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That is the Ruhr how we used to love it. Always dark and hazy, not from fog but from smog. And Frau Mueller never would cook a warm meal with meat in the evening. Meat was only for sundays.
the ones who paid for the milk, have milk.... "the rest of the children talk and laugh quietly..." I am also laughing quietly now [whatever that is...]
Too funny. I was born there at that same time and it was nothing like that for my family. We were so poor we didn't even have Christmas, housing was still in short supply, buildings still bombed out and piles of rubble everywhere, people were practically living on top of each other. The country was full of foreigners and refugees from all over, nobody was happy and all anyone talked about were the hardship and the war. People were harsh and mean, everyone out for themselves, much like it has been these days. My family were holocaust survivors and war refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Terrible times.
Wirtschaftswunder. The economic reforms that took place in 1948 allowed West Germans to become much more prosperous in a short period of time. Tax reductions, reduction of labour and capital regulations, the removal of regulations on markets allowed the West Germans to get ahead. By the 1960s West Germans were accumulating a great deal of gold because of their business success. All this happened because the West German federal government greatly reduced the regulations the Occupation forces, the National Socialists, the Republican and Imperial governments imposed on Germans and German enterprise.
I experienced this firsthand during the mid to late 1950’s as Germany was my first RAF posting as a medic, in a newly built RAF hospital near Wegberg, 60km from Cologne. I visited and shopped with local families and friends. It was the best two years of my early adult life. In 2018 I had an email from a German historian at Paderborn university, asking me about my experiences and could she use some of my photographs she had seen online from my time back then. We have an ongoing collaboration, which is fascinating as I like history and documenting it. Greetings from a Yorkshire man from Leeds, living down under in Tasmania Australia since 1968.😁🇦🇺🦘
I'm happy you keep your "German-experience" in your heart after all these years! All the best to you there "down under" (at least from our perspective). 🙂
Wonderful piece of history but it`s clearly made for children. And i have to agree to Henrik Larsen`s comment that this was an attempt to make us Germans into humans again, after the unprecedented attrocities committed by the people of my country. I am deeply ashamed of that, although i am born long after the war. But i am also thankful for the second chance, we were given. Thanks for the upload.
This realy shows how much the world has changed , for instance in those days every child loved the outdoors , and now everyone is playing Pokemon go or something ...
What a terribly suffocating time, you feel the oppression of everyone who is stuck in their social role. Everything looks super clean and tidy under a suffocating layer of smog and poverty, everything radiates poverty. Even the Christmas shops and playgrounds look depressing. The '50s were hell.
I'm startled to see such a family routinely eating meat for the evening meal. Some basic sausage perhaps, but I can't imagine how in 1958 they would have had meat for other than Sunday dinner or special meals. Perhaps the Ruhr Valley was atypically prosperous at that time? Nevertheless, I thought rationing was still distributing such a limited resource. What do readers think? Are my memories failing me?
Thanks for that info. This film reminds me of similar programs I remember being broadcast on Sunday afternoon television in the 1950's and early 1960's. (Sunday afternoon TV in smaller cities used to have a lot of "dead time" with unsold commercial time so it was basically filler without commercials---or just public service announcements. So I remember the stations running a lot of newsreels, WWII documentaries, and the documentaries like this one which were often shown in schools in the social studies classes.) I miss these types of efforts to understand how other peoples of the world lived.
I think it a propaganda film to make america to like the germans again.The meat,the nice apartment.the empati of the speaker...and NO pictures of ruins anywhere (Essen were one of the most targeted cities at all).I am not from Germany,but I am pretty shure that everything were build up 13 year after the war ended.
it's very interssting how america potrayed Germany in the 50s, compared to the time of the Nazi Time. It's not that far appart, but they show them as almost equals not the babarian they used to be. BTW I am german myself
Whatever he smoked he is completely right, anyone who has illusions about how our present day is not vastly better than any other time is mistaken. There are a lot of things this documentary doesn't show us about the time or about the family itself.
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7:23 The Karl Albrecht Lebensmittel store is now known as ALDI and is expanding all over the world :)
That is the Ruhr how we used to love it. Always dark and hazy, not from fog but from smog.
And Frau Mueller never would cook a warm meal with meat in the evening. Meat was only for sundays.
What a nice little snippet of a film. 😊
My family is from Muelheim an der Ruhr next to Oberhausen. Heissler was her family name
This is really wholesome
the ones who paid for the milk, have milk.... "the rest of the children talk and laugh quietly..."
