4:30 St George's Cathedral of Limburg Germany was spared and now stands 800 years old. One of the lesser-known treasures of Germany. It is a must visit if only for a 5 minute's stop while passing on the autobahn. It will make your heart sing! You won't regret it!
Provo....how would we have got an army from Britain to Czech in the 1930s to help? Really. Same with Poland. The logistics were just not possible from our island, not long after the horrors we went through in WWI either. Why do so many Czechs and Poles on youtube think there was some magic flying army?
@@stuartjacobsen2108 True. Ike was the postwar commander of Europe. He was shown the Autobahn and was impressed how it moved traffic around small towns and mountains. When he became US President he supported the 1956 Interstate Highway Act which is modeled on the Autobahn. n www.history.com/topics/us-states/interstate-highway-system
@@nickthorp5790 Spot on Nick --- my views exactly. On TV I see "experts" who say we should go into such and such a place to protect its people. Not possible in many places: 1. China decides to overrun Hong Kong 2. Russia taking over Crimea about 8 years ago--how would we stop them. Anytime a country is next door to a big bad neighbor, options are small. We have that her. In 1845 the USA took over Texas. Mexico still claimed Texas but the USA would not budge. So Mexico tried to annex the region of South Texas from El Paso south to the Gulf of Mexico -- about 600 miles. The USA decided to decapitate the Mexican government and invaded Mexico. Mexico lost that stretch of land---too bad for Mexico because in 1920, oil was discovered -- about 20 billion barrels...
Perhaps the most impressive achievement here was the logistics of supplying such a fast moving motorised army so far from the main port of Antwerp. In the days before computers, this is an organisational feat that boggles the imagination. The US and UK staff work was mighty impressive.
@@tullochgorum6323 Right - that's how the British Empire was built - because its armed forces had a long history of "defeat." What a moronic statement, besides the fact that you didn't seem to be replying to Tullochgorum's statement at all, which was accurate.
@@tannerlane9669 And who, in your well informed opinion, was the "person" who was funding both sides of the most expensive war in history. As a connoisseur of crackpot conspiracy theories, I'm all agog to find out, though I think I can guess what religion they will be...
My father was one of the German soldiers in that area. He was 20 years old and just recovered from frozen feet from Russia. Nearby german civilians were sentenced to death by SS when they told young boys to stop fighting. All were eagerly waiting for the Americans to end the war! When US troops were near enough to our village, my grandfather walked to them waving a white flag. He risked his life, not only because of the US troops but also because of the SS. My father was injured by a grenade and brought to an American hospital. They saved his arm. Now, what is propaganda? Look into the eyes of these young boys.
Big Bill O'Reilly Good point except he was talking about his father and YOU don't know either of them, father may not have had any choice in the matter ever, even if he loathed everything Nazi he would still be required to fight for them.
Big Bill O'Reilly I know it. One US commander lined up all the civilians in a newly captured German town and made them walk through the death camp that was on the outskirts for which they claimed to know little about....I thought that was an appropriate action.
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mkmm60.......he was twice the man I am..........I hate the cold....If I was on a troop train, dressed in a summer uniform and headed to the Russian front........I would have taken a nose dive off a high trestle. Better that than the freezing hell waiting ahead.
As a person of Geman ancestry whose family came over from Europe before WWI and fought against Germany in both World Wars, I am thankful that we are at peace. Europe was so deeply devastated by both wars. I do not harbor any ill will towards anyone who does not maintain the Nazi ideology. My heart goes out to all who had suffered through the losses of war.
@@ghostmost2614 maybe we should of raised little Nazi kids that do exactly what they r told instead of children that think for themselves.your the communist buddy.think about it
I was stationed in Frankfurt 1972/1975 and their New Years fireworks were pretty impressive. There were one inch holes thru the plywood guard shack from rockets.
That's assuming that their armored infantry and know what to do around their tanks. Tanks are dangerous clunky things that crush gooey things like people. Every now and then there will be fatal training accidents where people bivouac outside their designated area and get crushed by a tank rumbling along they can't see them. In combat it can be even worse. Thanks tend to draw fire and if they're supporting infantry leans back to avoid collateral damage from the anti tank fire and artillery, enemy infantry can take them out. That's why we have the vehicles we have today in the M2 and M3 to support the M1. My dad was in the US 6th Armored Division, they were told to hold a crossroads. There was an infantry and digging a foxhole next to my dad's tank. All of a sudden the Germans started shelling and one was going to be very very close. My dad dropped down and reached up to pull the hatch down, his arm got peppered with shrapnel. When he poked his head up and looked over the side where the infantryman was, all there was was just torn up flesh, the round landed in the foxhole with him.
Aschaffenburg now is best city to live in Germany, very nice little city when I was stationed there in the 80's, we had an army Brigade with about 5k troops
Yeah, they did. A peace won by American, British, and Canadian blood, and sustained by NATO countries putting their and the species' existence on the line to keep the Russians from grabbing the freedom we made stick. Now, of course, the Trumpies, and many similar cults, would shred all that. But, for a while, the civilized world saved the Germans from themselves, because we had actual values....
franklin black In my life I have personally known over 50 Muslims. They have the same potential to be good people or bad people. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, etc, are all just people. ISIS/Daesh however is an extremist organization united by hate and determined to build an empire at any cost. They perpetrate true villainy in their perversion of a religion. Praise the lord and pass the ammo, eh? Much like the Spanish Inquisition, Branch Davidians, Saffron terror, Jewish "settlers", Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, or the Salem Witch Trials anyone can pervert a religion.
This short WW11doumentary has some of the most authentic footage of actual combat with armor, foot soldiers , tanks and personal carriers than I have seen on You Tube. The Narrator did a very good job in tune with the fighting as the troops moved forward towards the retreating Germans. There was also some exceptionally heavy tank fire along with 50 caliber machine guns 6.00 to 6:70, sounds like all hell broke loose.
The area between Frankfurt and Paderborn was taken by the Americans at an incredible speed. They marched up to 65 miles through enemy territory a day. It was a great relief for the Population when the US tanks speeded through the villages. It meant that the war was over. If you have only boys and seniors to defend your country, you better give up. All well-trained soldiers of the other side will do their job without caring about the age of the enemy. Fortunatey, most boys survived after a short time of anxiety. After a bit of shelling, they were fed up with warfare and surrendered. Most of them were treated fairly well when they gave up. When the Americans met SS troops, they showed a different determination in warfare. Greetings from Hassia (Germany).
FranzMatthias, near the end of the war, there are instances German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers fought together against the Nazi SS e.g. Battle for Castle Itter. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers fought together in some sense is the start of NATO i.e. North Atlantic alliance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages, USA's population is mostly Germanic i.e. comes from UK and Germany. The difference is mostly ideological issues. USA has no interest in wiping out Germany.
Germans at this point weren't even trying on the west, all that was left and could put up a fight was thrown against the Red army in order to slow it down and let Americans to occupy as much of their land as it was possible, trying to avoid revenge from angry Russkies.
Hey I was standing right there were those soldiers were standing overlooking Heidelberg! It's part of the castle's garden system. Really puts things into perspective.
