Karl Dönitz Speech to the German People - 1 May 1945
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- In his testament, Hitler made Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the Chief of the German Navy since 1943, his successor as President of the Reich.
Dönitz announced this via Radio during a Broadcast from May 1st, 1945, which was broadcasted from Hamburg.
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Subtitles made by me
When he did this speech, he had already ordered all units in the western front to start surrendering, so that the western allies could quickly occupy their zones in west germany. At the same time, he ordered those in the eastern front to resist firmly, to allow civilians and the state resources to go west germany. It had impact.
They really made it harder for the soviets huh
he really cares germany peoples future
And now West Germans View east Germans as rednecks cause they are underdeveloped in comparison what an irony
@@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug5884 They knew that the Soviets were much worse than the west
@@zwilder1Yes, cause they took over milion factory workers (soviets)under labour in Nazi Germany , Germans were tough to Soviets of course they would want to do the same thing that Nazis did to them
My date for the senior prom in Newport Beach , California was Grand Admiral Carl Doenitz’s grand-daughter. In 1965. She was beautiful. I was too young and stupid to ask her about her grandfather.
Some 16 odd years ago at New Plymouth Girls HS one of the overseas students was a Miss von Bismarck
...and about the same time a member of the Bridge Club was a Mr Bredow.,..related to the general murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.
Que depoimento impressionante!
She spoke English?
@@aaronbergeron9742 chinese, ofc - why asking? :)
He was incredibly blessed to even have a grand daughter. He lost 3 sons in that war.
At Doenitz’s war crimes trial a letter was sent from American commander in the Pacific Chester Nimitz saying that the charge against Doenitz of waging unrestricted naval warfare by submarine was what he had also done in the Pacific.
Then, both kriminals!
History is the polemic of the victor!
"There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm. They lack cotton, they lack wool, they lack petroleum products, they lack tin, they lack rubber, they lack a great many other things, all of which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in Japan. Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security."
-Gen MacArthur
Here we have Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces (and the highest authority over the IMTFE, which deemed Japan an aggressor nation) saying in no uncertain terms that Japan, in initiating hostilities, was exercising its right of self-defense. At this point I would very much like to say that this controversy has been settled once and for all. However, since there are some who remain unconvinced, I shall respond to their objections.
One argument that has come to my attention is that when MacArthur said that Japan’s purpose “in going to war was largely dictated by security,” he did not necessarily mean “national security.” But MacArthur was a military man; he could not have meant anything else but “national security” - the sort of security on which national survival hinges.
Another argument goes as follows: in his testimony MacArthur was not speaking on behalf of the US government, nor was he asked what caused war to break out between the two nations.
"Tokyo Tribunal of War
Criminals is the worst
hypocrisy of in the history
of mankind.
If the United States were in
the same situation as
Japan was in,
it would have fought the
same way.
The Japanese fought to
defend their country."
-US Major General
Charles Andrew Willoughby
So “security” is an excuse for murdering 25 million Chinese civilians, not to even mention civilians in Korea and the other countries Japan conquered? The reason why Japan would have lost their access to foreign goods is because of their aggression in Asia. The Japanese were just as bad as the Nazis. Your statement is stupid and uninformed.
Finally, a German who expresses himself perfectly in German and is easily understood even by non-native speakers who have studied German. Even the automatically generated subtitles in German faithfully reproduce his speech.
The subtitles are not auto-generated, but yeah Dönitz speaks pretty clearly because he has a very good Prussian accent (which has basically disappeared in modern Germany and everybody mumbles now, even Berliners.)
Goebbels also spoke very clearly.
Here's an example of Prussian accent:
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Yes I thought that too.
That’s what you get from this??? Perfect German?!?
No, in 1920-50 you had to speak loud and clear, rolling the r, to hear it also clear in a broadcast. This is we call Hochdeutsch, it is not an prussian dialect.
@@marclan9770 this german dude is right guys xd its not a prussian which has basically disappeared hööhöhöhööh
‘Hi, I’m Admiral Doenitz, your new leader, with a report on the situation.
Basically, we’re screwed. Details follow:’
I!!! DECLAAARE!!! BANK-wait, no--
I was 6 years of age when I listened with my mom to the original of this broadcast. I had, of course, no idea what was going on. But I remember that my mom was wheeping and sadly said: "And in the beginning everything went so well." She was not a Nazi, nor was my dad. Just a German woman betrayed and lied to by Hitler and his cohorts.
