Das Reich SS division and other troops surrender 1945 COLOR HD [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2023
- Video footage of German troops surrendering to Allies near Pilsen after marching from Prague to surrender to the Americans rather than the Russian army.
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Otto Weidinger was head of the Das Reich division, a regiment of the SS. His men had spent the war in battle on the Eastern Front, facing Soviet troops. When he got word of Germany’s imminent defeat, he reorganized his men and awaited instructions.
Called to Prague, he received his new orders. Upon returning to his men, he informed them of Hitler’s death, but said they had to remember their duty: they were German soldiers who had vowed to fight for their country.
Weidinger heard a revolt had begun in Prague. German occupiers were being punished for their horrific treatment of Czech soldiers and citizens alike. Any German there was in danger of being killed. Weidinger knew he had to help get his fellow Germans out of that city.
He and his men met resistance as soon as they neared Prague. First, a cobblestone blockade, then enemy fire under cover of darkness. But finally, he was able to get his men moving to the heart of the city, under a very delicate ceasefire agreement with the locals.
A Czech officer sent word to Weidinger that negotiations were possible. The SS officer set a deadline, which came and went, but finally, Weidinger got word that he could take Germans out of Prague without fear of reprisals. He would be allowed to gather his people and escort them to Pilsen, where they could surrender to American troops.
But Weidinger faced a new hurdle as he tried to organize the evacuation: the numbers. When word of his arrival in Prague and his mission spread, droves of German soldiers began pouring into the area.
No Germans wanted to be left in the hands of the Russian soldiers or the Czechs, whom they had treated so abysmally while occupying their city. But there were not enough trucks to transport everyone: German citizens, wounded soldiers, and hundreds of other troops.
Finally, on May 8th, Weidinger had gathered enough vehicles to lead the multitude of people out of Prague, and head for Pilsen. A thousand trucks holding thousands of people began the trek.
On the way, Weidinger met a German general and a Czech colonel, who ordered him, and his men, to surrender their weapons immediately. He and his men did what they were told.
Weidinger took the wounded men and all the civilians to Pilsen. Then, he and his men got back into their trucks and headed to Rokiczany. There, they all surrendered to the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division. Weidinger had completed his final mission: get these German soldiers and civilians to relative safety. It was May 8, 1945, and Adolf Hitler had been dead more than one week, but for Weidinger, only now was the war finally over.
Thanks' for posting this .. really enjoy looking at this in color.
Thanks for sharing!
Love the narration. Good effort.
Best AI voice yet!
I just farted.
Its Luftwaffe and normal Wehrmacht troops too.
Not one German soldier looks sad or defeated! Just happy its over and glad to have survived. Looking at many conversations among the Americans and German soldiers, i wonder how they understood each other.
The german soldier is strong and brave untill the end of war.
Many of them had learned english at school and some
also french. There was no problem with communication.
Y muchos norteamericanos tenian origen aleman, asi es que hablaban aleman
@@smoothypeachy1362 Many Americans have German ancestry, back in those days it was just 1-2 generations old.
The ss officer looks like he just won the war very cocky I’m surprised 14.33
hes lucky he didnt get captured by the soviets
The Obersturmbannführer in the film have been identified as Michael Kneissl, who was in the column that left Prague and arrived at the Ejpovice camp on 9th May 1945. He was sent back to the Czechs and executed according to Axishistory.
This filming corresponds to Cameraman Lindsay, it is not in chronological order, it begins on May 8, 1945 with a group of supposed SS at the exit of the town Rokycany (approximately 10 A.M.).
Min 2.24 about 2000 members of the Wehrmacht and other members are detained by members of the US army and taken to Pilsen that filming is near the town of Myto at 7 AM on May 8 (that group would be divided into 4 groups in the city of Rokycany, the alleged SS group are the ones that appear at the beginning of the filming)
Min 2.47 filming begins on May 9, 1945 outside the city of Rokycany and then at its entrance.
Min 3.18 the infamous Karl Hermann Frank is filmed (according to the US chronicles, he was not arrested because there was not yet an arrest warrant and he was allowed to circulate towards the city of Pilsen, according to the Czechs, the US army He did not identify him and let him continue but Czech partisans detained him a few kilometers in the town of Ejpovice).
The filming continues with the arrival of more contingents of German prisoners and their allies (an estimated 45,000 soldiers and a larger group of civilians).
