There was just a major gang war in Hamburg last week, involving hundreds - a completely absurd, but suddenly very real "modern" development. Same goes with the graffiti everywhere, like at the place where the "tariff free" zone checkpoint shown in the film is. So absurd.
2:44 This is the luxury liner "Wilhelm Gustloff" sunk near the end of WWII by a Russian submarine on Jan. 30, 1945 with an estimated 10,000 people on board. About 9,000 died making it the greatest maritime disaster in history. As a point of reference, about 1,500 people died when the "Titanic" sunk, so six times as many went down with the Gustloff.
Another 5,000 went down with the Cap Arcona when she was bombed by the RAF, most of them concentration camp prisoners, just one day before the end of the war.
Fantastic short film - I lived in Altona for about 1 year in 1954, (age 7), my father was a Staff Sargent in the British Army who oversaw incoming equipment for the British Army for onward transport to various Army camps in post war Germany. I can remember much of Hamburg and Altona, even the poor state of some of the German people who often asked British families for any spare food and clothes. A terrible shame this beautiful and interesting city was partly destroyed in WW2.
How about relating to reasons for this city, as rest of Nazi Germany had to be rubbled? How about sorrow for millions of innocent people massacred by these insane Nazis ? How about your own fathers losses and millions of his generation paying the ultimate price to stop Nazi Germans insanity? You should be ashamed of yourself!
What a lovely film. My mother's family lived in Hamburg . I spent my holidays there in the late 50s and 60s. Despite the bombing in WW2 much of it recognisable to me. I still visit each year. Hamburg is in my heart.
Tis incredible how giving the moving pictures colour makes the events seem so much more real and relevant today. Seeing this at night on a 60" TV is the closest thing to time travel... Sublime short film.
Black & white, or standard colours of contemporary documentaries, would have given more authenticity to this film. But even colorized, it attracts the attention. ♍👍
What a fabulous documentary, a truly professional piece of work. Wonderful cinematography, great colours and a very interesting commentary. Hamburg appears to have been a remarkably vibrant place. Thank you Wilfried Müller for uploading this superb video. I enjoyed it immensely. 120 subscribers
3:00 A bit eery to see the Wilhelm Gustloff. Later torpedoed and sunk with estimated 9.400 people on board which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
@@tancreddehauteville764 Not really, the Soviet Army had almost closed the cauldron, tracks and trains were easy targets for the Soviets who had already undermined the evacuation routes away from the Germans. Ciao, L
@@tristane3444 That is correct - the bad treatment that the Soviets had endured under the Nazis' onslaught was known and the citizens could only expect horrible reprisals. They had not much choice, Ciao, L
Such a valuable resource. Parts of Hamburg were still in a bad way in the mid sixties. We were Camping opposite the train station. The Bombsites had a big effect on a young Brit even though I had seen some devastation in London. I love both countries and hope we always stay friends.
Thank you so very much, Herr Muller, for sharing this documentary. It is truly a treasure of sights and information. My name indicates otherwise but much of my family background is German (my grandmother was born in Chicago in the U.S. but spoke English as a second language) and I'm also an ocean liner enthusiast. This remarkable documentary gives me new understanding of shipping but also of the country with which I'm closely connected.
Extremely interesting historical video. It's incredible to think what happened in the years following this peaceful video, with WW2 and the massive bombing, destruction, and civilian deaths in the city of Hamburg. The Wilhelm Gustoff was sunk by a Russian submarine in 1945, and 9600 people died, making it the worst ship disaster of all time. Yet less than 20 years later, a young musical group from Liverpool, England named the Beatles came to play rock and roll in the Hamburg Red Light District. From the enormous death and destruction of WW2, to the Beatles at the Indra and the Star-Club--- Hamburg is truly a city with a remarkable history.
My mom was born 4 years before this great film. My great grandfather would have been a Captan on one of these during this time. When I went to Hamburg in 1973 mant of the bulding were being rebuilt. Great film quality for the time My mom is 88 now & has lived in 🇨🇦longer.