This is amazing 👏
Were you harmed by the Soviets?
Fascinating. Massive respect. Do you still live in Germany?
James P. O'Donnell described the end of this announcement as " Brahms faded into Bruckner ". Too bad we couldn't hear the music
So sad
Is Germany better now????? I don't think so is Europe I don't think so !
The first official to announce the beginning of the Cold War!
excellent remark.
I found it very interesting that most of Donitz's remarks were directed against the Soviet Union rather than against the western Allies. This might explain why he eventually personally surrendered to British forces at Flensberg.
They all did that at this time. Their focus was always on the east.
Maybe the reason is that German command never really wanted to fight with British or Americans.
They knew which ones were the kinder enemies!
Because the reality is they knew that the British and the Americans were good people who believed they were fighting for a good cause. The Germans before the war never wanted to fight these countries but to help them realise what would happen if the Bolsheviks had their victory. Sadly they did have their victory and the west has become a pit of degeneracy for it.
@@the21herald this is why he speaks of “being impeded” by the Brits and Americans, this two-front war is holding us back from focusing on our real target. A lot of German leadership even had the naive idea America would come join them to finish Russia off, which if it had been up to General Patton probably would have happened.
A late friend told me that decades ago he was a merchant seaman and had arrived at Hamburg and the ships crew were in a dockside pub. All of a sudden a scouse sailor stood up and pointed at a large picture on the wall of Gunter Prien and said “that’s my mate, that is” and then told the Germans how as a young sailor early in the war he was on a merchant ship which was stopped by Prien, everyone was ordered on to a life raft and giving provisions, then Prien sank the merchant ship and radioed the life rafts position. My friend said the Germans then bought them drinks all night.
Gunter Prien? Didn't he 🤨 sink a battleship 🤔?
@@aaroncourchene4384 Yes, the Royal Oak. Went into Scapa Flow to do it, as I recall.
@Peter Weber oh screw off. Americans and British individuals did bad things as it was war, but to accuse the American and British sailers as being worse?? Ever heard of unrestricted submarine warfare?
Don't play the innocent kriegsmarine card. They were soldiers; they did bad things.
@Peter Weber oh, they followed the Kommandobefehl too? Interesting
@Peter Weber Unlucky LOL
"Also ... hier ist die Telefonnummer von General Eisenhower, hier ist das Englische für "wir geben auf", und hier ist eine Analyse unserer militärischen Situation in einem groben Wort."
"Yeah, but . . . heil ME, right??"
"Also hätten sie mir wohl kaum die Stelle gegeben, als alles sehr gut lief!"
Who are you quoting?
@@crispnhollow7300 Mitchell and Webb, The New Führer.
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May 1st, 1945, was a very newsworthy day. Thanks for all the great radio history!
Very clear and well spoken German.
a murderer and war criminal you mean?
Thank you, german, to mainstand the Red threat, "thank you". 😪🙄🙄🙄🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
It's almost like he's German and it's his mother language?
@@isaacjones1211 he was a naval admiral so he wasn't all that bad
@@rustyshackelford4613 lol I was just going to say that
I know his grand daughter personaliy randomly. just met her on a party and shes still having the same surname. So surreal
A pity she survived
Some 15 + years ago, one of the German overseas students at New Plymouth Girls High NZ was a von Bismarck.... and interestingly... one member of the local Bridge club was related to General Ferd. von Bredow.
3:01 Well considering the Cold War right after the end of WWII, he wasn’t wrong…
I'm sure he's right.
Neither was Patton.
The Cold War began with Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton.After the victory of the Soviet Union, many peoples supported the Communist parties of their countries.And this had to be stopped.I do not think that the victory of the Soviet Union over the enemy, who literally wanted to exterminate all the peoples who lived in eastern Europe, is something wrong.
He knew what was next
As an amateur historian of World War II events, I did not care much for the Admiral, mainly because he was so damn good at his job. His U-boats sank a lot of allied shipping. It wasn't until I heard this speech(broadcast) that I realized Hitler in his drugged condition actually made a good decision by appointing the Admiral as his successor.
Who else? Goering was a useless junkie, Himmler had attempted to make peace with the Allies separately, Goebbels was about to commit suicide.
Why would you think he was drugged? Because those hobby historians told you so?
