Entry Into Brussels Aka Brussels Delivered! (1944)

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  • Title reads: "Brussels Delivered!"
    Belgium.
    Various shots of British Sherman tanks, troop carriers, jeeps and other army vehicles moving through village, the locals cheer and shakes hands of soldiers. A sign hangs from a house reading "Welcome to the liberators", bunting and French and Belgium flags also decorate the villages. The convoy moves on past burning German vehicles. Various shots of civilians shaking their fists and shouting captured German soldiers. One German is weeping. M/S of Belgian civilians looking at dead body killed by Germans.
    Various shots of the convoy nearing centre of Brussels, crowds cheer from roadside. When in the city the thousands throng round and greet the liberators who include Belgian soldiers. M/S of members of the White Army, the Belgian resistance. More shots of allies being welcomed by joyous Belgians. One girl perches on army truck wearing soldier's hat, she waves at crowd.
    Various L/S of the burning Palace of Justice. Various shots of civilians forming a human chain outside the Palace to rescue important documents from flames. M/S of girl wearing dress made up of allied flags. More shots of cheering crowds greeting the liberators. M/S of Mayor of Brussels greeting army officers at Town Hall (Hotel de Ville).
    Various shots of the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Brussels. Various shots of crowds dancing in the streets, they tear up and burn Nazi flags in joy. Various shots of German soldiers being marched away. More shots cheering crowds greeting more soldiers.
    Note: some of commentary is by BBC war correspondent Chester Wilmott. Cameraman is also mentioned by narrator, he is Kenneth Gordon. AH 2001.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 136

  • @bluedevil3765
    @bluedevil3765 2 роки тому +92

    One of the most beautiful days in our history! Thank you Great Britain and United States! And the Piron Brigade of course!

    • @joecole7122
      @joecole7122 Рік тому +2

      You're from Belgium. What did you think of King Leopold iii and his role in the war?

    • @emib6599
      @emib6599 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@joecole7122
      Some years ago protestor against the racism asked to remove his statues from public places.
      The belgian government agreed and put them in a museum where is labelled as a genocidal.

    • @spencersholden
      @spencersholden 9 місяців тому +2

      @@joecole7122I have a Belgian friend who called him,”a disgrace to all Belgians.”

    • @spencersholden
      @spencersholden 9 місяців тому

      @@emib6599that is exactly where they belong.

    • @jonasastrom7422
      @jonasastrom7422 4 місяці тому

      @@emib6599 That's the wrong Leopold...

  • @UKFDANEDNBGEMINIJUNEIBIZA
    @UKFDANEDNBGEMINIJUNEIBIZA Рік тому +32

    my fathers father fled on foot to spain from belgium took a boat to uk joined the belgian army part of the uk army fought on dday in a later wave he helped liberate belgium and left the army. god save his soul.

    • @XennialTV
      @XennialTV 15 днів тому

      You mean.... your Grandfather?

  • @RobertThomson-y4m
    @RobertThomson-y4m Рік тому +15

    My grandfather was in the British troops that liberated Belgium and the Netherlands. Our greatest generation.

  • @robsan52
    @robsan52 2 роки тому +29

    I know in Holland and I believe in Belgium there are long lists of people waiting their turn, who have volunteered, to take care of the grave of a fallen allied soldier buried in their town. People will take care of a soldiers grave their entire life. Such an incredibly kind thing to do.

  • @Coolerman565
    @Coolerman565 Рік тому +9

    My Dad served with the Coldstream Guards Guards Armoured, he was in Brussels and for a short time was billited with a Belgien family, he would talk of them and their kindness many a time, then four months later Dad found himself at Cristmas down in the Ardenne freezing.

    • @godofzombi
      @godofzombi Місяць тому

      Did he fight at Beringen?

  • @usmale4915
    @usmale4915 4 роки тому +132

    My dad was a paratrooper during WWII. His platoon worked their way from southern France and helped liberate Paris! This video of Belgium and Brussels being liberated reminded me of my Dad. I guess the French were so overjoyed! Thank you for the video upload!

