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I will try to name the locations as far as I know (sorry please for my bad english 🙏) 0:05 river view to Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis 0:38 city hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight) 1:11 view from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers) 1:29 Frauenkirche 2:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle 3:18 sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche 3:23 the Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle) 3:46 the Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle) 4:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station) 4:36 the Semper Opera with Quadriga 5:21 on the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache 5:37 view to the backside of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis 5:58 view from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side) 6:11 view to the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building) 6:34 the Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke) 6:55 Japanisches Palais 8:09 the Garden Palais in the city park) 9:17 impressions from the city park Großer Garten 9:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger From minute 10:56: impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection) 11:40 the Porzellanpavillon with the collection Some buildings in the video are also unknown to me (born in 1968) Have a nice day.
Quien filmó esa película, tenía un extraordinario grado de apreciación estética. No hay palabras para expresar tanta belleza de la ciudad, su arquitectura, monumentos, espacios, detalles, ambiente. Gracias, gracias.
War is stupid and senseless - these destroyed cities are witness to this - Dresden, but then also many other cities in Europe - too long a list to write here. Thanks for restoring this film - it is most extraordinary.
I live there. Honest to god they've done a really good job reconstructing a lot of it. Especially the historic center. Can only recommend as a place to visit :)
@VK S Some people (academics) wanted to leave the Frauenkirche a rubble as a "reminder of the past;" fun fact actually: out of 9 expert architects brought in to consult, 8 of them opposed the plans drawn up by the citizens and organizations doing the rebuilding (mostly preferring something much more modern). The only dissenter was Leon Krier, Europe's most famous/infamous anti-modernist architect. I guess the lesson is, thank God the grass roots efforts prevailed against the professional architectural consultants.
@@michko7979 I’m sorry, this is the impression Dresden left on you but what you’re saying is entirely untrue! As in every city it totally depends on the quarters of the city as well as which people you’re taking into consideration. Dresden is not the most diverse city, but still you will come across many different people with very different mindsets. The aspects of drug abuse and therefore criminality is also mirrored in statistics like the German Crime Index which portrays perfectly that Dresden is only in position 13 following many other larger German cities such as Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nürnberg oder Berlin…
@@michko7979 lmao you have never been to frankfurt main station or berlin in general. i live in dresden since 8 years. where is the drug problem? we do have problems with alot of right wing people though.not saying the city is perfect in any way. but in terms of drugs its NOTHING compares to frankfurt or berlin wtf
Does anybody else notice how clean everything used to be??? There is NOTHING i repeat NOTHING lying on the streets. No Dirt, no papers, no plastic bags, no other trash. Also I see not a single crazy or homeless person. Everybody has something to do all nicely dressed up. Truly a different time.
As somebody who knows Dresden well, I can assure you that the streets are clean. On the basis of what can be seen in these movies, there is no reason to think that there is any significant difference between then and now. Kindly improve your critical faculties: It could be before WW2, or now, but movies created to show how beautiful a city is, will not include people who are " crazy or homeless". Kindly remove your rose tinted glasses: Being "nicely dressed up" is a subjective judgement. However, the ability of the citizens of Dresden to clothe themselves reasonably well with the money that they have now, is far superior to what it was when these moving pictures where shot. The same can be said of anywhere in Western Europe.
Yeah, because nowadays the whole liberal society is so decadent and corrupt. Homeless people can shit on the streets and everyone throws away their trash. That would not happen under more authoritarian governemnts.
@@Arminius1901 Bullshit. I grew up in Dresden. The old town looks cleaner now than in the video. Cant be said for Neustadt, but isnt it a good feeling to not fear to be sent to camps if you litter?
Note that the vast majority of the representative buildings shown in this material have been rebuilt and can be seen today. Semper opera, Trinitatis cathedral, Frauenkirche, city palace, Stallhof, Johanneum etc. - even the baroque bourgeois houses around the Frauenkirche have been rebuilt mostly to style. If you travel to Dresden today, you could almost capture the same video footage. The only exception to this is the Sophienkirche (the one with the two towers) - it didn't fit on that spot anymore; today there's a glass building with the SAP campus and a nice rooftop bar in that place. The parts of "old" Dresden that have really been lost consist of the quarters outside the old town. Basically the quarters Seevorstadt, Johannstadt, and inner Neustadt which mostly had baroque facades as well have been filled with standardized GDR type concrete living blocks - due to the severe lack of residential space after WWII. There in many areas the layout of streets has been changed as well. Another ensemble that has been changed drastically is Prager Straße (the quarter that connects main station to the old town). Back then it was a Gründerzeit shopping district with hotels and cafés (think, today's Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel). After WWII it has been built as an ensemble of 60s/70s architecture (three very large hotel blocks, big shops, a large warehouse, a cinema), and since then been reformed by numerous large glass buildings, a modern mall and inner city residential buildings.
Finally - a great comment! I am full ethnic German, and both sides of my family suffered horrifically at the hands of the terror fire-bombers, and other war crimes. A German count wrote a great book - "The Vampire of the Continent" it is a free PDF, and will explain how that one tiny nation DESTROYED continental Europe over hundreds of years! Frederick the Great of Prussia also wrote about that horrible nation!
Interesting! I live in Dresden and the city looks exactly like that (the city center at least). I didn't think the reconstructions had been that faithful to the original!
I was born and living in Dresden. My family settled down in the 1800's comming from Poland. The City actual is in good conditions and most of the popular buildings are rebuilt. Thanks to the people like my grandmother. The so called "Trümmerfrauen" in the early days after war ended. In the 30 years after the iron curtain and the end of socialism a lot of work was done. Today we live in a world of degreasing understanding of freedom. Politicians all over the world are obsessed by there ideology and narcissism. We don't need new liberators. Most of people want to live in freedom and without paternalism. When Dresden was attacked, there was no need of demoralisation any more. It was a "Vendetta" action of the allies. And think about who is telling us storys. The winner is always writing history! A lot of people don't understand how critical the actual situation is. Let us togerher give the power back to the people!
My father's family left Dresden in the night of the final bombardment. Them heard the bombers while in the train heading west. Just luck. Nobody knew that an attack will happen. Neither that hard. Thanks for posting your beautiful vid. 🖖🏻
Seit 48 Jahren lebe ich in dieser Stadt und ja, ich liebe meine Heimat. Sie hat Stolz, Charme und ist doch bescheiden. Dresden ist gemütlich, herzlich und eine sehr lebenswerte Stadt. Ich liebe die Spaziergänge an den idyllischen Elbauen, die Verschiedenartigkeit und Dresdens Kultur. Ich bin hier tief mit meinem Herzen verankert. Meine Großeltern haben mir schon als Kind von Dresden erzählt. Sie haben mir mit Worten Bilder von Dresden gemalt, die meine Heimat vor dem Krieg beschrieb. Dresden muss man einfach lieben. Für mich ist es nach wie vor die schönste Stadt der Welt.
You should take pride in your homeland. It is the homeland of philosophers & artists. It has a rich and beautiful heritage that cannot be denied by the world no matter how much it tries to.
I visited Dresden I 2016. I was impressed how well it was rebuilt after the war. It’s a tragedy that people are still suffering in the 21st century due to wars. Most people just want to live in peace.
Wonderful film! My father was a British POW having his rotten teeth removed in Dresden when the destruction happened. He was hiding with Germans in the luftschutzbunker when the bombs fell. He survived but witnessed the aftermath. He always had nightmares after this.
Ein emotionaler Spaziergang durch eine der schönsten Städte Deutschlands. Man hat das Gefühl, sich vor soviel Anmut und historischer Eleganz, verneigen zu müssen. Ich liebe diese Stadt, sie ist voller positiver Energie. Jedes Mal,wenn ich in Dresden zu Gast bin, spüre ich, wie sehr mich diese Stadt vereinnahmt und mich in ihren Bann zieht. Es ist so, als würde ich genau in dieser Zeit leben, wie es diese wunderschönen Aufnahmen uns gezeigt haben. Man muss sich einfach darauf einlassen, dann spricht die Stadt zu dir.
