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!
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.[
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.
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.
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..
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...
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.
@@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.
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
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.
@@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???
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
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.
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".
You don't "Liberate" an enemy country, you occupy it. You liberate a country that's occupied by your enemy. You really need to change the title of your video.
As a Hungarian I agree with your first sentence: that was an occupation of course. But I can't agree with your second sentence. For instance Hungary was occupied by the German army in 1944 and then Hungary was occupied by the Soviet army and its allies (e.g. the romanians or the sebian partisans) in 1944/45. Nobody liberated Hungary just occupied.
@@ToriZealot Yes... Montgomery's orders were to get to Hamburg and the Baltic at Wismar... BEFORE the Russians arrived.... The British Army arrived on the Baltic just 6 hours before Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front arrived... If the Russians had reached Wismar and Lubeck first, the Western Allies would have been unable to stop 1 million Russians taking over Keil, Flensberg and the whole of Denmark... The Russian Navy would have been able to take over the North Sea, and even threaten England and France...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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...
Germany was a dictatorship with Adolf Hitler. So, the Americans came to free the Germans from the dictatorship and to bring back democracy as it was before 1933.
I was born in Hamburg, my parents too. The homes of my father in the city of Hamburg was distroid three times as he was a little child. Stop war in Ukraine, speak together.
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.
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.
Will that's how you have universal hesth coverage we Americans care their but I hope our president pulls out our troops in Germany then you will have some skin in the game you will have to pay for your own security and heath insurance see if it's free for you Germans then that's the problem with socialism you run out of other people money good luck Germany
The Allies arrival in Hamburg in 1945 was not liberation but occupation. The term liberation by the Allies should only be used in respect of the German occupied countries like France and the Netherlands
If Germany hadn't behaved like Savages during WW2 and for the second time in just under 20 years then no German City would have had to be Liberated, And then received Millions in Aid to rebuild cities like Hamburg, Allied countries like The UK & France did not have the same Money to rebuild there economy's and Infrastructure. It was Germany that was responsible for the millions who Were killed and Murdered.
@@guenthermichaels5303 Actually, my father was in the British Army in Hamburg, and was in the unit that advanced up to Lubeck and on to Flensberg... He told us that his unit actually saw Admiral Donitz, just before the German ' Government ' was sent to prison... Must have been incredible, but most of the British soldiers kept very quiet about it all...
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
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 ?
The city liberated from the Germans, which reminds me with many similar liberations in history, examples: Liberating Palestine from the Palestinians in 1948, and Iraq from the Iraqis in 2003 and .....
It was Occupation initially with Berlin divided into four administrative quarters followed by the creation of East and West Germany in 1949 and the birth of a new national currency The DeutchMark (DM).
The destruction is unbelievable. Hamburg was called the "Hiroshima of Europe". Yet only 15 years later, in August 1960 it was mostly cleaned up and rebuilt when a rock and roll band from Liverpool, England called the Beatles arrived to play at a club in the Reeperbahn. Today Hamburg is more famous around the world for the Beatles, than for all the terrible bombings of WW2.
One does not liberate a city in a belligerent country, One may conqueror or occupy but one does not liberate an enemy city. That would be like saying the Germans were liberating Stalingrad.
Yes, I think the point has been made... Totally unrelated point... If the Russians had not changed the name of Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad, it is likely that neither the Russians or the Germans would have bothered to stage a 6 month battle for it.
The English language is normally very precise, myself being English, I find the title here a complete error. The Channel Isles of Jersey and Guernsey, were liberated, when we the British, took them back after the German occupation. The Liberation of any part of Germany, would need to be a part of Germany occupied by a foreign state, but then Liberated by German Forces. As we know, no part of Germany, was occupied by any foreign state, not until the Allies invaded towards the end of the WW II. All of the states which Germany had invaded, when Allied Troops arrived, those states were Liberated, because they were handed back to their people. Germany, here in this video, is under Allied Occupation, Jurisdiction, and so Domination. Whoever thought it would be classed as Liberation, for this video, either backed the wrong horse, or was using language which might of come from the other side of the Atlantic, as some of their verbal terms, are a bit crass, never mind their awful spelling too. I only think logically, that is why I spotted the error in the title, as well as all of those irate comments, whom are just stating the obvious. A good historical video, giving a true picture of what life was truly like back then! *****
Trust me, Germans in Hamburg considered themselves liberated from endless war and Nazis. The Brits and Americans were not cruel. Those in the east definitely felt occupied by the Soviets.
