Konigsberg!.. The jewel of the East Prussia, the emblematic city of the German nation, stays always there to remind the world, together with Silesia-Pommerania, Sud, Alsace, and many more, the tragically lost historical fatherlands of the German Nation.
I agree with you. Συμφωνώ απολύτως μαζί σας. You are one of few Greeks who know this part of german history. Είστε ένας από τους λίγους Έλληνες, οι οποίοι γνωρίζουν το μέρος αυτό της γερμανικής ιστορίας.
Ich war 2005 vor Ort. Meine Mutter ist dort geboren und hat durch Krieg ihre Heimat verloren. Königsberg ist Geschichte zum anfassen. Ein Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Vertreibung.
Ein sehr gelungenes Video mit Klasse Musik. Ich habe beim Anschauen Gänsehaut bekommen. Man kann gut sehen das doch noch einiges erhalten ist und dies wurde sehr gut bildlich umgesetzt.
I recently learned that the Teutonic knights named the city Königsberg in honor of King Ottokar II of Bohemia (Czech Premyslid King) Makes me want to visit the city.
@@kostam.1113 Typical explanation of the current situation of the city by the Russians. I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others - because then you only confirm the stereotypes about you. Your government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
@@dawidmucha9063 Good thing we removed everything German from it, otherwise they would have demanded it be returned to them. Now they don't even want it back in its current condition, so its smart thinking really.
A lot of towns in the 2. world war suffered horribly, but only Königsberg have to paid the prize of highest, by wiped its of the surface of the earth. Similar to ancient antic town Troy, or like biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Miserable and poor poor Königsberg, How great and terrible must have been its sins, that it deserves this? At least that I can now walk through its streets by TH-cam videos and to see as it was nice and noble. I'm in the previous century many times dreamed about it, to walk over this old town and to see as looked its streets, castle,churches and gardens and I never can't even to imagine, that in the future, over of a many years, thanks to the computers and science, my dream come through and I still will see its beauty and noble of Mons Regius.
the fate of Konigsberg, Breslau, Posen, Danzig, Stettin and so many others is so sad What beauty there once was My Grandfather was German his family came to NY in the 19th century and had relatives outside Bremen and in Memel.
***** Yes the Germans started the war but the USSR was just as bad Most Germans were not NAZIS just as most Russians were not Communists The Soviet's treated Poland, the Baltic states and all those states who became the Warsaw Pact as occupied enemy states rather than what they were states occupied by the Third Reich. and they should have been liberated and treated as such by Stalin.
***** As I'm sure English is not your native language I am somewhat confused. I do have to say that your English is better than my Spanish which I once was fairly fluent in both from high school and the streets of the Bronx and Washington Heights with huge Hispanic populations. The nation of Germany followed Hitler and although it may be unfair the German people had to pay just as the far greater Soviet casualties had to paid. You could say that US policy in the Middle East and in particular with Israel made 9-11 inevitable but on that same basis 9-11 made the devastating attack on Afghanistan just as inevitable as the Taliban insisted on giving Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda sanctuary. GWB and Blair got away with their lies to invade Iraq in 2003 which was only possible because of the post 9-11 atmosphere just as many Germans supported Hitler even with all his obvious lies. While the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was terrible it pales in comparison to the deaths and devastation caused by Germany's opening of World War II with well over 20,000,000 Soviet deaths, millions of Poles and others plus 6,000,000 Jews going up in smoke.ironically about the same number of Germans who lost their lives in World War II. Also what war against Russia are you referring to? the war against Chechnya, South Ossetia, Abkhazia (both of which were launched to keep Georgia from exerting control over both. Or maybe you're referring to the war in Luhansk and Donetsk. Russia annexed the Crimea with no repercussions other than economic measures.The West has not been at war with the USSR or the Russian Federation at any time so I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you're talking of the US not recognizing the invasion and incorporation of the Baltic states into the USSR, In any case as you well know the US never intervened in the USSR or the Russian Federation although they did arm the mujaheddin (which may have been a mistake in my view) but it was the USSR who invaded Afghanistan hardly even equal to the Vietnam war although if you view it that way I'll go along with you. However the Soviets backed the invasion of South Korea which was a clear war of aggression. Even in 1947 while the Jews accepted the UN partition plan the Arabs would not. If they had their Palestinian state would have been larger than Israel is today with Jerusalem and Bethlehem as neutral areas under UN control. I might add that the USSR, the Ukraine, Bellorussia and all the Warsaw Pact nations voted in the UN for Israel's independence. At the time it was seen as standing up to British power in the area, a very short term way of thinking I'm sure you would agree or maybe you wouldn't? Why don't you tell me?. .
***** While I agree that NATO has already expanded too far You got to remember that the USSR had more people than the US but the Russian Federation has less than half the population of the US now. In any case what will Russia do invade the US with the Russian Navy??? If NATO fought a conventional war with the Russian Federation for whatever reason Russia would be badly outnumbered in almost all ways.
***** I could say the same thing about the US it never loses big wars. Russia never attacks first? what about Afghanistan, Finland, the Baltic States Poland,.Bulgaria,Northern Iran, Japan and that's just in the 20th century I have to admit they pulled off Korea cleverly without fighting themselves.
***** Well I was never sure where you were from but things you said led me to believe you were Russian. Well I've already told you what I think of US policy in the Middle East and most especially Israel so in that respect we agree more than I thought. I would cut off Saudi Arabia and Israel yesterday if I could. I would like to finish off the Islamic State but if not for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the situation would be far different. How so many people can be so stupid as to believe in Saddam's WMDs and Al Qaeda connection is beyond me. But I have to say I believe that the majority of people in every country in the world don't know up from down and the US is not the worst as far as a wide variety of media available Of course with the Internet just about anyone with half a brain can find the facts if they really want to.
Not true, at one stage Königsberg was the capital of Prussia and in effect the capital of Germany. East Prussia was the "bread basket" of Germany and culturally the most important province of Germany. The nation of Germany was forged in Prussia's image and Prussia actually founded Germany!!! The main traits associated with Germany today are actually all Prussian traditions. Underdeveloped???
It's good to know the prehistory of the city, and not just to show "before and after". The city was completely bombed by British aviation in 1945. The territory of Eastern Prussia (part of it, the southern part of Prussia left for Poland) withdrew to USSR by the decision of the Potsdam Conference. Great Britain, USSR, USA decided the fate of defeated Germany. After the war the city was completely destroyed, all production, living houses, historical buildings. The USSR was going through hard times (52 million people died in the war and in the rear, production was focused only on weapons, hunger reigned). Of course, all efforts were made to restore the destroyed cities of central Russia. Koningsberg was restored by the military and prisoners. No one cares about historical values. Attitude to everything Germanic from the USSR was very negative. It is understandable, so many people died because of war with German. For a long time Kaliningrad was in stagnation, it was forgotten. But as the economy develops, the city develops, and as you can see on the video, many historical values have been lost, but much has been preserved to this day. Some buildings are being restored, for example a synagogue on one of the slides was rebuilt this year. Of course, not in such a stunning architecture, but also very similar.
Yes, Royal Air Forces bombed this city and destroyed big part of Prussian buildings. And Soviet soldiers did. Many cities of Europe had been crushed during the war but citizens restored their own hometown. Koenigsberg is different, but the same with another captured by USSR towns. Soviets had no money, motivation and culture interest to restore and consirvate. You can see in the west part of Berlin something like Soviet decadence and can see this destructive influence on the streets of current Koenigsberg. Maybe if Prussians kept live there they would give a new live to this city. Doesn't matter who destroyed. More important who gave a opportunity to restore. I think Russia need to give kaliningrad to the rightful owner of that zone.
