In case anybody wants a translation: 0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived." 0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible." 0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)." 0:50 - 0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order." 1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions." 1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers." 1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position." 2:42 - 2:47: " Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack." 2:52 - 2:54: " Fire contact with the head of the enemy." 3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front." 3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy." 3:28 - 3:33: " Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas." 3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves." 3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy." 4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety." 4:11 - 4:15: " Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators." 4:40 - 4:56: " The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost. Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans." 5:28 - 5:34: " German fighters launch low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead." 5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons ." 6:00 - 6:05: " American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen." 6:10 - 6:16: " On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack." 6:24 - 6:27: " The German artillery takes the enemy under fire." 6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front." 6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward. In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour." 7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week." 7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat." 8:08 - 8:27: " In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts.""
Yeah if you're intimately aware of the war status at this point, this is one GLOWING fucking broadcast. Motherfuckers were blowing their brains out and popping cyanide pills like candy at this point.
It is because of the experience in ww1. The Germans believed if they continued the fight after they won the east front they would have won the ww1 in the west with new troops but got backstabbed by politics. “Dolchstoß legende” like the mighty Siegfried. So they truly thought they have to fight to the end. Fight for your lost comrades.
@@AnthonyBerkshire They chose to put their hands up rather than fight for their lost comrades when they relaized they were pussies against victorious Red Army:)))
@@mikepravica2140there no victories for commies, they’re barbarians who were preparing invade Germany and Europe in 1939-1941 and Hitler hit first to defend Germany. And stupid roosevelt gave weapons and huge amount of supplies to commies… that’s your biggest mistake. Germans amd Americans shouldn’t war, but commies made you fight against civilisation… for red orks. Then you instantly got cold war and war in Europe (ukranian war) stupid leftist…
@@mikepravica2140 Completely ignoring that the Russians had 10x the manpower, 20-30x the amount of tanks and artillery. Yeah. You must feel like you made a great achievement with your comment.
@@bigboss9817 Any comment that seeks to expose german barbarity during WWII at a time when so many dumb and racist nazi-sympathizers desperately try to rehabilitate germany is a great achievement.
Not gonna lie, that is some intense footage. Hard to believe soldiers actually ran around there with a camera while hell was breaking loose around them.
US Civil War was first to be photographed and coverage like this hasn't stopped since. CNN had the first live broadcast of a war in the 90s with the bombing campaign of the gulf war. Being a war correspondent and video journalist are real jobs now.
@@ulfhovi1503 U. IS SIGN FOR USTASAS. CROAT NAZZY WILD ANIMALS PARDON CROATS. WHICH KILLED IN CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVONA AND SERBIA 1000.000.SREBS PLUS. 350.000 GYPSES AND JUDES U IS FORBIDEN BUT IN EU AND TIDAYS NAZZY CROATIA THEY STILL CELEBRATE NACISM MADNESS ITS THE SAME IN UKRAINA TODAY AZOV. BANDERA RCT PURE NACISTS. SHSME OF WESTERN WORLD
@Anton Leimbach. It may well not have come to that if the July 44 'Bomb Plot' had succeeded. Even so, there would not have been very much margin for error in playing what remained of Germany's political and military cards.
@@Otacatapetl They only had to retreat because they were running out of gasoline and ammunition. The whole Western Front basically collapsed on the side of the Allies during the Ardennes Offensive and if it wasn't for missing supplies the Germans would have encircled big parts of their armies.
Although the caption says 31 December 1944, this was obviously filmed several months before that date.There are plenty of leaves on the trees, indicating a time earlier in the year. Also, there is footage of Panzer Ace, Michael Wittmann, who was killed on the 8th of August 1944. Therefore, this footage was probably taken a few weeks after D-Day.
I think it's error of description, on AP Archive site there are multiple videos that are dated 31 december 0:00 AM of various years. Maybe they couldn't find proper dates, maybe archive only listed the videos by the year or something, that would be my guess. I doubt they would release that Normandy footage on 31 december when more recent offensives that gave "new hope" took place. And while of course back then gaining footage and linking it into one film took time, another Deutsche Wochenshau about operation Wacht am Rhein is dated for 16 january 1945, so only 2 weeks after. So I think this video could be dated for some few weeks after 15-17 June 1944, judging by the footage of SS Tigers combat.
@@СемёнНаймагон you're right of course! I was thinking of one thing and wrote the other, it should be "january" of course instead of "december". Fixed it, спасибо!
@@lynskyn2 not really, they had just enough action for some recordings. Allies had air superiority but it doesn't mean entire sky became a no-fly zone for Luftwaffe, they were just told to stay away from allied fighters unless the latter were at severe disadvantage; some few jabo missions still were active. Few fighters strafed the beaches on 6th june, some FW190s attacked ships with rockets, Ju88s also were carrying out bombings and mining missions, also the airborne before Carentan were bombed by german jabos. So it's just enough for recording something for propaganda... And that's about it.
"News of England" in 1944 it's so good that we chose the allies of the USSR, now we can heroically tell the whole world that we won and get drunk with alcohol in our stinking pubs))))
they are angry because US airforce bombed 100% civilian targets, even complete towns. Allies wanted full streets with refugees (so germans cant march) and busy germans.
Just for context, the commentator speaks of airstrikes against French towns, and how the French are apparently so outraged that even against German guard details, the civilians become violent against the POWs.
@@andiansukmara Not exactly, my grandfather was like 6 years old. But his mother (my grand grandmother) did'nt buy the propaganda, as did many other germans at that time. They knew the war could not go much longer and that germany would probably not be the winner at the end of 44.
Its really easy to calculate, if you're sitting between russians and american allies you probably run out of supplies. And then you will notice that youre get beaten up when more and more men get taken into military service. But you better should not have told this in public
0:19 Auto English translate. Tanks and fat people are released as self-drivers they are thrown to the front as quickly as possible. Real translation "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible." Remember when TH-cam allowed the community to do the translations? Clearly the auto translate works so well.
My father who was in the British Army fought in Burma. My grandfather who was German was old at that time and was sent to fight at the Russian Front. That's why I hate war. My grandfather was injured in the head by a bullet and miraculously survived the war.
@@TheStonedstone They had great fighting me and good equipment but in no way could they withstand the onslaught of fresh troops and supplies. Germany was beaten and even if the bulge had worked, sheer numbers and a two front war would have brought the same end. If the German people only knew how messed up Hitler, Himmler and the others were they may have not supported them.
Being German and understanding the narrator, I was surprised how much the voiceover gave away of the real situation. Troops going into "counterattack", American troops as "liberators" of France, troops being depoyed "after short training" etc. Almost every single sentence gave away that it was not going well for the Nazis.
No I think he was thinking since it was so late in the war that it would be allied propaganda, not german. Cause all german new would be "we are losing".
@@robdyson4990 Interesting are the three answers to my opening comment. The first thinks in the direction of tooth for tooth, the second in the direction of occupied Germany and the third in the direction that the Allies have done more damage to France than the Germans. It's very crazy.
@@spitdrinker9301 exactly. it was a nation of 80 million people who the entire world ganged up on. and the red army raped the german people.. literally. for years once they finally were allowed to control germany.. by the "allies" the fact that they fought for 7 years and almost won was a miracle for them in itself. And since we know they were raped and murdered.. (so were ukranians. finns. and anyone the red army fought. so it wasnt because the germans were mean and deserved it, it wouldve happened if they had lost the war. which eventually they did lose. kinda hard to beat the entire world when its backed by international finance and has a trade war waged on it for 14 years. They werent trying to conquer the world they were trying to get their pre wwi land back. and stop pols from murdering germans by the thousands. imagine if the austrailians all of the sudden decided to give new zealand to the indoneasians.. how unpopular it would be... thats how it was when danzig was given to poland despite 99% of its residents voting against it. it would be like giving san diego CA to mexico depsite 99% of san diegans voting against it.. but the international powers just say "too bad.. you live in mexico now." young soldiers fought because if they didnt. they knew theyd die just the same. except instead of dying fighting like a man along side their brothers in arms.. theyd be killed like a helpless child.. along side their sisters and mothers while they get raped and he can do nothing to stop it.. if those were your choices... would you fight? and die atleast fighting the enemy? or would you rather just get your head crushed with the butt of a rifle while your mom and sisters are sharing a lineup of 50 horny soviet soldiers each?
Otto Carius reading the map at 40 seconds, survived the war in the top 3 tank aces of the war and wrote a brilliant book "Tigers in the mud" highly recomended about life as a German tanker, no Nazi propagander just muck and bullets mostly on the eastern front, details of some breathtaking actions that made this guy very special at what he did.
Maybe they were saying "They're doing to us the same thing we did to Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Russia, Poland, Norway, Greece and they are criminals!"
@@L1V2P9 Germany started the war invading Poland to take revenge after the Polish massacred tens of thousannd of etnic Germans. Then England declared war on Germany.
LOL - "Panzer und Selbstfahrlafetten werden entladen" would be "tanks and self propelled artillery are being unloaded" ... or as YT puts it: "selbstfahrer fette" - "self driving fat people"
Вот интересно, кадры вроде бодрые, скоро победа. А фронт всё ближе к Берлину. Ну и? Как там в голове обывателей? Скакать от радости, развесив уши на Геббельсе? А ему хоть ссы в глаза - скоро победа. 😁😁😁😁😁
This after 2 years of continuous defeats on the eastern front, and and opening of a second front in France. And the German propaganda says “we got this.”