    • @paulmcdonough1093
      @paulmcdonough1093 4 роки тому +11

      Today the British take are country back leave e u British pride moves forward other nations don't have the guts to vote leave and they moan

    • @michaecide
      @michaecide 4 роки тому +7

      @Abdrasid Khalid You sound like a Nazi. Ironic.

    • @dukadarodear2176
      @dukadarodear2176 4 роки тому +8

      Your father's generation were made of great stuff.
      That was the last great Holy War.

    • @alexzander1839
      @alexzander1839 4 роки тому +2

      @@SugarRainer France would never have "Third Worlders" in the first place if they didn't extract a hefty colonial tax from their former colonies to this day. That is the root cause of the demise of those nations because it stunts their growth and the result is people fleeing those lands in search of better opportunities. Even the Italians called out rhe French on that which caused a row between those two countries. Google it up.

    • @charleswood7001
      @charleswood7001 4 роки тому +5

      @Jerry Pecks France is extremely divided today, and along ethnic lines. The Yellow Vests, largely unreported by the outside world should go some way to showing you how the globalist media behaves, what their agenda is, and also, just how divided and fractured France is. Also, the majority of babies born today in Paris are already non-white French. Much of Paris today looks like north Africa or some place in the middle east. Maybe you see that as a strength, maybe you think it is diversity, and a good thing.

  • @yxuzy7205
    @yxuzy7205 3 роки тому +23

    What a relief! What a joy it must have been to be liberated!

  • @dennisroyhall121
    @dennisroyhall121 3 роки тому +60

    The Belgians - bless ‘em [ and I say as a proud Englishman most sincerely ] are a fine people and have a really right beautiful national anthem both in music and in words, listen and read those two items...for the music, you can hear the tones as from 3:27 in the background....I salute them, all of them , Que vivent les Belges!

    • @vdreeh8601
      @vdreeh8601 3 роки тому +4

      i salut your country for the heroic actions to save me and my familly and country friends love from belgium

    • @aidanlutz8106
      @aidanlutz8106 2 роки тому

      I wish to move to Belgium when I get older

    • @vdreeh8601
      @vdreeh8601 2 роки тому

      @@aidanlutz8106 i live in belgium and lemme tell you that my country sucks

    • @aidanlutz8106
      @aidanlutz8106 2 роки тому

      @@vdreeh8601 I’d mostly live there because I want to work for International Relations in Brussels. And besides, I’d rather live there than America.

    • @vdreeh8601
      @vdreeh8601 2 роки тому +1

      @@aidanlutz8106 yeah but you wont earn that much our tax is 25% you will make like 1800€ a month so about 2000$ a month

  • @ColonelSponsz
    @ColonelSponsz Рік тому +10

    J' avais 6 ans en 44, et j' vu les volutes de fumee, qui s' echapait du dome du palais de justice, depuis le bas de la rue Guillaume Lekeu a Anderlecht ! C' etait la liberation !

  • @lw3646
    @lw3646 7 місяців тому +4

    Lots of people thought Germany was a few weeks from surrender by late summer 1944. The allies had recaptured France, Brussels, had pushed into Holland, the Russians were racing west. Somehow though the German army regrouped. Operation Market Garden didn't really work, the allied supply lines became stretched, the US forces advanced through woodland where they couldn't deploy their bombers or artillery. That winter as well was one of the coldest in memory.

  • @John-ob7dh
    @John-ob7dh 4 роки тому +65

    Fantastic to see little Belgium liberated.

    • @coetrupe
      @coetrupe 3 роки тому +1

      they still have the congo that time lol

    • @xgentis
      @xgentis 3 роки тому +8

      @@coetrupe And the brits had their whole Empire. Your point being?

    • @AlexandreAuCambodge
      @AlexandreAuCambodge 2 роки тому +1

      @@xgentis
      Not "little Belgium", then?

  • @juliataylor2623
    @juliataylor2623 3 роки тому +29

    Why is there so little footage of this episode in our history. What a great country we are this is tearfully moving footage.

    • @gordonspicer
      @gordonspicer Рік тому +2

      unfortunately its "were". That aspect is terribly sad to many

  • @alessandrocarpi9898
    @alessandrocarpi9898 2 роки тому +21

    Thanks to Britain & Canada even for the liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands.