Typical explanation of the current situation of the city by the Russians. I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others. Your government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
Jetzt ist es eine russische Stadt Kaliningrad, aus guten Gründen. Und statt den Russen alle Schuld in die Schuhe zu schieben, die selbst 24 mio Tote zu beklagen haben, könntet ihr auf sich selbst zeigen und fragen, warum z.B. der Gauleiter Erich Koch so viele Menschen in Ostpreußen in den Tod gestürzt hat, indem er verboten hatte, aus Ostpreußen auszureisen? Uns selbst ganz bequem mit Hab und Gut nach Hamburg fliehen konnte. Und dafür nie richtig bestraft wurde, auch wenn er neben Preußen in Polen und der Ukraine Millionen Menschen auf seinem Gewissen hat. Wer solche skrupellosen Führer hat, braucht sich nicht zu wundern, warum so viele Gebiete nicht mehr deutsch sind und was passiert, wenn Deutsche diese Frage ernsthaft diskutieren anfangen.
you need to know, there is substantial German minority living in Kaliningrad today, they are Russian-germans, they moved there from deep Russia and Siberia !
Es macht mich immer traurig, den Vergleich zwischen der Gegenwart und der Vergangenheit von Königsberg zu sehen... Für Interessierte habe ich einen Discord Server für an Ostpreußen Interessierte eingerichtet: discord.gg/29aCmQ7 (Entschuldigung, wenn ich meinen Server-Link hier nicht posten darf)
"hey could start by returning occupied lands like East Prussia, East Karelia, the Kurile Islands to their real owners" - Perhaps then Lithuania will return Klaipeda to Germany, and Ukraine - Lviv to Poland? But no. Only one Russia should give something back.
George Suarez So the Germans and return "their" lands in the years 1939-1945. The land of the Germans, the Franks in France, the land of the Germans, Anglo-Saxons in England, the land of the Germans, the Lombards in Italy, the land of the Germans, the Goths in the Balkans.
The Russians trying to build up Kaliningrad's German history is laughable since they basically forced all the Germans living there out from their homes, destroyed anything even remotely smelling of German History and culture and made it into basically a Soviet military base complete with ugly, poorly built Soviet architecture. The Ukrainians do the same thing to a certain extent of building up Odessa as a "Jewish" city. They drove out the Jews through the pogroms of the late 19th century. Any Jews or Jewish culture that was left was driven out by the Soviets. Their culture and architecture replaced by Soviet monstrosities...LOL...
How about the German monstrosities of killing 22 millions soviets who did nothing to the germans in apparently surprise invasions? Isn't it was this event that perpetrated the demise of königsberg in the first place? Edit: I did not approve what the Soviets did to the city after the war has ended. My point is, if the Germans never invade Soviet Union, there will be no Kaliningrad today.
Russia is still holding onto the Keralia region of No.Eastern Finland that was seized by Stalin's USSR prior to Germany's declaration of war and/or op.Barbarossa. Finland never sided with the nazi's and and this war got USSR expelled from the league of nations. If they will not even give this back why then would they give their foothold in the Baltic? I suspect Putin will find a "sudatenland" pretext to take much of Ukraine in the near future as they did in Ossetia.
Ich habe den Eindruck Deutschland (HRR) war von Gott besonders geliebte Nation, so dass er Tugend, Geist, Wohlstand und Schönheit schenkte. Dass Deutschland nach den Verbrechen an seinem Volk diese Segnung nicht mehr zu haben scheinen, ist traurig, aber verständlich.
@@Who_can_save_you_from_hell Sie meinen, nachdem wir Belgier mit unseren Truppen den Franzosen 1923 ins Ruhrgebiet gefolgt sind, um die unmöglichen Bedingungen des Versailler Vertrages zu erzwingen und so D in die Hyperinflation, den Hunger und den Wahnsinn getrieben haben. Nie war es die Absicht Frankreichs, der Weimarer Demokratie eine Chance zu geben, wohl aber einen in WK I geschlagenen Gegner völlig zu vernichten. Ja, das rächt sich.
@Hans-Martin Balz Gibt es Ihnen nicht zu denken, dass unsere belgischen Truppen 1921-1923 den Franzosen treu ins Rheinland/Ruhrgebiet gefolgt sind, um die unmöglichen Reparationszahlungen des Versailler Vertrags zu erzwingen, und so D in die Hyperinflation, in den Hunger und in die politische Verzweiflung getrieben haben? Es war weder die Absicht Frankreichs noch die unseres Vasalstaats Belgien der Demokratie der Weimar-Republik eine Chance zu geben, immer aber einen geschlagenen Feind zu demütigen und weiter zu schwächen. Mit der von Ihrem gehorsamen BVG genehmigten EU-Schuldenvergemeinschaftung über die EZB-Druckerpresse und EU-Schuldenaufnahme wiederholt sich die Geschichte. Und meinen Sie, dass das Britisch Museum und das Louvre die in unseren südlichen Niederlanden (jetzt B) ergatterten Beutekunst zurückgeben werden? Mir scheint, die deutsche Selbstzerfleischung, wobei sogar die Trennung unserer EU-Unternehmen von ihren östlichen Energiequellen und Märkten ferngelenkt "grün" vorangetrieben wird, bedroht den EU-Wohlstand am meisten.
@Hans-Martin Balz Schön, dass wir uns höflich austauschen können. Mein Großvater kämpfte als einfacher flämischer Soldat an der Front, von französischsprachigen Offizieren herumkommandiert. Heute bin ich froh, unsere dritte, hochdeutsche belgische Staatssprache gelernt zu haben, die mir die Tür zu einer Jahrtausende alten d Geschichte und Erzeugnisse geöffnet hat, und durch ihren ausdehnbaren, kontextfrei einsetzbare Wortschatz sowie durch ihre Strukturmöglichkeiten einzigartig ist. Hoffe, Ihre Muttersprache nicht allzu sehr verunstaltet zu haben. Lassen Sie sich nicht von denjenigen einschüchtern, die nur auf ihre Zerknirschung und ihr Geld aus sind..
@Hans-Martin Balz O ja. Unsere Verhütungspille und die internationale Mobilität wirken seit 1961 unermüdlich. Die einladende Einwanderungspolitik unserer ferngelenkten Grünen gibt uns bald den Rest, wenn wir nicht ĺänger den Sicherheitsaufwand aufbringen können, um die aus dem Mangel an Zusammengehörigkeit entstehende Kriminalität zu bewältigen. Brasilianische Zustände in Sicht, schon Wirklichkeit in vielen Gemeinden in Brüssel und Antwerpen. Bei der Ausstellung war ich übrigens 3 Jahre Alt, und hatte nur Augen für den Chokolade-spendenden Elefanten von Côte d'Or am Eingang. O. Habe Sie über Wikipedia gefunden. Sind ganz schön berühmt.
Johann Lißewski, my grandfather, was born near Koenigsberg. During the first world war, my father was sent to a farm nearby owned by his Johann's brother. It save his life from childhood stavation. I have a picture of his uncle, with his grandchildren from 1938. Where are they. What were their names? Did they live after World War II? No one knows.
Its while ago but you made a nice video. I was there in 2016 with my own car, my son and his mother. From the hotel in Zelenogradsk we went by train to Kaliningrad to have a day sightseeing. I hope you will make video's from more cities and villages in the Oblast. I am from the Netherlands. Our voluntairy free guide did not even know the General Laschbunker excists. So i told her to visit it (!). : )
This video has forgot to mention that this little town had been creating famous people of great Importance , as : Regiomontanus : mathematician Cathleen Brandenburg ,Princess of Transsylvania Chr. Goldbach: mathematician Leonard Euler: mathematician Immanuel Kant : philosopher E.T.A. Hoffmann : writer , author G.H.L. Hagen : physicist G. R. Kirchoff: physicist K.R.König: physicist Otto Wallach chemist D. Hilbert : mathematician Erich von Drygalski : discoverer A. Sommerfeld: physicist Agnes Miegel: physicist Fanny Lewald: physicist H.A.Winkler : historian And no any russians , because russians are only russians . Many russians live on importing western made cars here, and selling them in Russia . It's their main point .
it won't go back. no germans are left there, the russians have moved in, and even if germany could somehow get past the post-ww2 guilt-complex, ther is no chance that any of these countries would give the land back.
