My father was a b17 gunner with the 8th airforce. He survived all of his missions and never said a word about the war. He died of a heart attack at age 51
I watched a really great documentary about the 8th,it’s a restoration of a film America made during the war and it’s narrated by the same guy who made it, it’s on HBO maxx,what was the name of his plane?Also he’s definitely a hero
@@TheTriplelman 65 US Servicemen died under General Bonespurs reign. Also Decades of policy failures that the Trump Administration exacerbated Covid resulted in more than 450,000 unnecessary American deaths in 2018, with tens of thousands of additional deaths in other years also attributable to President Donald Trump's actions, according to a report published Thursday from a commission of health experts convened by the British medical journal The Lancet. Trump didn't need a war he killed them at home from his sheer incompetence.
@TheTriplelman that's great now he's openly encourage Russia to invade NATO. Before you jump on the pay USA for NATO "When the North Atlantic Council - NATO's top political decision-making body unanimously decides to engage in an operation or mission, there is no obligation for each and every member to contribute unless it is an Article 5 collective defence operation" "The 2% defence investment guideline In 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defence spending to continue to ensure the Alliance's military readiness." Majority of Europian cou tries are currently soending 2% or more.. The moment Ukraine falls China will jump on Taiwan quicker than you can spell MAGA. Consequences will be catastrophic both for the US and the World
My grandfather he was sent to Germany and he fought for his life and got captured. He made it home in one piece and died in 1995 at age 84. After the war he worked as a fire fighter and met my grandmother after the war.
That is remarkable. He must have been strong physically and mentally, especially when he was in a prisoner of war camp. It's hard to get my head around that many families ceased to exist because the people didn't survive the war and therefore unable to go on and have children.
@@brian.7966HELL no waste of time but ppl like us will just enjoy to learn wht happened at least in thinking…since ww2 ended there’s been a war every ten years smh unbelievable
Well that's a myth since the main bulk of German forces were facing the Red Army's advance on Berlin. Germany after five and a half years of war was utterly exhausted and spent most of their manpower fighting the ussr.
@@ytxmakIt sounds like you are dismissive of God because you have a kindergarten concept of the Creator. In my opinion, God is not Sky Daddy/Santa Claus. The Creator creates and we take it from there.
and it's comments like yours that makes it worthwhile. May sound corny but it's oh so true. Thanks for stopping by to let us know. We really appreciate it a lot.
I read that a lot of you have grandparents who told stories about the war. They had the chance to do this. Honour and glory to their courage that they fought in the war. In Poland, a couple of million families did not have that chance. Nobody helped us at that time. How many millions of lives could have survived...
From what I ever hear it was Britain who claimed they were going to fight with Poland and abruptly decided not to do so. The U.S. wasn’t in the War fighting and had to build an Army and supply the Alies with weapons. I’m pretty sure the gurantee came from Britain.
Polish airmen who were evacuated to England led the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the Polish Air Force Exhibition at RAF Northolt is now housed in the historic Officers' Mess. There is a memorial there. British had to bend the knee to Stalin and the heroic Poilsh Airmen were forced to stand in the crowd during the 1945 Victory Parade. British people know about this and are deeply ashamed but we will not repeat this cowardly behaviour and we may well be able to help Poland against Putins aggression ..... the Poles and the Brits are brothers in arms ....nothing will change that now.
The camera work is really good. Nothing posed in this footage. I do wish TH-cam would stop blurring footage with decency squares. This is the 21 at century. There are worse things on the internet.
Stop looking at everything from just your point of view. Not everyone that looks at YT content is a grown, mature adult. For instance, I kinda appreciate the censorship from time to time. I mean, I really prefer that my 6 year old daughter doesn’t have maimed, shot up dead corpses put in her face on something she came across on YT, just the same as I don’t want her young mind exposed to pornography. Make sense?
@@wgcds7jyg897 Whatever. Please. Weak argument. Weak! You're going to keep a kid off the internet in today's modern world? Come back with a stronger argument next time.
This footage is awesome. I had planned on just listening to this as I fall asleep but I can’t stop looking at the footage in this video. Thanks for uploading this…
So pathetic that in the year 2023 we cannot watch a military history documentary without Censorship...well enjoy it while you can youTube because Rumble is catching up in the video inventory ...and without Censorship too.
it’s so ridiculous man they censor literal history yet half the ads i get on here are deepfakes of celebrities telling me to claim my $6000 if i just click the link 🤦🏽♂️
@@joanfrellburg4901Sure it is a little bit right leaning but that's not a big deal cus yt practises extreme far left, and extreme far right ideals; this level censorship on a historical documentary is literally a form of fascism used in dictatorships across the world to hideaway atrocities they commited... Lol
The scenes of destruction are absolutely terrible and a reminder of the potential folly of man , but let's not forget the awful destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam etc etc , and the unimginable suffering inflicted by the Germans on innocent civilians at the beginning of the war ...
The 2nd World War invented mass bombing of urban centres! Yes the Germans started such , but the firestorms in Germany and Japan demonstrated the terrible immorality of such tactics and the Israelis are continuing it to this day. There is no justice in bombing civilian populations, the innocent , children and babies cannot be viewed as collateral damage!
