And this was just a tiny fraction of the masses of POW that went into captivity. Over a million missing, many of which died in Soviet prison camps that more than 20 times the size of the crowd we see on the video. The sacrifice of human life is beyond anything we have experience in human history and it was made possible by a small group of people.
Too many kids and young faces. War is terrible. No matter what side. I hope the world doesn't have to go through something as disastrous as world war 2 again.
Anyone who says they deserved it is wrong.did Americans think trump would be great?Yes,he just didnt make the people commit crimes against humanity. I dont think alot of germans thought he would have brought destruction. And I dont think you have a choice against conscription.
The German officers or generals had a better life even in these camps than the normal soldiers or the children soldiers. Even women were arrested separately in tents. The normal soldiers lived there like the rats. Without wood houses or tents, directly on the ground with all weather conditions, food, clean water and medical help. They were persons without any rights and again the Convention by red cross international. My father was in the Rheinwiesenlager Sinzig near Koblenz which is shown in the film. He was 18th and still a schoolboy. Arrested in 18.06.1945 he got his certificate of discharge from this camp in 24.06.1945. He never forgot the experience and terrible situations in this prisoner camp. My father was not a Nazi or SS-soldier, only a German soldier in an bataillion of the Wehrmacht. After war he studied and became an architect near Heidelberg/Germany. He died in October 2018.
"My Father was a only Wehrmacht soldier ."??? Do you imagine how many Polish civilians people was executed by Wehrmacht? No, not Nazi , just Wehrmacht formation killing Polish kids women old people with cold blood. Warsaw Posnan Cracov Torun and many other Polish towns and villages. you don't even imagine what Wehrmacht did before they killed the Polish women including under age girls. Shame on you and respect. It's not Nazi invasion my country 1/09/1939 but 6 millions regular German soldiers mostly Wehrmacht. You comment make me sick. Shame on you end start lerning true History.
@@slawomirzgrabczynski1937 Too bad comments like this get posted very often. Poor nazis and wehrmacht soldiers. What about millions of civilian casualties without even considering those perished in the cocncentration camps. I am from a former yugoslavia country and I know very well what you are speaking of. Shame on them.
@@okramra Such a great comment. The Nazis not only murdered the Jews of every country that they invaded but they also rounded up and executed anyone who was opposed to the Third Reich; like teachers, lawyers, politicians, etc.
Irrespective of "blame" I see in these men two entire generations utterly mangled and broken.. In these young boys I can see my own 11 year old son and my heart hurts to see their shock and bewilderment, the loss of their youth in that time. They became a collective part of the suffering of adult men all around them, hurdled together like human cattle without any dignity left. The silent witnesses that forever had lost any notion of a strong father figure.
My thoughts exactly. A handful of idiots caused all the pain and suffering for millions. The beginning of Nazi rule is very similar to what I see in America today. The very same playbook, but it's much broader than a handful.
The end of the myth of the Master Race. I met a couple of Germans who had served in the Wehrmacht in WWII when I was in the USAF in 1979. One had been pro-nazi and the other had not. The pro-nazis family had been wiped out in Allied air raids. The non-political soldier’s family had become communists in East Germany after the war. Both stayed in the US after being released and never went back to Germany. I knew their daughters, who had never known anything about their fathers service in the German army. Both men had been carpenters before the war, met in prison camp where they helped build the barracks at Ft Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. They both worked for ex-GI’s who started a construction company after coming home. Their American ex-enemies had taught them English and helped them study for their citizenship test because both were good workers and had led quiet, hardworking lives. The one who had been pro-nazi had been badly beaten by other German prisoners when he said he had been wrong to support Hitler. When I see this video I can see men that were just like the men I became friends with 35 years later.
I knew a man who was in those camps, in the Rhine Meadows camps. He was drafted shortly before the end of the war, sent to France and captured near Düren. This man was deprived of all his personal belongings by the US guards. Cooking utensils, tent train, clothes, watch and everything that could/would be taken home as a souvenir . He never spoke of the US soldiers with hatred, there was more resignation in his words, he told only once of the captivity, of the hunger, the dead that no one could carry away and a US soldier who was yelled at because he gave food to the prisoners. When he came out of captivity he was a broken man, sick in body and soul. This man was my grandfather, whom I loved more than anything, from whom I learned my profession as a district forester.
It’s interesting what a home country and their propaganda can do to the mind of a seemingly good person. Sad, but I’m glad your friends got out and were able to lead peaceful lives.
My grandfather was captured by the Americans in Africa and shipped to America. He was in the Luftwaffe and I think he and his comrades fared better there. Greetings from Germany
I find it interesting that some soldiers, especially some officers, were quite clean with seemingly freshly pressed uniforms whilst most others looked like they had been through hell.
My Grandfather Harry Schneider was a POW (Google him) snuck out of camp twice to find or steal 1 potato and an egg.... He took it back to add to the boiled snow to add flavouring and share it with everyone. He eventually escaped for good and became famous for good reasons in aviation
These camps are temporary camps which were built AFTER conflict had ended. At the time were all around Germany. The German soldiers and airmen would be disarmed and medically treated where necessary. "Due to the numbers of prisoners, the Americans transferred internal control of the camps to the Germans. Former German troops from the Wehrmacht's Feldgendarmerie (Military Police) and Feldjagerkorps (Military Police) known as Wehrmachtordnungstruppe (Armed Forces Order Troops) maintained order in the camps."
Mark Dermeister Yes, we fought on the wrong side! You are correct about General G.C. Patton, he knew and was going to expose the lies when he got back to the US. Funny, (not really) but he was murdered.Accident my a..e.
@@paddybrennan3644 indoctrinated Hitler Youth. It's unspeakably awful when a nation is so deep in defeat that it feels it has to call on its last resources rather than surrender before it comes to this. The planners of Operation Valkyrie, in their way, sought to avoid it coming to this.
