(1939) WWII begins: Siege of Warsaw.[4k, 50fps,colorized]
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In memory of the young girl, Kazimiera Mika and her sister.
"As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her...The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..."
Julien Hequembourg Bryan (23 May 1899 in Titusville, Pennsylvania - 20 October 1974) was an American photographer, filmmaker, and documentarian. He is best known for documenting the daily life in Poland, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939. He was honored with „Zasłużony dla Kultury Polskiej" ("Merit for Polish culture") during his last visit in Poland (1974) for showing the truth about the Invasion of Poland.
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This is unreal to watch.. The colorization, fps increase and sharpness of the film removes the disconnect. You see that they're real people and not just history on an old blurry, black and white, stuttery film. The emotional impact is so much greater.
yeah. You are absolutely right
yes its hard to see :/
Thanks to "Film stock" that doesn't have fixed resolution, basically photo moving at high speed
Its unreal until you realize that the same is happening right now in middle east.
@@mauriciomarquez9314 there and many more places. It's absurd if you think about the thousands of years of war all over the world... all the pain and suffering of billions, you would think mankind would advance and stop pillaging & murdering at some point and yet there we are 2021. I mean how can you face that and not turn into a nihilist?
People tend to think WW2 was a long time ago, and so did I, especially as a child. But now I'm 45 (born 1976) and thinking that the timespan between these pictures and my birth is now already a lot shorter than the time between my birth and today, puts the whole thing into a completely different perspective.
I can really relate to your comment. I was born in 1962 - just 17 years after the end of the war. My abiding memory of my grandparents is their regular references to life during the war, and stories my father and mother (now all dead) told me of what they suffered as teenagers. It seems so unreal to me at 59 but memories of it were fresh in minds of my elders during my childhood.
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I was thinking the same
Exactly. Same can be said for the Jim Crow South and segregation which was even more recent. People like to think these things were so far in the past
I'm 46 and feel exactly the same. 30 years ago I left school, the same period of time between the end of WW2 and my birth.
In September 1939 my mother was 17. She was living in Łódź, 140 km southwest of Warsaw. 3 weeks after German takeover the city they arrested my grandfather on grounds being a Polish patriot, as he was enlisted by a German spy prior to war. He was automatically sentenced to death by shooting. Never the less, my grandmother did not give up trying to find behind the scene ways to the Gestapo, which she did by o son of a German descent industrialist. Finally she bribed Germans with all jewelry and money she had. His sentence was exchanged for immediate deportation to the GG- a/k/a Polish Reserve. They survived but the Germans confiscated/stole all their property i.e. house and automobile, furniture and library. Family got deported to misery but survived until the were liberated by the allied Russian and Polish troops in 18th January 1945, which was the happiest day in the lifetime of my mother .
The poles were massacring ethnic Germans living in Poland! The Bloody Sunday massacres! Bromberg!
Спасибо, thank you for comment. My grand father was tankist , was in Poland, never told about these battles. Another grandfather was killed in fathist camp in 1943.He was fighting that year near Orel. Then he was taken by fathists to the camp... Before the war He was a teacher in a Village tatar school,had big family. And my aunt remembers him saying to all of them in a railwaystation in 1941-,, Good bye, my dear!,,
@@No_jews_allowed STOP spreading preposterous propaganda, your VICIOUS LIES. BTW, my whole family was and is Catholic.
Мой дед тоже был танкистом,до победы не дожил 9 дней.Погиб в Чехословакии.
@@user-ed8me4be9q 😥
1:01 I've seen this clip a few years ago, and it's always stuck with me. One of the heartbreaking things i've ever seen. A little girl just had a loved one killed right in front of her May God bless her and keep her.
I once found an interview of her, she had survived the war. The body she was crying over was her older sister. She was a bit like a mother to her apparently.
It's a propaganda lie: the planes shown are Polish:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_P.11;
not German ones:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109
Where could I find this interview of her? Really wanna watch it@@SuperLn1991
@@SuperLn1991her sister was 14 at the time of her death, they had a younger brother who was only 3 months old when the war broke out. He died of malnutrition a year later
And it's happening again and again, we learn nothing
These pictures were taken by Julen Bryan an American reporter, the ONLY one foreign reporter with balls enough to stay during the siege. He was able to smuggle the reels despite being searched by the Germans after the city fell.
He may have had help smuggling his film out of the city. Even so, he was lucky to get out of there alive and not taken to the Gestapo for interrogation first.
@@jamesb.9155
At this time US was neutral and all Gestapo could have done was to confiscate the material.
@@ysy662 well..... "accident" could have happened.
who would know then what really happened?
@General Bismarck LOL history books do not fail to talk about the camps for "enemy aliens".
@General Bismarck do tell.
wanna talk about the morgenthau plan and how in reality it was put into effect?
which does not make the germans some sort of poor victims. you started it, by bombing and strafing women and children in the fields and especially on the roads.
no forgivness.
Absolutely heartbreaking seeing those poor children next to their parents' bodies.
It really is ☹️
@Yeah, I said it ur so edgy
@Yeah, I said it oooo ur ard
Men men men. WW2 was a result of fragile male egos. 80 years later and men still won’t change.
@@XxxX-wx3er One way to look at it. Disgusting amount of men suffered as well my friend and paid the highest price. Some things are inevitable
We look back on all this knowing how it ended. Imagine being there at the time - it must have felt like the end of the world.
Мне не надо представлять я из Украины , от меня 30 км идут бои !
It surely must have felt like it's never ending.
For many, it was.
It basically didn't end for another 50 years. Until the soviets left.
I remember reading the journal of a young guy "living" back then, it was very depressing. At first he was optimistic and patriotic, then shocked by the defeat, and then happy and hopeful when France and UK declared war on Germany, then depressed because France was conquered next summer... At some point he heard the Soviets were advancing so he thought they were going to save them, until he realized they were just there to take the back of the country for themselves...Then the famine, and hoping for years that maybe the US would come to Europe to fight the Germans. He wrote about his dad stealing food from his own daughter. And then at the end of the book, he stopped writing, because he died from hunger.
I'm watching this from the safe comfort of my home, where my family also lives.
I know it's easy to just write down words but, man, watching this, watching the lives of these people broke my heart.
truly heart breaking.
The little boy just staring at his mother’s corpse, not sure what to do was so saddening
Te da mucha tristeza, pobre niño
4 days old casuality.....
A los europeos siempre les ha gustado organizar masacres.
@@creatineenjoyer7345 No, el diablo es el diablo. Europeos son humanos, lo mismo de latinoamericanos.
@@enriquegranados5179 y Japón?
It's weird seeing their faces in such detail, people don't look "real' in documentaries due to the low quality of the pictures and the use of actors to recreate scenes.
Here I can really see the hopelessness in their eyes.
Yeah, you're right. All seems very in pain.
The hospital scenes remind me of the movie The Pianist. Very powerful movie about the warsaw ghetto's.
