My father turn 21 three weeks after Germany surrendered to the Allies. He was released from an American prisoner-of-war camp just before the end of the war and told to find his own way home. He and his mother had agreed that if they survived they would meet up in Rothenberg. My grandmother told the story of wandering the streets with his picture in her arms, looking everywhere for him. He had managed to find a room in town about three stories up, and was just washing the only pair of socks he owned and hanging them out the window sill to dry, when she looked up and spotted him. She ran into the door and noticed that it had been a school for very young children, and so she always felt that it was appropriate that she found her "little boy" in a kindergarten. They had been quite well to do, and even though their home ended up being taken by the Russians, my grandmother managed to sell enough jewelry and artwork to Allied occupation forces to enable my father to complete his dream of medical school. In 1955, he emigrated to the United States, it was very proud to become a citizen. He passed away just a few months ago three weeks shy of his 94th birthday.
@WorldEye88 Well, unfortunately, in Germany, at the time, there was a lack of opportunity. He left partly for this reason and also out of fear. His family's home ended up in the Russian sector, and at first, the Russians tried to bribe him to come to East Berlin and work as a doctor for them, and then started to actually threaten him and follow him. One of the reasons he left Germany was because he was in danger of being made to work for the Communists. He got out before he was kidnapped. He wanted very much to work on Phenylketonuria (PKU) testing for infants, and Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy, and sponsorship by the state of Maine and the United States allowed him to, along with his students and other colleagues, advance medical understanding and progress towards curing these terrible diseases, which benefits the entire world.. not just Germany, not just the United States. He told me once that he had considered going back to Germany for a while, but by then he had fallen in love with a single mother who had a baby and had made a life for us here. I'm very proud of him and his achievements. He also was a graduate studies professor in Pathology and Clinical Chemistry at Ohio State University and the Medical College of Virginia, teaching others who followed in his footsteps and continue to be inspired by him.
My Mom was a teenager who survived WWII and lived through this time there, to her dying day she only hated 2 things- Nazis and Communists, both of whom she blamed for what happened to her home country.
@@JUAN_OLIVIER are you daft? You seriously expect to settle terms with Nazi Germany? You are going to blame Britain for Hitler invading a sovereign nation? Who's to blame for the holocaust, Canada?
Belgian, born in 12-1944 in Antwerp. Living for the past 35 years in Nepal. I remember still going with my parents to Koln in Germany. My father had been a prisoner of war in Germany, but apparently treated very well by a German farmer family. He wanted to thank them for their kindness. I only remember the destruction and people sitting on it. For one reason or another this remained in my memory, more then 70 years after.
I know this is a loooong comment but . . . My dad was born in Germany in 1943. His small town had been bombed during the war. Rubble remained the normal landscape for most of his childhood. As a toddler he would take his wagon and search through the rubble trying to find any materials or scraps that he could try to sell for money/food (You read that right: AS A TODDLER). Throughout his childhood, he had to share a single bed with everyone in his household (3 siblings, his mother, and grandmother), often times that meant taking shifts of who got to sleep in the bed. Because of this, for the rest of his life, he would never be able to sleep for more than 4 hours a night. Christmas and birthday presents meant socks and underwear, if he was lucky. And no, this was no exaggeration. My dad rarely spoke of his childhood because it was so painful for him. I have only seen 2 pictures of my dad as a little boy. In one, there was a stack of building blocks that the photographer had put there as a prop. They were stacked into a tower for the photo, but my dad kept knocking the blocks over refusing to take a picture with it intact. When asked why, he said because they didn't have buildings/towers that weren't broken/in ruins (he was 4). At 74 yo, he still had visible scars on his face from where his teachers (ex-Nazis) would hit him with their rings turned inward. Finally when he was 10yo, my dad decided he wanted to imigrate to America the day he turned 21 (the youngest possible age). He spent his while adolescence after working his ass off to make that dream happen. And he did it, without help from anyone. On his 21st birthday, he boarded the ship to New York.
This was my expierence as well as an iraqi immigrant. Had to look for scrap metal to sell as a toddler and my teacher pulled my ear so hard it bled and got infected. Still have the scar under my ear. I live in europe now, life is much better away from the war. War never changes.
My elder brother now 95 yrs ( still here) was in the army of occupation he said unlike some, he felt sorry for the kids and women - he always gave them any food he could, I remember the German and Italian POWs working in the fields in the UK, they were treated so well they never wanted to escape, 25,000 stayed here after the war, I read that some families took POWs in for the Christmas period.
I respectfully commemorate all German soldiers who fought alongside Turkey in World War I and shared the same fate with them. It was an honor to fight alongside you.
Have to tell you dude , I was in Germany in 1964-1970 and the reason they are such a powerhouse today is they have had 70years of hard work and getting on with it, not moaning or wailing, just sheer bloody hard work. My German land lady was in her 50/60s in the sixties and she got her son up for work in the morning then went to work in the fields till 17.30 in the evening, and didn't complain
Its a myth that they (The Germans) work harder than you and me. We all work hard, especially if we are working class! The secret of the rebuilding of Germany into the economic powerhouse that it is today is down to factors such as efficient management and engineering prowess. And yes, help and financial aid from the United States and Britain.
@@kengrimes1012 You have no clue,but if you would spent a week in a greek village they would teach you what real,physical demanding labour means,and believe me germans are not by far so hard workers like for instance japanese,they are not willing to do overtime or work on weekends,the keyword for the economic prosperity after world war two:Marshall plan.
My grandmother lived in Berlin until 1947. I've been studying WW2 for 25 years and still have trouble imagining what life must have been like for her. Absolute insanity.
My sympathy for the average German citizens who lived through the horror of the bombing raids and the iron boot of Russian occupation. The sad part is only 3% of Germans were Nazi party members. 3% destroyed their country. Wake up USA.
@@loneranger6168 nope, lot more than 3%,majority more like. Iron boot you say, more like response to atrocities committed by the "brave german troops " and allies on the occupied territories. Pay back ya know .
I visited West Germany from the US several times in the early 80’s and already by then there was almost no visual evidence that WWII ever happened. The only clues were occasionally a row of buildings would have a gap where one was missing. Their attention to detail was incredible.
Clear signs of the horrible destruction is how ugly many cities are today. The most beautiful old houses were destroyed and hastily replaced by purely functional buildings with no homogeneous structure. My home tome used to be stunning but nowadays it is one of the ugliest cities I can imagine.
Couldn’t disagree more. The signs are everywhere to this day. Maybe you didn’t pay much attention to street layouts and architecture. Many cities in West Germany were rebuilt quickly, cheaply, and without paying attention to history. Some were almost entirely destroyed. On top of my head Dortmund: 95% destroyed, rebuilt in a most awful style of the 50s, historical downtown ugly beyond imagination with only one or two pre-war building surviving (cathedral and another one on the main square). It is difficult to walk through it and not to wince. Next Munich. Terribly patched up historical downtown. One could go on... what didn’t help is that since I believe the 89s UNESCO “forbid” reconstruction of historical buildings. Meaning of a given building “vanished” it cannot be rebuilt as it was say in 1600. Instead, a new and almost alway out of style monstrosity has to be erected. However, I see old palace in form east Berlin is being rebuilt (from scratch, it was dynamited by the communists) so maybe Germans wised up.
@@pawelpap9 So true! That war, in truth a European civil war, caused all our downfall (untergang). Terrible things were done all across Europe by post-war town planners in the name of progress. So many of German's beautiful cities were destroyed by allied bombings. I see that Dresden was (to a degree) rebuilt in the image of its former glory. But to a degree we all suffered from an kind of 'Americanisation' of our architecture. Cheap materials, vulgar sensationalist designs, inhuman proportions. The effects of that terrible war are still with us. I weep for the former beauty of Europe.
@@elcheapo9444 yes it's not so violent because they've softened us up with an illusion of a peaceful free progressive society which it is far from really🤣🤣
Both of my parent's families were bombed-out of their homes during that war and both of my mother's parents died in 1945 directly because of it. My late uncle and aunt were getting married in 1943, and while the photographer was taking his pictures, a German bomber flew overhead and machine-gunned the party. Nobody moved a muscle apparently as the bullets spattered harmlessly into the meadow next to the church. And yet I never heard a single expression of any hatred from my family over the years towards the Germans. It was always the Nazis who were the bastards, and may they rot in hell!
My parents taught Canadian soldiers stationed in Germany only ten years after the end of WW2. They said there were still a lot of wrecked buildings with bullet holes everywhere. By 1977, when we went back to visit on a family trip, my parents said the town they had lived in was almost unrecognizable as everything had been rebuilt. I just went back last month and there is absolutely no evidence of war damage anywhere - except a few noticeable exceptions, left that way on purpose as a reminder. They are shocking - like the Wilhelm Kaiser Church in Berlin with a massive bomb hole in the church tower - surrounded by upper class West Berlin. Amazing. Japan, where I lived in the 1990's is the same - totally rebuilt. In Hiroshima, you would never know anything had happened there - now a joyful, youth-oriented and prosperous city. Vietnam? Same.
I am living in Vietnam. I live it here. Glad I left LA behind. Younger folks here have never seen war. Older folks stopped talking about the past long time ago.
I saw this a year ago. And read the comments below. Some excellent points, and some idiots. Some constructive contributions, but some really stupid conversations. Well done Documentary. Thanks for posting.
The owners of the Google/UA-cam network, who own all the other networks, don’t want the world to know the truth especially historical truth as they’ve pulled down from youtube countless times since its 2017 release the most forbidden documentary ever published! But the full ten-part series is still available at archive-dot-org: "Europa The Last Battle". Watch it while you still can!
My father was posted to Germany in the USAF in the early fifties and said that parts of the country still looked like the war had ended the week before he arrived. FYI, it took every bit of almost 4 decades to completely rebuild the country...and they still find unexploded bombs in German cities.
@@pawelpap9 I was posted to West Germany in the US Army in the late eighties and they were still finding things. Your comment made me think... I've not been to Berlin but considering the US/UK ran aerial strikes on the city 24/7 for five years and then the Russians came in shooting on the ground and brought decades of communism with them? They probably have significant recovery issues in Berlin and all over eastern Germany.
