As a German who knows Berlin, Bremen, Cologne and Dresden, I can only say how beautiful these cities once were and how ugly nowadays. Germany did not need to hide behind Italian cities like Florence or Milan So much has been lost and destroyed forever and so many people died during and after the war.
As a German I can only agree, it’s a shame what got build in the 60s/ 70s and actually nowadays. This is what Hitler and the Second World War has given to us.
@@cylonx1100 Die Altstadt ist schön, alles andere, gerade die Plattenbausiedlungen, sind wie in anderen großen Städten eher "meh" Dann müsste man auch sagen, dass Berlin generell schön ist, nur weil die Museumsinsel, die Friedrichstraße, Unter den Linden und Schloss Charlottenburg schön sind. Nur wird Berlin generell nicht gerade als schön angesehen
@@nothisistoni Wollte gerade das gleich schreiben, du bist mir zuvor gekommen. ;-) Ich habe mal für eine kurze Zeit in Dresden gelebt, die Stadt ist unspektakulär, mit vielen hässlichen Plattenbauten. Nur der Stadtkern ist schön und darum denken die Touristen, das wäre so eine schöne Stadt.
Absolutely. Until 1939 Europe was a gigantic open-air museum. Almost every city was full of beautiful buildings and monuments, the result of the European genius between 1500 and 1900. Most of it was destroyed for ever thanks to the RAF
Wahnsinn welche unersetzlichen kulturellen Schätze durch den Krieg verloren gegangen sind. Mir kommen die Tränen...was gäbe ich dafür dies gesehen zu haben
Wären sie nicht zerbombt geworden hätten die Nazis sie mit ihrer eigenen Idee von deutscher Architektur ersetzt, was diese kulturellen schätze genauso zerstört hätte.
The period of the so-called Weimar Republic had already been a complete mess. After the end of the empire due to World War I, the essentials had already been achieved. The "Weimar" years prepared the way for the rise of Nazism ideology with Hitler as the leading figure to finish off Germany, which was already completely subjugated. From the end of World War II to the present day, the "Federal Republic of Germany" has been a foreign occupation administration. Right now, the ongoing worldwide process is coming to completion, although the ruling powers are still playing "nations" a little. After all, another world war is still to come.
@Bruce Lee back then, that is "how things are done" .. today it means effort and a choice to dress well, act well and build well. The Gesellschaftsgeist can be reborn. Damned be the outside world. I want place that i can call home, and i want to build it if it does not exist.
Keine sorge in 20-30 Jahren leben wir hier gänzlich in der Steinzeit, dann verkaufen dir die grünen es sei eine Erungenschaft den Arsch mit der linken Hand abzuweichen. Nur noch AfD, die Sozialdemokraten haben die deutschen schon mal verraten und tun es gerade wieder. Ich habe keine Lust auf einen Bürgerkrieg und gegenseitiges abstechen mit messern, da kann ich drauf verzichten
Feeling an actual knot in my stomach knowing all this beauty has vanished, never to return. Not a trace of this soul left in these citys nowadays. What a waste the WWII truly was.
Thanks going to France for the treaty of Versailles and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. Oh and Poland for taking half of prussia without any reason.
@@molodezhnaja you should probably read what the treaty of Versailles said. It wasn’t only about the territories in the south-west but also about absurdly high reparations, only with the intension to annex the Ruhr-area, the industrial heart of Germany. France even occupied the Ruhr-area in 1923. So yes, hitler, nationalism and the economical crisis have been fuel to the engine of the Second World War, but France was the engine itself. The treaty of Versailles was literally not a treaty for peace but a treaty for a military break. France even prepared for the next war by building the Marginot line.
@@technikhusky2054 To frame Versailles as this "great wrong" forced upon Germany is ignoring two major points: 1. Versailles was by far the least punishing treaty signed by any major power (see conditions of Brest-Litovsk and Sevres). Germany herself also set a precedent by dismantling the Russian Empire in early 1918. 2. Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid the equivalent of $4,3 billion out of $33 billion fixed in the treaty. This was in large parts financed through bonds/foreign capital (see Ruhr-crisis and the resulting Dawes Plan) which the German government later defaulted on. The amount of $4,3 billion was therefore effectively paid by the Allies to themselves. So no, the "crushing" treaty didn't lead to Germany's economic crisis nor the rise of Hitler. The government recklessly printing money (instead of rising taxes, which was unpopular with the voters) and fascism did. Seriously, you should read a book. Preferably one that doesn't spout Nazi-propaganda.
Das schöne an dieser alten Era war doch, dass jedes Gebäude sein eigenleben hatte. Und nicht jedes Haus oder Gebäude im allgemeinen, dem nächsten ähnelte. Diese Ornamente, einfach schön. Schade das es einen 2. WW gab sowie, dass vieles durch schnelle Bauten ersetzt anstatt, dass die alten wieder aufgebaut wurden. Danke für diese schönen Bilder!
Die Sache ist halt das großartige Bauwerke eine lange Zeit gehabt haben sich anzusammeln, aber für den Aufbau gab es leider natürlich weniger Geld und Zeit
Dass kein Haus dem anderen ähnelte ist ja mal Unsinn. Das Stadtbild sah eher noch einheitlicher aus, da heutzutage Stile aus vielen Jahrzehnten nebeneinander stehen.
@@zurgesmiecal junge XD das ganze land lag in schutt und trümmern, glaube da hat die gebäudeverzierung eher geringeren stellenwert wenn man kein dach überm kopf hat :D
Yeah hard to believe all those ornate beautiful Buildings would be turned to dust A few years later…. Never to return oh well that’s war for you! The Nazis destroyed their own country! KARMA Is a bitch!
@@Mussi93 no one has forgotten or will ever forget anything. That has nothing to do with the fact that @Sister Goldenhair comments are correct. Thank you Nass for such a wonderful video.
@@Mussi93 hey jackass! My father fought in WW2 US Army in the Battle of the Bulge. Dumber than Lumber u are ! u can see I was not praising their politics!🤣💩🤡what did your father do?
I live in Berlin and, even though it has beautiful areas, most of the nicest architecture was destroyed in the war and not rebuilt how it was beforehand. So it is a real treat to see this! If you come to Berlin, make sure you check out Bergmannkiez in Kreuzberg, it is one of the only neighbourhoods not to have been badly bombed during the war and so the architecture is what the whole city would have looked like before the war. It's really stunning. Also go to Dresden, the centre of the city has been rebuilt exactly how it was before the war. It's beautiful.
@@skarbuskreska don't talk bullshits, they didn't payed Germany for the mass destruction and biggest genocide in human history, the genocide against ethnic Germans after the war
If you like the heavily ornamented "Kaiserreich" Architecture ("Gründerzeit") check out Wiesbaden, the "Landeshauptstadt" of Hessen. It is a city that goes unnoticed easily, but miraculously it escaped the heavy carpetbombing and so large parts of the Pre-WW1 Architecture remain intact. In fact it makes for a nice case study of urban architecture and the development of the cityblock throughout the 19th and 20th century as different stages of develpment in this field are nicely preserved right next to each other. Nowdays, the city is heavily congested with cars as it lacks a tram- or subwaynetwork (or cycling infrastructure). There are a lot of busses though.
I am in Kassel, DE. I once met a Chilean lady who told me that this was one of the most beautiful cities in all of Europe before WW2. Watching this video almost makes me want to cry. This country is still beautiful to me. I moved here from Southern California, and Germany honestly takes my breath away. It feels like something out of a fairy tale. But when I see these pre-war images, I can only fantasise about what might have been before...
My father was born in 1929 and grew up in Kassel. He often told me how beautiful it was, and he never fully came to terms with the post-war reconstruction of the city. Walking through the streets of Kassel with him was always like a history lesson as he would tell me about all the things he remembered from his childhood. It almost felt like the old and new version of Kassel were two different cities that have almost nothing in common save for the name and geographic coordinates.
@@bruneva That is exactly what I've heard... that Kassel today resembles nothing of its pre-war aesthetic. The university there is actually built on a site where weapons were made, as well as locomotive parts for the trains used to carry people to camps:( It's understandable that the allies targeted Kassel, but it is heartbreaking nonetheless.
A lot of the ones in this video are actually still quite nice. Bremen, Munich, Gdansk and Rothenburg are all extremely beautiful, and while I can't speak for the others included as I haven't seen them before, I'm sure at least large sections are quite nice too.
Seeing the Gedächtniskirche intact at 0:45 was incredible. The ruin of the tower and the 1960s new tower surrounded by high-rise buildings from the 2000s is so iconic now.
Ich dachte mir, hä irgendwie kenne ich diese Kirche...dann habe ich den Turm erkannt. Unglaublich, dass wir noch Video von der Kirche in dem Zustand haben.
Diese Kirche symbolisiert genau die Dinge, die Deutschland in den Untergang geführt gaben: Demokratiefeindlichkeit, Obrigkeitshörigkeit, Nationalchauvinismus, Expansionismus. Gut, dass sie ein Mahnmal geblieben ist.
