My god what a beautiful city it was. Perfect music you chose as well. That such a place could be wiped off the map, be given a wholly contrived identity, its people and language expunged from memory -- and hardly anyone ever talks, much less knows about it -- is one of the most disturbing things to contemplate.
Ask yourself why did it happen - it's only Germans making, if they didn't start this war, there'd be never so many, many victims, so much misery, so extreme genocide and wiping off whole cities from the face of Earth...
Похуй на ее историю. У тебя не должно быть каких либо теплых чувств к чужой архитектуре,культуре и истории.это наша земля этим все сказано. Мы позвоним себя говоря какую историческую архитектуру потеряли. Нахуй их архитектуру и историю в придачу.
@Eric You have forgotten there was a crazy lunatic called Hitler who started this mess. Neither Britain nor France wanted a second world war, they were still traumatized by the first one.
@Freddy K I’m sure that you copy and paste that rant everywhere. It’s pure BS. You act like Hitler was some innocent bystander who was forced to invade Poland. Just revisionist BS.
Look at old photos from Viborg, a city where finnish, swedish,german and jiddish were spoken almost equally, now the earlier second largest city of Finland is falling down in the hands of the russians.
Thanks for uploading such a special video! Looks like the city had a lot of charm - and to think all of those streets were destroyed and replaced by soulless, Soviet-style crap! Truly upsetting...
***** We can argue who owns it rightfully to the end of days, but seeing russians taking pride in Kant University and german/prussian culture (i.e. a few buildings that still stand) is just disgusting. Russians never participated in this culture, they never were a part of it, nor poles, nor any other balts - it was german/germanised slav culture. I mean: If, lets say, America destroys some ancient buildings, that are related to Ivan the terrible and then rebuild and think Ivan is now their history - thats the same story.
***** Thats why I'm against a rebuilding, friend. Rebuilding these buildings would just be identity theft - these buildings were connected to german/prussian culture, not Russia.
Ja, ja, wunderschon!!! Genau!!! As the whole war, genocide, monstrous crimes, concentration camps and milions of dead - this is indeed the true triumph of "german civilization".
😢 Англия разбомбила красивый город!!! А СССР восстановил, как смог!! Мои родители по кирпичам разбирали эти руины, не доедали , не досапали!!! Но восстановили мой любимый город Калининград!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have only recently discovered the beauty of this lost city and this little film is a lovely testament to that which has gone. War is evil, the innocent suffer most. The poor people of this city were made to pay a terrible price for the mistakes of their leaders. Thank you for posting this.
Vergangene Pracht, aber nicht vergessene Pracht ! Niemals dürfen wir den wahren deutschen Osten, seine Kultur und Geschichte vergessen oder gar verleugnen! Daher empfehle ich allen das folgende,sehr gute Video hier ans Herz: ,,Der Verrat am deutschen Osten"
My grandfather was born there. He left in 1927 when he joined the tiny 15,000 man navy, spending most of the rest of his life in another port city, Bremerhaven, which bore some eerie similarities to some of the images just shown.
¡Que pena!, he crecido oyendo a mi madre con 90 años hoy , nacio y paso su niñez y juventud en Königsberg, de donde era toda su familia y al ver esto se ha emocionada, que terrible es una guerra.
I feel it, too, and I have that same question! Maybe because everything that once was vivud life is gone? And the history of a city and it's people was broken so rapidly and tragically....
@@happyherbert1984 Amazing Right?? Could it be so many people lived such unfinished lives with unfortunate souls how many needed to come back for a little bit of enjoyment!! I find it very odd in 1988 ridding around in Westphalia West Germany A rainy JULY 18th night which happened to be my Birthday 26th I ended up in this little village around 9:00/2100 and found this only Inn I walked in the door slammed behind me everyone turned their heads and greeted me with loud shouts of happiness and fun it looked liked the whole village was in this place!! After a few minutes of small talk and this older woman of about 55 who spoke perfect English approached me and I said it was my Birthday and she just said then the party is for you!!” And yelling it to the whole place in German as they all broke out singing to me I drank the whole night danced!! I never had a party like this for me in my own country in my own home by my own family and friends!! These were strangers the woman whose name was MaryAnna was of some importance she held the title of A a BARONESS which ment nothing today but a a title but Germans seem to still flaunt over Titles she explained how as a teenager after the war her father was killed and the allies stripped her of her holdings and even though they lived in a modest home that was also confiscated! They end up living in the town a few kliks over where I was and she and mother sought refuge she end up marrying a GI in the 50’s and moved to Minneapolis!! As a child growing up in The State I had this special interest in a land I never been in and even picked up some German words with the ease of knowing also a fascination with all things German and. The period of 1900. - 1945 even in America! A year later I visited Berlin for the first time I seemed to of known all about the city I WAS NEVER IN!! Even though it was Divided I roamed the city stood in places I somehow knew even as the city was Divided and a few months later the city would be reunited I returned back late Spring 95 Berlin was being built up and I also was in a few other places I seemed to have been drawn to Krakow I stood 45 days when I visited Auswitz I felt an uneasiness but I seemed to of also knew certain places mainly the officers and Kommandanten Building I went back to Berlin and got a job an apartment and by now I had already learned to speak German! If I told you I walked around that city like I knew everything every U and S Bahn stop like A Native!! I have many more connections with the Cities the Country the time the period and the people when seeing the bombing of certain towns I can’t help but feel a real true emotional pain that becomes me I can’t explain but even upon my visit to Dresden I felt a sick feeling like one has when they lost a friend or family member to a bad demise!! I lost a drinking friend in 2001 at The WTC attack that type of loss! I don’t know if the connection here is of spiritual connection or just whatever but as I get older things seem more as if they been accomplished like a tourist making a visit and saying ok it’s done it’s time to go life is over!! Just thought for all this!