In the 1950s and 60s most of this country was still heavily damaged from years of bombing and battles fought therefore it took over 40 years for the rebuilding process to finish.
Looking at the women clearing bricks (Trümmerfrauen) reminds me of my Grandmother in Berlin. Backbreaking work all day starting at 7am til dark Mon-Sat. She barely earned enough to keep herself and 3 children fed. I was so proud of her! RIP.
My grandfathers said the same thing; When they went through France, the French were sitting around waiting for someone to start fixing things, but when the got to Germany, the Germans were knocking mortar off the bricks and stacking them up, waiting to rebuild.
@@CptFoupoudav Umm No. I think you missed my point. They remarked on the industrious Germans and the French, who seemed depressed over back to back World War destruction of the Country. Sorry if I hit a nerve, didn't mean to, but my Grandparents were far from stupid.
They were waiting for the Germans to rebuild France since their county knocked it down in the first place, and not to mention sent innocent ex soldiers to clean up the mines which was fucked up in my opinion
@@isaiahnavarro8268 Well my friend, perhaps France, Britain, USA defacto, should not have declared war on Germany??? Fact remains, very very little of French infrastructure and housing was destroyed by German military activity. The great majority of the destruction, plus French mortality, was caused by the allied invasion.
My grandfather was part of an engineering corp, and after the war, he stayed for a while as part of the efforts described in this video. His consternation was the need to continually hold some of his men back from mistreating the German citizens, and from looting civilians' residences, even when they were still living in them. He had caught one group of American soldiers carrying someone's stuff out and yelled at them in front of other soldiers and the Germans. He confided in my mom that he believed that the war was necessary, but also wrong. He was a Lutheran of German descent, and he had to kill other young men (German Lutherans) who looked like they could have been part of our family. Sadly, the "shell shock" he developed caused him great anxiety, and psychological and mental problems became a part of our family's history. In the end, though, his personal faith helped keep him focused on right and wrong, and freely admitting when he was wrong. And he was the closest I ever had to a father of my own.
@@willleon9165 He lived 80 years and a day. I don't know if he had much interest in politics, but he was a Bible reading Christian, and believed that that was the sole means to judge a man.
40% of american people are middle european or german descendant. Your grandfather was right: he was killing his own family. ¿Why USA go on in war against germans? ¿For his properly interest? 5.000kms an an ocean between USA and Germany.
Amazing. People just don’t know what happens at the end of a war. The Germans did well to bring their country back from hell. Yes they had a lot of help from the allies, particularly the USA, But in the end they did it.
The USA paid many billions of $$$ to help Germany rebuild, and Europe in general. 70 years later, the EU tries to takeout the USA and force it into the New World Order of communism and death.
@@markdavid4897 Don’t be naive. We gave them the money so they could hire our contractors so we could build their country. It’s the same we did in Iraq. We bring it down, then we use tax money to pay American contractors to go rebuild. It’s a vicious cycle of making money through war. War=money, otherwise it wouldn’t exist.
nomans land That was then , now that dust has settled and there is no more wars for land that happened long ago so that still makes it right? And we’re all racist because we don’t let blacks and others do whatever they want because of slavery? A little late to fight back now isn’t it ?
I know, right? It's annoying how they talk about it. Maybe all these people kissing the allies' ass should pay a little more attention to these type of videos.
I beg to differ, have you heard Trump's BS. That really worked, January 6 reminds me of Hitler's own insurrection back in November 1923 (Beer Hall Pusch).
@@RamonRodriguez-hq7vn The totalitarians we should be worried about are the ones distorting what occurred on January 6, the ones talking about “re-education” efforts, the ones doing their best to cancel and harm those with whom they disagree, the ones censoring information so that alternative viewpoints cannot be heard, and the ones trying to tell Americans who they may and may not vote for in 2024.
@@TrueNorthPatriot This has been my thought for the past six years, since Trump was campaigning back in 2015. While I was an Officer Cadet back in the mid to late 80s, we studied Nazi Germany and how the National Socialists came to power. I listened to Hitler's speeches on VHS, with English subtitles. This is not a simple thought, this is well thought out and learned. You may not see it, and that doesn't mean that it's a simple overtly used analysis. I see the similarities. I sincerely wish you could research this, and come up with your own thoughts. Take care.
As Volksdeutsch from Italy I can say just a thing: war destroyed 700 years of history. And ethnic germans especially in the east Europe paid too much. My Opa paid a lot but at least he remain alive and in his Heimat...
@Hello There yes.. That's awful part of the history. 20 mio people lost forever their properties and Heimat. Many others were killed or died in captivity. Many others were sent to Kazakhstan or Siberia. Many others lost their identity of ethnic germans to save their lives (like my Opa). Do you know what is more disgusting me? That nowadays in Germany young generation hate their ancestors and their past. They are to supporting a new fascism surely worst than the nazional socialism. Do you know why? Because at least in the past in the focus of all was the german Gemeinschaft. Now they are following something that is against the moral, the natural laws and their national Gemeinschaft. This melting pot and this moral degeneration is something that I personally find worst than every other dictatorship of the past. We should fight to give justice to the people that really lost all during WWII just because ethnic germans. We should remember that cities like Stettin, Danzig, Königsberg, Tilsit, Memel, Breslau, Aussig, Teiplitz, Eger, Straßburg, Bozen were part of german history. I am proud to be ethnic german and I try to teach my son all that I know about the true history. Not the history of the winners...
@android user belive me, here it's something under. The lobbies want just a new form of slavery. Profit is their only objective. Do you know Kalergi? Thanks god if you are russian. If you are from Ukraine you can see what's is the sad part of the new capitalism. Dividi et impera.
@@walsch80 I know lots of germans still live in kalingrad but they still there just chilling with papa putin to they are back in the arms of our people
@@IndianaJonesTDH the germans that remain there are from Volga area. Russlanddeutsche in german. They are with german origin but since 100 years integrated in russian society. I know personally Russlanddeutsche and they said exactly what I heard to me ( half german fron Italy): for russians we are germans and for germans we are russians. But belive me that you love the Heimat or the place where are you born. It's a good thing that we have in us both cultures. Really, I find people that insult just "ignorant" or "gopnik" 😏
Life in Germany After World War 2, part 1: Brought to you by Herbert Von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Lucky Strike: "It's Toasted!"
My Dad was stationed in Berlin at about this time. With a crew of American lawyers, they helped to rewrite the laws that Germans would have to follow. Later on they went on to help them write a constitution.
That would be actually a great subject for a movie or a documentary. I am afraid that new generations, particularly in Germany, tend to forget or minimize the impact Americans had on shaping the new post-war Germany. I wonder whether your Dad wrote memoirs. It would be fascinating to hear more.
I wonder what would have happened if, after WW 1, Germany got the same help to get back on its feet, instead of the disastrous Treaty of Versailles. I’ll bet WW2 would never have happened and Adolf Hitler died as a nobody somewhere in Austria.
@Nuclear Gravy then just be thankful he didn't lead your nation. Because that could of been anyone of us. Eg My 12 year old sister or my mother being brutalised by the savage red army scum.
Another useless quote that people love to say as if if makes any sense. Would you like a Nazi version of history or maybe their "science" to feel more superior ?
A friend was stationed in Germany in the early 60's. He said that if a soldier accidentally ran over a chicken the government had to pay the German's full restitution and the price was super high. U.S. soldiers stationed there were always worried they'd damage something. Quite a shift from the 40's.
funny that germans care so much about restitution when it comes to themselves, the allies helped rebuild west germany. russia was still punishing germans in the 60s.
I knew a man who fought against the Germans. He said there were two things that stuck out about them. 1. It was always a tough fight. Most times they won. 2. He said they were ALWAYS very brave.
no one speaks about Germans everyone speaks about Japanese development after world war 2. in fact germany lost a lot wealth, assets, people in both the world wars and now look at german economy its amazing at the euro. their auto companies like audi, mercedes Benz, bmw, Porsche are more preferred than the Japanese auto companies across the world, they manufacture aeroplane engines n export it to every country they have become biggest trade partners with countries like mexico, usa, brazil, china, india etc which are one of the biggest economies on earth
It is Japan that has the 3rd largest economy in the world and not Germany. Also, Japan has no natural resources at all. Germany sits in the Middle of Europe with an open market to 400 million people. A Porsche of any quality is 100 grand. Now compare a Volks. to a Honda. The Honda is a much better built automobile and it does not cost a fortune for maintenance as your grand Porsche does.
My Mom was a little girl at this time. Growing up she always had a huge food stock. For a family of four; 2 pantries, 2 refrigerators, 1 freezer, a full kitchen and a big garden. We always wondered if it was because of the War, she said “Hmm, maybe. I never thought about it”. 💜
World War II claimed the lives of an estimated 60 + million people, so that there were many, many broken, distraught families, torn apart at the roots, having lost one or more family members to the war on both sides of the battle. The survivors grieved for perhaps years, or perhaps even the rest of their lives. This is the bitterness of human warfare, in which in World War II, so many Germans placed their hopes, their trust in Adolf Hitler and his regime, but their dreams turned to nightmares. Having lost almost everything, they had to start afresh with life, without many a family member being present. At Revelation 6, it outlines the deadliness of human warfare through "the ride of the four horsemen", saying at verse 4 with the rider on a "fiery-colored horse", that it "was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword." This symbolic rider on a "fiery-colored horse" quickly followed the rider on a "white horse" who had just received a crown to a heavenly government called God's Kingdom.(Rev 6:1, 2) This rider was Jesus Christ, who, in 1914, was given the reigns to God's heavenly Kingdom (Dan 7:13, 14), who then fought an unseen battle in heaven against his archenemy, "the dragon" or Satan the Devil, who lost and was forcibly thrown out of heaven, so that Satan has brought great "woe" on the earth because he is very angry, starting World War I and all the rest of the wars that subsequently followed.(Rev 12:7-9, 12) As a result of World War I, that cost the lives of an estimated 21 million soldiers and civilians, and all future human wars since then, Revelation 6:8 now says that a rider on a "pale horse" came forth, "and the one seated on it had the name Death. And the Grave was closely following him. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth." So, since Jesus enthronement as king of God's Kingdom in 1914, war has reaped a massive harvest of casualties, and in which many are ' resting in peace ' in the Grave. But there is the hope that many who have died as a result of human warfare will live again, through a resurrection from the dead.(see Job 14:13-15) These ones can be like the evil-doer on one side of Jesus when they both were on stakes, so that Jesus told the evil-doer who showed faith in him and said: "Jesus, remember me when you get into your Kingdom", whereby Jesus responded with the hope of a resurrection: "Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise (or on the earth, not in heaven)."(Luke 23:42, 43) The hope of living on a paradise earth is before all mankind (though few will take advantage of it), and God, whose personal name is Jehovah, would love for them to come and "take life's water free", so as to have perfect peace, perfect health, and perfect security forever.(Rev 22:17)
Back then they always Dramatized every situation , especially the struggle that the German people had to indure .It was a day to day struggle too for the former german soldier who stayed alive . Not every german soldier committed a crime against humanity like Hitler or Ickman or Guering .or other terrible cruel henchmen .