The US Army engineer in charge of repairing the Remagen railroad bridge was Ira Barzilay. He was a child actor that appeared in the Our Gang and Little Rascals movie shorts. He was on the bridge when it collapsed and fell into the river with it yet managed to survive without injury. After the war he started a company called Barzilay that manufactured midcentury modern wood furniture.
My girlfriend is from Remagen [I'm UK]. Her dad was in a Russian prison camp at the time but her mum remembered the whole thing. The American bombing was accurate as ever (missed everything including the town) so that was ok but what pissed her off was the Yanks taking everyone's front doors to make shelters. No rape, no looting, just theft of doors. If you look at the picture of the bridge the tunnel into the cliff is now a mushroom farm. High above that there's a little hole which used to be a place for clandestine meetings of the romantic kind. You got to it via a mini-tunnel the other side of the hill. When I first went there the local mayor [think Boss von Hogg] was selling pebbles from the bridge remains to US tourists, then ripping them off again at his hotel.
The post-war one(s) are especially good. As a WW2 history buff myself, that's the kind of documentary few ever see. Looking at Berlin in the Summer of '45 is haunting. Can't even imagine what it'd have looked like in the first week after the surrender with tens of thousands of bodies, fires still burning and the Russians running amok on the civilian population. Yikes.
@@NicolasMogensen Yeah, the reports of Russian actions are difficult to stomach. I can somewhat understand anger at German troops but the violence against civilians of all ages is just too much.
TH-cam doesn't want to get close to "snuff films", so they have this rule about corpses. You can show injured people who survived, as long as you state that they did, and if you show any corpses, you have to say they recovered. It is hard to believe dead POWs recovered in mass, so... censor.
I'm one of those boomers. Born within recent memory of these events was a privilege for us kids.DAMN it was not long before the COLD WAR settled in and the peace became a tense chess game for the military industrial complex.
I don't like to think of fighting in wars as test of greatest generations. Maybe more. so of the poor immigrants that worked sweathouses, meatpacking plants, mining, building railroads and canals, endured race and ethnic issues, and also those that developed the sciences that lead the charge in industrial revolution, space and medicine and other discovery for America
AND Very much like Germany n Japan in WW 2...the Vietnamese are now are Allie n "1" Trading partner..and dually Hate the Communist Chinese..my oh my how things come full circle.
This series is fabulous. So much is made of the battles, proper yes, but the background rounds out the complete story of a war that few wanted but so many suffered because of it.
When US troops conquer Nazi Germany from the West in March 1945, camera teams follow, documenting the defeated, and the liberated. Does the experience of watching history change for you seeing it in color? Does it seem more real in color? Closer in time than b/w footage?
@@BLACKMINER73 TH-cam are to blame for blurred images and video clips they don't allow gore or anything to do with dead people even though this is history.
Failure of Western psyops to convince those of all of Western Germany not to surrender especially after the senseless offensive of what came to be *"The Battle of the Bulge"* and later the clearly suicidal "Operation Bodenplate" which I think translates to "Operation Boot to the neck."
My dad flew 39 missions on a B-17 as a ball turrent gunner. He told me if their main objective was destroyed the plane would dump their load anywhere on the cities. It bothered him I know but he also said how many of his friends planes he saw go down.
As a mother, like all mothers I'd be so scared watching my child go to war. But there's something so especially frightening about those ball turrets and their gunners. And 39 missions! I'm so glad your dad survived and hope he had a good life in spite of his war experiences.
Is it possible to watch this somewhere other than TH-cam? The censorship in this really bothers me. This is legitimate historical footage, not the glorification of violence.
My father was a US Army MP serving in Germany during WW2 and told me about the Army taking a weapons factory in one of the city's there that manufactured German Luger hand guns. His MP unit was tasked with guarding the factory for a few days until relieved by more troops. As a reward the commander told each man they could take a new German Luger off the assembly line to send home. I can remember as a young man my dad letting me shoot a few shells from it only one time. When my father died in 1994 he passed this gun down to my older brother who in turn passed it down to his adopted son.
My Father was in WW2 in 1944. His Brother raided a German armory and brought back (3) brand new Mauser Rifles with original slings and unsharpened bayonets. My father rarely if ever shot it, and I Received it. It is a Piece of History. Mausers made before the war or early in the war at the Mauser Factory, were extremely High Quality. I love the one I have and that Rifle is only good for one thing: War. A great Story. Cherish your War-Bring Backs. RH
My father was a tankman and in 1942-1945 went from Don river to Vienna He told me that he survived by miracle 4 orders 6 medals He died in 2012 92 years old and I really miss him
I had a Grandfather that was in the 17th airborne in Germany at the time of this documentary. After participating in the battle of the Ardennes and the battle of Rhine (operation Varsity) he was part of the allied occupation of Germany. The occupation of the allied forces in Germany was called the battle of Europe, which my Grandfather received a campaign meddle for along with the campaign medals for Ardennes and the Rhine.