Fascinating piece of work. I have been to Kaliningrad and some (though not a lot) of the views and buildings are still recognisable today. Thanks for this.
My grandma was Lithuanian and she was in love with this Town, my family lived jus 20 km from Prussian border. She visit the Town once a month, she did shopping for herself and for little shop which she owned. After WW2 she visited the Town and was devastated, and Russians destroyed completely this beautiful Town
@@Rustycaddy17 RAF bombed then red army bombed finally soviets demolished. In your opinion did Russians take care of Konigsberg demolishing everything valuable? Very strange concept of conservation is yours.
Calogero Huygens There are plenty of edifices that were spared by the Soviets, many of the ruins were not demolished until the 60s by the post-Stalin government. Why would they waste and exhaust money and resources to rebuild buildings with zero historical value of their former enemy? And the RAF did most of the work, it was already in ruins by the time the Red Army arrived, they only inflicted the final wounds.
@@Rustycaddy17 so you're agreeing with me that soviets destroyed an european city of great historical value for humanity in peacetime. That's a crime, buddy.
Child labour is widespread, not only in tsarist Russia, but also in all civilized western countries at that time. The use of child labour has been banned in USSR (first in the world).
Я родилась в Калининграде и живу в нем уже более 60 лет!Калининград очень зеленый город ,таким же зеленым был Кенегсберг!А на фото нет совсем деревьев,голый асфальт.Это не фото Кенегсберга! Я видела много фото Кенегсберга,а на этих нет ни королевского замка,ни Кафедрального собора,совсем не шпилей костелов,многих известных зданий!Да и ,кстати,город разбомбила английская авиация,центр города был сравнен с землей.А Кафедральный собор был ориентиром для летчиков,поэтому от него кто-то осталось и его смогли восстановить!!! А Калининград сейчас очень красивый город-город сад!
@@Ольга-в7 я тоже внимательно всматриваюсь ,но нет даже достопримечательностей Кенига. И первый архитектор Калининграда назвал бывший Кенигсберг - это даже не город- сад,а сад в городе. Настолько он утопал в зелени. Очень жаль ,что вырублены плодовые сады,шикарная сирень,кустарники,ароматный жасмин,бузина ,шиповник и прочие зелёные насаждения. Немцы знали что сажать. ...
Answer to John Smith: It was Stalin who made ww2 possible with his agreement with the Germans in 1939 to split and occupy Poland. And Leningrad sure looked somewhat like Dresden or Hamburg or Hiroshima after the war. beasts on all sides, also on yours.
As a result of the Munich agreement, the state of Poland in October 1938 supported Hitler's Germany in territorial claims to Czechoslovakia and annexed part of the Czech and Slovak lands, including the localities of Teszynska Silesia, Orava and Spisz. "poor Poland" gave the Soviets a reason to knock on the door.
@@teltos6817 What nonsense. What does this have to do with the attack on Poland? For the ussr, every reason was good to invade Poland. And yes, the USSR was an ally of the Nazis until Hitler attacked them. (Stalin congratulated Hitler on taking the Parisian and supplied him with raw materials). And get more knowledge about what you write
У каждого города своя история, у этого такая. Я здесь родилась, выросла и люблю его таким, какой он был и какой есть сейчас. То, что в ролике, это печально, но это ход истории.
I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others. USSRs government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
С какой стати русские должны были вкладываться в восстановление немецкой культуры? То, что осталось от бомбардировок, то сохранено, а вновь строить немецкую культура русским было ни к чему, нужно было свою восстанавливать. Нет смысла сравнивать Польшу и Россию, всё разное. Вы восстанавливали то, что вам и так было близко. Русские уважают чужую культуру, поверьте, но строить будут своё. А хорошо или плохо, это совсем другой вопрос.
Don't tell tales. After the war, the Poles hated the Germans for their crimes and would never restore German architecture. Those cities that you got suffered less than Koenigsberg at the hands of British aircraft in 1944.