@@musteila6789 Without this victorious army, you would still be living under a dictator. So, just say "thank you" to the allied forces who liberated you. And you can't expect the victourious allied forces to provide hotel beds to seven million Nazi Soldiers who surrendered . Their fate was much better than the fate of their victims.
5:00 Guy turns back towards the cameraman as the gate shuts him in. He's loaded down with stuff in the back and both front pockets of his britches. Was he flaunting it like a runway model or what? Thanks for posting.
Were conditions great? No. I am American. It is easy to blame us & the other Allied powers. Conditions were absolutely horrible all over Europe at the time. Whole armies surrendered( hundreds of thousands soldiers not individual small groups). Millions of refugees from Eastern Europe poured west. Millions of refugees from Europe were homeless & on the move. Displaced people & forced slave laborers were set free from interment camps with no where to go( by the thousands). Everywhere transportation had broken done, supply chains broken, food distribution very poor, housing virtually non existent, heat sources gone, manufacturing, non existence, farming annihilated. I am sorry but POWs were at the bottom of the food chain. German officiers were put in charge of the camps, overall administration by the Allies..German field kitchens cooked & distributed the food. Most of the POWS were repatriated by the end of summer. American & Britain shouldered the biggest share of recovering Europe from the war. Britain never went off rationing for her own people until the mid 1950's!! These two countries shouldered the task of feeding, clothing, housing the civilians of Eastern & Western Europe for years!! So, excuse me but, dammit, when all it said & done, these guys May not have had it any worse than a whole lot of civilians, especially the millions of women & kids left to fend for themselves berif of food, clothing & housing. Cry me a river.
@@marioalbertodiaz2810 true that. at ua-cam.com/video/zsUsTxmJRsw/v-deo.html a concentration camp inmates is in charge.. I have a feeling this guy wants some revenge. It's human and revenge drove the allied through germany but sometimes they acted just like the nazis
0:48 If I didn't know Albert Speer was captured at Flensburg, I would swear this soldier was him. The hairline with pronounced recession on his right side is identical.
They were lucky that there was very little revenge after what these Bastards had done in the countries the countries they’d invaded.... Germany got off lightly......
@@PUAlum These German soldiers were not called POWs by the Americans so they didn't have to be treated as such according to the Geneva Convention..... So they were kept into barb wired meadows without any shelter, food or water. Of the 110000 captives a couple of thousand died of hunger, cold, dehydration. Some were shot for trying to crawl underneath the barb wire to drink water from the river next to the meadow....... If you Google for "Rheinwiessenlager" you'll find more info.
But the didn't provide for them. Eisenhower changed their status from POW to DEF. As a result, the Geneva Convention no longer applied and Eisenhower starved more than 1.5 million men to death. He was a right bastard and is burning in hell.
Did they? If you look for the number of military casualties you will discover that the it was not the Allied who won the war (not to say about the deaths of civilians).
@@FightingSportsMedia so what do you think should happen to the country that took over a quarter of the world's landmass? Btw it was UK and France that declared war on Germany, not the other way round.
@@rickcastellione2267 in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland....and Germany attacked first by sinking the British ocean liner Athenia.....gonna keep picking and choosing what facts you use?
Allied liberators ? did they stand trial as well in Nuernberg for crime against humanity, ? letting children, wounded, women and elderly starve and die of thirst in those Rhine meadow cages was and will always remain what it is: crime against humanity. Even today it is still forbidden to look for historical remainder in the soil of those so called cages. Here in Sinzig (between Bonn and Koblenz), the Police will turn up when you look with a metal detector or just dig where the locals indicated the cages had been...and will fine you.
Oh yes, they all were fed up with war! But it was not over for them. Many died in these camps. And most of them were deported to forced labour for years into all different countries. Many didn´t survive . The bombings stopped, but the war against us continued.
@@lacertabilineata9337 Those POWs are under USA Army control. Are you saying POWs were put in forced labour and were killed by USA Army or the USA Army handed POWs to other control where this happened?
Do you regret them?They survived the war.I feel sorry for those they killed.They now sit on pensions and visit the World.And their victims have been dead for a long time.
@@ireki6213 And yours, what about them. Only that yours are producing even and still now... And they didn't "killed" anyone; they made the war, certainly agains savages a you and others like you are.
Part of the problem was sheer logistics. German POWs, freed Allied POWs. freed slave labor, displaced persons. sorting out those anti-communist Russians for repatriation (ie murder), refugees, etc.
Old men and boys. The rest dead or missed in action. Today we Germans are a peaceful nation. We learned our lessons well and don't want to spend too much of our taxes for the military again
We had about 400k German POWs interned in camps in the US. Including the African Corps, and two entire U-Boat crews. They lived a good life too. Better than German Citizens in Germany, that's a fact. Most of them didnt want to go home.
Don't be too hard on yourself Marina. They can say what they like but the world respects Germany . Germany had balls. My grandfather on my mother's side fought against Rommel at Tobruk and actually saw him when he was captured . When he was in Prison camp in Germany he was well treated and respected much better than he was in Italy. Much love from Western Australia xx
You have to remember that the nazi flattened Europe and had every intention of not stopping. Hitler said that he did not want war with Britain but the outcome would of been far worse if Britain and eventually the usa had not stepped in. The camp in the film appears to be a transportation holding area and not a concentration camp. War is not a romantic story or a game played on a xbox.
I am not American and am against present American administration and its support of Saudi Arabia. But, WWII is a war America tried to avoid at all costs. In the end, countless young American soldiers lives were lost along with all the countless others. This might look like a sad and miserable sight from the last days of the war, but fortunately, most of these men went on with their lives, unlike the ones that stayed on the battlefield.
teach hca Actually, One million Germans died in these camps from starvation, dehydration, exposure, disease, beaten to death or just plain shot. Here on UA-cam please watch: "Eisenhower's Rhine Meadows Death Camps Documentary" and "Other Losses - a film by James Bacque". The book "Other losses" is available on Amazon.
