German Newsweek No. 754- 16 March 1945
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- The German Newsweek (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) was the unified newsreel of Germany from 1940-1945. The concept of a weekly newsreel was much older, dating back to WWI, and in the 1930s, there were several different weekly newsreels in Germany. With the outbreak of WWII, these were unified and from June 1940 shown under the title of "The German Newsweek". It was one of the most important aspects of German propaganda.
Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as private TV ownership was extremly rare during WWII. Over 700 episodes were produced, and many of the historical WWII footage we nowadays have comes from the Wochenschau.
This is issue No. 754, the second to last Wochenschau issue, from March 16th, 1945. By that time, the Western Allies were just about to breakthrough German Lines on the Rhine in the West, and the Soviets were conducting offensives to capture German territories in the East, namely Lower Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia, before starting their final offensive towards Berlin one month later (On April 15th). Nevertheless, this Wochenschau tries to portray the war in a favorable way for Germany. It shows footage from strikes and civil unrest in the US (although this is old archive material, see pinned comment for explanation), German combat footage from the Western and Eastern Front, from Courland and from the Oder River, and succesfull German counteroffensives.
It also shows rather graphical footage of German civilian casulties, allegedly killed by the Red Army, and a visit of Propaganda Minister Goebbels to Lauban, and a speech, his last public speech ever held, in Görlitz. In addition, it shows a frontline visit of Hitler.
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Remarks:
This is a re-upload. I have uploaded this video before, but this is a much better-quality version, so I have deleted the original one and re-uploaded this version.
01:18 These scenes are actually from May 30th, 1937 (Memorial Day). They were filmed on the grounds of the Republic Steel factory in South Chicago. On that day, around 1000-2000 union members of the CIO (Committee of Industrial Organization) went on a demonstration. Around 120-300 Chicago Police officers clashed with them. It was later determined that the Police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 10 of them and wounding 90. The footage was taken by a Paramount News team. Initially Paramount wanted to suppress the showing of the footage, but it became public after the Senate Civil Liberties Committee requested the footage. This footage, at this point almost 8 years old, is a great example of how archive footage was used in the German Newsweek and presented as current events.
02:03 The Battle of Cannae on 2nd August 216 BC, was a battle of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage. Despite the Romans and their allies fielding more troops (86,400 vs 50,000), they suffered a terrible loss, loosing almost their entire army (around 70,000 killed and captured), while the Carthage only lost around 6,000 men. Cannae has since become a synonym for a decisive victory/ terrible loss.
02:24 The Röhr river is a small side river of the Ruhr.
02:28 Josef Grohé (1902-1987) was a German Nazi politician. He was the son of a farmer, and worked in an ironware shop. He joined the Nazi party in August 1921, and founded the local NSDAP party branch in Cologne in February 1922. During the French occupation of the Ruhr area, he took part in blowing up a train carrying coal for the French. In 1931, Grohe became Gauleiter of Cologne-Achen, a position he held until the end of the war. Despite calling on the people to fight against the Americans, Grohe left Cologne on March 6th, and on April 8th, declared his Gau dissolved and fled towards the Ore mountains on the Czech border, where he stayed until the end of the war. After the war, he went into hiding, but was arrested by the British in August 1946, and was sentenced to 4,5 years in prison by a German court in September 1950, but his time in captivity was counted towards that sentence, and he was released. He worked for a toy company afterwards. Grohe never renounced National Socialism and died in 1987.
02:30 The officer talking to Grohé is a Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant).
02:39 The Panzerfaust was a single use, recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher. Introduced in 1943, it was used by German troops and its allies on all fronts. It was easy to use, cheap to manufacture and very efficient against all types of tanks. However, it only had an effective range of 50 meters, making it very dangerous to use. Around 8,2 million were made during the war. Especially in 1944 and 1945, when the Germans lacked AT-guns and tanks, Panzerfaust were distributed to all kinds of units.