Makes your heart bleed. All those beautiful buildings of my country and culture lost to a senseless war. So much heritage irrepacebly gone. Not to mention all the lives lost.
Yes, that drunkard Churchill should have left Germany alone rather than insighting a senseless war with a country that wanted an alliance with Great Britain. A war that genocided 40-60 million Europeans and lead to the fall of the British empire, the destruction of Germany, the huge increase in private banking cartel power, the handing of Danzig to Russia anyway and the Cold War.
Makes my heart proud they stood up and fought to preserve it. A people fighting for their heritage. But globalists do not want this. Russia is becoming 2nd arabia, so is europe. It wont be preserved, and it is not gone due to the war. That was and is their plan: destroy white hertiage.
Looking at videos from German cities in the 1920s and 1930s always makes me very sad, they were so beautiful, social gathering everywhere, now I walk the streets of Germany, because I live here and in most places this beauty is gone and even more the social gathering is gone... makes me very sad.
I don't think this is really true. Some cities are as beautiful as ever, and looking at the footage of Bremen... well, this is almost exactly how the marketplace looks today.
Ehrlich gesagt denk ich dass du dir das nur so vorstellst. Nostalgie eben. Klar viele schöne Gebäude sind verloren gegangen aber die kann man eben nicht vergleichen mit etwas, wad nicht mal 100 Jahre alt ist. Dass Deutschland keine schönen Ecken hat stimmt eben auch nicht oder dass sich die Leute irgendwo versammeln. Was du hier siehst ist bearbeiteter Film!!! und auch nur wenige Orte, hauptsächlich wohlhabende Gebiete in der Innenstadt. Ich kann das gleiche auch jetzt machen.
At 0:52 in, to the left was the damaged in 1943 and later demolished in 1955 , Wilhelm Shallen house exhibition hall. The church in the right background is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The ancient looking statuary around Berlin was very impressive like at 1:31 in of Kaiser Wilhelm I on his horse destroyed in late 1949. The architecture of ordinary downtown Berlin was amazing but almost all was destroyed during WWII. Great colorized video NASS of a long lost version of prewar Germany.
@@Speculum81 In fact the problem is much more complex. Let's compare Danzig and Breslau with Berlin. There was only a pile of rubble in Danzig (Sowiets first made Mariupol out of Danzig with their artillery and subsequently spent weeks after conquering the city destroying everything what remained intact) and in Breslau it was even worse: Breslau was declared a Fortress by Hitler and it took weeks to take the city. After 2nd WW Poles started to rebuild and reconstruct everything what could be rebuild. There are architectural intact historic old town areas again. Not so in Berlin, where apparently both parts of the city hated the past and tried to erase architectural identity. East Germans used caterpillars to get rid of the ruins and changed everything what could be changed, they simply decided to make place for new city. With wide streets and squares as parade ground. In West Berlin played greed and love for cars and modern style living an important role. However it was West-Berlin SPD Senate who destroyed a lot of substance without reason. Such jewels as Romanisches Haus, Haus Vaterland or Anhalter Bahnhof or the area around Belle Aliance Platz could be saved.
Nicht notwendig: Die Frauenkirche in Dresden wurde wieder aufgebaut und das war genau deswegen möglich, weil die Architektur dokumentiert gewesen war. Das ist der Schatz dieses Filmes.
@@Bobbel888 Die meisten Techniken für solche Fassadengestaltungen sind heutzutage komplett vergessen. 99% der Gipser können nur noch 2-3mm Putz spritzen und das wars.
@Rbin955 and we should reconstruct everything how it used to be, Europe was heaven on Earth. Each city had uts unqiue captivating charms. We can restore our beautiful cities to prewar condition.
Germany looks so advanced even in 1930. I am from India and I really wonder how both Japan and Germany grown from the ashes and became most prosperous nations in world
I am super impressed. Not only by your remaster abilities, but the sheer beauty and aesthetics of the original material. I've enjoyed every frame of this wonderful portrait from an lost era.
Excellent job on that sound design! It is matches the scenes, held back, and is never distracting from the fascinating images, but in fact supports them very well.
Wow. What a great video to see what it used to be like. Shame that the majority of that architecture was destroyed in the war. I visited it several times and the replacement buildings were no where near as beautiful. Thank you.
@@rammbadedu1215 Dresden. Hiroshima. Also from a human perspective. Both cities horrendously and pointlessly leveled and their much of their populations killed or maimed simply to make a somewhat paranoid point to Soviet Russia.
Germany was the most beautiful country all over the world until 1945. Nowadays many beautiful places are abroad. Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, France and Italy. Not all was lost forever but a good 80% yes. It's really sad.
I think people like you who do this should be elevated for a Nobel Prize just as someone finding the dead sea scrolls. Sadly the people that rule us want us to forget about the amazing technology and how beautiful the world was......2 world wars killed hundreds of millions and here we are again in Ukraine we will never learn.......Thanks for such a gift you give humanity....
@𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝕿𝖔 𝖄𝖊𝖘𝖍𝖚𝖆 : Where are all the Nazis at?! Not a trace of any of that vermin not a trace of any of the poison the subhuman German bastards they should’ve nuked the fucking country The only positive thing that came out of Germany in that period was the zeppelin AIRSHIP and they fucked that up too
Truly Impressive Architecture and the routine of life well lived. Thank you so much for bringing this to us and I will definitely recommend your Channel. Happy New Year! ❤
how clean it was, how busy without being hectic. No graffiti? Those were the days, when our grandparents where young. What beauty did they see and all was lost.
A lot of the architecture here is beautiful. What a rare record of pre WW2 Germany and all those buildings that would be destroyed. Fascinating to watch.
Eine grossartige Arbeit dieses Video! Vielen Dank! Ich hätte gleich heulen können, als ich die Bilder aus Berlin und Dresden sah ... was wir mittlerweile gemacht haben .... BÄH ... die neuen Häuser sehen alle wie gelöcherte Schuhkartons ...
Da kann ich Dir nur zustimmen. Ich war in den 1970ern und 80ern oft in München (Praxissemester etc.). Die Neubauten der letzten Jahrzehnte sind an Hässlichkeit kaum zu überbieten. Meine These: Der Baustil einer Epoche lässt bis zu gewissem Grade Rückschlüsse auf den inneren Zustand eines Volkes zu. Sollte meine These zutreffen, dann stehen uns harte Zeiten bevor.
Harte Zeiten bringen starke Männer hervor. Starke Männer bewirken einfache Zeiten. Einfache Zeiten bringen schwache Männer hervor. Schwache Männer bewirken harte Zeiten. Viele werden es nicht verstehen, aber man muss seine Kinder zur Wehrhaftigkeit erziehen.
@@september1683 Leider muss ich Dir voll und ganz zustimmen. Wenn wir uns angucken, was im WEF alles geplant wird, bleibt nur übrig sich ein Plätzchen ganz weit weg auszusuchen und warten bis der Sturm vorbei ist ...
Thank you for the interesting video! The city in the beginning is Bremen. The "Marktplatz" with the famous city hall and the Roland Statue and the "Dom" Cathredal is shown. Fortunately those buildings survived the war in more or less good condition. Today they are perfectly restored and the "Marktplatz" still looks almost like in the 1930s or earlier. Bremen is definitely worth a visit.
The city was heavily damaged, only some of these buildings were rebuild after the war, so nearly nothing in the city of Bremen survived the war in good condition. And the post war architecture visions for car citys did the rest.
@@dojocho1894 Nope, those building styles and ornate castings were the same all over the world before the wars, the cities are very ancient, the wars were designed to renovate the cities into modern creations...
@@arslongavitabrevis5136 organized and started by destroyers. Doesn't matter what goes in after, as long as the old stuff is removed, otherwise uncomfortable questions will be asked to the powers-that-be overtime as people study the old structures.
Wow, it’s a Germany I know through bits and pieces of drawings and shadowy memories. So unusual to see without intrusion of modern buildings. Thanks, awesome.
And this is "just" the architecture. I talked to my great grandparents, who were in their teens/early 20s during that time and all of them feel like the people were replaced along the appearance. Not physically, but mentally. WW2 didn't just change the way everything looked (Old buildings being replaced by new age bullshit), but it changed the way people interacted with each other. It's gotten worse and worse. Starting in the late 50s/early to mid 60s, where Germany was mostly rebuilt. Respect and care for one another slowly but surely began to fade away. What we have today is just significantally worsened because of the changing demographics. Many folk live here now, that would not even set a pieceful foot close to the German border before. Before they died, they felt like, if Germany was ever in a war again, it wouldn't be because of outside force, but because of what we have amongst our midst. WW2 didn't just damage the generations that lived through it all, but it has damaged us mentally to this day. We are incapable of being on our own and being sovereign, because we fear us more than anything on the outside. We are raised to believe that we are quite literally our own biggest flaw. That self hate will kill the German folk, sooner or later. I've witnessed People actively choosing to not look inside their own folk anymore for companionship and marriage, because they were made to believe that you shouldn't be together with your own. We are mentally crippled.