@@silverbullet2008bb I know the documentation that exists in abundance of all the German POW camps in North America, one of 10,000 men in my community -with a population even larger than the city. My father made a life-long friendship with one. They worked side by side on a local farm. Many came back to live in North America.
More than one million german POW's died in the Rheinwiesenlager. No food, no water, no medicine. This was Eisenhauers order! I spoke with soldiert that were in a POW-camp. Noone was alowed to bring them food. Or they were shoot. A very sad time.
Nonsense. The number who died was between 3,000 and 10,000. Sad, yes, but probably unavoidable, and certainly not deliberate. Don't fall for modern-day Nazi propaganda.
Laughing Gravy and your probably one of those who thinks all Germans were Nazis, so they deserved this kind of treatment. Mind you that if allied POW’s were treated in the same way the camp guards and warden would be charged with running an extermination camp.
Rubbish. How many died in POW camps in the USA ? Almost none. Why ? Because the USA was not destroyed by bombing in the War. Food was plentiful & roads, rail, bridges were intact. In Germany, cities were destroyed; power supplies were destroyed; the railway system was destroyed. Food grown in the countryside could not be transported. The US & the UK had to ship all their petrol & oil from the USA as well as much food. At most, 10,000 POWS died in US prison camps, out of 2 million POWs. How many Germans not in POW camps died in the US zone ? Many more than 10,000....from desease, malnutrition and cold. Results of WAR, not a "plan" to kill them.
To let people t the fields ou facing the cold the rain the wind and even the sun without any protection is a war crime!!! No matter what side you are! I am Greek we fought against Italians and Germans and we had suffered many war crimes from Bulgarians as well - they were allies at that time but I feel sorry for people who found themselves on the loosing side!..
Of course, but these were temporary camps and not concentration camps. People had to be placed somewhere and quickly. The Americans did the best they could.
One thing mankind has proven time and time again. He cannot avoid war. There’s always something brewing somewhere from greed jealousy and hate. Nowadays his weapons have more power in one bomb than all the bombs dropped in all of WII. They can be autonomously fired intercontinentally at supersonic speeds. Thousands of such missiles are in place as we speak. Not only great blast damage but the environment damage of radioactive debris lingering for decades. Say someone with the thought process of a suicide bomber had access to such a weapon.
@@alesfrancis7280 Смешно наблюдать за резкими высказываниями безмозглых детей, которые очень смелые только в интернете, а в реальности их робкий голосок будет дрожать как коленки немецких солдат под Сталинградом.
Those men who murdered , tortured, and raped all across Europe. I do not feel sorry for these men. I feel sorry for their victims-millions and millions!
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total 70-85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).
@@tomortale2333 why u clueless hater bullshitting on every comment? U have to learn ur lessons before u come here and spread the hate when u don't clearly know anything about second worldwar
While I agree the allies especially Britain and the U.S. did all they could to make things as comfortable as they could under the circumstances while the nazi were purposely killing people including women and children in the concentration camps. So not much empathy from me for thos german prisoners.
@@paddybrennan3644 but u have to know that those men had nothing to do with the camps u speaking about? Those men surely deserved latrines and good food and place to lay down.
Joe A They would have that all along if the criminal regime they worked for hadn't started the most devastating war ever. How were the allies supposed to have produced latrines for thousands of people overnight? A LOT more important than that, at the time, was providing care to the hundreds of thousands of concentration camp survivors.
@@ronaldoduarte1522 Yes -- it was Patton. Excellent choice of the framers of the US Constitution to create a clear division between politics and the military. With very, very few exceptions, a civilian government should be lead by civilian leaders.
You won't see one here. Anyone having an SS tatoo was immediately shot in the head. These are just soldiers forced into the war, some only 13 years old. Most of the 13 and 14-year-olds weren't even taken prisoner, they just had their weapons taken away and were told to go home.
Vuelta 0:47 a la 0:50, el soldado que mira a la cámara,va sin gorra ,además ,sosteniendo algo con su mano derecha, juraría que es albert speer, se le parece muchisimo.....creo no equivocarme...
Wenn es dort so gut und komfortabel war , warum sind den in den POW Lagern soviel verhungert. Auf den Elbewiesen war kein Grasshalm mehr und sogar Leichen wurden verzehrt .
Micha Krause Sie meinten Rheinwiesen. Die Versorgung POW hat sicherlich nicht geklappt und es kamen viele vor Hunger um. Trotzdem kein Vergleich wie die Nazis mit ihren Kriegsgefangenen umgegangen ist
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And this was just a tiny fraction of the masses of POW that went into captivity. Over a million missing, many of which died in Soviet prison camps that more than 20 times the size of the crowd we see on the video. The sacrifice of human life is beyond anything we have experience in human history and it was made possible by a small group of people.
The Russians lost 26 million souls fighting the Nazi ……..we forget that .
35million missing or 45 million unaccounted all troops and civilians all countries
well. Good. They were fascists
Причина не в группе людей, а в сознании всех людей, ведь группа действовала с согласия людей.
It was made possible by an entire population willing to look away from the atrocities.
Too many kids and young faces. War is terrible. No matter what side. I hope the world doesn't have to go through something as disastrous as world war 2 again.
Young kids ? Bloody Hitler youth more like, fanatics, more dangerous than the ss,
Anyone who says they deserved it is wrong.did Americans think trump would be great?Yes,he just didnt make the people commit crimes against humanity. I dont think alot of germans thought he would have brought destruction. And I dont think you have a choice against conscription.
The allies will release them soon. Unlike in Russia
It will
Truth
During the war they kept German prisoners' in a camp near me in Iowa. They built some beautiful nativity scenes are that are still used to this day.
