These >5 minutes of footage cover so many obscure aspects of life during the war that literally nobody stops to think about anymore. It's a miracle stuff like this even survived the conflict and found its way onto the internet decades later
I do hope we can learn this must never happen again the young people must be shown the films of horror so they will understand what people can do to each other pray for wisdom an world peace
@@ewencameron1548 Yep, that's the pontificating sentiment expressed after every major conflict. I'm pretty sure the "young people" recognize what war is. Ppl will always pursue conflict if they think they will win, can justify it & if the benefits outweigh the risk. No amount of film watching affects that reality.
@@WatchTMC No that's definitely not all of it. Just read and you'll see it's due in part of being physical. "Old movies were shot on either 35mm or 70mm film reel. These reels were analogue. Analogue gives you the ability to go back to it and ‘transfer’ it to what ever technology is available at the time. To put this in to perspective, a 35mm reel can render almost 20 million organic pixels which is the equivalent to just over 8K."
@@kstreet7438 in theory. Have you seen how large a 70mm camera is? This was frontline war reporting. 35mm or less. Then that’s the theoretical limit. The practical limit is by the scanner used to digitise the footage. This is probably old stock, which means it’s much lower in quality. Not to mention deterioration on 80 year old film. The crisp quality you see here is achieved by denoising and resharpening by an image AI. Probably Topaz labs or something similar.
It’s taken from the enormous hill top fortress across the Rhine at Koblenz. The German army that did the 1940 surprise breakthrough over the Meuse from the Ardennes went out along the sides of that Mosel river seen with all those bombed bridges. I did the scenic Mosel boat trip recently, the bridges have obviously modern construction patch repair spans. There are similar photos from 1918/9 with French Rhineland occupation soldiers. Remagen is just downstream a bit.
@@Aeg0r I did it on a cable car from the main Koblenz side of the Rhine up to the famous fortress on the east side. There is a long steep footpath. The Rhine-Mosel junction on the left is called the ‘German Corner’. The Rhine flows left to right just out of shot.
It was really touching to see those French welcoming their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands home. I can only imagine how relieved and happy they would be, imagine them going home finally to seat down together for a family meal...all those little details of human lives that these footages and any history books could never tell.
Yes, the footage of the woman with a look of desperation on her face scanning the people getting off the train. I hope she was reunited with whoever it was she was searching for.
but the title... "1945 War arrives in Germany" Really? First RAF bombings began in 1940. The war just arrived more and more during the following 5 years.
My father was seconded to the Americans towards the end of the war and took part in a search of Heidelburg University and he brought home a souvenir in the shape of one of those pencil sharpeners that were screwed to the table and you turned a handle. I've still got it and it's the best sharpener ever.
@@davemathews7890 I would like to correct that statement as "THEY THOUGHT they produced better quality goods and were better organized than the Allies". In reality much of what the Germans produced, though while cutting edge in some instances, was very inefficient.....too many different variations and models and not enough of any single one. Take their tanks...the allies may have feared the Tigers and Panthers but they were over engineered, had many faults, were prune to failures at a much higher rate than those of the allies and ended up being a waste of resources. Most of the allied tanks knocked out were by Stugs which were very low tech. The USA, Russia and Britain, each individually, out produced the Germans because they were the ones who were more efficient. That the German armed forces fought for as long as they did is a testament to their individual soldiers than the nation as a whole. They had the best uniforms though. But that doesn't win wars.
@@ravilcn Agreed, the reality was much different from the perception. I was basing my observation on Victor Klemperer's WWII Dresden diaries. After the defeat of France, the locals he encountered in Dresden thought England would next be defeated in a matter of weeks because Germany was better led, more rationally organized and produced better goods. They were somewhat less optimistic after Barbarossa was launched, but still seemed to have faith in German economics, political leadership and especially overwhelming military might. As it turns out, the predictions that either England or the USSR would be defeated were utterly incorrect. You can blame this misplaced optimism largely on Goebbels and Speer, both of whom juggled production figures to create the illusion of an armaments miracle.
@@Perririri Most of maritime China was occupied at this time and its inhabitants were being slaughtered by the Japanese. Since China was also allied with the British and Americans, I doubt it would have exported too much to Germany.
@@mad_max21 My father's best friend was in Patton's tank corp. He would have followed the man to storm hell. Patton was a character but he loved his men and they loved him. He pushed them as hard as he pushed himself...it's called leadership, not perfection. I'll take that over General Miley any day.
@@alfredfanshaw4786 Not mentioning the Jewish people when talking about the liberation of camps and about tattooed prisoners is noteworthy because Jews were singled out by the nazis and because they were specifically targeted by the Holocaust. It says a lot about the way Nazi crimes were seen during the war and for a couple decades afterwards. You could say it's similar to how the Roma are relatively absent from this kind of conversation even today, despite the fact that they were subjected to the same degree of extreme persecution as the Jews and casualty ratios, though debatable, seem to be comparable. Long live Palestine, but that's a separate matter
@@hrotha not talking about how the Russians raped every woman on site on their road to berlin no matter their age and shot the Brothers, Fathers and Husbands as they tried to stop them.
What's very important for this realistic feeling is the frame rate. The frame rate here has been "corrected". In the original footage it was probably all very "speedy".
What?? It looks completely unnatural. You know, exactly like something made by an AI would look like. It's becoming a nuisance when all of this content being recommended is AI made abominations, and not the original source material. You just can't magically make 24 fps into 60 fps. You just can't magically make lower resolution into 4k (unless you re-scan the original film). It's all just deception that disregards the original medium, and instead gives you a "remastered" version that looks like a fever dream yet doesn't add anything.