You can see so much worry written in the lines of these people's faces...A lot of the people also seem prematurely aged by the effects of the war (even the children hold expressions far too old for them). Its like the effect of a constant background sense of anxiety, a deep unwavering state of stress & distress, a cumalative effect of tragedy compounded by tragedy, has been etched deep into their faces.
So much pointless death & destruction, and for what?
You can see that these people have been victim to some of the worst & most pointless barbarism and brutalities of war.
Next time your media is trying to paint pictures that make you dislike another people, question it. The newspapers are not there to educate you, they are there to manipulate your attention to generate profits for media moguls and to be used as tools by politicians. Lets find our common ground and not focus so much our differences- most of us just want to live quiet, peaceful, good lives, and most of us want the same sort of rights in life (fair treatment, fair pay, safe streets, a right to a decent home, good schools and good healthcare).
We could achieve so much if we only didn't let others above divide us so much (and that others do seek to divide us, is by no innocent nor accidental intention).
The universal Golden Rule:
Christianity: The Good Samaritan: "Love your neighbor as yourself"
Islam: Hadith 13 "You're not truly a believer until you love one another"
Judaism: Rabbi Akiva ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’
Hinduism: Hitopadesa "One should always treat others as they themselves wish to be treated."
Confucianism: Analects "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Buddhism: Udanavarga "Hurt not others with that which pains yourself."
And you can see, and feel, that they're just like us. They could be us.
Shot dead whilst picking potatoes, what a wonderful specimen of life the human race is. Then we get people today like Harry and Meghan moaning about their life, unbelievable.
My heart hurts so badly for these poor people. There's a literal pain in my chest when looking at some of these shots, particularly towards the end... I feel like I could cry with them. May they rest in peace.
Bird
Poland is like a phenoix. It sometimes falls but it always rises again. Niech żyje Polska.
Just like Mother Russia.
God Bless Poland 🇵🇱
Dziękujemy. 😢
@@anonymous-hz2un"liberated". We call it occupation. One murderous dictator defeated another and with that gained rule over Poland. Only in 1989 have we really regained our independence, so really you were subjugating us for 44 years. We have absolutely nothing to thank you for. My grandmother who was a young child at the time told me how she had to hide with other women, because Soviet soldiers would rape her as well, despite her age.
Also, we don't forget September 17th 1939, when the Soviet Union invaded Poland.
what about you? never heard about Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?@@anonymous-hz2un
My father was 14 years old and living in Warsaw when war broke out. His house was hit by German artillery and he was wounded by shrapnel. He later went on to fight with the Polish resistance and then joined with British forces. When this was filmed, he was in Warsaw. He's still alive, 96 now. He has many stories about that time. It must have been a horrific experience.
wow that is amazing.... still alive, and old enough back then to witness it.... I hope all his stories get documented digitally or a video made - these accounts are priceless..
I bet it feels like yesterday to your dad…
@@massivebeatzz Thank you. Yes, he's amazing. Totally lucid. Decades after being hit by shrapnel, he was complaining of pains in his back and of a lump that had appeared. He went in to hospital for an examination and the lump turned out to be a piece of the shrapnel that had somehow lodged itself in his body until it worked itself to the surface. He's quite humble and unassuming so getting him to recant his experiences is a challenge.
@@Irene94087 Thank you. Yes, he says he can remember that time very clearly.
To thank him the US and UK sold his country to Stalin.
My grandmother was living in Poland when this happened. The whole family had to separate and planned to meet back up after the war. It never happened. My grandmother had to survive WW2 by herself at 14 years old.
I was thinking about how some of those kids or babies might be grandparents to generations here in the us today
@@celvsmachine Yes, my grandma was 3 years old in Krakow, Poland when Nazis invaded. She moved to Chicago with her daughters (my mom) in the 80s as communism was falling apart in eastern europe. She's still living in the Chicago area today!
@@zuzusangry7129 let's be honest and straight forward about it. It was Germans. Germany started second World War.
@@JayPixx Well yeah. The Nazis were a political party/affiliation in Germany. That doesn't make them not-German. Most of the country was Nazi at the time. That is why they are referred to as Nazis. The Nazis were the unifying force of Germany. The only reason you don't see other countries referred to in the same way is because they are rarely ever as unified.
Big respect to your ancestors.
Shout out to 2:08 guy carrying a rare art piece. He knew his assignment. He knew how to feed his family.. ❤️
The horrible thing is that I've seen it all in real life. I'm just 20 years old and I was born and raised in Donbas. I've seen war of 2014. I see it now. The shot with pile of rocks and rubbish on the bed... It looks the same, if not a bit better, as my father's bedroom where the bomb hit injuring him. I've seen destroyed buildings and unhappy people, torn with grief and disappointment and fear. I wish I could just watch this video and think, "Oh it's so horrible but it's in the past".
But no, I've seen it all and I will always bear the scars of it, as well as many Ukrainians and especially people of Donbas.
I wish you and your country the fastest possible end of this war. Unfortunately, it seems that war will not end, until that little psycho-bastard with small balls named Putin in Kremlin is still breathing... Believe me, if Russia don't have over 7000 nuclear missiles, Moscow would be already captured by NATO and Russia split to smaller and finally democratic countries to prevent any war. And Ukraine would be in peace. I am from Czech republic and our nation knows your situation very well. Hitler has practically the same reason to capture us as Putin. Difference was that nobody could stand with us and support us in that time (Hungary and Poland wants to get our piece of country for some reason too, Britain and France rather betrayed us than risking another world war, the rest of the story everybody knows...). We are all standing with Ukraine. We are all wishing you freedom and prosperity, which would never be restored under Putin's puppet regimes. And most importantly, we are all wishing you PEACE.
I am sory that we can't join you and your war and together defeat our common enemy, but you know Einstein's quote: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
I'm so sorry for what you are going through. 😔 Everyday I am fighting my own battle, the demons in my head. It's so hard but I can't imagine the kind of pain and wounds in your heart and soul this war has caused. It's sad and frustrating to see how the free world is letting you guys down.
But on the other side I am happy to see how Poland is doing their best to help. I always admire their big hearts.
I don't want Ukraine and Ukrainians to be some sort of sacrificial lamb to "preserve the so called peaceful world" which never really exists for a long time now.
My heart is aching seeing people suffering. We love you and will never forget and pray for all of you. 🤍
Прости, пожалуйста, за то, что творит моя фашисткая страна Россия. Это все ужасно. Если бы можно было все изменить.
Understand what you went through. Keep in mind though, this was just the beginning for these people. What awaited Warsaw in the war (see Warsaw Uprising) was magnitudes crueler.
How do we stop wars ? I was born in the 1960's and have luckily not been at war, but underwent military training for a year. ( I am swedish). The best answer is probably by a country having a strong defence, making a possible attacker not to even think of it. Joining a defence organisation is a logical move. Wars should be no more. I hope you and all ukrainians come out of this hell and can start thinking of your future year by year and not minute by minute ❤
"While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her...The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me"
Depressing stuff
Thank you for providing the photographer's commentary 😞
He's talking specifically about this girl at 1:01 kneeling over her dead sister.