@@guenthermichaels5303 Look up the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, Thine Meadows Camps, London Cage, etc. etc. for the deeds of those "humanistic" allies.
@@ToriZealot Yes, correct... Did you read the book ' Finale at Flensberg ' which detailed all these events at the end of the War...? My father was a soldier involved in it, but he preferred to say very little about what he saw in those final days... Maybe the British Army was ordered to keep quiet ?
@@richardruff8712 many of my grandmother's generation did not talk much about the war. She lost her home due to British bombing twice. But as many Germans in the west, they were just happy not to be occupied by the Russians.
Let's look at the "liberation" results . . . London looks like Pakistan Paris looks like Africa Berlin looks like Turkey Detroit looks like Detroit . . . 🖐🇵🇹
you are wrong.Berlin looks like Berlin.There re less than 10%Turkish origin citizen.By the way. Most of them are well integrated.And you are telling bullshit. Have you ever been in London and Paris?If yes you wouldnt describe as you did.🇹🇷🇦🇿👊🤜🤘
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.
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.
2:31 Das rote Backsteingebäude im Hintergrund - war das nicht das Fundament für die Elbphilharmonie viel später? Ich finde die Architektur wirklich faszinierend und würde gerne mehr darüber erfahren.
My father made it to Hamburg to take a ship to Britain at the end of the war. He described the city as "flattened " Glad he eventually made his way to Canada.
Amazing old footage. I've often wondered where Germany got the money from to rebuild its country? I was in Hamburg last summer and my goodness what a change!
@bademeister you seem angry? I'm just generally interested. Does Germany not trade on the stock market? I think its amazing how they have made the country what it is today since 1945. If you or anyone knows how they did it, please share.
@@MartinVanDerSande The Allies played a huge part in getting Germany back on its feet restarting Volkswagen production soon after the wars end. The USA pumped billions in as the Cold War was coming and they wanted a strong Germany.
The US financially helped Germany after the war, also, the US found and recovered Germany's gold reserves in a salt mine before the Russians got to it....and returned it to the new German government.
Woven into the tapestry of the Second World War, the air blitz is a stark reminder that this war, perhaps more so than any other affecting the European continent, provided for the deliberate destruction of civilians as an instrument of policy. Most of us are familiar with the major events of World War Two and of these, the blitz on such major cities as London and Liverpool stand out as beacons of devastation. The blitz on Coventry was equally tragic and the horror is increased as we subsequently learn that civilian losses could have been reduced enormously but for the fact that Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the time, refused to warn Coventry’s inhabitants that their city was to be raided lest the enemy realise their code had been broken. Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Britain’s foremost historian, described the policy of bombing civilian targets as being: “The most uncivilised method of warfare the world has known since the Mongol invasions.” It is a sad reflection on Britain that it was a British Government which initiated this war crime which by its nature would needlessly destroy so many European lives, not to speak of British lives lost in raids of retaliation. On the 10 May 1940, just one day after his appointment as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill announced that the bombing of Germany’s civilian population would commence. J. M. Spaight, C.B., C.B.E., who was the Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry, admitted that: “Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the R.A.F. had commenced bombing German civilian targets.”1 He went on to say that: “Hitler would have been willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones.”2 Churchill’s decision to bomb Germany’s civilian targets was to cost Britain dearly in terms of lives lost. The smouldering blackened ruins of London, Liverpool, Coventry and many other British cities bore silent testimony to this. The blitz on Coventry stands out as an example of such retaliatory raids and the British people in their innocence, unaware of the true reasons for their suffering, grew to hate and gave their all to strike back at the German barbarians. When the war ended in 1945, Coventry mourned 380 of her citizens who had died as a result of German bombing raids, and 100 acres of their city lay in ruins. A tragedy of