2:25 дети стоят босиком..... без обуви, в грязной одежде. Детский труд был широко распространен не только в царской России, но и во всех цивилизованных западных странах того времени. Использование детского наёмного труда стало запрещено только с образованием СССР (впервые в мире).
KONIGSBERG SO WIE ES WAR... I'm RUSSIAN HAVE LIVED IN TILZIT & KONIGSBERG SINCE 1956 LOVE BOTH KONIGSBERG & КАЛИНИНГРАД IT WAS THE BEST IN EUROPE..... DER FANTASTISCHEN...
Sad :( Since all those that had to fled and never got to see their homeland again. The generations die without seeing their homeland and next generations don't care as much..
Imagine in these streets a few years later starving toddlers crawling around their killed and decaying moms in the ruins crying for food. That's what mankind can unfold.
Ich habe gehört (juli 2012) dass die Synagoge wieder mitten in der Stadt erstehen wird ( ist ein Ratsbeschluss).Im Moment steht da am selben Platz als dort die sjoel dort stand ein Dauerzirkus. Müsstest du als letzter Jude der alten Jüdischen Gemeinde eigentlich wissen.
Germany lost East Prussia to Russia (Königsberg) and Poland thanks to the (grandeur) madness, stupit decisions (military and moral) and crimes of Hitler and his followers who thought they could handle the whole world. Even without taken into acount the crimes against gypsies, jews, slavish people what idiot could believe that you can fight simultaneously in the west, Northern-Africa, Atlantic, in '41 declaring war onto the US and invading Russia and win ? Napoleon tried to take on Russia in 1812, reached Moscow and got stuck in winter. Idem -despite how good they may have been as soldiers- for the Germans (not equipped for winter + supply routes where to long so vulnerable for attacks of partizans). History repeated itself. Without Hitler Königsberg and the rest of East Prussia would be probably stil German. Dresden would still be magnificent just like Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Munich , Hannover. Look at the old European historic cities like Budapest, Paris, Prague. There is only one man and his deciples to blame .
You aren't supposed to speak about in Germany. They pretend those aren't German cities because it causes way too much pain. Also people might call you "right-winger".
Какой красивый город...а потом прилетели американцы с англичанами и закидали фосфором всю эту красоту вместе с жителями.чтоб СССР целым город не достался.
I think back in the days, before the americanization of europe after ww2, life was way more chilled and stressless. Today, consum terror is killing our human nature
wenn ich solche Bilder sehe, stelle ich mir vor, wie die Stadt jetzt aussehen würde, hätte es die Bomben nicht gegeben: Staus und Parkplätze, Leuchtreklame und Graffiti, Shishabars und Dönerbuden....
Alle deutschen Städte sind nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst. Deshalb setze ich mich auch für die Rekonstruktion ein. Aber Kulturmarxisten wie in Berlin versuchen das natürlich zu verhindern. Bestes Beispiel ist da der Stadtpalast.
A good film . A very good film . But . What a world ! Where Adolf Tortilowitz von Batocki Friede , Abel Ehrlich , Volker Lechtenbrinok , Beate Uhse ( :-) ), Marie Sharan as well as Patrick White und Humboldt , Kathe Kollwitz und Thomas Mann used to stroll , now the descendants of in-settlers of belarus, the ucraine as well as russia... Everything what is Ok here is German made . This is what I write to the videos of Königsberg : Königsberg had been creating famous people of great Importance , as : Regiomontanus : mathematician Cathleen Brandenburg ,Princess of Transsylvania Chr. Goldbach: mathematician Leonard Euler: mathematician Immanuel Kant : philosopher E.T.A. Hoffmann : writer , author G.H.L. Hagen : physicist G. R. Kirchoff: physicist K.R.König: physicist Otto Wallach chemist D. Hilbert : mathematician Erich von Drygalski : discoverer A. Sommerfeld: physicist Agnes Miegel: physicist Fanny Lewald: physicist H.A.Winkler : historian And no any russians , because russians are only russians . Many russians live on importing western made cars here, and selling them in Russia . It's their main point . But one has to, must add that this town teaches German ( good quality German ) language , some indigeous people speak much better German than a Berliner , as well as there are over 3 new German church buildings , and he people living here are somehow to Moscow as a Saint Petersburgers : they underestimate , belittle Moscow to their Kaliningrad . And : they seem like the Germans . The only thing what these people haven't done yet is to rename the town to Kantgad . Or to Königsberg ... And . The hitler has killed 40 million people , lenin has killed with his leninism-slav(e)s 100 million . In Germany there are NOT hitler statues , but in the land of the motherf.....r russians one can find a lot of statues of this mass murderer . Thank for the Hungarian and the Polish nations there are 20 more independent countries , and someone who is inside communist doesn't dare to say in a society , company any longer , hello , I am a leninist , communist ... :-)
Moments frozen in time -- lost forever.....gone, but not forgotten
My god what a beautiful city it was. Perfect music you chose as well.