@@Waechter_im_All Typisches Geschwurbel von Leuten, die rückblickend nur noch das Gute sehen. Wie toll sich die Deutschen um ihre Nachbarn gekümmert haben sieht man ja gut an der Deportation und Ermordung von Millionen Juden, Zigeunern, Homosexuellen, Behinderten und Regimegegnern. Hat man einfach so hingenommen.
Well, I wouldn’t be surprised that your great grandparents, being in their twenties in the 1940’s might have some _interesting_ views on immigration and race mixing… My grandfather was also born in 1919 and was of the opinion that we went way too light on the Germans and should have wiped it out as a nation entirely for their crimes, so maybe we _shouldn’t_ assume someone has the best political takes just because they are old? Especially if they have a lot of trauma from this period.
So do all the men, Women and CHILDREN that were murdered by the Nazis. When I worked in Berlin during the 90s and would see older men and women, mostly men. I would think, what we're you doing during this time? So many men and died in my beloved country having to go to war to stop and clean up their mess.
Little did they know the horror that was just around the corner and that their cities would be left in absolute ruins and they would have to rebuild them all from scratch
Or that 88 years later, their rebuilt cities would be taken over by hordes of invaders. They would be more horrified to learn that their own supposed “leaders” were the ones to allow this destruction to happen?
what a beauty and atmosphere of those times. It seems to me that it was a completely different feeling when you come to a country that you could see before only on postcards or paintings, and then you see all this beauty and majesty with your own eyes, an incredibly beautiful country
Very few people have the foresight to understand how valuable images of normal life would become. Even today, with all our movies and social media, not much of it is authentic, regular life.
Unless it’s the crime and decay in urban centers. That will be studied many years from now when during investigation of destruction of western democracy
I think normal life is whatever we’re living in right now, this was their normal life and we are living in ours, as sad that it may be that our “normal” isn’t as calm as this.
Every point of view is enjoyable. This is so well filmed, the perspectives. The rythm of the people and transport is mesmerizing. I wonder if they were noticed filming was going to take place.
They were not all destroyed. The first few seconds show the city of Bremen - and many of the buildings survived the war. But this window into history is indeed fantastic... and a bit eerie too. Just to think that behind the sunny street views there was a whole lot of evil brewing and lead the whole world down a very dark path.
God I love seeing streets belonging to everyone, being shared by cyclists, pedestrians, even children with their pull-carts, instead of just being given to cars to allow them to drive slightly faster.
Streets are dominated by cars and especially in America the bike lanes are actually too small and can easily be drove over by cars and don’t have a barrier to serprate them apart. If everyone live in a city then why are cars so dominate? Not everyone have a car so the street need sections and need better barriers.
It was because personal motion picture cameras were still very much a luxury in that era, since they were fairly expensive, so relatively few people had them. So naturally, if someone came walking down the street with a film camera, people would obviously notice!
The craftsmanship from those days was lost to the new age. I don't think there would be but a handful of architects and artists' that could re-create such monumental statues and buildings. What a pleasure to watch, thanks Nass. Happy New Year!🎉🥳
I think, there are enough people that could, but it all comes down to money and concrete cubes being cheaper than neogothic palaces. Sadly. We could definitely build like that again, if we wanted too.
As an Italian with German mother, I have to say that old German cities were very beautiful. Fortunately some cities are rebuilt like before but other not, like Rhur. I have to admit that I prefer German gothic monumentality than Italian narrow roads of some medieval town.
@@akhandbharat1593 Of course. But it is not affordable anymore to built like this. Who is supposed to pay for it? And who is to contoll that things don't turn into a phony Disney Land?
00:00 - 00:36 is the City of Bremen in Northwest Germany. The scenery as shown here (the dome, the civic center, the statue of Roland, the marketplace and some other parts) survive the war and are definitely worth a visit. It is an official UNECO world-herritage.
@@hansfritz9180 Richtig Hans Fritz. Nur noch Penner und Dreckschweine. Ich habe über 35 Jahre lang als Straßenfeger und Müllmann bei der Berliner Stadtreinigung gearbeitet. Alles wird verdreckt von den Deutschen und von den Ausländern genauso. Schlimme Zeiten heute. Meine Kinder schmeißen kein Dreck oder Papier auf die Straßen Berlins. Ich habe sie vernünftig und ordentlich erzogen. Alles Gute Ihnen.
Damals haben Menschen auch noch als Straßenkehrer gearbeitet. Für einen Hungerlohn, übrigens. Überleg mal, warum die Städte heute so vermüllen. Weil es erstens, niemand bezahlen könnte, so viele Straßenreinigungskräfte zu beschäftigen, und weil es zweitens diese vielen Menschen überhaupt nicht gibt.
I recognize bits of Berlin and Dresden from visits. Berlin was 80% destroyed and Dresden was incinerated, so it's interesting to see what little survived and how it previously looked. Thanks!
@@dagmarvandoren9364 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins are there still. And a fair bit of Charlottenburg survived the war. At least that's what they told me when I was there.
@@__goat__ only thing it brought was misery. there was peace in europe for 50 years, but it was not a good one. and certainly not for the sacrifices made.
Ein kleines Detail, was mir aber am meisten auffällt: Es gab damals fast keine Verkehrsschilder. Und ich glaube moderne Städte wären viel schöner und zeitlos ohne 15 Schilder in jeder Straße. Klingt albern, aber achtet mal drauf! Ich fotografiere hobbymäßig und mir fällt jedesmal auf die Fotos ohne Schilder sind einfach besser.
Even though the rumblings of events were stirring in the 30's, it's amazing to see the casual, everyday people just going about their lives - likely blissfully unaware of the snowball soon to start rolling into a war of colossal magnitude and devastation. These "calm before the storm" videos are always fascinating, like videos from NY just before 9/11, etc. You never know when normality of life will change so drastically until you look back on footage like this and reflect on how different it was before.
Lol, this is right after they cleaned up the hell what was just there a decade earlier. The optimism was because they thought they had finally defeated the enemy of civilization. But, as everyone is learning now, that was not the case, and the fight is coming once again.
This was the calm (after) the storm. 1934, Hitler had been in power for over a year. Germany was quickly on her way to being the envy of the entire continent.
Beautifully done. Just the right level of colorization to capture the atmosphere of the times. Quite poignant to see all those busy people going about their daily lives, oblivious to what the coming decade would bring.
Thank you so much for this outstanding documentary with very vivid impressions! My heart is bleeding when I see all these gorgeous buildings. And thank you for creating such a beautiful time documentary! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Man was für tolle Aufnahmen. Soviel schönes und Interessantes. Der Winker am Bus hat mich zum schmunzel gebracht. Oder die Szene wo der Gentelman die Dame auf dem Fahrrad schiebt. Danke für die tolle Arbeit un den Upload
Thanks for beaming me back roughly 90 years into my home country. Some of the streets survived war and other "attacks" especially in Munich and parts of Hamburg. But lots of these are lost. Funny how people look into the cameras or those who operated it. Today non-filming people are the rare subjects ;) Greatings from Germany - MB
We supposed to see this as old, it’s more modern and elegant than today’s cities, what I’m doing here in 2023, I want live in this video time and place( but without Second World War ). I’m really old fashion soul
Visited Germany(Berlin) a few years back and it has a unique, historic but stylish vibe that I enjoyed. It's something unique and I think it's the old architecture.
Ich hab wirklich tränen in den Augen bekommen während ich dieses Video geguckt habe. Deutschland sah einmal so schön aus, reich an Kultur und Geschichte in jeder Ecke. Die beiden Weltkriege haben uns alles gekostet. 36% unsereres Landes, Millionen tote und vertriebene und zerstörte Städte. Heute sieht in Deutschland alles grau aus, ein hässliches Gebäude neben dem anderen. Alleine wenn ich dieses Bild von der Gedächtniskirche mit heute vergleiche. Das macht mich einfach wahnsinnig traurig zu sehen was wir verloren haben und nie mehr wieder bekommen
Seeing old Dresden is haunting beyond belief. The beautiful Baroque city and darling of the 19th century German romantics, turned into quite literally a living hell firestorm....
A few weeks before war ended. A crime against humanityñ At least 35000 women and children burnt alive. Unbelievable evil then, and they are still at it again.
It is fascinating how many people and their relatives unfortunately do not know, that they were captured with a camera and were virtually immortalized.