@@tmijacev7776 No because the professional Historians have documentation from the time.
Almost as if he cares about Germany
@@tmijacev7776 he was drugged because he'd grown ill and weak.
No disrespect intended to all who suffered and died in that dreadful war but Admiral Doenitz spoke beautiful German: every word is clearly articulated and easy to understand, unlike
the harsh, jarring tones of most Nazis.
I corresponded with him in the 1980's. He should never have been considered a war criminal.
@@stevemartin6144 too true he was a man of honour.
@@stevemartin6144 what were you talking about?
Yes, he sounds incredibly poetic.
Listen also to the interview with Erich Remarque, clear and intelligent.
I am reading now his own documentation and notices during the complete war. I have visited his grave 3 times near Hamburg,where his 2 sons, his wife and him self are laying. I can say that he was an excellent navy officer and took care all the times of his solders.
He was also a devouted member of the NSDAP not for pragmatic reasons, a known antisemite who kept onto his believes until the very end of his life and he was very aware of the holocaust since he was at the Poznanspeeches. He deserved his 10 year sentence.
@Tom Sistermans yall been acting like there Germans were the only ones who did those stuff. And when someone tells on allied war crimes yall just say its war and anything happens.....
@@dagadag5599 I'd rather not argue with nazis but you're missing the point entirely. I'm not talking good on war crimes of others like this, I disapprove of Churchil as well for what he did to the Benghali people, or Arthur Harris for his ineffective and apocalyptic bombing of German cities to little or no effect. Actual historians also discuss this, but they are also very aware of the fact that you have war crimes and the systematic destruction of a people. There's no reason to look up to Dönitz, he knew exactly what was going on in the death camps and what he was actually fighting for. And he did it until the very end, even after the monster who orchestrated this had killed himself in Berlin. If you're really thinking you are the nuanced one here, you're not. If you believe that the argument you're making is good faith, many have gone before you, and almost every single one of them was a nazi, and those who weren't, were too stupid to understand that they echo the words said by the most disgusting human beings on this planet.
@@TomSistermans We love Karl Dönitz !
@@TomSistermans slight correction Karl donitz was never a member of the nsdap
wow. finally i understand why they carried on fighting in the face of inevitable defeat
I've never heard this before. Interesting. Surprisingly reasonable, given the need to at least speak in the idiom the audience was so long used to. Still acknowledged that the fight now was to preserve something short of total ruin, to hold together and prevent complete social collapse, and so on. Far cry from the rhetoric out of Berlin until almost the last minute.
One has to wonder what the invasion of France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway, and the air offense against England, and the sea war in the Atlantic, has to do with fighting Bolshevism.
@@JanBruunAndersen Im not sure if you are aware but GB and France declared war on Germany. Hitler was only interested in East. Offensive into North was to prevent GB from landing in Norway and cutting out Swedish ore from getting to Germany.
@@tobifisher5622 Bah. The Polish border was guaranteed. Hitler knew attacking it meant war. He started the war. Saying otherwise is just silly. Declare war? He never declared war ( but see below). Of course his victims would declare war upon him.
So, it is all the fault of those who presumed to not let Hitler take what he wanted.
There was a plan fora new order in Europe, not just the east.
Triva question: In his whole career, Hitler did actually declare war on one country. Which?
@@tobifisher5622 He was interested in the East for terrible reasons -- because he wanted to create "lebensraum" for Germany. This is pure evil. Anyways, Poland wasn't Bolshevik. Nor was any other country that he invaded in the East besides the USSR.
@@hoodatdondar2664 the US, no?
It is interesting too see the other side of war
It’s kinda interesting seeing the contrast between the portrayal of the Soviets vs. Americans/British. Almost implying not fully at war with Americans or at least that both sides are at war for reasons other then stopping Germany.
They saw themselves as fighting a necessary war against the Soviet’s which by extension caused them to be in a war against Britain, france, and the US.
And that little speech is what got him 10 years in lock up.
I'm surprised Doenitz would speak of Hitler in such heroic terms, long after the war had long been lost.
"Stayin alive" ... "stayin alive" ... Doenitz is Stayin alive....
Still a lot of tree decorations happening in Germany May 1945.
Believe it or not, there was a certain respect for Hitler by the Germans and the German Armed Forces.
