The Zoo had some 4,000 animals in 1939 - 91 of which survived the war. My dad was good friends with the 1st post war director, Katharina Heinroth, and had lots of stories about that time in the zoo.
3:53 Berliner Weisse mit Schuss: a typical Berlin wheat beer with raspberry (red) or Woodruff (green) syrup 7:44 In case of enemy attacks the garden must be cleared immediatelly.
crazy thing about this footage: it looks like a todays modern city (especially with color footage). Just the vehicles and the dresses look old-fashioned. But this is a window ~90 years into the past. just crazy.
Besides some buildings that no longer exist (destroyed by the war), and all the fine details that require a second look (type of cars, fashion, etc), it feels almost the same what i see today. The biggest visible difference at first glance are all those flags and uniforms, and thus people shouldn't be surprised that germany is not quite as "flagwaving" today as can be seen here, and also why all those flags and flagged homes in the USA feel somewhat strange to us.
5:33 "...people look happy..." - many probably were happy since Germany in the late 30's had the highest standard of living worldwide for the average citizen, and people knew that very well.
Interesting to see how many of the advertised brands can still be found in stores today ... and that some of the businesses (like "Kranzler", a famous café) are still in business!
Moin, Mace! Thanks for this reaction! There is so much footage!!! 😯Even from before WWI! I find this totally fascinating and sad at the same time. The cities were so beautiful! Of course, today you can't really imagine what the (visual) impact would have been without war until today. The old-fashioned stuffiness from the imperial era, for example, might no longer have fit at some point. 🥸On the other hand, we wouldn't have suddenly been "Americanized" as happened after World War II. 🤠That has changed a lot in our country; not just the necessary rapid and in parts ugly reconstruction.
@@UntilWeGo The German company AGFA from 1932 is considered a pioneer in color film photography and film. Although the films were expensive at the time, they were also available to private individuals. There are many private recordings in the video.
don't think ive come across your channel or the video your reacting to but i did enjoy it nonetheless,this is some superb footage and if you think this is pretty grand you should definitely check out old pre war footage of Dresden,im pretty sure theres colorized footage of it too,cheers!
as someone else pointed out, you see the same amount if flags in the US today too. and i'd argue that this is a display of ultra nationalism too, but only few realize that.
I always find this topic interesting. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your country and displaying your flag, of course, but where the problem arises I think is ultra nationalism, and when military ism comes into it. We have Canada today here in Canada and everybody goes to the streets and waves flags. Canadian flags to celebrate our great country, but are we contributing to possible future fascist state? I don’t know.
The mass presence of swastika flags was intended to create an atmosphere of national unity and loyalty. It was intended to promote a sense of strong national identity and solidarity. There was social pressure to display the flags, especially during National Socialist holidays or events. Anyone who did not fly a flag risked being considered critical of the regime and being persecuted. The National Socialists staged their rule through total control of the public space. This staging served to integrate people into the collective of National Socialism or at least to create the impression that everyone was part of the movement. I don't know to what extent it is compulsory to display the national flag in the USA or whether you are stigmatized if you don't do so. But I have heard that children in some schools get into trouble if they don't want to pledge allegiance to the flag. I myself grew up in East Germany, a dictatorship. There it wasn't compulsory to fly the national flag all the time, but on public holidays you got into trouble if you didn't fly a flag or didn't go to public events with a flag.
one dont find this amount of flags in the US. thats bullshit from idiots who dont know much about the US and only think in stereotypes. and no, patriotism like in the US is FAR AWAY from ultra-nationalism. you have such more in Turkey for instance. And everyone should also keep in mind that the conformism and general flag attitude was back then not only a NationalSOCIALIST (they were btw. LEFT WING! => anticapitalist, antizionist/antisemitic, anti(neo)liberal, identity politics and so on) thing but you had that also around the world with other socialist variations and also in many democratic countries more than today. and you had in many dictator ships - was typical for the 20. century and ideological - always a picture of the leader at the wall (which was in the case of Hitler/Germany btw. less the case than in most other dictator ships).
My grandfather came to Berlin 100+ years ago, shortly after 1920 (in that year, lots of small villages were united to create the "Great-Berlin" that mainly exists in the same city borders today), and together with his brother he started a business with a shop for car tires and accessories that they kept for two decades until it was bombed out. Thus seeing the busy streets and lots of cars a decade later (in the 30s and 40s) is quite interesting to me.
So many thoughts. One of them: if you walk through any bigger city in Germany today, you’ll see lots of fully covered women with scarves and many children as well as knots of young men from Maghreb countries, the Middle East and Africa. You’ll hardly see any Germans or hear someone speaking German. I feel totally estranged in my hometown. What a very different world it was back then.
![Germany 1930s in color, Pre-War [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
The Zoo had some 4,000 animals in 1939 - 91 of which survived the war. My dad was good friends with the 1st post war director, Katharina Heinroth, and had lots of stories about that time in the zoo.
3:53 Berliner Weisse mit Schuss: a typical Berlin wheat beer with raspberry (red) or Woodruff (green) syrup
7:44 In case of enemy attacks the garden must be cleared immediatelly.
crazy thing about this footage: it looks like a todays modern city (especially with color footage). Just the vehicles and the dresses look old-fashioned. But this is a window ~90 years into the past. just crazy.