enormous proportions which was nevertheless to pale into relative insignificance when compared with the results of bombing raids on German cities by allied bombers. For every Briton killed by German bombs, no less than nine Germans were killed by allied bombs. In the demilitarised city of Dresden, an estimated 135,000 people, mostly civilian refugees, were slaughtered in allied bombing raids in just 24 hours. And for no purpose other than sheer bloodlust. That beautiful city which contributed very little to the German war effort was virtually removed from the face of the earth. It was a crime of such magnitude that one of Great Britain’s most eminent Socialists, R.H.S. Crossman, described it as: “The long-suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the world.” He went on to say: “The devastation of Dresden in February 1945 was one of those crimes against humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted.”3 Equally horrendous were the earlier attacks on Hamburg. In ten terrible days from 24 July to 3 August 1943 British bombers reduced to rubble more than 6,000 acres of Hamburg. During those ten awesome days, an estimated 100,000 people lost their lives. When a thousand-year-old city of 2,000,000 souls is incinerated in just a few days with the loss of so many lives, what affect does it have on survivors? An official German document states: “For weeks afterwards, eyewitnesses were unable to report without succumbing to their nerves and weeping hysterically. They would try to speak, then would break down and cry: ‘I can’t stand seeing it again; I can’t stand it!’” Many weeks later, a woman who did survive was interviewed. She had still not recovered from the experience: “I saw people killed by falling bricks and heard the screams of others dying in the fire. I dragged my best friend from a burning building and she died in my arms. I saw others who went stark mad. The shock to the nerves and the soul, one can never erase.” The Police President of Hamburg reported: “Its horror is revealed in the howling and raging of the firestorms, the hellish noise of exploding bombs and the death cries of martyred human beings as well as the big silence after the raids. Speech is impotent to portray the measure of the horror, which shook the people for ten days and nights and the traces of which were written indelibly on the face of the city and its inhabitants. “No flight of imagination will ever succeed in measuring and describing the gruesome scenes of horror in the many buried air raid shelters. Posterity can only bow its head in honour of the fate of these innocents, sacrificed by the murderous lust of a sadistic enemy.” Martin Caidin, one of the world’s leading authorities on military science subjects, who was a high-ranking U.S. Government official expert on bombing effects and author of many related books, described the bombing of Hamburg as: “Standing out as the worst of the disasters visited upon civilisation during the insanity of the Second World War.”4 As National Socialist Germany’s second largest city, Hamburg was a natural target for allied bombing raids. The shame attached to ‘Operation Gomorrah’ was that it far exceeded that which was necessary to paralyse the city’s contribution to Germany’s war effort. ‘Gomorrah’ was the code name given to the plan to incinerate Hamburg in 1943. Hamburg was a Hanseatic city that straddled the beautiful River Alster immortalised by many songs and ballads and in particular, by the ‘Moonlight on the Alster’ waltz. Perhaps its most endearing feature was its medieval half-timbered Elizabethan-style houses that attracted tourists from all over the world. Sadly, this feature made it also attractive to the allied war lords who reasoned that such a city would burn easier and offer more potential victims per square mile. The method devised for the total destruction of Hamburg was simple, and as we shall see, was extremely effective. The first waves of bombers would release thousands of high-explosive bombs on the city which would keep the population, and especially the fire service, in their shelters. Then, the subsequent raids would rain down magnesium bombs. It has been conservatively estimated that during those ten days, Hamburg was struck by 1,200 landmines, 30,000 heavy high-explosive bombs, and 3,000,000 stick incendiary bombs. In addition to this, perhaps the most macabre weapon devised by mankind, the phosphorous bomb, was deemed suitable for dropping on a city’s civilian population. Eighty thousand of these 100-pound phosphorous bombs were dropped, plus 500 phosphorous canisters, and 500 phosphorous incendiaries. The affect that this type of weapon had on civilians is one of the worst nightmares to emerge from the 2nd World War, as we shall later see.