Although it will never be and can be the same again, this beauty is lost forever, Dresden IS back and even some of the beauty has returned. The cities leadership made the right decisions to reconstruct most of the old center and they are still doing it. Its nearly unbelievable how much of the once lost, has returned. At least 50% of the vistas, places and buildings you see in this video are there again. Visit Dresden.
Please, if your English is good enough, read a book by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut called "Slaughterhouse Five," Disguised as fiction, Vonnegut tells his real-life story of being a prisoner of war in Dresden before the Allies bombed it to rubble. "Slaughterhouse Five," Vonnegut reports, was an underground place, a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he and other American soldiers, again prisoners of war, barely survived the lethal bombing which killed most Dresden inhabitants.
My mother was visiting Dresden, but delayed by prior railway air raid damage. She visited shortly after the City's destruction. Lovely though the architecture was, it was the piles of bodies and sheer loss of life that my mother never forgot. There were few bomb shelters and the heat from the firestorm was incredible. The smell of the corpses piled in the streets hanging in the air for a very long time indeed.
@@Rick88888888 Her experience was bitter sweet I think as she knew she was intending to arrive before the raids. Mum was glad to be alive. She "only" witnessed the horrific aftermath. Much later on she actually met a USAAF Pathfinder for the raid here in the USA too.
Danke für das seltene Filmmaterial, welches die alte Welt widerspiegelt, wie sie vor nicht allzu langer Zeit nicht nur in Dresden sondern in vielen anderen Städten auf der Welt noch vorhanden waren. Ich beziehe mich hier auf Themen wie Schlammfluten, Sternenstädte, Elitäre Kreise etc. In diesem Kontext übt das Filmmaterial eine Faszination auf mich aus.
The Frauenkirche @ 3:06 has been rebuilt exactly like it was, using almost all of the original salvaged blocks of stone and supplanted by new ones in the same style.
As far as I know the cross on the Frauenkirche was mad by an english craftsman who is a son or a grandson (?) of one of the british soldiers who were part of those who bombed Dresden. Very many Germans appreciated this cross very much and you could see the tears in the eyes of so many people when the cross was put on the top of the church. This was a very great moment, a symbol for peace.
You're kidding, right? Europe has been at war with one another for most of its existence. The early 20th century was brutal. Who could forget WW1? And of course the 20's saw the rise of the kind of right wing, racist extremism that led to the rise of Nazi Germany, Mussolini and the war it caused.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, I suppose they could say Coventry was an Industrial target, like our reason for bombing Dresden, but bombing London was a war crime to inflict murder and terror on Civilians, and had Germany decided not to choose war it would have not been subject to the allied bombing campaign, it's a tragedy and I wish it never happened, but if that means the U.K. had to suffer more due to the continuation of the German war machine the answer is NO, I've got a feeling that that Russia has far more to answer for than the allies, but their answer would more than likely be that they bought it on themselves!?!
Yes, and the British wanted to murder most Germans - they targeted civilians and started both wars with France, America, and terrorist Serbia - Russia was also involved, even Italy stabbed us in the back! Our best allies and friends are - the people of Finland, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Albania, Bulgaria, and Estonia - those are the nations that I love!
The utter futility of war literally set in stone. Also back at a time when buildings were beautiful and made to lift the soul and not brutalist and soul grindingly drudge.
Als jemand, der als Zugezogener in Dresden lebt, kann ich sagen: vieles ist verloren gegangen, aber vieles ist auch sehr schön und ansprechend wieder errichtet worden. Das alte und das neue Dresden harmonieren halbwegs miteinander - anders als in so manchen anderen Städten.
The German ppl have shocked (& quietly exposed) the world with their unfathomable resilience to rebuild and endure Though, truly, nothing could ever replace what has been lost
*_The picture of beautiful Dresden is so sharp that I felt I wanted to step into my computer and be there in the past, feeling the warm sunshine on my face, and getting down on one knee to place my hand in the flowing Elbe as I did when a student in 1972. The sun shone over Germany then._*
Co za styl architektoniczny ,wspaniałe budynki i otaczającą przyrodą . Rewelacyjna robota jesteś wielkim profesjonalista .Oglądam twoje filmy z wielką uwagą i niecierpliwie na nie czekam . Wszystkiego najlepszego .👏👏
The American author Kurt Vonnegut went through the Dresden bombing as a POW which made him one of the most radical reviewer of the foreign politics of the US. As well George Orwell visited Cologne in 1945 and he was shocked about the senseless destruction an devastations. From the shock the view gave him he never recovered.
Omg I was there before the Church was rebuilt and know from relatives how beautiful it was. It was always compared to Paris . What a shame what humans can do unfathomable
Rick, Many thanks for this brilliantly restored film of pre-war Dresden. You are quite correct in your sentiments-the destruction of such architectural beauty, but more importantly of life, does not even bear thinking about! 😢
Nearly every single building in this video (excluding the "Neustädter Markt") is reconstructed now and you could produce a very similar film in the modern dresden of today. The heart of the city is no longer destroyed and is reborn. A miracle, thanks to the engagement of many many people at Dresden.
I'm British, i have worked in Dresden (briefly) around 2004, such a nice city. I really like ze Germans, i found them quite polite and courteous generally. I remember going to a restaurant, in a large public square but i don't remember the name of it, outside were one (or two) old cannons, it was a really nice place to eat. Great food and excellent service. Might have been downstairs in the cellar but German beer has robbed my full memory of it 😂. Anyway, stop hating German people and russian people please. The actual enemy is closer to home.
I read all the comments. The Nazis are all dead and so are the people that bombed Dresden. There is no point in arguing about anymore. What does it accomplish except bitterness and defensiveness?. All I can say is its a damn shame it happened and we should all enjoy that this beautiful city has come back as much as it has. We are all the richer for it.
Newest research of several psychologists and psychiatrists indicated that big occurrences will irreversibly influence the minds, characters and culture of nations and their citizens which ist proved, regardless in what country You look.
Ein berührendes Zeitzeugnis, auf hervorragende Weise restauriert. Vielen Dank dafür, sicher im Namen vieler Dresdner, die ihre Stadt in dieser Form nicht mehr kennen.
Great footage, I’ve just spent 4 hours searching for pictures of pre war Dresden only to be flooded by page after page of the bombing aftermath it really annoyed me and saddened me, and now I’ve found your channel great stuff just what I wanted to see the splendour of baroque architecture!! Thank you rick88888888 I’ve subscribed to your channel as it’s very useful 👌
"Our fight has so very little to do with the borders of this great nation, the safety and preservation of Europe and her ethics are our true struggle" AH 1941
Vielen Dank für das ins Netz stellen. Bin 1952 geboren in Dresden und mit dem Aufbau verschiedener Gebäude und.ä. aufgewachsen. Nicht alle Bilder kann ich zuordnen. Könnt ihr den Film entsprechend verfeinern? Für mich war die yenidze und der Speicher inprägender Erinnerung. Und das Palais im Grossen Garten habe ich mit Spannung rekonstruiert erwartet. Usw.
Schön, dass es diese alten Aufnahmen noch gibt, und danke fürs Reinstellen. Damals waren viele Gebäude noch richtige Kunstwerke. Und was für eine Friedlichkeit diese Bilder ausstrahlen. Danach folgte ein weiteres schweres Verbrechen, was gegen Ende des Krieges noch begangen wurde. Weitere sollten noch folgen.
Yes people seem to love it or rather visit it on other people's land. It was the Germans who were the "bad guys" 80 years ago and now it is the people of the middle east Russia and possibly in the future China. As a German uboat commander said in his memoir "every generation must rediscover the horrors of war but only after indulging in it". People and nations never seem to learn.
You are right. But If Hitler and Mussolini weren't born, never, maybe the german cities, including Dresden, would have remained beautiful and spectacular.