That such a place could be wiped off the map, be given a wholly contrived identity, its people and language expunged from memory -- and hardly anyone ever talks, much less knows about it -- is one of the most disturbing things to contemplate.
@Alwisgm Danke
Ask yourself why did it happen - it's only Germans making, if they didn't start this war, there'd be never so many, many victims, so much misery, so extreme genocide and wiping off whole cities from the face of Earth...
За, что боролись, то и получили
@@MaryMi-kd5zc ты бы заткнулся, одичалый.
It was beatiful city, today Kaliningrad is so uglay.
True
Гитлеру скажите спасибо
@@user-ne9ko1ew3q что за чушь вы несете. Советская власть могла восстановить эту красоту, а не строить уродские сталинки.
@@SK57447 Советской власти надо было страну восстанавливать после войны. Кстати мой дедушка воевал и два моих дяди которые погибли. Светлая им память
Вы сами уроды… Пришли к нам не прошенными гостями и убивали нас
Nice to see my Mothers birthplace, thanks for sharing.
Das alte Königsberg ist sehr schön und Ich liebe die Musik auch :-)
Richtig !
Wunderschönen! Zivilisiert! Ein Triumpf der deutschen Kultur und eine Erinnerung an alles, was das deutsche Volk erreicht hat.
sad how it's now.
Lucky Goldstar Music sad that you have weak brain
@@donaldporoshenko174 Naming your child after a duck has only meaning
Why is it sad? The Russians love their city and are very proud of it.
Hello from Kaliningrad. Thank you for this film. It's a sad story of the city.
Похуй на ее историю. У тебя не должно быть каких либо теплых чувств к чужой архитектуре,культуре и истории.это наша земля этим все сказано. Мы позвоним себя говоря какую историческую архитектуру потеряли. Нахуй их архитектуру и историю в придачу.
so many beautiful german cities destroyed....it's a shame really.
@Eric it was the judas
Eric AND Germany had nothing to do with its own destruction? Your rant left out, conveniently, many key events.....like invasion of Poland by Germany.
@Eric You are so right.
Impressive to hear these words from an Englishman!
@Eric You have forgotten there was a crazy lunatic called Hitler who started this mess.
Neither Britain nor France wanted a second world war, they were still traumatized by the first one.
@Freddy K I’m sure that you copy and paste that rant everywhere. It’s pure BS. You act like Hitler was some innocent bystander who was forced to invade Poland. Just revisionist BS.
Als wäre man dort - in einer Stadt, die es nicht mehr gibt! Sehr gut gestaltet, geführt; Kompliment!
Sehr schön, vielen Dank.
Look at old photos from Viborg, a city where finnish, swedish,german and jiddish were spoken almost equally, now the earlier second largest city of Finland is falling down in the hands of the russians.
Gone with the wind......
such beauty replaced with such shit...heartbreaking
celtbell you are yourself shit.
That's what thugs, thieves, rapists do
dp just proved it with his treatment of you celtbell
@@mtlicq The name Poroshenko is an ethnic identifier of the rapists.
Скажите спасибо англичанам которые разбомбили эту красоту
Thanks for uploading such a special video!
Looks like the city had a lot of charm - and to think all of those streets were destroyed and replaced by soulless, Soviet-style crap! Truly upsetting...
I know. it is really sad. History that can never be replaced.
@Alana B That makes no sense at all whatsoever.
@Marina V when Konigsberg was destroyed in your opinion?
@Marina V ilkoenigsberh
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Very beautiful city. I hope the old town will be rebuilt......
(sorry for my english)
***** Why? So that russians can enjoy something they never build themselves?
+Keckegenkai The cathedral in Kant Island (Kneiphof) was rebuilt.....
Its what the Poles do. :-)
*****
We can argue who owns it rightfully to the end of days, but seeing russians taking pride in Kant University and german/prussian culture (i.e. a few buildings that still stand) is just disgusting. Russians never participated in this culture, they never were a part of it, nor poles, nor any other balts - it was german/germanised slav culture.
I mean: If, lets say, America destroys some ancient buildings, that are related to Ivan the terrible and then rebuild and think Ivan is now their history - thats the same story.
*****
Thats why I'm against a rebuilding, friend. Rebuilding these buildings would just be identity theft - these buildings were connected to german/prussian culture, not Russia.
Wunderschönen! Zivilisiert! Ein Triumpf der deutschen Kultur und eine Erinnerung an alles, was das deutsche Volk erreicht hat.
Если бы Вы не допустили Гитлера к власти эта красота осталась вечной
Ja, ja, wunderschon!!! Genau!!! As the whole war, genocide, monstrous crimes, concentration camps and milions of dead - this is indeed the true triumph of "german civilization".
Вот и жили бы, такие все цивилизованные у себя, а вы как Варвары пришли и убивали нас…
Ja, hätte Hitler, der dämonische Verführer, nicht alle in den Abgrund, ins Elend, in die Verderbnis gezogen....
