From Normandy to Germany in 1944 (in color and HD)
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5:05 German prisoners of war
10:11 GI's decorating a Christmastree
11:32 Grand' Place / Groote-Markt in Brussels
13:15 Coutances in Normandy, filmings of the Signal Corps
13:50 Explosion
14:32 Paramedics at work
15:30 French offering flowers to GIs
18:30 St. Malo, Bretagne
20:02 Soldiers drinking a bottle of Bordeaux wine (Chateau Pontac Monplaisir)
20:50 Box training
42:26 Family of the little boy on the video thumbnail
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Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary “Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016)
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So impress by this footage. Just raw, no propaganda, end of ww2 filming. Thank you for allowing us to see this.
Thanks for sharing! I always look for my dad in these nice pics and videos! He did drive a Jeep some . But mostly in combat. Four major battles.Including battle of the bulge. Omaha beach, crossing the Rhine river, black forest. Four bronze stars , and a white star for capturing an officer! Cool man .. I miss him .. happy Memorial Day America! My dad loved us all!! 😞
I keep looking for my Uncle Jack. He was under General Patten 's Command & had to turn around to help fight the Bulge.
Your Dad is a True Hero- you and yours we wish u all the best with only blessings…somewhere down the line he saved my family from certain death
Your Dad is a True Hero- you and yours we wish u all the best with only blessings…somewhere down the line he saved my family from certain death
I Thank Him For His Service. He was in the thick of it!! RESPECT!!
From Normandy to Germany: From Min. 9:15 - 9:20 I could recognize my home.
I can’t imagine livingso close,to all of this history!! Surrounded with it!! I just find WW2 fascinating!!
Can NEVER get enough of these films lest we forget, these men were fighting for our future, true hero's!! 🇺🇸
Priceless.
Thank you
I Think, none of them had ever thought that these moments of being filmed would once be seen by the world wide web.
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World wide web, what is that?🤨😁
@@SlowD713 I think we are that as well as you.
Pois é!
Долгое время хранения ничего не приносят, всё всплывает, для будущих поколений
Amazing and wonderful to see these scenes following the film crew!
Revealing yes. Wonderful no
At 11:12, that looks to me like Director George Stevens who, along with William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra and John Ford covered the war as was seen in the 2017 movie "Five Came Back".
Have a family friends mother met her dad, who was in the thick of it near the Belgium/France border. Her mom spent many of those worse days in a cellar of their home. Can't imagine what that was like. Family of I believe 7.....Her mom was a teenager and met dad early 1945. They were married there in Northern France, he was shipped back home after war ended. Story is that she figure she never see him agan, but as it turns out several months later he sent money for her to make the trip to the USA. Happy Ending!
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I am a home builder and i know how much effort it takes to make each one of those stone carvings and buildings. Humans can be unreasonable and wild animals.
Stop blaming the wild animals.
and they rebuilt most of those buildings also.
Building? Nothing is important without freedom
So interesting to see the men eating the MRE ‘s. There are several TH-cam channels where they have found original MRE’s from the 1940s and some even older. Steve 1986 is a good channel because he actually opens these things up and eats them. These packets usually had cigarettes and crackers and candies and sometimes speed pills..
Nice
After fighting from a 3rd Army Sherman tank through France, my Father loved the French. After the war. He took my Mother there on assignment, before the American Forces were rightly asked to go by President de Gaulle. They lived off base with the French. Dad drank with the French. I was conceived in France. My Godparents are French. Mort au fascisme! Vive la France!
The French must have caught a little of what infected Germany because they sank the rainbow warrior they along with Germany should have been a British protectorate
@@gerardsugrue2702 I can smell imperialist here.
@@orahovavucichitlerdacicgoe7223' how did they disrespect the liberator's'' ''Tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific, now we have a high cancer rate.
@@gerardsugrue2702 you did better than french common I still ca smell imperialist nothing more.
@@gerardsugrue2702 The rainbow warrior was a warning of what New Zealand has become today, a communist cesspit and the plaything of a misguided non elected government under a former Blair employee and communist (leader of the World youth socialist organisation ) .
As a former New Zealander I can trace my ancestry there back beyond the canoes (Tainui ) to Tahiti and Hawaikii ,My European there began with the first settlers so i fully understand why the French government wanted the rainbow warrior damaged. It did nothing for either France or NZ as it happens and today France is once more under the threat of fascism in the person of Rothschild banker,Macron, with the added horror of Appeasement to Islam.
