Hessen 1945 (in color and HD)

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  • Impressions just after the end of World War Two from the German Region Hessen (Frankenau) close to Edersee.
    00:01 City of Bad Wildungen
    01:37 "Löwen-Apotheke" (pharmacy) in Bad Wildungen
    02:25 Frankenau
    05:32 Fritzlar Air Base
    09:47 City of Halle/Saale freight station and old bridge "Berliner Brücke"
    11:08 City of Halle/Saale Geiststraße
    Find more impressive videos in our playlist "Spirit of Liberation": goo.gl/Gzeto2
    Who knows what we see in this video? Write us your knowledge in the comments, describe the pictures by adding the timecode.
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    Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary “Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016)
    Watch here the new restored pictures in our film trailer: goo.gl/CU0hUP

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  • @rcsuccession8579
    @rcsuccession8579 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I am deeply grateful that I can now watch such precious old footage through TH-cam.

  • @TonyCSilvaFilms
    @TonyCSilvaFilms 5 ปีที่แล้ว +721

    I love how the person that filmed this did it knowing he was capturing history.

    • @ludomirsteinbruck9376
      @ludomirsteinbruck9376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Of course

    • @skepalet
      @skepalet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, taped on camera, how the Americans take Nazis to Resorts.

    • @realcritical-kr2dd
      @realcritical-kr2dd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@skepalet wehrmacht*

    • @Boooooooooo541
      @Boooooooooo541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@realcritical-kr2dd You think the Wehrmacht where all saints?, did you look up what they did in Stalingrad and numerous cities, villages, across the USSR.

    • @realcritical-kr2dd
      @realcritical-kr2dd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Boooooooooo541 Oh look, it's the cool guy 🥶, be careful everyone.

  • @teleguy5699
    @teleguy5699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I'm retired military and it is amazing watching this in color raw. I can easily imagine myself being in the middle of WW2 instead of those distant B&W newsreels.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@yakovmatityahu Me? No, but I've been part of many wars in my career.

    • @marcelsinky1652
      @marcelsinky1652 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why do you have to say, you retired military, what does it bring to your commentary ?
      Is it because, you are retired military, you are allowed to appreciate it more than other people ?
      Your comment, saying you can imagine yourself been in the middle of WW2 is totaly stupid.
      Shame on you.
      You think it's funny !
      Let's make a mess in your retard country and then wish it would be fun to be there during the conflict ...
      Killing civils, maybe your family, raping your mom, sisters, having to eat your dog because nothing to eat ...
      very retard thinking ...
      In Ukraine, people was eating them family because nothing to eat ...
      What a wish ...

    • @harkmay
      @harkmay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanks for your service sir.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harkmay You're welcome!

    • @TheLobohobo
      @TheLobohobo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, one can’t!

  • @shmac96
    @shmac96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    This makes the experiences of my grandfather's generation so real for me. Thank you!

    • @shmac96
      @shmac96 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-xw2nx4tr5n What kind of comment is that? Why would you say that? My grandfather fought for the Canadian forces and my mother's mother was Ukrainian whose family fled to Canada before the war.

  • @coldwarsarge7592
    @coldwarsarge7592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Thanks so much for sharing this and so many more incredible videos!
    As a history buff this is a nice treasure trove...keep uploadibg, please!

  • @RedStarRogue
    @RedStarRogue 6 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    I'm in awe of how vibrant the kodachrome colours are. It's always a bit surreal to see such great looking colour film from WWII.

    • @Jay-jq6bl
      @Jay-jq6bl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Wizard of Oz too

    • @gcrav
      @gcrav 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's not Kodachrome, strictly speaking. The E-6 process was originated by the German company Agfa before the war and was a tightly held trade secret. Like so much other German prewar technology, the IP rights became spoils of war for a firm within the allied bloc (Kodak). Similar things happened with German audio technology (the tape recorder), and the Automotive IP of Daimler-Benz and BMW. My guess is that the original could be faded but digitally restored for modern video.

    • @allentoyokawa9068
      @allentoyokawa9068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      colors***

    • @selbstdenkergegenmsm3812
      @selbstdenkergegenmsm3812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gcrav danke für die Aufklärung

    • @selbstdenkergegenmsmii1541
      @selbstdenkergegenmsmii1541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      na Hauptsache Sie achten auf die Technik anstatt auf die Gräueltaten den man den Deutschen angetan hat

  • @elancrew9894
    @elancrew9894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    I think common German soldiers were just happy to have made it out of WWII alive and looking forward to going home. Some of their expressions are (seemingly) of excitement rather than of defeat.

    • @crowmack
      @crowmack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The weren't when they were raping women, murdering and torturing people and burning down their houses. Oh no, it was all fun and games then. But when the boots on the other foot it's ...oh the common german soldier, just like you or I...fuck off.

    • @jackangus4530
      @jackangus4530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Crowmack, you really ought to educate yourself instead of swallowing media hyped drivel and look at factual history from those from the axis side which were there.