Great film footage. All those children soldiers....that's heartbreaking.
Представь тех кого они убили?
Anything to defend women and girls from the horror of the Bolsheviks
The German officers or generals had a better life even in these camps than the normal soldiers or the children soldiers. Even women were arrested separately in tents. The normal soldiers lived there like the rats. Without wood houses or tents, directly on the ground with all weather conditions, food, clean water and medical help. They were persons without any rights and again the Convention by red cross international. My father was in the Rheinwiesenlager Sinzig near Koblenz which is shown in the film. He was 18th and still a schoolboy. Arrested in 18.06.1945 he got his certificate of discharge from this camp in 24.06.1945. He never forgot the experience and terrible situations in this prisoner camp. My father was not a Nazi or SS-soldier, only a German soldier in an bataillion of the Wehrmacht. After war he studied and became an architect near Heidelberg/Germany. He died in October 2018.
God bless your father sir
"My Father was a only Wehrmacht soldier ."???
Do you imagine how many Polish civilians people was executed by Wehrmacht? No, not Nazi , just Wehrmacht formation killing Polish kids women old people with cold blood. Warsaw Posnan Cracov Torun and many other Polish towns and villages. you don't even imagine what Wehrmacht did before they killed the Polish women including under age girls. Shame on you and respect.
It's not Nazi invasion my country 1/09/1939
but 6 millions regular German soldiers mostly Wehrmacht.
You comment make me sick. Shame on you
end start lerning true History.
@@slawomirzgrabczynski1937 Too bad comments like this get posted very often. Poor nazis and wehrmacht soldiers. What about millions of civilian casualties without even considering those perished in the cocncentration camps. I am from a former yugoslavia country and I know very well what you are speaking of. Shame on them.
Only wehrmacht
For you to know, wehrmacht soldiers also killed and humiliated soviet citizens
@@okramra Such a great comment. The Nazis not only murdered the Jews of every country that they invaded but they also rounded up and executed anyone who was opposed to the Third Reich; like teachers, lawyers, politicians, etc.
Irrespective of "blame" I see in these men two entire generations utterly mangled and broken.. In these young boys I can see my own 11 year old son and my heart hurts to see their shock and bewilderment, the loss of their youth in that time. They became a collective part of the suffering of adult men all around them, hurdled together like human cattle without any dignity left. The silent witnesses that forever had lost any notion of a strong father figure.
Johan de Ruiter
I wonder if you feel so bad for the men , women and children who were gassed to death?
@@successlane3569 Wow; it must suck to be so black and white...as for me, I can feel sorry for more than one group of people at the same time!
My thoughts exactly. A handful of idiots caused all the pain and suffering for millions. The beginning of Nazi rule is very similar to what I see in America today. The very same playbook, but it's much broader than a handful.
Представьте тех кто с боями отступал до Москвы и потом дошёл до Берлина закапывая по пути настоящих волков!..?
The end of the myth of the Master Race. I met a couple of Germans who had served in the Wehrmacht in WWII when I was in the USAF in 1979. One had been pro-nazi and the other had not. The pro-nazis family had been wiped out in Allied air raids. The non-political soldier’s family had become communists in East Germany after the war. Both stayed in the US after being released and never went back to Germany. I knew their daughters, who had never known anything about their fathers service in the German army. Both men had been carpenters before the war, met in prison camp where they helped build the barracks at Ft Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. They both worked for ex-GI’s who started a construction company after coming home. Their American ex-enemies had taught them English and helped them study for their citizenship test because both were good workers and had led quiet, hardworking lives. The one who had been pro-nazi had been badly beaten by other German prisoners when he said he had been wrong to support Hitler. When I see this video I can see men that were just like the men I became friends with 35 years later.
Когда человек один он человек, но в сообществе он превращается в барана, это происходит во всём мире к сожалению.
I knew a man who was in those camps, in the Rhine Meadows camps. He was drafted shortly before the end of the war, sent to France and captured near Düren.
This man was deprived of all his personal belongings by the US guards. Cooking utensils, tent train, clothes, watch and everything that could/would be taken home as a souvenir . He never spoke of the US soldiers with hatred, there was more resignation in his words, he told only once of the captivity, of the hunger, the dead that no one could carry away and a US soldier who was yelled at because he gave food to the prisoners.
When he came out of captivity he was a broken man, sick in body and soul. This man was my grandfather, whom I loved more than anything, from whom I learned my profession as a district forester.
@@ВикторГурьев-ж4и war is disgusting.
It’s interesting what a home country and their propaganda can do to the mind of a seemingly good person. Sad, but I’m glad your friends got out and were able to lead peaceful lives.
Настоящие враги у него были в России!
People do not naturally hate each other, they are taught to hate.
My grandfather was captured by the Americans in Africa and shipped to America. He was in the Luftwaffe and I think he and his comrades fared better there. Greetings from Germany
I find it interesting that some soldiers, especially some officers, were quite clean with seemingly freshly pressed uniforms whilst most others looked like they had been through hell.
My Grandfather Harry Schneider was a POW (Google him) snuck out of camp twice to find or steal 1 potato and an egg.... He took it back to add to the boiled snow to add flavouring and share it with everyone. He eventually escaped for good and became famous for good reasons in aviation
unfortunately, many Axis forces were inhumane, and your grandfather was very brave.
Pow???
He was a Nazi!!!
Your grandfather was a lucky guy my was killed by the Bolsheviks
@@alizakurzweil7008 they lied to use
A hero.
These camps are temporary camps which were built AFTER conflict had ended. At the time were all around Germany. The German soldiers and airmen would be disarmed and medically treated where necessary. "Due to the numbers of prisoners, the Americans transferred internal control of the camps to the Germans. Former German troops from the Wehrmacht's Feldgendarmerie (Military Police) and Feldjagerkorps (Military Police) known as Wehrmachtordnungstruppe (Armed Forces Order Troops) maintained order in the camps."