@@cs-rj8ru A revelation was made in the US magazine "World at War" which gave a plausible explanation why the Heer put up stiff resistance in the Fall of 1944: Prior to the Fall of 1944, there was a Heer reserve of 100K+ soldiers in Germany which was a standby armed force that the principals of Operation Valkyrie were planning to use to overthrow the Third Reich after Hitler was assassinated. Well, we all know the plot was foiled. But afterwards, Hitler disbanded that standby armed force and sent them to the western and eastern fronts to take up the fights against the Allies. So, after the Western Allies had made swift progress to liberate Paris, they were suddenly facing a German Army that was fortified with additional tens-of-thousands new soldiers.
Retreating? Ever heard of the Battle of the Bulge? The war had it's ups and downs and we are lucky that democratic, human rights respecting allies have won.
@@kevintaal4616 That was Dec 12, '44 - Jan 25, '45. Highly doubt this was recorded, transported, edited and released in the last two weeks of the year; nor does it look like the appropriate weather in the footage for the Battle of the Bulge either to have already started.
@@FirstLast-di5sr You're right. I just want to state that the Allied victory was not a certainty and the defeat of Nazi Germany was a long battle with many ups and downs. It wasn't only constant retreat and failure. Many Americans had to risk their lives knowing it could be all for nothing. The stranded invasion in Italy is an earlier example of that. The battle of the bulge and oparation Market Garden are later examples that prove the same thing: Germany had military capabilities that could be extremely dangerous.
With so many brave and motivated troops defending Germany, and with so many formidable Panzers, and anti tank howitzers available to these troops, what could ever go wrong? Talk about living in a house of cards.
Загадочная русская душа! Кажется всё потеряно, проигранои осталось ждать только милости победителей. Но нет! Мы РУССКИЕ словно пружина! Никто и никогда не сможет топтать нашу священную землю! Всякой захватчик найдёт сдесь только свою смерть! Так было, есть и будет!
@@Andrew-gx1eq Trump is only a symptom not the disease, he is the talley sheet of years of abusing the public trust and raping their nation, now it wants to die. We live in a failed state.
I am saddened by how much the modern day world is starting to look like Germany circa 1938. First we are told to wear a mask. Then give up our livelihood and lives. Next you will be told you must get a shot that has no real track record knowing full well they haven't been able to stop corvids cousins the common cold and influenza. After that is is blue shirts M-W-F, red shirts T-T-S and white on Sunday.
@@hoodie__guy And you think we have such a great record? How many 1st People did we kill off with gun and germ? How many Africans were ripped from their home to serve the white man? How many Japanese died in two shots? Granted that one did save lives but still, we killed them. Then there is the raping of the American laborer. Amazon is a good example, employees get $15 per hour and Jeff is the richest man on the little rock we all share, yah, right. The fucker could give them $30 per hour and still have more than he can spend. The list is longer but I don't want to plug your brain up. May have taken us longer but we are no better and the latest attempt to take away freedoms will surely push us back to the top of the pile of mistreating our fellow human beings for a buck and a power trip.
@Yasser Osman I have no doubt of it. The US is being replaced by China as a hedgemon. The empire is already dead, the only question is will it survive as sovereign democratic republic? But then again will any country survive globaliaztion as such?
Fascinating to see such archives, thank you! About the date, though: where does 31 Dec 1944 come from? All the pictures seem to be taken in summer; those that recount specific events seem to come from July/Aug 1944.
Trying to put a positive spin on a hopeless situation..... by this time the Russians were in control in the east and France was only a matter of time....
Settled an estate years back of a woman who emigrated from Germany after the war. in her apartment we found a Nazi police id card. (She worked as a clerk.) Issued on April 2, 1945. It was valid for two years! Now that was spinning a hopeless situation.
@andrew chambers "all the arms" amounted to less than 5% of Soviet military output. They would've won, but probably at the price of another half a million killed and maybe an extra year of fighting. I am very glad allies helped each other - it saved everyone's lives, even German lives.
@andrew chambers i am not sure why you brought this completely unrelated point, but I generally agree with you. Allies should've treated Germany in less harsh terms after WWI and, it's EXACTLY what US had advocated but France and Britain wanted draconian measures imposed. Though, you have to also remember that these measures were a direct result of similar measures that Prussia imposed on France after Franco-Prussian war just a few decades earlier. There is no "poor Germany" argument here.
@andrew chambers another off-point comment. Yes, Britain had no need to be in WWI, and neither did anyone else. Did France need to be in it? Russia? Germany? Ottoman Empire ? It was a mess of multiple alliances and escalations.
I'm french, my great grandfather fought the germans in Verdun,3 months in 1916, and members of my family died in germans weapons factory ( because STO) during WW2. Our countries was in war 3 Times in 75 years, we lost more 2 millions of mens against Germany, and like if i'm proud to be french and i Always defend my country, i'm very happy to be Friend with germans today. Of course i can't forget ww1, or Hitler and nazis, but the Germany of today is not the Germany of 1942. Now we are in peace, and we are Friends, and i hope never see another horrible War between us again !! Long live french-german friendship
Great Britan was totally responsible for ww1 - they comploted to provoke Germany into the war, and made it inevitable with the triple alliance between Great Britan, France and Russia
BULGARIAN ARMY killed more than 100 000 French " Coqs gaulois " on the SOUTHERN - " Macedonian " - " Thessaloniki " front in EUROPE during World War I 1914-1918 !
@@adalbert74 Sie sind 1914 in Belgien eingedrungen, und mit dem bevorstehenden Zusammenbruch Frankreichs fühlte sich die britische Regierung gezwungen zu handeln. Ähnlich war es 1939, als Sie in Polen einfielen. Aber ist es wahr, dass Großbritannien Deutschland beide Male den Krieg erklärt hat? Für mich war das ein Fehler und hat nichts mit uns zu tun.
@@adalbert74 well yes, last 50 years...Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq..but let's not forget WW1 and WW2. And Trump hasn't actually started any wars himself
"Alright boys, we managed to scrounge up the last 6 trucks in the division and a gallon of gas for each of them, and Panther 721 is the only tank still running. Is that enough for your newsreel?" "Ah crap, Hans, do we still have the videos from the tank factory before it was bombed? Just throw it in the beginning there."
This was spring 44, Germany still had plenty of firepower. The (King) Tiger 2 was just entering service, as were the Hetzer, Jagdpanther Jagdtiger and Jagdpanzer 4.
Even so,the Germans were very good soldiers,who resisted to the end,even when all seemed lost. And the factories were still turning out tanks and planes,even if they didn,t have pilots or tank crews to use them! So you cant just take the piss out of them!
People have no respect - even a regime has been bad - the German soldiers and its armies were the best in the world at the time and all those soldiers fought bravely. Only some people without any kind of brain and knowledge about World War II could lead to comments like that. Germans always respect today what allied forces have done for all who had been under the spell of evil. Yet to trample arround on history shows what kind of humans you are - welcome to the Neanderthal....
Por Dios !!!!!!, esto es una joya histórica para la humanidad, a pesar de ser propaganda, podemos apreciar los rostros de los soldados alemanes, sus gestos, sus sentimientos, esto es : historia pura. Podemos ver también al grandioso Michael Wittmann.
There were only a handful of people during that time that had a general idea of the Overall situation on all fronts. There was no Internet, no neutral press...only a handful of goverment figures and a handful of staff officers in germanys high command had an idea of how bad the situation really was. And it makes sense, the whole situation -arms Production, positions of every single division,Frontlines, enemy divisions, numbers of reserves, numbers of guns in reserve, troop shifting- that its too much for a single person to know, especially if you consider that these things changed on a daily basis. It was of courde common knowledge that the war wasn't going well in 44 and 45, but the full extend of what was going on was unknown to 99.99% of the german population.
That's the value of propaganda: Put a positive spin on it, and you can get people to fight to win. Or maybe, as DG suggests, most Germans realized the end was near and they were just fighting to secure better terms.
@DG int I coudn't agree more with you. Consider the huge death count of Germans and Russians on the eastern front. Whenever watching TV shows growing up in the U.S. like Hogans Heroes, etc the punishment for a German soldier was to be sent to the eastern front.
Interesting to see a brief shot of Michael Wittmann, the Tiger tank commander who destroyed singlehanded a British armoured column near Villers Bocage. He was killed a few weeks later. Not many ground fighters achieved hero status in WW2, though some pilots did.
I particularly liked the part where the narrator talked about the horror of Allied fighter bomber attacks on French towns about a minute before footage of German Jabos doing exactly the same thing. Double standard much, Herr Goebbels?
Absolutely normal thing for a propagandistic movie of the war time. Do you think the similar US videos put it in any other way? Even today you can easily find the similar examples of double standards.
@@unhomesenzill4366 In the year of 2021 you cannot seriously say that. The truth about those treated as enemies died ages ago and there's no chance for it to resurrect
@@flybobbie1449 Nope, quite opposite was true. First, de Gaulle's Free France who fought fierced was strong anti Strong anti-communist. Second, they are US and UK war prisoners.. not Soviet's. Third, Many of French fascist were ex-Communist (Opposite poles attract each other.. isn't it?) There have been many occasions nazi sympathizers were anti-Semitism rather than anti communism.
@@morstyrannis1951 I'm not talking about the footage technicality, but about how they merged Wittmann into the reel. He was an interesting tank ace for sure.
@@JerusnamWien85 Thanks to his relatively high score he had become sort of a poster boy for Waffen SS Panzer units and because of that he received a huge amount of publicity, I think way above his real value for the German war effort. I believe that's the main reason he's still recognisable today. The power of propaganda, I guess...
Im German. And the Narrotor dosent say "the War is going splendidly" he just explains whats going on, on the Footage. German PPL knwe the War will be lost.