My Dad was 6th Armored, he was also in the cadre that formed the division. He was 2nd but he was transferred to 6th just before Torch. At 20 years of age he was a senior NCO as an E6. He joined the army in 1939 before the expansion started in 1940/41
first time American Troops came to Heidelberg. But they had to fight and a Job to do and couldnt enjoy the beauty of this most wonderful german city. I think german troops wouldnt fight hard in this area , because they knew about its beauty. I memory of all fallen soldiers of all nations! Rest in peace.
Heidelberg was the HQ of USAREUR from immediately after the war until 2013. I was a DoD civilian assigned to Campbell Barracks until it closed down in '13 and then we all moved to Wiesbaden. Many, many Americans enjoyed the beauty of HD for over 60 years :) I lived downtown, right around the Bismarckplatz.
I was stationed in Aschaffenburg from 1988-1990. I visited the Castle and inside there is a large picture of the bombed out Castle during WWII. Also there was a Nun's place downtown, with only remnants from the bombing.
I was stationed around many of those cities mentioned throughout most of the 80's. If you looked around close enough out in the country you could still see buildings that were damaged by small arms fire and shell craters were very visible when you looked closely at the country side. There were concrete bunkers everywhere. I just never could quite understand why tiny German units put up resistance to a massive U.S. moving front with no chance of success other than to die and destroy what was left of their homes. I get them resisting the Russians, but the Americans made no sense to me. These are good films. Thanks for sharing them with us.
действительно зачем сопротивляться американцам ? немцы ведь не гадили в америке так как в USSR ? хотя они не особо и сопротивлялись ,по сравнению с войной в россии ,война с американцами выглядит мышиной вознёй
@@ЕвгенЛогин-р5с humm your forgetting the pact between Von Ribbentrop and Molotov divided Poland and allowed the war to start. That kinda of bit the USSR back
@@Dog.soldier1950 Poland itself had previously participated in the partition of Czechoslovakia in collusion with Nazi Germany and planned to fight against the USSR together with Germany. forget about the Munich agreement, initially there was a division of Czechoslovakia approved by England, France. From the full text of the Munich Agreement: Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into account the agreement under which an agreement in principle was reached on the transfer of Sudetenland to Germany... As we can see, the conclusion of agreements with Hitler, and even more so the territorial division of states, began without the participation of the USSR.
I was stationed in Giessen and lived there for 4 years 1969 to 1973 ,we had the Luftwaffe pilots barracks and also had rivers barracks as well also had some hawk batteries set up not far from Rivers
I was stationed there in the mid 80's also. Most of the barracks were German leftovers, some dating back before ww1. The MP station was the an airport terminal. Depot had multiple tunnel accesses gated up and flooded.
I commanded a tank platoon in Kirch Goens (Ayers Kaserne) in 1964 and 1965. I lived on post at first but later rented an apartment in Giessen for the balance of my tour of duty.
It was a criminal act, throwing those untrained children into conflict against battle hardened allied troops. The problem is that a child can pull a trigger and kill someone so they have to be treated the same as adult troops.
The leaders of the 3rd Reich knew they were facing a noose if they lost. Everyone was expendable then, as the leadership had nothing to lose by sending kids into battle.
The death throws of any society at war is when the children and the grandfathers go off to fight in the war. Historically this has been true since the first rocks were thrown. I'm not defending it, I actually think it's very sad. To describe something done by Nazi Germany as criminal is kind of redundant.
Roderick "Beaky" Allen commanded 12th Armored Division. Terry Allen commanding the 104th Infantry Division had previously commanded 1st Infantry Division, IIRC.
Well the comments section is a bit lively here, the Nazi's were bad the Russians arguably worse, but by that i ofc i mean Stalin not all Russians. At the end of the day the war ended, we the British and our commonwealth allies, the Americans, Russians and many other nations who fought resistance movements as well as supplying manpower to the war effort i.e the polish pilots who joined the RAF secured that victory with blood and grit. Whoever you are and whatever your beliefs, we should all learn from that war and those people, so that it may never happen again, because if it does it wont matter about Zionist this or Rothschild that we'll all be dead and so will all your arguments. so take a step back and have a longer think about the outcome of that bloody war and the lives it took to bring it to an end. I am thankful for everyone that survived and am mournful for the people who were lost.
I absolutely agree with you but the reality is that the leaders of the worlds nations are trying to create empires and all of our countries exist because something was taken from someone else. We may learn the evils of war, but our leaders will still start conflicts to continue taking things from others and the people will continue to die because of it. Every country celebrates the greatest moments of it's empire and resents it's greatest losses. As a U.S. citizen I don't hate Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or any other country with with we have had skirmishes. But, that did not and will not prevent people from dying for the strength of empires.
@Stefan Burscheid The British were more lenient towards the Germans during the negotiations, it was the French who wanted so much! I suggest you research the subject before commenting.
Gavin Wilkinson Gavin is exactly correct. In fact, there are considerable historical facts that support that Hitler chose not to invade Britain, when he could have following Dunkirk. It is said he was hopeful that Brits would negotiate an armistice and were opposed to parts of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler’s treatment of GB was a far cry from the way the French were treated in defeat. Plus, Hitler thought he was negotiating with Chamberlin 2.0 but instead got a Churchill.
Yes, thats right. In a desperate struggle for existence and prevention of "liberation" - the Russki threw also young Komsomols in...thats what happens in a total war....sadly enough...
Ah, yes many, 8, 9, 10 ,11, and 12 were conscripted or volunteered for service. Many of these children served in artillery units, and not on the front lines. Many school girls were utilized as well. Please read, the book is a hard read because of the material covered. www.express.co.uk/news/world/469496/Grim-fate-of-Nazi-child-soldiers-rounded-up-from-school-revealed-in-new-book
Hmmm...I dont know Harald Stutter, but (that what I know from personal stories of my German relatives) since 1944 it was usual for whole scoolclass to get drafted in "Heimflakbatterien" (home airdefense) as "Flakhelfer" (airdefense helpers). The minimum age was 15 (and an aproved health condition), or later in the year to be In the 9th grade. Toghether with experienced soldiers, this boys manned the AA-guns, or were deployed at the B-Stelle, to operate the FuMG (Radar) or the spotlights. Direct groundcombat was not the often the case. With an age of 17, all year`s issues came to the RAD (working service) and got a pre-military training.The timeframe which the book seems to describe is the verry last time of WW2 (March - May 1945). The famous little guy from Lauban, Wilhelm Hübner (age 14) was not a soldier, but a Hitlerjunge with a much too a big helmet....:) He volunteered for the recapture of Lauban as runner, because he lived there and he knew the city verry well. For his effort he gained the ironcross second class. So yes, some young guys from the Hitleryouth came into battle, but thats was not a common case - when things were going halfway according to plan....;) My granduncle (16) was sent home to mom from his commanding officer, as the Russian were close to his hometown - he was an courier for Heinkel/Oranienburg, like all his classmates.
The 88 cannon shot air burst shells at rifle bullet velocity. The shrapnel shot in every direction at the speed of bullets, many shards the size of dinner platters. Men's bodies were sheared in pieces. Some were entirely cut in half by shrapnel shards.
