Allied forces take Prisoners of War and the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945

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  • Опубліковано 19 чер 2023
  • This is an excerpt from the film "The Spirit of Liberation": • Spirit of Liberation -...
    Between D-Day and the end of April 1945, more than 2.8 million German soldiers surrendered on the Western Front and seriously weakened the German Wehrmacht in the West. On the 7th of May 1945, shortly after the death of Adolf Hitler, the unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed by General Alfred Jodl, who was the Chief of Staff of the German Army at that time. He signed four documents at the same time, one for each country of the Allied forces: the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 196

  • @Franke-wq7nd
    @Franke-wq7nd Місяць тому +10

    Für meine Großeltern war es keine Befreiung.

  • @andymurday4538
    @andymurday4538 Місяць тому +7

    This is high quality footage footage that has the look and feel of a 1970s news bulletin.

  • @harrylime8077
    @harrylime8077 4 місяці тому +14

    Stunning that the buildings are crushed but the trees still have their leaves!!!! When everything human is gone, nature will survive!!

  • @vro1313
    @vro1313 11 місяців тому +35

    translation for the broadcast at 2:59 "we are broadcasting the last Wehrmacht report of this war, from the headquaters of the Grand Admiral, the 9th of May 1945. The High Command of the Wehrmacht states a ceasefire on all fronts at midnight. The Grand Admiral commanded to stop this hopeless battle of the Wehrmacht. Therefore, almost six years of suffering ends. We had great victories but also heavy defeats. The German Wehrmacht is inferior to the mighty superiority."

  • @AngloAm
    @AngloAm 2 місяці тому +3

    I wonder if that giant field was the Feld des Jammers near Bad Kreuznach.

  • @anonymous76231
    @anonymous76231 7 місяців тому +7

    once again, phenomenal colorization from you guys. by any chance, could you colorize footage from the asian theatre or imperial japan?

    • @rohan34
      @rohan34 3 місяці тому +2

      i think this is originally coloured

    • @johnmcdonald157
      @johnmcdonald157 3 місяці тому

      @@rohan34 Yes, it is real color. 16mm.

  • @cal.3626
    @cal.3626 11 місяців тому +21

    These comments are insane

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 3 місяці тому +5

    Dad was in Czechloslavakia on VE Day.

  • @jackieyu4787
    @jackieyu4787 Місяць тому +2

    I can't imagine how this must have felt

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible 11 місяців тому +13

    3:22, an aerial view of the enormous amount of German prisoners.

    • @robz537
      @robz537 11 місяців тому

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^truth is they let a majority starve

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 9 місяців тому

      Prisoners are in prison, these must be outsiders or something, and soon they'll all be diers.

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 4 місяці тому +2

      @@rosesprog1722 "Disarmed enemy forces"

    • @rosesprog1722
      @rosesprog1722 4 місяці тому

      @@henryseidel5469 Yes, thanks.

    • @wolfenstein6676
      @wolfenstein6676 4 місяці тому

      "Eisenhower's death camps", they were called. The fields of mud were their 'prison', the 'Red Cross' banned from helping them and their status was changed from "Prisoners of War" to "Disarmed Enemy Forces", as Henry mentioned. Research it. General Patton set his prisoners free and stated, "We went to war with the wrong enemy.". He was killed shortly after by OSS Agent, Major Douglas Bazata.

  • @vincentdima4261
    @vincentdima4261 Місяць тому +3

    C'est d'une grande épouvante ses images, cela a donc été cela après ce conflit inimaginable, cela dans une Allemagne en ruine, dépecée, réduite à l'occupation des vainqueurs avec son cortège de viol, de vol de misère et aussi avec des millions de soldats prisonniers parqués en quantités et des conditions Impensables dehors et sans abris et avec des blessés, combien de victime encore, une honte pour les dits libérateurs et les démocrates. La faute à Hitler et aux nazis seulement ?

  • @PlanetRatshit
    @PlanetRatshit 11 місяців тому +17

    Bei 1:54 ist ein Übersetzungfehler. Im englischen sagt die Stimme "demobilized", nicht "demoralized".

  • @joeguzman3558
    @joeguzman3558 9 місяців тому +8

    And today anyone of those uniforms are worth thousands of dollars

    • @MrMarcelinho20
      @MrMarcelinho20 4 місяці тому +1

      not only that. when germany was destroyed. the americans took over the shape of the german helmet.

    • @paulsawczyc5019
      @paulsawczyc5019 17 днів тому

      Who is gonna pay that? Will you?

  • @AnthonyBSulla
    @AnthonyBSulla 3 місяці тому +4

    How about the war in pacific?

