A Day in a Destroyed German City 1946 | Documentary

How was life in the destroyed German cities after the Nazis were defeated?
A Day in Dresden 1946 provides a glimpse. Elli Göbel guides viewers through post-war Dresden's ruins. As a war widow and one of millions displaced from the former German eastern territories, this young woman finds work as a 'Trümmerfrau', helping rebuild the devastated city. To care for her children, Elli demonstrates immense resourcefulness, especially in the face of dire supply shortages. For the prospect of a better life, she sometimes pushes the boundaries of what's allowed. When she learns of a violin audition from a newspaper, Elli takes a risk, sneaking away from her rubble-clearing job to procure an instrument from the black market. However, when the police arrive and arrest her, she faces potential imprisonment and losing her children. This fictional biography, rooted in real historical events, offers deep insights into the everyday struggles of the post-war era, illuminating the intimate connection between documentary storytelling and the haunting ruins of the past.
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[@gregkamer3754]

I was fully blown away by how you were able to combine archival footage with reenactments to make such a great video. Thank you so much.

[@cruisepaige]

Lovely production.

[@lsudx479]

This is a professionally produced show. It airs on television all over the world. It's not an amateur-made video. 🤣

[@155gerard]

Some of the photos are not of German children in Dresden. The photo at 5mins 40 seconds of the little boy in the oversized tweed coat with his large stuffed animal crying in the ruins is a quite famous photo from an anthology of photos of civilians in London during the German blitzkrieg bombings and later V rocket attacks. The English boy's family had just been killed in the bombing. The video producer should not be piece mailing various photos from different settings, ingenuous and disrespectful to the memory of the civilians on both sides of the war.

[@miriammuskal5402]

So lucky she was able to persevere

[@keslot]

Finally a documentary about life in Germany, right after WW2. I have long been very interested in learning a bit about this topic

[@alecharper515]

What a powerful video. My Austrian mother was 16 when the war ended. All of this is true. We also lived in Warsaw from 1968-72 and I came back to East Berlin during the summers of 1979-81 while back from university. The scars of war and the effect on the survivors is so sad. I remember the hastily-patched bullet holes around windows and doors. At the time, I felt it was a totally normal way of growing up. Now, 64, I make sense of it through writing about it. May mankind learn from this...

[@chosipian]

amazing!!!!!

[@siegridthomas9674]

Let Me tell you...THIS IS ALL TRUE ! ! ...this is what my mom and I went through ! Often there was NOTHING to eat ! My dad was killed on the eastern front ( stalingrad) ! I was a baby...I often marveled, how my mother survived it all, with me ...she also had to clean bricks for the rebuild of the city...women like her became the heroes of her time...and unexpected in all this she was introduced to a wonderful man ! They married and lived together for 45 years till he past away...mom lived 20 more years...

[@Drew791]

Wow! That’s quite a life! I wish women like her were still around today. Could you imagine any of these “influencers” scrubbing bricks to help rebuild a war torn city?

[@user-fb3cf3fw1b]

@@Drew791 nope I'm afraid we'd never find anyone willing to do necessary things like those these days... male or female. Everyone wants everything handed to them and nobody wants to work... that's why the Latinos do so well here (in America), they don't mind working.

[@timgordon4853]

You need to document your story, library or museum should know of organizations recording German history.I remember my great grand parents,and others rescued,what a scar to carry🙏 Dorothy

[@timoheinanen8168]

​@@Drew791You just nailed it man. So well said.

[@stevegird7706]

Which "sector" was she in?

[@u.s.militia7682]

Civilians always suffer the worst in all wars.

[@wolfg6136]

wonderful film.

[@Scrat335]

My wife's mother was in the USSR, Belarus as a child during the war. For years they lived in a burned out rail car. Another car doubled as a hospital, another as a school. Half her family died in the war. She remembers being hungry and cold as a child.