00:37 View along the Adalbertsteinweg towards the tower of St Josefkirche, in Aachen, Germany. The mountain in the distance is the Lousberg.
Great footage ty for posting it.
13:24 On the corner of Rue Saint Nicolas and Rue Tourville, in Coutances, Normandy, France. Notre Dame Cathedral in the background.
Excellent film.. that Typhoon was amazing
Je suis le petit garcon a la 42e minute devant l hotel moderne de barfleur dans la manche dans les bras de ma maman . Mon pere se trouve a l extreme gauche avec 2 employees de l hotel et la postiere. Merci pour ce souvenir en images.maurice pignot.
for those interested, this person says he is the little boy in his mother's arms at 42:00
Sans doute étiez vous trop jeune pour vous souvenir de cette période. J'habite en Normandie mais j'étais à Paris à la Libération, âgé de 8 ans, et je n'en garde pas particulièrement un bon souvenir. J'adore cette scène avec les enfants montés sur un âne.
Ca doit etre extrememnt emouvant pour vous.
Pourriez-vous uploader une photo actuelle de vous-même? Serait très charmant :-)
Ok mais ne sais pas comment faire
Absolutely amazing to watch these old news movie reels of world war 2 in Europe. I wish that there was sound with the movies that were taken. I would loved to hear what the camera guys thought as they shot these reels of film. The color film brings every thing to life. There is one part of the film in the beginning. Where the they were setting up their camera and watching those stupid Staurt tanks go by. What it looks like a German booby-tap goes off right in front of them. I do believe after that those camera men were a lot more careful were they filmed. Thank you for posting these old films.
These are fantastic film footage. Quite historically restored.
these guys had the best gig of the war. Cruising through France, well behind enemy lines just filming the aftermath. Lucky guys and amazing footage.
Love the color film just a shame they couldn't put sound to it at that time as well. Love to hear what they were saying.
watch at 0.75X speed for a non sped up version
Спасибо . Моя подписка Вам , за такие ценные кадры . Очень интересно .
А чем это Вам интересно?
at 18:25, we see Ernest Hemingway on the left; the officer on the right might be Col David Bruce, or "Col B" as Hemingway referred to him in dispatches. The man in back has a resemblance to Hemingway's driver, Sgt Archie "red" "Jim" Pelkey. The officer stripe, and the spectacles argue otherwise, but can't rule out that it might be Red; he appeared standing beside or behind Hemingway in other fotos.
I understand how important is was to end this war in the shortest amount of time possible but the destruction of so many irreplaceable beautiful structures and architecture throughout this most beautiful part of the world is just so sad and loosing 50 to 60 million people in the process is something I hope our planet will never experience again.
I wish this had some kind of commentary
So much wonderful footage! It really does bring these stories to life, to see it in motion and color.
A few well-meaning criticisms - the fake reel sound seems unnecessary, and gives the impression there might be actual audio somewhere in the video. Maybe just get rid of it?
More importantly, a lot of the footage is sped up, which is a shame. Probably an artifact of the transfer from reels to digital, but could be easily adjusted in post production, with a minor loss of frame-to-frame quality. I think that would give it a more life-like, relatable feel.. and extend the running time :)
this!!!!!!!!!! "the fake reel sound seems unnecessary, and gives the impression there might be actual audio somewhere in the video. Maybe just get rid of it? "
All the WWII and earlier films on TH-cam can be watched at a more realistic speed by clicking on the "gear" symbol in the lower right of your screen. 75% speed works well.
That’s what 16 mmm sounds like on a projector
At 09 :30 you See Merode Castle , attacked by 1. Inf. Div. on 29 th Nov. 1944, finally conquered on 12 th dec 1944 by 9 th Inf. Div. Seeing these pictures is quite strange for me even though I was born in this village 18 years later.
Grenades at Christmas Bobbles!!!! Brilliant,,,, Only In War, Brave Boys,, Thankyou each and every one of yous for letting me even write this,,, RIP "LEST WE FORGET" Blessings from Scotland, xx
Director George Stevens and his crew of photographers did a great job covering WWII. What we see here are Stevens home movies with his crew in France.