This broadcast was made during the Flensburg Government, the interim administration between the death of Hitler on 30 April and its final dissolution by the Allies on 5 June. Even if Doenitz had not admired Hitler he would have been unlikely to have spoken of him in less than respectful terms during such a period.
To the end they fantasized the US, UK, would enter into alliance with them against the USSR. In the end they got that, but on Anglo-American terms.
Yeah, meanwhile, the USSR treated the Germans on a more equal partnership.
The Cold War wasn’t really anything substantial, the Germans were the only ones to slug it out openly and on a full industrial and military scale with the Soviet Union
He passed away in 1980.
My brother has a personally contact with Dönitz. After my brother's dead by suicide I received personal condolences from Dönitz. In my opinion Dönitz was an upright man who received the minimal sentence for innocent people.
Except he wasn't innocent.
He was a criminal .
@@michaelrudzick9038 Those are probably based upon fraudulent information.
Hail to his death! He and Hitler are now preparing for their forever party with satan in hell.
@@TRUECEL14 No
Dönitz' rump reich is kind underrated as he tried to buy time to evacuate much civilians as possible from hands of the Soviets. Ironically, Churchill also helped him in his efforts indirectly by insisting Eisenhower to keep his goverment alive. He even considered recognizing it for smooth transistion of power, and someone to be useful incase Soviets does more incursion towards to west and attacks Western Allies.
There is good and bad in everyone.
78 years since then what's the results of all this ?
2:55
I am a Cantonese native speaker and I only started learning German after turning adult. I always wondered how interpreters translate such sentence instantly.
"Die Angloamerikaner setzen dann den Krieg nicht mehr für ihre eigenen Völker, sondern allein für die Ausbreitung des Bolschewismus in Europa, fort."
You can only guess that the verb is "fortsetzen" before the long sentence is finished. And I think in a normal, more informal speech, the verb prefix "fort" should be placed just after "Völker" instead at the very end of the sentence?
As well as the first sentence of the announcer.
"Aus dem Führerhauptquartier wird gemeldet, dass unser Führer, Adolf Hitler, heute Nachmittag in seinem Befehlsstand in der Reichskanzlei bis zum letzten Atemzuge gegen den Bolschewismus kämpfend, für Deutschland gefallen ist."
"gefallen" is at the very end of the sentence. Imagine that the interpretor will have to guess that he died while interpreting it in English. But maybe it's possible to put "have fallen" or "died" at the end of an English sentence too.
German native and linguist here.
You can only guess that the verb is "fortsetzen" before the long sentence is finished. And I think in a normal, more informal speech, the verb prefix "fort" should be placed just after "Völker" instead at the very end of the sentence?
At least for me there is difference in register between the two sentences. Both are equally well-formed. However I tend to say that your version is probably the one which would be produced more frequently in spontaneous discourse, which is probably related to psycho-linguistic factors i.e. parsing.
As for the guessing part: For a German native it is quite easy to "guess", as "setzen" as opposed to "fortsetzen" has a different valency, i.e. it requires not only a direct object (as does fortsetzen) but also a prepositional phrase. Unfortunately, I am not very knowledgeable in the domain of psycholinguistcs, but I would guess that they ran some experiments on that. Maybe google for particle verbs.
"gefallen" is at the very end of the sentence. Imagine that the interpretor will have to guess that he died while interpreting it in English. But maybe it's possible to put "have fallen" or "died" at the end of an English sentence too.
Since German is a verb final language in subordinate clauses and English an SVO language, the interpreter will have to wait (unless he translates to Old English).
It is a common problem while interpreting from german. As with the latin, the verb is at the bottom of any sentence. You have to wait the end of the sentence, before to get it, so basically you're always one sentence behind.
Guessing is dangerous.
Or you go literally, and translate like "in his headquarter in Berlin, after fighting to the last breath, our führer, has fallen".
You need to be a good interpreter.
"Ich sehe einen fernen ferneseher fern". "Drei hundert ein und zwanzig". German sentences are sometimes built with utter disregard of the natural sequential order, and it takes great practice, if you're not a native speaker, to manage it.