I am also laughing quietly now [whatever that is...]
Fascinating.
I miss this so much. This reminds me of growing up.
blackzed You just had to spoil good times and make it racist, didn’t you?
Too funny. I was born there at that same time and it was nothing like that for my family. We were so poor we didn't even have Christmas, housing was still in short supply, buildings still bombed out and piles of rubble everywhere, people were practically living on top of each other. The country was full of foreigners and refugees from all over, nobody was happy and all anyone talked about were the hardship and the war. People were harsh and mean, everyone out for themselves, much like it has been these days. My family were holocaust survivors and war refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Terrible times.
Tell us more please, tell us your memories, please
Tough times
Wirtschaftswunder. The economic reforms that took place in 1948 allowed West Germans to become much more prosperous in a short period of time. Tax reductions, reduction of labour and capital regulations, the removal of regulations on markets allowed the West Germans to get ahead. By the 1960s West Germans were accumulating a great deal of gold because of their business success. All this happened because the West German federal government greatly reduced the regulations the Occupation forces, the National Socialists, the Republican and Imperial governments imposed on Germans and German enterprise.
I experienced this firsthand during the mid to late 1950’s as Germany was my first RAF posting as a medic, in a newly built RAF hospital near Wegberg, 60km from Cologne. I visited and shopped with local families and friends. It was the best two years of my early adult life. In 2018 I had an email from a German historian at Paderborn university, asking me about my experiences and could she use some of my photographs she had seen online from my time back then. We have an ongoing collaboration, which is fascinating as I like history and documenting it. Greetings from a Yorkshire man from Leeds, living down under in Tasmania Australia since 1968.😁🇦🇺🦘
I'm happy you keep your "German-experience" in your heart after all these years! All the best to you there "down under" (at least from our perspective). 🙂
Wonderful piece of history but it`s clearly made for children. And i have to agree to Henrik Larsen`s comment that this was an attempt to make us Germans into humans again, after the unprecedented attrocities committed by the people of my country. I am deeply ashamed
of that, although i am born long after the war. But i am also thankful for the second chance, we were given. Thanks for the upload.
I love this one so much. So cozy. :3
Nice find.
Great documentary 😊
The gray smokey skies mean prosperity.
LMBAO!
AAAH Oh Gott, die Brücke vor Werden :D
This realy shows how much the world has changed , for instance in those days every child loved the outdoors , and now everyone is playing Pokemon go or something ...
What a terribly suffocating time, you feel the oppression of everyone who is stuck in their social role.
Everything looks super clean and tidy under a suffocating layer of smog and poverty, everything radiates poverty.
Even the Christmas shops and playgrounds look depressing.
The '50s were hell.
They survived the war well.
nice
I'm startled to see such a family routinely eating meat for the evening meal. Some basic sausage perhaps, but I can't imagine how in 1958 they would have had meat for other than Sunday dinner or special meals. Perhaps the Ruhr Valley was atypically prosperous at that time? Nevertheless, I thought rationing was still distributing such a limited resource. What do readers think? Are my memories failing me?
Thanks for that info. This film reminds me of similar programs I remember being broadcast on Sunday afternoon television in the 1950's and early 1960's. (Sunday afternoon TV in smaller cities used to have a lot of "dead time" with unsold commercial time so it was basically filler without commercials---or just public service announcements. So I remember the stations running a lot of newsreels, WWII documentaries, and the documentaries like this one which were often shown in schools in the social studies classes.)
I miss these types of efforts to understand how other peoples of the world lived.
If you can't eat well in *Essen*
I would be very happy if Turkish subtitles were supported
As a German is that really the best documentary I ever saw 😂😂😂
It was hilarious
I think it a propaganda film to make america to like the germans again.The meat,the nice apartment.the empati of the speaker...and NO pictures of ruins anywhere (Essen were one of the most targeted cities at all).I am not from Germany,but I am pretty shure that everything were build up 13 year after the war ended.
9:25 Imagine saying this line in 2022
it's very interssting how america potrayed Germany in the 50s, compared to the time of the Nazi Time. It's not that far appart, but they show them as almost equals not the babarian they used to be.
BTW I am german myself
How the world has changed...
Whatever he smoked he is completely right, anyone who has illusions about how our present day is not vastly better than any other time is mistaken. There are a lot of things this documentary doesn't show us about the time or about the family itself.
always grey with smoke haha
2:11 Aaaaw, the morning propaganda.
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