German Wehrmacht driving in to surrender near Prague (1945)

[@joris7571]

I have no words to express how much the music was a holy match with those images. Whoever did this is a genius.

[@personenkenzahl]

Absolutely

[@SunnyIlha]

Haunting. Soul shattering.

[@SvijetlostSvijeta]

i get vibe from terminator movie with this music

[@irollastoney.899]

Eh

[@richardjames3356]

I muted the sound because I thought it was extraneoua

[@jamesberwick2210]

My father was in that area of the war. He told me a story about being assigned to guard German prisoners back to the stockade. he was sitting on top of the cab guarding six German soldiers. Snow on the ground, the truck hit a shell hole, and flipped, tossing him and the prisoners. He figured they'd run, instead, they picked him up, his rifle on the ground, brushed him off, handed him back his rifle, then up righted the truck, got everyone back inside, and climbed on board. When asked why they didn't run...They had been promised hot food, they hadn't had hot food for a very long time,

[@SuperIv7]

If they did not do exactly that, they'd be hunted down like wild animals..

[@jamesberwick2210]

@@SuperIv7 Most of them were probably Conscripts, that hated the war in the first place and being in a POW camp they'd go home eventually, and not end up dead.

[@scottfoster161]

No surprise. A 'tour of duty' for German soldiers was the duration. By 1945 most were just plain sick of it. Superlv7 suggests that they were afraid of being hunted down. Not likely. Many Germans just went home without processing.

[@vansnyder9499]

They were probably so happy not to be prisoners of the Red Army

[@gravenguan]

@@vansnyder9499 That is because they feared that USSR will pay back on what they've done to the USSR people

[@charlesfoutch1132]

I had a teacher in highschool in 70s who was a staff officer for Gen Patton his name was Col. Vaughn. He told lots of war stories. He said a Brig. General and him was liberating eggs from an abandoned chicken house. They came out with their helmets full of eggs and were surrounded by a German mechanized unit of over 300 men. He thought this will look great 2 officers caught stealing until he found out the Germans were running from the Soviets trying to surrender to the USA or other allied troops. He got a medal. I loved his class.

[@congoparrot]

lol that is fricken awesome

[@mentalrevolutiongg2940]

Yeah better surrender to a future allie fascist trash

[@charlesfoutch1132]

@@mentalrevolutiongg2940 ??????????????????

[@desertwolf3818]

@@charlesfoutch1132 very nice you were lucky, no teachers like that anymore, sad.

[@megamillionfreak]

@@mentalrevolutiongg2940 OK snowflake.

[@livethefuture2492]

One often forgets how recent this war really was, only 70 or so years ago. Only 2-3 generations back, many of our grandfathers were around at this time. It's kind of incredible. Especially seeing vivid color footage like this puts things into perspective, makes it feel much more real.

[@mtadams2009]

I am in my 60s. My father fought in the Black Forest of Germany. He was wounded twice. He never romanced war. He had experienced and seen to much. He used to say you better have no options before going to war. He lost many friends and fellow soldiers. We rarely talked about the war.

[@Ellecram]

@@mtadams2009 Interesting! I have been to the Black Forest area to visit a couple times. I love visiting Germany. Yes some of us older people had parents and uncles who fought in the war. My parents were quite young at the time but one of my older uncles fought in WW II and was part of the Dachau liberation. He gave my mother a dagger from a German rifle. I have it now...somewhere.

[@mtadams2009]

@@Ellecram That is interesting. Hopefully you can find it. Take care

[@Ellecram]

@@mtadams2009 I will look for it this coming weekend.

[@erockscott1184]

A new war is coming dont worry.

[@blancobasnett]

My friend's grandfather was a German soldier during WWII, and was separated from his unit when his motorcycle became disabled, after Germany had surrendered. He asked to stay with his motorcycle to see if he could fix it, and turn himself in to the Allies. The officers didn't really care at this point, but told him to comport himself with dignity. He got the motorcycle repaired, but could not find his unit, or any US or UK troops to offer his surrender. He did not want to surrender to the Soviets, since they had a reputation for summarily executing German POWs. He decided to head for his hometown, about 300 km away, after ditching his weapon. He encountered many German soldiers doing the same, who were no longer fighting, and had no one to surrender to. He made it all the way home, and no one once stopped him. He kept the motorcycle until it stopped running a few years later.

[@DelvingEye]

I noticed at around the 0:20 second mark, young German soldiers, boys really, along the route of surrenderees. I've read that boys as young as 11 y.o. were conscripted by the Nazis in the final days of the war.

[@shadows_of_a_forgotten_time]

Смотри меньше пропаганды, к Русским он боялся сдатся за зверства Германии

[@k1ink]

​@@shadows_of_a_forgotten_time I don't believe the Russians were angels either

[@shadows_of_a_forgotten_time]

Ангелов не существует.. есть справедливость.​@@k1ink

[@blancobasnett]

@@shadows_of_a_forgotten_time I said Soviets, you know, Stalin, who killed more Jews than Hitler ever did.

[@dexe1534]

My uncle was captured in that area, managed to escape and walked home to Heidelberg by foot. He was only 16 years old.

[@s.karkun9691]

I hope he was caught by Soviets

[@hugofindenigg3959]

He could thank God that he wasn't catched by the Czechs!

[@TheBinaryHappiness]

so he was a nazi?

[@Le_Mouton_Noir]

RESPECT, HE MUST HAVE BEEN "BAD TO THE BONES"!

[@АвгустинФамилия-ч8м]

@Simon McCreath за что вы уважаете пленного нациста? За то что он уже в 16 лет был способен убивать? Стрелять в людей и считать русских недолюдьми- унтерменшами? Вы нормальный или тоже нацист?

[@admiral_bongo5768]

My grandfather was drafted into Volkssturm at age 16 he told my father that in training they were thrown into a pool and told to swim since most people couldn't swim back then he was then sent to the front after training and was captured by the russians somewhere in yugoslavia then sent to the gulag in gorki after the war he returned home where his brother picked him up in the nearest city and told him he thought he would never see him again he then lived a happy live and died in 2007 with 5 children and 6 grandchildren

[@detroitandclevelandfan5503]

Well God bless him. He is very blessed not to have spent years after the war in the Gulags.

[@capoislamort100]

Volksturm was for older veterans of the war, not teenagers.

[@vornamenachname4163]

@@capoislamort100 that isn't correct. Male Teenagers who could hold a weapon and the veterans too had to join the '' volkssturm'' ask the Wikipedia for more details.

[@igorshtefan2598]

@@detroitandclevelandfan5503 ему очень повезло что его не расстреляли при сдаче в плен Советские солдаты

[@marcanthonysampson124]

The younger Germans who were sent to the Russian front were often the most rabid of Nazis.

[@chsyank]

Fascinating video. The Germans for the most part looked OK and almost happy riding by. In the late 1960s I was in a meeting for my company when my boss and a German fellow speaking softly decided that both were in the same battle in North Africa facing each other. A rather strange conversation, one with nothing but interest on both sides.

[@lolofblitz6468]

How old are you then? 80?

[@sandtoy11510]

Germans were happy because they knew that by surrendering to the US and British forces, they would be treated “well”…. Quite the opposite had they surrendered to the Russian troops.

[@eranboko6431]

@@sandtoy11510 german got a polite treatment - much more than they deserved

[@martschy8417]

@@sandtoy11510 yes they treated the civilians very well when they bombed mainly civilians to death. the main targets in their mindless mass bombings had been children and women.

[@martschy8417]

@@eranboko6431 you have to target the ones that promote wars and benefit from them - its not civilians but some filty politicians and their friends. apart from that it had been mainly children and women who had been killed deliberately in the mindless mass bombings of the british and us army - another war crime. some things never change if you look at more recent wars made up from a bunch of lies in the middle east.

[@eaaeeeea]

The restoration and colorization of the footage adds SO much value. It gives a lot of contrast so it's much easier to see what's going on as opposed to blurry jittery black & white footage. This video makes the event much more human.

[@pyllywaltteri]

I think it's originally color footage

[@louise_rose]

Great footage! Notice the RUSSIAN flag patch on the soldier at 1:12 - this is not the Red Army, but the so-called Vlasov army, made up of Soviet POWs who had first been fielded by the Germans to fight against Stalin (who refused to allow assistance to Soviet POWs in the camps), but who later turned against Hitler and fought the Wehrmacht during the last ten months or so of the war. The Vlasov army were viewed as traitors by both Berlin and Moscow, and its men were killed on sight by both, but still managed to play a military role - and they were the ones who liberated much of Prague, before the Red Army had got there. Solzhenitsyn devoted some angry, eloquent pages in "The GULAG Archipelago" to the history of these betrayed and badmouthed Russian soldiers (most of whom later ended up in Siberia).

[@pieronem9311]

@@louise_rose I am not sure about vlasov army in this footage... cose this colours are weared by "civilians" - czech milition during uprising... but order of colours are wrong, czechs have red in the middle and blue is downstare... different from russian flag...

[@louise_rose]

@@pieronem9311 The guy I indicated is a soldier, and he's clearly part of the army units "booking" or guarding the German POWs.

