At the Frontline in Thuringia, Germany | US Army Raw Footage shot in March & April 1945

Explore the intensity of World War II through the US Army's Special Film Project 186, featuring raw footage shot in Thuringia, Germany, during April 1945. This video provides a rare, unedited perspective on the US Army's operations in the final stages of the war.
05:45 Project 186, Murphy, Austria, M-2.0
07:37 Project 186, Murphy, Germany, M- /8
8:21 A M26 Pershing tank. It was used by the United States in the last months of World War II during the Invasion of Germany and extensively during the Korean War. The tank was named after General of the Armies John J. Pershing, who led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War I.
18:30 Tanks with modular armour
19:00 Rocket Launcher T34 (Calliope) mounted on a Sherman tank
21:12 P7 Haglund "Water Bridge", April 9 '45
21:52 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8
23:16 P9 - 186 Apr. 9 1945, 3A CCA (3rd Armored Division as Combat Command A)
25:29 Crossing Ebeleben/ Keula
Witness US tanks in action, a German soldier captured and interrogated, and the fierce attack on a mountain village resulting in burning houses. See Sherman tanks skillfully crossing rivers, soldiers sending radio messages, and the destruction of railroads and trains.
The footage coincides with significant military operations in Thuringia, where the 12th U.S. Army Group, under General Patton's Third Army, was actively engaging in the liberation of the region. The 4th Armored Division's crossing of the Werra River on April 1 marked the beginning of the Thuringia occupation. Subsequent operations focused on the Gotha-Ohrdruf and Erfurt-Weimar-Jena areas, demonstrating the strategic importance of Thuringia in the Allied advance.
This video is not just a showcase of military strength; it's a powerful reminder of the complexities and impacts of warfare on both soldiers and civilians. It stands as a testament to the strategic, operational, and human aspects of one of history's most significant conflicts.
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[@worldwarfootage]

Dear Community, please help us to find the places and locations in this footage video. Write us what you know in the comments. Don't forget to include the timecodes (mm:ss). Thank you!

[@CTFD13]

18:41, one of the assault guns from my grandfathers assault gun platoon. I'm working on figuring out where and when it was taken. I believe the TC is an officer, the platoon commander.

[@jeffherne203]

At the 25:30 mark of the film, they were north of Ebeleben and west of Keula. At the crossroads near the rail bridge north of Ebeleben. By triangulating the roadsign, 17km to Keula and 2km to Ebeleben, locating the rail tracks and the only intersection it puts them on the south side Wiedermuth, which they were shelling in the earlier part of the film. 51°17'30"N 10°43'04"E

[@marycatherinemousourakis9457]

My great uncle was with the 345th /Company F. He died on April 8,1945 in Thuringia from a direct hit from a panzerfaust. Awarded the Silver Star posthumously. Is there anyway of telling if he or his company is on the footage? It would literally be his last days alive

[@adambane1719]

The US then commited heinous war crimes.... by putting the surrendered German soldiers into PoW camps, stripped them of their PoW status.... and starved over 1,000,000 German PoW soldiers to death... AFTER the wars end !!!!!

[@legendzeroone1537]

5:46 The sign says Austria.... not Thüringen....

[@middleclassic]

2 days ago, Feb 3rd was my fathers 105th birthday. But he passed away Feb 28th 2021 at 102. He drove a M3 Halftrack for the 23rd Armored Engineers of the 3rd Army as part of Spearhead. Every time I see a halftrack I can’t help but wonder if he’s behind the wheel. His last stop was Dessau about a 2 hour drive from this area so it’s not too much of a stretch to wonder this. Especially when they’re showing engineers doing their thing. I truly miss the man. He was a soft spoken incredibly nice man who was married to my mom for 73 years. Something you don’t find much anymore.

[@markbraswell6768]

I find myself doing that as well. When I see Vietnam footage I usually look to see if it's my dad. I know they years he was over there so that's helpful. Sometimes they lump everything together though. He remembers camera men around more than a few times. He's the white really skinny guy wearing all green. Let me know if u see him.

[@мимоза-т9к]

😢😢😢😢

[@DDDD-pv7fw]

Wow God Bless your Dad !!

[@Truetoo102]

Greatest generation indeed.

[@DDDD-pv7fw]

Wow God Bless your Dad. Im glad he made it home and had a wonderful long life !!

[@akku845]

Im from thuringia and the beginning of the video doesn't seem to be from here, but from the mid to end it looks pretty much like my homeland, just hills, grass, woods and not much more lol ;)

[@irusan7911]

Could be the battle of Struth.

[@MarioSchöler]

Der Anfang könnte im Thüringer Becken sein. Der Rest ist dann auch eher meine Heimat.