Min 00:55 the Neue Synagoge was exactly as it is shown on the video; empty land, but now there's a new synagoge erected in the place of the old one, looking pretty much as the old one did .....
¿Por qué? La población de hoy es rusa, traída después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial del este de los Urales. Los alemanes se fueron en los últimos meses de la guerra.
y ademas solo seran ya la nietos y biznietos de los Königsbergiensis de entonces - muy poco probable que van a tener un interes de cambiarse, dejar centroeuropa para irse a Kalinigrado...
@@Jebbar.Mohammed Keep in mind that most of Russia territories where *confiscated* from those who invaded her in the past centuries, read some history would you ?. Losing Königsberg to the Russians, is really a very minuscule price to pay for the greatest crimes in human history they have committed. In fact Germany should be very lucky to have paid such a extremely small price that does not even do justice to the despicable crimes they have committed against Russia. You need to seriously and honestly learn of what they did to Russia, let alone to the rest of Europe. One of the biggest crimes was to completely destroy one of the most beautiful cities in the world, *PETROGRAD/LENINGRAD/ST. PETERSBURG* and almost decimated the whole of its population. The Finns contributed to that heinous crime. Consider *Justice* not nationalism. This said, I wish you and yours a very happy rest of Ramadan.
brahim119 i really appreciate your nice behavior and nice comment which is representing your well education and good manners and attitudes. I am not defending Germany about what they have done to Europe in general but what I am saying is to return this German historical city as well as returning back what had Russian lost. Remember Russia nowadays is not Russia before 1990 in which many Pols cities also goes to Ukraine and other countries. Speaking about losing beautiful cities in WWII is also belonging to Germany which it has been unfairly taken from its many territories in Versailles treaty! Plus losing and winning wars doesn’t mean to lose territories but should justice appear when dealing with losers. Also Germany has been bombed by British. Imagine if the treaty of Versailles has been done against Russia and the victorious taken lands from Russia under excuses to build another country which is Poland! What will you do then! Again I am not defending German crimes but also not defending allies crimes in Germany at the same time. Ramadan Kareem brother
@@Jebbar.Mohammed _"its a German Land even those who are living there are reading German History and not counting themselves as Russians"_ The vast country of Russia comprises multiple languages, multiple religions, multiple ethnic groups, and multiple cultures. They all have the right to speak they own native languages, granted they also know the common Russian language, it's not different than many other multi-ethnic countries. As for the Germans in Kaliningrad, they have every right to preserve and speak their beautiful and rich German language. But the fact is that Königsberg is now Kaliningrad. The German wanted the _Lebensraum,_ by stealing other people's land after massacring them, they gambled and they lost and it's time to adjust the clock.
Oh, in Polizeipräsidium (Советский проспект 7) ich habe bis 2013 gearbeitet 😂 und meine Alma Mater war Technische Uni❤ das alles ich hie gesehen habe ❤
It's time for all Germans,Poles and Russians living in Konigsberg to unite and struggle to get back their lands in former German Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia etc. and Polish Kresy. . Es ist Zeit für alle Deutschen, Polen und Russen in Königsberg zu vereinen und zu kämpfen, um wieder ihre Ländereien in ehemaligen deutschen Schlesien, Pommern, Preußen usw. und polnischen Kresy. . To jest czas dla wszystkich Niemców, Polaków i Rosjan mieszkających w Królewcu, aby zjednoczyć i walczyć, aby odzyskać swoje ziemie w byłej Niemieckiej Śląska, Pomorza, Prus itd. i polskiej Kresów.
***** so basicly you are proposing another war.....none of the countrys will give current teritory, at least i would not let poles occupy 1/3 of my country again ! ... now that i think about it Putin did the same shit in crimea and does in east UKR as poles did in 1920 to Lithuania
Is war the only solution for getting back the lands? We had war before i.e. both world wars to get more territory but instead of gaining it, many millions were forcefully expelled from their homelands. Not only in Europe even India and Pakistan after Independence had suffered the same by partition. So why war? Why not do it peacefully?
***** well in case of Germany yes they lost land not in a fair way...how ever since Germany lost the war and basicly because of Germany all Europe was in ruins they had to pay somehow so lets say it was a punishment, BUT if you take my country Lithuania Poland has no rights to that land that it took in 1920 and held until 1939 ... so like hell they do not deserve nothing back. On the matter of UKR i cant say 100% exactly as i dont know the background on what was going in UKR at the time, but i do know that communists attaked Poland so i gues same rules apply as to Germany, Poland has the right to west UKR
If that is the case then why Germany has to take the blame when it was the mistake of Adolf Hitler? Why civilians had to take the blame for the mistake of that one evil person who was so hungry for power that at the end, Germans had no say? Why not he only should pay the price and why civilians? Another thing is that Germans and Poles living in former eastern territories are not full Germans. Many are descended from Silesians, Prussians, Poles etc. even in their culture, arts etc. do you find these elements. So they also have the rights, ain't they?
***** well its not me who makes these rules of war, victor allways walks away with the prize, BUT i think you are confusing one crutial moment :) ok you say its hitler - one man, but you dont think how he got to the point where he took everything, so in that sense germans elected him, they gave him power so i would say all Germany has a part of the blame. Good exemple Musolini, wher italians were pissed about him going to war and shit so they hung him and beat the life from him, but germans sat there and did nothing about Hitler and so war went on. So i gues as they say germans had this comming. Personaly i dont thing this is right, but since Germany did not have money to pay war reperations, teritorry was a good payment.
Actualy now seeing this cool video I see some old landmarks were actualy rebuilt or reconstructed. It seams that the most destroyed part of the city was along the waterfront and that hasnt been repaired after the war...
To stay in Russia! The Germans left in the last months of the war and the Soviet Union imported a new population from east of the Urals. Read your history before asking rhetorical questions.
I can't understand why the Oblast of Kaliningrad was left as an exclave to Russia instead of been given To Poland or Lithuania or stayed as a german exclave. I read somewhere of a project to rebuild the downtown as it was :)
Neither Poland nor Lithuania wanted Kaliningrad, Khrushchev actually did offer Kaliningrad to Lithuania but they refused; and the german government was worried because Britain, France and Italy didn't fully support german reunification, so, pushing the claim over Kaliningrad would have alienated the western europeans powers.
Nice vid, but what about the Castle. Are there still moose in the forest. Do people still fly gliders at the dunes. That city got a makeover from hell. It use to be beautiful..
The castle is no more. The communist soviets thought it would be a great idea to destroy the last remaining walls and tower and on top of that, build an ugly as heck building that isn't even being used. No wonder everyone hated the soviet union.