My grandad was Scottish. He worked in supplies during WW2. He said he never fired a shot in anger and has been drunk in pretty much every country in Europe 🤷♂
My grandfather’s brother was part of the red ball express and my grandmother’s brother received a silver star from his activity at the battle of the bulge I grew up hearing lots of stories about ww2
Over the last 50+ years, I thought I'd seen what was most of the footage from WWII one way or another. I hadn't seen this all before - great find and thanks for sharing it.
yep for sure this is fabulous after years & years & hundreds of hours of film watched I can say there are many minutes I've NEVER seen! Thank you, & thank you GS & crew for your amazing work & oh yeah for 'Shane'
One of my father’s last firefights of the war was in April 1945 somewhere in southern Germany. He and his 2nd Ranger battalion had a patrol that had inadvertently run into a loaded freight truck full of the provisions of a Waffen SS unit. It turned into a pretty vicious battle when they thought they had gotten beyond that kind of fighting . He lost more friends that day.😢when VE day arrived they had made it all the way through Germany into Checkoslavakia (sp?)
It wasn’t just the US but also the British Commonwealth, French, Poles, and other nationalities participated in the assault on Germany from the west. The main bulk of the Wehrmacht were facing the Soviets so the yanks never fought the German Army at full strength and capacity. More than 80% of German military deaths were on the Eastern Front since the USSR was viewed as the Third Reich’s main nemesis.
@@theclown2393 british step foot on mainland italy first then there was the disastrous "raid" on a fishing village in france which went horrificly. then dday
It is quite bizarre that Germany recovered from WW2 and the total destruction we have witnessed in this video along with also WW1 before this era, but Britain was knocked off its pedestal by the cost of WW1 and then WW2 and is still a basket case today because of these two wars.
,bruceburns1672 It is not at all bizarre. Both Germany & Japan are industrious people who, under American occupation (one for 8 yrs, the other for 10 yrs), were compelled to pursue Free Market economic development and robust civic institutions while also being cleansed of their militaristic totalitarian aggressive ideologies as much as possible. Britain, on the other hand, booted out Winston Churchill & enthusiastically voted in a staunchly Socialist Labor government and reaped the same fabulous benefits they are currently reaping for having once again voted in a staunchly Socialist Labor government. The Brits decided to sacrifice their own self reliance as they wanted a giant Nanny State to amass collectivist power that would allow the government to rule over them as do all Welfare States eventually.
@@normaventer7931 american foreign policy is hampering german interests not helping it. American foreign policy has done everything it can to prevent german technological ability join with Russian raw materials. They are worried that the two together would be a major economical threat to American hegemony.
Such historic filming and a visual record of the victory over tyranny. As we approach Remembrance Sunday at the cenotaph in London, lest we forget the sacrifice made by so many men and women who fought to give us freedom that we enjoy today.
The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key imdustries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr. It was first proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in a 1944 memorandum entitled Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany.
Whose plan also contemplates the sterilization of the German male population. Mr. Morgenthau is very humanitarian, as is Sir Arthur Harris with his "strategic bombings"...
That plan also set population limitations for modern German which was going to require induced famine to facilitate the requisite population reduction and a de-industrialized economy. That all changed once the true hell on earth of the USSR was realized.
I have a message sent to my grandfather telling him - Lt. David McLaren not to bomb the cathedral in cologne . He was 8th corps artillary 9th us army. The stuff he did is absolutely mind blowing.
Really a miracle that the cathedral survived relatively unscathed, considering the total destruction all around. That message, both it's sender and recipient a worthy piece of history.
God Bless The Greatest Generation….my father an officer, served in the USAAF. A newspaper article from his hometown in Massena, upstate NY covered the exploits with his Four brothers. A picture of the Five ARCHAMBEAULT brothers appeared in the paper also. His youngest brother, my Uncle Conrad left high school his junior year and enlisted with the Army. My grandparents were legal immigrants from Quebec. God bless them all ! I will see them all one day 😊
Seeing the footage in color really lets you compare WW2 to the destruction Ukraine is facing in their war against the Russians. All I could think of was the quote "War. War never changes." (from Fallout) and how well it fit with the footage of the results of the aerial bombardments. Everything in ruins and to no gain.
I remember seeing the George Steven's documentary 'D-Day to Berlin' on SBS TV here in Australia over ten years ago, then I bought the DVD. What I found most horrifying was the Steven's team capturing the footage of the emaciated bodies (dead and alive) at one of the death camps. The bodies piled up on top of each other. The oven still smoldering, the German guards trying to hide in prisoner striped uniforms. As one of the Steven's team members narrating as an older man, maybe Irwin Shaw, Ivan Moffat, both successful writers, said: 'How can one human being, do this to another human being.' I'll never forget seeing that.
yea, the extent of horrors is something i still struggle getting my head around - it was primary reason we decided to prosecute them, than summarily execute them as Stalin wanted to do. As no one would believe the horrors, if we hadn't evidenced them - it was on a scale that is beyond sedastic gruesome experiments on twins and lamps made of jewish skin as a present for their wifes its so beyond comprehension
Grandfather on mothers side was stationed in the Philippines in the Pacific, he was in the navy dont have his boat name on hand, Grandfather on dads side fought in Italy where he lost his left wrist do to a Gunshot wound. One died in 1975 the other in 1985 just 10 days before i was born. Im 38 of 2023 parents are 67. My grandfathers would be well over 100 as they were born in 1920-1923 respectfully
For myself it makes me sad to feel that it is alway's the innocent who suffer the most, for thousants of years dicttors have com to the forefront and destryed thousands of life until they are defeated but still the pople let those who spread evil come to powe and will continue to do so for years to come.Wonderful documentay thank you for sharing.
