Hamburg - Liberation in 1945 (in color and HD)
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- After the surrender of Hamburg a huge part of the city and the harbor were destroyed. Moving pictures of summer 1945 show the Harbor with the "Landungsbrücken", Baumwall and the view on the warehouse district, the city center and the "Elbbrücken"
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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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Ich liebe Hamburg. Visited twice and live the place. So full of charm unlike Berlin which was a huge construction site when I visited. My memories are of the Alster,
the Elbe, Miniature Wonderland, Landungsbruecken, Speicherstadt, etc. Great city and friendly people!
Hamburg is much better than Berlin
@@MermaxxTH-cam rubbish
Hamburg flattened,yet within 15 years,the joint was “Rocking!”
Nearly 75 years later, in 2019, it is amazing to see this footage of a heavily destroyed city and see it now, rebuilt and beautiful again - alas without many of its fine historical buildings that were destroyed during the war. I live in Hamburg, an expat Englishman, and my father was stationed in Hamburg just after the war, although he was later stationed back to England with the RAF. He always loved Hamburg and the people of Hamburg, who despite the destruction of the wonderful city, got on well with the majority of British airmen and soldiers stationed here after the war.
Citizens of Hamburg are anglophile. I remember my mother saying in 1944 (yes, I am that old) "hoffentlich kommen die Englaender bald".
Yeah, well why wouldn't they. The bastards lost the war.
@@peterjandros2173 wherever the Germans went they had collaborators too. They would have had them in Britain too and Yes, in the USA too.
@@visionist7 OH Yes, we have a lot of Nazis here in the U.S. America loves their Nazis. I'm waiting for them to take over the government some day, so i can apply for a job.
Of course! They were so happy to be rid of Hitler that the destruction was just an after thought.
I love Hamburg most out of all the cities in Germany, except weather.
I miss Hamburg.
And there's a Hamburger everywhere you look! 😋
Meine Heimatstadt Hamburg, wie wunderschön. Bin 1960 geboren, jetzt könnte ich es nicht ertragen, Hamburg wieder zu sehen, was haben sie aus dir gemacht? Ich könnte heulen, der Film vermittelt wie ich mich bis 1993 in Hamburg gefühlt habe, einfach wundervoll
Danke
Sabine, ich habe das alles mitgemacht, Operation Gomorrha im Juli 43 und habe bis 1959 in HH gelebt. Heute ist HH schoener denn je und ich freue mich ueber jeden Besuch in meiner Heimatstadt.
Sabine Feenstaub bin 62er Sabine und fühle genauso wie du. Wirklich traurig
Hoje vc mora onde?
@@upeterse estou no Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷
Was ist denn seit 93 passiert? Kenne die Stadt noch nicht
I have visited Hamburg many, many times since the late nineties to visit friends and watch my football team, St. Pauli and its my favourite City of all the many places i have been lucky enough to get to in my life. Watching this old Cinefilm and to see it now compared to the devastation visited upon Hamburg in early 1944 and later its hard to believe the progress the Germans made rebuilding this and dozens of beautiful Towns and Cities, even those in the old East Germany. Well worrh a visit and thanks for posting this. Very interesting.
Interesting video. I was surprised that there were so many buildings still left standing but many were just facades. I was there a few months ago. Hamburg is a great city.
Not all areas of Hamburg were destroyed as much as others. The city center around the Alster, shown in the video, and the western parts like Blankenese still have a lot of old buildings that survived like the Town Hall. But the areas to the east like Hammerbrook, Hamm, Rothenburgsort and Eilbek, where the firestorm happened, were heavily damaged. I agree, I really like Hamburg too, I just recently came back from a visit and it just so happened that the weather was very nice! 🤩 We also visited neighboring Lüneburg, which is a very beautiful town that received virtually no damage in the war.
@@Bj-yf3im Cheers.
16 years later..."THE BEATLES"
@Hannibal S 33 is that really such a big deal?
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Can we please stop talking about the word "liberation" and appreciate the precious historical material of the video?