02:43 The Panzerschreck carried by the soldier has “Inge”, a female name, written on it. It was common for soldiers to name their weapons, tanks, guns etc. after their girlfriends/wives.
03:12 Despite being called “heavy AT-guns”, these are actually 7,5cm PaK 40, the standard AT-guns of the German Army during WWII.
03:17 While it is true that the Western Allies had high losses during the Invasion of Germany in March 1945, this never threatened the strategic overall balance, which was highly unfavorable for the Germans. The Germans lacked the men and material to prevent the collapse of their frontlines in March.
03:31 Andrey Vlasov (1901-1946) was a Soviet General and German collaborator. Joining the Red Army in 1919 to fight in the Russian civil war, he joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1930. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, he commanded the 4th Mechanized Corps. Fighting in various command positions, he was commander of the 2nd Shock Army, spearheading the Lyuban offensive. Initially successful and penetrating the German lines 70km deep, his forces were soon encircled in a German counteroffensive, and he was taken prisoner by the Germans in July 1942. During his captivity, he joined the Germans, and wrote various propaganda articles and appeared in newsreels and photos. He headed the “Russian Liberation Army” (ROA), which was little more than a propaganda unit, various Russian collaborationist forces where issued ROA-patches, but Vlasov actually never commanded anything. Only when the war situation turned bad for Germany, Vlasov was allowed to actually raise troops, and in September 1944, the Russian Liberation Army was founded. However, by February 1945, only one Division was formed, and the ROA only fought in one instance against the Red Army, on April 11th, 1945. The ROA marched to Prague and then switched sides on May 5th, 1945, and fought against Waffen-SS units near Prague. He was captured by the Red Army in May 1945, send to Moscow, tried and executed as traitor on August 1st, 1946.
03:54 Ernst-August Köstring (1876-1953) was a German General during WWII. He joined the German Army in 1895, fought in WWI and continued his service during the Weimar period. As a military attaché in the Soviet Union from 1937-1941, he was considered an expert for the Soviet Union, and in June 1943, he was made commander of the Turkestan Legion. In January 1944, he took the position of newly created “General of the Volunteer Units”. He became an American POW in May 1945, released in 1947 and died in November 1953.
04:02 The tanks driving past in this scene are captured Soviet T-34/76 tanks, which were used by the Russian Liberation Army.
04:23 This sign reads: “Watch out, shelling. Steel helmet on! 50 metres distance.”
04:24 Courland is a peninsula in western Latvia. From July 1944 to the end of the war, the Courland pocket was a frontline in which to German armies (16th and 18th) were cut off from the rest of the Army Group North during Operation Bagration and continued to fight there until the rest of the war. Despite strong Soviet attacks, the front largely remained intact until the German capitulation. By the time of this Newsreel, the fifth Soviet offensive has just ended (from 20th February to 11th March). The Soviets would attempt one more attack, on March 18th, which was stopped on March 31st.
04:26 This sign reads: “Enemy can watch this area”
04:51 The gun in this scene is a heavy 15cm sIG 33 infantry guns. It was the standard German heavy infantry gun during WWII, and also the heaviest gun ever classified as an infantry gun. Around 4,600 were built between 1936 and 1945. Due to its large caliber and heavy weight (1,800 kilo) it was generally very cumbersome to use, though it had great firepower.
05:57 Many German refugees escaped via the frozen Baltic Sea in early 1945.
06:14 The Marienburg is a 13th Century castle, built by Teutonic Order, in Western Prussia, nowadays Poland. From 1309 to 1454 it was the seat of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. During the final phase of WWII, the Marienburg was heavily fortified and garrisoned by 2500 German soldiers, who defended the castle until March 9th, 1945, against heavy Soviet attacks. Artillery shelling and the fighting itself destroyed around 60% of the castle. A fire in 1959 caused further damage to the castle. The castle was restored from 1962 onwards, and is nowadays a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
06:35 I wasn’t able to find out which Navy unit was fighting at the Marienburg.