Over 95% of ss were fighting troops the rest were gestapo .intel,police camp over seers ect. Many more ss were replacements for dead ss troops very few were the dreaded gestapo.
Lets get it right ! It needed all the allies to beat the axis armies. No one country won the war it was a joint operation . Just be thankful those brave men and women did what they did for "all of us" .
@@michaelhoward6782 And America would never have won the war on its own ! If Europe (including Britain and Russia) had been turned into a German superstate in a couple of decades and with the help of Japan's growing empire in Asia would have turned their attention to the rest of the world . America would be wiped of the face of the earth so stick that in your pipe and smoke it !
@Keith Rose. Right, the only combatant nation that was self-sufficient in arms, supplies, petroleum and foodstuffs, the same nation that propped up you failing limeys and commies, could not have stood up to a nazi Germany bled white conquering europe. Maybe if you limeys actively aided the nazis, a Vichy England. Don't forget a few little things called Fat Man and Little Boy. Cheers!! Put that in your limey arse hole and smoke it.
During the Second World War, the USA and Great Britain together dealt with only 10 German divisions. And one USSR fought with more than 200 German divisions.
Not true. Go here; ua-cam.com/users/Eastoryvideos and watch the Western Front videos and you will see how many German divisions the USA and GB faced in 1944 and 1945. And you're not counting the German divisions the US and GB dealt with in North Africa, Sicily and Italy from 1942 to 1944. Thanks.
I have studied many of these films of the Germans as they surrender. We see German towns people in their Sunday best thronging the streets. German prisoners look satisfied that it is over and they are still alive. Many German infantry and armored unit traveled great distances to surrender to the US Army. US armored divisions swept onward to Prague and Vienna. This film appears to be from early April 1945. Germany surrendered unconditionally May 8, 1945.
this clip mentions late March 1945. US and British forces began the process of over running Germany in mid March. Time line- Febuary early March was spent clearing German Resistance from the Rhine, followed by a massive drive into Germany in Late March into April before halting when they Made contact with Soviet Forces
You have to consider the times of these videos. Pre-1960's, many people wore suits as every day normal dress. Unless you had a job as like a mine worker, or dirty work of some sort, most people wore suits/dresses. Even those of mention, miners, construction workers etc, after they got home and bathed, they then put on dressier clothing. Some men, even if they wore a suit to work, when they got home, they merely changed their jackets.
U.S. lost Corea afterwards.They lost Cuba, then Vietnam .Lost Syria. Afghanistan could not be conquered.This is the price for victoryin WWII.You cannot go on a war by means of 1945. They started making strategical mistakes.
The US brought freedom to (West)Germany. That is unfortunately forgotten these days; in particular by the right-wing idiots from Eastern Germany. East Germans - and in particular those, who belong to the political extremes, namely the "Linke" and the "AfD", are intrinsically anti-US. A shame, given the fact that is was the US that brought the freedom that we enjoyed in the West of Germany and that we had for 40 more years compared to the rest of our nation in the East.
If only the Geman people could have known the future and surrendered en mass to the western allies quicker enabling less damage and loss of life with the added bonus of the Allies getting further to the East to keep Russia out .
It wouldn't have mattered. The postwar division of Germany had already been agreed on before the Nazis fell. Even had the Americans advanced into Berlin, they would have had to turn it over to the Soviets, anyway.
The problem wasn't really the general German populace as moral continually fell as the war continued and casualties rose (especially after their losses in the eastern front), the problem was the zero tolerance towards dissent by the Nazi authorities, who perpetuated the war through means such as Volkssturm units comprising old men and young boys conscripted from local populations, and armed resistance to the advancing Allied forces was mandatory upon punishment of death.
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Not every German was a Nazi... as for Germany and Japan.. Neither should exist today as nations..
I was station in the Giessen Army Depot in the 80's. There was a WW2 memorial in downtown Giessen for German dead, but somebody splashed red paint all over it. Germans were not very thrilled about NAZI past.
I live there. in Wetzlar/Gießen before in Frankfurt. i see many houses that i know from today, also many known faces from Wetzlar. I read many Books about the Warend in my City. Germans who know about this History are very thankfull to the allied for freeing us. Sadly the many bomberplanes doesnt hit our factorys here very well but many inocent died from the bombs. Only the captured pilots who came first in "Durchgangslager" had a "nice" life here in war. they became friends with their german enemys even at warend. wich happened not often. but only a few meters from this prisoners had to work in hell :-( (sorry for bad en)
7:20 is known 12 years old boy from my city. until this day when he was captured he had not seen the real war, only in Wochenschau or Planes. they was so bad trained soldiers. they shot houses by mistake when they tried to aim on overflying planes and was only scared when they saw one ...
My grandfather was a young boy in these days in Berlin, and his father disappeared in a pow camp in Italy with malaria. My great grandmother fled the eastern front with a child in hand and pregnant. She gave birth to my grandmother 2 days after the war ended. First time she saw a black guy was an American soldier going into the house lmao. They were treated well. Her husband was a motorcycle messenger for the germans, got shot in the knee. He was a racer by profession before the war.
0:28 - 0:33 reminds of a scene in Dr. Strangelove, and 6:11 to 6:25 reminds me of a scene from Band of Brothers, and 4:05 to 4:07 reminds me of a scene from To Hell and Back.
Trendy T If the madman had surrendered sooner they could've survived. As it is he was determined to make all Germany his funeral pyre. That includes the women and children sent to die in the volksturm.
My uncle was with the 84th infantry division and fought in Belgium and Germany. He said running down the street in a German artillery round hit In front of him and blew the head off the soldier in front of him . Said 50 caliber machine guns would cut the Germans to pieces.
Союзники вступили в войну не против немцев, а против СССР, для того чтобы красная армия не освободила всю европу, и не сделала ее сферой своего влияния. Немцы, при этом, массово бежали от нас сдаваться союзникам, которые не питали к фашистам особой неприязни. Тысячи фашистских военных преступников нашли спасение у союзников, а немецкий Абвер вообще в полном составе перешёл на службу к американцам, просто поменяв хозяев.
MrSeydlitz Именно поэтому поставляла Ленд-Лиз? Не одной тушёнкой сыты были. Огромное количество грузовиков, танков, самолётов, станков, патронов, снарядов, запчастей, предметов обмундирования были поставлены в СССР. Даже пуговицы были не советские. Именно поэтому флот Великобритании обеспечивал постоянное присутствие в Арктике, топя немецкие корабли которые время от времени там появлялись и подводные лодки принимавшие активное участие, которые топили конвои которые шли в СССР по сев. мор. пути? От кого бы СССР «освободил» Европу!? От себя самой? «Сферой влияния». Это разве «освобождение»? Это протекторат! Найди девушку с грудным ребёнком, выхвати его и скажи «я его освободил». Посмотрим как она будет благодарна
"Negro units". The UK was astonished to discover that the US army was segregated. They took the black troops to their hearts, and on more than one occasion, white GI's who tried to throw black troops out of pubs were beaten up by the locals. For their part, the black troops were astonished to be treated as normal human beings, and many friendships were formed.