My county courthouse has an elevator installed by the Nazis in the 1930s- Thiesen Krupp with Hitlers 3 joined circles that later became the Olympic symbol. As a Jew, it annoys me, but the fact is that it has never broken in over 90 years.
If it's any consolation, the wooden mechanical staircases installed in Antwerp's Voetgangerstunnel (pedestrian tunnel) in 1931 are also still going strong. And their manufacturers were Jewish.
In my view this is some form of propganda like the when they talk about military industrial complex leaders. Which is rather stupid since ever country has one and you get my point if youo think about it and what they say
My neighbour was born in Germany and was 18 when the war ended. She remembers air drops by Britain in the first days after the surrender was signed - she was in the British Zone - because they were starving and the British knew that getting food to them any other way was impossible with most of the infrastructure destroyed. Her whole village gathered around the air-dropped supplies which were marked only "Gift of the British People" in English. You might be surprised to find that this caused great concern. You see, none of the villagers present knew English and the word "gift" in German is POISON; they thought they were being told to commit suicide. Having just lost the most brutal war in history, which they started, they were waiting for the inevitable reckoning and thought this might be it. But someone rounded up the schoolteacher in their village and he knew a little bit of English, enough to explain that "gift" in English was a good thing. They opened the packages and found food, clothing, and other aid. Having become a bit cynical over the years, I find myself wondering if that was a deliberate bit of psychological warfare on the parts of the British; after all, they could hardly have expected the Germans to be fluent in English or, indeed, to be able to read it at all so I'm at a loss to see why they didn't include bilingual markings on the packages....
The guy winding the street organ reminded me when I was a British Army child living in Altona/Hamburg in 1954. He had a monkey on a long rope that ran around picking up the coins thrown to him from the appartments we lived in. Precious memories.
Livin in Germany from 1970 to 1999, I recall driving through village after village on weekends and in almost everyone men with out arms and legs, working at jobs. My wife was pregnant with twins when we moved to the second floor of a farm house. Could not get the box spellings up the narrow stairs so hired a carpenter to take a window out and shove the bed through. There he stood in the truck with his one arm pushing up the box springs with the aide of my wife and the landlady in her seventies. Two Germans and my wife who is half German in descent. I was at work when this happened. Wish I had a photo. “Triumph of the Will” in the best sense.
My father told me that German cities were almost none existent right after the war was over. He said they were so bombed out that hardly anything remained except the shells of buildings like you see in this video. He was stationed in West Berlin after coming home and spending 3 months of leave. He was then sent back to Germany to help in the re-construction. He said is was a slow and painful process and the people were bewildered at first. But after about a year he said the pace picked up and the people started to come alive again. He said they had no pride or hope right after the war was over and the Americans and Russians were controlling the whole country. He knew nothing about the East part of Germany but he said they began to have pride in their accomplishments in re-building their country. He did say that most of the industrial manufacturing plants of Germany that were still operational were destroyed in order to keep Germany from starting another War! The World wanted Germany to be mainly an agricultural nation and have little or no manufacturing plants! Of course over the 73 years since WWII ended this has changed.
It's so incredible yet so sad and horrifying to realize that 70 some years ago, this actually happened. This was real life for these people. The second world war is still a fairly recent event in human history. I pray that such a terrible war will never happen again. But if it does, I hope this time we will fight together as friends. God bless.
This reminds me of the scarecrow in the wizard of oz casually responding to his stuffing falling out. "Oh I just keep stuffing it back in again!" (war is so stupid)
Idiots in the comment section complaining that a documentary made 75 years ago isn't done in the same style as one made today. Styles of film making including film background music change over time.
But my point is that the heavy- handed music style is as annoying now as it was then. To my way of thinking things haven’t changed that much. But at least, thank God, films like “Birth of a Nation” are no longer glorified for their trailblazing innovations,
@@poppopken I think Birth of a Nation deserves to be recognized for it's technical achievements and it's role in the evolution of film making. Yes a film score that is too loud can be annoying. The Hitchcock film Spellbound comes to mind. Some people are just so dismissive of the films of the past that I find it infuriating.
@@dgkstl1421 The word you are looking for is "Bombastic" and it is my opinion that it's idiotic to criticize how a documentary film made so long ago was made when that's just the way it was done at that time. Perhaps I could have been less blunt.
Phil Mellor 1. They’re not allowed to. 2. They’re not sovereign. 3. They don’t pay their NATO dues. 4. They’re committing slow suicide. 5. Eventually they’ll all be Russians. So there’s that. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hmmmm nothing about the thousands of german troops who had surrendered, that were left in open pens to die of exposure and starvation and illness, given 1200/cal per day. Maybe.
@@raypitts4880 No one denies who started the war and who is to blame but is still a crime to let pow deliberately starve and freeze to death. Most people today don’t know about such things for several reasons.
@Mustafa Azam-and Japan became the strong economic power in Asia. And just about every country that doesn't put all of their money in defense spending.
With the help of US----again no one thanks US-----all they do is tear it down.Trump should go back to where he is from!Wait,his grandfather was kicked out because HE TOO had bonespurology!!Then came to US to own a whore house in the West.
Not that it matters today. The only people who benefit from strong economic power is usually the government and the wealthy.....not the commoners. Believe me, your government would kill you and your neighbors if they thought it would benefit them. My government too would kill me and my neighbors it they felt it would benefit them.
My parents were barely teenagers at the war end. Luckily for me I was born and given up for adoption in the late 50’s while ended up in the U.S. can’t imagine what my subsequent brother and sister went through with a fatherless family in Germany post war.
Actually WW2 was started or set into motion because of the harshness and unfairness of The treaty of Versailles. That treaty contributed to the conditions in Germany that lead to the rise of National Socialism.
@@sonnydelight5737 I hate how nobody understands this. Literally overnight, because of the crash of the American stock market, Hitler's support shot through the roof. Everyone points the finger at Germany as if they alone created the conditions that lead to WW2. AMERICA destroyed the world economy because of it's filthy greed, Germany was already in hell bc of Versailles then it got much worse because of the stock market crash. Put yourself in the shoes of a German in those days, what Hitler did was logical. Americans need to take responsibility for their actions. Had Americans not been so greedy the stock market crash might not have happened and neither would WW2.
that is exactly Right ww2 pretty much set in motion not only on the western front in the fall of 1918 but the treaty of Versailles in 1919 which the reality the treaty of Versailles was punishing Germany after ww1 was over which it's the allies fault that ww2 had to come after the American civil war ended in 1865 lincolns cabinet tried to do the exact same thing to punished the defeated confederates Abraham Lincoln said no that there would be no blood shed anymore Abraham Lincoln stated plain and simple that he would rather be assassinated than have the confederates punished
ACTUALLLLLY - American chattel slavery and jim crow informed Hitler on how to decimate people by dehumanizing them - which explains why America didn't intervene for A WHILE.
@@HunnifredBee history remembers the holocaust. But look up Churchill's involvement in the starvation of MILLIONS in India during the same 6 year period. Nobody says shit about that. Churchill should be remembered with as much disdain as hitler
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough & timely rebuilding project. Special thanks to the dear dead departed from the war. Who made this documentary possible!!!😇😇😇😇
Nancy Galloway In the context of the Marshall Plan, the United States granted funds totaling almost 14 billion US dollars, West Germany received about 1.4 billion as loans. The total amount corresponds to today's monetary value about 130 billion USD (as of 2015). West Germany paid back until 1966 1.4 billion. - in October 2010 Germany is finally payed off World War I reparations, with the last 70 million euro (£60m) payment drawing the debt to a close.
the shouting of German is tough to listen too. I was in Berlin 1969, on bicycle visited a street of large tan stucco homes ... vacant and over grown, "This was an area of rich Jewish families", my friend said. I meant a young tram conductor who was a POW in Louisiana. Spoke perfect English. Extremely beautiful landscape. The word I remember the most was verboden. The kids, youngen ran wild. I rode my bike up a mountain side and found a distillery by a rushing river.
30 years later Germany became a economic power. Think of all the countries that are dependent on others and haven't had a war in their country for over a 150 years.
You know what I find crazy watching this, this is close to the environment that Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in, in Austria. Look what he turned his life into coming to California.
The map at 0:17 is strange. I do not know when exactly the movie was made, but the partition of East Prussia and transfer of Pomerania and Lower Silesia to Poland (as a compensation for eastern Poland territories grabbed by the Soviet in 1939) was agreed upon by three powers already in Yalta. So they were not part of Soviet occupation zone.