Miles de soldados alemanes prisioneros murieron de hambre
@@joseguerra2795 No, mi querido amigo, no "murieron de hambre", LOS MATARON DE HAMBRE. Vea usted que no es lo mismo...
@@joseguerra2795 ...bull shit. Read my reply posted on this site.
Amerikas should have listened to your general patten...he knew who real enemy was.
Mark Dermeister Yes, we fought on the wrong side! You are correct about General G.C. Patton, he knew and was going to expose the lies when he got back to the US. Funny, (not really) but he was murdered.Accident my a..e.
Mark Dermeister They sure should have. I wonder who was responsible for his murder? I have my thoughts how about yourself?
A General has no power to declare a war. Only Congress can do that. Weary of over 4 years of war the American people would NOT have supported another.
General George Patton bring him back from the dead and unleash him on today's world
Mark Dermeister one of California's finest
To see children in such a camp is the pure horror.
Heart aching.....................
OMG - all these little boys in uniform, not more than 12 years old or so. OMG !
Renata Ostertag
They are Nazis
@@paddybrennan3644 indoctrinated Hitler Youth.
It's unspeakably awful when a nation is so deep in defeat that it feels it has to call on its last resources rather than surrender before it comes to this.
The planners of Operation Valkyrie, in their way, sought to avoid it coming to this.
The priest seemed excited to be with them.
@@paddybrennan3644 they are enlisted kids in uniforms. If you are judging them for that, you are the nazi hater.
They are the lucky ones
These soldiers were NOT kept indoors or in compliance with Geneva convention* many died from their wounds or illness caused by lack of sanitation !
@The Truth and they're both weltering in hell with their communist comrades, Rosenfeld, Stalin and Churchill.
@CA Babyboomer 1.7 million German POWs were systematically starved to death in open fields in Eisenhower's Rhine meadows death camps.
@CA Babyboomer Your 'victorious' army has applied the same pattern in the conflicts that followed WWII. But 'Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter!...' 🤔🤔
@@anthonygrantham7226 Idiot. Germany lost 5 million soldiers, ... according to you, 1.7 would have died in American camps .... your source?
@@musteila6789 Without this victorious army, you would still be living under a dictator. So, just say "thank you" to the allied forces who liberated you. And you can't expect the victourious allied forces to provide hotel beds to seven million Nazi Soldiers who surrendered . Their fate was much better than the fate of their victims.
5:00 Guy turns back towards the cameraman as the gate shuts him in. He's loaded down with stuff in the back and both front pockets of his britches. Was he flaunting it like a runway model or what? Thanks for posting.
@4:47 someone is trying bust people's head with a chair.
No he was trying to clear a path through all the prisoners with that chair (think he had one in each hand)
@@dexterdog62 strange way to clear a path
@@kootje4700 obviously effective though.
Anyone else had trouble with the audio?
Weatherboi it was on the screen at the beginning ‘this video has no sound’.
@@calvada1 Just as well eh, I hate the sound of constant whinging in German.
My mother ( RIP) often recalled German POW working the fields in Wakefield , West Yorkshire UK after the war .
Were conditions great? No. I am American. It is easy to blame us & the other Allied powers. Conditions were absolutely horrible all over Europe at the time. Whole armies surrendered( hundreds of thousands soldiers not individual small groups). Millions of refugees from Eastern Europe poured west. Millions of refugees from Europe were homeless & on the move. Displaced people & forced slave laborers were set free from interment camps with no where to go( by the thousands). Everywhere transportation had broken done, supply chains broken, food distribution very poor, housing virtually non existent, heat sources gone, manufacturing, non existence, farming annihilated. I am sorry but POWs were at the bottom of the food chain. German officiers were put in charge of the camps, overall administration by the Allies..German field kitchens cooked & distributed the food. Most of the POWS were repatriated by the end of summer. American & Britain shouldered the biggest share of recovering Europe from the war. Britain never went off rationing for her own people until the mid 1950's!! These two countries shouldered the task of feeding, clothing, housing the civilians of Eastern & Western Europe for years!! So, excuse me but, dammit, when all it said & done, these guys May not have had it any worse than a whole lot of civilians, especially the millions of women & kids left to fend for themselves berif of food, clothing & housing. Cry me a river.
You know one thing....They were happy to be held in one run by the Western Allies vs. the Soviet Union!
I was just thinking that. There's a reason all the Germans fled west and not east at the end of the war.
John,millons of Germán Priosioners died by occidental aliados.
Same did the Japaneses in the far east escenario
Weve all seen footage of how the US treats prisoners in Guantanamo and Abugraib. Get off your high horse.
@@marioalbertodiaz2810 true that. at ua-cam.com/video/zsUsTxmJRsw/v-deo.html a concentration camp inmates is in charge.. I have a feeling this guy wants some revenge. It's human and revenge drove the allied through germany but sometimes they acted just like the nazis
0:48 If I didn't know Albert Speer was captured at Flensburg, I would swear this soldier was him. The hairline with pronounced recession on his right side is identical.
Albert Speer the "good Nazi", who lucked out after the war.
Looks a though the cameraman thinks so too.
Thats not Albert. He is not from the luftwaffe
I think that is Gen. Friedrich Paulus
действительно похож
7:42 No matter what, there’s always one person staring at their phone.
We say it can never happen again, but it is, it is happening right now in Korea & China and no one is going over there to help them. Breaks my heart.
And in Kashmir
As long as it's not American youth to help them we've had enough .
Abortion up to the moment of birth in America.
No social distance. Unacceptable !
I do not understand why they were kept prisoner in the rheinwiesenlager for such a long time. War was over. Revenge?
HenkDynacord they were secretly torturing the German people and soldiers, the documentary hellstorm explains it further.