Ich finde es richtig super, dass das alte Filmmaterial wieder aufgefrischt wird!! Nice Work!
Alles ist kaputt aber die Strassen sehen top aus^^
Liberated to speak Denglish.
@@manni8385 Why not. We live in an americanized world.
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Just you look on those roads quality.
In 2018 Ukraine you won't find road even half smooth like that.
@@MrDaiseymay Not quite right. The German Autobahn was planned and partially built in the 1920s at the time of the 1st Republic (Weimar Republic). During the Nazi era, only part of the already planned motorway was completed. Basically, it was a National Socialist measure to create jobs for millions of unemployed that Germany had after the global economic crisis. The Nazis were not stupid to catch people with gifts for their ideas. Many who got work and bread again were no longer against the Nazis. But slave workers never built a highway. The construction program ended long before the war began. The most new highways were only built after the war when the 2nd Republic (Federal Republic) was founded in 1949.
just as it is in Turkey.Roads are wavy and full of holes.
I agreed - I rode my bicycle solo across Ukraine from Crimea to Lviv in May 2007. Most Ukrainian roads were not good. The corruption were rampant. Drunk, prostitutes and corrupted police were common in Ukraine. That is their side effect of the Communist Soviet Union's withdrawal from Ukraine.
@@timetraveler2518 really??? I thought that was a result of communist arrival in Ukraine.
You can pretty precisely tell the the communist country from the capitalist one by a road quality and overall corruption level.
Most likely, you do not know what roads are in Ukraine now. Your comparison is more suitable for Russia, there are really bad roads there. The roads in Ukraine are very good now
German roads were better in 45 than our roads today.
Я тоже удивлен. Дома разрушены а дороги?
That was a German invention the Autobahn. The world's first 4 lane limited access highway system. Americans followed with the interstate system
@@guenthermichaels5303 Many Germans like to believe that. In fact, the first "Autobahn" (of course, they had a different name) was built in Italy in the 1920es.
@@nadanczysykowski1712
The autobahns formed the first limited-access, high-speed road network in the world.
Italy became the first country to inaugurate motorways reserved for motor vehicles with the A8.[
@@guenthermichaels5303 I Love Germany,, their ppl,,their intellegence..
My Hamburg ❤️
*Mein Hamburg lieb ich sehr* I love my Hamburg very much
*Sind die Zeiten auch oft schwer* Times are often difficult
*Weiß ich doch* (but) I know anyway
*Hier gehör ich her* I belong here
*Hier, wo ich geboren bin* Here where I was born
*Wo ich spielte schon als Kind* Where I played as a child
*In den Straßen* In the streets
*Die mein Zuhause sind* That are my home
Them Germans had better roads than we've got in Scotland now...and that was 75 years ago.
They started the war those Germans
Those Germans, back in the 1940s, built better roads than they build today in Florida, USA. The road by my house is nothing but ruts and potholes. i need a front-end alignment every couple of months because these roads are a mess. Yup, 2020 Florida has nothing on 1940s Germany..
@@calebticko9359 No, they actually didn’t.
@@calebticko9359 no the brits started the war
Thanks for your friendly Statement. But beleave please that german ingenieurs at this Moment build Highways that only works for ten years.🤷♂️.
Sorry, my english is very bad but i hope that the content is clear...
From 00:31 all along the video we can see an Opel Olympia also "liberated" and put under new management.
Allied powers did not consider this as a "Befreiung", but as an occupation (Besatzung) !
Love the way they say Liberation! Germany was Conquered, not Liberated.
Yes!
Liberation!
Liberation from fascism!
That's right.
The Germans themselves could not be liberated.
They were helped.
USSR, USA, England
I'm mean I dont mean to be in Germany's side,but the people there are great. People blame them because one idiot that got control of the country. You gotta blame the idiot,not the innocent.
@Elizabeth Brower
WHO started war???? Dass ich nicht lache!!!
