[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1946) A Defeated People: Life in Germany after WWII.

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[@benoitcacheux5030]

✡️ murdered 12 millions germans between 1945 and 1950.

[@gravefrightn5720]

You can thank secret societies, diversity and the false science that has corrupted the minds of the young to fit their desires.

[@OswaldOstfalen]

My grandmother experienced this time in Germany. She will be 99 years old in March. She is the best grandma in the world for me 💞.

[@DaenaeraTargaryen]

My Oma was about 6 years old at the end of the war, but still remembers everything. It was difficult for so many people, especially children, and I think the effects on children who grew up in that time is not really spoken about enough.

[@carmenpozzi7357]

❤❤❤

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

Same for me. She had to leave Hinterpommern.

[@OswaldOstfalen]

@@checkcommentsfirst3335 Meine kam aus Schlesien..

[@svetlanamandic9785]

Ich hoffe, deiner tapferen Großmutter geht es gut. Es war damals nicht einfach, Deutscher zu sein. Ich sende Ihnen herzliche Grüße ❤️

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

It really is truly stunning how both Japan and Germany recovered following the war. In less then 20 years Japan became a leader in home electronics. In 1958 Sony Corporation, formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo introduced the Sony TR-610 transistor radio, its what launched Sony into the American electronics market, then again in 1961 when Sony introduced the TV8-301W transistorized television, the first “direct view” transistorized TV. Germany became a massive automotive manufacturing nation thanks to Volkswagen and the Type 1 Beetle as well as the Type 2 Bus. It was Germany and Japan that flooded the United States with compact and subcompact cars in the late 1950s and 60s. Forcing even the likes of Ford, GM, and Chrysler to begin introducing their own cars to attempt to compete. It’s crazy to look back at post war history and see just how recovery and cleanup took place even during the separation of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Funny how they only recovered because of help from the US and Europe

[@k.k.8394]

@@OffendingTheOffendable Funny how that's BS. It's called mentality.

[@k.k.8394]

@DeathSeller You think that the ERP was the reason for Germany's recovery after the war? The volume of these credits was miniscule in comparison and Germany had already payed back the money in 1966. Most of the money went to the UK and France anyway.

[@srccde]

@DeathSeller Then why didn't the UK or France become economic powerhouses? They got even more money from the US than Germany.

[@J1mston]

@@k.k.8394 Did you not watch the film? They say in the film that to rebuild they needed steel and to get steel they needed coal and to get coal they needed to rebuild. They were stuck in a situation that meant that they could only start to rebuild with outside help. Volkswagen was ran by the British government for a time and they got production started by ordering 20k cars when they really couldn't afford them or have an obvious use for that many. They ordered them simply to get production going. Similar things happened all around the country, the allies took control of everything and gave it the spark it needed to start over.

[@davidca96]

WW2 was almost impossible to understand for us generations that came after, the destruction and loss of life was on a scale you cant fathom. Most of the people hurt by it did nothing wrong and were not even involved in fighting, they suffered horribly.

[@dewilew2137]

They voted for naziism. They bought into those hateful, destructive ideas. That’s what was meant by “a war they started” and “of their own making”.

[@greenlime1997]

The Second World War frankly makes the conflicts of today look like leisurely strolls in the park.

[@nurdane2850]

💯💯💯💫💫💫

[@greg_4201]

What's not to understand about it? The Zionists mobilized the western world to demolish Germany and butcher its people so as to plunder them with impunity and destroy the power of nations, ushering in the Neo-Marxist Globalist NWO technocracy and economic slavery... The only reason such a war isn't happening in our time is because the Second World War victors cut everything worth fighting for out of society and disunited western nations' base ethnic populations to the extent that they can't even imagine forming a unified front against tyranny.

[@Larrypint]

the education system and mainstream media don't want you to understand it, they just want you to judge good and evil like in Hollywood war movies

[@marquisdehoto1638]

Letting them starve after WW1 was one reason that let to WW2.

[@tempejkl]

It’s all the fucking treaty of Versailles!!!

[@josephmarrison4606]

Hence why lessons were learned here.

[@Hard_Knockz]

Go fight the war in your own country

[@redbrick146]

@@tempejkl it's all the one serbian dude's fault!!!

[@user-cs8od2df3u]

@@tempejkl🌚

[@Witchofthewoods.]

I'm so glad someone thought enough of these people to take their pictures. Times forgotten, people long lost, but forever trapped in time.

[@BabbleOn777]

Yeah... And when they look back to the garbage dumps of data, they will find tiktok.

[@argha-qi5hf]

Tiktok is the greatest curse to befall Earth since Nazism.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

They were not " trapped in time" and they were not " lost". They went on to build a Germany that instead of being feared is being respected. They started at rock bottom? Well, yes, we had earned that big time. But they got help and a second chance. They took it. We still do.

[@herrlich1461]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 This stinking woke garbage can is "respected"? 🤣 How delusional can a person be?

[@williamyoung9401]

"Come on, Germans! Rebuild your stuff! We got Stalin to fight!" =P

[@kingjoe3rd]

The coloring isn't always correct, but the best thing is does is that it gives each scene more depth, which allows your own depth perception to kick in. This gives the scene more life, which gives history a more life like face. Brilliant!

[@UberOcelot]

It also makes these moments less removed from the present, as this was really not that long ago. Black and white imaging and rudimentary audio recording really distorts our perception of time and place.

[@williamyoung9401]

Looking for loved ones. Now they know how the Jews and other "untermensch" felt. The kids, though...god damn all war.

[@cincin4515]

No it doesn't. It crushes the authenticity out of it and we all know how people like to change things to suit themselves.

[@idan1242]

👌

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

@@cincin4515 lol

[@dereksuddreth8672]

My Stepdad was drafted into the US Army and posted in Kaiserslautern, Germany as part of the Allied Occupation Forces in 1958. My mom and I joined him there in 1960. My brother was born at the Army Hospital. We had a small apartment off base among the locals of the town. Mother loved Europe, and Stepdad took a 30 day leave to travel the continent with the family on vacation. Even though I was young, I was amazed by the rebound of the German people, as well as the rest of war torn Europe. Most were friendly towards us, but I realize now that was a matter of survival. Germany was still a dangerous place, especially for those who wore the Allied uniforms. As tensions escalated between the USSR and the other former Allies, Berlin was cut off from the rest of the world. My Mom, brother and I were evacuated back to the US. It seemed now we had a new enemy, the Soviet Union.

[@annas.8487]

I am sorry, that you think to have had an enemy. So it also seems propaganda has worked. At least there are some military forces who have an interest in resources and power. That is not the best quality we have as humanity. Any idea of having (or needing) enemys is not bringing us any further in our development.

[@hebedabber2770]

​@annas.8487 When the soviets purposefully cut off Berlin, they made themselves an enemy.

[@Cream2773]

@@hebedabber2770 the truthof the üpast is not that kind of simple stereotypical: the allies didn't want to corperate with the east... in history earlier, french and british always have had some problems with the east, the german and eastern european states/tribes collaborates

[@gotthatswag4502]

KAISERSLAUTERN MENTIONED!!!

[@nightwish1000]

We could make a propaganda film nowadays of that kind displaying the US as the country that has set fire around the world like no second in the postwar era.

