Hessen 1945 (in color and HD)

[@rcsuccession8579]

I am deeply grateful that I can now watch such precious old footage through KZbin.

[@shmac96]

This makes the experiences of my grandfather's generation so real for me. Thank you!

[@shmac96]

@@КВАКЕРголосокеана-л2ц What kind of comment is that? Why would you say that? My grandfather fought for the Canadian forces and my mother's mother was Ukrainian whose family fled to Canada before the war.

[@Realthinx]

priceless footage. thank you very much for making it available here

[@stacksmountain2893]

🌹™

[@teleguy5699]

I'm retired military and it is amazing watching this in color raw. I can easily imagine myself being in the middle of WW2 instead of those distant B&W newsreels.

[@teleguy5699]

@@yakovmatityahu Me? No, but I've been part of many wars in my career.

[@marcelsinky1652]

why do you have to say, you retired military, what does it bring to your commentary ? Is it because, you are retired military, you are allowed to appreciate it more than other people ? Your comment, saying you can imagine yourself been in the middle of WW2 is totaly stupid. Shame on you. You think it's funny ! Let's make a mess in your retard country and then wish it would be fun to be there during the conflict ... Killing civils, maybe your family, raping your mom, sisters, having to eat your dog because nothing to eat ... very retard thinking ... In Ukraine, people was eating them family because nothing to eat ... What a wish ...

[@harkmay]

thanks for your service sir.

[@teleguy5699]

@@harkmay You're welcome!

[@TheLobohobo]

No, one can’t!

[@coldwarsarge7592]

Thanks so much for sharing this and so many more incredible videos! As a history buff this is a nice treasure trove...keep uploadibg, please!

[@TonyCSilvaFilms]

I love how the person that filmed this did it knowing he was capturing history.

[@ludomirsteinbruck9376]

Of course

[@skepalet]

Yes, taped on camera, how the Americans take Nazis to Resorts.

[@realcritical-kr2dd]

@@skepalet wehrmacht*

[@Boooooooooo541]

@@realcritical-kr2dd You think the Wehrmacht where all saints?, did you look up what they did in Stalingrad and numerous cities, villages, across the USSR.

[@realcritical-kr2dd]

@@Boooooooooo541 Oh look, it's the cool guy 🥶, be careful everyone.

[@godfearingheathen]

Great quality footage but proper speed is 0.75.

[@rogerpattube]

They did look super-industrious!

[@mrmaje1]

Oh yeah..thanks!

[@vacuumelite2065]

good shout......much smoother. :-)

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Good call. Thanks.

[@gus2600]

Thank you for the tip. It made viewing much more enjoyable!

[@FriedrichKNobel]

Hessen 0:01 city of Bad Wildungen 2:25 village of Frankenau 5:32 Fritzlar AB Saxony Anhalt 9:48 City of Halle/Saale freight station and old Berliner Brücke 11:08 City of Halle/Saale Geiststraße

[@chronoshistory]

Thank you so much for this information about the places. Could you please explain how you did recognize Bad Wildungen, Fritzlar and Halle an der Saale? Thanks!

[@FriedrichKNobel]

​@@chronoshistory I like this detective work:-D Bad Wildungen was a bit difficult. The inner city and the boulevard with the trees looks different nowadays. But the streetsign "Edersee 13km" at 1:05 was a good hint which city it could be. The significant building "Löwen-Apotheke" at 1:41 still exists at the Main place. Fritzlar AB was the next airfield to Bad Wildungen. Quite flat countryside without a forest in that part of Hesse is uncommon. So it was obvious Fritzlar. Haale/Saale was not easy but the streetsign "Berlin 168km" was a good hint where it must approximately be. The architecture is inner german and not in the south or north. In the end at 9:59 the significant small tower in the background at the burning huge freight station with the four pinnacles that still exists nowadays and the bridge on the left was obvious Haale/Saale. The Geiststraße was the quite intact inner city of a german city with a tramway in 1945 only 168km from Berlin. Haale Saale is known being relatively spared. Which clips do you need help?

[@chronoshistory]

Thank you so much for the great explanations, @Friedrich K. Nobel ! This already helps us a lot!

[@willbass2869]

Thanks

[@stevek8829]

War stock footage is often abused in this way. I see the same footage illustrating wildly opposite situations.

[@RedStarRogue]

I'm in awe of how vibrant the kodachrome colours are. It's always a bit surreal to see such great looking colour film from WWII.

[@Jay-jq6bl]

The Wizard of Oz too

[@gcrav]

It's not Kodachrome, strictly speaking. The E-6 process was originated by the German company Agfa before the war and was a tightly held trade secret. Like so much other German prewar technology, the IP rights became spoils of war for a firm within the allied bloc (Kodak). Similar things happened with German audio technology (the tape recorder), and the Automotive IP of Daimler-Benz and BMW. My guess is that the original could be faded but digitally restored for modern video.

[@allentoyokawa9068]

colors***

[@selbstdenkergegenmsm3812]

@@gcrav danke für die Aufklärung

[@selbstdenkergegenmsmii1541]

na Hauptsache Sie achten auf die Technik anstatt auf die Gräueltaten den man den Deutschen angetan hat

[@battlestarone]

was talking to an old man who was a german pow at a camp near my town..they had a lot of freedom when here getting to go into local town etc..he got friendly with local scottish girl..married her after the war..lived in the usa till she died after being married over 50yrs..then returned home to germany..he knew everything about my town...lovely man.

[@woznotwos]

My wife's family knew a German pow , he worked on a nearby farm . He was an artist and would draw peoples portraits. My father in law had the guys self portrait once upon a time but its now with his brother in Ireland. He stayed in the uk for some time after the war but they eventually lost touch.

[@christianworthinton8000]

+emosh73 Enough said!

[@renataostertag6051]

Kindly - do NOT intermix POWs inside the USA with the camps (death camps) Eisenhauer erected INSIDE Germany AFTER the war !!!!!! Understood ?! Please - OMG !

[@georgschmidt4670]

Renata Ostertag: Is correct

[@someturkishguy8638]

Lucky guy, he actually didn't get executed in the first half hour.