It always amazez me how such a civilised folk like the germans, were fooled into fighting another world war, just 20 years after “the war to end all wars”
@@healththenopulence5106 they were not fooled,they followed him.He raised nationalism that was deep inside them,every person has nationalism inside him,you just need a tactic to wake it up,he woke germans nationalism up
@@healththenopulence5106 The action of one country is determined by the will of a single man, which is Hitler. Plus, Hitler's action got support from his citizen because he stabilized the country from Depression by buying more weapons of war while recover the German prestige that were lost during WW1.
@@healththenopulence5106 the war is in favor of Germany everybody post all non-tsmtsy rejoice the war is in favor of Germany almost all Germans shout that they were deceived
I am German, and I love you, Bruder! We were ganged up on, betrayed, mass murdered, plundered, and mass raped by the various evil allied cold-blooded murderers! May I ask what part of Germany you are from? I was born in Hessen! Tscheuss
Wonderful...thanks for the subtitles we all really appreciate it. Some channels are so dumb they don't even make an effort to put them on....fortunately you're different...God bless you, you're too good to us...
@@K0N7ENTRATI0N exacly The formations of defense... The bushes to hide tanks artillary and person.. The ausence of the luftwaffe, everything shows up the bad situantion of wermacht
Accepted or not?Germany shook the world alone in WW2.and almost occupied 90% of Europe.no other country had done that ever!!!so show them some respect!!!👍👏👏👏
This wasn't filmed in 31 Dec 1944, all the trees have leaves. Filmed during warm weather, so date on caption incorrect, most likely filmed summer 1944, some scenes appear to be from Russian front, some from France.
Я ещё больше не зауважал французов! У Советских людей вовремя операции "Вальс" куда больше причин было бить фрицев и то не позволяли себе такую низость. Франция не достойна носить титул победителя.
@@paparazzonumber1 И , наши обычные люди, когда вели колоны замученных, обгадившихся Немцев, пытались накормить и напоить бедолаг, а Французы кирпичи для головы давали. Вот и вся разница в нашем менталитете ув. Андрю.
@@ВилкаПтицына-ж5ц а еще, мне лично в 4-м классе, насыпали в карман куртки табак и мента какого то позвали. типа, посмотрите на него, фашисткое отродье. не надо мне про каких то там .. столетней давности рассказывать.
0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived." 0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible." 0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)." 0:50 - 0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order." 1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions." 1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers." 1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position." 2:42 - 2:47: " Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack." 2:52 - 2:54: " Fire contact with the head of the enemy." 3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front." 3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy." 3:28 - 3:33: " Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas." 3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves." 3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy." 4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety." 4:11 - 4:15: " Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators." 4:40 - 4:56: " The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost. Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans." 5:28 - 5:34: " German fighters launch low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead." 5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons ." 6:00 - 6:05: " American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen." 6:10 - 6:16: " On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack." 6:24 - 6:27: " The German artillery takes the enemy under fire." 6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front." 6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward. In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour." 7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week." 7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat." 8:08 - 8:27: " In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts."" I hope i got all the timestamps correct.
By the end of the war Germany lost most of their good pilots and they were shortening the training periods and lowering the bar to become a fighter pilot. Not sure if that's the reason he missed or just because it's damn hard to shoot at something when you're going 250 mph through the air but thought it was worth mentioning.
@@ReddoFreddo I agree it’s hard to hit a moving target, especially when the gun is also moving (at 250 mph) but the allied fighter planes managed it didn’t they?
мой русский не очень хорош, но вот оно что (My Russian is not good, but here it goes): По словам моей матери-француженки, те француженки, которые враждебно относятся к военнопленным, могли побрить головы после того, как союзники освободили регион. Женщину с бритой головой заклеймили как пособника нацистов. In English, the above says: According to my French mother, those French women being hostile to the POWs may have gotten their heads shaved once the Allies liberated the region. A woman with a shaved head was branded as a Nazi collaborator.
@@bryanneideffer3969 You're probably right. To show any public dislike of the party or the Reich was a death sentence. Even conversations among friends could be risky, so I have heard from a man I knew who was about 12 in 1944
Keep in mind, this is 2 years after Stalingrad. Even with total control of the media, Germans knew that the war was lost. Of course, you could be shot for expressing "defeatist views".
You seem so brave 70 years later, behind a keyboard, in your comfortable home, but not in a occupied land after months of bombardments... so STFU and NEVER judge the past from your own point of view.
Oh yes, you poor French people. You fought so hard and lost so many ... We where so bad to you that you could hold entire districts in Paris without consequences.
This must have been taken between the D-Day landings (June 6, 1944) and the death of Nazi Hero & 'Panzer Ace' Michael Wittman (August 8, 1944). The Allies were moving quickly after breaking out of Normandy with Paris being liberated in late August of 1944, a little over 2 months after D-Day. This film was clearly propaganda to bolster German civilian morale.
I think that's a general problem with WW2 battle scenes, they are probably staged and well away from the real action. I doubt that any of the nations involved were very keen to lose camera crews or their film.
0:38 "Howmuch gasoline do we have for footage", "for about 40 seconds, switch to infantery footage." 2:47 STUG only actual functional panzer. 5:29 Luftwaffe flew 5 sorties this day on the West Front. 6:46 most feared German tank crew, looking up to the sky (in fear of allied air superiority).
@@charlesfarmer5749 His pharmacy shop " Tiger Apotheke" is 7 km from me .I met him 10-12 years ago ,talked 10-15 min with him and bought his book " Tiger im Schlamm " ( Tiger in mud) . He was very kind. R.I.P.
После разгрома немецко - фашистских войск был развеян миф о непобедимости, после победы под Сталинградом им свернули хребет,, всей этой коричневой чуме, после победы под Курском им дали понять что их война проиграна, на что они еще они надеялись в дальнейшем, на эти новейшие танки?
Рома Лазарев здесь кадры войны с англичанами и американцами и пленные союзники .Закончилось победой верно , но какой ценой она досталось СССР если регулярно меняем потери в этой войне и последние цифры 42,5 мил человек из докладов.Так что повторять не надо .
Spot on. The North Korean television voice is a deep heavy-voiced woman (if you close your eyes you’d wonder the true gender). Stern and lecturing tone with a shake now and again to show *seriousness.* Hilarious!
I miss these pathos in the voice of my greatest chancellor of all time, GröKaZ, when she has her ideas for the advancement of the Greater German Reich, now also in the Corona madness. But otherwise the Germans have been doing very well for 102 years.
@@zymbaluknik8093 US ability to arhive military success is oposite to ability of US politics to establish democracy in Muslim countries. It's not an art to win battles when you can't capitalize this win to establish stable government. In fact US lost few wars in this regard. US style of life is not for everyone. It's better to understand this before launch military engagement.
@@zymbaluknik8093 I know that US troops left Afganistan and US supported government fall down almost immediately. That is perfect example of fail of US politics.
@@303Pinker this is what everybody knows,not everyone knows about actual causes and how long withdrawn actually took, since they began it way before it was announced and got themselves sure that democratic Afghanistan government wont stand a year without them
Broadly speaking, during the first few scenes they are talking about preparation for a flanking attack. But you can see them digging and building extensive trenches and defensive positions. So they are defending. In France, scenes of French villages and towns bombed by Allied fighter bombers, the Luftwaffe presumably counter attacking, yet they had moved most of their planes away from Normandy because the Allies had almost total air superiority. Most heard remark about the ground forces during that time: Where was the Luftwaffe? German soldier's joke at the time: If you see a white plane, it's American; if it's black it's RAF (Royal Air Force). If you see no planes at all, that's the Luftwaffe.
As a german its so interesting how positive it all is formulated, theres no word of a single german loss. It would sound like they are still advancing, but we all know by 1944 germany was losing big time and the loss was innevitable.
In case anybody wants a translation:
0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived."
0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)."
0:50 -
0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order."
1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions."
1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers."
1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position."
2:42 - 2:47: "
Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack."
2:52 - 2:54: "
Fire contact with the head of the enemy."
3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front."
3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy."
3:28 - 3:33: "
Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas."
3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves."
3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy."
4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety."
4:11 - 4:15: "
Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators."
4:40 - 4:56: "
The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost.
Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans."
5:28 - 5:34: "
German fighters launch
low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead."
5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons
."
6:00 - 6:05: "
American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen."
6:10 - 6:16: "
On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack."
6:24 - 6:27: "
The German artillery takes the enemy under fire."
6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front."
6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward.
In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour."
7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week."
7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat."
8:08 - 8:27: "
In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts.""
👏👍
@Joey Diazlike a docta
@Monkee Media thanks make germany great again was a failure. the world should take note.. it does not work
3:28 - 3:33:
Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas, back into Switzerland.
1:05 - 1:09: All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions, in preparation for the next offensive.
1944 when the German victories came closer and closer to home
Lol
Yeah if you're intimately aware of the war status at this point, this is one GLOWING fucking broadcast. Motherfuckers were blowing their brains out and popping cyanide pills like candy at this point.
Japan did the same thing. All the great victories kept happening ever closer to the home islands.
It is because of the experience in ww1. The Germans believed if they continued the fight after they won the east front they would have won the ww1 in the west with new troops but got backstabbed by politics. “Dolchstoß legende” like the mighty Siegfried. So they truly thought they have to fight to the end. Fight for your lost comrades.
@@AnthonyBerkshire They chose to put their hands up rather than fight for their lost comrades when they relaized they were pussies against victorious Red Army:)))
The video is positive because they knew Steiner's attack will put everything in order.
LOL!
Steiner.........Steiner doesn’t have enough troops for a counter attack.........
@@thethirdfrenchempire1556 nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein nein
@@michaelburton2253 das war ein befehl!
@@kh2b573 Der Angriff Steiner war ein Befehl!