It’s amazing that so many cities around the world were built up to high standards, so long ago. It’s a shame modern societies don’t focus on great efforts of beauty and settle for third rate. It’s a plague for sure, in fashion, ethics, standards, building, architecture, manners, etc. what a shame…
Enjoyed the look at Bremen pre-WWII. Most of the buildings and monuments still exist, though the Neptune fountain was destroyed in WWII and replaced by a modern fountain. I also enjoyed seeing the other cities. Danzig/Gdanks, Königsberg/Kaliningrad were the only ones I didn't recognise for obvious reasons.
I live in Bremen and most of the stuff that was shown here is still in the old city. The only thing that was destroyed is the Teichmann Fountain at 0:35 which was melted in 1940 as a Metal Donation for the War.
You couldn´t be more wrong! None of the buildings you see survived, They were all gone, Some of them have been rebuilt, some of them even at a different place!
As a Canadian Have to say Germany with its art and decor the detail It looked cozy to live in these areas The churches bring a brightness to the surroundings I see Germany 2000's And its looks grey and cold I wish we had this old design in our citys Modern does not always mean better
In reality if you lived in Germany in that era and not belong to the lucky rich society, your life would have been miserable as economy was quite bad after WWI and the treaty of Versailles. And when that guy with the moustache gave you hope with his fiery speeches you might had voted for his party...
@averyannoyingdudewithadesktop there is literally nothing German about Germany anymore other than a couple old buildings and streetsigns.Unsere Kultur wurde komplett ausgelöscht und mit dem Islam ersetzt.
at 4:30 you can see the skyline of Dresden from a train bridge Dresden was severly bombed and largely lay at ruins after WW2, but it was rebuilt just today I took a train over the very bridge that the train in the video crossed there, and had the same view as there, just ~90 years later this is an insane video, nicely done!
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in which city in the world do you want to live in 1930s???
Ohio
Lwów, Poland.
Dresden (not so much from 1933 or 1939 though).
Jerusalem, British Palestine.
Kyoto Japan
As a German who knows Berlin, Bremen, Cologne and Dresden, I can only say how beautiful these cities once were and how ugly nowadays.
Germany did not need to hide behind Italian cities like Florence or Milan
So much has been lost and destroyed forever and so many people died during and after the war.
Some towns and cities still look very good because they have been rebuild. Milan and Florence also have their ugly zones..
As a German I can only agree, it’s a shame what got build in the 60s/ 70s and actually nowadays. This is what Hitler and the Second World War has given to us.
Wo ist Dresden denn bitte hässlich das ist mit die schönste Stadt Deutschlands?
@@cylonx1100 Die Altstadt ist schön, alles andere, gerade die Plattenbausiedlungen, sind wie in anderen großen Städten eher "meh"
Dann müsste man auch sagen, dass Berlin generell schön ist, nur weil die Museumsinsel, die Friedrichstraße, Unter den Linden und Schloss Charlottenburg schön sind. Nur wird Berlin generell nicht gerade als schön angesehen
@@nothisistoni Wollte gerade das gleich schreiben, du bist mir zuvor gekommen. ;-) Ich habe mal für eine kurze Zeit in Dresden gelebt, die Stadt ist unspektakulär, mit vielen hässlichen Plattenbauten. Nur der Stadtkern ist schön und darum denken die Touristen, das wäre so eine schöne Stadt.
The beauty of the old world takes my breath away.
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
@@motherflange : What movie is this line from?
@@motherflange 1930 ??
@@motherflange I hope thats a joke
Absolutely. Until 1939 Europe was a gigantic open-air museum. Almost every city was full of beautiful buildings and monuments, the result of the European genius between 1500 and 1900. Most of it was destroyed for ever thanks to the RAF
Wahnsinn welche unersetzlichen kulturellen Schätze durch den Krieg verloren gegangen sind. Mir kommen die Tränen...was gäbe ich dafür dies gesehen zu haben
Wären sie nicht zerbombt geworden hätten die Nazis sie mit ihrer eigenen Idee von deutscher Architektur ersetzt, was diese kulturellen schätze genauso zerstört hätte.
Stimmt. Wobei vieles vom hier Gezeigten ja wieder aufgebaut wurde.
Ja and still celebrated. Thinking but was absolutely necessary to do that....pure hate...we would have lost anyway...
kannst dich bei den nazis bedanken
@@melihyurdakul4663nein. Bei autoritätsgläubigen Menschen, die an eine Rechtmäßigkeit von Herrschaft glaubten.
It looks peaceful and prosperous, it's crazy to think what kind of history came just a few years later...
I know right. Europa the last battle explains this in so much detail.
The period of the so-called Weimar Republic had already been a complete mess. After the end of the empire due to World War I, the essentials had already been achieved. The "Weimar" years prepared the way for the rise of Nazism ideology with Hitler as the leading figure to finish off Germany, which was already completely subjugated.
From the end of World War II to the present day, the "Federal Republic of Germany" has been a foreign occupation administration.
Right now, the ongoing worldwide process is coming to completion, although the ruling powers are still playing "nations" a little. After all, another world war is still to come.
Modern Germany needs to declare it's independence from the European Union and Nato technocrats who have devolved into central bank owned warmongers.
WWIII has already started.
So sad that the satanistic hyenas from london, new york and the mind of Adolf Hitler destroyed this extremly vital country.
I don't want to say that I want the old times back but the architecture and the classic style could be spread more again.
@Bruce Lee back then, that is "how things are done" .. today it means effort and a choice to dress well, act well and build well. The Gesellschaftsgeist can be reborn. Damned be the outside world. I want place that i can call home, and i want to build it if it does not exist.
Keine sorge in 20-30 Jahren leben wir hier gänzlich in der Steinzeit, dann verkaufen dir die grünen es sei eine Erungenschaft den Arsch mit der linken Hand abzuweichen. Nur noch AfD, die Sozialdemokraten haben die deutschen schon mal verraten und tun es gerade wieder. Ich habe keine Lust auf einen Bürgerkrieg und gegenseitiges abstechen mit messern, da kann ich drauf verzichten
I don't think you will find someone nowadays who knows how to build like this.
Old times with modern technology would be great.
Please, no. Germany still looks old af
Feeling an actual knot in my stomach knowing all this beauty has vanished, never to return. Not a trace of this soul left in these citys nowadays. What a waste the WWII truly was.
It will return! Germany will rise again!
@@lifeofjoyandcreation Ok dude
Thanks going to France for the treaty of Versailles and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. Oh and Poland for taking half of prussia without any reason.
@@molodezhnaja you should probably read what the treaty of Versailles said. It wasn’t only about the territories in the south-west but also about absurdly high reparations, only with the intension to annex the Ruhr-area, the industrial heart of Germany. France even occupied the Ruhr-area in 1923. So yes, hitler, nationalism and the economical crisis have been fuel to the engine of the Second World War, but France was the engine itself. The treaty of Versailles was literally not a treaty for peace but a treaty for a military break. France even prepared for the next war by building the Marginot line.
@@technikhusky2054
To frame Versailles as this "great wrong" forced upon Germany is ignoring two major points:
1. Versailles was by far the least punishing treaty signed by any major power (see conditions of Brest-Litovsk and Sevres). Germany herself also set a precedent by dismantling the Russian Empire in early 1918.
2. Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid the equivalent of $4,3 billion out of $33 billion fixed in the treaty. This was in large parts financed through bonds/foreign capital (see Ruhr-crisis and the resulting Dawes Plan) which the German government later defaulted on.
The amount of $4,3 billion was therefore effectively paid by the Allies to themselves.
So no, the "crushing" treaty didn't lead to Germany's economic crisis nor the rise of Hitler. The government recklessly printing money (instead of rising taxes, which was unpopular with the voters) and fascism did.
Seriously, you should read a book. Preferably one that doesn't spout Nazi-propaganda.
Das schöne an dieser alten Era war doch, dass jedes Gebäude sein eigenleben hatte. Und nicht jedes Haus oder Gebäude im allgemeinen, dem nächsten ähnelte. Diese Ornamente, einfach schön. Schade das es einen 2. WW gab sowie, dass vieles durch schnelle Bauten ersetzt anstatt, dass die alten wieder aufgebaut wurden. Danke für diese schönen Bilder!
Die Sache ist halt das großartige Bauwerke eine lange Zeit gehabt haben sich anzusammeln, aber für den Aufbau gab es leider natürlich weniger Geld und Zeit
Versucht ihr beiden, euer Deutsch zu üben?
@@thomas.thomas war auch nicht gewollt von denen, die dafür verantwortlich waren. Die öffentlichen Gebäude hätten durchaus rekonstruiert werden können
Dass kein Haus dem anderen ähnelte ist ja mal Unsinn. Das Stadtbild sah eher noch einheitlicher aus, da heutzutage Stile aus vielen Jahrzehnten nebeneinander stehen.
@@zurgesmiecal junge XD das ganze land lag in schutt und trümmern, glaube da hat die gebäudeverzierung eher geringeren stellenwert wenn man kein dach überm kopf hat :D
Wunderschön. Es stimmt mich traurig, was aus Berlin geworden ist. 😢
ach was hast du denn ich mag die schwarzen köppe und den müll
1930s Germany unfortunately voted for its own destruction
„Lieber Tommy, fliege weiter.