[@elancrew9894]

I think common German soldiers were just happy to have made it out of WWII alive and looking forward to going home. Some of their expressions are (seemingly) of excitement rather than of defeat.

[@mackabeats]

The weren't when they were raping women, murdering and torturing people and burning down their houses. Oh no, it was all fun and games then. But when the boots on the other foot it's ...oh the common german soldier, just like you or I...fuck off.

[@jackangus4530]

Crowmack, you really ought to educate yourself instead of swallowing media hyped drivel and look at factual history from those from the axis side which were there.

[@rodjones117]

@@mackabeats My great Uncle Gustav, farmboy - army trucks came into the village, rounded up all the young men, there and then, and loaded them into the trucks. One month later he was on the front line in Stalingrad. Only escaped death because he got invalided out (when they still could) with frostbite-induced gangrene. Life is pretty much always more complex than people like you like to believe.

[@jarosawkorczynski4746]

@@TheRealShawnCrowe The Wehrmacht was equally responsible for war crimes committed on occupied territories as SS. Since day one to the last day.

[@etienneyitian]

@@jarosawkorczynski4746 yeah. And the winner forget their own wrong behavior. Allied soldiers did also murder, rape and all that bad things. There is always evil people who over use their power on weaker people, everywhere. Life and humanity isn't simple.

[@Wally-H]

You can't put a price on film like this, and big respect to those restoring them. As a social historian I find stuff like this fascinating, especially the fire in the marshalling yard and the use of Germans as a fire brigade.

[@tommiheuni2817]

This is the German fire brigade. She had exactly that uniform. In a village in Lusatia, the Russians shot the entire fire brigade because they thought it was SS.

[@НиколайК-к4р]

@@tommiheuni2817 Не мудрено перепутать.Развеж что они были без оружия.Командир расчета пожарной команды выглядит прям штандартенфюрером.Ибо ненависть была к ним ужасная,да и было за что ненавидеть.Ну хуже врага нет так это -предателя:-Власовцев с Бандеровцами этих в плен на Восточном фронте точно не брали!

[@charles_0017]

@@НиколайК-к4р there were many reports of Russian soldiers raping kids and women in Poland and Germany, these weren’t even enemy combatants, they were just civilians. They even shot their own Soviet prisoners of war they discovered in German concentration camps.

[@lesempecheursdepenserencer1418]

It was a Real german fite brigade and their duty to take out fire

[@alexanderdatebashvili2031]

@@НиколайК-к4р самый опасный враг это чекисты сталинцы , они купались в крови своего населения .

[@dampfunddiesel8020]

I had an uncle who had to serve in the Wehrmacht. He killed in action on March 27, 1945 at the age of 19 at Seelower Höhen. The war in Europe ended 6 weeks later. I never got to know him. My aunt named her son Walter after him. That was 75 years ago. Germany must never go to war again.

[@fujitofusan]

Dampf undDiesel no country should be at war. We need to learn from ww2

[@spacecatboy2962]

yeah but you never know, he might have been a dick. I had a uncle died right before i was born, and based on my relatives, he was probly a dick to

[@saschabrauning8313]

Hallo Ich kann leider nur wenig English Ich komme aus falkenhagen Das ist in der nähe von seelow noch heute findet man viele überreste des krieges Ist denn dein verwanter gefunden und Auf einem der soldatenfriedhöfe bestattet worden?

[@rothari1865]

ww2 was initiated by Allies, Germany did its best to avoid it.

[@Oscoe63]

@@rothari1865 LOL

[@tashalee4294]

Go to settings and play back at .75 - looks much better. Thanks for posting!

[@unknown_3301]

How wonderful to see this in color.

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

Triumph and misery. But looks like an almost friendly conquest, the sun shining all days long. But the winners and loosers all gone today.

[@lookchahshway5182]

@@rudolfkraffzick642 Time has no discrimination, it catches up with everybody.

[@Realkeepa]

Wonderfull???

[@australorps3066]

Its really wonderfull to see this because its of the city where i live in (its very small) and my great grandfahter must be in this video. i can relocate so many spots out of this video its just amazing.

[@kayaa1888]

Wow really?

[@karinlearned7150]

Great film clip. Somewhere in the crowd of German POWs is my father. He was on the Russian front, deserted and went looking for the 'Ammies', surrendered and was sent to Hessen. He, among others, was then sent to France to help rebuild damaged areas caused by the war and was released in 1947.

[@ВикторГриневич-ъ1к]

Повезло сжигал и убивал у нас а попал во Францию

[@blackbeard-wl6xt]

@@ВикторГриневич-ъ1к откуда такая информация, что он сжигал- убивал??? Он может водителем был. Например, мой дед, был и водителем и разгружал и охранял конвои из США с лендлизом и немцев в глаза не видел. Кроме лётчиков люфтваффе в небе ( и то только самолёты ).

[@lucius5208]

@@blackbeard-wl6xt no one was innocent

[@kotofey70]

Повезло, а вот коммуняки своих из одного лагеря в ругой направляли

[@ВикторГриневич-ъ1к]

@@kotofey70 ну на то они и камуняки

[@homersamson2635]

Awesome footage, many fascinating little insights and moments.

[@shanemcredmond9751]

what a fabulous piece of film, thanks for the upload

[@anemarie2984]

Shane McRedmond . Je

[@johnnieireland2057]

I just rented "The Spirit Of Liberation" from Vimo, because of this footage you posted. Thank You! Going to watch it now!!

[@spellchanger1169]

It's funny how back in the day when you filmed a stranger as they walked by they smiled, now if you film strangers in most cases they are going to rush you and scream at you to turn that camera off.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

Because cameras were a novelty back then. Now they're spying devices.

[@serendipitousconversations]

@@G-Mastah-Fash well said

[@adamadaam8375]

Different context. In our time peoples are so dangerous and toxic that you cant imagine what he is going to do with the videos.

[@spellchanger1169]

@@adamadaam8375 Yeah it is definitely different when, what are you going to do with the Footage? Project it on a wall? Opposed to uploaded to KZbin... lol.

[@adamadaam8375]

@@spellchanger1169 dude stop being so naive.

[@kazuyoshisakamoto4096]

I was very impressed with the valuable color images. Thank you for posting.