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Some of what these people endured we who were born just after that War can never understand. My father was in a tank battalion, for nearly 4 years. Along with his own battalion and British troops helped liberate a POW camp. He didn’t talk about it too much but from time to time he’d tell me and my brother some of what was seen or done. Our military nowadays leave for 6 or 12 months and return home - and for the most part do not see battles or even skirmishes. But it’s tough no matter where you are or what you do. My Dad’s generation was drafted and didn’t come home until the war was declared over. 4 years. Never knowing one day to the next if a bullet or a bomb would find you. Then seeing hundreds of dozens of half starved, dirty, some so sick they could barely move in a camp and you’re just 21. We cannot imagine. No wonder most of our military came home from Afghanistan or Iraq so scarred. War is hell.
One of my uncles was in the German Medical Corps. They operated in a war torn city occupied by a US Division. They were helping wounded civilians and solders on both sides and American Medical units worked alongside my Uncle.
As an eleven year long citizen of Heidelberg, this was incredibly interesting to watch, since I know every corner of it. It was eerily familiar, but distant in the same time, with the American soldiers strolling through the famous city.
I know the feeling. Studied and worked there for 3 years. Beautiful old town with its lovely castle on the hill. Very strange to see it with occupation troops at the end of WW2.
Made me proud to see my American brothers and allies liberating and helping innocent people and weeding out them bad from the good. The allies and the axis were the perfect distinction of “Good” and “Evil”.
Still amazing to think that many people who were around ww2, toddler, teens AND to adults who were 18- 22, are still alive to this day. I cannot imagine the trials and tribulations of all the nations affected by ww2. It's sad to see the world has ended up now vs what the people imagined what they wanted the world to be after ww2. As long as there are politics and the envied power to rule, there will always be war.
Die Frau von Göbbels hatte vor dem Selbstmord und Mord ihrer Kinder einen Brief hinterlassen in dem Unter Anderem stand in der Welt die jetzt kommen würde können und wollten sie nicht Weiterleben Sie wussten also ziemlich genau was kommen würde.
Fom what I've read, the German people themselves were starving as food was directed to the military. So it's not surprising they were into looting when they could. This was an interesting revelation in this movie.
My grandfather was in Europe from soon after D-Day onwards and remained in Germany as part of the occupational forces. We still have the fine porcelain figurines and jewelry etc. that were traded by the Germans for basic things like coffee. He later was a part of the Berlin Airlift, which rescued 10’s of thousands from starvation by the Soviets.
@Олег Северов I think I understand what you are saying. Yes, Soviet POWs were treated absolutely horribly and criminally by the Germans. Civilians were also brutally treated and killed by occupying German forces.
@Олег Северов between 300,000 and 1.3 million German POWs died in captivity in the USSR , depending on which side you ask. Starvation might not have killed all of them but I’m sure it was a major factor.
@Олег Северов I'm pretty sure the world is sort-of fine with how your country treated the German POWs, it's how you treated Poles in 1939, Polish officers in 1940 and Polish resistance fighters in 1945 and after that is a bigger problem. And yeah, I know, you're going to say something along the lines that it was justified, because Poland was bad, because when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia Poland took back a city from Czechs that had been stolen 20 years earlier.
@@binkelderg7409 I don't agree. War crimes are apparent. They were remarkably so in the aftermath of world war two. The Holocaust stands out, it was deliberate, planned, financed, manned, and executed. To say "it was just war" in that particular case is nonsense. It was state policy. It flew in the face of Enlightenment western history. And don't play the equivalence card with me. Yes, wrong is wrong, committed by the Axis or Allies. At what point do we actually stand back and say so?
@@sala7972 Nah, winning sides commit war crimes too. Like when russians got into Berlin and many soldiers r@p#d women there. Despite them "winning" the war, that's still a crime and they have been called out for it.
@@TheAccursedEntity that's exactly what I meant. Winners write history, not the loosers. And that's why there wasn't a "Nuremberg trial" against Soviets or allies. You can do all shit stuff just like nazis did, but if you win you are not the "bad guy" so everything will be forgotten or more simply will not be talked about. Sorry for my English, I hope that this time I explained what I wanted to say.
My husband’s Oma was a child living in Bavaria during the war. Her mother temporarily housed a Jewish family who was hoping to get to Switzerland, passing them off as her cousins. Her father was drafted into the German military and sent to a labor camp near Russia when he refused to comply with the Nazi salute. Her mother was pregnant at the time. Eventually her father escaped with several other men and walked back to Germany. When he came home, he had a six year old son he’d never met.
Really? Ever heard of the song Yankee Doodle? That was decades before the American Revolution. British soldiers mocked American colonials who fought during the French Indian Wars by calling them Yankees. But it was adopted by the Americans and turned it as a term of pride. Since then, Americans have always called themselves as such for some 260 years; a Yankee or Yank for short.
Isn’t there a famous WW1 song which has a chorus of ‘Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there, that the yanks are coming……’. Wasn’t that written by an American ?
My Grandpa was a pow in a German camp separate from the war. I miss him, he survived went in the army 150lbs at 16, lied to get in,when his camp was liberated he was 98lbs
jay- my mom knew a lad who went to w.w.1 aged 14, and he did not care iff he suffered as he carryed a real guilty concious off putting a live cat in a oven when he was younger and was haunted by his cruelty off the cat bakeing too death for the rest off his life.''
3:03 you can tell that the man, who is possibly the soldier’s father, never expected to see him alive again. Their reunion is a sweet moment in time but still sad at the trauma they both endured. No doubt that they were not same people there as they were before the war.
Restoring these images and coloring them gives them a more human and real side! All these people on these images would be surprised to see each other so clearly!
@@Topvidi yet nowhere near as many as the axis. 2 wrongs dont make a right, but lets not pretend like the crimes comitted by both sides were anywhere near equal when one side started a war of literal extermination and had systematic policies of genocide
Although the clarity is great overall, you can see how heavily processed/filtered this is by looking at the US flag at 4:38. The stars look like circles.