At 21:58, the Hamburg Sud liner Cap Norte is in drydock for maintenance. This would be her last drydocking under the German flag. A year later, on the immediate outbreak of the Second World War, she was captured by His Majesty's Ship Belfast off the coast of the Faeroe Islands. At the time of her capture, she was carrying German reservists being called up to service; these reservists became some of the first German POWs of the war. As for the Cap Norte, after initial service as a blockship at Scapa Flow, she was refitted as a troopship and renamed Empire Trooper, and spent the rest of her life carrying British and Commonwealth troops until she was scrapped in 1955. Her captor, HMS Belfast, is still intact and can be visited as a museum ship, in London on the River Thames between London and Tower Bridges, she being a unit of the Imperial War Museum.
Absolutely fascinating background information. Thanks for uploading. All those beautiful ocean liners makes one nostalgic for a more elegant era and way of travel. At times the video was a little jarring with all the swastika flags, knowing what was going on, and what was just around the corner. In 1938 on the edge of Hamburg the Nazis opened the Neuengamme concentration camp which served primarily as a slave labor center. Tens of thousands died under horrific conditions. Tragically, the city and harbor were a major target during the Second World War due to its industrial/maritime nature with both being devastated by Allied air raids. In July of 1943 Hamburg was firebombed causing the deaths of more than 40,000 people. Whole areas of the city were obliterated. Beginning in 1941 and running through 1943, the city's Jewish population was rounded up and deported to Nazi occupied parts of Eastern Europe where most were ultimately murdered.
Unbelievable how many workplaces and occupations there's lost since then. Many city harbours are now turned into fancy architectural disasters without life and soul.
@@Horsemanray The Harbour still operated fine in the post war period, the shift in how we transport our goods and the Downfall of Ocean liners is what killed these old Harbours
Eerie to see that place 5 years before it all went completely to hell, along with many of the ships one can see. Everything looks so perfectly peaceful, just the Nazi flags give away the coming doom. Just eerie.
01:22 Thats kinda crazy: The background sounds (I guess from the same recording) later was used in a German Hip Hop Track called "Sach ma Digger" from the Hip Hop duo "Digger Dance" ... you can find this here on UA-cam btw ;)
beautiful and fascinating….those ships were amazing and the view at 9.15 of that bridge…wow…but those swastikas..they were an omen of a bad moon rising !
What an interesting place this looked in 1938! So much trade and work and activity. How shall we make it better. I know, let us have a war, that will help.
Yes England declared war on Germany my family was in Hamburg at the time this was filmed they did not want war nor any other relatives The English bombed Hamburg in 1943 and killed around 40,000 mostly the old and woman and children
There was a little matter of Czechoslovakia and Poland and Auschwitz. It would not have stopped there. You cannot transfer guilt like that. Hitler was an evil man who led the Germans and Europe into a nightmare. And now it is Putin.
@@gvdlpgg2406 you left out Stalin a man by any definition was more evil than Hitler did you read the wrong history books? The USA and UK supported Stalin as they have supported Communism since around 1920 over a hundred years. Hitler was only in power for 12 years
@@OmmerSyssel In my town in west germany we have "Stolpersteine" all over the sidewalk. They tell the horrible storys of those who got deported. The place, i waited for the Bus everyday, has one of them. The name of a 15 years old boy is witnessed on a "Stolperstein" there. I cannot Imagine the horror, being captured in the light of day, in front of everyone, as a 15 year old. Today we have people in this country, that spit on those "Stolpersteine". Its unbelieveable, how many germans already forgot the Hell Hitler brought upon german Jews who lived here for decades. It makes me sick..
From a time when "Hamburg" could be read on the sterns of Hamburgian ships, and High German was only used for tourists, liveries and letterings, not for talking.
Soon to be reduced to rubble....and I don't mean Barney ! Kurt Lehfeldt died 30.12.1944 in Kurland/Courland (present day Latvia). I assume that he was killed while serving in the German military in 1944 and, along with 250,000 + other Wehrmacht troops, was trapped in the "Courland Pocket" by a much larger Russian force. The battles fought there lasted from July'44 - May'45 when 150,000 - 190,000 German survivors were forced to surrender and were sent into captivity in the USSR.