Ansichtssache
@@sullivanbrodbeck7656
Ansichtssache???? Nein. Ich hatte noch Gelegenheit, mich in den 60ern mit Menschen zu unterhalten, die den 1. WK und/oder den 2. WK miterlebt hatten. Die berichteten die Dinge eben ganz anders, als sie die offizielle Geschichtsschreibung darstellt. Bei der stimmen nur die Termine, aber nicht die Auslegung der Ereignisse!!! Man schaue sich mal das Video
Benjamin Freedman Rede im Willard Hotel 1961
an. Absolut augenöffnend. Hat meine Erkenntnisse nur bestätigt.
Mein Vater (1907 in Kiew geboren) musste 1919 mit seinen Eltern vor den Bolschewiken aus Kiew nach Berlin flüchten. Dort hat er sein Abitur gemacht, studiert und gearbeitet bis zur Flucht 1945. Ebenfalls vor den Bolschewiken. Er hat also das politische Geschehen in dieser Zeit hautnah miterlebt. Als die Greueltaten der Polen gegen dort ansässige Polendeutsche 1939 zunahmen (man spricht von über 50 000), drängten die Militärs Hitler dazu, militärisch zuzuschlagen, was er mehrmals ablehnte, weil er auf Verhandlungen hoffte. Zumal er noch auf eine Lösung des sogenannten "Korridorproblems" hoffte. Er wollte es sich deswegen trotz der Greueltaten mit den Polen nicht verscherzen. Churchill unterstützte jedoch die Polen bei ihren Greueltaten an den Polendeutschen. Deswegen war er bei den Deutschen nach Kriegsende so "beliebt"! Die freundlichste Bezeichnung für ihn war noch Schwein. Nur laut sagen durfte man es nicht.
Als durch die Greueltaten schon mehrere Tausend Polendeutsche (siehe oben) elendiglich umgekommen waren, war es auch Hitler zuviel und daher rührt dann der Satz: "Seit 5 Uhr früh wird zurückgeschossen!". Und Churchill hatte erreicht, dass das Deutsche Reich sozusagen den Krieg begann. Soviel in Kürze. );-)
P.S. Ich hatte einen Klassenkameraden mit Nachnamen Brodbeck. Ich ging mit ihm zusammen in den 60er Jahren auf's Schubart-Gymnasium. Könnte es sein, dass hier der Sohn oder Enkel schreibt???
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It is truly amazing how the German people recovered from this almost total destruction.
They never recovered. Germany is a lost case, a dead nation, a comfortable cemetery.
recovered very well. Of course! We started at zero while Britain and the Russians used the old German machinery...
Germany and England recovered by Marshall plan (USA money) while USSR did it by itself. What Germany didt recovered from is the absence of independent German policy for the German people.
Germany is dying and has recovered nothing
they had a lot of help....they were now allies against the Communists..
Hats off to the people who rebuild the destroyed their OWN country ! That's a spirit...!!
RAJ: Where did you go to school for that kind of thinking???
*Captured*
"Wir kommen nicht als Befreier, aber als Bese
tzter" ; dixit Montgomery - and some others ...
I wonder how the Filipinos felt when the Americans "came as liberators" after the Spanish American War? How did the South Africans feel when the British came to liberate them from their gold and diamonds?
Oh. The British invented the concentration camp in the Boer War, by the way.
and amongst so many things and uses the trains, football, free health care for all, penicilin and most workers rights as well, what have you invented
Football? What a joke! I wouldn't miss anything if I didn't saw a match again. Free health care? Nope. Workers right? In fact the creator of the welfare state was chancellor Otto von Bismarck from Germany. Before WWI German workers enjoyed the more advanced social legislation in the world. So you are wrong in most counts. The pommies did some fine things, but also plenty of evil, mass murdering, genocide, plundering, raping , far more that most countries in the world. And yet they don't get nearly as much hell for their crimes as others. You are basque? Didn't know that your beloved brits looted, raped and murdered civilians and burned the city of San Sebastián to the ground in 1812. That was another one they helped to "liberate". They didn't treat their french foes with as much savagery as they did with the Spanish civilians they came to "liberate".
Call me a pommie an' I'd kick the shit out of you little colonial.
