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  • (31 Dec 1944) Story 2
    242 MID 2752 R2 - B/W Sound 1944 - Die Deutsche Wochenschau
    01:08:55 Tiger tanks arriving on train to France and through countryside
    01:09:54 tankers eat and drink water
    01:10:06 Troops digging trenches
    01:10:15 "Granadieren" marching through France - some shots in trenches - preparing for battle
    01:11:14 fighting near Caen - German army firing mortars
    01: 11:39 Tiger tanks moving through French countryside - tanks move past camera
    01:12:22 Camouflaged tanks through Normandie / Normandy - near Caen
    01: 12;24 cows and sheep get in the way of German tanks and trucks
    01:12:38 American bombers in the air - bombs drop and large explosion seen
    01:12:59 French injured and refugees on road - sorting through rubble and being carried away by stretcher
    01:13:40 Black Americans being spat at and punched by German friendly French as they walk through French town
    01:14:20 Allies bomb France - Luftwaffe planes take off and air battle seen - some gun camera footage and some air to air shots mixed together
    01:15:00 Good air to ground shots of bombs falling on houses below*
    01:15:09 fighting on ground with Allies - Germans in trenches
    01:15:38 Brief shot of Michael Wittman in a Tiger tank - he is wearing a headset***
    01:15:50 Camouflaged Tiger past camera with Wittman steering
    01:16:21 tank battle - lots of dead Allied tanks left on the battle field
    01:16:55 Troops on the ground and tanks in battle - GVS of destroyed buildings
    01:17:30 ends
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 8 тис.

  • @1999200020012011
    @1999200020012011 3 роки тому +6204

    1944 when the German victories came closer and closer to home

    • @B-52H
      @B-52H 3 роки тому +152

      Lol

    • @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control
      @Stand_By_For_Mind_Control 3 роки тому +255

      Yeah if you're intimately aware of the war status at this point, this is one GLOWING fucking broadcast. Motherfuckers were blowing their brains out and popping cyanide pills like candy at this point.

    • @dx1450
      @dx1450 3 роки тому +246

      Japan did the same thing. All the great victories kept happening ever closer to the home islands.

    • @AnthonyBerkshire
      @AnthonyBerkshire 3 роки тому +86

      It is because of the experience in ww1. The Germans believed if they continued the fight after they won the east front they would have won the ww1 in the west with new troops but got backstabbed by politics. “Dolchstoß legende” like the mighty Siegfried. So they truly thought they have to fight to the end. Fight for your lost comrades.

    • @oboltustraharius1138
      @oboltustraharius1138 3 роки тому +31

      @@AnthonyBerkshire They chose to put their hands up rather than fight for their lost comrades when they relaized they were pussies against victorious Red Army:)))

  • @Schengor
    @Schengor 3 роки тому +3567

    In case anybody wants a translation:
    0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived."
    0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
    0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)."
    0:50 -
    0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order."
    1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions."
    1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers."
    1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position."
    2:42 - 2:47: "
    Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack."
    2:52 - 2:54: "
    Fire contact with the head of the enemy."
    3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front."
    3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy."
    3:28 - 3:33: "
    Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas."
    3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves."
    3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy."
    4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety."
    4:11 - 4:15: "
    Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators."
    4:40 - 4:56: "
    The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost.
    Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans."
    5:28 - 5:34: "
    German fighters launch
    low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead."
    5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons
    ."
    6:00 - 6:05: "
    American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen."
    6:10 - 6:16: "
    On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack."
    6:24 - 6:27: "
    The German artillery takes the enemy under fire."
    6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front."
    6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward.
    In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour."
    7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week."
    7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat."
    8:08 - 8:27: "
    In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts.""

    • @thinkingagain5966
      @thinkingagain5966 3 роки тому +97

      👏👍

    • @thinkingagain5966
      @thinkingagain5966 3 роки тому +13

      @Joey Diazlike a docta

    • @mikeohagan2206
      @mikeohagan2206 3 роки тому +49

      @Monkee Media thanks make germany great again was a failure. the world should take note.. it does not work

    • @joeelliott2157
      @joeelliott2157 3 роки тому +31

      3:28 - 3:33:
      Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas, back into Switzerland.

    • @joeelliott2157
      @joeelliott2157 3 роки тому +18

      1:05 - 1:09: All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions, in preparation for the next offensive.

  • @doczooc
    @doczooc 2 роки тому +260

    Being German and understanding the narrator, I was surprised how much the voiceover gave away of the real situation. Troops going into "counterattack", American troops as "liberators" of France, troops being depoyed "after short training" etc. Almost every single sentence gave away that it was not going well for the Nazis.

    • @JudasPriestSUCKS
      @JudasPriestSUCKS 2 роки тому +54

      Not the Nazis, you ment, YOU GUYS. You are German, these are your guys

    • @spasti7026
      @spasti7026 2 роки тому +145

      @@JudasPriestSUCKS bruh

    • @haraldthorson9153
      @haraldthorson9153 2 роки тому

      @@JudasPriestSUCKS What about millions of traitors of Germany like Communists and those who headed west Germany?

    • @intermilan9731
      @intermilan9731 Рік тому

      It is the other way around. Zionist enslavement of France.

    • @prussianangler
      @prussianangler Рік тому

      @@JudasPriestSUCKS ur literally dumb. And it is meant, not ment.

  • @np8139
    @np8139 2 роки тому +61

    UA-cam auto translate: "Tanks and fat people are released as self-drivers."

    • @jimmyincredible3141
      @jimmyincredible3141 2 роки тому +2

      LOL - "Panzer und Selbstfahrlafetten werden entladen" would be "tanks and self propelled artillery are being unloaded" ... or as YT puts it:
      "selbstfahrer fette" - "self driving fat people"

    • @albertobellini98
      @albertobellini98 2 роки тому +2

      It's probably talking about the U.S.

  • @yamnayaseed356
    @yamnayaseed356 3 роки тому +4276

    The video is positive because they knew Steiner's attack will put everything in order.

    • @Mrgruntastic
      @Mrgruntastic 3 роки тому +47

      LOL!

    • @thethirdfrenchempire1556
      @thethirdfrenchempire1556 3 роки тому +211

      Steiner.........Steiner doesn’t have enough troops for a counter attack.........

    • @michaelburton2253
      @michaelburton2253 3 роки тому +121

      @@thethirdfrenchempire1556 nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein

    • @kh2b573
      @kh2b573 3 роки тому +86

      @@michaelburton2253 das war ein befehl!

    • @abercaaerielmcfernz6591
      @abercaaerielmcfernz6591 3 роки тому +77

      @@kh2b573 Der Angriff Steiner war ein Befehl!

  • @graustreifbrombeerkralle1078
    @graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 2 роки тому +1175

    Not gonna lie, that is some intense footage. Hard to believe soldiers actually ran around there with a camera while hell was breaking loose around them.

    • @user-Prost-69
      @user-Prost-69 2 роки тому +29

      ДА! иногда они ещё фотографировали как расстреливают детей!

    • @gothenmosph5151
      @gothenmosph5151 2 роки тому +21

      US Civil War was first to be photographed and coverage like this hasn't stopped since. CNN had the first live broadcast of a war in the 90s with the bombing campaign of the gulf war. Being a war correspondent and video journalist are real jobs now.

    • @wiseowl3
      @wiseowl3 2 роки тому +37

      русские сделали то же самое.

    • @mausexx2459
      @mausexx2459 2 роки тому +94

      Well you should know, that probably most of those images are acted.

