Berlin 1941 - Berlin during WWII - private footage
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Bis Herbst 1943 war aber Berlin noch weitgehend unzerstört. Wenn der Krieg im Sommer 43 beendet worden wäre, würde man heute noch oben zu sehende Bausubstanz erleben können.
quite amazing how clean and well kept the city was compared to present day
That´s it. I am Berliner and allways when I come back from abroad I feel ashamed about what the city has become today.
Dankwart Denkhardt You shouldn't, Berlin is one of the cleanest cities in the world.
ofc full of nazis and the waffen SS maybe you are a Wutbürger ?
It is still clean, idiot, you were probably never there.
Just like back then there are clean parts and dingy parts. They just didn't visit the working class tenements in this film.
Within five years this city would be in ruins
How sad
I don't mean to trivialize what was going on in Europe in 1940, but one minor difference I noted in this footage when compared, say, to the clips available here on TH-cam of Berlin in 1936 and 1937, is that there are noticeably fewer private cars on the streets. I don't know when gasoline rationing was introduced in Germany, but it would make sense that perhaps here (1940), fewer people could afford to operate them. But this is indeed minor compared to the observation George Suarez made earlier (SEE: below) regarding the absence of young people (especially young men). But many thanks for posting this: it gives me a tiny insight of a way of life that would soon disappear.
Amazing video. How serene and clean Berlin was. The only thing missing is the youth. No young people no where to be found. Most were sent to all parts of the world and Europe to fight....How sad...
Es ist sehr auffallend, wie wenig deutsche Kommentare zu lesen sind, finde ich traurig !
Vielleicht weil die Leute von jedem verstanden werden wollen
Very interesting. However, why do 350+ people vote down an historical film retrieved from archives?
They had no idea that their city would be destroyed in 4 short years.
00:11 Das Kalenderblatt ist vom September 1940, nicht 1941.
The calendar page shown in the first shot of this film is from 1940, not 1941. You can see "1940" above the month of October. This has already been pointed out by another comment below, in German.
Fascinating to see the Kaiser Wilhelm church and the Kudamm prior to it becoming rubble.
I lived in Berlin in the 80s its lovely to see it before the bombing really destroyed it. Thanks
i lived in berlin in the 1870´s before the bombings destroyed it. Thanks
AZERTY I lived in Berlin before ww1 and 2
In fact, Berlin was still being built in the 1870s ;-)
Was there in 2000. What a fascinating city. Not too far away are the Potsdam Palaces, not widely known, but some of the most breathtaking buildings ever built.
Most of those buildings are gone...funny, it was already a city of millions but it looks very suburban, with a small-city feel to it. Also, interesting how most people depicted are women and men over 50 or so. Most military aged men were out fighting in Europe..
Great footage. However, I am surprised with no nazi symbols over there. Is it digitally removed? I cant believe main areas in Berlin in 1941 were looking like without Nazis.
In general the national socialist cypher was only flown during special events the average house or state building wasn't normally bedecked apparently
Absolutely love the music in the background!
What is the name of this song!
I was stationed in Berlin with the U.S. Army during the Cold War Allied Occupation years of 1974 to 1977 - and about the only thing I can recognize in the 1940 video is the Brandenburg Gate. Of course, Cold War Berlin has almost disappeared as well - to include that damn hated Wall that completely surrounded West Berlin for so many years. I notice that since the fall of the Wall, the city has had an excellent rebuilding. My old NSA duty post at Teufelsberg "Devil's Mountain" is still there, but has fallen into ruins. Andrew Barracks where the housing for Field Station Berlin was located has been repurposed to house historical items from the Cold War to include the STAZI (East German Secret Police) files on millions of Germans and on many Allied personnel.
I was station in Germany in 1974-1975 and 1980-1983. I visited Berlin both times both the '70's visit was the most impressive. What struck me here was the lack of military vehicles and military men. But, then I realized that Berlin was a large city and even though it was the capital it was not a military city. Away from the government buildings it would be like any other city.