[@KesselDieter]

​@@MarioSchölerdie Aufnahmen sind bei Ebeleben entstanden laut anderen Kommentaren

[@MarioSchöler]

@KesselDieter Danke für die Info 👍

[@christopher9270]

I'm wondering if this isn't footage of the 3rd Armored Division in Thuringia, Germany. My father was a genuine front-line combat medic with the 3rd...and was at the liberation of the NordHausen forced labor camp ("Mittelbau Dora") in Thuringia on April 11, 1945. He once told me they had tragically and inadvertently killed more than a few liberated prisoners... because these people were starving, and my dad said they gave the prisoner's whatever they wanted and whatever food they were carrying in their vehicles and backpacks; K-rations and C-rations, Spam and corned beef hash, ham and lima beans, chocolate D-bars, canned pineapple rings, white bread, coffee and sugar and canned fruit juices and biscuits and hard candy... whatever they had. "And a lot of the prisoners wolfed down all that stuff...and simply laid down and died about twenty minutes later", my dad told me. "It was like they just drifted off to sleep...and stopped breathing shortly after". "We didn't know about the danger of refeeding syndrome at the time", he said. What a tragedy.

[@philliphall5198]

My Dad said the same thing and he was in shock and then they gave them everything they wanted and it killed them 😢

[@Bryce825]

I saw 9th armored patch

[@christopher9270]

@@Bryce825 Thanks for the 411, mate. I had also looked for divisional patches on uniforms or symbols on vehicles...but I missed that. So... thanks again.

[@Bryce825]

@@christopher9270 of course. It was pretty early on. Wish I had time stamped for you

[@pbrig4298]

Early on you see a 9th Armored Division patch

[@craigstarling4704]

My grandmother's brother was KIA on April 11th 1945 somewhere in Germany.

[@randalldunkley1042]

I had a veteran friend who drove a half track with the 7th Armored Div. in April of 45'. he was driving prisoners up to a British POW camp near the Baltic coast. There was just him and his co-driver and every few miles a group of German Infantry would flag them down to surrender. He was scared at first, but they were genuine guys looking for haven from the Russians. By the time he arrived at his destination there was no room anywhere on that half-track, not even the hood. The Germans kept all their weapons and when they dismounted, their officer in charge had them all fall in and drop all their weapons. The British had them strip to the waist and looked for SS tattoos on them. Many SS dressed in Heer (army) uniforms of enlisted men. Bob said he always carried extra cigarettes with him on the few weeks he did these prisoner swaps. The return trips were the same thing, dozens of Germans coming out to meet them on the road. Strange times those last few weeks were in Europe.

[@Eunegin23]

My grandfathers were German WW2 veterans. Never a bad word about Americans, who also didn't always respect the rule of war. Different with the Russian. Everybody was happy to serve at the Western front. The East was hell. This was the war for Germany. I grew up in the American zone, had my first burger on an Army base and you "bought" me with that. Good investment. Now were are a German-American family, my kids identify as both 100%. You have to win the peace. This got lost in the most recent wars.

[@CAG5205]

Farbaufnahmen bringen das Geschehen direkt näher. Interessant wäre zu erfahren an welchem Orten die jeweiligen Filmsequenzen aufgenommenen wurden.

[@Dunimaniac]

In Thüringen.

[@CAG5205]

@@Dunimaniac 😅soweit war ich auch schon 😉

[@phil306]

@@CAG5205 ich komm von hier und es spielt sich so in etwa im Nord Thüringen ab was man sehen kann am Ende der Rest garkein Plan

[@mongo2022]

En la patria de tus mayores nazis.

[@basslaats8889]

1:16 9th armoured division shoulder patch, probably after the Rhine crossing between Remagen and Limburg on there drive towards Frankfurt.

[@ramond8830]

My grandpa crossed the Rhine ..got a bronze star for his bravery

[@vblake530530]

My father fought in Europe during the war. He never spoke of it. Whatever he went through. He took to his grave. He would be 103 if he were still alive.

[@markbraswell6768]

What unit was he in if you don't mind?

[@svenschindler218]

My grandfather was in the German army. All I know is that he was in Russia and then a French prisoner of war after he deserted. He never talked about it. Maybe it was better that way. I don't know whether he was in the SS or the Wehrmacht. what my ancestors did can never be excused or justified. They were perpetrators. My generation can only do better.

[@militarytension236]

@@svenschindler218 "Sie waren Täter". Wenn ich so etwas schon lese. Unglaublich.

[@peetyw8851]

@@svenschindler218We in the US must learn of the catastrophic possibilities under a dictator. Awareness of the plight of those caught up this cannot be exaggerated.

[@marthae9338]

My Dad was in Europe from Jan. 1945 until VE Day with 15th Army; he was an engineer. He never spoke about his experiences there either; the early part of the war he was in NW Territory of Canada helping to build the Alaska Hwy. He did talk about that a lot. Given his ETO service was in the last year, one of the toughest, we can only imagine. He did help to guard prisoners at one point as he had a collection of pins, etc but other than that. No information.

[@JohnMcMahon.]

That’s an M24 Chaffee crossing the bridge @22:12. American Light Tank, they only came into service late in the war.