    • @graustreifbrombeerkralle1078
      @graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 2 роки тому +7

      @@mausexx2459
      Doubt

  • @PeterGonet
    @PeterGonet 9 місяців тому +14

    My father who was in the British Army fought in Burma. My grandfather who was German was old at that time and was sent to fight at the Russian Front. That's why I hate war. My grandfather was injured in the head by a bullet and miraculously survived the war.

  • @steveo7767
    @steveo7767 2 роки тому +19

    Love watching or listening to these...keeps my German fluent.

    • @ulfhovi1503
      @ulfhovi1503 2 роки тому

      U

    • @steveo7767
      @steveo7767 2 роки тому

      @@ulfhovi1503 Weisst du was?

    • @Ramonda1914
      @Ramonda1914 10 місяців тому

      Its vrey important. Your german. But what nacist done its nothing?? Bravo. Mine got are you ok???

    • @Ramonda1914
      @Ramonda1914 10 місяців тому

      @@ulfhovi1503 U. IS SIGN FOR USTASAS. CROAT NAZZY WILD ANIMALS PARDON CROATS. WHICH KILLED IN CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVONA AND SERBIA 1000.000.SREBS PLUS. 350.000 GYPSES AND JUDES
      U IS FORBIDEN BUT IN EU AND TIDAYS NAZZY CROATIA THEY STILL CELEBRATE NACISM MADNESS
      ITS THE SAME IN UKRAINA TODAY AZOV. BANDERA RCT PURE NACISTS.
      SHSME OF WESTERN WORLD

    • @steveo7767
      @steveo7767 10 місяців тому

      @@Ramonda1914 Um not really sure what you are saying, your English sentence structure is way off.

  • @FAHQU2
    @FAHQU2 2 роки тому +803

    Germany News in 1944 summarized: “this is fine”

    • @whw710
      @whw710 2 роки тому +44

      (it wasn’t fine)

    • @mr.vargas5648
      @mr.vargas5648 2 роки тому +25

      Its called propaganda.

    • @pacza_vacza
      @pacza_vacza 2 роки тому +10

      "News of England" in 1944 it's so good that we chose the allies of the USSR, now we can heroically tell the whole world that we won and get drunk with alcohol in our stinking pubs))))

    • @Infernal460
      @Infernal460 2 роки тому +14

      @@pacza_vacza 1944 Poland your here to liberate us? Your here to liberate us right...

    • @bethbearmacethatguy
      @bethbearmacethatguy 2 роки тому

      @@Infernal460 You're*

  • @grantt1589
    @grantt1589 2 роки тому +742

    German radio: victory is guaranteed
    The reporters off camera: we're fucked

    • @ethimself5064
      @ethimself5064 2 роки тому +12

      🤣🤣

    • @noelmajers6369
      @noelmajers6369 2 роки тому +17

      Even the diehards were admitting by this point: "well, it's been better..."

    • @michaelterry4394
      @michaelterry4394 2 роки тому +2

      Happy Trails to you until we meet again. And now for something completely different.

    • @andieve
      @andieve 2 роки тому +1

      Reminds me of North Korean TV

    • @cooldudecs
      @cooldudecs 2 роки тому +3

      Russians enter Berlin...

  • @jerrycole1530
    @jerrycole1530 2 роки тому +30

    You've got to hand it to the Germans They shot combat footage right up to the end of hostilities.

    • @mikepravica2140
      @mikepravica2140 Рік тому

      Whereas the Russians were more focused on winning the war and didn't have time to film their victories.

    • @billtate2835
      @billtate2835 8 місяців тому

      @@mikepravica2140there no victories for commies, they’re barbarians who were preparing invade Germany and Europe in 1939-1941 and Hitler hit first to defend Germany. And stupid roosevelt gave weapons and huge amount of supplies to commies… that’s your biggest mistake. Germans amd Americans shouldn’t war, but commies made you fight against civilisation… for red orks. Then you instantly got cold war and war in Europe (ukranian war) stupid leftist…

  • @miguelrojaslieber3088
    @miguelrojaslieber3088 11 місяців тому +15

    Por Dios !!!!!!, esto es una joya histórica para la humanidad, a pesar de ser propaganda, podemos apreciar los rostros de los soldados alemanes, sus gestos, sus sentimientos, esto es : historia pura. Podemos ver también al grandioso Michael Wittmann.

    • @user-ps3vo1xe8l
      @user-ps3vo1xe8l 11 місяців тому +2

      Él es Gran y Grande persona! Saludos cordiales desde Bulgaria! 🇧🇬❤️🙏🌹👑✨

    • @user-zk4lo4fw2n
      @user-zk4lo4fw2n 7 місяців тому

      А то, что они убили 2000000 вас не волнует?

    • @user-xp1sn8ho4k
      @user-xp1sn8ho4k 3 місяці тому

      Какие чувства, фашисты и убийцы детей женщин и стариков, суки они😡😡

  • @sandgrownun66
    @sandgrownun66 2 роки тому +797

    Although the caption says 31 December 1944, this was obviously filmed several months before that date.There are plenty of leaves on the trees, indicating a time earlier in the year. Also, there is footage of Panzer Ace, Michael Wittmann, who was killed on the 8th of August 1944. Therefore, this footage was probably taken a few weeks after D-Day.

    • @czwarty7878
      @czwarty7878 2 роки тому +23

      I think it's error of description, on AP Archive site there are multiple videos that are dated 31 december 0:00 AM of various years. Maybe they couldn't find proper dates, maybe archive only listed the videos by the year or something, that would be my guess. I doubt they would release that Normandy footage on 31 december when more recent offensives that gave "new hope" took place. And while of course back then gaining footage and linking it into one film took time, another Deutsche Wochenshau about operation Wacht am Rhein is dated for 16 january 1945, so only 2 weeks after. So I think this video could be dated for some few weeks after 15-17 June 1944, judging by the footage of SS Tigers combat.

    • @user-zv4cv1zb1r
      @user-zv4cv1zb1r 2 роки тому +7

      @@czwarty7878 маленькая ошибка. Вы написали: "16 december 1945". Война к этому моменту закончилась. Вы вероятно имели ввиду 16 декабря 1944 года.

    • @czwarty7878
      @czwarty7878 2 роки тому +2

      @@user-zv4cv1zb1r you're right of course! I was thinking of one thing and wrote the other, it should be "january" of course instead of "december". Fixed it, спасибо!

    • @lynskyn2
      @lynskyn2 2 роки тому +4

      at that time the Luftwaffe wasn't active against groundtargets any more. So propably mixed with shots from before D-day.

    • @czwarty7878
      @czwarty7878 2 роки тому +7

      @@lynskyn2 not really, they had just enough action for some recordings. Allies had air superiority but it doesn't mean entire sky became a no-fly zone for Luftwaffe, they were just told to stay away from allied fighters unless the latter were at severe disadvantage; some few jabo missions still were active. Few fighters strafed the beaches on 6th june, some FW190s attacked ships with rockets, Ju88s also were carrying out bombings and mining missions, also the airborne before Carentan were bombed by german jabos. So it's just enough for recording something for propaganda... And that's about it.

  • @Lichcrafter
    @Lichcrafter 3 роки тому +879

    German News 1944: *is in German
    Me: *surprised pikachu face

    • @Mortal7
      @Mortal7 3 роки тому +5

      Wdym

    • @RodrigoFerreira-bs6hd
      @RodrigoFerreira-bs6hd 3 роки тому +4

      @@Mortal7 ahe was waiting to come here and see what they were saying but didn’t remember it would be in German and he/she wouldn’t understand anything

    • @dx1450
      @dx1450 3 роки тому +6

      I was hoping there'd at least be subtitles.

    • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
      @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 3 роки тому +1

      No I think he was thinking since it was so late in the war that it would be allied propaganda, not german. Cause all german new would be "we are losing".

    • @AnthonyBerkshire
      @AnthonyBerkshire 3 роки тому +2

      You hear the voice of Josef Goebbels.

  • @michaelweigel2466
    @michaelweigel2466 Рік тому

    Very impressive. Thank you!

  • @davecopp9356
    @davecopp9356 8 місяців тому +6

    The Panther is such a beauty. For me it is the best looking tank. Also the Jagtpanther is really great looking. Directly after is the Hetzer.

    • @warrenmilford6848
      @warrenmilford6848 7 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, they all look pretty good, but my favorite is the King Tiger.

    • @serega1208
      @serega1208 4 місяці тому

      How can you admire a murder weapon so much?

    • @GerardBoer
      @GerardBoer Місяць тому

      Het is rotzooi

  • @antonleimbach648
    @antonleimbach648 3 роки тому +1879

    Germany : The enemy is pouring across our boarder, we have them just where we want them!

    • @alexchad98
      @alexchad98 3 роки тому +20

      😂😂😂

    • @ndreas.
      @ndreas. 3 роки тому +4

      And not hiding on the island anymore.

    • @creepygamerful
      @creepygamerful 3 роки тому +65

      Of course, because with Steiners counter attack they will be able to encircle them and destroy them!

    • @gabeplescher8447
      @gabeplescher8447 3 роки тому +14

      Germany 1945 : well that was a lie😑

    • @elrjames7799
      @elrjames7799 3 роки тому

      @Anton Leimbach. It may well not have come to that if the July 44 'Bomb Plot' had succeeded. Even so, there would not have been very much margin for error in playing what remained of Germany's political and military cards.

  • @deaustin4018
    @deaustin4018 3 роки тому +1103

    "the enemy will soon have Berlin surrounded. Then we'll have them just where we want them."

    • @yamnayaseed356
      @yamnayaseed356 3 роки тому +58

      That right there is high self esteem

    • @brad727
      @brad727 3 роки тому +7

      😂😂😂

    • @ihatewhatisaw
      @ihatewhatisaw 3 роки тому +11

      @@yamnayaseed356 hahahaha ego the size of Hindenburg

    • @louisshann3122
      @louisshann3122 3 роки тому +2

      LOL

    • @Blackstaralpha
      @Blackstaralpha 3 роки тому +32

      The propaganda at that time was literally talking about shortening the supply lines to the front. Thats also a way to descibe being pushed back.

  • @ANDROLOMA
    @ANDROLOMA 2 роки тому

    Where can I purchase this incredible soundtrack?

  • @user-fj8rp3eh7b
    @user-fj8rp3eh7b 10 днів тому

    My uncle George landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and he was only 5 or 6miles inland when they started running into literally thousands of German surrendering and by mid October more than 600,000 Germans had surrendered, including more than 200,000 in Normandy alone,
    the Germans were absolutely overwhelmed on D-Day. I talked to several German soldiers when I was a kid back in the 1960s and they all said the same thing
    they had absolutely no idea the Americans would show up in such great numbers and overwhelmed them so quickly

  • @Inuwoodx
    @Inuwoodx 3 роки тому +580

    I (german) showed this to my grandfather. He told me that his mother told him at that time, that the war is probably lost and all will be over soon.

    • @andiansukmara
      @andiansukmara 3 роки тому +27

      That your grandpa already knew the result of the wars early

    • @Inuwoodx
      @Inuwoodx 3 роки тому +125

      @@andiansukmara Not exactly, my grandfather was like 6 years old. But his mother (my grand grandmother) did'nt buy the propaganda, as did many other germans at that time. They knew the war could not go much longer and that germany would probably not be the winner at the end of 44.

    • @neveragain2421
      @neveragain2421 3 роки тому +26

      You're German and you also speak English, while the majority of Americans only speak one lol ... good job 👍

    • @germanv1nce139
      @germanv1nce139 3 роки тому +12

      @@Inuwoodx So etwas zu sagen war doch gefährlich?

    • @Michael-kx2io
      @Michael-kx2io 3 роки тому +22

      Its really easy to calculate, if you're sitting between russians and american allies you probably run out of supplies. And then you will notice that youre get beaten up when more and more men get taken into military service. But you better should not have told this in public

  • @TehMorbidAtheist
    @TehMorbidAtheist 2 роки тому +420

    Germany in 1944: "This is all part of the plan."

    • @TheStonedstone
      @TheStonedstone 2 роки тому +7

      That's obvious. They only had to cut their supply lines that were always too stretched

    • @glenbearh9109
      @glenbearh9109 2 роки тому +4

      @@TheStonedstone They had great fighting me and good equipment but in no way could they withstand the onslaught of fresh troops and supplies. Germany was beaten and even if the bulge had worked, sheer numbers and a two front war would have brought the same end. If the German people only knew how messed up Hitler, Himmler and the others were they may have not supported them.

    • @cooldudecs
      @cooldudecs 2 роки тому +3

      @@glenbearh9109 hyperinflation brother

    • @hpholland
      @hpholland 2 роки тому +2

      Any minute now…

    • @billtate2835
      @billtate2835 2 роки тому +1

      They defended so hard in 1944, 1945 that you broke your teeth before taking Berlin

  • @werdebauingenieur2937
    @werdebauingenieur2937 2 роки тому

    Which city is that around 4:30?

  • @prodcross
    @prodcross 2 роки тому +7

    “We’re not retreating, we’re advancing on Berlin”

  • @allanfifield8256
    @allanfifield8256 4 роки тому +403

    "It's a trap boys! The closer the allies get to Germany the longer their supply lines will be! We're luring to defeat!"

    • @andiansukmara
      @andiansukmara 3 роки тому +1

      Its so very confusing calculation, still had to thinking in positives ways, but ironic in fact allies came closer could easly defeat germans soon,

    • @Blackstaralpha
      @Blackstaralpha 3 роки тому +13

      That is actually no joke how it was portrayed in german propaganda at that time

    • @hodaka1000
      @hodaka1000 3 роки тому +3

      Lulling them into a false sense of security

    • @miker252
      @miker252 2 роки тому +3

      Well they didn't anticipate the Red Ball Express.

    • @hodaka1000
      @hodaka1000 2 роки тому

      That actually worked against the Japanese in New Guinea

  • @RuleofFive
    @RuleofFive 2 роки тому +450

    German News 1944: Russians coming from the East, Americans from the West. We have them right were we want them! Everything's great!

    • @RonSommar
      @RonSommar 2 роки тому +38

      It saves transportation capacities when the enemy comes to you and with Steiners offensive everything’s will be fine.

    • @RuleofFive
      @RuleofFive 2 роки тому +5

      @@RonSommar 😂

    • @nevajno2741
      @nevajno2741 2 роки тому +3

      Non-Communists are subhumans

    • @RuleofFive
      @RuleofFive 2 роки тому +5

      @@nevajno2741 Good to know.

    • @bukkaratsuppa6414
      @bukkaratsuppa6414 2 роки тому +4

      @@nevajno2741 You have a great day, too.

  • @danny75461
    @danny75461 10 місяців тому

    Whats the music playing @1:11 called

  • @p12anjacobmlgnoscoper86
    @p12anjacobmlgnoscoper86 2 роки тому

    7:00 Whats the song name?