That would do harm. This shows how to make money off destroying a country. Basicly this made it easier for the bankers to come in. A smart nation would have the people build everything themselves. Refusing help and loans. Germany started WWII in debt. It came out of the war with a lot more debt. Now if they would have been wise they would have said. Ok come in take everything you want. Our debt is cleared. And we won't take any debt. Then rebuilt the country themselves. This goes for all area of Germany. People wanted to punish the German people. When they should have punished the people that put them in debt. And 80 years later people are still falling for the B.S.. Unless you are against central banks you are falling for thier lies. And anytime a country rejects central banks it has a war. One person can not fix this. It take the majority of the world to fix this. Start today by stopping all your debt. Tell creditor here take what you want I'm not paying another penny.
politicians should have to fight their own wars there wouldn't be very many wars if they had to i bet there wouldn't be any wars .97-99% of politicians r pencil necks
I still remember the striking sentence from 'The World At War' in which Laurence Olivier states "Germany was an antique some giant had kicked to pieces." Having a German mom born in 1943 I can say she was definitely shaped by the lean post-war years in which her mom would send her to the butcher to beg for scraps. (My Oma could turn anything into a nice meal like her neckbone/lentil soup.) She hates peanut butter which was shipped to Germany by the ton as it was a readily available source of protein. My former GI Dad told me that when he got to West Germany in '66 he was surprised how they lived every bit as good as he was used to in the US.
@@patriciabrenner9216 Too bad for you! I imagine they led a very good life after the allies saw the errors of their ways. My parents did. My brother and I now live prosperous retired lives. Eat your heart out!
@@pawelpap9 No offence taken, but not really cool calling others silly pawelpap9, This is a site Site for friendly camaraderie, my point was that over 2000 years we've managed to be doing things even worse, if nothing else the Romans like the Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks, showed the world, be organized, hopefully in a humane way, but be organized, the world at this point in time is terribly unorganized, the world is becoming more chaotic, it's a World wide problem with the earth's population growing exponentially, and just one rudimentary military Virus was introduced, and just that, has caused chaos, it's not about horses, grass or gasoline, it's about getting rid of the war machinery on this earth, using that Enormous disgusting, wasteful wealth, and making Solutions without making Chaos. We have enough money, but it's the way it's being spent is the problem!!!
_"We have to prod them into putting their house in order"_ Haha. Good old understated dominant Brit. But it's going to take much more than 'prodding' now.
I think that Churchill wanted to go to war. He told the Polish to negotiate in bad faith about the Dresden question, which not surprisingly was not resolved and thus led to the invasion of Poland and WW2.
A fine Army, no doubt, but there was too much cronyism within the National Socialist Party which resulted in incompetent men being put in important positions. In comparison the USA relied upon an efficient meritocracy, which is why it won the war.
A remarkable mix of self preservation and empathy, presented in a way only a world post war could concoct... and potentially understand. Much can be learnt from this video!
I lived in germany for 4 years as part of thr occupation forces. I would like to say, a more decent, honest bunch of people I've yet to meet. I know for a fact, if they had occupied us, we would not have taken it the way they did. They treated us well. How were they to have the hindsight of what was to come when just 30% of them voted for the nazies? I have no control over what my govt does. They dont ask me. I have to vote as best I can and trust they dont do terrible things. I miss Germany and its people. I wish I'd stayed.
My father turn 21 three weeks after Germany surrendered to the Allies. He was released from an American prisoner-of-war camp just before the end of the war and told to find his own way home. He and his mother had agreed that if they survived they would meet up in Rothenberg. My grandmother told the story of wandering the streets with his picture in her arms, looking everywhere for him. He had managed to find a room in town about three stories up, and was just washing the only pair of socks he owned and hanging them out the window sill to dry, when she looked up and spotted him. She ran into the door and noticed that it had been a school for very young children, and so she always felt that it was appropriate that she found her "little boy" in a kindergarten. They had been quite well to do, and even though their home ended up being taken by the Russians, my grandmother managed to sell enough jewelry and artwork to Allied occupation forces to enable my father to complete his dream of medical school. In 1955, he emigrated to the United States, it was very proud to become a citizen. He passed away just a few months ago three weeks shy of his 94th birthday.
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Even though he was on the wrong side
He must of been one hell of a soldier and a very strong man May he rest in peace 🫡
The best story would’ve been, if he returned to Germany and worked there. We all respect your father, decided to live in the country of the enemy.
@WorldEye88 Well, unfortunately, in Germany, at the time, there was a lack of opportunity. He left partly for this reason and also out of fear. His family's home ended up in the Russian sector, and at first, the Russians tried to bribe him to come to East Berlin and work as a doctor for them, and then started to actually threaten him and follow him. One of the reasons he left Germany was because he was in danger of being made to work for the Communists. He got out before he was kidnapped. He wanted very much to work on Phenylketonuria (PKU) testing for infants, and Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy, and sponsorship by the state of Maine and the United States allowed him to, along with his students and other colleagues, advance medical understanding and progress towards curing these terrible diseases, which benefits the entire world.. not just Germany, not just the United States. He told me once that he had considered going back to Germany for a while, but by then he had fallen in love with a single mother who had a baby and had made a life for us here. I'm very proud of him and his achievements. He also was a graduate studies professor in Pathology and Clinical Chemistry at Ohio State University and the Medical College of Virginia, teaching others who followed in his footsteps and continue to be inspired by him.
@@sodoffbaldrick3038 incredible story. I see German suffered a lot after the war. The big NY and London banks would not let Germany be.
My Mom was a teenager who survived WWII and lived through this time there, to her dying day she only hated 2 things- Nazis and Communists, both of whom she blamed for what happened to her home country.
She was right.
Did she live in Ukraine?
Also the British, it was the British that encouraged the Poles to not settle peacefully with Germany that romped Germany to attack.
Juan Olivier nah not really, if she lived in Poland as you say the Germans and soviets made an unprovoked attack against the poles
@@JUAN_OLIVIER are you daft? You seriously expect to settle terms with Nazi Germany? You are going to blame Britain for Hitler invading a sovereign nation? Who's to blame for the holocaust, Canada?
Belgian, born in 12-1944 in Antwerp. Living for the past 35 years in Nepal. I remember still going with my parents to Koln in Germany.
My father had been a prisoner of war in Germany, but apparently treated very well by a German farmer family.
He wanted to thank them for their kindness.
I only remember the destruction and people sitting on it. For one reason or another this remained in my memory, more then 70 years after.
Interesting story.
I’m a Nepalese living in the UK. Thank you for staying in Nepal.
from belgium to nepal. How does that happen?
ramdom123
How does what happen?
@@justiceteachesAI Going from belgium to Nepal for 35 years, seems like an interesting story
ramdom123
Yeah. I wonder that as well.
Crazy lil world we live in mein freund.
I know this is a loooong comment but . . .
My dad was born in Germany in 1943. His small town had been bombed during the war. Rubble remained the normal landscape for most of his childhood. As a toddler he would take his wagon and search through the rubble trying to find any materials or scraps that he could try to sell for money/food (You read that right: AS A TODDLER). Throughout his childhood, he had to share a single bed with everyone in his household (3 siblings, his mother, and grandmother), often times that meant taking shifts of who got to sleep in the bed. Because of this, for the rest of his life, he would never be able to sleep for more than 4 hours a night. Christmas and birthday presents meant socks and underwear, if he was lucky. And no, this was no exaggeration. My dad rarely spoke of his childhood because it was so painful for him. I have only seen 2 pictures of my dad as a little boy. In one, there was a stack of building blocks that the photographer had put there as a prop. They were stacked into a tower for the photo, but my dad kept knocking the blocks over refusing to take a picture with it intact. When asked why, he said because they didn't have buildings/towers that weren't broken/in ruins (he was 4).
At 74 yo, he still had visible scars on his face from where his teachers (ex-Nazis) would hit him with their rings turned inward.
Finally when he was 10yo, my dad decided he wanted to imigrate to America the day he turned 21 (the youngest possible age). He spent his while adolescence after working his ass off to make that dream happen. And he did it, without help from anyone. On his 21st birthday, he boarded the ship to New York.
I'm glad he made it.
WOW....your father was determined to make it to America (NY), very happy he made it.
This was my expierence as well as an iraqi immigrant. Had to look for scrap metal to sell as a toddler and my teacher pulled my ear so hard it bled and got infected. Still have the scar under my ear. I live in europe now, life is much better away from the war. War never changes.
He produced a beautiful daughter.
I wish the "WOKE" crowd in the USA would read your story.
My elder brother now 95 yrs ( still here) was in the army of occupation he said unlike some, he felt sorry for the kids and women - he always gave them any food he could, I remember the German and Italian POWs working in the fields in the UK, they were treated so well they never wanted to escape, 25,000 stayed here after the war, I read that some families took POWs in for the Christmas period.
now look at england.
you started the war
I respectfully commemorate all German soldiers who fought alongside Turkey in World War I and shared the same fate with them. It was an honor to fight alongside you.
@the Christian Arabs don't interest me, I'm Turkish
god thanks UK is out of EU
Have to tell you dude , I was in Germany in 1964-1970 and the reason they are such a powerhouse today is they have had 70years of hard work and getting on with it, not moaning or wailing, just sheer bloody hard work. My German land lady was in her 50/60s in the sixties and she got her son up for work in the morning then went to work in the fields till 17.30 in the evening, and didn't complain
Its a myth that they (The Germans) work harder than you and me. We all work hard, especially if we are working class! The secret of the rebuilding of Germany into the economic powerhouse that it is today is down to factors such as efficient management and engineering prowess. And yes, help and financial aid from the United States and Britain.
And what do you think greeks,serbs,russians did after the war,making party?
@@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ No, living off tourists
@@kengrimes1012 You have no clue,but if you would spent a week in a greek village they would teach you what real,physical demanding labour means,and believe me germans are not by far so hard workers like for instance japanese,they are not willing to do overtime or work on weekends,the keyword for the economic prosperity after world war two:Marshall plan.
@@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ working 60 h a week actually decreases productivity.
My grandmother lived in Berlin until 1947. I've been studying WW2 for 25 years and still have trouble imagining what life must have been like for her. Absolute insanity.
You need to write a book.
Yea my grandpa and his family lived in Germany for a few years after the end of WW2, but he said at that time America was the place to go.
My sympathy for the average German citizens who lived through the horror of the bombing raids and the iron boot of Russian occupation.
