Augsburg in 1945 - American troops in the city center (in color and HD)

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  • Augsburg in summer 1945 after the end of the war. American forces entered the city end of april 1945. Impressions from the city center and the people starting daily life again.
    Find more impressive videos in our playlist "Spirit of Liberation": goo.gl/Gzeto2
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    Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary “Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016)
    Watch here the new restored pictures in our film trailer: goo.gl/CU0hUP

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  •  5 років тому +142

    Amazing content! I lived in Augsburg for 6 years and am still there every week. If you visit it you just might find some of those places again nowadays. Hopefully peace will last forever now. Thanks for uploading!

    • @breAnnasmama
      @breAnnasmama 4 роки тому +5

      ÆRBE sadly it cannot last forever .. this world is full of evil and corruption. The only true peace that can come is in the hearts of those who know it can’t be found in things of this world . So sad that nation upon nation has entered into war rather than to work out the conflicts between
      Them . God bless you , your country and all loved ones. I wish it could be as you said , with the true peace that surpasses all understanding. Life is such a short little heartbeat , a blink of an eye and as I look at these videos from what seemed like so long ago until really seeing it’s not even that long ago, it’s both comforting yet heart breaking at the same time , to know how short life really is and where does the time go ? Uh ! Anyway , take care friend. Gods blessings be with you !

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname 4 роки тому +1

      Is it a place worth visiting. I'm going to Austria this year.

    • @bellaadamowicz8380
      @bellaadamowicz8380 2 роки тому

      @@breAnnasmama yes, life is short, and millions of Germans decided to make life for little Jewish children even shorter I million Jewish children were murdered , by good Christian’s .

    • @user-tk1ty7cg2q
      @user-tk1ty7cg2q Рік тому

      О каком мире идет речь и когда он наступил?

  • @sheliarouch375
    @sheliarouch375 3 роки тому +30

    Such a different time of life and so lovely to see how other people lived...most of these folks are gone now..makes u appreciate the time we have..such a great picture of history we dont normally get to see..thanks to those who took the time to film it for us to enjoy☺

  • @danillofleetwood6193
    @danillofleetwood6193 6 років тому +709

    Those thousand nameless who once were full of life just for a moment, now rest silently in graves for all the eternity. So many lives, each important in their own way. All gone like it didn't mean a thing. Life is so short.

    • @uriahverne5725
      @uriahverne5725 6 років тому +8

      Do you really believe that?

    • @kayman34
      @kayman34 6 років тому +8

      augsburg 1945

    • @anthondeutsch3133
      @anthondeutsch3133 6 років тому +61

      All of those people are responsible for you and me being alive. Their legacy and life continues through their children. Every single one of this people was a precious gift from God in this world.

    • @angelabender8132
      @angelabender8132 6 років тому +4

      Short?

    • @lightingzz6398
      @lightingzz6398 6 років тому +8

      And you are next Danillo

  • @sisqsam
    @sisqsam 5 років тому +135

    I was stationed in Augsburg 1972 - 1974 while an MP in the U.S. Army. I loved it there.

    • @paul7654
      @paul7654 5 років тому +8

      In which base? Reese, sheridan or flak? Im from augsburg by the way.

    • @undacova7929
      @undacova7929 5 років тому +3

      @@paul7654 i used to play in the ruins of the reese base as a kid

    • @stettenhofen
      @stettenhofen 5 років тому +20

      Ami Go home

    • @sisqsam
      @sisqsam 5 років тому +5

      @@paul7654 Sheridan and Gablingen.

    • @frankderryberry1412
      @frankderryberry1412 5 років тому +2

      Me too!! Worked at the big pen...u know....

  • @azoutlaw1236
    @azoutlaw1236 6 років тому +7

    Thank you for posting these films.

  • @renatoamaral8259
    @renatoamaral8259 4 роки тому +11

    This fine video is a historic treasure! Many thanks for posting it. Your effort deserves an A+ grade. ;)

  • @MC-xt6xf
    @MC-xt6xf 2 роки тому +41

    I was stationed in Augsburg in 1982-83 with 3/63 Armor Bn. at Sheridan kaserne. It is no longer there, having been rightfully returned to the Germans. We lived in barracks that were used by the Wehrmacht during the war, and eagles cast in the walls had the swastikas chiseled out. I loved Augsburg and will never forget it.

    • @pb6839
      @pb6839 Рік тому +2

      my family is from Augsburg and the boomers always tell me about their wild youth partying with the Americans and getting into all sorts of trouble. My great uncle had a side hustle when he was in highschool driving the too drunk Americans back to base and then ripping them off, and my mom would hang out with Americans because they were all into her and had better music (would've been you era). I think everyone got along quite well though even if it may have felt like an occupation to some.

  • @Breckett
    @Breckett 6 років тому +402

    0:00 Theater, Richtung Grottenau
    0:13 Theater
    0:17 Theater, Richtung Volkhartstr.
    0:46 Theater
    1:00 Theater, Richtung Theaterstr.
    1:13 Heilig Kreuz Kirche, Theater
    1:26 in Richtung Grottenau
    1:38 Volkhartstr
    ...
    2:24 Königsplatz, Richtung Annastr. 36 (Kaffee Kurt)
    2:29 Königsplatz, Richtung Fuggerstr. 2 (McDonald's)
    ...
    3:05, 3:23, 4:21, 5:15 auf Schießgrabenstr, Richtung Kesterbrunnen, Konrad-Adenauer-Allee
    5:45 auf Konrad-Adenauer-Allee in Richtung Hallstr.
    6:20 Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 21
    ...
    7:21 K+L Ruppert Gebäude von Schaezlerstr.
    ...
    8:10 Fuggerstr. vom Königsplatz
    9:02 Königsplatz, Richtung Fuggerstr. 2 (McDonald's)

    • @lillianmargaretb9998
      @lillianmargaretb9998 6 років тому +12

      Duke Drake , so do things here look similar today? I mean like the buildings. Not the knee socks . Thanks for your insight.