    • @rodjones117
      @rodjones117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@crowmack My great Uncle Gustav, farmboy - army trucks came into the village, rounded up all the young men, there and then, and loaded them into the trucks. One month later he was on the front line in Stalingrad. Only escaped death because he got invalided out (when they still could) with frostbite-induced gangrene.
      Life is pretty much always more complex than people like you like to believe.

    • @jarosawkorczynski4746
      @jarosawkorczynski4746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blindmelonstubbly The Wehrmacht was equally responsible for war crimes committed on occupied territories as SS. Since day one to the last day.

    • @etienneyitian
      @etienneyitian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@jarosawkorczynski4746 yeah. And the winner forget their own wrong behavior. Allied soldiers did also murder, rape and all that bad things. There is always evil people who over use their power on weaker people, everywhere. Life and humanity isn't simple.

  • @Wally-H
    @Wally-H 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    You can't put a price on film like this, and big respect to those restoring them. As a social historian I find stuff like this fascinating, especially the fire in the marshalling yard and the use of Germans as a fire brigade.

    • @tommiheuni2817
      @tommiheuni2817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is the German fire brigade. She had exactly that uniform. In a village in Lusatia, the Russians shot the entire fire brigade because they thought it was SS.

    • @user-zc6dk8dv7e
      @user-zc6dk8dv7e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tommiheuni2817 Не мудрено перепутать.Развеж что они были без оружия.Командир расчета пожарной команды выглядит прям штандартенфюрером.Ибо ненависть была к ним ужасная,да и было за что ненавидеть.Ну хуже врага нет так это -предателя:-Власовцев с Бандеровцами этих в плен на Восточном фронте точно не брали!

    • @charles_0017
      @charles_0017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-zc6dk8dv7e there were many reports of Russian soldiers raping kids and women in Poland and Germany, these weren’t even enemy combatants, they were just civilians. They even shot their own Soviet prisoners of war they discovered in German concentration camps.

    • @lesempecheursdepenserencer1418
      @lesempecheursdepenserencer1418 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was a Real german fite brigade and their duty to take out fire

    • @alexanderdatebashvili2031
      @alexanderdatebashvili2031 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-zc6dk8dv7e самый опасный враг это чекисты сталинцы , они купались в крови своего населения .

  • @Realthinx
    @Realthinx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    priceless footage. thank you very much for making it available here

  • @unknown_3301
    @unknown_3301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    How wonderful to see this in color.

    • @rudolfkraffzick642
      @rudolfkraffzick642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Triumph and misery. But looks like an almost friendly conquest, the sun shining all days long. But the winners and loosers all gone today.

    • @lookchahshway5182
      @lookchahshway5182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rudolfkraffzick642 Time has no discrimination, it catches up with everybody.

    • @Realkeepa
      @Realkeepa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wonderfull???

    • @australorps3066
      @australorps3066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its really wonderfull to see this because its of the city where i live in (its very small) and my great grandfahter must be in this video. i can relocate so many spots out of this video its just amazing.

    • @kayaa1888
      @kayaa1888 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow really?

  • @karinlearned7150
    @karinlearned7150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    Great film clip. Somewhere in the crowd of German POWs is my father. He was on the Russian front, deserted and went looking for the 'Ammies', surrendered and was sent to Hessen. He, among others, was then sent to France to help rebuild damaged areas caused by the war and was released in 1947.

    • @user-re2mj6oz3r
      @user-re2mj6oz3r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Повезло сжигал и убивал у нас а попал во Францию

    • @blackbeard-wl6xt
      @blackbeard-wl6xt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@user-re2mj6oz3r откуда такая информация, что он сжигал- убивал??? Он может водителем был.
      Например, мой дед, был и водителем и разгружал и охранял конвои из США с лендлизом и немцев в глаза не видел. Кроме лётчиков люфтваффе в небе ( и то только самолёты ).

    • @lucius5208
      @lucius5208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@blackbeard-wl6xt no one was innocent

    • @kotofey70
      @kotofey70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Повезло, а вот коммуняки своих из одного лагеря в ругой направляли

    • @user-re2mj6oz3r
      @user-re2mj6oz3r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kotofey70 ну на то они и камуняки

  • @FriedrichKNobel
    @FriedrichKNobel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Hessen
    0:01 city of Bad Wildungen
    2:25 village of Frankenau
    5:32 Fritzlar AB
    Saxony Anhalt
    9:48 City of Halle/Saale freight station and old Berliner Brücke
    11:08 City of Halle/Saale Geiststraße

    • @chronoshistory
      @chronoshistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you so much for this information about the places. Could you please explain how you did recognize Bad Wildungen, Fritzlar and Halle an der Saale? Thanks!