Der FSB wurde zum 75. Jahrestag der Gründung der Region freigegeben und an die Regionalarchive übergeben. Die Gräueltaten der Deutschen werden in Gang gesetzt. Ein wesentlicher Teil der veröffentlichten Dokumente zeugt von den Verbrechen der deutschen Nationalsozialisten gegen die Gefangenen der Lager. Auf dem Gebiet Ostpreußens gab es fast fünfzig Lager (auch für Kriegsgefangene), von denen sich 17 in Königsberg befanden. Insbesondere monströse Gräueltaten wurden von den Deutschen im ostpreußischen Zweig des Konzentrationslagers Stutthof, einer großen "Todesfabrik", begangen. Das Lager Stutthof, fünfzig Kilometer von der polnischen Stadt Danzig entfernt, wurde am 2. September 1939, einen Tag nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs, gegründet. Hitlers Ärzte verwendeten Gefangene als Testpersonen in ihren Experimenten und stellten Seife aus menschlichem Fett her. Ein Stück solcher Seife wurde später bei den Nürnberger Prozessen als Beispiel für die Wildheit der Nazis gezeigt. Stutthof hatte mehrere Dutzend Niederlassungen auf dem Gebiet des polnischen Pommern, Ostpreußens und Ostpommerns. Die brutalen Massaker an den Deutschen gegen die Zivilbevölkerung werden in einer Sonderbotschaft erwähnt, die von Oberst Isaac Iofis verfasst wurde, der vom Volkskommissariat für innere Angelegenheiten der UdSSR für die 43. Armee autorisiert wurde und an den NKWD gerichtet ist, der für die 1. Baltische Front, den für Sicherheit zuständigen Kommissar Ivan, zuständig ist Tkachenko (der später den Regimedienst des ersten sowjetischen Unternehmens zur Gewinnung von Plutonium für Atomwaffen in der Stadt Tscheljabinsk-40, heute Ozersk, leitete). Wie Iofis berichtete, wurden am 15. Februar 1945 in der Nähe der Stadt Kumenen in Ostpreußen über hundert brutal gefolterte Zivilisten - Russen, Juden, Franzosen, Rumänen - in einer Waldschlucht gefunden, und die Mehrheit der Getöteten waren Frauen von 18 bis 35 Jahren. In den Taschen einiger der Getöteten befand sich spärliches Essen - kleine Kartoffelknollen, Hafer, Weizenkörner und Becher, Tassen und Holzlöffel waren an ihren Gürteln festgebunden. Wie von einer Sonderkommission festgelegt, handelte es sich um KZ-Häftlinge. Es stellte sich heraus, dass alle von den Deutschen "während des hastigen Rückzugs der Deutschen unter dem Ansturm der Roten Armee" erschossen wurden.
@1975USSR many buildings was only damaged easy to rebuild but it did not happen were destroyed because was german(moskwa decision) and that is why city looks like only shadow of old konigsberg
@@Vladimir77766 la historia la distorsiona \ud. no yo, yo conozco muy bien la historia. mi tia vivio en Koenigsberg el infierno desatado por los rusos alli, a nada comparable.
@@gisela43599 y 30 millones de rusos destruidos no es un infierno? Sí, los alemanes fueron desalojados sin piedad de Prusia Oriental, pero fueron desalojados, no fusilados. Y la aviación británica bombardeó Koenigsberg., No soviética. Tu tía no murió y pudo compartir sus recuerdos contigo, y dos de mis abuelos murieron en esa guerra.
Comments below make me think that time and mistakes did not change way of thinking of some people of west. Saying hello from Kaliningrad. We are always open for any type of "cooperation". But not online please.
@koelschwolf hello. i'll try. After Germany's defeat in World War I, under the pressure of winning countries (the U.S., France, United Kingdom), Germany was forced to cede some of its territories in the lower reaches of the river Vistula, plus 71-mile segment of the Baltic Sea to Poland, which thus has access to the Baltic sea and therefore isolated (at least in the land) the territory of East Prussia. You are welcome!
You may want to add to your brief history course that the lands you mention were stolen by Prussia from Kingdom of Poland and only much later incorporated into Germany.
Konigsberg!.. The jewel of the East Prussia, the emblematic city of the German nation, stays always there to remind the world, together with Silesia-Pommerania, Sud, Alsace, and many more, the tragically lost historical fatherlands of the German Nation.
I agree with you.
Συμφωνώ απολύτως μαζί σας.
You are one of few Greeks who know this part of german history.
Είστε ένας από τους λίγους Έλληνες, οι οποίοι γνωρίζουν το μέρος αυτό της γερμανικής ιστορίας.
Yet another reason why I hate war, this beauty was lost!
pcampbell17
war is bad because people die :,C
It's sad that the beautiful people who built those buildings were lost.
not war but united soviet socialist republics
@@ThirtySixOz whick comes from war
Fully agreed o eah btw it was made even worse by the soviet
My ancestor’s homeland. I’m impressed that despite the old city was razed, there are quite a lot of buildings preserved, albeit “Russified”.
Ich war 2005 vor Ort. Meine Mutter ist dort geboren und hat durch Krieg ihre Heimat verloren. Königsberg ist Geschichte zum anfassen. Ein Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Vertreibung.
Ist Unrecht !
@@petergarbe2459 Was ist Unrecht?
Krieg war noch niemals gerecht und wird es auch niemals sein. 🤨
@@petergarbe2459 jawohl
Ein sehr gelungenes Video mit Klasse Musik. Ich habe beim Anschauen Gänsehaut bekommen. Man kann gut sehen das doch noch einiges erhalten ist und dies wurde sehr gut bildlich umgesetzt.
Ja EINIGES
Very well done. I started watching the video thinking that nothing had survived from the Königsberg days, but at least something did.
1:00 The Synagogue has now been rebuilt. You need to update the picture.
Awfully rebuilt :(
I recently learned that the Teutonic knights named the city Königsberg in honor of King Ottokar II of Bohemia (Czech Premyslid King) Makes me want to visit the city.
Nice
So sad...
My congratulations Russians. You turned a wonderful european city and all prussian heritage in archaeology.
You must be proud.
Don't just congratulate Russians, British were equally responsible.
@@kostam.1113 Typical explanation of the current situation of the city by the Russians. I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others - because then you only confirm the stereotypes about you. Your government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
@@dawidmucha9063 Good thing we removed everything German from it, otherwise they would have demanded it be returned to them. Now they don't even want it back in its current condition, so its smart thinking really.
Спасибо,так приятно🥰
@@dawidmucha9063 А меня коммунисты устраивали. Медицина и образование было бесплатно, газ, свет, вода стоили копейки и много всяких льгот
RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤
A lot of towns in the 2. world war suffered horribly,
but only Königsberg have to paid the prize of highest,
by wiped its of the surface of the earth.
Similar to ancient antic town Troy,
or like biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
Miserable and poor poor Königsberg,
How great and terrible must have been its sins,
that it deserves this?
At least that I can now walk through its streets by TH-cam videos
and to see as it was nice and noble.
I'm in the previous century many times dreamed about it,
to walk over this old town
and to see as looked its streets, castle,churches and gardens
and I never can't even to imagine,
that in the future,
over of a many years,
thanks to the computers and science,
my dream come through
and I still will see its beauty and noble of Mons Regius.
Georg Xabada Dude Germans wiped out entire Nations. Go fuck yourself
@@vuckodukic1337 so what? You must be a weirdo.
Or you can buy a plane ticket and fly in. There some areas where you can still feel konigsbergs spirit
It wasn’t the only city to be wiped out as you say a third of Germany was lost what about Breslau and others
@@vuckodukic1337 Entire nations? Bullshit. You a Serb communist?
From beautiful buildings to soviet architecture
А почему мы на своей территории должны строить по немецки.
I cant watch this, it hurts seeing all the beauty is gone
the fate of Konigsberg, Breslau, Posen, Danzig, Stettin and so many others is so sad What beauty there once was My Grandfather was German his family came to NY in the 19th century and had relatives outside Bremen and in Memel.
***** Yes the Germans started the war but the USSR was just as bad Most Germans were not NAZIS just as most Russians were not Communists The Soviet's treated Poland, the Baltic states and all those states who became the Warsaw Pact as occupied enemy states rather than what they were states occupied by the Third Reich. and they should have been liberated and treated as such by Stalin.
***** As I'm sure English is not your native language I am somewhat confused. I do have to say that your English is better than my Spanish which I once was fairly fluent in both from high school and the streets of the Bronx and Washington Heights with huge Hispanic populations.
The nation of Germany followed Hitler and although it may be unfair the German people had to pay just as the far greater Soviet casualties had to paid. You could say that US policy in the Middle East and in particular with Israel made 9-11 inevitable but on that same basis 9-11 made the devastating attack on Afghanistan just as inevitable as the Taliban insisted on giving Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda sanctuary. GWB and Blair got away with their lies to invade Iraq in 2003 which was only possible because of the post 9-11 atmosphere just as many Germans supported Hitler even with all his obvious lies.