@@kayvan671 If Germany was so racist and evil how come that French Woman feel in love with German Soldiers that people from all over the World doesn't matter the skin color or Religion joined the German military even the SS and got high medal like the knights cross
@@harmdallmeyer6449 You would be wrong. Both my parents became adults and were married during the war. Additionally my mother was from a very large family even by German standards of the time. And all related similar stories to me.
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 and Berlin are both Shit holes but I would choose Hamburg aswell any time
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.
Hamburg flattened,yet within 15 years,the joint was “Rocking!”
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.
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..
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
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.
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.
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...
16 years later..."THE BEATLES"
@Hannibal S 33 is that really such a big deal?
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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..
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
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???
Einmalige Aufnahmen 👍❤ Danke fürs Hochladen dieses Videos 👍❤
Can we please stop talking about the word "liberation" and appreciate the precious historical material of the video?
I love Hamburg most out of all the cities in Germany, except weather.
I miss Hamburg.
And there's a Hamburger everywhere you look! 😋
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
😁😁😁 Оккупация Ганц это сегодня, когда Берлин-это город мусульман. ГДР был ваш шанс, но вы его опять просрали
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
*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.
You don't "Liberate" an enemy country, you occupy it. You liberate a country that's occupied by your enemy.
You really need to change the title of your video.
Its okay.
As a German, i agree with the title.
People were happy to be liberated by the Brits and not the Red Army.
As a Hungarian I agree with your first sentence: that was an occupation of course.
But I can't agree with your second sentence. For instance Hungary was occupied by the German army in 1944 and then Hungary was occupied by the Soviet army and its allies (e.g. the romanians or the sebian partisans) in 1944/45. Nobody liberated Hungary just occupied.
@@ToriZealot Yes... Montgomery's orders were to get to Hamburg and the Baltic at Wismar... BEFORE the Russians arrived.... The British Army arrived on the Baltic just 6 hours before Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front arrived... If the Russians had reached Wismar and Lubeck first, the Western Allies would have been unable to stop 1 million Russians taking over Keil, Flensberg and the whole of Denmark... The Russian Navy would have been able to take over the North Sea, and even threaten England and France...
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!
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.
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.
@@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
@@АннаЛекса $%#@!^%$ &*)}{ %$#@76 &*}{:;???????
Occupied, not liberated.
The B 24 was also no 'Liberator'. Only in that way that you welcome Death as a 'Liberation'.
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
@Crashed131963: War came home to the rightful owners.
Allied powers did not consider this as a "Befreiung", but as an occupation (Besatzung) !
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 ..
@@АлександрВасильков-з4о ну так правду не любят, особенно когда в стране бордак
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.
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.
Hello, thanks my friend, I love this videos, 😍😀 🇨🇵
From 00:31 all along the video we can see an Opel Olympia also "liberated" and put under new management.
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???
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?
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 !
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...
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.
This film clip show the occupation of Hamburg by foreign forces . So how can it be called liberation?
Exactly so.many people on these comments ignored that rediculous mistake.
Liberated from Nazi Control! Today Germany is very Democratic!
Liberation of Germany from Nazism.
Germany was a dictatorship with Adolf Hitler. So, the Americans came to free the Germans from the dictatorship and to bring back democracy as it was before 1933.
@@brunomilon6994 then occupied by capitalists and communists.
I was born in Hamburg, my parents too. The homes of my father in the city of Hamburg was distroid three times as he was a little child.
Stop war in Ukraine, speak together.
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.
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
So even in 1945 they knew the left lane was for passing.
Lane discipline even then.....
"Liberation"? No. Occupation is the correct word
Will that's how you have universal hesth coverage we Americans care their but I hope our president pulls out our troops in Germany then you will have some skin in the game you will have to pay for your own security and heath insurance see if it's free for you Germans then that's the problem with socialism you run out of other people money good luck Germany
Jammerlappen!