06:43 Obersturmbannführer was a rank of the Waffen-SS, comparable to Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht or Lieutenant Colonel in English-speaking armies.
06:45 Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975) was a German Waffen-SS officer who was famous for being involved in a number of special operations, such as the rescue of Benito Mussolini in the Gran Sasso Raid or Operation Panzefaust, in which power in Hungary was seized before it could ally itself with the Soviet Union. He also commanded Operation Greif during the Ardennes offensive, in which his unit posed as American soldiers to cause chaos behind enemy lines. By the time of this Newsweek, Skorzeny commanded a combat group of about 5,000 soldiers at the Schwedt bridgehead on the Oder River, holding it against Soviet attacks. He became an American POW after the war, but escaped from prison in July 1948 and fled to Spain in 1950. He worked as a military advisor for Egypt in the 1950s, and there are rumors he also worked for Mossad, the Israeli secret agency. He died of lung cancer in July 1975 in Madrid.
06:52 The destroyed tanks in this scene are American M4 Shermans which were delivered to the USSR via Lend& Lease.
07:04 The Tank Destruction Badge was a German award of WWII, introduced in March 1942. It was awarded to soldiers who had destroyed an enemy tank with handheld weapons; however, Anti-tank units were ineligible for this award, so it was usually awarded to troops who destroyed enemy tanks in situation where dedicated AT-units were unavailable. Once a soldier destroyed 5 tanks, he could be awarded the Tank Destruction Badge in Gold. During WWII, around 18,500 normal and 400 Golden Tank Destruction Badge were awarded.
07:14 As can be seen in this line up, these soldiers are from different branches: The soldier being awarded the tank destruction badge here is a regular Army officer, the two soldiers standing next to him are from the Waffen-SS; and on the far right, at the end, an Air Force soldier can be seen. German combat groups towards the end of the war were often a wild mix of soldiers from various different units and branches.
07:33 This destroyed tank is a Soviet T-34/85 medium tank..
06:35 That is the Marine-Schützen-Rgt. 3
The old version was better
"They call us the 6th Panzer Army cause we have 6 panzers left" -Sepp Dietrich
😂😂😂 ⚔️🇷🇺⚔️
Then, Der Fuhrer Demanded They strip off Their 'Adolf Hitler' Cuffbands; They responded by Sending Him all of Their Medals in A Latrine Bucket.
@@hummer1542More like 🇺🇦🇦🇿 🇧🇾 🇪🇪 🇬🇪 🇰🇿 🇰🇬 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇲🇩 🇹🇯 🇹🇲 🇺🇿 🇷🇺. The Ussr where not only Russia. Over 40% of the red army were non Russians.
@@Bazingaskibidirizz80% были русские. Все остальные были в тылу
"Destroyed hundreds of attacking armored vehicles", which were rapidly replaced by thousands of armored vehicles. With millions of gallons of fuel.
11:23 The speech filming/editing techniques of the German Propaganda Ministry are still used today. The focus on the speech and then the cut to the audience, showing different types of people applauding, nodding or looking with determination. It is hard to watch a United States Presidential State of the Union speech without noticing the similarities. Note: I am not talking about the content, only the technical aspects of the editing and filming.
Read Gustave Le Bon Psychology of the Masses, Bernays Propaganda and other works on manipulation and propaganda. Goebbels wished he had the means that our propagandists have today.
I believe with speeches its always a similiar filming technique, you film the entry of the person, being applauded by the audience, and then you switch between showing the person and the audience every few seconds, some panorama shots of the venue to show the audience as a whole etc.
Thanks again for all your hard work providing us with this very important episode, Gobbles propaganda could probably convince me the Germans were winning 😂. I really hope TH-cam would grow up and protect historic footage and channels like this instead of banning it.