Koenigsberg - East Prussia.
Bleibt auch immer so !
East Prussia -> Western Russia
لا تزال تخضع للاحتلال الروسي
Still under Russian occupation since 1945
@@zbena7044 гитлеру претензии предъявляйте
when I see what's Ostpreußen now I would cry....and the old beautiful german buildings are left in ruin or destroyed to make owful buildings...absourd
Wunderbar, das alte schöne Königsberg. Ich war vor ca. 10 Jahren dort...Katastrophe!
nix Kultura
Don't forget Agnes Miegel, a Poet who wrote stories and poems about her Heimatland, Königsberg.
Very nice and interesting made - beautiful pictures in high quality
This beautiful city once was a pearl of the Baltic Sea.....now its only soviet tristesse....this really is a sad story....
Англия такую красоту разбомбила
das ist sehr schön, möge man das Geschehene nicht vergessen
שלום פֿאַר ישראל
😢 Англия разбомбила красивый город!!! А СССР восстановил, как смог!! Мои родители по кирпичам разбирали эти руины, не доедали , не досапали!!! Но восстановили мой любимый город Калининград!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Пройтись бы теперь по этим местам и посмотреть как все изменилось. Уверен, 100 лет назад там было лучше чем сейчас...
Вопрос спорный. Но одно отличие есть вне всяких сомнений. 100 лет назад не было пробок, а сейчас весь город стоит. Особенно в час пик.
100 лет назад жило 50тыс.человек,а сейчас более 600тыс.
@@user-lq9jz9ct8e 100 let nazad v gorode žil okolo 300 tysiač čelovek, esli ne bolše. 1939 v gorode žil 370 000 graždan.
@@juhanivaljataga7264 серьёзно,300тыс??в конце 19века???учите мат.часть!!!!
@@user-lq9jz9ct8e 100 let nazad byl 1921 god, y menja c mat vsjo v porjadke😎
Meine Heimat 💞
Какая архитектура, умели строить...
Vielen Dank für das tolle Video, meine Oma lebt noch..
I have only recently discovered the beauty of this lost city and this little film is a lovely testament to that which has gone. War is evil, the innocent suffer most. The poor people of this city were made to pay a terrible price for the mistakes of their leaders. Thank you for posting this.
The victors were vengeful.
"Mistakes"?? Not mistakes, Evil!! My grandfather was from here and his family were transported and murdered. Not mistakes! Evil!
Vergangene Pracht, aber nicht vergessene Pracht !
Niemals dürfen wir den wahren deutschen Osten, seine Kultur und Geschichte vergessen oder gar verleugnen! Daher empfehle ich allen das folgende,sehr gute Video hier ans Herz:
,,Der Verrat am deutschen Osten"
Von diese Bande die Deutschland beherrscht ist nichts anderes zu erwarten!!
truly beautiful city:-)))
Very nice and clear photos !
I was surprises about the broad streets and the wide perspectives of Konigsberg. Thanks for this lovely time travel.
Schön! Nice! The homeland from my fathers family.:-) Die Heimat meiner väterlichen Vorfahren. :-):-):-)
My lovely city!
My grandfather was born there. He left in 1927 when he joined the tiny 15,000 man navy, spending most of the rest of his life in another port city, Bremerhaven, which bore some eerie similarities to some of the images just shown.
¡Que pena!, he crecido oyendo a mi madre con 90 años hoy , nacio y paso
su niñez y juventud en Königsberg, de donde era toda su familia y al ver esto se ha
emocionada, que terrible es una guerra.
Danke!!!!!!!! meine liebe Stadt, sie fliesst in meinem Blut!!!!!!!!
why do I feel such a connection with this place and time??
I feel it, too, and I have that same question!
Maybe because everything that once was vivud life is gone? And the history of a city and it's people was broken so rapidly and tragically....