While the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was terrible it pales in comparison to the deaths and devastation caused by Germany's opening of World War II with well over 20,000,000 Soviet deaths, millions of Poles and others plus 6,000,000 Jews going up in smoke.ironically about the same number of Germans who lost their lives in World War II.
Also what war against Russia are you referring to? the war against Chechnya, South Ossetia, Abkhazia (both of which were launched to keep Georgia from exerting control over both. Or maybe you're referring to the war in Luhansk and Donetsk. Russia annexed the Crimea with no repercussions other than economic measures.The West has not been at war with the USSR or the Russian Federation at any time so I don't know what you are talking about.
Maybe you're talking of the US not recognizing the invasion and incorporation of the Baltic states into the USSR, In any case as you well know the US never intervened in the USSR or the Russian Federation although they did arm the mujaheddin (which may have been a mistake in my view) but it was the USSR who invaded Afghanistan hardly even equal to the Vietnam war although if you view it that way I'll go along with you.
However the Soviets backed the invasion of South Korea which was a clear war of aggression. Even in 1947 while the Jews accepted the UN partition plan the Arabs would not. If they had their Palestinian state would have been larger than Israel is today with Jerusalem and Bethlehem as neutral areas under UN control. I might add that the USSR, the Ukraine, Bellorussia and all the Warsaw Pact nations voted in the UN for Israel's independence. At the time it was seen as standing up to British power in the area, a very short term way of thinking I'm sure you would agree or maybe you wouldn't? Why don't you tell me?. .
***** While I agree that NATO has already expanded too far You got to remember that the USSR had more people than the US but the Russian Federation has less than half the population of the US now. In any case what will Russia do invade the US with the Russian Navy??? If NATO fought a conventional war with the Russian Federation for whatever reason Russia would be badly outnumbered in almost all ways.
***** I could say the same thing about the US it never loses big wars. Russia never attacks first? what about Afghanistan, Finland, the Baltic States Poland,.Bulgaria,Northern Iran, Japan and that's just in the 20th century I have to admit they pulled off Korea cleverly without fighting themselves.
***** Well I was never sure where you were from but things you said led me to believe you were Russian. Well I've already told you what I think of US policy in the Middle East and most especially Israel so in that respect we agree more than I thought. I would cut off Saudi Arabia and Israel yesterday if I could. I would like to finish off the Islamic State but if not for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the situation would be far different. How so many people can be so stupid as to believe in Saddam's WMDs and Al Qaeda connection is beyond me. But I have to say I believe that the majority of people in every country in the world don't know up from down and the US is not the worst as far as a wide variety of media available Of course with the Internet just about anyone with half a brain can find the facts if they really want to.
mooi gemaakt daar zag het in de Duitse tijden toch veel beter uit dan nu onder Russische zeggenschap.
East Prussia belongs to Germany 🇩🇪
Robert S Was east Prussia the most underdeveloped area in Germany before WW2?cause I found no industry,little commerce.
Not true, at one stage Königsberg was the capital of Prussia and in effect the capital of Germany. East Prussia was the "bread basket" of Germany and culturally the most important province of Germany. The nation of Germany was forged in Prussia's image and Prussia actually founded Germany!!! The main traits associated with Germany today are actually all Prussian traditions. Underdeveloped???
May be East Prussia belongs to prussians? :D
*@Robert S.* Belonged, past tense please.
@@brahim119 yes, Prussians leaves here before, before Germans killed the most and took those territory of this Baltic folk
Thanks for yet another interesting video from you. I'm surprised to see how much actually has survived till today
Ohne worte....
Einfach genial !!!
Pillauer Grüsse
It's good to know the prehistory of the city, and not just to show "before and after". The city was completely bombed by British aviation in 1945. The territory of Eastern Prussia (part of it, the southern part of Prussia left for Poland) withdrew to USSR by the decision of the Potsdam Conference. Great Britain, USSR, USA decided the fate of defeated Germany. After the war the city was completely destroyed, all production, living houses, historical buildings. The USSR was going through hard times (52 million people died in the war and in the rear, production was focused only on weapons, hunger reigned).
Of course, all efforts were made to restore the destroyed cities of central Russia. Koningsberg was restored by the military and prisoners. No one cares about historical values. Attitude to everything Germanic from the USSR was very negative. It is understandable, so many people died because of war with German. For a long time Kaliningrad was in stagnation, it was forgotten. But as the economy develops, the city develops, and as you can see on the video, many historical values have been lost, but much has been preserved to this day. Some buildings are being restored, for example a synagogue on one of the slides was rebuilt this year. Of course, not in such a stunning architecture, but also very similar.
Yes, Royal Air Forces bombed this city and destroyed big part of Prussian buildings. And Soviet soldiers did. Many cities of Europe had been crushed during the war but citizens restored their own hometown. Koenigsberg is different, but the same with another captured by USSR towns. Soviets had no money, motivation and culture interest to restore and consirvate.
You can see in the west part of Berlin something like Soviet decadence and can see this destructive influence on the streets of current Koenigsberg. Maybe if Prussians kept live there they would give a new live to this city.
Doesn't matter who destroyed. More important who gave a opportunity to restore.
I think Russia need to give kaliningrad to the rightful owner of that zone.
@Tsar Caesar horrible that THIS land become useless
52 million died in the war?? Are you fucking insane? More like 22 million.
Typical explanation of the current situation of the city by the Russians. I am a Pole - after the Germans we got 2 large centers - Wocław and Szczecin, and 15 cities with a population of over 100,000. Wrocław was destroyed between 70-80% - Szczecin in 70% and the rest of these cities were destroyed in the urban substance in the range of 30-95%. Now take a look at what Polish cities look like. Built - restored - they were restored to their former shape - even though we had no money and our capital was destroyed in 95%. We did it in parallel. Of course, a significant percentage of it could not be restored - it was mainly due to the fact that we had over the heads of communists who did not like the restoration of German monuments and often their opinion was final. Exactly - now let's look at Kalilingrad. The city was destroyed no more than the Polish one - and what does it look like now? The only thing that was left there was the cathedral on the island and a few individual objects scattered all over the city. THIS NOT ALLIAN BOMBARDINGS led to the present appearance of the city - but the Soviet government which pursued a deliberate policy of removing everything German. These are facts and stop blaming others. Your government has led to the situation that now Konigsberg, instead of the pearl of the Baltic, on a par with Gdańsk, has become a nasty communist reminder of the USSR's policy.
Königsberg ist eine deutsche stadt.
Jetzt ist es eine russische Stadt Kaliningrad, aus guten Gründen. Und statt den Russen alle Schuld in die Schuhe zu schieben, die selbst 24 mio Tote zu beklagen haben, könntet ihr auf sich selbst zeigen und fragen, warum z.B. der Gauleiter Erich Koch so viele Menschen in Ostpreußen in den Tod gestürzt hat, indem er verboten hatte, aus Ostpreußen auszureisen? Uns selbst ganz bequem mit Hab und Gut nach Hamburg fliehen konnte. Und dafür nie richtig bestraft wurde, auch wenn er neben Preußen in Polen und der Ukraine Millionen Menschen auf seinem Gewissen hat. Wer solche skrupellosen Führer hat, braucht sich nicht zu wundern, warum so viele Gebiete nicht mehr deutsch sind und was passiert, wenn Deutsche diese Frage ernsthaft diskutieren anfangen.
Königsberg Kaputt! Да здравствует Российский Город Калининград!)☝️
Was ist dann das Problem? du kannst dort wohnen!
@@egonjensen6506 Nie ma problem! Ale wszystko w porządku! Kaliningrad to jest rosyjskie miasto!)🇷🇺👆👍😎😘
Kaliningrad ist russische Stadt!)🇷🇺👍👆😎😘 Königsberg alles kaputt!)👆
you need to know, there is substantial German minority living in Kaliningrad today, they are Russian-germans, they moved there from deep Russia and Siberia !
