These >5 minutes of footage cover so many obscure aspects of life during the war that literally nobody stops to think about anymore. It's a miracle stuff like this even survived the conflict and found its way onto the internet decades later
I do hope we can learn this must never happen again the young people must be shown the films of horror so they will understand what people can do to each other pray for wisdom an world peace
@@ewencameron1548 Yep, that's the pontificating sentiment expressed after every major conflict. I'm pretty sure the "young people" recognize what war is. Ppl will always pursue conflict if they think they will win, can justify it & if the benefits outweigh the risk. No amount of film watching affects that reality.
@@WatchTMC No that's definitely not all of it. Just read and you'll see it's due in part of being physical. "Old movies were shot on either 35mm or 70mm film reel. These reels were analogue. Analogue gives you the ability to go back to it and ‘transfer’ it to what ever technology is available at the time. To put this in to perspective, a 35mm reel can render almost 20 million organic pixels which is the equivalent to just over 8K."
@@kstreet7438 in theory. Have you seen how large a 70mm camera is? This was frontline war reporting. 35mm or less. Then that’s the theoretical limit. The practical limit is by the scanner used to digitise the footage. This is probably old stock, which means it’s much lower in quality. Not to mention deterioration on 80 year old film. The crisp quality you see here is achieved by denoising and resharpening by an image AI. Probably Topaz labs or something similar.
It was really touching to see those French welcoming their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands home. I can only imagine how relieved and happy they would be, imagine them going home finally to seat down together for a family meal...all those little details of human lives that these footages and any history books could never tell.
Yes, the footage of the woman with a look of desperation on her face scanning the people getting off the train. I hope she was reunited with whoever it was she was searching for.
@@mad_max21 My father's best friend was in Patton's tank corp. He would have followed the man to storm hell. Patton was a character but he loved his men and they loved him. He pushed them as hard as he pushed himself...it's called leadership, not perfection. I'll take that over General Miley any day.
It’s taken from the enormous hill top fortress across the Rhine at Koblenz. The German army that did the 1940 surprise breakthrough over the Meuse from the Ardennes went out along the sides of that Mosel river seen with all those bombed bridges. I did the scenic Mosel boat trip recently, the bridges have obviously modern construction patch repair spans. There are similar photos from 1918/9 with French Rhineland occupation soldiers. Remagen is just downstream a bit.
@@Aeg0r I did it on a cable car from the main Koblenz side of the Rhine up to the famous fortress on the east side. There is a long steep footpath. The Rhine-Mosel junction on the left is called the ‘German Corner’. The Rhine flows left to right just out of shot.
What's very important for this realistic feeling is the frame rate. The frame rate here has been "corrected". In the original footage it was probably all very "speedy".
What?? It looks completely unnatural. You know, exactly like something made by an AI would look like. It's becoming a nuisance when all of this content being recommended is AI made abominations, and not the original source material. You just can't magically make 24 fps into 60 fps. You just can't magically make lower resolution into 4k (unless you re-scan the original film). It's all just deception that disregards the original medium, and instead gives you a "remastered" version that looks like a fever dream yet doesn't add anything.
but the title... "1945 War arrives in Germany" Really? First RAF bombings began in 1940. The war just arrived more and more during the following 5 years.
My father was seconded to the Americans towards the end of the war and took part in a search of Heidelburg University and he brought home a souvenir in the shape of one of those pencil sharpeners that were screwed to the table and you turned a handle. I've still got it and it's the best sharpener ever.
@@davemathews7890 I would like to correct that statement as "THEY THOUGHT they produced better quality goods and were better organized than the Allies". In reality much of what the Germans produced, though while cutting edge in some instances, was very inefficient.....too many different variations and models and not enough of any single one. Take their tanks...the allies may have feared the Tigers and Panthers but they were over engineered, had many faults, were prune to failures at a much higher rate than those of the allies and ended up being a waste of resources. Most of the allied tanks knocked out were by Stugs which were very low tech. The USA, Russia and Britain, each individually, out produced the Germans because they were the ones who were more efficient. That the German armed forces fought for as long as they did is a testament to their individual soldiers than the nation as a whole. They had the best uniforms though. But that doesn't win wars.
@@ravilcn Agreed, the reality was much different from the perception. I was basing my observation on Victor Klemperer's WWII Dresden diaries. After the defeat of France, the locals he encountered in Dresden thought England would next be defeated in a matter of weeks because Germany was better led, more rationally organized and produced better goods. They were somewhat less optimistic after Barbarossa was launched, but still seemed to have faith in German economics, political leadership and especially overwhelming military might. As it turns out, the predictions that either England or the USSR would be defeated were utterly incorrect. You can blame this misplaced optimism largely on Goebbels and Speer, both of whom juggled production figures to create the illusion of an armaments miracle.
@@Perririri Most of maritime China was occupied at this time and its inhabitants were being slaughtered by the Japanese. Since China was also allied with the British and Americans, I doubt it would have exported too much to Germany.
@@alfredfanshaw4786 Not mentioning the Jewish people when talking about the liberation of camps and about tattooed prisoners is noteworthy because Jews were singled out by the nazis and because they were specifically targeted by the Holocaust. It says a lot about the way Nazi crimes were seen during the war and for a couple decades afterwards. You could say it's similar to how the Roma are relatively absent from this kind of conversation even today, despite the fact that they were subjected to the same degree of extreme persecution as the Jews and casualty ratios, though debatable, seem to be comparable. Long live Palestine, but that's a separate matter
@@hrotha not talking about how the Russians raped every woman on site on their road to berlin no matter their age and shot the Brothers, Fathers and Husbands as they tried to stop them.
I like these historic film footages of how real life was like. These videos save pieces of history time for future people to see. I saved this to my UA-cam channel playlists.