Hier sind nur lauter Bergarbeiter!
Fliege weiter nach Berlin,
Die haben alle ‚JA‘ geschrien.“
I agree 😢
Zuviel Bauhaus, zu wenig Verschnörkeltes....wie überall!
My goodness what a visual treat ! Very ornate buildings, public transport, people dressed very nicely. Thx NASS!
Yeah hard to believe all those ornate beautiful Buildings would be turned to dust A few years later…. Never to return oh well that’s war for you! The Nazis destroyed their own country! KARMA
Is a bitch!
The gullibility of yours is through the roof.
One only needs to show you some nice visuals, and you forget all of the horrors of that time.
@@Mussi93 no one has forgotten or will ever forget anything. That has nothing to do with the fact that @Sister Goldenhair comments are correct. Thank you Nass for such a wonderful video.
@@Mussi93 hey jackass! My father fought in WW2 US Army in the Battle of the Bulge. Dumber than Lumber u are ! u can see I was not praising their politics!🤣💩🤡what did your father do?
@@Mussi93 The time shown in this video is about the Weimar Republic and has nothing to do with the nazi regime.
I live in Berlin and, even though it has beautiful areas, most of the nicest architecture was destroyed in the war and not rebuilt how it was beforehand. So it is a real treat to see this!
If you come to Berlin, make sure you check out Bergmannkiez in Kreuzberg, it is one of the only neighbourhoods not to have been badly bombed during the war and so the architecture is what the whole city would have looked like before the war. It's really stunning.
Also go to Dresden, the centre of the city has been rebuilt exactly how it was before the war. It's beautiful.
the allied forces should be ashamed they ruined this beauty. hopefuly they can be prosecuted
@@SoyAntonioGaming the allied forces also payed to rebuild this country, we should think in the future not in the past.
@@skarbuskreska don't talk bullshits, they didn't payed Germany for the mass destruction and biggest genocide in human history, the genocide against ethnic Germans after the war
@@SoyAntonioGaming ua-cam.com/video/2q-H6mOJB2Q/v-deo.html
If you like the heavily ornamented "Kaiserreich" Architecture ("Gründerzeit") check out Wiesbaden, the "Landeshauptstadt" of Hessen. It is a city that goes unnoticed easily, but miraculously it escaped the heavy carpetbombing and so large parts of the Pre-WW1 Architecture remain intact. In fact it makes for a nice case study of urban architecture and the development of the cityblock throughout the 19th and 20th century as different stages of develpment in this field are nicely preserved right next to each other.
Nowdays, the city is heavily congested with cars as it lacks a tram- or subwaynetwork (or cycling infrastructure). There are a lot of busses though.
I am in Kassel, DE. I once met a Chilean lady who told me that this was one of the most beautiful cities in all of Europe before WW2. Watching this video almost makes me want to cry. This country is still beautiful to me. I moved here from Southern California, and Germany honestly takes my breath away. It feels like something out of a fairy tale. But when I see these pre-war images, I can only fantasise about what might have been before...
Yes, now I can understand my grandma a little bit more. 💗 She is from 1922 and saw the beauty of Germany (now Poland), she grew up in Danzig.
i am from kassel too and it makes me really sad to see old photos of the city. today some parts look so much worse than pre ww2
My father was born in 1929 and grew up in Kassel. He often told me how beautiful it was, and he never fully came to terms with the post-war reconstruction of the city. Walking through the streets of Kassel with him was always like a history lesson as he would tell me about all the things he remembered from his childhood. It almost felt like the old and new version of Kassel were two different cities that have almost nothing in common save for the name and geographic coordinates.
@@bruneva That is exactly what I've heard... that Kassel today resembles nothing of its pre-war aesthetic. The university there is actually built on a site where weapons were made, as well as locomotive parts for the trains used to carry people to camps:( It's understandable that the allies targeted Kassel, but it is heartbreaking nonetheless.
You moved from Cali. Imagine someone moving to Germany from a thirdworld shthole hellhole of no culture and no civilization.
I'm living in Berlin, this video absolutely breaks my heart
Mein Beileid! Wohnst du freiwillig in Berlin?
This is incredibly beautiful... probably the most beautiful composite of life ever summed up in 8 minutes. Very well done and thank you for sharing!
thank you so much
The political-social stuff was slightly less beautiful 🙃
Germany used to have such beautiful cities. It is sad to see that a lot of them just became concrete jungles.
A lot of the ones in this video are actually still quite nice. Bremen, Munich, Gdansk and Rothenburg are all extremely beautiful, and while I can't speak for the others included as I haven't seen them before, I'm sure at least large sections are quite nice too.
Nationalism and its consequences
@@littleantukins4415 in modern Germany and Europe there is no nationalism and we see the consequences in robbery, murder and violence
@@leris7697 Dresden was mainly rebuild, so it's supposed to be very nice as well.
@@littleantukins4415untrue.
Seeing the Gedächtniskirche intact at 0:45 was incredible. The ruin of the tower and the 1960s new tower surrounded by high-rise buildings from the 2000s is so iconic now.
Ich hab die gar nicht erkannt!!😮
Ich dachte mir, hä irgendwie kenne ich diese Kirche...dann habe ich den Turm erkannt. Unglaublich, dass wir noch Video von der Kirche in dem Zustand haben.
@@Sbish Ich auch nicht!
Diese Kirche symbolisiert genau die Dinge, die Deutschland in den Untergang geführt gaben: Demokratiefeindlichkeit, Obrigkeitshörigkeit, Nationalchauvinismus, Expansionismus.
Gut, dass sie ein Mahnmal geblieben ist.
Makes your heart bleed. All those beautiful buildings of my country and culture lost to a senseless war. So much heritage irrepacebly gone. Not to mention all the lives lost.
Yes, that drunkard Churchill should have left Germany alone rather than insighting a senseless war with a country that wanted an alliance with Great Britain. A war that genocided 40-60 million Europeans and lead to the fall of the British empire, the destruction of Germany, the huge increase in private banking cartel power, the handing of Danzig to Russia anyway and the Cold War.
Makes my heart proud they stood up and fought to preserve it. A people fighting for their heritage. But globalists do not want this. Russia is becoming 2nd arabia, so is europe. It wont be preserved, and it is not gone due to the war. That was and is their plan: destroy white hertiage.
"senseless"
You mean let The Nazis take Poland and do nothing?
You need to read more history of this time.
@@allegra0 Poland took part of Germany, not the other way around. Maybe you should open a history book yourself.
Looking at videos from German cities in the 1920s and 1930s always makes me very sad, they were so beautiful, social gathering everywhere, now I walk the streets of Germany, because I live here and in most places this beauty is gone and even more the social gathering is gone... makes me very sad.
I don't think this is really true. Some cities are as beautiful as ever, and looking at the footage of Bremen... well, this is almost exactly how the marketplace looks today.
@@Sundara229 Same with Munich
Me too
idk but what i've been seeing is the more developed the civilization, the more individualist they would be
Ehrlich gesagt denk ich dass du dir das nur so vorstellst. Nostalgie eben. Klar viele schöne Gebäude sind verloren gegangen aber die kann man eben nicht vergleichen mit etwas, wad nicht mal 100 Jahre alt ist. Dass Deutschland keine schönen Ecken hat stimmt eben auch nicht oder dass sich die Leute irgendwo versammeln. Was du hier siehst ist bearbeiteter Film!!! und auch nur wenige Orte, hauptsächlich wohlhabende Gebiete in der Innenstadt. Ich kann das gleiche auch jetzt machen.
At 0:52 in, to the left was the damaged in 1943 and later demolished in 1955 , Wilhelm Shallen house exhibition hall.
The church in the right background is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The ancient looking statuary around Berlin
was very impressive like at 1:31 in of Kaiser Wilhelm I on his horse destroyed in late 1949. The architecture of ordinary
downtown Berlin was amazing but almost all was destroyed during WWII. Great colorized video NASS of a long lost
version of prewar Germany.
thank you so much
"almost all was destroyed during WWII." In fact, a lot of architecture and urban design was destroyed after the war by car-centric city planners.
@@Speculum81 In fact the problem is much more complex. Let's compare Danzig and Breslau with Berlin.
There was only a pile of rubble in Danzig (Sowiets first made Mariupol out of Danzig with their artillery and subsequently spent weeks after conquering the city destroying everything what remained intact) and in Breslau it was even worse: Breslau was declared a Fortress by Hitler and it took weeks to take the city.
After 2nd WW Poles started to rebuild and reconstruct everything what could be rebuild. There are architectural intact historic old town areas again.
Not so in Berlin, where apparently both parts of the city hated the past and tried to erase architectural identity. East Germans used caterpillars to get rid of the ruins and changed everything what could be changed, they simply decided to make place for new city. With wide streets and squares as parade ground.