@@happyherbert1984 Amazing Right?? Could it be so many people lived such unfinished lives with unfortunate souls how many needed to come back for a little bit of enjoyment!! I find it very odd in 1988 ridding around in Westphalia West Germany A rainy JULY 18th night which happened to be my Birthday 26th I ended up in this little village around 9:00/2100 and found this only Inn I walked in the door slammed behind me everyone turned their heads and greeted me with loud shouts of happiness and fun it looked liked the whole village was in this place!! After a few minutes of small talk and this older woman of about 55 who spoke perfect English approached me and I said it was my Birthday and she just said then the party is for you!!” And yelling it to the whole place in German as they all broke out singing to me I drank the whole night danced!! I never had a party like this for me in my own country in my own home by my own family and friends!! These were strangers the woman whose name was MaryAnna was of some importance she held the title of A a BARONESS which ment nothing today but a a title but Germans seem to still flaunt over Titles she explained how as a teenager after the war her father was killed and the allies stripped her of her holdings and even though they lived in a modest home that was also confiscated! They end up living in the town a few kliks over where I was and she and mother sought refuge she end up marrying a GI in the 50’s and moved to Minneapolis!! As a child growing up in The State I had this special interest in a land I never been in and even picked up some German words with the ease of knowing also a fascination with all things German and. The period of 1900. - 1945 even in America! A year later I visited Berlin for the first time I seemed to of known all about the city I WAS NEVER IN!! Even though it was Divided I roamed the city stood in places I somehow knew even as the city was Divided and a few months later the city would be reunited I returned back late Spring 95 Berlin was being built up and I also was in a few other places I seemed to have been drawn to Krakow I stood 45 days when I visited Auswitz I felt an uneasiness but I seemed to of also knew certain places mainly the officers and Kommandanten Building I went back to Berlin and got a job an apartment and by now I had already learned to speak German! If I told you I walked around that city like I knew everything every U and S Bahn stop like A Native!! I have many more connections with the Cities the Country the time the period and the people when seeing the bombing of certain towns I can’t help but feel a real true emotional pain that becomes me I can’t explain but even upon my visit to Dresden I felt a sick feeling like one has when they lost a friend or family member to a bad demise!! I lost a drinking friend in 2001 at The WTC attack that type of loss! I don’t know if the connection here is of spiritual connection or just whatever but as I get older things seem more as if they been accomplished like a tourist making a visit and saying ok it’s done it’s time to go life is over!! Just thought for all this!
Good work. Thank you !
Завораживает как Марс.........
Fascinating piece of work. I have been to Kaliningrad and some (though not a lot) of the views and buildings are still recognisable today. Thanks for this.
My grandma was Lithuanian and she was in love with this Town, my family lived jus 20 km from Prussian border. She visit the Town once a month, she did shopping for herself and for little shop which she owned. After WW2 she visited the Town and was devastated, and Russians destroyed completely this beautiful Town
The British destroyed this city, not Russian!
@@Rustycaddy17 RAF bombed then red army bombed finally soviets demolished. In your opinion did Russians take care of Konigsberg demolishing everything valuable?
Very strange concept of conservation is yours.
Calogero Huygens There are plenty of edifices that were spared by the Soviets, many of the ruins were not demolished until the 60s by the post-Stalin government. Why would they waste and exhaust money and resources to rebuild buildings with zero historical value of their former enemy? And the RAF did most of the work, it was already in ruins by the time the Red Army arrived, they only inflicted the final wounds.
@@Rustycaddy17 so you're agreeing with me that soviets destroyed an european city of great historical value for humanity in peacetime.
That's a crime, buddy.
Calogero Huygens They didn’t destroy what was already destroyed by someone else :)
Several children with no shoes! The clearest image 2:25.
Child labour is widespread, not only in tsarist Russia, but also in all civilized western countries at that time. The use of child labour has been banned in USSR (first in the world).
That's so sad to watch and imagine the city where my great grandfather was born in 1887 and how it is today...
great german city
Да здравствует город Кенигсберг!
Почему же сразу так, литовцы и поляки могут поспорить, и назовут по своему
Ich will das alte Königsberg (in Ostpreußen) zurück!
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Город которого нет!😪😪😪а какая чистота города!эх, жаль что так вышло)))
Сейчас тоже чистота, вы о чем?
Он и сейчас прекрасен!
Я родилась в Калининграде и живу в нем уже более 60 лет!Калининград очень зеленый город ,таким же зеленым был Кенегсберг!А на фото нет совсем деревьев,голый асфальт.Это не фото Кенегсберга! Я видела много фото Кенегсберга,а на этих нет ни королевского замка,ни Кафедрального собора,совсем не шпилей костелов,многих известных зданий!Да и ,кстати,город разбомбила английская авиация,центр города был сравнен с землей.А Кафедральный собор был ориентиром для летчиков,поэтому от него кто-то осталось и его смогли восстановить!!! А Калининград сейчас очень красивый город-город сад!
Я тоже смотрю и ничего знакомого не вижу. Мой дед дошёл до Кенигсберга, а я здесь живу, вот уже 41 год.
Люблю Калининград), тетя с дядей жили , напротив военно-морского училища. Из окна был виден шпиль с часами и фонтан .
@@Ольга-в7 я тоже внимательно всматриваюсь ,но нет даже достопримечательностей Кенига. И первый архитектор Калининграда назвал бывший Кенигсберг - это даже не город- сад,а сад в городе. Настолько он утопал в зелени. Очень жаль ,что вырублены плодовые сады,шикарная сирень,кустарники,ароматный жасмин,бузина ,шиповник и прочие зелёные насаждения. Немцы знали что сажать. ...
@@user-ly8ce3vf2t экрасиаый город русский недаром вс5едут на пимжж
Answer to John Smith: It was Stalin who made ww2 possible with his agreement with the Germans in 1939 to split and occupy Poland. And Leningrad sure looked somewhat like Dresden or Hamburg or Hiroshima after the war. beasts on all sides, also on yours.