Great documentary, like something never seen before in color, it’s great and I hope a lot of people see these footage to remind us that evil alert within any country, and we in America are in the mist of that, the reality of the matter is that sometimes history repeats itself, the young generation of today, must be reminded of the Atrocities of war and what it does to a country and a generation, and we was not fall into that and conserve the right of people to exist.
A wonderful documentary... the downfall of evil....what a relief it must have been for all those people of small villages and towns...innocent victims of few IDIOTS.
My father was a b17 gunner with the 8th airforce. He survived all of his missions and never said a word about the war. He died of a heart attack at age 51
MY MOTHER, ❤️ ATTACK 45. IN 1974. I WAS 18. MY FATHER WAS IN THE NAVY. PETTY OFFICER. HE DIED 2010. WAS 85. HATE WARS! 🪖⛑️ TAKE CARE. 🫡 ✌️
I watched a really great documentary about the 8th,it’s a restoration of a film America made during the war and it’s narrated by the same guy who made it, it’s on HBO maxx,what was the name of his plane?Also he’s definitely a hero
History
Repeats itself
Over and over again . We humans will never learn .
depends who you give power to. the United States was not involved in any wars during Trump's presidency
@@TheTriplelman 65 US Servicemen died under General Bonespurs reign.
Also Decades of policy failures that the Trump Administration exacerbated Covid resulted in more than 450,000 unnecessary American deaths in 2018, with tens of thousands of additional deaths in other years also attributable to President Donald Trump's actions, according to a report published Thursday from a commission of health experts convened by the British medical journal The Lancet.
Trump didn't need a war he killed them at home from his sheer incompetence.
Dude the states had half a dozen engagements trump inherited during his presidency the fk you on about @@TheTriplelman
@TheTriplelman that's great now he's openly encourage Russia to invade NATO.
Before you jump on the pay USA for NATO
"When the North Atlantic Council - NATO's top political decision-making body
unanimously decides to engage in an operation or mission, there is no obligation for
each and every member to contribute unless it is an Article 5 collective defence
operation"
"The 2% defence investment guideline
In 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defence spending to continue to ensure the Alliance's military readiness."
Majority of Europian cou tries are currently soending 2% or more..
The moment Ukraine falls China will jump on Taiwan quicker than you can spell MAGA.
Consequences will be catastrophic both for the US and the World
The guy who wanted to nuke a tropical storm?
My grandfather he was sent to Germany and he fought for his life and got captured.
He made it home in one piece and died in 1995 at age 84.
After the war he worked as a fire fighter and met my grandmother after the war.
Nice to share
How was treated as a POW?
@@Ditka-89 Unfortunately I dont know. I never asked him.
@@MrCooper83 thanks for sharing. God rest your gpa’s soul
That is remarkable. He must have been strong physically and mentally, especially when he was in a prisoner of war camp. It's hard to get my head around that many families ceased to exist because the people didn't survive the war and therefore unable to go on and have children.
So glad that these films were saved for future generations.
yet they blur so much of it
If we can find some that are not protesting against the current matter they want to protest over🇦🇺
yes but will they learn? I doubt it.
@@brian.7966HELL no waste of time but ppl like us will just enjoy to learn wht happened at least in thinking…since ww2 ended there’s been a war every ten years smh unbelievable
But a pity they are censored and so lost for later generations.
Extra ordinary documentary. I just cant believe my grandma soon 97 years old lived in this era. Close yet so far.
The soldiers who died trying to repair the bridge must be remembered. They helped shorten the war. God bless them.
Well that's a myth since the main bulk of German forces were facing the Red Army's advance on Berlin. Germany after five and a half years of war was utterly exhausted and spent most of their manpower fighting the ussr.
The same 'god' that ignored the Holocaust? or a different god?
@@ytxmakIt sounds like you are dismissive of God because you have a kindergarten concept of the Creator. In my opinion, God is not Sky Daddy/Santa Claus. The Creator creates and we take it from there.
I think the Allies should have turned on the USSR
@@ytxmakSince you are not God, you have no clue
i visited Reims this fall (2023) and saw the champagne factory in this film. And the cathedral was magnificent.
This is incredible. Thank you for uploading for us!
and it's comments like yours that makes it worthwhile. May sound corny but it's oh so true. Thanks for stopping by to let us know. We really appreciate it a lot.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory✌️🇺🇲👍🇺🇦🙏Thanks!!!!! I just today discovered it!!!
It's absolutely amazing to see so many natural and human moments.
They really were the greatest generation. God bless these brave men.
I read that a lot of you have grandparents who told stories about the war. They had the chance to do this.
Honour and glory to their courage that they fought in the war.
In Poland, a couple of million families did not have that chance.
Nobody helped us at that time. How many millions of lives could have survived...
Blame it on the Russians
@@5150Bud we truly fought the wrong enemy
Эти русские спасли твой зад 😂@@5150Bud
From what I ever hear it was Britain who claimed they were going to fight with Poland and abruptly decided not to do so. The U.S. wasn’t in the War fighting and had to build an Army and supply the Alies with weapons. I’m pretty sure the gurantee came from Britain.
Polish airmen who were evacuated to England led the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the Polish Air Force Exhibition at RAF Northolt is now housed in the historic Officers' Mess. There is a memorial there. British had to bend the knee to Stalin and the heroic Poilsh Airmen were forced to stand in the crowd during the 1945 Victory Parade. British people know about this and are deeply ashamed but we will not repeat this cowardly behaviour and we may well be able to help Poland against Putins aggression ..... the Poles and the Brits are brothers in arms ....nothing will change that now.