  • @johncostello3174
    @johncostello3174 3 роки тому +1380

    Looks good for Germany. Should by in London by Christmas

    • @rodrigodasilva9176
      @rodrigodasilva9176 3 роки тому +9

      Propaganda.

    • @canon-de-75
      @canon-de-75 3 роки тому +95

      @@rodrigodasilva9176 you know he was being humorous

    • @Otacatapetl
      @Otacatapetl 3 роки тому +27

      Don't worry, they won't get through the Ardennes.

    • @JackoBanon1
      @JackoBanon1 3 роки тому +20

      @@Otacatapetl They only had to retreat because they were running out of gasoline and ammunition.
      The whole Western Front basically collapsed on the side of the Allies during the Ardennes Offensive and if it wasn't for missing supplies the Germans would have encircled big parts of their armies.

    • @lolofblitz6468
      @lolofblitz6468 3 роки тому +1

      @@JackoBanon1 true I agrre with you!

  • @Fredfredbug4
    @Fredfredbug4 3 роки тому +1969

    Goebbels: We need some tanks for the propaganda film.
    Wehrmacht: You want one tank or all two?

    • @FreedomForAll2013
      @FreedomForAll2013 3 роки тому +48

      Hahaha this is the best comment here

    • @FreedomForAll2013
      @FreedomForAll2013 3 роки тому +14

      Why dont they play poker in the Jungle?
      Too many Cheetas! Get it!? Cheaters/Cheetahs...
      No you don't because Cheetah's don't live in the Jungle!!!!!

    • @EstParum
      @EstParum 3 роки тому +22

      Reminds me of Italy campaign.
      Panzers spotted. They got 2 pz IVs!
      -Looks like they brought the whole division.

    • @carrenocuevashectortonatiu8346
      @carrenocuevashectortonatiu8346 3 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @wb6162
      @wb6162 3 роки тому +4

      Paramount Pictures probably borrowed them some movie props LOL

  • @stranger4995
    @stranger4995 2 роки тому +10

    German propaganda in 1944 be like:“Everything's fine believe me”

  • @bradleycrouser
    @bradleycrouser 9 місяців тому +3

    You notice the French bystanders punching the American (or British?) POWS as the Germans march them through the streets?

  • @Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan
    @Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan 2 роки тому +68

    0:19 Auto English translate. Tanks and fat people are released as self-drivers they are thrown to the front as quickly as possible.
    Real translation "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
    Remember when UA-cam allowed the community to do the translations? Clearly the auto translate works so well.

    • @ahrensmedia
      @ahrensmedia 2 роки тому

      Its „tanks and artillerie“ where u got the fat from? 😂

    • @nikel-
      @nikel- 2 роки тому

      @@ahrensmedia youtube's auto translation

    • @sluxi
      @sluxi 2 роки тому

      Auto-translate making the germans seem even more desperate than they really were at this point.

  • @RobCummings
    @RobCummings 3 роки тому +760

    The troops in the first few shots were smiling because they were sent to the Western Front.

    • @fabiojo783
      @fabiojo783 3 роки тому +120

      Yes nobody wanted to end in Siberia.

    • @mariacornwallis1602
      @mariacornwallis1602 3 роки тому +130

      @@fabiojo783 They smiled even more when they were captured and sent to Scotland or Canada

    • @ricardograu8848
      @ricardograu8848 3 роки тому +9

      Nunca habra otro ejercito como el aleman....

    • @mariacornwallis1602
      @mariacornwallis1602 3 роки тому +21

      @@ricardograu8848 Sie meinen wie eine böse Gruppe von Nazi-Kriminellen, die den Frieden Europas zerstört und die Bevölkerung ermordet haben

    • @mariacornwallis1602
      @mariacornwallis1602 3 роки тому +124

      @@gorw4330 What a load of crap you are typing. You are either a brainwashed communist or a troll.. Go away

  • @davidhawk9678
    @davidhawk9678 2 роки тому +7

    German audiences were asked 'Ticket bitte' when going into see the newsreel, and at the end were told to leave with their belongings in Russian!

  • @peghead
    @peghead Рік тому +2

    It's so important to preserve these films for posterity.

  • @nobbytart27
    @nobbytart27 4 роки тому +343

    Otto Carius reading the map at 40 seconds, survived the war in the top 3 tank aces of the war and wrote a brilliant book "Tigers in the mud" highly recomended about life as a German tanker, no Nazi propagander just muck and bullets mostly on the eastern front, details of some breathtaking actions that made this guy very special at what he did.

  • @mastermindd
    @mastermindd 3 роки тому +342

    This is a piece of history, thanks for uploading it.

  • @skymaster4743
    @skymaster4743 2 роки тому

    7:05 What is that music?

  • @user-jp9oj7td9p
    @user-jp9oj7td9p 9 місяців тому +8

    Когда этот киножурнал в Германии показывали, возможно кто-то узнавал своего мужа/сына/брата... Вот радости и гордости было наверное!

  • @soundblaweiterbla
    @soundblaweiterbla 2 роки тому +103

    Interessante Wortwahl: "Auch hier sind Frauen und Kinder ständig von den Luftangriffen der BEFREIER bedroht...".

    • @edwardmartinez2186
      @edwardmartinez2186 2 роки тому +2

      Like the Germans cared....

    • @NukeFinity
      @NukeFinity 2 роки тому +24

      Sollte wohl implizieren, dass die sogenannten Befreier gar keine sind

    • @robdyson4990
      @robdyson4990 2 роки тому +14

      Many French died under allied bombs

    • @soundblaweiterbla
      @soundblaweiterbla 2 роки тому +5

      @@robdyson4990 Interesting are the three answers to my opening comment. The first thinks in the direction of tooth for tooth, the second in the direction of occupied Germany and the third in the direction that the Allies have done more damage to France than the Germans. It's very crazy.

    • @copisetic1104
      @copisetic1104 2 роки тому +1

      You play with the bull, you get the horn!

  • @j.dunlop8295
    @j.dunlop8295 2 роки тому +198

    Don't think that German people didn't notice, younger and younger soldiers being shown in reports of victories closer to home?

    • @joelaguirre5571
      @joelaguirre5571 2 роки тому

      CREO QUE PARA ESE MOMENTO
      ERAN CONSCIENTES DE QUE YA HABÍAN PERDIDO LA GUERRA.

    • @spitdrinker9301
      @spitdrinker9301 2 роки тому +5

      I dont think they didnt notice but what should they have done?

    • @edwardblake1407
      @edwardblake1407 2 роки тому +27

      @@spitdrinker9301 exactly. it was a nation of 80 million people who the entire world ganged up on. and the red army raped the german people.. literally. for years once they finally were allowed to control germany.. by the "allies"
      the fact that they fought for 7 years and almost won was a miracle for them in itself. And since we know they were raped and murdered.. (so were ukranians. finns. and anyone the red army fought. so it wasnt because the germans were mean and deserved it, it wouldve happened if they had lost the war. which eventually they did lose. kinda hard to beat the entire world when its backed by international finance and has a trade war waged on it for 14 years.
      They werent trying to conquer the world they were trying to get their pre wwi land back. and stop pols from murdering germans by the thousands.
      imagine if the austrailians all of the sudden decided to give new zealand to the indoneasians.. how unpopular it would be... thats how it was when danzig was given to poland despite 99% of its residents voting against it.
      it would be like giving san diego CA to mexico depsite 99% of san diegans voting against it.. but the international powers just say "too bad.. you live in mexico now."
      young soldiers fought because if they didnt. they knew theyd die just the same.
      except instead of dying fighting like a man along side their brothers in arms.. theyd be killed like a helpless child.. along side their sisters and mothers while they get raped and he can do nothing to stop it.. if those were your choices... would you fight? and die atleast fighting the enemy? or would you rather just get your head crushed with the butt of a rifle while your mom and sisters are sharing a lineup of 50 horny soviet soldiers each?