The Liberation ? LOL Can you do the Japanese liberation of Nanking next.
Yes Liberation. The German civilians, and people were Liberated from war and the Nazis.
Hamburg was the last stronghold against the Nazis. Many Germans where against the Regime and only half a million died even before the war started. The quality of life got worse with nazi laws, for everyone
What kind of liberation is that ?
So even in 1945 they knew the left lane was for passing.
They are driving on the world first Highway or Motorway.
The first motorway was opened in Italy just after WW1
The Autobahn wasn't the first highway or motorway. There were limited-access roads in the northeastern USA in the early 1900s that didn't have intersections, and these are the predecessors of what we now have worldwide. But the Autobahn was the first national system of such highways.
Occupied, not liberated.
The B 24 was also no 'Liberator'. Only in that way that you welcome Death as a 'Liberation'.
Oh wow, I just love reading what men who either enjoy or can't resist insulting each other have to say! Sooooo enlightening!!!!
You said it twice.
Isn't that lovely.
Very good roads, bridges, port infrastructures still in 1945.
Look exactly,please. The roads are fakes in the video. The Elbbrücken could Not be used for traffik and the port got demontaged by the British. Tha has had the effect, that british Industries got the german technicus from before the war and Germany created new ones. I lived in Hamburg from 1945 to 1954.
тот неловкий момент, когда Гамбург 45-го, смотрится лучше города в котором ты живёшь в 2018, дороги конечно поражают
За такие слова в 45-м отправляли на лесоповал , как Танича ..
@@user-ib3qb5zn8u ну так правду не любят, особенно когда в стране бордак
Danke !
If you want to see Hamburg harbor in 1938, look up Wilfried Müller's video and then compare it with this one.
The American background power wreaked havoc. Secret society. Unfortunately.
Liberation??? Occupation after almost being wiped out completely!!
As we Americans like to say: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Anyway, the US did liberate the 2 or 3 Germans who weren't totally committed Nazis. I bet at least they were grateful.
@iStichy I'm sorry, you'll have to re-write your response in literate English if you want anyone to understand what the hell you're attempting to say.
Willem van lent . As you sow, so shall ye reap.
Ни дай бог, пережить войну!!! Мир! Только мир! Мы - люди! И должны жить в мире!!!! Всем счастья!!!!
Война нужна, как бы этого не хотелось. С годами мирного застоя люди дичают, наглеют, становятся завистными и т.д. А война сплочает и часть мусора убирает
@@fon9437 к сожалению история это подтверждает
@@fon9437 типичный пример милитариста, у которого плохо с причинно-следственной связью.
Thanks
Most or all of this should be played back at 0.75 speed.
I have been there early 1980 at that port when I worked with Nouwegeen boat so Amazing, I like Germany. Please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏I want to visit Hamburg a gain
Thanks you sir ....we are like this channel , we are Indonesian 🙂👍🇮🇩
Thanks to the Germans all kinds of colonization came to an end.
God bless Indonesia !
Amazing colour.
I'm not sure I understand when in your caption you say " AFTER the surrender a huge part of the city and the harbor were destroyed " ? Why would the allies ( presumably ) destroy it after the surrender ?
I'm not sure how many of the viewers realize the "highway" at the very beginning was due to Mr. H's efforts to revitalize the infra-structure of Germany's roadways. It's too bad he had to be such a shit.
Estoi de acuerdo.
And Josef was such a fantastic warm loving person, ask any of the thousand of Russian Ukrainian German Polish etc people that died under his regime. Ask all the woman raped by his soldiers how much fun it was under the Soviets.
@@willemventer3935 Nazis did rape Soviets first, so there's that
@@gingerale7729 and the soviets never raped anyone? ps my response do not mention rape or the Russians why are you going in that direction?
@@willemventer3935 хватит херню нести. Немцы всё начали и получили бумеранг
Empezar de cero..WOW !!
what buildings are visible at 4:14? what area it is? this building on the right with tower is still existing? the building in the back in the background is it Deichtor?