[@pieronem9311]

@@louise_rose u can see multiple of these flag on "civilians" in the video. They are czechs. I can also recognise uniforms of czech police in a crowd. This flag was one of main sign of the czech uprising. We can see it also on some vehicles withh german soldier.... maybe for passage through the enemy sector. Also lot of czech militionman weared a parts of germans uniforms. I know about vlasov army. Only they helped in Prague and saved the city. After that, they got to the american sector but US army handed them over to the Soviets.

[@MrPakurfulo]

My grandpa was a surgeon during this period, from a non-beligerant country (Spain), he helped in campaign hospitals around France and later in Germany. He passed away when I was very little but he told me stories about how he made good friends on both sides. Some German guy used to visit him every year with an amputated hand which I thought was terrifying, but always seemed very grateful. I remember the last time he came my grandpa was already convalescent, and he held his hand very gently and speak to him in German -which my grandpa didn't understand-. We never knew what he said but it was touching. I wonder what was of him after that.

[@gavriloprincip9634]

@Shapiro Shekelberg damn your great grandpa Beta asf

[@bigblockman11]

No luck asking around people? Maybe there's a military historian that might know, maybe your grandmother would know?

[@rossomachin]

Non-combatant country? Spanish “Blue Division” fought near Leningrad

[@MrPakurfulo]

@@rossomachin yeah but thouse were volunteers, and there were volunteers on both sides

[@runs_through_the_forest]

@@MrPakurfulo it sucks for the spanish people franco didn't join the axis, then they would have been free from fascism in '45... lot's of idiot volunteers from the occupied countries, straight to the eastern front was their destiny, to be mauled by the red army.. what brutal times.. my grandfather was resistance in the west flanders region blowing up trains, after his brother was shot by the germans when the belgian, french and british armies ran for their lives to dunkerque..

[@ИванИванов-в1у2ж]

Брату моей бабушки, воину Красной Армии, разведчику 247-го гвардейского пушечного артиллерийского полка, к сожалению не суждено было дожить до этого дня. Он погиб 14 марта 1945 года во время боя в районе словацкого города Банска-Штявница.

[@ИванИванов-в1у2ж]

@@ДмитрийМедведев-ь8в Он был убит во время отражения атаки немцев на наблюдательный пункт, откуда он корректировал огонь артиллерии, о чем сказано в его наградном листе на посмертное награждание.

[@ДмитрийМедведев-ь8в]

@@ИванИванов-в1у2ж врят ли...там тогда эти наградные листы клепали пачками, не разбираясь...

[@matteow101]

I'm sorry to hear that

[@ВладимирАфанасьев-о8щ]

@@ДмитрийМедведев-ь8в клепали пачками приказы, вели учет. Если узнаешь что такое архив? - так это сделали штабные писари! А не секретутки на печатных машинках, где только отвечали по радио!

[@ДмитрийМедведев-ь8в]

@@ВладимирАфанасьев-о8щ путин засекретил архивы...В на тушение закона Кстате

[@stetomlinson3146]

Many of the German army were kept in uniform and used as construction teams, rebuilding Germany. The Allies used entire German engineer battalions, under German officers, to rebuild roads and bridges. The German Military Police were even allowed to keep their weapons, Nazi insignia and didn't actually "surrender" until late 1946. They were the last German Army units to surrender to the Allies. They were used by the Allies to Marshall German POW's, refugee columns and road junctions.

[@internettroll1985]

Because they both know that the real enemy are Russians.

[@derbenutzer5958]

@@internettroll1985 not russians but the soviet union. It was even te biggest enemy of the russians starving them, sending them into war through death threats, sending them to the gulags.

[@jfc6132]

@@internettroll1985 Soviets*

[@TSZatoichi]

@@jfc6132 - Russians*

[@monaliza3334]

@@internettroll1985 Deep in politics US UK didn't really know who do they wat to support Hitler or Stalin. Only when they saw USSR was winning they decided to help in 1944. And it was done for $$$ and gold. Russians stopped paying US in 2007? Even after WW2 Churchill had a plan to attack Russia. Now look at Biden who started a proxi war with Russians using Ukrainians. Shameful merica! Who need enemies if you have friends like this?!

[@МаксимЗолотилин-ъ6ы]

Один мой дед попал в лагерь, дважды бежал, его ловили и били колючей проволокой после этого он не снимал майку. Когда сидел в лагере говорил немец пройдет даст сигарету или сухарь а пройдет полицай обычно ударит прикладом или травили собаками. На третий раз сбежал и партизанил в Югославии после выйдя на советские войска опять попал в тюрьму пока не прошел проверку. Немцы были добрее полицаев. Это история только одного деда.

[@kirkfeather1]

The relief on the part of both civilians and soldiers is palpable.

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

By the this time the Germans had enough as well and were relieved they were able to surrender to Western Allied forces.

[@apexmobiledetailingceramic5519]

I couldn’t imagine! The relief of “It’s finally over” had to have been crazy on both sides. You can tell the Germans were happy to be surrendering to the western pincer and not the eastern one.

[@TsarOfRuss]

@@A_10_PaAng_111 They surrendered because of RED ARMY... not allied forces

[@doteagle]

@@TsarOfRuss It was a joint effort. No one denies that the USSR suffered the most at the hands of the Nazi's and the fighting was brutal. Lets not forget that the USSR and Germany also conspired together to carve up Poland and that the Soviets were mauled by Finland. Stalin's purges of the officer corps nearly doomed them.

[@szecek]

They didn't know that the red army is coming and soon they are going to be abandoned (yet again) by West.

[@egodyla1]

My mother was a nurse in the german red-cross at that time. She was part of this. She joined a military convoy that was evacuating to the west, and they were shot at by chech partisans when passing through each village. No blaming here. Just remembering my mother's stories of how she had to flee, most of the time by walking, from Prague to Munich, during 3 weeks without any food. She was aged 20 at that time.

[@daveypanzermeijer7285]

impressive story, in my opinion your mother is a hero. German red cross is by many very underestimated

[@doposud]

she was lucky not to be caught by Russians god knows what would happen then

[@petibatyo]

@@doposud Actually, mass killings of fleeing Germans and Hungarians (few people know about this) were done not by the Russians but by Czech partisans.

[@blok841]

зато из Мюнхена в Прагу она ехала ,наверняка, с ветерком

[@davidknichal6629]

What is the term "Chech" ?

[@kdegraa]

The people are better dressed at the end of a horrid war than how we dress today.

[@paulcapaccio9905]

They had pride in themselves. Something society has lost

[@megamillionfreak]

True. Today everyone looks like total trash.

[@ammomeister]

@@megamillionfreak yeah you'll see people at Walmart wearing shorts halfway showing their damn underwear!

[@Arcaryon]

Depends on the country/ place.

[@shadowlands8490]

He was well dressed, but the look into the camera was deep stare of contemplation. it's almost as if history being recorded can't be erased. Regardless if the tape is lost or the book burned. Humanity remembers.

[@JourneyJive425]

My (Austrian) grandfather celebrated his 17th birthday as an American POW. His unit got handed over to the Americans in Czechia without a shot being fired. They fortunately escaped the red army. He could have been one of these soldiers. After they got released, a lot of them walked back to the American ruled part of Austria, which was Salzburg. There he reunited with his family including his also captured father. Shortly afterwards he continued attending high school for electrical engineering. Some of his classmates wer already a bit older and experienced years of war. Also the teachers were all veterans. He had contact with all of his classmates until their deaths.

[@HeronPoint2021]

I see the sign stating: furthest American advance.....which means you stay on the other side you're in Russian hands. Not a good idea.

[@javiermonzon7103]

Saludos desde Argentina....increible historia

[@ИванВолодин-м1н]

Ваш дед был солдатом? И не понёс наказание?

[@cerg1129]

Your grandfather killed children in Russia, and ran to the Americans to surrender. The scoundrel.

[@rojeliorojo8711]

17 years? That doesnt make sense

[@bubbatime]

I was able to translate the morse code at 5:30 - it says .... "Your cars extended warranty is about to expire."

[@wombatwilly1002]

In broken English-Hindi?

[@wholeNwon]

Good one.

[@gumble223]

Nice

[@theduck1972]

There is just no escaping the bastards!

[@philipbrandt5852]

Curious if anyone could or did

[@MB-oc1nw]

All those STG-44's just laying around would be worth about 30-40K each now.

[@megamillionfreak]

Thousands of them were shipped to Syria and have been used in the civil war there since 2011.

[@ronaldburns7877]

@@megamillionfreak You are correct some German-made weapons were so good they still use them and the Americans copied some of them

[@samsmith3025]

I believe the first true assault rifle?

[@naturbursche5540]

@@ronaldburns7877 AK 47, the most famous, was also based on StG 44.

[@KeinePanik666]

@@naturbursche5540 ak works komplett different

[@lanceschaerer6875]

Nobody on here commented on buddy near the end on the M8 Greyhound armored car banging out Morse code like it was his first language! Crazy fast and just looking around the whole time!

[@fourfortyroadrunner6701]

That is not all that fast. Maybe 10-15 words per minute. Back in the day (I'm 73 got licensed first about 1965) US radio amateurs had to send and receive 13 wpm for general class ticket, 20 I think for extra class license

[@regsparkes6507]

Funny too, I thought at first that he was tapping in time with the video's music!

[@easiesteevee2532]

anyone know whats being said lol?