After WW2 Bonn was the capital of Germany until the country united again after the fall of the Berlin wall. Due to the special status, no German military was allowed in Berlin.
I've seen little of Berlin that was not propaganda or military...thank you
yes ... the magnificent Berlin and its inhabitants are almost idyllic, after all, no one can see the chimneys of the crematoria in Dachau and Buchenwald, which have been smoking for many years.
And I forgot that they were Nazi from Naziland and if there were any Germans, they were innocent because they only obeyed orders or played in a military band ...
I walked under/or thur the Brandenberg Gate and enjoyed it. While at the same time thinking of the millions before me that have done the same.
Beautiful, elegant city..such a pity it was almost completely destroyed in the war. At least the Brandenburg Gate remains
Ich wird versuchen auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Ich lebe hier seit fest 6 Jahren, es ist.... seltsahm Berlin so zu sehen. Berlin in dem ich heute lebe ist so anders.
Dafür, dass die Bilder aus dem Krieg sind, fällt mir auf, dass ich bis auf eine Person keine einzige Uniform sehe. Und das im NS Deutschland. Schon merkwürdig.
Die waren an der Front.
This reminds me of present-day United States: No one understands or knows what is coming. All seems prosperous and peaceful.
Not quite. The war was having a huge impact in on everyday life in Germany. More and more people were losing relatives and friends in the military and the Germans were about to start losing the war. Bombs fell on Berlin from 1940 onwards. The conspicuous absence of the war in this film does not mean it was not there.
But Pres. Trump saw what was coming with Obama's flooding of muslims into the USA..He understood and is now reversing all of Obama's 5th columnist activities and treacheries.
E´A CIDADE DE BERLIN EM 1940
B K what
Wonderful footage, thank you for posting it 😃
The reason people like seeing these things is the fascination with a society where the message came from the top to be proud of who you are as a particular european ethnic group and the society your ancestors built and you are taking forward, not to feel that your existence is somehow corrupt, you are racist, sexist, global warming is destroying the environment etc etc. It's nothing but shame and doom, coupled with a worship of economic growth statistics for seemingly no higher reason. People only feel moral by embracing this shame and giving everything to outsiders. We are living some kind of civilisational penance at an almost religious level. I'm not German btw but I was in Berlin recently.
Comprehensiveboy Comprehensiveboy Thank You for ur true words. I am a foreigner living in Berlin, growing up close by in a small town with only Germans. I can totally agree to ur words.
For how long have u been here to see germanys current state of shame so clearly and rightful?
greeting from nowadays terrorhole so called germany
Just look at all the fancy luxurious places in Berlin under the NS. Everyone was so happy and 10
Years ago from 1941 Berlin was a complete poor cloudy sad city with huge unemployment with the threat of a communist takeover from the USSR.
Stalingrad was a pretty city in 1941 too.
I think is interesting how traditional, even conservative, the architecture of the center of Berlin looked. It's known that Hitler hated a modern art and avant-garde architecture, which abounds in 30's for example, in neighboring Czechoslovakia. Paradoxically, after the occupation of Prague, the German Nazis preferred to live there in modernist apartments and villas, which were designed mainly by Jewish architects... 🤭
I visited Berlin a few years ago and it's unfortunate that it wasn't rebuilt as it was before the WWII. I visited Vienna and i imagined that maybe Berlin could be so before the war criminals destroyed it.
PrienGunther You mean Germans, of course.
Prien Gunther :- And how many innocent merchant seamen did your namesake murder?
The pre-WW 2 Jewish population was 160,000, by 1939 it was 80,000, emigration due to persecution caused the population to drop, the time this film was made most were already deported to concentration camps, some were in hiding. Fewer than 8,000 survived. The smartly dressed people in this archive must have had some idea about the fate of the Jews in their city.