I once heard that at international conferences, simultaneous interpreters are most nervous when a German steps up to the lectern. This is because in German the verb only comes at the end of a sentence, in the case of nested sentences even a cluster of verbs, and of course because of the "two-part" verbs, which, just like compound nouns, exist in English as well, but which then aren't sliced in half. However, some of this is also considered bad style today, such as forming overlong sentences or separating the verb suffix from the main clause by inserting a subordinate clause. (Of course, native speakers like me can often guess from context and voice pitch which verb is coming). In the mentioned example "fort" today would come before the Anglo subordinate clause. In the German "radio style", verbs are not divided either, but this is mostly limited to the military radio operation and telegrams, which hardly exist any more.
@@ilmaio Well, in English the "natural order" is also shaken when you think of "fourteen" as a numerical example, and I haven't yet started to write about French numbers. 😂
Im Kampf gefallen ist means Hitler died in the fight with enemy... not saying Hitler committed suicide.
Is there an English translation of this anywhere?
Just turn on Subtitles.
@@GermanWWIIArchive You have to say click the CC when you hover the mouse arrow at the bottom right of the video.
You can read it in the transcript.
Click the small arrow in the upper right hand corner.
It will lead to the description and transcript.
2:29 Subtitle typo: Should be "save" instead of "safe"
O göring gibi makam için talepte bulunmadı, büyük amiral....
Savaş Kaybedilmesine rağmen savaş kazanılmış gibi gururlu konuşan insanlardı Almanlar mücadelelerinin doğru olduğuna oldukça eminlerde
Well observed.
As a historian for 58 years, I can appreciate the Admiral's deep concern for the German people, especially those facing the devastating Bolshevik onslaught from the East.
There r 2 things I disagree with n this speech---the Admiral calling Hitler's death an 'heroic death," and the Western Allies being accused of forcing Germany to keep fighting. But the Admiral has had only 1 day to assess, get command, and make critical decisions. I feel his main objective at this point was to try stopping Bolsheviks advance deeper into Germany.😂
The funniest part is that Doenitz praises Hitler in this speech but he knew that Hitler would've absolutely despised him for surrendering. Hitler wanted no surrender, not even surrenders of individual divisions to the Western Allies. When Goering tried to do the same thing Doenitz did but before Hitler's death, he was declared a traitor to the Reich.
"My fist task is to save german people from the annihilation by the advancing by the Bolshevism enemy. Only for this goal the military fight goes on. As far as long the fulfillmentis being impeded by British and Americans, we will nave to continue defending and fighting against them " If this speech had been made at least year earlier (but while Hitler had the power it could not be done) and if the Allies had accepted a truce (which, after all, was also suitable for them) things would have been different.
You are either a Neo-Nazi or simply stupid to believe that. Western Allies were categorical that in light of Nazi atrocities there would be no truce or any sort of negotiation with the criminal, genocidal Nazi regime, Germans were to surrender unconditionally and Nazis were to be eradicated.
No truce. Better to just smash the Nazis. And take as much of Europe as possible, to save it from the Soviets. Maybe cut off aid to the ussr to slow their advance.
Truman wanted to. But, he was not at Yalta, and FDR thought there would be sunny peace in earth. Oh well.
The thing that would have been different is that Germany would still be degenerate fascists.
A truce let’s the Holocaust continue. The Soviets were bad but they weren’t creating a mass production like of death like the Nazis were. They fell in ‘91. The deed is done regardless.
You must realise that the US/ the west would not accept anything short of complete surrender from the Germans by then.
Superb speech.
Imagine being the leader of what was ones the biggest military, for only 8 days. In the worst times ever.
Dönitz verloren beide Söhne in diesem Krieg.
Und die Eltern der U-Boot-Besatzungen?
gut
Klaus-Dieter Koch
Er selbst schickte unzählige in den Tod , er war Täter hat den Nazis bereitwillig gedient ! Und wie er hier noch 7. Tage vor der Kapitulation seinem "Führer" Ehrerbietung erweist sagt alles - Ein Heuchler !
Gut so. Er war zu feige selbst an vorderster Front zu fallen
@@rognvaldr5607 Er fuhr im 1. Weltkrieg zunächst selbst auf einem Schlachtkreuzer und später selbst im U-Boot.
Dass ein hochrangiger Admiral an vorderster Front fällt, ist nicht wirklich zu erwarten, da er administrative Aufgaben hat.
Einer seine Söhne starb an Bord eines U-Bootes, der andere während des Einsatzes auf einem Schnellboot.