    • @FriedrichKNobel
      @FriedrichKNobel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ​@@chronoshistory
      I like this detective work:-D Bad Wildungen was a bit difficult. The inner city and the boulevard with the trees looks different nowadays. But the streetsign "Edersee 13km" at 1:05 was a good hint which city it could be. The significant building "Löwen-Apotheke" at 1:41 still exists at the Main place.
      Fritzlar AB was the next airfield to Bad Wildungen. Quite flat countryside without a forest in that part of Hesse is uncommon. So it was obvious Fritzlar.
      Haale/Saale was not easy but the streetsign "Berlin 168km" was a good hint where it must approximately be. The architecture is inner german and not in the south or north. In the end at 9:59 the significant small tower in the background at the burning huge freight station with the four pinnacles that still exists nowadays and the bridge on the left was obvious Haale/Saale. The Geiststraße was the quite intact inner city of a german city with a tramway in 1945 only 168km from Berlin. Haale Saale is known being relatively spared. Which clips do you need help?

    • @chronoshistory
      @chronoshistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you so much for the great explanations, @Friedrich K. Nobel ! This already helps us a lot!

    • @willbass2869
      @willbass2869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks

    • @stevek8829
      @stevek8829 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      War stock footage is often abused in this way. I see the same footage illustrating wildly opposite situations.

  • @johnnieireland2057
    @johnnieireland2057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just rented "The Spirit Of Liberation" from Vimo, because of this footage you posted. Thank You! Going to watch it now!!

  • @battlestarone
    @battlestarone 7 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    was talking to an old man who was a german pow at a camp near my town..they had a lot of freedom when here getting to go into local town etc..he got friendly with local scottish girl..married her after the war..lived in the usa till she died after being married over 50yrs..then returned home to germany..he knew everything about my town...lovely man.

    • @woznotwos
      @woznotwos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My wife's family knew a German pow , he worked on a nearby farm . He was an artist and would draw peoples portraits. My father in law had the guys self portrait once upon a time but its now with his brother in Ireland. He stayed in the uk for some time after the war but they eventually lost touch.

    • @christianworthinton8000
      @christianworthinton8000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +emosh73 Enough said!

    • @renataostertag6051
      @renataostertag6051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Kindly - do NOT intermix POWs inside the USA with the camps (death camps) Eisenhauer erected INSIDE Germany AFTER the war !!!!!! Understood ?! Please - OMG !

    • @georgschmidt4670
      @georgschmidt4670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Renata Ostertag: Is correct

    • @someturkishguy8638
      @someturkishguy8638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lucky guy, he actually didn't get executed in the first half hour.

  • @DLWELD
    @DLWELD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Amazing films. Beautifully restored. And no artificial dust and scratches that some folks add to give it a period "feel". Sure would like to see a few technical notes though - film type, 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, kodachrome, camera type if recorded.

  • @spellchanger1169
    @spellchanger1169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    It's funny how back in the day when you filmed a stranger as they walked by they smiled, now if you film strangers in most cases they are going to rush you and scream at you to turn that camera off.

    • @G-Mastah-Fash
      @G-Mastah-Fash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Because cameras were a novelty back then. Now they're spying devices.

    • @serendipitousconversations
      @serendipitousconversations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@G-Mastah-Fash well said

    • @adamadaam8375
      @adamadaam8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Different context. In our time peoples are so dangerous and toxic that you cant imagine what he is going to do with the videos.

    • @spellchanger1169
      @spellchanger1169 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adamadaam8375 Yeah it is definitely different when, what are you going to do with the Footage? Project it on a wall? Opposed to uploaded to TH-cam... lol.

    • @adamadaam8375
      @adamadaam8375 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spellchanger1169 dude stop being so naive.

  • @homersamson2635
    @homersamson2635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Awesome footage, many fascinating little insights and moments.

  • @dampfunddiesel8020
    @dampfunddiesel8020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    I had an uncle who had to serve in the Wehrmacht. He killed in action on March 27, 1945 at the age of 19 at Seelower Höhen. The war in Europe ended 6 weeks later. I never got to know him. My aunt named her son Walter after him. That was 75 years ago. Germany must never go to war again.

    • @fujitofusan
      @fujitofusan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Dampf undDiesel no country should be at war. We need to learn from ww2

    • @spacecatboy2962
      @spacecatboy2962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      yeah but you never know, he might have been a dick. I had a uncle died right before i was born, and based on my relatives, he was probly a dick to

    • @saschabrauning8313
      @saschabrauning8313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hallo Ich kann leider nur wenig English Ich komme aus falkenhagen Das ist in der nähe von seelow noch heute findet man viele überreste des krieges
      Ist denn dein verwanter gefunden und Auf einem der soldatenfriedhöfe bestattet worden?

    • @rothari1865
      @rothari1865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      ww2 was initiated by Allies, Germany did its best to avoid it.

    • @Oscoe63
      @Oscoe63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@rothari1865 LOL

  • @kmorris180
    @kmorris180 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good footage. Everytime I see films like this from the war, I look for familiar faces of those I knew who served on either side.

  • @stefanberger7493
    @stefanberger7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fascinating pictures. Small town in the beginning up to 2:24 is Bad Wildungen. The film was taken in the Brunnenallee and Brunnenstrasse. Most of the buildings stil exist and have changed very little in the past 76 years.

  • @tashalee4294
    @tashalee4294 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Go to settings and play back at .75 - looks much better. Thanks for posting!