    • @lonniedraus2449
      @lonniedraus2449 6 років тому +1

      Also die Gegend und Theater hab ich gemacht erkannt, auch weil ich da nicht wirklich oft bin, aber den kö hat man gut erkannt

    • @jakobbinder5960
      @jakobbinder5960 6 років тому +4

      Danke!

    • @aa-pt2qb
      @aa-pt2qb 6 років тому +20

      2:24 Drogerie. There's a McDonalds in there now. I live just across.

    • @minimalista2023
      @minimalista2023 5 років тому +9

      Danke für die Info! 😊
      Theater, Kö und Konrad-Adenauer-Allee hab ich auch erkannt, aber sonst ...
      Ist schon komisch, die Heimatstadt mal etwas anders zu sehen (bin Bj.68). Fühlt sich etwas bedrückend an ...

  • @leefrancis4565
    @leefrancis4565 4 роки тому +17

    Augsburg live there for 3 years loved that town, and it's people. I almost stayed there to call it home.

  • @kenw5104
    @kenw5104 5 років тому +22

    Thanks for posting. Respect these people who lived through the war times.

  • @susanurban5920
    @susanurban5920 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for sharing this great footage.

  • @talkgirl6164
    @talkgirl6164 7 років тому +150

    Wow, it is unbelieveable how it looks in former times...I live in Augsburg and firstly must find my orientation, again...Thank you for uploading it, it seems, as if time has stood still...

    • @danialkemp1
      @danialkemp1 7 років тому +2

      TALK GIRL Where in Augsburg do you live? hi

    • @ex-kommunist
      @ex-kommunist 6 років тому +6

      Lol, nice try

    • @michaelkurz9067
      @michaelkurz9067 6 років тому +2

      TALK GIRL how long have you lived in Augsburg? Haven't been there in years

    • @Laurasrsly
      @Laurasrsly 5 років тому +7

      I'm from Augsburg, too 🖤

    • @heartus2010
      @heartus2010 5 років тому +5

      @@Laurasrsly My maternal family still lives in Augsburg. I was there in 1984, it was so shon!

  • @eily_b
    @eily_b 5 років тому +94

    My dad was 10 years old living in Nurenberg (also Bavaria) when the war ended. He told us that the American soldiers were nice, friendly and relaxed with him and his friends always after something to eat, cigarettes, instant coffee, orange juice, (they haven't known before) or chocolate.

    • @jenifercanter6992
      @jenifercanter6992 5 років тому +14

      My dad was born in Nuremberg after the war ended. His father was an American soldier, his mother is still unknown. He was adopted at 10 months old and brought to the US. We are told she might have been a young mother, kept my dad for a few months before putting him up, told his name was Anton.

    • @dougg1075
      @dougg1075 4 роки тому +4

      Because they were not ruled by a madman.

    • @attackroflchopter4403
      @attackroflchopter4403 4 роки тому +13

      @@dougg1075 Its time to let it go champ. Hitler had communist beating down the door. That would make anyone go mad. Look at modern america.

    • @Hero23572
      @Hero23572 4 роки тому +3

      How was German people status with Russians Soldiers?

    • @bolinfan1519
      @bolinfan1519 3 роки тому +5

      @@dougg1075 Stalin? Americans called him "Uncle Joe." Totally insane.

  • @dickb.2756
    @dickb.2756 3 роки тому +14

    I was stationed at Gablingen then Reese Kasernes 1962-64. Very few ruins remained. Actually bought a pair of Lederhosen for myself. When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the city mourned together with us.

  • @gundolfdereinizigwahre6148
    @gundolfdereinizigwahre6148 4 роки тому

    Dankeschön für den Upload und beste Wünsche allweil

  • @MrThailik
    @MrThailik 5 років тому +2

    Wonderful film footage

  • @darkstarr2321
    @darkstarr2321 2 роки тому +6

    Incredible footage, like stepping back in time

  • @alux3552
    @alux3552 5 років тому +171

    Those people are so well dressed, you don't think like it was after a world War!

    • @graemedurie9094
      @graemedurie9094 3 роки тому +10

      In many ways, yes, but then there's the footage of the woman with a couple of young children drawing a very make-shift and precariously balanced cart. Perhaps some material to repair a damaged home?

    • @TheSanityInspector
      @TheSanityInspector 3 роки тому +4

      Den Schein wahren...

    • @janahcoaching
      @janahcoaching 3 роки тому +11

      Germans are masters at re-using and re-building.

    • @LondonPower
      @LondonPower 3 роки тому +1

      It's a myth that the allies have completely destroyed the whole of Germany! The Americans were going for Hitler and wanted to take the German people to their side.

    • @michellem8740
      @michellem8740 3 роки тому +3

      I wish people will learn to dressed up again, this Morden life has no meaning and respect.

  • @muttenmong5509
    @muttenmong5509 4 роки тому +2

    great footage! thank you

  • @stuman01
    @stuman01 3 роки тому +1

    Great video 👍

  • @PluristPurist
    @PluristPurist 4 роки тому +38

    4:26 No matter the era, people will always trip over themselves

  • @misaradosavljevic4834
    @misaradosavljevic4834 7 років тому +287

    Damals wie auch Heute, ist Augsburg eine Wunderbare Stadt. Das Video ist sehr beindrukend.

    • @FuTnu
      @FuTnu 5 років тому

      das ist nicht augsburg. da bist du auf einen straich hereingefallen. wo soll das sein? die meisten leute in dem video sind alle tot.