What a bunch of crap! GI's and others (Polish free forces, Mexican Americans) who served in ww2 stationed in UK, who my father knew, told us that UK was far more racist than US. And if you are really so tolerant of Blacks then why don't you offer a few million of them asylum? Put up or shut up.
@@psilvakimo I knew two Polish veterans of WWII who chose to stay on in Scotland after the war. They settled in just fine, and the Polish contribution to the war effort is warmly remembered by the Scots to this day. Any suggestion that the UK is as racist as the US is laughable. We've never had Jim Crow laws and segregation, white supremacist organisations like the Klan, racist lynchings or mass voter suppression and all the rest. There's racism in every country, but the UK is better than most. I'm from an immigrant family, so I know. If anything, it's your poisonous attitude towards the UK that's racist. Take a look at yourself...
I was stationed near Paderborn in the early 1960's. Ironically, I came back to America aboard the U.S.S. Rose Troop ship, named after the only American General Officer killed in WWII, who is mentioned in this video. At 7:20 the narrator refers to what appears to be a young boy about 14 years old as a nazi. I seriously doubt that, he's obviously scared to death. I wonder how many teenagers were summarily executed on the spot for refusing to put on the uniform and move to the front?
The 14-year-old boy was probably Hitler youth, which was mandatory. It's funny that you mentioned the USS Rose, I was on board that ship in November 1965. I was 7 years old and it was quite an adventure! We had engine trouble, we had a major lifeboat drill, unscheduled because the Brits were running a air sea rescue drill in The Dover Straits that night. We also ran into a full-blown Gale Mid-Atlantic. It took I think three days to get into it and out of it, it was amazing. My dad and I never missed a meal. But I think my sister and my mother could draw a picture of the toilet from memory.
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Thanks for sharing with me your adventure on the Rose! Stay healthy and safe in 2022! Here's another story of my time on the Rose. There were about 5,000 of us aboard. All U.S.Army I think. I was coming home to end my enlistment. It was a 6 day trip with calm seas all the way, which was fine because I had a cot right in the bottom of the ship at the very stern of the ship. About the third day at sea, I heard an announcement for Specialist fourth class W------ G-------, to report to a specified area on the ship. I went to the charts to find out that location and it was in the very Bow of the ship and at the very bottom of the ship. I had to go up and down many different stairs and halls to get there as the main part of the ship was for first class passengers, where we enlisted men could not go. When I got to that location I was about to announce my presence when I realized there was another person of my identical name (first and last) and identical rank in that compartment! I was so glad I wasn't being called to ship duty that I left without meeting him. I've always regretted my decision. Oh, knowing he was up there gave me the jitters as it seemed like a bad omen to me and I didn't want to try to swim to New York! Take care.
When I see these types of wickedness and ruthless actions against innocent humans, caused by satanic and evil persons, up to this days we are living, I always say, and believe, that we, the humans NEVER LEARN, and unfortunately that is how to remain, as long as there are humans on earth. I do not want to condemn anyone for causing wars, but wish that someone here, points out the name of that poor German lad caught close on the footage. He as well as other youths, had been forced to face death, and I feel so pity for him. Can anyone help please.?
Imagine how many lives would be saved if the coalision would get to Normandia in 1942 as it was said at first.. But it took 2 more deadly years and when the soviets where already going to berlin the coalision came.. But anyway it helped and thanks to every country
4:30 St George's Cathedral of Limburg Germany was spared and now stands 800 years old. One of the lesser-known treasures of Germany. It is a must visit if only for a 5 minute's stop while passing on the autobahn. It will make your heart sing! You won't regret it!
This is some great footage I had never seen... especially using the autobahn for planes and moving troops faster. Thanks for uploading.
What do you think our interstate system is for in the United States?
Provo....how would we have got an army from Britain to Czech in the 1930s to help? Really. Same with Poland. The logistics were just not possible from our island, not long after the horrors we went through in WWI either. Why do so many Czechs and Poles on youtube think there was some magic flying army?
@@stuartjacobsen2108 True. Ike was the postwar commander of Europe. He was shown the Autobahn and was impressed how it moved traffic around small towns and mountains. When he became US President he supported the 1956 Interstate Highway Act which is modeled on the Autobahn. n www.history.com/topics/us-states/interstate-highway-system
@@nickthorp5790 Spot on Nick --- my views exactly. On TV I see "experts" who say we should go into such and such a place to protect its people. Not possible in many places: 1. China decides to overrun Hong Kong 2. Russia taking over Crimea about 8 years ago--how would we stop them. Anytime a country is next door to a big bad neighbor, options are small. We have that her. In 1845 the USA took over Texas. Mexico still claimed Texas but the USA would not budge. So Mexico tried to annex the region of South Texas from El Paso south to the Gulf of Mexico -- about 600 miles. The USA decided to decapitate the Mexican government and invaded Mexico. Mexico lost that stretch of land---too bad for Mexico because in 1920, oil was discovered -- about 20 billion barrels...
Its the entire reason the autobahn was built
Perhaps the most impressive achievement here was the logistics of supplying such a fast moving motorised army so far from the main port of Antwerp. In the days before computers, this is an organisational feat that boggles the imagination. The US and UK staff work was mighty impressive.
Yeah sure - the British army has a long history of incompetence and defeat ... in some parallel universe.
@@tullochgorum6323 Right - that's how the British Empire was built - because its armed forces had a long history of "defeat." What a moronic statement, besides the fact that you didn't seem to be replying to Tullochgorum's statement at all, which was accurate.
Probably helps that the same person was funding both sides all along as well as every other war that every happens
@@tannerlane9669 And who, in your well informed opinion, was the "person" who was funding both sides of the most expensive war in history. As a connoisseur of crackpot conspiracy theories, I'm all agog to find out, though I think I can guess what religion they will be...
Well said!
My father was one of the German soldiers in that area. He was 20 years old and just recovered from frozen feet from Russia. Nearby german civilians were sentenced to death by SS when they told young boys to stop fighting. All were eagerly waiting for the Americans to end the war! When US troops were near enough to our village, my grandfather walked to them waving a white flag. He risked his life, not only because of the US troops but also because of the SS. My father was injured by a grenade and brought to an American hospital. They saved his arm. Now, what is propaganda? Look into the eyes of these young boys.
Big Bill O'Reilly
Good point except he was talking about his father and YOU don't know either of them, father may not have had any choice in the matter ever, even if he loathed everything Nazi he would still be required to fight for them.
mkmm60
Thanks for the excellent brief story. It's easy to dehumanize the 'other side' when we are really all the same.
Big Bill O'Reilly
I know it. One US commander lined up all the civilians in a newly captured German town and made them walk through the death camp that was on the outskirts for which they claimed to know little about....I thought that was an appropriate action.
mkmm60.......he was twice the man I am..........I hate the cold....If I was on a troop train, dressed in a summer uniform and headed to the Russian front........I would have taken a nose dive off a high trestle. Better that than the freezing hell waiting ahead.