Многие из них не знают, что половина всех жителей города сгинут в войне
this was before the Russian campaign, life then was normal and no one would guess that most of Europe was already conquered. After invading Russia things were different as the nation was quickly depleted of its men
And four years later, it was a bombed out trash heap. Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
Schönes Bildern von der Haupstadt !!
amazing
Great video
Those people couldn’t imagine what Berlin would look like in four years’ time. 😒
Search old clips dated in the 1930’s and you will see the same clean city streets. Of course, all that changed when the allies started bombing the cities to ashes.
Even the Kranzler was open, with a reasonable number of customers. In 4 years, this would almost all be rubble
It doesn't even look like Nazi Germany...
It looks more like what if Nazis did not come into power in an alternate timeline.
Just compare with Belgrade, Warsaw and London, at that moment, to name a few examples. This ""peaceful city" was the capital of the country that bombed and destroyed so many beautiful cities in Europe.
If one enemy bomb falls on Berlin, you can call me Meyer
If they only knew what's coming!
How little we know of the future sometimes
What you notice immediately: Not a single young man of fighting age in the street. Only old men and women.
Pretty much their entire fighting age population was conscripted at this point basically.
In October 1940 (as indicated by the calendar at the start of this film), the average German probably thought things were going well. The Nazis had occupied much of western Europe in June, and no actual warfare was occurring. Germany had not yet attacked Russia either. So it might've seemed like life was just going to get better in the glorious Third Reich while it assumed its rightful place as the ruler of all of Europe. Except it wasn't going to get better. It was going to get catastrophically worse, starting a year or so later, and deservedly so.
hebneh---are you an mi5 agent?
Die Gedächtniskirche sieht so schön und heile aus. Ich glaube es wäre wirklich mal angemessen, sie wieder neuzumachen. Aber ne, wenn das dann wie das Humboltforum wird, dann sollten wir das lieber doch so lassen.
The calendar shows the year 1940.
5 years after this video the city will be in ruins. Every building will be destroyed or severely damaged. Tens of thousands of dead bodies will be lying around and the odor of death will be omnipresent. 😥
Love Berlin meine zweiter zu hauser 16jahren hab ich few oh the dort 👍👍👍mein sohnen sint Berliners und ich aus Glasgow .....na denn Prost 🥃
How peaceful and prosperous Berlin looks like the war really hasn't come there yet. Compare this to the devastation, ruin and misery of Warsaw.
Is this gedachtniskirche in the beginning over there?
Whenever i'm about to win back some trust in humanity, i just open a video like this and read the comments to make sure it's gone again.
Interesting clip thanks
Was ich schon erstaunlich finde ist keine Uniformen ,Reichsflaggen, ect.,...
Sonst wird doch immer in der Welt gezeigt wie sehr übertrieben wir immer waren, ...
Place + Time + Music = *PEAK ANXIETY*
Cidade encantadora, histórica, capital de um país com um povo muito inteligente, precursor de enormes descobertas na ciência, na literatura, nas artes, na tecnologia, no desenvolvimento humano! Destruída totalmente por ingleses, norte-americanos russos e seus povos-colonias, mas reconstruída em tempo record, voltando a ser a Capital mais importante da Europa, e o país mais poderoso economicamente! Os germânicos são brilhantes, magnificos, extraordinários!
My uncle was an American child in Paris in the Thirties (his dad worked at a bank there) and remembered Berlin as lovely and particularly as having lots of park and woodland. Too young for politics but he remembered that his dad had early hopes for Mussolini (Fascism was supposed to combine the best of capitalism and socialism though as usual with politicians it ended up with the worst) but always thought the Nazis mad, bad and dangerous.
But these os not filming in 1941 or 1940. I suspect are a mix of pre-war different filmations.