The sad part is only 3% of Germans were Nazi party members. 3% destroyed their country.
Wake up USA.
@@loneranger6168 nope, lot more than 3%,majority more like. Iron boot you say, more like response to atrocities committed by the "brave german troops " and allies on the occupied territories. Pay back ya know .
I agree, it is always a small bunch of crooks that ends up destroying a whole country.
I visited West Germany from the US several times in the early 80’s and already by then there was almost no visual evidence that WWII ever happened. The only clues were occasionally a row of buildings would have a gap where one was missing. Their attention to detail was incredible.
Clear signs of the horrible destruction is how ugly many cities are today. The most beautiful old houses were destroyed and hastily replaced by purely functional buildings with no homogeneous structure. My home tome used to be stunning but nowadays it is one of the ugliest cities I can imagine.
Couldn’t disagree more. The signs are everywhere to this day. Maybe you didn’t pay much attention to street layouts and architecture. Many cities in West Germany were rebuilt quickly, cheaply, and without paying attention to history. Some were almost entirely destroyed. On top of my head Dortmund: 95% destroyed, rebuilt in a most awful style of the 50s, historical downtown ugly beyond imagination with only one or two pre-war building surviving (cathedral and another one on the main square). It is difficult to walk through it and not to wince. Next Munich. Terribly patched up historical downtown. One could go on... what didn’t help is that since I believe the 89s UNESCO “forbid” reconstruction of historical buildings. Meaning of a given building “vanished” it cannot be rebuilt as it was say in 1600. Instead, a new and almost alway out of style monstrosity has to be erected. However, I see old palace in form east Berlin is being rebuilt (from scratch, it was dynamited by the communists) so maybe Germans wised up.
@@pawelpap9 So true! That war, in truth a European civil war, caused all our downfall (untergang). Terrible things were done all across Europe by post-war town planners in the name of progress. So many of German's beautiful cities were destroyed by allied bombings. I see that Dresden was (to a degree) rebuilt in the image of its former glory. But to a degree we all suffered from an kind of 'Americanisation' of our architecture. Cheap materials, vulgar sensationalist designs, inhuman proportions. The effects of that terrible war are still with us. I weep for the former beauty of Europe.
@@pawelpap9 Munich is a beautiful place - one of my favorite cities.
@@freefall6696 None of this would have happened if germany hadn't started the war.
The madness that afflicts humanity from time to time is mind-boggling.
And it's got much worse since🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@willleon9165 Much saner these days than those.crazy times.
@@elcheapo9444 yes it's not so violent because they've softened us up with an illusion of a peaceful free progressive society which it is far from really🤣🤣
Because as the Bible says Satan has reign over our earth. Its to be expected
@@gary19222 Religion caused more rifts than the color of the human skin.
I was so impress about the narrators words ''The German security needs to understand that he is a servant of the people not its master''
Almost like a hollywood script, no?
you mean like sharia law is to women
Both of my parent's families were bombed-out of their homes during that war and both of my mother's parents died in 1945 directly because of it. My late uncle and aunt were getting married in 1943, and while the photographer was taking his pictures, a German bomber flew overhead and machine-gunned the party. Nobody moved a muscle apparently as the bullets spattered harmlessly into the meadow next to the church. And yet I never heard a single expression of any hatred from my family over the years towards the Germans. It was always the Nazis who were the bastards, and may they rot in hell!
Pr: The bastards were the British who declared war on Germany and fire bombed its civilians! Get your facts organized.
My parents taught Canadian soldiers stationed in Germany only ten years after the end of WW2. They said there were still a lot of wrecked buildings with bullet holes everywhere. By 1977, when we went back to visit on a family trip, my parents said the town they had lived in was almost unrecognizable as everything had been rebuilt. I just went back last month and there is absolutely no evidence of war damage anywhere - except a few noticeable exceptions, left that way on purpose as a reminder. They are shocking - like the Wilhelm Kaiser Church in Berlin with a massive bomb hole in the church tower - surrounded by upper class West Berlin. Amazing. Japan, where I lived in the 1990's is the same - totally rebuilt. In Hiroshima, you would never know anything had happened there - now a joyful, youth-oriented and prosperous city. Vietnam? Same.
But Detroit & Baltimore look they have been bombed.
Lots of places in America look like they have been bombed
I am living in Vietnam. I live it here. Glad I left LA behind. Younger folks here have never seen war. Older folks stopped talking about the past long time ago.
If anyone has money then it becomes easy to rebuilt
@@dingusdingus2152 it's good for them
Boy, back in the day they really went over the top with the dramatic background music.
Mary Willson Yeah. Now everything is soft sell.
Like watching Star Wars. Non stop background orchestral music.
Lol
After Trump gets most of us all killed; I wonder how much America will be like this movie?
@Jason Adams Nach hause gehen faschistischer Nazi-Schweinehund!
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I saw this a year ago.
And read the comments below.
Some excellent points, and some idiots.
Some constructive contributions, but some really stupid conversations.
Well done Documentary.
Thanks for posting.
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blunt and on-target.
"We cant allow to let that new life float in every direction it wants"
What powerful words, and still to be fealt in Germany to this day.
The owners of the Google/UA-cam network, who own all the other networks, don’t want the world to know the truth especially historical truth as they’ve pulled down from youtube countless times since its 2017 release the most forbidden documentary ever published! But the full ten-part series is still available at archive-dot-org: "Europa The Last Battle". Watch it while you still can!
My Father was stuck in Germany for 13 months after WW II on Occupation Duty. He was with the Royal Canadian Regiment. He rarely spoke of it.
Why not? it was his responsibility in any case.
Probably with good reason Rob. A million and a half civilians and ex-soldiers perished from starvation. They were difficult times.
My father was posted to Germany in the USAF in the early fifties and said that parts of the country still looked like the war had ended the week before he arrived. FYI, it took every bit of almost 4 decades to completely rebuild the country...and they still find unexploded bombs in German cities.
Truth be told they are still rebuilding, bombs or not. Look at Berlin.
@@pawelpap9 I was posted to West Germany in the US Army in the late eighties and they were still finding things. Your comment made me think... I've not been to Berlin but considering the US/UK ran aerial strikes on the city 24/7 for five years and then the Russians came in shooting on the ground and brought decades of communism with them? They probably have significant recovery issues in Berlin and all over eastern Germany.
I think there was a bomb under the train station in Mainz in 2019
In the 1950s and 60s most of this country was still heavily damaged from years of bombing and battles fought therefore it took over 40 years for the rebuilding process to finish.
Looking at the women clearing bricks (Trümmerfrauen) reminds me of my Grandmother in Berlin. Backbreaking work all day starting at 7am til dark Mon-Sat. She barely earned enough to keep herself and 3 children fed. I was so proud of her! RIP.
My grandfathers said the same thing; When they went through France, the French were sitting around waiting for someone to start fixing things, but when the got to Germany, the Germans were knocking mortar off the bricks and stacking them up, waiting to rebuild.
Oh ok so France, the 1000years old country waited for others to even exist according to your dumb grand father and even dumber you hmmm I see.
@@CptFoupoudav Umm No. I think you missed my point. They remarked on the industrious Germans and the French, who seemed depressed over back to back World War destruction of the Country. Sorry if I hit a nerve, didn't mean to, but my Grandparents were far from stupid.
@@tomdonahue4224 Did not understood it like that my bad, I tend to get nervous real quick reading people on the internet sometimes..
They were waiting for the Germans to rebuild France since their county knocked it down in the first place,
and not to mention sent innocent ex soldiers to clean up the mines which was fucked up in my opinion
@@isaiahnavarro8268 Well my friend, perhaps France, Britain, USA defacto, should not have declared war on Germany???
Fact remains, very very little of French infrastructure and housing was destroyed by German military activity. The great majority of the destruction, plus French mortality, was caused by the allied invasion.
war is hell, especially when you lose
But the german people are hardworking they rebuilt quickly like after ww1.
@@hitovaawomi8963 yea true but they didn't pay off thier ww1 debt until 2011
well soviets suffered as much if not much worse and they won...
@Conker golden I dooooooooon't support the german at all . Im at pooooositive inspirationsssssss.
My grandfather was part of an engineering corp, and after the war, he stayed for a while as part of the efforts described in this video.
His consternation was the need to continually hold some of his men back from mistreating the German citizens, and from looting civilians' residences, even when they were still living in them. He had caught one group of American soldiers carrying someone's stuff out and yelled at them in front of other soldiers and the Germans.
He confided in my mom that he believed that the war was necessary, but also wrong. He was a Lutheran of German descent, and he had to kill other young men (German Lutherans) who looked like they could have been part of our family. Sadly, the "shell shock" he developed caused him great anxiety, and psychological and mental problems became a part of our family's history. In the end, though, his personal faith helped keep him focused on right and wrong, and freely admitting when he was wrong.
And he was the closest I ever had to a father of my own.
Tony Annechino 🌷Thank you for sharing your Grandfather’s story.🌷
Reckon he had serious doubts on necessity of the war. Especially if he lived to see what became of our nation's😫🤣
@@willleon9165 He lived 80 years and a day. I don't know if he had much interest in politics, but he was a Bible reading Christian, and believed that that was the sole means to judge a man.
@@TonyAnnechino that Christ shits got a lot to answer for is well as politics🤣🤣
40% of american people are middle european or german descendant. Your grandfather was right: he was killing his own family. ¿Why USA go on in war against germans? ¿For his properly interest? 5.000kms an an ocean between USA and Germany.
Amazing. People just don’t know what happens at the end of a war. The Germans did well to bring their country back from hell. Yes they had a lot of help from the allies, particularly the USA, But in the end they did it.
The USA paid many billions of $$$ to help Germany rebuild, and Europe in general. 70 years later, the EU tries to takeout the USA and force it into the New World Order of communism and death.
But the allied forces did help in rebuilding...and that is a big thing for Germany which committed war crimes
Of course, they had 25 billion in stolen Jewish gold and art.
