZbin and Patreon, I guess. It’s in the channel info.

[@richardshort3914]

My best friend's mother was a little girl during the war. She knew her cousin was part of D-Day, but no one knew what became of him. Then she saw a German film (probably this one) in a theatre. She caught a quick look at some of the captured Canadian troops and thought one was her cousin. She sat through the movie a second time, just to see the news reel. Sure enough, there he was. The family was greatly relieved to know he hadn't died. When his POW camp was liberated, he weighed less than 100 lbs. But, he made it back to Canada and that was the important thing.

[@1w598]

@Woochinatchika Kokillibolinov Omg i often wonder that too about my grandpa.

[@xminusone1]

Someone closely related to me is recognized today as a Canadian war hero. It's always a bit shocking to me to hear his story on KZbin.

[@jeremybear573]

God Bless his soul! These men were other worldly men and they're only a few left today!

[@edelweiss45]

The allied bombing of german logistics was a disaster. Many people suffered; civilians, soldiers, and POWs alike starved

[@andrewharper3165]

@@edelweiss45 yet they liberated Europe from NAZISM.

[@14GT5.0]

Reminds me of the invasion of Iraq where the Aziz was telling the press the Americans were stopped and pushed back meanwhile behind him American tanks were rolling in the Baghdad Airport

[@ACColorado]

Good 'ol Baghdad Bob.

[@markcantemail8018]

@A Volpe Baghdad Bob Was Calling Americans those Desert Animals ? He was Shown to be a clown with what he was saying .

[@burtvhulberthyhbn7583]

Yup I remember that Propaganda only goes so far

[@dirkgonthier101]

Yeah and 20 years later, the USA lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. You're right: propaganda only goes so far.

[@yourmom9951]

@@markcantemail8018 As an American, I can confirm we are closely related to desert animals.

[@freelanceminion7396]

Pretty interesting way to use footage of their loss to make it look like they were winning. But a wartime memoir by someone in Japan once noted that they could tell what was really happening by noticing the stories of victory kept creeping closer and to their homeland.

[@ac1dflare937]

Well obviously, they are not going to make a propaganda video show how they were getting destroyed 🤦‍♂️

[@erikt1713]

This was a common joke even at the time in Germany that victories were achieved ever closer to home. However, you had to be terribly careful when saying such things. For example, in the communal bunker there would easily be someone to denounce you to the authorities which could have terrible consequences. My great-grandfather was an old man of over eighty years then and they were still threatening him for his loose tongue. Luckily they never did him any harm.

[@baconatorenthusiast]

@Svlla ~Roma Aeterna Victrix~ yes, a world where a large portion of humans can say mostly anything and not face consequences. bait harder

[@jasondashney]

"a world where a large portion of humans can say mostly anything and not face consequences" Sadly this is an extreme gift that is being chipped away at a bit by bit.

[@df5295]

Yeah, the world population would have been so much better off being slaves for the Nazis!

[@shark70007000]

At 5:26-5:30, is the bunker I slept in, when I was stationed in England. We journeyed to France, to check out all the Normandy area and all along the beaches. We slept in that bunker for the night. That was back around 1992 or 1993. I saw a glimps of it in the John Wayne movie, The Longest Day. But when I saw the title of this, I was hoping to see that here. I was not disappointed.

[@pawelpap9]

The movie begins with Liszt’s Les Preludes. It was so often used as a background in German newsreels, particularly as a triumphant introduction to depiction of successes on eastern front, that its performance was forbidden for years in the GDR.

[@ardentizzy7720]

pawelpap9 very interesting !

[@ArizonaJoeHines]

I don't know the actual name of the music near the end, but it is the same as that used in the Flash Gordon serials of the late 30's.

[@dwightbrown2808]

I had no idea. It was always the last piece on the last concert in the summer at Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan. It was a tradition started in 1928, so long before the war. It's still played today. Some orchestras used to have a strict no Wagner policy.

[@vitorsousa8172]

They were afraid the german audience would go hail hitler mode. ;)

[@Perririri]

By this time, Hungary was ready to surrender!

[@Battle-Born]

9:10 is glider no.4 from the Pegasus Bridge operation. This glider landed around 10 miles North East of Pegasus at a different bridge (just out of shot) and possibly beat no 1 glider in being the first to land on D-Day. The occupants fought their way back to the British lines over the following 24 hours although a couple of prisoners were captured here and one was murdered in a nearby farmhouse.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

That's not the same group of people that ended up being escorted out by the pointman paratrooper from H 502 battalion was it?

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

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[@kristinarain9098]

"Since you produce the weapons of Democracy, *you have the right to know these facts, even though they come straight to you from the enemy* " this approach is seriously lacking in today's average media consumer

[@reveal102]

Kristina Rain That is by design, I assure you.

[@kristinarain9098]

EmperorJew kinda like the eurosoviet union now eh?

[@MQuaritch]

"Weapons of democracy" LOL. Havn't laughed so badly for ages.

[@firstchoice14]

73 years ago. Media was different. People were different. The World was at war. It wasn't made for Snowflakes. But it was propaganda. It's what you do when the outcome of a World War is still unknown and you're trying to rally the folks at home to sacrifice more, work harder, and be exceptional.

[@ironroad18]

firstchoice14 Yeah the snowflakes won't understand that there were four powers out there (including the Soviet Union after the war) that were seeking complete and utter domination of the world: Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia. Yes the U.S. has it's own history of bigotry and the U.K. ran an exploitive empire, but they were a far cry better than being in a Nazi death camp (see the occupied Balkans or Poland), a gulag (Siberia where Stalin killed more than Hitler), strung up in a square in front of a church (Musilini in Rome), or having an entire city raped, burned, and then tested on with bio weapons (Japanese treatment of Chinese and Pacific Islanders).

[@argopunk]

My childhood camp director stormed Juno Beach in the Canadian contingent. He was absolutely unafraid of anything after fighting and surviving that epic battle. Brave men.

[@freddymax5256]

The pictures of many of the soldiers and much of the equipment in this film is Canadian.

[@asmrcritique6565]

​@freddymax5256 yeah but these are airborne troops (paratroopers). The ones who stormed Juno were from the sea.

[@Thr33-Quarters]

We gave Canadians the weakest beach to invade, just so they could feel involved.. But let's be honest, your military is a joke.

[@argopunk]

@@Thr33-Quarters Be still my heart. Our military is very small now. We had the biggest army per capita in the world (1 million with a 1940s population of 10,000,000) and fourth largest navy during WWII. Excellent fighters and contribution no question.

[@Fuckyouyoutube0204]

@@argopunkthat shonu guy has to be just to get under peoples skin it worked for me lol

[@michaelkitchens3933]

As was mentioned, some of this appears to be footage of the Dieppe disaster from 1942, and those troops were mostly Canadian. I've read James Holland's 'Normandy 1944' and I don't think any part of the landing beaches in 1944 were ever retaken so as to allow footage to have been taken by German newsreels. The armor moving forward mostly appears to be Panzer 4 tanks, some with side skirts intended to protect against side hits on the Eastern Front; and Wasp self propelled guns. Some vehicles are so covered in camouflage foliage it's difficult to tell. That is another thing the narrator leaves out, why were the german tanks all covered in branches and the allied tanks weren't. Because allied tanks WANTED to be clearly visible from the air, because everything flying up above was allied.

[@arctic_haze]

My thoughts exactly. I read a book about the Dieppe landing and I seem to remember the very same landing craft in an illustration.

[@debbylou5729]

They didn’t ‘reenact’ this stuff. It would be filmed as it happened, not after the battle. This seems pretty obvious

[@Mikalent]

@@debbylou5729 He's not questioning if it was re-enacted, he's questioning where and when the footage was taken. A lot of the Panzer 4s where in their Eastern Front configuration, with side skirts, the absence of additional camouflage in many scenes, and the presence of WASP and motorcycle units, which where both almost exclusively used on the Eastern front in 1944. Another point to be made is the absence of hedgerows in many of the German field unit shots, instead having vast open fields, which if you have visited Normandy, you would know you can't got more than 100 meters before hitting a hedgerow. For the Shermans, the 17pdr configuration was used by the British, but the M4A1 varient of the Sherman they showed, denoted by the absence of a loader escape hatch, was already out of service by 1944, and none of the A1 Shermans where used in the D-Day landings. The 17pdrs are much harder to correctly identify if the footage was taken as Normandy or not. Finally the bombing run footage was likely taken from a German city, not the French coast due to the absolute absence of any Spitfire, Mustang, Hurricane, or P-47 escorts, which where flown during the Normandy bombings with every Sortie, but not on German missions by that point due to the P-51 not having enough drop tanks ready. Hence their absence in a bomber raid made up exclusively of B-17s (meanwhile Normandy sorties where fielding B-17s, typhoons, Mitchell bombers, Mosquitos, ect) is very telling.

[@EtonieE25]

@ M Kitchens. A very good observational point sir 🤔

[@BOHICA_]

@@debbylou5729 Leave the analysis to the smart people. You aren't so obvious with your conclusion.

[@paladin56]

The Allied planes 'snapped in half' are Horsas, troop carrying gliders designed so the the fuselage could be quickly removed to allow the speedy egress of equipment and vehicles. Far from being destroyed most of them have clearly fulfilled their one-time purpose: to deliver airborne troops and equipment behind enemy lines. And capturing a handful of isolated paratroopers seems to be portrayed as a great victory. The screen established by the Royal Navy both north and south of the invasion fleet meant that the Kriegsmarine made practically no impression on it and the Luftwaffe's efforts were even more desultory. Clearly Herr Dr Goebbels' propaganda units were putting in the overtime in an attempt portray this as anything other than the complete disaster 6th June 1944 was for the Third Reich.

[@mikeypiros6647]

And they don't blow up or go on fire !