    • @Mapple.
      @Mapple. 5 років тому +22

      @@FuTnu natürlich ist das Augsburg schau dir das Stadttheater an das erkennt man auf jeden Fall wieder

    • @ku-yi5yp
      @ku-yi5yp 5 років тому +9

      @@FuTnu du opfer alter

    • @ku-yi5yp
      @ku-yi5yp 5 років тому

      @@Anonymous-qp4zf da hast du leider recht

    • @lelekmeister8211
      @lelekmeister8211 4 роки тому +6

      @@FuTnu das ist Augsburg weil ich weiß es weil ich dort wohne

  • @fowdzid1100
    @fowdzid1100 6 років тому +1

    Magnifique vidéo ---Super Merci

  • @martins.7387
    @martins.7387 4 роки тому +137

    Kein Geld kein Essen kein Zuhause aber sehr schöne Kleidung. Heute ist es bei vielen anders rum.

    • @julisolos5376
      @julisolos5376 3 роки тому +16

      Andersrum ist es auch vernünftiger 😒

    • @rockinresurrection6542
      @rockinresurrection6542 3 роки тому +5

      @@julisolos5376 Ne, die Kleidung ist auch wichtig

    • @annetteenzoulis4870
      @annetteenzoulis4870 3 роки тому +8

      Die Sachen wurden auch gepflegt, geflickt, selber genäht und gestrickt. Casual wear gab es da nicht..höchstens Arbeitskleidung und Schürzen für daheim. In der Stadt trug man sein bestes Gwand! Und so viele Dirndl und Lederhosen..heute nur noch beim Oktoberfest!
      Und fast keine Autos außer Army..
      Wahnsinn..

    • @jthunders
      @jthunders 3 роки тому +1

      Also die amis waren nicht so geisteskrank wie heute.

    • @wyominghome4857
      @wyominghome4857 3 роки тому +3

      They did have food. My Aunt Gerda, who came to California as an Austrian war bride, said the allies all distributed food in Vienna so I have to assume they did everywhere. She said that what they got from the Soviets was pretty awful - things like worm-ridden dried peas - but then the Soviets didn't have all that much for themselves.

  • @6untereinemdach273
    @6untereinemdach273 5 років тому +21

    Mein Augsburg 😍 tolles Video

  • @Cameron4077
    @Cameron4077 7 років тому +143

    My dad was 13 when this was shot and born and raised in Augsburg, so I am looking for him in here! exceedingly unlikely i'll see him!

    • @fecanflanagan3190
      @fecanflanagan3190 5 років тому +1

      Did he know Welshofer of the Hotel Hirsch?

    • @heartus2010
      @heartus2010 5 років тому +5

      My mother was born in Augsburg in 1938, looking for her, my opa and oma.

    • @lindacosta3381
      @lindacosta3381 5 років тому +3

      SUPERΔRTIFICIΔL Too bad. Sucks to be you :)

    • @paul7654
      @paul7654 5 років тому +3

      @i. rob You think augsburg looked nice??? Yes maybe in this video but augsburg was bombend very hardly because it was the headquater of the Messerschmitt factories and other bing companies.

    • @xMarvin732
      @xMarvin732 5 років тому +4

      @@art_means_artificial Its very hard and Sad to take it but the bombings in Germany were needed for the Nazi Era to end to have peace for everyone, the all the citizens, the countries around and especially the Jews and Gay people.

  • @jpturner171
    @jpturner171 2 місяці тому

    Amazing…thank you for the work and sharing!🇺🇸❤️

  • @wartburgmartin
    @wartburgmartin 3 роки тому +1

    Ein unwiederbringliches Zeitdokument und zugleich erdrückend, wenn man sich vor Augen hält was diese Menschen die letzten Jahre zuvor erlebt haben....
    Danke

  • @FrannyWard
    @FrannyWard 5 років тому +139

    My Dad was a POW in Germany, he was with the RAF in a Lancaster bomber and shot down. He told me the Germans treated him fairly.

    • @roryobrien4401
      @roryobrien4401 5 років тому +39

      And he was lucky, believe me.

    • @Justinian21c
      @Justinian21c 5 років тому +43

      Your dad was lucky he was British. The Germans killed millions of Soviet POWs through deliberate maltreatment, starvation policies, executions, and denial of care.

    • @sergeykozlovskoy
      @sergeykozlovskoy 5 років тому +18

      @@Justinian21c And you should know why.

    • @marcels.1225
      @marcels.1225 5 років тому +17

      A part of the war prisoner's were treated better than you treat your prisoner's today. Murna Oflag 7 A as en example. The imprisioned officers got a monthly pay and could buy beer for the first year. Until the Germans ran out. This is only the tip of all the possibilities prisoner's had there. Did you have this for all the Japanese people you put in prison during war? Did you even know about your own camps of course they where build for greatness and ours for puer evil and hate since that's all Germans are made out....

    • @krzysztofp7846
      @krzysztofp7846 4 роки тому +7

      @@Justinian21c polish, latvian, estonians usw. not only russians were treated that way.

  • @ZZZardoz762
    @ZZZardoz762 5 років тому +34

    I was stationed at Reese Kaserne in Augsburg in 1985. The 2000 jahre celebration was going on, and there were people from all over Germany visiting the city.
    The main thing I remember about Augsburg is how clean the city was...
    ...and lederhosen were still extremely popular dress during the warmer months.

  • @jacquelinesilva24
    @jacquelinesilva24 3 роки тому +7

    Adoro esses vídeos antigos.E tbm uma oportunidade de conhecer as cidades de antigamente.

  • @u.s.militia7682
    @u.s.militia7682 Рік тому +7

    My ancestors came from Germany in the late 1800’s. My last name is Bonn. I was stationed in Germany in 2004. I was amazed at how squared away and clean it was. Germany’s troops are top notch too. Damn good soldiers.

    • @abbevogler2619
      @abbevogler2619 Рік тому

      They WERE good soldiers, once upon a time. But they aren't any more...unfortunately.