    • @dinochookproductions5190
      @dinochookproductions5190 2 роки тому +44

      @@edwardblake1407 nice fantasy novel you are writing, when do you plan to publish?

    • @IMidgetManI
      @IMidgetManI 2 роки тому +24

      @@dinochookproductions5190 lol an actual nazi sympathiser, never thought I'd see one in the wild

  • @There-ought-to-be-clowns
    @There-ought-to-be-clowns 11 місяців тому +1

    It dawned on me that this isn’t too far from the current media in the US.

  • @loneranger5349
    @loneranger5349 2 роки тому +5

    Amazing how both sides were the same to watch films from their point of view

  • @robdixson196
    @robdixson196 3 роки тому +224

    What i find amazing is how similar it looks and sounds to American news reels from the time

    • @yourefuked8542
      @yourefuked8542 3 роки тому +29

      I am saddened by how much the modern day world is starting to look like Germany circa 1938.
      First we are told to wear a mask. Then give up our livelihood and lives.
      Next you will be told you must get a shot that has no real track record knowing full well they haven't been able to stop corvids cousins the common cold and influenza.
      After that is is blue shirts M-W-F, red shirts T-T-S and white on Sunday.

    • @augustdenger8231
      @augustdenger8231 3 роки тому +9

      You should listen to some Japanese or Russian ones, they're the same. The Atlantic accent took over the broadcasting world

    • @hoodie__guy
      @hoodie__guy 3 роки тому +99

      @@yourefuked8542 ah yes when a regime which killed literally killing millions and torturing millions more is compared with wearing a mask and getting vaccinated. Makes perfect sense

    • @yourefuked8542
      @yourefuked8542 3 роки тому +6

      @@hoodie__guy And you think we have such a great record?
      How many 1st People did we kill off with gun and germ?
      How many Africans were ripped from their home to serve the white man?
      How many Japanese died in two shots? Granted that one did save lives but still, we killed them.
      Then there is the raping of the American laborer. Amazon is a good example, employees get $15 per hour and Jeff is the richest man on the little rock we all share, yah, right. The fucker could give them $30 per hour and still have more than he can spend.
      The list is longer but I don't want to plug your brain up.
      May have taken us longer but we are no better and the latest attempt to take away freedoms will surely push us back to the top of the pile of mistreating our fellow human beings for a buck and a power trip.

    • @robdixson196
      @robdixson196 3 роки тому +3

      @Yasser Osman I have no doubt of it. The US is being replaced by China as a hedgemon. The empire is already dead, the only question is will it survive as sovereign democratic republic? But then again will any country survive globaliaztion as such?

  • @lincolncollingridge8822
    @lincolncollingridge8822 2 роки тому +146

    All the smiles on the faces of those young men- no idea what was about to roll over the top of them.

    • @donsurlylyte
      @donsurlylyte 2 роки тому +1

      not so many smiles, at that

    • @bobbobby8105
      @bobbobby8105 2 роки тому +20

      @@donsurlylyte 6 years of fighting against the Globalists will do that to you.

    • @Burhanontheranch
      @Burhanontheranch 2 роки тому +10

      @@bobbobby8105 fuck nazis

    • @jamaphy8621
      @jamaphy8621 2 роки тому +5

      @@bobbobby8105 fuck nazis

    • @panchopistola8298
      @panchopistola8298 2 роки тому +13

      Lol they knew what was coming : but there is no way to stop it so; smile today die tomorrow right ?

  • @alfredopampanga9356
    @alfredopampanga9356 Рік тому +2

    As someone once remarked, all the magnificent German victories seemed to creep closer to Berlin.

  • @dagsterblaster4973
    @dagsterblaster4973 2 роки тому

    Impressive film quality!

  • @Plastic_Elegg
    @Plastic_Elegg 2 роки тому +100

    "Alright boys, we managed to scrounge up the last 6 trucks in the division and a gallon of gas for each of them, and Panther 721 is the only tank still running. Is that enough for your newsreel?"
    "Ah crap, Hans, do we still have the videos from the tank factory before it was bombed? Just throw it in the beginning there."

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 2 роки тому +2

      This was spring 44, Germany still had plenty of firepower. The (King) Tiger 2 was just entering service, as were the Hetzer, Jagdpanther Jagdtiger and Jagdpanzer 4.

    • @dougsinnott1
      @dougsinnott1 2 роки тому

      Even so,the Germans were very good soldiers,who resisted to the end,even when all seemed lost.
      And the factories were still turning out tanks and planes,even if they didn,t have pilots or tank crews to use them!
      So you cant just take the piss out of them!

    • @dirkweeber154
      @dirkweeber154 Рік тому

      People have no respect - even a regime has been bad - the German soldiers and its armies were the best in the world at the time and all those soldiers fought bravely. Only some people without any kind of brain and knowledge about World War II could lead to comments like that.
      Germans always respect today what allied forces have done for all who had been under the spell of evil.
      Yet to trample arround on history shows what kind of humans you are - welcome to the Neanderthal....

  • @erwansabatie1490
    @erwansabatie1490 3 роки тому +60

    I'm french, my great grandfather fought the germans in Verdun,3 months in 1916, and members of my family died in germans weapons factory ( because STO) during WW2. Our countries was in war 3 Times in 75 years, we lost more 2 millions of mens against Germany, and like if i'm proud to be french and i Always defend my country, i'm very happy to be Friend with germans today.
    Of course i can't forget ww1, or Hitler and nazis, but the Germany of today is not the Germany of 1942. Now we are in peace, and we are Friends, and i hope never see another horrible War between us again !!
    Long live french-german friendship

    • @silveriorebelo8045
      @silveriorebelo8045 3 роки тому +8

      Great Britan was totally responsible for ww1 - they comploted to provoke Germany into the war, and made it inevitable with the triple alliance between Great Britan, France and Russia

    • @robbiegarscadden2311
      @robbiegarscadden2311 3 роки тому +13

      @@silveriorebelo8045 complete bullshit. WWI started in the Balkans with the assassination of arch duke Ferdinand.....

    • @user-kv6il2wh5s
      @user-kv6il2wh5s 3 роки тому +1

      BULGARIAN ARMY killed more than 100 000 French
      " Coqs gaulois " on the SOUTHERN - " Macedonian " - " Thessaloniki " front in EUROPE during World War I 1914-1918 !

    • @user-kv6il2wh5s
      @user-kv6il2wh5s 3 роки тому +5

      Withouth the help of USA during World War II the French
      " Coqs gaulois " were one big NOTHING !

    • @erwansabatie1490
      @erwansabatie1490 3 роки тому +8

      @@user-kv6il2wh5s without USSR, all europe will be nazi !! Ussr won the war against nazis, not USA

  • @juanzulu1318
    @juanzulu1318 2 роки тому

    8:05 what kind of weapon is this? An automatic tank rifle????

  • @dady_max
    @dady_max Рік тому +9

    В начале показан Отто Кариус, танковый ас, который был тяжело ранен в июле 1944 года и лечился до весны 1945 года. Съёмка не позже июня-июля 1944 года.

    • @user-vg2xi6jh7y
      @user-vg2xi6jh7y 7 місяців тому

      6:44 Виттманн танковый ас,погиб 8 авг.44

  • @philschuler9674
    @philschuler9674 4 роки тому +360

    What do you think the propaganda machine was going to say..." well boys we lost another one".