You've got to hand it to the Germans They shot combat footage right up to the end of hostilities.
Whereas the Russians were more focused on winning the war and didn't have time to film their victories.
@@mikepravica2140there no victories for commies, they’re barbarians who were preparing invade Germany and Europe in 1939-1941 and Hitler hit first to defend Germany. And stupid roosevelt gave weapons and huge amount of supplies to commies… that’s your biggest mistake. Germans amd Americans shouldn’t war, but commies made you fight against civilisation… for red orks. Then you instantly got cold war and war in Europe (ukranian war) stupid leftist…
And shot many of their own for trying to get the hell out of it
@@mikepravica2140 Completely ignoring that the Russians had 10x the manpower, 20-30x the amount of tanks and artillery. Yeah. You must feel like you made a great achievement with your comment.
@@bigboss9817 Any comment that seeks to expose german barbarity during WWII at a time when so many dumb and racist nazi-sympathizers desperately try to rehabilitate germany is a great achievement.
"the enemy will soon have Berlin surrounded. Then we'll have them just where we want them."
That right there is high self esteem
😂😂😂
@@yamnayaseed356 hahahaha ego the size of Hindenburg
LOL
The propaganda at that time was literally talking about shortening the supply lines to the front. Thats also a way to descibe being pushed back.
Not gonna lie, that is some intense footage. Hard to believe soldiers actually ran around there with a camera while hell was breaking loose around them.
ДА! иногда они ещё фотографировали как расстреливают детей!
US Civil War was first to be photographed and coverage like this hasn't stopped since. CNN had the first live broadcast of a war in the 90s with the bombing campaign of the gulf war. Being a war correspondent and video journalist are real jobs now.
русские сделали то же самое.
Well you should know, that probably most of those images are acted.
@@mausexx
Doubt
"It's a trap boys! The closer the allies get to Germany the longer their supply lines will be! We're luring to defeat!"
Its so very confusing calculation, still had to thinking in positives ways, but ironic in fact allies came closer could easly defeat germans soon,
That is actually no joke how it was portrayed in german propaganda at that time
Lulling them into a false sense of security
Well they didn't anticipate the Red Ball Express.
That actually worked against the Japanese in New Guinea
Love watching or listening to these...keeps my German fluent.
U
@@ulfhovi1503 Weisst du was?
Its vrey important. Your german. But what nacist done its nothing?? Bravo. Mine got are you ok???
@@ulfhovi1503 U. IS SIGN FOR USTASAS. CROAT NAZZY WILD ANIMALS PARDON CROATS. WHICH KILLED IN CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVONA AND SERBIA 1000.000.SREBS PLUS. 350.000 GYPSES AND JUDES
U IS FORBIDEN BUT IN EU AND TIDAYS NAZZY CROATIA THEY STILL CELEBRATE NACISM MADNESS
ITS THE SAME IN UKRAINA TODAY AZOV. BANDERA RCT PURE NACISTS.
SHSME OF WESTERN WORLD
@@Ramonda1914 Um not really sure what you are saying, your English sentence structure is way off.
Germany : The enemy is pouring across our boarder, we have them just where we want them!
😂😂😂
And not hiding on the island anymore.
Of course, because with Steiners counter attack they will be able to encircle them and destroy them!
Germany 1945 : well that was a lie😑
@Anton Leimbach. It may well not have come to that if the July 44 'Bomb Plot' had succeeded. Even so, there would not have been very much margin for error in playing what remained of Germany's political and military cards.
Looks good for Germany. Should by in London by Christmas
Propaganda.
@@rodrigo100kk you know he was being humorous
Don't worry, they won't get through the Ardennes.
@@Otacatapetl They only had to retreat because they were running out of gasoline and ammunition.
The whole Western Front basically collapsed on the side of the Allies during the Ardennes Offensive and if it wasn't for missing supplies the Germans would have encircled big parts of their armies.
@@JackoBanon1 true I agrre with you!
Although the caption says 31 December 1944, this was obviously filmed several months before that date.There are plenty of leaves on the trees, indicating a time earlier in the year. Also, there is footage of Panzer Ace, Michael Wittmann, who was killed on the 8th of August 1944. Therefore, this footage was probably taken a few weeks after D-Day.
I think it's error of description, on AP Archive site there are multiple videos that are dated 31 december 0:00 AM of various years. Maybe they couldn't find proper dates, maybe archive only listed the videos by the year or something, that would be my guess. I doubt they would release that Normandy footage on 31 december when more recent offensives that gave "new hope" took place. And while of course back then gaining footage and linking it into one film took time, another Deutsche Wochenshau about operation Wacht am Rhein is dated for 16 january 1945, so only 2 weeks after. So I think this video could be dated for some few weeks after 15-17 June 1944, judging by the footage of SS Tigers combat.
@@czwarty7878 маленькая ошибка. Вы написали: "16 december 1945". Война к этому моменту закончилась. Вы вероятно имели ввиду 16 декабря 1944 года.
@@СемёнНаймагон you're right of course! I was thinking of one thing and wrote the other, it should be "january" of course instead of "december". Fixed it, спасибо!
at that time the Luftwaffe wasn't active against groundtargets any more. So propably mixed with shots from before D-day.
@@lynskyn2 not really, they had just enough action for some recordings. Allies had air superiority but it doesn't mean entire sky became a no-fly zone for Luftwaffe, they were just told to stay away from allied fighters unless the latter were at severe disadvantage; some few jabo missions still were active. Few fighters strafed the beaches on 6th june, some FW190s attacked ships with rockets, Ju88s also were carrying out bombings and mining missions, also the airborne before Carentan were bombed by german jabos. So it's just enough for recording something for propaganda... And that's about it.
“We’re not retreating, we’re advancing on Berlin”
The troops in the first few shots were smiling because they were sent to the Western Front.
Yes nobody wanted to end in Siberia.
@@fabiojo783 They smiled even more when they were captured and sent to Scotland or Canada
Nunca habra otro ejercito como el aleman....
@@ricardograu8848 Sie meinen wie eine böse Gruppe von Nazi-Kriminellen, die den Frieden Europas zerstört und die Bevölkerung ermordet haben
@@gorw4330 What a load of crap you are typing. You are either a brainwashed communist or a troll.. Go away
German News 1944: Russians coming from the East, Americans from the West. We have them right were we want them! Everything's great!
It saves transportation capacities when the enemy comes to you and with Steiners offensive everything’s will be fine.
@@RonSommar 😂
Non-Communists are subhumans
@@nevajno2741 Good to know.
@@nevajno2741 You have a great day, too.
Germany News in 1944 summarized: “this is fine”
(it wasn’t fine)
Its called propaganda.
"News of England" in 1944 it's so good that we chose the allies of the USSR, now we can heroically tell the whole world that we won and get drunk with alcohol in our stinking pubs))))
@@pacza_vacza 1944 Poland your here to liberate us? Your here to liberate us right...
@@Infernal460 You're*
You notice the French bystanders punching the American (or British?) POWS as the Germans march them through the streets?
Yes
they are angry because US airforce bombed 100% civilian targets, even complete towns.
Allies wanted full streets with refugees (so germans cant march) and busy germans.
I wonder if the guy who sucker punched the POW got his comeuppance a few months later?
@@HanginInSF yeah then he shaved women's heads and called hinself Resistance. ^^
Just for context, the commentator speaks of airstrikes against French towns, and how the French are apparently so outraged that even against German guard details, the civilians become violent against the POWs.
German radio: victory is guaranteed
The reporters off camera: we're fucked
🤣🤣
Even the diehards were admitting by this point: "well, it's been better..."
Happy Trails to you until we meet again. And now for something completely different.
Reminds me of North Korean TV
Russians enter Berlin...
I (german) showed this to my grandfather. He told me that his mother told him at that time, that the war is probably lost and all will be over soon.
That your grandpa already knew the result of the wars early
@@andiansukmara Not exactly, my grandfather was like 6 years old. But his mother (my grand grandmother) did'nt buy the propaganda, as did many other germans at that time. They knew the war could not go much longer and that germany would probably not be the winner at the end of 44.
You're German and you also speak English, while the majority of Americans only speak one lol ... good job 👍
@@Inuwoodx So etwas zu sagen war doch gefährlich?
Its really easy to calculate, if you're sitting between russians and american allies you probably run out of supplies. And then you will notice that youre get beaten up when more and more men get taken into military service. But you better should not have told this in public
0:19 Auto English translate. Tanks and fat people are released as self-drivers they are thrown to the front as quickly as possible.
Real translation "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
Remember when TH-cam allowed the community to do the translations? Clearly the auto translate works so well.
Its „tanks and artillerie“ where u got the fat from? 😂
@@ahrensmedia youtube's auto translation
Auto-translate making the germans seem even more desperate than they really were at this point.
My father who was in the British Army fought in Burma. My grandfather who was German was old at that time and was sent to fight at the Russian Front. That's why I hate war. My grandfather was injured in the head by a bullet and miraculously survived the war.
Germany in 1944: "This is all part of the plan."
That's obvious. They only had to cut their supply lines that were always too stretched
@@TheStonedstone They had great fighting me and good equipment but in no way could they withstand the onslaught of fresh troops and supplies. Germany was beaten and even if the bulge had worked, sheer numbers and a two front war would have brought the same end. If the German people only knew how messed up Hitler, Himmler and the others were they may have not supported them.
@@glenbearh9109 hyperinflation brother
Any minute now…
They defended so hard in 1944, 1945 that you broke your teeth before taking Berlin
Being German and understanding the narrator, I was surprised how much the voiceover gave away of the real situation. Troops going into "counterattack", American troops as "liberators" of France, troops being depoyed "after short training" etc. Almost every single sentence gave away that it was not going well for the Nazis.