[@lanceschaerer6875]

@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 great to hear your response boss!

[@regsparkes6507]

@@easiesteevee2532 The message read " Hi Honey, I'm on my way home,.... do we need milk? " :) Sorry, I just couldn't resist this!

[@mac22011964]

My Farther in Law was a British Naval fighter pilot in the war. After the war he completed his studies and became a civil engineer building dams, railways etc all over the world. I the late 40,s he was surveying in Tasmania for a dam for hydro….mainly on horseback and camping. He took charge of the engineering team for about 20 people. Every single one was from the same engineering battalion that had been captured and sent to a POW camp in the UK. They all came from Russia Occupied Germany. None wanted to go “home” with many having nothing to go home to. He found this team extremely skilled and very driven. He remained very good friends with 4 of them, all of whom were alive and came to his 80th Birthday. They all remained family friends until they all died….but as we speak we are in Erlanger in Germany staying at one of the Grand children’s house. The history is still there….the biggest lesson being that we are all the same and the futility of war.

[@M.Godfrey]

I think it’s incredible how just adding colour to these videos, makes the people in them look just like you and me

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Sadly - they are. Just depends on the - sometimes bad - choices we make.

[@eniff2925]

it wasn't colored?

[@yoshisaurusrex3767]

@@eniff2925 I think the colors are too consistent and match my imagination of what color film looked like at the time, sometimes including discoloration at the edges of the frame. AI colored black and white film is very inconistent and everything has the same muddy flickering between muffled greens and browns. Here you can pick out small details on uniforms and more colorful womens clothing is also present. Color film was somewhat readily available, but was very expensive. People used it more on special occasions, which this seems to be. You dont get to film an army surrender that often, so better put the good stuff in your camera.

[@eniff2925]

@@yoshisaurusrex3767 thats what i meant as well but probably communicated it badly. I thought orginal comment said it was colored afterwards and i meant to say it was originally colored

[@yoshisaurusrex3767]

@@eniff2925 Its alright :) The channel could communicate this a bit better.

[@fecklesstech929]

My late Uncle was a Major in US Army Intel. His unit stayed behind, but near the front line following the Normandy Invasion. He was close enough to the front that German soldiers could walk into his camp to surrender. This was accomplished with leaflet bombs explaining to Germans how to surrender without getting shot. They were also told they would not be murdered or tortured and that they'd get food & medical care. My Uncle didn't speak any German so he used his German/American mess hall NCO as his interpreter. He practiced a form of "soft" torture by promising his new POWs they'd get chow as soon as the interrogations were over! They talked plenty. The Germans he interrogated were very disciplined, patriotic soldiers, but they were starving.

[@feolender2938]

So lies then? Germany was raped and tortured in its defeat, something all allied nations should be forever ashamed of. Lots of those soldiers were starved to death in the rhine meadow camps.

[@fecklesstech929]

@@feolender2938 Yes, my heart bleeds for the poor mistreated Knott Zees.

[@feolender2938]

@@glocen nope because they didn't create it

[@feolender2938]

@@glocen yes, it was totally that simple. Don't tell me, poor ukraine are totally innocent right, putin man bad?

[@ruthparker1140]

@@feolender2938 ("Sgt.J."). ON THE Other note! 🎵 That's Mr. Les Paul. Not Leo G. Fender. I, Have had the Pleasure of owning some of those very good playing things. I, Suggest Both of you, Read Some College Level books 📚. At a Library. Instead of "ask Jeeves." Internet Crap! I, understand there was a S..t head C.o. that caused a problem with German p.o.w.s. that is a shame. And, A U.S. Captain, Whom had a brother among the dead on telephone poles. And, Trees. Where their parachutes took them. And, Gunned by the S.S. troops. He ordered a an old officer. And, Young draftees to be Executed. To include pointing his 45 @ the Soldiers that refused to Shoot those ppl. What little i, read here... Makes you 2 look and, act like Dorks. No probs with the Major. But, Frightening the p.o.w.s for a joke was kinda cold. I, may have teased a few myself? There's a couple of Former C.O.s I, Would've rather beat em with an Entrenching tool ("one of those old green ones. Not the Smaller black ones.")Than go to war with those A.. Holes. I'm thankful that someone took the time. And, Evan endangered themselves to document 📄📃, 📷 📸 🖼️💽💿🎥🎙️ History. When I, younger. Had the same rants. Chill. It's over. Is it not some of our responsibility to make sure Dumbs..t don't happen again? Some friends are now passed that told me of eating black cheese, Fricken cold. A German officer asking his driver. And, A Jr. Officer "Vas is Nuts?" A short time later. The battle was back on. And, 2 old guys at the V.A. Hospital. "What are those badges guys?" Stalag #14. And, 17 Survivors. So... I, Was not there. You most likely were not there. And, I'm not ashamed I, made Good $$ playing music in Bars, Clubs, V.f.w s. And, an American legion post. Just No more Pvt. Parties. Only did few. Ain't doing none if those. Hmm... Continue to rant? Naw... It may have been nice if "Churchhill." Woulda let the brit cost guard/ Navy warn the Lusitania, That a German Submarine was near by.

[@AnInterestedObserver]

This is an amazing video, and such well chosen music. The image and music together make this a powerful of the event. Subscribed!

[@chronoshistory]

You can find the music track here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmTYlZinZr17Z6M

[@InFltSvc]

My Grandfather was a combat engineer there and lived to come back home here in the US. Incredible man he was as well as my Grandmother.

[@gris186]

Back in 1945 seeing an American or a Brit was like winning the lottery to the German soldiers

[@yibithehispanic]

Only the americans, the british were still seen as unreliable, one time they returned a whole population of cossack refugees back to the soviets

[@HoboTango]

It depends, sometimes they would give them up to the Soviets but only those who fought on the Eastern Front I believe.

[@HoboTango]

@@yibithehispanic cossacks refugees or Cossacks soldiers fighting for the Axis ?!

[@yibithehispanic]

@@HoboTango Both, yes.

[@yibithehispanic]

@@UhtredOfBamburgh They were not soviet soldiers and if I remember well kozak is just the ethnic name of the cossacks, there's not a lot of difference.

[@reginabiwald5050]

Diese Videos sind fantastisch und ich danke Ihnen, dass man sich das fast 70 Jahre später anschauen kann! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@louise_rose]

Notice the Russian flag patch on the soldier at 1:12 - this is the so-called "Vlasov army", not the Red Army. The Vlasov army did most of the hard work of liberating Prague, before the Red Army had got there.

[@b.elzebub9252]

I found it odd that many of them seemed to be quite relaxed and even smiling. Then I realised they're probably just grateful to have gotten away from the Red Army which was probably just a few kilometres in the opposite direction..

[@elcidgranada3549]

That is sooo true

[@max-lz6rl]

@@Knjaz-opium Не обожествляйте наших дедов. Милосердие дальше детей и женщин, не распространялось. Наши деды были очень злы, и они жаждали мести, и они выпустили в себе зверя, чтобы победить фашистского зверя. Это война. Это кровь. Это грязь. Это месть. Иначе никак.

[@killerspielspieler3377]

@@max-lz6rl I remember how in the early 90s your glorious Soviet army was chased away from the collapsing GDR (German Democratic Republic). At night, your soldiers and families had to climb into unlit trains at Schwerin's main train station and run away. Under derisive singing of the East Germans. Я помню, как в начале 90-х годов вашу славную советскую армию прогнали из разваливающейся ГДР (Германской Демократической Республики). Ночью вашим солдатам и семьям приходилось забираться в неосвещенные поезда на главном вокзале Шверина и убегать. Под насмешливое скандирование восточных немцев. Sorry for the translation.

[@ogerpinata1703]

@@Knjaz-opium I beg to differ. Sure, maybe the soldiers would have treated them nice but what after? They were all sent to Siberia as prisoners. Bad prospect I'd say. Also, the Ostgebiete were lost and without any transportation that would accept German war personnel except for other Wehrmacht units🤷🏻‍♀️

[@killerspielspieler3377]

@20 ВЕК So what? Nevertheless, you are for example not able to build a reasonable car. "Lada Maschin" hahaha. If you wouldn't steal so many cars in Germany, you would all have to walk. You can't even tie your own shoes.

[@therewillbeguitar8078]

It’s crazy to think how big/strong Germany was as a nation that they still had so many men (not as many), material, etc. in their time of absolute defeat. It’s crazy. 6 years of war, millions of men lost, etc.

[@jerichofiselindo2305]

But big confused why german so strong participate in war 1 and 2

[@starsandnightvision]

@@jerichofiselindo2305 Because France and Britain humiliated a proud people.

[@imresomodi4961]

It was the last pocket that was organized and relaltively strong...they stood no chance against against their enemies. But still, this vid is very sad...i dont want to know what happened to the girls...

[@FirstNameLastName-wd8gn]

@@starsandnightvision that pride is what destroyed them in the end.

[@FirstNameLastName-wd8gn]

To be fair they've pretty much scrapped the barrel so much that that they went through the bottom and is just straight up digging into the ground at this point.

[@gilmangus83]

This documentary montage is brilliant. i guess the music makes half of the thumbs-up. Great job. I am richer for that. (My dad was wounded in August 1944 at St. Malo. he is almost 96.)