[@djmech3871]

At 8:23 is a M26 Pershing.

[@chilledgaming1879]

The recordings probably belong to Project 186 from World War II, which accompanied the !! 3 Armored Division as Combat Command "A" !! in this video. (see timestamp 23:16). On The Champer Lap is the date 09.04.1945. In archives on this date belong to the coordinates 51.378829882798485, 10.134888791801693 . this is actually in Thuringia 05:45 Chamber flap: Project 186 Murphy Austria M-2.0 07:37 Chamber flap: Project 186 Murphy Germany M- /8 21:12 Chamber flap: P7 Haglund "Water Bridge" April 9 '45 23:16 Chamber flap: P9 - 186 Apr. 9 3A CCA

[@lyntwo]

Impressive compilation of information. Thank you.

[@tankmaker9807]

The markings on the M7's 105mm HMC's crossing the river at 5:56 ID those as belonging to the 11th Armored Div., which was active in Thuringia 3-11 April 1945. At 18:42 the M4 105 tank has the markings of the 14th AD on the barrel.

[@subfreakuent]

Champer Lap, Chamber flap, Camper lab? Which one is it and what does it mean?!

[@big16country]

Real time Real life Great footage

[@donaldfoltz4649]

It is mind boggling to think of the amount of support it took to keep our fighting men and women supplied.

[@rectorkirk1158]

There were no fighting women silly.

[@hartwigjf8776]

Die Pontonbrücke könnte die Werra westlich Eisenach sein , dann folgt 23:00 ein Schild mit Wappen 3 Türme und ein Löwe wie von Bad Langensalza Flughafen am4.April 45 erobert. Danach das Thüringer Becken ndl. Erfurt vor Ebeleben. Weiter ging es ja dann nur bis Torgau/Elbe 25.04.45

[@peterkornaukhov9990]

Спасибо большущее всем причастным. Мир и свобода!

[@renekleppel8569]

Euch Russen Ami und Briten Verbrecher wird noch Strafe genug zu Teil werden . Noch Schlimmer wird Franzose Pole und Tscheche bestraft. Eure Verbrechen wiegen Schwer! Es gibt für euch keinen Grund von Ehre ind Freiheit zu schwadronieren. Größte Verehrung ind ewige Erinnerung an den Heldenmut und tapfere Kampfleistung allen Deutschen Wehrmachts und besonders den SS Verbänden. Nicht vergessen werden werden Flieger und die U Boote Leute.

[@mrhaltstop2294]

My father was in the Wehrmacht because Alsace was annexed to germany after the French defeat…he was sent to the Russian front He told me when the US soldiers saw a German helmet they fired on the position until nothing moved anymore. They had enough gas and ammunition

[@валерийиванов-с8н5и]

did your father fight in Russia?

[@mrhaltstop2294]

@@валерийиванов-с8н5иHe was a mechanic and surrendered to the Russians when the Wehrmacht was on the retreat,he was lucky not to be captive in Tambov He admired De Gaulle who intervened towards Stalin to get the alsatians out of captivity My father was drafted in the Waffen SS ,he escaped ,tried to cross the Swiss border but was arrested and put into a reeducation camp,before he was sent to Russia

[@MrBooYa-yd5er]

@@mrhaltstop2294legend

[@lewisbolman7862]

My grandpa died in a concentration camp? .....Got drunk and fell out of a guard tower. Just trying to lighten the mood.

[@OpelpepePower]

​@@mrhaltstop2294 admiro a tu padre....le obligaron a luchar o trabajar con un ejército que no representaba lo que el pensaba de los nazis. Una pena no pudiera pasar a SUIZA . Es un claro ejemplo de que miles de alemanes no eran nazis,😢 no compartían esa idea de invadir todo y no respetar a los seres humanos. Espero que tu padre viviera lo más feliz posible después de la guerra. 😊 un saludo amigo. @mrhaltstop2294 I admire your father...he was forced to fight or work with an army that did not represent what he thought of the Nazis. A shame it couldn't happen to SWITZERLAND. It is a clear example that thousands of Germans were not Nazis, they did not share that idea of ​​invading everything and not respecting human beings. I hope your father lived as happily as possible after the war. 😊 Greetings friend.

[@davidca96]

So cool seeing Jumbo Sherman's on camera, I didnt know this footage existed. They only made a few hundred of them, the extra armor really put a strain on the suspension but they still handled it.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

I took an interest in this, seeing Thuringia in the title. In the 90s, being stationed in Wildflecken I did a little touring on my own. The flats in the beginning of this film remind me of the Fulda Gap area with the Thuringian mountains to the north and the Rhoen to the south. I took a drive one day through what had been East Germany, across the old border from Fulda and Circled around to Suhl and Meiningen and back to Wildflecken. That immediate area east of Fulda was extremely flat. Now. Watching this film further I see an 11 with a triangle painted on tank bumpers. That would be 11th Armor Division. A quick check in Google and 11AD, after helping break through the battle of the bulge, swept across to Fulda, into Thuringia. to Oberhof in April 1945. Then they moved down into Northern Bavaria, Coburg, Bayreuth and on.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

It was a shame the red army got their hands on so much to allow to continue to decay. That border region is so beautiful. They wouldn't have been remotely as successful, if at all without lend-lease and other western aid.