[@RicardoRMedina]

All filmed by George Stevens Sr., the Hollywood movie director.

[@kinocchio]

People dressed so well back in the day.

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

@pork n beans ok boomer

[@sven5206]

You should come to visit Germany these days - we don't only dress well but have cars as well :D

[@eldragon4076]

@@sven5206 naturally you are missing his point - whoooosh

[@captfalconXX]

@pork n beans LOL... Yeah, those saggy pants exposing their nasty butt cracks and boxer underwear.

[@eldragon4076]

@@nosferatuoddz7974 better than brainless millennial

[@WILTALK]

This area seems to be relatively intact. Most German towns in other area's were rubble after the war. Or perhaps this area was picked to film for precisely that reason.

[@A_annoying_rodent]

WILTALK eh frankfurt, wiesbaden and darmstadt were a wasteland and today wiesbaden and darmstadt were reconstructed into those classic 19th century style cities frankfurt was made a financial capital.

[@eduardoriveroTW]

Wiesbaden wasn't that damaged, only about 20% of the city was destroyed, which is a small toll, given the circumstances. Kassel, Frankfurt and Dramstadt were the biggest and most bombarded cities in Hessen, a very very sad thing. Frankfurt and Kassel in particular were medieval living monuments

[@A_annoying_rodent]

Eduardo Rivero I remember an older man telling me that you could see the flames of darmstadt miles away....

[@eduardoriveroTW]

Yea, that was a constant with big and medium cities in Germany, since their old towns had so many old wooden buildings, when the Brits bombed them they became a major bonfire

[@MrBigstick25]

WILTALK I’m sure it was American propaganda. Like you said the Allies pretty much fire bombed civilian towns with 0 military targets inside. A war crime that was never really talked about at the time.

[@DLWELD]

Amazing films. Beautifully restored. And no artificial dust and scratches that some folks add to give it a period "feel". Sure would like to see a few technical notes though - film type, 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, kodachrome, camera type if recorded.

[@rexracernj7696]

Facinating footage. Victors, and vanquished! Everyone here, winners and defeated, just seems happy & relieved the war is over.

[@connorgillespie9606]

put this to 0.75 speed and the movements seem significantly less jumpy and more realistic

[@xenagomez4017]

How do u do that??

[@rockiesecho8518]

you are so smart!:)

[@Ralphieboy]

It could also have been filmed at the wrong speed...cameras were not all that mechanically accurate back then

[@scottlarson1548]

@@Ralphieboy More likely they shot at a slower film speed to conserve film.

[@malines999]

Cars drives like 0.5 speed 😅😅😅

[@Flying_Tiger_enthusiast]

Starts in Bad Wildungen, from 2:23 to 5:31 POW collecting point near Frankenau 14 km east of Frankenberg (Eder), 5:32 to 9:46 maybe todays Heeresflugplatz Fritzlar (German Army Airfield Fritzlar), from 9:47 till end propably Halle (Saale) (Saxony-Anhalt). Director George Stevens (4:17) and the guy at 2:16 to 2:22 knew more.

[@stefanberger7493]

Fascinating pictures. Small town in the beginning up to 2:24 is Bad Wildungen. The film was taken in the Brunnenallee and Brunnenstrasse. Most of the buildings stil exist and have changed very little in the past 76 years.

[@scottmclennan6114]

There’s an Aussie with his slouch hat as one of the liberated POWs at about 7:15.

[@cyrosubod2317]

That man comes from north africa or either greece

[@repentorperish1405]

@@cyrosubod2317 : bronze Australian Military Forces 'Rising Sun' Crest (GSB) on the side of his slouch hat - he's one of ours, ..mate! 👍 Whoever he was, we hope his family were all pleased to see this digger return home, and hope he had a good life from there on, and we thank him, and his family for his service. LEST WE FORGET. Peter 🇦🇺

[@frostfrost8115]

What surprises me most is the quality of the camera. Could it be that the quality of the shooting during these years?

[@TheRaulr151]

Amazing footage!! Really brings it to life and the reality of it all. Thanks to the greatest generation!

[@blakeskidmore523]

Wow, you can feel the relief on all of these men. They survived. Life would carry on. Amazing footage.

[@almartin2138]

But didn't a huge of German troops end up dying in Eisenhower's death camps?

[@blakeskidmore523]

@@almartin2138 Nope. This is a myth pushed by one author that is not taken seriously by any historians and has been thoroughly debunked.

[@almartin2138]

@@blakeskidmore523 Oh really? Out of interest, who was the author? And why would someone lie about such a thing?

[@etienneyitian]

not that much, a lot of german prisonner of war died after the war from hunger and bad treatment

[@almartin2138]

@@blakeskidmore523 Hi Blake, shall corially ask you once again, could you be so kind as to inform me where one can go to find your assertions? Fanx in advance ; )

[@tomfu6210]

1:27 In right bottom corner a little angel appears

[@charlottesweb7202]

I seen that little angle appear and turn to look at the world around her xx

[@L1V2P9]

@@charlottesweb7202 She could still be alive today. Around 77-78 maybe.

[@seanmahoney2755]

Tom Fu thank you

[@Katrin-jj3mg]

The soldier in 4:24 breaks my heart, he looks so incredibly young and scared. Reminds me of my grandmother's brother, he went missing in Russia aged 20. My great-grandmother never got over it.

[@haizee2330]

Probably murdering Belarusian Jews.

[@Katrin-jj3mg]

@@haizee2330 Maybe he was just a boy being overwhelmed by the system with a mother who couldn't sleep at night with worry. Not all were war criminals.

[@haizee2330]

@@Katrin-jj3mg I was talking about your great uncle

[@Katrin-jj3mg]

@@haizee2330 just for your information...my great uncle was a boy who never wanted to be a soldier. on his last visit in 1944 he told my grandmother that he knew he would die if he had to go back to the front. He died in Russia and it broke my great-grandmother. Nobody can understand the circumstances anymore and that is also unnecessary. No one gets justice from it. A fate of many in many countries, but a tragedy for our family.

[@bubiruski8067]

@@haizee2330 Had not the Fnglish orchestrated this war no atrocities had happened. In the end the Fnglish declaration of war cost more than 60 mil lives !