@@kacperwoch4368 its fake
@@starcapture3040 you spend too much time on the internet
@@starcapture3040 how is it fake, there is even full video on the internet where you can see her body with bullet holes and blood all over. Its redacted here because youtube wouldn't allow it.
These people had plans, hopes, dreams. Their faces show that the brutal reality of our fragile humanity can take everything in an instant.
Poles don’t have plans, hopes, or dreams.
@@uncleTedK For soviets, no.
Absolutely horrendous 😓😓😓
And it's about to happen again and again and again. Hell even China has publicly stated they want to invade Taiwan. That's WW3.
We humans think we are intelligent, we're just utter morons !
they're also the ones who voted Hitler in
I'm so very much into these videos, keep finding and putting these out, please!
I'm watching this and after 83 years I see exactly the same pictures from Ukraine in News. Childrens next to their dead parents, womans give a birth in a bunkers, destroyed city. Nothing changed. It's terrifying.
Exactly what I am thinking 😥
What about Palestine, Syria etc?
Now we have a diverse Europe with below replacement birth rates for whites and the gays and trans are celebrated. What did we fight for again?
@@laurelmoonwalk3043 and memorial events of SS Galichina div.
@@laurelmoonwalk3043 they don’t like to think of it😂
Julien Bryan, the author of those photographs and recordings, did Warsaw and Poland a great service by documenting what he saw while potentially risking his own life, and managing to bring it out of the occupied lands. I salute him for his work.
Please stop giving me mean comments. My mother reads the comments I get and she cries a lot because of it. Please be nice, dear os
@@AxxLAfriku Ok zoomer👌🏻
@@AxxLAfriku you're cool dude
@@AxxLAfriku lol
you folks really do not know the real reason as why Germany went into war?? Why they really attacked the neighboring Poland and other countries but in reality they didn't want a war and Adolf was trying to evade it - but your fellow englishman bankers wanted the war by any means necessary!? - Of course you didn't = you all have been fed nothing but lies ever since .... such a shame you do not even know who your true enemy is to this day
It's heartbreaking to see this and knowing the worst is yet to come for them
Really I think there was a cartoon that predicted war in the future. I don't think anyone thought there would not be another war they just were not sure when!!!
The worst is yet to come for us as well.
a lot worse...
Germany taking half of Poland with Russia taking the other half. How terrible.
@@ShaneJones-rn3nl very very true
Unspeakably horrific, the things people have done and still do to each other. I cannot fathom how a person could hit a hospital, a church, mothers and children picking potatoes - how they could see people just like themselves and murder them like that. I had heard of the invasion of Poland and it’s subsequent suffering but had never seen it like this. The colorised video reduces the sort of disconnect we might feel with black and white photography - they are made realer somehow and it is so very sad.
I can't imagine peacefully living in warsaw thinking your armies are fighting back the impossible and you are safe, only to have your delusion shattered when soldiers start retreating and the guns get louder. My grandma told me a story of a german officer in occupied poland trying to take her uncle away to the army. Her mother fought back with a purse, and the officer commanded another soldier to kill her. He bayoneted her under her chin and it went up into her mouth, but didnt kill her. Her uncle also was never enlisted into the army.
Some of these images such as the boy at 00:58 and girl at 1:00 absolutely break my heart. I can't imagine what it was like for those children with their mother laying dead and probably no-one to look after them during this horror. I want to reach into the screen and help them.
I would've constantly had my head across the sky...Knowing full well these German planes can came out any time.
Such pictures appeare again and again during every war. That's why war is never solution. There is always unbelievable suffering and for what?
@@islamicschoolofmemestudies these planes could approach you from side, flying several hundreds miles per hour low above ground. You are with your children in the middle of totally exposed potato field. Where can you hide? If the pilot selects you as his target, you have no chance.
I am wondering what kind of person is willing to shoot to death women with children working on field.
@@matejorsag6515 The Luftwaffe dropped 500 kg of Bomb right above a school in UK. 38 Children died some completely unrecognizable. Sometimes shits happened, you dropped the bomb of target and hits civilian.
It was her sister Anna who had been killed and who she was crying over. They had been digging for food.
My dear great-grandmother alongside other young girls was captured by nazis in her small polish village. She was only 16 and got separeted from her family. She was convinced they're taking her to the camp and she was preparing for her death. But actually she was taken to a big private farm house in Germany, right outside of polish border where she and a few other polish and romanian people were made to work on a field. She had to dig for potatoes all day and was basically a slave. Speaking polish or any other language was prohibited so everybody had to learn german just by listniening to the guards. As a meal they used to give them a few potatoes and a glass of milk for a whole day of work. Nearby was a small forest and the girls used to sneak there to pick wild berries or mushrooms. She met my great-grandfather on this farm. He was forced to work in a cowshed and used to steal milk to give it to the others and in exchange those working on a field started stealing potatoes. That's how they met and fell in love with each other. They spend 4 years of their life working there until they managed to escape. And my great-grandmother came all the way back to her village where a lot of the houses were bombed and her family was gone. She never saw them again. I don't know what happened to my great-grandpas family since my great-grandma has already forgot it when she was telling me her story. My great-grandparents got married and stayed in this village till their deaths. I never got to meet my great-grandfather since he died before my birth but I used to visit my great-grandmother every summer and her son, granddaughters and and other great-grandchildren still live there. She died 5 years ago but had a life full of miracles as well as awful pain. She used to write poems while working on the farm and I have copies of some of them. A shame she didn't write a book about her life while she still remembered more details because it would be a really interesting read.
What was one of the poems she wrote?
Could you please publish those poems? I would love to read em.
It would be amazing if you published her poems so her words and experiences live on.
:(
Thanks for writing this. So much to reflect. Everybody has their own unique stories. Not so long ago your great-grandparents were young and now look at us. How time flies. Our time would also come eventually and the world would go on.
wow, amazing. looks like it was shot yesterday, very good job restoring this footage!!!!
Amazing footage of those WW2 times to see colorized, it’s almost like being in a time machine.
War is such a horrible, horrible ordeal. Often times forced upon common people who want nothing to do with it.
Its true. Poland has nothing to do with Germanys desire for expansion
That face shall haunt me till the end of my days... even in death... even after...
This is what I try to tell people in current days. The US has a bunch of people running the country that are trying to destroy it. No one wants to believe that the country could be in danger.
So I ask people: "Do you think when WW2 started, that the average person saw it coming and prepared and knew that they would be bombed and shot and killed and otherwise destroyed?"
Of course they don;t. the average person just wants to live their life and go about their business and work and have their family and such. Even when faced with a severe pending threat, they try to turn a blind eye, both in the hope it will not come to pass, or that they will be spared for their insignificance when it does.
