Kreis Fulda | 1945 und ich | Archivmaterial

[@shirleybalinski4535]

My Dad ended up in Fulda as member of US forces. You have to feel sorry for all these prisoners as most met death in Russia. Didn't matter whether Russian or German.

[@davidweston6653]

They did not look happy, even after being liberated. My thanks for your fathers service. Must have been a rough time

[@inthgghvg680]

@@davidweston6653 A lot tried to flee and hide in Germany. Especially the ones who had to work at farms where they lived with the german peasants from whom they were normally treated decently. But when the British or Americans got them they handed them over to the red Politkimissars (russian polit officiers) and that meant fast or slow death (Siberia). Even though the Brits and Americans knew exactly what would happen to those poor folks..

[@davidweston6653]

@@inthgghvg680 Tks for the info. Probably trying to keep the Russian “Allies” happy. Doesn’t sound like one of our better moments

[@huzary1092]

@@inthgghvg680 ............Please change the word Especially in "only" . The Russians prisoners of war who had to work in camps or cities were not that lucky. Hundred of thousands died of starvation. My father was a political prisoner of the Nazi's because he gave on a regular basis Bread to Russians prisoners. And yes, those who lived after the war, were sent to Siberia by Stalin. He saw them as traitors.

[@patrickt6642]

I think stalin had returned pows executed for being cowards.if these were the Russians that fought for Germany they were executed for being traitors.

[@RoffGaming]

Krass sein eigenes Dorf so zu sehen (Morles) wohne dort zwar nicht mehr aber die Straße vom Hofbieberer Wald runter nach Morles. Sieht man heute noch extremst gut. Okay heute ist er Asphaltiert. Auch die Nüst mal ohne Mauer zu sehen sie floß damals einfach durch. Ein paar Häuser stehen heute noch dort.

[@Menzimuckeli]

Kenne das Dorf zwar nicht, aber der Anblick dieses kleinen unverbauten Flusses, der durch es hindurchfliesst, erwaermte mein Herz.

[@GerhardSchnaubach]

Schade das es keine bewegten Aufnahmen aus Fulda direkt gibt. Suche schon seit Jahren nach allem, was ich darüber finden kann

[@TiNkA_belle]

Es gab doch Bilder,als sie den Uniplatz erneuert hatten. Da hingen überall am Absperrungszaun um die Baustelle Bilder wie Fulda zu früheren Zeiten ausgesehen hat. War mega interessant 😉

[@bobybarra3096]

Danke

[@wkb373]

At 1:12, GI seems to be making use of a captured canteen.

[@luzziann1524]

Yesterday a Bomb squad defused a 125 kg bomb at a small hill nearby Fulda,about 750 meters from my Home and they had to blow up another one, same size ,because it was to dangerous to defuse it.They had been dropped by the Americans during the war and didn't explode and in the past few month a spezial Unit found hundrets of granades and smaller bombs at the same area. So we all still have to deal with the consequenses

[@dadabaduba4541]

Exactly on Veterans Day 2021

[@harrycurrie9664]

Looked to me to all be Soviet POWs, the different marching styles separated the nationalities. Very interesting.

[@jameskennedy721]

The town is pretty far from Berlin . The camp looks like a work camp , but the prisoners might disagree .

[@redtobertshateshandles]

I commented but deleted it. What do you say, Russian prisoners, imprisoned again by Stalin. Not to mention the German prisoners in Russia. Democracy has some faults but better than the alternatives.

[@huzary1092]

+@Red Toberts.............If you want to mention the German prisoners, I will mention the hundred of thousands Polish soldiers, who fought on the Russian side against the Nazi's. All were sent to Siberia. Only a few dozen came back. There fore thousands of Polish soldiers who fought on the side of the allies, did not go back to Poland. Ten's of thousands stayed in the Netherlands and Belgium. Those who lived long enough could visit their family's, for the first time, in the beginning of the 1990's when Poland was a democracy again.

[@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885]

Millions of young fates because of a few sick people around the globe.....

[@mdmarko]

Sadly, the vast majority of the returned Soviet POWs were either immediately executed or sent to the GULAG. A few may have been allowed to live and work on collective/state farms.