  • @kazuyoshisakamoto4096
    @kazuyoshisakamoto4096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I was very impressed with the valuable color images. Thank you for posting.

    • @RicardoRMedina
      @RicardoRMedina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All filmed by George Stevens Sr., the Hollywood movie director.

  • @TheRaulr151
    @TheRaulr151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Amazing footage!! Really brings it to life and the reality of it all. Thanks to the greatest generation!

  • @jld142
    @jld142 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Video.
    I knew where parts of thus Video was filmed and its interessting to see what has changed and what not

  • @federalli169
    @federalli169 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm amazed Bye these captured moments. Thank you for sharing

  • @shanemcredmond9751
    @shanemcredmond9751 7 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    what a fabulous piece of film, thanks for the upload

    • @anemarie2984
      @anemarie2984 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Shane McRedmond . Je

  • @blakeskidmore523
    @blakeskidmore523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Wow, you can feel the relief on all of these men. They survived. Life would carry on. Amazing footage.

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But didn't a huge of German troops end up dying in Eisenhower's death camps?

    • @blakeskidmore523
      @blakeskidmore523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@almartin2138 Nope. This is a myth pushed by one author that is not taken seriously by any historians and has been thoroughly debunked.

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blakeskidmore523 Oh really? Out of interest, who was the author? And why would someone lie about such a thing?

    • @etienneyitian
      @etienneyitian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not that much, a lot of german prisonner of war died after the war from hunger and bad treatment

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blakeskidmore523 Hi Blake, shall corially ask you once again, could you be so kind as to inform me where one can go to find your assertions? Fanx in advance ; )

  • @neilmurray6943
    @neilmurray6943 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The guy smoking the pipe looks just like my late Dad's best friend Bill Alt. He was there and took lots of pictures. A Major in the Army Corp of Engineers. He had the best WW2 stories and pictures.

  • @godfearingheathen
    @godfearingheathen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1695

    Great quality footage but proper speed is 0.75.

    • @rogerpattube
      @rogerpattube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      They did look super-industrious!

    • @mrmaje1
      @mrmaje1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Oh yeah..thanks!

    • @vacuumelite2065
      @vacuumelite2065 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      good shout......much smoother. :-)

    • @Dr.Pepper001
      @Dr.Pepper001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Good call. Thanks.

    • @gus2600
      @gus2600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Thank you for the tip. It made viewing much more enjoyable!

  • @kinocchio
    @kinocchio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +669

    People dressed so well back in the day.

    • @nosferatuoddz7974
      @nosferatuoddz7974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @pork n beans ok boomer

    • @sven5206
      @sven5206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You should come to visit Germany these days - we don't only dress well but have cars as well :D

    • @eldragon4076
      @eldragon4076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@sven5206 naturally you are missing his point - whoooosh

    • @captfalconXX
      @captfalconXX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @pork n beans LOL... Yeah, those saggy pants exposing their nasty butt cracks and boxer underwear.

    • @eldragon4076
      @eldragon4076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@nosferatuoddz7974 better than brainless millennial

  • @silkegoerlich9735
    @silkegoerlich9735 ปีที่แล้ว

    Danke für diese Eindrücke ....

  • @kutjanus9933
    @kutjanus9933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Listening to sound with headset makes me sleepy..what a ASMR !!

  • @mikemann2053
    @mikemann2053 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Really interesting footage. Thank you.

  • @rexracernj7696
    @rexracernj7696 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Facinating footage. Victors, and vanquished! Everyone here, winners and defeated, just seems happy & relieved the war is over.

  • @Katrin-jj3mg
    @Katrin-jj3mg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The soldier in 4:24 breaks my heart, he looks so incredibly young and scared. Reminds me of my grandmother's brother, he went missing in Russia aged 20. My great-grandmother never got over it.

    • @haizee2330
      @haizee2330 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably murdering Belarusian Jews.

    • @Katrin-jj3mg
      @Katrin-jj3mg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@haizee2330 Maybe he was just a boy being overwhelmed by the system with a mother who couldn't sleep at night with worry.
      Not all were war criminals.

    • @haizee2330
      @haizee2330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Katrin-jj3mg I was talking about your great uncle

    • @Katrin-jj3mg
      @Katrin-jj3mg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@haizee2330 just for your information...my great uncle was a boy who never wanted to be a soldier. on his last visit in 1944 he told my grandmother that he knew he would die if he had to go back to the front. He died in Russia and it broke my great-grandmother. Nobody can understand the circumstances anymore and that is also unnecessary. No one gets justice from it.
      A fate of many in many countries, but a tragedy for our family.

    • @bubiruski8067
      @bubiruski8067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@haizee2330 Had not the Fnglish orchestrated this war no atrocities had happened.
      In the end the Fnglish declaration of war cost more than 60 mil lives !