  • @blainekeller6057
    @blainekeller6057 Місяць тому +3

    55 million people died in WW2

  • @imathreat209
    @imathreat209 11 місяців тому +2

    I believe that cathedral in the beginning was the place where the pershing took out the panther tank. I could be wrong

    • @sebulon401
      @sebulon401 3 місяці тому

      Das ist Köln mein Freund.

    • @OswaldOstfalen
      @OswaldOstfalen 3 місяці тому

      Meinte er auch..

    • @DocBolle
      @DocBolle 3 місяці тому

      No, this is Frankfurt -- or what is left of it.

    • @pawdre2492
      @pawdre2492 14 днів тому

      no that isnt cologne

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes1963 25 днів тому +2

    The end of the Reich, but the beginning of the Soviet empire.

  • @juliemerritt5144
    @juliemerritt5144 11 місяців тому +16

    Greatest Generation. Heroes

  • @imrank340
    @imrank340 11 місяців тому +9

    For the ordinary soldiers Nightmares and Terreny over.

    • @richirichii
      @richirichii 11 місяців тому +5

      No, youre wrong, many thounds we're killed after the war in Camps of Hunger or Illnes

    • @imrank340
      @imrank340 11 місяців тому

      @@richirichii
      I wrote ordinary Soldiers.

    • @richirichii
      @richirichii 11 місяців тому +1

      @@imrank340 i know

  • @richardsimms251
    @richardsimms251 2 місяці тому +3

    Was it difficult to feed and provide proper hygiene and housing for these German POWs ?

    • @dinkeydink9376
      @dinkeydink9376 2 місяці тому +1

      They did not. They killed 9 million Germans on purpouse after the war. Morgenthau Plan read it. Disgusting reading and allies implemented it 1945 to 1949 killing 9 million civilian Germans. The biggest massmurder ever done. THAT is a crime against humanity!! Crazy morons. At that is the crazy elite ruling us.

    • @mentalretard2359
      @mentalretard2359 Місяць тому

      ​@@dinkeydink9376the same people who believed that inferior races should be exterminated.

  • @Leonidussssssssssss
    @Leonidussssssssssss 11 місяців тому

    Just great!!’

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 11 місяців тому +7

    Grandadmiral Donuts Doenitz

  • @johnmcdonald157
    @johnmcdonald157 3 місяці тому +1

    Yeah. Didn't they all want to get to the American lines.

    • @VCRider
      @VCRider 2 місяці тому

      Yes they did. They invaded The soviets and not the Americans.

  • @YU-mv3ku
    @YU-mv3ku 5 місяців тому

    Yugoslavia ❤

  • @twe73jr
    @twe73jr 2 місяці тому

    ⚖️

  • @chester_bennington_
    @chester_bennington_ 11 місяців тому +25

    Слава советскому солдату!

    • @user-uf2xq7be6i
      @user-uf2xq7be6i 11 місяців тому +6

      Солидарен

    • @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt
      @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt 11 місяців тому +6

      Тогда они сражались против нацистов. Сегодня они сражаются с невинными гражданскими лицами. Какая деградация

    • @user-uf2xq7be6i
      @user-uf2xq7be6i 11 місяців тому +6

      @@rtertgrrtgwrtzwt эти невинные лица обливали зелёнкой ветеранов, открыто говорили, что ненавидят Русских. Они получают только то, что заслуживают!!!

    • @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt
      @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt 11 місяців тому

      @@user-uf2xq7be6i Я не ненавижу русских. У меня есть русские друзья. Я просто ненавижу то, что они делают в соседней стране.

    • @chester_bennington_
      @chester_bennington_ 11 місяців тому +1

      @@rtertgrrtgwrtzwt 🤣🤣🤣ты серьезно? Насмешил! Советского солдата сейчас не существует! Ну а русский солдат - это отдельная тема, и я не согласен с твоей риторикой относительно этого! Но нет желания спорить так как тезисы уже заранее известны и месить воду в ступе я не хочу, ведь каждый останется при своём мнении один хрен!

  • @infori0
    @infori0 11 місяців тому +1

  • @MOHAMMEDCOBRA101
    @MOHAMMEDCOBRA101 11 місяців тому +3

    The end 😢

  • @richirichii
    @richirichii 11 місяців тому +3

    Why all trees are green and buildings destroyed?

    • @chrisl211
      @chrisl211 11 місяців тому +11

      because trees have green leaves.