But that is not how it works. That is why people need to stay vigilant, and make sure their leaders do not take action to destroy their lives, that power hungry few do not sacrifice the many for their own benefit.
These poor souls trying to dig in the fields to live getting destroyed by a war machine they do not want to be part of is a very relevant example of what is on the close horizon in modern times. The west watches as the elite flood the borders with illegal people, destroys the value of the money, shuts down commerce, taxes everything until there is bankruptcy, makes things unstable and passes laws to enslave the common person, and the people watch and do nothing as they try to turn a blind eye and hope it does not come to pass, or at least come to them.
But it will, just as it came for these poor people in WW2. People must stand and fight to win to stop it. Better to risk your fate in an attempt to better your life, even at the cost of your life, then to die anyway as a slave. The sooner people realize this, the sooner humanity can move past these dark times.
Where is your profile pic from?
@@echox000 attack on titan. the image is a meme image tho
My grandfather was 16 during that time. Siege of Warsaw was one of the most vivid memory of his. He lived in the village 40km away. One night in the early days of September he and his family went to to their backyard and noticed everything was bright like in the day. It was a fire from the burning Warsaw which illuminated darkness. They all held together and cried out of sadness and powerlessness. One year after he enrolled to the resistant forces. To seek a revenge on those who did it.
What was his opinion of the Soviets, who had attacked 16 days after Hitler did, and had even been at war with Poland in 1919-20? The world somehow won't see them as also having been perpetrators.
@@Christmas-dg5xc Here people usually consider both sides equally bad. Describing Soviet attack as a stab in the back when we were most vulnerable. When it comes to my grandpa it's a quite an interesting issue. Many years after the war he forgive regular Germans for what they did. He knew German very well so he had many conversation with German soldiers. He had to as Germany army sized half of his house as a military outpost since it was the biggest and only brick house around. When I was a kid he always told me that most of the German soldiers where just a regular boys like he was. But they fathers mostly died in the previous war, they had no good examples of behaving and it was easier to attract them into such an evil ideology (that was his theory). After all those years he even developed some kind of pitty while thinking about Germans training in his garden in the very harsh winter of 1940, preparing for the upcoming invasion to the east. He knew they very enemies, but also human beings.
On the other hand he described Soviet soldiers with one word: savages. In the 1944 when Soviet Union was pushing through, bunch of Soviet soldiers went to his house. The wanted to stole everything which had any value. They sat to the kitchen table and ordered him to gave all vodka he had. When they had drunk everything they started to looking for more in cabinets and found... a huge bottle of vinegar. They've never seen anything like this so they thought it was some kind of alkohol and try to drink it as well. When vinegar started to burn their guts they wanted to beat my grandpa to death as they tough he was some kind a Germany spy who tried to poisson them. Such an unrealistic and tragicomedy scene.
In fact his opinions were not very unusual for the people of his generation. Germans were much more destructive and cruel, driven by the bunch of psychopaths. But some of the regular soldiers still remained humans. While Soviets did not intended to make that much damage to the civilians, but they act like a savage barbarians.
@@aleksander9712 The savage barbarians didn't kill your grandfather and the Germans would have. The USSR lost 15 million civilians as a result of the war , 30,000 villages were burned down along with their inhabitants , 7,000 cities were destroyed to the ground , 40% of industry was lost to the USSR as a result of the war. As for the treaty , Stalin agreed to sign it after the negotiations between the USSR , France and Britain on the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition broke down and he had no choice. Here is what Churchill wrote about this. Churchill writes: "The fact that such an agreement was possible marks the depth of the failure of English and French politics and diplomacy over the years.
In favor of the Soviets, it must be said that it was vital for the Soviet Union to push the original positions of the German armies as far West as possible, so that the Russians could gain time and gather strength from all parts of their colossal Empire. In the minds of the Russian red-hot iron imprinted disaster that suffered their army in 1914, when they rushed to attack the Germans, not yet finished mobilization. And now their borders were much more to the East than during the first war. They needed to occupy the Baltic States and most of Poland by force or deception before they were attacked. If their policies were coldly calculating, they were also highly realistic at the time."
@@user-qj5dj5hk1y Oh, Please stop. Stalin was murdering, torturing, and imprisoning millions of his own people sending them to death in the Gulags BEFORE 1939 starting when Stalin seized power. He murdered his own generals BEFORE the war started. Have you not read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's, "Gulag Archipelago"?
@@Goodkidjr43 You know, I don't read dreamers like Solzhenitsyn. I read such serious historians as E. Spitsyn, E. Yakovlev, A. Isaev, K. Zhukov, Yu. Zhukov, E. Prudnikova, M. Mukhin, V. Zemskov, etc. I am very touched when Western people judge communism without knowing anything about it. The actual results of Stalin's rule are as follows: from 1921 to 1953 4 060 306 people were convicted for all types of crimes: 799 455 people were shot, 2 631 397 people were imprisoned, 413 512 people were exiled, etc. 215 942 people Respectively 2,15%: 0,42%, 1,39%, 0,22%, 0,11% population of the USSR in 1953. Total killed in the camps 606 748, i.e., of 0.85% of the population. During the war 367 thousand Germans, 228 thousand were deported from the Western regions. Tatars and others. citizens of Crimea, 24 thousand Azerbaijanis, 20 thousand Armenians, 45 thousand Turks, 164 thousand Latvians and Estonians, only 848 thousand people. From the famine of 1932-1933, the population decreased by 2.5 million people. Having survived the devastating losses of the great Patriotic war, for 26 years from 1928 to 1954, the national income of the Soviet Union increased by 12.9 times. The population increased from 137 million to 200 million between 1920 and 1956. The number of students from 1914 to 1954 in schools increased 3.2 times, in technical schools, etc. 34 times, in higher education-13.6 times. The number of researchers increased 21-fold from 1913 to 1954. The number of doctors from 1913 to 1954 increased by 12.6 times. Housing stock in cities and towns increased 2.8-fold from 1926 to 1954. The real income of the workers from 1918 to 1954, the workers grew 6 times, the peasants 6.5 times. These figures were derived by American scientists together with the Russian historian V. N. Zemskov in 1995. en.topwar.ru/121727-stalinskie-repressii-30-h-godov-a-vy-uvereny-chto-oni-stalinskie.html th-cam.com/video/gxYdGSIP0d0/w-d-xo.html
3:47 that’s so sad and heartbreaking. What an awful time to be brought into this world. I hope that family managed to get through those terrible times.
Poland has such a tragic history. So much suffering. I hope your future will be peaceful and prosperous. Greetings from Finland.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat 🗿
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat average musky mcdonalds headass to mald over video games and somehow impose a threat over "letting someone partition them" as if you have any economical or diplomatic meaning
@@ApokR TIL Polish people can't take a joke.
poland is one of the most racist countries in the world today lol, 0 sympathy or empathy for what happened to them.