Min 11.09 the cameraman Lindsay is positioned outside the town of Myto on May 9, a few kilometers from where he filmed on May 8 in the morning.
Min12.58 Karola Blaschek or Karola Franková wife of the infamous K.H. is filmed. Frank who would then be handed over to the Czechs and then handed over to the Russians (she would return to Germany in 1955).
Min 15.40 filming corresponding to May 8 12 PM approximately to the largest group of the 2000 prisoners heading towards Pilsen (filming in the town of Ejovice)
Sorry but the officer AT 3'18 is not KHF, look for pictures of the later and it's by no way the same man
Thanks for adding more context to the pictures and their timeline. It's probably not Frank, but perhaps anyone else can identify the Officers that were shown by the cameramen.
Difficult to say. Maybe general Rudolf Toussaint? The last military commander of Prague. It’s known that he surrendered to the Americans in Pilsen .
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Good sugestion. The available pictures of him on google are very close to the man in the car.
@CarlosXander Why are the Germans still carrying weapons? (for example those in the truck at @8:21) Surely the first thing to be done with surrendering opposition is to remove their guns & any other concealed weapons/knives?
Excellent video, I wonder what was going through their heads at that moment
"Thank God we found the Allied lines"
This division fought in Prokorovka, near Kursk, East Front, and was then displaced in France to counter the Allies leaving a terrible trace of blood behind it... 😔😔😔
My question is where did they get the fuel they used? Germany was in very short supply after losing Romania in the summer of 1944.
thats what i always thought. End of war and MANY of those big german trucks chewed jiuce like nothing else. Where would the fuel have come from? they didnt have petrol stations allover
Il restait encore quelques stocks, a priori
Et les usines de production de pétrole synthétique ont fonctionné presque jusqu'à la fin.
Äähm, schonmal von Nachschub gehört? Die amerikanischen Panzer liefen auch nicht mit Wasser!
@@lotharweisz4020 Aber sie hatten reichlich Treibstoffreserven und ihre Refrineres/Ölanlagen wurden nicht 24/7 bombardiert
One legged man walks on crutches whilst his comrades drive past😢
Helping each other is communism according to right wing americans
Reminding us of Band of Brothers scene with that German soldier passing check point without his right leg
Let us all tell the politicians no more war ! ... and don't elect any more Fascists
@@SunofYork.allez dire ça a poutine.
qui par son attitude se comporte en fasciste.
@@sergevandyck lui et Trumputin sont tous deux fascistes... mais le petit comédien de Yuko TV n'est pas beaucoup mieux
These guys are happy to flee from the Red Army to the welcoming hands of Americans.
…And 2 million perished under Eisenhower watch..😢
@@brunokirchensittenbach9294 Where did you get that number? Not from anything factual.
@@kimchipigHe’s probably referring to the Rhine Meadows massacre, which has been debunked. Mark Felton Productions
Ach ja? Mein Opa war in Bayern von den Amis auf eine überflutete Weide gesperrt worden, zusammen mit 3000 anderen Landsern. Wer dann umkippte und halb tot war wurde raus auf die Straße geworfen wo die US Soldaten sich einen Spaß draus machten die mit ihren Jeeps zu überfahren!! So viel zu den Humanen US Befreiern!!
Американці потім передали їх росіянам, які їх потім знищили в концтаборах
They also had a good treatmant after surrender in Yugoslavia!
amazing how defeated armies look alike…
Look at all the young boys in the first few minutes.. They should have been in school wielding a pen and not in the trenches wielding a Mauser or Panzerfaust.
There are a lot of 14 year-olds mixed in there for sure.
As soon as the Waffen SS appeared on the road, the spectators disappeared somewhere.
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Where did all these vehicles come from
First notable thing that jumps out are how many young boys, maybe 14-18 y.o., are in the line.
Which armored division patch at 8:04?
They may be beaten but they still manage (largely) to l March in step.
First saw this footage in 1973,in the British television series The World At War.
Complete with narration by Laurance Olivier, and music by Carl Davies.
Always been fascinated by the SS officer around the 13.13 point, Das goot ,he looks like he doesn't have a care in the world.
I would love to find out more about him.