The Allies arrival in Hamburg in 1945 was not liberation but occupation. The term liberation by the Allies should only be used in respect of the German occupied countries like France and the Netherlands
Thank you for enlightening us, especially since you were there.
If Germany hadn't behaved like Savages during WW2 and for the second time in just under 20 years then no German City would have had to be Liberated, And then received Millions in Aid to rebuild cities like Hamburg, Allied countries like The UK & France did not have the same Money to rebuild there economy's and Infrastructure. It was Germany that was responsible for the millions who Were killed and Murdered.
@@guenthermichaels5303 Actually, my father was in the British Army in Hamburg, and was in the unit that advanced up to Lubeck and on to Flensberg... He told us that his unit actually saw Admiral Donitz, just before the German ' Government ' was sent to prison... Must have been incredible, but most of the British soldiers kept very quiet about it all...
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.
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.
Hamburg was fire-bombed prior to Germany's surrender, not after.
Obviously not after why would it be attacked Hitler was dead.
Most or all of this should be played back at 0.75 speed.
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 ?
The city liberated from the Germans, which reminds me with many similar liberations in history, examples: Liberating Palestine from the Palestinians in 1948, and Iraq from the Iraqis in 2003 and .....
Liberated not from the Germans, but from the Nazis.
yes i totally agree. i cannot see how the allies liberated any german cities. they captured and then occupied them.
@@hebnehAnd replaced with communism. Thanks genius!
from ruins into one of the biggest harbour city in the world .... well done Germany 💛💚
Liberation? Are you out of your mind????
No, are YOU out of your mind?
How does a invading army liberate? Next the liberation of Poland by Russia.
It was Occupation initially with Berlin divided into four administrative quarters followed by the creation of East and West Germany in 1949 and the birth of a new national currency The DeutchMark (DM).
The destruction is unbelievable. Hamburg was called the "Hiroshima of Europe". Yet only 15 years later, in August 1960 it was mostly cleaned up and rebuilt when a rock and roll band from Liverpool, England called the Beatles arrived to play at a club in the Reeperbahn. Today Hamburg is more famous around the world for the Beatles, than for all the terrible bombings of WW2.
is this original color? looks like it
One does not liberate a city in a belligerent country, One may conqueror or occupy but one does not liberate an enemy city. That would be like saying the Germans were liberating Stalingrad.
They liberated Germany from the Nazi dictatorship and restored the democracy.
ГДР был ваш шанс. А сегодня-вы колония США и будующая мусульманская столица Европы.😁😁😁
Yes, I think the point has been made... Totally unrelated point... If the Russians had not changed the name of Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad, it is likely that neither the Russians or the Germans would have bothered to stage a 6 month battle for it.
The resilience of the war-ravaged German people is most commendable.
The ability of Germans to destroy Europe was equally notable!
Стойкость в концлагерях проявляли ?
What Liberation?.Millions bombarded !
The English language is normally very precise, myself being English, I find the title here a complete error. The Channel Isles of Jersey and Guernsey, were liberated, when we the British, took them back after the German occupation. The Liberation of any part of Germany, would need to be a part of Germany occupied by a foreign state, but then Liberated by German Forces. As we know, no part of Germany, was occupied by any foreign state, not until the Allies invaded towards the end of the WW II.
All of the states which Germany had invaded, when Allied Troops arrived, those states were Liberated, because they were handed back to their people. Germany, here in this video, is under Allied Occupation, Jurisdiction, and so Domination. Whoever thought it would be classed as Liberation, for this video, either backed the wrong horse, or was using language which might of come from the other side of the Atlantic, as some of their verbal terms, are a bit crass, never mind their awful spelling too.
I only think logically, that is why I spotted the error in the title, as well as all of those irate comments, whom are just stating the obvious. A good historical video, giving a true picture of what life was truly like back then! *****
Trust me, Germans in Hamburg considered themselves liberated from endless war and Nazis. The Brits and Americans were not cruel. Those in the east definitely felt occupied by the Soviets.
@@guenthermichaels5303 Look up the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, Thine Meadows Camps, London Cage, etc. etc. for the deeds of those "humanistic" allies.