[@crafter170]

Far too many fine European people killed on both sides during that dirty war .

[@ut000bs]

Agreed. That and a couple of Americans trying to free them.

[@crafter170]

@@ut000bs oops sorry about the Americans .Don't forget about the 26 million fine Russians.

[@tickysiasiluka68]

scott scot84 .You're ignorant.Germany invaded the USSR and killed millions and then Russians had to fight back. Stalin killed political opponents in the Gulags.

[@jphilology7357]

that was the plan

[@crafter170]

@@marka.1770 .Maybe they all remembered what a top guy Jssse Owwns was ??.?

[@neilmurray6943]

The guy smoking the pipe looks just like my late Dad's best friend Bill Alt. He was there and took lots of pictures. A Major in the Army Corp of Engineers. He had the best WW2 stories and pictures.

[@teresasalazarhernandez5877]

Me da gusto ke exista este tipo de vídeos en los ke se aprecian momentos ke nunca se podrán olvidar y se ven tan claros muy buen vídeo gracias saludos desde México

[@parowozy]

Germany should not exist for what they did

[@ASHTAR1958]

SALUDOS A AMLO

[@federalli169]

I'm amazed Bye these captured moments. Thank you for sharing

[@mpgsix]

The footage is very good. Wished there was a narration to go along with it.

[@stanlee2200]

there is narration from george stevens..its on youtube....well some of it is.

[@connecticutskier2]

I lost my only uncle in WW fighting Germany. He graduated from high school at 14 and a half, I think of the great life he should have had, he was the oldest of five and the only son and was an Army Air corpsman, most of his crew got out and were captured and returned. He was on a B-17 and my father was a Torretta Flier in 1944 on a B-24, the plane was the Ol 45, and he was lucky, did his fifty missions and his only job in the last year of the war was in Madison, WI giving out weekend passes to new recruits. He died in 2008 at 92 and might have been the last man left on the plane, and he did attend a few reunions in the 1990's. He had more common sense than anyone I have ever known.

[@happyversum8980]

Das letzte Stück des Films (min. ab 11:08 ) wurde nicht in Hessen gedreht: keine Stadt in Hessen ist nur 168km von Berlin entfernt. Was käme da in Frage? Der Film wurde wohl kurz nach Kriegsende aufgenommen. Zur der Zeit hatten die Amerikaner Gebiete bis zum linken Elbe-Ufer erobert und kurze Zeit auch besetzt gehalten. Es muss eine Stadt mit Straßenbahn gewesen sein. Hier kämen von der Entfernung her etwa Magdeburg, Leipzig oder Halle (Saale) in Frage. Da die Bilder keine größeren Zerstörungen zeigen, kommen Leipzig und Madgeburg (die große Zerstörungen hatten, die man sehen müsste) eher nicht in Frage. Auf den Berlin-Schild-Szene ist kurz der Schriftzug "Mignon Schokolade" zu erkennen. Die hatten ihren Sitz in Halle (Saale). Daher gehe ich davon aus, dass das Ende des Films Bilder von Halle (Saale) zeigen.

[@renataostertag6051]

Ja, ich glaube Sie liegen da richtig!

[@hanzheizer3028]

Oben schon gesagt das Hollywood nen guten job gemacht hat hahahaha

[@as680783]

Thanks very much for giving us some insight and facts about what we watching. As an Englishmen I hadn't a clue where any of it was filmed. Nice to see some parts of Germany were spared from the Allied onslaught.

[@paddybrennan3644]

Saxon Rascal As an Englishman why would you think that should a bomb the whole fucking lot

[@HenniMeansLove]

Zoltán Földi sowas wie dich hätte ich in kein Rettungsboot gelassen

[@tiredlawdog]

I got to ride in one of the C47s, What a magnificent plane. Noisy, rough, and just a course plane. It was a true work horse. Loved it.

[@sammieboy1159]

this is amazing... I feel so much more connected to what happened in ww2 now they don't look like people from another world

[@futureplanet6910]

?

[@snackxy]

Ich liebe solche überarbeiteten Aufnahmen alleine der "Kultur" unterschied im vergleich zu heute ist enorm

[@jule5234]

Unglaublich schön und sentimental,,bin 2 Jahre danach geboren

[@tomat6362]

A fortunate region, untouched by the war, and a precious time capsule.

[@reikimen]

European countries have been in war with each other over hundreds of years, and unfortunately it has never really stopped. Inocent people have died through the manipulation of their leaders who wanted more power and tried to extend their countries borders. The first World War and second World War are just a continuations of those nightmares that started centuries ago.

[@louisecoffey9843]

Thankfullly stopped now

[@Justin-lf1fs]

@@louisecoffey9843 it’s still happening now more than ever.

[@j777barbasiewicz]

"European countries have been in war" - you mean Norway, Switzerland, Estonia???

[@raikaoutdoorfan]

Tolle Aufnahmen direkt aus meiner Heimat!! Vielen Dank für dieses Video!!!! :D Great shots straight from my home !! Thank you for this video !!!! : D

[@normangraf4725]

Timecode 0:00 bis 2:30 Innenstadt/Downtown Bad Wildungen, 5:32 bis 9:46 Flugplatz Kassel-Waldau, der Rangierbahnhof könnte der in Kassel sein.

[@t.schafer5597]

Ab 3.53 war es kurz Frankenberg/Eder oder Frankenau...nahe Bad Wildungen...🤓

[@t.schafer5597]

Nicht Kassel waldau sondern allendorf/eder

[@danlaplume4942]

Very beautiful documentary ....the memory is here .

[@panika2810]

German unforms are a work of art...

[@corky1548]

and it was a gay person who made them

[@RicardoRMedina]

Hugo Boss?

[@savedemperor8024]

@@corky1548 nobody cares if he was a f** or not

[@bobbypaluga4346]

corky Where did you come upon that bit of misinformation? Boss was not gay, not that it matters

[@zachbocchino5501]

They truly are

[@t72driver56]

Well done.i like to watch and learn much more history.and also see the lifestyle of the world in the past.as I was iranian fighter and tank driver in the battle field war with Iraq 1980 to1988.thank you so much and hope to see much, much more like this.