    • @GQ2593
      @GQ2593 11 місяців тому +3

      Allied troops had a predilection for bombing civ infrastructure

    • @Dozz70
      @Dozz70 11 місяців тому +9

      Trees recover quickly....buildings Don't!🤣

    • @user-kh4dg7ex2l
      @user-kh4dg7ex2l 11 місяців тому

      Деревья зелёные ,потому ,что не применяли ФОСФОРНЫЕ БОМБЫ ,КАК ЭТО РАШИСТЫ ДЕЛАЛИ В УКРАИНЕ И СИРИИ.

    • @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt
      @rtertgrrtgwrtzwt 11 місяців тому +1

      It's a black-white video that's been recolored years later

  • @shafaquenarayan4933
    @shafaquenarayan4933 11 місяців тому

    Study and building 🏫

  • @Ed99924
    @Ed99924 11 місяців тому +26

    You forgot to mention the 'Eisenhower Death Camps' in your presentation, where good old 'Ike' starved German POW's to death. The stories from some of the American guards who were there are heart wrenching.

    • @johnmat4678
      @johnmat4678 11 місяців тому

      Yeah, up there with the Nazi death camps!

    • @mirquellasantos2716
      @mirquellasantos2716 11 місяців тому

      Germans stop playing the victim card cause you committed the worst atrocities ever. Americans treated Germans like gold cause to America race is the most important thing. Even the German soldiers who stayed in America wanted to stay. And many of them returned to the USA.

    • @LarsCarlsen-or6ky
      @LarsCarlsen-or6ky 11 місяців тому

      Nonsense. And to the devil w that scum of earth !!!!!

    • @loge10
      @loge10 11 місяців тому +19

      I know this won't matter to you, but you are describing the conclusions of the book "Other Losses" that been pretty much refuted. I'm not saying the Allies were squeaky clean in their handling of Axis POWs, especially at end of the war, but the mass conspiracy described in the book has been shown to be based on methods and conclusions seriously flawed and biased. But, sadly, many people believe what they want to believe and reality doesn't matter. Just look at our present times.

    • @LarsCarlsen-or6ky
      @LarsCarlsen-or6ky 11 місяців тому

      @@loge10 great response Germany started and lost two wars in one century and behaved horribly during them A family member died of poison gas in the Kaiser War.. The Krauts who came to Canada all fought on the Russian front btw. Canada took them bec they were good workers !! JA and efficient cf the death camps YUCK

  • @maymch3000
    @maymch3000 9 місяців тому +12

    History is written by the victors

  • @MikeAGarza
    @MikeAGarza 11 місяців тому +4

    Millions German Wehrmacht in POW prison camp no trees and no shelters and no showers but where millions German SS guards and officers not there in POW ?

    • @Eagle-hj9ud
      @Eagle-hj9ud 11 місяців тому +1

      They were killed, if they found them

    • @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh
      @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh 11 місяців тому

      No, Waffen SS got special treatment - instant death!

    • @mirquellasantos2716
      @mirquellasantos2716 11 місяців тому

      Actually if you do the math it was deadlier in the German camps. Soviet camps had a 36% possibility of death but German camps had a 67% of survival. Germans were cruel and brutes.

    • @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh
      @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh 11 місяців тому

      @@mirquellasantos2716 Yes! But, German camps exist no more than 12 years. And Soviet camps ( gulags ) exist many more years and its were too many in Siberia and other parts of USSR. I understand that soviet regime never did not got extermination camps like Nazis. But, soviet gulags did much more damage on population of USSR and Europa than Nazi death camp regime. Because, that time was too short and victims were mostly communists and Jews. And they were not too without sins. I do not say that is a justice, but that is a historical fact.

    • @johnmcdonald157
      @johnmcdonald157 5 місяців тому

      9@@Eagle-hj9ud The Russians killed any SS they got a hold off. Every Kraut who could Wehrmacht and SS ran their tails off to get to the American lines. Yeah. Everybody wanted to get to the American lines. There's loads of video right here on You Tube of this very thing.

  • @sherlocklucifer1190
    @sherlocklucifer1190 9 місяців тому +8

    Liberators don't loot, abduct, torture, rape or murder. The allied war criminals took away the status of POW. They said all soldiers are criminals.

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 4 місяці тому +2

      They called them 'disarmed enemy forces' to justify the treatment shown in these pictures. Disgusting !

    • @dinkeydink9376
      @dinkeydink9376 2 місяці тому

      Morgenthau Plan, the killing of 9 million civilian Germans after the ww2, 1945 to 1949. The largest number of civilians beeing killed ever. Disgusting reading. THAT IS A CRIME AGANST HUMANITY! Have we seen any persons hang for that? Of course not. Sick peoole.