@@markdavid4897
Don’t be naive. We gave them the money so they could hire our contractors so we could build their country. It’s the same we did in Iraq. We bring it down, then we use tax money to pay American contractors to go rebuild. It’s a vicious cycle of making money through war. War=money, otherwise it wouldn’t exist.
You guys comment as if you have no idea about the wall :p
That narration gives you an idea how strange even the winning's side thinking was back then.
Böser.Stachel Not to mention German culture being overtaken by immigration that just never stops.
nomans land That was then , now that dust has settled and there is no more wars for land that happened long ago so that still makes it right? And we’re all racist because we don’t let blacks and others do whatever they want because of slavery? A little late to fight back now isn’t it ?
Right, every nation and its government has it's own bizarre way of thinking and it will be forcibly injected into every populace that it consumes.
@@joet840 your SO CHEERFUL..
I know, right? It's annoying how they talk about it. Maybe all these people kissing the allies' ass should pay a little more attention to these type of videos.
you know sometimes you read the comments and you just dont want to add anything what a mess.
Agree! Reading the comments shows how thing like Fascism will never be forgotten and will only be repeated.
read my mind
They had better conditions than those who were slaughtered in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau.
If you believe that crap
No one can beat the British when it comes to propoganda. We are still at it today.
I beg to differ, have you heard Trump's BS. That really worked, January 6 reminds me of Hitler's own insurrection back in November 1923 (Beer Hall Pusch).
@@RamonRodriguez-hq7vn This ugly, overwrought Trump = Hitler comparison is the kind of weak, simplistic analysis one hears these days from the left.
@@RamonRodriguez-hq7vn The totalitarians we should be worried about are the ones distorting what occurred on January 6, the ones talking about “re-education” efforts, the ones doing their best to cancel and harm those with whom they disagree, the ones censoring information so that alternative viewpoints cannot be heard, and the ones trying to tell Americans who they may and may not vote for in 2024.
@@TrueNorthPatriot
This has been my thought for the past six years, since Trump was campaigning back in 2015. While I was an Officer Cadet back in the mid to late 80s, we studied Nazi Germany and how the National Socialists came to power. I listened to Hitler's speeches on VHS, with English subtitles. This is not a simple thought, this is well thought out and learned. You may not see it, and that doesn't mean that it's a simple overtly used analysis. I see the similarities. I sincerely wish you could research this, and come up with your own thoughts. Take care.
What a shitty comment. It's Jewish Supremacy at it best which is hidden behind a veil.
As Volksdeutsch from Italy I can say just a thing: war destroyed 700 years of history. And ethnic germans especially in the east Europe paid too much. My Opa paid a lot but at least he remain alive and in his Heimat...
@Hello There yes.. That's awful part of the history. 20 mio people lost forever their properties and Heimat. Many others were killed or died in captivity. Many others were sent to Kazakhstan or Siberia. Many others lost their identity of ethnic germans to save their lives (like my Opa). Do you know what is more disgusting me? That nowadays in Germany young generation hate their ancestors and their past. They are to supporting a new fascism surely worst than the nazional socialism. Do you know why? Because at least in the past in the focus of all was the german Gemeinschaft. Now they are following something that is against the moral, the natural laws and their national Gemeinschaft. This melting pot and this moral degeneration is something that I personally find worst than every other dictatorship of the past. We should fight to give justice to the people that really lost all during WWII just because ethnic germans. We should remember that cities like Stettin, Danzig, Königsberg, Tilsit, Memel, Breslau, Aussig, Teiplitz, Eger, Straßburg, Bozen were part of german history. I am proud to be ethnic german and I try to teach my son all that I know about the true history. Not the history of the winners...
@android user belive me, here it's something under. The lobbies want just a new form of slavery. Profit is their only objective. Do you know Kalergi? Thanks god if you are russian. If you are from Ukraine you can see what's is the sad part of the new capitalism. Dividi et impera.
@android user the casual slav
@@walsch80 I know lots of germans still live in kalingrad but they still there just chilling with papa putin to they are back in the arms of our people
@@IndianaJonesTDH the germans that remain there are from Volga area. Russlanddeutsche in german. They are with german origin but since 100 years integrated in russian society. I know personally Russlanddeutsche and they said exactly what I heard to me ( half german fron Italy): for russians we are germans and for germans we are russians. But belive me that you love the Heimat or the place where are you born. It's a good thing that we have in us both cultures. Really, I find people that insult just "ignorant" or "gopnik" 😏
Life in Germany After World War 2, part 1: Brought to you by Herbert Von Karajan conducting The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Lucky Strike: "It's Toasted!"
My Dad was stationed in Berlin at about this time. With a crew of American lawyers, they helped to rewrite the laws that Germans would have to follow. Later on they went on to help them write a constitution.
That would be actually a great subject for a movie or a documentary. I am afraid that new generations, particularly in Germany, tend to forget or minimize the impact Americans had on shaping the new post-war Germany. I wonder whether your Dad wrote memoirs. It would be fascinating to hear more.
I wonder what would have happened if, after WW 1, Germany got the same help to get back on its feet, instead of the disastrous Treaty of Versailles. I’ll bet WW2 would never have happened and Adolf Hitler died as a nobody somewhere in Austria.
Woody Wilson was a horrible president and is partially responsible for ww2
Treaty of Versailles wasn't disastrous
@@ramborambo1176 treaty of versailles caused hyper inflation, unemployment etc
In that case, let’s just remove the intermediary and state that WW1 caused WW2. The outcome will still been the same.
@@ramborambo1176 it led to ww2!
That was handled quite well. We can learn a lot from how things were done after WW2
The winner writes the history.
Phrase that pays right here......
Barr said that in early 2020, I knew the coup I suspected was well under way!
@Nuclear Gravy then just be thankful he didn't lead your nation. Because that could of been anyone of us. Eg My 12 year old sister or my mother being brutalised by the savage red army scum.
Another useless quote that people love to say as if if makes any sense. Would you like a Nazi version of history or maybe their "science" to feel more superior ?
@@SixDayWar67 gotta be better than what Europa has ended up with no?
A friend was stationed in Germany in the early 60's. He said that if a soldier accidentally ran over a chicken the government had to pay the German's full restitution and the price was super high. U.S. soldiers stationed there were always worried they'd damage something. Quite a shift from the 40's.
True that! Mid 70's it was that way too I was there
funny that germans care so much about restitution when it comes to themselves, the allies helped rebuild west germany. russia was still punishing germans in the 60s.
I knew a man who fought against the Germans. He said there were two things that stuck out about them. 1. It was always a tough fight. Most times they won.
2. He said they were ALWAYS very
brave.
To true my grandfather fought the Nazi's in Africa with the Kiwi's.he said Rommel was gentleman...lol
no one speaks about Germans everyone speaks about Japanese development after world war 2. in fact germany lost a lot wealth, assets, people in both the world wars and now look at german economy its amazing at the euro. their auto companies like audi, mercedes Benz, bmw, Porsche are more preferred than the Japanese auto companies across the world, they manufacture aeroplane engines n export it to every country they have become biggest trade partners with countries like mexico, usa, brazil, china, india etc which are one of the biggest economies on earth
Hi i.q. people.
@@pauld9561 High IQ and very disciplined!
And is this the reason to distroy the germans over and over again?
AKSHAY GANESH Germany by far is superior
It is Japan that has the 3rd largest economy in the world and not Germany. Also, Japan has no natural resources at all. Germany sits in the Middle of Europe with an open market to 400 million people. A Porsche of any quality is 100 grand. Now compare a Volks. to a Honda. The Honda is a much better built automobile and it does not cost a fortune for maintenance as your grand Porsche does.
I'm German and it is still hard to forgive the German people for what they did do the Jewish people and a whole lot of other people
Yeah like 25 Million Russians , besides the 6 Million Jews.
Oh God. You sure drank the Koolaid. Why not donate to Black Lives Matter and Antifa, since you believe everything you are told?
My Mom was a little girl at this time. Growing up she always had a huge food stock. For a family of four; 2 pantries, 2 refrigerators, 1 freezer, a full kitchen and a big garden. We always wondered if it was because of the War, she said “Hmm, maybe. I never thought about it”. 💜
9:15 they rough up an old guy (what seems like) to stop him from getting on the train
9:25 they look away while the old guy quickly jumps on
great stuff
My Dad was in Germany in the 1950s and he commented that the Germans by then had piled the rubble into neat piles.
I can't even imagine what it was like to live there. Rest in peace every one of them.
World War II claimed the lives of an estimated 60 + million people, so that there were many, many broken, distraught families, torn apart at the roots, having lost one or more family members to the war on both sides of the battle.
The survivors grieved for perhaps years, or perhaps even the rest of their lives. This is the bitterness of human warfare, in which in World War II, so many Germans placed their hopes, their trust in Adolf Hitler and his regime, but their dreams turned to nightmares.
Having lost almost everything, they had to start afresh with life, without many a family member being present. At Revelation 6, it outlines the deadliness of human warfare through "the ride of the four horsemen", saying at verse 4 with the rider on a "fiery-colored horse", that it "was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword."
This symbolic rider on a "fiery-colored horse" quickly followed the rider on a "white horse" who had just received a crown to a heavenly government called God's Kingdom.(Rev 6:1, 2) This rider was Jesus Christ, who, in 1914, was given the reigns to God's heavenly Kingdom (Dan 7:13, 14), who then fought an unseen battle in heaven against his archenemy, "the dragon" or Satan the Devil, who lost and was forcibly thrown out of heaven, so that Satan has brought great "woe" on the earth because he is very angry, starting World War I and all the rest of the wars that subsequently followed.(Rev 12:7-9, 12)
As a result of World War I, that cost the lives of an estimated 21 million soldiers and civilians, and all future human wars since then, Revelation 6:8 now says that a rider on a "pale horse" came forth, "and the one seated on it had the name Death. And the Grave was closely following him. And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth."