[@mariodelgado9729]

That is so correct, they were branded as traitors under Order No. 270 by Stalin.

[@conceptalfa]

Geeee, what a faith, horrible, after what they have gone through.....who can do something like that....

[@dukewellington3174]

Same for the German POW's returned to Soviet occupied areas of Germany

[@munztho]

Mein Vater hat mal erwähnt, dass er bei der Verteidigung von Hünfeld dabei war. Leider lebt er schon länger nicht mehr und ich weiß auch sonst keine Details.

[@c.g.b.6307]

Wir haben damals nur den Krieg verloren, aber heute verlieren wir unsere Heimat

[@joz.7909]

Ja leider...es ist traurig aber wahr..

[@halitronik7379]

Ach so, leider den Krieg verloren? NS-Regime wäre lieber und die Vollendung des Holocausts oder wie? Was ist das denn für ne Aussage?

[@ws13bf]

Da sieht man mal, was Männer für eine Sch🥚sse bauen können!

[@qwe1qwe2-j2t]

I don't understand what you're saying, that you're losing your country. Can you explain more?

[@HvH909]

@@qwe1qwe2-j2t Where have you been? Living under a rock?

[@schlirf]

Ganz toll.

[@SGR47]

Смотреть на эти лица и больно, и сладко. Спасибо судьбе, была в их жизни эта великая минута торжества и успокоения. Also, common assumption of the fate of these people grossly distorted. Vast majority of them was released in a few month to the relatives

[@dukewellington3174]

Not true returned Soviet POW's were either executed or worked to death in Gulags as Stalin deemed them as Traitors

[@SGR47]

@@dukewellington3174 My dad ended up the war in 1944 in city of Brest on the Soviet-Poland border. His army regiment became a part of border protection, and he, as a doctor, was responsible for medical check-up of returning soviet nationals (tuberculosis, syphilis, so on). And he knew the future destination of all these folks. My knowledge comes from his war recollections.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Repatriation it was called. In southern Germany & Austria, where most of these camps were, large scale riots broke out that had to be quelled by soldiers, when prisoner exchanges took place. POWS were forced onto trucks forcibly to be turned over. Civilians did the same thing. Many committed suicide. It was a mess in these camps concerning DP's, POWs & civilians of eastern European heritage. The American public was kept in the dark about any of this due to adverse publicity of our Soviet allies! Even today it is a touchy subject..,not known & swept under the rug.

[@robertfraser4994]

Interesting to see that these Soviet POWs seem healthy and well fed. Possibly even had a Camp Orchestra? From what Solzhenitsyn writes, I think they may soon have less to eat in the GuLag.

[@ws13bf]

Ist bekannt, wo das Lager genau war?

[@gudrunschaefer6108]

Am Hause meiner Grosseltern vorbei 😮

[@qwe1qwe2-j2t]

Why is there no comment on the video?are they German prisoners

[@freddy-fq2fp]

Those are all Soviet POW's. Stalin was unkind to his own who "allowed" themselves to be captured by Germany. Their fat after "liberation" was most likely very ugly.

[@pascualabarca3822]

Nunca nos habían mostrado a los heroicos soldados rusos gloria a esos patriotas que liberaron a pueblos oprimidos

[@vecihebym]

😥😥

[@sierra2000i]

Kołyma i Syberia czekała ! Ciekawe ilu ich przeżyło ?

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Poor SOB'S . WONDER HOW MANY LIVED OR EVER MADE IT HOME. THET KNEW. IT IS WRITTEN ON THEIR FACES.

[@enginca]

I see a Cossack hat being worn.

[@adilsonten]

Bom documentário.

[@pikeywyatt]

ALL displaced and going no where.

[@harrycurrie9664]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire perhaps.

[@tonyhoward1735]

So very sad

[@POLMAZURKA]

get lip-readers for these films...that would be interesting.............................

[@DeniatitadenCompostela]

Forest Gump's father: We went for real nice walks in Germany looking for a guy named Adolf. "Adolf where are you!" Joking apart the M1 Garand looks like a real rifle. TBH in my opinion superior they actually won wars with it.