Besides some buildings that no longer exist (destroyed by the war), and all the fine details that require a second look (type of cars, fashion, etc), it feels almost the same what i see today. The biggest visible difference at first glance are all those flags and uniforms, and thus people shouldn't be surprised that germany is not quite as "flagwaving" today as can be seen here, and also why all those flags and flagged homes in the USA feel somewhat strange to us.
5:33 "...people look happy..." - many probably were happy since Germany in the late 30's had the highest standard of living worldwide for the average citizen, and people knew that very well.
Ja genau! Schon mal was von der "Fettlücke" gehört? Und natürlich alles auf Pump...
Interesting to see how many of the advertised brands can still be found in stores today ... and that some of the businesses (like "Kranzler", a famous café) are still in business!
Moin, Mace! Thanks for this reaction!
There is so much footage!!! 😯Even from before WWI! I find this totally fascinating and sad at the same time. The cities were so beautiful! Of course, today you can't really imagine what the (visual) impact would have been without war until today.
The old-fashioned stuffiness from the imperial era, for example, might no longer have fit at some point. 🥸On the other hand, we wouldn't have suddenly been "Americanized" as happened after World War II. 🤠That has changed a lot in our country; not just the necessary rapid and in parts ugly reconstruction.
By the way, these are not post-colored films, but color films!
Oh really? I thought they were “colorized”. Cheers
@@UntilWeGo The German company AGFA from 1932 is considered a pioneer in color film photography and film. Although the films were expensive at the time, they were also available to private individuals. There are many private recordings in the video.
don't think ive come across your channel or the video your reacting to but i did enjoy it nonetheless,this is some superb footage and if you think this is pretty grand you should definitely check out old pre war footage of Dresden,im pretty sure theres colorized footage of it too,cheers!
This shows how quickly things can change. And nobody had thought its possible - just like today.
Daaaaaas ist die berliner Luft Luft Luft .
Mit den fanz besonderen Duft Duft Duft. 😊😊😊
Was für einen alten Film , hast du denn ausgegraben ???
as someone else pointed out, you see the same amount if flags in the US today too. and i'd argue that this is a display of ultra nationalism too, but only few realize that.
There is not much difference between patriotism and ultranationalism. Quite a few Americans have a sense of superiority over the rest of the world.
I always find this topic interesting.
There is nothing wrong with celebrating your country and displaying your flag, of course, but where the problem arises I think is ultra nationalism, and when military ism comes into it. We have Canada today here in Canada and everybody goes to the streets and waves flags. Canadian flags to celebrate our great country, but are we contributing to possible future fascist state? I don’t know.
The mass presence of swastika flags was intended to create an atmosphere of national unity and loyalty. It was intended to promote a sense of strong national identity and solidarity. There was social pressure to display the flags, especially during National Socialist holidays or events. Anyone who did not fly a flag risked being considered critical of the regime and being persecuted. The National Socialists staged their rule through total control of the public space. This staging served to integrate people into the collective of National Socialism or at least to create the impression that everyone was part of the movement.
I don't know to what extent it is compulsory to display the national flag in the USA or whether you are stigmatized if you don't do so. But I have heard that children in some schools get into trouble if they don't want to pledge allegiance to the flag.
I myself grew up in East Germany, a dictatorship. There it wasn't compulsory to fly the national flag all the time, but on public holidays you got into trouble if you didn't fly a flag or didn't go to public events with a flag.
one dont find this amount of flags in the US. thats bullshit from idiots who dont know much about the US and only think in stereotypes. and no, patriotism like in the US is FAR AWAY from ultra-nationalism. you have such more in Turkey for instance. And everyone should also keep in mind that the conformism and general flag attitude was back then not only a NationalSOCIALIST (they were btw. LEFT WING! => anticapitalist, antizionist/antisemitic, anti(neo)liberal, identity politics and so on) thing but you had that also around the world with other socialist variations and also in many democratic countries more than today. and you had in many dictator ships - was typical for the 20. century and ideological - always a picture of the leader at the wall (which was in the case of Hitler/Germany btw. less the case than in most other dictator ships).
When did you become brainwashed to think nationalism is bad?
All the flags... looks like the US today. 🤣
IS the US today😂🙄
Ford A wurde zu der Zeit auch in Berlin gebaut.
My grandfather came to Berlin 100+ years ago, shortly after 1920 (in that year, lots of small villages were united to create the "Great-Berlin" that mainly exists in the same city borders today), and together with his brother he started a business with a shop for car tires and accessories that they kept for two decades until it was bombed out. Thus seeing the busy streets and lots of cars a decade later (in the 30s and 40s) is quite interesting to me.
So many thoughts.
One of them: if you walk through any bigger city in Germany today, you’ll see lots of fully covered women with scarves and many children as well as knots of young men from Maghreb countries, the Middle East and Africa.
You’ll hardly see any Germans or hear someone speaking German.
I feel totally estranged in my hometown.
What a very different world it was back then.
Some more pre-war Germany:
th-cam.com/video/PrxpUZGRkSY/w-d-xo.html
😢