Do go. It is very walkable and inviting. When I was there about ten years ago, they were still working on fixing the tunnels where people hid but then died from lack of oxygen. Don't miss the Zwinger Palace museum and the summer palace of Augustus the Strong, which is across the Blue Bridge in Pillnitz.
I have been to Dresden during East German times many times and always remember the ruins of the Frauenkirche. They were there as a reminder of the atrocities of war. I am happy that is has been fully rebuilt and once again shines in its glory.
That ai digital remastering process alone is mind blowing,since this footage was originally recorded in low-res b&w,you cannot go back with a time machine to tell those camera mans to shoot in hi-def color,BUT with the incredible deoldifyer software now you can reverse something what was once impossible to reverse👍
Auf alle Fälle in Deutschland! Die sind aber dabei, sie zu zerstören, indem sie haufenweise F*linge aus dem Südland hier ansiedeln - wegen "Fachkräftemangel"
Thanks Rick, most welcome video this is. I visited Dresden around eight years ago when the Frauenkirche was just rebuilt. They did a decent job restoring downtown, although they probably didn't restore everything. The feel of downtown is pretty much like in this movie.
They chose Dresden not only for the lack of military targets but the spirit breaking effect it would have on the Germans seeing one of their most ancient and treasured cities reduced to powder. Just like how they intentionally went out of their way to destroy Arno Brekers statues glorifying a martial physique and a healthy body.
dresden was a major railway hub for germany at the time to transport a lot of war material intended to be used on the eastern front, but also to relocate people the nazis wanted in death camps. around 50,000 workers worked at factories in the city that produced material for the german army, as well as ammo depots and barracks. to say dresden did not have any military targets is simply not true. you can decide for yourself if that justifies the bombings
@@queenofastora This is just made up bullshit. They ignored military structures that were outside the city. They targeted citizens and the city itself because it was peak white civilization. There were no prisoners of war there. There were refugees. Mostly women and children. So sad to see how absolutely void of actual knowledge people are.
@@queenofastora The point is that the city and its people are victims of the circumstances that caused WW2 as much as anyone, even the internees. The National Socialists did not appear out of nowhere, and they were funded by the elites of Europe, to include the Vatican and the Italian Illuminati families. Hitler himself was really a Rothschild. To say that the German people en masse deserved this fate is to condone the sinister crimes of the Allied elites who themselves were collaborating with the evil regime that ruled Germany. Look up Operation Paperclip to get a sense of how all of these parties were in bed together. Ergo, ww2 was a contrived event designed to reduce the world's population and further the political aims of a handful of world elites. It is still ongoing.
@@jcord0013 Nice, someone with actual knowledge. I hope, you dont fall for fake nowadays partys like the AfD. Democracy is an illusion, now and in the past. Our only freedome would be an attack against our politicians and there groups (Bilderberger, Freimaurer, Group of Thirty etc.). Even those people, who clew themselves at streets arent fighting for the environment: they get money to do it. Even small movements are often fake, just like Pegida. It makes me so sad, at least i have good German bread.
Some of these commenters saying, "the Germans had it coming." As if the issue boils down to us-vs-them. The real issue concerns the preservation and nourishing of culture vs its destruction.
It's not that the Germans had it coming, it's that the Nazi leadership did this to them, the leaders of Germany brought this on, and this is entirely the Nazi leadership's fault. They wanted the most total and radical war the world had ever seen. So those who defended the leadership did have it coming
The Dresden bombing by the allies was the only scientifically proven case of *igneous storm* -- an unique flame of fire which has destroyed a city. Neither the bombing of Tokyo nor the nuclear bombings against the Japanese cities by the allies were causes of that type of fire. This is the case when an entire city burns as a single flame of fire. The underground temperatures in the bunkers and subways burned the families and civilians alive (added: like it occurs inside an oven without direct fire). Undoubtedly it was a war crime against Germany. Brasil
I agree The People of Dresden had few chances of survival than the Japanese. it was awfull. One Surviving british airmen pretty much said any children or infants or elderly people would have been Liquefied on the Spot . He said to his dieing day he would never forget the smell of burning human fleash and the screams. He said you could hear them and smell them even up in the Air!
Check the bombing of Hamburg. The same physical phenomenon: firestorm. Massive death toll there, as well. A deliberate targetting of the parts of a city with the highest population density, designed to cause the maximum killing of civilians. This crime was given the euphemistic name „morale bombing“.
Hitler should have given us a list of untouchables---like London Coventry , Manchester Birmingham Bristol Liverpool Glasgow Cardiff Exeter Plymouth Norwich Bath Canterbury Warsaw Antwerp Moscow Stalingrad St Pertersberg and Guernica. OH SORRY. I meant Dresden.
We destroyed cities... they tried to destroy complete cultures and civilizations. If not for that, their city would have not been torcherd. Hitler's war was hell.
Ich werde dieses Video einer ehemaligen Bewohnerin dieser Stadt zeigen, sie ist jetzt 98 Jahre alt. Sie hat mir viel über diese schöne Stadt erzählt. Das Haus ihrer Eltern lag am Stadtrand auf einer höheren Ebene. Sie konnte die ganze Stadt in Flammen sehen, und so dramatisch der Anblick auch war, er sah aus wie Gold, alle Fenster waren durch die Flammen vergoldet. Sie erzählte mir, dass ihre Familie jüdische Freunde hatte und dass die Treffen immer seltener wurden, bis sie sich nicht mehr sahen. Wie jüdische Geschäfte zerstört und vandalisiert wurden. Zwei Klassenkameraden starben bei dem Bombenanschlag. Ihr Mann kämpfte an der Front, kehrte verwundet zurück und war lebenslang behindert. (Deutsch ist nicht meiner Muttersprache Sprache, sorry für die Grammatik Fehler.)
A great piece of film and a great piece of film restoration. Dresden must have been a magnificent place. With the restoration of die Frauenkirche, Dresden remains a great city and a cultural capital.
No city or place should suffer like this city did and the others in Germany and in England. My family lost their home and business in Liverpool. A whole street burned because the water mains were fractured and there was no water to put out the flames. Never again, please God.
A lot was destroyed and with it went the old romantic Germany but much has been rebuilt. The Frauen Kirche shines again, the Elbe has been cleaned, and the opera house the Semperopera has been restored to its last brick, thanks to German ingenuity and dedication.
the construction method is pretty good in comparison to like 30-50 years ago. that buildings destroyed all looks of the cities, but nowadays they are more focused to let the buildings look in shape with the city
I live in Vienna, which was rebuilt after WW2, but sadly is overcrowded from ugly, loud and carbonising cars. My dream would be to ban these entirely from the city and to use the streets only with bikes and pedestrians and maybe some busses and trams.
@@ronstar7027 No, everybody who supports this mindset of egotistical behaviour is damned and should recognize that and find a way out of this. Otherwise the whole humantiy is damned.
My French city of Le Havre, France biggest harbour, was also rased down by the RAF in 1944 when it was occupied. It was really beautiful, quite similar to Honfleur but on a larger scale. There is nothing left from it. Now its only concrete.
I will be visiting Dresden for the Christmas markets this year. Very much looking forward to seeing it. What happened to it in the war was an absolute tragedy.
When I think of WW2 and the bombing, I often think how much more beautiful our cities would be if it never happened. London was full of bombsites decades after the war, Coventry had its cathedral and much of the medieval centre destroyed, Warsaw, Rotterdam and Berlin all blown apart, the list goes on. This film on Dresden was just too sad to see.
Dresden keeps rebuilding itself to this day and has gained a good amount of its beauty back. There is a very powerful society in the city who pushes for reconstructing historical buildings and already succeeded in many cases.
Ist echt ne Schande und das alles nur wegen dem Größenwahn von nazis. Leider wurden die Städte nach dem Krieg für Autos gebaut was Städte echt verschlechtert hat in meiner Meinung
@@moritzlevold2206 du lügenmaul verbreitest Unsinn über die Kriegswichtigkeit Dresdens. Eine Hauptstadt mit knapp 700k Einwohnern ist selbstverständlich immer Verkehrsknoten. Das rechtfertigt aber keinen 70 stündigen Brandbomben, Sprengbomben und Phosphorterror.