In russia most where in gulags for 11 years.
They lied if not having any german prisoners left
They were lucky that there was very little revenge after what these Bastards had done in the countries the countries they’d invaded.... Germany got off lightly......
@@panchopuskas1 Whats up boy did they kill your granpa?
Population reduction...
When will we ever learn?
Robert Roberts read the papers as the world is as wicked as ever
Japan,italy and germany for sure learned about this war the question is do victors also learned?
@@dowrhew5581 my lai
Ask the Wallstreet.
This is Eisenhowers Rheine Meadows infamous prison camp for German POW's.
why was it infamous?
@@PUAlum These German soldiers were not called POWs by the Americans so they didn't have to be treated as such according to the Geneva Convention..... So they were kept into barb wired meadows without any shelter, food or water. Of the 110000 captives a couple of thousand died of hunger, cold, dehydration. Some were shot for trying to crawl underneath the barb wire to drink water from the river next to the meadow....... If you Google for "Rheinwiessenlager" you'll find more info.
@@PUAlum hundreds of thousands died....a German Holocaust of sorts
@@Jeffthecreepyastafan um what? 3000 to 6000 died. not hundreds of thousands.....
@@Jeffthecreepyastafan just making shit up for the sake of drawing attention to yourself.
Once you capture the enemy, you have an obligation to provide for them as best you can.
But the didn't provide for them. Eisenhower changed their status from POW to DEF. As a result, the Geneva Convention no longer applied and Eisenhower starved more than 1.5 million men to death. He was a right bastard and is burning in hell.
like they did in belson and auschwitz
Bhahahahahahahahahahahahahah
@@josephdockemeyer4807 Well said
Trish Foley I’m sure the Nazis would have felt the same way-they so often showed their kind compassion.
Who’s the guy with the cap and no shirt ??
Looks like a prisoner who had been in Auschwitz’s, he has a number tattooed on his forearm.
In Russia they will spend 10 years in labor Camp...
E FOI O QUE ACONTECEU GRAÇAS AOS EUA.
They deserved 10 years in labor Camp. Absolutely.
More like 15...
Jason Jacob .And shot of which they deserved.
they restored what they destroyed
Not 50K but 1.5 million died of starvation thanks Eisenhower.
Proof
The fact that your pfp is a nazi, that explains it
They were lucky to be on the right side of Berlin when captured. They didn't spend years in gulag.
Gulags were Soviet political prisons.
read ur history...the Americans eventually handed over thousands n thousands to Russia...for the rebuilding of the cities bombed by germans.
mary shaffer .They belong in a gulag.
Why Eisenhower starved most of them to death
A german speaking friend of mine said that it was worse there than at some gulags :/
ਪੁਰੀ ਘੈਂਟ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਆ ਬਾਈ ਨਾਜ਼ੀ ਸੈਨਾ ਕੋਲ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਤਕੜੇ ਹਥਿਆਰ ਸਨ ਦੂਜੀ ਗੱਲ ਕੈਦੀਆਂ ਸੈਨਿਕਾਂ ਦੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਨੀਂ ਪੁਰਾਣੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੇ ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਕੀਤੇ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਚ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀ
"We defeated the wrong enemy".
- Gen. George Patton
@Luis RC. George Patton the nazi.
Did they? If you look for the number of military casualties you will discover that the it was not the Allied who won the war (not to say about the deaths of civilians).
He said that because communism became a threat not because he supported the racist nazi ideology that Neo nazis identify with
Who was the real enemy?
He had the luxury to say such things since they already had defeated the Nazis!
2:53 wait was that shirtless dude a concetration camp survivor pushing around nazis? that's incredible!
I heard about that camp, no shelter food or water and medical care given
shouldn't of tried to take over Europe, cant get mad when they invited all this on themselves
@@FightingSportsMedia you spelled "tried to save Europe" wrong
@@FightingSportsMedia so what do you think should happen to the country that took over a quarter of the world's landmass?
Btw it was UK and France that declared war on Germany, not the other way round.
@@rickcastellione2267 in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland....and Germany attacked first by sinking the British ocean liner Athenia.....gonna keep picking and choosing what facts you use?
@@rickcastellione2267 yes and Hitler rotchild mi6 Spy and mkultra handler of Cathy o,Brian, in Thanks for the memories,book
Cu traducerea în română sau rusă aveti postări ?De ce fără sonorizare???
Allied liberators ? did they stand trial as well in Nuernberg for crime against humanity, ? letting children, wounded, women and elderly starve and die of thirst in those Rhine meadow cages was and will always remain what it is: crime against humanity. Even today it is still forbidden to look for historical remainder in the soil of those so called cages. Here in Sinzig (between Bonn and Koblenz), the Police will turn up when you look with a metal detector or just dig where the locals indicated the cages had been...and will fine you.
They were probably glad it was over.
Oh yes, they all were fed up with war! But it was not over for them. Many died in these camps. And most of them were deported to forced labour for years into all different countries. Many didn´t survive . The bombings stopped, but the war against us continued.
@@lacertabilineata9337 Those POWs are under USA Army control. Are you saying POWs were put in forced labour and were killed by USA Army or the USA Army handed POWs to other control where this happened?
@@lacertabilineata9337 maybe it was the price they paid to start war and crimes?
@@lacertabilineata9337 Until the day we have the occupier scum in our country.
a lot of them smiling because the war was over
So sad, these soldiers regardless of what side they were on, we need to respect them.
Men sent to fight a war that others picked
Do you regret them?They survived the war.I feel sorry for those they killed.They now sit on pensions and visit the World.And their victims have been dead for a long time.
@@ireki6213 And yours, what about them. Only that yours are producing even and still now... And they didn't "killed" anyone; they made the war, certainly agains savages a you and others like you are.
My Opa was in one of those allied prisoner camps, Bad Kreuznach. Death was all around and he almost died of starvation.