Not the Nazis, you ment, YOU GUYS. You are German, these are your guys
@@Didier-Drogba1337 bruh
@@Didier-Drogba1337 What about millions of traitors of Germany like Communists and those who headed west Germany?
It is the other way around. Zionist enslavement of France.
@@Didier-Drogba1337 ur literally dumb. And it is meant, not ment.
German News 1944: *is in German
Me: *surprised pikachu face
Wdym
@@Mortal7 ahe was waiting to come here and see what they were saying but didn’t remember it would be in German and he/she wouldn’t understand anything
I was hoping there'd at least be subtitles.
No I think he was thinking since it was so late in the war that it would be allied propaganda, not german. Cause all german new would be "we are losing".
You hear the voice of Josef Goebbels.
Это был серьезный враг.Честь и хвала советскому солдату.
Interessante Wortwahl: "Auch hier sind Frauen und Kinder ständig von den Luftangriffen der BEFREIER bedroht...".
Like the Germans cared....
Sollte wohl implizieren, dass die sogenannten Befreier gar keine sind
Many French died under allied bombs
@@robdyson4990 Interesting are the three answers to my opening comment. The first thinks in the direction of tooth for tooth, the second in the direction of occupied Germany and the third in the direction that the Allies have done more damage to France than the Germans. It's very crazy.
You play with the bull, you get the horn!
Goebbels: We need some tanks for the propaganda film.
Wehrmacht: You want one tank or all two?
Hahaha this is the best comment here
Why dont they play poker in the Jungle?
Too many Cheetas! Get it!? Cheaters/Cheetahs...
No you don't because Cheetah's don't live in the Jungle!!!!!
Reminds me of Italy campaign.
Panzers spotted. They got 2 pz IVs!
-Looks like they brought the whole division.
🤣🤣🤣
Paramount Pictures probably borrowed them some movie props LOL
Don't think that German people didn't notice, younger and younger soldiers being shown in reports of victories closer to home?
CREO QUE PARA ESE MOMENTO
ERAN CONSCIENTES DE QUE YA HABÍAN PERDIDO LA GUERRA.
I dont think they didnt notice but what should they have done?
@@spitdrinker9301 exactly. it was a nation of 80 million people who the entire world ganged up on. and the red army raped the german people.. literally. for years once they finally were allowed to control germany.. by the "allies"
the fact that they fought for 7 years and almost won was a miracle for them in itself. And since we know they were raped and murdered.. (so were ukranians. finns. and anyone the red army fought. so it wasnt because the germans were mean and deserved it, it wouldve happened if they had lost the war. which eventually they did lose. kinda hard to beat the entire world when its backed by international finance and has a trade war waged on it for 14 years.
They werent trying to conquer the world they were trying to get their pre wwi land back. and stop pols from murdering germans by the thousands.
imagine if the austrailians all of the sudden decided to give new zealand to the indoneasians.. how unpopular it would be... thats how it was when danzig was given to poland despite 99% of its residents voting against it.
it would be like giving san diego CA to mexico depsite 99% of san diegans voting against it.. but the international powers just say "too bad.. you live in mexico now."
young soldiers fought because if they didnt. they knew theyd die just the same.
except instead of dying fighting like a man along side their brothers in arms.. theyd be killed like a helpless child.. along side their sisters and mothers while they get raped and he can do nothing to stop it.. if those were your choices... would you fight? and die atleast fighting the enemy? or would you rather just get your head crushed with the butt of a rifle while your mom and sisters are sharing a lineup of 50 horny soviet soldiers each?
@@edwardblake1407 nice fantasy novel you are writing, when do you plan to publish?
@@dinochookproductions5190 lol an actual nazi sympathiser, never thought I'd see one in the wild
Why did they not add any subtitles?
There are subtitles in english
@@Janosaltaccount Yeah, automatically generated and almost constantly wrong
Otto Carius reading the map at 40 seconds, survived the war in the top 3 tank aces of the war and wrote a brilliant book "Tigers in the mud" highly recomended about life as a German tanker, no Nazi propagander just muck and bullets mostly on the eastern front, details of some breathtaking actions that made this guy very special at what he did.
@glareola against every superpower on planet Earth
It made him specially criminal。Good thing the Nazis lost。
Some of the Nazis got theirs in the end。
@@visionist7 Japan was pro－Nazi。
Wasn't the mud the same for russians too?
This is a piece of history, thanks for uploading it.
agree
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What do you think the propaganda machine was going to say..." well boys we lost another one".
looool xD
Maybe they were saying "They're doing to us the same thing we did to Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Russia, Poland, Norway, Greece and they are criminals!"
@@L1V2P9 shut up boomer, you know nothing about this war
@@moinmoin1727 boomers would know more considering their parents were veterans...
@@L1V2P9 Germany started the war invading Poland to take revenge after the Polish massacred tens of thousannd of etnic Germans. Then England declared war on Germany.
The Panther is such a beauty. For me it is the best looking tank. Also the Jagtpanther is really great looking. Directly after is the Hetzer.
Yeah, they all look pretty good, but my favorite is the King Tiger.
How can you admire a murder weapon so much?
Het is rotzooi
@@GerardBoerdu bist Müll 😂
@@serega1208 It's not that deep, he just likes the design
TH-cam auto translate: "Tanks and fat people are released as self-drivers."
LOL - "Panzer und Selbstfahrlafetten werden entladen" would be "tanks and self propelled artillery are being unloaded" ... or as YT puts it:
"selbstfahrer fette" - "self driving fat people"
It's probably talking about the U.S.
Вот интересно, кадры вроде бодрые, скоро победа. А фронт всё ближе к Берлину. Ну и? Как там в голове обывателей? Скакать от радости, развесив уши на Геббельсе? А ему хоть ссы в глаза - скоро победа. 😁😁😁😁😁
This after 2 years of continuous defeats on the eastern front, and and opening of a second front in France. And the German propaganda says “we got this.”
They had to say it officially. The Germans kicked allot of ass during the War...The problem was that the Allies kicked a little more.
@@cs-rj8ru The Allies were like "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie"
@@cs-rj8ru A revelation was made in the US magazine "World at War" which gave a plausible explanation why the Heer put up stiff resistance in the Fall of 1944: Prior to the Fall of 1944, there was a Heer reserve of 100K+ soldiers in Germany which was a standby armed force that the principals of Operation Valkyrie were planning to use to overthrow the Third Reich after Hitler was assassinated. Well, we all know the plot was foiled. But afterwards, Hitler disbanded that standby armed force and sent them to the western and eastern fronts to take up the fights against the Allies.
So, after the Western Allies had made swift progress to liberate Paris, they were suddenly facing a German Army that was fortified with additional tens-of-thousands new soldiers.
All very impressive Herr Goebbels, but why have we been retreating for two years?
Retreating? Ever heard of the Battle of the Bulge? The war had it's ups and downs and we are lucky that democratic, human rights respecting allies have won.
@@kevintaal4616 That was Dec 12, '44 - Jan 25, '45. Highly doubt this was recorded, transported, edited and released in the last two weeks of the year; nor does it look like the appropriate weather in the footage for the Battle of the Bulge either to have already started.
@@FirstLast-di5sr You're right. I just want to state that the Allied victory was not a certainty and the defeat of Nazi Germany was a long battle with many ups and downs. It wasn't only constant retreat and failure. Many Americans had to risk their lives knowing it could be all for nothing. The stranded invasion in Italy is an earlier example of that. The battle of the bulge and oparation Market Garden are later examples that prove the same thing: Germany had military capabilities that could be extremely dangerous.
@@glaucouswingedgull I would say that, as soon as early 1943, Germans are on the downward spiral.
@@glaucouswingedgull Second El Alamein 23 October 1942 was the start of the European Axis' retreat.
With so many brave and motivated troops defending Germany, and with
so many formidable Panzers, and anti tank howitzers available to these troops, what could ever go wrong? Talk about living in a house of cards.
I believe Russia built 50,000 T-34’s and had 2 million men
@@jacobjorgenson9285 That and millions of tons of war material shipped from the good old USA!
@@BasementEngineer Russia sacrificed 27 MILLION to break the Nazis, and they did
@@BasementEngineer Т-34 поставлялись США?
Загадочная русская душа! Кажется всё потеряно, проигранои осталось ждать только милости победителей. Но нет! Мы РУССКИЕ словно пружина! Никто и никогда не сможет топтать нашу священную землю! Всякой захватчик найдёт сдесь только свою смерть! Так было, есть и будет!
Good food, plenty of tobacco, great weather, good comrades - what could possibly go wrong?!
The whole world is going upside down !!!
the situation for troops stationed in western front was ideal in comparison to the troops in east. It's a difference between France and Stalingrad!
I think it's gonna rain tomorrw 🤔
I wonder where they were getting their baccy from at this stage of the war?
@@188basstrom probably smoking grass
All the smiles on the faces of those young men- no idea what was about to roll over the top of them.
not so many smiles, at that
@@donsurlylyte 6 years of fighting against the Globalists will do that to you.
@@bobbobby8105 fuck nazis
@@bobbobby8105 fuck nazis
Lol they knew what was coming : but there is no way to stop it so; smile today die tomorrow right ?
He is saying " My fellow Germans, the war is going splendidly, I suspect 1945 will be even better".
multiritchdude Fade in victorious trumpet sounds
Much better 😊
Yes, by 1945 you won't recognize Germany!
Was it better ?
@@Andrew-gx1eq Trump is only a symptom not the disease, he is the talley sheet of years of abusing the public trust and raping their nation, now it wants to die. We live in a failed state.