  • @rsterman4966
    @rsterman4966 5 років тому +27

    According to the reel markers (5-14-45), the filming took place less than a week after V-E Day.
    Augsburg is in Bavaria where Lederhosen were traditionally worn by men. It's likely that a couple of weeks prior to this film, most of the German men were still in uniform.

    • @OrnumCR
      @OrnumCR 5 років тому +3

      rsterman ...interesting point that you make there. I did think the same thing. One does wonder though, given the high production of uniforms and tall boots, what interesting relics hide in attics all over Germany. Not all uniforms and boots were given in to the war effort so it would be fascinating to know what prewar items still survive from both the prewar SA, SS and even the Wehrmacht. This sort of personal gear is worth a fortune today to collectors of this sort of thing.

  • @jazzjue
    @jazzjue 5 років тому +11

    My thanks for this video. It definitely opens my eyes, mind and heart for the people of Augsburg! History brings us profound knowledge of how our ancestors' lives were at that time.

  • @FeLiciiaable
    @FeLiciiaable 5 років тому +126

    The people look happy and proud. Not like people who just experienced a war.

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 5 років тому +3

      Probably glass the bombing stopped,!

    • @ErsenAsper
      @ErsenAsper 5 років тому +18

      Because war ended. Of course they are happy. War is too hard for everybody.

    • @switch12345678
      @switch12345678 5 років тому +5

      @@ErsenAsper Well then, they dont look happy at all nowadays with wealth and no war.

    • @ErsenAsper
      @ErsenAsper 5 років тому +4

      @@switch12345678 Nothing is more valuable than human life. Yes maybe they dont look happy but they live.

    • @richardkuszel2351
      @richardkuszel2351 4 роки тому +25

      Because they know they are the lucky ones. They have they the Americans there and ot the Russians.

  • @ulrichlehnhardt4293
    @ulrichlehnhardt4293 7 років тому +138

    very interesting. In those days Lederhosen were the only shorts for men in Bavaria.

    • @mickgatz214
      @mickgatz214 7 років тому +10

      i wore Lederhosen in 1975 , lol

    • @andypaterson1639
      @andypaterson1639 5 років тому +5

      I wore them in Scotland in 1966.

    • @folkestender2025
      @folkestender2025 5 років тому +6

      @@andypaterson1639 Lederhosen survive even wars :-) today you can almost always see Lederhosen at Volklore events. As a child, we all still had Lederhosen some in the 1950s, even in northern Germany. Do you no longer see today.

    • @eckartflohr7085
      @eckartflohr7085 5 років тому +8

      Lederhosen, the jeans of my childhood. Every boy used them, 1 for a lot of years.

    • @pieterzwaan4451
      @pieterzwaan4451 5 років тому +4

      Some nazi generals were very soon 1945 in lederhosen after they sacrificed there soldiers for nothing.But it is indeed a typical german clothing.

  • @TechNoPhobiaGirl
    @TechNoPhobiaGirl 5 років тому +6

    WOW! What an INTERESTING glimpse into wartime history! And in COLOUR to boot!

  • @YBijan
    @YBijan 5 років тому +6

    Beeindruckende Aufnahmen in erstaunlich guter Qualität aus einer Zeit, die keiner von uns mehr kennt. Ich finde es total spannend in die Gesichter der Menschen zu schauen, zu sehen, wie sie gekleidet sind und was sie machen. Ich bin überrascht, wie gelöst einige wirken, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Aufnahmen erst kurz nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges gemacht wurden.
    Wenn man sich heute mit einer Videokamera auf die Straße stellte und solche Aufnahmen von den Menschen wie in dem Film machte, dann würde mindestens jeder 2. Dich anpöbeln, beschimpfen und bedrohen und sich über Datenschutz und wer weiß was beklagen!

    • @user-xl1hk4xn6i
      @user-xl1hk4xn6i 2 роки тому

      Особенно то что описали что оскорбляли и приставали это больше относится к украинской нации. Ещё не только бы оскорбили и ударили, потому что у славян это есть Особенно у украинцев, потому что нет никакой воспитанности и культуры

  • @MrRABU1
    @MrRABU1 4 роки тому

    Thank You !

  • @rosesprog1722
    @rosesprog1722 3 роки тому +50

    The women are very nicely dressed, wow, that's class.

    • @stn7172
      @stn7172 2 роки тому +8

      When women weren't privileged feminist

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 2 роки тому +4

      @@stn7172 When women dressed like women, like me! : ) I hate jeans t-shirt, I don't dress like a man and I love it.

    • @John-wq1xz
      @John-wq1xz 2 роки тому

      "modern"society is doomed!... A small flavour of Taliban would be good.

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 2 роки тому

      @@John-wq1xz I heard that they hate those who say: "A small flavor of Taliban would be good". COME ON, Not them but maybe a little more discipline, I'm not sure being as free as we are can work, looks like people can't relate or identify to a common purpose, maybe that's what makes China work so fast and efficiently, something to be proud of and a little more rules, restraints, I don't know, it's like a little dictatorship motivates the troops!

    • @John-wq1xz
      @John-wq1xz 2 роки тому

      @@rosesprog1722 A little of this a little of that :)) If that would work would be great . Indeed .. needed is some dictatorship. But this spoiled sickness of our population is deep rooted in the last 40/50 years So I think gentle healers make stinking wounds.

  • @mathildadamons8036
    @mathildadamons8036 7 років тому +20

    Extremely interesting my husband is an Augsburger I'm South African I love to look at life before me.

  • @EmilyTienne
    @EmilyTienne 5 років тому +6

    No narration, but 10x more informative than any of the so-called history you get on the History Channel. I was amazed to see how many guys of all ages wearing lederhosen. There was an attitude among the people on the streets that the past is the past, no matter how horrific, but life must go on!

