How The Final Week Of WW2 Unfolded | VE Day In Colour | Real History

On the 8th May 1945, Europe breathed a sigh of relief as 7 bloody years of WW2 drew to a close. This documentary takes a look at the events that took place on the historic final week leading up to VE Day with newly colorized archive footage.
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[@johndoe-od6ge]

my father was drafted following pearl harbor. I miss my father so much !!!

[@SharonBook]

Why are you blurring half of this?? Come on, really!!!!!

[@1954shadow]

YT will red flag it and take it down, I know, happened to me for just a couple of pics from the sixties where the YT bots said it was a violent image.

[@williamlarochelle6833]

What is the point of showing obscured images? Show them as they truly are or not at all.

[@kennycloudhead6232]

Because of stupid youtube

[@emess3580]

The fact that you blurred some images was very disappointing

[@DSS-jj2cw]

I had four uncles over in the Western front and my father was in the Pacific. One of my uncles toured a concentration camp.

[@markcummings1319]

whats with the blurry screen?

[@annettehadley9718]

My Husband delivered gunnery equipment to the british army in the 1980's... and actually delivered to the former ss barracks of Bergen Belsen.... and to this Day we still wishes he hadnt gone down to the cconsentration camp which was 1 km down the road !

[@Mike-jw4xh]

Shame shame for blurring the important scenes! Our class in school stopped watching as soon as the first couple scenes popped up....we are mature enough to see the TRUTH and refuse to be censured like this! Sad, otherwise seems a good documentary

[@Chriskros1984]

Come on no censor !!! Its like ignoring the truth/victims

[@IambecauseIhavetobe]

When my father was 6 years old hisl village was carpet bombed by the Americans 6000 people lost their lives still to this day we can't find out any records of who we are because the churches were bombed . Benito Mussolini paid people who gave birth to a son Benito. Zadar was occupied by the Italians and annexed by Hitler. My father was Italian and was sent to Ireland as a refugee by the Italian Catholic Church fearing his name Benito could have repercussions as the Croatians were coming back to their own country. My father never returned for 43 years he never found out his relatives or the history of our name. I researched our name because it's unique my father tried to do this several times but he failed. Then to my amazement I found our name . On the currency of a coin.also a statue of this man. This man became famous because he invented double entry to accountancy. His name was Cotrugli. R,I.P dad

[@raymundoo6768]

Nice blurry video. Just spellbinding. I’ll watch something else.

[@Nrustica]

September 2 1945

[@rafalganowicz1939]

From what my great uncles saw and lived through, there was no such thing as a "good" german.

[@jeffnichols7834]

They that be not judged on this earth shall surely be judged by God himself. No soul living or dead will be free from judgment. All will be judged. May those receive justice who were wronged

[@Stevesautopartsify]

The point is to show history so we don't repeat it!!!

[@stephengreen8206]

another 'edited video' of war..?

[@Chriskros1984]

Blur history channel

[@Austin8thGenTexan]

Blurred history... 🥀