[@dharkbizkit]

seeing this makes me understand better, why my grandfather was such a bitter person. when ww2 ended, he was 11. spending his kid and teenage years in rubble, poverty, in the cold and hungry. seein friends from school and neighborhood die from freezing in the winter 45, seeing his dad not coming back from the war. seeing his mum beeing raped by russian soldier. then spending years of sweat rebuilding, just for my generation, to have a normal life and beeing spoiled, by sitting on a table at christmas, in a heated home, a table full of food, playing gameboy, and beeing picky about what the family should watch on tv that christmas eve, while the only thing he needed with 10, was socks and food

[@Hunterbidenscrackrock]

One could argue your grandfather and his generation suffered rebuilding so we wouldn’t have to worry about survival. But i get your point and it is complicated. I have noticed that no struggle make you soft. But struggling too much, like you mentioned, breaks you and makes you bitter.

[@dharkbizkit]

@@Hunterbidenscrackrock he knew that. and in a way, he was happy that we had it better. but on the other hand, he wished his days as a kid, would have been good too. it wasnt his fault, he didnt cause the war, he didnt take part in it, yet he and his friends, had so suffer to consequences. he always knew, that it was neighter his, nor my fault, but he couldnthelp feeling angry and sad about this unfair part of life

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@Hunterbidenscrackrock Nah, they suffered rebuilding because France and Britain declared war on them. Two countries invaded Poland. One got a declaration of war, the other got an alliance. No coincidence the ruling part of France were the "Radical Socialists". France was Soviet-aligned, or flipping that way pre-war. See also: the President of France being assassinated at the Rothschild Hotel in 1932 by a White Russian who felt betrayed.

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@excelynite Like the Japanese, when they attacked warships stationed at a military base enforcing an oil embargo against them, in in an act of justice and karma, cities full of civilians were righteously nuked.

[@dharkbizkit]

@@excelynite ...So, sins of the fathers, eh? since he was 11 at that point

[@seandelap8587]

It was similar in all the other war affected countries war is no joke it leads to mass displacements and misery the decisions of physcopathic individuals has always affected ordinary people and still continues to this very day.

[@JoDo777]

Psychopaths EXACTLY! Master manipulators!!

[@INRamos13]

Psycopaths that we keep electing

[@macknights1911]

Just look at Russia

[@patriciagriffith7402]

Misery is their agenda

[@derbeisser8777]

the Versailles dictate created new injustice and was the basis for the development leading to the Second World War.

[@tonig.1546]

I love this channel’s dedication and craft to giving the past some more color and also making it accessible.

[@AnnaBluelueluep]

There are no winners in war - perhaps for the state, but not for the people. There was so much misery, so much loss and grief. I find the comment "They asked for the war" totally stupid, because most of those who were in favour died at the front or cowardly executed themselves. It was mainly women and children who were left behind ... My grandparents grew up during this time. They were 12 and 15 years old. My grandmother saw terrible things during the war, even as a child. I feel sorry for all the people who had to suffer such a fate because of the greed of individuals.

[@Dontleavemedimi]

The survivors of the war were excellent examples of perseverance and overcoming hardship with hard work and grit. Their children were the young batteries that would fuel the resurgence of Germany as a world power not through armaments and conquest but through manufacturing and finance among others. I was stationed in Germany in 1981-1983 and I got to see firsthand how the Germans were and they were very organized.

[@abbalite]

Surprised to see that the commentator is William Hartnell, who two decades later would become the first Doctor Who.

[@1944GPW]

First thing that I noticed too. Very interesting!

[@kokonutz6920]

I made my post before seeing yours. You were definitely first, my fellow Whovian!

[@MountainRaven1960]

That’s the very first thing I noticed!

[@bitch8205]

We live in a small world!

[@herrlich1461]

More propaganda from more actors. It seems to be the trend in the free West. 🤣

[@jonfisher9214]

What always gets me in these war documentaries is seeing the little kids. Then imagining what it would be like to have to care for and raise a family while there's a whole bloody war going on.

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

My poor mum had to do that. One day in a raid she grabbed me and ran out into the street. She said that she wanted us to die in the open air, and not under the rubble. I was two years old.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

yeah, it was a terrible time to be European.

[@hawkhillfalconer3529]

and yet so few people have compassion for families escaping such situations by coming to the US today.

[@user-gj5yy6rk2q]

and think of what happened to every single mother, daughter, women there. all of them got raped by Russians, British, US, soldiers out of anger for what the germans have done.

[@p1tz0n16]

@@hawkhillfalconer3529 lmao they're not fleeing war they're fleeing bad economies. Especially the ones fleeing across to Europe moving past 7-8 countries to get into countries with the highest social welfare like Sweden *facepalms*

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart6267]

learning about the war you sometimes forget about its aftermath. great video

[@zakkyummms]

Can you imagine the amount of rubble moved by cart and wheel barrow? It must have felt impossible to ever be finished.

[@monilip]

Try to find footage from Warsaw (city of Poland) after war. Germany destroyed 95% of city, as punishment for Warsaw Uprisings. 95% od city - just rubble and ash.

[@andreimatheus9306]

​@@monilip to be honest, i don't think it's right to say that was the Germany - the whole country did that? - but the german army - Wermacht - and some sick psycho platoons, like the Dirlewanger's death unit made solely by rapists, bandits, etc.

[@MrBrewman95]

It took until 1980 to completely rebuild everything in Germany.

[@DrClock-il8ij]

​​@@MrBrewman95Kinda crazy that 1980 was closer to the start of WW2 than to today ngl

[@rare6499]

@@MrBrewman95longer surely.

[@derin111]

My Mother was born in Hannover in 1940. This was one of the most heavily bombed German cities with 90% of the city centre destroyed. By the age of 5 years old, at war’s end, they had been bombed out of their accommodation twice and narrowly survived being burned to death in a cellar. She remembers the starvation in the year’s immediately after the war and the feeling that the city could never be rebuilt. Even when I used to go there each summer to stay with my Grandparents from London during the 1960s, I still remember playing on ground that was still bomb sights. It’s a very long story but my Mother was also one of the few children in her class at school who actually had two parents. However, she/we didn’t know that the man we thought was her father wasn’t her real father until his death in 1979. Her real father had been captured by the Russians and survived a prison camp there but no one in Germany knew this. They had presumed he had been killed on the Front only for him to return in the mid-1950s !

[@mochispaces]

Oh my, that's sad to think that nobody knows you are alive. Thank goodness he comes out alive in the camp and can come home.

[@derin111]

@@mochispaces Yes, he survived and started a new life. Got married and had three children. My mother only met one of them and never met her real father.

[@doniramdoni3884]

​​​@@derin111Ar u ever said "hello" to ur real grandpa ?

[@derin111]

@@doniramdoni3884 no...I never met him. He died after the man I had grown up thinking was my Grandfather and who I knew very well. He died in 1979 when I was 16. But my real Grandfather died in about 1985 but I never ever met him.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yes, very sad, War is hell, theysay 50 million died. Best not begin it eh?

[@richardmcgowan1651]

Right after the war the UK was utterly broke. The British people wanted nothing to do with Europe anymore and wanted all troops home. They were done with it all. So many people were dead or horribly affect by it all. The government knew it had to stay in Germany in part to stand against the growing USSR threat and to stop Germany from sliding into utter chaos. So films like this were made to show how bad it was in Germany right after the war.