As a person of Geman ancestry whose family came over from Europe before WWI and fought against Germany in both World Wars, I am thankful that we are at peace. Europe was so deeply devastated by both wars. I do not harbor any ill will towards anyone who does not maintain the Nazi ideology. My heart goes out to all who had suffered through the losses of war.
Truly America's greatest generation I'm inspired how these brave men and women came together so that we have freedom today.god bless every veteran
I have moved feelings. On one hand they saved the world, on the other, they raised hippies and communist kids
@@ghostmost2614 maybe we should of raised little Nazi kids that do exactly what they r told instead of children that think for themselves.your the communist buddy.think about it
kneelz s yeah that’s called freedom dude. We can think what we want here as long as we don’t harm others.
Well yes but no since racism was a pretty hot thing back then
I was stationed in Frankfurt 1972/1975 and their New Years fireworks were pretty impressive. There were one inch holes thru the plywood guard shack from rockets.
Whenever I see tankers with infantry, I feel happy knowing infantry feels safer with their tanks around, whether of nation, race, method they are of.
That's assuming that their armored infantry and know what to do around their tanks. Tanks are dangerous clunky things that crush gooey things like people. Every now and then there will be fatal training accidents where people bivouac outside their designated area and get crushed by a tank rumbling along they can't see them. In combat it can be even worse. Thanks tend to draw fire and if they're supporting infantry leans back to avoid collateral damage from the anti tank fire and artillery, enemy infantry can take them out. That's why we have the vehicles we have today in the M2 and M3 to support the M1. My dad was in the US 6th Armored Division, they were told to hold a crossroads. There was an infantry and digging a foxhole next to my dad's tank. All of a sudden the Germans started shelling and one was going to be very very close. My dad dropped down and reached up to pull the hatch down, his arm got peppered with shrapnel. When he poked his head up and looked over the side where the infantryman was, all there was was just torn up flesh, the round landed in the foxhole with him.
Aschaffenburg now is best city to live in Germany, very nice little city when I was stationed there in the 80's, we had an army Brigade with about 5k troops
You could see it many of the kids faces , they just wanted mum , that really was upsetting, hope they grew up in peace
Yeah, they did. A peace won by American, British, and Canadian blood, and sustained by NATO countries putting their and the species' existence on the line to keep the Russians from grabbing the freedom we made stick. Now, of course, the Trumpies, and many similar cults, would shred all that. But, for a while, the civilized world saved the Germans from themselves, because we had actual values....
I'm glad I met my wife she's German and I love her
Big Bill O'Reilly
I'm not sure about rapist but he clearly is a fraud and a career criminal.
franklin black In my life I have personally known over 50 Muslims. They have the same potential to be good people or bad people. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, etc, are all just people. ISIS/Daesh however is an extremist organization united by hate and determined to build an empire at any cost. They perpetrate true villainy in their perversion of a religion. Praise the lord and pass the ammo, eh? Much like the Spanish Inquisition, Branch Davidians, Saffron terror, Jewish "settlers", Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, or the Salem Witch Trials anyone can pervert a religion.
Paul Metcalf. U R NUTS
Is she a Nazi?
What a stupid question. When you are really in love who cares about their politics.
Great footage! I used to live near Frankfurt and recognize a lot of those places shown.
This short WW11doumentary has some of the most authentic footage of actual combat with armor, foot soldiers , tanks and personal carriers than I have seen on You Tube. The Narrator did a very good job in tune with the fighting as the troops moved forward towards the retreating Germans. There was also some exceptionally heavy tank fire along with 50 caliber machine guns 6.00 to 6:70, sounds like all hell broke loose.
Huuuh this wasn't WW11. This is WW2 footage.
Don't be an idiot Bradley, life is too short
The area between Frankfurt and Paderborn was taken by the Americans at an incredible speed. They marched up to 65 miles through enemy territory a day. It was a great relief for the Population when the US tanks speeded through the villages. It meant that the war was over. If you have only boys and seniors to defend your country, you better give up. All well-trained soldiers of the other side will do their job without caring about the age of the enemy. Fortunatey, most boys survived after a short time of anxiety. After a bit of shelling, they were fed up with warfare and surrendered. Most of them were treated fairly well when they gave up. When the Americans met SS troops, they showed a different determination in warfare. Greetings from Hassia (Germany).
FranzMatthias, near the end of the war, there are instances German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers fought together against the Nazi SS e.g. Battle for Castle Itter. German (Wehrmacht) and American soldiers fought together in some sense is the start of NATO i.e. North Atlantic alliance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages, USA's population is mostly Germanic i.e. comes from UK and Germany. The difference is mostly ideological issues. USA has no interest in wiping out Germany.
Germans at this point weren't even trying on the west, all that was left and could put up a fight was thrown against the Red army in order to slow it down and let Americans to occupy as much of their land as it was possible, trying to avoid revenge from angry Russkies.
@@Mandrak789 Soviets * difference is night and day, most soviets werent Russian idiot
Hey I was standing right there were those soldiers were standing overlooking Heidelberg! It's part of the castle's garden system. Really puts things into perspective.
My Dad was 6th Armored, he was also in the cadre that formed the division. He was 2nd but he was transferred to 6th just before Torch. At 20 years of age he was a senior NCO as an E6. He joined the army in 1939 before the expansion started in 1940/41
@ 6:07 & 6:14
a M15(A1?) Halftrack is using its twin 50cal. and 37mm autocannon on surface targets. Quite rare to see footage of these in action.
I was stationed in Frankfort in early 60's. Amazed to see there was still some bomb damage, from the war.
Irving P.
first time American Troops came to Heidelberg. But they had to fight and a Job to do and couldnt enjoy the beauty of this most wonderful german city.
I think german troops wouldnt fight hard in this area , because they knew about its beauty.
I memory of all fallen soldiers of all nations! Rest in peace.
Heidelberg was the HQ of USAREUR from immediately after the war until 2013. I was a DoD civilian assigned to Campbell Barracks until it closed down in '13 and then we all moved to Wiesbaden. Many, many Americans enjoyed the beauty of HD for over 60 years :) I lived downtown, right around the Bismarckplatz.
Having lived in most of those cities it was great to see the old footage. Too bad man has to fight wars at all.
Thanks for posting!
2:36 Aschaffenburger Schloss brennend. Wenn ich aus dem Fenster gucke, sehe ich das Schloss prächtig und wie neu, Grüße aus A-burg
I was stationed in Aschaffenburg from 1988-1990. I visited the Castle and inside there is a large picture of the bombed out Castle during WWII. Also there was a Nun's place downtown, with only remnants from the bombing.
I was stationed around many of those cities mentioned throughout most of the 80's. If you looked around close enough out in the country you could still see buildings that were damaged by small arms fire and shell craters were very visible when you looked closely at the country side. There were concrete bunkers everywhere. I just never could quite understand why tiny German units put up resistance to a massive U.S. moving front with no chance of success other than to die and destroy what was left of their homes. I get them resisting the Russians, but the Americans made no sense to me. These are good films. Thanks for sharing them with us.