@@robinjunghans5358 Lol Lügenmau. Okay die Stadt Dresden hat ja auch nur ein historisches Gutachten veranlasst was die Todeszahl auf 25 tausend gesetzt hat. Aber ich denke wenn man noch an kriegspropaganda aus den 50ern glaubt hat es eh keinen Sinn über offizielle Zahlen zu reden ihr habt ja immer eure eigenen. Köln und andere Städte in nrw haben es mindestens genauso wenn nicht noch mehr getroffen wo ist die Betitelung als schlimmste bombardierung dafür?
Ich stehe morgen mit meiner 80-jährigen Schwiegermutter, die das alles als 3-jährige erleben mußte, in der Menschenkette. I'll be a part of the human chain tomorrow with my 80 yeara old mother-in-law who had to experience all that in the age of 3... My heart is bleeding.
Wow, this is what Dresden looked like, when Erich Kästner (one of my favourite writers) was still living there. It's fascinating to imagine him walking down those streets thinking about the next thing he was going go write. It's also interesting to see places I walk past every day, but have these people from the past walking there instead.
A remarkable city. Despite its near obliteration, Dresden today is alive and well. While it will never regain its pre-war beauty, the level of civic pride amongst its people is astonishing. I try to visit every year, in order to take stock of the numerous re-construction projects occurring throughout the historic centre.
Visited Dresden years ago.. it looks like our main city Prague but better!! i coudnt believe how ! just how did they repair almost whole city.. It was crazy you coud find and probebly still can, reconstructions finishing top of churches.. and everything was so nice and clean very good feeling !! i remember Frauenkirche looking at some dark and new white blocks.. thinking it was really destroyed? Never heard much about it, but for me they did such a crazy good job !!!! i recommend to everyone visite this city..
It's still only a small part of the old town that has been reconstructed. There are still vast areas of the former old city that are not rebuilt yet and probably never will be. You can't even imagine how beautiful it really all was back then.
@@Egonimo Its well made ! looks good.. i am from part of Czechia called Sudetenland back in time.. Lot of destruction here but no rebuild... My name is only +-40 founds in Czechia.. . So sad to see broken churches and graves.. whole villages lost.. very rare to see getting back from ashes ..
What a beautiful city. I have visited twice. Knowing the history of the city makes it all the more exciting a visit. The Frauenkirche[ sic] was an incredible rebuild, and I went to the top of it. Such a view, such a lovely city, and the people were friendly.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens." Ephesians 6:12
@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Oxidation is one cause. The other is black carbon and nitrous oxides from burning fossil fuels. So the Energiewende will also help to preserve Dresden‘s beauty.
unbelievable how beautiful old german cities were. It's such a shame. People don't build these things anymore. At least here in Vienna we have our old town.
Weil die verfügbare Flak nach Wien gebracht wurde (auch die aus Dresden). Wien sollte um jeden Preis gerettet werden. Leider geriet auch Wien zum Kriegsende in die alliierte Bomberreichweite.
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Thank you for this video. A conservative estimate of the real number of casualties is 250000.
@@benjamin_lindner One zero too many. It were between 22.500 and 25.000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
I will try to name the locations as far as I know (sorry please for my bad english 🙏)
0:05 river view to Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
0:38 city hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight)
1:11 view from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers)
1:29 Frauenkirche
2:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle
3:18 sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche
3:23 the Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle)
3:46 the Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle)
4:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station)
4:36 the Semper Opera with Quadriga
5:21 on the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache
5:37 view to the backside of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
5:58 view from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side)
6:11 view to the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building)
6:34 the Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke)
6:55 Japanisches Palais
8:09 the Garden Palais in the city park)
9:17 impressions from the city park Großer Garten
9:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger
From minute 10:56: impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection)
11:40 the Porzellanpavillon with the collection
Some buildings in the video are also unknown to me (born in 1968)
Have a nice day.
@@thebeautymaker9784 Thank you very much! I'll add them to the description and CC captions
The old world buildings and craftsmanship is unmatched... We make trash now
Not even trash, ,....
We live in a different dimension now, it seems. Ugly, soulless, empty.
Yepp !!!!
See the brutalist architecture in the UK after WW2… horrendous
It aspires to trashdom.
All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain. - Roy Batty Bladerunner
Quien filmó esa película, tenía un extraordinario grado de apreciación estética. No hay palabras para expresar tanta belleza de la ciudad, su arquitectura, monumentos, espacios, detalles, ambiente. Gracias, gracias.
War is stupid and senseless - these destroyed cities are witness to this - Dresden, but then also many other cities in Europe - too long a list to write here. Thanks for restoring this film - it is most extraordinary.
I live there. Honest to god they've done a really good job reconstructing a lot of it. Especially the historic center. Can only recommend as a place to visit :)
It's worth a visit!
Greetings from Switzerland :)
@VK S Some people (academics) wanted to leave the Frauenkirche a rubble as a "reminder of the past;" fun fact actually: out of 9 expert architects brought in to consult, 8 of them opposed the plans drawn up by the citizens and organizations doing the rebuilding (mostly preferring something much more modern). The only dissenter was Leon Krier, Europe's most famous/infamous anti-modernist architect.
I guess the lesson is, thank God the grass roots efforts prevailed against the professional architectural consultants.
@@MarkAnderson-ng8vc I think the enemies of the German people are still very active
@@michko7979 I’m sorry, this is the impression Dresden left on you but what you’re saying is entirely untrue! As in every city it totally depends on the quarters of the city as well as which people you’re taking into consideration. Dresden is not the most diverse city, but still you will come across many different people with very different mindsets. The aspects of drug abuse and therefore criminality is also mirrored in statistics like the German Crime Index which portrays perfectly that Dresden is only in position 13 following many other larger German cities such as Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nürnberg oder Berlin…
@@michko7979 lmao you have never been to frankfurt main station or berlin in general. i live in dresden since 8 years. where is the drug problem? we do have problems with alot of right wing people though.not saying the city is perfect in any way. but in terms of drugs its NOTHING compares to frankfurt or berlin wtf
This is probably the best video I’ve seen of that glorious Dresden beauty. I’m keeping it to watch again. Thanks so much for finding and sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Does anybody else notice how clean everything used to be??? There is NOTHING i repeat NOTHING lying on the streets. No Dirt, no papers, no plastic bags, no other trash. Also I see not a single crazy or homeless person. Everybody has something to do all nicely dressed up. Truly a different time.
As somebody who knows Dresden well, I can assure you that the streets are clean. On the basis of what can be seen in these movies, there is no reason to think that there is any significant difference between then and now.
Kindly improve your critical faculties:
It could be before WW2, or now, but movies created to show how beautiful a city is, will not include people who are " crazy or homeless".
Kindly remove your rose tinted glasses:
Being "nicely dressed up" is a subjective judgement. However, the ability of the citizens of Dresden to clothe themselves reasonably well with the money that they have now, is far superior to what it was when these moving pictures where shot. The same can be said of anywhere in Western Europe.
The dressing is what amazed me the most, even poor guys wear a simple suit.
Yeah, because nowadays the whole liberal society is so decadent and corrupt. Homeless people can shit on the streets and everyone throws away their trash. That would not happen under more authoritarian governemnts.
beautiful places were before war
@@Arminius1901 Bullshit. I grew up in Dresden. The old town looks cleaner now than in the video. Cant be said for Neustadt, but isnt it a good feeling to not fear to be sent to camps if you litter?
Note that the vast majority of the representative buildings shown in this material have been rebuilt and can be seen today. Semper opera, Trinitatis cathedral, Frauenkirche, city palace, Stallhof, Johanneum etc. - even the baroque bourgeois houses around the Frauenkirche have been rebuilt mostly to style.