[@rosykatzCATS]

Mine was in Russia also

[@BigJack273]

So were the blacks

[@dhanasekaranr3077]

​@@rosykatzCATS History tells lots of Story ❤

[@jimciancio9005]

Brilliant System of loved ones being able to locate missing others by their simplified yet complex filing system. A lot of attention to details were given to these people in order to locate their missing loved ones. The fact it worked so well is amazing and how many people who were reunited by this simplistic process. 😊

[@ronaldgansler8812]

I’m very fortunate that my grandparents on both side of my family left Germany in 1930 and went to USA! Thank God

[@brigitteleirens6]

Magnifique

[@Ospery157]

So reminds me of the stories my mother told of her growing up after the war. The women were so strong back then.

[@marcof.8715]

What a documentary. 10/10🎉❤❤❤. Great stuff really. Thank you.

[@antennastoheaven]

Just casually clicked on recommended video and I haven’t even notice how fast 51 minutes has gone. Brilliant documentary.

[@d.virgallito3490]

WOW!

[@TedPert]

what a beuatiful story in a dreadful world!

[@eksiarvamus]

Thank You for that documentary!

[@ColinHarperSummerson]

Astonishing, shocking, and upsetting at times , what the people had to endure, excellent video, thank you 🙏

[@asullivan4047]

Unfortunately the rebuilding process in Russian occupied Berlin. Didn't go as well in comparison to American sector of West Berlin.

[@user-mi7bf3dy1r]

I’m so sorry it must have been very difficult for them

[@bugra320]

You did absolutely an amazing job by reanimating those days

[@tesshigginsfordistrict4]

This whole "A Day in..." series is so well edited, acted, and the historian commentary peppered thru is excellent. Really brings the time period to life. Please make more and thank you!

[@alexman8800]

I think A Day in an Occupied/Freed City takes precedence.

[@clausknappe8805]

The original German should be toned down when there is an English speaker, otherwise a very true account, well done.

[@Bob_The_Builder190]

Amazing work. I really love your documentaries. ❤❤❤❤

[@lesliemosier4120]

This is so beautifully done! Thank you so much. Fascinating story that I have sent on to friends to watch. I am going to Dresden next year and will watch this many times to prepare for my trip.

[@Laura-wb2se]

This video is very well done - the most interesting documentary I’ve enjoyed in quite some time. Thank you!

[@jimjenkins2510]

This is, hands down, the best docu-drama I think I've ever seen. It's extremely well made, and I learned a lot of things I had never known before, about a time I had never thought of, before. I remember my father, who served in thee mid-50's in the Army of Occupation, telling me how the train station in the town he was stationed in had been fixed up on one side for the GI's, but the other side (where Germans were permitted) was still in ruins. A sad time, with some amazingly resilliant people.

[@munkittytunkitty]

What an amazing documentary! A very detailed look at a forgotten period of history and so well acted.

[@EricGiebel-hs7uv]

My brother and I ate potatoe and mayo sandwiches when we were growin up in the late 70s and 80s. Never knew any difference and it Was most yummy!! We love you Mom!!

[@aquila8553]

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="116">1:56</a> the view goes through the cloud. And that’s exactly what it looks like minus the moisture rolling off your visor.

[@richardsimms251]

Germany has sure turned itself around since the end of the Second World War. It is a first class country now and a model country for the world to admire. RS. Canada

[@Youngstown529]

Today, Dresden is an absolutely beautiful city. Even the cathedral has been rebuilt.

[@tellyonthewall8751]

for west german money!!

[@biglebowski5737]

@@tellyonthewall8751 What is your point?

[@tellyonthewall8751]

@@biglebowski5737 just saying ...

[@biglebowski5737]

@@tellyonthewall8751 ....so no point? BTW the cathedral was rebuilt from donations the last part was from Great Britain.

[@tellyonthewall8751]

@@biglebowski5737 Only right .. the limey leveled it

[@jocarter2848]

I remember the ruined city of Coventry!

[@Orecatmeatprocessors]

What a wonderful program! Thank you!

[@agrameroldoctane_66]

She was not from Wrocław, she was from Breslau. And there was not tens of thousands of refugees was 1.2 milion.

[@dawnX2148]

Breslau renamed Wroclaw after war and area becomes part of Poland

[@agrameroldoctane_66]

@@dawnX2148 exactly

[@boink800]

They should have said 'Breslau' as they said that in German. Wroclaw is the city after 1945.