In West Berlin played greed and love for cars and modern style living an important role. However it was West-Berlin SPD Senate who destroyed a lot of substance without reason. Such jewels as Romanisches Haus, Haus Vaterland or Anhalter Bahnhof or the area around Belle Aliance Platz could be saved.
It was called "Wilhelmshallen" not "Wilhelm Shallen". Small but significant difference in German :)
@@Tyler76 Well thanks for the update.
Mir kamen die Tränen, so viel Erhebendes, Schönes, für immer verschwunden.....
Nicht notwendig: Die Frauenkirche in Dresden wurde wieder aufgebaut und das war genau deswegen möglich, weil die Architektur dokumentiert gewesen war. Das ist der Schatz dieses Filmes.
@@Bobbel888 Die meisten Techniken für solche Fassadengestaltungen sind heutzutage komplett vergessen. 99% der Gipser können nur noch 2-3mm Putz spritzen und das wars.
Es liegt an uns
@Rbin955 and we should reconstruct everything how it used to be, Europe was heaven on Earth. Each city had uts unqiue captivating charms. We can restore our beautiful cities to prewar condition.
I showed this footage to my grandpa, he got so emotional, so I got emotional too. Hi from Argentina, by the way!
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lol
You son of a bitch! GET HIM!!!
Is he from Germany?
Germany looks so advanced even in 1930. I am from India and I really wonder how both Japan and Germany grown from the ashes and became most prosperous nations in world
You mean from the ashes?
@@Bj-yf3im 🤣
That's one of the best unintentional spelling errors I have seen here on UA-cam. :)
@@JustsomeSteve 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JustsomeSteve Oops 😬 typo mistake 😆😆😆
I am super impressed. Not only by your remaster abilities, but the sheer beauty and aesthetics of the original material. I've enjoyed every frame of this wonderful portrait from an lost era.
This wasn't remastered. It exploded into existence. Atheism wins again.
Excellent job on that sound design! It is matches the scenes, held back, and is never distracting from the fascinating images, but in fact supports them very well.
A computer did it mate. It's not like he has painted it in colour lol
einfach nur genial, mir fehlen die Worte... vielen Dank fürs Hochladen ......
when i see these pictures, i must cry. So very nice my old Germany ...
Must be freedom and democracy that arrived from Britain and USA
@@akhandbharat1593 no
@@XoXFckKl
Sarkasmus.
@@DrEcKiGeRDaN88 aso
@@akhandbharat1593 and why it needed to come again? Germany deserved every city burned to the ground, they didn't offered any mercy to others etheir.
Wow. What a great video to see what it used to be like. Shame that the majority of that architecture was destroyed in the war. I visited it several times and the replacement buildings were no where near as beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you
@@NASS_0 Even in France, the old architecture is more beautiful than the current.
from architectural Perspective- the Allies where Monsters :(
@@rammbadedu1215 Dresden. Hiroshima. Also from a human perspective. Both cities horrendously and pointlessly leveled and their much of their populations killed or maimed simply to make a somewhat paranoid point to Soviet Russia.
@@adammoumou3357it’s worse in Britain
Cities like Coventry, Manchester, Carlisle were very beautiful… now they’re a massive eyesore
Every building was much more beautiful then nowadays, it was unique.
Hard to duplicate structures which had the patina of centuries. Half timbered, structures with innate carvings, and so on.
Germany was the most beautiful country all over the world until 1945. Nowadays many beautiful places are abroad. Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, France and Italy. Not all was lost forever but a good 80% yes. It's really sad.
and all were part of Germany 😓
Say thanks to Na_zi Sam.
@@mandibiedermann2246 what?
@@M.Đ-z4u Ethnic German territories aneced by Poland, Czech Republic, France and Belgium
@@MARC-FENIX It was the Socialists! National Socialism was just another form of socialism.
This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to time travel
You can travel to Czechia today to see the same architecture as it was preserved.
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I think people like you who do this should be elevated for a Nobel Prize just as someone finding the dead sea scrolls. Sadly the people that rule us want us to forget about the amazing technology and how beautiful the world was......2 world wars killed hundreds of millions and here we are again in Ukraine we will never learn.......Thanks for such a gift you give humanity....
Thank you for your important and impressive work.
@𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝕿𝖔 𝖄𝖊𝖘𝖍𝖚𝖆 : Where are all the Nazis at?! Not a trace of any of that vermin not a trace of any of the poison the subhuman German bastards they should’ve nuked the fucking country
The only positive thing that came out of Germany in that period was the zeppelin AIRSHIP and they fucked that up too
Truly Impressive Architecture and the routine of life well lived. Thank you so much for bringing this to us and I will definitely recommend your Channel. Happy New Year! ❤
@@Ann65. Thank you so much, Happy New Year ;)
how clean it was, how busy without being hectic. No graffiti? Those were the days, when our grandparents where young. What beauty did they see and all was lost.
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Agree, truly better times... Not easier but better times
@@LigmaAlexSurely not better times. Hitler was on the rise and a few years later Hitler and the Germans started the Second World War.
thats what happen when you have a country with only white people
"Busy without being hectic"... wow, such a good phrase. you can ponder that for a long time
Früher hat man mit Gefühl gebaut. Wirklich schöne Aufnahmen.
A lot of the architecture here is beautiful. What a rare record of pre WW2 Germany and all those buildings that would be destroyed. Fascinating to watch.
Many if not most of those buildings are still standing while others were rebuild.
Eine grossartige Arbeit dieses Video! Vielen Dank!
Ich hätte gleich heulen können, als ich die Bilder aus Berlin und Dresden sah ... was wir mittlerweile gemacht haben .... BÄH ... die neuen Häuser sehen alle wie gelöcherte Schuhkartons ...
Den Scheisshaufen zu Berlin sollte man einreissen..
jup :(
Da kann ich Dir nur zustimmen. Ich war in den 1970ern und 80ern oft in München (Praxissemester etc.). Die Neubauten der letzten Jahrzehnte sind an Hässlichkeit kaum zu überbieten.
Meine These: Der Baustil einer Epoche lässt bis zu gewissem Grade Rückschlüsse auf den inneren Zustand eines Volkes zu. Sollte meine These zutreffen, dann stehen uns harte Zeiten bevor.
Harte Zeiten bringen starke Männer hervor. Starke Männer bewirken einfache Zeiten.
Einfache Zeiten bringen schwache Männer hervor. Schwache Männer bewirken harte Zeiten.
Viele werden es nicht verstehen, aber man muss seine Kinder zur Wehrhaftigkeit erziehen.
@@september1683 Leider muss ich Dir voll und ganz zustimmen.
Wenn wir uns angucken, was im WEF alles geplant wird, bleibt nur übrig sich ein Plätzchen ganz weit weg auszusuchen und warten bis der Sturm vorbei ist ...
Thank you for the interesting video! The city in the beginning is Bremen. The "Marktplatz" with the famous city hall and the Roland Statue and the "Dom" Cathredal is shown. Fortunately those buildings survived the war in more or less good condition. Today they are perfectly restored and the "Marktplatz" still looks almost like in the 1930s or earlier. Bremen is definitely worth a visit.
Bremen ist sill on the most beautiful cities in germany, with its medieval old town core still intact.
The city was heavily damaged, only some of these buildings were rebuild after the war, so nearly nothing in the city of Bremen survived the war in good condition. And the post war architecture visions for car citys did the rest.
But the government of Bremen is trash
Bremen ist das klein Istanbul oder Aleppo Deutschlands!
@@mirageman2 You haven't been in Bremen for some time, did you?
The marktplatz area and old town are in large parts car free and beatiful as ever.
Astonishing footage! Excellent job in restoring these images. We are very fortunate that this material survived for posterity.
It looks beautifully ornate. A lot of love went into those buildings
The German Baroque style
@@dojocho1894 Nope, those building styles and ornate castings were the same all over the world before the wars, the cities are very ancient, the wars were designed to renovate the cities into modern creations...
@@togowack How ignorant you are. Sure, WW1 and WW2 were organized and started by a group of architects and developers. 😂😂😂
@@arslongavitabrevis5136 organized and started by destroyers. Doesn't matter what goes in after, as long as the old stuff is removed, otherwise uncomfortable questions will be asked to the powers-that-be overtime as people study the old structures.
@@togowack yes I agree check out autodidactic channel and John Levi also if you haven’t already done so
Wow, it’s a Germany I know through bits and pieces of drawings and shadowy memories. So unusual to see without intrusion of modern buildings. Thanks, awesome.
And this is "just" the architecture. I talked to my great grandparents, who were in their teens/early 20s during that time and all of them feel like the people were replaced along the appearance. Not physically, but mentally. WW2 didn't just change the way everything looked (Old buildings being replaced by new age bullshit), but it changed the way people interacted with each other. It's gotten worse and worse. Starting in the late 50s/early to mid 60s, where Germany was mostly rebuilt. Respect and care for one another slowly but surely began to fade away. What we have today is just significantally worsened because of the changing demographics. Many folk live here now, that would not even set a pieceful foot close to the German border before. Before they died, they felt like, if Germany was ever in a war again, it wouldn't be because of outside force, but because of what we have amongst our midst.