  • @connecticutskier2
    @connecticutskier2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I lost my only uncle in WW fighting Germany. He graduated from high school at 14 and a half, I think of the great life he should have had, he was the oldest of five and the only son and was an
    Army Air corpsman, most of his crew got out and were captured and returned. He was on a B-17 and my father was a Torretta Flier in 1944 on a B-24, the plane was the Ol 45, and he was lucky, did his fifty missions and his only job in the last year of the war was in Madison, WI giving out weekend passes to new recruits. He died in 2008 at 92 and might have been the last man left on the plane, and he did attend a few reunions in the 1990's. He had more common sense than anyone I have ever known.

  • @connorgillespie9606
    @connorgillespie9606 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    put this to 0.75 speed and the movements seem significantly less jumpy and more realistic

    • @xenagomez4017
      @xenagomez4017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How do u do that??

    • @rockiesecho8518
      @rockiesecho8518 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      you are so smart!:)

    • @Ralphieboy
      @Ralphieboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It could also have been filmed at the wrong speed...cameras were not all that mechanically accurate back then

    • @scottlarson1548
      @scottlarson1548 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ralphieboy More likely they shot at a slower film speed to conserve film.

    • @malines999
      @malines999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cars drives like 0.5 speed 😅😅😅

  • @teresasalazarhernandez5877
    @teresasalazarhernandez5877 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Me da gusto ke exista este tipo de vídeos en los ke se aprecian momentos ke nunca se podrán olvidar y se ven tan claros muy buen vídeo gracias saludos desde México

    • @parowozy
      @parowozy ปีที่แล้ว

      Germany should not exist for what they did

    • @ASHTAR1958
      @ASHTAR1958 ปีที่แล้ว

      SALUDOS A AMLO

  • @albertocolonia9377
    @albertocolonia9377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    que video mas asombroso su calidad es magnifica a pesar del tiempo gracias por dejar conocer esto .

  • @observer1242
    @observer1242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool. Goes along with some of the descriptions my father told me about in that area after the war had ended. He was there with the seventh Army 100th infantry division.

    • @nonamordukova7724
      @nonamordukova7724 ปีที่แล้ว

      Надеюсь он в аду на веки вечные

  • @tiredlawdog
    @tiredlawdog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I got to ride in one of the C47s, What a magnificent plane. Noisy, rough, and just a course plane. It was a true work horse. Loved it.

  • @frostfrost8115
    @frostfrost8115 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What surprises me most is the quality of the camera. Could it be that the quality of the shooting during these years?

  • @patriciaroult1988
    @patriciaroult1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Document très émouvant, et rare, n'oublions jamais merci à vous 👍👍🥰

  • @barrybaz6692
    @barrybaz6692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good film thanks for the upload .But just to mention that the addition of a commentator would really make it special .

  • @floydyakrill
    @floydyakrill 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing quality footage 👌

  • @WILTALK
    @WILTALK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    This area seems to be relatively intact. Most German towns in other area's were rubble after the war. Or perhaps this area was picked to film for precisely that reason.

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      WILTALK eh frankfurt, wiesbaden and darmstadt were a wasteland and today wiesbaden and darmstadt were reconstructed into those classic 19th century style cities frankfurt was made a financial capital.

    • @eduardorivero544
      @eduardorivero544 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Wiesbaden wasn't that damaged, only about 20% of the city was destroyed, which is a small toll, given the circumstances. Kassel, Frankfurt and Dramstadt were the biggest and most bombarded cities in Hessen, a very very sad thing. Frankfurt and Kassel in particular were medieval living monuments

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Eduardo Rivero I remember an older man telling me that you could see the flames of darmstadt miles away....

    • @eduardorivero544
      @eduardorivero544 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yea, that was a constant with big and medium cities in Germany, since their old towns had so many old wooden buildings, when the Brits bombed them they became a major bonfire

    • @MrBigstick25
      @MrBigstick25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      WILTALK I’m sure it was American propaganda. Like you said the Allies pretty much fire bombed civilian towns with 0 military targets inside. A war crime that was never really talked about at the time.

  • @AndreLei1982
    @AndreLei1982 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Die Qualität ist ja unglaublich gut.

  • @traingirl4715
    @traingirl4715 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I ' be always wondered how they colour these B&W movies... amazing

  • @martaparsons5633
    @martaparsons5633 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I remember Daddy in his Ike jacket. Amazing footage.

  • @danlaplume4942
    @danlaplume4942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very beautiful documentary ....the memory is here .

  • @ralphgeigner5497
    @ralphgeigner5497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    To have much of the German uniforms & equipment now, is of much value $ Excellent film.

  • @seanmahoney2755
    @seanmahoney2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When we work together no matter what our differences. No force on earth can stop us, but us. Freedom is our drug. Fight fight fight to the death of it. For freedom is everything. It’s more precious now than ever.

  • @sammieboy1159
    @sammieboy1159 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    this is amazing... I feel so much more connected to what happened in ww2
    now they don't look like people from another world

  • @mravecsk1
    @mravecsk1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for sharing... Nice to see footage like this..