Amazing how both sides were the same to watch films from their point of view
What i find amazing is how similar it looks and sounds to American news reels from the time
I am saddened by how much the modern day world is starting to look like Germany circa 1938.
First we are told to wear a mask. Then give up our livelihood and lives.
Next you will be told you must get a shot that has no real track record knowing full well they haven't been able to stop corvids cousins the common cold and influenza.
After that is is blue shirts M-W-F, red shirts T-T-S and white on Sunday.
You should listen to some Japanese or Russian ones, they're the same. The Atlantic accent took over the broadcasting world
@@hoodie__guy And you think we have such a great record?
How many 1st People did we kill off with gun and germ?
How many Africans were ripped from their home to serve the white man?
How many Japanese died in two shots? Granted that one did save lives but still, we killed them.
Then there is the raping of the American laborer. Amazon is a good example, employees get $15 per hour and Jeff is the richest man on the little rock we all share, yah, right. The fucker could give them $30 per hour and still have more than he can spend.
The list is longer but I don't want to plug your brain up.
May have taken us longer but we are no better and the latest attempt to take away freedoms will surely push us back to the top of the pile of mistreating our fellow human beings for a buck and a power trip.
@Yasser Osman I have no doubt of it. The US is being replaced by China as a hedgemon. The empire is already dead, the only question is will it survive as sovereign democratic republic? But then again will any country survive globaliaztion as such?
@Yasser Osman With nobody to blame but ourselves.
Fascinating to see such archives, thank you! About the date, though: where does 31 Dec 1944 come from? All the pictures seem to be taken in summer; those that recount specific events seem to come from July/Aug 1944.
Probably films public release, things took longer back then.
@David Deady mehr Schein als Sein
@David Deady I was wondering why that women was punching that soldier, wow.
@David Deady Or the French were sick and tired of have their cities bombed by "Allies"
This Newsreel is from August, 3 1944.
Trying to put a positive spin on a hopeless situation..... by this time the Russians were in control in the east and France was only a matter of time....
Settled an estate years back of a woman who emigrated from Germany after the war. in her apartment we found a Nazi police id card. (She worked as a clerk.) Issued on April 2, 1945. It was valid for two years! Now that was spinning a hopeless situation.
Chuck Perego I’ll say! When they issued her card, the Reich was about 200 miles wide....
@andrew chambers "all the arms" amounted to less than 5% of Soviet military output. They would've won, but probably at the price of another half a million killed and maybe an extra year of fighting. I am very glad allies helped each other - it saved everyone's lives, even German lives.
@andrew chambers i am not sure why you brought this completely unrelated point, but I generally agree with you. Allies should've treated Germany in less harsh terms after WWI and, it's EXACTLY what US had advocated but France and Britain wanted draconian measures imposed. Though, you have to also remember that these measures were a direct result of similar measures that Prussia imposed on France after Franco-Prussian war just a few decades earlier. There is no "poor Germany" argument here.
@andrew chambers another off-point comment. Yes, Britain had no need to be in WWI, and neither did anyone else. Did France need to be in it? Russia? Germany? Ottoman Empire ? It was a mess of multiple alliances and escalations.
It dawned on me that this isn’t too far from the current media in the US.
I'm french, my great grandfather fought the germans in Verdun,3 months in 1916, and members of my family died in germans weapons factory ( because STO) during WW2. Our countries was in war 3 Times in 75 years, we lost more 2 millions of mens against Germany, and like if i'm proud to be french and i Always defend my country, i'm very happy to be Friend with germans today.
Of course i can't forget ww1, or Hitler and nazis, but the Germany of today is not the Germany of 1942. Now we are in peace, and we are Friends, and i hope never see another horrible War between us again !!
Long live french-german friendship
Great Britan was totally responsible for ww1 - they comploted to provoke Germany into the war, and made it inevitable with the triple alliance between Great Britan, France and Russia
@@silveriorebelo8045 complete bullshit. WWI started in the Balkans with the assassination of arch duke Ferdinand.....
BULGARIAN ARMY killed more than 100 000 French
" Coqs gaulois " on the SOUTHERN - " Macedonian " - " Thessaloniki " front in EUROPE during World War I 1914-1918 !
Withouth the help of USA during World War II the French
" Coqs gaulois " were one big NOTHING !
@@НиколаГешевъ without USSR, all europe will be nazi !! Ussr won the war against nazis, not USA
Not only it shows a brief appearance of Wittrman, but also very rare action inside the cockpit of a Fw190 during ground attack.
That was Carius.
Interesting how the vid made it look like the war was gong in Germanys favour , when in reality it was lost
That was my thought too. Germany was losing the war on both fronts at this time
...haha! ...ist ja witzig: ...der o.a. Kommentar in englisch!!
...also in der Sprache, die die meisten Kriege geführt und begonnen haben!! ...wobei Trump ja noch net soooo dabei ist!!
@@adalbert74 Sie sind 1914 in Belgien eingedrungen, und mit dem bevorstehenden Zusammenbruch Frankreichs fühlte sich die britische Regierung gezwungen zu handeln. Ähnlich war es 1939, als Sie in Polen einfielen. Aber ist es wahr, dass Großbritannien Deutschland beide Male den Krieg erklärt hat? Für mich war das ein Fehler und hat nichts mit uns zu tun.
@@adalbert74 well yes, last 50 years...Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq..but let's not forget WW1 and WW2. And Trump hasn't actually started any wars himself
At 1:45 - the MG does not appear to be a German type of which I am aware - Is it a French or Italian gun, or...?
It could be a captured Soviet or Italian heavy machine gun. I suspect it was stripped out of a mount from a crashed plane.
LOL...thats a MG34 on "3-Bein-Lafette" = sMG
0:42 Thats "Panzer Ace" Otto Carius. He wrote an excellent book called "Tigers in the Mud" about his experiences as a tank commander during the war.
Also: he became a pharmacist after the war
@@violentscorl697 he opened a dental office with his old friend Wilhelm Baktus.
@@Dominik-bl9sw Hah, is that a joke? ;)
yeah and that book siad that the Tiger was most of the tiimes an absolute unuseable tank, funny enough
@@violentscorl697 yes but only Germans might understand 🤷♂️ sorry for the confusion
This is incredible, thank you for this footage
"Alright boys, we managed to scrounge up the last 6 trucks in the division and a gallon of gas for each of them, and Panther 721 is the only tank still running. Is that enough for your newsreel?"
"Ah crap, Hans, do we still have the videos from the tank factory before it was bombed? Just throw it in the beginning there."
This was spring 44, Germany still had plenty of firepower. The (King) Tiger 2 was just entering service, as were the Hetzer, Jagdpanther Jagdtiger and Jagdpanzer 4.
Even so,the Germans were very good soldiers,who resisted to the end,even when all seemed lost.
And the factories were still turning out tanks and planes,even if they didn,t have pilots or tank crews to use them!
So you cant just take the piss out of them!
People have no respect - even a regime has been bad - the German soldiers and its armies were the best in the world at the time and all those soldiers fought bravely. Only some people without any kind of brain and knowledge about World War II could lead to comments like that.
Germans always respect today what allied forces have done for all who had been under the spell of evil.
Yet to trample arround on history shows what kind of humans you are - welcome to the Neanderthal....
@@dirkweeber154Except by 1944 they were objectively a failing army
Por Dios !!!!!!, esto es una joya histórica para la humanidad, a pesar de ser propaganda, podemos apreciar los rostros de los soldados alemanes, sus gestos, sus sentimientos, esto es : historia pura. Podemos ver también al grandioso Michael Wittmann.
Él es Gran y Grande persona! Saludos cordiales desde Bulgaria! 🇧🇬❤️🙏🌹👑✨
А то, что они убили 2000000 вас не волнует?
Какие чувства, фашисты и убийцы детей женщин и стариков, суки они😡😡
Is there a part 2? I want to see who wins.
Well The Germens of course they just...Retreated to Trap the Anglo americ..."How many just got encircled?"
That's the plot: nobody ever really wins.
Always blows my mind this conflict was captured on film
People don’t think about it but it’s really something else
@@ryanarthur1894 Exactly! Something like unreal, but this happened… whole era captured on camera…
-Great news, our guys returning home!
-Did they win?
-Well emm...
Still more believable and logical than today’s Russian news.
Вчерашние российские новости были такие же лживые, Путин захватил телевидение ещё в 2001
Really? 😂
Imagine being a German citizen in December 1944 thinking you were somehow going to win the war.
There were only a handful of people during that time that had a general idea of the Overall situation on all fronts. There was no Internet, no neutral press...only a handful of goverment figures and a handful of staff officers in germanys high command had an idea of how bad the situation really was. And it makes sense, the whole situation -arms Production, positions of every single division,Frontlines, enemy divisions, numbers of reserves, numbers of guns in reserve, troop shifting- that its too much for a single person to know, especially if you consider that these things changed on a daily basis.
It was of courde common knowledge that the war wasn't going well in 44 and 45, but the full extend of what was going on was unknown to 99.99% of the german population.
That's the value of propaganda: Put a positive spin on it, and you can get people to fight to win. Or maybe, as DG suggests, most Germans realized the end was near and they were just fighting to secure better terms.
@Katrina Balanchuk That's what I thought as well. Definitely not December, however I wonder what country is filmed at the beginning of the film?
@DG int I coudn't agree more with you. Consider the huge death count of Germans and Russians on the eastern front. Whenever watching TV shows growing up in the U.S. like Hogans Heroes, etc the punishment for a German soldier was to be sent to the eastern front.
😂😂😂😂😂, that's not what my grand dad said, kick their butts
Interesting to see a brief shot of Michael Wittmann, the Tiger tank commander who destroyed singlehanded a British armoured column near Villers Bocage. He was killed a few weeks later. Not many ground fighters achieved hero status in WW2, though some pilots did.