@@soheell WTF man? 0 empathy for milion of victims? Innocent kids? II WW destroyed this country forever. I'm 4 generation after this war, it still have impact on us. Poland was a different country before war. Different nations lived here in peace with each other. First try to understand history of this region of Europe, before you say bullshit about racism.
"Between war and Hell, war is worse."
"How do you figure?"
"Think about it, Father. Who goes to hell?"
"Well, sinners."
"Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in hell."
-Hawkeye Pierce.
Well, that's bullshit. What about people never exposed to Christianity, or any other religion that believes in eternal damnation? Perfectly reasonable people who, just because of the place or time of their birth, would go to Hell according to rules they never learned.
@@randmiller88 well, tks for exposing your point of view.
@@randmiller88 As a Catholic, I agree with you. St. Paul said each man will be judged according to what he/she knows about God.
@@randmiller88 I thought only christians could go to hell? As in you had to be a christian AND a sinner. Doesn't everyone else go to purgatory or something?
Although now that I've written that down it seems rather charitable....
@@randmiller88 In my Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, we believe that children are innocent and guiltless of sin until the age of accountability, which is age 8. Also we believe that those who never heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can have the chance to do so in the world of Spirits. That's why Christ went and preached to those ignorant of the gospel and those who disobeyed in times of Noah in the world of Spirits. God is very merciful.
I live in Warsaw and this is so heartbreaking.
Love the narrator’s voice , illustrates vocally what is happening visually and ads depth and realism. This is one of the most saddest things I’ve ever seen , the German Army of WW1 and WW2 were truly ruthless and unapologetic , I guess that’s what made them such effective killing machines , terrible that man rely’s on sanctioned killing to solve matters.
The sight of the children kneeling beside their dead mothers just crushed me. Their moms were the most beautiful and special people in the world to them and there they laid dead because a madman decided that his ideology was more important than the lives of other humans. Never let ideology blind you to the fact that human life is more precious than anything else.
Kinda like our future if the cancel culture and Democrats keep up the way they are using Nazi tactics to win elections and bully and punish people for voting against their party like they have been in America & Europe! Keep voting for people like AOC, Pelosi, Schumer, Harris, Lohan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Joe Biden... Keep listening to the American/Chinese Propaganda coming from CNN & MSNBC OR TWITTER N' FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM EXT...
@@angry80sguy yeah.... you failed to mention that madman trump who actually attempted a coup. You would have done better to scorn all the politicians. They’re all manure.
@@randomguyintheinternet8300 You too, wake the fuck up you have access to the internet which means you have access to factual information. Get off youtube stop watching ABC MSNBC and CNN.
Forced to pick potatos to live but a chance that you will get shot from the air. People in 2021- Im not wearing a mask
It always astonishes me that people say "one madman" as if they were 2 sides good and evil, every fucking country wanted to start a war back then and were just waiting for a pretext, they didn't fight evil, they were just wanting to expand and would have killed millions of moms if it was necessary to do so, grow up people!
The quality of this footage brings home the horror to a modern audience. It could just as easily have been shot in Beirut in the 1970s, Sarajevo in 1992, Mogadishu in 1996, Kosovo in 1999, Basra in 2006, Aleppo in 2013 or Yemen right now.
Gotta add Palestine to the list as well.
@@leontrotsky6530
Palestine has brought on their own suffering by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. For starters they could stop sending suicide bombings and stop launching rockets. If the Palestinians would simply stop attacking then Israel could stop taking some of the measures they are taking to protect themselves.
@@chris93703 Israel could stop stealing land that in no way belongs to them and evicting people with little to no notice putting them on the streets with nowhere to go by force, bombing apartment blocks full of civilians, women and children, constantly harassing and belittling the Palestinians, worst thing that ever happened was giving them their own country and on top of it letting them have heavy weapons.
@@badmonkey2222
I feel sorry for the Palestinian children who are suffering and dying but unfortunately they are victims of their own terrorism. Their leaders care little about their own people and think nothing about using innocent civilians as human shields. And yet the Israelis will give a warning for people to clear out before a place is bombed. And speaking of weapons if they would just put their money and resources into improving their lives and accepting that Israel is not going away rather than into terrorism their lives would be so much better. I would also never support a people who do things like using children as suicide bombers. That is something only a wicked, twisted person would do.
Palestine and Chicago on a long weekend
I am from Poland. God bless your countries and God bless Poland. That's all what I want to say here. BE WISE. I am a proud Pole and I cannot listen to them slander and lie about my homeland.
always amazed by how much more "real" these become, when they colorize the pictures and videos
“Oh. All my life and never realized… That actually happened."
They were very much real before colorization.
Ironically it’s less real because the neural network is picking the colors which often are not accurate. Colorists can research the buildings, clothes, etc and get closer but unless you shot the black and white footage with color filters there’s no real way to accurately convey the color. The black and white footage meanwhile is more accurate as a document because it’s not changing anything, it’s recording what it could record which was luminance.
@@Dinco422 No shit. That's why she put quotes around "real", just remarking on how coloration has an ability to bring old film to life, so-to-speak.
@@Kdkjdjewerdnxa that's why I say "real". I mean the fact that most people can imagine this to really took place when they see it in colors, even if they are not the right ones.
The polish people suffered horrendously during WWII. So much terrible suffering. My heart will forever be with the poles in solidarity. Love from Norway.
Respects from Poland my friend
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z Goebels would be happy seeing how people still tend to repeat his lies, my friend.
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z you can take that neo-nazi history falsification bullshit somewhere else. I'm not an ignorant imbecile.
@@taffelost6221 It's just a fact.
@α & Ω LoL, there's no resource that can be trusted nowadays
One lady look just like my Grandma did. Thank you for sharing.
this remind me of my own aunts, uncles, and relatives who had been through such hateful unspoken despair and bitterness
This video is both extremely interesting and terrifying to watch. The scene with the newborns especially got to me. It saddens me that so many people lived so short lives in fear and horror.
Small children, not more than a month old and already wounded and scarred. I know how fragile newborns are and its unthinkable that these little ones could be the target of a gunfire or bombings. Germans were known for their cruelty during the war. They were shooting paratroopers and pilots who catapulted from burning planes, starving people to death in camps, making soap from dead bodies, executing women and children in public... They were treated very well after the war if compared to what they did to other nations, especially Jews and Poles.
Thinking back, history is full of such events. Now I realise what the staying : "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it" really means.
@@smieszek8080 Shooting pilots in their parachutes wasn't a purely German thing. Many German pilots didn't do that at all.
The creation of soap from corpses just shows how desperate they were just a few years after the war had begun. I don't think that it is a bad thing though. Maybe for religious people but technically there is not much wrong about it.
The worst things were the concentration camps (and even worse death camps) and mass executions. Those were really terrible war crimes. It shows how far humans can go if manipulated enough and if there is enough hatred among them.