[@sealteamtwo117]

You are correct except for the number of refugees. Between 1945-1947 some 10-15 MILLION Germans were expelled from their traditional homelands and sent west, to make room for the newly resurrected Poland and Czechoslovakia. My ancestors were from Breslau, and those whom survived were among them.

[@agrameroldoctane_66]

@@sealteamtwo117 1.2 was estimated number for Poland only.

[@kidmohair8151]

this is above average for this kind of docudrama. a good story, well written, well acted. good interviews. interspersed with enough archival imagery to bring it home.

[@cruisepaige]

This is almost too sad to watch. It’s my duty as an American to watch it, and learn, though.

[@phantom8700]

I have yet to source check but it may not be a true story

[@brenhugh]

@@phantom8700 The narration at the end informs the viewer that “…This is not biographical.”

[@adamkailani3062]

Thank you!!! ❤

[@alanaadams7440]

My grandmother went to Europe in 1958 cities were still in rubble

[@TheWorld-xs8ly]

Thank you so much for posting this. It’s great information 😊

[@Andy_Babb]

This is wild. Love it. I’d like this series on ancient cities now lol

[@ConnieWojahn]

Very well done. Excellent. History which needs to be told and remembered. Thank you.

[@KtrachoMedia]

Many Thanks, Lovely Documentary....!!!

[@toniam.2080]

My mil just died at 102. She was taken from Poland and put in a forced labor camp in Germany. She had some brutal stories.

[@BasementEngineer]

Many many Poles travelled to Germany on their own for work and standard of living, which was much better in Germany. These people went VOLUNTARILY.

[@SarahAndrews24]

Wowww, hats off to the German rubble women,the Trummerfrauen, their contribution to the rebuilding of Germany is all but forgotten..Germany is great again only due to the extraordinary hard work and resilience of its people..Respect.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

As a Canadian, you're welcome and sorry it had to be done. P.S. you will figure it out !

[@Mens_Rights]

@@XxxXxx-fm3wo It didn't have to be done. Dresden had little to no military value. This was death and destruction, for its own sake. We need to stop canonizing the WWII allies. A lot of the things they did were wrong.

[@bertplank8011]

NO....the allies deliberately chose to obliterate the very heart of German culture....in an attempt to totally destroy the German people. Deliberate and calculated.There was even the Morganthau plan to castrate all German adult males.....thats a fact. In Japan the allies spared Kyoto which was the centre of Japanese culture..... People knew Harris was the architect of the deliberate bombing of civilians in Germany.....which is why the mass murderer was known as "Bomber Harris".....and was disliked by the British public after the war. Germany was by no means innocent of course .....but there is a difference between winning a war and attempting to obliterate a whole nation. General Patton realized this at the end of the war saying "we fought the wrong side".....He was assassinated of course... Unfortunately you can no long express free speech on subjects like this....but you can look for other sources of information.(like the book "Other Losses"....by James Bacque)

[@SuperCarlyms]

They were forced to do rebuild.

[@GrahamWaltonMusic-gr5vm]

A totally different outlook on this moment in history ...very Eye-opening

[@chrisfrench2346]

So well done, thank you.

[@marysue7165]

I had a senior German patient who lived though all this. She lived in a small town and due to family issues found herself homeless. She walk all the way to Dresdin, alone. That's a lot of moxie for a 13 year old. She said she slept only in cemeteries so avoid the groups of men who were causing trouble. Thankfully, she was never raped.

[@redwater4778]

Dresden was full of refugees when it was bombed. The allies knew this.

[@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993]

That you know of

[@judithblu2399]

Oh wait. I am Je Ve Clarie RawEiE

[@judithblu2399]

Oh wait. Raw!! It’s not working yet. My dad got his dragon suit back. We got it you guys and gals. See you on the dark side …soon I hope. It’s pretty bad here on my planet.

[@judithblu2399]

Also. EPawE say you can say AweE now!! I se. Se I.

[@raymondpomfret4214]

The madness of men who want war ,absolute insanity and still we have them 😢😢

[@1USACitizen192]

makes physcopaths money.