WW2 didn't just damage the generations that lived through it all, but it has damaged us mentally to this day. We are incapable of being on our own and being sovereign, because we fear us more than anything on the outside. We are raised to believe that we are quite literally our own biggest flaw. That self hate will kill the German folk, sooner or later. I've witnessed People actively choosing to not look inside their own folk anymore for companionship and marriage, because they were made to believe that you shouldn't be together with your own.
We are mentally crippled.
So ein Quatsch - glaubst Du das wirklich, was Du hier erzählst? Dann tust Du mir leid.
@@Waechter_im_All Typisches Geschwurbel von Leuten, die rückblickend nur noch das Gute sehen. Wie toll sich die Deutschen um ihre Nachbarn gekümmert haben sieht man ja gut an der Deportation und Ermordung von Millionen Juden, Zigeunern, Homosexuellen, Behinderten und Regimegegnern. Hat man einfach so hingenommen.
Wahre Worte. Traurig dass es soweit gekommen ist. Der Hass der Deutschen auf das eigene Volk ist wahrlich krankhaft.
Well, I wouldn’t be surprised that your great grandparents, being in their twenties in the 1940’s might have some _interesting_ views on immigration and race mixing… My grandfather was also born in 1919 and was of the opinion that we went way too light on the Germans and should have wiped it out as a nation entirely for their crimes, so maybe we _shouldn’t_ assume someone has the best political takes just because they are old? Especially if they have a lot of trauma from this period.
Well, to be fair, your people did start 2 world wars and commit a genocide of 6 million people.
Thank you so much, NASS, you did a wonderful job. I felt like I was transported back in time!
Majority of the best men in Europe: from Germany to USSR were killed in WWII. Wished WWI never happened.
It was even more so for Ukraine Russia and especially Belarus. :(
So do all the men, Women and CHILDREN that were murdered by the Nazis. When I worked in Berlin during the 90s and would see older men and women, mostly men. I would think, what we're you doing during this time? So many men and died in my beloved country having to go to war to stop and clean up their mess.
Bolshevism, capitalism, power, corruption caused all this
@@TurkRoachermore than 95% of Turkey are not Turkic and do not have mongolian face like Kyrgyz and Uzbek people
Cry about it 🥺🥺
@@nazygnosis Tf are you talking about?
Little did they know the horror that was just around the corner and that their cities would be left in absolute ruins and they would have to rebuild them all from scratch
I've read about one man who already in the end of January of 1933 commented: "Finis Germaniae" ("end of Germany").
The current-day horror is more obvious now & people don't even have the distractions of a beautiful clean city to distract them.
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Good point
Or that 88 years later, their rebuilt cities would be taken over by hordes of invaders. They would be more horrified to learn that their own supposed “leaders” were the ones to allow this destruction to happen?
"We fought the wrong enemy" -General Patton
I had no idea Germany looked like this, thank you for uploading ❤
I think they forgot to include all the NAZI signs.
doesn;t look like that now - blacks and turks moved in
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db I think Turks or black people aren't responsible for what happened to Germany
@@inancgungor4624 they are responsible for what germany is today - 100%
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db Exactly. They're responsible for our economic prosperity and political power 👌
what a beauty and atmosphere of those times. It seems to me that it was a completely different feeling when you come to a country that you could see before only on postcards or paintings, and then you see all this beauty and majesty with your own eyes, an incredibly beautiful country
The world before jewish imposed white genocide via mass migration.
Diversity has completely destroyed it.
Very few people have the foresight to understand how valuable images of normal life would become. Even today, with all our movies and social media, not much of it is authentic, regular life.
Unless it’s the crime and decay in urban centers. That will be studied many years from now when during investigation of destruction of western democracy
I think normal life is whatever we’re living in right now, this was their normal life and we are living in ours, as sad that it may be that our “normal” isn’t as calm as this.
So sad we lost all this beautiful buildings 😢Build up over many generations - destroyed in a few years in stupid war 💔
The was wasn’t stupid , you have hilter alone for all that started the war land got the us involved
Every point of view is enjoyable. This is so well filmed, the perspectives. The rythm of the people and transport is mesmerizing. I wonder if they were noticed filming was going to take place.
Frankfurt würde man heute gar nicht wiedererkennen. Schade, dass es nicht im Video ist. Einst eine so wunderschöne Stadt gewesen.
Heute Kanakistan.
@@martinm.1967 Selbst schuld Deutscher. Wer so toleranzbesoffen der so blind.
Utterly fascinating, as always. You should win a technical Oscar for your excellent work!
Thank you so much, it's a pleasure to read your comment!
Sadly all of these structures were probably destroyed during WW2. Fantastic look into the long lost past. Awesome video restoration. Thank you NASS.
thank you so much !
now imagine watching a real video from the Romans times or Pompeii before vulcano or Egypt 6000 years ago that would be something
@@Voltomess Pompeii the sailor man?
@@389383 lol, 1 grammar mistake and you it for life just like Benjamin Cumberbatch and his penguins
They were not all destroyed. The first few seconds show the city of Bremen - and many of the buildings survived the war. But this window into history is indeed fantastic... and a bit eerie too. Just to think that behind the sunny street views there was a whole lot of evil brewing and lead the whole world down a very dark path.
God I love seeing streets belonging to everyone, being shared by cyclists, pedestrians, even children with their pull-carts, instead of just being given to cars to allow them to drive slightly faster.
Well, those streets back then were not welcoming to Jews.
Streets are dominated by cars and especially in America the bike lanes are actually too small and can easily be drove over by cars and don’t have a barrier to serprate them apart. If everyone live in a city then why are cars so dominate? Not everyone have a car so the street need sections and need better barriers.
Interesting how Germany only became car centric after being bombed to hell and back, meanwhile America became car centric just because they could…
Uhm, did these streets _really_ belong to everyone?
@@vestavind yes, streets werent only meant for cars back then, they were free to use for everyone
Es sieht alles sehr schön aus. Toll, dass es solche Aufnahmen gibt
Interesting to watch how many people take notice of the camera. Not an everyday sight in that age.
...no influencers ;)
It was because personal motion picture cameras were still very much a luxury in that era, since they were fairly expensive, so relatively few people had them. So naturally, if someone came walking down the street with a film camera, people would obviously notice!
The craftsmanship from those days was lost to the new age. I don't think there would be but a handful of architects and artists' that could re-create such monumental statues and buildings. What a pleasure to watch, thanks Nass. Happy New Year!🎉🥳
thank you so much happy new year
More like lost to the RAF.
@rikvartigyan2667 Oy vey
No honor for the civilian bomber
I think, there are enough people that could, but it all comes down to money and concrete cubes being cheaper than neogothic palaces. Sadly.
We could definitely build like that again, if we wanted too.
As a fan of the Old Europe I absolutely love this very much!!!!
You will love the greatest architectural documentary ever then : Europa the last battle.
Diversity has destroyed Europe. Which is exactly what it was supposed to do.
hey just popping in also to tell you to watch Europa the last battle,its really worth a watch
As an Italian with German mother, I have to say that old German cities were very beautiful. Fortunately some cities are rebuilt like before but other not, like Rhur. I have to admit that I prefer German gothic monumentality than Italian narrow roads of some medieval town.
Ruhr is not germany, its a hell hole haha
Lol
Barroco Is mejor
"As an Italian with German mother"
You just had to say it in that way so you won't sound like an American, right?
Hopefully in a parallel universe this still exists.
It's gone bruh, rebuild it
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You cannot possibly rebuilt what grew over 1.000 years.
@@anna-elisabethbender3123 it's possible, but it will take time
@@akhandbharat1593
Of course. But it is not affordable anymore to built like this. Who is supposed to pay for it? And who is to contoll that things don't turn into a phony Disney Land?
Imagine you could travel there
00:00 - 00:36 is the City of Bremen in Northwest Germany. The scenery as shown here (the dome, the civic center, the statue of Roland, the marketplace and some other parts) survive the war and are definitely worth a visit. It is an official UNECO world-herritage.
Like living in a museum. So much beauty, culture, and history.
Ein großartiges Video.
Beindruckend für mich die absolute Sauberkeit der Städte!
Tja, damals herrschte auch noch Zucht und Ordnung...
@@r6turboo Wie die Zucht so die Frucht!
@@hansfritz9180
Richtig Hans Fritz. Nur noch Penner und Dreckschweine. Ich habe über 35 Jahre lang als Straßenfeger und Müllmann bei der Berliner Stadtreinigung gearbeitet. Alles wird verdreckt von den Deutschen und von den Ausländern genauso.