In early footage from the war, Germany was using horse power to move artillery as well as France, Russia, etc. Too often we view these people from a 21st century lens. The majority of the world was still agrarian. Life and death, starvation, disease, nation, honor, ethnicity. These things meant a great deal to these people who could suffer a lot if the farm burned down.
One of my uncles was in the German Medical Corps. They operated in a war torn city occupied by a US Division. They were helping wounded civilians and solders on both sides and American Medical units worked alongside my Uncle.
Some of what these people endured we who were born just after that War can never understand. My father was in a tank battalion, for nearly 4 years. Along with his own battalion and British troops helped liberate a POW camp. He didn’t talk about it too much but from time to time he’d tell me and my brother some of what was seen or done. Our military nowadays leave for 6 or 12 months and return home - and for the most part do not see battles or even skirmishes. But it’s tough no matter where you are or what you do. My Dad’s generation was drafted and didn’t come home until the war was declared over. 4 years. Never knowing one day to the next if a bullet or a bomb would find you. Then seeing hundreds of dozens of half starved, dirty, some so sick they could barely move in a camp and you’re just 21. We cannot imagine. No wonder most of our military came home from Afghanistan or Iraq so scarred. War is hell.
As an eleven year long citizen of Heidelberg, this was incredibly interesting to watch, since I know every corner of it. It was eerily familiar, but distant in the same time, with the American soldiers strolling through the famous city.
I know the feeling. Studied and worked there for 3 years. Beautiful old town with its lovely castle on the hill. Very strange to see it with occupation troops at the end of WW2.
Made me proud to see my American brothers and allies liberating and helping innocent people and weeding out them bad from the good. The allies and the axis were the perfect distinction of “Good” and “Evil”.
Fom what I've read, the German people themselves were starving as food was directed to the military. So it's not surprising they were into looting when they could. This was an interesting revelation in this movie.
My grandfather was in Europe from soon after D-Day onwards and remained in Germany as part of the occupational forces. We still have the fine porcelain figurines and jewelry etc. that were traded by the Germans for basic things like coffee. He later was a part of the Berlin Airlift, which rescued 10’s of thousands from starvation by the Soviets.
@Олег Северов I think I understand what you are saying. Yes, Soviet POWs were treated absolutely horribly and criminally by the Germans. Civilians were also brutally treated and killed by occupying German forces.
@Олег Северов between 300,000 and 1.3 million German POWs died in captivity in the USSR , depending on which side you ask. Starvation might not have killed all of them but I’m sure it was a major factor.
@Олег Северов I'm pretty sure the world is sort-of fine with how your country treated the German POWs, it's how you treated Poles in 1939, Polish officers in 1940 and Polish resistance fighters in 1945 and after that is a bigger problem. And yeah, I know, you're going to say something along the lines that it was justified, because Poland was bad, because when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia Poland took back a city from Czechs that had been stolen 20 years earlier.
Still amazing to think that many people who were around ww2, toddler, teens AND to adults who were 18- 22, are still alive to this day. I cannot imagine the trials and tribulations of all the nations affected by ww2. It's sad to see the world has ended up now vs what the people imagined what they wanted the world to be after ww2. As long as there are politics and the envied power to rule, there will always be war.
Die Frau von Göbbels hatte vor dem Selbstmord und Mord ihrer Kinder einen Brief hinterlassen in dem Unter Anderem stand in der Welt die jetzt kommen würde können und wollten sie nicht Weiterleben Sie wussten also ziemlich genau was kommen würde.
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My husband’s Oma was a child living in Bavaria during the war. Her mother temporarily housed a Jewish family who was hoping to get to Switzerland, passing them off as her cousins. Her father was drafted into the German military and sent to a labor camp near Russia when he refused to comply with the Nazi salute. Her mother was pregnant at the time. Eventually her father escaped with several other men and walked back to Germany. When he came home, he had a six year old son he’d never met.
Really? Ever heard of the song Yankee Doodle? That was decades before the American Revolution. British soldiers mocked American colonials who fought during the French Indian Wars by calling them Yankees. But it was adopted by the Americans and turned it as a term of pride. Since then, Americans have always called themselves as such for some 260 years; a Yankee or Yank for short.
Isn’t there a famous WW1 song which has a chorus of ‘Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there, that the yanks are coming……’. Wasn’t that written by an American ?
@@binkelderg7409 I don't agree. War crimes are apparent. They were remarkably so in the aftermath of world war two. The Holocaust stands out, it was deliberate, planned, financed, manned, and executed. To say "it was just war" in that particular case is nonsense. It was state policy. It flew in the face of Enlightenment western history. And don't play the equivalence card with me. Yes, wrong is wrong, committed by the Axis or Allies. At what point do we actually stand back and say so?
@@sala7972 Nah, winning sides commit war crimes too. Like when russians got into Berlin and many soldiers r@p#d women there. Despite them "winning" the war, that's still a crime and they have been called out for it.
@@TheAccursedEntity that's exactly what I meant. Winners write history, not the loosers. And that's why there wasn't a "Nuremberg trial" against Soviets or allies. You can do all shit stuff just like nazis did, but if you win you are not the "bad guy" so everything will be forgotten or more simply will not be talked about. Sorry for my English, I hope that this time I explained what I wanted to say.
My Grandpa was a pow in a German camp separate from the war. I miss him, he survived went in the army 150lbs at 16, lied to get in,when his camp was liberated he was 98lbs
jay- my mom knew a lad who went to w.w.1 aged 14, and he did not care iff he suffered as he carryed a real guilty concious off putting a live cat in a oven when he was younger and was haunted by his cruelty off the cat bakeing too death for the rest off his life.''
Restoring these images and coloring them gives them a more human and real side! All these people on these images would be surprised to see each other so clearly!