[@SuperCarlyms]

All of Europe, Pacific, African was devastated. Everyone had to live on ration cards. No water, heat, people living in DP camps (Displaced Camps) in Germany people who survived the camps or moved somewhere save. Came back to either no home or someone else living in it. My Grandparents who were Polish ended up in Scotland. My Father as a 3 yr old remembers his Mother going without food just so he could eat. My Grandfather was in the Polish Army as was my Grandmother. My Grandfather's sister was put in a workcamp. One day they got a call from the Red cross in 1946 or early 47. It was his Sister and she was alive barely. Nothing was ever said about what she went through. She eventually found someone and married and moved to Africa. My Grandparents were able to make it to America after a long and tedious and expensive support from my Grandmother's family she was born in Michigan. So, the war was NOT just castrophic for Germany but for the whole European Pacific, and African.This needs to be continued to be retold historically & accurately. We NEVER, EVER WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN!

[@alkistisvas9341]

Excellent work. Thank you for the information

[@SN-sz7kw]

Yet no-one accused the allies of committing genocide.

[@Schutti73]

In the tribunals and the new foundet UNO the Germans have less rights as other countries. They were forbidden to accuse the allies and in the Charta of the UNO is a passus that the allies can infade Germany without a reason. This test is still there. Also the ethically cleansed people from other countries with german background (CS, PL YU...) have no rights, the charta of the UNO dont protect them.

[@Garbeaux.]

Bc they didn’t.

[@arnavsamaddar6638]

​@@Garbeaux.They do ....that dictator was made by allies

[@MWayne-zz1cr]

Dresden is a beautifully restored city now.

[@strafrag1]

Wonderful video. Thank you for posting this history.

[@LynchMob01]

phenomenal documentary

[@adriang6259]

Brilliant video. Something I’ve been interested in for years. Huge effort for Germany to rebuild after WW2 and Versailles. Some vile comments here. Some people have to look a bit deeper than the obvious.

[@daleburrell6273]

...I CONTEND THAT A HECK OF A LOT OF THOSE "VILE COMMENTS" ARE COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED-!!! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!

[@pazza4555]

​@@daleburrell6273TYPE IN ALL CAPS! THAT FIXES EVERYTHING!

[@freckleheckler6311]

@@daleburrell6273justified? Not until you realize the farce of ww2 history written by the victors. You wouldn’t be prepared though, to realize Germans are modern history’s greatest victims.

[@sassycat6487]

They rebuilt because of AMERICAN aid.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@sassycat6487 NO! The Marshall Plan funds speeded things up a little.

[@judymerritt9458]

I had relatives in post war France and Belgium . I found a letter on a scrap of paper from the husband of one of my cousins. He described how hard things were . Food was very expensive and many people couldn’t get clothing . They made shoes out of wood. My father visited relatives while he was in the army in post war Germany. They butchered a scrawny chicken and dug up wine bottles they hid from the Germans to give him a meal. He felt bad because they had so little.

[@markdavis7792]

This is such a well made docudrama! I'm really interested in the post war recovery and personal stories bring it alive! Thank you!

[@user-bu9ju5ic9h]

My father (aged 20)was on the Baltic coast at the war’s end (Parachute Regt) he told me soldiers could get as much tobacco as they wanted but were only rationed 200 cigarettes a month. So he rolled his own smokes and used the cigarettes as currency. He did saw what he spent it on.

[@greeneyeswideopen774]

In the end though, the Rubble Girls (Men and Children) are heroes. They brought their cities back to life, brick by brick.

[@SigmundJaehn]

This was really excellent. Thank you.

[@leosaura1993]

Great Documentary thank you for posting it.

[@CoryPiston]

What an amazing story!! and what a shame that its looking like history will repeat itself time and time again . May the world learn from the past .

[@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm]

I often think that the resilience and character displayed by the German people after the war was one of the reasons that helped propel them to the position they’re in today. Conversely, as an American, watching my own society, self destruct through drugs, delusional, fantasy, and outright laziness will surely leave us in a bad position, if not in the future now, I say this as a Bay Area residence, whose watched the Bay Area decline dramatically over the last 40 years

[@fluffy1931]

How many stupid pills did you swallow. Post Ww2 Germany & western Europe enjoyed the economic plan called Marshall Plan & Berlin Airlift to avoid starvation. On top of that they enjoy the defensive shield under Nato. Besides never having to shoulder the burden of fully functional defense budget courtesy of US Armed forces deployed on the German frontier.