[@sergiy01]

It was not also the best time for Russians. Almost the whole European part of the country was in ruins and the people were starving.

[@tempejkl]

⁠@@sergiy01Were the people starving? I thought with the liberation of Ukraine and much of Russia they would be fine, no? Also yes. The amount of Soviets that died compared to British is incomparable. 26.6 million Soviets dead

[@sliftyy]

Yes, the Soviet famine of 1946-47 wherein 2 million people starved to death. For the parts of the country which were occupied by Germany since 1941, there was famine the entire war too.

[@MicahGCom]

Can’t believe this narrator decided to say “A war they started” over a picture of some 5 year olds.

[@kevinjohnston4923]

Britain attacked Germany first.

[@j.f.1979]

​@@kevinjohnston4923You do not know much about cause and effect, do you?

[@kevinjohnston4923]

@@j.f.1979 Britain attacked Germany first, escalated it into a huge conflict, allied with the communists, and committed war crimes against Germans. “Defending” Poland just to hand Poland over to the communists was one of the dumbest decisions in history. Churchill was a power-mad drunk who lost Britain’s empire and allowed the communists to take over.

[@LoveHammerMan]

@@kevinjohnston4923 You don't think it had anything to do with the invasion of all of the other countries and Germanys own violation of the treaty of versai? You're really making excuses for the guys that spent the entire prewar period GEARING UP for a full invasion of Europe?

[@kevinjohnston4923]

@@LoveHammerMan the Treaty of Versailles was cruel, greedy, and too harsh. There is a risk of retaliation when you’re too greedy, and the other countries found out the hard way.

[@LuisLopez2]

Just consider for a second back then there was no such a thing to stock music libraries. Someone actually wrote the music for this documentary and they actually recorded with a real orchestra.

[@davidboinonen9613]

1946 production crews deserve a lot of credit documenting most of what happened

[@vergil8833]

Proudly saying that they must make another countrys children hate their fathers... Doesn't sound like the good guys. They did all this because they opposed their political system, and that alone. Pure evil if you ask me.

[@v1ncestan607]

agreed including the ones who documented the concentration camps built after the war

[@markcharles2819]

The restoration of these old clips is amazing.

[@eloquentia7207]

Little children are always innocent, and they suffer the most when adults make horrible mistakes.

[@O.Mundo.Dos.Mandocas]

From what I've seen and unfortunately, adults are big children...

[@karlheven8328]

Imagine the stupidity of saying "Germany was freed/liberated"

[@kriugeris1994]

Imagine the scale of economical repair and mass social restart. This takes some serious ability from the leaders to accomplish this immense task. It's just prove that people are truly capable more than we personally believe . Great window in to the past, really enjoying these videos .

[@katharynemartins565]

Funny how they never did this social repair in Japan,they did the opposite...

[@DutchGuyMike]

@@katharynemartins565 Yeah, the elite wanted Germany destroyed - which was the center of nationalism in Europe, so they could create the European Union and introduce the central banks (Rothschild owned).

[@monilip]

It's easy to rebuild, if you get money from gry USA to do that. Germany's victims (like Poland) weren't that lucky. We got left to rot under Russia's communism

[@ToreDL87]

@@katharynemartins565 Would mean another Marshall plan, which we could scantly afford.

[@fantastichound]

Marshall plan ?

[@CaribouOrange]

'the war they started' The war people in power started.

[@scottread]

The people in power who they elected.

[@tcrijwanachoudhury]

@@scottread the people in power who, regardless of who they voted for, would've been elected anyway.

[@Explorer55612]

the people who they elected and gave power

[@justsayin644]

@@Explorer55612 Many of them didn't vote for them. Also don't forget the nazis changed their tune once they were in power and many germans just wanted a fresh start and out with the old corrupt self-serving politicians, that same story we see today in politics, broken promises incompetence. So when a radically different-looking new party came along that promised to restore Germany to her former beauty and put the people first of course most got sucked in. Little did they know what horrors and misery would await and the ultimate downfall and destruction of the country that this new party would bring with it.

[@33Donner77]

Industrialists said "We can control him." An old system is overthrown, a demagogue rises up, and millions die. This has happened over and over and over again.

[@jont2576]

"we cant afford to let this new life flow where it wants" sends chills down ur spine...behind the innocent sounding, sometimes sweet and flowery words in the american verbiage....words like "freedom" and "democracy" hides a dark and dystopian meaning, much like how US shaped and molded Japan's political and

[@mikespangler98]

Go read "Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila". By James Scott. Then you will see why Japan's culture needed a hard reset. You can also consider the rape of Nanking and Section 731, the Bataan Death March, and the Army's activities in Malaysia and Singapore.

[@dubistverrueckt]

You neonazis really love misusing language. Freedom doesn’t include the freedom to enslave and kill others. Freedom of speech doesn’t include freedom to bring such things about. Your fallacy is that this must be said with words and that it cannot you speciously give as “reason” that this is not freedom. Get over it, bud. LOVE HATES hate.

[@jazzmart0412]

I love that the first incarnation of the doctor is giving us a history lesson.

[@bobchoate4403]

I like your passion for history and I really enjoy your videos

[@williamyoung9401]

The fact that Germany are our (lazy) allies today is nothing short of amazing compared to how horrible this war was.

[@knechtgottes9109]

​@@williamyoung9401 Hitler hat für die Engländer gearbeitet, der widerliche Edomiter!

[@bigpagla]

Its the nooks and crannies nestled between timelines that really help put history into a clearer perspective.

[@jeanmarcu1446]

These documentaries from the 40s and the 50s are very charming and informative.

[@Gizmetti]

Guy Warrack went absolutely nuts on the soundtrack

[@breebw]

My German language teacher in high school(in New Zealand) was a child in Berlin at this time post war. She said there were two types of Berliners, ones that chewed chewing gum obtained from Americans, and those that didn't. It became a trend, But it was a sore point from those who chose not too.

[@marcelgowa]

i got chills down my spine as a german listening to them look for their husbands and wifes, thats some deep depressing stuff here. say no to wars!

[@marysunshine2498]

These Germans waged the filthy war against the world, taking over countries, murdering and torturing millions and millions and millions of men, women, and children in the worst disregard for human life. In this 1945 film they brought whatever misery they are experiencing, on themselves. Absolutely no sympathy. Most of these German beasts were never punished for their horrific crimes, but went on to live wonderful lives. And now, in 2022, Jew-hatred is fashionable again and getting worse every day. Wake up. Nothing has changed.

[@vipr1142]

"say no to wars" lol. doesn't work, because the elite will manipulate you to think you are doing the good thing. Look at Libya and Gaddafi, probably the best leader a African country ever had, and he tried to free Africa from neo-colonialism and also make Africa a super power by introducing the "golden dinar". As soon as he proposed the "golden dinar" invasion happened (he wanted to sell oil for real gold instead of dollar, similar to what Saddam of Iraq did, but Saddam wanted to sell oil for Euro instead of dollar). Had this succeeded, then African countries economy would rival US and Europe. But mainstream media managed to indoctrinate the commoners that Gaddafi was an evil man who was ONLY evil, and never said the good things he did for his country, his people and Africa. The one who controls the media, controls the thoughts of the people.