  • @andersonmichael11
    @andersonmichael11 Рік тому +2

    I attended Augsburg American High School from 66-69. Lived 12 km away in Konigsbrunn...some of the best years for me. Went to the American youth Center just down the street from the high school a few times...danced to songs like Mustang Sally, Knock on Wood, Hang on Sloopy, The Letter, etc...but mostly hung out with my German friends in the local Gasthaus. 4 marks to the dollar back then. Picked up the language.

  • @klausbuschdorf3775
    @klausbuschdorf3775 16 днів тому +1

    Als Freund alter Fahrräder bin ich besonders unter diesem Aspekt von den Aufnahmen begeistert. Danke .🧑‍🦽

  • @the_catboi
    @the_catboi Рік тому +3

    I was born and raised here the past 23 years though I've been out of country for more then a year now for studies. The city doesn't look like in this video obviously, but those parts that stayed are the reason I miss it so much. I want to return back so bad i miss it. It's so much more gorgeous then any north American city I've been. I just miss the combination of buildings from the past. The city is one of the oldest in the world too so occasionally you'll pass buildings that are over 2000 years old. Honestly i wish it was this alive and people were more outside.

  • @444slowitdown
    @444slowitdown 4 роки тому +4

    Life always resets..so much nostalgia too take in 😶

  • @annie_misc
    @annie_misc 5 років тому +11

    I just got so confused why my home town popped up on my feed but I just like to believe it’s a wonderful coincidence:)

  • @mouhamedmokhtari1026
    @mouhamedmokhtari1026 3 роки тому +2

    Woow very nice video

  • @a.d.7503
    @a.d.7503 5 років тому +110

    Augsburg meine lieblings Stadt 🤗😍😍😍😍

    • @Ystadcop
      @Ystadcop 5 років тому +1

      What is it like now? Is it a good place?

    • @mondundmond7635
      @mondundmond7635 5 років тому +6

      Ystadcop it is!
      I live there it‘s beautiful and I‘m glad it‘s my hometown ✨

    • @shahabali1181
      @shahabali1181 4 роки тому

      Super🤗🤗

    • @alpenhuhn1
      @alpenhuhn1 4 роки тому +4

      @@Ystadcop No, just 2 weeks ago a fireman was killed by 3 young refugees for nothing.

    • @Ystadcop
      @Ystadcop 4 роки тому +3

      @@alpenhuhn1 Bastards.

  • @alfredcollins2558
    @alfredcollins2558 6 років тому +33

    I was half expecting one of the young guys to flip the camera the bird. But I guess it's a different time.

    • @paulbrower4265
      @paulbrower4265 4 роки тому +1

      That would not be shown on camera.
      But neither is anyone doing something similarly vulgar, like doing some theatrical stunt to draw attention.

    • @donsurlylyte
      @donsurlylyte 3 роки тому +1

      they would not have tried it considering the occupying army has just arrived, would you?

  • @CommonCentsOutdoorsman
    @CommonCentsOutdoorsman 3 роки тому +8

    Beautiful looking city and lovely souls... nice work!

  • @Hornwiesel
    @Hornwiesel 6 років тому +85

    Looks like life was much slower back then.

    • @c.a.g.3130
      @c.a.g.3130 6 років тому +3

      Ja.

    • @pbrower2a1
      @pbrower2a1 5 років тому +10

      Private automobiles were a rarity in Germany in 1945.

    • @queencerseilannister3519
      @queencerseilannister3519 4 роки тому +8

      Well, it was only a month after the war ended. I'm sure most of them are still in shock.

    • @paulbrower4265
      @paulbrower4265 4 роки тому

      Definitely not the auto age except for US troops.

    • @ezequielvega3120
      @ezequielvega3120 4 роки тому

      Life was really fast just before back then

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 6 років тому +83

    Virtually all the young men in this video must have been in the German Armed forces. I wonder how they felt after being defeated and now thinking about what their future would be. The colour photography brings another era to life.

    • @angelabender8132
      @angelabender8132 6 років тому +21

      Paul Lewis
      Happy to be alive and start again

    • @bear8ful
      @bear8ful 6 років тому

      Paul Lewis .

    • @andypaterson1639
      @andypaterson1639 5 років тому +4

      Yep, few people are turning towards the camera. I wonder why.

    • @KrisKringle2
      @KrisKringle2 5 років тому +7

      @@specimen343 - I wonder what the East Germans feel about their time under the Russians. West Germans could have been subject to a lot worse, and Germans inflected a lot worse when they had the opportunity. Not to mention removing a hell of a lot more free-agency from their conquered than the US did. I'm of Northern European ancestry and respect and cherish Northwest Europe and don't love the decadent aspects of American culture (or any culture for that matter) and how it seeps into everything everywhere, but more than a little of your smug superiority is just hypocrisy. Oh, and Germany declared war on America first. Pretty f'ing stupid.

    • @KrisKringle2
      @KrisKringle2 5 років тому +4

      @@specimen343 - You're hypocritical because of the explicit points I brought up. 1 - Russia was far worse to its conquered, including Germany (although regarding Germany, it was perhaps justifiable as revenge), 2. Germany was far worse to its conquered.
      And along the same line, France and Britain were far worse on Germany than the US. The US wasn't even involved in the Versailles treaty. We made a separate, more lenient, peace with Germany after WW1. As for decadence, we didn't foist the hand-wringing garbage, like Merkel, on Germany. That's Germany's own self-inflicted wound. Just like Sweden's suicide.
      You judge with what you feel and I judge with what I feel, too.

  • @vichostetler8375
    @vichostetler8375 4 роки тому +8

    I was stationed there in the early 80’s. A beautiful city.

    • @brettk9316
      @brettk9316 4 роки тому

      Why ask when obvious answer is Russians?

    • @vichostetler8375
      @vichostetler8375 4 роки тому +1

      The Russians never came much past the Elbe river. And Augsburg is in Bavaria, which part of the US occupation.