    • @LaVictoireEstLaVie
      @LaVictoireEstLaVie 4 роки тому +6

      looool xD

    • @L1V2P9
      @L1V2P9 3 роки тому +18

      Maybe they were saying "They're doing to us the same thing we did to Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Russia, Poland, Norway, Greece and they are criminals!"

    • @moinmoin1727
      @moinmoin1727 3 роки тому +35

      @@L1V2P9 shut up boomer, you know nothing about this war

    • @DodecaDonk
      @DodecaDonk 3 роки тому +9

      @@moinmoin1727 boomers would know more considering their parents were veterans...

    • @grip2617
      @grip2617 3 роки тому +15

      @@L1V2P9 Germany started the war invading Poland to take revenge after the Polish massacred tens of thousannd of etnic Germans. Then England declared war on Germany.

  • @nicoc6387
    @nicoc6387 2 роки тому +92

    Fascinating to see such archives, thank you! About the date, though: where does 31 Dec 1944 come from? All the pictures seem to be taken in summer; those that recount specific events seem to come from July/Aug 1944.

    • @stonefox9124
      @stonefox9124 2 роки тому +9

      Probably films public release, things took longer back then.

    • @NukeFinity
      @NukeFinity 2 роки тому +4

      @David Deady mehr Schein als Sein

    • @ayyywerelisteninghere1022
      @ayyywerelisteninghere1022 2 роки тому

      @David Deady I was wondering why that women was punching that soldier, wow.

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 2 роки тому

      @David Deady Or the French were sick and tired of have their cities bombed by "Allies"

    • @bumarangnebula765
      @bumarangnebula765 2 роки тому +4

      This Newsreel is from August, 3 1944.

  • @merlijnraanesse55
    @merlijnraanesse55 2 роки тому +17

    0:38 "Howmuch gasoline do we have for footage", "for about 40 seconds, switch to infantery footage."
    2:47 STUG only actual functional panzer.
    5:29 Luftwaffe flew 5 sorties this day on the West Front.
    6:46 most feared German tank crew, looking up to the sky (in fear of allied air superiority).

    • @billtate2835
      @billtate2835 Рік тому

      It was very difficult in those days to destroy a tank from the air . This is not modernity

    • @stomper5432
      @stomper5432 8 місяців тому

      and you allied lovers still fear us

  • @andrewbell2712
    @andrewbell2712 2 роки тому +22

    With so many brave and motivated troops defending Germany, and with
    so many formidable Panzers, and anti tank howitzers available to these troops, what could ever go wrong? Talk about living in a house of cards.

    • @jacobjorgenson9285
      @jacobjorgenson9285 Рік тому +3

      I believe Russia built 50,000 T-34’s and had 2 million men

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Рік тому +2

      @@jacobjorgenson9285 That and millions of tons of war material shipped from the good old USA!

    • @jacobjorgenson9285
      @jacobjorgenson9285 Рік тому

      @@BasementEngineer Russia sacrificed 27 MILLION to break the Nazis, and they did

    • @user-cr8yd3bp6u
      @user-cr8yd3bp6u 11 місяців тому +2

      @@BasementEngineer Т-34 поставлялись США?

    • @user-hg5yo7lk5t
      @user-hg5yo7lk5t 7 місяців тому +1

      Загадочная русская душа! Кажется всё потеряно, проигранои осталось ждать только милости победителей. Но нет! Мы РУССКИЕ словно пружина! Никто и никогда не сможет топтать нашу священную землю! Всякой захватчик найдёт сдесь только свою смерть! Так было, есть и будет!

  • @PauloPereira-jj4jv
    @PauloPereira-jj4jv 2 роки тому +34

    Not only it shows a brief appearance of Wittrman, but also very rare action inside the cockpit of a Fw190 during ground attack.

  • @eyeh8u1
    @eyeh8u1 2 роки тому +77

    0:42 Thats "Panzer Ace" Otto Carius. He wrote an excellent book called "Tigers in the Mud" about his experiences as a tank commander during the war.

    • @violentscorl697
      @violentscorl697 2 роки тому +2

      Also: he became a pharmacist after the war

    • @Dominik-bl9sw
      @Dominik-bl9sw 2 роки тому +6

      @@violentscorl697 he opened a dental office with his old friend Wilhelm Baktus.

    • @violentscorl697
      @violentscorl697 2 роки тому

      @@Dominik-bl9sw Hah, is that a joke? ;)

    • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists
      @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 2 роки тому +5

      yeah and that book siad that the Tiger was most of the tiimes an absolute unuseable tank, funny enough

    • @Dominik-bl9sw
      @Dominik-bl9sw 2 роки тому

      @@violentscorl697 yes but only Germans might understand 🤷‍♂️ sorry for the confusion

  • @anhvunguyen6888
    @anhvunguyen6888 2 роки тому +5

    The news is just full of combat scenes what a German news

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 11 місяців тому +3

    Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Orator presented the documentary very well. Special thanks to the German solders for making this documentary possible!!! I felt bad for the civilians bombed out cities/casualties/escaping the German armies onslaught.

  • @InfamousMedia
    @InfamousMedia 3 роки тому +91

    This is incredible, thank you for this footage

    • @user-fb1dr1pv7e
      @user-fb1dr1pv7e 2 роки тому

      шалом путину лукашенко алиеву

  • @Longtack55
    @Longtack55 3 роки тому +239

    Good food, plenty of tobacco, great weather, good comrades - what could possibly go wrong?!

    • @galaxyexplorer5105
      @galaxyexplorer5105 3 роки тому +3

      The whole world is going upside down !!!

    • @mohammadrezaazadi1208
      @mohammadrezaazadi1208 3 роки тому +5

      the situation for troops stationed in western front was ideal in comparison to the troops in east. It's a difference between France and Stalingrad!

    • @magnusbovejlrasmussen8548
      @magnusbovejlrasmussen8548 3 роки тому +1

      I think it's gonna rain tomorrw 🤔

    • @188basstrom
      @188basstrom 2 роки тому

      I wonder where they were getting their baccy from at this stage of the war?

    • @dwanseicheine7409
      @dwanseicheine7409 2 роки тому

      @@188basstrom probably smoking grass

  • @jeune_turc9404
    @jeune_turc9404 2 роки тому +16

    That’s exactly how Turkish TV channels broadcast most news 😆

    • @karlitu8092
      @karlitu8092 2 роки тому

      Are the Kurds in Ankara, yet?

  • @Cappy_real
    @Cappy_real 2 роки тому +4

    High quality news!

  • @Kir536
    @Kir536 3 роки тому +38

    -Great news, our guys returning home!
    -Did they win?
    -Well emm...

  • @kuroiuzu9754
    @kuroiuzu9754 2 роки тому +59

    Always blows my mind this conflict was captured on film

    • @ryanarthur1894
      @ryanarthur1894 Рік тому +4

      People don’t think about it but it’s really something else

    • @billtate2835
      @billtate2835 Рік тому

      @@ryanarthur1894 Exactly! Something like unreal, but this happened… whole era captured on camera…

  • @c-bass413
    @c-bass413 Рік тому +1

    For a teeny-tiny country.....those dudes did a lot of damage.

  • @renegadeace1735
    @renegadeace1735 2 роки тому +8

    I wonder how hard it was to convince the population at that point that losing meant winning.