Thats a good idea decorating Christmas tree with a grenade, now im going to search my fathers WW2 grenade
Think, they did not, they done it only for the camera and removed it after
First part is obviously taken in Aachen, first German city liberated on October 21st, 1944. Locations, weather and trees colours match this perfectly.
My mother is German.. she was from Mainz, Kostheim she was 5 when the war ended and my Stepdad was from Berlin and was 10 when the war ended…I cannot even image what these people endured, not alone, a young child
Ah c'etais une autre époque tous ont trop souffert paix sur nos peuples maintenant
Truly one of the best of capturing Berlin by the Us soldiers. Great job and thank you
You are confusing something, the US military did not take Berlin
At 24:55 this is the Chartres Cathedral. It is easily recognizable by it's two different spires: Coordinates 48.44781679118804, 1.487847822228781. Chartres is some 80 km from Paris as the crow flies, or 90-odd kilometres by road.
Fabelhafte Arbeit von CHRONOS- Berlin. Das ist ein enorm wichtiger Beitrag - was für ein Fundus. Und das im Original Format 4:3 - kein künstliches 16:9! Danke.
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I watched this at 0.75x playback speed, and people's movements seemed much more natural.
They all look healthier than most people nowadays.
The absence of obesity back then is stunning. WTF happened?
@@eventtrading McDonalds happened.
Great color shots of the Tiffy fighter bombers
Set Playback speed to 0.75 and the movements look more natural.
Loved it
from 0:37-9:00 images from Aachen. The Hindenburgstrasse is now named Theaterstrasse.
Looking at these images , I feel like crying!
@29:12 a soldier collecting soil from the different battlefields he was on. We see this scene repeated in Saving Private Ryan. (Although I realize it's more probable that he is packing exposed film to be sent to the laboratories to be developed.)
I believe the first segments are in Langerwehe just east of Aachen.
HD resolution but akward speed ... don´t tell us that it is not possible to show this footage in realistic speed, it looks like a slapstick for godsake!.
on youtube you can reduce speed, the best is to 0.75
14:41 Coutances, Avenue Division Leclerc. A soldier with the 4th US armored division shoulder sleeve insignia. The wikipedia mention regarding the 4th US armored ".. on 28 July, battle action as part of the VIII Corps exploitation force for Operation Cobra, the 4th AD secured the Coutances area."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Armored_Division_(United_States)
17:19 The French tricolore at the Agon-Coutainville north beach (Promenoir Jersey)
26:14 The Seine River at Mantes la Joli. On August 19th 1944 was here the first Allied bridge head across the Seine river formed by the 79th Infantry Division of Patton's 3th Army. At 26:20 the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Mantes.
At 29:54 what vehicle? Looks to be an M4 chassis, but has vertical upper sides and Belgian markings? And 37:07 GI's have SS Panzer crew tunics on.
It is beach armour recovery vehicle a m4 variants.
Today germany is nothing more than a big company. I hate it here. Nothing left anymore and my genration has never done nothing to anyone. But its fact
Please, explain more
germans were tricked into war the same as everyone involved.
Amazing vid.
love it
на 23.14- шорты, кеды, нарисованные брови. как будто лето 2018 г., не хватает только цветных наколок.
38:20 Jack Lieb - who shot the silent color film "D-Day to Germany" was a “News of the Day” correspondent who was assigned to cover the invasion of France, but shot color film in his spare time. www.c-span.org/video/?319744-1/1944-documentary-d-day-germany
11:33 Brussels Grand Place / Grote Markt.
37:09, 3 men in german tanker uniforms are laughing with several American soldiers. We can see the SS runes on their collars, and get a glimpse of the ribbon on the sleeve of one's jacket, embroidered with what appears to be the first letters of "Das Reich". This is the SS Armored Division that committed the massacres of 741 civilians at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane in Normandy; 99 men hanged in Tulle, 446 women and children of Oradour-sur-Glane herded into a church and set on fire. Only one woman, severely wounded, survived. The rest were men of Oradour sur Glanz machine gunned inside several other locked structures. A baby was crucified. These 3 Das Reich SS likely participated in the atrocities, or were at a minimum, present. A significant number of the Division were forced recruits from Alsace, a disputed French territory between France and Germany. They claimed to have been drafted against their wills by the Germans. These guys look like they might be Alsatians rather than Germans, and may have been able to speak French. Nobody ever served a sentence for the war crimes committed at Tulle and Oradour sur Glanz.