Man kann ihm sicher vorwerfen, ideologisch verblendet gewesen zu sein und auf der falschen Seite gestanden zu haben, aber Feigheit sicher nicht. Und diese Doppelmoral heutiger Politiker auch nicht.
Oder denke an diesen ehemaligen Botschafter der Ukraine in Deutschland, Melnyk. Während junge Männer in der Ukraine ihr Leben oder ihre körperliche Unversehrheit an der Front verlieren, fährt sein 20-jähriger Sohn im Porsche in Berlin herum... Aber der Kerl fordert Waffen, um den Krieg weiter zu führen und am liebsten hätte er auch noch deutsche Soldaten. Aber sein Sohn muss nicht... Sollen sie doch mit eigenem Beispiel voran gehen. Das gilt natürlich auch für die verantwortlichen Kriegstreiber auf russischer Seite.
Was he then referred to as Fuhrer? Or was that for Hitler alone?
Only Hitler was called "Führer". Dönitz was simply Reichskanzler.
No, he wasn't. Nobody ever mentioned him.
Karl Donitz was referred to as Reich President while he was head of the Flensburg Government.
Hitler had been both president and chancellor, Doenitz was just president.
The "rank" or "institution" of "Der Führer" includes being both, President and Prime Minister at the same time. Hitler specifically split these two apart in his testament, Dönitz was only proposed by him as President, J. Goebbels was to become Prime Minister, but he killed himself, thus there was none. So Dönitz was only "Reichspresident". Besides this, the Reichspresident had to be elected directly by the Geman people (Hitler was in 1933), that never happened to Dönitz, so it is questionable whether he was a "legal" Reichspresident anyway.
Very interesting listening to his public perspective on the war at this time and it's focus exclusively on Bolshevism
Das ist nicht Stimme von Dönitz.
Today is 1st May 2023 :D
78th year
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Que l amiral donnitz repose en paix et que les morts pour la grande Allemagne reposent en paix ce sublime et grandiose pays.
Jaime l'Allemagne pour sont état d esprits et ça culture et son éthique.
Et les 60 millions de morts de la 2eme guerre mondiale
French and german brothers ❤
Subtitles please!
just enable it in the settings
no really needed. I don't speak german and english is not my native language, yet he speaks so clearly that it can be perfectly understood.
The capital of the movement was not Berlin, but Nuremberg.
This speech was given on the day Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide together.
Molto commovente. Un vero Tedesco.
Na vera merda
Si, hai detto la verità! Un vero tedesco come non ci piaciono!
Before my time, but sounds more human, not a monster, maybe why Churchill was so scared of the U-boat war.
He was a monster.
Churchill scared ?? Silly.
to all of the commentors that keep saying how perfect Donitz's german is...give it a rest...he was German. What did you expect it to sound like? French?
Who said that?
@@brazzo975 everyone?
yepp, but nevertheless, very clear German. Not with a rhineland subtone as Goebbels or whatever subtone it ever was in the case of the GröFaZ...
I'm tearing
Trotz allem eine gute Rede! Die armen Menschen damals, auf allen Seiten.
Es waren vor allem Lügen, die dieser Nazi verbreitet hat.
Leider kann ich die Antwort nicht sehen.
Und wie er da steht: wie 'ne Eins - mit seiner Flöte! Man mag gar nicht mehr wegsehen... Es war doch eine schöne Zeit...
saying that Hitler "gefallen ist" (has fallen) is quite a stretch when you consider, he put a bullet in his head.
so yes, Dönitz was loyal. when it comes to praising him and his death as a hero's death.
I am amazed and shocked, but well it 2023 so I'm more head-shakenly amazed, how misunderstood this speech - at least the very first parts of it - can be.
Also he was sitting in his sofa when he pulled the trigger. He didn't fall much...
german civilians: what
allies: *EPIC GAMING MONTAGE*
el gran almirante
Flensburg-23.05.1945 real kapitulazion.
Spat some bars
Was man ihnen lassen muss: damals stand einer für den anderen ein, man hat sich zusammengehörig gefühlt. Und es gab noch ein Gefühl von deutsch-sein und deutscher Kultur (gab es ja auch schon vor dem nationalsozialismus) das es so heute nicht mehr gibt, das sich verliert und das man aus der heutigen Zeit heraus vielleicht nur noch diffus spüren kann wenn man durch solche Videos zurückblickt. Das deutsche drückt sich hier auch etwas aus an der „Ordnung und Disziplin“ die aufrecht erhalten werden sollen, die Zusammengehörigkeit an „euer Weg ist auch mein Weg“.