  • @snackxy
    @snackxy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Ich liebe solche überarbeiteten Aufnahmen alleine der "Kultur" unterschied im vergleich zu heute ist enorm

    • @jule5234
      @jule5234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unglaublich schön und sentimental,,bin 2 Jahre danach geboren

  • @drziske
    @drziske 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The sequenz at the beginning (1:20 and later ) are filmed in Bad Wildungen, which was the Headquarter of the Americans in Hessen. I grew up there and interestingly my father (born 1938) is seen in one part of the film

  • @user-vz8vo2ov4k
    @user-vz8vo2ov4k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    sound of a movie projector . perfect!

  • @Flying_Tiger_enthusiast
    @Flying_Tiger_enthusiast 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Starts in Bad Wildungen,
    from 2:23 to 5:31 POW collecting point near Frankenau 14 km east of Frankenberg (Eder),
    5:32 to 9:46 maybe todays Heeresflugplatz Fritzlar (German Army Airfield Fritzlar),
    from 9:47 till end propably Halle (Saale) (Saxony-Anhalt).
    Director George Stevens (4:17) and the guy at 2:16 to 2:22 knew more.

  • @JonnyJenkins
    @JonnyJenkins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sehr schönes Video, war mit meinen Großeltern als Kind immer am edersee.

  • @user-gm4ol8ro4n
    @user-gm4ol8ro4n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Спасибо!

  • @raikaoutdoorfan
    @raikaoutdoorfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tolle Aufnahmen direkt aus meiner Heimat!!
    Vielen Dank für dieses Video!!!! :D
    Great shots straight from my home !!
    Thank you for this video !!!! : D

  • @mpgsix
    @mpgsix 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The footage is very good. Wished there was a narration to go along with it.

    • @stanlee2200
      @stanlee2200 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      there is narration from george stevens..its on youtube....well some of it is.

  • @caseyjonessnr1200
    @caseyjonessnr1200 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another very interesting visual document.

  • @user-wx7vl8ve1b
    @user-wx7vl8ve1b 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    El sonido de la cinta corriendo,bien de la época, felicitaciones por la calidad del material, saludos 🇦🇷

  • @scottmclennan6114
    @scottmclennan6114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    There’s an Aussie with his slouch hat as one of the liberated POWs at about 7:15.

    • @cyrosubod2317
      @cyrosubod2317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That man comes from north africa or either greece

    • @repentorperish1405
      @repentorperish1405 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cyrosubod2317 : bronze Australian Military Forces 'Rising Sun' Crest (GSB) on the side of his slouch hat - he's one of ours, ..mate! 👍
      Whoever he was, we hope his family were all pleased to see this digger return home, and hope he had a good life from there on, and we thank him, and his family for his service.
      LEST WE FORGET.
      Peter 🇦🇺

  • @tomat6362
    @tomat6362 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A fortunate region, untouched by the war, and a precious time capsule.

  • @susanurban5920
    @susanurban5920 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope everyone in this film got to go home. Great footage.

  • @woodybear8298
    @woodybear8298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'd love to see pictures of that town as it is today. Looks like it survived the war in good shape.

    • @andrewkitchenuk
      @andrewkitchenuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Should have been bombed flat, the same as they did to so many towns in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

  • @dokasaku1233
    @dokasaku1233 7 ปีที่แล้ว +633

    i just love german uniforms they are so powerful and stylish

    • @napoleonibonaparte7198
      @napoleonibonaparte7198 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Doka Saku While mine are more glorious

    • @WhiteLion2013
      @WhiteLion2013 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No it's more like fruit cakeus

    • @forexdragon
      @forexdragon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Designed by Hugo Boss.

    • @dokasaku1233
      @dokasaku1233 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      no kidding?

    • @MrMethadrine
      @MrMethadrine 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      agh..This Hugo Boss bs again..

  • @crafter170
    @crafter170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +563

    Far too many fine European people killed on both sides during that dirty war .

    • @ut000bs
      @ut000bs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Agreed. That and a couple of Americans trying to free them.

    • @crafter170
      @crafter170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@ut000bs oops sorry about the Americans .Don't forget about the 26 million fine Russians.

    • @tickysiasiluka68
      @tickysiasiluka68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      scott scot84 .You're ignorant.Germany invaded the USSR and killed millions and then Russians had to fight back. Stalin killed political opponents in the Gulags.

    • @jphilology7357
      @jphilology7357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      that was the plan

    • @crafter170
      @crafter170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@marka.1770 .Maybe they all remembered what a top guy Jssse Owwns was ??.?

  • @peter170805
    @peter170805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    these scenes are from 1945, that is, 75 years ago. It gives food for thought, all those people you see there are dead today, and we were dead at that time, when they lived. In another 75 years, when many of us are dead, people who do not yet exist will see scenes from our time and say the same. life is crazy friends.

  • @kevingumfory
    @kevingumfory 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My family is from Hessen. We had been in america for 3 generations before the war. My Grandad was a staff sergeant in the red ball express. Wars should have to be fought by those who profit from war. Instead it us, fighting our families. You never seen a rich man on a front line. I really enjoyed this video. It made me wonder if I had looked at a cousin or an uncle. It made me wish I still spoke my predecessors language. It made me miss my Grandma and Grandpa. I love you all and I suspect we are all cousins or aunts and uncles if we go back far enough. I call no man my enemy.