[@davidweston6653]

God bless your dad. Glad he’s still here

[@russelldeck4168]

Respect.

[@oldgitsknowstuff]

And if your Dad had known he was going to live this long he would've taken more care of himself. Lol. Respects to you and of course your dear old Dad.

[@hoaraupatrick7580]

My regards to your father wounded in the city of our celebrated corsair, the great Robert Surcouf. All the best from St Germain en Laye, the native city of the ancient kings of France.

[@jpotts1111]

Not many left now. My grandfather, a regular, fought quite a famous (at the time) rear guard action at Dunkirk (at which the first VC of WWII was awarded), fought his way across France in 1944 and was shot dead by a Hungarian sniper in April '45.

[@Bananenfighter]

True color videos like this one are like the holy grail for everyone who is into WWII model building and needs some perfect reference material on german camouflage. especially 4:00 and 4:28 are great for that. Too bad there are not many videos like this one with german tanks and visible camo. Thx for posting this.

[@rberka555]

My dad was born in Prague. He was a kid during the war. He has lots of stories. He remembers snipers around town after the war ended.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Prag has german culture. Theater. Writings etc...frieden

[@mariezittova5235]

@@dagmarvandoren9364, ne. Praha má a vždy měla svou vlastní kulturu. Českou. A toto video vůbec není natočeno blízko Prahy.

[@MrMajsterixx]

@@dagmarvandoren9364 we have our own culture, we are central, not east not west. Wer mix and thats the beauty of it.

[@ГеннадийАлейник-д7ц]

Russians are today's Nazis. They are killing and occupying Ukrainian land.

[@tonysandrin6708]

Couple interesting observations. On the GI talking to the Germans on the motorcycle at 1:07, you can see he's got a Mauser C96 rig slung over his shoulder, clearly a war trophy he's planning on bringing back. Also interesting, the Germans in the halftrack at 4:29 are not regular Wehrmacht, but actually Waffen-SS, probably part of the 6th SS Panzer Army. And finally, interesting to see a full bird Colonel directing traffic.

[@jd-if2fe]

And the women with the Germans

[@actinganimal885]

Waffen ss look like fucking kids oldest dudes there seem to be the driver and the man to his right along with the guy in the middle of the back seat.

[@wadimgrig5972]

@@jd-if2fe whores hoping to hide in American zone of occupation too

[@coldsun5495]

@@wadimgrig5972 🤣🤣

[@regularSenseAppeal]

Anything specific that makes you think the the Germans in the half track were SS? I watched the sequence a number of times and that particular bunch of guys have a different and ice cold vibe than the rest. I think you are right.

[@kneel1]

this is amazing and fascinating. Imagine how many places this was going on without cameras. Funny how both cars and truckloads of US soldiers and even the German soldiers both had girls in the cars with them. The fact the Germans were looking happier than you'd expect in this video is because they were heading towards US-surrender and therefore these men suddenly had hope that they will make it out of this war alive

[@noname-sz4br]

these are ROA - russian liberation army. ofc they cant surrender to ussr

[@Tonyx.yt.]

@@noname-sz4br roa pow get later on handed over URSS due to agrements, most of them didnt survive the gulags

[@DerpEye]

Yeah, no wonder. After the atrocities commited by the nazis and tens of milions of dead on the soviet side, i wouldn't have expected for them to be treated nicely by the red army.

[@hoyschelsilversteinberg4521]

Millions of Germans would die to American Rhineland deathcamps. More German soldiers died after WW2 than during. Americans really have no place telling Germans how "evil" they are for anything even if the atrocity propaganda was real.

[@СергейВласов-х7в]

@@Tonyx.yt. I hope so.

[@chiil034]

My grandfather was a machinist in the Italian army assigned to Stalingrad. He was captured twice by the Soviets, escaped twice. Then when Italy pulled out of the war, he had to make it own way back home - dropped his uniform and stopped several times by German soldiers who took over operations in Italy.

[@ПутешествияпоЕвропеинетолько.О]

My grandfather fought from June 1941 to May 1945. He was a fighter of German tanks and a commander of a machine-gun crew. He was concussed twice. Several wounds. One fatal wound - in the stomach. But he survived. He treated Stalin very badly. He was a peasant. Many were repressed and exiled to Siberia before World War 2. Many did not reach Siberia and died on the way. What Russia had to go through, no state had to go through. Even Germany. And my uncle fought from June 1942 to January 1945. He was the commander of the intelligence department. Elite! He died in January 1945 in East Prussia. Finally, I will say - GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER WHO DEFENDED THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE USSR AND EUROPE FROM HITLER'S NAZISM!

[@olivk0maslin013]

@@ПутешествияпоЕвропеинетолько.О слава героям ! Слава Российской армии !!!

[@ПутешествияпоЕвропеинетолько.О]

@@olivk0maslin013 GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER WHO DEFENDED THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE USSR AND EUROPE FROM HITLER'S NAZISM!

[@Galova]

so sad he survived. you should not exist

[@doctorbohr1585]

I guess the unit your Italian grandfather was assigned to managed to remain outside the 6th Army's encirclement.

[@airforyou7568]

Huge respect to the girl who didn't let herself be kissed..

[@Firedog-ny3cq]

That dumbass doughboy thought he was going to get a big smackeroo and she shut that shit down hard.

[@colinreece3452]

I have no repect for her what was she doing up there?

[@GeraldineStoK]

YESSS!!

[@sanseverything900]

5:50 lol at that soldier trying to sneak in a kiss. Lady would have none of it.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Yeah, it took a little away from the feel of the video. When he first tried to kiss her and she pulled away he should have stopped right there. He looked a bit like a degenerate.

[@mtungare]

Imagine what would have happened after the cameras were taken away. Probably, even the camera is not able to show us the true face of war.

[@neinnein9306]

@@mtungare In France (and of course Germany) some thousand women got raped by GI's. It is not comparable with the amout in the east but happened also.

[@congoparrot]

she probably got worse when the russians took over Prague.

[@dontcare563]

@@neinnein9306 Raped almost entirely by Russian soldiers!

[@forgoatusbm5674]

The young Germans seem happy enough to be alive that I don't really sense gloom. Their side may have lost; but they themselves had just survived World War II.

[@monkeyspankerful]

The smiles on the faces say it all.... They're all just glad it's over.

[@VIS35]

They are glad that they surrendered to the Americans ... the Soviets would probably have shot them ... and sent the rest to Siberia.

[@ichsanulfikri2908]

@@VIS35 totally agree, many remnants of wehrmacht grateful they're in western front and surrender to allied than being in eastern front and surrender to ussr because they're all gonna die in gulag.

[@CARLIN4737]

not on the cart full of dead soldiers.

[@bobshenix]

They're just glad the Red Army didn't get them.

[@Doug_The_Head]

Some of the are Soviet collaborationist (with 3 color flags). And they are definitely happy (for a while) to surrender to the US.

[@petrgaman5155]

Here are the places from this video: city of Rokycany, villages: Mýto, Borek, and final destination is village Ejpovice, wher the prisoner camp was established by US Army. All German solders are happy as they already avoid a Russian captivity. All these German solders were interviewed by US officers in order to find the ones with war crimes. As I know, the ordinary Wehrmacht solders were back home before the end of year.

[@mikhailc1081]

I also noticed that Americans communicate with Nazi soldiers very nicely, like good old friends

[@RobCummings]

I would guess the Czech citizens would be quite angry at the Nazis, but in this film they were standing passively by, as if watching the end of a not-very-interesting movie.

[@paulustarsus]

Excellent footage, soundtrack and production. Well done 👏👏👏👏👏👏🇮🇪

[@douglasfreeman3229]

My grandpa was...oh, phooey, you've heard it a million times. Fascinating footage, with really good colour. Thanks for the upload.

[@alwenke212]

in wwII my grandfather was a postal clerk at camp McCoy Wisconsin,, so .

[@BogdanGorokhovskyi]

You know who was yours.

[@letecmig]

My grandparents lived near that area on “limit of advance of us troops”, in a village near the city of Cesky Krumlov…. first came the retreating Germans and “asked” at gunpoint for a civilian clothing. Some people in nearby village refused and were killed. Than next day came the US army and my grandparents offered accomidation in spare room in their house. Two GIs stayed with them for a few weeks. Grandparents were allways extremely happy to talk about it. Happy days. They lost contact after the communist takeover…. probably the authorities were withdrawing letters or something

[@harri7416]

I have been to Krumlov. What an amazing place.

[@harri7416]

@UCmlsGJpT19p2DJMi1HQFfVw ok, brilliant, thanks for the pointer. Will do.

[@letecmig]

@@harri7416 definitely- its allways good to get away from ‘mass tourism trail’(which Krumlov unfortunately became) and explore so many other gems that might be just a step away….. like Zlata Koruna!

[@harri7416]

@@letecmig i will make a note and hopefully visit when we are able to travel again. Thanks for the tip.

[@letecmig]

@@harri7416 just explore- the whole wide region around Cesky Krumlov is one of the most beautiful part of the country and there is SO MUCH to be seen there….. i find it kind of crazy that non-czech tourists just visit Cesky Krumlov;)

[@Shogun12442]

So many stories in the comments about ancestors who fought for the Nazis, but what's most frightening is that people are proud of them

[@jonroux9291]

Who said time travel was impossible? These videos do indeed take us back in time.