[@leifmanson7599]

the absence of propellers was the first clue.

[@paladin56]

@martin fiedler Gosh. My comment clearly touched a nerve but thanks for your response. It seems you didn't quite have the wit to make it to the bottom of my comment, but never mind. Not withstanding what you say you'd be surprised how many commentators on You Tube DO believe Nazi propaganda to this day.

[@fraserm803]

@tim Richardson for your info... Horse gliders were not "one time " use only aircraft. There are a few ut vids showing them being hauled back up into the air.

[@fraserm803]

Spell horsa...sorry

[@Dproud2700]

If you look at the footage starting at 1:50 the troops running down the corridors to prepare, they are running down the corridors of the Maginot Line. Amazing how the Maginot Line is protecting the Normandy coastline

[@thomasthedoubter6813]

How can you tell? The Nazis stripped the Maginot line to build their coastal fortifications.

[@Dproud2700]

Thomas Thedoubter The Maginot Line was kept surpringly intact to the point of when portions of it were used by Allied forces when it was recaptured. A further reference is one of the early episodes of World at War showed the tunnels when it was in French control

[@soldat2501]

Yup, all kitted out perfectly. All gear perfectly in place and securely strapped. Quick marching in step, two by two, clean shaven and wide awake. I reality, it would have been a shit show in the predawn, soldier with gear all hanging off by the wrong straps after being woken in the dark by alarms, one or two dudes running here and there to their post, officers and NCOs screaming and trying to make sense of the paratroopers behind them and the boats in front. Shit. Show.

[@christopherjames9843]

Joseph Goebels at work!

[@johnros1956]

One of my uncles, along with his mate, drove the first two trains ashore on D-Day plus 7. We never knew about it until he came to theD-Day 60 celebrations in Portsmouth and he was a guest of his old regiment.

[@baigandinel7956]

"Since you produce the weapons of Democracy, you have the right to know these facts, even though they come straight to you from your enemy." Everyone in the 21st century needs to underline this!

[@arthurneddysmith]

Sorry, I couldn't hear your support for democracy over the din of almost 50% American voters who chose Donald Trump, an actual fascist, in 2020.

[@jaimeosbourn513]

@@arthurneddysmith Actual fascist? Lol. Dude you need to update your dictionary. Or learn to read the definitions of words before you attempt to use them.

[@zackkilgore528]

@@arthurneddysmith Trump isn’t a Fascist, Biden isn’t a Fascist. Trump is a populist and Biden is a mainline Liberal. Grow up.

[@tabcreedence6553]

@@arthurneddysmith MSM is a hell of a drug huh

[@laierr]

In the 21st century, you could get information from all sides in the same news stream if you configure it well enough. Or you could isolate yourself in your own echo-chamber. It's your choice now.

[@EddieLeal]

I love all of these vintage WWll films. I'm glad they were saved for future posterity. Important for future generations to learn from history. My sincere gratitude for the folks over at Periscope Films for their dedication to the preservation of these invaluable historic films. I only wish i had money to support help them. lol! Keep up the great work and take care!

[@alitlweird]

and yet the world still learned nothing from it… because here the world is again: being plunged into tyranny. Well, more like joyfully marching into it.

[@arneklang2357]

None seems to learn from the history.

[@bluenightfury4365]

@@arneklang2357 This is the unfortunate reality of our generations today... Im a young adult gen Z yet I care more for history than those I grow up around, and then they repeat the mistakes so easily learnable from class, the internet (atleast from certain sources, as most can well be bad information.) its just sad really...

[@EddieLeal]

@@bluenightfury4365 Its the human condition.

[@arthurneddysmith]

@@bluenightfury4365 Sure you are.

[@MackerelSkyLtd]

Note: The gliders are British Horsa gliders, constructed from plywood, not American Waco gliders, which are wooden framed, covered in fabric.

[@flitsertheo]

Also, at 8:58 their "snapping in half" was normal. They just opened that way to allow the larger equipment to be unloaded more easely. The rough landings of these gliders were also "normal" unless it got too rough of course.

[@joesantamaria5874]

I’ve been to Pegasus Bridge, where they have an accurate repro of the Horsa. The fuselage is made of plywood, I’d estimate it’s no thicker than 1/4”. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

[@WalkingDday]

Wacos are steel framed.

[@paulblichmann2791]

Henry Ford was forced to make gliders despite opposing the war (and then some)

[@WalkingDday]

@@paulblichmann2791 Ford Germany gave half it’s profits to the Nazi party.

[@garrybaldy327]

I've always thought those Germans defending the beaches on the morning of June 6th must have been terrified seeing all those landing craft approaching.

[@crispinjulius5032]

I would be. It’s not every day you see an armada coming at you from the sea and another one overhead.

[@faithfulpatriot5590]

I think the feeling was perfectly captured by the unforgettable scene from the movie _The Longest Day._

[@edward1676]

@@faithfulpatriot5590 You're right. Just watched last week!!!

[@skroowi8105]

"You have the right to know these facts, even though they come straight to you from your enemy." My, how times have changed.

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

This whole video is Allie propaganda most was footage from the eastern front. So yeah, not much change

[@Ergzay]

Yes but the difference now adays is that people don't get to see that preface that you just read. Without that preface it tempts people into believing said enemy. You also don't have the additional comments added by the translator/commentator. Watching stuff by the enemy is fine, but you need to contextualize it as such or it will be misinterpreted.

[@kixigvak]

My father talked to German prisoners during the invasion and they were confident of victory. Some said "In a week we'll push you back into the sea."

[@ffmdotcom]

Nobody starts a war without believe they can win it...

[@stuartx7865]

So, how did it work out?

[@snorman1911]

We fought the wrong enemy.

[@thersten]

@@snorman1911 ok loser. 🇺🇸

[@racialconsciousness7169]

@@snorman1911 True.

[@annoyed707]

They mention the US, Britain and the Soviets, but the USSR wasn't in Normandy, and they omitted Canada, which had an entire sector (Juno beach).

[@richardshort3914]

*annoyed707* Common to the era, they lumped us in with the British. The also omitted mentioning the Free French units or that the only major Allied vessel sunk was a Norwegian destroyer.

[@Astrialx]

There was a Canadian looking sweater on the ground.

[@That70sGuitarist]

I've walked part of Juno Beach, and I think every Canadian should, if they can possibly afford the trip. We have every reason to be proud of what our men did there. Canadian troops performed better than any other Allied force that day, against some of the fiercest opposition the Germans could throw at them. They penetrated farther inland than either the US or the Brits, and took more of their first day objectives than any of the others managed. Damned straight, I'm a proud Canadian!

[@jaymudd2817]

Canada is Soviet now

[@RedRocket4000]

Canada still part of British Empire as far as Germans were concerned.

[@doylejordan956]

I was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. We had All American week...... a week where paratroopers from the past WW II, Korean, Vietnam. I was a combat medic, in the 3/504th. I "adopted" a WW II combat medic paratrooper. He would come back every year and we would drink till dawn, and I would sit and listen to all those stories wide eyed like a kid on Christmas morning. MSG Craig Daniels. He had 4 ...... FOUR ...... combat jumps. He was a man among mere men. He passed away a few weeks before ALL AMERICAN WEEK. His buddies that were with him brought me his Combat Medical Badge, and his jump wings. Some of his last words were to his paratrooper buddies to make sure I get his CMB, and Airborne wings. I still have them today. I treasure them like they are the queen of Englands crown jewels. Now that I'm retired I'm gonna go to All American week find a combat medic and carry on this tradition that MSG Daniels bestow upon me.....AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY

[@johnkulpowich5260]

I pray you do

[@johnkulpowich5260]

My daughter served in the 82 was pined by the British.

[@saycat6758]

That's Honerable.

[@gotmilk7926]

Wonderful post. Highly admirable - both Daniels and you.

[@iain72ossie]

Is right mate!

[@midnightchannel111]

My best friend as a child's Dad was part of tiny, secret Marine units that reconnoitered the US beaches the night * before * DDay to see if any last minute changes had been made that might affect the Allied invasion. He had only about 4 men with him, alone in a small boat, and they went alone to reconnoitered Omaha Beach. He received the Silver Star for it.

[@trawlerkent9101]

Surprised the boat was able to float with all the brass balls in it. Respect to him and his buddies

[@gerdbonk3582]

Imaginary. There were no Marines at D-Day.

[@Hostiledino]

@@gerdbonk3582 yes there was, you just aren’t smart enough to know it yet

[@michaelgmillhollin2818]

@@gerdbonk3582 Better do some research before making such comments. Check this article, one of many available that definitely document U.S. Marine involvement in both Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune.

[@midnightchannel111]

Please read my post again: I did not setie that he was at the beach, he was there * before * the attack, to check on conditions (German placement I assume but I don't know exactly)..

[@alexmartinez5859]

I had a couple distant family members serve in the army during the Normandy invasion. My grandparents’ generation were being born around that time so the only stories we have are from the generation prior. I think they were my great-great uncles, who were brothers to my great grandmother. They were probably in their late teens early 20s at the time because the family had actually been smuggled out of Belgium during WWI, and returned in WWII to fight. All three brothers were injured following Normandy, during one of the subsequent skirmishes in the French country side. As soon as Belgium was liberated, the highest ranking brother was permitted a leave of absence and he decided to spend it in the village where the family came from, meeting and taking some pictures of the place. We still have some of them and it was so interesting to see that I do have a familial connection to WWII.

[@billinct860]

These and most German films were brought to Germany (flown or by train) to be developed and shown as newsreels in movie theaters. It was the same here too. I can still remember newsreels still being played between or before movies in the 1950s.

[@seigliere1]

My uncle survived the 6th of June in Normandy. My father who passed a few years ago aged 93 was a cameraman with British Army news ( Pathe, I think). He filmed at the liberation of Bergen Belsen, despite asking him many times he said he was so ashamed to be there he could never talk about it…. And he never did!