Reminder: It was Britain that captured Hamburg in 1945
Congratulations!
Thats good i prefer them than the soviet
Hamburg surrendered and did not fight
@@ToriZealot Yes, correct... Did you read the book ' Finale at Flensberg ' which detailed all these events at the end of the War...? My father was a soldier involved in it, but he preferred to say very little about what he saw in those final days... Maybe the British Army was ordered to keep quiet ?
@@richardruff8712 many of my grandmother's generation did not talk much about the war. She lost her home due to British bombing twice. But as many Germans in the west, they were just happy not to be occupied by the Russians.
It isn't "liberation" to take an enemy's city.
Happens.
We Germans started all of this.
And thats the reason why everyone here has moved on.
(Except for you)
Let's look at the "liberation" results . . .
London looks like Pakistan
Paris looks like Africa
Berlin looks like Turkey
Detroit looks like Detroit . . . 🖐🇵🇹
you are wrong.Berlin looks like Berlin.There re less than 10%Turkish origin citizen.By the way. Most of them are well integrated.And you are telling bullshit. Have you ever been in London and Paris?If yes you wouldnt describe as you did.🇹🇷🇦🇿👊🤜🤘
@@fatihunal2713 Don't worry. Just another American more devoted to spreading his ignorance than to actually learning about the world.
He's totally right, I live in Paris went both to London and Berlin, all have become shitholes.
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
They " liberated" the shit out of that city !
Thanks, so ist es !
Any music lover apreciates Hamburg for giving us Brahms, nourishing the Beatles, and giving us the one really good concert video of Rockpile.
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!!!
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 !
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.
Дороги в 45м лучше чем у нас сейчас
Not "liberation" : capture...
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.
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.
Da hat Autobahn noch Spaß gemacht! Großartige Bilder!
Liberation ? you are ill ? Germany has been freed in 1933and lost her freedom in 1945
You are fucking odiot now the Muslim running your , great country
MikeIstEinMongo Zwei fuck you German idiot,
Wipe those tears away Hans.
Mien Got
Trooooooooollol how old are you 10
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
Ни партизан тебе ни снайперов.Вот тебе воспитанный народ.
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.
France, Belgium, Netherland, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Chechoslovakia, Greece, were liberated. Germany was defeated to do this.
Jacek Laskowski Merci...
Was the destruction "after" surrender, or in the battles leading up to it?
No battle involved like in Berlin, Hamburg did not fight
вроде бы война была...а дороги какие....
2:31 Das rote Backsteingebäude im Hintergrund - war das nicht das Fundament für die Elbphilharmonie viel später? Ich finde die Architektur wirklich faszinierend und würde gerne mehr darüber erfahren.
This is what Iraq and Libya looked like after they were "liberated".
My father made it to Hamburg to take a ship to Britain at the end of the war. He described the city as "flattened " Glad he eventually made his way to Canada.
that’s a damn fine highway
That is the autobahn from Bremen to Hamburg.
Why this ridiculous “projector” noise.
Amazing old footage. I've often wondered where Germany got the money from to rebuild its country? I was in Hamburg last summer and my goodness what a change!
@bademeister you seem angry? I'm just generally interested. Does Germany not trade on the stock market? I think its amazing how they have made the country what it is today since 1945. If you or anyone knows how they did it, please share.
@@MartinVanDerSande The Allies played a huge part in getting Germany back on its feet restarting Volkswagen production soon after the wars end. The USA pumped billions in as the Cold War was coming and they wanted a strong Germany.
Marshall Help. You can also study how Japan was rebuilt.
@bademeister marshall aid and british wheat*
The US financially helped Germany after the war, also, the US found and recovered Germany's gold reserves in a salt mine before the Russians got to it....and returned it to the new German government.
Nach den Trümmern und Ruinen zu urteilen, wurden ja recht viele "Befreiungsuntensilien" auf Hamburg herabgelassen.
Hamburg wasn't liberated; it was captured.
TOUGH TITTY FOR THEM
Germans were very happy when the amis came!