Deutsche Kultur: Konzentrationslager für Juden, Homosexuelle und politisch andersdenkende? Denunziation durch Blockwarte und Nazis, wenn jemand nicht „spurte“? Führen eines brutalen Krieges ohne Rücksicht auf die Zivilbevölkerung, siehe Leningrad? Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl oder Angst vor Repressalien? Ordnung und Disziplin: die Menschen wurden gewaltsam gehindert rechtzeitig zu fliehen! jeder schaute, wie er über die Runden kam, um nicht zu verhungern. DAS IST DIE DEUTSCHE ‚KULTUR‘, VON DER SIE SCHREIBEN, DAS ANDERE IST DIE REALITÄT VERWEIGERNDE ROMANTIK.
Es sei denn man war ein "falscher" Deutscher, also Jude, Freikirchler, Homosexuell usw. Dann stand irgendwie keiner mehr für einen ein. Oder wie die ganze Bagasche da dann Kinder an die Front geschickt hat, damit diese für sie einstehen, sie selbst aber natürlich in ihren Bunkern saßen.
„Wird uns der Herr Gott nach so viel Leid und Opfern nicht verlassen“
Zusammengehörigkeit? Mag sein, dass es das gab - solange man nicht jüdisch, Kommunist, Sozialdemokrat, Christ, homosexuell, ein Anhänger englischer Musik, ein systemkritischer Künstler oder sonst etwas war, was einen Milimeter vom Einheitsbrei abwich. Und auch so war das Gerede von der "Volksgemeinschaft" immer nur hohles Geschwätz für die Masse. Glaubst du, dass die korrupten Parteibonzen, die sich zwölf Jahre lang die Taschen mit Volksvermögen vollgestopft haben, auch nur einen feuchten Fu*z auf "Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl" gegeben haben? "Zusammengehörigkeit" hieß bei den Nazis immer: Macht, was euch gesagt wird, und haltet die Klappe.
Nun Patriotismus ist das eine..... Nationalismus das andere. Das Eine liebt schlicht sein Land, Region, Stadt....Fußballmannschafft herrgott.... das Andere stellt sich über alles, was nicht es selbst ist.
Und wenn du meinst diese Personen (Hitler und co.) seien Patrioten gewesen, dann geht aber gehörig etwas verquer! Die haben Deutschland verheizt und bis heute geschädigt! Ähnlich wie Stalin, Mao, der Honecker oder aber Putin und Xi heute. Wir waren stark (wirtschaftlich, wissenschaftlich, militärisch.... militärisch hätte das auch ohne die verblödeten Nazis geklappt...ohne Krieg) und nun?
Ich hoffe ich verstehe dich da nicht falsch...aber von Patriotismus zu sprechen, wenn es um solche Zeitdukumente mit den entsprechenden Leuten geht, das geht schlicht nicht zusammen!
I'm happy to be a Swiss and speak German, French, Italian and English.
im going to steal all swiss gold.
Die Schweiz hat mit den Nazis Geschäfte gemacht und das Raubgold gekauft. Devisenquelle Schweiz...
You should be even happier your country did not take part in the 2 World Wars. Mine, Greece did despite trying to remain neutral. And as many Greeks I never new my Grand Fathers.
Cmon. How about translating to English?
Turn on closed captions.
How about read the introduction?
Was he arrested?
Yes, 10 years.
Ich bin ein Berliner
You're a gobshite.
ich auch Bruder
Ich bin ein Krapfen
Actually it's "I am a jelly donut".
The broadcast announced that Hitler died fighting against Bolshevism. That was implying to the German public that Hitler did not commit suicide but sort of died because of a soviet rocket that hit his HQ.
obviously it was a lie but they weren't going to tell that to the German populace
The end of one war and the start of the next, "the cold war"
English subtitles please.
There is this thing called "subtitles on" on the lower right part of the video. If it does not switch to english subtitles go the icon beside that one and choose automatic translation. There choose "English".
Karl Meier alter Lügner
Ah.....
They didn't want to be fighting the west, they just wanted to fight Bolshevism. We'll, imagine that.