действительно зачем сопротивляться американцам ? немцы ведь не гадили в америке так как в USSR ? хотя они не особо и сопротивлялись ,по сравнению с войной в россии ,война с американцами выглядит мышиной вознёй
@@ЕвгенЛогин-р5с humm your forgetting the pact between Von Ribbentrop and Molotov divided Poland and allowed the war to start. That kinda of bit the USSR back
@@Dog.soldier1950 Poland itself had previously participated in the partition of Czechoslovakia in collusion with Nazi Germany and planned to fight against the USSR together with Germany. forget about the Munich agreement, initially there was a division of Czechoslovakia approved by England, France.
From the full text of the Munich Agreement:
Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into account the agreement under which an agreement in principle was reached on the transfer of Sudetenland to Germany...
As we can see, the conclusion of agreements with Hitler, and even more so the territorial division of states, began without the participation of the USSR.
I was stationed in Giessen and lived there for 4 years 1969 to 1973 ,we had the Luftwaffe pilots barracks and also had rivers barracks as well also had some hawk batteries set up not far from Rivers
I was stationed there in the mid 80's also. Most of the barracks were German leftovers, some dating back before ww1. The MP station was the an airport terminal. Depot had multiple tunnel accesses gated up and flooded.
I commanded a tank platoon in Kirch Goens (Ayers Kaserne) in 1964 and 1965. I lived on post at first but later rented an apartment in Giessen for the balance of my tour of duty.
It was a criminal act, throwing those untrained children into conflict against battle hardened allied troops. The problem is that a child can pull a trigger and kill someone so they have to be treated the same as adult troops.
The leaders of the 3rd Reich knew they were facing a noose if they lost. Everyone was expendable then, as the leadership had nothing to lose by sending kids into battle.
The whole German aggression was a criminal act anything after that was just a continuation.
The death throws of any society at war is when the children and the grandfathers go off to fight in the war. Historically this has been true since the first rocks were thrown. I'm not defending it, I actually think it's very sad. To describe something done by Nazi Germany as criminal is kind of redundant.
Roderick "Beaky" Allen commanded 12th Armored Division. Terry Allen commanding the 104th Infantry Division had previously commanded 1st Infantry Division, IIRC.
Well the comments section is a bit lively here, the Nazi's were bad the Russians arguably worse, but by that i ofc i mean Stalin not all Russians. At the end of the day the war ended, we the British and our commonwealth allies, the Americans, Russians and many other nations who fought resistance movements as well as supplying manpower to the war effort i.e the polish pilots who joined the RAF secured that victory with blood and grit. Whoever you are and whatever your beliefs, we should all learn from that war and those people, so that it may never happen again, because if it does it wont matter about Zionist this or Rothschild that we'll all be dead and so will all your arguments. so take a step back and have a longer think about the outcome of that bloody war and the lives it took to bring it to an end.
I am thankful for everyone that survived and am mournful for the people who were lost.
Congratulations pazard23 I believe that is the best reply I have seen on youtube.
All the best to you and yours from Melbourne Australia
Well said. Eloquent.
I absolutely agree with you but the reality is that the leaders of the worlds nations are trying to create empires and all of our countries exist because something was taken from someone else. We may learn the evils of war, but our leaders will still start conflicts to continue taking things from others and the people will continue to die because of it. Every country celebrates the greatest moments of it's empire and resents it's greatest losses. As a U.S. citizen I don't hate Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or any other country with with we have had skirmishes. But, that did not and will not prevent people from dying for the strength of empires.
@Stefan Burscheid The British were more lenient towards the Germans during the negotiations, it was the French who wanted so much! I suggest you research the subject before commenting.
Gavin Wilkinson
Gavin is exactly correct. In fact, there are considerable historical facts that support that Hitler chose not to invade Britain, when he could have following Dunkirk. It is said he was hopeful that Brits would negotiate an armistice and were opposed to parts of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler’s treatment of GB was a far cry from the way the French were treated in defeat. Plus, Hitler thought he was negotiating with Chamberlin 2.0 but instead got a Churchill.
Fine material. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Great historic video! Thanks for sharing!
5:00 Great shot of US artillery Grasshopper L1 observer planes.
looks like we were fighting children..... 16 year olds
Yes, thats right. In a desperate struggle for existence and prevention of "liberation" - the Russki threw also young Komsomols in...thats what happens in a total war....sadly enough...
Many were 10, 11, and 12.
Not many, but some. These kids served mainly as "voluntarily" messenger or runner in the last months of the war.
Ah, yes many, 8, 9, 10 ,11, and 12 were conscripted or volunteered for service. Many of these children served in artillery units, and not on the front lines. Many school girls were utilized as well. Please read, the book is a hard read because of the material covered.
www.express.co.uk/news/world/469496/Grim-fate-of-Nazi-child-soldiers-rounded-up-from-school-revealed-in-new-book
Hmmm...I dont know Harald Stutter, but (that what I know from personal stories of my German relatives) since 1944 it was usual for whole scoolclass to get drafted in "Heimflakbatterien" (home airdefense) as "Flakhelfer" (airdefense helpers). The minimum age was 15 (and an aproved health condition), or later in the year to be In the 9th grade. Toghether with experienced soldiers, this boys manned the AA-guns, or were deployed at the B-Stelle, to operate the FuMG (Radar) or the spotlights. Direct groundcombat was not the often the case. With an age of 17, all year`s issues came to the RAD (working service) and got a pre-military training.The timeframe which the book seems to describe is the verry last time of WW2 (March - May 1945). The famous little guy from Lauban, Wilhelm Hübner (age 14) was not a soldier, but a Hitlerjunge with a much too a big helmet....:) He volunteered for the recapture of Lauban as runner, because he lived there and he knew the city verry well. For his effort he gained the ironcross second class.
So yes, some young guys from the Hitleryouth came into battle, but thats was not a common case - when things were going halfway according to plan....;)
My granduncle (16) was sent home to mom from his commanding officer, as the Russian were close to his hometown - he was an courier for Heinkel/Oranienburg, like all his classmates.
Thank you.
Great stuff thanks !
The 88 cannon shot air burst shells at rifle bullet velocity. The shrapnel shot in every direction at the speed of bullets, many shards the size of dinner platters.
Men's bodies were sheared in pieces. Some were entirely cut in half by shrapnel shards.
I have noticed a lot of people on the comments section have no ideal what there talking about.
Welcome to youtube; where everyone's an expert and anyone can shoot their mouth off.
Mark Paul is one of them, cannot spell either.
Mark, that’s a fact! Illiteracy makes my head hurt....
Over 95% of ss were fighting troops the rest were gestapo .intel,police camp over seers ect. Many more ss were replacements for dead ss troops very few were the dreaded gestapo.
Mark Paul
And I notice thousands of people that claim they know what they are talking about are FULL OF SHIT.
don't forget it took over a thousand men to get to this point these were the most war veterans left great generation all the allies !!!!!
Thanks
Lets get it right ! It needed all the allies to beat the axis armies. No one country won the war it was a joint operation . Just be thankful those brave men and women did what they did for "all of us" .
Without the US.. the "Allies" were hopelessly outmatched and doomed.. you can take that to the bank!