[@MessiPistola22]

He might have seen some of his comrades raping girls, that's why.

[@AgentM3tallion]

That's odd. My grandfather was part of Bergen Belsen liberation as well and he said he saw nothing amiss at all, except for some typhus victims in a pile in the courtyard. He used to scoff out loud when people talked about the "horrors" there, but knew better than to try and counter the narrative for fear of being seen as a sympathizer. It's all so tiresome...

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@AgentM3tallion

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

I think the newsreel footage and reports proved the horrors that DID happen to those poor unfortunate people.😡🙏

[@mariabunch3541]

Why would he be ashamed to be there? He was there to liberate the prisoners. Maybe he was traumatized by what he saw and couldn’t talk about it.

[@robotbjorn4952]

I am _deeply_ impressed by how many ads KZbin was able to shoehorn into this 15 minute video👍🏻

[@jasondashney]

I'm deeply impressed at how the price of a single hamburger a month can buy you zero ads per month, the same as free adblockers.

[@dr.lorismith445]

@@jasondashney, I agree. I bought KZbin Premium, from the start, because it got to be that more and more ads replaced content. And, I HATE commercials. I don’t regret it. Unfortunately, content creators have wised up, and now are starting their video, and then, a couple of minutes in, they start with 4-6 ads. I hate that. But, no worries. I just unsubscribe and block.

[@dr.lorismith445]

@@jasondashney, I agree. I bought KZbin Premium, from the start, because it got to be that more and more ads replaced content. And, I HATE commercials. I don’t regret it. Unfortunately, content creators have wised up, and now are starting their video, and then, a couple of minutes in, they start with 4-6 ads. I hate that. But, no worries. I just unsubscribe and block.

[@maguzazmoth]

Install ADblock please, have no marketing

[@garymills7494]

​@@dr.lorismith445 Adbock ultimate stops all youtube adverts.

[@BuzzSargent]

Thanks, PeriscopeFilm for presenting these films in their original format. (The translations are welcome!)

[@quidnick]

We presented our enemies side of the story with less biased commentary than most political talk shows today.

[@spikeyflo]

My Uncle Bill Lewis, 20 or 21 years old, was in the Dragoon Guards and in command of a tank that landed on D Day. He was killed shortly after landing and is buried in Bayeaux. Some day I will visit him.

[@philpeko1796]

RIP to your uncle. I guess the right name of his grave location is then "Bayeux", not "Bayeaux". The Bayeux War Cemetery with its memorial includes the largest British cemetery dating from the Second World War in France. There are 4,648 graves, including 3,935 British and 466 Germans. Most of those buried there were killed in the invasion of Normandy. It is also known as the first major town secured by the Allies during Operation Overlord. Charles de Gaulle made two famous speeches in this town. The area around Bayeux is called the Bessin, which was the bailiwick of the province Normandy until the French Revolution. During the Second World War, Bayeux was the first city of the Battle of Normandy to be liberated, and on 16 June 1944 General Charles de Gaulle made the first of two major speeches in Bayeux in which he made clear that France sided with the Allies. The buildings in Bayeux were virtually untouched during the Battle of Normandy, the German forces being fully involved in defending Caen from the Allies.

[@EdwardGatey]

May it be! My brother visited our paternal uncle, interred near Montecchio Italy. Great and sad reach back in time.

[@stevek8829]

@@philpeko1796Thank you. I have faith in what you wrote, unlike 90% of tube posts.

[@philpeko1796]

@@stevek8829 That's very kind of you, but you don't even have to take my words for faith, just search the information in the Wikipedia page for Bayeux City in France, which is, by the way, a very informative and long wiki page.

[@billn.1318]

So long ago but so interesting that there are still millions of people between ages of 85-100 that remember what it was like to live when ww2 took place.

[@paradisehotel5005]

Many now have dementia.

[@billn.1318]

​@@paradisehotel5005 lets talk metrics. I work as a director of health services at a skilled nursing facility and we care for seniors and geriatric care. We have many members over the age of 94 who lived as 17-20 years old's when WW2 was at its height in 1944. Speaking in metrics, our combined information across the board of geriatric care departments we manage, we found that only 400 residents over the age of 90, only 20 were found to have early signs of dementia. 20 additional residents are on severe stage of dementia but they dementia is different for each individual. most dementia patients recall only family members that they grew up with, memories that started to accumulate that peaked in their 30s to 40s. We found that veterans of ww2 tend to remember most of their memories of that time and beyond did have early signs of dementia but did not progress to other stages of dementia. We found that most veterans who saw heavy combat in WW2 had better memories than those that did not see combat as those memories were very sensitive to that individual and your brain actively keeps those neurons alive and kicking and that actually helps the brain to channel memories of the past and about themselves. If there is dementia, your brain is tapping into old memories and it can bridge itself to other parts of the brain. What improves dementia (if seen earlier) is active communication with seniors. They need interaction. Most of the seniors we care for are seen only once a week by their family members as the seniors we care of come from wealthy children of those residents. That is why we have activity centers and social events but this is a wide discussion about why dementia is not the reason why "many now have dementia". If you get a chance to talk to a senior with dementia and is over the age of 95 and a male, ask them about their service in WW2 and I can bet you 100% of those folks will tell you (in gaps) of their service and will talk about it as if they are still there.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

an now there home town's are trash - LOL

[@eggwardosteve]

@@billn.1318 May i ask if you've heard any interesting stories from the veterans yourself? Great response, by the way. Very interesting.

[@mplslawnguy3389]

Not all that long ago. Just a blip of time in the scheme of things. I remember talking to WWII vets when I was a kid and they were only in their 50s or 60s. Time flies. Now they’re dwindling fast.

[@codrinmicusan446]

"hundreds of American and British airplanes were wrecked" shows footage of a glider that was literally designed to cash land

[@kenherrera2819]

I noticed that too... and the shot showing multiple planes in pieces, notice not a single one of them has an engine. They are all gliders!

[@lehrscherbote]

Hello, my great Grandfather, born 1920, was a radio operator in the Luftwaffe on the eastern front, thank god he made it home without a serious injury. The men back then, no matter which side, were all a hundred times tougher than we are today.The men on both sides have shown incredible courage, it should be honored, and do whatever it takes to ensure this doesn't happen again.

[@cevapipapi6167]

put people in the same shit and they will respond with the same grid

[@VagoniusThicket]

@@cevapipapi6167Nah ! The purple hair ,piercing gang don’t have the nerve or motivation . Only in video games .

[@randyjordan5521]

@@VagoniusThicket Just wait 'til we send our army of Dylan Mulvaneys to tackle the Chinese.

[@doraexplora9046]

Now. Long after the 'soul destroying' war It's just galvanising to see such young men snap into a n action that is just like muscle memory. Just think! A couple of very senior oligarchs organised this was for profit.

[@martyyoung3611]

@@doraexplora9046, True. All to make the world safe for communism.

[@xXHardCorrXx]

My great grandfather was part of the OSS. He was a French immigrant and no one had any idea he was a part of it until he died and we were told by the government. My Grandma has stories of him being very “sneaky” including a friend going up to them and saying in French “why did they pick you but not me?” To which he shouted in French “because you can’t keep your damn mouth shut!”. My grandma didn’t know what he was talking about till after he died

[@athelwulfgalland]

My grandfather was also OSS; He might even have stayed with the organization after it was rearranged into the CIA. I can't be sure as I didn't learn half of what I know now until after he'd passed. The first thing about his service I learned was that he was one of those that supervised Werner von Braun when he was brought to the US. My grandfather was multilingual but he wasn't to let on that he understood anything von Braun or his compatriots said in German. Instead he was just supposed to make a mental note & report it. My father learned of this fact during the space race of the 1960s as von Braun was featured prominently as a part of the US Space Program & my grandfather grumbled constantly about how he hated the man. On my grandfather's deathbed in the mid-90s he lamented that he knew a hundred different ways to kill a man but not one "darn" way to save his own life. He also spoke of his wartime service overseas. He said that he trained for a special operation to Poland alongside of US trained OSS Poles & UK trained SAS Poles. One really haunting remark was that his greatest regret was "Warsaw." Since then Operation Paperclip has been declassified & details about what a monster Werner von Braun really was have come out. However NOTHING has ever been released about OSS or SAS involvement in Warsaw. Technically the Western allies weren't supposed to be operating that far East - however it's since come out that such units existed over much of Eastern Europe.

[@MilitaryHistoryUnveiled]

i met a veteran that was part of the OSS during ww2 over the summer he was 103 years old! @@athelwulfgalland

[@athelwulfgalland]

@@MilitaryHistoryUnveiled That's absolutely amazing! Did he recollect any of his operational history with you & if so do you plan to document it online? Some members of O.S.S. went on to form the foundations for the CIA & probably wouldn't be so forthcoming. It's a shame what that organization, created by patriots, has since turned into.

[@MilitaryHistoryUnveiled]

I got his his landline number to interview him as at the time I met him I couldn’t, and he was only staying in Oxford for that day. When I went to call him on our set date for some reason I couldn’t get the land line number to work I’ve tried sooo many times but I couldn’t get through to him! It will most likely be a big regret of mine in life, but I feel very fortunate to have met him. He told me he landed in North Africa as a paratrooper and was a radio operator if I remember correctly! @@athelwulfgalland

[@lordeden2732]

Utter fairy story. No French would have been in the OSS. Or for that matter unless he had escaped to Great Bitain the S.O.E. He might have been in the resistance which for the most part was the biggest joke going. My fathers military unit was supposed to trust them to guide and help them only to find they were more interested in fighting other resistance groups and giving information to the Germans. His unit only got any assistance when they made contact with the S.O.E.