If you travel to Dresden today, you could almost capture the same video footage.
The only exception to this is the Sophienkirche (the one with the two towers) - it didn't fit on that spot anymore; today there's a glass building with the SAP campus and a nice rooftop bar in that place.
The parts of "old" Dresden that have really been lost consist of the quarters outside the old town. Basically the quarters Seevorstadt, Johannstadt, and inner Neustadt which mostly had baroque facades as well have been filled with standardized GDR type concrete living blocks - due to the severe lack of residential space after WWII. There in many areas the layout of streets has been changed as well.
Another ensemble that has been changed drastically is Prager Straße (the quarter that connects main station to the old town).
Back then it was a Gründerzeit shopping district with hotels and cafés (think, today's Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel). After WWII it has been built as an ensemble of 60s/70s architecture (three very large hotel blocks, big shops, a large warehouse, a cinema), and since then been reformed by numerous large glass buildings, a modern mall and inner city residential buildings.
Thank you very much for this info. We went to Dresden 3 weeks ago. A "Dresden Then and Now" video is in the making!
Not the same. Recreations never are.
Whoever filmed this, nearly 100 years ago, did a marvelous job!
Thank you very very much. As a child I often played in the ruins of Dresden. Now I have tears in my eyes ...
Finally - a great comment! I am full ethnic German, and both sides of my family suffered horrifically at the hands of the terror fire-bombers, and other war crimes. A German count wrote a great book - "The Vampire of the Continent" it is a free PDF, and will explain how that one tiny nation DESTROYED continental Europe over hundreds of years! Frederick the Great of Prussia also wrote about that horrible nation!
Interesting! I live in Dresden and the city looks exactly like that (the city center at least). I didn't think the reconstructions had been that faithful to the original!
I was born and living in Dresden. My family settled down in the 1800's comming from Poland. The City actual is in good conditions and most of the popular buildings are rebuilt. Thanks to the people like my grandmother. The so called "Trümmerfrauen" in the early days after war ended.
In the 30 years after the iron curtain and the end of socialism a lot of work was done.
Today we live in a world of degreasing understanding of freedom. Politicians all over the world are obsessed by there ideology and narcissism.
We don't need new liberators. Most of people want to live in freedom and without paternalism.
When Dresden was attacked, there was no need of demoralisation any more. It was a "Vendetta" action of the allies. And think about who is telling us storys. The winner is always writing history! A lot of people don't understand how critical the actual situation is.
Let us togerher give the power back to the people!
You German????
My father's family left Dresden in the night of the final bombardment.
Them heard the bombers while in the train heading west.
Just luck. Nobody knew that an attack will happen. Neither that hard.
Thanks for posting your beautiful vid. 🖖🏻
Seit 48 Jahren lebe ich in dieser Stadt und ja, ich liebe meine Heimat. Sie hat Stolz, Charme und ist doch bescheiden. Dresden ist gemütlich, herzlich und eine sehr lebenswerte Stadt. Ich liebe die Spaziergänge an den idyllischen Elbauen, die Verschiedenartigkeit und Dresdens Kultur. Ich bin hier tief mit meinem Herzen verankert. Meine Großeltern haben mir schon als Kind von Dresden erzählt. Sie haben mir mit Worten Bilder von Dresden gemalt, die meine Heimat vor dem Krieg beschrieb. Dresden muss man einfach lieben. Für mich ist es nach wie vor die schönste Stadt der Welt.
You should take pride in your homeland. It is the homeland of philosophers & artists. It has a rich and beautiful heritage that cannot be denied by the world no matter how much it tries to.
I visited Dresden I 2016. I was impressed how well it was rebuilt after the war. It’s a tragedy that people are still suffering in the 21st century due to wars. Most people just want to live in peace.
Wonderful film! My father was a British POW having his rotten teeth removed in Dresden when the destruction happened. He was hiding with Germans in the luftschutzbunker when the bombs fell. He survived but witnessed the aftermath. He always had nightmares after this.
Ein emotionaler Spaziergang durch eine der schönsten Städte Deutschlands.
Man hat das Gefühl, sich vor soviel Anmut und historischer Eleganz, verneigen zu müssen. Ich liebe diese Stadt, sie ist voller positiver Energie. Jedes Mal,wenn ich in Dresden zu Gast bin, spüre ich, wie sehr mich diese Stadt vereinnahmt und mich in ihren Bann zieht. Es ist so, als würde ich genau in dieser Zeit leben, wie es diese wunderschönen Aufnahmen uns gezeigt haben.
Man muss sich einfach darauf einlassen, dann spricht die Stadt zu dir.
Schön gesagt, geht mir genauso ♥
Echt bijzonder. De schoonheid voordat het ophield. Erg goed gedaan, deze combinatie van beeld en muziek.
After being too the city and seeing this footage, it hits so much harder just how beautiful it was and still is.
Although it will never be and can be the same again, this beauty is lost forever, Dresden IS back and even some of the beauty has returned. The cities leadership made the right decisions to reconstruct most of the old center and they are still doing it. Its nearly unbelievable how much of the once lost, has returned. At least 50% of the vistas, places and buildings you see in this video are there again. Visit Dresden.
Hammer, das ist wirkliche Städtebau-Kunst und nicht das heutige Beton-Glaseinerlei. Danke fürs upload und der passenden Hintergrundmusik
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this!💖
Dresden is my hometown and today I wake up here with this wonderful pictures...🥹
You're welcome 😊
Please, if your English is good enough, read a book by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut called "Slaughterhouse Five," Disguised as fiction, Vonnegut tells his real-life story of being a prisoner of war in Dresden before the Allies bombed it to rubble. "Slaughterhouse Five," Vonnegut reports, was an underground place, a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he and other American soldiers, again prisoners of war, barely survived the lethal bombing which killed most Dresden inhabitants.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Very interesting, thank you.
Absolutely beautiful like a dream. Another time another place.
i was there a couple of years ago Dresden has one the most beautiful Christmas markets in the world, and the city still looks just as beautiful
Imagine how much engineuity, time and labor went into building this city. Amazing.
Do a comparison with WARSAW
My mother was visiting Dresden, but delayed by prior railway air raid damage. She visited shortly after the City's destruction. Lovely though the architecture was, it was the piles of bodies and sheer loss of life that my mother never forgot. There were few bomb shelters and the heat from the firestorm was incredible. The smell of the corpses piled in the streets hanging in the air for a very long time indeed.
So sad to hear that your mother witnessed this carnage.
@@Rick88888888 Her experience was bitter sweet I think as she knew she was intending to arrive before the raids. Mum was glad to be alive. She "only" witnessed the horrific aftermath.
Much later on she actually met a USAAF Pathfinder for the raid here in the USA too.
My grandma bombed out from Cologne in 1943 saw Dresden burning from 200km away !
@@Taiyou536
Yes, indeed you could see the fire that far. Someone from Bavaria told me he saw it from the same distance.
@@anna-elisabethbender3123 Gruesome isn't it ?
How much of Dresden has been restored or reconstructed from the past. This film is vital for the reconstruction of Dresden.
@@Nussbaum981 This is oversimplified. In background of the new buildings were and will be restored the buildings of the baroque and the Gründerzeit.
Danke für das seltene Filmmaterial, welches die alte Welt widerspiegelt, wie sie vor nicht allzu langer Zeit nicht nur in Dresden sondern in vielen anderen Städten auf der Welt noch vorhanden waren. Ich beziehe mich hier auf Themen wie Schlammfluten, Sternenstädte, Elitäre Kreise etc. In diesem Kontext übt das Filmmaterial eine Faszination auf mich aus.
The Frauenkirche @ 3:06 has been rebuilt exactly like it was, using almost all of the original salvaged blocks of stone and supplanted by new ones in the same style.
As far as I know the cross on the Frauenkirche was mad by an english craftsman who is a son or a grandson (?) of one of the british soldiers who were part of those who bombed Dresden. Very many Germans appreciated this cross very much and you could see the tears in the eyes of so many people when the cross was put on the top of the church. This was a very great moment, a symbol for peace.