Just realised I might have posted on here a few weeks back. 😳
This man was also just happy that this terrible war was finally over and that a new future was finally possible for him. The SS were elite German soldiers; there are elite soldiers in every state army. Auch dieser Mann war nur froh, dass dieser schlimme Krieg endlich zu Ende war und dass endlich eine neue Zukunft für ihn möglich wurde. Die SS waren deutsche Elitesoldaten, in jeder Armee der Staaten gibt es Elitesoldaten.
From a poster above: The Obersturmbannführer in the film have been identified as Michael Kneissl, who was in the column that left Prague and arrived at the Ejpovice camp on 9th May 1945. He was sent back to the Czechs and executed according to Axishistory.
I watched the video where's the sound.
8:30 General Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army.
Still solid petrol supplies
I hope someone finally stopped and offered that one legged SS officer a lift, i wonder how many miles he went on crutches escaping the Red Army?
He’s wearing a Luftwaffe cap.
These ragtag soldiers don't look like the goose stepping soldiers they once were.
Yes, they who thought they were the race of lords must now return their land and pay for their murderous fanaticism.
Most of those got wiped out in the first years of the war and they likely didn't surrender but fought to the death in many instances , specially the hardened units of the SS .. was a diffrent army before they had to use kids and old men
PJV6+GR Rokycany, Rokycany 1, Czechia
has anyone an idea why nobody has helmets on or attached? Did these soldies just threw them away as they knew they would surrender?
In another video you can see the Germans has to give them up alongside their weapons when surrendering to the Americans. I guess it is the same thing here.
No collar flashes.
Go to the 14min mark.
Man, I hope they realized that they were the lucky ones. Those poor Wehrmacht men captured by the Russians were dead already. I met a lot of these German men when I was in the Army in the 60s, and they had some incredible stories to tell. One family, the husband of which was shot in the elbow fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front. He had a stiff arm. His wife's brother was hauled off as a POW of the Russians never to return.
Van descalzos........sera quiza para dificultarles la huida?
Maybe they realise they are the only boots they are likely to have for the next few years,and they didn't want to wear them out. 🤔
Ach, mit den Soldaten und dem Material hätte man noch 'ne kleine Offensive machen können.
8:41 в легковой машине власовский офицер
One day you are trying to kill each other and the next you are being friendly, sharing a cigarette happy to be going home .Were these men marching to a relocation center or what? Wonder how long they took to get to their hometowns?
Apparently not anybody with medals like Iron cross and other medals , so the americans has taken them and also the content of the pockets like pictures of their family , kind of sad to see and lots of these ss soldiers was handed over to the russians never to be heard of again- war is hell.
The higher SS officers stole identities from KZ-camp captives and snuck out through Italy and Sweden.
Den Charakter eines Volkes erkennt man daran wie man nach einem verlorenen Krieg mit seine Soldaten umgeht.
Okay was wollen Sie damit genau sagen? Wehrmacht hatte den Krieg verloren und nach 6 langen Jahren der Okupation waren die Slawen wirklich...verärgert. Hoffe Sie verstehen mich. Es handelt sich um eine unendliche Spirale der Gewalt.
Ware Worte Ware Worte 👍👍🫡🫡👍👍
ss goon at 13;35 time stamp just allowed to walk free. oic should have been court martialed.
Rokycany. Czechia.
Why to the Americans?
Je me lasserai jamais de voir ces Boches prisonniers. HONTE à eux d'avoir exterminé mes deux grands-pères dans le camp de Dora et laisser deux familles dans la détresse. Il est impossible d'oublier. Nous gardons toujours crainte des allemands...
Et même en 2024, il ne faut pas avoir confiance en ces gens. L'exemple dans l'Europe le montre : l'arrogance allemande est toujours présente.
Sad times for Europe and especially for Germany!
Do you think it was sad that Germany lost the war? 😂
@@Wigant-wc7to Of course! Right or wrong - my country!
@@GerhardRauda Does that mean you had preferred to live in a Nazi Germany?
Aussi pour La France nous subissons cette UE esclavagiste ...
you know germany killed millions of jews many kids for no reason
the allies escaped from ucraina
Wow! The Master Race
¡¡¡Ay de los vencidos…!!! (Julio Cesar)
Guai ai vinti, e' diverso
Think the allies got their revench after the war: "More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II―one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known."
From: Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
Vous oubliez que la majorité l'on été du fait de l'URSS.
Qui eux ont eu vingt millions de morts,a cause de cette guerre.