So, since Jesus enthronement as king of God's Kingdom in 1914, war has reaped a massive harvest of casualties, and in which many are ' resting in peace ' in the Grave. But there is the hope that many who have died as a result of human warfare will live again, through a resurrection from the dead.(see Job 14:13-15)
These ones can be like the evil-doer on one side of Jesus when they both were on stakes, so that Jesus told the evil-doer who showed faith in him and said: "Jesus, remember me when you get into your Kingdom", whereby Jesus responded with the hope of a resurrection: "Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise (or on the earth, not in heaven)."(Luke 23:42, 43)
The hope of living on a paradise earth is before all mankind (though few will take advantage of it), and God, whose personal name is Jehovah, would love for them to come and "take life's water free", so as to have perfect peace, perfect health, and perfect security forever.(Rev 22:17)
Well said Finnish person!
Ask people in Haiti ..they’ve been doing it for years
Ask Polish people in 1939 and the residents of Warsaw in 1944.
@@forzajuve4845 blame your government…and then do something about it.
Back then they always Dramatized every situation , especially the struggle that the German people had to indure .It was a day to day struggle too for the former german soldier who stayed alive . Not every german soldier committed a crime against humanity like Hitler or Ickman or Guering .or other terrible cruel henchmen .
alfred: The war crimes were the allies' declaration of war against Germany and the fire bombing of her civilians.
I'm happy I wasn't in world war 2
I was there. I was a High ranking Nazi. I've been reborn a Mexican.
Chances are you gonna be in the third..
And here is me. Always wanted to be a part of it
Alex Mason Sorry I scared you darling 😂
Don't worry there is still world war 3
My county courthouse has an elevator installed by the Nazis in the 1930s- Thiesen Krupp with Hitlers 3 joined circles that later became the Olympic symbol. As a Jew, it annoys me, but the fact is that it has never broken in over 90 years.
Our local Kroger has a Krupp escalator that breaks down several times yearly.
If it's any consolation, the wooden mechanical staircases installed in Antwerp's Voetgangerstunnel (pedestrian tunnel) in 1931 are also still going strong. And their manufacturers were Jewish.
@@ixlnxs
That’s hardly extraordinary. But to construct something mechanical that works for 90 years is impressive.
@@Celisar1 They are. I edited it to clarify that.
That company is still in business today but considering the Nazi connections it's probably going to be marred in controversy because of that.
I love ❤️ history!
It’s so fascinating 👍👏👏👏
Agree!!! Good comment KD Fulton . Best wishes from Australia x👍👍👍👍
That was great. Modern day polititions should be required to study and pass history exams on this.
They are too busy educating us on how racist and horrible America is.
@@winstonchurchill3597 Yes, you are right about that.
In my view this is some form of propganda like the when they talk about military industrial complex leaders. Which is rather stupid since ever country has one and you get my point if youo think about it and what they say
My neighbour was born in Germany and was 18 when the war ended. She remembers air drops by Britain in the first days after the surrender was signed - she was in the British Zone - because they were starving and the British knew that getting food to them any other way was impossible with most of the infrastructure destroyed. Her whole village gathered around the air-dropped supplies which were marked only "Gift of the British People" in English. You might be surprised to find that this caused great concern. You see, none of the villagers present knew English and the word "gift" in German is POISON; they thought they were being told to commit suicide. Having just lost the most brutal war in history, which they started, they were waiting for the inevitable reckoning and thought this might be it. But someone rounded up the schoolteacher in their village and he knew a little bit of English, enough to explain that "gift" in English was a good thing. They opened the packages and found food, clothing, and other aid.
Having become a bit cynical over the years, I find myself wondering if that was a deliberate bit of psychological warfare on the parts of the British; after all, they could hardly have expected the Germans to be fluent in English or, indeed, to be able to read it at all so I'm at a loss to see why they didn't include bilingual markings on the packages....
A correction: Germany never started any wars. That distinction goes to Britain and France, now the USA also.
The guy winding the street organ reminded me when I was a British Army child living in Altona/Hamburg in 1954. He had a monkey on a long rope that ran around picking up the coins thrown to him from the appartments we lived in. Precious memories.
Livin in Germany from 1970 to 1999, I recall driving through village after village on weekends and in almost everyone men with out arms and legs, working at jobs. My wife was pregnant with twins when we moved to the second floor of a farm house. Could not get the box spellings up the narrow stairs so hired a carpenter to take a window out and shove the bed through. There he stood in the truck with his one arm pushing up the box springs with the aide of my wife and the landlady in her seventies. Two Germans and my wife who is half German in descent. I was at work when this happened. Wish I had a photo. “Triumph of the Will” in the best sense.
We have no idea how hard life must have been! Watching this is sobering to say the least!!
Could have been so much better with far less dramatic sound track...
My father told me that German cities were almost none existent right after the war was over. He said they were so bombed out that hardly anything remained except the shells of buildings like you see in this video. He was stationed in West Berlin after coming home and spending 3 months of leave. He was then sent back to Germany to help in the re-construction. He said is was a slow and painful process and the people were bewildered at first. But after about a year he said the pace picked up and the people started to come alive again. He said they had no pride or hope right after the war was over and the Americans and Russians were controlling the whole country. He knew nothing about the East part of Germany but he said they began to have pride in their accomplishments in re-building their country. He did say that most of the industrial manufacturing plants of Germany that were still operational were destroyed in order to keep Germany from starting another War! The World wanted Germany to be mainly an agricultural nation and have little or no manufacturing plants! Of course over the 73 years since WWII ended this has changed.
The funny part is that Germany never started any war!
Love how there’s absolutely no mention of the Red menace..
Until after Germany was defeated.
ua-cam.com/video/fL2fze2ny8o/v-deo.html from a different perspective.
It's so incredible yet so sad and horrifying to realize that 70 some years ago, this actually happened. This was real life for these people. The second world war is still a fairly recent event in human history. I pray that such a terrible war will never happen again. But if it does, I hope this time we will fight together as friends. God bless.
If your friends why would you fight
I agree. very savage
This reminds me of the scarecrow in the wizard of oz casually responding to his stuffing falling out. "Oh I just keep stuffing it back in again!"
(war is so stupid)
I always wonder why they have music in a documentary. At times it interferes with what the person is saying. It's so odd that they do.
Idiots in the comment section complaining that a documentary made 75 years ago isn't done in the same style as one made today. Styles of film making including film background music change over time.
But my point is that the heavy- handed music style is as annoying now as it was then. To my way of thinking things haven’t changed that much. But at least, thank God, films like “Birth of a Nation” are no longer glorified for their trailblazing innovations,
@@poppopken It is. It is annoying now as it was then.
Why does such bomb-basic music ever need to overshadow the video footage? Any why the word idiot for just an opinion Bart?
@@poppopken I think Birth of a Nation deserves to be recognized for it's technical achievements and it's role in the evolution of film making. Yes a film score that is too loud can be annoying. The Hitchcock film Spellbound comes to mind. Some people are just so dismissive of the films of the past that I find it infuriating.
@@dgkstl1421 The word you are looking for is "Bombastic" and it is my opinion that it's idiotic to criticize how a documentary film made so long ago was made when that's just the way it was done at that time. Perhaps I could have been less blunt.
Lol, Brits prodding Germans to put their house in order, how times have changed.
Hear hear.
Lot easier to become an industrial super power when you don't have to bankroll armed forces and a nuclear arms program.
Phil Mellor Who doesn’t do that & is a superpower ?
@@perdidoatlantic Germany
Phil Mellor
1. They’re not allowed to.
2. They’re not sovereign.
3. They don’t pay their NATO dues.
4. They’re committing slow suicide.
5. Eventually they’ll all be Russians.
So there’s that. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
A Germany of Light, truth and Justice has emerged indeed.
Hmmmm nothing about the thousands of german troops who had surrendered, that were left in open pens to die of exposure and starvation and illness, given 1200/cal per day. Maybe.
"30 thousand were brought back from the wehrmacht"
Isnt that about the entirety of the remaining german Heer after WWII 😂
Wish someone would give me 1200 a day. I can’t stop shovelling crap into my fat head
blame hitler and his war mongers civilians without knowing what had been done on their behalf to grab more land.
@@raypitts4880
No one denies who started the war and who is to blame but is still a crime to let pow deliberately starve and freeze to death.
Most people today don’t know about such things for several reasons.
@Bobby Gee , I believe that was the Berlin Airlift and it went to the blockaded civilians not the POWs
Overcoming all hurdles after WW2 Germany becomes strong economic power in Europe.
And then you showed up to wreck it all, muhammed was a pigfucker.
@@p1b1harper Not that there's anything wrong with that!
@Mustafa Azam-and Japan became the strong economic power in Asia. And just about every country that doesn't put all of their money in defense spending.
With the help of US----again no one thanks US-----all they do is tear it down.Trump should go back to where he is from!Wait,his grandfather was kicked out because HE TOO had bonespurology!!Then came to US to own a whore house in the West.
Not that it matters today. The only people who benefit from strong economic power is usually the government and the wealthy.....not the commoners. Believe me, your government would kill you and your neighbors if they thought it would benefit them. My government too would kill me and my neighbors it they felt it would benefit them.
The overly-dramatic music is freakin' HILARIOUS!!!
Earley frost. I know, hysterical like all those wonderful bette Davis Cecile b demile movies. Personally I love it.
My parents were barely teenagers at the war end. Luckily for me I was born and given up for adoption in the late 50’s while ended up in the U.S. can’t imagine what my subsequent brother and sister went through with a fatherless family in Germany post war.
So many German children starved to death in the aftermath of the war, some from families I know.
@Winning Grinn CHECKMATE
my family also in ireland and we were protestants linda in scotland war is a filthy business
War auch hungrig...muttie und oma auch. Vati war i n russland. Hmmm
@@dagmarvandoren9364 🌹
They were starved to death in their millions! But it was all hushed up by the murdering allies?
Actually WW2 was started or set into motion because of the harshness and unfairness of The treaty of Versailles. That treaty contributed to the conditions in Germany that lead to the rise of National Socialism.
@@nikaluss5946-that is exactly correct.