[@francoisreynaldo1843]

Drôle de montage. Zoom et zoom de zoom.

[@константинсмирнов-щ9э2д]

из одного кошмара в другой

[@СергейСтарый-з2з]

мой дед вернулся из плена в 46 году ! прошел проверку и домой !

[@bubiruski8067]

0:15 fat guys approaching

[@domenicozagari2443]

Germans did not kill prisoners.

[@danilorainone406]

Kolorierung würde diesem alten, aber recht lebendigen Schwarzweißfilm viel hinzufügen

[@monikajurgens8754]

Farbcolorisierung verfälscht historisches Material. Schon die WKI-Aufnahmen sind haben eklig unnatürliche Farben bekommen.

[@Menzimuckeli]

Voellig unnoetig - hier geht es um Ausdruck, und der kommt besser in Schwarz-Weiss rueber.

[@elisabethschweitzer817]

🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@anny0704]

Ich die aus fulda ist

[@MrBurtur]

4.00 Russians

[@williamwilson1972]

Thanks to good old Uncle Sam, the Germans were let off with reparation payments before WW2 began (wonder what they spent the money on, eh?) and they got off lightly again after WW2 due to US's dislike of communism. Germany should have been handed over lock stock and barrell to the USSR after WW2, that woud have taught the Germans a lesson they would still be learning to this day.

[@JRCinKY]

The Americans were on the wrong side. They should have learned the Germans and destroyed the Soviet army.

[@williamwilson1972]

@@JRCinKY "Learned the Germans"? What language is that? Germany seems to be the ancestral homeland of the largest group of US citizens. US has a lot in common with the Germans - arrogance being top of the list.

[@JRCinKY]

Spell correction changed my comment. I SAID the US Army should have Re Armed the Germans

[@williamwilson1972]

@@JRCinKY Why? Think of how many of Americans were killed by the Germans during WW1 and WW2 not to ention the atrocities carried out by them against the Jewish populations of the countries they invaded and in Germany itself. How many Americans were killed by Russia / the USSR during WW1 and WW2?

[@renatebaumgartner2921]

William Wilson: The Germans did not get off lightly at all. Their entire country was turned into a heap of ruble; few cities and towns were spared. They lost about a third of their land in the east to the Poles. The rest of the country was divided into east and west for almost 50 years. Six million Germans died as a result of the war. There were no men left after the war, most killed in action or prisoners of war. The German men in the Russian sector were sent to Siberia as prisoners of war and few returned. The women in the Russian sector were gang-raped and none between the ages of 8 and 80 were spared; many committed suicide. The self-respect of the Germans and their pride in being German was taken from them, being made to feel that genetically they were an evil people because of what the Nazis had done. So tell me again how the Germans got off easy!

[@hansstrik4704]

The Germans preferred the occupation of the Russians, therefore they battled so hard against the Americans and the Allies f.i. at D-Day and the Ardennes offensive, how painfull !

[@blomman43]

What!?

[@psilvakimo]

Hey Ivan, Germans fled to the West to avoid the Soviets. And of course there was really no Berlin Wall, right?

[@boarzwid1002]

The reason that the Soviets took Berlin was to spill red blood and bleed them out a little more, Eisenhower’s battle groups were flanking south and east while the British and Canada were holding the northern frontier, the Americans contingent plans were to strike east and north and cut the Russians off from their supply lines. If Patton hadn’t died we would have destroyed the Soviet Army and sacked the commies .

[@blomman43]

@@boarzwid1002 What are your sources for the american plan to "sack" the commies? And the only reason they didn't is that Patton died? Hilarious!

[@georgemiller151]

@@boarzwid1002 Patton died December 31, 1945. 7.5 months after the war ended. The Americans stoped at the Elbe under orders from Eisenhower because General Marshall said takingBerlin would cost 100,000 casualties. Years later, Eisenhower regretted his decision because he realized he hadn’t taken into account the political ramifications of leaving so much territory under Soviet control. Patton’s superiors rightly considered him a mentally unstable political liability after the war and relieved him of any real authority.

[@user-vest9999]

Американцы вроде передвигались на машинах,у них было полно техники