Remarks, Part II:
07:50 This is a Jagdpanzer 38, often erroneously called “Hetzer”. A light tank destroyer designed based on a Panzer 38(t) chassis, 2,827 were built between March 1944 and May 1945. Armed with a 7,5cm PaK 39 L/48, it was powerful enough to destroy most medium enemy tanks, also, it’s very small silhouette made it suitable for ambushes.
07:57 Guben, a city on both sides of the Neiße river, was heavily contested towards the end of the war. Originally captured by Soviet troops in mid-February, a local German counterattack recaptured most of the city in late February, and the city was finally taken by Soviet forces on April 24th, 1945.
08:25 This soldier has the GD insignia of the Panzergrenadier-Division “Großdeutschland” on his shoulder boards.
08:37 Unterscharführer was a rank of the Waffen-SS, comparable to Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht or Seargeant in the US-Army.
08:54 Görlitz is a city on the Oder River in East Germany. It remained under German control until the very end of the war, with Soviet troops entering in on May 8th, 1945.
08:58 This Soviet officer is a Major, as indicated by his shoulder boards.
09:05 This is a Hummel SPGs, a 15cm sFH 18 heavy artillery gun put on a chassis of a Panzer IV. 714 manufactured between May 1943 and January 1945. It was used for the first time on a large scale at the Battle of Kursk, where around 100 of these vehicles took part. On January 1st, 1945, the Wehrmacht still had 335 of these SPGs in their inventory; the majority were on the Eastern Front.
09:14 Görlitz was a major industrial city for intermediate goods , with many small and medium-sized companies producing parts for tanks, artillery, guns etc. located there.
09:31 Lauban is a city in Silesia, which was captured by the Red Army in the Upper Silesia Offensive on 16th February 1945, however, it was recaptured by the Germans during a local counteroffensive of the XXXIV. Tank Corps on March 8th, 1945.
09:38 This is a Panther medium tank. Armed with a 7,5cm KwK 42/L70 and armored with up to 80mm front armor, angled at 55 degrees, and up to 100mm turret armor, it was a very good medium tank, considered by many to be one of, or even the best, medium tank of WWII. Around 6,000 were built from January 1943 to April 1945.
09:40 This destroyed Soviet tank is a T-34/85.
09:51 The tank on the right in this scene is a heavy Soviet ISU-122 assault gun, armed with a 122mm A-19 gun. 2,410 built from April 1944 to December 1945. They were considered to be very deadly weapons, both against enemy bunkers and positions, but also against tanks, and could easily take out a Tiger or Panther.
10:03 Goebbels’ visit to Lauban and Görlitz the next day was his last public appearance before his suicide on May 1st, 1945.
10:13 This is again a Hummel SPG.
10:21 Ferdinand Schörner (1892- 1973) was a German General during WWII. He joined the Bavarian Army in 1911 and fought on the Italian front in WWI, wher he received the Pour le Merite and the Iron Cross. In WWII, Schörner was Division commander during the Invasion of France and in the Balkans, he fought in Finnland and in Ukraine. In March 1944 he became commander of Army Group South Ukraine, in July 1944 of Army Group North and in January 1945 of Army Group A. He was known for his brutality and his pro-Nazi views, sentencing soldiers to death for minor offensives and holding little regard for the lives of his soldiers and officers. He fled on May 9th, 1945 to Austria where he was captured and handed over to the Soviets, who sentenced him to 25 years. He was released in January 1955, but again tried and convicted by a German court in 1957 for his death penalties against his soldiers, sentenced to 4,5 years in prison.
10:33 This encounter of Goebbels with Hübner is rather famous and often shown in documentaries. Despite Hübner being 16 years old at that time, he looks way younger and is often wrongfully shown as a “child soldier”. Hübner himself later gave interviews about his encounter with Goebbels and later with Hitler. He survived the war and died in 2010.
11:32 This was Goebbels last public speech. You can find excerpts of it on my channel, as I have uploaded this speech before.
13:40 This is footage from Hitlers last frontline visit on March 3rd, 1945. Unlike claimed here, Hitler did not visit the headquarter of a division, but rather the HQ of the CI. Army Corps, part of General Busses 9th Army.