[@stephencresswell4760]

9:05 "many aircraft snapped in half". They are gliders and came apart in that way by design.

[@tommiatkins3443]

They were NOT designed to come apart, but it was very much expected that airframes would be lost. Most were recovered and repaired and reused.

[@flitsertheo]

​.The "snapping in half' was normal, to allow larger pieces of equipment to be unloaded. Note there is no damage to the fuselage where both halves meet.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@tommiatkins3443 they were

[@KirbyComicsVids]

was probably better to not let the germans know that, maybe they thought it was a structural weakness

[@flitsertheo]

@@xxxxxx-tq4mw Fuselage : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuselage

[@davidrowley2448]

My father was one of only two survivors on that first day as he was blown out of a landing craft. He was taken to an army hospital in Deal, Kent and 6 weeks later he returned to the fighting once more, he was part of the Royal Marine Commandos, after weeks of fighting including house to house skirmishes. He was sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp and helped to look after the survivors.

[@GwaiZai]

amazing. thanks for sharing

[@phucdatbich1990]

The newsreel is correct about Caen. It was flattened by allied bombing in an attempt to dislodge the Germans from a key strategic position. More than a thousand French civilians died. Most of the German heavy armor in Normandy (8 panzer divisions with 3 heavy tank battalions) was there fighting the British and Canadians. Most of the footage shown of destroyed allied tanks was in that sector particularly Canadian. The lack of U-boat action in the English channel was essentially correct as was the claim the allies were bogged down in the dense hedgerow country which wasn't suitable for attacking armor. The role of the Luftwaffe though was over-played and the effectiveness of RAF and USAF ground attack aircraft on the movement of German forces not mentioned at all.

[@rob57ert]

It's been a long day, just watching some history, but I really hoipe this was a simple error in calling 'GERMAN VERSION OF THE D-DAY INVASION FILM MADE BY O.S.S. IN WWII 22554' a 'newsreel'- it is/was PROPAGANDA, plenty on both sides. The Germans told lies and the United States told lies, we ALL still do. Our history is messed up as it is.

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

As near as I can tell, no one on either side anticipated how the fighting around Caen would end up, but, in their determination to push the Allies back into the sea, the Germans opted to fight in the area that was most convenient to the Allies. They not only had fire support from the navy but supplies could go directly from the ships to the troops fighting near by.

[@waikukujk]

It would have been suicide for a U boat to go anywher near that piece of water. The allies had air and naval superiority. The luftwaffe took a flogging and the Kriegsmarine were totally unable to make any meaningful contribution.

[@peterhamlinhamlin8908]

Both sides anticipate invasion results, Only after war ends do we know.

[@rob57ert]

@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 ....After the war ends, and long after that we may find out some of the 'truths'. Evil is evil, good is sometime evil as well. We are human.

[@Ourladyrules]

a salute to the stoic and defiant faces of our lads held prisoner. their courage knew no bounds. long dead but never to be forgotten. 🌺🇨🇦

[@koff41]

90% was on the east front and the rest was at the beaches. Piece of cake, right.

[@mingshili4101]

Thanks for stealing the victory from the Soviets. :)

[@RErnie-gv1hv]

@@mingshili4101 What Soviet units were at Normandy?

[@mingshili4101]

@@RErnie-gv1hv What American units were on the eastern front?

[@RErnie-gv1hv]

@@mingshili4101 As I understand there were many U.S. & British troops in the Pacific and in Europe. Not to challenge or despair the millions of Russian troops and civilian casualties. I just didn't know there were Russian troops involved at Normandy.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

My dad (USN) and his two brothers served in WWII. One brother was a Marine, the other a bomber pilot. Luckily, they all came home.

[@Dan-sw8tg]

in my family ( im from Germany) both of my grandfathers older brothers fell. One in Russia ( MG gunner) one in Italy ( dispatch rider) . My grandfather was just 1-2 years too young to get drafted.

[@mushroomy9899]

My great great grandfather fought in the Yugoslav partisans, but he was captured by a retreating German devision while attempting to move away from the eastern front as it approached Macedonia. He manages to escape once the soviets almost fully retook Yugoslavia, in which he moved to Skopje shortly after. About 8 years after the war he moved to Wisconsin and then Indiana once he had my great grandfather.

[@workingwithnature5322]

My great grandfather never told me much . But he had a bullet hole in is arm . I do know they put maggots on it till he got to a medical sergon. Maggots only eat dead flesh so keep it clean . Rip Albert . 🙏

[@pcl2365]

History is always written by the Victor. Of any conflict. Political and Religious.

[@Scoobz187]

So the russians are writing the history? Or where is that Victor coming from?

[@jackpotsearlytapes]

PCL Thats why we cant trust history.

[@pcl2365]

Scoobz Victor Jaqinof. Famous Russian historian.

[@kalsarikannit2058]

Scoobz187, probably that Victor comming from the same place, where the Victoria came from ...

[@garcalej]

Whereas denial of it belongs solely to the losers.

[@TedBronson1918]

Thanks for posting this. It isn't very often we see the German footage of WW II combat, especially D-Day. When we do, it's always the same old clips. I've never seen this footage. One thing that comes to mind as I watch the big guns of ships, tanks and artillery fire is just how loud it must have been As a former Infantryman I have heard a line of about 100 men firing rifles when I had no hearing protection (earplug fell out), and it's almost enough to make someone pee their pants and leave their ears ringing. Artillery is also very loud, but that is usually positioned a distance away. The amount of noise during the D-Day landings alone must have deafened many people, at least temporarily, not to mention the more horrific results of the impacts of the shells. Although this footage shows a lot of smiling Germans and sad Allied POW's, I'm sure there was plenty of heartache to go around for both sides. I also look at the faces of the Germans, confident in their ability to defeat the invasion. I know that most of them will be dead before the next few months pass, and within 11 months Germany will be totally defeated. Maybe ignorance IS bliss sometimes. How hard would they have fought if they knew what fate had in store for them ? Oh well, those are just some of the thoughts crossing my mind after viewing this footage. Thanks again for posting this. Please do more.

[@caelestigladii]

I can't even stand a firecracker, I'll probably die of shattered ear when standing next to those guns.

[@Shad0hawK]

i have experienced artillery as well, feeling that concussion wave go through you from a short distance is strange. i can only guess at how it feels up close.

[@milenaresources4244]

There is a mix of at least 50% stock footage in the newsreel. I can't say if there is even any footage by the Nazi's from actual D-day. You can just see all the set shots and heroic imagery mixed in with ordinary looking non-heroic field footage to know there is much to suspect. Notice the demolition collapses from set charges on structures. Some scenes appear from far away cities, some undergoing destruction. Hard to say but I'm guessing Warsaw or some such place destroyed on purpose. It's easy to tell because the structures just sink into the dust from a demo charge at the base. Just how would anybody capture something like that and frame it just so other than to make a point and be able to use it at will. I imagine the footage of german columns moving into the area are real and maybe contemporaneous, but for the most part there was no accountability in news reporting. Ever listen to Lord Ha Ha? He also talks about "german protected areas" and in such a smooth silky way.

[@TedBronson1918]

Shad0hawK - I had artillery firing over my head from just about 100 meters away and the shock/noise of the firing is enough to make someone jump out of their skin if they aren't prepared for it. The concussion of firing was easily felt from that distance. I never experienced being near where shells land, thank god. I'm glad you made it OK.

[@TedBronson1918]

Hand OverFist - If there was coffee in my system on D-Day, I'm afraid it might not have stayed inside for very long, and the ocean would have taken on a yellow tinge, or the sand found itself with a new wet spot ! Thanks for your kind comment.

[@jacksouthard8848]

My father stormed Normandy on D Day and then he turned 20 years old the next day and he passed away in 2013 he was 88 miss you and love you pop

[@fougee1]

My Dad was in the Pacific at Okinawa,Tarawa and other bloody battles.His two brothers were at the D-day invasion.Thankfully they all came home.My father lived in nightmares til the day he passed. Bless your Dad he was part of the Best generation!

[@randbarrett8706]

So glad that periscope film preserved and made available these historical pieces. Sad that such things are otherwise disposed of.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

You are so welcome! Thanks for your comment. Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@scinanisern9845]

My mom was in London during the war. She described many things. She lost her left ear in a bomb blast. I asked her what being in a bomb blast was like. Quiet she says... very quiet. She was walking down the hallway, into the living room, the wall on her right. Windows across the room on her left fracture and entered the room going straight in, keeping their square shape, frames and all. As the windows passed the curtains the curtains began folding straight out into the room, standing horizontal a moment, then joining the windows as they began crossing the room. They passed over the table. The chairs and table moved into the room and began lifting up into the air. There was no sound save one: Tinkling. Everything was tinkling like broken glass singing. It was then a giant hand slaps her on the left, launching her through the wall on the right and this is all she recalls till hours later, waking up with the second story and roof on top of her.

[@jorgepreciado6984]

Wow

[@philgiglio7922]

Pretty common story I think

[@scinanisern9845]

@@philgiglio7922 Heh... Only heard it once. Im certain its the same for YOU too.

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

"you have the right to know these facts, even though they come straight to you from your enemy" hits hard

[@alexmag342]

Not really since the Allies are quite the most heavily revisionistic group to ever have existed, may they rot in hell for serving the J Banks

[@austinh9389]

Imagine hearing that today lol

[@cas1652]

Yes. Imagine being treated like a responsible adult by government / media

[@richardjohnson4052]

My father was a rancher in Arizona. At 15, he lied about his age, joined the marines and humped a flame thrower across the Pacific Theater. My mother, an Irish Immigrant, was one of the 'rosie the riveter' women. My mother welded battleships during WW-II. 7 years later, my father was in Korea. 8 years after that, he was in Vietnam. When he retired from the military, he had to pack grocery bags in the commissary for tips to make enough to live on.