[@mattskustomkreations]

Extraordinary color film, have never seen this footage. So cool to see the camouflage patterns on the half tracks.

[@johnnyblythe5375]

Seek “lost German girl” for more colour footage.

[@jamesrobertson2712]

My dad was six or seven years old when the Americans and the British came to town in the spring of 1945. Even now, in 2022, there is a huge US flag in his living room. Back then, he was hiding behind a tree, scared of the soldiers. An American soldier saw him, walked up to him, and handed him an entire bag of sandwiches. Priceless !

[@nostro1940]

Tell us more

[@Дмитрий_Авторские_песни_каверы]

Только вот американский солдат пришёл уже тогда, когда советский освободил эту землю от нацистов

[@jamesrobertson2712]

@@Дмитрий_Авторские_песни_каверы Я согласен. Красная Армия сражалась сильнее всех.

[@kriegscommissarmccraw4205]

@@jamesrobertson2712 and America didn't even have to get involved the war. Have fun fighting a war without trucks, you used them against us in the following conflicts. Scumbags.

[@pauliegatto7275]

@@Дмитрий_Авторские_песни_каверы я думаю вы согласитесь, что не стоит принижать заслуги солдат альянса в этой войне. Согласен, с тем, что советский союз понёс больше потерь в человеческих жизнях, чем другие страны участники этой войны, но это в том числе и из за бездарного военного руководства союза, которые не щадили и не ценили человеческих жизней, просто закидывали трупами. И стоит помнить, про ленд-лиз от США, по которому поставлялось продовольствие: военные паровозы, самолёты, танки, военный транспорт, боеприпасы, медикаменты, еда и прочее. Это серьёзный вклад. Кстати ссср так и не расплатился за этот ленд-лиз с сша...

[@OfficialNinjaNoodle]

4:55 When the German officer with the busted eye casually salutes the U.S. colonel and the 3 proceed to have a conversation, it looks cool. Like 3 guys at uni discussing their term papers, or at work talking about the office printer :)

[@RolfSchreiter]

Es waren ja auch die Amerikaner, und nicht die Russen, denen sich die Deutschen ergaben!

[@justsomeguy1141]

The German is doing a HH salute no?

[@byelilfly]

@@justsomeguy1141Even still is given as a sign of respect. This is the equivalent of the American salute for the Wehrmacht. The officer is merely showing respect to the American colonel in perhaps the only way he knows how.

[@electroman1996]

​@@justsomeguy1141 The salute is done with the right hand, not left. I think he was just waving normally

[@MarkD-pl4fu]

@@electroman1996 Some Militaries allow a left handed salute, if the right had is injured or in some way being used. The meeting looks like a subordinate reporting to superior officer, which would be the protocol for a surrender. Large unit surrenders are often done by an agreement in advance.

[@honzavagner798]

It is in Rokycany, near the city slaughterhouse, where Karl Hermann Frank was detained

[@Pioneer_DE]

Who was that?

[@Pidalin]

@@Pioneer_DE Czech German, leader of pro nazi political party before war in Czechoslovakia, he was part of SS during war and he was on high political position during Protectorate, he was responsible for war crimes and murders, he was executed in 1946.

[@primkup]

@@Pioneer_DE Sudeten German, SS-Obergruppenführer and basically number 2 in the Protectorate. Even before the war, he was a radical and during the war, many warcrimes were done by his order. He was a very hated person, even other German commanders disliked him, but Himmler liked him. He managed to surrender to Americans, but was later on given to Czechoslovaks and executed in public hanging. People who were invited to watch him die were the relatives of Czechoslovaks killed by his orders.

[@Dalibor567]

Jsem si říkal, že to asi nebude Praha 🙂

[@Sachy_]

Yeah i was like "near Prague"? Western-allies weren't (sadly) allowed anywhere close to Prague "near Pilsen" would probably fit better. But I guess on the US scale (and compared to the whole Europe and overall span of 3rd reich it could pass as "near"). I just feel like then the whole fact that they kept fighting on the eastern front just so that they could surrender to the west.

[@matthewjohnson7727]

This never would have happened if Steiner had attacked.

[@smokeyveras7235]

The war was long lost by then, Steiner would have changed nothing lol.

[@YungEagle3k]

@@smokeyveras7235 it's a cringe joke that people say

[@rasplez9889]

It's so weird seeing German soldiers of all different age groups. The 20s to 40s, probably veterans who have survived the entire war. Then, the young and the elderly, half as tall or half as strong, hastily conscripted to chaff Against the advancing armies. You don't see how desperate their situation become until you see what or who they were fighting with.

[@wombatlittle1]

40 years is not elderly

[@dustinjones7458]

So many men wasted so badly. All that courage was wasted serving dishonorable leaders.

[@alexanderblattler3672]

@@dustinjones7458 That in fact could be said about a majority of wars.. an absolute majority. World War II though I figure is a one of a kind exception to this rule. There was good and ample reason to fight and superseed the powers that were on the rise. Our world today is for the most part a direct result of the shifts and tides that were brought about back in the 1940s. As for wasting lives.. "funny" story.. apparently the Iranians figured they could solve their male overpopulation crisis by folding young men, especially the poor and uneducated ones into the IRGC adjacent militias in Iraq and especially Syria and then use the American air-superiority to get rid of them.. There're stories they would send militias to "support an outpost" (that didn't exist), in a truck that only had enough fuel to basically make it half way into the desert, right into US protected territory and then crash there when they realize.. "wait a minute - there is no outpost here and the Americans have spotted us from above". With no fuel to turn around and return to base, I've heard that American drone operators had seen young men kneeling in the sand and praying or waving white underwear up in the air before being blown to smitherins.

[@alexanderblattler3672]

@@wombatlittle1 Well if you're in a war like WWII and you survive at all.. you kind if are elderly in a certain way - in relation to others.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

same as the confederacy in America 1864-5

[@reza_dc2]

just seeing them speak with each other at the 5:00 mark is mind blowing.. wow.

[@AuxxiliaryATC]

Imagine being soo used to death that wagons stacked with bodies seems normal and bears not much of a reaction on the faces of the people in the crowd.

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

As a German-American, I have thoroughly studied WW ii and the events leading up to it. I still can't wrap my head around the fact it actually happened.

[@David-bc4rh]

Same for me, dude. I remember first hearing about the war in school as a wee lad and 30 years later am stilled as baffled about the incredibly bizarre policy and conformity that brought the war to reality. These days, my head-canon just accepts the events as a mass blood sacrifice to the blood gods by the occult elites.

[@lakecityransom]

It all starts with nationalism and 1 meglomaniac. I can think of a few of those right now...

[@paulneedham9885]

@@lakecityransom not just Nationalism, Communism and Religion too! Both have killed far more than Nationalism. To be honest its all the same just a different name. Two groups of people brainwashed to attack each other!

[@Staevskiy]

@@David-bc4rh не только. война помогла США стать самой богатой и могущественной страной на планете. эта война была нужна элите США. как и сейчас нужна война, которая снова разрушит европу, иначе США провалятся в финансовую пропасть.

[@lakecityransom]

@@gangstadrz9326 Biden is either left, or center-left politically so no, not Biden bud.

[@MarkGeraghty]

Amazes me the Germans had any fuel or vehicles. Also incredible that they look so well fed and relaxed.

[@alexeybalagurov2838]

From 6 may to 12 may 1945 there was a "Prague offensive" conducting by Soviet Union. In April Prague wasn't free. It's very weird video cronical.

[@almoni33]

Look at the Stalingrad chronicle and the capture of Field Marshal Paulus. tens of thousands of Germans were captured on the march - 30 degree frost. they ate dead horses and their boots. tens of thousands froze and starved to death. i don't think they were relaxed.

[@novadhd]

@@almoni33 he is talking about this video. Most likely rear support/occupation troops

[@almoni33]

@@novadhd I don't really understand why it matters. the point is clear and succinct - nazism is evil. all who participated are criminals in one way or another. the punishment was insufficient. I would have preferred a martian landscape for them

[@MrPakurfulo]

@@almoni33 but the USA is not evil, never.

[@hewi9541]

5:54 that was the most polite "fuck off" I ever saw.

[@Melior_Traiano]

I hope the guy learned what "boundaries" are in later life.

[@chrislong3938]

This is some of the most amazing video I've ever seen! I'd thought I'd seen it all... Not so...

[@STAD99]

What a tragic waste of blood and lives. Without the uniforms you couldn’t tell who is on which side. A German teen sitting on a truck in a uniform watched by a Czech teen, looking exactly the same.. what a crazy, useless war between European nations.

[@rare6499]

Absolutely. The irony is, Hitler viewed the war as a means to safeguard European ‘culture’ (in so far as he saw it). But the war was the most single destructive event, culturally and otherwise in European history. Tragic, every aspect of it.

[@markdean1984]

Finally an intelligent and educated comment. Maybe one day the truth about WW2 will be told and the illogical propagandistic game will end. Respect to that sacrificed generation and its idealistic dreams.

[@NewFutureFantasy]

Ultimately this war was a mass-psychosis that did vast damage to the European races and their magnificent culture and heritage.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Well, it was only useless from the point of view of the Germans trying to steal everything and kill everybody. from the point of view of everybody else, just trying to defend themselves, it was well worth fighting.