[@drziske]

The sequenz at the beginning (1:20 and later ) are filmed in Bad Wildungen, which was the Headquarter of the Americans in Hessen. I grew up there and interestingly my father (born 1938) is seen in one part of the film

[@michaelbrown865]

I imagine the overwhelming emotion was relief, they had somehow survived.

[@watching99134]

More like anxiety about what the future would hold.

[@seanmahoney2755]

When we work together no matter what our differences. No force on earth can stop us, but us. Freedom is our drug. Fight fight fight to the death of it. For freedom is everything. It’s more precious now than ever.

[@VendPrekmurec]

Majority of them were still children, just look at that face: 4:20 , almost all of them are today already dead. RIP

[@marinazagrai1623]

That child would have shot at you were you by any chance in front of him!

[@Amus6]

The fanatical children, cruel and ruthless...we remember them from our occupied village.

[@marinazagrai1623]

@@Amus6 Imagine the propaganda at the time...the children only heard the news of all conquests, probably nothing demoralizing. Brainwashing has to start early in a child's life for complete immersion. I'm from the only country that was not occupied by the Nazis (it was under the German Crown since mid 19th century) and, for the adults, the Nazi ideology fit with the society at the time.

[@marinazagrai1623]

Don't worry too much about them...I saw an episode with interviews of former guards at a concentration camp, and this old man, by then, had absolutely no remorse for anything done to the people at that camp. He was so defiant (he wasn't defending his actions by saying "papa Adolf" made me do it) and, to tell the truth, disgusting.

[@traceygriffiths1526]

Not all German soldiers were like that.

[@jeromedavid7944]

By looks of the footage this little town didn't receive the full wrath of the Allies firepower. I was stationed in a town along the Main River in northern Bayern named Aschaffenburg. It wasn't so fortunate as it was practically leveled. However 25 Ks or so east down the Main River was the storybook medieval aged town of Miltenberg which had not a stone or board disturbed. The story was that a US fighter pilot escorting the B 17s spotted the exceptionally historic beauty and cultural value of the ancient walled city and talked the flight commander into not bombing it because of its lack of war making facilities. I was very luck to visit many German cities, towns, hamlets, and villages all having unique historic n cultural personalities.

[@romandirks6703]

The River is called Main

[@garboraaxo6401]

How nice to spare a town because of its architecture! Indiana Jones in real life! 😂

[@pacza_vacza]

you would not indulge in pistols and machine guns, or who would not bomb you

[@jeromedavid7944]

@@pacza_vacza That's a good question to ask Herr Putin in the Kermlin Comrade Troll!

[@pacza_vacza]

@@jeromedavid7944 Which country do you live in? Before Putin, there was also Garbachev and Yeltsin

[@paintdoctor5532]

This footage was from that town that was famous for the fast walkers..

[@ralphgeigner5497]

To have much of the German uniforms & equipment now, is of much value $ Excellent film.

[@martaparsons5633]

I remember Daddy in his Ike jacket. Amazing footage.

[@peter170805]

these scenes are from 1945, that is, 75 years ago. It gives food for thought, all those people you see there are dead today, and we were dead at that time, when they lived. In another 75 years, when many of us are dead, people who do not yet exist will see scenes from our time and say the same. life is crazy friends.

[@williamsimmons152]

Did you catch the gas pumps in the beginning? Standard oil.

[@daveschanz3588]

Joe Paul np

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Doesn't mean the fuel was supplied by them.

[@williamsimmons152]

@@snowflakemelter1172 right…it was supplied by BP.

[@mikemann2053]

Really interesting footage. Thank you.

[@thomasmarkt]

Die ersten zwei Minuten und zwanzig Sekunden zeigen Bad Wildungen.

[@renataostertag6051]

Danke fuer die Erklaerung Herr Markt!

[@judithsochor9755]

Thomas Markt

[@kevingumfory]

My family is from Hessen. We had been in america for 3 generations before the war. My Grandad was a staff sergeant in the red ball express. Wars should have to be fought by those who profit from war. Instead it us, fighting our families. You never seen a rich man on a front line. I really enjoyed this video. It made me wonder if I had looked at a cousin or an uncle. It made me wish I still spoke my predecessors language. It made me miss my Grandma and Grandpa. I love you all and I suspect we are all cousins or aunts and uncles if we go back far enough. I call no man my enemy.

[@bobcuster8930]

Incredible Footage of Germany in 1945...

[@sayyer10]

Amazing how the world was fast progressing into modernisation back then. If only the world leaders would have a shred of common sense to resolve conflict, unite and work together, instead of going to war - the world would be a much, much better place today.

[@marycrist8419]

Unfortunately you can't reason with a bully, that being Hitler, Mussolini, & Tojo. They understand one thing: brute force.

[@johnbondza]

Great video! Thanks 4 observations 1. The typical German soldered seem happy to be going home. The SS look frightened 2. The majority of the trucks were German. All Opel (G.M.) or Ford of Germany. Did the USA supply both sides? 3. Between 13 and 17 Allied soldiers and kit per C47/DC airoplane. Most of the planes were very overloaded. 4. The General public were generally smiling. Was this for the camera or were they relieved

[@nikolaredcorner2075]

Probably they were happy that war is over and they were survived

[@johnbondza]

@Maxim Ghost Ouch Maxim. Particularly those few German soldered returning from the east (Kursk) and the civilians who were beaten up...

[@toatatoa]

Ford was an ardent antisemite and Hiter kept a portrait of Ford in his office. US capitalists sponsored H.'s and the Nazi Party's rise to power. So, Yes Ford and General Motors both did supply their German branches. The German Opel Blitz Trucks used to invade Poland had GM engines.

[@иванепифан-к8ж]

@@toatatoa Not quite so ,fascism was started by local German Industrialists and financiers, (all sorts of Krupp, IG Farben two banks Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, Siemens and others ) naturally, not without the help of the financial world from the USA and England (and many other similar "friends") from Europe. Of course, they hoped for the victory of the Nazis (until they began to threaten them, threaten national security). But the first fault lies with the German financial and industrial sector. There is no "Entente Cordiale" will not work. "It's just business - nothing personal" to the credit of America, we can say that it did not descend to Nazism (and the prerequisites were), for which we thank the Roosevelt team. Churchill was also an ardent anti-Communist, but great Britain did not become a fascist state..