[@donavonrobbins1908]

Later in the video, I 14 AD bumper numbers. They were credited for taking Germersheim on the Rein River, then across to Neustadt, Hammelburg and Nurnberg.. According to wiki, that pontoon bridge is likely at Worms.

[@Mikhail0205Ars.]

​@@donavonrobbins1908Красная Армия уничтожила 80% немецких солдат и техники, и имела право занимать то, что считает нужным.

[@DonaldGagner]

Did you make it occasionally to the Klosrerbrauerei up on the mountain for a cold brew? Perhaps even buying a small or large stein, which I have both. 547 Cbt Engr, 130 Engr Bde. Sister battalion was the 54th at Wildflicken.

[@marycatherinemousourakis9457]

@worldwarfootage my great uncle William G Nahrwald died here April 8, 1945. He was in the 345th Infantry Regiment / Company F. Shot by a panzerfaust. Anyway of telling if his group would be in this footage.

[@Redwood65]

My father’s cousin (my first cousin once removed) was a Staff Sargent in the 3rd Armored 32nd Armored Regiment. He was part of the spearhead from Normandy with his engagement starting June 29, 1944. He survived the battle of St. Lo and took part in Operation Cobra. He was killed by a panzerfust as well on August 3, 1944 near Marigny, France. Another crewman was killed, one escaped, and one was captured. Horrible way to die so far from home. I never knew about this until recently.

[@henryseidel5469]

Two days earlier the entire city centre of Gera had been destroyed by senseless bombing including their civilian population - for nothing. Only old people, women and children in town. 6.April 1945

[@ironiso411]

19:00 that's not a cope cage... that's a T34 Calliope rocket launcher system! On a Sherman!!!

[@MrSebfrench76]

The Screamin' Mimi ?

[@ironiso411]

@@MrSebfrench76 The Screamin' Mimi are a nickname for German Nebelwerfer rocket launcher systems

[@MrSebfrench76]

My bad, thank you !@@ironiso411

[@briansmith2125]

Smoking a pipe in a dry hay stack was the most dangerous thing this GI ever did in the war.

[@RpunktBpunkt-v1c]

optimistic smoker...they know its bad, but still...

[@juicyj3819]

Smoke and a pancake

[@grguy793]

Really interesting to see how much help was needed to create roads though muddy areas.

[@BobWiley-dn2gf]

Thank your local seabee 😊 they are the badass construction workers that build bridges while fending off enemy attacks to help the convoy get past obsticals

[@johnl.5117]

​​@@BobWiley-dn2gfThe Seabees, all great guys (my uncle was one) fought almost exclusively in the Pacific. The US troops battling for Europe were the US Army, even the Air Corps which became the US Air Force in 1947.

[@ML-wd4dc]

25:29 Kreuzung Ebeleben/ Keula Nähe Nordhausen, als die amerikanischen Truppen von Norden über den Harz nach Thüringen gekommen sind

[@johnhudak3829]

Das Gebiet sieht heute sehr ähnlich aus! Ich habe gute Freunde in Gaberndorf . . bin letztes Jahr da gewesen. Thüringen ist ein wunderschönes Land!

[@ronnyku4778]

Ist die Kreuzung Abzweig Holzsußra am Ortsausgang Ebeleben Richtung Wiedermuth - direkt am Bahnübergang. Kameraschwenk zurück Richtung Ebeleben.

[@fuckthensa8103]

@@ronnyku4778 jup, Eisenbahnbrücke über die Helbe

[@aalekks21]

Смотрел на гугл картах,место узнал,знаки стоят.

[@Auronfan02]

any chance you can name the exact locations of the footage?

[@worldwarfootage]

At 25:28 there are road signs to the villages Ebeleben and Keula, which is in Thuringia.

[@supertori8585]

51°17'36"N 10°42'58"E

[@lucecooler]

credit to this user for some detective work. The comment above about the road signs indicates 2 km to Ebeleben and 17 km to Keula. The given lat/long drops you at a T intersection on the main road between those two towns at those exact distances and in google maps the railroad shown in background is also marked @@supertori8585

[@jeffherne203]

At the 25:30 mark of the film, they were north of Ebeleben and west of Keula. At the crossroads near the rail bridge north of Ebeleben. By triangulating the road sign, 17km to Keula and 2km to Ebeleben, locating the rail tracks and the only intersection it puts them on the south side Wiedermuth, which they were shelling in the earlier part of the film. 51°17'30"N 10°43'04"E

[@Auronfan02]

wow thank you @@jeffherne203

[@Marcus-p5i5s]

Yep, the M26 Pershing's were being introduced in the last months of the war in the ETO in Spring '45

[@mikeyj9607]

Interesting watch of a Armored Division on the move

[@lyntwo]

It gives one pause to realize you may be seeing one of your uncles, or one of the fathers of your schoolmates, maybe even one of your teachers in this, ir your dad's fellow railroad office employees. My father too young, but getting caught in the Korean War. The stories they did ot tell us...