The camera work is really good. Nothing posed in this footage. I do wish TH-cam would stop blurring footage with decency squares. This is the 21 at century. There are worse things on the internet.
Stop looking at everything from just your point of view. Not everyone that looks at YT content is a grown, mature adult. For instance, I kinda appreciate the censorship from time to time. I mean, I really prefer that my 6 year old daughter doesn’t have maimed, shot up dead corpses put in her face on something she came across on YT, just the same as I don’t want her young mind exposed to pornography. Make sense?
@@themapmaker5374Why is a 6-year-old child on the internet to begin with?
@@wgcds7jyg897 Whatever. Please. Weak argument. Weak! You're going to keep a kid off the internet in today's modern world? Come back with a stronger argument next time.
@@themapmaker5374 A 6-year-old? Yes, absolutely. Kid should be outside playing.
@@wgcds7jyg897 I said, "in today's modern world". Not pre-1990's. Welcome to the 21st century boomer.
Fascinating. The utter destruction and despair. And yet, humans continue warring against each other. It's beyond sad.
Well, our ruling class continues to drag us into imperialist wars.
It has been going on for thousands of years. World War 2 wasn't the first time.
This footage is awesome. I had planned on just listening to this as I fall asleep but I can’t stop looking at the footage in this video. Thanks for uploading this…
And seeing it all in colour as well is breath taking 🤯
So pathetic that in the year 2023 we cannot watch a military history documentary without Censorship...well enjoy it while you can youTube because Rumble is catching up in the video inventory ...and without Censorship too.
Never heard of Rumble, but I will check it out now. Thanks.
it’s so ridiculous man they censor literal history yet half the ads i get on here are deepfakes of celebrities telling me to claim my $6000 if i just click the link 🤦🏽♂️
Looks pretty right wing.
Utterly pathetic that images are blurred and words sanitized … Big Brother, nanny state, whatever you want to call it, it stinks.
@@joanfrellburg4901Sure it is a little bit right leaning but that's not a big deal cus yt practises extreme far left, and extreme far right ideals; this level censorship on a historical documentary is literally a form of fascism used in dictatorships across the world to hideaway atrocities they commited... Lol
The scenes of destruction are absolutely terrible and a reminder of the
potential folly of man , but let's not forget the awful destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam etc etc , and the unimginable suffering inflicted by the Germans on innocent civilians at the beginning of the war ...
...THE RUSSIANS ARE SURE AS HELL NEVER GONNA FORGET-(!)
The 2nd World War invented mass bombing of urban centres! Yes the Germans started such , but the firestorms in Germany and Japan demonstrated the terrible immorality of such tactics and the Israelis are continuing it to this day. There is no justice in bombing civilian populations, the innocent , children and babies cannot be viewed as collateral damage!
@@daleburrell6273
And the Italiens not either!!
@@Muotaman9958 You mean the Italians that dragged Germans into the Greece, Balkans and Africa because their military was in competent?
@@daleburrell6273 ....that's why they are destroying Ukraine, Syria etc?
The US Army engineer in charge of repairing the Remagen railroad bridge was Ira Barzilay. He was a child actor that appeared in the Our Gang and Little Rascals movie shorts. He was on the bridge when it collapsed and fell into the river with it yet managed to survive without injury. After the war he started a company called Barzilay that manufactured midcentury modern wood furniture.
My girlfriend is from Remagen [I'm UK]. Her dad was in a Russian prison camp at the time but her mum remembered the whole thing. The American bombing was accurate as ever (missed everything including the town) so that was ok but what pissed her off was the Yanks taking everyone's front doors to make shelters. No rape, no looting, just theft of doors.
If you look at the picture of the bridge the tunnel into the cliff is now a mushroom farm. High above that there's a little hole which used to be a place for clandestine meetings of the romantic kind. You got to it via a mini-tunnel the other side of the hill.
When I first went there the local mayor [think Boss von Hogg] was selling pebbles from the bridge remains to US tourists, then ripping them off again at his hotel.
I heartily recommend this channel and this series.
the 5 videos in this playlist are all worth watching. Fascinating.
The post-war one(s) are especially good. As a WW2 history buff myself, that's the kind of documentary few ever see. Looking at Berlin in the Summer of '45 is haunting. Can't even imagine what it'd have looked like in the first week after the surrender with tens of thousands of bodies, fires still burning and the Russians running amok on the civilian population. Yikes.
@@NicolasMogensen Yeah, the reports of Russian actions are difficult to stomach. I can somewhat understand anger at German troops but the violence against civilians of all ages is just too much.
Censoring images is a brutal, incomprehensible and ridiculous practice. Why do they treat us like people without judgment?
Perhaps they censor graphic images of the dead out of respect for the dead. Did you ever consider that?
Perhaps it’s out of respect for the victims?
I think YOUTUbe requires the sensoring; (not sensored in the original films)
ask TH-cam owners why
TH-cam doesn't want to get close to "snuff films", so they have this rule about corpses. You can show injured people who survived, as long as you state that they did, and if you show any corpses, you have to say they recovered. It is hard to believe dead POWs recovered in mass, so... censor.
Excellent production. Presents an alternative view seldom seen.