[@erickrohn2970]

Yes and worse imagine all the Jews and non germans that went through concentration camps that had there families all split up. Also not knowing were there family members may be or if there still alive in which most cases they weren't.

[@shadetreader]

To be anti-war is to be anti-fascist.

[@vipr1142]

@@shadetreader thats a low intelligence statement

[@thelowlytrinity]

The allies learned a bitter lesson from the first world war - do not punish your defeated enemy. Rather than kicking them while they're down, as they did with the treaty of Versaille, help them rebuild so seeds of disdain don't grow into a new fascism.

[@svetchannel2998]

А мне казалось корни нацизма в том, что немцы наоборот не ощутили на себе тяготы войны, ведь кайзеровская армия внезапно капитулировала на территории России и Франции, а Германия, не считая небольшого голодания, не страдала от бомбежек и разрушений, что дало почву для антисемитских теорий. Немцы подумали что их обманули и предали, во второй раз, если они не будут наивными, они обязательно победят благодаря своей природной мощи. Вторая мировая война им показала что нет, они ошиблись. Немцы обычная европейская нация как и остальные и завоевывать никого не надо, надо развивать то, что есть. Короче говоря, ВМВ произошла потому что ПМВ закончилась мягко для немцев.

[@Mcfunface]

​@@svetchannel2998Public opinion is not very good for your nation, vlad...😅

[@shantyclips6358]

Not only Germany died in 1945. Europe did.

[@Naza_44]

"They were just left wandering. Searching, looking for food, looking for their homes, and looking for each other." 😔

[@wizwizington1758]

satisfying justice

[@domerame5913]

edgy 14 yr old@@wizwizington1758

[@Anders127]

@@wizwizington1758 In a war like WW2 there could be no justice. Prevention is the best medicine as the nature of mankind allows unimaginable atrocities.

[@AA-jp9cj]

@@wizwizington1758 Unfortunately there is no justice in war

[@letsgetturnt9759]

We need to cherish this channel we can learn a lot from it thank you 👏🏾👍🏾

[@leeriches8841]

Humans are evidently unable/unwilling to learn from the past.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

The resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity is truly remarkable. Despite the devastation, there's a glimmer of hope as communities come together to rebuild. Let's continue supporting each other on this journey towards a brighter future.

[@rare6499]

Amazing footage, thank you for sharing. A truly trying time for so many people. The loss of life was staggering in Germany, so many of these people lost someone close to them but managed to rebuild their nation. Of course it was the same across Europe. Can’t fathom how hard these post war years were, the task must have seemed essentially impossible.

[@bokser75]

Демографические потери СССР составили 25-27 млн человек Общие демографические потери Германии, Венгрии, Италии, Румынии, Финляндии и Словакии составили 11,9 млн человек На счет того же самого вы немножко ошиблись

[@Domino13334]

I am from Germany. My grandmother lived and lives still 15 minutes away from the building the Nurnberg trials took place. At 94 of age she is still able to tell you about living in WW2 and day to day protocol of the trials.

[@DJSwezzleMusic]

My grandmother is 156 years old

[@rgbforever4561]

​@@DJSwezzleMusicbruh, It's not uncommon. My grandpa and Grandma too.

[@hattorihanzo562]

Im from nürnberg only a few minutes on bike away from the court

[@lanthanumlanthanium6373]

Can't call something a trial when no evidence is presented.

[@Daddy-Maggus]

@@lanthanumlanthanium6373 bruh rlly ?

[@RandoBurner]

What is incredible to me is that even though they lived in a bombed out country, they had clean clothes, nice clothes, they look better dressed than most people today.

[@JoDo777]

I've heard that most Germans are very clean people.

[@INRamos13]

Well, if life goes on, you find a way to wash them and you keep moving forward. You don't just stay in the dirt with the debris.

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

Most people back then, rich or poor, took great pride in their appearance. Going out in public looking disheveled was unthinkable to many and would have you branded insane or eccentric. It wasn't the shameless society of today.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

My parents were children back then and no, people didn't always wear clean clothes. The things don't look dirty in the video, because of the quality of the video. People back then had usually one set of good clothes to wear to church, for weddings and other festivities and one, maybe two sets of clothes for working days. Clothes were washed on Saturdays by hand. My parents had to stay in bed until their clothes had dried on the Saturdays. Usually they'd also take a bath on Saturdays and only on Saturdays. Some of the clothes you see in the video were specific garments worn above the regular clothes to protect them when doing manual work. Women often wore what's called "Kittelschürze".

[@herrinvonribbeck]

Not everyone had though. Going through pictures of my grandparents you can clearly see that some people just couldn‘t afford nice / intact / fitting clothes at all.

[@WatchfulHunter]

Yesterday determines today. Today determines tomorrow. Be kind.

[@emfraza7953]

The narration is rather self-righteous considering all the horrific crimes of Imperial Britain already unleashed upon the world, but such was the time.

[@jonathanglzplz894]

Hipocresía

[@adammillar6860]

I mean around the time this was made Germany had just killed around 20-25 million innocents (including 6 million Jews) and Japan had just killed around 10 million innocents too. All within the space of just over 5 years... You can't kind of understand the tone?

[@wisemysticaltree8804]

It's sad that some people are just born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@nanipanini]

everyone incarnates with purpose

[@davidh9844]

Yep, like my wife's family. 54 people murdered, shot, hanged by those people in this film because they were born Jews. The youngest was 12, running in fear in a snowy Czech forest, chased by dogs. The Germans didn't kill him until after he saw his dead father hanging from a tree. My son shared his Bar Mitzvah in America with that child's ghost. (We know the story, because by the grace of God, his brother Kubah was shot and played dead, and somehow managed to survive. He made it to America in 1949, the family's only survivor)

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@davidh9844 So how many palestinians have been shot by israelis since they had their country taken from them by the british? 🤔🤭

[@aloedark5221]

@@davidh9844 ok

[@Proud_GOY_Not_juwish]

@@davidh9844oyy veyy the forever victim juuuw!

[@zomer7101]

This was a great watch, thanks for uploading.

[@merlean8358]

Meine Großmutter/Oma geboren in 1994 erzählte mal, dass sie mit anderen Kindern für Monate von den Eltern getrennt und in eine Kinderstätte gebracht wurden, da alle damit beschäftig waren den Schutt und Asche wegzuräumen. In den Kinderstätten wurde viele mit Betäubungsmitteln still gehalten.

[@steadyeddie639]

We fought our own blood...

[@harrynikken]

Great documentary, such a witness to the immediate aftermath of WWII for the ordinary Germans at the time. The problems look unsurmountable. Still they managed to get their lives back on track in a couple of years.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

Problems we brought on ourselves.

[@g.f.w.6402]

That was not everyday life after the war. The people who removed rubble with their bare hands did exist. But it was rather a propagandistically used randerscheinung.

[@hohohehe1417]

@kathrinscharrer3923 Judea declares war on germany. New York Times 1933. "You must understand that this war is not against national socialism but against the strengh of the german people which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless if it is in the hands of hitler or a Jesuit priest." Winston Churchill, 1936

[@BasementEngineer]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Who is "ourselves"?

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

@@BasementEngineer The German people. Our ancestors.