[@toatatoa]

@@иванепифан-к8ж i smell an ardent anti-germanist. Fascism was invented in Italy. But yea, I see you enjoy hating on and blaming Germany. Again: without the exhorbitant reparations imposed on Germany by the British, Germany night have drifted towards communism in the '20. It was US Business Banksters from Wall Street, (UBC: Prescott Bush, Walker, Hariman, but also Ford and General Mitors) wanting to protect their investments in Germany. That funded the Nazis with the help of Thyssen, who an industrialust himself, smelled profits but later turned against the nazis and ended up in a concentration camp himself.

[@jimoneverything621]

The added audio of a film projector is silly.

[@RusslandTV]

wo ist eigentlich in Hessen der Ort, von dem aus es nach Berlin nur 168 km ist?

[@soists2558]

@Russki Vielleicht ist das ein Fernhinweis auf die 168 Kilometer entfernte Autobahn (gar so viel gab es ja noch nicht), die dann nach Berlin führt. Aber das ist Spekulation. Ja, wenn man einen Straßenatlas von 1945 hätte ...

[@swarthyjake4433]

der oder eider umphf phumf fahten .

[@e30325ikiller]

nirgends

[@krimsk0]

Halle

[@marcop4508]

@@swarthyjake4433 Fubar! ;-)

[@СергейМасленников-я1ч]

Спасибо за съёмку 👍

[@НикитаЛитовский-ъ8щ]

Ура нашел

[@СергейМасленников-я1ч]

@@НикитаЛитовский-ъ8щ Да, русскоязычных мало под этим видео.

[@kinglion6193]

Я чë то не понял,это немецкие пленные под конвоем американцев,или нет?

[@juliosunga3530]

they are all smiling. must have have felt like a winner surrendering to the americans as opposed to the russians

[@Topvidi]

no, must have felt like war is over, finally.

[@DocFischer]

Americans killed over a Million German POWs in the Rheinwiesenlagern alone... so no reason to feel grand about it

[@egolf5089]

now they surrendered to the Muslims

[@CaptainHightop]

@@DocFischer You are woefully mis-informed. Go read some actual history and documentation. Even German sources only site between 3,000 and 6,000 deaths of prisoners in the Rheinwiesenlagern (PWTEs), and considering that almost 1 million German prisoners were held in those camps between April and September 1945; 6,000 deaths is quite low.

[@DocFischer]

@@CaptainHightop manipulated german sources maybe, you are the one misinformed I dare to say... history is written by the winners

[@traingirl4715]

I ' be always wondered how they colour these B&W movies... amazing

[@martinmole6159]

Am Anfang der Ort könnte Bad Wildungen sein. Ist ja in der Nähe vom Edersee und gehört zum Landkreis Waldeck-Falkenberg. Ich war 2014 dort zur Reha gewesen.

[@SirBolle93]

Es handelt sich in der Tat um Bad Wildungen hier ein Vergleichsfoto (1min Googlesuche) picclick.de/Ak-Bad-Wildungen-in-Nordhessen-Hotel-Bayerischer-Hof-332010792427.html

[@caramail863]

Vielen Dank für diesen Hinweis. Aber um welche Stadt handelt es sich am Schluss des Films ? Zu sehen ist ein grosses Rangiergelände. Da würde mir nur Kassel oder Frankfurt einfallen. Seltsamerweise ist ein Schild mit der Aufschrift "Berlin 168 Km" zu sehen. Keine hessische Stadt liegt so nah an Berlin.

[@soists2558]

@Cara Mail: Berlin? Darüber habe ich mich auch gewundert und mir die Szene noch einmal angeschaut. Leider gibt es a dieser Stelle noch eine Einblendung. Vielleicht ist das ein Fernhinweis auf die 168 Kilometer entfernte Autobahn (gar so viel gab es ja noch nicht), die dann nach Berlin führt. Aber das ist Spekulation. Ja, wenn man einen Straßenatlas von 1945 hätte ... Wohl eher Kassel. Interessant ist, dass es offenbar ein Feuer und Explosionen (von Munition?) gibt und dass dann deutsche Feuerwehrleute (quasi mit dem Wehrmachtsstahlhelm auf den Köpfen) mit den Amerikanern zusammen die Schläuche auslegen und löschen. In der DDR wurde in solchen Fällen bis zum Schluss alles durch die Russen abgesperrt und dann streng geheim abgewickelt.

[@happyversum8980]

Das Ende zeigt sehr wahrscheinlich die Stadt Halle (Saale) in Sachsen-Anhalt. Das Gebiet war damals von den Amerikanern besetzt gewesen.

[@geraldgrages4605]

Moms side is from Hessen Nassau.Thank you.

[@Воля-х4д]

Исторические кадры --- 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Спасибо 😊 за хороший исторический видеоролик.

[@abubakarabu9215]

Живут же всё токи немцы лучше

[@ale-ksej]

@@blackbird7213 И миллиони мирних и невинно замучених в стенах НКВД

[@ale-ksej]

@@abubakarabu9215 Менталитет совсем противоположний, плюс законопослушность у немцев!Закон и для всех а только не чинов,судей,депутатов,ментов...

[@invisible_hulahoop]

@@ale-ksej дохуйлионы, ага

[@Елена-б6н9я]

@@ale-ksej хватит сказки сочинять про Н К В Д. Даже либеральные историки приводят цифры из статистических документов. За период с 1922 по 1954 год (за 32 года Советской власти) приговорены к смертной казни менее 700 тыс. преступников.

[@at08PM]

At 5:24 you still find the Position in the Village. The buildings allmost are still the same today. Just a litle Woods are now growing there.