[@thomasoliver354]

I thought city boy!

[@arbeitszeitbetrug]

I always wonder how the places i sometimes walk around looked like when they where a battlefield in ww2, interesting to see it finally

[@georgedoolittle9015]

What is unseen is the airpower...or in the alternative "lack of air power" in the case of the missing German Luftwaffe.

[@fredgarv79]

So true, I just got back from a small viewing of the only ME-262 in existence with the Jumo engines (they rebuilt them using modern parts) The host asked a question, since the plane was next to an BF-109 and a hawker hurricane, he asked what was the main difference between them? First thing I thought was 100mph faster! But of course it was the swept wing, the first of it's kind. Imagine if they had had a thousand of these ready to go in say 1943

[@aussieguy3689]

​By this late stage in the war most of the german air power had been neutralised , Not 100% sure but to my knowledge they had no pilots left to fly the planes

[@hihihuale4541]

Die hatten auch kein Benzin/Kerosin für ihre Flugzeuge mehr.Und auch nur noch unerfahrene Piloten,die man mit den schlechtesten kaputten Flugzeugen mit Kerosin für 20 Minuten Flugzeit ins Verderben schickte.​@@aussieguy3689

[@vblake530530]

This ACTUAL color footage gives me a whole different feeling. It really brings that time to life. Not that colorized crap.

[@Eunegin23]

My grandfather, a German WW2 veteran, said that US soldiers came fresh and well fed while German soldiers in Germany were often the left overs. Old men and students, sometimes kids and soldiers who were done from the years on the Eastern front. Tired and hungry. He never said anything bad about the Americans although they also didn't always respect the rules of war. Different with the Russians. Our war also was more in the East than the West.

[@elkebertuch7601]

Gutes Zeitdokument ! Es sollte aber erwähnt werden, dass in den Häuser nur noch Alte, Kinder und Frauen lebten.Ich 1955 in einem Dorf in Thüringen geboren.

[@seltaeb9691]

My father (Scotland), was D-Day+1. He went through France Belgium Holland. He had about 7-8 medals. Wish I had talked about his life. We would watch War films & it was like he hadn't been there. Quite a disconnect as that reality was on a different planet to the modernity of the1960s.

[@philodonoghue3062]

Those Sherman with their high profile and slab-sided armour were certainly an easy target for the King Tigers, Tigers and Panthers, and Panzerfausts, Panzershrecks, and various Pak antitank guns of the Wehrmacht. Mercifully the Allies had air supremacy especially with ground attack Tempests and P47s - and a seemingly endless supply of Sherman’s augmented by Firefly and Cromwell tanks.

[@clearsailing7993]

Don't forget large numbers of canons.

[@rescue270]

Shermans had one distinct and surprising advantage over the Panzers when it came to forests and towns. They were no match for the larger, faster Panzers out in the open, but in close quarters, the Panzers could not easily rotate their turrets because the long gun barrel would hit trees in a forest or walls along a village street. The Shermans were much more compact and could rotate and maneuver better in these situations. This is ironic, considering the Panzers were European and the Shermans practically came from another planet.

[@marshajoyner5662]

Marsha Grose Joyner. Very good footage of tank and vehicle movement. Most of war wasn't fought on paved roads. Interesting to see how the topography was dealt with.

[@giancarlomiceli3611]

Beautiful footage. Incredible quality....Anyone who knows what's the device the Sergeant is maneuvering at min. 16:36 ?

[@AndrewAMartin]

Guessing that it's an encoder/decoder...

[@giancarlomiceli3611]

Many thanks👍@@AndrewAMartin

[@oynque27]

My great great grandparents came from Dermbach in 1870.

[@Berty692008]

It’s a nice Village in Thuringia (Thüringen), between The Thuringia Forest (Thüringer Wald) and The Rhön-Mountains. Good Area for Driving Motorbike ! ✌️

[@Chiller11]

Pretty interesting array of American armour. 75mm Shermans, 76mm Shermans, Pershing etc.

[@davidca96]

and Jumbo Shermans

[@paulizzs4720]

And M7 Priest!!

[@davidca96]

@@paulizzs4720 excellent eye!

[@forestcountyoutback7540]

2 minute mark the guy smoking a pipe under a haystack. Must have been a new 2nd Lieutenant.

[@bougeac]

Was thinking the same thing 🤦‍♂️

[@thomasoliver354]

I thought city boy!

[@thresher4]

At 22.04 what tank model is this? It looks like the M-26 Pershing but, shorter barrel. Unless a M4 version. Thanks

[@try2notkillme665]

M24 Chaffee

[@Apollon21]

Ich bin aus Thüringen. Ist es bekannt, wo das statt gefunden hat?