Schlimme Zeiten heute. Meine Kinder schmeißen kein Dreck oder Papier auf die Straßen Berlins. Ich habe sie vernünftig und ordentlich erzogen.
Alles Gute Ihnen.
@@rainerkrause6019 Ja lieber Rainer. Es ist schlimm was aus unserem Land geworden ist! Auch Ihnen und Ihrer Familie alles Gute!
Damals haben Menschen auch noch als Straßenkehrer gearbeitet. Für einen Hungerlohn, übrigens. Überleg mal, warum die Städte heute so vermüllen. Weil es erstens, niemand bezahlen könnte, so viele Straßenreinigungskräfte zu beschäftigen, und weil es zweitens diese vielen Menschen überhaupt nicht gibt.
A millennium of cultural heritage virtually completely destroyed by a single war.
Destroyed by the USA, UK and Russia.
And some wrong decisions by people who let it happen
Tellement triste de voir ces merveilles absolues détruites .........
Merci pour ce partage magnifique
So much of those beautiful architecture lost forever. So sad , so frustrating. So hard to accept .
I recognize bits of Berlin and Dresden from visits. Berlin was 80% destroyed and Dresden was incinerated, so it's interesting to see what little survived and how it previously looked. Thanks!
That was revange......all gone
@@dagmarvandoren9364 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins are there still. And a fair bit of Charlottenburg survived the war. At least that's what they told me when I was there.
@@dagmarvandoren9364 as you can see, revenge didnt get us any further
@@SkyForceOne2 It brought peace in Europe for 80 years. Now it's time to remind Russia how revenge feels like.
@@__goat__ only thing it brought was misery. there was peace in europe for 50 years, but it was not a good one. and certainly not for the sacrifices made.
Wow, I don't say that very often because I hate misplaced nostalgia, but these cities used to look so nice and unique!
Ein kleines Detail, was mir aber am meisten auffällt: Es gab damals fast keine Verkehrsschilder.
Und ich glaube moderne Städte wären viel schöner und zeitlos ohne 15 Schilder in jeder Straße. Klingt albern, aber achtet mal drauf! Ich fotografiere hobbymäßig und mir fällt jedesmal auf die Fotos ohne Schilder sind einfach besser.
Even though the rumblings of events were stirring in the 30's, it's amazing to see the casual, everyday people just going about their lives - likely blissfully unaware of the snowball soon to start rolling into a war of colossal magnitude and devastation.
These "calm before the storm" videos are always fascinating, like videos from NY just before 9/11, etc. You never know when normality of life will change so drastically until you look back on footage like this and reflect on how different it was before.
Lol, this is right after they cleaned up the hell what was just there a decade earlier. The optimism was because they thought they had finally defeated the enemy of civilization. But, as everyone is learning now, that was not the case, and the fight is coming once again.
This was the calm (after) the storm. 1934, Hitler had been in power for over a year. Germany was quickly on her way to being the envy of the entire continent.
Beautifully done. Just the right level of colorization to capture the atmosphere of the times. Quite poignant to see all those busy people going about their daily lives, oblivious to what the coming decade would bring.
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@@dudebro3250 hi
Thank you so much for this outstanding documentary with very vivid impressions! My heart is bleeding when I see all these gorgeous buildings. And thank you for creating such a beautiful time documentary! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wahnsinn!! Das sind einzigartige Aufnahmen. Berlin ist kaum wiederzuerkennen, Dresden bekannte Gebäude und über den Rest kann ich nichts sagen
Also den Roland am Anfang müsste man ja kennen. Das ist Bremen bis 0:39, der Marktplatz da ist dem Bildmaterial immer noch sehr ähnlich.
Man was für tolle Aufnahmen. Soviel schönes und Interessantes.
Der Winker am Bus hat mich zum schmunzel gebracht. Oder die Szene wo der Gentelman die Dame auf dem Fahrrad schiebt.
Danke für die tolle Arbeit un den Upload
Thanks for beaming me back roughly 90 years into my home country. Some of the streets survived war and other "attacks" especially in Munich and parts of Hamburg. But lots of these are lost. Funny how people look into the cameras or those who operated it. Today non-filming people are the rare subjects ;) Greatings from Germany - MB
We supposed to see this as old, it’s more modern and elegant than today’s cities, what I’m doing here in 2023, I want live in this video time and place( but without Second World War ). I’m really old fashion soul
Visited Germany(Berlin) a few years back and it has a unique, historic but stylish vibe that I enjoyed. It's something unique and I think it's the old architecture.
how beautiful it once was...
C'est magnifique ! Toutes mes félicitations pour votre travail.
Ich hab wirklich tränen in den Augen bekommen während ich dieses Video geguckt habe. Deutschland sah einmal so schön aus, reich an Kultur und Geschichte in jeder Ecke. Die beiden Weltkriege haben uns alles gekostet. 36% unsereres Landes, Millionen tote und vertriebene und zerstörte Städte. Heute sieht in Deutschland alles grau aus, ein hässliches Gebäude neben dem anderen. Alleine wenn ich dieses Bild von der Gedächtniskirche mit heute vergleiche. Das macht mich einfach wahnsinnig traurig zu sehen was wir verloren haben und nie mehr wieder bekommen
Seeing old Dresden is haunting beyond belief. The beautiful Baroque city and darling of the 19th century German romantics, turned into quite literally a living hell firestorm....
A few weeks before war ended. A crime against humanityñ At least 35000 women and children burnt alive. Unbelievable evil then, and they are still at it again.
Wunderschön, faszinierend 👍 Dankeschön für das Video ❤️
It is fascinating how many people and their relatives unfortunately do not know, that they were captured with a camera and were virtually immortalized.
Immortalized for mortal people to see
This is Delightful! Great architecture. 💚
Thank you!! That was wonderful and then it ended!!! Please post more, I fell in love with it!!!
It’s amazing that so many cities around the world were built up to high standards, so long ago. It’s a shame modern societies don’t focus on great efforts of beauty and settle for third rate. It’s a plague for sure, in fashion, ethics, standards, building, architecture, manners, etc. what a shame…
Not a single cellphone in sight.. everybody dressed nicely.. talking, working, enjoying the moment.. beautiful times.
not a single muslim, kebap, mosque, hijab also...very good times
@@nico1117 Yeah, and somebody digitally erased all the swastikas.🙄
@@nico1117 No we don't. Believe me, it wasn't as great as you imagine it to be. Rather the opposite.
no,we need them back,im not eating bugs,living in a pod and polluting my genes @@berwinenzemann3468
Not beautiful when included atrocities that happened there by some of these 'nice looking' people
What a beautiful city Berlin was, truly heartbreaking
Enjoyed the look at Bremen pre-WWII. Most of the buildings and monuments still exist, though the Neptune fountain was destroyed in WWII and replaced by a modern fountain. I also enjoyed seeing the other cities. Danzig/Gdanks, Königsberg/Kaliningrad were the only ones I didn't recognise for obvious reasons.
Germany is without a doubt heart of Europe in every metric
Wunderschön, wonderful, magnifique.
thank you so much
That's the old Berlin in 0:42 . I really love it, cause it was so much more beautiful compared to today.❤
I like that there’s only street noise with no commentary or text. This type of footage is very relaxing to watch that way.
Thank you for bringing the past back to life. It's like time travelling!
Επίσης, ένα άλλο, πολύ όμορφο βίντεο! Συγχαρητήρια και καλή χρονιά!👍🇬🇷☃️
I live in Bremen and most of the stuff that was shown here is still in the old city. The only thing that was destroyed is the Teichmann Fountain at 0:35 which was melted in 1940 as a Metal Donation for the War.
You couldn´t be more wrong! None of the buildings you see survived, They were all gone, Some of them have been rebuilt, some of them even at a different place!
As a Canadian Have to say Germany with its art and decor the detail It looked cozy to live in these areas The churches bring a brightness to the surroundings I see Germany 2000's And its looks grey and cold I wish we had this old design in our citys Modern does not always mean better
In reality if you lived in Germany in that era and not belong to the lucky rich society, your life would have been miserable as economy was quite bad after WWI and the treaty of Versailles. And when that guy with the moustache gave you hope with his fiery speeches you might had voted for his party...
Yeah agreed I think I,wold have voted like that too.
Back when germany was germany.
@averyannoyingdudewithadesktop there is literally nothing German about Germany anymore other than a couple old buildings and streetsigns.Unsere Kultur wurde komplett ausgelöscht und mit dem Islam ersetzt.
Berlin was the most beautiful city in the 20th century
at 4:30 you can see the skyline of Dresden from a train bridge
Dresden was severly bombed and largely lay at ruins after WW2, but it was rebuilt
just today I took a train over the very bridge that the train in the video crossed there, and had the same view as there, just ~90 years later
this is an insane video, nicely done!
Спасибо огромное. Это кадры бесценны.
Whoever filmed all this was a true hero.