[@mikek4288]

I spent 3 years in germany starting in the late 80's. It was suprising the old generation looked at us soldiers with respect and thanks and the kids were not happy with us.

[@aryanbhuta3382]

It's the history. The older folks were probably around during the Berlin Airlift. America stopped them from starving, and still found it within their (taxpayer funded!) budget to airdrop chocolates to the children. To the new ones, you were a foreign occupier responsible for the continued partition of their country - the Cold War, in their eyes, must have been a Soviet-American conflict that you had dragged Germany into the middle of. The older folks were probably just happy to not be under the Reich.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

People are truly grateful for allies actions in Germany. But then we became an ally too. An ally is not a servant (unlike Belarus to Russia). One can be grateful for US boys landing on Omaha beach ( I am, every day) and still be critical of actions like Vietnam or Iraq. Even inside the US people were critical of those wars, or, US intervention in Latin America . In democracy one can not be an adoring follower of whatever policy. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing in democracy, Germany has disagreed with US policy and also the other way round. That has not made transatlantic relations weaker, quite the opposite. If being grateful means we have to approve of everything the US does it would be servitude. Democracy means being able to disagree and to work out differences peacefully, which we have.

[@wimschmied3800]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Thankful for the Allies? They bombed and slaughtered your people without mercy.

[@kathrinscharrer3923]

@@wimschmied3800 They bombed until they achieved victory. They did not slaughter anyone. They gave back sovereignity after 4 years and gave financial aid and in the case of west Berlin, humanitarian aid. Defensive war is not the same as attack war. If we had not started attack war for landgrab nobody would have bombed us. Everyone knows this. They freed us from criminal regime, a regime that did slaughter millions of Germans ( and people from other countries). We took the second chance we got, and we got it 40 years before the other part of Germany. Here we are♥️🇪🇺

[@wimschmied3800]

@@kathrinscharrer3923 Propaganda has gotten to your brain. It's likely pointless for me to debunk everything you just said as you wouldn't change your mind anyway.

[@darrenrock3387]

Fun fact the man who's narrating the film is no other than the first doctor William Hartnell

[@Neverpullingitout]

Who is That

[@darrenrock3387]

@@Neverpullingitout the first doctor who

[@sugabopp]

the bit about how it all came back to needing coal reminded me off a strategy game 😂

[@mariagraziazollo9180]

In 1948 a film was made: "Germany year zero" (Germania anno zero) . Directed by Roberto Rossellini.

[@giancarlofilacchione7371]

Aggiungi al film di Rossellini, anche "Odissea Tragica": con Montgomery Clift, soldato americano che cerca un bambino fra le rovine di Berlino.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

I can't imagine this situation. Ive been thru 2 hurricanes that were quite destructive but even those situations paled in comparison to the destruction of war.

[@hughy897]

Its not just war. They were thought to no be proud of their soldiers, to just move on, most of them were persecuted and are still today, just because they needed to follow orders. You cant imagine that

[@MaestroDraven]

Imagine trying to shake off a war like that. How hard it must have been to come back to some semblance of normalcy and happiness, knowing what your country did.

[@heathermartin7459]

I always think of that. Cant even imagine

[@tempejkl]

Yes. I wish Britain had to feel like that, for all the horrendous acts they committed. Destroyed our country and any chance we had to prosper. Took our food, culture, and language

[@linajurgensen4698]

“stunned by the war they started“ no stunned by the war Britain and France started through the treaty of Versailles.

[@Please_allow_me]

Thing is though despite the treaty of Versailles that was in place it was violated by Hitler anyway, and the allies allowed it to happen, wishing not to risk another war with Germany. Then despite being allowed to violate the treaty (increasing the the size of their army etc) Germany then invaded Poland which was what caused the allies to then declare war on Germany. Either way, it was Germany's fault.

[@yvonnekaul1028]

Deutschland wollte nie einen Krieg...die USA ( Juden und Freimaurer) Rothschild Rockefäller haben hinterhältig den Krieg begonnen...der damalige Deutsche Kaiser hat noch versucht den Krieg zu verhindern... auch der zweite Weltkrieg wurde von den Juden begonnen.. die Rotschilds, Rockefäller Blackrock...es sind immer die gleichen, bis heute ..die USA hat die Ukraine und Israel gegründet...

[@OldieWan]

It breaks my heart to know this is all starting over again to repeat, but only on a much larger scale. I was blessed to have lived in the time frame that I lived. I was sandwiched right between the misery and suffering of the world. I was born right after the war. And I will be dying within the next 10 years, right before to collapse of the modern age. Make no mistake youngsters. Your time is coming.

[@waltermoldren4991]

and we thank your generation for paving the way to this end.

[@Nietsnebarg]

@@waltermoldren4991 Seriously like what was the point of this. You pillaged the economy you helped build and then condemn those who need to repair the sociological damage to feed their children. Screw off with your "well it worked in our day" attitude and get on with whatever is left of your life.

[@splintmeow4723]

@@waltermoldren4991 sadly true. Wish the previous generation didn’t hand us so many issues too large to wrangle.

[@Declanmaceircc]

@@geraldwilson1023 amen

[@OldieWan]

@@waltermoldren4991 Thank the elites bud. That is always the case. Take your anger out on the people who did this to you. Not some random pleb peasant like myself.

[@BabbleOn777]

My grandfather was brought over through Normandy on that fateful day, he was in the 29th infantry to destroy and rebuild bridges, roads, and lifelines whilst so many men fought the beach to get him and his through; it was the greater good to get those engineers over the lines to do their jobs. He ended up going back for more in Korea , and finally came home to raise his son that he left for that tour. That only son, my father, joined the USMC and did two tours of Nam at 19, coming home with holes and stories, to have me and my sister. I wouldn't be here had either one died. Its strange to think it is being poor, having nothing, but everyone getting up to rebuild after a war is the best way to make a statement about the never ending human condition being tested. Everyone was too busy rebuilding that racism, inequality, identity rights and pronouns, etc doesn't have a place or time for here. Puts how fortunate we really are to the past that got us here today. " Deprogramming Citizens" becoming an epidemic of help that are scared to be found. They say History repeats itself. It has been proven time and again the human condition never changes in the long run. Thank you for all of your videos, literally gorging myself.

[@erickrohn2970]

Yes history repeats itself for sure. War will never be stopped. Its human nature to be evil and to take away from others been like that since the beginning of time. And unfortunately it will always be that way.

[@valentineespinoza8836]

Shutcho bitch ass up nigga

[@ptownRandy1]

As an American, I gladly support the ending of racism, inequality and identity rights. So sorry that you don't approve.

[@daveyjoneslocker4703]

All of the utter nonsense evaporates when you’re fighting for your life or breaking your back to rebuild your own life and society. And then 3 or 4 generations on, almost no one remembers how hard it was to build what we have, and they become ungrateful and unsatisfied with their easy lives and invent new things to fight for and over, and in the process bring about the conditions for another true conflict and mass death.

[@ptownRandy1]

@@daveyjoneslocker4703 Correct, just like when the racist and moronic Republicans have declared war on women, the LBQT community, the transsexual community, minorities, migrants, etc.

[@andaltargren9015]

That narration is filled with allied propaganda and talks of brain washing.

[@darkknight6432]

Says the guy with a Sonnenrad as his profile pic hypocrisy much?