[@markdean1984]

@@odysseusrex5908 Why the hell stupidity doesn’t hurt?

[@KenoNoir]

What an event to witness. That must have been absolutely crazy

[@doposud]

i can't even imagine the migration of so many people , Germans fleeing from Russians trying to surrender to Americans , Americans going east and Russia going west Germans infront of them running for their lifes becose out of every 100 German soldiers captured at eastern front 3 survived

[@Artem0707]

@@doposud do you feel sorry for the Germans? If yes, then you are a completely sick person. 27 million Soviet people died, are you out of your mind?

[@BoomerFloats]

I really wonder if somebody ever figured out who the German officers[5:09} with the bandaged eye and sunglasses was, and what happened to him after the war . Sunglasses were very rare back then and not issued by the german military .My dad was a doctor in ww2 and he surrendered to the americans . Since he spoke pretty good english and had a medical backround they treated him fairly well . He was a pow for 2 years . My dad passed away in 2011 at age 93 . I wish i would have asked him more about ww 2 but i knew he did not enjoy talking about it much . Same with my mother . She was 12 years old when the americans and british bombed Dresden in the last few weeks of the war .............She was very lucky to survive ......

[@danielmccurdy9948]

@boomerfloats My grandfather was born in Dresden and came over to the states by himself as a young boy and lived in East Saint Louis with his relatives. This was around 1910 or around that time. I think he had around $12 with him. He eventually settled in Detroit and worked for Henry Ford. Every year at Christmas he would sing, "Oh, Christmas Tree" in German. I wish I would've talked with him and recorded those conversations.

[@zenjon7892]

The story goes like this: my grandpa was a Corporal serving in an anti-aircraft unit in Belgium (I have a picture of him sitting on an M2 machine gun battery) and he caught the flu. My grandma tended to him (she was a Belgian citizen). Their first date was with her cousin translating. She came to the States after VE Day and they had my mom. If WWII hadn't happened, I wouldn't be here

[@martinwest1443]

Beautiful story 😊

[@MultiGamerClub]

So technicly.. No im not gonna make that joke but good dude.

[@Steveorino123]

if your grandpa were german you’d be lucky Eisenhower didn’t starve him to death in a ‘prisoner of war’ camp in germany. tens of hundreds of thousands of german soldiers were herded up and with US troops standing guard systematically starved to death under the elements. no tents, proper clothing, food, or water. they were buried in mass graves in trenches right there in the fields they starved in. they were given no shelter, food, or water, totally against international law. and germany was completely vanquished, there was no question about that, no threat was posed by the prisoners. the US forces had plenty of everything available but were ordered not to give any of it to the prisoners. when the news of these crimes started to get out, the US leaders cooked up a BIG distraction to avoid detetection.

[@simpleman5688]

👍🏿

[@kenotube3160]

I know this sounds crazy, but none of us would be here. Considering the infinitesimal timing of conception (sperm meets egg), anything changes in history would have an effect on everything else. A whole different set of people would be here instead.

[@kamuelalee]

Great footage, thanks for posting. This is amazingly dramatic -- with the music too -- knowing that the war was drawing down, the Germans had lost and battlefield and aerial violence was ending in Europe. Yet, the Cold War was about to heat up.

[@Nonminusultra1]

Not Prague... Holoubkov - Rokycany, some 70km west of Prague.

[@chronoshistory]

You might be right, although the plate at 0:27 shows "Prague" but that might be just the way they called the region. How do you know this place is Holoubkov? Can we verify that somehow? Thanks.

[@Nonminusultra1]

@@chronoshistory This video is notorious. Official US Army film from demarcation line. I know the places myself.

[@molluscturtle]

@@chronoshistory yep 100% that’s it in the link there.

[@jaroslavstedry4227]

@@Nonminusultra1 Yes, it's around Holoubkov direction Plzen there is also a separate page on Facebook about events, otherwise there was also a mysterious and beaten woman.

[@honzavagner798]

0:43- 3:52 it is in Rokycany, near the city slaughterhouse, where Karl Hermann Frank was detained

[@charleslaine]

1:25 live soldiers going toward the camera. Followed by dead soldiers going away from the camera. I find this oddly metaphysical.

[@johnislander7956]

Such a huge contrast to the images of german soldiers at the beginning of the war and at the time of the video. Compare the stern faced and uniform army to this seemingly relaxed and happy looking group of men wearing all kinds of mixed uniform items.

[@thenathanimal2909]

They had run out of meth

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

That’s what you get with biting off more than u can chew sir..!!

[@surfingtothestars]

probably bc those from the beginning of the war are mostly dead and these are the younger replacements toward the end of the war that are glad its all over

[@-lvn]

@@surfingtothestars And not becoming a part of a POW by the Soviet. IDK if their Soviet captors are as brutal as the "Real" Nazi's are, but you know the drill.

[@Rorynes]

Most of them are young and new recruits.Hardly you can see any veteran of hundreds of battles

[@prutkowski2788]

04:38 The commanding US officer questions three Vlasow Russians who are obvioulsy trying to get away from the advancing Soviets. The officer has no German eagle-and-swastika emblem on the srown of his cap and instead of the usual German cockade and laurels the classical Tsarist oval on the dark cap band. Also there's a small non-communist Russian flag attached to the rear mirror

[@letecmig]

ROA evacuating from Prague where they were helping insurgents for two days.

[@nopasaran3561]

ROA and RONA criminals, some of the worst rapists and necrophiles and pedophiles of all nazis. The ROA are also seen earlier in the video.

[@aleksspy]

ROA criminals from Warsaw uprising

[@aleksspy]

RONA corectly part of ROA

[@letecmig]

@@aleksspy more precisely some individuals from RONA joined ROA later on. In any case, ROA and RONA were differen organusations

[@MrOvnours]

My great grandfather is somewhere around. He was a captain with the Soviet 13th Army staff of the 1st Ukrainian front, they were looking for Soviet collaborants trying pass off as the German personell surrendering to the Allies. His colleagues captured Russia's most prominent collaborant - general Andrei Vlasov - near Plzen, some 50 km to the west of Prague.

[@samuelmorado70]

I’m sure he was executed within a week.

[@kapralo3285]

Red pig

[@Richtschutzen]

@@kapralo3285 хорошо, что ты рассказал о себе, продолжай

[@ВтПР-в7д]

@@kapralo3285 твоя жена?

[@danielsvoboda198]

You mean the Vlasov that actually helped to liberate Prague while US Army had to stop west of Prague on a demarcation line insisted upon by Russians so that they could claim Prague days later to occupy the country for next 50 years? The same Russians that started the 2WW collaborating with Hitler? The same army that let the Warsaw uprising bleed to death rather than helping the city? You probably do...

[@janmachala5297]

I am not allowed to post the link to the map, but because many people wonder: * Filmed in town Rokycany, Plzeňská street. * Это снято в городе Рокицаны, улица Пльзеньска. * C'est la ville de Rokycany, rue Plzeňská. * Gefilmt in der Stadt Rokycany, Plzeňská-Straße. * Nafilmováno v Rokycanech, Plzeňská ulice.

[@chet3louisiana558]

Thanks to you I was able to find it on Google Maps.

[@underlordd]

Why aren't you allowed to post the link to the map? @janmachala5297

[@janmachala5297]

@@underlordd I don't know. Since the video came out, I tried to post links to different online maps in the comments, but not one appeared here.

[@petersanders5321]

My father had his hands full in those days, having been a combat vet in the ETO. This is exactly what it looked like at the end of hostilities. Very good footage. He ended up in southern France, but the whole damn continent looked like this.

[@an-cx1ho]

sorry dude but it didnt. there was only ruin and dead bodies left in Poland

[@mochimochi2749]

I caught that too

[@bravo2966]

@anitamiller7960 She didn't want a kiss from him at all and that was very immediately obvious, but he still persisted. Still, a whole lot worse happened to a whole lot more women in those times.

[@КонстантинГусаров-ф6к]

The Prague offensive was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe. The offensive was fought on the Eastern Front from 6 May to 11 May 1945. Fought concurrently with the Prague uprising, the offensive significantly helped the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. The offensive was one of the last engagements of World War II in Europe and continued after Nazi Germany's unconditional capitulation on 8 May.

[@TheBinaryHappiness]

yes, when allies realised they needed to steal the thunder for winning ww2 they still boast about it, how nice of them

[@stephenwipf5224]

@@TheBinaryHappiness Whatever that is suppose to mean. Its not as if Russia would have had near the success if Hitler had not created one of the biggest bone maneuvers in human history with two fronts.

[@moysevas_23.]

@@stephenwipf5224 не согласна, не Россия, СССР.

[@manupainkiller]

@@stephenwipf5224 "biggest bone maneuvers" lol !

[@peterlustig6888]

Its incredible how modern this war was fought. Basic tactics and equipment didn't change.

[@sqwk2559]

Tactics change with technology, so yes actually, everything changed.

[@scuffedryangosling4264]

Wtf? Everything about warfare has changed since the internet and cell phones came around.

[@peterlustig6888]

@@scuffedryangosling4264 Nah, the tactics on the basic squad level, the weapons and the different arms still works together in the same way. The only really new addition are drones.