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 2 роки тому

      It's a shame you treated us so badly over Brexit, when we gained our liberty. Then you allowed the Germans back in .

    • @walesruels
      @walesruels 2 роки тому +4

      It makes me cry with joy watching this!
      With love from Britain.

    • @Martin-es8mb
      @Martin-es8mb 4 місяці тому +1

      Vive la Belquie.

  • @hendriktrappeniers2916
    @hendriktrappeniers2916 2 роки тому +14

    The Belgian Brigade Piron got an heroes welcome. You see colonel Piron at the hotel de ville with the bourgmestre.

  • @lw3646
    @lw3646 Рік тому +5

    An amazing day. So much emotion and joy.

  • @Hereford1642
    @Hereford1642 6 місяців тому +2

    My favourite bit is at 0:42 when the angry woman goes to hit the German prisoner and the guard just puts his hand up:-
    'Now now madam, no need for that sort of thing.'

  • @tony2682
    @tony2682 3 роки тому +17

    and to think that most of those soldiers and people in the crowds are now no longer with us.

  • @davidbcousins18
    @davidbcousins18 3 роки тому +16

    The question for us is whether the darkness will fall again and humanity must again suffer to regain freedom from tyranny.

    • @fjimmel
      @fjimmel 3 роки тому +4

      Socialist Democrats will ruin America. It will be a rough 4 years.

    • @pincermovement72
      @pincermovement72 7 місяців тому

      Look at the whole of the west now , the difference from these pictures is easy to discern and easy to predict.

  • @michelsmet2611
    @michelsmet2611 Рік тому +4

    Commentaire un peu cru d'un défunt collègue ayant vécu la Libération de Bruxelles : "C'était de la folie, on baisait dans les rues, en public !".

  • @aderfigueroa
    @aderfigueroa 3 роки тому +15

    Good job Brussels saving the Books 📚 saving History

  • @matthewwalkemar8726
    @matthewwalkemar8726 2 роки тому +2

    Loved learning about this in the documentary the world at war episode 19 pincers

  • @eugenebell3166
    @eugenebell3166 4 роки тому +17

    Good stuff!

  • @richardloring7545
    @richardloring7545 Рік тому +5

    5th Coldsyream guards....my dads brother was there ..died 11th April crossing River Hase in Germany ...at end of war

  • @madeleinemalefason
    @madeleinemalefason 2 роки тому +3

    Interesting to see !

  • @gordonspicer
    @gordonspicer Рік тому +2

    glororious to watch and made me very proud yet sad as this was probably Britain's peak of power & respect. Tear in my eye how low we have become all thanks to our own Government & ex- Prime Minister Cameron

  • @robertlaube574
    @robertlaube574 4 роки тому +6

    Awsome channel, i live in the wrong time

    • @smoaky123
      @smoaky123 4 роки тому +7

      Why would you EVER want to live back then??

    • @paulinbrooklyn
      @paulinbrooklyn 4 роки тому +5

      KING POTUS
      You needn’t interpret Robert Laube’s comment literally to understand the sentiment. After nearly four years of living in the surreal political climate here in the US and seven months of being aware of the Global Pandemic, it sure would be a nice catharsis to have a moment in time when those two threats have been eradicated.

    • @robertlaube574
      @robertlaube574 4 роки тому +5

      @@paulinbrooklyn amen, well said, thank you.

  • @leaomartinofaria1667
    @leaomartinofaria1667 2 роки тому +2

    Interessante mesmo...o povo depositou todas as confiança nos aliados principalmente os EUA....a liberdade sempre tem o seu preço!

  • @mattdevereaux4550
    @mattdevereaux4550 Рік тому +1

    Joyous!

  • @carlmorris6744
    @carlmorris6744 3 роки тому +2

    I love it!!

  • @TANKTREAD
    @TANKTREAD Рік тому

    Celebrate the love!