@@letitbe6996 Only because the BFF of the amis were the Soviets, areal bunch of sweethearts they.
I. Gotta ask, What car is that with the star on the grille?
Conquered and castrated, not liberated. .
Lose the projector sound.
What kind of liberation is that ?
It is so strange seeing these things in colour.
Meine Heimatstadt so zu sehen macht mich wirklich traurig. Schön in Friedenszeiten aufzuwachsen. Nie wieder Faschismus , nie wieder Krieg.
You prefer unbridled capitalism and communism?
Woven into the tapestry of the Second World War, the air blitz is a stark reminder that this war, perhaps more so than any other affecting the European continent, provided for the deliberate destruction of civilians as an instrument of policy. Most of us are familiar with the major events of World War Two and of these, the blitz on such major cities as London and Liverpool stand out as beacons of devastation. The blitz on Coventry was equally tragic and the horror is increased as we subsequently learn that civilian losses could have been reduced enormously but for the fact that Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the time, refused to warn Coventry’s inhabitants that their city was to be raided lest the enemy realise their code had been broken.
Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Britain’s foremost historian, described the policy of bombing civilian targets as being: “The most uncivilised method of warfare the world has known since the Mongol invasions.” It is a sad reflection on Britain that it was a British Government which initiated this war crime which by its nature would needlessly destroy so many European lives, not to speak of British lives lost in raids of retaliation.
On the 10 May 1940, just one day after his appointment as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill announced that the bombing of Germany’s civilian population would commence. J. M. Spaight, C.B., C.B.E., who was the Principal Secretary to the Air Ministry, admitted that: “Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the R.A.F. had commenced bombing German civilian targets.”1
He went on to say that: “Hitler would have been willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones.”2
Churchill’s decision to bomb Germany’s civilian targets was to cost Britain dearly in terms of lives lost. The smouldering blackened ruins of London, Liverpool, Coventry and many other British cities bore silent testimony to this. The blitz on Coventry stands out as an example of such retaliatory raids and the British people in their innocence, unaware of the true reasons for their suffering, grew to hate and gave their all to strike back at the German barbarians. When the war ended in 1945, Coventry mourned 380 of her citizens who had died as a result of German bombing raids, and 100 acres of their city lay in ruins. A tragedy of enormous proportions which was nevertheless to pale into relative insignificance when compared with the results of bombing raids on German cities by allied bombers.
For every Briton killed by German bombs, no less than nine Germans were killed by allied bombs. In the demilitarised city of Dresden, an estimated 135,000 people, mostly civilian refugees, were slaughtered in allied bombing raids in just 24 hours. And for no purpose other than sheer bloodlust. That beautiful city which contributed very little to the German war effort was virtually removed from the face of the earth. It was a crime of such magnitude that one of Great Britain’s most eminent Socialists, R.H.S. Crossman, described it as: “The long-suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the world.”
He went on to say: “The devastation of Dresden in February 1945 was one of those crimes against humanity whose authors would have been arraigned at Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted.”3
Equally horrendous were the earlier attacks on Hamburg. In ten terrible days from 24 July to 3 August 1943 British bombers reduced to rubble more than 6,000 acres of Hamburg. During those ten awesome days, an estimated 100,000 people lost their lives. When a thousand-year-old city of 2,000,000 souls is incinerated in just a few days with the loss of so many lives, what affect does it have on survivors? An official German document states: “For weeks afterwards, eyewitnesses were unable to report without succumbing to their nerves and weeping hysterically. They would try to speak, then would break down and cry: ‘I can’t stand seeing it again; I can’t stand it!’”
Many weeks later, a woman who did survive was interviewed. She had still not recovered from the experience: “I saw people killed by falling bricks and heard the screams of others dying in the fire. I dragged my best friend from a burning building and she died in my arms. I saw others who went stark mad. The shock to the nerves and the soul, one can never erase.” The Police President of Hamburg reported: “Its horror is revealed in the howling and raging of the firestorms, the hellish noise of exploding bombs and the death cries of martyred human beings as well as the big silence after the raids. Speech is impotent to portray the measure of the horror, which shook the people for ten days and nights and the traces of which were written indelibly on the face of the city and its inhabitants.