The visuals are just stunning, life jumps at you... but I think 'someone' forgot to enhance and colorize the narration!!! That's okay, I'll do it dammit.
Qué lástima...pone los pelos de punta..y sí..la realidad supera a la ficción😢al mismo tiempo me gusta verlo y saber qué pasó..la mirada de la gente que ya no está..precioso video⭐
@@trentonking764I hope this is some weird kind of humour, because otherwise holy shit... You can literally see the same tank in the same place from closer at 0:09...
@@sinekonata During World War II, inflatable dummy tanks were used as a part of military deception tactics by both the Allies and the Axis powers. These decoys were designed to mislead the enemy about the location and number of real tanks, thus creating strategic advantages. The use of these dummy tanks was a part of a larger deception plan that aimed to misdirect enemy forces and intelligence One of the most notable users of inflatable dummy tanks was the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army. This unit was an elite force specializing in tactical deception. The Ghost Army used hundreds of inflatable tanks, cannons, trucks, and even airplanes to create dummy formations that looked like real units from the air. These inflatable decoys were not simply giant balloons, but consisted of a skeleton of inflatable tubes covered with rubberized canvas, which ensured that a single piece of shrapnel could not instantly deflate the entire dummy. The dummy tanks were used in several operations, including Operation Fortitude prior to the landings at the Normandy Beaches. During this operation, the decoys were used to confuse German intelligence by making it seem that the Allies had more tanks than they actually did, and to hide and downplay the importance of the location of their real tanks. This was done to make it seem that the invasion would occur at the Pas-de-Calais rather than at Normandy. In addition to the inflatable tanks, the Ghost Army also used sonic deception, recording sounds of various units onto a series of sound-effects records, each up to 30 minutes long. The sounds were recorded on state-of-the-art equipment and then played back with powerful amplifiers and speakers that could be heard 15 miles (24 km) away. In the Pacific Theater, the Japanese made use of dummy tanks, crafting them out of wood and available materials, even sculpting one out of Iwo Jima’s volcanic sands. The use of these dummy tanks and other forms of deception played a crucial role in the success of several military operations during World War II. Today, the use of dummy tanks and other decoys continues to be a part of military strategy and tactics.
Thank you so much for this. Was it Lowell Thomas narrating...? SO very moving to see prisoners set free. Those who were combatants And those civilians imprisoned by fascism...French, Dutch, German...no matter. They ALL seemed to exhibit, and wear on their faces, joyous expressions of Liberation.
War didn't arrive in Germany in 1945 ... the bombing raids started far, far earlier. The western allies entered Germany in 1944. This title is simply wrong.
@@ChuckPalomo 1940s war footage *gore and mangled bodies* 1940s Propoganda film *This secret police agent was kindly taken to jail and got a heavy sentence and nothing else happened*
que imagens perfeitas!. antigamente eram reporteres de verdade, hoje é só noticia que não tem valor! reporteres corajosos que iam a traz de noicias e estavam no meio de tudo. hoje só crian noticias
My granny was a slave worker in Germany. She was only 16. She worked as a maid. I remember when she saw a paricular kind of a brush, with a long hand and a rolling brush to clean the carpets, she said she used it in Germany for cleaning. It was the first time she mentioned she had been there. At the age of about 80 she has got the compensation for her labour in euro. When I watch this I think of my young and beautiful granny freed on those days. Maybe I will see her in one of such footages....
My parents grew up in England during WWII and were evacuated to the country. I cannot imagine the fear that continental Europe endured during that time. It’s so sad that so many were injured and killed and lost loved ones.
Thank you for cooperating with Hitler before and after 1939, for delivering him fuel, resources, manufacturing sites in russia where he was able to produce and test tanks, planes used then during ww2. Thank you for ribbentrop molotov division of europe.
Just Imagine the joy, happiness and relief the Soviet prisoners' must have felt when they saw the American liberators come to their rescue at 2:15 sadly a few months later they would become enemies rather than stay allies. Sad sad world so much suffering and pain.
Mass rape of both women and children by the Communists and their Red Army Soldiers after the invasion of Berlin is one of the most horrific events of the War. Don't think for one-second people on only ONE SIDE suffered from such a stupid war. No more Brother Wars! So sad that so many innocent people had to die on BOTH sides... :'( I'm very fortunate my grandfather survived the war. By some miracle, he was switched out from the unit he had trained with back stateside and was reassigned to a different unit right at the very last minute due to some "administration error". I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't been reassigned during the war. I pray we never have another war like WW2...
Soviet soldiers learned to mass rape from the evil Germans who mass raped women in Russia, France and Poland. Also Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed small children- by the millions so stop playing the victim card.
Four years earlier the Germans would have been shooting such footage. Similar pictures of stunned civilians looking at at well-equipped troops rolling thru the streets, flags being hoisted, same type of narration underscored by the same type of soundtrack. The American director took Goebbel's lessons to heart.
"Kiedy na naszej ziemi nie stało ani jednego żywego niemca, padł rozkaz ostatni.... NA BERLIN! Rozbić wroga na jego własnej ziemi po to by my mogli naszą ojczyzne odbudować..." chwała 1 i 2 armii Ludowego wojska Polskiego!!!!
Poland? They knew the Bolsheviks were coming and they listened to Britain instead and ended up getting spit roasted by Germany and Russia….Poles need less land, they are not very productive with their huge country
Estados unidos llego al ultimo ya solo para aclamarse como el vencedor sobre alemania y casi no se menciona a la union sovietica que fue la que mas participo.
This is such a telling video, one can really feel the dread and despair - even if Germans now got to experience what their armed forces and their deranged dictator had forced down the throat of the rest of Europe.
You should watch the German “invasion” of Austria. Along with many other countries that openly voted to join the reich and threw a parade when they joined.