You mean Volga Germans?
Ich bedanke mich für die Darstellung der Aufnahmen das Heute und Gestern vielen Dank
Es macht mich immer traurig, den Vergleich zwischen der Gegenwart und der Vergangenheit von Königsberg zu sehen...
Für Interessierte habe ich einen Discord Server für an Ostpreußen Interessierte eingerichtet: discord.gg/29aCmQ7
(Entschuldigung, wenn ich meinen Server-Link hier nicht posten darf)
"hey could start by returning occupied lands like East Prussia, East Karelia, the Kurile Islands to their real owners" - Perhaps then Lithuania will return Klaipeda to Germany, and Ukraine - Lviv to Poland? But no. Only one Russia should give something back.
Klaipeda had a Lithuanian majority before 1939.
May Germany regain her lost territories some day...
George Suarez hahahahahha
George Suarez+ the right time will come for Germany, the wheel always turns!
George Suarez
So the Germans and return "their" lands in the years 1939-1945. The land of the Germans, the Franks in France, the land of the Germans, Anglo-Saxons in England, the land of the Germans, the Lombards in Italy, the land of the Germans, the Goths in the Balkans.
Вольдемар Шаломов stupid most of those territories were in personal Union with those countries at the time.
The people of Konigsburg are long gone..the city died when the last left.
Königsberg in East Prussia.
East Prussia died in 1945. Amen.
Wunderschoene Stadt
not any more
War einmalig
Big thanks! I want to make part 2 (and maybe part 3 too) soon.
Did you do that already? Its many years ago...
The Russians trying to build up Kaliningrad's German history is laughable since they basically forced all the Germans living there out from their homes, destroyed anything even remotely smelling of German History and culture and made it into basically a Soviet military base complete with ugly, poorly built Soviet architecture.
The Ukrainians do the same thing to a certain extent of building up Odessa as a "Jewish" city. They drove out the Jews through the pogroms of the late 19th century. Any Jews or Jewish culture that was left was driven out by the Soviets. Their culture and architecture replaced by Soviet monstrosities...LOL...
How about the German monstrosities of killing 22 millions soviets who did nothing to the germans in apparently surprise invasions? Isn't it was this event that perpetrated the demise of königsberg in the first place?
Edit: I did not approve what the Soviets did to the city after the war has ended. My point is, if the Germans never invade Soviet Union, there will be no Kaliningrad today.
Чего вашему Гитлеру дома не сиделось?! Пруссия осталась бы вашей
Russia is still holding onto the Keralia region of No.Eastern Finland that was seized by Stalin's USSR prior to Germany's declaration of war and/or op.Barbarossa. Finland never sided with the nazi's and and this war got USSR expelled from the league of nations. If they will not even give this back why then would they give their foothold in the Baltic? I suspect Putin will find a "sudatenland" pretext to take much of Ukraine in the near future as they did in Ossetia.
Excellent work. It reminds me of my visit. Thank you.
Danke für das reinstellen ins Netz!!!!!!
@Karlcarl Many East Prussian women and children went down with Wilhelm Gustoff ship by red army. :(
У меня двое дяди молодыми погибли на войне, их убили немецкие фашисты(
@@user-ne9ko1ew3q cry hard
When the Russians decide to tear up art and history... They don't take half measures.
Nope
I always mourn Germany's loss of this place to the brutal Soviet fucktards.
Was der Mühe wert ist, ist offenbar deutscher Herkunft. Hatte in Polen den gleichen Eindruck. Grüße aus Flandern.
Ich habe den Eindruck Deutschland (HRR) war von Gott besonders geliebte Nation, so dass er Tugend, Geist, Wohlstand und Schönheit schenkte. Dass Deutschland nach den Verbrechen an seinem Volk diese Segnung nicht mehr zu haben scheinen, ist traurig, aber verständlich.
@@Who_can_save_you_from_hell Sie meinen, nachdem wir Belgier mit unseren Truppen den Franzosen 1923 ins Ruhrgebiet gefolgt sind, um die unmöglichen Bedingungen des Versailler Vertrages zu erzwingen und so D in die Hyperinflation, den Hunger und den Wahnsinn getrieben haben. Nie war es die Absicht Frankreichs, der Weimarer Demokratie eine Chance zu geben, wohl aber einen in WK I geschlagenen Gegner völlig zu vernichten. Ja, das rächt sich.
@Hans-Martin Balz Gibt es Ihnen nicht zu denken, dass unsere belgischen Truppen 1921-1923 den Franzosen treu ins Rheinland/Ruhrgebiet gefolgt sind, um die unmöglichen Reparationszahlungen des Versailler Vertrags zu erzwingen, und so D in die Hyperinflation, in den Hunger und in die politische Verzweiflung getrieben haben? Es war weder die Absicht Frankreichs noch die unseres Vasalstaats Belgien der Demokratie der Weimar-Republik eine Chance zu geben, immer aber einen geschlagenen Feind zu demütigen und weiter zu schwächen. Mit der von Ihrem gehorsamen BVG genehmigten EU-Schuldenvergemeinschaftung über die EZB-Druckerpresse und EU-Schuldenaufnahme wiederholt sich die Geschichte. Und meinen Sie, dass das Britisch Museum und das Louvre die in unseren südlichen Niederlanden (jetzt B) ergatterten Beutekunst zurückgeben werden? Mir scheint, die deutsche Selbstzerfleischung, wobei sogar die Trennung unserer EU-Unternehmen von ihren östlichen Energiequellen und Märkten ferngelenkt "grün" vorangetrieben wird, bedroht den EU-Wohlstand am meisten.
@Hans-Martin Balz Schön, dass wir uns höflich austauschen können. Mein Großvater kämpfte als einfacher flämischer Soldat an der Front, von französischsprachigen Offizieren herumkommandiert. Heute bin ich froh, unsere dritte, hochdeutsche belgische Staatssprache gelernt zu haben, die mir die Tür zu einer Jahrtausende alten d Geschichte und Erzeugnisse geöffnet hat, und durch ihren ausdehnbaren, kontextfrei einsetzbare Wortschatz sowie durch ihre Strukturmöglichkeiten einzigartig ist. Hoffe, Ihre Muttersprache nicht allzu sehr verunstaltet zu haben. Lassen Sie sich nicht von denjenigen einschüchtern, die nur auf ihre Zerknirschung und ihr Geld aus sind..
@Hans-Martin Balz O ja. Unsere Verhütungspille und die internationale Mobilität wirken seit 1961 unermüdlich. Die einladende Einwanderungspolitik unserer ferngelenkten Grünen gibt uns bald den Rest, wenn wir nicht ĺänger den Sicherheitsaufwand aufbringen können, um die aus dem Mangel an Zusammengehörigkeit entstehende Kriminalität zu bewältigen. Brasilianische Zustände in Sicht, schon Wirklichkeit in vielen Gemeinden in Brüssel und Antwerpen. Bei der Ausstellung war ich übrigens 3 Jahre Alt, und hatte nur Augen für den Chokolade-spendenden Elefanten von Côte d'Or am Eingang. O. Habe Sie über Wikipedia gefunden. Sind ganz schön berühmt.
I'm very impressed, good work. A very interesting video! Thank you for it.
Johann Lißewski, my grandfather, was born near Koenigsberg. During the first world war, my father was sent to a farm nearby owned by his Johann's brother. It save his life from childhood stavation. I have a picture of his uncle, with his grandchildren from 1938. Where are they. What were their names? Did they live after World War II? No one knows.