These soldiers and their brothers in Korea were the greatest generation. The sons of these soldiers served with honor in Vietnam.
да.нвпали на вьетнам и с честью убивали население. Шакалы.вы хоть знали.зачем вы убивали чужих людей.что они вам плохого сделали?
I'm one of those boomers. Born within recent memory of these events was a privilege for us kids.DAMN it was not long before the COLD WAR settled in and the peace became a tense chess game for the military industrial complex.
I don't like to think of fighting in wars as test of greatest generations. Maybe more. so of the poor immigrants that worked sweathouses, meatpacking plants, mining, building railroads and canals, endured race and ethnic issues, and also those that developed the sciences that lead the charge in industrial revolution, space and medicine and other discovery for America
AND Very much like Germany n Japan in WW 2...the Vietnamese are now are Allie n "1" Trading partner..and dually Hate the Communist Chinese..my oh my how things come full circle.
And then Woodstock and it all started going to hell
This series is fabulous. So much is made of the battles, proper yes, but the background rounds out the complete story of a war that few wanted but so many suffered because of it.
When US troops conquer Nazi Germany from the West in March 1945, camera teams follow, documenting the defeated, and the liberated. Does the experience of watching history change for you seeing it in color? Does it seem more real in color? Closer in time than b/w footage?
Color is better for documentaries. Also, Why are some images blurred? Is there a uncensored version of this documentary?
@@BLACKMINER73 TH-cam are to blame for blurred images and video clips they don't allow gore or anything to do with dead people even though this is history.
@@UltimatelyEverything TH-cam got some poor psychologists on staff, or none perhaps.
Failure of Western psyops to convince those of all of Western Germany not to surrender especially after the senseless offensive of what came to be *"The Battle of the Bulge"* and later the clearly suicidal "Operation Bodenplate" which I think translates to "Operation Boot to the neck."
Excellent! Very well done! Many thanks for sharing this!
Wow! This was a great documentary.
What a great documentary.
First-rate documentary. Thank you.
thank you
Please upload in hindi language dubbed
These Color Films are great to watch. Shows the aftermath of the War. Excellent. Than you.
My dad flew 39 missions on a B-17 as a ball turrent gunner. He told me if their main objective was destroyed the plane would dump their load anywhere on the cities. It bothered him I know but he also said how many of his friends planes he saw go down.
As a mother, like all mothers I'd be so scared watching my child go to war. But there's something so especially frightening about those ball turrets and their gunners. And 39 missions! I'm so glad your dad survived and hope he had a good life in spite of his war experiences.
Thanks. He did. But during my youth he tore down the bedroom curtains many times trying to bail out of his plane in his nightmares. @@voyaristika5673
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing.
Is it possible to watch this somewhere other than TH-cam? The censorship in this really bothers me. This is legitimate historical footage, not the glorification of violence.
One of the best war docs with some amazing rare footage - love how Stevens gets up close and personal - each face is a story in itself
My father was a US Army MP serving in Germany during WW2 and told me about the Army taking a weapons factory in one of the city's there that manufactured German Luger hand guns. His MP unit was tasked with guarding the factory for a few days until relieved by more troops. As a reward the commander told each man they could take a new German Luger off the assembly line to send home. I can remember as a young man my dad letting me shoot a few shells from it only one time. When my father died in 1994 he passed this gun down to my older brother who in turn passed it down to his adopted son.
Thanks for sharing. Greetings from the German tax payers.
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My Father was in WW2 in 1944. His Brother raided a German armory and brought back (3) brand new Mauser Rifles with original slings and unsharpened bayonets. My father rarely if ever shot it, and I Received it. It is a Piece of History. Mausers made before the war or early in the war at the Mauser Factory, were extremely High Quality. I love the one I have and that Rifle is only good for one thing: War. A great Story. Cherish your War-Bring Backs. RH
My father was a tankman and in 1942-1945 went from Don river to Vienna He told me that he survived by miracle 4 orders 6 medals He died in 2012 92 years old and I really miss him
Sounds like something that'd end up on pawn stars lol don't do it!
I had a Grandfather that was in the 17th airborne in Germany at the time of this documentary. After participating in the battle of the Ardennes and the battle of Rhine (operation Varsity) he was part of the allied occupation of Germany. The occupation of the allied forces in Germany was called the battle of Europe, which my Grandfather received a campaign meddle for along with the campaign medals for Ardennes and the Rhine.
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My grandad was Scottish.
He worked in supplies during WW2.
He said he never fired a shot in anger and has been drunk in pretty much every country in Europe 🤷♂
My grandfather’s brother was part of the red ball express and my grandmother’s brother received a silver star from his activity at the battle of the bulge I grew up hearing lots of stories about ww2
Interesting events caught on camera. Thanks for sharing them with us.
That wasn’t a bazooka it was a panserfaust. It was a rocket propelled grenade. It shot a shaped charge that could penetrate any allied tank armor.
Why hide the sight of corpses in the film, are we now so emotionally weak that we can't stand it? What an absurd decision.
By hiding the corpses, they do not show the impact....so this may happen again!
Correction this WILL HAPPEN again!!!
Sound like a bunch of weirdo’s that get off on seeing bodies laying in the street
War is so very sad and still it goes on all over the world. When will we have sense enough to get along with each other?
Don't blame the people. It's the ruling classes that are dragging us into imperialist wars.