Wen interessierts
Wittmann a man who had Allied men murdered because they would not look after POW's during the battle of the bulge so they murdered them.
@@williba24 he died months bevor the battle of the bulge maybe you mean some other ?
There were also epic u-boot aces like Otto Kretschmer who destroyed unbelievable amounts of enemy transporters and ships.
It was literally 2 days after this was released he was killed
I particularly liked the part where the narrator talked about the horror of Allied fighter bomber attacks on French towns about a minute before footage of German Jabos doing exactly the same thing. Double standard much, Herr Goebbels?
Absolutely normal thing for a propagandistic movie of the war time. Do you think the similar US videos put it in any other way? Even today you can easily find the similar examples of double standards.
@@alico72 We're past propaganda and lies. Most of respected journalists try to be factual.
@@unhomesenzill4366 In the year of 2021 you cannot seriously say that. The truth about those treated as enemies died ages ago and there's no chance for it to resurrect
@@alico72 haha seriously thinking the same thing with dudes comment - if 2020 taught us nothing it taught us propoganda and lies are rampant
The only difference being that the Germans were using their machine gus and cannons while the Anglo americans were dropping heavy ordinance
It's so important to preserve these films for posterity.
Woman at 5:03 in 2 months later: "my hero let me kiss you" Soldier: "wasn't it you slapping me 2 month ago?"
She's probably One of those french hussie that got her Head shaved at the end of the war.
Was worried about losing trade, pros.
Just a wild guess, but something tells me these people were forced to do that for the camera as this entire film is strictly Nazi propaganda.
@@winnienguyen4420 There were lots of naz.i sympathizers in France. Some saw them as saviors as the communists were big in France.
@@flybobbie1449 Nope, quite opposite was true. First, de Gaulle's Free France who fought fierced was strong anti Strong anti-communist. Second, they are US and UK war prisoners.. not Soviet's. Third, Many of French fascist were ex-Communist (Opposite poles attract each other.. isn't it?) There have been many occasions nazi sympathizers were anti-Semitism rather than anti communism.
A fascinating shot of Michael Wittmann, the tank commander from the Normandy campaign, at 6:41.
Not sure why you found it fascinating. It's the standard sequence used for both moving and still images.
The narrator called him feared tank anhillator
@@morstyrannis1951 I'm not talking about the footage technicality, but about how they merged Wittmann into the reel. He was an interesting tank ace for sure.
@@JerusnamWien85 Thanks to his relatively high score he had become sort of a poster boy for Waffen SS Panzer units and because of that he received a huge amount of publicity, I think way above his real value for the German war effort. I believe that's the main reason he's still recognisable today. The power of propaganda, I guess...
@@JerusnamWien85 Also very quickly a dead one.
Пусть всегда будет МИР!!!
Твоя страна сейчас главная ему угроза
@@AndrD1406 а твоя?
@@AndrD1406 малоросс, спок
@@Oleg-zv5lf я спокоен, фино-угр
@@AndrD1406 наша страна сейчас его главная гарантия.
Как же духоподъёмно можно верещать находясь практически в жопе ... украину напоминает)
Im German. And the Narrotor dosent say "the War is going splendidly" he just explains whats going on, on the Footage. German PPL knwe the War will be lost.
It always amazez me how such a civilised folk like the germans, were fooled into fighting another world war, just 20 years after “the war to end all wars”
@@healththenopulence5106 they were not fooled,they followed him.He raised nationalism that was deep inside them,every person has nationalism inside him,you just need a tactic to wake it up,he woke germans nationalism up
@@healththenopulence5106
The action of one country is determined by the will of a single man, which is Hitler. Plus, Hitler's action got support from his citizen because he stabilized the country from Depression by buying more weapons of war while recover the German prestige that were lost during WW1.
@@healththenopulence5106
the war is in favor of Germany everybody post all non-tsmtsy rejoice the war is in favor of Germany almost all Germans shout that they were deceived
I am German, and I love you, Bruder! We were ganged up on, betrayed, mass murdered, plundered, and mass raped by the various evil allied cold-blooded murderers! May I ask what part of Germany you are from? I was born in Hessen! Tscheuss
Wonderful...thanks for the subtitles we all really appreciate it. Some channels are so dumb they don't even make an effort to put them on....fortunately you're different...God bless you, you're too good to us...
Goddamnit! 😂Was looking for the subtitles you're talking about I found sarcasm instead. LMAO!
@@ravenous-wolf3115 you should have known....I was laying it on pretty thick lol
@@thanksleft also ich verstehe was dort gesagt wird 🤭
"We're getting our asses kicked but we don't want you to know it yet."
Everyone know it and if you watch the video closely, you can even see it.
@@K0N7ENTRATI0N exacly
The formations of defense... The bushes to hide tanks artillary and person.. The ausence of the luftwaffe, everything shows up the bad situantion of wermacht
It took the whole world to take them out tho they were pretty though at this point they'd been at war been at war for 4 yrs..
Accepted or not?Germany shook the world alone in WW2.and almost occupied 90% of Europe.no other country had done that ever!!!so show them some respect!!!👍👏👏👏
Yes sir !!
And murdered millions of innocent civilians.
@@karenharper2266 I'm not appreciating all that unjustified killings.just like in Japan
@@salus1231 I had already answered that question. Just look up?⬆️
@@karenharper2266 That was the allies with their fire bombing of civilians. What cowards!
This wasn't filmed in 31 Dec 1944, all the trees have leaves. Filmed during warm weather, so date on caption incorrect, most likely filmed summer 1944, some scenes appear to be from Russian front, some from France.
Я ещё больше не зауважал французов! У Советских людей вовремя операции "Вальс" куда больше причин было бить фрицев и то не позволяли себе такую низость. Франция не достойна носить титул победителя.
ale strefe okupacyjną te tchórze francuskie dostały!
окстись! вы советским детям с пятой графой (немец) свастику на спине рисовали
@@paparazzonumber1
Не мы , не надо всех под один гребень, были ублюдки, согласен!
@@paparazzonumber1 И ,
наши обычные люди, когда вели колоны замученных, обгадившихся Немцев, пытались накормить и напоить бедолаг, а Французы кирпичи для головы давали. Вот и вся разница в нашем менталитете ув. Андрю.
@@ВилкаПтицына-ж5ц а еще, мне лично в 4-м классе, насыпали в карман куртки табак и мента какого то позвали. типа, посмотрите на него, фашисткое отродье. не надо мне про каких то там .. столетней давности рассказывать.
Fascinating. Is there a version with subtitles available somewhere?
0:03 - 0:08: "At a Trainstation in the rear fresh reserves of heavy and heaviest weapons have arrived."
0:16 - 0:22: "Tanks and self-propelled guns are unloaded. They will be thrown to the Front as quickly as possible."
0:30 - 0:34: "Here, after a short briefing, tanks roll forward to flank (the enemy)."
0:50 -
0:54: "Infantrymen are waiting in readiness for the deployment order."
1:05 - 1:09: "All reserves are used for the construction of emergency positions."
1:19 - 1:22: "The new positions are manned by the grenadiers."
1:45 - 1:54: "MG (Machineguns) are installed and camouflaged ... guns are brought in position."
2:42 - 2:47: "
Under cover fire of the artillery Tanks and Grenadiers made a counterattack."
2:52 - 2:54: "
Fire contact with the head of the enemy."
3:16 - 3:18: "On the invasion front."
3:22 - 3:24: "On the streets of Normandy."
3:28 - 3:33: "
Norman farmers are driving their herds back to safe areas."
3:35 - 3:38: "They encounter German intervention reserves."
3:40 - 3:50: "American fighter-bombers attack a French city. For weeks the horror of annihilation and death has lain over the idyllic towns and villages of normandy."
4:03 - 4:07: "The population tries to get to safety."
4:11 - 4:15: "
Here, too, women and children are constantly threatened by air strikes of the liberators."
4:40 - 4:56: "
The brutal ruthlessness of the anglo-americans has increased the anger of the population to the utmost.
Thousands of prisoners are led through paris, despite strong German guarding, it happens again and again that the crowd, in their understandable excitement, lets themselves be carried away to take physically action against the anglo-americans."
5:28 - 5:34: "
German fighters launch
low altitude attacks on the supply routes in the enemy's bridgehead."
5:36 - 5:40: "A road crossing with vehicles under fire from on-board weapons
."
6:00 - 6:05: "
American vehicles waiting in the main street of a small town are attacked by our airmen."
6:10 - 6:16: "
On the front south of Caen: SS Panzer Grenadiers in anticipation of a strong enemy attack."
6:24 - 6:27: "
The German artillery takes the enemy under fire."
6:40 - 6:49: "The bearer of the swords to the Iron cross, SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann, one of the most successful and feared tank destroyers in his tiger on the invasion front."
6:53 - 7:05: "SS Tanks roll forward.
In narrow, leaf-covered hollow ways, in jungle-like forest paths, the grenadiers lie far apart in their positions. Attack and defense of all weapons change here every hour."
7:30 - 7:35: "During the last breakthrough attempts, the Anglo-Americans lost over 500 tanks in less than a week."
7:55 - 7:58: "Anti-tank (unit) in combat."
8:08 - 8:27: "
In the ruins of the villages, it comes again and again to bitter house and street fights. Even in the critical hours, the German soldier confirms what a London press office says: "It is as if Hitler, in this moment of Crisis, has personally given every fighter the order to make the greatest efforts.""
I hope i got all the timestamps correct.
He never said thank you so i will.
@@Schengor wow, I didn’t see your message when you posted your reply.
Schengor, thank you so much for this! It is exactly what I was looking for.
@@Schengor are you God?