[@RoyFischer-ow3cu]

u.a. Ebeleben. kurz vorm Ende auf einem Wegweiser zu sehen

[@Apollon21]

@@RoyFischer-ow3cu Ach so. Mein Großvater erzählte mir sehr oft, dass die Amerikaner von Eisenach über Gotha her kamen und einige Zeit im Thüringer Wald blieben und Ende Juni, wieder abzogen. Es gibt ein Video, wo man den Durchzug durch Gotha sieht. Mein Großvater ist 1889 geboren .

[@royfischer4171]

@@Apollon21 es gab 3 Kampfgruppen in TH. Nördlich übern Harz nach Nordhausen, Mitte über Gotha-Erfurt-Weimar-Jena und südlich übern Rennsteig. Der Film hier zeigt den nördlichen Verband, der u.a. in Struth gekämpft haben, Mittelbau-Dora befreiten und hier im Film kurz vor Ebeleben standen. Die Einheiten sind weiter gezogen bis Böhmen und aufgrund des jaltaer Abkommens am 30.6.45 abgezogen, da Thüringen und Sachsen zur sowjetischen Besatzungszone gehörte

[@Dor_Thuringia]

Nice to see this! I live in East Thuringia and I have a hobby where I find ww2 stuff in the ground and yes I found many ww2 stuff. Nice video it’s really helpful to see this. Pls more

[@Ich-Bin-Hendrik]

Sondeln?

[@phil306]

was hast du alles so gefunden

[@Dor_Thuringia]

@ k98 Kugel ohne Ende, und ein denn ich kenne hat nh Wehrmacht Gürtel gefunden und ein russisches Karabiner

[@andresalvarez7664]

25:31 Ist heute Schlotheim und die Panzer führen auf der 249 nach Ebeleben und sie kamen von Mühlhausen.

[@rudy6047]

De très belles images, merci

[@user-xb0907]

Слава советскому солдату, вынесшему основные тяготы войны!!!!!!

[@bw6524]

Does that include the Soviet soldiers that were allied to nazi Germany when invading Poland?

[@PL-rf4hy]

Thoughtful choice of music; good video.

[@CLARKE176]

Germany was utterly spent after fighting for more than five and a half years with most of their force spent fighting in the East.

[@djmech3871]

At 08:21 is that a Pershing tank?

[@gerhard6105]

Yes

[@Americal-v6r]

Never seen quality film like this. Awesome history preservation.👍 The Rail Road Bridge no doubt taken out by P47 or P51 strafing missions.

[@ralphh.2200]

The Armored Engineers had heavy lifting in the suburbs...By this time in the war, they had a lot of equipment there.The Germans were shocked to see what could be brought all that way.They were convinced that the US was indeed rich-and able.

[@lawless201]

at 16:45 is that a decoder?

[@battistebuono2530]

I've seen still photos likely taken from this film, especially of the river crossing of the river into Austria. Excellent and fascinating to see all of it in actual color.

[@KH-zm7hu]

Da dies die Frontlinie in Thüringen ist kann es schlecht in Österreich gewesen sein, da Thüringen nicht an Österreich grenzt das wäre mir neu

[@frankw.1721]

war is hell. my uncle told me about it--1st inf div 26th regt 2nd btln g company …North Africa Sicily d day Omaha beach st lo falaise gap Aachen hurtgen forest battle of the bulge elsenborn ridge harz mountains …he won the bronze star silver star and ph. evacuated for wounds receive near Frankfurt Germany in April 1945.

[@frankw.1721]

he also crossed the Ludendorff bridge at remagen

[@klrmoto]

Where is Haglund? It did not show up on google maps.

[@worldwarfootage]

Haglund was the one who shot the images.

[@klrmoto]

@@worldwarfootage Thanks, Do we know Haglund's first name?

[@middleclassic]

What is that at 21:52 ? A mobile howitzer? I’ve never one before.

[@corsa701]

Thats an M8, based on the Stuart with 75mm Howitzer.

[@middleclassic]

@@corsa701 Thanks, much appreciated

[@sammelplatzmilitaria]

Nice Video! Thx for you Work! Grüße vom Sammelplatz Militaria

[@fload46d]

The international elite got rich on that war too and achieved all their goals.

[@nutzeeer]

one thing to note is, the film and other media is the only thing remaining from history. everyone involved as adults is dead by now. forgetting history is dangerous.

[@ivanhicks887]

Excellent Presentation

[@KarlArschGmbH]

Unfortunately, the "Amys" are still represented militarily in Germany to this day.

[@x210582]

I am from Thuringia but didn´t rekognize any location. But in 25:30 you see two town signs: Keula and Ebeleben, both located in North thuringia

[@k.-h.h.7670]

In Minute 1:12 wird ein junger Wehrmachtssoldat gefilmt, der gerade gefangen genommen wurde. Weiß jemand, welchen Dienstgrad er hat? Zwei weiße Streifen auf den Schulterklappen?