More like 2 million German deaths due to expulsion, mostly due to the Russians.
Bullcrap.
Historie se opakuje dnes tu nemáme třetí říši ale evropskou unii 🤮
😂😂😂😂😂😂. You should vote to leave. 17 million dimwit English voted to leave,it's turned out to be a complete cock up, as they were warned.
I voted to remain.
face aux armées du monde entier....il n'y avait plus rien à faire....mais pendant 6 années, je n'aurais pas voulu etre en face d'eux ! la meilleur armée du monde.....❤❤!
Да, эти кадры ясный пример превосходства социалистической системы СССР времен Сталина, над объединенным капиталистическим Рейхом Европы под руководством гитлеровской Германии
the troops at the beginning seem to be from some sort of penal unit none of them have the eagle/medals on thier uniforms they certainly are not ss troops
I see real fighing men being treated like rock stars. Women sticking with them to the end. The Americans were fresh off the boat and never fired their weapons and you could see it how the women in the video shunned their clumsy advances. The Germans were happy to be marching WEST towards home and not EAST to the savage Russians.
You should really go to Specsavers and get your eyes tested. 😂
А как они шагали по Русской земле, а на видео бегут как крысы с тонущего каробля к своим американским благодетелям.
уский если б американские благодетели не дали советам лендлиз от пуговиц и тушонок до самолетов и снарядов то они б дошли до сибири и назад причом несколько раз
а сейчас рашистьі повторяют подвиги фашистов и скоро пилотка уская будеш вьіплачивать репарации как фашистьі в свое время если конечно не закобзонят тя где нить в степях украинских
Meine Tante war 3 Jahre alt wollte einen Mann ,Wasser geben.Da kam Ami wollte meine Tante erschießen, wenn der Ranghöchste nicht ihn gestoppt hätte. Meine Tante musste sich Tag und Nacht verstecken vor dem. Er hat dauernd nach Meine Tante gefragt.
LOS RUSOS LOS TRATABAN COMO SE MERECIAN,.....
Mit Schande davon Gejagt
Not really. They fought the best they could under the circumstances, but they were defeated by weather, lack of supplies, lack of fuel, lack of medicine, lack of ammunition, lack, lack, lack. They were very good and valiant soldiers.
the nazis never could imagine that the simbols of their division would be the same of the Ukranian Azov Battalion at the orders of a jewish president.
From Roma Italia
Comparaison minable
@@sergevandyck J'accepte toutes les opinions, mais pourquoi " minable" ?
I could, thats what we are dealing with in Ukraine.
@@paolodiamante1884 Opinion de cryto-fasciste raciste et antisémite!!
@@andremontmartin7207 Cher Monsieur, est il vrai out bien il n'est pas vrai que le Président Zelensky est juif? Oui ou non? Est il vrai ou il n'est pas vrai que le Battaillon Azov Ukrainien avait comme ensigne la même de la " 2 SS panzer division Das Reich" composée par ces fameux gentilhommes des SS Allemands ? Oui ou non? Il ne s'agit pas d'opinions mais, au contraire, de FAITS. Donc, des neonazis Ukrainiens étaient aux ordres de quelqu' un qui a oublié 6 millions des morts.
Once the most brutal monsters now became chicken 😂😂
They where outnumbered, sometimes 30 or 40 to 1 and they still pulled off victories learn the history
Right ! not because they surrendered , after all they had lost, but because they show such relief and happiness to be now prisoners : just compare the faces of the millions of poles french brits belgians yougoslavians greeks russians etc made prisoners by the germans with their faces...even the Waffen SS major at 13:10 looks quite sereine , smiling ans saluting people when his country and its regime after numerous and unpreceded crimes falls apart..Hitler and Goebbels would have been very upset to watch that !
Fortunately they failed, but how they are still praised by some. Oh, yes, learn history, for istance about Oradur-sur-Glaine and Tulle. If this really is that military corps, there were many war criminals among them.@@user-jf8gp4uq3f
Abruti.
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I'd say the last (real) victories were won around 1943. After that only operational sucesses were achieved (a few compared to the many operations that went south) and the defeat of the german army was very plain to see.
The believe, that a german soldier was the racial better fighter and could prevail over 10 russians was one of the biggest mistakes of the nationalsocialist war plans, but the myth of the invincible wehrmacht still lives on in some heads.
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