@@alwaysbanned4812 Dictators are always able to drum up a crowd to show them off at the right place and time, just like the carefully screened, fanatic sheep who were hired to listen and clap their hands live to Goebbels' Sportpalast speech five years later. "Wollen Sie den totalen Krieg?" - "JA, JA, JA! Heil!" etc.
But don't forget what "their armed forces" consisted of mainly - normsl men who had the choice to go to war for a small chance for survival or refusing to go snd getting killed on the spot. Y'all love to pretend the average German soldier was Hitler 2.0; of course not!
![[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1946) A Defeated People: Life in Germany after WWII.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xClw4PaqZ3c/mqdefault.jpg)
These >5 minutes of footage cover so many obscure aspects of life during the war that literally nobody stops to think about anymore. It's a miracle stuff like this even survived the conflict and found its way onto the internet decades later
I do hope we can learn this must never happen again the young people must be shown the films of horror so they will understand what people can do to each other pray for wisdom an world peace
6миллионов сожженных евреев хотели жить .но их превратили в пепел концлагерей .
@@ewencameron1548 Yep, that's the pontificating sentiment expressed after every major conflict. I'm pretty sure the "young people" recognize what war is. Ppl will always pursue conflict if they think they will win, can justify it & if the benefits outweigh the risk. No amount of film watching affects that reality.
The clarity of this footage is truly stunning!
Thanks to being not digital!
@@kstreet7438 The only reason it is so clear is because it was heavily postprocessed with AI algos. You know, digitally.
@@WatchTMC No that's definitely not all of it. Just read and you'll see it's due in part of being physical.
"Old movies were shot on either 35mm or 70mm film reel. These reels were analogue. Analogue gives you the ability to go back to it and ‘transfer’ it to what ever technology is available at the time. To put this in to perspective, a 35mm reel can render almost 20 million organic pixels which is the equivalent to just over 8K."
@@kstreet7438 in theory. Have you seen how large a 70mm camera is? This was frontline war reporting. 35mm or less.
Then that’s the theoretical limit. The practical limit is by the scanner used to digitise the footage. This is probably old stock, which means it’s much lower in quality. Not to mention deterioration on 80 year old film.
The crisp quality you see here is achieved by denoising and resharpening by an image AI. Probably Topaz labs or something similar.
It was remastered.. with 21st century filming technology.
Thank you. I'm just teaching WWII to my class and this footage will be very worthwhile.
Do you brainwash them critical race theory too?
@@peadarmurray7994 Please, be more specific, sir. What race theory are you talking about? Anyway, history is everything but brainwashing.
Ovviamente ricordando che questi son video di propaganda.
@@francesco5491
Critical race theory being thought in US and UK schools, think it's getting banned now in the UK
gracias Frencesco.
The quality of the restored images is so much impressive.
Wow, that shot at 3:57 of the Rhine and the blown bridges is so beautiful. Well done. Amazing video.
the cameraman is worked hard on this
It’s taken from the enormous hill top fortress across the Rhine at Koblenz. The German army that did the 1940 surprise breakthrough over the Meuse from the Ardennes went out along the sides of that Mosel river seen with all those bombed bridges. I did the scenic Mosel boat trip recently, the bridges have obviously modern construction patch repair spans. There are similar photos from 1918/9 with French Rhineland occupation soldiers. Remagen is just downstream a bit.
@@Aeg0r I did it on a cable car from the main Koblenz side of the Rhine up to the famous fortress on the east side. There is a long steep footpath. The Rhine-Mosel junction on the left is called the ‘German Corner’. The Rhine flows left to right just out of shot.
It was really touching to see those French welcoming their fathers, sons, brothers and husbands home.
I can only imagine how relieved and happy they would be, imagine them going home finally to seat down together for a family meal...all those little details of human lives that these footages and any history books could never tell.
I actually shed a tear when that elderly man was crying to see his loved one again.
They WERE home, hepling Nazis to round up Jews
нет, было бы мило если бы этот француз здох на нашей гостеприимной земле
Французы легли под немцев .что мужчины что женщины .ради чашки кофе .
Yes, the footage of the woman with a look of desperation on her face scanning the people getting off the train. I hope she was reunited with whoever it was she was searching for.
I like the way people react to camera at certain points of this video.
You can feel the absolute simplicity and weirdness in their eyes.
Simplicity and weirdness?
Cause the camera looks goofy
As someone already asked - simplicity and weirdness..?
More WWII videos please.
This is great.
but the title...
"1945 War arrives in Germany"
Really? First RAF bombings began in 1940.
The war just arrived more and more during the following 5 years.
@@neinnein9306
I think they ment the actual invasion by that
@@shintokatana17 Ok, but imagine just 1000 bomber attack on Cologne in '42 or Hamburg firestorm in '43. I would describe these examples as war also.
@@neinnein9306 Nice pfp from JoJo Rabbit
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My father was seconded to the Americans towards the end of the war and took part in a search of Heidelburg University and he brought home a souvenir in the shape of one of those pencil sharpeners that were screwed to the table and you turned a handle. I've still got it and it's the best sharpener ever.
@@davemathews7890 I would like to correct that statement as "THEY THOUGHT they produced better quality goods and were better organized than the Allies". In reality much of what the Germans produced, though while cutting edge in some instances, was very inefficient.....too many different variations and models and not enough of any single one. Take their tanks...the allies may have feared the Tigers and Panthers but they were over engineered, had many faults, were prune to failures at a much higher rate than those of the allies and ended up being a waste of resources. Most of the allied tanks knocked out were by Stugs which were very low tech. The USA, Russia and Britain, each individually, out produced the Germans because they were the ones who were more efficient. That the German armed forces fought for as long as they did is a testament to their individual soldiers than the nation as a whole. They had the best uniforms though. But that doesn't win wars.