  • @Finglesham
    @Finglesham 2 роки тому +6

    Interesting to see now, but bloody terrifying at the time for the soldiers. I know as my father was there. 21st Army Group, 11th Armoured Division 13th Royal Horse Artillery. L/Bdr. It was not all fun and games. He spent 4 years of his life doing that stuff and survived ( hence me). I am pleased that I did not have to do that. Still, The Germans are the major power in Europe and provide the cash for the other wastrels to carry on their communist policies. ( France/Italy in particular) I am glad us UK people are out and I hope my grandsons never have to fight that lot again.

  • @cababyboomerq6012
    @cababyboomerq6012 3 роки тому +8

    The Nazis were so heartless.....so disgusting.

  • @jenniferjuniper97
    @jenniferjuniper97 3 роки тому +3

    May we all be so happy again. Up democracy in the USA!

  • @zdenkacogleiova286
    @zdenkacogleiova286 3 роки тому +2

    Dej susulku konce tá má skúsenosti!

  • @lidijatravina7438
    @lidijatravina7438 Рік тому +1

    Человечество без мудрых лидеров это ужас! Неужели по такому фильму 1944 это непонятно? Ненавидите Россию, надо сдерживаться, чтобы такая война не вернулась снова!

  • @nomis777
    @nomis777 2 роки тому

    What a video .

  • @matthewpayne42
    @matthewpayne42 3 роки тому +1

    The Belgium poeple fared better than their neighbours the starving Dutch.

  • @chriscarr9171
    @chriscarr9171 3 роки тому +5

    Short memories I'm afraid.

  • @tillavanrooyen4182
    @tillavanrooyen4182 3 роки тому +1

    A short respite in a war that will only be over once the earth has found it's equilibrium. Whether it be heaven or hell.

  • @emib6599
    @emib6599 2 роки тому +5

    Those people were the people that created the EU (the embryo started in 1951) after witnessing the last big genocidal imperialist war, with the idea that never again a person in Europe has to live towards this again only because he borne in to a border instead of another.
    The peoples that write neo fascist propaganda should be ashamed for spitting on those memories and those deaths.
    .
    Please if you find people that spit on this memories put a thumb down 👎you'll make their propaganda comments falling down in to oblivion of the chat.

  • @eduardoleva9842
    @eduardoleva9842 Рік тому

    Todavía faltaba mucho, toda la costa hacia el mar, más allá de Amberes en manos de los nazis. Pero hermoso momento para los belgas sacarse de encima a los invasores.

  • @christophersibley3023
    @christophersibley3023 2 роки тому

    How easily they have forgotten us there freedom fighters

  • @Anonymous-bn1lo
    @Anonymous-bn1lo 3 роки тому +1

    In 1944 my grandpa in africa they call them " white savior "

  • @Zander_45
    @Zander_45 2 роки тому +2

    De nos jours, à Molenbeek et Anderlecht (2 communes de Bruxelles), ils arriveraient à jeter des pierres sur ces héros

  • @harleyblue999
    @harleyblue999 2 роки тому

    How could todays forget so quickly,inevitable time the destroyer,those of that day sadly gone,replaced with a moral less society.I weep watching this.

  • @MrJaEsteban
    @MrJaEsteban 3 роки тому +1

    The same Belgians had welcomed Leon Degrelle and the Wallonie Legion a few months earlier ...?

    • @RangaTurk
      @RangaTurk 3 роки тому

      Point taken, but the French also managed to expand their Paris underground Metropolitain subway system at the height of the German occupation in 1942.

    • @hendriktrappeniers2916
      @hendriktrappeniers2916 2 роки тому +4

      No not the same Belgians, it was a very small minority that welcomed him. At the liberation, you may be certain that those persons were not there (they were hiding for the wrath of the real Belgians).

  • @trevermcdonald2402
    @trevermcdonald2402 3 роки тому +6

    Their gratitude didn’t last long, they now prefer the EU to the UK. Such is life!

    • @johnfitzpatrick4007
      @johnfitzpatrick4007 3 роки тому +12

      It was the Uk that left the Eu.Get your facts right.

    • @gray3553
      @gray3553 3 роки тому +2

      @@johnfitzpatrick4007 Yes, and the fuckers tried to shaft us a few weeks ago with Clause 16 and made themselves look like "bell ends" to the rest of Europe.