As a result of the Munich agreement, the state of Poland in October 1938 supported Hitler's Germany in territorial claims to Czechoslovakia and annexed part of the Czech and Slovak lands, including the localities of Teszynska Silesia, Orava and Spisz. "poor Poland" gave the Soviets a reason to knock on the door.
@@teltos6817 What nonsense. What does this have to do with the attack on Poland? For the ussr, every reason was good to invade Poland. And yes, the USSR was an ally of the Nazis until Hitler attacked them. (Stalin congratulated Hitler on taking the Parisian and supplied him with raw materials). And get more knowledge about what you write
Oh liebes Deutschland, wo bist du nur im alten Glanz geblieben. Liebe Grüße aus der Lüneburger Heide
Wie schöne breite Straßen.
What a beautiful city it was! The Communists and further Russia made an ugly Kaliningrad out of Konigsberg.
Brutalism is a disgrace for mankind
@@peterlustig6888 It's not brutalism, it's shit (
@@spacecat142 Yea, brutalism is shit
Город разбомбили британцы.
Beautiful and style old town . As most of German old towns which survived the IIWW
У каждого города своя история, у этого такая. Я здесь родилась, выросла и люблю его таким, какой он был и какой есть сейчас. То, что в ролике, это печально, но это ход истории.
I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others. USSRs government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
You are quite right!
С какой стати русские должны были вкладываться в восстановление немецкой культуры? То, что осталось от бомбардировок, то сохранено, а вновь строить немецкую культура русским было ни к чему, нужно было свою восстанавливать. Нет смысла сравнивать Польшу и Россию, всё разное. Вы восстанавливали то, что вам и так было близко. Русские уважают чужую культуру, поверьте, но строить будут своё. А хорошо или плохо, это совсем другой вопрос.
Don't tell tales. After the war, the Poles hated the Germans for their crimes and would never restore German architecture. Those cities that you got suffered less than Koenigsberg at the hands of British aircraft in 1944.
Już dzisiaj nie ma tego pięknego Królewca staromiejskiego co był kiedyś :"-(
Так красиво было, сейчас НЕ ТО СТАЛО,
2:25 дети стоят босиком..... без обуви, в грязной одежде. Детский труд был широко распространен не только в царской России, но и во всех цивилизованных западных странах того времени. Использование детского наёмного труда стало запрещено только с образованием СССР (впервые в мире).
KONIGSBERG
SO WIE ES WAR...
I'm RUSSIAN HAVE LIVED IN TILZIT & KONIGSBERG SINCE 1956 LOVE BOTH KONIGSBERG & КАЛИНИНГРАД IT WAS THE BEST IN EUROPE.....
DER FANTASTISCHEN...
Ich bin in Koenigsberg geboren. Wir mussten 1944 fluechten. Ich kenne mein Geburtsort nur von Bildern.
Sad :( Since all those that had to fled and never got to see their homeland again. The generations die without seeing their homeland and next generations don't care as much..
Да! был город Королевский,стал лагерно-барачным.Кстати у поляков есть много немецких городов,но они их реставрировали,а не разрушали.
Польская и немецкая культуры почти одно и то же. Нельзя сравнивать. Россия свою культуру возрождала после войны.
Мой любимый ГОРОД.Благодарю за видео!!
The historical city that gave the world the subject of "Graph Theory"
Koenigsberg is magnificent here, but now it's ruined and looks like dump. So sad fate of this place.
Das Herz von Ostpreußen
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Well written
Nice accompanying music. What is it?
I love the graph theory so thanks I guess?
Kann mir jemand sagen wie das Musikstück heißt das hier gespielt wird?
Does anybody know the name of the composition?
Es ist der erste Satz aus "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Imagine in these streets a few years later starving toddlers crawling around their killed and decaying moms in the ruins crying for food. That's what mankind can unfold.
It would be great if there was some description of the street names & places during the video
Город сказка!очень жаль ,что много разрушено и не в остановлено.
The odd thing is, most of the street scenes could be anywhere in Germany or Austria-Hungary
I wish it could return as it was before....Damnatio memoriae :(....It's not right
Почему то почти нет балконов на фасадах зданий... 🤔🤔🤔
Speed to 2 and the video is perfect. One picture no longer than 5 seconds.
I'm just looking for books about the history and the description of the historic buildings around all the city
Ich habe gehört (juli 2012) dass die Synagoge wieder mitten in der Stadt erstehen wird ( ist ein Ratsbeschluss).Im Moment steht da am selben Platz als dort die sjoel dort stand ein Dauerzirkus. Müsstest du als letzter Jude der alten Jüdischen Gemeinde eigentlich wissen.
Everything goes to ruins after russian presence.
TadasBET NEBlinda your brain like brain of rat.
Russian? No Bolshevik communist Jews.