@@ChuckPalomo 1940s war footage *gore and mangled bodies* 1940s Propoganda film *This secret police agent was kindly taken to jail and got a heavy sentence and nothing else happened*
Although the clarity is great overall, you can see how heavily processed/filtered this is by looking at the US flag at 4:38. The stars look like circles.
3:03 you can tell that the man, who is possibly the soldier’s father, never expected to see him alive again. Their reunion is a sweet moment in time but still sad at the trauma they both endured. No doubt that they were not same people there as they were before the war.
Qué lástima...pone los pelos de punta..y sí..la realidad supera a la ficción😢al mismo tiempo me gusta verlo y saber qué pasó..la mirada de la gente que ya no está..precioso video⭐
@@Topvidi yet nowhere near as many as the axis. 2 wrongs dont make a right, but lets not pretend like the crimes comitted by both sides were anywhere near equal when one side started a war of literal extermination and had systematic policies of genocide
que imagens perfeitas!. antigamente eram reporteres de verdade, hoje é só noticia que não tem valor! reporteres corajosos que iam a traz de noicias e estavam no meio de tudo. hoje só crian noticias
Mass rape of both women and children by the Communists and their Red Army Soldiers after the invasion of Berlin is one of the most horrific events of the War. Don't think for one-second people on only ONE SIDE suffered from such a stupid war. No more Brother Wars! So sad that so many innocent people had to die on BOTH sides... :'( I'm very fortunate my grandfather survived the war. By some miracle, he was switched out from the unit he had trained with back stateside and was reassigned to a different unit right at the very last minute due to some "administration error". I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't been reassigned during the war. I pray we never have another war like WW2...
Soviet soldiers learned to mass rape from the evil Germans who mass raped women in Russia, France and Poland. Also Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed small children- by the millions so stop playing the victim card.
My granny was a slave worker in Germany. She was only 16. She worked as a maid. I remember when she saw a paricular kind of a brush, with a long hand and a rolling brush to clean the carpets, she said she used it in Germany for cleaning. It was the first time she mentioned she had been there. At the age of about 80 she has got the compensation for her labour in euro. When I watch this I think of my young and beautiful granny freed on those days. Maybe I will see her in one of such footages....
The visuals are just stunning, life jumps at you... but I think 'someone' forgot to enhance and colorize the narration!!! That's okay, I'll do it dammit.
Just Imagine the joy, happiness and relief the Soviet prisoners' must have felt when they saw the American liberators come to their rescue at 2:15 sadly a few months later they would become enemies rather than stay allies. Sad sad world so much suffering and pain.
Thank you so much for this. Was it Lowell Thomas narrating...? SO very moving to see prisoners set free. Those who were combatants And those civilians imprisoned by fascism...French, Dutch, German...no matter. They ALL seemed to exhibit, and wear on their faces, joyous expressions of Liberation.
My parents grew up in England during WWII and were evacuated to the country. I cannot imagine the fear that continental Europe endured during that time. It’s so sad that so many were injured and killed and lost loved ones.
The site's name is confusing, since there were no videos (or moving pictures) in the 19th century (the 1800s). The cleaned-up and colorized 20th century movie films are fairly impressive, though, considering what the originals looked like.
Men used to be able to fight and the victor gets the glory. Now the trick is to do what Adolf did before Poland - conquer without bloodshed but with “Strength through Joy”
Estados unidos llego al ultimo ya solo para aclamarse como el vencedor sobre alemania y casi no se menciona a la union sovietica que fue la que mas participo.
Thank you for cooperating with Hitler before and after 1939, for delivering him fuel, resources, manufacturing sites in russia where he was able to produce and test tanks, planes used then during ww2. Thank you for ribbentrop molotov division of europe.
Four years earlier the Germans would have been shooting such footage. Similar pictures of stunned civilians looking at at well-equipped troops rolling thru the streets, flags being hoisted, same type of narration underscored by the same type of soundtrack. The American director took Goebbel's lessons to heart.
War didn't arrive in Germany in 1945 ... the bombing raids started far, far earlier. The western allies entered Germany in 1944. This title is simply wrong.
*If the Western Allies had been willing to negotiate with OKH/OKW in early '44...the war could have been over at least w/regard to occupied territories in Europe* *Germany wanted to 'make it impossible' for Stalin to invade by shoring-up every possible defense to the East but that idea was rejected by the West...that meant that was NO CHOICE but to continue to fight* ( *Everyone in any position of military authority knew 'The War Is Lost!' when the entire 6th. Army was forced to surrender at Stalingrad...there was no way to replace the loss of soldiers, nor any way to stop the Red Army from advancing toward Germany* )
"Kiedy na naszej ziemi nie stało ani jednego żywego niemca, padł rozkaz ostatni.... NA BERLIN! Rozbić wroga na jego własnej ziemi po to by my mogli naszą ojczyzne odbudować..." chwała 1 i 2 armii Ludowego wojska Polskiego!!!!
Poland? They knew the Bolsheviks were coming and they listened to Britain instead and ended up getting spit roasted by Germany and Russia….Poles need less land, they are not very productive with their huge country
I am of German heritage, but my German family suffered during the war. No food, no heat, while their father and brother were forced to fight in Russia. I just love how when the Americans arrived, Germans were happy to see them to release them from their bounds of Nazism, as opposed to the Russians. The biggest mistake the US made was being allied with Russia. Their soldiers were brutal to the Germans and the poor women of the internment camps. Americans have always been the good guys.
Назовите мне хотя бы один ужас войны в отношении немцев похожий на Хатынь, блокаду Ленинграда, угон детей в рабство OST, Бабий яр, Сталингради т.д. Дрезден бомбили ваши друзья-американцы. Зачем???