@@sonnydelight5737 I hate how nobody understands this. Literally overnight, because of the crash of the American stock market, Hitler's support shot through the roof. Everyone points the finger at Germany as if they alone created the conditions that lead to WW2. AMERICA destroyed the world economy because of it's filthy greed, Germany was already in hell bc of Versailles then it got much worse because of the stock market crash. Put yourself in the shoes of a German in those days, what Hitler did was logical. Americans need to take responsibility for their actions. Had Americans not been so greedy the stock market crash might not have happened and neither would WW2.
that is exactly Right ww2 pretty much set in motion not only on the western front in the fall of 1918 but the treaty of Versailles in 1919 which the reality the treaty of Versailles was punishing Germany after ww1 was over which it's the allies fault that ww2 had to come after the American civil war ended in 1865 lincolns cabinet tried to do the exact same thing to punished the defeated confederates Abraham Lincoln said no that there would be no blood shed anymore Abraham Lincoln stated plain and simple that he would rather be assassinated than have the confederates punished
ACTUALLLLLY - American chattel slavery and jim crow informed Hitler on how to decimate people by dehumanizing them - which explains why America didn't intervene for A WHILE.
@@HunnifredBee history remembers the holocaust. But look up Churchill's involvement in the starvation of MILLIONS in India during the same 6 year period. Nobody says shit about that. Churchill should be remembered with as much disdain as hitler
I sometimes wonder what life was like for the citizens after WW2 in Germany
I heard it smelled really bad.
Very, very hard. The first two winters after WW2 were extremely cold. Lots of people died by starvation, hypothermia and infections. Horrible times.
@@Celisar1well deserved!
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough & timely rebuilding project. Special thanks to the dear dead departed from the war. Who made this documentary possible!!!😇😇😇😇
Smashing things up and killing each other for elitists squabbles should be an embarrassment not something to be proud about.
In the past I've heard the saying "Germany lost the war, but won the peace".
The Philippines lost the war and won nothing.
That was before the EU and the Euro.
Europe so fixed on avoiding the old Fascism missed the new and is about to be defeated by it.
Him yelling in German at 8:25 was probably just simple directions but it sounded so aggressive
only 22 countries in the world that brittian do not have a war with can you name them
Disneyland, Far away land.... etc. Oh, and maybe the Vatican and those of recent formation around the former Soviets.
Someone told me it took Germany 40 years to rebuild .
And one shitty immigration policy to be invaded again.
The woman started rebuilding from day 1...may 8 1945!
Correct I read somewhere it took to 1985 to fully rebuild
@@Aaron-cy6pu I guess Germans will be speaking.arabic before long. They'll probably make it their official language
what's more amazing to me is the country that rebuilt Germany from the rubble and put it on its path to prosperity and success.
with a little help from the Marshall Plan.
Nancy Galloway In the context of the Marshall Plan, the United States granted funds totaling almost 14 billion US dollars, West Germany received about 1.4 billion as loans. The total amount corresponds to today's monetary value about 130 billion USD (as of 2015). West Germany paid back until 1966 1.4 billion. - in October 2010 Germany is finally payed off World War I reparations, with the last 70 million euro (£60m) payment drawing the debt to a close.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE PSYCHOPATS AND IDIOTS ON THIS planet UNTIL JESUS come back and etablishing HIS 1000years kingdom
@@kjellhansen1387 His reign is coming soon....in our lifetime.
@@useryggfdcc Oh, sure it is but i won't hold my breath.
the shouting of German is tough to listen too. I was in Berlin 1969, on bicycle visited a street of large tan stucco homes ... vacant and over grown, "This was an area of rich Jewish families", my friend said. I meant a young tram conductor who was a POW in Louisiana. Spoke perfect English. Extremely beautiful landscape. The word I remember the most was verboden. The kids, youngen ran wild. I rode my bike up a mountain side and found a distillery by a rushing river.
My Grandfather fought with Rommel in Africa. He was a POW at Camp Alice, Alabama.
Wow! Something to be proud about!
30 years later Germany became a economic power. Think of all the countries that are dependent on others and haven't had a war in their country for over a 150 years.
You know what I find crazy watching this, this is close to the environment that Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in, in Austria. Look what he turned his life into coming to California.
As a German it was so sad reading those letters everyone looking for family 😞
A pity any German found family members. They murdered mine.
@@patriciabrenner9216 Sure they did, NOT.
@@BasementEngineer oh a denier. So banal
@@patriciabrenner9216 That the best you can do?
No forensic evidence to support your assertions?
@@BasementEngineer as I said somebody denying the crimes of the Germans is just a neo Nazi.
Respect to the German people for rising from the ashes and building the strongest economy.
They needed a small loan of a million dollars
Haw, cause the Dawes plan...
rebuilding bankers holiday
If it’s a loan it means you have to pay it back plus interest.
“I’d have rushed into that school without a gun”
The Marshal Plan helped all of Europe. And, They have all forgotten.
This is nearly impossible to comprehend !
you should see some doccos about eastern europe under the Nazis.......your head will pop
Salute to German hard worker..'
And to the baker and sausage maker
Respect Germany from Romania !
The map at 0:17 is strange. I do not know when exactly the movie was made, but the partition of East Prussia and transfer of Pomerania and Lower Silesia to Poland (as a compensation for eastern Poland territories grabbed by the Soviet in 1939) was agreed upon by three powers already in Yalta. So they were not part of Soviet occupation zone.
there was Prussia it self now know as kalingrad my german bros are still waiting there to be with the rest of the people
I can watch this everyday. Puts a big smile on my face
What a little demon you are
@@janielunday5012 really? I should feel sorry for Nazis?
@@janielunday5012 that's what happens when you worship a ruthless dictator
Rock and Roll Geerage just wait till something happened in your life i will consume each ounce of suffering.
@@cristianprado8491 He's not even worth the time. Utterly possessed demon.
Should be watched by every politician who advocate war.
That would do harm.
This shows how to make money off destroying a country.
Basicly this made it easier for the bankers to come in.
A smart nation would have the people build everything themselves. Refusing help and loans.
Germany started WWII in debt. It came out of the war with a lot more debt. Now if they would have been wise they would have said.
Ok come in take everything you want. Our debt is cleared. And we won't take any debt.
Then rebuilt the country themselves. This goes for all area of Germany.
People wanted to punish the German people. When they should have punished the people that put them in debt.
And 80 years later people are still falling for the B.S.. Unless you are against central banks you are falling for thier lies.
And anytime a country rejects central banks it has a war.
One person can not fix this. It take the majority of the world to fix this. Start today by stopping all your debt. Tell creditor here take what you want I'm not paying another penny.
politicians should have to fight their own wars there wouldn't be very many wars if they had to i bet there wouldn't be any wars .97-99% of politicians r pencil necks
Do one on Dresden or the Morganthau Plan.
I still remember the striking sentence from 'The World At War' in which Laurence Olivier states "Germany was an antique some giant had kicked to pieces." Having a German mom born in 1943 I can say she was definitely shaped by the lean post-war years in which her mom would send her to the butcher to beg for scraps. (My Oma could turn anything into a nice meal like her neckbone/lentil soup.) She hates peanut butter which was shipped to Germany by the ton as it was a readily available source of protein. My former GI Dad told me that when he got to West Germany in '66 he was surprised how they lived every bit as good as he was used to in the US.
A pity your oma and mother survived.
@@patriciabrenner9216 Too bad for you! I imagine they led a very good life after the allies saw the errors of their ways. My parents did. My brother and I now live prosperous retired lives. Eat your heart out!
i bet their postal service and customs would process mail faster then than they do in 2021.
Hey Raul, the Roman Army was faster than what we have in 2021! LOL.
@@user-hd1qx2bd1r because it lived off the land and didn’t need supplies. Horses eat grass, do not drink gasoline. Silly comment.
@@pawelpap9 No offence taken, but not really cool calling others silly pawelpap9, This is a site Site for friendly camaraderie, my point was that over 2000 years we've managed to be doing things even worse, if nothing else the Romans like the Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks, showed the world, be organized, hopefully in a humane way, but be organized, the world at this point in time is terribly unorganized, the world is becoming more chaotic, it's a World wide problem with the earth's population growing exponentially, and just one rudimentary military Virus was introduced, and just that, has caused chaos, it's not about horses, grass or gasoline, it's about getting rid of the war machinery on this earth, using that Enormous disgusting, wasteful wealth, and making Solutions without making Chaos. We have enough money, but it's the way it's being spent is the problem!!!
_"We have to prod them into putting their house in order"_
Haha. Good old understated dominant Brit. But it's going to take much more than 'prodding' now.
For Britain you mean? Yes, probably some Chinese colonizing...
That Trombone/Violin argument was dope.
REJECTED.
Somebody turn off the frickin muzak.
My father was a foreign student at the University of Berlin during WW2.
My father and his brothers were fighting Nazis and Japanese in WW2.
I think that Churchill wanted to go to war. He told the Polish to negotiate in bad faith about the Dresden question, which not surprisingly was not resolved and thus led to the invasion of Poland and WW2.
Right or wrong, the world can never deny the strength of the German military. It still boggles the mind to this day!!
They lost a war of their own making.
A fine Army, no doubt, but there was too much cronyism within the National Socialist Party which resulted in incompetent men being put in important positions. In comparison the USA relied upon an efficient meritocracy, which is why it won the war.
"The day WWII ended was the day the Cold War began".
A remarkable mix of self preservation and empathy, presented in a way only a world post war could concoct... and potentially understand. Much can be learnt from this video!
The voice and music are so nice... Like stepping in a time machine
I lived in germany for 4 years as part of thr occupation forces. I would like to say, a more decent, honest bunch of people I've yet to meet. I know for a fact, if they had occupied us, we would not have taken it the way they did. They treated us well. How were they to have the hindsight of what was to come when just 30% of them voted for the nazies? I have no control over what my govt does. They dont ask me. I have to vote as best I can and trust they dont do terrible things.
I miss Germany and its people. I wish I'd stayed.
They saved their face in American care. What do you expect ?
30% is your nonsense.
@@tmesisskewomorph7491 Bullshit.
An beautiful video . I hope an wish no where in the world it repeat again.
Help aside, it shows common German people stamina
It doesnt show anything like that, just basic survival which was cushy under the americans then in other countries