They even succeeded, by means of fall angle calculation, to place all of the remaining original stones in their original spots...!
Regardless of what happened here politically and militarily, that city was stunningly beautiful and architecturally amazing.
The 1930s were the last years of Europe's greatness.
Then comes decadence and then collapse.
Thanks to commie Che--ws.
You're kidding, right? Europe has been at war with one another for most of its existence. The early 20th century was brutal. Who could forget WW1? And of course the 20's saw the rise of the kind of right wing, racist extremism that led to the rise of Nazi Germany, Mussolini and the war it caused.
My jaws on the floor everytime I see a pre 1945 Dresden, just a marvelous amazing city.
What about London and Coventry before the Germans blasted it to hell!!
@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, I suppose they could say Coventry was an Industrial target, like our reason for bombing Dresden, but bombing London was a war crime to inflict murder and terror on Civilians, and had Germany decided not to choose war it would have not been subject to the allied bombing campaign, it's a tragedy and I wish it never happened, but if that means the U.K. had to suffer more due to the continuation of the German war machine the answer is NO, I've got a feeling that that Russia has far more to answer for than the allies, but their answer would more than likely be that they bought it on themselves!?!
Yes, and the British wanted to murder most Germans - they targeted civilians and started both wars with France, America, and terrorist Serbia - Russia was also involved, even Italy stabbed us in the back! Our best allies and friends are - the people of Finland, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Albania, Bulgaria, and Estonia - those are the nations that I love!
@@lottivonhesse9382 That is completely untrue and absolute nonsense. Get your facts straight.
Watch a documentary called Europa the last battle
The utter futility of war literally set in stone. Also back at a time when buildings were beautiful and made to lift the soul and not brutalist and soul grindingly drudge.
Als jemand, der als Zugezogener in Dresden lebt, kann ich sagen: vieles ist verloren gegangen, aber vieles ist auch sehr schön und ansprechend wieder errichtet worden. Das alte und das neue Dresden harmonieren halbwegs miteinander - anders als in so manchen anderen Städten.
The German ppl have shocked (& quietly exposed) the world with their unfathomable resilience to rebuild and endure
Though, truly, nothing could ever replace what has been lost
@@Sacrosanct5910 Ist leider nur in Dresden so, schau dir andere Deutsche Städte vor W.W2 an und dann heute
*_The picture of beautiful Dresden is so sharp that I felt I wanted to step into my computer and be there in the past, feeling the warm sunshine on my face, and getting down on one knee to place my hand in the flowing Elbe as I did when a student in 1972. The sun shone over Germany then._*
Co za styl architektoniczny ,wspaniałe budynki i otaczającą przyrodą .
Rewelacyjna robota jesteś wielkim profesjonalista .Oglądam twoje filmy z wielką uwagą i niecierpliwie na nie czekam .
Wszystkiego najlepszego .👏👏
The American author Kurt Vonnegut went through the Dresden bombing as a POW which made him one of the most radical reviewer of the foreign politics of the US.
As well George Orwell visited Cologne in 1945 and he was shocked about the senseless destruction an devastations. From the shock the view gave him he never recovered.
Omg I was there before the Church was rebuilt and know from relatives how beautiful it was. It was always compared to Paris . What a shame what humans can do unfathomable
Rick,
Many thanks for this brilliantly restored film of pre-war Dresden. You are quite correct in your sentiments-the destruction of such architectural beauty, but more importantly of life, does not even bear thinking about! 😢
Nearly every single building in this video (excluding the "Neustädter Markt") is reconstructed now and you could produce a very similar film in the modern dresden of today. The heart of the city is no longer destroyed and is reborn. A miracle, thanks to the engagement of many many people at Dresden.
Reborn? Zugekleistert u dreckig, dreckig ist FS und der Postplatz ist 😠
@@AP-to2ss genau lesen vor dem Kommentieren. Jedes Haus in diesem Video (!) . Der Postplatz vor 1945 ist in diesen Aufnahmen nicht (!) zu sehen.
I'm British, i have worked in Dresden (briefly) around 2004, such a nice city. I really like ze Germans, i found them quite polite and courteous generally. I remember going to a restaurant, in a large public square but i don't remember the name of it, outside were one (or two) old cannons, it was a really nice place to eat. Great food and excellent service. Might have been downstairs in the cellar but German beer has robbed my full memory of it 😂. Anyway, stop hating German people and russian people please. The actual enemy is closer to home.
Most germans didn't want war. Like ours they were forced into it. Politicians, curse of the world.
I think you were in the restaurant Pulverturm it is near the Frauenkirche.
I read all the comments. The Nazis are all dead and so are the people that bombed Dresden. There is no point in arguing about anymore. What does it accomplish except bitterness and defensiveness?. All I can say is its a damn shame it happened and we should all enjoy that this beautiful city has come back as much as it has. We are all the richer for it.
Newest research of several psychologists and psychiatrists indicated that big occurrences will irreversibly influence the minds, characters and culture of nations and their citizens which ist proved, regardless in what country You look.
Ein berührendes Zeitzeugnis, auf hervorragende Weise restauriert. Vielen Dank dafür, sicher im Namen vieler Dresdner, die ihre Stadt in dieser Form nicht mehr kennen.
Great footage, I’ve just spent 4 hours searching for pictures of pre war Dresden only to be flooded by page after page of the bombing aftermath it really annoyed me and saddened me, and now I’ve found your channel great stuff just what I wanted to see the splendour of baroque architecture!! Thank you rick88888888 I’ve subscribed to your channel as it’s very useful 👌
Great and welcome!
Mein schönes Dresden in ganzer Pracht und Schönheit, meine Heimat!!! Thanks for upload!
"Our fight has so very little to do with the borders of this great nation, the safety and preservation of Europe and her ethics are our true struggle" AH 1941
Vielen Dank für das ins Netz stellen. Bin 1952 geboren in Dresden und mit dem Aufbau verschiedener Gebäude und.ä. aufgewachsen. Nicht alle Bilder kann ich zuordnen. Könnt ihr den Film entsprechend verfeinern? Für mich war die yenidze und der Speicher inprägender Erinnerung. Und das Palais im Grossen Garten habe ich mit Spannung rekonstruiert erwartet. Usw.
Absolutely stunning!!!!! My heart is crying for what humanity has lost.... 😭💙
Rick you're doing an amazing work!!
Yes--Now cry for the cities of the rest of Europe, incl Britain of course.
@@MrDaiseymay I find it just as sad - the whole war was just the mass destruction of european culture
@@gonsonandenschinder drama queen
@@gertdehond4721 War the likes of which the world had never seen and feeling sad about it make someone a drama queen? That's pretty confusing.
@@gertdehond4721 ? I'm not even a woman lol
Supposedly one of the most BEAUTIFUL cities of the world.......
Danke ein sehr wertvolles Video , das ist nicht wieder herzustellen was da Zerstört wurde !!
Doch, so gut wie alles.
Thank you! Extremely beautiful material.
What a criminal shame. Such a beautiful place. Not like the featureless crap we have today. Man is so bad.
Das sind wundervolle Aufnahmen meiner Heimatstadt. Viel haben mir alte Menschen vom alten Dresden berichtet. Und einiges ist auch wieder so aufgebaut.
Schön, dass es diese alten Aufnahmen noch gibt, und danke fürs Reinstellen. Damals waren viele Gebäude noch richtige Kunstwerke. Und was für eine Friedlichkeit diese Bilder ausstrahlen. Danach folgte ein weiteres schweres Verbrechen, was gegen Ende des Krieges noch begangen wurde. Weitere sollten noch folgen.
The horror and insanity of war. There are no winners.
A small group get very rich, whilst millions die.
Usa wins the hegemony 100 years
Yes people seem to love it or rather visit it on other people's land. It was the Germans who were the "bad guys" 80 years ago and now it is the people of the middle east Russia and possibly in the future China. As a German uboat commander said in his memoir "every generation must rediscover the horrors of war but only after indulging in it". People and nations never seem to learn.