Germany lost East Prussia to Russia (Königsberg) and Poland thanks to the (grandeur) madness, stupit decisions (military and moral) and crimes of Hitler and his followers who thought they could handle the whole world.
Even without taken into acount the crimes against gypsies, jews, slavish people what idiot could believe that you can fight simultaneously in the west, Northern-Africa, Atlantic, in '41 declaring war onto the US and invading Russia and win ?
Napoleon tried to take on Russia in 1812, reached Moscow and got stuck in winter. Idem -despite how good they may have been as soldiers- for the Germans (not equipped for winter + supply routes where to long so vulnerable for attacks of partizans). History repeated itself.
Without Hitler Königsberg and the rest of East Prussia would be probably stil German. Dresden would still be magnificent just like Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Munich , Hannover. Look at the old European historic cities like Budapest, Paris, Prague. There is only one man and his deciples to blame .
You have no brain at all chmo.
Anybody knows if there is a museum in Genrmany or the actual place were konigsberg were ? In kaliningrad?
You aren't supposed to speak about in Germany. They pretend those aren't German cities because it causes way too much pain. Also people might call you "right-winger".
Most beautiful town in the world completely destroyed in WW2.
What year it is?
Die Musik erinnert an Little Amadeus
can you someone send a link to the pictures ? want to print one.
sites.google.com/site/mojkenigsbergkaliningrad/
it's russian site, but all what u need here
Es schmerzt. Unendlich.
Такой красивый город изуродовали русские и расстащили на мелкие камушки .Это пример уровня развития немцев и русских.
Konigsberg - "The rose of the Baltic".
Какой красивый город...а потом прилетели американцы с англичанами и закидали фосфором всю эту красоту вместе с жителями.чтоб СССР целым город не достался.
Гамбург, Кёльн, Дрезден, Данциг...... можно долго перечислять - пострадали не меньше Кёнигсберга от варварских англо-американских бомбардировок.
Konigsberg in the beginning of the 20th century . I wonder if they have "time is money" philosophy back then . If not life was truly easy
I think back in the days, before the americanization of europe after ww2, life was way more chilled and stressless. Today, consum terror is killing our human nature
cool cat, I'd put it more generally. America is killing Europe and quite literally at that , alas.
wenn ich solche Bilder sehe, stelle ich mir vor, wie die Stadt jetzt aussehen würde, hätte es die Bomben nicht gegeben: Staus und Parkplätze, Leuchtreklame und Graffiti, Shishabars und Dönerbuden....
Alle deutschen Städte sind nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst. Deshalb setze ich mich auch für die Rekonstruktion ein. Aber Kulturmarxisten wie in Berlin versuchen das natürlich zu verhindern. Bestes Beispiel ist da der Stadtpalast.
Ужас! Каменные джунгли!😱😱😱😱
Politicians have destroyed Germany and are still at it!
Мои предки жили там...
Gud va mysigt det va där. Och nu det ser för skräckligt ut .
RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤
A good film . A very good film . But .
What a world ! Where Adolf Tortilowitz von Batocki Friede , Abel Ehrlich , Volker Lechtenbrinok , Beate Uhse ( :-) ), Marie Sharan as well as Patrick White und Humboldt , Kathe Kollwitz und Thomas Mann used to stroll , now the descendants of in-settlers of belarus, the ucraine as well as russia... Everything what is Ok here is German made . This is what I write to the videos of Königsberg :
Königsberg had been creating famous people of great Importance , as :
Regiomontanus : mathematician
Cathleen Brandenburg ,Princess of Transsylvania Chr. Goldbach:
mathematician Leonard Euler: mathematician Immanuel Kant : philosopher E.T.A. Hoffmann : writer , author G.H.L. Hagen : physicist G. R. Kirchoff:
physicist
K.R.König: physicist
Otto Wallach chemist
D. Hilbert : mathematician
Erich von Drygalski : discoverer
A. Sommerfeld: physicist
Agnes Miegel: physicist
Fanny Lewald: physicist
H.A.Winkler : historian
And no any russians , because russians are only russians .
Many russians live on importing western made cars here, and selling them in Russia . It's their main point .
But one has to, must add that this town teaches German ( good quality German ) language , some indigeous people speak much better German than a Berliner , as well as there are over 3 new German church buildings , and he people living here are somehow to Moscow as a Saint Petersburgers : they underestimate , belittle Moscow to their Kaliningrad . And : they seem like the Germans .
The only thing what these people haven't done yet is to rename the town to Kantgad . Or to Königsberg ...
And . The hitler has killed 40 million people , lenin has killed with his leninism-slav(e)s 100 million . In Germany there are NOT hitler statues , but in the land of the motherf.....r russians one can find a lot of statues of this mass murderer . Thank for the Hungarian and the Polish nations there are 20 more independent countries , and someone who is inside communist doesn't dare to say in a society , company any longer , hello , I am a leninist , communist ... :-)
Youngsters playing in Streets without cars ! Paradise ?