I don't think punishing the Germans would have done any good. What can be learned from the two world wars is that repressions don't cure problems. They make them worse.
Julius Bryan revisited Warsaw in 1959. When he did, he discovered that the twin baby boys, who appear in this video, had died in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The twins died along with their father, on September 5th, which was also the twins' birthday.
Read the Gospel of John -this world is only an anti-room for eternity!Watch Bill Weise 23 minuets in hell and see what your maker Jesus is trying to save you from! Jesus took me to heaven 26 yrs ago,3 months after i was saved! He longs to save you also! Be blessed!
"Get it all on record now- get in on film, get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
@Dru Baxter you're really missing the point then.
@Dru Baxter If you ignore the past you're doomed to repeat it
A shame we didn't get the firebombings of every Japanese city on film.
Or the rape of millions of German women by Russian soldiers.
Or the concentration camps the allied made and kept millions of Germans in after May 1945.
You know: _The war crimes of the allies._
@@whiteman6399 The victor changes history
@@whiteman6399 well, they started it…
The speed adjustments and color really make me feel like I can empathize, it makes this seem so much more real
I couldn't agree more. Seeing it black and white and fuzzy makes it feel so dehumanizing, which i wish it didnt
The video quality is INSANE.
This is so tragic that this wasn't even 100 years ago. My grandparents were all alive when this was happening...
imagine had they died...you wouldnt be here today cause your parents most likely werent born for another 20 years..
And that we seem to be heading towards the third 😢
This still happens regularily today and has no particular meaning to the perspective of western way of living today.
Have you heard of this place called the middle east?
Ever heard of uyghur muslims in china that are right now being persecuted just for being muslim?
But nooo what happened to the jews we will never let that happen. Apperently they mean we will never let this happen to jews anymore. If its muslims we dont care.
I'm really glad you revitalised this footage. Greetings from Poland
It's a pity and a danger young people don't learn history and watch these films just because they look "old".
@@XIXbacktolife Indeed.
Accessibility is also an issue. But thanks to TH-cam and channels like this, it's getting more possi le
@@XIXbacktolife 20 and enjoying all your videos!
@@XIXbacktolife I do, always loved history especially ww2 and the Tudors. I am 27 now tho not exactly young 🙂 I really appreciate your channel
your channel is crazy, thank u
I know so many direct stories from my family and relatives about that times, that I still can't fully forget and forgive. And all that for instanity of few.
God, that was powerful. Colorising and upscaling really brings them all back to life. Very moving.
@None None you're so right. Here you are after all, wasting bandwidth and oxygen.
Innocents don't start wars and don't end them, but they're the ones who suffer the most.
@Duplizapper wtf dude. What makes you think Poland wasn’t innocent
@Duplizapper What a bullshit, you only repeating goebbles nazi propaganda, this innocent german minorities on "blood sunday", in large part they were subversives and traitors, good that they had been smeared on the floors.
@Duplizapper ahhahaah what crack have they been feedin ya mate
@Duplizapper get a grip on yourself, some polish nationalists warrant the invasion and annexation of a country? guess the czechs also had a hand in starting the war too right? honestly wtf you thinking
Its good to be objective. Nazi Germany came around.. and Socialists sprung up in EVERY nation. Political ideologues rose to power, Dividing countries, corrupting government. When the Nazis came, government was complicit, some people helped, some resigned to fate.
If you're like me and had grandparents that went through this war you know now watching this why they were so steadfast the rest of their days. They knew what hard times really were. The rest of life they were thankful every day.
I used to be ashamed to be Polish. It seems like we were constantly being pushed around by stronger nations. But now I see the truth: we are a gentle people. And I am proud of that. There is strength in gentleness and patient suffering.
No, we're not. Fuck that mentality. If we were gentle we wouldn't survive so much.
Poland and Germany did not divide Czechoslovakia in 1938?
You're not Polish and you will never be polish. You are American and staying true to american stereotypes.
@@user-mh2uj7ns6h Oh we got a badass ova here..
@@michellemarie9526 You don't speak Polish you're not Polish easy as that. You're American
The girl in 1:01, Kazimiera Kostewicz, died in 2020.
I hope she's reunited with her sister
From covid-19?
❤️
@@flutterflowexpert She was 93, problably due to old age.
@@dutchman063 that is a chilling thought
My grandmother was a child in Poland at the time. Lost her sister in a camp. Barely escaped with her life. I always wondered about how it looked and felt, as asking her brings up too much trauma to handle. The ramifications of this has run through multiple generations all throughout my extended family. This has given me some much needed insight.
If you have a chance watch the movie Pianist. It was an eye opening movie for me, showing the devastation of the city I have grew up in.
I am really sorry she died from typhus and malnutrition that was a result of "Allies" bombing the supply lines.
@@VargVikernes1488 what?
@@romiansobieszczanskipaszteski What "what"?
@@VargVikernes1488 what now?
I had a friend, a left leaning one, telling me that the US and Europe were rushed in their actions against Russia....We here in Brazil never faced war, never faced a nightmarish disgrace of famine, sickness and suffering because of ravaged lands and bombed cities. I must show this video to him, that Europeans, they are not cornering Russia. They have good memory. To never forget what War really is. The misery that it brings. The scourging of body and soul one never forgets.
He is simply besotted by Russian propaganda, just as the Argentines were besotted by Goebbels.
In Russia people also remember this war, unlike anybody, but Russian government is out of their minds, they do exactly what Germans did, they kill people just because they’re Ukrainians, they do all this horrible stuff today in 2022…
Well that is a lie?
We here in Brazil have faced many wars, and many of them being Civil wars of Separatist movements, surpressing them.
We faced famine, multiple times, specially in the 1850-1870s
We did not have ravaged cities and bombed cities atleast, I agree
@@Knali2001e o Paraguai?
@@rogerio7546 eu citei que a maioria das guerras foram civís, porém não quis dizer que não tivemos intervenção com outros países, como por exemplo a guerra da tríplice aliança (do Paraguai) e a intervenção militar no Haiti
"All of this has happened before and will happen again"
And it sadly is
Let all who speak so lightly of having a war today see reels like this.
I hated all those World War 3 memes
@@sera_sarzad they were funny because ww3 wont happen (in this decade ofc, but ww3 was a threat nonetheless), but people who dream about going to war are just trying to be quirky (or they don't know what a real war is)
P.S. oh god oh no what have I done
@@anotherrandominternetguy404 Both WWI and WWII had large parts of the world completely unaffected by them, like wise today there are parts unaffected by warfare currently happening. But the destruction and death is just as tragic, only most of us are conditioned to dehumanize these victims.
If you include the cyber domain of warfare, which all militaries now do, the entire world is at war with more engaged countries than ever.
@@_BangDroid_ exactly
War is good
It crazy how simply colorizing videos like this it seems to bridge the gap of separation between then and now in our minds - somehow it makes it even more heartbreaking and relatable.