[@MrPHAELAN]

god, it's so shamefull, what our elderlies have to endure!

[@philgiglio7922]

At least he wasn't living on the street, like too darn many veterans

[@richardjohnson4052]

@@MrPHAELANI am a 28 yr USAF vet and I told my kids to never enlist. The US treats it's vets like shit and the public spits on us whenever they can get away with it.

[@davidb2206]

I know vets who live on less than $1,000 per month in social security; no other income and nothing from the VA. No dental care at VA hospitals. It's out-of-pocket. The VA will not even transport these men to our state's ONE VA hospital, far away. Only a handful of volunteers try to get them there. It's pathetic what Washington D.C. is doing.

[@whatsamattayu3257]

It's shameful that veterans are treated worse than illegals entering over the border. This country's priorities need a giant 180 degree turn and fast.

[@Stussmeister]

While both my grandfathers had German heritage, each served in the U.S. military during WWII. My paternal grandfather was a machinist in the Navy (he mainly served out in the Pacific), and my maternal grandfather was a Staff Sergeant in the Army (he served in the Battle of the Bulge). Additionally, my great-aunt (grandmother's sister) served as an Army nurse.

[@titoqwentezproductionz3406]

did you ever think how stupid were the millions of people that joined this war and died for business/corps/rothchilds/etc and didn't really solve anything besides a shit ton of people dead. and whats even more flabbergasting is people still think its honorable or even remotely respectable to be even a part of any of this ? I posted this comment but I'm also replying specifically to you because I want to get your opinion on this. do you agree?

[@Stussmeister]

@@titoqwentezproductionz3406 Well, it does seem incongruous that the people in top leadership positions lauded the war effort while at the same time not sending their own families into combat or getting involved themselves (see the CCR song "Fortunate Son"). Moreover, WWII seems to be the last war with definitive victors and losers, as nearly every armed conflict since has been mired in inconclusive results. I will say, however, that fighting for one's country and defending it is not so much stupid as it is honorable, as it's because of soldiers' efforts and sacrifices that you and I still have the freedom to engage in this kind of discourse. I'm also thinking it wouldn't do well for the American psyche if we just let other nations run roughshod over us and not put up any sort of resistance.

[@titoqwentezproductionz3406]

@@Stussmeister who are you talking about that fought for our freedom? the civil war? that was pathetic as well, so many people dead over nothing. not very bright if you ask me.

[@Stussmeister]

@twitteriscancer5403 While I agree that both World Wars were destructive conflicts in their own right, I'm not sure that destruction was limited to white, English-speaking males. Moreover, the postwar period has mostly been viewed as one of growth, albeit with an underlying sense of uncertainty and unrest.

[@Stussmeister]

@@titoqwentezproductionz3406 Well, as an amateur historian who has studied the major military conflicts of American history, I've found that they were predicated by a number of factors, including: Lack of representation in British Parliament, forcible kidnapping and enlistment of American sailors into the British Navy, ideological differences between the industrial North and agrarian South, fear of foreign invasion onto American soil, and fear of the spread of Communism through Asia and the rest of the world. If you disagree with the statement above, then that's fine, and I wish you no ill will.

[@martialmusic]

Great film. Thanks for posting.

[@scootergeorge9576]

Brilliant propaganda...

[@clauderuddy3061]

Robert Morecook et de tttt et de t de la t

[@scootergeorge9576]

In this one, the Germans win!

[@roberttuss5349]

It is with profound gratitude that I thank all American and allied soldiers that fought overseas, especially to my Grandfather and 3 uncles that fought "over there."

[@randyjordan5521]

My dad tried to join up, but he was rejected because of asthma. Also because he was 27 and already had 3 kids. I had several uncles and other relatives who went. Both my uncle and my wife's uncle fought through Italy. I was born in 1955, and as I grow older, I realize how many men I knew in my childhood in the '60s and '70s had fought in WWII, and were still young men in their 30s and 40s when I knew them.

[@Mirabell_Noir]

😂😂😂😂

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Mirabell_Noir

[@diddlysquat88]

If your grandfather saw Europe and US today he would not take one step up that beach..

[@goodgrief8058]

Today's generation will never know how incredibly tough the people of that generation were.

[@DefJamGlycerine]

They will never have the patriotism of our ancestors, because they don't even care what becomes of our nation.

[@texaswunderkind]

@@DefJamGlycerine I have patriotism for my country. I don't have fake patriotism for draft-dodging fascists like Trump who want to make us a mini-Russia under Putin.

[@DefJamGlycerine]

@@texaswunderkind Define Fascism without looking it up.

[@kittokittokoshiki8978]

More like in genral after our tech got even better we didnt live how it was like back then i mean the west was "wild" and dangerous but after maybe 1900 everytjing completely changed to what it is now u cant carry guns and shit open like that at all now or swords and all even though theres a chance u may have to i carry a 7" knife on me all times

[@flagmichael]

@@DefJamGlycerine I was taught about fascism in American Government class in 1969. I would expect the same thing today, but online I have seen references to left-wing fascists. Sigh....

[@canuck_gamer3359]

It's amazing to think that these films were produced right up to the final days of the war. I found a couple of parts humorous, particularly how the Nazi's took credit for destroying gliders, when most of them looked about the way one would expect. I would guess that fewer than 40% of them actually landed 100% intact that night, remember they were built to be light and it didn't take much to break them apart.

[@robotsonmars1989]

Yep... Right lads button up. Lets go....

[@worldcomicsreview354]

They were supposed to break in half, unloading ramps would have been too expensive and heavy

[@fmbbeachbum8163]

Propaganda works, look at the modern GOP, they're trying to be the New Nazis with Agolf Twitler as their Fuhrer.

[@Ellecram]

These films were the only way other than radio that people received news updates. These newsreels were generally shown in theaters before movies were presented. A different time for sure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Deutsche_Wochenschau

[@jwoods1732]

Question is, did they know they were made to break in half? The internet didn't exist and finding info about your enemies equiptment wasn't as simple as it is today. If you saw your guys firing thousands of rounds/shells at aircraft then you find a shitload of seemingly broken aircraft in fields you'd assume that was the result of your AA guns... Similarly, in Dachau Americans thought Germans had killed everyone in a traincar using a machine gun because it was riddled with bullet holes and corpses but in all likely hood it was American and British planes strafing the trains that had killed the human cargo, the same reason why a lack of food made it to the camps in the later war period.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

I always wondered why D-day was described as THE "invasion" of Europe when the allies were already fighting in Italy. thanks for the upload.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@nordoceltic7225 ... i appreciate your comment but i think you missed my point. my point is - there was ALREADY a second front even BEFORE normany was invaded. the invasions of north africa WAS a second front. the invasions of sicily anf italy weren't only a continuation of that front but was also an invasion of european soil. the normany invasion was the THIRD european front. not the second.

[@orwellboy1958]

Come on you guys we can't be having this two people being polite and respectful to each other. Seriously though, it makes a welcome change.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@orwellboy1958 ... i'll remember to be more mean in the future. you know its true, i can sometimes be attacked, insulted and degraded for posting the most innocuous comments. i find civil discourse on the internet quite refreshing too.

[@diogenesthecynic1334]

@@nordoceltic7225 no liberation , the majority of people in europe were pro fascism and national socialism. You americans changed our history

[@taramaforhaikido7272]

@@cjmacq-vg8um I enjoy being insulted and abused. You can only work yourself up. It's amusing how volatile people defuse when they can't affect me. I do have to be mean myself, however it's in the most honest of ways. Back on the topic at hand, Africa and middle east is basically a "side" location where people duke it out. Has been since the holy crusades. Today the west still invades the middle east. Afria was about supplies. Sabotage. That kind of thing. D-day was a FULL FORCE attack. A line had been drawn all along the beaches and the Germans were dug in. As bad as D-day was, Germany actually got fed false information to send troops to other places. If not for that we might all be speaking German now. Afrika was more "commando" ops, at least in terms of effective strikes. The terrain forces that (open desert slows things down. Water supplies, nevermind fuel). Normandy is the whole army charging. Steamrolling. No intent in stopping until getting to Berlin to end it all. As far as Germany goes at least. Japan comes after that. A detail history tends to leave out in regards to the "proper" end of the war. America is just too ashamed to admit they had to resort to nukes to end things properly. Civies targets as they bleed from the eyes and ears with the fallout. America also killed 30,000 civies in Dresden. Civies are targets. They drain moral. They affect profit. The west aren't the heroes. Germany isn't. Russia isn't. No one is. Let's not pretend otherwise. Some bad things have to be done. But once it's about destruction, it's a cycle of destruction. Pain, suffering, even apathy, these things have their uses. Teach and learn. Strength and weakness. Destruction doesn't prove you're strong. It only proves you're so weak and pathetic that you can't find another way IMO. Now we're on a powder keg of nukes with a possible WW3 looming. What do you think will happen the next time nukes and civies are targeted? Move to mars some day? We'll just find a way to destroy there too. It's the result of the more ignorant that have yet to learn to look death in the eye without a weapon and come out alive. There's an art to it. Most people just don't have that skill and talent yet though. So options are limited for many. when a world is "politically correct" and deal with half truths, not wanting to reveal the whole story as people turn a blind eye, little wonder.

[@chrisschultz8445]

I find it interesting that never does the German announcer mention the American and British Jaegerbombers, the fighter bombers that turned so much of that vaunted German armor into so much scrap. Many of the SS units had been transferred from the Russian front, They quickly learned "Der Westen Blick," the western glance, upward, to keep an eye out for the fighter bomber squadrons that were targeting their tanks.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

The tigers were already scrap

[@limelidl3160]

@@West_Coast_Mainline talking shit

[@HO-bndk]

Aircraft lookouts were for recce planes. Fighter-bombers were not a big threat to armour. The claims of allied tactical air were ridiculously overblown.