Over the last 50+ years, I thought I'd seen what was most of the footage from WWII one way or another. I hadn't seen this all before - great find and thanks for sharing it.
yep for sure this is fabulous after years & years & hundreds of hours of film watched I can say there are many minutes I've NEVER seen! Thank you, & thank you GS & crew for your amazing work & oh yeah for 'Shane'
One of my father’s last firefights of the war was in April 1945 somewhere in southern Germany. He and his 2nd Ranger battalion had a patrol that had inadvertently run into a loaded freight truck full of the provisions of a Waffen SS unit. It turned into a pretty vicious battle when they thought they had gotten beyond that kind of fighting . He lost more friends that day.😢when VE day arrived they had made it all the way through Germany into Checkoslavakia (sp?)
Amazing story, glad he made it through.
Top documentary Thankyou ...Magic commentary ......voices and script memorable👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
What a wonderful voice the narrater has
Great to see footage I've never seen before. Thanks.👍👏
My father was there when this was going down. I really regret not talking about it more with . Amazing film for sure.
It wasn’t just the US but also the British Commonwealth, French, Poles, and other nationalities participated in the assault on Germany from the west. The main bulk of the Wehrmacht were facing the Soviets so the yanks never fought the German Army at full strength and capacity. More than 80% of German military deaths were on the Eastern Front since the USSR was viewed as the Third Reich’s main nemesis.
Yes we know this lmao😂😂😂😂 Americans didn’t come in until 1944
@@yungcris5211what year did the British troops set foot on mainland Europe again????? What were the 2 countries who met up at the river Elbe????
@@theclown2393 Brits we’re there at the Elbe too, there’s photos of it. Also the UK carried out raids on the mainland before Dday.
@@theclown2393not counting Dunkirk ? 😂
@@theclown2393 british step foot on mainland italy first then there was the disastrous "raid" on a fishing village in france which went horrificly. then dday
Excellent footage 👏
It is quite bizarre that Germany recovered from WW2 and the total destruction we have witnessed in this video along with also WW1 before this era, but Britain was knocked off its pedestal by the cost of WW1 and then WW2 and is still a basket case today because of these two wars.
Britain isn't a basket case its one of the G7 nations.
so did japan after two nukes, to become 3rd largest economy
It helps, that the allies helped with the rebuild, rather focus on subjugation like ussr
,bruceburns1672 It is not at all bizarre. Both Germany & Japan are industrious people who, under American occupation (one for 8 yrs, the other for 10 yrs), were compelled to pursue Free Market economic development and robust civic institutions while also being cleansed of their militaristic totalitarian aggressive ideologies as much as possible. Britain, on the other hand, booted out Winston Churchill & enthusiastically voted in a staunchly Socialist Labor government and reaped the same fabulous benefits they are currently reaping for having once again voted in a staunchly Socialist Labor government. The Brits decided to sacrifice their own self reliance as they wanted a giant Nanny State to amass collectivist power that would allow the government to rule over them as do all Welfare States eventually.
The German soldiers fought as hard as they could but realized that they had to survive to build a new Germany. They succeeded.
They suffered so many casualties on the Eastern front they were attempting their last stand by the time the Allies broke the siegfried line
Not without the help of the american dollar and to a lesser extent the English pound
@@normaventer7931 the American dollar has only helped enslave countries into debt, it is incapable of anything else. Cheers
@@normaventer7931 american foreign policy is hampering german interests not helping it. American foreign policy has done everything it can to prevent german technological ability join with Russian raw materials. They are worried that the two together would be a major economical threat to American hegemony.
Excellent Presentation Thankyou Schools should see the Reality of War War Is Hell
Great footage not fussed on the AI narration though. Fantastic that the sacrifices were recorded by top film makers.
Thank you for a brilliant upload.❤
Thank you good work
Song "You should've seen it in color" goes well with this.
Even now Germans make my blood boil...I so often hear Germans are so nice..Rubbish! I lived through does awfull times!
Yeah you got too keep the hate going!🙄
Jew spotted
@tacticalmattress I am not a Jew. I am indicating that Germany has a humanity problem even today!!!
Good quality documentary.
Great documentary, thanks!
Love this channel’s videos definitely in my top 10!!!
Is there an uncensored version?
I hear it is on Rumble.
Such historic filming and a visual record of the victory over tyranny. As we approach Remembrance Sunday at the cenotaph in London, lest we forget the sacrifice made by so many men and women who fought to give us freedom that we enjoy today.
Thank you so much for sharing all this information with us …………
The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key imdustries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr. It was first proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in a 1944 memorandum entitled Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany.
Whose plan also contemplates the sterilization of the German male population. Mr. Morgenthau is very humanitarian, as is Sir Arthur Harris with his "strategic bombings"...
Who asked?
That plan also set population limitations for modern German which was going to require induced famine to facilitate the requisite population reduction and a de-industrialized economy. That all changed once the true hell on earth of the USSR was realized.
I have a message sent to my grandfather telling him - Lt. David McLaren not to bomb the cathedral in cologne . He was 8th corps artillary 9th us army. The stuff he did is absolutely mind blowing.
Really a miracle that the cathedral survived relatively unscathed, considering the total destruction all around. That message, both it's sender and recipient a worthy piece of history.