I wonder about the Syrian war, the first one we saw really high quality videos on the internet and was really shocking, but these wars have been happening all the time, especially Africa and Asia
It makes it looks like it happened last week. ALL of World War 2 needs to be remastered, in 4K and in COLOR for future generations. Otherwise...we are condemned to repeat History...
personally, its less about the colorizing and more about it being brought up from like 10 fps original to 50 fps.
Ive seen the black and white stills of this incident at 1:02 but seeing it in color and 50fps adds a whole other layer to it. Really eerie
Сколько горя. Невинных жизней. Нужно сплотиться всем миром, жить и помогать друг другу.
The span between the most beautiful things a human can do and the most terrible things the same human is capable of doing is absolutely terrifying.
people are dying RIGHT NOW of suicide, poverty, isolation and societies aggression. because you voted; people are dying.
@@keetahbrough yeah i agree alex is to blame!
@@eciekoc Darn Alex's causing wars all over the world!
@@keetahbrough will you guys shut up one and stop bringing up your hateful agenda?
@@keetahbrough We can’t keep letting Alex get away with it! /s
No one would know how the war ends at that time.
No one would know if the war would end
магия.. всегда зачаровывало в хрониках.. все из них уже не существуют в нашей реальности...но вот я смотрю на них и они как живые навеки вечные!
Какие мудрые слова ...
Did It really ever end?
@@miranda9691 no. We as humans do lots of harm to eachother still, we slaughter bilions of animals every day and we do lots of harm to our nature. Until this wont end we are at war.
My great great grandfather immigrated from Poland to the U.S. (Specifically Michigan) in 1884 so i suppose he left long before those terrible events. Still it's crazy how much Poland keeps being put through.
Poland was still divided in 1884. It wasn't unified until 1918.
@@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z oh, well good to know. Thank you.
I am really impressed how well this clip cleaned up/
Poor child sitting there waiting for his mother to get up 😢
How the hell did you figure out he was waiting for her to get up? He was sad... Stop using your imagination like that it's really stupid
@@user-gn8is5wv4x u need a break homie 🤣
@@user-gn8is5wv4x Chill
@@radosawmotkowski7123 Thank you very much. So sad, so much suffer. She is such a lovely girl and how beautyful her beloved sister must have been.
@@radosawmotkowski7123 Thank you for telling us !!!!!
Poland always in my heart, brave people, from Croatia.
Pozdrav iz Poljske!
Ustasha?
@@faelbeltran Nope, just a Croat, dopey.
Ustasa Jasenovac pobijeno milion srba od ante Pavelićai njegovih sledbenika
Amazing footage and colorization!
it feels surreal to me that my great grandparents lived through this when they were my age
This should be shown in every school out of respect to the suffering of our unfortunate predecessors
I agree, but the leftist/BLM lot don't, as it doesn't show the contribution made by black people or transgender people.
@Adriano Castellano So were mine and like most Italians they hated Mussolini and damned near starved to death.
@@rupedo1 What on earth are you talking about?
History is taught as a part of school curriculum, what is taught and how it is taught is a matter that governments decide not individuals nor minority groups who primarily only ask for more accurate representation on historical matters which results in addition of historical fact to the curriculum, not its removal.
The days when the world catered primarily for and served primarily the interests of white straight western Christian men are over my friend, have been for at least 40 years, and with it various walls of silence over matters of history have crumbled. This is nothing to be afraid of, nor any reason to bemoan people who have no money and no power, being exploited equally next to you by those above you who tell you to blame them for it so you never angry at the economic system that has done this all to you while the few on top make out like bandits having divided the working masses against each other.
This has been going on since a thousand years before the Romans, time to stop playing the same game expecting a different result my friend, punch up, not to the left of you where you will only find a majority of people in increasing poverty and despair.
@@rupedo1 They are living rent free in your head my friend
@@sonwig5186 your post makes no legible sense whatsoever
My grandpa lived there with his family during the WWII. Almost everyone died. His brother committed suicide to avoid getting killed. My grandpa was put in concentration camp. Amazingly he survived several years in different concentration camps and death marches. He was saved by the white busses. In Sweden he met my grandma and they had one child, my father. They never married because he was still married to his wife in Poland. He nerver spoke of the war or what happened to him. He had been an great violin player in Poland but he never played again after he got out of the concentration camp. He never went back but he sent lots of letters and almost all his money to his wife who had ended up on the streets. I feel very distanced to what my grandpa experienced but videos like this makes me grasp just a tiny bit of what it must have been like.
That’s messed up how he had a child with another women while he was still married to his wife.
@@anythingchannel9326 that is what you got out of it????
I'm truly astounded and amazed at the clarity these World War II footage clips are!
Every single time I see the well known image photograph and, here, uncensored filmed crying of the the girl in mourning, tears just pour from my eyes.
1:01
Czesc I chwala bohaterom. Nie zapomnialem
Go back to russia !!
Whoever remastered this footage deserves serious praise. This hit like a truck and the feeling of it being distant and disconnected disappears when you see the absolute heartbreak and resignation carved into their faces and hearts. The eyes are somewhat present but moreso distant from the shock of how quickly their lives so drastically changed. And my god, those images of the kids next to their dead mother's is beyond heartbreaking. What they must have endured in the years that followed after seeing such horror happen right in frontvid them......war isn't worth this.
They run it through AI
BUILD A SEA WALL!!!
lmfao you mean whoever created the AI upscaling machine learning algorithm deserves praise not the man that ran it through a program
buddy you could do any video you want with like 10 clicks
Not distant at all really, still millions of people alive today who lived through WWII. The young girl at 1:00 crying over the body of her sister, Kazimiera Mika, died just three short years ago.
The girl crying over her dead sister, I've seen on so many war documentaries since I was a kid. Nice to finally have a name that identifies her.
Her picture in the thumbnail is haunting
She livéd ripé agé of
93 Yars
What name?
@@JustinCase99999 Kazimiera Mika
@@MeaHeaR Thank you! Amazing and moving story.
Thank you for this video.😢
Really good footage. The higher FPS makes it feel like it was shot on a mobile phone
It's absolutely amazing that in this age of TH-cam, we have people commenting on this video that have ancestors who lived through this.
We as modern people have no idea what hard times are
What do you mean "We"? In a place where you live you have no idea what hard times are. What about the kids in Africa in this modern time?
often our most vulnerable people who get to hospitals get the camp treatment in there
@@elmago8268 Lol they literally explained what they meant as "We" in their sentence.
*Simplified:* Neither you or I know what it's like to be in a World War.
@@ChudLife I don't live in USA. In fact, I live in Ukraine.
So wrong. Both my parents lived in poverty and this was in the 60s and 70s
This was a year before my mother was born. When she came into this world her family watched soldiers throw infants into the air only to be impaled. Her family and over 100 others fled their village and hid in a cave until the brink of starvation. My grandfather risked his life by going back in search of food only to narrowly escape being put in a firing line. Fate would have it that the enemy commander and my grandfather were friends before the war broke out. Only by the grace of God was my grandfather saved and ultimately my existence as well.