Las imágenes hablan por sí solas.
А есть ли звук у этого видео ?
My Dad said he'd seen all of Germany at 20k feet. But that was a war crime those camps even he said so
No audio on this?
I know one thing. You could have added some narration 🤯🤯
Is there no audio?
Really sad.
Happy for those that returned.
Fuck you nazi
@@BRunoAWAY He’s a National Socialist for having empathy? Strange logic.
@@SnowingAsh111 This is how indoctrinated people are today, the truth is very sad.
Part of the problem was sheer logistics. German POWs, freed Allied POWs. freed slave labor, displaced persons. sorting out those anti-communist Russians for repatriation (ie murder), refugees, etc.
New slave labor too from the Germans in captivity.
All the suffering.....have mercy on us all
@7:40 Who is She Txting?
Dane Ta Tua Tonka - she was texting me.
Read David Irving.
Old men and boys. The rest dead or missed in action. Today we Germans are a peaceful nation. We learned our lessons well and don't want to spend too much of our taxes for the military again
Now Germany seeks to rule Europe through the EU
Настоящие волки не вышли из России!
Shut up Marina yordanova!
We had about 400k German POWs interned in camps in the US.
Including the African Corps, and two entire U-Boat crews.
They lived a good life too. Better than German Citizens in Germany, that's a fact. Most of them didnt want to go home.
Don't be too hard on yourself Marina. They can say what they like but the world respects Germany . Germany had balls. My grandfather on my mother's side fought against Rommel at Tobruk and actually saw him when he was captured . When he was in Prison camp in Germany he was well treated and respected much better than he was in Italy. Much love from Western Australia xx
It seems you only show the better pictures. Show how it really was there!
I guess it was much better than in Kz lager... right....Fritz?
Edelplastic Was it as bad as Dachau, etc.? Were they tortured, starved, tattooed?
You were there right? Surely your version is more true than film
You mean how it was for the Jews in the extermination camps?
You have to remember that the nazi flattened Europe and had every intention of not stopping.
Hitler said that he did not want war with Britain but the outcome would of been far worse if Britain and eventually the usa had not stepped in.
The camp in the film appears to be a transportation holding area and not a concentration camp.
War is not a romantic story or a game played on a xbox.
did they have the entire German male populace as prisoners of war?
Gostaria de saber porque todos os vídeos não tem áudio.
I am not American and am against present American administration and its support of Saudi Arabia. But, WWII is a war America tried to avoid at all costs. In the end, countless young American soldiers lives were lost along with all the countless others. This might look like a sad and miserable sight from the last days of the war, but fortunately, most of these men went on with their lives, unlike the ones that stayed on the battlefield.
Ever heard of land lease act?
The US built bombers since 1936.
teach hca Actually, One million Germans died in these camps from starvation, dehydration, exposure, disease, beaten to death or just plain shot. Here on UA-cam please watch: "Eisenhower's Rhine Meadows Death Camps Documentary" and "Other Losses - a film by James Bacque". The book "Other losses" is available on Amazon.
Are you sure about that? Ford and Wall Street financed Hitler
Countless? Actually history has a fairly accurate count on american casualties and even other countries too
@@silverbullet2008bb I know the documentation that exists in abundance of all the German POW camps in North America, one of 10,000 men in my community -with a population even larger than the city. My father made a life-long friendship with one. They worked side by side on a local farm. Many came back to live in North America.
Over a million brutalised and starved. Par for the course with these ‘victors’ don’t you think?
More than one million german POW's died in the Rheinwiesenlager. No food, no water, no medicine. This was Eisenhauers order!
I spoke with soldiert that were in a POW-camp. Noone was alowed to bring them food. Or they were shoot. A very sad time.
Nonsense. The number who died was between 3,000 and 10,000. Sad, yes, but probably unavoidable, and certainly not deliberate. Don't fall for modern-day Nazi propaganda.
1 + Casa Nova!
Laughing Gravy and your probably one of those who thinks all Germans were Nazis, so they deserved this kind of treatment. Mind you that if allied POW’s were treated in the same way the camp guards and warden would be charged with running an extermination camp.
Not million german POW but millions Russian soldiers was murdered or killed from hunger but germans, I do not lie idiot
Rubbish.
How many died in POW camps in the USA ? Almost none. Why ? Because the USA was not destroyed by bombing in the War. Food was plentiful & roads, rail, bridges were intact. In Germany, cities were destroyed; power supplies were destroyed; the railway system was destroyed. Food grown in the countryside could not be transported. The US & the UK had to ship all their petrol & oil from the USA as well as much food. At most, 10,000 POWS died in US prison camps, out of 2 million POWs. How many Germans not in POW camps died in the US zone ? Many more than 10,000....from desease, malnutrition and cold. Results of WAR, not a "plan" to kill them.
oh my God, they were packed in there like sardines. What an.ugly muddy mess it must have been after some heavy rains. What a nightmare.
To let people t the fields ou facing the cold the rain the wind and even the sun without any protection is a war crime!!! No matter what side you are! I am Greek we fought against Italians and Germans and we had suffered many war crimes from Bulgarians as well - they were allies at that time but I feel sorry for people who found themselves on the loosing side!..
Of course, but these were temporary camps and not concentration camps. People had to be placed somewhere and quickly. The Americans did the best they could.
Agreed Teo! Read, "Other Losses" by James Bacque or watch his video here on UA-cam
That guy at 4:01 was VERY careful trying not to show his face.
One thing mankind has proven time and time again. He cannot avoid war. There’s always something brewing somewhere from greed jealousy and hate. Nowadays his weapons have more power in one bomb than all the bombs dropped in all of WII. They can be autonomously fired intercontinentally at supersonic speeds. Thousands of such missiles are in place as we speak. Not only great blast damage but the environment damage of radioactive debris lingering for decades. Say someone with the thought process of a suicide bomber had access to such a weapon.