  • @anitaparks8945
    @anitaparks8945 4 роки тому +2

    Kann mich noch an den Hand gezogenen 4-Rad Holz Wagen erinnern. Oma benutzte es um in den Wald zu gehen.Oma hat alle Blumen Kränze,Bouquets für Beerdigungen gemacht,dafür brauchte sie Tannenbaum Äste und Spitzen. Opa transportierte sehr Schwere Grabsteine mit so einem Zweirad Wagen.Opa war der Steinmetz in unserer Landgemeinde,habe beiden oft geholfen/gearbeited...als Kind.
    Viele Liebevolle Kindheits Erinnerungen von den 60 ger 70 ziger Jahren in der Oberpfaltz aufzuwachsen. War Friedlich und Sauber,wir hatten viel mehr Freiheit damals,fast keine Kriminellen. Das war damals 😔

  • @weeklysugar
    @weeklysugar 3 роки тому

    Wie gab es damals schon so gute Filmqualität? 😳
    Tolle Aufnahmen!

  • @bernyshomstein4191
    @bernyshomstein4191 4 роки тому +5

    I was stationed in Landsberg Lech, near there in 1978-79. Always liked Augsburg.

  • @heidimerchant6267
    @heidimerchant6267 3 роки тому +9

    This is amazing...My mother was born in Munich and raised in Augsburg.In 1945 she would have been 18 years old. She was working as a translator for the U.S. army when my dad who happened to be stationed there and was a MSGT. met her..They were married in 1952 and my brother was born in Nuremburg in 1953...I was born at Fort Riley army hospital in Leavenworth Kansas a year later....Then, back to Hanau for five more years...Ended up in the States for the duration...

    • @willong1000
      @willong1000 3 роки тому

      My late father, a heavy machine gunner in C Company, 163rd Engineer (Combat) Battalion passed through there. The fortieth, and last, bridge they built during the war was at Rain on 27 April 1945.
      After being home in the states for awhile, Dad reenlisted and served with The United States Constabulary in the Stuttgart area. The young woman who would become my mother was working at a snack bar in PX when they met.
      My mother, who also was 18 years old in 1945, her mother, sister and two young nieces narrowly missed being incinerated in Dresden by serendipitously missing an evacuation train on their flight from the Soviet Forces that were advancing on their hometown of Beuthen (now Bytom, Poland) in Upper Silesia.
      I was born in Stuttgart and lived the first two years of my life in Kornwestheim, where my German uncle had been stationed with an anti-aircraft battery during the latter stages of the war--their 88 mm gun was emplaced on top of the city hall tower, which still stands today.

  • @ChrissieYouTubes
    @ChrissieYouTubes 5 років тому +15

    Very impressed about this video. People look happy war is over. My partner was grown up there as a teenager and she told a lot of stories of Augsburg and in which circumstance her parents met each other directly after the war. So looking at this video I got a good impression about that time. We'll will visit Augsburg again. Ich liebe Deutschland :-)

  • @markusbrunn.6613
    @markusbrunn.6613 9 місяців тому

    Danke für diese historisch wertvollen Bilder

  • @californiadreamin8423
    @californiadreamin8423 4 роки тому +15

    Looks very neat and tidy and well organised. Everyone looks so healthy .
    This is good........but why do I feel so sad ? Please don't reply, this was a lifetime away, I'm just saying how I feel.

  • @xochitlarredondo4000
    @xochitlarredondo4000 4 роки тому +5

    Muy buena e interesante película, gente muy agradable y su ropa, muy moderna. No parece de hace 75 años. Felicidades muy buen video.

  • @AFON-em8zi
    @AFON-em8zi 3 роки тому +2

    A imagen fica excelente colorida, é muito legal ver essas filmagens antigas.

  • @arunamahendradissanayake8084

    Excellent

  • @pitbullnegro4733
    @pitbullnegro4733 2 роки тому +6

    Me hubiese gustado vivir en esa época, se ve todo tan sencillo, sin moviles, sin coches haciendo ruido con la música a toda pastilla, sin motos, me impresiona el video!

    • @user-kl7mq6yr6r
      @user-kl7mq6yr6r 2 роки тому +1

      Меня тоже очень впечатлило это видео, город такой красивый, зелёный, уютный, хотелось бы там побывать хоть один день в то время...

  • @a.d.starke8163
    @a.d.starke8163 5 років тому +8

    Unglaublich wertvolle Aufnahmen! Wahnsinnig interessant und war mal aus einer ganz anderen Sicht als heute. Eine wunderschöne alte und historische Stadt, die leider damals viele Opfer bringen musste. Heute auf jeden Fall eine Reise wert, diese über 2000Jahre alte Stadt einmal aus der heutigen Sicht zu betrachten.

  • @maximskabkin179
    @maximskabkin179 4 роки тому +13

    Спасибо за интересное видео. Я смог сделать три вывода. Во-первых, Аугсбург оказывается сохранился гораздо лучше, чем Берлин. Выглядит очень наплохо и даже привлекательно. Во-вторых, заметно, какие стройные и поджарые все баварские дядечки, особено в Lederhose (возможно из-за скудного рациона. Не то, что сейчас - пивные бочонки. Ну и третье. Очевидно, что велосипед - лучшее средство передвижения в городе на все времена!

    • @mishop2278
      @mishop2278 Рік тому

      И наши люди и города в то же время...разруха,серие лица и убогая одежда...А ети... бееедненькие и города в порядку,и ухоженние,и довольно ситие на американском ленд- лизе...Войну затеяли, Гитлера по чим все поддерживали и еще показивают такие себе разрушения.и кааак они страдают...

    • @maximskabkin179
      @maximskabkin179 Рік тому

      @@mishop2278 Простите, но никто вину с немцев не снимал. И большинство городов в Германии, в отличие от СССР, были полностью разрушенны, в буквальном смысле слова. Аугсбург - очень старинный и красивый город, и я рад, что он более-менее сохранился. Нацисты приходят и уходят, а история должна оставаться для потомков.