Sure looks like Deichtorhallen. I was trying to follow the route in google maps and from 3:39 on I was able to put them on Jungfernstied going towards St. Peter's church and taking a right at Woolworths to Neuer Wall. After that they seem to be driving on Große/Kleine Reichenstraße, Hopfensack or thereabouts, judging by the narrowness and similar curves on the street. And the angle the Deichtorhallen comes into view could put them somewhere around where there's a huge class office now. I compared google maps to an old Hamburg map from 1920s and it showed the tram tracks you see in the video and it would support this, as well but I've no clue how the streets have changed over the years so I'm just guessing here.
I've no idea what the tower/castle looking building is. Could be the entrance to what is now the Oberbaum bridge.
it is the entrance to the former “Wandrahmbrücke”. There are pictures from around 1920 on the Internet
They destroyed it in 1962
I. Gotta ask, What car is that with the star on the grille?
so sad to see the destruction.
but a great nation would live for ever.
I'm not sure. Germany is about to be banned thanks to multiculturalism.
Sorry. But germany loves destroy himself After ww2. Beginning with the 69-revolution.
And excuse: my english is terrible. Hope here to find a good translator if you want Begründung...
Хочешь сказать спасибо товарищу Сталину?
Interesting that the harbour looks in better shape than the rest of the city.
You think of the water?
Wallies knew they would need it after the conquest - sorry, the _liberation_ - of the country. The rest of the city was trashed to kill as many women and children as possible - to weaken Germany's genetic future.
No more wallied propaganda.
Hahaha, Full of bombs an Wracks
liberation?
It is Occupation. It was written in the history book all over the world in the 20th century.
They were liberated from the German rulers.
Ach, die dummen Nazis und ihre einsame Zuflucht in die TH-cam Comment Section
Ben Petersen Halts Maul du Zecke
My reaction was exactly the same!
Why it is called Liberation?
Have you noticed often that people leave the room when you start talking? Pretending to yawn and making up excuses?
+SabuPtolemy That is not true, it is lies and propaganda
Yes, there are people doing the most unbelievable kind of things nowadays just to make them look bad. They even make new high quality color movies that are supposed to be from the 40's. Don't you think it is a little odd that in those 5 years, 1940-45, there seems to have been more things taking place than during the rest of world history?
+SabuPtolemy The interesting thing here, is that why were as good as none color footage from WW2 shown to the world until the latest 10-15 years. By using today's very advanced technology it is possible to make as good as anything look real and manipulate history. By the way, I would rather prefer wearing a tinfoil hat than letting myself become fooled.
the Nazis made themselves look bad....Germany wasn't liberated from the Nazis...they got the crap bombed out of them....and surrendered...countries like Holland were liberated from the Nazis...
вроде бы война была...а дороги какие....
What Liberation?.Millions bombarded !
.The highway scenes at the start show the ancestor of our own interstate highway system.
Da hat Autobahn noch Spaß gemacht! Großartige Bilder!
Ни партизан тебе ни снайперов.Вот тебе воспитанный народ.
Welches Tor ist das denn bei 4:08?
15 years later and The Beatles were getting their start there. Incredible!
Die Beatles haben es Gott sei Dank geschafft, die Welt zu einer besseren Welt zu verändern !
Удивляюсь качеству дорог в то время .
Во время и после войны и то идеально выглядит чем в РФ
Вот поэтому и дошли быстро до Берлина Советские воины освободители!!!
@@vikste2948
Makes no sense lol
@@user-qh7fy2gx6c
An alle Russen und russisch sprechenden hier. Wir verwechseln euch nicht mit den Bolschewiken!!!
Liberation ?
Wonder how well stocked that Woolworth's was during the war?
Not very. It certainly wasn't under the management of the US parent company during the war.
Was the destruction "after" surrender, or in the battles leading up to it?
No battle involved like in Berlin, Hamburg did not fight
Woolworth's store at 3:46 ! Now known as Footlocker, Inc.
Uh-huh .
Дороги тех времён лучше наших и пробок нет.