[@andaltargren9015]

@@darkknight6432 yeah a lot of government groups changed heathen symbols into something hateful.

[@jeshuadedic3373]

It’s so sad once you realize that so many of those people looking for relatives and friends would not be reunited with them until the Berlin Wall was taken down decades later

[@jurassicpeter]

As a German, this hits hard. I know it was necessary and I'd rather live in the world I live in now than one where we'd won the war, but it still pains me to see.

[@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652]

*hurts

[@welcometothemonkeyapezone7797]

@@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652 Pains is used correct in this context. Speaking of Germany, don't be a grammarnazi if you're bad at it.

[@alexandergoldnatznworeptil9652]

@@welcometothemonkeyapezone7797 so for you being german equals to be a nazi, interesting. Kind of a narrow mind set...

[@Thesavagesouls]

Yeah because we are so living in sunshine and rainbows right now.

[@andrewburnett8743]

@@Thesavagesouls listen to yourself dude hows this world worse than a nazi WW2 victory

[@Singapom888]

My father, aged just 18, was over there as part of the British Army of Occupation. Fascinating to see what he must have seen, and been part of. An absolutely spell-binding and thought-provoking film.

[@xjuhox]

Was he a rapist?

[@mysticmystery7300]

@@xjuhox eh?

[@davidh9844]

Be grateful he saw the devastation of Berlin and its citizens. He could have been liberating their concentration death camps. I don't think any kid who went through that ever fully recovered from the psychological damage they had to live through.

[@daniele5349]

​@@davidh9844do you think that the concentration camps were the worst thing? Think at german women that see come the Russian

[@TheBucketSkill]

@@daniele5349 It was absolutely the worse thing lol? They literally did medical experiments on jewish children. German women taking cock isn't nearly as bad.

[@made3]

1:51 It feels so good to hear a slip of the tongue. Simply makes the speaker more human.

[@alexhemsath6235]

Technically he's a Time Lord

[@badgoy8439]

I find this film rather sadistic and disgusting.

[@dubistverrueckt]

I find your username sadistic and disgusting.

[@bladder1010]

My father's family was from Wuppertal. This movie is very interesting. My dad didn't have a bad thing to say about the British. I get the impression that in general German civilians had a great deal of respect for the British and their generally humane treatment. My dad, as a young teenager said they had more disdain for German civilian police than the British.

[@g.f.w.6402]

Die Engländer waren wirklich d******. Die konnten einfach nicht verstehen, dass die Deutschen sie ohne Not niemals angegriffen oder in ihre Einflusssphären eingedrungen wären.

[@stylembonkers1094]

The luckiest thing that could have happened to them was to be conquered by the British.

[@herrlich1461]

Sure, the Terror Bombing of Germany really earned the British the reputation of being "humane", especially after Hamburg and Dresden and many many other cities being burned to the ground by thousands of bombers dropping incendiaries and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, men, women and children, even POWs were victims of this unprecedented war crime.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

My Opa was from Wuppertal. Condolences to your dad's family. . . their town was leveled. Opa always humorously said he awarded himself a high school diploma since his high school was burned down. Tell me more about your family! Super interested in that town. I have a Bible that was printed there. Used to be quite the successful place before the war.

[@Flutschfingerbaron]

@@stylembonkers1094 british,French,American, whatever... It only was Bad in the ussr side

[@luckynedpepper9030]

No more brother wars.

[@miwi9883]

Too late, white British school children are less than two decades away from becoming a minority in their own country.

[@roadgent7921]

Well said.

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[@dewqw]

Germany lost. Now pay billion-dollar reparations, learn Russian, have monuments to the Soviet liberators in your capital and always remember that the USSR did nothing wrong

[@marshhen]

Remember the ordinary, innocent people who are daily victims of war in Ukraine, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo. The Tigrayans in Ethiopia. This is all still going on people. The mass casualties, the mass rapes. Madmen committing atrocities on innocent fellow human beings. When are we going to stop this insanity? Yet people in safe countries complain about the cost of gas to put in their bloated SUVs, they complain about a small rise in taxes or a small decrease. Self-interest keeps us from doing anything. So bleak. What must our youth think of us adults.

[@frechesferkel2749]

What they call a small increase in taxes and gas prices makes the difference here in Germany whether you have a minimum standard of quality of life or end up on the streets. There are already pensioners here who can hardly afford anything to eat. And what is all this for? So that the US can expand NATO behind the scenes to be able to turn to China after Russia. It's easy to talk when you live in the USA, but here we sometimes have 10-20 times the energy costs. Why do we need to support Ukraine? They are not in NATO and should never be, and Ukraine is a highly corrupt country.

[@madmoiselle007]

Yeah the poor people of the Donbass and Luganks regions bombed merciless by the Ukrainian azov battalion shitheads

[@stuartwray6175]

Ukraine and Yemen - wars fuelled by US geopolitical/geostrategic goals

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

@@frechesferkel2749 over 100 billion dollars sent to a country that's not even part of NATO.. funny right

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@frechesferkel2749So is Russia who wants a European Empire and revenge on Germany They will come for you in Ukraine falls

[@CercateRogneCheLeTrovate]

Never seen before. Exceptional Documentation. Very Moving. Thanks for Sharing

[@fast6232]

And now what does London look like? He tried to warn you

[@katiedickson0820]

“We just cannot afford to let them stew in their own juice” 😮 lol holy crap 😅

[@user-js1no3ib6j]

And now we witness that those defeated people came up the most prosperous, successful nation culturally, academically and financially with their commitment to bring up Germany again with a brighter future.

[@sukhmaidickoff]

Well, there were still a LOT of old Nazis in the management of big companies / in the industry, in high positions in the public sector up until the 1960s / 1970s in Germany - so I guess everything wasn´t as great as you claim. I am not in ANY way sympathizing with the RAF, but why do you think they "kidnapped" Hanns Martin-Schleyer and killed hum? Not only because he was a high ranking industry representative, but also because he was a good old SS-Officer

[@TheWhiskydaniel]

heartbreaking.. and even now i east Ukraine, kids are expiring the same... sometimes i have no hope for humanity...

[@jalumbuquay6625]

My grandpa was born in a mid-sized industrial city on the Rhein river in 1935, so he essentially had over half his early childhood spent in wartime. I can't even begin to imagine growing up or having to raise a child under such turmoil. Over 80% of the city was practically wiped off the earth, he and his mom got lucky I guess. Unlike another branch of the family living in the East, who apparently committed suicide upon arrival of the Red Army. They tended to be a bit more nasty to the population than the Americans it seems. Though he said that living conditions weren't back to normal until the mid 60s.

[@blakitka3083]

Red army is sucks 😢 USA army is better, coz they’re not so poor, as russian soldiers as always. Russian’s soldiers near my city… stolen even man’s and women’s underwear 😅 I don’t even know how it’s possible… in 2022. Germans (nazi) in 1941 was nice, especially with children, but in 1944-1945, burned as much as possible villages 😢

[@raam1666]

The red army raped every woman and child in germany they could find.

[@sergie2822]

6:24 I just imagined Bro literally stole his paper. He wasn't done copying. 😂😂

[@jwsuicides8095]

Anyone else notice that the narrator is the first Dr Who, William Hartnell?