[@ВалентинаКулешова-т7я]

Мы ехали ехали и приехали, а где же была линия фронта?

[@aluheinzel]

Die Musik zu dem Filmmaterial geht garnicht

[@pngmick]

1.44....I wonder what happened to this individual . The camera dwelling on him

[@christiank1251]

Seeing him being separated from the interrogation group made me fearful of what they were going to do to him.

[@teatime6597]

Are they throwing german helmets under the tracks at 5:50 - 5:53? :/ On second thought, just rubble to add traction? ( see 12:50)

[@JoeyEintagsfliege]

Wie heißen die anderen Song-Titel und Interpreten? @world war footage

[@worldwarfootage]

Alle Tracks sind von Antoine Marsaud: open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/57cS9TGEaD7SjdOBp7SExn?si=CvFanypYTAecA5dm5kZ7-A

[@andretim75]

Look at this poor fellow at 1:18 . Hope he came out lucky ( and that is not sure at all -- thinking about the "Rheinwiesen" near Köln, where thousands of german soldiers died after the war had ended ! )

[@henryseidel5469]

Usually soldiers die in war but not after it. I really wonder what a battle in Russia might have been like...

[@gavanwhatever8196]

21:14. I've seen other footage shot by Haglund. About a month later, probably in Czechoslovakia. I think he also shot the Lore Bauer/Lost Girl footage. Oren Haglund.

[@benedek6258]

Does anyone know why the field is dug up like that around the 18:00 mark? Is it to stop it from being used as an airfield?

[@08mberry]

Terraced for farming. You see the same thing all over Arkansas for rice farming.

[@philodonoghue3062]

You can almost read the minds of the surrendered German troops. “Shit! These Yanks just have an inexhaustible supply of military equipment… “

[@holzbergerpeter4480]

They rather thought" why are they wearing workingsuits, where are their uniforms...look at these crap tanks"

[@bazmondo]

​@@holzbergerpeter4480the soldiers wearing working suits and driving crap tanks defeated Germany. So much for the superiority mindset and master race of Germany. What Germany thought of their opponents was meaningless, twice, in the last century.

[@chrisstucker1813]

Poor kids; fighting wars that were started by selfish old men

[@Gerecht777]

Wären die Amis 1939 gekommen bitte glaub mir sie wären nicht mal am Ärmelkanal durchgekommen. Sie kammen als Deutschland 6jahre lang im dauer kampf wahr. RUHE IN FRIEDEN. AN ALLE!!!

[@pferdekopfmitpferdezopf7287]

​@@bazmondo you are stupid

[@lepeejon2955]

8:25 Looks like a Pershing tank.

[@richardjames1812]

What rank is the German at 1:23?

[@davidmoser3535]

froup captain mandrake

[@migjager7352]

Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier: An NCO Officer Candidate

[@richardjames1812]

Thanks, I knew it was something uncommon.@@migjager7352

[@kawythowy867]

Raw? Where was the RAW?

[@cybertorte]

Nur am Ende des Videos ist Thüringen. Der größte Teil ist im Schwarzwald. Also Titel falsch gewählt

[@PeterT-i1w]

they conquered all that land, just to hand it over to the Soviets a few weeks later ... isn't that wonderful?

[@irusan7911]

Soviets gave western Berlin instead.

[@franksteffen1961]

How many German prisoners were killed during this time?

[@keesdalm9827]

How manny innocent lives were saved due to the liberation of Germany from the murderous regime.

[@calvingrondahl1011]

My Father was there, combat infantry scout 95th Division 3rd Army. How many German prisoners killed? Too many. Germany or Nam… war is suffering. Life just goes on.

[@senseofthecommonman]

What a strange comment

[@Chiller11]

@@senseofthecommonmanHe’s likely referring to the debunked stories about German POW deaths in the Rhine Meadows camps during the summer of 1945.

@@Chiller11debunked by whom ? Certainly not by history and facts. One of the most heinous war crimes after the bombing of Dresden

[@valicourt]

Not often that I see completely new footage of WWII. Mesmerising! No idea where it is though.

[@dimitri-petrenko]

Thüringen, Germany...

[@HvH909]

I wonder if the German POW made it to 1946.

[@JayTide]

They were rough with him.

[@RicardoM-nc7qu]

I think we know the answer to that

[@falk6121]

If they deported him to the Rheinwiesen, probably not.

[@henryseidel5469]

@@falk6121 He was not called Prisoner of War but "Disarmed enemy force".

[@slide4180]

I bet he lived a fat and happy life.

[@wwiewolle5849]

And today, these "liberators" are through their hegemony, the greatest provocateurs and warmongers in the world! What an irony...🤮🤦‍♂

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Nearly all those soldiers are passed away now.

[@Dr.Freeman_]

@ericsonhazeltine5064 Really? 🤦‍♂

[@pauldickens5246]

Rare footage of an actual M26, too!