    • @firefightergtx3281
      @firefightergtx3281 11 місяців тому

      This film actually wasnt so full of propaganda as others of that era. They are pretty much being honest about crisis and struggle!
      Footage was often reused though and used out of context to create more of an action clip instead of actual footage like you got from the afghanistan war. It was more or less all staged and shot in the breaks from combat. Soldiers throwing grenades etc there was never an enemy near.
      When the fighting went down the photographers had diners in berlin and were celebrated for their great footage . They went back when fighting was over to shoot nice new propaganda later with the survivors of the real battle. Also they only shot the armored vehicles while in reality german military equipment was 80% moved by horses. And they still had kavalry units at beginning of the war where the noble would be in and stuff. Wild time!

    • @user-kq1ef8vw7v
      @user-kq1ef8vw7v 10 місяців тому

      Убедительная русских,что они проигрывают войну с Украиной!

    • @diegosuarez1563
      @diegosuarez1563 9 місяців тому

      Ask trump.

  • @oldcremona
    @oldcremona 3 роки тому +57

    This after 2 years of continuous defeats on the eastern front, and and opening of a second front in France. And the German propaganda says “we got this.”

    • @cs-rj8ru
      @cs-rj8ru 3 роки тому +4

      They had to say it officially. The Germans kicked allot of ass during the War...The problem was that the Allies kicked a little more.

    • @ReddoFreddo
      @ReddoFreddo 3 роки тому +1

      @@cs-rj8ru The Allies were like "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie"

    • @bloqk16
      @bloqk16 3 роки тому +1

      @@cs-rj8ru A revelation was made in the US magazine "World at War" which gave a plausible explanation why the Heer put up stiff resistance in the Fall of 1944: Prior to the Fall of 1944, there was a Heer reserve of 100K+ soldiers in Germany which was a standby armed force that the principals of Operation Valkyrie were planning to use to overthrow the Third Reich after Hitler was assassinated. Well, we all know the plot was foiled. But afterwards, Hitler disbanded that standby armed force and sent them to the western and eastern fronts to take up the fights against the Allies.
      So, after the Western Allies had made swift progress to liberate Paris, they were suddenly facing a German Army that was fortified with additional tens-of-thousands new soldiers.

  • @marakujer7269
    @marakujer7269 2 роки тому +138

    Woman at 5:03 in 2 months later: "my hero let me kiss you" Soldier: "wasn't it you slapping me 2 month ago?"

    • @jerryroach7281
      @jerryroach7281 2 роки тому +53

      She's probably One of those french hussie that got her Head shaved at the end of the war.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 роки тому +1

      Was worried about losing trade, pros.

    • @winnienguyen4420
      @winnienguyen4420 2 роки тому +35

      Just a wild guess, but something tells me these people were forced to do that for the camera as this entire film is strictly Nazi propaganda.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 роки тому +16

      @@winnienguyen4420 There were lots of naz.i sympathizers in France. Some saw them as saviors as the communists were big in France.

    • @Rider-lo9vt
      @Rider-lo9vt 2 роки тому +8

      @@flybobbie1449 Nope, quite opposite was true. First, de Gaulle's Free France who fought fierced was strong anti Strong anti-communist. Second, they are US and UK war prisoners.. not Soviet's. Third, Many of French fascist were ex-Communist (Opposite poles attract each other.. isn't it?) There have been many occasions nazi sympathizers were anti-Semitism rather than anti communism.

  • @samiam5557
    @samiam5557 Рік тому

    Great clarity of video and only 360p!

  • @bp2608
    @bp2608 5 місяців тому

    I am surprised that AP--still an internationally respected if much smaller news organization than a few decades prior--would just post these without some sort of context. Can they at least post an estimated date of when this was originally shown? And they could not pull together the resources for translation captions?

  • @user-ip3nh3nl2g
    @user-ip3nh3nl2g 3 роки тому +43

    победоносно отступают в Берлин

  • @stevef9530
    @stevef9530 3 роки тому +167

    Interesting to see a brief shot of Michael Wittmann, the Tiger tank commander who destroyed singlehanded a British armoured column near Villers Bocage. He was killed a few weeks later. Not many ground fighters achieved hero status in WW2, though some pilots did.

    • @malcigloe
      @malcigloe 3 роки тому +1

      Wen interessierts

    • @williba24
      @williba24 3 роки тому +3

      Wittmann a man who had Allied men murdered because they would not look after POW's during the battle of the bulge so they murdered them.

    • @Nico-lp7zd
      @Nico-lp7zd 3 роки тому +32

      @@williba24 he died months bevor the battle of the bulge maybe you mean some other ?

    • @JackoBanon1
      @JackoBanon1 3 роки тому +8

      There were also epic u-boot aces like Otto Kretschmer who destroyed unbelievable amounts of enemy transporters and ships.

    • @adamelton768
      @adamelton768 3 роки тому +1

      It was literally 2 days after this was released he was killed

  • @MajinOthinus
    @MajinOthinus Рік тому +2

    This one is from late June 44, not December.

  • @bartbutkis
    @bartbutkis Рік тому

    Damn! Why didn't you take the time to add English subtitles?

  • @xyzxyz7042
    @xyzxyz7042 2 роки тому +18

    This wasn't filmed in 31 Dec 1944, all the trees have leaves. Filmed during warm weather, so date on caption incorrect, most likely filmed summer 1944, some scenes appear to be from Russian front, some from France.

  • @samernammari8785
    @samernammari8785 2 роки тому +152

    A fascinating shot of Michael Wittmann, the tank commander from the Normandy campaign, at 6:41.

    • @morstyrannis1951
      @morstyrannis1951 2 роки тому +7

      Not sure why you found it fascinating. It's the standard sequence used for both moving and still images.

    • @blackmart6441
      @blackmart6441 2 роки тому +3

      The narrator called him feared tank anhillator

    • @samernammari8785
      @samernammari8785 2 роки тому +17

      @@morstyrannis1951 I'm not talking about the footage technicality, but about how they merged Wittmann into the reel. He was an interesting tank ace for sure.

    • @gratius1394
      @gratius1394 2 роки тому +9

      @@samernammari8785 Thanks to his relatively high score he had become sort of a poster boy for Waffen SS Panzer units and because of that he received a huge amount of publicity, I think way above his real value for the German war effort. I believe that's the main reason he's still recognisable today. The power of propaganda, I guess...

    • @hoodoo2001
      @hoodoo2001 2 роки тому +5

      @@samernammari8785 Also very quickly a dead one.

  • @cherliebravo9044
    @cherliebravo9044 Рік тому

    At 1:45 - the MG does not appear to be a German type of which I am aware - Is it a French or Italian gun, or...?

    • @msbhicks8358
      @msbhicks8358 Рік тому

      It could be a captured Soviet or Italian heavy machine gun. I suspect it was stripped out of a mount from a crashed plane.

  • @rogogo1244
    @rogogo1244 2 роки тому +2

    When the enemy uses P2W in the game, but you stay positive.

  • @kingofmetal1961
    @kingofmetal1961 2 роки тому +14

    Some of those tanks are not all Tiger 1 tanks, some of them are Panther tanks, on those trains and being unloaded. They made their first appearance at the Battle of Kursk in 1943.

    • @kharlan163
      @kharlan163 11 місяців тому +1

      привет из курска

  • @dspicable3547
    @dspicable3547 2 роки тому +21

    Auto translate English captions: "Fat people are sent into the front"

  • @AGENT42061
    @AGENT42061 Місяць тому

    Obviously not the original sound, for example the mortar makes more a "suction pop" noise when shot, not a explosion like on here.

  • @sdorr
    @sdorr 2 роки тому +1

    What a shame that Oppenheimer's project was a full year behind schedule.