@@ravilcn Agreed, the reality was much different from the perception. I was basing my observation on Victor Klemperer's WWII Dresden diaries. After the defeat of France, the locals he encountered in Dresden thought England would next be defeated in a matter of weeks because Germany was better led, more rationally organized and produced better goods. They were somewhat less optimistic after Barbarossa was launched, but still seemed to have faith in German economics, political leadership and especially overwhelming military might. As it turns out, the predictions that either England or the USSR would be defeated were utterly incorrect. You can blame this misplaced optimism largely on Goebbels and Speer, both of whom juggled production figures to create the illusion of an armaments miracle.
Hitler never bought *Made in China* 😂😁😂
@@Perririri Most of maritime China was occupied at this time and its inhabitants were being slaughtered by the Japanese. Since China was also allied with the British and Americans, I doubt it would have exported too much to Germany.
Thankyou sir 🥺✡️
It's surreal to see general Omar Bradley, he's an actual important historical figure and there he is shaking hands with troops plain as day.
Well, Patton was too busy slapping soldiers with PTSD. Somebody else had to the hand-shaking.
@@mad_max21 He was a bastard but a damn good one glad he was on the Allies otherwise I fear what may have been.
I know nothing about the geezer....
What did he do then??
@@mad_max21
My father's best friend was in Patton's tank corp. He would have followed the man to storm hell.
Patton was a character but he loved his men and they loved him. He pushed them as hard as he pushed himself...it's called leadership, not perfection. I'll take that over General Miley any day.
Very different from ‘Dugout Doug’ MacArthur in the west pacific.
Seeing the joy on those prisoners faces is something to behold.
Those prisoners with the tattooed arms were Jews. Not a word about them is mentioned.
@@eyesonyou99 yeah most people don’t really like them especially back then
@@eyesonyou99 Oh dear not mentioning God's chosen people a crime indeed. Long live Palestine!
@@alfredfanshaw4786 Not mentioning the Jewish people when talking about the liberation of camps and about tattooed prisoners is noteworthy because Jews were singled out by the nazis and because they were specifically targeted by the Holocaust. It says a lot about the way Nazi crimes were seen during the war and for a couple decades afterwards. You could say it's similar to how the Roma are relatively absent from this kind of conversation even today, despite the fact that they were subjected to the same degree of extreme persecution as the Jews and casualty ratios, though debatable, seem to be comparable. Long live Palestine, but that's a separate matter
@@hrotha not talking about how the Russians raped every woman on site on their road to berlin no matter their age and shot the Brothers, Fathers and Husbands as they tried to stop them.
Holy shit that feels so much more "real" than unedited WW2 footage.
What's very important for this realistic feeling is the frame rate. The frame rate here has been "corrected". In the original footage it was probably all very "speedy".
What?? It looks completely unnatural. You know, exactly like something made by an AI would look like. It's becoming a nuisance when all of this content being recommended is AI made abominations, and not the original source material. You just can't magically make 24 fps into 60 fps. You just can't magically make lower resolution into 4k (unless you re-scan the original film). It's all just deception that disregards the original medium, and instead gives you a "remastered" version that looks like a fever dream yet doesn't add anything.
@@goldbullet50 Thankfully is not done "magically"... before writting that wall of crap you should have searched how it works instead. LMAO
@@goldbullet50 it looks better. Original still exists if you want to watch that. Even color is added to originals.
It's still American propaganda.
I just binged all your videos last night. My day was instantly better when I saw you uploaded an hour ago!!
This is priceless. Thank you!
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Some of what these people endured we who were born just after that War can never understand. My father was in a tank battalion, for nearly 4 years. Along with his own battalion and British troops helped liberate a POW camp. He didn’t talk about it too much but from time to time he’d tell me and my brother some of what was seen or done.
Our military nowadays leave for 6 or 12 months and return home - and for the most part do not see battles or even skirmishes. But it’s tough no matter where you are or what you do.
My Dad’s generation was drafted and didn’t come home until the war was declared over. 4 years. Never knowing one day to the next if a bullet or a bomb would find you. Then seeing hundreds of dozens of half starved, dirty, some so sick they could barely move in a camp and you’re just 21. We cannot imagine.
No wonder most of our military came home from Afghanistan or Iraq so scarred. War is hell.
And WWII soldiers were never treated for PTSD.Given a month's leave and then put back into society
@@daniellinehan63 Absolutely. Just act like you never saw any of it. I do know my Dad had bad dreams and it took him a while to get back to sleep.
Disse tudo em poucas palavras meu amigo!
@@celsodias1407 Wow, I’m sorry I don’t understand your language……
Американские солдаты не знают что такое война
One of my uncles was in the German Medical Corps. They operated in a war torn city occupied by a US Division. They were helping wounded civilians and solders on both sides and American Medical units worked alongside my Uncle.
The German medics were part of the biggest nazi group in Germany. I think people forget that
The AI had a hard time with this one.
Oh you know it. Its a great colorization but it must have wet the bed a few times
Kinda reminded me how old cold war era TV's displayed the picture in the past
Could you recommend AI software for old 16mm footage?
😆
Props to them for keeping the original aspect ratio.
As an eleven year long citizen of Heidelberg, this was incredibly interesting to watch, since I know every corner of it. It was eerily familiar, but distant in the same time, with the American soldiers strolling through the famous city.
So has it changed much? (the city)🙂
I know the feeling. Studied and worked there for 3 years. Beautiful old town with its lovely castle on the hill. Very strange to see it with occupation troops at the end of WW2.
Made me proud to see my American brothers and allies liberating and helping innocent people and weeding out them bad from the good. The allies and the axis were the perfect distinction of “Good” and “Evil”.