    • @johnfitzpatrick4007
      @johnfitzpatrick4007 3 роки тому +1

      @@gray3553 They have been shafting us for 300 years,yet there is still people who believe we benefit from a corrupt government we haven’t voted for in 60 years.

    • @xgentis
      @xgentis 3 роки тому +2

      Grateful sure but not suicidal.

  • @davidnavarro4821
    @davidnavarro4821 Рік тому

    To the octogenarians and nonagerians on UA-cam: does anyone remember witnessing these events ?

  • @dealermando
    @dealermando 2 роки тому

    That night , they had Guylian chocolate for Dinner, while watching brussels burning

  • @Charles-t7z
    @Charles-t7z Місяць тому

    Sure, acting all big and bad when the Brits arrive. That's easy.

  • @walkingandadventures6114
    @walkingandadventures6114 2 роки тому +4

    Perhaps EU should watch a few of these videos…

  • @fjimmel
    @fjimmel 3 роки тому +3

    The proud English in American trucks and jeeps and tanks.

    • @marypetrie930
      @marypetrie930 3 роки тому +1

      Fjimmel....Idiot!

    • @eugenemurray2940
      @eugenemurray2940 2 роки тому +6

      Er...Allied Vehicles....
      Backed up by P51 Ds...
      American Airframe...
      With British pattern engines...

    • @rnstoo1
      @rnstoo1 2 роки тому +7

      Its the BRITISH army. And the most effective American tanks had British guns. It was an Allied effort including a major Canadian effort as well. At the end of the day it is the MEN that count

    • @silverhost9782
      @silverhost9782 2 роки тому +7

      And the proud Americans with their British naval radar, ASW equipment and nuclear research are probably off screen somewhere too

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 2 роки тому +5

      Besides the obvious Shermans and Jeeps most of the vehicles were British (or Canadian).

  • @westpointsnell4167
    @westpointsnell4167 3 роки тому +1

    Why aren't these Germans sleeping

  • @woodenseagull1899
    @woodenseagull1899 2 роки тому +1

    Yet....Thats all forgotten today by the EU
    " Gravy Train ". Who then, puts a German in charge...!

  • @Olaf_Stein
    @Olaf_Stein Рік тому

    Es lebe das heilige Deutschland.

  • @dealermando
    @dealermando 2 роки тому

    They should have come earlier and liberate belgian Congo too from the hands of the sadistic belgians

    • @albert_the_first
      @albert_the_first 29 днів тому

      To be clear only leopold and a few europians knew about congo his army in congo was completely made of congonese soldiers please learn your history

  • @maku8075
    @maku8075 3 роки тому +3

    Now they are under Soviet European Union. 😂🤷

    • @gabykoynkuli5704
      @gabykoynkuli5704 2 роки тому +1

      Yes but we have chosen to be under the control of Soviet european union. That’s the difference

  • @leaomartinofaria1667
    @leaomartinofaria1667 2 роки тому

    Foi triste demais a humilhante derrota dos Alemães durante a 1 guerra mundial e 2 guerra!

  • @privateemail5870
    @privateemail5870 3 роки тому

    Thanks to the USSR!

    • @Suma_Naide
      @Suma_Naide 2 роки тому +1

      Ok commie

    • @64MDW
      @64MDW 2 роки тому

      With billions of dollars in aid and countless Lend-Lease tanks, aircraft, equipment, jeeps, trucks, fuel, coal, food, communications wire, food, gasoline, and much, much more. A lot of good men died getting the goods to Russia...something the Russians still don't admit. Stuff Russia. The legacy of Stalin lives on...ask the people of Ukraine.

    • @privateemail5870
      @privateemail5870 2 роки тому

      @@64MDW are you done crying?

    • @silverhost9782
      @silverhost9782 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks to the big 3!

    • @stevetaylor8698
      @stevetaylor8698 2 роки тому +2

      The Germans wouldn't have been there in the first place had in not been for the German/Russian alliance. The Russia would have folded had they not received allied support.