Die Arbeiterviertel umgaben den Hafen, die Wege waren nicht weit. Vor allem Rothenburgsort und Hammerbrook wurden 1943 verwüstet und entvölkert. Danach wurden diese Gebiete nie wieder so aufgebaut, wie sie bis dahin waren.
Interesting film. It's hard to associate the depictions here with the politics of the day. Austria was annexed in March '38 and the Sudetenland in October of the same year. Yet despite these momentous actions the harbour at Hamburg shows little in the way of naval buildup and nazi support amongst ordinary civilians around the port. I'd have guessed the year as being 1930-2 rather than '38 as there doesn't seem to be any sign of nationalistic fanaticism on the streets. In saying that I do realise that the Munich Convention wasn't until September 1938 and Krystallnacht in November '38. Everything looks too calm.
So interesting and stark at the same time. The numerous Nazi flags are obvious and brings the realization that WWII was about to erupt into full view. I have never been to Hamburg but I imagine this film captures it at its zenith as I’m sure it was bombed to bits by the Allies. What does it look like today? I would like to see. Thank you so much for a marvelous look back in time.
3:20 So just like with Russia now with the natural gas and oil, in spite all of the "boycotts", the US, UK and France were still doing the business that they wanted with Germany in the areas of business they wanted.
@@meiken417 absolutely not, boycotts went into effect long before the war started. for example, the sale of helium to Germany had long since been banned. That explains the German global Zeppelin industry relying on hydrogen, and of course the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. What's interesting about the Hindenburg is the absolutely drippingly ridiculous mass media coverage in the US, which destroyed the stock and insurance of the whole Zeppelin industry (and enabled the rise of the US fuel airline industry, which for some reason survives despite multiple accidents every year and now, 90 zillion flights later, we somehow cry about "muh global warming" LOL) So my point is there was already an economic war going on although, as this video shows, when its own commerce is on the line, the West always finds an exception to its "values". And of course that effects exports - the oil oligarchs in the US didn't seem to give a toss and gladly sold their oil to Germany.
Onhan se kukoistava mutta hölmöys pursuu edelleen esille entisistä suurvalloista Englannista ja Venäjältä. Saksa, Ranska ja Italia ovat ikäänkuin jo ohittaneet sen vaiheen. Hampuri on hieno mukava kaupunki.
Hamburg was such a historical and Beautiful place before the second World 🌎🌍 war but in the war British American Combined Air Forces bombed Hamburg to dust.
HAMBURG, GREAT GERMAN PORT CITY, GREAT FILM, HOWEVER, @ 18:25 S.S. ST. LOUIS IS SEEN; THE SHIP THAT CARRIED GERMAN JEWS, IN A "FAILED ATTEMPT" TO ESCAPE NAZI GERMANY, SOME WERE TAKEN IN ELSWHERE, SOME WHERE RETURNED TO GERMAN OCCUPIED EUROPE AND DID NOT SURVIVE THE WAR. PORT CITY HAMBURG ALSO, DID NOT SURVIVE THE WAR, AS SEEN IN THIS FILM. "ALLIED BOMBING RAIDS"
Most of it was bombed to bits. But then (in part thanks to Gen. George Marshall) was miraculously rebuilt. All the ships are practically gone: sunk or scrapped. A few remain.
@@visionist7 The blitz was more than a bump. What happened was War. Started by Germany which unfortunately got the brunt of the response. I've visited Hamburg numerous times and have taken my Family. It Thankfully has become a very vibrant city again. The port Anniversary is a wonderous sight!
@@Heatfarmer Don't play the innocent crap. It was TOTAL War, From day one. Bomb aiming, early in the War, was very primitive and unreliable anyway, Hamburg ? All types of Shipbuilding, Submarine building, and repairing Docks. Wharehousing, Major Administration and government buildings. Industrial manufacture, none can function, without people. Thats why the Luftwaffe targeted London's East End Dock area, killing over a 1000 dockers.The Luftwaffe had NO QUALMS, at bombing civilians. Their first target, was the Spanish Town of Guernica, with no protection, or warning. One thousand four hundred people killed, four thousand injured. this was 1937.
An excellent documentary; thanks for sharing! Sad to see how vital and internationally connected the city of Hamburg and Germany were in 1938, shortly before the war initiated by insane German nationalists and racists was about to destroy all its glory. History repeats itself. Russian aggression this time and in France people are not much brighter, half of the voters may tend to elect a fascist nationalist for the presidency - all this is beyond scary, and it is sad.
¡Como fué destruido este fantástico país!. Que país más hermoso, inteligente, ordenado, disciplinado, trabajador, desarrollado. Gente culta. Aqui podemos rescatar algo fundamental: La importantancia de la calidad cognitiva de los integrantes de un país. Podrán destruir sus ciudades, sus fábricas, pero renacerán en poco tiempo.
Somehow it looks just as it looks today. What a city this is! After 80 years still looks young and fresh!
lol, it doesn't look at all like it did. 90% of the city's magnificent old architecture was destroyed in WWII..
There was just a major gang war in Hamburg last week, involving hundreds - a completely absurd, but suddenly very real "modern" development. Same goes with the graffiti everywhere, like at the place where the "tariff free" zone checkpoint shown in the film is. So absurd.
Beautiful city. As you say it looks the same today.
The narration of this historically important video is fantastic.
Clarity, detail and ambiance is of the highest caliber.
Was für ein toller Film, vielen Dank fürs Hochladen❤
2:44 This is the luxury liner "Wilhelm Gustloff" sunk near the end of WWII by a Russian submarine on Jan. 30, 1945 with an estimated 10,000 people on board. About 9,000 died making it the greatest maritime disaster in history. As a point of reference, about 1,500 people died when the "Titanic" sunk, so six times as many went down with the Gustloff.
Another 5,000 went down with the Cap Arcona when she was bombed by the RAF, most of them concentration camp prisoners, just one day before the end of the war.
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Königin Louise operated as a mine layer at the gulf of Finland and was lost on a russian minefield.
Fantastic short film - I lived in Altona for about 1 year in 1954, (age 7), my father was a Staff Sargent in the British Army who oversaw incoming equipment for the British Army for onward transport to various Army camps in post war Germany. I can remember much of Hamburg and Altona, even the poor state of some of the German people who often asked British families for any spare food and clothes. A terrible shame this beautiful and interesting city was partly destroyed in WW2.
Not partly destroyed... Totally Destroyed!
There were literally just the fringes standing in 1945.
How about relating to reasons for this city, as rest of Nazi Germany had to be rubbled?
How about sorrow for millions of innocent people massacred by these insane Nazis ?
How about your own fathers losses and millions of his generation paying the ultimate price to stop Nazi Germans insanity?
You should be ashamed of yourself!
@@unclestuka8543 well done! What goes around, comes around!
75% was destroyed
What a lovely film. My mother's family lived in Hamburg . I spent my holidays there in the late 50s and 60s. Despite the bombing in WW2 much of it recognisable to me. I still visit each year. Hamburg is in my heart.
Tis incredible how giving the moving pictures colour makes the events seem so much more
real and relevant today.
Seeing this at night on a 60" TV is the closest thing to time travel...
Sublime short film.
Black & white, or standard colours of contemporary documentaries, would have given more authenticity to this film. But even colorized, it attracts the attention. ♍👍
What a fabulous documentary, a truly professional piece of work. Wonderful cinematography, great colours and a very interesting commentary. Hamburg appears to have been a remarkably vibrant place. Thank you Wilfried Müller for uploading this superb video. I enjoyed it immensely.
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It still ist a vibrant place ;-)
@@Brawesta Готовтесь, подмывайтесь, скоро будем в Гамбурге. Гитлер капут!
3:00 A bit eery to see the Wilhelm Gustloff. Later torpedoed and sunk with estimated 9.400 people on board which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
Awful tragedy!! They should never have overfilled the ship given the high risk of being sunk - madness.
@@tancreddehauteville764 the other options were getting murdered by the Russians or going over the frozen Baltic sea and get shot by planes there
@@tristane3444 Or escape by train and avoid all of that.
@@tancreddehauteville764 Not really, the Soviet Army had almost closed the cauldron, tracks and trains were easy targets for the Soviets who had already undermined the evacuation routes away from the Germans. Ciao, L
@@tristane3444 That is correct - the bad treatment that the Soviets had endured under the Nazis' onslaught was known and the citizens could only expect horrible reprisals. They had not much choice, Ciao, L
Such a valuable resource. Parts of Hamburg were still in a bad way in the mid sixties. We were Camping opposite the train station. The Bombsites had a big effect on a young Brit even though I had seen some devastation in London. I love both countries and hope we always stay friends.
Rare , that english and german words are pronounced correctly! See me bow ! Grüße eines alten Hanseatens!
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Thank you so very much, Herr Muller, for sharing this documentary. It is truly a treasure of sights and information. My name indicates otherwise but much of my family background is German (my grandmother was born in Chicago in the U.S. but spoke English as a second language) and I'm also an ocean liner enthusiast. This remarkable documentary gives me new understanding of shipping but also of the country with which I'm closely connected.
Extremely interesting historical video. It's incredible to think what happened in the years following this peaceful video, with WW2 and the massive bombing, destruction, and civilian deaths in the city of Hamburg. The Wilhelm Gustoff was sunk by a Russian submarine in 1945, and 9600 people died, making it the worst ship disaster of all time. Yet less than 20 years later, a young musical group from Liverpool, England named the Beatles came to play rock and roll in the Hamburg Red Light District. From the enormous death and destruction of WW2, to the Beatles at the Indra and the Star-Club--- Hamburg is truly a city with a remarkable history.
What a wonderful film!
Back when ships looked like ships and not the container warehouses they are now.
My mom was born 4 years before this great film. My great grandfather would have been a Captan on one of these during this time. When I went to Hamburg in 1973 mant of the bulding were being rebuilt. Great film quality for the time My mom is 88 now & has lived in 🇨🇦longer.
I sailed in from Chicago in June 1964 and was mightily impressed by the vastness of it all. It seemed to go on and on.
At 21:58, the Hamburg Sud liner Cap Norte is in drydock for maintenance. This would be her last drydocking under the German flag. A year later, on the immediate outbreak of the Second World War, she was captured by His Majesty's Ship Belfast off the coast of the Faeroe Islands. At the time of her capture, she was carrying German reservists being called up to service; these reservists became some of the first German POWs of the war. As for the Cap Norte, after initial service as a blockship at Scapa Flow, she was refitted as a troopship and renamed Empire Trooper, and spent the rest of her life carrying British and Commonwealth troops until she was scrapped in 1955. Her captor, HMS Belfast, is still intact and can be visited as a museum ship, in London on the River Thames between London and Tower Bridges, she being a unit of the Imperial War Museum.
You just don’t know how much, How bad I long to go back to these days!!!! My wife and I, do with every video we watch!!
Very interesting picture of the famous harbour. Thanks for sharing and good luck to contemporary Hanseatic City of Hamburg and its harbour!! ♍🇵🇱👍
super, especially loved the background sound track, toot toot!!
Very nice documentary, i couldn't see the Orinoco Ship from America Line i wish i could!!
Absolutely fascinating background information. Thanks for uploading. All those beautiful ocean liners makes one nostalgic for a more elegant era and way of travel. At times the video was a little jarring with all the swastika flags, knowing what was going on, and what was just around the corner. In 1938 on the edge of Hamburg the Nazis opened the Neuengamme concentration camp which served primarily as a slave labor center. Tens of thousands died under horrific conditions. Tragically, the city and harbor were a major target during the Second World War due to its industrial/maritime nature with both being devastated by Allied air raids. In July of 1943 Hamburg was firebombed causing the deaths of more than 40,000 people. Whole areas of the city were obliterated. Beginning in 1941 and running through 1943, the city's Jewish population was rounded up and deported to Nazi occupied parts of Eastern Europe where most were ultimately murdered.
Excellent and interesting.
Unbelievable how many workplaces and occupations there's lost since then.
Many city harbours are now turned into fancy architectural disasters without life and soul.
@@Horsemanray The Harbour still operated fine in the post war period, the shift in how we transport our goods and the Downfall of Ocean liners is what killed these old Harbours
Wonderfull narration that beats this modern computer generated nonsense by a country mile.
Carried a few cargo's to and from Hamburg, Timber, chemicals, oil, cattle feed , steel.. Pupasch Bar on landungsbrucke our favourite bar..
How was the hookers? Hopefully young and professional..
Where is the Red District (Skt.Pauli?)
Eerie to see that place 5 years before it all went completely to hell, along with many of the ships one can see.
Everything looks so perfectly peaceful, just the Nazi flags give away the coming doom.
Just eerie.
Worked in the business on the commercial side so this is quite interesting.
01:22 Thats kinda crazy: The background sounds (I guess from the same recording) later was used in a German Hip Hop Track called "Sach ma Digger" from the Hip Hop duo "Digger Dance" ... you can find this here on UA-cam btw ;)
Super Aufnahmen. 🙂
Thanks for this.
Admiral Hipper was being outfitted at that time at Blohm & Voss, 21.12
Excellent thank you
It's like the calm before a storm.
Seeing this film and knowing what will happen to this city in a few years makes it
Hard to imagine, that those pictures are 80 years old
Very interesting.
With docks and lakes it was a very good radar target.
Is it known if the graphic poster of the port plan shown in the film is available for purchase?
Brillanter Beitrag, Gruß aus Alaska 👍
love hamburg. my guesx is ballinstadt was finished by '38, though there should have been a mention......at least. thanks, good film.
By 1945 there wasn't a single undamaged building either in Hamburg or for several miles around.
And 7 years later!!?
beautiful and fascinating….those ships were amazing and the view at 9.15 of that bridge…wow…but those swastikas..they were an omen of a bad moon rising !
Please add subtitles.
28:18 ss monte rosso whistle
Is that the Bismarck under construction at 21:08?
@Ignatz Rosenbaum Worked by my ship there, in 1990. Blohm and Voss, we were in Bismarks original dock.
Cruiser Admiral Hipper, most likely. Bismarck was launched in early 1939.
Narrator said, "Admiral Hipper".
Vieles erkenne ich wieder, da ich am Baumwall gearbeitet hatte.
What an interesting place this looked in 1938! So much trade and work and activity. How shall we make it better. I know, let us have a war, that will help.
Yes England declared war on Germany my family was in Hamburg at the time this was filmed they did not want war nor any other relatives The English bombed Hamburg in 1943 and killed around 40,000 mostly the old and woman and children
There was a little matter of Czechoslovakia and Poland and Auschwitz. It would not have stopped there. You cannot transfer guilt like that. Hitler was an evil man who led the Germans and Europe into a nightmare. And now it is Putin.
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@@johnsmith-mq4eq you'll need to expand. Why?
@@gvdlpgg2406 you left out Stalin a man by any definition was more evil than Hitler did you read the wrong history books? The USA and UK supported Stalin as they have supported Communism since around 1920 over a hundred years. Hitler was only in power for 12 years
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my mother was a 13 year old girl in that city at this time...
Thousands of Jewish children never got older ...
@@OmmerSyssel In my town in west germany we have "Stolpersteine" all over the sidewalk. They tell the horrible storys of those who got deported. The place, i waited for the Bus everyday, has one of them. The name of a 15 years old boy is witnessed on a "Stolperstein" there. I cannot Imagine the horror, being captured in the light of day, in front of everyone, as a 15 year old.
Today we have people in this country, that spit on those "Stolpersteine". Its unbelieveable, how many germans already forgot the Hell Hitler brought upon german Jews who lived here for decades. It makes me sick..
34:12 SS cap arcona whistle
oma came to buenos aires onboard the cap arcona in 1928
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18:15
So basicaly this is a huge freshwater international seaport. Amazing.
I wonder where those cars were heading for?
They were taken to South America by some rich passengers of the Cap Arcona who didn't want to miss them in the streets of Montevideo or Buenos Aires.
@@ottosaxo Thanks , going down to Rio ! and beyond.
From a time when "Hamburg" could be read on the sterns of Hamburgian ships, and High German was only used for tourists, liveries and letterings, not for talking.
Soon to be reduced to rubble....and I don't mean Barney !
Kurt Lehfeldt died 30.12.1944 in Kurland/Courland (present day Latvia). I assume that he was killed while serving in the German military in 1944 and, along with 250,000 + other Wehrmacht troops, was trapped in the "Courland Pocket" by a much larger Russian force. The battles fought there lasted from July'44 - May'45 when 150,000 - 190,000 German survivors were forced to surrender and were sent into captivity in the USSR.
It was about this time that a distant relative lost the shipyard he owned north of Hamburg. He was married to a Jew.
Ich frage mich, wie die alle ohne Auto zur Arbeit gefahren sind.
S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Strassenbahn, Bus, Fahrrad.
Die Arbeiterviertel umgaben den Hafen, die Wege waren nicht weit. Vor allem Rothenburgsort und Hammerbrook wurden 1943 verwüstet und entvölkert. Danach wurden diese Gebiete nie wieder so aufgebaut, wie sie bis dahin waren.
Interesting film.
It's hard to associate the depictions here with the politics of the day.
Austria was annexed in March '38 and the Sudetenland in October of the same year.
Yet despite these momentous actions the harbour at Hamburg shows little in the way of naval buildup and nazi support amongst ordinary civilians around the port.
I'd have guessed the year as being 1930-2 rather than '38 as there doesn't seem to be any sign of nationalistic fanaticism on the streets. In saying that I do realise that the Munich Convention wasn't until September 1938 and Krystallnacht in November '38.
Everything looks too calm.
So interesting and stark at the same time. The numerous Nazi flags are obvious and brings the realization that WWII was about to erupt into full view. I have never been to Hamburg but I imagine this film captures it at its zenith as I’m sure it was bombed to bits by the Allies. What does it look like today? I would like to see. Thank you so much for a marvelous look back in time.
Note the young Hitler jugend with his swastika armband probably about 13 years old, I wonder if he survived the war.
I've been told one of the main reasons Britain declared war on Germany is because Germany shut down their shipping ports to them
I wonder how many of those ships were sunk by U boats built in Hamburg
Muss ich denn, muss ich denn …
3:20 So just like with Russia now with the natural gas and oil, in spite all of the "boycotts", the US, UK and France were still doing the business that they wanted with Germany in the areas of business they wanted.
Your timeline is messed up
@@meiken417 absolutely not, boycotts went into effect long before the war started. for example, the sale of helium to Germany had long since been banned. That explains the German global Zeppelin industry relying on hydrogen, and of course the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. What's interesting about the Hindenburg is the absolutely drippingly ridiculous mass media coverage in the US, which destroyed the stock and insurance of the whole Zeppelin industry (and enabled the rise of the US fuel airline industry, which for some reason survives despite multiple accidents every year and now, 90 zillion flights later, we somehow cry about "muh global warming" LOL) So my point is there was already an economic war going on although, as this video shows, when its own commerce is on the line, the West always finds an exception to its "values". And of course that effects exports - the oil oligarchs in the US didn't seem to give a toss and gladly sold their oil to Germany.
Wow… didn’t realize whaling was still a big deal in 1938?!
And huge for the British. So much whale meat used instead of cod……
@@babaganoush6106 Готовтесь, подмывайтесь, скоро будем в Гамбурге. Гитлер капут!
Most whaling continued up to the 1980s.
A fine, complex port indeed, until some man, Adolph something came around and ruined it all.
If only all those who wanted to leave could have been allowed to do so in time
Free labour and fortunes had higher value than humanitarian values.