As a kid I used to think back in the 1900s, before colorize TV became a thing, that the world was seen in black and white and everything was black and white.
![[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1946) A Defeated People: Life in Germany after WWII.](/img/n.gif)
These >5 minutes of footage cover so many obscure aspects of life during the war that literally nobody stops to think about anymore. It's a miracle stuff like this even survived the conflict and found its way onto the internet decades later
I do hope we can learn this must never happen again the young people must be shown the films of horror so they will understand what people can do to each other pray for wisdom an world peace
6миллионов сожженных евреев хотели жить .но их превратили в пепел концлагерей .
@@ewencameron1548 Yep, that's the pontificating sentiment expressed after every major conflict. I'm pretty sure the "young people" recognize what war is. Ppl will always pursue conflict if they think they will win, can justify it & if the benefits outweigh the risk. No amount of film watching affects that reality.
The clarity of this footage is truly stunning!
Thanks to being not digital!
@@kstreet7438 The only reason it is so clear is because it was heavily postprocessed with AI algos. You know, digitally.
@@WatchTMC No that's definitely not all of it. Just read and you'll see it's due in part of being physical.
"Old movies were shot on either 35mm or 70mm film reel. These reels were analogue. Analogue gives you the ability to go back to it and ‘transfer’ it to what ever technology is available at the time. To put this in to perspective, a 35mm reel can render almost 20 million organic pixels which is the equivalent to just over 8K."
@@kstreet7438 in theory. Have you seen how large a 70mm camera is? This was frontline war reporting. 35mm or less.
Then that’s the theoretical limit. The practical limit is by the scanner used to digitise the footage. This is probably old stock, which means it’s much lower in quality. Not to mention deterioration on 80 year old film.
The crisp quality you see here is achieved by denoising and resharpening by an image AI. Probably Topaz labs or something similar.
It was remastered.. with 21st century filming technology.
Thank you. I'm just teaching WWII to my class and this footage will be very worthwhile.
Do you brainwash them critical race theory too?
@@peadarmurray7994 Please, be more specific, sir. What race theory are you talking about? Anyway, history is everything but brainwashing.
Ovviamente ricordando che questi son video di propaganda.
@@francesco5491
Critical race theory being thought in US and UK schools, think it's getting banned now in the UK
gracias Frencesco.
It was really touching to see those French welcoming their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands home.
I can only imagine how relieved and happy they would be, imagine them going home finally to seat down together for a family meal...all those little details of human lives that these footages and any history books could never tell.
I actually shed a tear when that elderly man was crying to see his loved one again.
They WERE home, hepling Nazis to round up Jews
нет, было бы мило если бы этот француз здох на нашей гостеприимной земле
Французы легли под немцев .что мужчины что женщины .ради чашки кофе .
Yes, the footage of the woman with a look of desperation on her face scanning the people getting off the train. I hope she was reunited with whoever it was she was searching for.
The quality of the restored images is so much impressive.
I like the way people react to camera at certain points of this video.
You can feel the absolute simplicity and weirdness in their eyes.
Simplicity and weirdness?
Cause the camera looks goofy
As someone already asked - simplicity and weirdness..?
It's surreal to see general Omar Bradley, he's an actual important historical figure and there he is shaking hands with troops plain as day.
Well, Patton was too busy slapping soldiers with PTSD. Somebody else had to the hand-shaking.
@@mad_max21 He was a bastard but a damn good one glad he was on the Allies otherwise I fear what may have been.
I know nothing about the geezer....
What did he do then??
@@mad_max21
My father's best friend was in Patton's tank corp. He would have followed the man to storm hell.
Patton was a character but he loved his men and they loved him. He pushed them as hard as he pushed himself...it's called leadership, not perfection. I'll take that over General Miley any day.
Very different from ‘Dugout Doug’ MacArthur in the west pacific.
Wow, that shot at 3:57 of the Rhine and the blown bridges is so beautiful. Well done. Amazing video.
the cameraman is worked hard on this
It’s taken from the enormous hill top fortress across the Rhine at Koblenz. The German army that did the 1940 surprise breakthrough over the Meuse from the Ardennes went out along the sides of that Mosel river seen with all those bombed bridges. I did the scenic Mosel boat trip recently, the bridges have obviously modern construction patch repair spans. There are similar photos from 1918/9 with French Rhineland occupation soldiers. Remagen is just downstream a bit.
@@Aeg0r I did it on a cable car from the main Koblenz side of the Rhine up to the famous fortress on the east side. There is a long steep footpath. The Rhine-Mosel junction on the left is called the ‘German Corner’. The Rhine flows left to right just out of shot.
Holy shit that feels so much more "real" than unedited WW2 footage.
What's very important for this realistic feeling is the frame rate. The frame rate here has been "corrected". In the original footage it was probably all very "speedy".
What?? It looks completely unnatural. You know, exactly like something made by an AI would look like. It's becoming a nuisance when all of this content being recommended is AI made abominations, and not the original source material. You just can't magically make 24 fps into 60 fps. You just can't magically make lower resolution into 4k (unless you re-scan the original film). It's all just deception that disregards the original medium, and instead gives you a "remastered" version that looks like a fever dream yet doesn't add anything.
@@goldbullet50 Thankfully is not done "magically"... before writting that wall of crap you should have searched how it works instead. LMAO
@@goldbullet50 it looks better. Original still exists if you want to watch that. Even color is added to originals.
It's still American propaganda.
More WWII videos please.
This is great.
but the title...
"1945 War arrives in Germany"
Really? First RAF bombings began in 1940.
The war just arrived more and more during the following 5 years.
@@neinnein9306
I think they ment the actual invasion by that
@@shintokatana17 Ok, but imagine just 1000 bomber attack on Cologne in '42 or Hamburg firestorm in '43. I would describe these examples as war also.