[@bretts5571]

It must have sucked fighting for the Germans in 1944 on the western front. The US had complete control of the skies, most Germans died from air strikes and artillery. Must have been demoralizing for them

[@ХозяинПолянки]

@@bretts5571 Hitler-Jew (the Bavarian Illuminations of Psychopaths) generally behaved very strangely. I would characterize as schizophrenia. The Germans were afraid of two fronts = attack everyone. Germans for white race = all NSDAP in strange "brinen" person Behind the white race = attack or use all the white peoples (Russia, Poland; infringement of Czechs; war in Northern France; the infringement of the Danes - Norwegians) At this time, the Catholic-fascists rest :) (and these are peoples with dark skin) Attacks Russia = Do not take winter clothes. They attack Russia without automatic weapons. Trying to defeat Russia a quick war = stumble on the front, and begin to lose. Create normal tanks in the middle of war. This is just a number of oddities. You can find even more of them.

[@odinsavenger4965]

Those German officers even look dashing in defeat.

Those fools still did think Americans will join them in their battle against Bolshevism I guess

[@НосогубкиШнурова]

Да, выглядят борзо, особенно сс

[@ДенЯ-б2л]

Вот это кадры исторические, поразило, спасибо за хронологию!Операторам, реставраторам-респект!!! Музон вообще в тему!

[@Buba_Kastorsky.]

Так же будет с рфскими вояками и зеками мобиками

[@DjonniDi]

чё там российский флаг делает)

[@evgeniivanov797]

Этот подарок символ внешнего управления как проигравшим наша элитка взяла а мы проглотили...

[@hourmann]

@@DjonniDi таймкод

[@ИгорьАлександров-и7п]

@@DjonniDi РОА наверное.

[@maximsinitsa9514]

American troops didn't reach Prague in 1945. They met Soviet forces near Plzen, which is about 70 km west of Prague

[@peterdebures9784]

My grandfather officially welcomed red army (kotuzov) in česke Budějovice 1945.

[@starguy2718]

Patton was furious at Ike; he was stopped from liberating Berlin, and then was sent south, to take Pilsen, but not Prague.

[@ЮрийАндрианов-ч8ъ]

так и есть, это либо ошибка автора ролика, либо фальсифкация. Богемию заняла 3-я армия США и вот как раз к ним ехали отступающие части сдаться, чтобы не попасть в плен к советской армии.

[@MGBandit75]

Lucky ones. People rarely smile and surrender simultaneously.

[@jgg1974]

I’m sure they were happy to surrender and get some food and possibly go back to there families one day alive.

[@daveyboy_]

They weren't surrendering to the Ruskkies thats why

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Many of them were mere teenagers who had been conscripted during the last months of the war. They knew the war was lost before they put on a uniform, so getting out of it alive and not falling into the hands of the Soviets was really the best outcome they could have hoped for.

[@captainbadd]

Relief at surviving and not being soviet captives.

[@glicmathan1771]

U.S. General George S. Patton later said: “We defeated the wrong enemy.” He sure got that right.

[@maumor2]

This German troops (and there are both wehrmacht and waffen SS) are not just driving to surrender. They were on a race to the west trying to avoid being captured by Russians, thats why the sign @0:45 is so important, past that point they were supposed to surrender to American troops (and their logic makes sense considering one of every three German POWs in Russia died before being released)

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Just Germans being cowards as always. They have no problem massacring millions of civilians but do have problem confronting the people they invaded. They rather wave little white flags and hide under the feet of Americans.

[@paletobay1017]

Yeah and again I don’t know why the US gets called evil sometimes

[@MrKortesas]

music really fits to the video. Well done. Keep it up.

[@TheSaltydog07]

My Dad was in Czechoslovakia on VE Day. I have his letters. 358th.

[@EZEQUIELMACHIWl]

What is VE

[@ПлемянникЦоя]

@@EZEQUIELMACHIWl Victory in Europe

[@Compromised-yk9mc]

That bird Colonel looks war-weary. I bet it has been a long slog for him. I hope he made it home safely and lived out his life in peace,

[@chrish3720]

Dam tires were great back then, just look at the weight they carried

[@roberttrout3588]

Biasply…

[@chrish3720]

@@andoryus I think tires were made of real rubber back then. Today they are made of synthetic crap.

[@TheFreshSpam]

@@chrish3720 Tires are they best they have ever been. The ones in ww2 never lasted long enough in rough terrain. In hot weather they melted. They were just made extra thick to hold most loads and that made the journey even rougher

[@timbrink]

@@chrish3720 Pretty sure those tires were synthetic on the american vehicles.

[@chrish3720]

@@TheFreshSpam Ok

[@Pavia1525]

It’s almost unbelievable… in the last four months of the war over a million German soldiers died. 10,000 German soldiers killed in battle every single day at a time when the war was already lost. People couldn’t imagine such death today.

[@egord9101]

If you see how many lives of the red army soldiers were lost in the duration of the Eastern campaign, you would not be so amazed about the German losses.

[@EC237T5]

@@egord9101 A life is a life. You talk like these millions of Germans are nothing. Better shut up

[@almoni33]

You wrote correctly but I would have preferred that they all die who wore the Reich uniform. they chose the Führer they sinned and they should have been punished according to justice and that is the death penalty.

[@lk_UU]

@@almoni33 Mmy grandpa had to fight on the german side since he was seventeen and he never had a choice not to do so. Today its easy to say they were on the wrong side, but those days there was no choice. you were brainwashed and teached for years to serve your country. If you didnt play by there rules you were very fast an enemy of the state. Behind every soldier there is an individual fate, no matter on which side. I hope we will never have to live through something like this.

[@almoni33]

@@lk_UU I realize the Wehrmacht was not recognized as a cannibal as opposed to the SS. technically it is true but in eastern europe and russia the Germans committed inhumane crimes and any soldier in uniform is responsible for them a priori as opposed to civilians. had the red army done this on german territory it would have been a Martian landscape and 26 million dead. can you imagine that? But it's just a fair balance.

[@mattiasorre1718]

My granddad was shot in the leg as a captain leading his troops out of a trench, taken prisoner, always said the germans treated him according to all the rules and gave him good medical treatment. He thought it might have been because he was an officer but nevertheless respected them for that.

[@an-cx1ho]

it was because it was on the western front probably. if he was on the eastern front there would be no human rights

[@traubengott9783]

@@an-cx1ho why should it? Only russians..

[@StarBoy-ps1xc]

But the Germans did not treat the pows the same in the Eastern Front , crazy!!

[@RainyFoxUwU]

righttttt

[@stepanfedorov561]

@@an-cx1ho Because the Germans shot Soviet officers on the spot. I'm talking about junior officers

[@ВладимирВладимировичНеПутин]

Интересно видеть людей на кадрах где ужас закончился, когда для нас ужас только начинается.

[@patesbaroni77]

If this was today, everybody will have a phone trying to make tiktok videos.

[@chop3625]

Absolutely correct. We happen to be living amongst a collective group of imbeciles.

[@victuz]

@@chop3625 I rather live among said imbeciles than among those folks in the video.

[@charles5895]

@@chop3625 good time create stupid man. Stupid man create hard time. Hard time create good man. Good man create good times. Good times create stupid man. Repeat.

[@lahire1805]

@@charles5895 this has no sense.

[@lahire1805]

@@chop3625 funny, I bet you see yourself as something above all other people.

[@richard9444]

The non German speaking populus went full Tonto after this on the Germanic ones, amazing footage and great camera work btw

[@AlexMartinez-me2yc]

That one lady smiling at the camera, while in a car full of German soldiers. The war may be over but, I don't think she should be smiling, considering her company.

[@corvusduluth]

Yep.

[@naturbursche5540]

They started committing the biggest genocide in history to teach us not to commit genocide.

[@fanatamon]

@@AlexMartinez-me2yc yeah for sure and s far as I’m concerned all the Wehrmacht and ss should have been done to them what they did to everybody else I.e laid to waste with a machine gun and torture for the ss then shooting.

[@zhouwu]

@@fanatamon Listening to you, the Germans got off pretty easy, all things considered. I wonder how many Germans who still complain it wasn't fair realise that? Anyway, the world is full of sore losers, maybe it's better to just tune them all out.

[@panther7748]

Notice how young many of the german soldiers were. The Nazi regime was scraping the barrel at this point and sent tens of thousands of untrained teenagers right into the meat grinder.

[@KevinOBrien-q1h]

My father in law was a young German soldier wounded in the leg outside Leningrad in the freezing winter. He was one of the lucky ones as they flew him home and he survived the war but lost his leg eventually. The rest of his battalion weren't so lucky.

[@josephstevens9888]

Excellent footage! It appears that many people are hopeful; the war is over, spring had arrived, and people can go back home to their loved ones.

[@TheSchultzy73]

They probably would have kept fighting if they knew they would have no home to go back to. Millions expelled from their native lands never to return.

[@damiandelapp5490]

My father told me a interesting story about one of his buddies that was an officer Europe that after a few drinks him and another officer jumped in a Jeep and went out ahead and surprised like 300 Germans soldiers they stopped in complete shock and at gun point and were approached by an high ranking German officer that asked what are you guys up too? thinking fast they guy said to ask for your surrender, its either us or the Russians? They dropped their weapons and fallowed them back! To be a Russian prisoner was to die a miserable death!