    • @mishop2278
      @mishop2278 Рік тому

      @@maximskabkin179 - ну,да,на территорию РСФСР разрушен только Сталинград полностью,а Україна и Белоруссия,а?

  • @rimetime6423
    @rimetime6423 5 років тому +7

    Looks like a wonderful city

  • @copperhead648
    @copperhead648 5 років тому +431

    Wer wohnt auch in Augsburg🙈

  • @markroberts9577
    @markroberts9577 4 роки тому +4

    Very high-quality footage for the day. That area in the footage look like it was not completely wiped out by the war

  • @anldbr
    @anldbr 4 роки тому

    Bonito vídeo 📹

  • @albundy2696
    @albundy2696 5 років тому +6

    Ich staune, wie elegant eingekleidet die Menschen waren.. nach dem Krieg...

  • @Rickster5176
    @Rickster5176 5 років тому +28

    Lederhosen - the King of Trousers!

  • @alpenhuhn1
    @alpenhuhn1 4 роки тому +6

    I grew up and went to school in Augsburg, Göggingen, but when I visit today every couple of years I am happy I moved on.

  • @johnaugsburger6192
    @johnaugsburger6192 4 роки тому

    Thanks

  • @richardkuszel2351
    @richardkuszel2351 4 роки тому +20

    Those old men sitting on the bench, I wonder if they are thinking ( well lost another war )

  • @elevenstar
    @elevenstar 5 років тому +24

    Das Stadttheater sieht nahezu unbeschadet aus. Allgemein wirkt Augsburg nicht so stark beschädigt, wie ich es immer vermutet habe. Tolle, aufschlussreiche Aufnahmen! Das berührt mich sehr.

    • @christianschmiedt8088
      @christianschmiedt8088 5 років тому +4

      Nun das sind ausschnitte, schau dir mal andere aufnahmen an

    • @sakradi1
      @sakradi1 5 років тому

      Man oh man

    • @folkestender2025
      @folkestender2025 5 років тому +3

      Ich wundere mich über den Zustand der Straßen, der sieht besser aus als heute. Und alle jungen Leute gucken noch gerade aus. Sie sehen tatsächlich noch ihre Umwelt und nicht nur den Bildschirm ihres Smartphones.

    • @nevazuchtaugsburg
      @nevazuchtaugsburg 4 роки тому +1

      Im Perlachturm sieht nan vorher-nachher Bilder der Innenstadt, der Rathausplatz war vor dem Krieg z.B. bebaut

  • @danielmuller6454
    @danielmuller6454 5 років тому +3

    My hometown 😍

  • @v.dargain1678
    @v.dargain1678 2 роки тому +1

    Very few look genuinely happy . Just relieved .

  • @angelabender8132
    @angelabender8132 6 років тому +3

    The zuave pants were common in Italy for teens from 13 to 16 years
    It was considered a passage from shorts to long pants of adults

  • @luzangelaramirez2947
    @luzangelaramirez2947 3 роки тому +3

    Gracias por compartir y me parece espectacular poder tener la oportunidad de ver esto me pareció genial, mi madre me hablaba de lo que se enteraban por los medios escritos y aún conservo una página de periódico de abril de 1945, y habla sobre la muerte de Mussolini y otras cosas de la segunda guerra mundial. Un saludo desde Girón Santander Colombia

  • @HJockers66
    @HJockers66 6 років тому +21

    wow my city of birth Augsburg, amazing to see US color footage from May 1945

  • @Adrian-kq1dn
    @Adrian-kq1dn 4 роки тому +120

    Obwohl die Menschen damals sehr arm waren haben sie sich deutlich besser gekleidet als wie wir es heute tun. Tolle Aufnahmen.

    • @entenknorpel344
      @entenknorpel344 3 роки тому +3

      ciao dein Ernst? :D

    • @Adrian-kq1dn
      @Adrian-kq1dn 3 роки тому

      @@entenknorpel344 Ja!

    • @annetteenzoulis4870
      @annetteenzoulis4870 3 роки тому +1

      Besser nicht..aber anständiger. Jogginghosen gabs noch nicht damals. Wie alt bist du etwa?
      Finde es sind sehr interessante Aufnahmen. Wieso kommen die jetzt hier?

    • @Adrian-kq1dn
      @Adrian-kq1dn 3 роки тому

      @@annetteenzoulis4870 33 J jung/alt ;-)

    • @annetteenzoulis4870
      @annetteenzoulis4870 3 роки тому +5

      Na da hast du diese Zeit zum Glück nicht mehr erleben müssen. Selbst deine Eltern vermutlich nicht. Ich bin 55 und in A geboren. Hab die Zeit auch nur aus Erzählungen und natürlich der Schule und Medien kennengelernt.
      Aber trotz Corona geht's uns heute viel besser. Nur zufriedener sind wir nicht..
      LG Annette

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam65 3 роки тому +4

    A woman and child pulling a heavy cart ignored by passing soldiers. A testament to how rough it was. God bless all war victims and soldiers.

    • @allangibson2408
      @allangibson2408 2 роки тому

      The Americans were under strict no fraternisation orders (and a film camera would certainly drive that home).

    • @tobiasgranlund2255
      @tobiasgranlund2255 Рік тому +1

      Her husband was probably one of the millions of German soldiers dead, missing or on the way to some Russian POW camp (where he if that was the case probably died later).

  • @scottrobbins6216
    @scottrobbins6216 3 роки тому +3

    My wife was born in Prüm Germany. Her grandfather was in the German army he spent 3 years as a Russian POW. He lived and went back home.