[@johnstuartsmith]

A German propaganda announcer isn't going to be telling German audiences about what successes the Allies were having. The scenes of destroyed landing craft, crashed gliders, defeated Allied prisoners, and burning Sherman tanks were shown to support the official story that the genius-level strategic skills of Germany's leader and Germany's innate military superiority were repelling the poorly trained and badly equipped armies that were foolishly trying to invade the German homeland.

[@nealskrenes2612]

@@HO-bndk depends I guess on your definition of “big threat“ *”Luftwaffe legend Hans-Ulrich Rudel claimed to have destroyed 519 Soviet tanks,* most of them while piloting a cannon-armed Junkers Ju-87G Panzerknäcker, or “tankbuster.” *Aleksandr Yefimov, said to have destroyed 126 German tanks* while flying the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik, was twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union. Tales of their exploits helped to firmly establish a positive image of anti-tank aviation in histories of the conflict. But that image has little relation to the realities of close air support during the war.” “…October 1942, there were five Hurricane IID squadrons in North Africa, and the most proficient of these, the by-then veteran 6 Squadron, claimed 43 German tanks destroyed for the loss of nine aircraft by the end of that month.” It appears the US Army Air Force never really solved the problem of close air support platform which could effectively deal with tanks. Full article www.historynet.com/think-its-easy-to-destroy-tanks-with-airplanes-think-again/

[@RobinK]

Those Nova Scotia troops looked pissed

[@User-es2yz]

Robin one does not simply capture a maritimer and have them say sorry

[@noname-mq6vw]

Panzer Meyer’s troops murdered them, look it up

[@User-es2yz]

no name yes then he was taken back here to Canada and held in a base about 40 minutes from my house. We know the story well here. At least he taught us how to use tanks!

[@americansasquatch_the_original]

They most likely had a poor commander

[@Pedro-em3ik]

I thought the same, exactly

[@blue2sco]

Have to laugh, those "wrecked planes" are Horsa gliders and meant to "snap in half" :)

[@moldypotato4656]

Pedro Lista Carey - Scrolling down this far into the comments and I've already seen you reply roughly the same thing on 6 different comments. They could've shown however many "downed" planes they wanted but the Allied landings were a success in the end so why do you keep insisting otherwise? It happened 70 years ago, just get over it.

[@blue2sco]

Pedro Lista Carey I doubt it since he went over there two or three days after the landings happened. And please use my full name be polite you don't know me well enough ;)

[@garcalej]

What can I say. High Command specified that they wanted the gliders "to land." They didn't specify in what condition.

[@normellison5347]

The allies were not beaten and those who died did so as free men rather than servile defenders of a corrupt regime.

[@jeffstewart4648]

German Protected Europe. Fantastic. Love it.

[@codaalive5076]

Mare's Nest is one of the best books explaining how programs like V2 rocket took so much German resources they couldn't make weapons that might make a difference. V1 was a lot simpler but also a lot more effective, Stg44 assault rifle even better, they could make several tanks instead of one V2 and so on. Author is pretty strange figure but this book is certainly kind of "authority" on this things. I highly suggest it despite being a little technical and boring but this information is crucial for understanding loss of the war.

[@JulianThursday13]

"...you have the right to know the facts, even though they come straight to you from your enemy."

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

lol,Those gliders weren't snapped in half. Thats how you unload their cargos. Notice how they were all empty of equipment except the odd one.

[@ZerokillerOppel1]

James Horsey Walsh You're right but some of them indeed snapped in half on impact. Funny that nowhere the actual invasion is mentioned with Omaha Gold etc.. which did succeed.

[@thyrampantpigeon]

Maybe they're saying they're destroyed because the fact the tail detaches, the average citizen would believe they were destroyed, propaganda n all that

[@danzervos7606]

Notice they were not referred to as gliders which pretty much are single use items. After fighting through Sicily and Italy, my uncle was critically injured in a glider crash in the invasion of Southern France. It took him 2 years to recover.

[@anbakeoriginal]

Remember who made this movie? It wasn't the Germans.

[@MyRotaryLife]

I agree 100% with you on this but just throwing this out there... The german people, now and especially then due to selective breeding and the best education system this world has or ever will see wee extremely smart and sophisticated. Surely they would see the planes HAD NO ENGINES!!!!!!! A bunch of the public must have seen that and realised hold on a minute.....plus...hmm We managed to neatly shoot down all these planes into exactly the same area in a field????? war time ignorance it seems is bliss....

[@IrishCarney]

1:10 The headline reads "Invasion on Moscow's Order" in other words portraying the Western Allies as doing the bidding of the Soviets. It's clear the German propagandists knew the German people and those of Occupied Europe saw the Western Allies in a relatively positive light. Thus the propagandists had to constantly associate the West with the reviled and feared Soviets, hoping the Soviet stigma would rub off on the West.

[@dpt6849]

Stalin did ask for more fronts to churchill and us

[@TechnicalVO1D]

Good catch.

[@limelidl3160]

But thats how it was stalin begged the allies to open a second front you need to learn more history

[@barefoot191]

@@limelidl3160 stalin wanted the western allies to attack in 1942 and it did not happen until 2 years later. So the headlines saying the attack was on Moscow's orders was redundant. The invasion was going to happen sooner or later and it was more to liberate France then relieve Russia.

[@ronmka8931]

Pretty sure the allies were bombing them so i dont think they liked them

[@bartekmajewski2305]

Note for historians: The German spoken text is not the original text. This German is clearly spoken with an American accent and is therefore not authentic. I don't know why this was done. One would have to take the original German newsreel and compare the texts.

[@deanrogers1843]

One can only presume they didn’t have the original soundtrack and had intercepted the script or seen a hard copy.

[@fsantosneto]

The defense was so effective and so efficient that the germans lost the war.

[@paulbrower4265]

But this film suggested a smashing Nazi victory! The Nazis were great at editing video to show one side of the story -- all victories even if the victories were few and isolated, and the defeats were everywhere else.

[@fsantosneto]

@@paulbrower4265 True. The most part of the film has no relation with the D day.

[@CB-sh9zz]

@@fsantosneto This Movie is fake if you haven't already noticed. The "German" narrator speaks with an American accent

[@tommyapples8490]

​@@paulbrower4265 our news does it everyday. Showing all sorts of news stories and edited in such a way to make the viewers feel and think whatever they want them to

[@michaeldy3157]

My uncle survived dday and combat until the end. He died of cancer in 1995.

[@mgoh1984]

Sorry to hear about your uncle. Cancer is in my DNA too and almost took me like it took my mom, but for whatever reason I was able to learn how to avoid it - vegan diet. Animal fats and proteins feed the diseases and conditions humans suffer from, die early from, and play the treatment game. You may not want to believe this as I know I didn't, but it took nearly dying early for me to understand.

[@michaelkitchens3933]

Regarding the Luftwaffe activity, again, based on what I have read (i.e Holland 'Normandy '44'; Ambrose 'D-Day' & 'Citizen soldiers'; Ryan 'Longest day'; and Ernie Pyle 'Brave men' come to mind) most of the tactical Luftwaffe planes had been transferred away from the beaches along with their logistical support (you could fly the planes back quickly but moving the support elements back by road was another matter, as was any movement on the roads or by rail. BTW, Holland in his 'Sicily 43' mentions how the same whack-a-mole transfers by OKL hurt the German defenses there as a number of Luftwaffe units were transferred to Sardinia and around other sites in Sicily. Even axis command wasn't sure how many planes they had available and where they were currently positioned when the landing came). There was a pass over the British beaches about 0900 by two FW-190s and they shot through only about 50m over the beach. They made one pass, did little or no recorded damage, every gun opened up on them, but no recorded hits. That night about 2300 a single ME-109 flew over the beaches on a reconnaissance flight, everyone that could fired at it, no hits, the 109 made a loop and went back home. There were regular bomber runs over the beaches after June 6th at night, Ernie Pyle in Brave Men spent some time on the beach with an AA crew describing the activity there. Holland & Ambrose both point out that if Hitler had launched his new V1s at the beachhead instead of London he might have gotten more real use out of them, but given the inaccuracy of those weapons even at the closer range he was more like to kill fish in the Channel, or drop them on his own men, as hit anything meaningful on the allied beachhead. That's just my opinion.

[@thersten]

TLTR.

[@bloqk16]

@Michael Kitchens . . . from an account I read from the World At War magazine, the lack of Luftwaffe activity over Omaha Beach, on D-Day, got some US Army AA crewed halftracks, on the beach, armed with .50 machine guns to direct the suppression fire towards the German fortifications.

[@Fenris8800]

Impressive! oO Never saw detailed D-day footage like this before. As a german its satisfy to hear the american moderator translated the german speech correctly. So the listeners get the right picture of what is happening arround D-day.

[@Philflash]

Germany had better camera equipment to cover the war. They used Arriflex cameras which were much lighter and were easily hand held. The Americans had the big heavy Bell and Howell equipment. Later the design of Arriflex was adopted and Panavision cameras were made.

[@Duskraven67]

Imagine being this transparent about your enemy today. Stating that, even though this is propaganda, you have a right to know what your enemies know/believe.

[@amarti53]

Imagine the Biden admin being honest or transparent about anything today

[@hoodatdondar2664]

@@amarti53 That is what the USA did - ‘Mein Kampf’ was a big seller in WWII. And still does today - propaganda from all sources is freely available.

[@thersten]

@@amarti53 keep crying loser. 🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@erikt1713]

Imagine watching any propaganda video you like on the internet from the comfort of your home. Only take the minor inconvenience of getting a VPN that connects you via Serbia, for example. You will be able to see today's Russian propaganda as it's being broadcast - even in English or with subtitles.

[@thersten]

@@erikt1713 cool. Imma try that right away!