[@Inspectergadget69]

Adversity kills the soul but redeems others...comfort can redeem the soul but kills others

[@colbypriest141]

Are you forgetting what German society did to put themselves in this situation? All the men went off to make war on the entire world. But you think homeless people in the Bay area are far more self destructive and Germans are an example of the highest values and perseverance? Interesting.

[@redwater4778]

Now Germany is filling up with people who didn't stay and rebuild.

[@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm]

@@redwater4778 wanna trade? I live in the Bay Area. I’m watching our own people destroy our society over the last 40 years I have watched probably one of the nicest places I’ve seen on the planet turn into a hell hole and out of control crime out of control drug use right on the streets and sidewalks, but hey, what’s the worst that can happen? I’ve been to Germany four times over the last five years. I can honestly say your worst is better than our best to me. Also, you have something that we’ve lost as a country you still have a German a identity Americans have given up on that. I guess we’ll just see how it all plays out.

[@timothyknight2236]

One of the best WWII documentaries ever. Very hitting.............

[@davidknox5929]

Sehr interesting.Danke!

[@rickjensen2717]

My mum, uncle and grandmother lived through this terrible time, luckily in western Germany. My grandfather was killed in 1942 on the Eastern front. The German economic miracle just shows what can be achieved with hard work, good organisation and competent politicians; not the appalling ones in the 1930s and 40s that caused all this misery and suffering on all sides.

[@pingpong1064]

on all sides? it was clear war between pure evil (germany) to good.

[@davidhoward4715]

The German economic miracle just shows what can be achieved with massive American aid.

[@woodenseagull1899]

​@@davidhoward4715With massive American aid, at the expense of the Allies. Britain fed them, provided Security and medical aid...At the expense of its own Citizens...without even a Thank you , or reperation...

[@TEXCAP]

@@woodenseagull1899 My Uncle gave his life. Doesn't get much more expensive than that. He came from the American side

[@ugoosx3pro723]

​@@davidhoward4715 победил гитлеровский фашизм СССР и была подписана капитуляция . СССР победитель фашизма прошлого столетия!🌞🌿🎎🚩🙏

[@samratsengupta96]

Remember hiroshima, nagasaki, warsaw, stalingrad and long list of many other cities this is what war brings, from ww2 or from historical times

[@pauld9561]

Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco. This game is fun!😂

[@woodenseagull1899]

You are leaving out; that it is the price Germany & Japan paid for STARTING the WARS in the first place....!

[@lolafinch]

Gaza?

[@stischer47]

@@lolafinch Tel Aviv?

[@samratsengupta96]

@@lolafinch my country has faced many destruction from historical times don't worry about gaza, every thing is rebuilt

[@TonyPeony]

Fascinating program. I greatly appreciate

[@workablob]

I often wonder how many of my cousins were in Dresden.

[@paulrimmer391]

It's always the poor citizens who suffer. The Germans survived to flourish again. God Bless guys!

[@judithblu2399]

Jujublu💚

[@Anthony-db7cs]

After a bunch of land was stolen from them again

[@jackieyu4787]

What about Warsaw

[@vanfja]

They flourish once again and produce a madman socialist influencer who influences all the western leaders and governments to restrict farming and citizens and lay the groundwork for another totalitarian government. Great Job allies.

[@billwright2811]

It is amazing what a person is capable of when forced to. Only women and children left, because ALL THE MEN LOST THEIR LIVES.

[@389383]

Since you shouted it, do you really believe ALL THE MEN LOST THEIR LIVES?

[@joenuts5167]

most men over 12 and under 50 were dead@@389383

[@Qwerty-hy5mj]

For most regions of postwar Germany, there were only 40 men left for every 100 women in the 20-30 age group.

[@389383]

Surprised there were even that many.@@Qwerty-hy5mj

[@koyotekola6916]

@@389383 Nobody in their right mind believe that, not even @billwright281. It's a metaphor.

[@biancakarteron5620]

The human spirit to live, to adapt is amazing.

[@richardsimms251]

Excellent history presentation

[@Steelhorsecowboy]

War is evil.

[@cms9902]

It's a great shame you didn't include the credits at the end. For anyone thinking this channel produced this documentary, it is highly unlikely.