The Das Reich SS division was made up of solely French Nazi volunteers, the "malgré nous" Alsatians who where mostly drafted into the Wehrmacht, most often under threats towards their families, is a whole different story ! but you're right, nobody was ever served justice for what the "Das Reich" butchers did in Oradour-sur-Glane and Tulle
@@ottodidakt3069 I think you are confusing with the SS Division Charlemagne which was made of solely French volunteers. The SS Division Charlemagne only fought in Eastern Europe and as far as I know, they never took part in civilians massacres.
There were many "Malgré nous" in the SS das Reich, incorporated against their will. About 14 of them were on the site of Oradour-sur-Glane on the day of the massacre.
If you play this at 0.75x speed it’s much better and realistic.
G.I. sits in the cockpit of the Hawker Typhoon - "C'mon, guys, bring the 100 octane, I can totally fly this thing".
J'ai 55 ans aujourd'hui, pendant des années et surtout quand j'étais plus jeune à l'école, toutes les images qu'on nous montrait de la seconde guerre mondiale étaient en N&B, les films, j'en parle pas, étaient ultra rares et les images semblaient avoir été tournées au pléistocène (qualité dégradée, sous ou sur exposostion, débit par seconde qui rendait les déplacements des êtres ridicules...) alors que çà, là, ca à l'air d'avoir été filmé récemment, pour quelle raison est-ce que ca ne surgit que maintenant ?
I was born in 1953 when Americans scrunched all of it's WWII feels way down into a sad and raging sphere in the gut. These films are treasures.
ماذا حدث الى هااولاء الناس اين ذهبوا وكيف أحوالهم سبحان الله الخالق العظيم
In 1944, the average age was 30 years, therefore in the current year 2021, these brave soldiers could be 97 years
1:10 is that a German prisoner made to ride on the front of an American jeep to stop attacks by piano wire strung across a road?
Indeed it is, mines too. He knew where they are.
@ Blimey yeah, didn't think of mines.
One interesting fact French capitulated summer 1940 but their losses at the end of World War II as a total was 600,000 the UK approximately 450,ooo and America 410,000, as per normal the French get things wrong as with their present position with non-intervention against a possible threat of Russian forces invading the Ukraine?
1:28 who are these guys??
Does anyone know what the glyph on the building means at 4:25, and who put it there?
Ihr seid doch the best 3 Jahre gewartet die Russen würden auch alleine des schaffen, aber trotzdem thanks for the help
3:35 ...der gezeigte Gegenstand => was soll das sein?
I visited Germany in 1993, as a tourist, guess I did not know much about Germany. I hired a cab to drive me around Frankfurt.
Oh yes, now I remembered, I went for training for Karcher Equipment, several people from different countries were there for training. I represented H. Nolasco of Macau. I got to know a young Portuguese guy, we went to an area full of bars and restaurants. I guess we had dinner and drank beers. He decided to go back early, guess he did not have much cash. I continued and visited some bars. Just can't remember the details.
Germany is beautiful and clean.
Do you realise, everyone of them is dead. Some are in heaven, surely most German soldiers are in hell. That's for sure.
I bought my first video camera in 2.000. The footage of my video camera is rubbish compared to this.
Run this thing at .75 speed and you'll eliminate the high speed charlie chapman graphics. It'll actually look real.
At 35:57 A Grant tank?
really terrifying, the tragedy of war
On this July 4, 2018, kudos to the Americans who liberated Europe and their help of the citizens - we are forever in debt to the Great Generation - peace
You forget the Canadian, British, Polish, French, Dutch and many other soldiers who liberated Europe! Also the Soviet soldiers died by the millions. So disrespectful to them!!!
@@moow950 I wouldn't count the soviets as liberators....though they did sacrifice.
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23:53 Chartres Cathedral
Anyone know the locations @13:46 on google earth modern day@?
Baby looks like mother!
41:51 The girl is crying.
Разве это война!? Так прогулка, с французским шампанским … настоящая кровь лилась только на востоке…
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потому что командувания совков просто своих солдат за людей не считало и кидало пачками на смерть..а потом в гулаг и так далее.
сталин вместе с гитлером начал творую мировую войну,так что твой дед и ты должен стоять на коленях и просить прощения за милионы погибших
In the minute 8.2 appear a JEEP with the legend TOLUCA why- Name of a Mexico City ,
16:56 - that's the Frenchiest Frenchy that ever Frenched.