[@patrickhepburn7867]

Good to see how the other side saw the invasion.

[@kayceeluvsdnb2471]

I have 2 family members fought in northern France, 1 in Russia, 1 in Italy...on german side. 2 of 4 came back home and survived the war. But to be honest... without WW2 I (and perhaps some others) wouldnt be born. On grandparents side 1 of each side lived in Hamburg and from both sides 1 was a refugee from the Königsberg area (today Kaliningrad). Way of life...

[@svensantesson2020]

Let me guess: The Italian one survived... 😂

[@kayceeluvsdnb2471]

@@svensantesson2020 indeed. And fun fact: the one in russia.

[@svensantesson2020]

@@kayceeluvsdnb2471 on which Side Had He been?

[@kayceeluvsdnb2471]

@@svensantesson2020 all germans

[@svensantesson2020]

@@kayceeluvsdnb2471 ok

[@readmylisp]

The Canadians ,other British Commonwealth and Europeans fought in D Day. 2.5 million Indians were among the allies . 87,000 killed - never mentioned.

[@Ziggy_Rotten]

Wow, not only is this an incredible look into the German propaganda point of view of D-Day but you also haven't disabled comments, it's a miracle!

[@rainbowranddy]

"Where did all the flowers go, long time passing, where did all the flowers go? Gone to graveyards, everyone.....when will they ever learn...when will they ever learn?" Folk song from 1960s, sung by Peter, Paul and Mary.

[@dutchman7623]

And Marlene Dietrich...

[@isaowater]

Where have they gone..

[@dutchman7623]

@Björn Rieß Yes, a beautiful version. This one as well... kzbin.info/www/bejne/qojGkIShjbStiLs

[@WalkingDday]

The warships weren’t « recklessly close ». The rangefinders of batteries would get the range of a target, then do a conversion for each gun, as they could be 500 tp 1000 yds away. This was done by pencil and paper, and took time. An anchored ship would be in danger but not a moving warship. The ships unloading men to the landing craft were at anchor so stayed 12 miles out to be outside the range. Edit: The only ship sunk by guns was the Cory, off Utah beach. It hit a mine which stopped the ship, then the 8inch guns at Crisbeq got it. KZbin Walking D-day #walkingdday

[@RedRocket4000]

The DD got in recklessly close then took out German defenses with amazing accuracy. And the Cruisers and Battleships did get close enough to hit and be hit but German Batteries they fighting quickly taken out the Germans having few guns that could hurt them. Lost a few DD.

[@garymisenheimer]

My Dad ship was sunk on Utah Beach. USS Cory. Hit by artillery gun. They were told on the way over they were going in close to draw fire off beach. They were expendable.

[@WalkingDday]

@@garymisenheimer The Cory was moving, so not too susceptible to being hit. But, then it hit a mine and the ship stopped. Then it was hit by the Crisbeq guns. It was the only ship sunk by guns on D-day.

[@rsmith02]

Where were they for most of the fight to take Omaha beach?

[@WalkingDday]

@@rsmith02 The beaches had been bombed, so the german defenses were supposed to have been badly damaged. On Omaha the B17s and B24s crossed the beach perpendicularly at 10,000 feet and missed the beach by a mile. Around 9:30 10am destroyer captains took their ships in close to fire on the casemates. WN65 got a shell through the opening from either the Frankford or Doyle. At Pointe du Hoc, which is Omaha sector, the Saterlee moved in to help the Rangers. The HMS Talybont also moved in. It hit a machine gun emplacement, outside the battery, which then fell down the cliff.

[@georgehenry76]

13:43 you can see the marks on the hole from where the round rifled through. That’s amazing.

[@gangoffour6690]

Please remember fellow Americans, whenever you have the honor to be in the presence of any WWII vet (and any veteran) ask them if you can do anything for them. Whether it is buying thier coffee or a meal. Give them your phone number in case they need a ride. It's just what I do to show my love and respect for these, the greatest men that ever walked on the face of the earth. God Bless you all.

[@jfloresmac]

Amen to that, brother! And Im not even from the US hehehe. Im a latino. My country declared war on the axis 2 days after the US and I personally knew a WW2 veteran from my country that worked as a telegraphist on Liberty ships. (Sunk three times by the U-boats, saw how the germans machined gunned people in the water) So, yes, God bless America always and all your soldiers and vets.

[@flyingphobiahelp]

Do u do the same hero-worship for doctors and nurses who SAVE lives rather than extinguish life?

[@Brickbossman]

@@flyingphobiahelp nope

[@mclarenf1gtr99]

@@flyingphobiahelp Did doctors and nurses risk their life? Did they get their limbs blown off? Was there a huge number of casualties compared to the number active personnel? Not saying doctors and nurses don't deserve respect, but one just can't compare. Also, there is no such thing as peace without war, unless you don't mind to be conquered and turn into a slave, in which case comes the question "peace or freedom?".

[@janus3555]

@@flyingphobiahelp Doctors and nurses don't sacrifice their lives or put their lives on the line so nope. Big difference and doctors and even nurses get paid quite well.

[@kevinhealey6540]

I was stationed in Germany in the 70s and I talked to people who lived through it. They told me that everybody knew that the war was over in 1943. They use to listen to the BBC where they could get accurate updates of what was really going on. The BBC would report the truth, even when it was not going well for the allies. For instance, the BBC reported on how the Bismarck was wrecking havoc on British ships. Also soldiers who lost an arm or leg(s) were being sent back from the Russian Front. They would tell people, it's hopeless and the Russian advance can not be stopped. When it was reported that allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, everyone knew it was hopeless. A WW 2 vet who was a translator told me that when the American troops were fighting in France, machine gunners and 2nd lieutenants had short life expectancies. When it was announced that a bomb had exploded at a meeting with Hitler, everyone knew exactly what was involved and were glad he was dead, because it meant there would be a surrender and the invasion into Germany would not come about, only to find out later he survived. In November of 44, desertion among German troops was rampant. Also there was hardly anything to eat and people were scrounging. For instance apple trees that had apples were stripped clean.

[@kevinhealey6540]

The only thing Goebbels, Rommel or whoever did was they helped out in getting Germany involved in a war that could be won. If you look at news reels of Rommel in 44, you can see a man who feels totally defeated and realizes exactly what is going to happen and obviously he's full of regret. One point of note and I'll be more than happy to provide with statistical information about this, whenever some leader of a country comes up with, "The Jews are responsible for all our problems" and takes action in that direction that country will eventually fall apart. The last three countries that did it in the last 20 years were Turkey, Belarus, and Venezuela. The currency of Turkey and Belarus is worth a small fraction of what it was before the anti Semitism started. The currency of Venezuela after Chavez got through has no value.

[@HerrHalmakenreuter]

Hitler wollte den Krieg 41 beenden , aber die USA haben dies verhindert , dadurch das sie Frankreich und anderen damit drohten Hilfsleistungen einzustellen , Konten zu sperren und so weiter.

[@EmotionalCookies]

Considering the conditions and prospects of the conflict for Germany, the desertion was bizarrely lower than expected from an army losing decisively on every front.

[@kevinhealey6540]

@@EmotionalCookies Did it help change the final outcome. Everybody knew it was over. That's why the putsch attempt came about.

[@Instigator917]

As the victories get closer and closer to home!

[@josephbrabander9124]

My father landed in Normandy on D-Day+19. When he arrived on the beaches the front lines were barely a mile away. As he passed a house a young French farm boy came out and asked "Boche kaput?" Boche was an insulting term the French used at that time. Having grown up in rural Nebraska my father understood German, even spoke a variety of it when he was very young.

[@67beatlefreak]

Thank you for sharing your dad’s story.

[@stevek8829]

You don't need much German to know Bosch kaput.

[@johnycash99]

9:30 So cool! I'm from Nova Scotia - It's crazy to see and learn about a battalion that existed from our small province!!

[@edwardhayes6111]

I watched them and hoped they got home safely

[@Gryphon_19]

I’m also from NS and want to know more about these guys

[@derekcollins1972]

I'm from Nova Scotia as well. First video I have seen them in.

[@smeesmith8851]

Sadly, some of the did not. Watch "murder In Normandy", some of the North Nova pows were killed in Normandy

[@smeesmith8851]

There are reserve regiments in Nova Scotia today.

[@patoshan8240]

Canadian here. It's highly likely a number of those poor Highlander boys from Nova Scotia starting at 9:30 weren't even taken to prison camps, but were murdered the next day at the Ardenne Abbey massacre along with other Canadian POWs.

[@MelioraCogito]

There's an interactive online map called _Project '44,_ (map project44 ca) that follows the 3rd Canadian Division (and later the Canadian Corps) from D-day to the end of the war in northern Germany. It's compiled from the daily entries of the regimental war diaries of all the Canadian units involved. Ducimus.

[@paulbrower4265]

SS -- Societas Satanica.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Un "reportage" pas comme les autres. Fort intéressant. Merci pour le téléchargement.

[@micnorton9487]

That is one thing that has always impressed me: a battleship dueling with heavy shore artillery batteries... The shore artillery has the advantage of outside support,, hopefully full supply,, and easy communication with associated units,, the battleship has the advantage of movement and so control of the engagement...

[@rsmith02]

Battleship stayed out of range and was mostly irrelevant from what I read. Very little Naval support compared to Pacific landings almost lost D Day.

[@emmanuelunitedchurchottawa4152]

Amazing,. We went on a WW2 tour and this brings back so many memories.