@@neinnein9306 Nice pfp from JoJo Rabbit
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My father was seconded to the Americans towards the end of the war and took part in a search of Heidelburg University and he brought home a souvenir in the shape of one of those pencil sharpeners that were screwed to the table and you turned a handle. I've still got it and it's the best sharpener ever.
@@davemathews7890 I would like to correct that statement as "THEY THOUGHT they produced better quality goods and were better organized than the Allies". In reality much of what the Germans produced, though while cutting edge in some instances, was very inefficient.....too many different variations and models and not enough of any single one. Take their tanks...the allies may have feared the Tigers and Panthers but they were over engineered, had many faults, were prune to failures at a much higher rate than those of the allies and ended up being a waste of resources. Most of the allied tanks knocked out were by Stugs which were very low tech. The USA, Russia and Britain, each individually, out produced the Germans because they were the ones who were more efficient. That the German armed forces fought for as long as they did is a testament to their individual soldiers than the nation as a whole. They had the best uniforms though. But that doesn't win wars.
@@ravilcn Agreed, the reality was much different from the perception. I was basing my observation on Victor Klemperer's WWII Dresden diaries. After the defeat of France, the locals he encountered in Dresden thought England would next be defeated in a matter of weeks because Germany was better led, more rationally organized and produced better goods. They were somewhat less optimistic after Barbarossa was launched, but still seemed to have faith in German economics, political leadership and especially overwhelming military might. As it turns out, the predictions that either England or the USSR would be defeated were utterly incorrect. You can blame this misplaced optimism largely on Goebbels and Speer, both of whom juggled production figures to create the illusion of an armaments miracle.
Hitler never bought *Made in China* 😂😁😂
@@Perririri Most of maritime China was occupied at this time and its inhabitants were being slaughtered by the Japanese. Since China was also allied with the British and Americans, I doubt it would have exported too much to Germany.
Thankyou sir 🥺✡️
Seeing the joy on those prisoners faces is something to behold.
Those prisoners with the tattooed arms were Jews. Not a word about them is mentioned.
@@eyesonyou99 yeah most people don’t really like them especially back then
@@eyesonyou99 Oh dear not mentioning God's chosen people a crime indeed. Long live Palestine!
@@alfredfanshaw4786 Not mentioning the Jewish people when talking about the liberation of camps and about tattooed prisoners is noteworthy because Jews were singled out by the nazis and because they were specifically targeted by the Holocaust. It says a lot about the way Nazi crimes were seen during the war and for a couple decades afterwards. You could say it's similar to how the Roma are relatively absent from this kind of conversation even today, despite the fact that they were subjected to the same degree of extreme persecution as the Jews and casualty ratios, though debatable, seem to be comparable. Long live Palestine, but that's a separate matter
@@hrotha not talking about how the Russians raped every woman on site on their road to berlin no matter their age and shot the Brothers, Fathers and Husbands as they tried to stop them.
I like these historic film footages of how real life was like. These videos save pieces of history time for future people to see. I saved this to my UA-cam channel playlists.
In early footage from the war, Germany was using horse power to move artillery as well as France, Russia, etc. Too often we view these people from a 21st century lens. The majority of the world was still agrarian. Life and death, starvation, disease, nation, honor, ethnicity. These things meant a great deal to these people who could suffer a lot if the farm burned down.
The AI had a hard time with this one.
Oh you know it. Its a great colorization but it must have wet the bed a few times
Kinda reminded me how old cold war era TV's displayed the picture in the past
Could you recommend AI software for old 16mm footage?
😆
Props to them for keeping the original aspect ratio.
One of my uncles was in the German Medical Corps. They operated in a war torn city occupied by a US Division. They were helping wounded civilians and solders on both sides and American Medical units worked alongside my Uncle.
The German medics were part of the biggest nazi group in Germany. I think people forget that
Some of what these people endured we who were born just after that War can never understand. My father was in a tank battalion, for nearly 4 years. Along with his own battalion and British troops helped liberate a POW camp. He didn’t talk about it too much but from time to time he’d tell me and my brother some of what was seen or done.
Our military nowadays leave for 6 or 12 months and return home - and for the most part do not see battles or even skirmishes. But it’s tough no matter where you are or what you do.
My Dad’s generation was drafted and didn’t come home until the war was declared over. 4 years. Never knowing one day to the next if a bullet or a bomb would find you. Then seeing hundreds of dozens of half starved, dirty, some so sick they could barely move in a camp and you’re just 21. We cannot imagine.
No wonder most of our military came home from Afghanistan or Iraq so scarred. War is hell.
And WWII soldiers were never treated for PTSD.Given a month's leave and then put back into society
@@daniellinehan63 Absolutely. Just act like you never saw any of it. I do know my Dad had bad dreams and it took him a while to get back to sleep.
Disse tudo em poucas palavras meu amigo!
@@celsodias1407 Wow, I’m sorry I don’t understand your language……
Американские солдаты не знают что такое война
As an eleven year long citizen of Heidelberg, this was incredibly interesting to watch, since I know every corner of it. It was eerily familiar, but distant in the same time, with the American soldiers strolling through the famous city.
So has it changed much? (the city)🙂
I know the feeling. Studied and worked there for 3 years. Beautiful old town with its lovely castle on the hill. Very strange to see it with occupation troops at the end of WW2.
Made me proud to see my American brothers and allies liberating and helping innocent people and weeding out them bad from the good. The allies and the axis were the perfect distinction of “Good” and “Evil”.
@@smexy5111 except soviets, soviets were monsters
@@smexy5111 🎯
Fom what I've read, the German people themselves were starving as food was directed to the military. So it's not surprising they were into looting when they could. This was an interesting revelation in this movie.