Earthen Jadis your not wrong there
42:09 Ooh La La !!!
A lot of smoking going on, both the Germans and the Allies. In such conditions this is not a good situation since tobacco addicts get annoyed and out of sorts when they can't get their fixes, and cigarettes were not easily had in combat.
21:35 The French happy -for once.
Remarkable is, that the number of victims of WWII with 70 Millions does not show a significant deviation of the growing Worldpopulation- Curve from its exponential direction: 1920 TWO billions, 1970 FOUR billions, 2020 EIGHT billions, 2070 SIXTEEN billions.....70 Millions are just ONE percent of 7 billions....Any Questions ? 💥
Excellent "behind the scenes" George Stevens footage. Several short sections of this have appeared in WW2 documentaries, good to see more; could watch this for hours! I like the projector noise on the film, gives added authenticity in my opinion.
Playing this video at 0.75x speed actually gives a more realistic speed to the recording
You're right.
Probably 18 FPS ?
You don't like Benny Hill??
I'm always amazed at how color is able to bring this footage to life. It must be psychological: suddenly we go from things that seem ti have happened a million years ago to something that could have happened yesterday.
Joe Cole it was already color you doofus. 😂
@@BarryMiller2956 Don't be a self- righteous pig alright! Take a chill pill!
Scott Maltzberger 😂😂😂
Color films already existed... many war scenes were filmed IN COLOR. This video is only one exemple. I don't know what makes people believe that everything was B&W during the war, since movies like Gone With The Wind and Wizard of Oz were released in 1939.
fact
Благодарность кинохроникерам тех лет всех стран.
Finally an addition to George Stevens' Normandy to Berlin. I guess that his son released the footage that was in the film cans at the end of the first release. Excellent color footage in the age of black and white newsreels.As noted below disappointed that George and his Hollywood outfit weren't given props for their camerawork while under fire.
2:51 the guy on the far right 😂
Some of the images show Director George Stevens, who, with his team of film makers, went in after the invasion to record the war. He's the tall fellow in the long green over coat.
Even the girl in the white dress learned the military salute. Something that shows the brutality of war. They were children too, what a difference between them and today's children! As a human being, I get emotional when I watch past videos like this. :(
Этой белокурой малышке сейчас лет 80! Вот бы оказалось что она жива и как возилась её жизнь!
loose the fake film reel noise, it is maddening after 5 mins.
Mute it. I make my own stories. Lip reading is a plus
26:19 and 27:15 Collegiate church of Notre-Dame in Mantes-la-Jolie, France, about 30 miles west of Paris.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Mantes,
Mantes-la-Jolie was the location of the first allied bridgehead across the Seine river on 19 August 1944, by General Patton's 3rd Army.
09:24 The ruined castle is Schloss Merode in Langerwehe, Germany.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Merode
I just love old european architecture and cry to see all the bomb damage...
I have the same reaction. What an absolute disaster for civilization. And people never learn. It's the human condition.
gerry1202
that's a simple answer.. I wish I could use it for every matter
in reality there was anti german histeria that led to destruction of germany, looting, plundering, splitting of the nation ecc..
@@AC-eu6gn Maybe was because Germany start to destruct, loot, plunder and kill other nations? Just saying...
@FTW 111 Poland, France, Norway etc. was communist?
@@manjelos Poland was run by a virtual military dictatorship and picked a war with Germany, France declared war on Germany, and the Germans beat the British in occupying Norway.
04:39 The Weissenburger Strasse is in the Rothe Erde district of Aachen, Germany.
the germans look happy the americans and canadians got them and not the russians
After your army did to Russia what the German Army did, you would not want to be captured by the red eyed Red Army. No. No. No.
and then they (US amy) brought the to the "Rheinwiesenlager".... and let a lot die by hunger... My stepfather was there....
@@mathiaswagner7353 If Germany had won then Europe would be glorious right now
@@silverbullet2008bb For ME is (today) interesting like the war parties each other treated. Nothing else. Do you something about the "Rheinwiesenlager"? Or would only like you to waffle?
@@silverbullet2008bb Yes, all Europe would looks worst as the USSR...
16:18 why that girl is so angry? Is she perhaps a candidate for a free haircut?