God Bless The Greatest Generation….my father an officer, served in the USAAF. A newspaper article from his hometown in Massena, upstate NY covered the exploits with his Four brothers. A picture of the Five ARCHAMBEAULT brothers appeared in the paper also. His youngest brother, my Uncle Conrad left high school his junior year and enlisted with the Army. My grandparents were legal immigrants from Quebec. God bless them all ! I will see them all one day 😊
Very good film thank you.
Incredible Footage...
It's amazing to see this stuff, but I wish there was sound.
LOVED THE NARATOR ,CAMERA MAN THE SETTING WHO MADE THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM
🇨🇵 Merci à tous ces Hommes, anges libérateurs !🎉🕊🕊🕊
Fantastic footage
Where can i watch this exact documentary WITHOUT censor?
In russia , maybe ))
THANK YOU!
18:22 no one writes like that anymore, amazing little piece of narration
Yes they do.
What an amazing documentary.❤
Wow excellent Thanks
Seeing the footage in color really lets you compare WW2 to the destruction Ukraine is facing in their war against the Russians. All I could think of was the quote "War. War never changes." (from Fallout) and how well it fit with the footage of the results of the aerial bombardments. Everything in ruins and to no gain.
I remember seeing the George Steven's documentary 'D-Day to Berlin' on SBS TV here in Australia over ten years ago, then I bought the DVD. What I found most horrifying was the Steven's team capturing the footage of the emaciated bodies (dead and alive) at one of the death camps. The bodies piled up on top of each other. The oven still smoldering, the German guards trying to hide in prisoner striped uniforms. As one of the Steven's team members narrating as an older man, maybe Irwin Shaw, Ivan Moffat, both successful writers, said: 'How can one human being, do this to another human being.' I'll never forget seeing that.
I don’t know. I think to myself all the time why humans are so cruel. I don’t know.
yea, the extent of horrors is something i still struggle getting my head around - it was primary reason we decided to prosecute them, than summarily execute them as Stalin wanted to do. As no one would believe the horrors, if we hadn't evidenced them - it was on a scale that is beyond sedastic
gruesome experiments on twins and lamps made of jewish skin as a present for their wifes
its so beyond comprehension
I certainly have grown up in privileged times. Do you think we've learned anything? Thanks for your comments.@@KazenoniKakuremi
I've often wondered how long it took to rebuild those cities after the war
Some weren't completely rebuilt until the 1980's.
Great footage 😊
Excellent!!
Grandfather on mothers side was stationed in the Philippines in the Pacific, he was in the navy dont have his boat name on hand, Grandfather on dads side fought in Italy where he lost his left wrist do to a Gunshot wound. One died in 1975 the other in 1985 just 10 days before i was born. Im 38 of 2023 parents are 67. My grandfathers would be well over 100 as they were born in 1920-1923 respectfully
Would be top notch if they hadn’t blurred photos, we must see the brutality to never repeat
I am sure that is a TH-cam requirement.
Wow I’ve never seen footage like this. Brilliant documentary!
Fascinating!
It's interesting seeing this in color. Growing up and watching, with my Dad, it was always in B&W.
for me at least, the color footage makes it seem closer to us, more real. B&W is like "oh that was so long ago"
My grandfather has fought in the American Side while dealing with racism which was toward Italian decently from Rome Italy 🇮🇹. 🤔🙏
😓😢😢🙏🏻🇮🇹Sad
Thank you 😊
For myself it makes me sad to feel that it is alway's the innocent who suffer the most, for thousants of years dicttors have com to the forefront and destryed thousands of life until they are defeated but still the pople let those who spread evil come to powe and will continue to do so for years to come.Wonderful documentay
thank you for sharing.
This is intense
Great documentary, like something never seen before in color, it’s great and I hope a lot of people see these footage to remind us that evil alert within any country, and we in America are in the mist of that, the reality of the matter is that sometimes history repeats itself, the young generation of today, must be reminded of the Atrocities of war and what it does to a country and a generation, and we was not fall into that and conserve the right of people to exist.
Marlene Dietrich was an amazing woman.
Hatred is our prayer, and vengeance our warcry.
Neville Chamberlain declared this was, neither hatred nor vengeance involved, only freedom and social order.
The mighty Thousand Year Reich lasted but a mere twelve years .
12 years too long
And around 80 million lives
Took 4 empires to defeat Germany!
@@Occident. So what, you still lost!
The Germans never ran out of planes,they simply had no pilots or fuel left.
The Germans, unlike the Japanese, still had pilots by you are correct they had no fuel.
A wonderful documentary... the downfall of evil....what a relief it must have been for all those people of small villages and towns...innocent victims of few IDIOTS.
great soundtrack in this series
Sometimes, I wonder why the German cities were hit so hard. All of the civilian lives lost was a great tragedy. War is terrible.
The last 3 words in your comment, answers you're wonder.
The last 3 words in your comment, answers you're wonder.
Ask Herman Goering, it was his job to protect his Fatherland
War really is terrible.
War is horrible but we never learn. 😞😞😞
4:33 And this statement is the honest truth! Ppl always say "Never Forget" & then they do, and it starts all over again!
I watched a different WWII video the other day on TH-cam complete with scenes showing dead bodies! Why does this one have them blurred out?
My father fought for Germany, some of the family did not...some were mistreated, he still lives in Iowa U S, this must never happen again....