Damn! Why didn't you take the time to add English subtitles?
It would be helpful if an English translation is provided.
It is in the Show/Read more description of the video description in the format that the transcripts appear in.
Lerne halt Fremdsprachen, wie wir das hier (CH) auch tun!
You hear that Lawrence Chew? Auch tun!
@@1947August Ihr muesst schon, denn kein Mensch versteht Schweitzer Deutsch.
@@kingpetra6886 Thank you for enlightening. I am aware of the written comment but thought there was more to it. best wishes and again, thank you.
Look at their smile it seems like they're in epic holiday.
@Heinz Guderian If you mean to simply stay alive and surrender to the Americans as opposed to the Russians, you could be right.
If they are they’ve over done it a little lmao
Most of them stayed not far from there, permanently.
@@crosshairz5304 lol
Probably the amphetamines..
5:59 "In the main street of a small town, American vehicles are ready to be attacked by our airmen!"
Fighter pilot: doesn't land a single shot
By the end of the war Germany lost most of their good pilots and they were shortening the training periods and lowering the bar to become a fighter pilot. Not sure if that's the reason he missed or just because it's damn hard to shoot at something when you're going 250 mph through the air but thought it was worth mentioning.
@@ReddoFreddo I agree it’s hard to hit a moving target, especially when the gun is also moving (at 250 mph) but the allied fighter planes managed it didn’t they?
*upbeat victorious music intensifies*
Great clarity of video and only 360p!
That is some awesome music. Going to play it next time me and my wife is going to have an romantic evening.
is your wife called ERIKA ! ?
Your little soldier will definitely be ready for engagement
Berta
Give her the Blitzkrieg
4:58 вот так французы и победили германский фашизм, избивая пленных американцев.
blyat?
мой русский не очень хорош, но вот оно что (My Russian is not good, but here it goes):
По словам моей матери-француженки, те француженки, которые враждебно относятся к военнопленным, могли побрить головы после того, как союзники освободили регион. Женщину с бритой головой заклеймили как пособника нацистов.
In English, the above says:
According to my French mother, those French women being hostile to the POWs may have gotten their heads shaved once the Allies liberated the region. A woman with a shaved head was branded as a Nazi collaborator.
французы проиграли войну
Latest news - we are losing on every front,but 'the final victory' is at hand.
Soviet union is shit
The final victory was the victory over the fear of death, meaning death itself. That's why |. _ |.... Was so disappointed with Germany in the end.
Who was filming?
me 😀
a lie is dangerous to you, son. @@FPK___
what kinda life advise larry statement was that@@ezerolithuania
Перевод таков"все у нас заибись,идем ко дну"
Похоже на российских федеральных телеканалов сегодня.
@@Indipuk Ты наверное ждёшь не дождёшься этого события.
@@Indipuk склонение существительных в школе учил или "Букварь" скурил?!
Невежда и туда же, судить
@@КатяМалахова-д4ы кремлевский пропогандист
@@Indipuk научитесь грамоте сначала! "Букварь" скурили?😀
Looks like they are all having fun. Nothing like propaganda.
Theo Philhist Laughing = propaganda.
Wonder how many secretly hated it the last year and a half.
@@bryanneideffer3969 You're probably right. To show any public dislike of the party or the Reich was a death sentence. Even conversations among friends could be risky, so I have heard from a man I knew who was about 12 in 1944
@@theophilhist6455
What did he say about the situation?
Well in Lockdown Britain2020, we should know.
Keep in mind, this is 2 years after Stalingrad. Even with total control of the media, Germans knew that the war was lost. Of course, you could be shot for expressing "defeatist views".
@The Truth The battle started in September 1942.
The Nazi surrender in Stalingrad was just over a year earlier.
@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 The Germans were encircled in November 1942; they were doomed then
@@genekelly8467 Arguably is started before then - the 6th Army lost much of its strength pushing across the Don
What is the name of the firearm at 8:07?
I think that is type 100
@@yellowcat8360 I found out. It is the MG15. Here is a video of it shooting.
th-cam.com/video/ZthPTgMlH0o/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Doc%27sBunker
Why does reporting "they're threatening us" non stop for years sounds so familiar
Afghanistan
@@VoodooDangerbird hi Erik
@Bella Adamowicz oh God 'russia Russia Russia.' I bet this German media outlet from the 1940s is more honest than American media today.
All those brave French collaborators having a go at our POWs. Not so brave a few months later , it was all welcome Allies , you saved us.
You seem so brave 70 years later, behind a keyboard, in your comfortable home, but not in a occupied land after months of bombardments... so STFU and NEVER judge the past from your own point of view.
Oh yes, you poor French people.
You fought so hard and lost so many ...
We where so bad to you that you could hold entire districts in Paris without consequences.
@@davidyule3770 you talking to me punk ?
They simply did what they needed to do to survive. Dont talk down people who lived in wartime while you live in the long peace.
@@xxxgagaklonxxx bullshit. Many were collaborators and traitors and were beaten and executed after the war. They didn't have to abuse pows
This must have been taken between the D-Day landings (June 6, 1944) and the death of Nazi Hero & 'Panzer Ace' Michael Wittman (August 8, 1944). The Allies were moving quickly after breaking out of Normandy with Paris being liberated in late August of 1944, a little over 2 months after D-Day. This film was clearly propaganda to bolster German civilian morale.
I think that's a general problem with WW2 battle scenes, they are probably staged and well away from the real action. I doubt that any of the nations involved were very keen to lose camera crews or their film.
You're fucking genius, son..
This one is from late June 44, not December.
A US general said something like “every good commander knows logistics is everything.”
10 months on the Russian Army forgot all about logistics.
Dont listen to american junk
0:38 "Howmuch gasoline do we have for footage", "for about 40 seconds, switch to infantery footage."
2:47 STUG only actual functional panzer.
5:29 Luftwaffe flew 5 sorties this day on the West Front.
6:46 most feared German tank crew, looking up to the sky (in fear of allied air superiority).
It was very difficult in those days to destroy a tank from the air . This is not modernity
and you allied lovers still fear us
0:44 Is Otto Carius
already dead
He became a pharmacist after the war.
yes, from the this footage Tamiya made a special 1/35 Carius and crew edition.
@@charlesfarmer5749
His pharmacy shop " Tiger Apotheke" is 7 km from me .I met him 10-12 years ago ,talked 10-15 min with him and bought his book " Tiger im Schlamm " ( Tiger in mud) .
He was very kind.
R.I.P.
@@Михаил7631 lol he is dead in 2015
После разгрома немецко - фашистских войск был развеян миф о непобедимости, после победы под Сталинградом им свернули хребет,, всей этой коричневой чуме, после победы под Курском им дали понять что их война проиграна, на что они еще они надеялись в дальнейшем, на эти новейшие танки?
Авантюра закончилась тем что Русский Иван дал просраться Гансу и Родная земля ему помогла. И следующей пропоганды уже небыло . Снимать было некому.
Рома Лазарев здесь кадры войны с англичанами и американцами и пленные союзники .Закончилось победой верно , но какой ценой она досталось СССР если регулярно меняем потери в этой войне и последние цифры 42,5 мил человек из докладов.Так что повторять не надо .
Auto translate English captions: "Fat people are sent into the front"
The voice of the commentator - the same pathos as today in North Korea. In a moment there will be a fall...
Yes...a Downfall!
And on Fox news
Nope, wrong, totally wrong.
Spot on. The North Korean television voice is a deep heavy-voiced woman (if you close your eyes you’d wonder the true gender). Stern and lecturing tone with a shake now and again to show *seriousness.* Hilarious!
I miss these pathos in the voice of my greatest chancellor of all time, GröKaZ, when she has her ideas for the advancement of the Greater German Reich, now also in the Corona madness. But otherwise the Germans have been doing very well for 102 years.
Were those French civilians trying to hit captured American soldiers? And why?
Look's like Germany prepare to a new offensive to Moscow. The Reich never fallen
Sounds like the the US in Afghanistan in 2021 , "all is well we are winning".
Tell me u know nothing about periods of Afgan war without saying this directly
@@zymbaluknik8093
US ability to arhive military success is oposite to ability of US politics to establish democracy in Muslim countries. It's not an art to win battles when you can't capitalize this win to establish stable government. In fact US lost few wars in this regard.
US style of life is not for everyone.
It's better to understand this before launch military engagement.
@@303Pinker tell me u know nothing without telling it directly
@@zymbaluknik8093 I know that US troops left Afganistan and US supported government fall down almost immediately. That is perfect example of fail of US politics.
@@303Pinker this is what everybody knows,not everyone knows about actual causes and how long withdrawn actually took, since they began it way before it was announced and got themselves sure that democratic Afghanistan government wont stand a year without them
Would be possible to have English subtitles? I would like to know what they are saying. Thanks!
Vlad Rybicka I think you mean English subtitles.
You can use the subtitle option when you click the three points in the upper right corner
Broadly speaking, during the first few scenes they are talking about preparation for a flanking attack. But you can see them digging and building extensive trenches and defensive positions. So they are defending.
In France, scenes of French villages and towns bombed by Allied fighter bombers, the Luftwaffe presumably counter attacking, yet they had moved most of their planes away from Normandy because the Allies had almost total air superiority. Most heard remark about the ground forces during that time: Where was the Luftwaffe?
German soldier's joke at the time: If you see a white plane, it's American; if it's black it's RAF (Royal Air Force). If you see no planes at all, that's the Luftwaffe.
Peter Hildebrandt only German captions on offer
Russell Williams that is what he said
As a german its so interesting how positive it all is formulated, theres no word of a single german loss. It would sound like they are still advancing, but we all know by 1944 germany was losing big time and the loss was innevitable.