[@skyflier8955]

Normal propaganda isn’t good enough. *We have to make the enemies’ propaganda into our own.*

[@b.bothozueulenburg1192]

one more layer, because the original film was not made by the germans. So you made a film from cutted german video clips, used a commentator who can talk a pretty good german (but i can hear he is not a newsreel commentator) and sold this as german propaganda movie from which you made a own propaganda movie. Thats really sick haha

[@MisterManTheBestMan]

@Anthony I have no idea what you are trying to turn that into. How did you go from Sky Flier's comment, which is taking a comedic view on Germany's over reliance on propaganda into him boasting about America? Also, we did whoop their behinds, and sent their body parts home in a box. Unfortunately you cannot kill an idea, so there are very, verrrrry small amounts of Neo-Nazi groups across the entire world, not just America. Hell there are Neo Nazis in Poland, and I mean how in the Hell do you get Polish Neo Nazis? Simple - You cannot kill an idea.

[@gondolacrescent5]

Chilling to see it from the German point of view; for once the camera is pointed East instead of West. Great video. Keep it coming!

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

I think the camera is facing West though, toward the Atlantic Ocean from France, not East like toward Russia.

[@jonnysupreme]

It would be facing west from the German prospective

[@EmbeddedWithin]

I think you mean it the other way round’. The allied forces would look east to see enemies, while the axis in Europe would look west.

[@masonpyle5929]

As a person who loves history this is something that is interesting actually. Because we never got the views of the Central or Axis Powers. Hey history is mainly written by the winners. If you want a war that has equal views look at the American Civil War , the Vietnam War or war in Afghanistan.

[@flexdubel5870]

Really cool, do you have the fully Original video, I mean the sound in Germany

[@HeyManNiceSchott]

13:08 "The Nazi's know that the German people have always be awed by America's production capacity. In sequences like this they attempt to show American equipment is no match for German guns." - American Production vs German High Tech - there are lessons here to be learned today in 2017 by understanding this. Great video. Thank you for posting.

[@stupoc6715]

Calling the gliders planes. Lol

[@elliottre5019]

The American equipment was no match for German guns but when you can field such a large amount of military equipment the enemy can be overwhelmed. The Sherman tank was known as the Ronson lighter. It would light first time every time. The Liberty ships were turned out at a rate of one a month. There were too many for the U-boats to sink all of them. So, supplies got through. Just not all of them. A large quantity of equipment cheap and fast is a proven strategy. Like the Germans, the USA put expensive high-tech equipment as the means to defeat the Taliban and like the Germans, we didn't defeat them.

[@RandomDudeOne]

@@elliottre5019 Sherman was the best medium tank of the war. Any tank getting hit by an 88mm would be destroyed, even a Tiger.

[@TheMelorino]

@@elliottre5019 that's why the Soviets won in Afghanistan.

[@Stubbies2003]

@@TheMelorino Uh the USSR didn't win in Afghanistan. They had a lot of initial success sure but they weren't fighting against a peer opponent. Once the USA got involved by equipping the fighters in Afghanistan the USSR got it's azz kicked. Basically Afghanistan became the USSR's equivalent to our Vietnam.

[@billlozier5551]

This is chilling and fantastic. What sacrifice men made to stop the Nazi war machine.

[@flagmichael]

I am of the Vietnam generation, but I'm fascinated by two aspects of WW2: the incredible desperation of preventing fascism from becoming the dominant form of government in the world, and the number of critical efforts that were a very close run thing.

[@billlozier5551]

@flagmichael your final point. I don't get what you're suggesting. Would you be more specific?

[@AudieHolland]

Regardless of what you may think of the German propaganda, sometimes they could only relay the truth. Sometimes. For instance, the Allied airborne drops, apart from a select few that were aimed at specific bridges (Orne Bridge or Pegasus Bridge), were a complete catastrophe. A thousand and more paratroopers were killed during the night time drop. Some were shot up while in the air, some landed on inundated land and drowned in water that was only kneedeep, because they couldn't get their parachute off in the darkness and confusion. And a few were outright dropped into the sea because the pilots of the planes carrying them became disoriented. Those that did make it onto the ground alive and intact, were hopelessly dispersed. In most cases, regular paratroopers were walking around without officers, in other instances, like the one from James Gavin's memoirs, where he as brigadier general, found himself surrounded by Colonels and Majors but only a handful of men. "Never have so many been in charge of so few" Gavin wrote in his memoirs. The destruction of Caen: if it was the Luftwaffe who had bombed Caen and so utterly destroyed it like the Allied bombers did, the Luftwaffe would have been charged with warcrimes. Following the succesfull landings on the invasion beaches, the real work had to even begin: fighting the Germans in Normandy and especially in the Bocage (medieval hedgerow country) that was seemingly created by the medieval Normandians because they knew it would be come a giant tank trap some time in the future. When the Allies could not breakthrough at Caen as planned, they opted to flatten it and the German resistance together, by massed aerial bombings. Many people died, both Germans and civilians. Why? I guess they didn't have that many air raid shelters in Caen and nobody expected such a massed attack on a friendly city. If you visit Caen today, it still shows the results of the war. Virtually no buildings from before June 1944 exist and it's almost a brand new city without a past. Following the succesful landings on 6 June 1944 (D-Day), the Battle for Normandy lasted a full month with not much progress made becaues of the difficult terrain and tenacious resistance by the German defenders.

[@Pisti846]

And now Eurtope is being conquered by Islam without a shot being fired. The irony.

[@daz42069]

Racist drone

[@davecummings7477]

If you are ever captured by the enemy and he wants to make a propaganda film with you in it, be the guy at 9:55

[@magneato981]

Yeah that was exactly my thoughts! That guy knew the future. Tough soldier right there.

[@shinrin-yoku3877]

I noticed that he got to enjoy one of his smokes

[@janstolk486]

this was in the time that the glorious victories by the germans were closer and closer to berlin !

[@Slamraptor]

Thanks for preserving these. (: You're doing an important job.

[@olderman2142]

As a father , grandfather , history buff and a veteran. I'm afraid we are on the precipice of the next "Big one". I'm fascinated by the romanticization of war and destruction on this level and the just cause mentality of all sides. I wonder how the next big exchange will be viewed 70 years from now...... ( if humanity survives ) in comparison to previous World wars and these films? How many hundreds of millions or billions will die in the next "Big one"? Just something I think about from time to time.

[@dirkvonkleiga5165]

Older Man get a life and get off the pulpit.

[@milenaresources4244]

We are already in the next "Big one". The democrats sound like the whacked out english elite before WWII. The Jihadi's sound like the Nazi's. The Rep's sound like nothingbugers most of the time. They don't even recognize a full scale war is on and that the progressive mentality has become so pervasive as to be invisible. Our only hope is that there are still enough pig headed folks around to not pay attention to the elites.

[@priscllamccain1423]

@@dirkvonkleiga5165 what is your problem. Do you know the meaning of respect?

[@cjjenson8212]

Only by those who see war thru Hollywood glasses!

[@cjjenson8212]

@@milenaresources4244 uhm... I think you explained perfectly what we comically call "zombie apocalypse". Shhh. don't tell anyone it has nothing to do with real zombies😉

[@brahmburgers]

Wow. Amazing footage. My dad, born in Denmark in 1907, was an OSS guy. He assisted the Danish Underground during WWII. He told of helping to blow up a corner bistro in Copenhagen - which was full of Gestapo officers.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

God bless your Dad and all who served!

[@peterhladky5481]

"German Protected Europe" My parents lived under "German Protected Europe" in Prague. Looks like Reinhard Heydrich got the wrong memo.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

That was funny.

[@waynestewart3232]

I think PeriscopeFilm did a exceptional job with the sound by not having the bombing as loud as the narrator.

[@SillyMoustache]

I read a series of books written by the Grandson of a German soldier who was on Normandy. Most Germans really believed that they had created a "United Europe" and thought that the Normandy invasion was a terrible (and a terrifying) thing. One aspect I found amusing was that the Germans were most afraid of the Canadians who, in their eyes were "So Big and healthy looking, and so fast and so brave! The question of the liberated French was "why did our liberators destroy so much of our towns and villages and kill so many French civilians ?" I'm sure that question, might be on the lips of many Ukrainians once they are rid of Putin's orcs.

[@Mirabell_Noir]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@peghead]

I believe the total collateral French civilian deaths on D-Day were 3000+.

[@gerberjoanne266]

It's funny how, at the beginning of the film, the Germans referred to what we called "German-occupied Europe" as "German-protected Europe." (around 15:45)

[@stewartmiddleton4527]

My wife's stepdad was about 7 years old during D-Day. Lives in Nottingham. He said the night before (or possibly 2 nights, as it was postponed for 1 day due to bad weather), all the kids went to the US army bases, because the GIs were giving away all their chocolates and chewing gum - they didn't know if they would make it back.

[@texaswunderkind]

I doubt that. The soldiers were ordered to speak to no one, and were not allowed off of their bases. It might have happened as they were moving closer to the coast, or something like that. It would not have happened just the night or two before the actual attack.

[@stevek8829]

It's pretty well documented that the bars went on total lockdown days before the invasion. This contradicts the story. Of course, in isolated incidents, anything is possible.

[@RWBHere]

That's unlikely to be true. A high level of secrecy was maintained right up to the time of the invasion. That's why the Germans were caught out, with most of their military in the wrong part of France, prepared to defend the coasts around Calais instead of the Northwest beaches.

[@jerrypolverino6025]

The first casualty of every war is always the truth, and that goes for both sides.

[@PacoOtis]

Part of the invasion plan was to keep fighting as far from Germany as possible as their logistics could not support them very long. We had the PLUTO lines for petrol and they had to use trucks. As a Vietnam pilot my observation was that logistics is the key!! Logistics!!

[@noelespirtu8165]

Joseph Stokes every time

[@waikukujk]

Look at the campaigns of John Churchill and Eugene of Savoy or Wellington. Logistics won the war

[@erroneous6947]

Very true. No matter your military strength and training level. Starving troops don’t fight well. And a gun without ammo is just a club.

[@philgiglio7922]

Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics