As a German I want to say thank you for making this wonderful, heartmoving collection of rare photographs! I am deeply impressed, greetings from Hamburg!
Each of these images evokes a different feeling, each deserves to be commented on... and that is beyond the possibilities. I can only compliment the collector. And confirm the impression that, despite all the hardships and difficulties, the life of our grand/parents was more worthy than ours.
One of the most poignant photos was that of a family enjoying the beach in the 1930's not knowing that very possibly all of the adolescent sons would become casualties of the coming war in the 40's.
3:40 It is heartbreaking to see, here and in other images, children and young boys without shoes, evidently sacrificed to the war economy. I know this situation from personal experience. On the other hand, those children of Nuremberg were lucky enough to walk on well-paved and clean streets.
Oh, yes! I am German and one of my best friends was English, he died 22 years ago and I still miss him so much! The fun fact of our friendship was that we were born enemies, he was from 1940 and I am from 1943. RIP, Jack!
Edeka started out as a cooperative of grocery stores aiming at buying their goods cheaper if they together placed bigger orders. That cooperative handling worked out fine until even today.
Thanks for doing this! One suggestion: remove the fake "white flecks" that appear and disappear on the photos. They're obviously added, detract from the images, and would never occur at any rate, as these are all stills.
1:06 the guys in the picture from Bremen are wearing animal costumes relevant to the folk tale "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten" [The Town Musicians of Bremen, this doesn't mean the people were musicians, it is the name of the story]. It is a tale about ab -used animals who get together to live happily together and one day they scare the bad guy burglars, who are a nuisance, by standing on top of each other. The guys run away forever because they think it is a big monster. A Donkey, a dog, a cat and a cockerel. There is a statue of them in Bremen of them. Look it up. I love these images.
The most shocking were the German kids in the late 1910s & 1920s that will eventually grow up to be soldiers of Hitler's Wehrmacht. And the young girls in pre war Berlin [WW2] not knowing their fate some years later. Feel sorry for them.😌😔🙄😒
Britain and Germany were the world's two biggest economies prior to 1914. They both could have benefitted from staying out of WW1. Then all the destruction that has come to those two countries to this day would have been avoided.
11:00 Helene Mayer left Germany in the late 1930s and settled in San Francisco, along with German National Champion, Hans Halberstadt, who opened a salle that is still active today. Both were Jewish. My fencing master, Dr. William F. O'Brien was in love with her but apparently, failed to win her hand, even though he was an Olympic team fencer in his time and a first cousin to JFK, serving in the OSS during WW2. Helene never married. Neither did Dr. O'Brien. The Helene Mayer Open was a tournament held annually for decades in the NorCal Division of the AFLA (now the USFA). Dr. O'Brien founded the Letterman Army Medical Center Fencing Club (ak The Letterman Fencing Club) in 1950 (my club) which effectively disappeared after the U.S. Army post was closed by the government in 1994.
Oh, el tramposo encanto de la nostalgia! Vísperas de la Gran Guerra en algunas fotos, vísperas del nazismo (y ya bajo el nazismo) en otras... Qué pasado tan entrañable!
I noticed that in many of the photos the young boys were bare footed but the young girls all had shoes. I also noticed in many photos the women all wore aprons.
@@petervermeer.4904 When I was in Germany in the 1960s the girls that associated with American GIs shave under their arms but most of the others didn't. At first I was horrified but you get used to it. "au natural" ain't so bad.
What is with all the flickering lights? We already know the pictures are old. what stupid thing to add. clean it up and allow the pictures to speak for themselves.
9:10 Marlene Dietrich. I saw the interview with her daughter were she revealed some of her mother's secrets. After that I never cared for Marlene Dietrich.
A very nice little collection but "SHOEING" a cow in Langenthal (1.23) ? Are you sure ? EXAMINING .... even CLEANING the hoof of a possibly lame cow ..... TREATING an infected hoof ..... but SHOEING ?!!!! I seen a horseshoe, I seen a black shoe, I seen a house shoe. I seen a walking shoe and a shoe horn .... I seen a brake shoe .... but I ain't not never seen nor heard of a cow shoe.
I don't know the story behind the photos, but back in the day,shoes were expensive and were hand- made by a cobbler. Children grow so fast they went barefoot in warm weather, getting a new pair before cold weather set in.
The pictures are random, going back and forward in time and location. Just slap a video together and get it out there. Nuremberg is nowhere near Berlin.
Never heard of Nuremberg. Do you (and he) mean "Nürnberg" ? It is true that he would have done well to have left that "Berlin" sentence out of the title. Some of the script is a bit dodgy too but a nice collection of photos nonetheless. I assume that you will not be watching any more from the series
Your attempts to conjure up backgrounds for some of these shots are laughable. The Bremen ‘animals’ have their own story, and no cows anywhere were ‘shod’ in the way you attempt to describe. Your ‘Westerkreis’ district is a tautology on your part, but then you wouldn’t know that anyway.
This was good to see but kinda one dimensional. Where were the later to be murdered Jews? Why did Germany go to war when they appearantly had good times as well after "Versailles" which is often cited as a trigger to become triggered, shackled , etc?
Those pictures show different times, from 1900 to early 30's. So before Hitler and the III Reich. Germany did not "go" to war whereas people had good times. After the Great Depression, life in Germany became a nightmare. Many books were written on that matter, on the why and the how.
@@heliedecastanet1882 Versailles was unjust it was said because Germany was strangled by restrictions, having to pay too high repairmentmoney. One d expext a starved popluation. after Versailles , not partying et all, so the Great Depression after 1029 makes more sense as a reason. And of course the crash was triggered by Jews?
@@jonblackers4339 Why do you say that the crash was triggered by the Jews ? Unless you are antisemitic, in which case I have nothing to say to you. Have a good evening.
@@heliedecastanet1882 I m not anti Jewish, on the contrary, I was just outing sarcasm about all the tropes made about Jews doing all the wrongs, incl the theory they created Shoah in order to get Israel.
Dietrich is the only one that's widely known. Including her photos. I do my family tree and have an interest in old photos, especially from that era and region, and I haven't come across those in the video. Apart from Dietrich's, obviously. You are just nit-picking without the ability to pay attention to other things clearly visible in this selection, and without the common sense. Typical for your folks. Complaining and critisizing everything showing your intellectual inadequacies.
3:00 German sense of order! The group is clearly made up of a mother and five daughters, and they are all dressed essentially in the same "uniform" (a sort of "Dirndl" or "Dienderle", as we say in our parts). Jokingly, one wonders why the girls are not lined up in order of height/age ...
As a German I want to say thank you for making this wonderful, heartmoving collection of rare photographs! I am deeply impressed, greetings from Hamburg!
As a British Australian I enjoyed this as well, Old Germany always remembered ...
Each of these images evokes a different feeling, each deserves to be commented on... and that is beyond the possibilities. I can only compliment the collector. And confirm the impression that, despite all the hardships and difficulties, the life of our grand/parents was more worthy than ours.
Long live the Great German, and Europe culture. Peace and goodwill
Contradictory concepts.
Very interesting, time went by quickly watching this presentation wondering about the fate of so many.
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Another fine selection of people and places.
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Thanks for all these old pictures of Germany - I lived in the 1930s in Germany.
But you were probably old then and couldn't go out anymore. It's all the better that these photos show you what it looked like outside.
Excellent Work ... Thank You for Sharing
Great show, Your narrative was by far the best I have. seen,
Germany before the deluge...
Those wonderful days before multiculturalism!
Yes, the very attitude the led to Nazism. But you think that's good right?
One of the most poignant photos was that of a family enjoying the beach in the 1930's not knowing that very possibly all of the adolescent sons would become casualties of the coming war in the 40's.
I'm not sure about the dates. I think some of these photos were before WW1. Same result though.
3:40 It is heartbreaking to see, here and in other images, children and young boys without shoes, evidently sacrificed to the war economy. I know this situation from personal experience. On the other hand, those children of Nuremberg were lucky enough to walk on well-paved and clean streets.
Seeing those people taking their pets to be destroyed was heart breaking.
Destroyed?
Never forget one thing, these are our cousins !
You from England? Peace and goodwill
Oh, yes! I am German and one of my best friends was English, he died 22 years ago and I still miss him so much! The fun fact of our friendship was that we were born enemies, he was from 1940 and I am from 1943. RIP, Jack!
such beautiful german girls!
Edeka started out as a cooperative of grocery stores aiming at buying their goods cheaper if they together placed bigger orders. That cooperative handling worked out fine until even today.
Fascinating. Hunting images.
"haunting"
@@POLMAZURKA ...although there was one real Hunting picture.
@@petervermeer.4904 Very true. . School teachers....don't you just reject them? Peace and goodwill
Nice to see what we were and what we had. Now pretty much all taken for granted and replaced with a broken society and destroyed culture.
Who said 'Germans have no sense of humor'? And German young women are very attractive!😏😏😁😁
Thanks for doing this! One suggestion: remove the fake "white flecks" that appear and disappear on the photos. They're obviously added, detract from the images, and would never occur at any rate, as these are all stills.
1:06 the guys in the picture from Bremen are wearing animal costumes relevant to the folk tale "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten" [The Town Musicians of Bremen, this doesn't mean the people were musicians, it is the name of the story]. It is a tale about ab -used animals who get together to live happily together and one day they scare the bad guy burglars, who are a nuisance, by standing on top of each other. The guys run away forever because they think it is a big monster. A Donkey, a dog, a cat and a cockerel. There is a statue of them in Bremen of them. Look it up. I love these images.
The caption is deceptive. BERLIN? Yes, but many other places in Germany, too. Why not just say so?😥
Long live the honorable, glorious German people. Love forever.
What an amazing insight into that era in Germany. I did find the video sparkles to be a distraction though.
.Thank you.
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The most shocking were the German kids in the late 1910s & 1920s that will eventually grow up to be soldiers of Hitler's Wehrmacht. And the young girls in pre war Berlin [WW2] not knowing their fate some years later. Feel sorry for them.😌😔🙄😒
1:04 The costumes refer to the Bremen Musicians, a local fairy tale. They represent the donkey, dog, cat and cock and he robbers.
Very interesting though the fake dust speckles are a bit annoying.
I agree
at 10:50 is a road grader not a street sweeper. great video.
Breathtaking. How we've moved on in 100 years
Fascinating photos, but why did you not present them in a chronological sequence ?
I don't think I have ever heard of cows getting shoed in the US!
What are the flashing spots on the picture?
Klingt nach Mark Felton der den Text gesprochen hat.
Britain and Germany were the world's two biggest economies prior to 1914. They both could have benefitted from staying out of WW1. Then all the destruction that has come to those two countries to this day would have been avoided.
11:00 Helene Mayer left Germany in the late 1930s and settled in San Francisco, along with German National Champion, Hans Halberstadt, who opened a salle that is still active today. Both were Jewish. My fencing master, Dr. William F. O'Brien was in love with her but apparently, failed to win her hand, even though he was an Olympic team fencer in his time and a first cousin to JFK, serving in the OSS during WW2. Helene never married. Neither did Dr. O'Brien. The Helene Mayer Open was a tournament held annually for decades in the NorCal Division of the AFLA (now the USFA). Dr. O'Brien founded the Letterman Army Medical Center Fencing Club (ak The Letterman Fencing Club) in 1950 (my club) which effectively disappeared after the U.S. Army post was closed by the government in 1994.
Oh, el tramposo encanto de la nostalgia! Vísperas de la Gran Guerra en algunas fotos, vísperas del nazismo (y ya bajo el nazismo) en otras... Qué pasado tan entrañable!
Germany before Islam.
The lady street vendor in Potsdamer Platz looks like she might be blind.
Germany before Merkel.
Very few of those kids are wearing shoes.
I noticed that in many of the photos the young boys were bare footed but the young girls all had shoes. I also noticed in many photos the women all wore aprons.
How the mighty have fallen...
Chętnie przejmę twój biznes.
Why do you need to put artificial spots all over the perfectly good photographs. Do you think it'll make them appear more authentic?
I'd like to see these pictures in colorized.
11:11: Carl Bolle Company was famous for vending milk and butter.
Is this you Mark Felton?
The Germans used to shoe cows? 1:29
No mention of young children shot by British forces after the war. Why?
11:47 Those legs are a Blitzkrieg.
Back when women (in Deutschland) did not shave underarm hair.
And also not in other places, i guess.
Well it's nature, so what can you do about that.
@@petervermeer.4904 When I was in Germany in the 1960s the girls that associated with American GIs shave under their arms but most of the others didn't. At first I was horrified but you get used to it. "au natural" ain't so bad.
What is with all the flickering lights? We already know the pictures are old. what stupid thing to add. clean it up and allow the pictures to speak for themselves.
9:10 Marlene Dietrich. I saw the interview with her daughter were she revealed some of her mother's secrets. After that I never cared for Marlene Dietrich.
A very nice little collection but "SHOEING" a cow in Langenthal (1.23) ? Are you sure ? EXAMINING .... even CLEANING the hoof of a possibly lame cow ..... TREATING an infected hoof ..... but SHOEING ?!!!! I seen a horseshoe, I seen a black shoe, I seen a house shoe. I seen a walking shoe and a shoe horn .... I seen a brake shoe .... but I ain't not never seen nor heard of a cow shoe.
Not me never too!
First and foremost: the start image with the three ladies laying on the beach does not show german women, they are french gals!! Believe me!!
No shoes on most kids... Some things have got better, while others of got way worse!
I don't know the story behind the photos, but back in the day,shoes were expensive and were hand- made by a cobbler. Children grow so fast they went barefoot in warm weather, getting a new pair before cold weather set in.
The pictures are random, going back and forward in time and location. Just slap a video together and get it out there. Nuremberg is nowhere near Berlin.
GENAU! Bin auch der Meinung. SEE my comment elsewhere, Allom33.
Never heard of Nuremberg. Do you (and he) mean "Nürnberg" ? It is true that he would have done well to have left that "Berlin" sentence out of the title. Some of the script is a bit dodgy too but a nice collection of photos nonetheless. I assume that you will not be watching any more from the series
Be grateful … you sound like a true Debbie downer
@@terryhoath1983 It could be done better.
I noticed some of the architecture was much more south Germany.
One of those 2 young women was Eva Braun.
Hitler Hitller Hitler Hitler
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler
Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler
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no
1926 - Awful cruelty towards their pets - I was not aware of. It still is a cruel country - without compassion.
Your attempts to conjure up backgrounds for some of these shots are laughable. The Bremen ‘animals’ have their own story, and no cows anywhere were ‘shod’ in the way you attempt to describe. Your ‘Westerkreis’ district is a tautology on your part, but then you wouldn’t know that anyway.
Nazis banned Mickey Mouse [despite Hitler liking some Disney movies] 8:47😘😘
They are all dead now.
Right -- because there *is literally* nothing 'fascinating' about Germany today
These people don't look German to Me
And yet they are 🙂 You have just experienced how quickly prejudices can fall apart.
@heliedecastanet1882 oh shut up dummy
Too much back and forth jumping to different eras and years. Chaotic + inaccurate descriptions
Terrible background music
This was good to see but kinda one dimensional.
Where were the later to be murdered Jews?
Why did Germany go to war when they appearantly had good times as well after "Versailles" which is often cited as a trigger to become triggered, shackled , etc?
Those pictures show different times, from 1900 to early 30's. So before Hitler and the III Reich.
Germany did not "go" to war whereas people had good times. After the Great Depression, life in Germany became a nightmare. Many books were written on that matter, on the why and the how.
@@heliedecastanet1882 Versailles was unjust it was said because Germany was strangled by restrictions, having to pay too high repairmentmoney.
One d expext a starved popluation. after Versailles , not partying et all, so the Great Depression after 1029 makes more sense as a reason.
And of course the crash was triggered by Jews?
@@jonblackers4339 Why do you say that the crash was triggered by the Jews ? Unless you are antisemitic, in which case I have nothing to say to you.
Have a good evening.
@@heliedecastanet1882 I m not anti Jewish, on the contrary, I was just outing sarcasm about all the tropes made about Jews doing all the wrongs, incl the theory they created Shoah in order to get Israel.
Seltene Vintage-Fotos? Das Foto vom "Blauen Engel" mit der Dietrich kennen Abermillionen aus allen möglichen Medien!
Dietrich is the only one that's widely known. Including her photos. I do my family tree and have an interest in old photos, especially from that era and region, and I haven't come across those in the video. Apart from Dietrich's, obviously. You are just nit-picking without the ability to pay attention to other things clearly visible in this selection, and without the common sense. Typical for your folks. Complaining and critisizing everything showing your intellectual inadequacies.
3:00 German sense of order! The group is clearly made up of a mother and five daughters, and they are all dressed essentially in the same "uniform" (a sort of "Dirndl" or "Dienderle", as we say in our parts). Jokingly, one wonders why the girls are not lined up in order of height/age ...
10:27 Second women from right. Putin in a dress.
Przed muslimami i reszta tej bandy, hehehehe
Who would imagine that most of those men would turn into bestial murderers of the ww2?
Kur…a, jak czysto, jak bezpiecznie , bez ciapatych!! I reszty tego barachla.