  • @t72driver56
    @t72driver56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Well done.i like to watch and learn much more history.and also see the lifestyle of the world in the past.as I was iranian fighter and tank driver in the battle field war with Iraq 1980 to1988.thank you so much and hope to see much, much more like this.

  • @ferdinando3621
    @ferdinando3621 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bellissimo documento!!!

    • @DESMINDMUSIC
      @DESMINDMUSIC 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is there no sound? I would like to hear what the Germans are talking about

    • @c.w.1827
      @c.w.1827 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DESMINDMUSIC
      ....damals gab es manchmal keinen Ton dazu! Leider.

  • @johnthompson1978
    @johnthompson1978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's amazing how many different languages are found in the comments.

  • @jeromedavid7944
    @jeromedavid7944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    By looks of the footage this little town didn't receive the full wrath of the Allies firepower. I was stationed in a town along the Main River in northern Bayern named Aschaffenburg. It wasn't so fortunate as it was practically leveled. However 25 Ks or so east down the Main River was the storybook medieval aged town of Miltenberg which had not a stone or board disturbed. The story was that a US fighter pilot escorting the B 17s spotted the exceptionally historic beauty and cultural value of the ancient walled city and talked the flight commander into not bombing it because of its lack of war making facilities. I was very luck to visit many German cities, towns, hamlets, and villages all having unique historic n cultural personalities.

    • @romandirks6703
      @romandirks6703 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The River is called Main

    • @garboraaxo6401
      @garboraaxo6401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How nice to spare a town because of its architecture! Indiana Jones in real life! 😂

    • @pacza_vacza
      @pacza_vacza 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you would not indulge in pistols and machine guns, or who would not bomb you

    • @jeromedavid7944
      @jeromedavid7944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pacza_vacza That's a good question to ask Herr Putin in the Kermlin Comrade Troll!

    • @pacza_vacza
      @pacza_vacza 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeromedavid7944 Which country do you live in?
      Before Putin, there was also Garbachev and Yeltsin

  • @geraldgrages4605
    @geraldgrages4605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Moms side is from Hessen Nassau.Thank you.

  • @michaelbrown865
    @michaelbrown865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I imagine the overwhelming emotion was relief, they had somehow survived.

    • @watching99134
      @watching99134 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      More like anxiety about what the future would hold.

  • @svetlanasemuhina7061
    @svetlanasemuhina7061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    🌐...Благодарю... Уникальные кадры...)))...!

  • @mpower6004
    @mpower6004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great informative review as always .And yes I stay away from these vehicles and avoid them like plague .

  • @paulolopes9547
    @paulolopes9547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Que bom ver vídeos da II guerra em cores!

  • @RusslandTV
    @RusslandTV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    wo ist eigentlich in Hessen der Ort, von dem aus es nach Berlin nur 168 km ist?

    • @soists2558
      @soists2558 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Russki
      Vielleicht ist das ein Fernhinweis auf die 168 Kilometer entfernte Autobahn (gar so viel gab es ja noch nicht), die dann nach Berlin führt. Aber das ist Spekulation. Ja, wenn man einen Straßenatlas von 1945 hätte ...

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      der oder eider umphf phumf fahten .

    • @e30325ikiller
      @e30325ikiller 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      nirgends

    • @krimsk0
      @krimsk0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Halle

    • @marcop4508
      @marcop4508 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@swarthyjake4433 Fubar! ;-)

  • @infantinofan
    @infantinofan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was born in Kassel, Hesse in 1949 and came to the US in 1955. In 1959-'60 I went back with my Mother and sister and stayed in Arolsen.
    At 1:05 of the film you can see a sign that says "43km to Arolsen".
    Wonder where all these people are going?
    I was born in Kassel 4 years after this film was made. Lived until 1955 in a small village called Furstenwald.

  • @YKYFMYR
    @YKYFMYR 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    With the TH-cam Custom Speed Extension for Google Chrome you can adjust this video speed to 0.6x playback speed which I think reflects the actual speed they were moving at when the video was recorded.

  • @reikimen
    @reikimen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    European countries have been in war with each other over hundreds of years, and unfortunately it has never really stopped. Inocent people have died through the manipulation of their leaders who wanted more power and tried to extend their countries borders. The first World War and second World War are just a continuations of those nightmares that started centuries ago.

    • @louisecoffey9843
      @louisecoffey9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thankfullly stopped now

    • @Justin-lf1fs
      @Justin-lf1fs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@louisecoffey9843 it’s still happening now more than ever.

    • @j777barbasiewicz
      @j777barbasiewicz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "European countries have been in war" - you mean Norway, Switzerland, Estonia???

  • @tomfu6210
    @tomfu6210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    1:27 In right bottom corner a little angel appears

    • @charlottesweb7202
      @charlottesweb7202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I seen that little angle appear and turn to look at the world around her xx

    • @L1V2P9
      @L1V2P9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@charlottesweb7202 She could still be alive today. Around 77-78 maybe.