You are right. But If Hitler and Mussolini weren't born, never, maybe the german cities, including Dresden, would have remained beautiful and spectacular.
I love that when they rebuilt the city they.stil provided the old charm, no skyscrapers. Makes me wanna go there
Do go. It is very walkable and inviting. When I was there about ten years ago, they were still working on fixing the tunnels where people hid but then died from lack of oxygen. Don't miss the Zwinger Palace museum and the summer palace of Augustus the Strong, which is across the Blue Bridge in Pillnitz.
I have been to Dresden during East German times many times and always remember the ruins of the Frauenkirche. They were there as a reminder of the atrocities of war. I am happy that is has been fully rebuilt and once again shines in its glory.
That ai digital remastering process alone is mind blowing,since this footage was originally recorded in low-res b&w,you cannot go back with a time machine to tell those camera mans to shoot in hi-def color,BUT with the incredible deoldifyer software now you can reverse something what was once impossible to reverse👍
I love and totally enjoy videos like this, the history, the slower pace of life. More please.
Thanks! There are already more than 275 historic restored and colorized videos on my channel! Please check them out.
How fortunate to have a film of beautiful Dresden before its destruction in 1945.
Civilized society compare to today's...... Beautiful building's. Thank you for sharing your videos 🙏
This civilized society murdered millions of people soon after.
GERMANY WAS SO BEAUTYFUL!!!
Meine Heimatstadt 😊
Meiner Meinung nach ist Dresden einer der schönsten Städte 🫡
war
Auf alle Fälle in Deutschland! Die sind aber dabei, sie zu zerstören, indem sie haufenweise F*linge aus dem Südland hier ansiedeln - wegen "Fachkräftemangel"
@@neinundnein6358 einfach mal nachts beim Hauptbahnhof Dresden vorbeigehen... mehr sage ich nicht...
Meine Heimatland, too! Ich Liebe Dich - aus Amerika - I am an ausslander!
Thanks Rick, most welcome video this is. I visited Dresden around eight years ago when the Frauenkirche was just rebuilt. They did a decent job restoring downtown, although they probably didn't restore everything. The feel of downtown is pretty much like in this movie.
They chose Dresden not only for the lack of military targets but the spirit breaking effect it would have on the Germans seeing one of their most ancient and treasured cities reduced to powder. Just like how they intentionally went out of their way to destroy Arno Brekers statues glorifying a martial physique and a healthy body.
dresden was a major railway hub for germany at the time to transport a lot of war material intended to be used on the eastern front, but also to relocate people the nazis wanted in death camps. around 50,000 workers worked at factories in the city that produced material for the german army, as well as ammo depots and barracks.
to say dresden did not have any military targets is simply not true. you can decide for yourself if that justifies the bombings
@@queenofastora This is just made up bullshit. They ignored military structures that were outside the city. They targeted citizens and the city itself because it was peak white civilization. There were no prisoners of war there. There were refugees. Mostly women and children. So sad to see how absolutely void of actual knowledge people are.
@@queenofastora The point is that the city and its people are victims of the circumstances that caused WW2 as much as anyone, even the internees. The National Socialists did not appear out of nowhere, and they were funded by the elites of Europe, to include the Vatican and the Italian Illuminati families. Hitler himself was really a Rothschild. To say that the German people en masse deserved this fate is to condone the sinister crimes of the Allied elites who themselves were collaborating with the evil regime that ruled Germany. Look up Operation Paperclip to get a sense of how all of these parties were in bed together. Ergo, ww2 was a contrived event designed to reduce the world's population and further the political aims of a handful of world elites. It is still ongoing.
@@jcord0013 Nice, someone with actual knowledge. I hope, you dont fall for fake nowadays partys like the AfD. Democracy is an illusion, now and in the past. Our only freedome would be an attack against our politicians and there groups (Bilderberger, Freimaurer, Group of Thirty etc.). Even those people, who clew themselves at streets arent fighting for the environment: they get money to do it. Even small movements are often fake, just like Pegida. It makes me so sad, at least i have good German bread.
The same they sus with Königsberg.
Some of these commenters saying, "the Germans had it coming." As if the issue boils down to us-vs-them. The real issue concerns the preservation and nourishing of culture vs its destruction.
It's not that the Germans had it coming, it's that the Nazi leadership did this to them, the leaders of Germany brought this on, and this is entirely the Nazi leadership's fault. They wanted the most total and radical war the world had ever seen. So those who defended the leadership did have it coming
The Dresden bombing by the allies was the only scientifically proven case of *igneous storm* -- an unique flame of fire which has destroyed a city. Neither the bombing of Tokyo nor the nuclear bombings against the Japanese cities by the allies were causes of that type of fire. This is the case when an entire city burns as a single flame of fire. The underground temperatures in the bunkers and subways burned the families and civilians alive (added: like it occurs inside an oven without direct fire). Undoubtedly it was a war crime against Germany.
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I agree The People of Dresden had few chances of survival than the Japanese. it was awfull. One Surviving british airmen pretty much said any children or infants or elderly people would have been Liquefied on the Spot . He said to his dieing day he would never forget the smell of burning human fleash and the screams. He said you could hear them and smell them even up in the Air!
Check the bombing of Hamburg. The same physical phenomenon: firestorm. Massive death toll there, as well. A deliberate targetting of the parts of a city with the highest population density, designed to cause the maximum killing of civilians. This crime was given the euphemistic name „morale bombing“.
Incredible old buildings !
What a beautiful city. Much more clean and impressive than any modern city today. Such a shame that the allies destroyed a great city like Dresden.
Modern Architecture sucks, it's a shame we haven't learned to bring back the ways of old.
Hitler should have given us a list of untouchables---like London Coventry , Manchester Birmingham Bristol Liverpool Glasgow Cardiff Exeter Plymouth Norwich Bath Canterbury Warsaw Antwerp Moscow Stalingrad St Pertersberg and Guernica. OH SORRY. I meant Dresden.
We destroyed cities... they tried to destroy complete cultures and civilizations. If not for that, their city would have not been torcherd. Hitler's war was hell.
@@dodgermartin4895 Wallstreet did finance Hitler's uprising. Sweep in front of your own front door.
@@robinjunghans5358 Yeah a guy named Sutton wrote a book about that... just a conspiracy theory.
Ich werde dieses Video einer ehemaligen Bewohnerin dieser Stadt zeigen, sie ist jetzt 98 Jahre alt. Sie hat mir viel über diese schöne Stadt erzählt. Das Haus ihrer Eltern lag am Stadtrand auf einer höheren Ebene. Sie konnte die ganze Stadt in Flammen sehen, und so dramatisch der Anblick auch war, er sah aus wie Gold, alle Fenster waren durch die Flammen vergoldet. Sie erzählte mir, dass ihre Familie jüdische Freunde hatte und dass die Treffen immer seltener wurden, bis sie sich nicht mehr sahen. Wie jüdische Geschäfte zerstört und vandalisiert wurden. Zwei Klassenkameraden starben bei dem Bombenanschlag. Ihr Mann kämpfte an der Front, kehrte verwundet zurück und war lebenslang behindert. (Deutsch ist nicht meiner Muttersprache Sprache, sorry für die Grammatik Fehler.)
Du schreibst besser Deutsch wie einige Deutsche selber. 👌🏻
@@strenggeheim6672 *als 😉
@Agnes so toll, wie du schreibst, möchte ich mal in englisch können 🙈
@@thebeautymaker9784 wie is schon richtig. ☝🏻
@@strenggeheim6672Nö, in dem von dir verwendeten Satzbau ist das nicht richtig 😉.
A great piece of film and a great piece of film restoration. Dresden must have been a magnificent place. With the restoration of die Frauenkirche, Dresden remains a great city and a cultural capital.