@@smexy5111 except soviets, soviets were monsters
@@smexy5111 🎯
Still amazing to think that many people who were around ww2, toddler, teens AND to adults who were 18- 22, are still alive to this day. I cannot imagine the trials and tribulations of all the nations affected by ww2. It's sad to see the world has ended up now vs what the people imagined what they wanted the world to be after ww2. As long as there are politics and the envied power to rule, there will always be war.
Точнее пока существует США, на нашей планете существует военная угроза.
@@НачертательнаяГеометрия-т1щ 😂
Maybe we can avoid a third WW when any corrupt politician knows that there will be nobody to bribe when he opens his bunker ?
Die Frau von Göbbels hatte vor dem Selbstmord und Mord ihrer Kinder einen Brief hinterlassen in dem Unter Anderem stand in der Welt die jetzt kommen würde können und wollten sie nicht Weiterleben
Sie wussten also ziemlich genau was kommen würde.
2:43 This hurts. My grandfather's mother and sister never did return from their deportation.
😢 hugs to you 😢
Fom what I've read, the German people themselves were starving as food was directed to the military. So it's not surprising they were into looting when they could. This was an interesting revelation in this movie.
My grandfather was in Europe from soon after D-Day onwards and remained in Germany as part of the occupational forces. We still have the fine porcelain figurines and jewelry etc. that were traded by the Germans for basic things like coffee. He later was a part of the Berlin Airlift, which rescued 10’s of thousands from starvation by the Soviets.
@Олег Северов I think I understand what you are saying. Yes, Soviet POWs were treated absolutely horribly and criminally by the Germans. Civilians were also brutally treated and killed by occupying German forces.
@Олег Северов between 300,000 and 1.3 million German POWs died in captivity in the USSR , depending on which side you ask. Starvation might not have killed all of them but I’m sure it was a major factor.
@Олег Северов stop your horrible propaganda
@Олег Северов I'm pretty sure the world is sort-of fine with how your country treated the German POWs, it's how you treated Poles in 1939, Polish officers in 1940 and Polish resistance fighters in 1945 and after that is a bigger problem. And yeah, I know, you're going to say something along the lines that it was justified, because Poland was bad, because when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia Poland took back a city from Czechs that had been stolen 20 years earlier.
1:57 documenting war crime is so important, it is crucial in terms of history, education, proper context, etc.
it was against the human rights , thats all , but it has nothing to do with war crime.
You have committed war crimes only if you are the one that has lost.
@@binkelderg7409 I don't agree. War crimes are apparent. They were remarkably so in the aftermath of world war two. The Holocaust stands out, it was deliberate, planned, financed, manned, and executed. To say "it was just war" in that particular case is nonsense. It was state policy. It flew in the face of Enlightenment western history. And don't play the equivalence card with me. Yes, wrong is wrong, committed by the Axis or Allies. At what point do we actually stand back and say so?
@@sala7972 Nah, winning sides commit war crimes too. Like when russians got into Berlin and many soldiers r@p#d women there. Despite them "winning" the war, that's still a crime and they have been called out for it.
@@TheAccursedEntity that's exactly what I meant. Winners write history, not the loosers. And that's why there wasn't a "Nuremberg trial" against Soviets or allies. You can do all shit stuff just like nazis did, but if you win you are not the "bad guy" so everything will be forgotten or more simply will not be talked about. Sorry for my English, I hope that this time I explained what I wanted to say.
This is phenomenal. Really captures it all so graphically
History lessons from the past shouldn't ever fade away.. ever!
Thanks for sharing🤔
Great job cleaning up old newsreels. They look fantastic and more realistic!
I just discovered your page and am completely blown away by these videos.
My husband’s Oma was a child living in Bavaria during the war. Her mother temporarily housed a Jewish family who was hoping to get to Switzerland, passing them off as her cousins. Her father was drafted into the German military and sent to a labor camp near Russia when he refused to comply with the Nazi salute. Her mother was pregnant at the time. Eventually her father escaped with several other men and walked back to Germany. When he came home, he had a six year old son he’d never met.
Interesting. I've never heard Americans referring to themselves as "Yanks" before.
Really? Ever heard of the song Yankee Doodle? That was decades before the American Revolution. British soldiers mocked American colonials who fought during the French Indian Wars by calling them Yankees. But it was adopted by the Americans and turned it as a term of pride. Since then, Americans have always called themselves as such for some 260 years; a Yankee or Yank for short.
@@BagoPorkRinds Yankee but not yank.
@@williamjordan5554 Are you so sure? You may want to brush up on American history.
Isn’t there a famous WW1 song which has a chorus of ‘Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there, that the yanks are coming……’. Wasn’t that written by an American ?
@@apb3440 Yes, the songwriter was George M. Cohan.
I haven’t seen any of this footage! This is AWESOME!!!
Incredible footage, thanks for sharing.
To the person who restored these, thank you.
Absolutely amazing its so clean and clear you would think it's the latest war film
Thanks for video. Clarity is amazing.
My Grandpa was a pow in a German camp separate from the war. I miss him, he survived went in the army 150lbs at 16, lied to get in,when his camp was liberated he was 98lbs
jay- my mom knew a lad who went to w.w.1 aged 14, and he did not care iff he suffered as he carryed a real guilty concious off putting a live cat in a oven when he was younger and was haunted by his cruelty off the cat bakeing too death for the rest off his life.''
Horrible what the Germans did to POWs and civilians. Many thoughts to you and your grandpa.
3:03 you can tell that the man, who is possibly the soldier’s father, never expected to see him alive again. Their reunion is a sweet moment in time but still sad at the trauma they both endured. No doubt that they were not same people there as they were before the war.
Restoring these images and coloring them gives them a more human and real side! All these people on these images would be surprised to see each other so clearly!
Good job on restoring these war footages ❤️
3:00 This dad never expected to see his son alive again.
Wow that was great footage
Keep em coming
History deserves not to be forgotten
history deserves to be true
allies did many war crimes as well
We learned jack shit sadly
@@Topvidi of course they did ,they had to stop the monsters.