13:48 The man on the right is Theodor Busse (1897-1986), at that time commander of the 9th Army, while the man left of Busse is Job Odebrecht (1892-1982), at that time commander of the II. AA-Corps.
also the footage at 13:40 clearly shows hitler's tremor in his left hand.
By March 1945 they could not even pretend that they were winning still
Everybody...everybody knew it was over...but hey, for some, hope dies last and what else should the propaganda ministry do?
They did pretend, but it was certainly almost over.
Except for Hitler and Goebbels who were still fantasizing about it in the Führer's bunker.
@@BulletClub444Life Some small hope glored after the Death of Roosevelt. Some leaders thought the alliance would break and that they could negotiate a partial agreement with the West and than fight on against the Russians ...
Everyone had military relatives who told them the real situation anyways
Wonder how many were capable to watch it when it was released.
Very few! Although people still went to see movies, by means of escapism, untill the theatres closed down.
Actually, decent part of German population had access to cinema until April, even into April.
Look at the faces in 11:50. They knew they were doomed.
Thanks for sharing
From 1943 on, the Wochenschaus would show German soldiers bravely defeating the Russians or the Western Allies in this or that defensive battle. But any astute German citizen viewing this propaganda in the theaters should have been able to notice one thing: the "great defensive victories" were always moving steadily closer and closer to Berlin. Hmmmm!
you didn't need to be astute. Goebbels "Totaler Krieg" speech basically told everyone "We are currently on the backfoot and losing this war and the only way we can possibly win is through blind faith and total dedication until death or victory"
They "shortened the front line."
Vielen Dank.
Germany wunderwaffe at this point is Goebbels's tongue
Some additional remarks:
08:25 In the city of Guben at the Oder river, parts of the training and replacement formations of Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Großdeutschland" were stationed. When the Soyjets reached the area, these were formed into a battlegroup and took a prominent part in the defense of their home station. Which explains why the soldier shown here is wearing the "GD" shoulder boards.
09:59 The officer to the left (with fur-lined greatcoat) is Generalmajor Otto-Ernst Remer, commander of Führer-Begleit-Division. As longtime member of Division "Großdeutschland" (and because Führer-Begleit-Division was a daughter-formation of "Großdeutschland") , he wears his old units cuff tilte on his right sleve. The officer in the foreground might be Generalmajor Hellmuth Mäder, commander of Führer-Grenadier-Division. Both divisions took a prominent part in the reconquest of Lauban, Mäder being awarded the Swords to his Knights Cross with Oakleves for this action.
13:44 The General on the left with map in hand is General der Artillerie Berlin, commanding general of CI. (101st) Armeekorps.
13:49 Between Odebrecht and Busse, there is SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding, Chief of Staff of Heeresgruppe Weichsel, the army group in command of this sector of the eastern front.
thank you for the additional information!
A Grandfather of mine fought in the GD replacement unit for artillery in Guben.
After that battle they were transferred to the north.
I wonder where I could find out more about the fighting at Guben and the GDs remnants in Schleswig-Holstein...
@@blorblor5438
Unfortunately there seems to be not much material available covering those last chaotic months of the history of the "Großdeutschland" units.
I don't have H.Spaeter's "Geschichte des Panzerkorps Großdeutschland" (3 vol.'s, published 1954-58) It may or may not contain some first-hand accounts about the fighting at the Oder.
Regarding organizational details, the work is somewhat unreliable and uncertain for the years 1944/45, even regarding Panzergrenadier-Div."GD" itself. This is understandable as Spaeter had no access to archival material (the US handed back the German files only about 1970). This work is long out of print and even as a second hand book hard to find nowadays, usually offered for 200 Euros and more. Much later, in 1988, Spaeter also published a photo book, called "Panzerkorps GD, Berichte und Bilder (accounts and pictures)". I don't have this book either, but this is relatively easy to find as a second hand copy and not expensive (about 8 or 10 Euros).