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 3 місяці тому

    Germany ended up winning. Marshall plan rebuilt her with all new machinery. And who do you think dominates the EU? So in fact Germany ended up creating and running a Grosse Europa.

  • @w.w.4630
    @w.w.4630 11 місяців тому +1

    In The Number Of The Beast No Surrender!!

  • @Quanvietdung1
    @Quanvietdung1 11 місяців тому +5

    Hey Germans, are you humiliating and embarrassed to watch this? 😂

    • @tangohotel0815
      @tangohotel0815 11 місяців тому +11

      Nein, wir nachfolgenden Generationen haben uns mit unserer Geschichte auseinandergesetzt und unsere Schlüsse gezogen. Mind your own business….🙂

    • @haraldthorson9153
      @haraldthorson9153 11 місяців тому +13

      No but are the French and British after seeing their cities today embarrassed for what they fought for?

    • @carmenpozzi7357
      @carmenpozzi7357 11 місяців тому +4

      Per quale motivo dovrebbero sentirsicosi'?Voi che avete utilizzato l' atomica????

    • @mirquellasantos2716
      @mirquellasantos2716 11 місяців тому +2

      Germans back then were cruel and super evil but Germans today are good people. Judging them for the sins of their great-grandparents is just not fair. About the decline in the UK and France, remember those countries were colonizers and live off the blood of the people they were colonizing. They don't have those colonies anymore and that's why they are dying.

    • @redskyatnight123
      @redskyatnight123 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@@haraldthorson9153I think the whole of the western working class has been betrayed

  • @omiga5
    @omiga5 Місяць тому

    AMERIKA wird

  • @undercoverneunzehn
    @undercoverneunzehn 11 місяців тому +36

    The last free nation on earth :(

    • @sergeiorlov_43
      @sergeiorlov_43 11 місяців тому +18

      Neonazi?)

    • @angelrogo
      @angelrogo 11 місяців тому

      @@sergeiorlov_43 Yes, like all germans.

    • @theshadow-
      @theshadow- 11 місяців тому +1

      @@sergeiorlov_43 only stupid.

    • @Mostrichkugel
      @Mostrichkugel 11 місяців тому

      Träume weiter vom Endsieg, braunes Würstchen.

    • @lifeindetale
      @lifeindetale 11 місяців тому +1

      War sucks

  • @pierrewichser2298
    @pierrewichser2298 11 місяців тому +6

    200 Tsd Russen in ukr. Gefangenschaft und jeder müsste 10 Jahre Aufbauarbeit leisten ... wäre ein Wunschgedanken von mir.

    • @erwin141
      @erwin141 11 місяців тому

      Du bist aber nicht bei Wünsch dir was, also werden deine abartigen Wünsche wohl nicht in Erfüllung gehen du Wi.....

    • @henryseidel5469
      @henryseidel5469 4 місяці тому

      Die korrupten Banderas, die schon mit der SS jüdische Menschen in Lager brachten oder gleich erschossen, durch die Russen zum Teufel zu jagen wäre ein Wunschgedanke von mir. Da wird ein ganzes Volk für Nato-Geostrategie geopfert. Begleitet von einer Hollywood-Freiheitsgeschichte...

  • @wombatwilly1002
    @wombatwilly1002 8 місяців тому +1

    Give 'em hell Harry!

  • @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh
    @DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh 11 місяців тому +14

    Never in european history so many soldiers surrender without conditions. And never in history of Europa so many defeated soldiers finished in nameless concentration camps of western Allies and soviets gulags for so many years and even decades. That is the first day of occupation of Europa, from 9th of May, 1945 to the present days. RIP to all Axis powers soldiers and innocence civilians who were killed or abused from all soldiers who win ww2.

    • @maxsportsman2416
      @maxsportsman2416 4 місяці тому

      What a historically ignorant comment! More innocent civilians were slaughtered by the axis forces than by the allied forces!

    • @robertomeneghetti6215
      @robertomeneghetti6215 4 місяці тому +2

      Poor victims... 😂😂😀😀

    • @dinkeydink9376
      @dinkeydink9376 2 місяці тому

      Morgenthau Plan, the killing of 9 million civilian Germans after the ww2, 1945 to 1949. The largest number of civilians beeing killed ever. Disgusting reading. THAT IS A CRIME AGANST HUMANITY! Have we seen any persons hang for that? Of course not. Sick peoole.

    • @user-nx5ks3tl6w
      @user-nx5ks3tl6w Місяць тому +1

      Сами нарвались

  • @angelrogo
    @angelrogo 11 місяців тому +5

    The day the United Nations won the war against the first Evil Empire. But Germany never learned the lesson...