[@gutzzgutzz6795]

Im surprised people still had horses seeing how the wehrmacht sequestered all available horses to the Eastern front.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

I’d assume that if they owned so many horses that they’d only take so many or more likely they took the young and healthy ones and left a mare and a stud for breeding purposes

[@gutzzgutzz6795]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Yeah maybe ur right. There is some very sad stories of peoples older barn horses they absolutely adored and pamperd being sent to the east to slave for the wehrmacht in -50 F weather and dying in awful conditions. Not just humans suffered animals also suffered horrendously. War is awful.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

@@gutzzgutzz6795 yep, same can be said for ships as well, all those beautiful ocean liner vessels being commandeered and then stripped for service and then later sunk in combat. I would hope that there was some form of reparations paid by the new German government or by the joint allied command

[@sbjov65]

Thats wrong

[@KR-jt4ut]

they stole horses all over Europe, not in their own country ....

[@Архангельскийблог]

Очень достойно союзники отнеслись к пленным.Видимо не сильно была злость и чувство мести .Еще на машинах пленных возят... пешком должны были идти.Но дела прошлые, земля им пухом.Этим немцам повезло что союзникам успели сдаться ...не дожидаясь когда с востока придут те, кого они верломно пытались захватить, еще совсем не давно

[@xeniabauer9757]

очень достойно ,"американские освободители" несколько миллионов немецких солдат застрелили и заморили голодом в лагерях на своей же родине в Германии,это тщательно скрывается по сей день

[@pepegonzalez8549]

фашики= сталинсты. Вероломство - это значит кто первый кого вероломнул.

[@ВоваВист-э4ъ]

@@pepegonzalez8549 Хорошо. Где советский план "Барбаросса" и "Ост".

[@prosto4ok272]

@@xeniabauer9757 Нет Ксюша справедливости на Земле!!

[@paranoidandroid6095]

Быть может за стеною Эльбы укроюсь от твоих пашей, от их всевидящего глаза, от их всеслышащих ушей

[@lunawender4]

Tirando a questão da Guerra é fantástico assistir imagens quase centenárias é algo surreal.

[@1518karen]

In Newark New York, a small village near Rochester, there was a German Prisoner of War camp. It existed to supply labor to canning factories and the like. When the war ended many were not in a hurry to go home.. Years later, some former prisoners visited Newark and the people who treated them so well.

[@jr13227]

11:09 even in defeat still marched perfectly

[@tbltbldada2206]

Check soviet . Marched

[@sven5206]

Once learned, cannot be unlearned :D

[@FightingSportsMedia]

Notice how you said defeat?

[@owen225]

Perfect?

[@tommiheuni2817]

Never been in the military? This is not a parade, this is a marching column. It's not a show, so troops can travel miles without chaos.

[@thomasschuler9206]

Super toller Film ! Ich möchte mal wissen wieviel Filme da in Amerika auf Dachböden dahinschmoren!

[@renataostertag6051]

Das moechte ich auch wissen Herr Schueler. Sorry, mein Computer hat leider keine Umlaute, so dass ich ein "e" anfuegen muss.

[@mr.germany8653]

Thomas Schüler ich bin mir so sicher das die Allierten so viele Filme und Dokumente die eine komplette Änderung der Geschichte behinhalten geheimhalten oder schon vernichtet haben .... Die Welt muss endlich die Wahrheit erfahren

[@georgerare]

Спасибо за кадры!

[@ytrew9717]

why are so many russians interested about those movies? Do many russians talk about this time, what they say? I'm very curious.

[@georgerare]

@@ytrew9717 I don’t know for others, it was very interesting to me before

[@ytrew9717]

@@georgerare sorry but could please explain why: what do you find so interesting? (You can write russian, google will translate).

[@k.m.6107]

@@ytrew9717 are you serious? You really don’t understand WHY???

[@serhius555]

@@ytrew9717 Не верю что вы не понимаете почему русский сказал спасибо за эти кадры. Извиняюсь,но я вам вопросом на вопрос отвечу - почему с мая 1945 в Берлине над Рейхстагом развивался советский флаг и стены Рейхстага были исписаны победными лозунгами в основном на русском языке? И на улицах Берлина висели плакаты с Сталиным и развивались советские флаги,почему? Почитайте историю, посмотрите архивные видео что творили фашисты на советской земле.Узнайте какой ценой досталась победа над фашизмом советскому народу.У меня по отцовской линии почти всю семью в селе фашисты расстреляли. Спаслись чудом только бабушка (мама отца ) и её сестра.По материной линии бабушка блокаду Ленинграда пережила. А вы спрашиваете почему эти кадры интересны русским. Историю изучайте что бы не задавать таких глупых вопросов. PS. 2:24 Жаль что этих фашистов из видео в плен американцы взяли а не советские солдаты . Очень жаль.

[@YKYFMYR]

With the KZbin Custom Speed Extension for Google Chrome you can adjust this video speed to 0.6x playback speed which I think reflects the actual speed they were moving at when the video was recorded.

[@timp3931]

At 8:00 the liberated prisoners wearing maroon berets may be 1st Airborne Division captured at Arnhem.

[@Whitesuk]

Are they not just Para's waiting to get on Transports back to the UK?

[@janinalaura22]

Frankenau, my Hometown

[@Oscoe63]

👍 I bet it's grown a lot bigger since 1945 !

[@Virtus-kk2nh]

Низкий поклон нашим отцам, дедам, прадедам

[@vetal215]

Кто, из запечатленных на записи, ваш дед?

[@РемпейджДжексон]

т.е подстилкам Сталина, могу обосновать если что, почему они подстилки

[@bobam8927]

@@vetal215 В комуфляже который;-)

[@ЛидаМордовцева-г9л]

Им ничего не остовалось,выбора небыло, диктат, такой ,как в корее туда сюда растреш тли лагерь ,

[@aniaz1100]

Wasi dziadkowie i pradziadkowie 17.09.1939 roku napadli na Polske 🇵🇱 Pokłon należy się Polsce.Wpierw Faszysci niemieccy 01.09.1939 roku potem Rosja ZSRR Chciałbym wiedzieć czy uczą Was o tym w szkołach.Historia się powtarza znów Rosja napadła na Ukraine. Wasz kraj lubi zabijać i niszczyć inne kraje.

[@vladvlas9820]

Мої вітання з Калгарі (Канада). Це ж і мій дід разом із побратимами витримав все це, та дав життя всіеі нашоі родині. Помятаемо тебе дідусь ! Слава Канаді !