As training and replacement unit for Division "GD", an Ersatz-Brigade"GD" was created on June 1st 1942. From the start, it always comprised one artillery replacement battalion.
If you can read German, you can find some more infromation on this brigade here:
lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ErsBrig/ErsBrigGD-R.htm
Scheibert, "Panzergrenadier-Div "GD" und ihre Schwesterverbände (sister units)" (also a photo book, published in 1970, which - contrary to it's title - has almost
no material about the sister units🙄), gives a tiny bit of information concerning the fighting of the replacement units of "GD" at the Oder river:
February 12th 1945: Alarm-Brigade "GD" was raised from Ersatz-Brigade"GD" and took part in the defense of the town of Forst, south of Guben. On March 10th, this unit was incorporated in Panzergrenadier-Div"Brandenburg" (also a "GD" sister-unit).
February 16th 1945: as Soviet troops reached Guben, Ersatz-Brigade "GD" took part in the defense of the town until March 16th.
February 25th 1945: those parts of the Ersatz-Brigade not comitted to the fighting at Guben were send to Schleswig-Holstein. Those parts fighting at Guben followed after March 16.
I'm afraid thats all I can offer😕
Thank you so much! 👍🏻
German Newsweek No. 754- 16 March 1945 : Tis but a Scratch
Danke sehr! 👍
Is the quality on this one inferior or is it just me? It looks a bit dark and the sound lower than usual
The film transfer to video is extremely dark. The person operating the machine did not set the levels. I have seen this same video elsewhere where the transfer is excellent and the exposure is balanced. The channel has no control over this since this is the copy of the newsreel which they had to work with.
Its very dark, couldnt you maybe up the brightness a bit.(i do realize i can also just do that)
Ia this a reupload?
I would wonder what Vlassov and his men were thinking at that time. No place to go, no place to hide.
Lot of them were hidden in USA and Canada
Not true! Most of them including Vlasov , were sent back to Russia to die a horrible death after having surrendered to the Western allies.
Most of them were trying to defect to the West, where they would find new masters to fight against USSR. Some were repatriated and tried for treason. Some became assets of CIA .
@@charlienguyen3146 Vlasov was hung in august of 1946.
Возможно я ошибаюсь, но это последний выпуск журнала Die Deutsche Wochenschau...
Nope, there is another , No 755
You can find the Last one on this Channel too my friend
So this is the one that shows the Lauban recapture.
Haven't you posted this. Keeps getting removed, perhaps
Nope.He deleted the original and re-uploaded it with a better quality.
The scowl on the little boy's face at 2:45 speaks volumes.
Which castle is that?
Marienburg
How did all this footage survive the war ? was it stored in a tv station's warehouse?
So, first of all these newsreels were shown in Cinemas, before films; there was no TV in WWII. And yes, basically several thousands of these copies were made every week (although probably less in 1945), and some of these survived in archives, in cinemas, in the basement of the production studios etc.
The parade of Vlasov's troops, is that old footage?? Those looked like the early T34s with single turret hatch.
Almost every ROA soldier there was armed with a Panzerfaust so it is toward the end. The Red Army lost a massive amount of tanks especially in 1941-42, so those would have been captured and later sent to units who would be more familiar with them like the ROA.
The footage of a strike being broken in the United States (1:33) is from 1937, I think.
Yep, it's definitely that strike in question! 🙂
Skorzeny had such an austrian accent
Like Arnold?
The cinemas being in the city centre of towns and cities, had nearly all been bombed out by then. Ian Dee.
Yeah, why would the police need a baton (nightstick in the US) when you can call on the Gestapo???
That line surely is..interesting, considering how the Third Reich was a police state that would arrest and beat up people for uttering any kind of criticism of Hitler and the Nazis, and especially in early 1945, people were getting hung for voicing even slight criticim about the Hitler or the Nazis.