[@moonshinerman]

Excellent. No words

[@Dog.soldier1950]

What goes around comes around

[@alansewell7810]

Thank you for this superbly produced and colorized documentary. The colorization and scripting brings to life the difficult conditions of Russian-occupied Germany.

[@Тёмный_Механик]

В отличие от немцев, русские не сжигали деревни вместе с жителями, не вешали на площадях тех, кто им не нравится. И у русских не было государственной программы по уничтожению местного населения с использованием газовых камер.

[@alansewell7810]

@@Тёмный_Механик Stalin was easier on occupied Germans than he often was on his own Russian people.

[@Тёмный_Механик]

@@alansewell7810 За время правления Сталина (1924 - 1954) было репрессировано около 4 000 000 человек. Из них расстреляно около 1 000 000. Это конечно ужасные цифры. Но это гораздо меньше того, что указывает в своих мемуарах предатель Солженицын ( 110 млн) и гораздо меньше, чем погибло в немецкой оккупации. Например, английские, американские и японские интервенты, которые пришли "помогать" россии, убили за один год около 115 000!!!

[@alansewell7810]

@@Тёмный_Механик The numbers you mentioned of 4,000,000 (confined in the Gulag) / 1,000,000 (executions) were confirmed by British Journalist Alexander Werth (raised in Leningrad and fluent in Russian) who reported from the Soviet Union to the British press in the 1930s through 1945. HIs book RUSSIA AT WAR gives a balanced account as seen from a British journalist who had no use for communism or Stalin, but was sympathetic with the Russians in getting the Germans off their territory.

[@michaelmullen4597]

I worked with a German. He told me how bad things were during the great inflation. How he remembered eating dandelions till there were more and eating soup seasoned with shoe leather He told me of conditions on the eastern front - so cold that motor oil froze in the crankcase, about cramming as many as possible into a staff car to keep from freezing. He was a chemist and told me that was in a communications unit. The Russians had telegraph lines made of iron. He said it took them a good while to figure out how to reconnect broken lines.

[@krzemas80]

Chlip, chlip.

[@gratefulguy4130]

Sounds like an incredible man.

[@BasementEngineer]

Actually, steel telegraph lines were also used by the allies in western Germany after the war.

[@robertafierro5592]

Good Video! I really learned alot about being creative and resourceful!

[@user-wz2qe2pv6r]

Ive always been fascinated by the huge hill outside Berlin built from the rubble. All the houses there now have underground garages...

[@saltyroe3179]

During the war the NAZIS confiscated the food in the conquered lands letting them starve. Summery execution of the conquered was common. The Soviets lost about 2/3 the German 1933 population. One can understand, but not justify, the post war treatment of Germans by the conquering Soviets. In contrast the US during the occupation of Japan brought in food to prevent mass starvation. My Stepfather was awarded a Medal by the Emperor of Japan for his work in getting food to Japan. As a child my stepfather only said terrible things about Japanese, he never told me about what he did for the Japanese people, and I only found out about his relief work in Japan after he died.

[@user-nb4ex5zk3w]

The wars that are irresponsibly started by superpowers in our time are madness.

[@ibeetellingya5683]

THIS IS AN AMAZING DOCUMENTARY!

[@shelbynamels973]

Why did they cut the video before the end credits?? C'mon, their work deserves to be acknowledged.

[@Matthew_Eitzman]

It’s symbolic of the lives cut short.

[@shelbynamels973]

🤣😂👌@@Matthew_Eitzman

[@WilliamTravisFocker]

I did some searching--it was made by ZDF, the German public broadcaster. You can find the episode on their website under "One Day in Dresden, 1946."

[@155gerard]

Some of the photos are not of German children, so a bit ingenuous for the producer to piece together various photos. The photo at 5mins40 seconds is a quite famous photo of a small child in London whose home was just destroyed, family killed by the German blitzkrieg. The boy is in an oversized tweed coat holding a large stuffed animal.