  • @PicsReviews
    @PicsReviews 3 роки тому +6

    Feels so good to see this people enjoying and in their own world 😊

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 2 роки тому

      It ain't Adolph's anymore . The people can exhale and be themselves a little bit . Until . . . The next wave of heartache
      Nice footage

  • @davehue9517
    @davehue9517 Рік тому +2

    Incredible views and incredible history... American soldiers and civilians walking side by side...no more fighting and people moving on with their lives

  • @alexandreback5493
    @alexandreback5493 3 роки тому

    Sehr toll. Grüße aus Santa Catarina, Brasilien! 🇧🇷 🇩🇪

  • @adrianos.6627
    @adrianos.6627 3 роки тому +3

    2021 🇧🇷, ótimos registros, pós guerra (ww2) em cores.

  • @izidor
    @izidor 6 років тому +11

    8:15 So curious who these kids are and if they are still alive in Augsburg. Would be interesting to hear their lifetime story

    • @pbrower2a1
      @pbrower2a1 5 років тому

      They get to be children again.

    • @alihas8095
      @alihas8095 2 роки тому

      You have to remember those kids now is like over 80 years old

  • @andreiamagalhaes5376
    @andreiamagalhaes5376 3 роки тому +1

    Amo assistir esses filmes

  • @Gabi.Dunkel
    @Gabi.Dunkel 5 років тому +49

    Schön so fast ohne Autos

    • @congobelga6840
      @congobelga6840 4 роки тому +2

      You are schön, honey

    • @jonas7884
      @jonas7884 4 роки тому +1

      Das stimmt, vor allem wie die da ihre Wägen mit irgendwelchem Zeug ziehen😂😂

    • @torquaster
      @torquaster 3 роки тому +1

      Mit den Assikarren à la AMG oder BMW M, die heutzutage lautstark durch Augsburg fahren, gebe ich dir Recht.

    • @Gabi.Dunkel
      @Gabi.Dunkel 3 роки тому

      @@torquaster
      Ja, so lächerlich

    • @Gabi.Dunkel
      @Gabi.Dunkel 3 роки тому

      @@congobelga6840
      I guess you too

  • @richardbenitez7803
    @richardbenitez7803 5 років тому +18

    I’m amazed the number of men wearing the short pants lederhosen.

    • @rustyalcorta3643
      @rustyalcorta3643 5 років тому +1

      Me too my uncle bought me some...they last forever

    • @rustyalcorta3643
      @rustyalcorta3643 5 років тому

      Where are you from Benitez?

    • @richardbenitez7803
      @richardbenitez7803 5 років тому +1

      Rusty Alcorta - I’m from California. Live in San Francisco last 40 years. My mom Mexican. On her 2nd marriage she married German -American from Wisconsin. My step-dads mother (Grandma Bertha who told stories to on living in Germany with farm )they are from that part of Germany that was seeded back to Poland after WW2. I was raised in German American environment. Oneof my brothers has interest In WW2. Has hundreds of books on period. They visit England, France, Germany, Austria.

    • @rustyalcorta3643
      @rustyalcorta3643 5 років тому +1

      @@richardbenitez7803 Ahhhh too cool well I'm Italian Mexican American my dad fought in Italy and married my mom...I got to go to Europe but mostly Italy as a kid...I did not get to go see Germany until I was grown up..I've been in Houston for 45 years..

    • @richardbenitez7803
      @richardbenitez7803 5 років тому +1

      Rusty Alcorta - my real dad, Mexican, always told story of his hospital ship (he was medic) docked in Sicily while war raging in Italy. He would tell stories of rowing into these caves at low tide. Then caves completely submerged at high tide. I don’t think dad ever knew theses were smuggling caves for centuries. Anyways, about 12 family members took trip to Sicily to visit place dad spoke of.

  • @CrystalF-
    @CrystalF- 7 років тому +23

    I live in augsburg so this is very interesting to me thx🙏🏼

    • @sabeth29
      @sabeth29 5 років тому +3

      @i. rob In Augsburg, the share of immigrants was 46 percent in 2018. 64 percent of residents under the age of 18 have immigrant backgrounds. Soon, people without immigration backgrounds will be in the minority there.

    • @sabeth29
      @sabeth29 5 років тому +4

      @i. rob rapes, murders, thefts, assaults an so on :(

  • @user-zp4us5fv7u
    @user-zp4us5fv7u Рік тому

    Спасибо.

  • @monkeybro819
    @monkeybro819 2 роки тому +2

    what a wondeful people. they smile all the time, and i feelso good, and bad at the same time, as, i can not live there. uhu, i wish i could, they are so wonderful.

  • @auang
    @auang 4 роки тому +16

    wäre es nicht wunderbar wenn eine stimme zum film erklären würde was man da sieht und warum, so wie auf arte verschollene filmschätze.

    • @bojankovacevic1326
      @bojankovacevic1326 11 місяців тому

      Sei froh das es in Farbe ist.
      Noch nen Musikwunsch?

    • @darkplanetable
      @darkplanetable 10 місяців тому

      Ist es nicht gerade interessant diesen farbigen Stummfilm zu beobachten, denn so kann man den Fokus voll auf die Menschen legen und sich die Geräusche dazu förmlich vorstellen

  • @darrellenglish6283
    @darrellenglish6283 5 років тому +20

    I have in my collection of WW2 things a set of documents from the 7th Army written 2 weeks after the War on this city included are list of known Nazis and warnings to the troops about what to watch out for .

    • @lvanb9082
      @lvanb9082 3 роки тому

      @Art Anson signaling that they are still German? After losing a war you had to change nationality?

    • @donsurlylyte
      @donsurlylyte 3 роки тому +1

      you look at some of the men in this film and wonder how many were nazis.

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 3 роки тому

    Danke.

  • @frickwilhelm4112
    @frickwilhelm4112 3 роки тому +2

    Sehr schöner Film und auch das ich das Fahrrad noch habe ,das im film zu sehen ist, das war Freund meiner Oma