@@Topvidi yet nowhere near as many as the axis. 2 wrongs dont make a right, but lets not pretend like the crimes comitted by both sides were anywhere near equal when one side started a war of literal extermination and had systematic policies of genocide
@@ioannisperiptero9626 they replaced them
3:40 John D. Rockefeller. Crazy find in this clip.
Don’t forget Warburg, Lehman & Schiff
0:12 Poor man. That's a hundred thousand yard stare.
Although the clarity is great overall, you can see how heavily processed/filtered this is by looking at the US flag at 4:38. The stars look like circles.
A video with G. Bradley and G. Patton and a giant American Flag! Doesn't get more American than that! Amazing video keep up the great work 💪✌
Your work is amazing i love this videos
This reminds me of the video of the cows leaving the barn at the start of spring. Happy creatures.
Humans did this.
Seeing it in color really does give you a much more raw experience of what it was like in those last chaotic days for Germany.
It’s there in film for all to see. No One can deny it!
Theres a bunch to see…be specific…
These are amazing thank you so much
The visuals are just stunning, life jumps at you... but I think 'someone' forgot to enhance and colorize the narration!!! That's okay, I'll do it dammit.
The color and clarity added to this video makes me feel like Im actually there!
Qué lástima...pone los pelos de punta..y sí..la realidad supera a la ficción😢al mismo tiempo me gusta verlo y saber qué pasó..la mirada de la gente que ya no está..precioso video⭐
it's crazy the 60fps feels like it was recorded yesterday.
1:45 Product Placement!
0:13 Ok that cartoon tank is definitely a sign that you pushed the AI settings a bit far.
it's a blow up tank.. lol you know noting about ww2
@@trentonking764I hope this is some weird kind of humour, because otherwise holy shit...
You can literally see the same tank in the same place from closer at 0:09...
@@sinekonata During World War II, inflatable dummy tanks were used as a part of military deception tactics by both the Allies and the Axis powers. These decoys were designed to mislead the enemy about the location and number of real tanks, thus creating strategic advantages. The use of these dummy tanks was a part of a larger deception plan that aimed to misdirect enemy forces and intelligence
One of the most notable users of inflatable dummy tanks was the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army. This unit was an elite force specializing in tactical deception. The Ghost Army used hundreds of inflatable tanks, cannons, trucks, and even airplanes to create dummy formations that looked like real units from the air. These inflatable decoys were not simply giant balloons, but consisted of a skeleton of inflatable tubes covered with rubberized canvas, which ensured that a single piece of shrapnel could not instantly deflate the entire dummy.
The dummy tanks were used in several operations, including Operation Fortitude prior to the landings at the Normandy Beaches. During this operation, the decoys were used to confuse German intelligence by making it seem that the Allies had more tanks than they actually did, and to hide and downplay the importance of the location of their real tanks. This was done to make it seem that the invasion would occur at the Pas-de-Calais rather than at Normandy.
In addition to the inflatable tanks, the Ghost Army also used sonic deception, recording sounds of various units onto a series of sound-effects records, each up to 30 minutes long. The sounds were recorded on state-of-the-art equipment and then played back with powerful amplifiers and speakers that could be heard 15 miles (24 km) away.
In the Pacific Theater, the Japanese made use of dummy tanks, crafting them out of wood and available materials, even sculpting one out of Iwo Jima’s volcanic sands.
The use of these dummy tanks and other forms of deception played a crucial role in the success of several military operations during World War II. Today, the use of dummy tanks and other decoys continues to be a part of military strategy and tactics.
Thank you so much for this. Was it Lowell Thomas narrating...? SO very moving to see prisoners set free. Those who were combatants And those civilians imprisoned by fascism...French, Dutch, German...no matter. They ALL seemed to exhibit, and wear on their faces, joyous expressions of Liberation.
This is a very fine, digitally enhanced film ~ so nice!
Amazing and terrifying at the same
Wow.. that was amazing restoration.
2:20 didn't know Edward Norton fought in WW II
Is the voice added later? Sounds good very modern
War didn't arrive in Germany in 1945 ... the bombing raids started far, far earlier. The western allies entered Germany in 1944. This title is simply wrong.
2:11 the realization that you escaped a almost certain and gruesome death. Relieving and chilling at the same time, fuck.
The more things change the more they remain the same
When did you film this?
War arrives in Germany?? Shouldn't it be something more like "Defeat arrives in Germany"?
They weren’t defeated yet so no
@@NoonyJW Under that logic, they were closer to defeat than to the "arrival" of war
@@Cristinact yeah, they probably suffered the least out of anyone else. but those concentration camps tho... ugh
Innocent Germany, such a peaceful society. Same on you America. Why did you bring your dirty war to that peaceful land?
@@slawomirlech950 yes amerikans always bring war to peaceful land
This has got to be the clearest, crystal clear footage from World War II I have seen until till this point
Music from the 40s never fails to creep me out
"He's quickly hassled off to jail" uhhhhh sure "jail" lol
lol I was just about to write that. What a nice euphemism for firing squad.
@@ChuckPalomo 1940s war footage *gore and mangled bodies* 1940s Propoganda film *This secret police agent was kindly taken to jail and got a heavy sentence and nothing else happened*
they actually brought him to a jail....where they drowned him in a bucket full of pee.... but he was brought to jail so....
@@heuckepeuckeborserian4798 oh thank God! I thought he was shot in the back ally of the Police station
@@thatsnodildo1974 what? he was just a Nazi...
que imagens perfeitas!. antigamente eram reporteres de verdade, hoje é só noticia que não tem valor! reporteres corajosos que iam a traz de noicias e estavam no meio de tudo. hoje só crian noticias
My granny was a slave worker in Germany. She was only 16. She worked as a maid. I remember when she saw a paricular kind of a brush, with a long hand and a rolling brush to clean the carpets, she said she used it in Germany for cleaning. It was the first time she mentioned she had been there. At the age of about 80 she has got the compensation for her labour in euro. When I watch this I think of my young and beautiful granny freed on those days. Maybe I will see her in one of such footages....