[@chepechapin5809]

The common people never star a war, but their politicians & their elites.

[@alexsmith-ob3lu]

Very hypocritical for the British to speak such rude comments about Germany and the German people. The British themselves couldn’t even resolve their issues of civilian poverty and economic despair on most of its populace before the world wars. Whereas Hitler lifted the German people out of poverty, NOT through re-armament and war, but social and infrastructure programs! Source: Hitler Revolution by Richard Tedor

[@Tattlebot]

Hitler was going to exterminate all Slavs though.

[@Lalalauren1117]

Truth. My jaw dropped when the narrator claimed Germany started the war. When I started this deep dive into WWII, I was expecting to be met by the "nazi propaganda" that everyone warned me about... Instead I've found only the opposite. The truth is there for those who seek it.

[@johndennis4073]

I looked at War, or at least people, in a different light after talking to my Grandfather. I wish I had learned more about his unit and experiences before he passed, but I was young and absorbed in my own life. I do recall one thing vividly he talked about; in 1945 as they marched across Germany, many German families would welcome them into their homes at night, feed them and give them blankets, gifts, hugging and kissing them before they left. Many being anti-Nazi, hating Hitler. Just remember, a Government is not always reflective of many of its people.

[@Tjalve70]

"Just remember, a Government is not always reflective of many of its people." I think every American, and everyone who knows anything about current and recent politics in USA is completely aware that the government is not always reflective of many of its people.

[@johndennis4073]

@@Tjalve70 And seeing how we are very evenly split close to 50/50 in this two-party system ideology, I am sure that will always be the case. You will always have far right white Christians who think because they founded this country it belongs to them, and you will always have the far left non-whites who believe because of their treatment throughout history everything should now just be given to them. Pretty sad state we find this country in these days. :/

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

@Tjalve Yep.. Hated the Bush's and the hate the Clinton's.. Red n Blue all the same. Establishment, career politicians. War mongers, liars and thieves.

[@dubinatub1]

Thank you this information

[@kevinl8440]

​@@Tjalve70Definitely. Biden is NOT my president

[@jonpwnd]

Thanks for sharing, I had never looked into or learned about the allied occupation of Germany. Makes me want to learn more about how long it lasted how effective it was etc

[@redhen2123]

Well, as you can see from the shifting demographics and increasing crime rates, it was too effective !

[@jonpwnd]

As a follow up it lasted about 5 years. And ended with Germany being split up into different governing factions. Which ultimately led to the German reunification almost 45 years later!

[@TheZINGularity]

Mark Felton has fantastic content about the war and most likely anything you could wonder about it

[@hanshandkante5055]

@@redhen2123 I don't get what you are trying to say. The shifting demographics is a direct result of wealth and prosperity. The higher the living standard the lower the birth rates. And the crime rate in germany is decreasing since six years in a row and japans crime rate isn't even worth mentioning.

[@herrlich1461]

It lasts until this very day. Germany has gotten the "refugee" treatment since 2015 and now the US State Department is managing the deindustrialisation of Germany. And it's going fantastic. Germany will be reduced to a shadow of its former self.

[@Valchrist1313]

Two countries invaded Poland. One got war declared on them. The other got an Alliance and a cut of the loot.

[@Valchrist1313]

@Wirsindimmernochhier Trucks full of Peace, bringing joy to the holiday season.

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

You have a valid point.

[@cyberneticbutterfly8506]

The other was too big to deal with at the time. That is all.

[@Valchrist1313]

​@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 Nothing to do with the "Radical Socialist Party" in power in France, or socialist leanings of the British Parliament, and Clement Atlee, Deputy Prime Minister during the war and Prime Minister after. After the war, Labour Party's Atlee imposed a 95% tax that destroyed what was left of the UK economy for decades. They made the alliance with the Soviet, because they were Socialists sympathetic to Communism. The guy was literally a member of the Fabian Society! He was a member of the Socialist League!

[@cyberneticbutterfly8506]

@@Valchrist1313 I don't doubt it.

[@vergil8833]

The evil of a nation talking about influencing another countrys children to hate their fathers. Pure evil.

[@Maevola]

That is not what is taking place here. You can hate an idea quite well without hating a person for going along with it or not opposing it. You can also refuse to be like your parents without hating them. What is evil is indoctrination, which is what happend under the NS regime. Understanding why something happened is a big part of getting to a point where you can ensure its not going to again. And seeing the german defeat in the correct light was essential for there not to be a repeat of the 30s. It wasnt about teaching them to hate their parents. Not for most of them. But if your parent happens to be a genocidal maniac maybe hating them isnt such a bad thing.

[@ryman1933]

@@Maevola Germany losing was the greatest disaster of recent history.

[@Maevola]

@@ryman1933 Well you are either Mad or a troll

[@MNAHN-T.GOF-NN]

@@Maevola Blunt dismissal of that which he does not immediately understand - a cornerstone of childish behavior. The irony of *you* obliviously prattling about how "indoctrination is evil" whilst parroting purely approved talking points is striking, and pathetic. You speak of "understanding why something happened" but you've never dared look beyond the official narrative told by politicians and a media which everyone and their grandmother knows are untrustworthy, and always have been. Don't worry your little head. Just go back to consuming products & approved media while paying your taxes while your 'betters' continue to whittle away what semblance of rights and freedom you have left. Just remember that the world we live in today was entirely shaped by the people who won the war, not the ones who lost.

[@ryman1933]

@@Maevola Nah im just right

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

1:35 Is strikingly similar to an amazing piece of art entitled Firestorm by Grace Wever, which represents the destruction WWII wreaked on Germany. Look it up, it's excellent.

[@josjos1847]

Yes, It's amaizing

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

@@josjos1847 Yeah, gorgeous. . . and sobering.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim And then they went on to call themselves our liberators. Liberated us from functioning towns, roofs over our heads, of our food and atleast 1 parent on average

[@eeeertoo2597]

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti wahh we started a world war and our enemies dared to beat us WAHHHHHH im a victimmm wahh

[@kevinjohnston4923]

@@eeeertoo2597 History proved Germany right you commie sympathizer

[@cautiouscharlie]

I'm Jewish (by blood, not religion), but I can't help but feel deep sympathy for the German people. Seeing their cities destroyed, their culture besmirched, the death and misery brought upon their people by one hysterical meth-addled maniac. If only they focused more on their national strength rather than ethnic cleansing. Now, most people believe that everything related to nationalism is evil... I don't think that is true.