What’s your point?
CHINA. IS THE ENEMY. U.S. AND ALL ITS ALLIES. NEED TO DESTROY CHINA IMMEDIATELY
Only 50,000?
3:10 two guys having a fight in the distance
I can understand the detainment of officers for questioning, but why werent the soildiers just disbanded? War was over, they were civilians
What sweet revenge for that shirtless prison guard who was once in a German concentration camp himself.
He seemed to be enjoying himself, and why not after what he would have witnessed and endured in the concentration camps.
Revenge? how many of those prisoners there do you think have ever even seen a concentration camp before?
He definitely looked happy to be moving around freely.
2 bad there wasn't any audio.
2:18 smiling, that kid was very cute.
Gay
Weird comment.
Did General Paton know about these death camps because in the film Paton he said he would disarm prisoners and send them home.
Patton had about 400,000 prisoners. He did just that.
Где он отличился в боях?
Es tut mir leid für die deutschen Soldaten
Besser als bei den russen..
@@alesfrancis7280 Смешно наблюдать за резкими высказываниями безмозглых детей, которые очень смелые только в интернете, а в реальности их робкий голосок будет дрожать как коленки немецких солдат под Сталинградом.
@@KatyaLishch- besser als bei bolsewisten
Save your sorrow for the people they murdered.
@@KatyaLishch Da!
Wo war das?????
Extraordinary scenes.
HOW do you feed these guys
economical......
Que increíble es mirar los rostros de estos hombres en la derrota y que convivieron cara a cara con la muerte durante varios años.
Those men who murdered , tortured, and raped all across Europe. I do not feel sorry for these men. I feel sorry for their victims-millions and millions!
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total 70-85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).
an u can tip ur hat an say ''thank u''' to Adolf
@@tomortale2333 why u clueless hater bullshitting on every comment? U have to learn ur lessons before u come here and spread the hate when u don't clearly know anything about second worldwar
50,000 prisoners just think of the hygiene, the diseases, and also the feeding. Its a tragedy itself.
While I agree the allies especially Britain and the U.S. did all they could to make things as comfortable as they could under the circumstances while the nazi were purposely killing people including women and children in the concentration camps. So not much empathy from me for thos german prisoners.
4:15 who was he? He looks familiar.
ivy evangelio you meant Heinrich himmler?
Reinhard Heydrich
@@Grim-dq9ol That is NOT Himmler. He has a Heer uniform on... Not a SS uniform
Isso a globo não mostra, logo vão retirar do youtube
The loss of generations . Young kids as soldiers ........just boys!
All of those men needed latrines, water, food, a place to lay down and to get their heavy coats off as it appears to be warm weather.
@@paddybrennan3644 but u have to know that those men had nothing to do with the camps u speaking about? Those men surely deserved latrines and good food and place to lay down.
What camps
Rhin Affrika the kiss my ass camps
Joe A They would have that all along if the criminal regime they worked for hadn't started the most devastating war ever. How were the allies supposed to have produced latrines for thousands of people overnight? A LOT more important than that, at the time, was providing care to the hundreds of thousands of concentration camp survivors.
@@mancebo7 Western Allies in German POW camps were provided food, water and shelter!
thats just 1 camp - there were 19. countless germans murdered by the allies
Awesome stuff that I've never seen. Rare good history. I love it
"We defeated the wrong enemy " he lived 2 months after making that speech
I know who said this...
@@ronaldoduarte1522 Yes -- it was Patton. Excellent choice of the framers of the US Constitution to create a clear division between politics and the military. With very, very few exceptions, a civilian government should be lead by civilian leaders.
He was murdered.
У кого шишка короткая..
F...k the fascists Patton included... - without the Soviets millions of u.s
Soldiers would die on order to defeat germany
"We fought the wrong enemy" (Patton, U.S. General)
Thank god he wasn't president before the war. You would be under the Nazi flag.
I hope you haven't got Jewish friends.
@@cliffa2901 What does all that drivel mean?
7:41 SMS ?
Any body see a ⚡︎⚡︎ uniform around ???
Yeah in your closet???
You won't see one here. Anyone having an SS tatoo was immediately shot in the head. These are just soldiers forced into the war, some only 13 years old. Most of the 13 and 14-year-olds weren't even taken prisoner, they just had their weapons taken away and were told to go home.
Were you looking???
@flikedout looks like you’re pretty brainwashed yourself.
Yes, there is a soldier being taken captive with SS on his collar.
Vuelta 0:47 a la 0:50, el soldado que mira a la cámara,va sin gorra ,además ,sosteniendo algo con su mano derecha, juraría que es albert speer, se le parece muchisimo.....creo no equivocarme...
Интересно дизлайки ставили родичи немецких солдат,в чем негатив в видео?
Thanks
Wenn es dort so gut und komfortabel war , warum sind den in den POW Lagern soviel verhungert. Auf den Elbewiesen war kein Grasshalm mehr und sogar Leichen wurden verzehrt .
Micha Krause Sie meinten Rheinwiesen. Die Versorgung POW hat sicherlich nicht geklappt und es kamen viele vor Hunger um. Trotzdem kein Vergleich wie die Nazis mit ihren Kriegsgefangenen umgegangen ist
Und was sind deine Quellen für diese Aussagen? Und bitte keine rechtsradikale Website welche die "Wahrheit" vermitteln will...
Все заключённые живут и спят под открытым небом. Ни домов, ни бараков, ни палаток не видно.
Everyone who fought in that war was brave soldiers. Sad. War is hell
Welches Alfeld ist hier gemeint?
Сколько страданий принесла война советской России... Без повторения . Всем- мирного неба над головой.
And now the suffering the Russians are bringing to the Ukrainians…just as the Germans bought to the Russians in 1941.
No tiene.sonido?