[@9lettere668]

0:57 that GI is playing the hero.. pathetic

[@kubanskiloewe]

8:22 wow a Tiger Killertank with 90mm barrel !

[@armoredsaint6639]

M26 Pershing!

[@dechannigan2980]

The German uniform & cap was cool , Those American tanks look totally inferior to the German Panzer tanks. .

[@electrolytics]

Little news flash for you. Tanks are not designed to attack other tanks. They are designed to smash through infantry and fortified positions. In the event American tanks ran into other German tanks the outcome was usually in the American's favor. Almost always actually.

[@lolkevandewitte1713]

8:22 Pershing! That’s pretty unique footage!

[@davido1953]

what are the vehicles at 06:10 ?

[@macgonzo]

If you're asking about the open-topped vehicles with the large calibre guns, those are M7 "Priests". The basis for these vehicles is the M4 Sherman and they are armed with 105mm howitzers. Mobile artillery basically. Hope that helps.

[@catmarrco7863]

I wish they had sound on those cameras

[@ocs10]

one of my family members had to die april 45. sad to know that.

[@daveclean]

It seems to me that the division had a lot of Firefly Sherman tanks ? I think earlier in the war was not the case ? or am I wrong.

[@g.patton6872]

Many of the tanks in this film are the M4A3(76)W HVSS. The longer barrel can give the illusion of the British 17 pounder.

[@charlottedoring4566]

Meine Mutter verlor Bruder, Mann und Kind.

[@charlottedoring4566]

Das Haus in dem ich geboren wurde, wurde beschossen und wenn neu tapeziert wurde, kamen die verputzten Einschusslöcher zum Vorschein. Ein junger Soldat (19) kam nicht schnell genug in den Keller als die amerikanischen Tiefflieger kamen. Sein Gehirn musste meine Mutter von der Wand kratzen. Er hatte so schöne Wimpern, erzählte sie oft. Eine Frau, die bei meinen Großeltern wohnte, weil sie ausgebombt aus Köln kam, ging aufs Feld um Unkraut zu jäten. Eine Frau! Sie wurde von einem Tiefflieger erschossen. Ich habe meine Mutter oft nachts weinen gehört.

[@stevemorris6270]

Is that a tank missing its barrel @21:53?

[@bw6524]

No. It's an M8 Howitzer carriage.

[@Саня_Санёк-э6э]

Yankee go home from Germany ❤

[@hartwigjf8776]

Orks Go Home from Ukraine 💛💙🇺🇦✌️and Africa☮️🌈

[@AltIng9154]

The disciplined troops were the British... . They came to Northern Germany. Almost no looting, rape and such things. The Northern Germans are anglophile in general , guess why. The Brits are described as reserved, cool but correct in general. The British avoided handshake... but the German Northeners avoided handshakes also.

[@davidlynch9049]

Canadians too.

[@AltIng9154]

@@davidlynch9049 I think the Germans didn't really make any differences. All Brits... somehow. A friend of the family, a German airman, was downed over England and was brought to Canada as a PoW. Just after the war the Canadians asked him to stay...as a citizen, but he wanted to go back to his mother.

[@fredgarv79]

I think you are right but I have a story. I met a Norwegian woman in the late 70''s who had been a little girl when the germans were occupying Norway. I asked her how it was? She said it was fine as long as you weren't a Jew and didn't get caught with a radio and said when the Brits came in, they were very undisciplined, drank a lot and were obnoxious and rude. She actually didn't say it was better under the Germans but that the soldiers themselves were more respectful to the locals

[@knacker6866]

Über die Amis sagte man USA heißt Uhren suchende Amerikaner

[@ML-ev3ks]

Kannte das bisher nur von den Sowjets

[@markusstern5471]

Auf jeden Fall besser als das Zahngold, welches die SS-Schergen den Juden geraubt haben!

[@slide4180]

Amis nahm Uhren, Krauts nahm Gold, Kunst und wer weiß, was sonst noch. Sogar?

[@buckshot6481]

My Uncle was there, Master Sgt. When we watched "Battle of the Bulge" I said I was gonna be a Tanker someday, Uncle said No you won't, Rolling metal flaming coffins is what they are.

[@JohnMoore-q1u]

Thankyou, I have not seen this footage, very nice.

[@KlausRudiger-hh2ly]

Es ist beschämend, wie eine Meute Amis einen einzelnen deutschen Landser bei 1:00 min schikaniert. " Wehe dem Besiegten "

[@eustaquiokiller]

Coward gringos

[@falk6121]

Luftpiraten

[@slide4180]

Die ganze Welt weint mit ihm. Du hast Sitzkrieg erwartet?

[@KlausRudiger-hh2ly]

@@slide4180 Auch so ein Drecksack, der Gefangene mißhandelen würde ?

[@michaellinkroum4803]

So close to the end of the war but still very dangerous!

[@victordiaz3189]

Y los combates???