[@howl_with_the_wolves2861]

For you to be Jewish and have sympathy for Germany says alot about your tremendous character. 👏

[@philomenaballerina]

Bless you, Charlie. You have a very wise mind and wise heart-if Justice is to be served (which it was not, and still is not) than we MUST feel, and proclaim, that deep sympathy for many of the German people that you write of. We are NO better than those who conceived and implemented the the mass genocide of the mentally ill (who were the Proto-victims of the Nazi murder machine), the Jews and the Roman Catholics, Germans citizens and Gypsies, if we simply re-classify the groups-Nazis=ALL Germans=Evil. Such atrocities as those carried out by the Third Reich are only possibly when we do NOT recognize INDIVIDUAL human beings. Most Germans were also victims!!! Their suffering was an existence defined by coercion and terror par excellence, horribly compounded by this soul-deadening demoralization of internally, or by environmental maneuvering, compromising with Evil just to hide, to protect yourself and those you love. A piece of your soul withers every day in such a world. I am ashamed that our Western nations, my own being the US, just turned around and bludgeoned ALL of Germany-all of those individuals who suffered this soul-deadening existence-stripping every German citizen of his or her individual humanity and spat at the trauma and victimization most every person endured-We dehumanized EVERY GERMAN. Are we, IN PRINCIPLE, any better? We condemn a whole group of people as evil without delineating the innocent from the guilty-is that not in the same vain as the National Socialists? We STILL invalidate the trauma and sufferings of the individual German people under Hitler through omission. Until we speak of their suffering and validate it, no war has been won-no victory achieved. Justice was a farce. We have all inherited the war in our hearts, for it is a war that is in essence between the individual and all of the nations in WWII. It disputes the sanctity (or even existence) of the human soul, the nature of justice, guilt and innocence in relation to human suffering, if a human person-the individual-is innately sacred, or if a human being is only such insofar as he contributes something, proves himself valuable, somehow earns his right to be recognized as a human being. And most of all-what are we permitted to do (or even morally obligated to do for the “common” or “greater” good) to another human being and under what circumstances. Bless your heart, Charlie Hunter. YOU are victorious-you have obtained justice for man in your soul. May you keep this sympathy with you in your heart always. Like a canary in a coal mine, it will stir when what is evil proclaims itself the good. You have lifted my heart this day. Sincerely, Laura Jeanne

[@cautiouscharlie]

@@philomenaballerina That's a very sweet message Laura - and beautifully written. I very much agree with your sentiment here. My grandparents were Polish Jews who barely made it out of Europe during the war. They fled to Australia, which is where I was born. Now I live in Berlin with my girlfriend who is German. I hold no ill will towards Germans. I do wish African Americans could learn to forgive white America. Clinging on to their victimization is only holding them back. But then again, everyone deals with trauma and generational trauma differently. Vengeance is never the answer however.

[@joshwaffen88]

@@cautiouscharlie kikadoodledoo 🐀

[@cautiouscharlie]

@@joshwaffen88 hahaha good one!

[@retiredcolonel6492]

I was stationed in Nurenberg from 79-82. Even that many years after the war the Germans were still restoring some buildings. They did a truly remarkable job. Brick by brick, using whatever materials they could salvage from the original, the beautiful baroque buildings of Germany were reconstructed in such a manner it’s impossible to tell that it was bombed to its foundation during the war. I was favorably impressed with the Germans I knew and met. It was incongruent to me that the fathers and grandfathers of the Germans I knew were Nazis. It was and still is a stark reminder that radicalism bubbles just below the surface in all peoples even the very cultured and educated such as the Weimar Germans were. Can a Hitler or Stalin rise in the US? Yes, if the circumstances are right.

[@nostro1940]

the 60fps gives it a more modern recording feel

[@Jonyi100]

seeing this video parts from that time and now watching out of my window in germany it feels like a different world.........

[@kilikdudley]

Filmmakers today must capture life more candidly for future generations. Too much hype capture and shallow depth of field nowadays

[@mymaster416]

Interesting fact: Germany was the only country constantly offering peace both during WW1 and WW2.

[@LoveHammerMan]

I thought it would take more than a single generation after all the WW2 veterans died for all you no chin fascist fan boys to start thinking you were safe to say this kind of dreg...

[@bw6524]

I don't recall reading anywhere Germany offering peace to the Soviet union or Poland.

[@mymaster416]

@@bw6524 Germany offered peace to Poland multiple times. And Poland would have accepted it (just like Czechoslovakia accepted Polish ultimatum and gave up the territory) if it wasn't for pressure from France and Britain. And of course there weren't much peace offers to Germany's main enemy 😬

[@bw6524]

@@mymaster416 incorrect, Germany issued demands. Hitler had already demonstrated to the world that his word and promises were worthless. Remind me, what were the peace offers to the Soviet union and when were they made?

[@snails6997]

We will see another forty in twenty years. These scene is as close as now to the Back to the Future movie. Time flies.

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

They have plenty of scrap metal, bricks, wood, etc. I just cannot wrap my mind around how many years this would take. Talk about a mega project.

[@markcantemail8018]

The Marshall Plan .

[@BasementEngineer]

@@markcantemail8018 It speeded up recovery only a little.

[@TheHesseJames]

@@markcantemail8018 The Marshall Plan enabled the people to rebuild quicker. But it was the people themselves who rebuilt.

[@kayjay7585]

3:27 for a moment I thought that's John Cleese and that I clicked on an obscure Monty Python skit

[@thelydiaspringexperiment6437]

as a brit i agree with my grandma that we fought on the wrong side of both world wars she lived through, despite bombs falling on her head

[@gabrieljorfen9192]

Pobre gente! Qué duro habrá Sido reconstruir todo. Es admirable cómo lograron salir adelante.

[@uioplkhj]

Pity the victims of war. The German people loved the war they started when it was going their way.

[@WhoopsieDayZ]

@@uioplkhj Germany itself was one of the biggest victims of the war. Your view on WW2 is so simplistic.

[@uioplkhj]

@@WhoopsieDayZ Germany started the war. They exterminated innocent women and children by the millions with gas. The Holocaust succeeded in many countries, killing 99.9 percent of Jews. Were 99.9 percent of Germans gassed and burnt?

[@yarizsanchez6961]

Asi es

[@jameshill8493]

@@uioplkhjmindset of a child who doesn’t understand the world and history

[@wildwildItaly]

Wow, amazing how with the color it looks so much real! Poor people.

[@davidxdavis]

This film highlights the very conscious desire to socially engineer a society. From their physical to phychololical behaviours. It raises questions to the extent our present day societies are manipulated. And to what end this engineering is directed. We can only have become more proficient at this after so much experience and with the tools technology provides.

[@heliosho]

Do you agree that it was justified and good?

[@yeboscrebo4451]

Exactly. It’s not a question that we our minds are being socially engineered today - it’s a fact. After watching the doc Europa, I have to question wether or not the Germans were the bad guys.

[@chant9064]

Reminds me of brave new world

[@LinuxGalore]

My father was stationed in Germany during the 1950s, he was surprised how the Germans had cleared up their nation and rebuilt. Meanwhile, in his home town, Liverpool (UK) the place was still a mess and showed wartime damage right through to the 1970s when he last visited.

[@ManteIIo]

What kind of wartime damage? I am pretty sure German planes couldn't fly further past London.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

​@ManteIIo German planes made it all the way to Belfast. Hull was the worst hit due to its central location, the docks and the large river it's on. The german bombers would branch off from Hull to Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.

[@Shell2164]

Probably because Germany had a shit ton of help to rebuild their country, we didn’t.

[@EgoRaptorLP]

Well, depends on the city. There were more than enough cities that still had ruins in the 70s. East germany still had them after the wall fell.

[@personpersonson1771]

Your country shouldn't exist @@Shell2164

[@zakur0hako]

They are lucky to be not in the russian zone

[@sluckydog657]

you are absolutely right, no nation in the world has suffered such bloody losses as the Russians from nazi terror

[@GlobalTossPot]

Literally, all the Russian soldiers did during and after the war was rape the German women even the teens

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

Rape of Berlin