@@michaelhoward6782 And America would never have won the war on its own ! If Europe (including Britain and Russia) had been turned into a German superstate in a couple of decades and with the help of Japan's growing empire in Asia would have turned their attention to the rest of the world . America would be wiped of the face of the earth so stick that in your pipe and smoke it !
@Keith Rose. Right, the only combatant nation that was self-sufficient in arms, supplies, petroleum and foodstuffs, the same nation that propped up you failing limeys and commies, could not have stood up to a nazi Germany bled white conquering europe. Maybe if you limeys actively aided the nazis, a Vichy England.
Don't forget a few little things called Fat Man and Little Boy. Cheers!! Put that in your limey arse hole and smoke it.
Keith Rose I’m sure the other allies made similar films of their troops in action
Patton's 3rd army was the best forget these guys and the rest.
My grandpa used to say "I killed me at-least ten Nazis back in 45". RIP grandpa.
During the Second World War, the USA and Great Britain together dealt with only 10 German divisions. And one USSR fought with more than 200 German divisions.
Not true. Go here; ua-cam.com/users/Eastoryvideos and watch the Western Front videos and you will see how many German divisions the USA and GB faced in 1944 and 1945. And you're not counting the German divisions the US and GB dealt with in North Africa, Sicily and Italy from 1942 to 1944. Thanks.
A good informative video.
I have studied many of these films of the Germans as they surrender. We see German towns people in their Sunday best thronging the streets. German prisoners look satisfied that it is over and they are still alive. Many German infantry and armored unit traveled great distances to surrender to the US Army. US armored divisions swept onward to Prague and Vienna. This film appears to be from early April 1945. Germany surrendered unconditionally May 8, 1945.
this clip mentions late March 1945. US and British forces began the process of over running Germany in mid March. Time line- Febuary early March was spent clearing German Resistance from the Rhine, followed by a massive drive into Germany in Late March into April before halting when they Made contact with Soviet Forces
You have to consider the times of these videos. Pre-1960's, many people wore suits as every day normal dress. Unless you had a job as like a mine worker, or dirty work of some sort, most people wore suits/dresses. Even those of mention, miners, construction workers etc, after they got home and bathed, they then put on dressier clothing. Some men, even if they wore a suit to work, when they got home, they merely changed their jackets.
U.S. lost Corea afterwards.They lost Cuba, then Vietnam .Lost Syria. Afghanistan could not be conquered.This is the price for victoryin WWII.You cannot go on a war by means of 1945. They started making strategical mistakes.
Kim Patterson only Japanese were not willing to surrender cause yanks were fighting racial war on Pacific
The US brought freedom to (West)Germany. That is unfortunately forgotten these days; in particular by the right-wing idiots from Eastern Germany. East Germans - and in particular those, who belong to the political extremes, namely the "Linke" and the "AfD", are intrinsically anti-US. A shame, given the fact that is was the US that brought the freedom that we enjoyed in the West of Germany and that we had for 40 more years compared to the rest of our nation in the East.
Love that K98 Meuser and the M1 Garands .....👍
More history to learn from study and learn.
Thank you - dankeschön ! This is my "Heimat" ...great Pictures !
If only the Geman people could have known the future and surrendered en mass to the western allies quicker enabling less damage and loss of life with the added bonus of the Allies getting further to the East to keep Russia out .
Michael Towler if only America knew the truth that eventually all whites will be replaced by blacks and Muslims.
Pm
It wouldn't have mattered. The postwar division of Germany had already been agreed on before the Nazis fell. Even had the Americans advanced into Berlin, they would have had to turn it over to the Soviets, anyway.
The problem wasn't really the general German populace as moral continually fell as the war continued and casualties rose (especially after their losses in the eastern front), the problem was the zero tolerance towards dissent by the Nazi authorities, who perpetuated the war through means such as Volkssturm units comprising old men and young boys conscripted from local populations, and armed resistance to the advancing Allied forces was mandatory upon punishment of death.
Not every German was a Nazi... as for Germany and Japan.. Neither should exist today as nations..
6:55-6:59 Polish POWs liberated by US troops. Must have stayed in German captivity since 1939 campaign.
Hard to believe they weren't murdered, or didn't die from starvation or disease.
Outstanding!
I was station in the Giessen Army Depot in the 80's. There was a WW2 memorial in downtown Giessen for German dead, but somebody splashed red paint all over it. Germans were not very thrilled about NAZI past.
3:37 child soldiers... what a disgrace!
The action captured by the US Signal Corps is waaaay better than that of the Woschenchau
hitler let build the super highways so the us army could better conquer germany by tanks
Ive seen the town "Heidelberg" in this video.
What a beautiful place!
Im going to visit it someday, im living next door to it (The Netherlands)
Heidelberg in this video looks just the same as it did when I visited this year. Crazy.
Diebels Alt I understand a great university is there
Every allied tanker should have been awarded a VC for having to go up against German tanks in second rate vehicles
I live there. in Wetzlar/Gießen before in Frankfurt. i see many houses that i know from today, also many known faces from Wetzlar. I read many Books about the Warend in my City. Germans who know about this History are very thankfull to the allied for freeing us. Sadly the many bomberplanes doesnt hit our factorys here very well but many inocent died from the bombs. Only the captured pilots who came first in "Durchgangslager" had a "nice" life here in war. they became friends with their german enemys even at warend. wich happened not often. but only a few meters from this prisoners had to work in hell :-( (sorry for bad en)
7:20 is known 12 years old boy from my city. until this day when he was captured he had not seen the real war, only in Wochenschau or Planes. they was so bad trained soldiers. they shot houses by mistake when they tried to aim on overflying planes and was only scared when they saw one ...
@@peterpitter Amazing story, if he is still alive he would be 85-86.
My grandfather was a young boy in these days in Berlin, and his father disappeared in a pow camp in Italy with malaria. My great grandmother fled the eastern front with a child in hand and pregnant. She gave birth to my grandmother 2 days after the war ended. First time she saw a black guy was an American soldier going into the house lmao. They were treated well. Her husband was a motorcycle messenger for the germans, got shot in the knee. He was a racer by profession before the war.
2:26 Aschaffenburg my Hometown
in the 1950's I was in that area, at Sembach near Kaiserslautern.
Mid to late 50s I was at Gelnhausen
Interesting very impressive video
Strange to see a 4-lane highway back in those days.
0:28 - 0:33 reminds of a scene in Dr. Strangelove, and 6:11 to 6:25 reminds me of a scene from Band of Brothers, and 4:05 to 4:07 reminds me of a scene from To Hell and Back.
благодарю !!!
I saw old WW2 Sherman Tank . It was a production tank ! Build them as fast you can Goooooooo!
So many historic buildings gone...............
Trendy T If the madman had surrendered sooner they could've survived. As it is he was determined to make all Germany his funeral pyre. That includes the women and children sent to die in the volksturm.
Makes me wonder if crouching to make a low target is any better than running as fast as you can ?
Yes. It is. Terrain can keep you alive. You can't outrun a bullet or shrapnel.
Is the audio e.g. Gunfire added afterwards?