[@vlabimirdrobyshev2983]

Браток !Против фашисткой Германии ,героическио сражался советский народ, Красная армия в которой были сотни национальностей СССР . Но и тысячи людей мира , не желавшие жить и терпеть Геноцид и ЯрМо озверевшую свору. Слава! советскому солдату ! Слава нашим Союзникам! Вечная память не вернувшимся с полей войны🇷🇺✌️

[@ludmilamuahka6113]

@@vlabimirdrobyshev2983 И сюда затесались самостийныкы. Особенно из КанадЫ Везде сунут свой поганый рот. даже в этой смертельно войне.

[@JohnSmith-fy1tt]

I'ts just me, or those surrending german soldier are skinner than NK ones ? It looks that they didn't eat much in the months before surrending.

[@WILTALK]

No one in Germany ate very much towards the end of the war. In some cases the Allied POW's who received packages via the red cross ate better than the German civilians.

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

WILTALK didn't mean that that allied rations were nice either

[@PMMagro]

I noticed too! Poor bastards.

[@edwardbeaven7222]

If I were starving to death, I'll bet those rations were delicious.

[@roberthaworth9097]

But the column marching at 11:15 all have intact uniforms and good boots/shoes -- a rarity. Elsewhere in this thread it says they were rear-echelon types -- e.g. strategic supply, communications, medical department, etc. -- this tracks with the observation. You know, pervasive hunger among German troops helped stall their final offensive back in Spring 1918. Driving toward Paris, when they hit a relatively unmolested town they'd spontaneously fall out to loot. Officers couldn't budge them from the cellars, cheese shops, taverns, etc. they'd holed-up in, and were often threatened by soldier gangs if they tried. Those were 17-19 y.o. young men who'd been on short rations (including as civilians) since they were about 15, and for them it was "eat or die." Discipline broke down -- when had it held, they might actually have won, b/c the French were on their last legs too, for other reasons. At the very end of the war (ca. 6 Nov.), the German General Staff told the Kaiser that, due to both the food shortage and pervasive socialist-inspired peace agitation at the front, the German Army in the West had but another two weeks' ability to resist -- therefore, an immediate armistice was essential. They could assure the Army would hold together until one could be worked out, but not a day longer.

[@svetlanasemuhina7061]

🌐...Благодарю... Уникальные кадры...)))...!

[@александр-х8з2х]

Очень не плохо !

[@robertbriestensky7986]

WW2 was stupid.. lot of our Europeans died for nothing.. the defenders of Europe was defeat.. My grandfather fight also in eastern front in Slovakian "Blitz Division" againts Soviets.. I as European im very sorry for all killed brave men on Russia side and all destroyed cities in Soviet Russia.. Its our fault. And i hope our heroes of Europe from Wehrmacht,Hungarian army, Slovakian army, Romanian army etc.. rest in peace.

[@mr.irumisan2800]

What month this is? Is it before or after end war?

[@АнтонОнишков-ь3л]

sound of a movie projector . perfect!

[@fareastde]

Top- Aufnahmen in einer phantastischen Qualität. Mein Vater hat in den 80er Jahren in Frankenau- Ellershausen gewohnt. Auf unserem Grundstück befand sich ein Brunnen, in den vorbeiziehende Wehrmachtsangehörige im Frühjahr ´45 ihre Waffen hineingeworfen haben sollen. Als damals noch junger Spund wollte ich dort immer mal "Grabungen" durchführen. Mir wurde damals gesagt: "Junge, laß es, dort könnte noch scharfe Munition drin sein !" Der Brunnen blieb verschlossen.

[@soists2558]

Schade. Gibt's den noch? Wahrschein steht ein Neubau drauf.

[@fareast_de]

@@soists2558 War ziemlich in der Dorfmitte von Ellershausen. Relativ kleines Grundstück, auf dem sich das ehemalige dörfliche Backhaus befunden hatte. Die Liegenschaft sollte auch heute noch existieren, in welcher Form, entzieht sich meiner Kenntnis.

[@JonnyJenkins]

Sehr schönes Video, war mit meinen Großeltern als Kind immer am edersee.

[@kmorris180]

Good footage. Everytime I see films like this from the war, I look for familiar faces of those I knew who served on either side.

[@woodybear8298]

I'd love to see pictures of that town as it is today. Looks like it survived the war in good shape.

[@andrewkitchenuk]

Should have been bombed flat, the same as they did to so many towns in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@ge1162]

looks like that city/town got off lucky...don't see bomb damage

[@everforward8651]

I noted that as well--and the people seemed well-fed and well-dressed. I guess not all German municipalities suffered destruction.

[@georgschmidt4670]

True many small towns were not bombed.

[@ChuckAmuck123]

Small towns were normally not bombed. But nearly every major city (the city centre for sure) in hessen was bombed and destroyed. The scars of WWII are visible in Frankfurt, Hanau, Offenbach or Darmstadt for example. The cityscape is dominated by buildings from the 1950th or 1960th (not really nice). I live in Darmstadt. Darmstadt was bombed on september 11th 1944. It had a population of about 110.000 that time. Around 11.000 citizens lost their lives that night. 60.000 lost their homes. Over 90% of the city was destroyed. I just talked to an old lady who lived in a village just 12km from Darmstadt. She saw the bombing as a young girl from a distance. She told me that the ground was shaking and she could see and even "hear" the fire. Just a couple of hours before the bombing she said goodbye to a family friend which went to Darmstadt. That friend died that night.

[@christianworthinton8000]

+ChuckAmuck123 You blitz London, we firebomb Hamburg, Berlin etc. The Nazis were stupid as fk if they didn't expect repercussions.

Well he may have been smart but he was a fool and a terrible military leader.

[@YaltaAngel]

У них тогда даже было на улицах лучше, чем у нас сейчас

[@ale-ksej]

Обично при диктатуре и культе одной личности чистота и порядок везде!Только касатся цивилизоваих и законопослушних наций!

[@АидаМулюкова-т5ц]

Возьми веник и подмети, тоже будет чисто. Чисто не там где убирают, а там, где не сорят

[@tobilinooo]

First two and a half minutes is in Bad Wildungen.