My grandfather was in Europe from soon after D-Day onwards and remained in Germany as part of the occupational forces. We still have the fine porcelain figurines and jewelry etc. that were traded by the Germans for basic things like coffee. He later was a part of the Berlin Airlift, which rescued 10’s of thousands from starvation by the Soviets.
@Олег Северов I think I understand what you are saying. Yes, Soviet POWs were treated absolutely horribly and criminally by the Germans. Civilians were also brutally treated and killed by occupying German forces.
@Олег Северов between 300,000 and 1.3 million German POWs died in captivity in the USSR , depending on which side you ask. Starvation might not have killed all of them but I’m sure it was a major factor.
@Олег Северов stop your horrible propaganda
@Олег Северов I'm pretty sure the world is sort-of fine with how your country treated the German POWs, it's how you treated Poles in 1939, Polish officers in 1940 and Polish resistance fighters in 1945 and after that is a bigger problem. And yeah, I know, you're going to say something along the lines that it was justified, because Poland was bad, because when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia Poland took back a city from Czechs that had been stolen 20 years earlier.
2:43 This hurts. My grandfather's mother and sister never did return from their deportation.
😢 hugs to you 😢
Still amazing to think that many people who were around ww2, toddler, teens AND to adults who were 18- 22, are still alive to this day. I cannot imagine the trials and tribulations of all the nations affected by ww2. It's sad to see the world has ended up now vs what the people imagined what they wanted the world to be after ww2. As long as there are politics and the envied power to rule, there will always be war.
Точнее пока существует США, на нашей планете существует военная угроза.
@@user-lv4wj8cb2d 😂
Maybe we can avoid a third WW when any corrupt politician knows that there will be nobody to bribe when he opens his bunker ?
Die Frau von Göbbels hatte vor dem Selbstmord und Mord ihrer Kinder einen Brief hinterlassen in dem Unter Anderem stand in der Welt die jetzt kommen würde können und wollten sie nicht Weiterleben
Sie wussten also ziemlich genau was kommen würde.
This is priceless. Thank you!
More ww2 color Combat footage here Video Link: ua-cam.com/video/apF3VnKrWTo/v-deo.html
Executions Playlist Link: ua-cam.com/video/_bx0YbQAmyE/v-deo.html
I just binged all your videos last night. My day was instantly better when I saw you uploaded an hour ago!!
History lessons from the past shouldn't ever fade away.. ever!
Thanks for sharing🤔
Still better than any UFO/Bigfoot/paranormal footage.
Or Oprah's latest "gotta have........."
Because this is real.
Obviously.
@Documentary Detective II Lunatic
I mean "" fake "" footage ?
My husband’s Oma was a child living in Bavaria during the war. Her mother temporarily housed a Jewish family who was hoping to get to Switzerland, passing them off as her cousins. Her father was drafted into the German military and sent to a labor camp near Russia when he refused to comply with the Nazi salute. Her mother was pregnant at the time. Eventually her father escaped with several other men and walked back to Germany. When he came home, he had a six year old son he’d never met.
Interesting. I've never heard Americans referring to themselves as "Yanks" before.
Really? Ever heard of the song Yankee Doodle? That was decades before the American Revolution. British soldiers mocked American colonials who fought during the French Indian Wars by calling them Yankees. But it was adopted by the Americans and turned it as a term of pride. Since then, Americans have always called themselves as such for some 260 years; a Yankee or Yank for short.
@@BagoPorkRinds Yankee but not yank.
@@williamjordan5554 Are you so sure? You may want to brush up on American history.
Isn’t there a famous WW1 song which has a chorus of ‘Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there, that the yanks are coming……’. Wasn’t that written by an American ?
@@apb3440 Yes, the songwriter was George M. Cohan.
1:57 documenting war crime is so important, it is crucial in terms of history, education, proper context, etc.
it was against the human rights , thats all , but it has nothing to do with war crime.
You have committed war crimes only if you are the one that has lost.
@@binkelderg7409 I don't agree. War crimes are apparent. They were remarkably so in the aftermath of world war two. The Holocaust stands out, it was deliberate, planned, financed, manned, and executed. To say "it was just war" in that particular case is nonsense. It was state policy. It flew in the face of Enlightenment western history. And don't play the equivalence card with me. Yes, wrong is wrong, committed by the Axis or Allies. At what point do we actually stand back and say so?
@@sala7972 Nah, winning sides commit war crimes too. Like when russians got into Berlin and many soldiers r@p#d women there. Despite them "winning" the war, that's still a crime and they have been called out for it.
@@TheAccursedEntity that's exactly what I meant. Winners write history, not the loosers. And that's why there wasn't a "Nuremberg trial" against Soviets or allies. You can do all shit stuff just like nazis did, but if you win you are not the "bad guy" so everything will be forgotten or more simply will not be talked about. Sorry for my English, I hope that this time I explained what I wanted to say.
I just discovered your page and am completely blown away by these videos.
My Grandpa was a pow in a German camp separate from the war. I miss him, he survived went in the army 150lbs at 16, lied to get in,when his camp was liberated he was 98lbs
jay- my mom knew a lad who went to w.w.1 aged 14, and he did not care iff he suffered as he carryed a real guilty concious off putting a live cat in a oven when he was younger and was haunted by his cruelty off the cat bakeing too death for the rest off his life.''
Horrible what the Germans did to POWs and civilians. Many thoughts to you and your grandpa.
Great job cleaning up old newsreels. They look fantastic and more realistic!
3:00 This dad never expected to see his son alive again.
Restoring these images and coloring them gives them a more human and real side! All these people on these images would be surprised to see each other so clearly!
This is phenomenal. Really captures it all so graphically
"He's quickly hassled off to jail" uhhhhh sure "jail" lol
lol I was just about to write that. What a nice euphemism for firing squad.