No city or place should suffer like this city did and the others in Germany and in England. My family lost their home and business in Liverpool. A whole street burned because the water mains were fractured and there was no water to put out the flames. Never again, please God.
Kills me to see this. So beautiful. What a shame.
I talked to an old woman who knew Dresden at that time she told me how beautiful Dresden was .
Agreed, JimJim
La Florence du Nord, sortie d'un tableau de Canaletto ! Magnifique !
What a beautiful city this once was. heart breaking what a war can do. Do we ever learn? 😪
Afraid not. Part of the human condition to want to wage war and destroy beauty and inspiration.
@@andyj639 ((human))
Most of us do learn, except for those in postlitions of power and the military.
A lot was destroyed and with it went the old romantic Germany but much has been rebuilt. The Frauen Kirche shines again, the Elbe has been cleaned, and the opera house the Semperopera has been restored to its last brick, thanks to German ingenuity and dedication.
It’s is a very beautiful city. The Frauen Kirche is so beautiful. It’s was Christmas time when I was then as well.
Wunderbar und traurig zu gleich was waren die Städte in Deutschland schön
Arthur Harris: Deutschlands bedeutendster Stadtbaumeister seit 1942
Thank you for a beautiful memory.
Danke für schöne gedenkbarkeit.
The construction method in Germany today is destroying many cities in Germany. Back then it was built with love, but not today
the construction method is pretty good in comparison to like 30-50 years ago. that buildings destroyed all looks of the cities, but nowadays they are more focused to let the buildings look in shape with the city
Are we building any cities that have this combination of beauty and presence / sense of dignified human occupation. Genuine q.
I live in Vienna, which was rebuilt after WW2, but sadly is overcrowded from ugly, loud and carbonising cars. My dream would be to ban these entirely from the city and to use the streets only with bikes and pedestrians and maybe some busses and trams.
No. Not profitable enough
Yes
@@stephanscharf5524 So old people and the infirm be damned.
@@ronstar7027 No, everybody who supports this mindset of egotistical behaviour is damned and should recognize that and find a way out of this. Otherwise the whole humantiy is damned.
Хочеться щиро подякувати💞 людям,які зберегли ці безцінні кадри,а Вам,шановний пане Рік,за те,що відновили і показали в кольорах!👍💞
My French city of Le Havre, France biggest harbour, was also rased down by the RAF in 1944 when it was occupied. It was really beautiful, quite similar to Honfleur but on a larger scale. There is nothing left from it. Now its only concrete.
Meine Heimat , Ich bin in Dresden 1963 geboren , es ist und bleibt die schönste Stadt der Welt . 🥰
I will be visiting Dresden for the Christmas markets this year. Very much looking forward to seeing it. What happened to it in the war was an absolute tragedy.
@@Godfather-oy2kw I would prefer to visit the markets during the week but not at weekends.
Beautiful ! 👍 I have Ancestors from Dresden - Such Class !
When I think of WW2 and the bombing, I often think how much more beautiful our cities would be if it never happened. London was full of bombsites decades after the war, Coventry had its cathedral and much of the medieval centre destroyed, Warsaw, Rotterdam and Berlin all blown apart, the list goes on. This film on Dresden was just too sad to see.
Leave it to the elitists; they perpetrate all these wars.
I agree.
Brits did quite of bit of their fair share in their bombing of Rotterdam
Dresden keeps rebuilding itself to this day and has gained a good amount of its beauty back. There is a very powerful society in the city who pushes for reconstructing historical buildings and already succeeded in many cases.
Es ist ganz gewaltig. So war Dresden wirklich wunderschön.
Das Stadtbild ohne massenhaft Verkehrsinfrastruktur ist wirklich atemberaubend.
Ist echt ne Schande und das alles nur wegen dem Größenwahn von nazis. Leider wurden die Städte nach dem Krieg für Autos gebaut was Städte echt verschlechtert hat in meiner Meinung
@@moritzlevold2206 du lügenmaul verbreitest Unsinn über die Kriegswichtigkeit Dresdens. Eine Hauptstadt mit knapp 700k Einwohnern ist selbstverständlich immer Verkehrsknoten. Das rechtfertigt aber keinen 70 stündigen Brandbomben, Sprengbomben und Phosphorterror.
@@robinjunghans5358 Lol Lügenmau. Okay die Stadt Dresden hat ja auch nur ein historisches Gutachten veranlasst was die Todeszahl auf 25 tausend gesetzt hat. Aber ich denke wenn man noch an kriegspropaganda aus den 50ern glaubt hat es eh keinen Sinn über offizielle Zahlen zu reden ihr habt ja immer eure eigenen.
Köln und andere Städte in nrw haben es mindestens genauso wenn nicht noch mehr getroffen wo ist die Betitelung als schlimmste bombardierung dafür?
Ich stehe morgen mit meiner 80-jährigen Schwiegermutter, die das alles als 3-jährige erleben mußte, in der Menschenkette. I'll be a part of the human chain tomorrow with my 80 yeara old mother-in-law who had to experience all that in the age of 3... My heart is bleeding.
I LOVE our Volk!
We must always remember that it could happen to us still. We must always be vigilant and question everything that the politicians and media tell us.
Wow, this is what Dresden looked like, when Erich Kästner (one of my favourite writers) was still living there. It's fascinating to imagine him walking down those streets thinking about the next thing he was going go write.
It's also interesting to see places I walk past every day, but have these people from the past walking there instead.
A remarkable city. Despite its near obliteration, Dresden today is alive and well. While it will never regain its pre-war beauty, the level of civic pride amongst its people is astonishing. I try to visit every year, in order to take stock of the numerous re-construction projects occurring throughout the historic centre.
Glad to hear they are recreating such architectural design
Visited Dresden years ago.. it looks like our main city Prague but better!! i coudnt believe how ! just how did they repair almost whole city.. It was crazy you coud find and probebly still can, reconstructions finishing top of churches.. and everything was so nice and clean very good feeling !! i remember Frauenkirche looking at some dark and new white blocks.. thinking it was really destroyed? Never heard much about it, but for me they did such a crazy good job !!!! i recommend to everyone visite this city..
the frauenkirche is partly rebuild iwth the stones that survived the bombing. the white oens are new and the blaack ones where from the bombing
It's still only a small part of the old town that has been reconstructed. There are still vast areas of the former old city that are not rebuilt yet and probably never will be.
You can't even imagine how beautiful it really all was back then.
@@matsemoto5301 Maybe you can help me to understand how huge painting survived or if its remade its called Fürstenzug if i found right name
@@Egonimo Its well made ! looks good.. i am from part of Czechia called Sudetenland back in time.. Lot of destruction here but no rebuild... My name is only +-40 founds in Czechia.. . So sad to see broken churches and graves.. whole villages lost.. very rare to see getting back from ashes ..
@@bleo8371 It was remade.
Wow, beautiful city. Will try to visit it before long. Thanks
What a beautiful city. I have visited twice. Knowing the history of the city makes it all the more exciting a visit. The Frauenkirche[ sic] was an incredible rebuild, and I went to the top of it. Such a view, such a lovely city, and the people were friendly.
I’ve been at Dresden twice and i find so beautiful, I just cant imagine how it was before the tríed to vaporize her
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens."
Ephesians 6:12
I donated for the reconstruction of the „Frauenkirche“. Today it looks better than before WW2.
Yea because the sandstone did not oxidize yet
@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Oxidation is one cause. The other is black carbon and nitrous oxides from burning fossil fuels. So the Energiewende will also help to preserve Dresden‘s beauty.
Florence on the Elbe was indeed a fitting name for such a metropolis.
unbelievable how beautiful old german cities were. It's such a shame. People don't build these things anymore. At least here in Vienna we have our old town.
Dresden looks exactly same, most of the buildings were rebuild with the original stones
Weil die verfügbare Flak nach Wien gebracht wurde (auch die aus Dresden). Wien sollte um jeden Preis gerettet werden. Leider geriet auch Wien zum Kriegsende in die alliierte Bomberreichweite.