You can try using myheritage
I'm a italian fan for this city a
Sono un fan Italiano di questa città
Its while ago but you made a nice video. I was there in 2016 with my own car, my son and his mother. From the hotel in Zelenogradsk we went by train to Kaliningrad to have a day sightseeing. I hope you will make video's from more cities and villages in the Oblast. I am from the Netherlands. Our voluntairy free guide did not even know the General Laschbunker excists. So i told her to visit it (!). : )
This video has forgot to mention that this little town had been creating famous people of great Importance , as :
Regiomontanus : mathematician
Cathleen Brandenburg ,Princess of Transsylvania Chr. Goldbach:
mathematician Leonard Euler: mathematician Immanuel Kant : philosopher E.T.A. Hoffmann : writer , author G.H.L. Hagen : physicist G. R. Kirchoff:
physicist
K.R.König: physicist
Otto Wallach chemist
D. Hilbert : mathematician
Erich von Drygalski : discoverer
A. Sommerfeld: physicist
Agnes Miegel: physicist
Fanny Lewald: physicist
H.A.Winkler : historian
And no any russians , because russians are only russians .
Many russians live on importing western made cars here, and selling them in Russia . It's their main point .
You are rasist. Klingrad is our. Forever.
Great Video... thanks for sharing
wow - I sat completely spell-bound while watching - thanks for sharing this work!
it won't go back. no germans are left there, the russians have moved in, and even if germany could somehow get past the post-ww2 guilt-complex, ther is no chance that any of these countries would give the land back.
Shame the exclave didn't get independence in 1991 like the another baltic countries :(
Es ist sehr traurig :-(
danke!
Fascinating.
Min 00:55 the Neue Synagoge was exactly as it is shown on the video; empty land, but now there's a new synagoge erected in the place of the old one, looking pretty much as the old one did .....
same story with Danzing (Gdanks), but the Polish rebuild the old town.... It should be do also in Kaliningrad!
The wolves have taken over, what to expect.
Desde Chile, expresó mi mas sincero deseo de que en el futuro Konigsberg, vuelva a ser una ciudad alemana.
¿Por qué? La población de hoy es rusa, traída después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial del este de los Urales. Los alemanes se fueron en los últimos meses de la guerra.
y ademas solo seran ya la nietos y biznietos de los Königsbergiensis de entonces - muy poco probable que van a tener un interes de cambiarse, dejar centroeuropa para irse a Kalinigrado...
brezhnev said it was a nest of fascism but he was the real fascist
Вы неблагодарная нация
It will one day return back to its motherland Germany 🇩🇪
*@JEBBAR Mohammed.* Why ? Give the Russians one single reason why they should return Kaliningrad. *One single reason.*
@@brahim119 its a German Land even those who are living there are reading German History and not counting themselves as Russians
@@Jebbar.Mohammed Keep in mind that most of Russia territories where *confiscated* from those who invaded her in the past centuries, read some history would you ?. Losing Königsberg to the Russians, is really a very minuscule price to pay for the greatest crimes in human history they have committed. In fact Germany should be very lucky to have paid such a extremely small price that does not even do justice to the despicable crimes they have committed against Russia. You need to seriously and honestly learn of what they did to Russia, let alone to the rest of Europe. One of the biggest crimes was to completely destroy one of the most beautiful cities in the world, *PETROGRAD/LENINGRAD/ST. PETERSBURG* and almost decimated the whole of its population. The Finns contributed to that heinous crime. Consider *Justice* not nationalism. This said, I wish you and yours a very happy rest of Ramadan.
brahim119 i really appreciate your nice behavior and nice comment which is representing your well education and good manners and attitudes. I am not defending Germany about what they have done to Europe in general but what I am saying is to return this German historical city as well as returning back what had Russian lost. Remember Russia nowadays is not Russia before 1990 in which many Pols cities also goes to Ukraine and other countries. Speaking about losing beautiful cities in WWII is also belonging to Germany which it has been unfairly taken from its many territories in Versailles treaty! Plus losing and winning wars doesn’t mean to lose territories but should justice appear when dealing with losers. Also Germany has been bombed by British. Imagine if the treaty of Versailles has been done against Russia and the victorious taken lands from Russia under excuses to build another country which is Poland! What will you do then! Again I am not defending German crimes but also not defending allies crimes in Germany at the same time. Ramadan Kareem brother
@@Jebbar.Mohammed _"its a German Land even those who are living there are reading German History and not counting themselves as Russians"_
The vast country of Russia comprises multiple languages, multiple religions, multiple ethnic groups, and multiple cultures. They all have the right to speak they own native languages, granted they also know the common Russian language, it's not different than many other multi-ethnic countries. As for the Germans in Kaliningrad, they have every right to preserve and speak their beautiful and rich German language. But the fact is that Königsberg is now Kaliningrad. The German wanted the _Lebensraum,_ by stealing other people's land after massacring them, they gambled and they lost and it's time to adjust the clock.
Danke,gut video.
Многие здания, разрушенные войной, восстановлены к 2023 году. Город стал более красивым. На этом видео 13 лет назад этих домов еще нет.
Oh, in Polizeipräsidium (Советский проспект 7) ich habe bis 2013 gearbeitet 😂 und meine Alma Mater war Technische Uni❤ das alles ich hie gesehen habe ❤
It's time for all Germans,Poles and Russians living in Konigsberg to unite and struggle to get back their lands in former German Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia etc. and Polish Kresy.
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Es ist Zeit für alle Deutschen, Polen und Russen in Königsberg zu vereinen und zu kämpfen, um wieder ihre Ländereien in ehemaligen deutschen Schlesien, Pommern, Preußen usw. und polnischen Kresy.
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To jest czas dla wszystkich Niemców, Polaków i Rosjan mieszkających w Królewcu, aby zjednoczyć i walczyć, aby odzyskać swoje ziemie w byłej Niemieckiej Śląska, Pomorza, Prus itd. i polskiej Kresów.
***** so basicly you are proposing another war.....none of the countrys will give current teritory, at least i would not let poles occupy 1/3 of my country again ! ... now that i think about it Putin did the same shit in crimea and does in east UKR as poles did in 1920 to Lithuania
Is war the only solution for getting back the lands?
We had war before i.e. both world wars to get more territory but instead of gaining it, many millions were forcefully expelled from their homelands. Not only in Europe even India and Pakistan after Independence had suffered the same by partition.
So why war? Why not do it peacefully?
***** well in case of Germany yes they lost land not in a fair way...how ever since Germany lost the war and basicly because of Germany all Europe was in ruins they had to pay somehow so lets say it was a punishment, BUT if you take my country Lithuania Poland has no rights to that land that it took in 1920 and held until 1939 ... so like hell they do not deserve nothing back. On the matter of UKR i cant say 100% exactly as i dont know the background on what was going in UKR at the time, but i do know that communists attaked Poland so i gues same rules apply as to Germany, Poland has the right to west UKR
If that is the case then why Germany has to take the blame when it was the mistake of Adolf Hitler?
Why civilians had to take the blame for the mistake of that one evil person who was so hungry for power that at the end, Germans had no say? Why not he only should pay the price and why civilians?
Another thing is that Germans and Poles living in former eastern territories are not full Germans. Many are descended from Silesians, Prussians, Poles etc. even in their culture, arts etc. do you find these elements.
So they also have the rights, ain't they?
***** well its not me who makes these rules of war, victor allways walks away with the prize, BUT i think you are confusing one crutial moment :) ok you say its hitler - one man, but you dont think how he got to the point where he took everything, so in that sense germans elected him, they gave him power so i would say all Germany has a part of the blame. Good exemple Musolini, wher italians were pissed about him going to war and shit so they hung him and beat the life from him, but germans sat there and did nothing about Hitler and so war went on. So i gues as they say germans had this comming. Personaly i dont thing this is right, but since Germany did not have money to pay war reperations, teritorry was a good payment.
Actualy now seeing this cool video I see some old landmarks were actualy rebuilt or reconstructed. It seams that the most destroyed part of the city was along the waterfront and that hasnt been repaired after the war...
congratulations good work
Great Work! Thanks a lot. Sbashiba to Königsberga!