@@ChuckPalomo 1940s war footage *gore and mangled bodies* 1940s Propoganda film *This secret police agent was kindly taken to jail and got a heavy sentence and nothing else happened*
they actually brought him to a jail....where they drowned him in a bucket full of pee.... but he was brought to jail so....
@@heuckepeuckeborserian4798 oh thank God! I thought he was shot in the back ally of the Police station
@@thatsnodildo1974 what? he was just a Nazi...
I haven’t seen any of this footage! This is AWESOME!!!
This reminds me of the video of the cows leaving the barn at the start of spring. Happy creatures.
Humans did this.
3:40 John D. Rockefeller. Crazy find in this clip.
Don’t forget Warburg, Lehman & Schiff
Absolutely amazing its so clean and clear you would think it's the latest war film
Incredible footage, thanks for sharing.
2:11 the realization that you escaped a almost certain and gruesome death. Relieving and chilling at the same time, fuck.
Although the clarity is great overall, you can see how heavily processed/filtered this is by looking at the US flag at 4:38. The stars look like circles.
3:03 you can tell that the man, who is possibly the soldier’s father, never expected to see him alive again. Their reunion is a sweet moment in time but still sad at the trauma they both endured. No doubt that they were not same people there as they were before the war.
Qué lástima...pone los pelos de punta..y sí..la realidad supera a la ficción😢al mismo tiempo me gusta verlo y saber qué pasó..la mirada de la gente que ya no está..precioso video⭐
0:12 Poor man. That's a hundred thousand yard stare.
History deserves not to be forgotten
history deserves to be true
allies did many war crimes as well
We learned jack shit sadly
@@Topvidi of course they did ,they had to stop the monsters.
@@Topvidi yet nowhere near as many as the axis. 2 wrongs dont make a right, but lets not pretend like the crimes comitted by both sides were anywhere near equal when one side started a war of literal extermination and had systematic policies of genocide
@@ioannisperiptero9626 they replaced them
I never thought in my lifetime they would be back.... But to some people "they are very fine people"...
It’s there in film for all to see. No One can deny it!
Theres a bunch to see…be specific…
Seeing it in color really does give you a much more raw experience of what it was like in those last chaotic days for Germany.
Good job on restoring these war footages ❤️
War arrives in Germany?? Shouldn't it be something more like "Defeat arrives in Germany"?
They weren’t defeated yet so no
@@NoonyJW Under that logic, they were closer to defeat than to the "arrival" of war
@@Cristinact yeah, they probably suffered the least out of anyone else. but those concentration camps tho... ugh
Innocent Germany, such a peaceful society. Same on you America. Why did you bring your dirty war to that peaceful land?
@@slawomirlech950 yes amerikans always bring war to peaceful land
que imagens perfeitas!. antigamente eram reporteres de verdade, hoje é só noticia que não tem valor! reporteres corajosos que iam a traz de noicias e estavam no meio de tudo. hoje só crian noticias
To the person who restored these, thank you.
Mass rape of both women and children by the Communists and their Red Army Soldiers after the invasion of Berlin is one of the most horrific events of the War. Don't think for one-second people on only ONE SIDE suffered from such a stupid war. No more Brother Wars! So sad that so many innocent people had to die on BOTH sides... :'( I'm very fortunate my grandfather survived the war. By some miracle, he was switched out from the unit he had trained with back stateside and was reassigned to a different unit right at the very last minute due to some "administration error". I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't been reassigned during the war. I pray we never have another war like WW2...
@@ohio Europa: the last battle. Watch it.
@@ohio And what did the Russians do in the Baltics, Poland, Finland and Ukraine? Some of these long before 1939.
@@6876I that’s a propaganda film that’s been debunked
@@litaf918 whataboutism. The actions of the Russians doesn’t justify germanys genocide of Jewish people
Soviet soldiers learned to mass rape from the evil Germans who mass raped women in Russia, France and Poland. Also Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed small children- by the millions so stop playing the victim card.
My granny was a slave worker in Germany. She was only 16. She worked as a maid. I remember when she saw a paricular kind of a brush, with a long hand and a rolling brush to clean the carpets, she said she used it in Germany for cleaning. It was the first time she mentioned she had been there. At the age of about 80 she has got the compensation for her labour in euro. When I watch this I think of my young and beautiful granny freed on those days. Maybe I will see her in one of such footages....
The visuals are just stunning, life jumps at you... but I think 'someone' forgot to enhance and colorize the narration!!! That's okay, I'll do it dammit.
Just Imagine the joy, happiness and relief the Soviet prisoners' must have felt when they saw the American liberators come to their rescue at 2:15 sadly a few months later they would become enemies rather than stay allies. Sad sad world so much suffering and pain.
When those Soviet prisoners were returned to the Soviet Union, they were sent to Siberian prison camps. Find out for yourself as to why.
2:20 didn't know Edward Norton fought in WW II
Thanks for video. Clarity is amazing.
The woman at 2:54 is strikingly beautiful.
Never go to Russia! (O. Bismarck)
Thank you so much for this. Was it Lowell Thomas narrating...? SO very moving to see prisoners set free. Those who were combatants And those civilians imprisoned by fascism...French, Dutch, German...no matter. They ALL seemed to exhibit, and wear on their faces, joyous expressions of Liberation.
My parents grew up in England during WWII and were evacuated to the country. I cannot imagine the fear that continental Europe endured during that time. It’s so sad that so many were injured and killed and lost loved ones.
A video with G. Bradley and G. Patton and a giant American Flag! Doesn't get more American than that! Amazing video keep up the great work 💪✌
Music from the 40s never fails to creep me out
The more things change the more they remain the same
it's crazy the 60fps feels like it was recorded yesterday.