[@Архимед-ц1р]

А быть немецким военнопленным означало жизнь? Вы забыли про Аушвиц, Асвенцем и другие места? Россия имела право на все за то зло, что фашизм принес нашей земле

[@miroslavbriza]

​@@Архимед-ц1р I must say that I would also be rather captured by Americans, maybe even Germans, than Russians. Terrible nation with zero respect for someone's life.

[@Nonviableaccount]

@@Архимед-ц1р People conquered or enslaved or imprisoned by USSR troops were raped, killed, thrown in gulags, and/or eaten. There were no exceptions. Germans treated the vast majority of Allied POWs with respect and tended to follow Geneva conventions with regards to surrendering soldiers. US/Canadian soldiers retaking towns would hand out chocolates, cigarettes, and sandwiches. Russian soldiers retaking towns would kill or forcibly enlist every remaining man and rape every woman between 8 and 80. Patton was right - we should have kept going east. Then Ukraine and the rest of the world wouldn’t be dealing with what we have now.

[@garyrosson4818]

My father and mother both served in the navy in WWII. Dad served on CV38 in pacific theater. Mom rigged chutes in the states. They met each other while serving during the war effort.

[@hihunter7]

Just beautiful, my grandpa was in Okinawa

[@Салют-я5с]

Слава Советскому народу!!!

[@nyanates]

4:40 - The blossoms on the cherry trees. Bet that spring was hopeful for a lot of people for so many reasons.

[@jcoker423]

Sadly it didn't last for the Czechs with the 3rd defenestration and the takeover by the Communists.

[@Cormano980]

Yeah , communism was about to take over half of Europe

[@gplusgplus2286]

Its an almond tree I think.

[@jcoker423]

@@Cormano980 Like a Hydra, we should still be fighting it.

[@PatriotMike-sb9oj]

The woman in the white dress wasn't having any of the tank guy's desires.

[@andyrob3259]

Assault is still sexual assault no matter how you dress it up in. Why would she.

[@garydurandt4260]

just because he had a big barrel does not give him any other rights.

[@HopliteWarlord]

She's lucky it wasn't the Russians that got their hands on her.

[@GrossHanDaYan]

При освобождении Праги армия USSR потеряла 50000 человек, а при освобождении Чехословакии 500000 человек. И зачем мы это делали? Кто слышал слова благодарности? Кто видел что память об этом хранится в поколениях? Мы оплакивали своих дедушек и восстанавливаем разрушенное государство, а они уже всё забыли.

[@Wolf-rb9iw]

В Чехословакии очень хорошо относились к Советскому союзу и реально чтили подвиги Красной армии. Более того, Чехословакия была единственной страной соц.блока, где не Советский режим поставил подвластное правительство, а чехи сами избрали коммунистов. Однако, чехи резко поменяли своё мнение, после того, как Советский Союз вместе со своими союзниками по ОВД устроил военное вторжение в Чехословакию в 1968 году. Будь на месте чеха,как бы ты относился к стране, которая ввела бы танки на улицы твоего города?

[@GrossHanDaYan]

@@Wolf-rb9iw Россия многонациональная страна с культурами которые развивались много тысяч лет. А вы говорите сейчас о руководителях союза социалистических республик которые приняли решение о втором вводе войск. Т. Е. Вы говорите что 500000 людей (не коммунистов, а вот этих с людей с тысячелетними культурами) которые ранены или умерли, помогая большинству чехов и словаков избавится от нацистов - это правильное решение этих людей умереть в Чехословакии, а вот второй ввод войск, с убийством и ранением 608 человек Чехов - это не правильно, это просто пипец какой-то и поэтому они обиделись на кого? На союз? Нет? А на кого? На одну из национальностей этого государства. Желаем чехам успехов, сожалеем что освобождали их от завоевания соседями и извиняемся что убили 108 человек и ранили 500 в 1968 году. Постараемся передать детям и внукам, чтобы не вздумали вмешиваться в самоопределение чехов и словаков и желаем вам успехов в борьбе с тем что вы или малые группы некоторых из вас считают не правильным.

[@dark_shark-qx1tr]

Ждём когда нацисткая Россия капитулирует и освободит Крым и Донбасс

[@artemizotov7122]

@@Wolf-rb9iw если я не ошибаюсь, то во всех странах соц.лагеря выбрал сам народ себе правительство и руководящую партию. Даже Германию у Сталина и Берии было желание объединить в итоге, но чтобы она была нейтральной.

[@swerrr8893]

@@Wolf-rb9iw к началу 1960х в Чехословакии люди уже устали от социализма и требовали реформ от правительства. Советский союз испугался, что народ изберет прозападное правительство с курсом на капитализм, поэтому и ввёл войска. Так поступила бы любая империя.

[@cleanwillie1307]

My father was in the 5th Infantry Division in Patton's 3rd Army. He wound up at the end of the war somewhere outside Prague. Amazing to see footage of the kinds of scenes he was probably seeing then.

[@Dieschor]

Interesting.

[@Nucci604]

Lucky for Germans surrendered to the Allies. Unfortunately, those who surrendered to the Soviets weren't treated kindly; only a fraction of them ever returned home to Germany.

[@Larry1302]

look into eisenhowers POW deathcamps in the rhine meadows

[@kdegraa]

I’ve heard if German POWs got through the first few months it was not so bad for the in Soviet captivity. However a large number of high ranking German prisoners died around the time Stalin died.

[@MrFeynmanDiagram]

@@Larry1302 yep, Ike destined death camps to confine German prisioners, but in addition of the brutal bombardments of Dresden and Colonia, the allies also signed conveniently the treaty of London... So, all they have to do is to await for death of the last witness and discreetly apply censorship on history books that study those years...

[@connectedonline1060]

USSR where also allies

[@MrFeynmanDiagram]

@@connectedonline1060 USSR troops committed atrocities (rapes, murders, etc) on civil population during the invasion of Germany, the last days of the war.

[@язнаюжизнь]

Мой отец, казах, прошёл от Сталинграда до Праги. И у меня есть фото из Праги. Слава советским воинам -победителям !!! Пенсионерка Алтын Ай Казахстан

[@samuelovalles2559]

How many German women did he rape?

[@LeerHeemerDeMooN]

Сохраните фотографии предавайте из поколения в поколение, пусть знают, помнят и гордятся.

[@chasecutler3978]

It’s sad because most of these Germans are no more than 20. They were plucked from school and told that the Fatherland needs them to most then and there, fighting a lost war that Hitler started 5 years prior when they were children.

[@GorGob]

hitleryouth regiments were top of the most barbaric groups nazis had to offer these boys were enjoying the murders

[@rikspring]

@@GorGob Facts plz ....

[@GorGob]

@@rikspring u clueless buddy

[@neinnein9306]

@@GorGob You are right. I read about a lot of war crimes they did. The old ones (SS and co) took the young ones to do cruel things to civilians (go to villages and kill every male for example) just to make unemotional war machines and fanatics out of them. AND they never saw an other society than the NS one. They never experiences the Weimar Republic or at least the Kaiserreich (with Jews even as officers and so on). All they had in life was the propaganda of Goebbels. They are offenders, but also victims.

[@ИринаГопанюк-с2з]

Похоже , что и в России сейчас происходит то же самое. Люди сошли с ума и верят своему обезумнвшему правительству. Об этом нужно говорить

[@yehflbkjd2066]

Я из Кыргызстана. У моего отца два брата не вернулись с войны, пропали без вести. Младший был призван ещё в 1939 году, а старший - мобилизован в 1942. Нет вестей до сих пор. Самого отца призвали в 1944 году по достижению призывного возраста, служил в артиллерии. Вернулся из армии в 1950 году, много рассказывал про свою 6-летнюю службу в армии, как их в резерве готовили к войне, но на войну не вступили. Из за этого в военкомате его не признали как участника ВОВ, так как не был задействован в войне, а состоял в резерве. Но граждан, не призванных в те годы на войну (по возрасту, по болезни или по другим причинам), посчитали труженниками тыла и приравняли к участникам ВОВ. Какая-то непонятная логика. Мой отец лишь один раз поднял этот вопрос, сказав что даже людей младше него по возрасту приравняли к участникам ВОВ, но ему ответили что они в тылу были, а мой отец в это время в армии служил. Понимая бесполезность им объяснять, отец больше не поднимал этот вопрос. Умер в 2008 году, так и не узнав о судьбе своих братьев...

[@sergeyl4742]

Мой отец тоже был призван в 1944 в 17 лет. На фронт не отправили. Тоже не был признан ветераном ВОВ, но юбилейные медали в 1965 и в 1975 получа. И один раз торшер в подарок от военкомата. А вот дед - погиб в ноябре 43 в Беларуси, оставив в деревне на Вятке вдову с двумя детьми. Ни медалей ни торшера , только отчество Ивановна у мамы.

[@paceeterna9826]

Тогда по глупости всё запутали. Всегда солдаты, воевавшие на фронте, во всем мире имели статус ветеранов. А в Российской Федерации фронтовиков лишили статуса ветеранов, дав им статус "участников". А гражданские стали официально именоваться ветеранами. С военнослужащими тыла все ещё сложнее.