To everyone who listened to the stories of your parents and grandparents - tell your children the stories. Tell them often so that we never forget the sacrifices our families made nor the warning signs.
@King Charles ✔ 🤦♀️
@King Charles ✔ i second that. Throw infants to be impalled maybe happened during the Roman invasion. Not WW2. What a propaganda.
@King Charles ✔ why is that so unbelivable? there u have literally eye wittnesses who tell that that happned but u still dont belive it? are u stupid? The germans waged a war of extermination, and killing infants by throwing them in the air, agianst the wall is a common practice in genocides, just look at bosnia or rwanda where the same thing happened
@King Charles ✔ it did happen and its been proven several times
@King Charles ✔ no but the germans did kill newborns and most historians agree on that
It's often hard to grasp the reality in old black and white movies from then, I was really amazed how big of a difference the processes used here enhanced it overall and truly brought it to life.
My Grandpa fought for Warsaw until the very end, he died and left two kids, i wish i could have met him once. I miss you Wilhelm!
On which side? Wilhelm doesn’t sound like a Polish name...
@@oggeeboggee Oh dont worry, he fought for the good guys
@@oggeeboggee there were plenty of Polish Wilhelms. I can't say that it was a popular name, but it certainly wasn't rare pre-war.
My great grandma is Jewish and polish and she remembered when they were sitting in a barn and they saw tanks and soldiers coming, they warned the whole little town, but they didn’t have enough time to escape themselves, her and here friends hid in different houses, my great grandma hid under some sacks of potatoes, after a few minutes passed she heard a soldier walk down the stairs, then said something in German and dragged her out of her hiding spot, then he shined the flashlight in her face, then stopped. My great grandma said she thought the German soldier saw her and realized how young she was, she was 13 I think but she looked way younger probably. The German soldier walked out and no one came back in. She never saw her friends again. If that German soldier did anything differently I wouldn’t exist today. And my great grandma is still alive today!
@@WeedisMedicin İncredible story! How mind boggling it is to know that one person can change fate.
As a German this is sad and spooky to watch, but so powerful. Well done on the American photographer (and the editing).
I hope this video gets a lot of views as it is a strong reminder of humanity being able to achieve more if we all work together rather than hating on our differences.
Thanks for uploading.
for deutch ?
Your people were the heroes of the war.
What do you mean by "hating on our differences"? That's not what happened. Poland was run by a military dictatorship who preferred to annex Danzig by force rather than attend the negotiation table in order to find a peaceful solution. Their invasion plans also included the conquest of East Prussia and with French and British help they expected it to be an easy win. That's why the photographer says "A nation deceived" in the clip.
@@averagegigel1448 Has there ever been a war that was "race-related"?
@@aurorasdawn4681 He doesn’t talk about a „deceived“ nation. His words are „These are the faces of a nation besieged.“
It’s crazy that the grandchildren of the jews that went through this is doing the same thing to the Palestinians. Out of all people
some humans truly never learn and then wonder why the cycle of misery continues. Narcissism at its core i tell you!
We cannot allow this madness to persist into the modern era
1:01 - 12 years old Kazia crying over body of Andzia, her sister
God bless Poland. All my respect from Chile.
Gracias. Viva Chile 🇨🇱
¡Viva Chile!
@Kayra Kara o/
@Kayra Kara Sen türk misin ?
GREETINGS FROM POLAND
This hits different when you watch it now
14 May 2022
Different century and times. But the pictures doesnt change. Humankind never changed. Sad to see the same in the ukraine.
Imagine being de-humanised to the point of being willing to machine gun a field of women simply digging potatoes....
That's what indoctrination in a totalitarian regime does with many people.
Ever been on Twitter? It's not so hard to imagine.
That's what happens when you give in to fearmongering and propaganda done by the state, corrupted media or whoever's in power. Some guy in my country literally said he would be glad if the government would just start hunting down with helicopters the people that didn't get vaccinated. Not far off a nazi's or bolshevik's mentality.
I'm not prejudice but You think Germans are so far away of what they grandparents did? Wrong they feel morally/mentaly higher than rest of the Europe AGAIN. Cynically try to play ball take crap/ propaganda from Putin, USA, China for some strange interests not for the EU but lecturing other country's it will end badly for whole Europe AGAIN.
Well said.
“Grim reaper relentlessly determined they should not leave; here were youngsters, starting out life, hidden away from death.”
My grandfather and his family were interned for a long time and fled to America for a better life. My great gandparents on my other side were also from Poland, I wouldn't be here if they didn't immigrate, but sometimes I feel a draw to go "back" Poland. I'd like to visit where my family is from. A horrible war that moved people from their beloved homeland.
Videos like this should be mandatory to watch in schools. Maybe one day wars would end. I'm Polish and I watched quite a bit of the history of the war. This footage really shows what the war looks like for everyday people.
Nope
why not showing Iraq right now? what about live broadcast :)
Wars will never end unfortunately. Too much money to be made by the elite.
@@Teddy-ez9qq That's not even related, violence is in human nature
@@GaiusCaligula234 Of course its related. Money and war go hand in hand.
I'm really grateful we have the technology now to restore and colourise old footage, especially from wartime. Seeing history in grainy black and white it can be difficult to fully grasp that it was real, like it's from another far-off, distant dimension almost. Although it's terrible and heartbreaking to see it's important that we can see it like this because it's much more relatable to a 21st Century viewer and lets us keep in touch with history. It really drives home that all of this was carried out by and affected human beings, nothing more and nothing less. Also having these films preserved digitally for future generations to see and understand is very important, so that we never forget what happened. The Auschwitz Museum has been doing the same with their archives, it's very valuable and important work. Honestly being able to see these records in living, breathing colour has given me a new perspective on the war that I never had before.
My grandma was born just 4 months prior…there’s nothing worse than a war.
Heart wrenching
I just recently lost both my grandparents on my mother's side. They were from Poland and escaped to America during the Nazi occupation.
My babcia, before she died, told us stories of how she and her young siblings would hide from the Nazis as they came into town. She said the best hiding spot was in the mass graves underneath rotting corpses. She told me she used to braid the hair of the corpses (her neighbors) to make them look pretty as she laid there hidden for sometimes days on end. To avoid starvation, she used to make soup consisting of boiled shoe leather and flowers and grasses.
I hope that one day I am able to travel to my ancestral homeland. She said Poland was very beautiful, but could never go back because of the memories.
not Nazis fam, just Germans
@@schoolgang597 So... Nazi's? The Nazi's were a German party, after all.
Poland is wonderful Ryan, I hope you get the chance to go.
@@schoolgang597 No Germans, nazi germans. Not all germans were nazi supporting the III Reich.
Poland is back in bloom❤️❤️!