A rather creepy counter point to all the chaos and death happening around the city and what would come to the city soon enough. Powerful stuff.
watching the movie from a post-WWII perspective it is striking to register how much has been lost from Berlin as it used to be - by starting a war that should have never been. Now Berlin is still a beautiful city but different, after all things change with time and it is o.k. to love the past and still embrace the present time. The destruction of Berlin and other German cities had a reason, Nazi Germany and its war, and it is well to be reminded of history by not trying to rebuild the city as it had been before, e.g. in the case of the central Kaiser-Wilhelm Memory Church.
они не представляли, что они получают ад, который они дарили другим
Ville magnifique telle que décrite par le regretté Philip Kerr dans son extraordinaire série Ayant Bernie Gunther, ex-inspecteur à l'Alex comme héros.
Four years later the city would look very different. The citizens are in for reality check
so whats the actual date? Looks like Sept 12, 1940?
Was spielt die Musik?
Warsaw was more beautiful before Germany destroyed the capital of Poland
Not one animal in sight 👍😀🇵🇹
yeah man I haven't seen one cat or dog in this footage.....
ecosophist - years ago I red a article about German scientists that found a link between cancer and cigarettes - that article was written in the 1930's !
Now this is the giggle of the story, American scientists say they discovered a link to cancer and cigarettes in the 1960's
Goes to show when money plays into the equation the truth is slow to come out.
The only reason for the government "caring" so much now is the government got involved in health care costs - all of a sudden now they care, lol !
Who thaughts after 4 years every thinghs destroyed 😣
I feel some tension in the air, of berlin, Germany was at war,..horrible moments..
Es la la luz congelada en ese tiempo .
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0:24 Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church on KuDamm before it sustained damage during bombing & shelling, becoming today's unrepaired "broken tooth" memorial
Berlin..ein Phönix!
Die coolste Stadt der Welt...ist heute etwas ramponiert und mitgenommen..aber this city will never die egal was kommt.. !!!
Grüße aus dem Wedding 😎☝️
amazing to think the war was still on and a severe air raid could have happened any moment
Como um louco destruiu uma cidade tão linda.
Que adelantados estaban estos alemanes. Las imágenes que veo son muy similares al Stgo. Centro actual. Me refiero al casco histórico porque Stgo. actualmente también es una de las ciudades más modernas del mundo.
Ja byłam w Berlin kiedy jeszcze był podzielony, To Alexander place, ja byłam 1975,
I remember the devastation of the Blitz on London, its good to see Berlin before it was destroyed in the same manner. What goes arounf comes around does it not ?
Also fascinating or maybe even odd .. 1940 was a year when Nazi Germany was at its peak and this is the capital Berlin and yet not one shot shows any NAZI Swastika Flag hanging anywhere on any building or monument .. rather curious
I have been there more than a few times before and after the wall came down. A beautiful city. This video was apparently made the day after Germany declared war on the United States. The good times would not last, and had already ended long ago for the persecuted groups across the country and Europe.
No swastikas, no soldier. Normal day in the Berlin.
Of course in the holidays this attribute appears, like in any other country.
@ Berlin 1941
Almost no automobiles...
People falling for 80 year old propaganda is pretty funny
Wenn das Video jetzt noch in FARBE gewesen wäre ....... Waaauuuuuuh. Dann wäre man noch näher dabei. Farbaufnahmen aus dieser Zeit sind atemberaubend schön. Schwarz/Weiß,.... da ist man immer ,,so weit weg,,. ;---)
Wtf is wrong with the comment section? So many nazi’s lovers here....
CIDADE DE BERLIN 1940
Even more drab. The bombing hasn't really started yet. A lot less cars. Unless you worked for the State. And more bicycles are seen.
Oh dear , there seems to be a theme appearing in the comments section . For those looking nostalgically at this 1940s all white Christian utopia , well it was responsible for the murder of millions and the enslavement of many more . Modern multi cultural Berlin is a much better alternative .
I'm sure there will be those with an alternative view .