The woman at 2:54 is strikingly beautiful.
My parents grew up in England during WWII and were evacuated to the country. I cannot imagine the fear that continental Europe endured during that time. It’s so sad that so many were injured and killed and lost loved ones.
3:02 I cried.
wow same exact moment also
Did you cried in the same way when you saw a murdered polish cilvilians by german troops ?
I love history & thank you for your work
Спасибо Красной армии ,за освобождение народов европы от кровавого режима Гитлера.
Спасибо красным ТЕРРОРИСТАМ
Thank you for cooperating with Hitler before and after 1939, for delivering him fuel, resources, manufacturing sites in russia where he was able to produce and test tanks, planes used then during ww2. Thank you for ribbentrop molotov division of europe.
@@nurik-fd3py это ты про свою маму с дедушкой так отзываешься?
@@nurik-fd3pyжелудь будете?
@@mariuszcieslak3667желудь будете?
Just Imagine the joy, happiness and relief the Soviet prisoners' must have felt when they saw the American liberators come to their rescue at 2:15 sadly a few months later they would become enemies rather than stay allies. Sad sad world so much suffering and pain.
When those Soviet prisoners were returned to the Soviet Union, they were sent to Siberian prison camps. Find out for yourself as to why.
Poor soldiers, poor people. War is hell! There are even more things that are not expainable in a video. Death, murder......anarchy.
wow this is amazing!
It was not that long time ago.
I subscribed to you
Mass rape of both women and children by the Communists and their Red Army Soldiers after the invasion of Berlin is one of the most horrific events of the War. Don't think for one-second people on only ONE SIDE suffered from such a stupid war. No more Brother Wars! So sad that so many innocent people had to die on BOTH sides... :'( I'm very fortunate my grandfather survived the war. By some miracle, he was switched out from the unit he had trained with back stateside and was reassigned to a different unit right at the very last minute due to some "administration error". I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't been reassigned during the war. I pray we never have another war like WW2...
@@ohio Europa: the last battle. Watch it.
@@ohio And what did the Russians do in the Baltics, Poland, Finland and Ukraine? Some of these long before 1939.
@@6876I that’s a propaganda film that’s been debunked
@@litaf918 whataboutism. The actions of the Russians doesn’t justify germanys genocide of Jewish people
Soviet soldiers learned to mass rape from the evil Germans who mass raped women in Russia, France and Poland. Also Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed small children- by the millions so stop playing the victim card.
WHICH PROGRAM WAS USED TO UPSCAL THIS MOVIE?
Four years earlier the Germans would have been shooting such footage. Similar pictures of stunned civilians looking at at well-equipped troops rolling thru the streets, flags being hoisted, same type of narration underscored by the same type of soundtrack.
The American director took Goebbel's lessons to heart.
your ent is very wise Shelby
Wow ! This needs to elevate in the YT algorithm NOW !!
And people think we're in bad times now, they have no idea... No idea....
These teens faced down PURE EVIL.
And won.
keep the black and white as it is the sharpness looks great by itself!
"Kiedy na naszej ziemi nie stało ani jednego żywego niemca, padł rozkaz ostatni.... NA BERLIN! Rozbić wroga na jego własnej ziemi po to by my mogli naszą ojczyzne odbudować..." chwała 1 i 2 armii Ludowego wojska Polskiego!!!!
Ok, und?
Brawooooo :)
@@jugg126 Problem ?
@@calmondey4214 Ne. hast du eins?
Poland? They knew the Bolsheviks were coming and they listened to Britain instead and ended up getting spit roasted by Germany and Russia….Poles need less land, they are not very productive with their huge country
Amazing. Modern Turnerization!
Estados unidos llego al ultimo ya solo para aclamarse como el vencedor sobre alemania y casi no se menciona a la union sovietica que fue la que mas participo.
Soviet victory is tarnished 1 they helped Nazis in 1940,carved up Poland and took the Baltic states 2 enslaved Eastern Europe for45 years
Pretty good AI! Colors ara _a little bit_ like real ones. :-)
This is such a telling video, one can really feel the dread and despair - even if Germans now got to experience what their armed forces and their deranged dictator had forced down the throat of the rest of Europe.
What goes around comes around.
@@elfulano5884 Reaping the whirlwind.
You should watch the German “invasion” of Austria. Along with many other countries that openly voted to join the reich and threw a parade when they joined.
@@alwaysbanned4812 Dictators are always able to drum up a crowd to show them off at the right place and time, just like the carefully screened, fanatic sheep who were hired to listen and clap their hands live to Goebbels' Sportpalast speech five years later. "Wollen Sie den totalen Krieg?" - "JA, JA, JA! Heil!" etc.
But don't forget what "their armed forces" consisted of mainly - normsl men who had the choice to go to war for a small chance for survival or refusing to go snd getting killed on the spot. Y'all love to pretend the average German soldier was Hitler 2.0; of course not!
Here in Brazil, I liked this video.
Dammn.
The face of german peoples were like nothing happened in this world.
Germans- We didn't know cause we lack noses and eyes.
Automatic colorization ?
"Rockefeller"..... imagine my shock...
He was a Nazi collaborator. Here is the more complete picture: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust
Warburg, Lehman, Schiff etc. you can’t make this up 😂
@@geenr9766 all major car manufacturers too. damn. and Nestle somehow doesn't surprise me
is this free to use in a monetized TH-cam video?
We must say no to war all over the world.
Mir bricht es das Herz, wenn ich daran denke für was die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft bluten musste.
3:36 oy vey...