Anyone notice the small boy on the left at 2:43? He looks realy grumpy lol
Probably mad that he was not yet allowed to fight the Russians!
8:32 scoped sniper + sturmgver
Only the germans could have russian fighting russians, but was there ever a soviet army unit composed of germans fighting germans?
No, but many German Generals in Russian captivity changed their minds about Hitler and his leadership.
no, but there was the NKFD, NationalCommitee Free Germany, which was created by the soviets with help of communist germans, emigrated into the USSR and there were anti-facist Germans in the german army, who mostly got transferd to the punishment division 999 and those deserted and fought german soldiers with yougoslavian partisans in yougoslavia.
At 3:25 you can see the 1st Division of the POA (russian liberation army) during it's parade in Münsingen
2:44 Nazi Chucky
Nun at 12 mins 28 secs. Thats if its not an "edit"
Very creepy. To the left is a soldier with a LW eagle on uniform.
Destroyed hundreds of vehicles. (While 10's of thousands came up from the rear to replace them.)
If anyone can identify the markings on the helmets of the American soldiers at 1:56, please let me know! Thanks in advance :)
To me, it looks like the shoulder patch insignia of 88th Infantry Div, which fought in Italy only. However, this it not my area of expertise 😉
@@zieten9983 Correct, it was the insignia of the 88th Infantry Division.
That's what I thought too. But like previous replies said, they only fought in Italy, not on the Western Front.
Its crazy how this no doubt hand picked audience does not seem to manage to seem actually excited about Göbbels' speech. They all know its over
Der 16 jährige Willi Hübner überlebte den Krieg und starb 2010 in Landshut. 🫡
In einem Interview mit ihm sagte er aus das er immer noch beeindruckt war von dem Treffen.
North,East’s, west south! “Hilda! It looks like we’re surrounded!”
3:04 german pak40 field gun. more punch than a sherman tank. by 1945 it had the range of the whole of germany (about 3 miles).
Судя по этим кадрам, скоро они победят.
Менее чем через 2 месяца после этих событий мои дедушки праздновали победу над непобедимым германским тысячелетним рейхом😅 Им было 18 и 19 лет. Войска морской пехоты и авиации. Они не были коммунистами. Они были защитниками своей страны.
At 1:56 "Söldlinge" is not soldiers but rather "paid minions"
Well, Söldling is actually a diminutive of Soldat (soldier). The English language doesn't really have a diminutive of soldier, so I chose to translate it simply as soldiers. This is not 100% accurate, but neither would be translating it as "paid minions", which sounds extremly weird in my opinion.
@GermanWWIIArchive a Söldling is somebody who receives Sold, or pay. Which of course every soldier gets, but it emphasizes the transactional nature of the relation.
So the most accurate translation might be mercenary.
@@GermanWWIIArchiveSöldner- mercenary.
I know it is propaganda, but i wonder what riot the footage came from.
Goebbels pumping his arms has aged so badly, it looks like such a hollow gesture
ROA (not to be confused with RONA) was mobilized too late. It didn't make sense anymore. However, the desperate (and often truly heroic) efforts of many German (and Axis-allied) soldiers were wasted efforts and an unnecessary loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. It should be remembered that the greatest number of victims occurred in the last two and a half years of World War II. As you can see, this tragedy does not discourage further attempts to drag the world into destruction.
Downfall
This has nothing to do with Downfall.
The battle of Berlin didn't even start yet.
@@Karl-nv5ok Generally speaking he's right: Das letzte Aufgebot was shown here.
9:25 Lauban - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba%C5%84
That's General Vlasov. A Red Army General who went over to the german side and commanded the ROA Russian Liberation Army of societ POW's who volunteered to fight for the Germans. They mostly came to a sticky end after the war including General Vlasov who despite being offered a plane ride to spain surrendered to the Soviets instead with his men.
Вы обманываете тут людей. Власов не сдавался в плен добровольно. Его выкрала советская контрразведка из американской зоны оккупации Германии