Als Hamburg noch gut war und kein sthole wie Berlin
Such a shame they had to demolish the beautiful gothic gatehouse to the Elbe Bridge.
Ilman Stalinia, Hitleriä ja nykyään Putleria olisi Eurooppa kukoistava maanosa.
Onhan se kukoistava mutta hölmöys pursuu edelleen esille entisistä suurvalloista Englannista ja Venäjältä.
Saksa, Ranska ja Italia ovat ikäänkuin jo ohittaneet sen vaiheen.
Hampuri on hieno mukava kaupunki.
The Wilhelm Gostloff was sunk by a Russian SUB S-13 in 1945 where 9000 evacuees went down with the ship
Regards chambon.
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Hamburg was such a historical and Beautiful place before the second World 🌎🌍 war but in the war British American Combined Air Forces bombed Hamburg to dust.
They fucked around. They Found out.
damals noch mit natürlichen Wolkenhimmel ....
HAMBURG, GREAT GERMAN PORT CITY, GREAT FILM, HOWEVER, @ 18:25 S.S. ST. LOUIS
IS SEEN; THE SHIP THAT CARRIED GERMAN JEWS, IN A "FAILED ATTEMPT" TO ESCAPE
NAZI GERMANY, SOME WERE TAKEN IN ELSWHERE, SOME WHERE RETURNED TO
GERMAN OCCUPIED EUROPE AND DID NOT SURVIVE THE WAR. PORT CITY HAMBURG
ALSO, DID NOT SURVIVE THE WAR, AS SEEN IN THIS FILM. "ALLIED BOMBING RAIDS"
One year before Hitler invaded Poland and the start of WWII
Most of it was bombed to bits. But then (in part thanks to Gen. George Marshall) was miraculously rebuilt. All the ships are practically gone: sunk or scrapped. A few remain.
And in August 1943, it would be obliterated by RAF Bomber Command!!
Incredible infrastructure...how much of this was bombed to rubble by the all lies.
Most of it, can't say that the harbour wasn't a proper target, but the bombing of the residential areas was pure retaliation for the Blitz in England.
@@Heatfarmer nice measured retaliation ya got there. I too like to stamp repeatedly on someone's face if they bump into me in a corridor
@@visionist7 The blitz was more than a bump. What happened was War. Started by Germany which unfortunately got the brunt of the response. I've visited Hamburg numerous times and have taken my Family. It Thankfully has become a very vibrant city again. The port Anniversary is a wonderous sight!
@@Heatfarmer Don't play the innocent crap. It was TOTAL War, From day one. Bomb aiming, early in the War, was very primitive and unreliable anyway, Hamburg ? All types of Shipbuilding, Submarine building, and repairing Docks. Wharehousing, Major Administration and government buildings. Industrial manufacture, none can function, without people. Thats why the Luftwaffe targeted London's East End Dock area, killing over a 1000 dockers.The Luftwaffe had NO QUALMS, at bombing civilians. Their first target, was the Spanish Town of Guernica, with no protection, or warning. One thousand four hundred people killed, four thousand injured. this was 1937.
The commentator said, ''Admiral Hipper'' which was sunk in the dock by the Allies.
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Germany before the war looks like every man fairytale
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An excellent documentary; thanks for sharing! Sad to see how vital and internationally connected the city of Hamburg and Germany were in 1938, shortly before the war initiated by insane German nationalists and racists was about to destroy all its glory. History repeats itself. Russian aggression this time and in France people are not much brighter, half of the voters may tend to elect a fascist nationalist for the presidency - all this is beyond scary, and it is sad.
Tends to be the outcome when common people feel neglected ...
Maybe keep your stupid politic views to yourself next time frenchie
Гитлер капут!
¡Como fué destruido este fantástico país!. Que país más hermoso, inteligente, ordenado, disciplinado, trabajador, desarrollado. Gente culta. Aqui podemos rescatar algo fundamental: La importantancia de la calidad cognitiva de los integrantes de un país. Podrán
destruir sus ciudades, sus
fábricas, pero renacerán en poco tiempo.
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