[@gratefulguy4130]

@@155gerard So just a small taste of what the holocaust museum does then? There are 100s of photos just of the victims of Dresden which they pretend represent "victims of concentration camps". There are a great deal more from other sources being equally misleading.. they love using photos of Soviets and partisans killing people on the edge of mass graves as "evidence" of German "atrocities" as well. The list is endless yet you don't seem concerned with that.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Dresden firestorm city, if you survive that you are very lucky. After ww2 we all said this never again, did not work very well eh.

[@renatewest6366]

Also Hamburg

[@themsmloveswar3985]

Annalena Barebrain did a 360 degree turn???

[@goldgeologist5320]

Sadly humans have short memories and rarely learn from the past.

[@katiem6773]

Wonderful documentary!

[@brianna3340]

maria's a real one

[@hardyalbrecht1924]

I do remember, with a friend we explored ruins, at times we spotted a furnished room on the 3rd floor but the staircase was gone, we claimed on water pipes to the 3rd floor, examined cupboards and wardrobes and beds. Sometimes we found something to eat, once we found some cans of beans.

[@hardyalbrecht1924]

Ich kann mich noch daran erinnern. Mit einem Freund machten wir zusammen Erkundungstouren in Ruinen. Wenn in einem Wohnhaus im 3. Stock ein Zimmer sichtbar war aber das Treppenhaus fehlte sind wir an Wasserrohren bis zum 3. Stock herausgeklettert haben in Schänke und Bett nachgesehen ob es etwas zum Essen gab. Einmal fanden wir einige Dosen Bohnen.

[@sealteamtwo117]

Dass war auch fuer der Zeit typisch in die Ruinen.

[@awdasadsad6048]

this is incredibly well made

[@i-heart-google7132]

I can't believe how high production value this channel is. Just WoW!

[@daniellebcooper7160]

This should be shown in every school, instead of 'gender studies'. Thank you for making this available.

[@koyotekola6916]

@daniellebcooper7160 No doubt. The difference between the two topics you mention is remembrance of history so as to not repeat it. Gender studies does nothing to improve mankind.

[@Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs]

History is a huge thing in our family. Elie Weisel's "Night" is mandatory reading for my children at age 10. At age 13 I make them watch Schindlers List and they are quizzed. If they fail, they watch it again. Being Native American, we also study a lot on our people, Stockbridge Munsee and Menominee. Those who fail to heed history's warnings are doomed to repeat them.

[@koyotekola6916]

@@Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs So true. I'm very proud of your approach to the world and especially with your children. They are the building blocks of our future.

[@vanmoose76]

I was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and lived in the “shadow” of WW 2 which affected me for the rest of my life! Living in Canada and then in the US I see how it’s people have no clue how losing/destroying everything affects the masses, the ensuing corruption…yet persevere to rebuild and work hard to find the secret to living again! No time for feeling sorry for oneself so they innovated and rebuilt, creating a beautiful renewal of several European countries.

[@pazza4555]

​@@koyotekola6916Oh the irony

[@markschilleman4695]

Outstanding video. Thank you, I am a German-American

[@SDD3204]

Excellent well done! A world my mum knew well. I was quite emotional watching this.

[@gordonayres2609]

Superb!

[@matthias04]

The name of the city that Elli left is Breslau. It was only renamed to Wroclaw when the city became polish in 1945 and is still today called Breslau in German.

[@JohnnyPollas]

I hate how they´ve avoided talking about the tens of thousands massacred by the British phosphorus bombs during the Air Raids in February 1945...

[@wor53lg50]

Yep, and all those phosphorus incendiarys dropped on london deliberately on a lunar low tide=low river??, "fuk around and find out", surely does hold its meaning dos'nt it?.. , i mean can you imagine a world where people or individuals aint punished for their actions, complete lawless anarchy for others wouldn't you say?.....

[@safetynudge9026]

It was worth watching, even through many interruptions from irrelevant ads. Wish this could be made into a feature film

[@thomasirving2820]

I’m slightly confused as to how true to life this play is. It was very well presented.

[@evilborg]

My mother lived through WW2 in Ulm, Germany. Her stories were similar to this documentary even as a child.

[@MichaelMomany]

This reminds me of some of the stories my mother told me about growing up in Mannheim during the war. Nobody can say the current German people do not understand what it means to be a refugee.

[@pazza4555]

It's 2023. Few native born Germans were alive during the immediate post war years

[@renataostertag6051]

I am!