Спасибо.
vielen Dank für's einstellen 😘
Occupied not liberated.
Merry Frog
The German people were liberated from bondage and self deceit t and today they are free people
As a German I can say that wasn't a liberation. It was an occupation until today. But it is rumoring in Germany.
Ben Winchester/Baratheon bist du deutscher? Wo wohnst du stueck Nazi scheisse?
Dragonborn Ich komme aus NRW und bin Deutscher. Warum bin ich ein Nazi? Weil ich nicht der Meinung der Herde folge? Bist du ein Antifa/roter Faschist?
Same as Japan.
Hamburg was fire-bombed prior to Germany's surrender, not after.
Obviously not after why would it be attacked Hitler was dead.
Agree.
Wish we could hear what they talked about
from ruins into one of the biggest harbour city in the world .... well done Germany 💛💚
that’s a damn fine highway
That is the autobahn from Bremen to Hamburg.
Min 2:42 ist das Altona?
Anyone see the U boat across the channel about 2:30 ?
Yo me pregunto si tiraron tantas toneladasde bombas ninguna callo en las calles o rutas que estan impecables????
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Agreed. Sir.
Дороги в 45м лучше чем у нас сейчас
Reminder: It was Britain that captured Hamburg in 1945
Congratulations!
Thats good i prefer them than the soviet
Hamburg surrendered and did not fight
It is so strange seeing these things in colour.
Loved it
Ohhhhh, Danke.
....meine Heimat, wie es damals nach dem 2. Weltkrieg aussah.....
Echt traurig....aber:
Das Leben geht weiter....
Why did the Germans walk so freely two?
I guess when you say "liberated" that you refer to all of the civilians that were freed from living or growing old.
I think they mean, kill all the fascists who tried to enslave Europe. But you knew that already.
Its war or tourist trip?
Oh mein Deutschland warst du schön!
Not "liberation" : capture...
2021 Киев дороги убитые, 1945 война - идеальные дороги
Around 3:50 it shows a Woolworth store I'm sure that was a British shop up until 2000 odd weird to see it in Hamburg i 1945
Wow
Liberation from how?
Yes!
Liberation!
Liberation from fascism!
That's right.
The Germans themselves could not be liberated.
They were helped.
USSR, USA, England
@iStichy Have you worked it off? Get some rest.
I don't. If Germany was the principal.guilty of WW2, but nowdays is the most country in Europe because of his great economy,his beautiful cities rápidly rebuilt. and a great people who Like to work and to live in peace lll
2021 🤩🤩🤩
We had to, life goes on Brodie 👍
This is what Iraq and Libya looked like after they were "liberated".
Looks a bit less liberated than Baghdad in 2003.
Интересно как почитаешь писарей все любят Гамбург и людей Гамбурга . Только вопрос почему они не любили других людей?
That cathedral tower at 3:05 is still standing but the rest of the church is still destroyed.
Na minha opinião, termo libertação esta errado , termo correto e capitulação da cidade . Concordo com as duas opiniões abaixo .
Дороги в Германии поражают А в России ,по прежнему 100 бед и две из них Дураки иДороги.
Why is this called 'Liberation'? From whom?
Robert Brynin From Nazism
Hmm.. Nazis? Unless if you consider nazis as the best forms of lives, then this is not the liberation under your perspective.
Happy huWhite Man Hey, yes, remember the hundreds of thousands of civilians bombed in Dresden, as described "accurately" by the "respected" historian David Irving. Only it turns out that he made up the numbers. It's bad when any civilians get killed in war, but the Germans should have expected this, after the atrocities committed in their name by the German army.
cool
Nach den Trümmern und Ruinen zu urteilen, wurden ja recht viele "Befreiungsuntensilien" auf Hamburg herabgelassen.
Interesting video - but it’s not a liberation, it’s an occupation.
completely agree,the winner says he is freeing and the loser is an occupant...weird huh?
Had the germans won the war...
Would London had been "liberated" ?
@@zenonlopezwallace568 no??
Yes, and they're still occupied
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