“No flight of imagination will ever succeed in measuring and describing the gruesome scenes of horror in the many buried air raid shelters. Posterity can only bow its head in honour of the fate of these innocents, sacrificed by the murderous lust of a sadistic enemy.”
Martin Caidin, one of the world’s leading authorities on military science subjects, who was a high-ranking U.S. Government official expert on bombing effects and author of many related books, described the bombing of Hamburg as: “Standing out as the worst of the disasters visited upon civilisation during the insanity of the Second World War.”4
As National Socialist Germany’s second largest city, Hamburg was a natural target for allied bombing raids. The shame attached to ‘Operation Gomorrah’ was that it far exceeded that which was necessary to paralyse the city’s contribution to Germany’s war effort. ‘Gomorrah’ was the code name given to the plan to incinerate Hamburg in 1943.
Hamburg was a Hanseatic city that straddled the beautiful River Alster immortalised by many songs and ballads and in particular, by the ‘Moonlight on the Alster’ waltz. Perhaps its most endearing feature was its medieval half-timbered Elizabethan-style houses that attracted tourists from all over the world. Sadly, this feature made it also attractive to the allied war lords who reasoned that such a city would burn easier and offer more potential victims per square mile. The method devised for the total destruction of Hamburg was simple, and as we shall see, was extremely effective. The first waves of bombers would release thousands of high-explosive bombs on the city which would keep the population, and especially the fire service, in their shelters. Then, the subsequent raids would rain down magnesium bombs. It has been conservatively estimated that during those ten days, Hamburg was struck by 1,200 landmines, 30,000 heavy high-explosive bombs, and 3,000,000 stick incendiary bombs. In addition to this, perhaps the most macabre weapon devised by mankind, the phosphorous bomb, was deemed suitable for dropping on a city’s civilian population. Eighty thousand of these 100-pound phosphorous bombs were dropped, plus 500 phosphorous canisters, and 500 phosphorous incendiaries. The affect that this type of weapon had on civilians is one of the worst nightmares to emerge from the 2nd World War, as we shall later see.
Strange how these war criminals never faced justice. Or maybe not so strange
mcnasty: Thank you for writing the truth.
Was Hamburg ‘Liberated’?
Yes!
Liberation!
Liberation from fascism!
That's right.
The Germans themselves could not be liberated.
They were helped.
USSR, USA, England
Iff that's what liberation looks like' you can keep it 💥
Well, we Germans shouldn't have started all of this.
VERY SIMPLE!
@@kayvan671 Who decleard war on Germany again? lol France and Britain started it and Poland was invaded becouse they murdered German Civilians there
@@tiagocosta3542
Good propaganda here.
Don't worry...
We lost and Poland has survived.
Still triggered about that?
🤡
Damn son...
@@kayvan671 What Propaganda there are pictures of it i bet you also think Iraq has weapons of mass destruction huh
@@kayvan671 If Germany was so racist and evil how come that French Woman feel in love with German Soldiers that people from all over the World doesn't matter the skin color or Religion joined the German military even the SS and got high medal like the knights cross
Karma is real and the USA is slowly experiencing its.
Looks a bit less liberated than Baghdad in 2003.
Es heisst in korrektem Deutsch "Hamburg 1945" und nicht "Hamburg in 1945" :-)
Das soll auch englisch sein
Also das "in" ist englisch
Germany was YEARS ahead of the world in lifestyle in 1945.
and still is.
In '45? Living in Bunkers, stealing coal from trains and easting Cats?
@@harmdallmeyer6449 Not until 1947. "Morgenthau Plan" in operation.
@@BasementEngineer I don't think you have ever talked to a German that lived through the war...
@@harmdallmeyer6449 You would be wrong.
Both my parents became adults and were married during the war.
Additionally my mother was from a very large family even by German standards of the time.
And all related similar stories to me.
"liberated"
Subjugated