  • @insaneapples1559
    @insaneapples1559 3 роки тому +81

    Imagine being a German citizen in December 1944 thinking you were somehow going to win the war.

    • @teutonic_crusader1175
      @teutonic_crusader1175 3 роки тому +19

      There were only a handful of people during that time that had a general idea of the Overall situation on all fronts. There was no Internet, no neutral press...only a handful of goverment figures and a handful of staff officers in germanys high command had an idea of how bad the situation really was. And it makes sense, the whole situation -arms Production, positions of every single division,Frontlines, enemy divisions, numbers of reserves, numbers of guns in reserve, troop shifting- that its too much for a single person to know, especially if you consider that these things changed on a daily basis.
      It was of courde common knowledge that the war wasn't going well in 44 and 45, but the full extend of what was going on was unknown to 99.99% of the german population.

    • @RobCummings
      @RobCummings 3 роки тому +3

      That's the value of propaganda: Put a positive spin on it, and you can get people to fight to win. Or maybe, as DG suggests, most Germans realized the end was near and they were just fighting to secure better terms.

    • @witamwas
      @witamwas 3 роки тому

      @Katrina Balanchuk That's what I thought as well. Definitely not December, however I wonder what country is filmed at the beginning of the film?

    • @larryloveless2967
      @larryloveless2967 3 роки тому +2

      @DG int I coudn't agree more with you. Consider the huge death count of Germans and Russians on the eastern front. Whenever watching TV shows growing up in the U.S. like Hogans Heroes, etc the punishment for a German soldier was to be sent to the eastern front.

    • @Saucyakld
      @Saucyakld 2 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂😂, that's not what my grand dad said, kick their butts

  • @MrThrib
    @MrThrib 3 роки тому +20

    Is there a part 2? I want to see who wins.

    • @araw540
      @araw540 2 роки тому

      Well The Germens of course they just...Retreated to Trap the Anglo americ..."How many just got encircled?"

    • @HardSmartfuxu
      @HardSmartfuxu 2 роки тому +3

      That's the plot: nobody ever really wins.

  • @johnlammergeier2890
    @johnlammergeier2890 2 роки тому +1

    seemed like smoking a cigg on camera was a sure fire way to keep the home front happy

  • @petersanders5321
    @petersanders5321 Рік тому +3

    Had an uncle, Paul, who was a Sherman driver in the battle of the buldge. Oh, the stories...

  • @richardscanlan3167
    @richardscanlan3167 3 роки тому +105

    Latest news - we are losing on every front,but 'the final victory' is at hand.

    • @tillavanrooyen4182
      @tillavanrooyen4182 2 роки тому

      The final victory was the victory over the fear of death, meaning death itself. That's why |. _ |.... Was so disappointed with Germany in the end.

  • @hyperview2310
    @hyperview2310 3 роки тому +79

    Look at their smile it seems like they're in epic holiday.

    • @tempest411
      @tempest411 3 роки тому +13

      @Heinz Guderian If you mean to simply stay alive and surrender to the Americans as opposed to the Russians, you could be right.

    • @crosshairz5304
      @crosshairz5304 3 роки тому +1

      If they are they’ve over done it a little lmao

    • @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935
      @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 3 роки тому

      Most of them stayed not far from there, permanently.

    • @alexrennison8070
      @alexrennison8070 3 роки тому +1

      @@crosshairz5304 lol

    • @FirstLast-ml7yf
      @FirstLast-ml7yf 2 роки тому

      Probably the amphetamines..

  • @Hn-gz5iw
    @Hn-gz5iw 2 роки тому

    is that a dead body at 7:37?

  • @simonkyro661
    @simonkyro661 2 роки тому +4

    The complete propaganda must have been such a mind fuck going from “the front is far away to oh shit, my house in Germany is the front”

    • @slenderman27490
      @slenderman27490 2 роки тому

      You know your'e fvcked, when half your house is in Germany, and the other half in USSR!

  • @21cranberries21
    @21cranberries21 2 роки тому +12

    Wonderful...thanks for the subtitles we all really appreciate it. Some channels are so dumb they don't even make an effort to put them on....fortunately you're different...God bless you, you're too good to us...

    • @ravenous-wolf3115
      @ravenous-wolf3115 Рік тому +2

      Goddamnit! 😂Was looking for the subtitles you're talking about I found sarcasm instead. LMAO!

    • @21cranberries21
      @21cranberries21 Рік тому +1

      @@ravenous-wolf3115 you should have known....I was laying it on pretty thick lol

    • @zdfindianerverband1381
      @zdfindianerverband1381 Рік тому

      @@21cranberries21 also ich verstehe was dort gesagt wird 🤭

  • @michailidouanastasis9849
    @michailidouanastasis9849 3 роки тому +184

    Пусть всегда будет МИР!!!

    • @AndrD1406
      @AndrD1406 3 роки тому +13

      Твоя страна сейчас главная ему угроза

    • @kvp530
      @kvp530 3 роки тому +25

      @@AndrD1406 а твоя?

    • @Oleg-zv5lf
      @Oleg-zv5lf 3 роки тому +10

      @@AndrD1406 малоросс, спок

    • @AndrD1406
      @AndrD1406 3 роки тому +8

      @@Oleg-zv5lf я спокоен, фино-угр

    • @mobatumi
      @mobatumi 3 роки тому +12

      @@AndrD1406 наша страна сейчас его главная гарантия.

  • @psychobuzzard
    @psychobuzzard 2 роки тому +2

    and no more than five months after this filming, almost all of the soldiers were dead or just beginning to rot in Soviet captivity

  • @IAmMrQ
    @IAmMrQ 2 роки тому

    What we're collectively experiencing these days pales in comparison to what people went through between 1900 to 1950. Pure madness. WWI, WWII, The Spanish Flu, polio.. amongst others things.

  • @babylon4953
    @babylon4953 2 роки тому +86

    That is some awesome music. Going to play it next time me and my wife is going to have an romantic evening.

  • @agodinho64
    @agodinho64 4 роки тому +52

    Fascinating. Is there a version with subtitles available somewhere?

    • @Schengor
      @Schengor 3 роки тому +32

      0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived."
      0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
      0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)."
      0:50 -
      0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order."
      1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions."
      1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers."
      1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position."
      2:42 - 2:47: "
      Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack."
      2:52 - 2:54: "
      Fire contact with the head of the enemy."
      3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front."
      3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy."
      3:28 - 3:33: "
      Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas."
      3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves."
      3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy."
      4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety."
      4:11 - 4:15: "
      Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators."
      4:40 - 4:56: "
      The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost.
      Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans."
      5:28 - 5:34: "
      German fighters launch
      low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead."
      5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons
      ."
      6:00 - 6:05: "
      American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen."
      6:10 - 6:16: "
      On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack."
      6:24 - 6:27: "
      The German artillery takes the enemy under fire."
      6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front."
      6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward.
      In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour."
      7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week."
      7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat."
      8:08 - 8:27: "
      In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts.""
      I hope i got all the timestamps correct.

    • @Mr_Fancypants
      @Mr_Fancypants 2 роки тому

      He never said thank you so i will.

    • @agodinho64
      @agodinho64 2 роки тому

      @@Schengor wow, I didn’t see your message when you posted your reply.
      Schengor, thank you so much for this! It is exactly what I was looking for.

    • @oussamabarca2167
      @oussamabarca2167 2 роки тому

      @@Schengor are you God?

  • @U574
    @U574 3 місяці тому

    Best channel in UA-cam

  • @andrewkulon4776
    @andrewkulon4776 2 роки тому

    Very impressive only little detail is missing actual sytuaction on East front