3:02 I cried.
wow same exact moment also
Did you cried in the same way when you saw a murdered polish cilvilians by german troops ?
The color and clarity added to this video makes me feel like Im actually there!
1:45 Product Placement!
This has got to be the clearest, crystal clear footage from World War II I have seen until till this point
The site's name is confusing, since there were no videos (or moving pictures) in the 19th century (the 1800s). The cleaned-up and colorized 20th century movie films are fairly impressive, though, considering what the originals looked like.
These soldiers would be so ashamed to see who is in control of the country right now, and where were headed.
Poor soldiers, poor people. War is hell! There are even more things that are not expainable in a video. Death, murder......anarchy.
Men used to be able to fight and the victor gets the glory. Now the trick is to do what Adolf did before Poland - conquer without bloodshed but with “Strength through Joy”
Estados unidos llego al ultimo ya solo para aclamarse como el vencedor sobre alemania y casi no se menciona a la union sovietica que fue la que mas participo.
Soviet victory is tarnished 1 they helped Nazis in 1940,carved up Poland and took the Baltic states 2 enslaved Eastern Europe for45 years
Wow that was great footage
Keep em coming
Спасибо Красной армии ,за освобождение народов европы от кровавого режима Гитлера.
Спасибо красным ТЕРРОРИСТАМ
Thank you for cooperating with Hitler before and after 1939, for delivering him fuel, resources, manufacturing sites in russia where he was able to produce and test tanks, planes used then during ww2. Thank you for ribbentrop molotov division of europe.
@@nurik-fd3py это ты про свою маму с дедушкой так отзываешься?
@@nurik-fd3pyжелудь будете?
@@mariuszcieslak3667желудь будете?
Your work is amazing i love this videos
And people think we're in bad times now, they have no idea... No idea....
These teens faced down PURE EVIL.
And won.
Sad. What a beautiful Germany's time was 1940s
They were terrorising Poles and invading peaceful neutral countries in 1940, try evil racist murdering Germany in 1940!
Why do all these narrator voices sound the same in every WWII video?
These are amazing thank you so much
Amazing and terrifying at the same
My great great uncle on my mom side was actually one of general Patton’s personal drivers or chauffeurs during the war
😂
ab- ''sure he was driveing when patton was killed in that accident in Dec. 1945 ????
Four years earlier the Germans would have been shooting such footage. Similar pictures of stunned civilians looking at at well-equipped troops rolling thru the streets, flags being hoisted, same type of narration underscored by the same type of soundtrack.
The American director took Goebbel's lessons to heart.
your ent is very wise Shelby
Thank you Lord, that I was not doomed to live in these horrible times.
Без русских победа была бы невозможна.
1991
🤡😝
"Rockefeller"..... imagine my shock...
He was a Nazi collaborator. Here is the more complete picture: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust
Warburg, Lehman, Schiff etc. you can’t make this up 😂
@@geenr9766 all major car manufacturers too. damn. and Nestle somehow doesn't surprise me
War didn't arrive in Germany in 1945 ... the bombing raids started far, far earlier. The western allies entered Germany in 1944. This title is simply wrong.
As usual so few words about Soviet army.. Which had experienced the most amount of pain and suffer in that war.
Russians back then rocked but not now. Now they are the invaders just like the Germans.
Я конечно всё понимаю, но рекламу в данном видео....вы вообще что продать пытаетесь?
It was not that long time ago.
*If the Western Allies had been willing to negotiate with OKH/OKW in early '44...the war could have been over at least w/regard to occupied territories in Europe*
*Germany wanted to 'make it impossible' for Stalin to invade by shoring-up every possible defense to the East but that idea was rejected by the West...that meant that was NO CHOICE but to continue to fight*
( *Everyone in any position of military authority knew 'The War Is Lost!' when the entire 6th. Army was forced to surrender at Stalingrad...there was no way to replace the loss of soldiers, nor any way to stop the Red Army from advancing toward Germany* )
"Kiedy na naszej ziemi nie stało ani jednego żywego niemca, padł rozkaz ostatni.... NA BERLIN! Rozbić wroga na jego własnej ziemi po to by my mogli naszą ojczyzne odbudować..." chwała 1 i 2 armii Ludowego wojska Polskiego!!!!
Ok, und?
Brawooooo :)
@@jugg126 Problem ?
@@calmondey4214 Ne. hast du eins?
Poland? They knew the Bolsheviks were coming and they listened to Britain instead and ended up getting spit roasted by Germany and Russia….Poles need less land, they are not very productive with their huge country
Why humanity don't learn from previous wars?
Dammn.
The face of german peoples were like nothing happened in this world.
Germans- We didn't know cause we lack noses and eyes.
2:53 - What a stonecold fox
I am of German heritage, but my German family suffered during the war. No food, no heat, while their father and brother were forced to fight in Russia. I just love how when the Americans arrived, Germans were happy to see them to release them from their bounds of Nazism, as opposed to the Russians. The biggest mistake the US made was being allied with Russia. Their soldiers were brutal to the Germans and the poor women of the internment camps. Americans have always been the good guys.
Sadly Germany is on a suicide mission itself.
Shouldn’t have invaded Poland and the Soviet Union then.
@@alanbennett5071 That's flawed, black and white thinking.
@@nurzhanualiev2841 да что ты ?
Назовите мне хотя бы один ужас войны в отношении немцев похожий на Хатынь, блокаду Ленинграда, угон детей в рабство OST, Бабий яр, Сталингради т.д. Дрезден бомбили ваши друзья-американцы. Зачем???
As a kid I used to think back in the 1900s, before colorize TV became a thing, that the world was seen in black and white and everything was black and white.
We must say no to war all over the world.