My uncle was with the 84th infantry division and fought in Belgium and Germany. He said running down the street in a German artillery round hit In front of him and blew the head off the soldier in front of him . Said 50 caliber machine guns would cut the Germans to pieces.
"No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Film"
А где блять бои? Пиф паф, фольксштурм какой то один... Весь вермахт на Восточный фронт ушёл?
speed list сплошная постанова.. Куда, по кому стреляют?
Союзники вступили в войну не против немцев, а против СССР, для того чтобы красная армия не освободила всю европу, и не сделала ее сферой своего влияния. Немцы, при этом, массово бежали от нас сдаваться союзникам, которые не питали к фашистам особой неприязни. Тысячи фашистских военных преступников нашли спасение у союзников, а немецкий Абвер вообще в полном составе перешёл на службу к американцам, просто поменяв хозяев.
MrSeydlitz Именно поэтому поставляла Ленд-Лиз? Не одной тушёнкой сыты были. Огромное количество грузовиков, танков, самолётов, станков, патронов, снарядов, запчастей, предметов обмундирования были поставлены в СССР. Даже пуговицы были не советские. Именно поэтому флот Великобритании обеспечивал постоянное присутствие в Арктике, топя немецкие корабли которые время от времени там появлялись и подводные лодки принимавшие активное участие, которые топили конвои которые шли в СССР по сев. мор. пути? От кого бы СССР «освободил» Европу!? От себя самой? «Сферой влияния». Это разве «освобождение»? Это протекторат! Найди девушку с грудным ребёнком, выхвати его и скажи «я его освободил». Посмотрим как она будет благодарна
That’s unfair to call that little crying boy a Nazi, he doesn’t know what’s going on he is just a kid
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At 0.54, what a 19-year old looks like after 6 months of combat.
German surrender! But they where poor people, not all Nazis. What should they do? - Greetings from Frankfurt a. M. Germany.
Sie hätten nicht abdanken dürfen.
This was a good clip about the war
15 days of training was like fighting children that couldn't shoot a bird .
Took a lot of guts to do what they did without the protive gear that we have now aday
Same sound track in every "documentary"? Bang! Bang! Ratta tat tat!
The 7th armored was not what a German fighter wanted to have to deal with. Ever.
"Negro units". The UK was astonished to discover that the US army was segregated. They took the black troops to their hearts, and on more than one occasion, white GI's who tried to throw black troops out of pubs were beaten up by the locals. For their part, the black troops were astonished to be treated as normal human beings, and many friendships were formed.
What a bunch of crap! GI's and others (Polish free forces, Mexican Americans) who served in ww2 stationed in UK, who my father knew, told us that UK was far more racist than US. And if you are really so tolerant of Blacks then why don't you offer a few million of them asylum? Put up or shut up.
@@psilvakimo I knew two Polish veterans of WWII who chose to stay on in Scotland after the war. They settled in just fine, and the Polish contribution to the war effort is warmly remembered by the Scots to this day.
Any suggestion that the UK is as racist as the US is laughable. We've never had Jim Crow laws and segregation, white supremacist organisations like the Klan, racist lynchings or mass voter suppression and all the rest. There's racism in every country, but the UK is better than most. I'm from an immigrant family, so I know.
If anything, it's your poisonous attitude towards the UK that's racist. Take a look at yourself...
The US drives their Frankfurt deep.
The British had their own Band of Buggers
I was stationed near Paderborn in the early 1960's. Ironically, I came back to America aboard the U.S.S. Rose Troop ship, named after the only American General Officer killed in WWII, who is mentioned in this video.
At 7:20 the narrator refers to what appears to be a young boy about 14 years old as a nazi. I seriously doubt that, he's obviously scared to death.
I wonder how many teenagers were summarily executed on the spot for refusing to put on the uniform and move to the front?
The 14-year-old boy was probably Hitler youth, which was mandatory. It's funny that you mentioned the USS Rose, I was on board that ship in November 1965. I was 7 years old and it was quite an adventure! We had engine trouble, we had a major lifeboat drill, unscheduled because the Brits were running a air sea rescue drill in The Dover Straits that night. We also ran into a full-blown Gale Mid-Atlantic. It took I think three days to get into it and out of it, it was amazing. My dad and I never missed a meal. But I think my sister and my mother could draw a picture of the toilet from memory.
@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer Thanks for sharing with me your adventure on the Rose! Stay healthy and safe in 2022! Here's another story of my time on the Rose. There were about 5,000 of us aboard. All U.S.Army I think. I was coming home to end my enlistment. It was a 6 day trip with calm seas all the way, which was fine because I had a cot right in the bottom of the ship at the very stern of the ship. About the third day at sea, I heard an announcement for Specialist fourth class W------ G-------, to report to a specified area on the ship. I went to the charts to find out that location and it was in the very Bow of the ship and at the very bottom of the ship. I had to go up and down many different stairs and halls to get there as the main part of the ship was for first class passengers, where we enlisted men could not go. When I got to that location I was about to announce my presence when I realized there was another person of my identical name (first and last) and identical rank in that compartment! I was so glad I wasn't being called to ship duty that I left without meeting him. I've always regretted my decision. Oh, knowing he was up there gave me the jitters as it seemed like a bad omen to me and I didn't want to try to swim to New York! Take care.
Hello scenes from Fury ending credit, we meet in B/W atlast.
Been to Germany many times and every time I go I visit ww2 sites it's really interesting to me.
2:22 first time is see moving pics from my hometown in ww2.
When I see these types of wickedness and ruthless actions against innocent humans, caused by satanic and evil persons, up to this days we are living, I always say, and believe, that we, the humans NEVER LEARN, and unfortunately that is how to remain, as long as there are humans on earth. I do not want to condemn anyone for causing wars, but wish that someone here, points out the name of that poor German lad caught close on the footage. He as well as other youths, had been forced to face death, and I feel so pity for him. Can anyone help please.?
me n the boys capturing frankfurt
imagine your a german in these times walking down the street and you see shermans driving past you
It was one of the most developed areas of the world back then already. Compare it with what Germans saw when they entered USSR....
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
I flew through Frankfurt a short while ago, it as a beautiful city from the air. There are no Nazi's left there, except in airport security.
on Frankfort airport security are working poorly paid Mohameds ass youngsters, you fool
There are bullets missing them by yards, feet, then inches.
This reel does not show those killed freeing this city. 0:24
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I am a vietnam vet, but the try hero's are these guys!
Tim u r a hero in my book thanks for fighting 4 our country
Imagine how many lives would be saved if the coalision would get to Normandia in 1942 as it was said at first.. But it took 2 more deadly years and when the soviets where already going to berlin the coalision came.. But anyway it helped and thanks to every country
Let's not forget the COST-!
this is also know as the Great Clean Up!!! LOL
Russia would have gotten its ass kicked if it had not been for America’s contribution to them for the war effort.
Not really our contribution to the Russians was quite small compared to everything else that they had did it help yes
is the sound that you hear in these video's the sound from the actual footage
I would subscribe if there weren't so damn many "Subcribe.." interruptions!
Essa guerra foi muito cruel 👍👍