Not as bad as i expected
Very interesting.
bei manchen Häusern, die noch stehen hat man es nicht mal nach 70 Jahren geschafft ein historisches Dach zu bauen.... ein paar Bauern
Although the Konigsberg didn't exist in the earth,due to Eular and Kant,this city will never be forgotten forever!
hopefully soon Königsberg will be German again...
BUT DON´T WORRY THE RUSSIAN ARE ALLOWED TO STAY THERE IF THEY WANT TO
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What web-design can do is fantastic!
I wonder if people would be given a chance to choose wether to stay a part of russia or be a part of Germany again ... i wonder what would they choose
***** exactly my point :) ... economical reasons :) + it would piss off putin :D ... however it should be done with a free will :)
sadly after the war all germans were thrown out of their homes without their belongings and sent as refugees to germany
To stay in Russia! The Germans left in the last months of the war and the Soviet Union imported a new population from east of the Urals. Read your history before asking rhetorical questions.
Сейчас построили на том же месте где она и была очень красивую синагогу.
Well done!
I can't understand why the Oblast of Kaliningrad was left as an exclave to Russia instead of been given To Poland or Lithuania or stayed as a german exclave. I read somewhere of a project to rebuild the downtown as it was :)
Neither Poland nor Lithuania wanted Kaliningrad, Khrushchev actually did offer Kaliningrad to Lithuania but they refused; and the german government was worried because Britain, France and Italy didn't fully support german reunification, so, pushing the claim over Kaliningrad would have alienated the western europeans powers.
Nice vid, but what about the Castle. Are there still moose in the forest. Do people still fly gliders at the dunes. That city got a makeover from hell. It use to be beautiful..
The castle is no more. The communist soviets thought it would be a great idea to destroy the last remaining walls and tower and on top of that, build an ugly as heck building that isn't even being used. No wonder everyone hated the soviet union.
@@prussianeagle1941 Коммунисты лучше чем фашисты
Königsberg war schön, das was auf den Trümmern errichtet wurde hat eher Toiletten Charakter.
Где ты живешь там туалет. Сталин гут, Гитлер капут
Synagogue wider gebaut
Anche Istria fu italiana da sempre.
Give east Prussia back to Germany 🇩🇪
With Polish-German border on The Elbe
Der FSB wurde zum 75. Jahrestag der Gründung der Region freigegeben und an die Regionalarchive übergeben.
Die Gräueltaten der Deutschen werden in Gang gesetzt.
Ein wesentlicher Teil der veröffentlichten Dokumente zeugt von den Verbrechen der deutschen Nationalsozialisten gegen die Gefangenen der Lager. Auf dem Gebiet Ostpreußens gab es fast fünfzig Lager (auch für Kriegsgefangene), von denen sich 17 in Königsberg befanden.
Insbesondere monströse Gräueltaten wurden von den Deutschen im ostpreußischen Zweig des Konzentrationslagers Stutthof, einer großen "Todesfabrik", begangen.
Das Lager Stutthof, fünfzig Kilometer von der polnischen Stadt Danzig entfernt, wurde am 2. September 1939, einen Tag nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs, gegründet. Hitlers Ärzte verwendeten Gefangene als Testpersonen in ihren Experimenten und stellten Seife aus menschlichem Fett her. Ein Stück solcher Seife wurde später bei den Nürnberger Prozessen als Beispiel für die Wildheit der Nazis gezeigt. Stutthof hatte mehrere Dutzend Niederlassungen auf dem Gebiet des polnischen Pommern, Ostpreußens und Ostpommerns.
Die brutalen Massaker an den Deutschen gegen die Zivilbevölkerung werden in einer Sonderbotschaft erwähnt, die von Oberst Isaac Iofis verfasst wurde, der vom Volkskommissariat für innere Angelegenheiten der UdSSR für die 43. Armee autorisiert wurde und an den NKWD gerichtet ist, der für die 1. Baltische Front, den für Sicherheit zuständigen Kommissar Ivan, zuständig ist Tkachenko (der später den Regimedienst des ersten sowjetischen Unternehmens zur Gewinnung von Plutonium für Atomwaffen in der Stadt Tscheljabinsk-40, heute Ozersk, leitete).
Wie Iofis berichtete, wurden am 15. Februar 1945 in der Nähe der Stadt Kumenen in Ostpreußen über hundert brutal gefolterte Zivilisten - Russen, Juden, Franzosen, Rumänen - in einer Waldschlucht gefunden, und die Mehrheit der Getöteten waren Frauen von 18 bis 35 Jahren. In den Taschen einiger der Getöteten befand sich spärliches Essen - kleine Kartoffelknollen, Hafer, Weizenkörner und Becher, Tassen und Holzlöffel waren an ihren Gürteln festgebunden. Wie von einer Sonderkommission festgelegt, handelte es sich um KZ-Häftlinge. Es stellte sich heraus, dass alle von den Deutschen "während des hastigen Rückzugs der Deutschen unter dem Ansturm der Roten Armee" erschossen wurden.
Konigsberg for Coventry. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Königsberg für Coventry. Klingt für mich nach einem guten Handel
Wer es seinen Feinden gleich oder sogar noch schlimmer macht, kann sich nicht als besser und schon gar nicht als frömmer brüsten. 😑
Rest in peace hapustadt Von preußen
Yes, but they are not so such beautiful like it was... Unfortunately... But as for me, they are better than modern buildings!
Depressing and devastating.
@1975USSR many buildings was only damaged easy to rebuild but it did not happen were destroyed because was german(moskwa decision) and that is why city looks like only shadow of old konigsberg
Все претензии к Гитлеру
But the Synagogue has been rebuilt on the same spot.
My Papa Survived ww2 Germany..It was hell when the Bolsheviks did..😪😪😑..Never to Forget that...My Father came from Stettin/Vorpommern...
Совсем не многое, что осталось после бессмысленных бомбежек англичан. Фото сделаны до 2010 года. За 10 лет Калининград очень сильно изменился...
Que mentira los bombardeos fueron rusos sovieticos dejen de mentir
@@gisela43599 Aprende historia, no libros de propaganda y periódicos.
@@Vladimir77766 la historia la distorsiona \ud. no yo, yo conozco muy bien la historia. mi tia vivio en Koenigsberg el infierno desatado por los rusos alli, a nada comparable.
@@gisela43599 y 30 millones de rusos destruidos no es un infierno? Sí, los alemanes fueron desalojados sin piedad de Prusia Oriental, pero fueron desalojados, no fusilados. Y la aviación británica bombardeó Koenigsberg., No soviética. Tu tía no murió y pudo compartir sus recuerdos contigo, y dos de mis abuelos murieron en esa guerra.
Now goes better
Reclaim Koenigburg!!! Respect from the US.
The worst part is that Russia is Actually afraid to restorate .
Not true at all you clown 🤡
The new synagogue was actually rebuilt not so long ago
The police building is now fsb building
What amazing is KALININGRAD
Comments below make me think that time and mistakes did not change way of thinking of some people of west. Saying hello from Kaliningrad. We are always open for any type of "cooperation". But not online please.
Don't you mean hello Königsberg....
*Königsberg
Twangste
Former far east germany Konigsberg is like east Germany but even more controversial.
в целом не плохо!
Damn YT where are the star ratings at I was trying to give a 5* rating but YT had to change everthing.
but it's not right that castle was destroyed and built soviet's house....It has no sense.....
Was haben die Russen zu unsere schöne Stadt
The wind there still seems to be german
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А Синагогу построили на том же месте)
@koelschwolf
hello. i'll try. After Germany's defeat in World War I, under the pressure of winning countries (the U.S., France, United Kingdom), Germany was forced to cede some of its territories in the lower reaches of the river Vistula, plus 71-mile segment of the Baltic Sea to Poland, which thus has access to the Baltic sea and therefore isolated (at least in the land) the territory of East Prussia.
You are welcome!
You may want to add to your brief history course that the lands you mention were stolen by Prussia from Kingdom of Poland and only much later incorporated into Germany.
restore the oldest town