    • @seanmahoney2755
      @seanmahoney2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tom Fu thank you

  • @mariehuguen4332
    @mariehuguen4332 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very impressive movie, all these POW ! How could they deal with so many ? The town doesn't look too destroyed compared to others, thanks for sharing 👋👍😘

    • @humanitywins7159
      @humanitywins7159 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's simple. First they stole their personal belongings, and then they planted them into some completely unsheltered terrain along the Rhine river and starved them or have them freeze to death. It is called the Rheinwiesen. Allegedly more than 2 million POW got killed like there. It was an act of American bravery, ya know, similar to Iraq and Syria.

  • @user-dd3ht5qm2d
    @user-dd3ht5qm2d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Замечательный материал. Спасибо.

  • @bobcuster8930
    @bobcuster8930 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Incredible Footage of Germany in 1945...

  • @panika2810
    @panika2810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    German unforms are a work of art...

    • @corky1548
      @corky1548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      and it was a gay person who made them

    • @RicardoRMedina
      @RicardoRMedina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Hugo Boss?

    • @savedemperor8024
      @savedemperor8024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@corky1548 nobody cares if he was a f** or not

    • @bobbypaluga4346
      @bobbypaluga4346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      corky Where did you come upon that bit of misinformation? Boss was not gay, not that it matters

    • @zachbocchino5501
      @zachbocchino5501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They truly are

  • @janinalaura22
    @janinalaura22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Frankenau, my Hometown

    • @Oscoe63
      @Oscoe63 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍 I bet it's grown a lot bigger since 1945 !

  • @YaltaAngel
    @YaltaAngel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    У них тогда даже было на улицах лучше, чем у нас сейчас

    • @ale-ksej
      @ale-ksej 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Обично при диктатуре и культе одной личности чистота и порядок везде!Только касатся цивилизоваих и законопослушних наций!

    • @user-cu1ll1us8i
      @user-cu1ll1us8i 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Возьми веник и подмети, тоже будет чисто. Чисто не там где убирают, а там, где не сорят

  • @user-to4on1fd8g
    @user-to4on1fd8g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Спасибо за съёмку 👍

    • @user-jj6oq5ho1k
      @user-jj6oq5ho1k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ура нашел

    • @user-to4on1fd8g
      @user-to4on1fd8g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@user-jj6oq5ho1k Да, русскоязычных мало под этим видео.

    • @kinglion6193
      @kinglion6193 ปีที่แล้ว

      Я чë то не понял,это немецкие пленные под конвоем американцев,или нет?

  • @lunawender4
    @lunawender4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tirando a questão da Guerra é fantástico assistir imagens quase centenárias é algo surreal.

  • @vvonpanzerr3092
    @vvonpanzerr3092 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i dont understand why the footage you see in most WW2 documentaries arent as good as this

  • @oshanmadhuranga9311
    @oshanmadhuranga9311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    German army is very strong army..❤️💪..I love jermany .love from srilanka 🇱🇰

  • @georgerare
    @georgerare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Спасибо за кадры!

    • @ytrew9717
      @ytrew9717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      why are so many russians interested about those movies? Do many russians talk about this time, what they say? I'm very curious.

    • @georgerare
      @georgerare 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ytrew9717 I don’t know for others, it was very interesting to me before

    • @ytrew9717
      @ytrew9717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgerare sorry but could please explain why: what do you find so interesting? (You can write russian, google will translate).

    • @k.m.6107
      @k.m.6107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ytrew9717 are you serious? You really don’t understand WHY???

    • @serhius555
      @serhius555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ytrew9717 Не верю что вы не понимаете почему русский сказал спасибо за эти кадры. Извиняюсь,но я вам вопросом на вопрос отвечу - почему с мая 1945 в Берлине над Рейхстагом развивался советский флаг и стены Рейхстага были исписаны победными лозунгами в основном на русском языке? И на улицах Берлина висели плакаты с Сталиным и развивались советские флаги,почему? Почитайте историю, посмотрите архивные видео что творили фашисты на советской земле.Узнайте какой ценой досталась победа над фашизмом советскому народу.У меня по отцовской линии почти всю семью в селе фашисты расстреляли. Спаслись чудом только бабушка (мама отца ) и её сестра.По материной линии бабушка блокаду Ленинграда пережила. А вы спрашиваете почему эти кадры интересны русским. Историю изучайте что бы не задавать таких глупых вопросов.
      PS. 2:24 Жаль что этих фашистов из видео в плен американцы взяли а не советские солдаты . Очень жаль.

  • @paintdoctor5532
    @paintdoctor5532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This footage was from that town that was famous for the fast walkers..

  • @1518karen
    @1518karen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In Newark New York, a small village near Rochester, there was a German Prisoner of War camp. It existed to supply labor to canning factories and the like. When the war ended many were not in a hurry to go home.. Years later, some former prisoners visited Newark and the people who treated them so well.

  • @at08PM
    @at08PM 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 5:24 you still find the Position in the Village. The buildings allmost are still the same today. Just a litle Woods are now growing there.