Wer hier von uns allen hat das Recht über Dönitz zu richten? Harte und grausame Zeiten formen Menschen wie ihn selbst. Was haben wir heute für seelenlose Weicheier unter uns? Also,ganz ruhig mit euren Urteilen. Beurteilt zuerst euch selbst!
Live the Victory!
Which victory? The victory of Stalingrad, 1943?
@@hanspeterpluss1338 allied victory, 1945
"Hoite Nachmittach..."
Der Ausputzer, der Verlegenheitskandidat, bei dem man den Bockmist vor der Tür ablädt, bevor man sich diskret verabschiedet. Unwahrscheinlich, dass er ganz aufgeklärt wurde über das Erbe, das man ihm hinterlassen hatte - wozu denn noch?
Donitz was just a sailor.
No
Nice speech
ICH finde die Antwort ganz richtig !
Good news
True hero
apart from all his crimes against humanity and service to a terrible and oppressive regime
@@breakfaust what crimes? Evacatuing civilians from east prussia? Or torpedoing supply ships which are fully aware of the war and danger?
@@breakfaust Dönitz was not a saint, but he was definitely better than the vast majority of his peers.
@@darklysm8345 his service to an oppressive and terrible regime
@@Fabi-es1xy people like Oskar Schindler, John Rabbe, and Karl Plagge definitely prove that some Nazis can be good people. Doenitz however, well he admitted that he was a massive antisemite.
Für euch Banausen immer noch Großadmiral !
Ein Heuchler.
Genau !!!
Von der flotte war eh nicht mehr so viel übrig
😭😭😭😭😭😭
SUMMARY: "Guys, this is the second World War in a row we lost. Yep. And if you thought the Treaty of Versailles was tough, wait'll the Soviet Union takes East Prussia and makes East Germany communist."
He served the regime.
I do wonder : what would he have done if the coup in 1944 had succeeded?
Tried to stay out of the way as the SS and elements of the regular army fought one another, pushing the death toll of the conflict ever higher.
@@septimiusseverus343 I suppose. Navy a good place for that, too.
Also, das mit der Bolshevik stimmt einiges
Was denn?
@@Mostrichkugel die gefahr
Ich bin schockiert. Möge er in Frieden ruhen.
Schockiert?
Doenitz used the term reserved for combat deaths when referring to Hitler 'gefallen'. But the official word he got from Berlin was for noncombat deaths. He knew Hitler had shot himself but he didn't say it or even imply it. This is mainly because in christian doctrine for reasons that make no sense suicide is a sin and cowardly. In Antiquity it was different. Then it was viewed as brave to choose this to the humiliation of capture. Christian doctrine is so weird.
It's very interesting to hear him say that Hitler "died fighting for Germany until his last breath", even though in reality Hitler had killed himself in a room alone with nobody but his wife.
Its propaganda
Wirklich??? What abour Vatikan and Argentina?!!😮
@@b.med.34 the Pope is Argentinian
Considering the date of the broadcast, it would be difficult to find words that were any emptier. The Germans were no longer going to be fighting Bolsheviks or anyone else. The sole purpose of this speech was to buy time to allow the surviving armies to surrender to the Anglo-Americans, who would treat them humanely, rather than the Soviets, who most certainly would not. But Eisenhower saw through this gimmick and told them that he would brook no more delays and would cut off all western access if they didn't get with the program immediately.
Considering what the German fascist scüm did to Russia, the h1tlerite armies deserved a worse fate
Yeah, but what they didn't expect happened. That is, the west sent most German pows to the Soviets.
quite right
One for one lord haw haw aka Joyce had more listeners than schofield and norton combined even tho there manifestos get taught in schools
And then I realized that all my life I had been wrong about Hitler. It is pronounced "are-dolf" Hitler, not "add-olf" Hilter. We don't call Jesus by his real name, and we don't pronounce Adolf Hilter's name right. Why is that?
For the same reason we say 'Paris' instead of 'Paree'; foreign words and names in common usage are generally adapted to the local language.
@@Londonfogey ‘Hilter?”
It's not are-dolf, more ah-dolf, just not the ay sound.
Great speech ... if only the war was about stopping Bolshevism and NOT also taking care of a few other side issues Hitler didn't like.
Hitler did not mind making deals with Bolshevism.
You prefer Nazism?
Is exactly the same thing. Just replace worker class by race hierarchy.
@@luiz8755 right you are!
To the Nazis, Bolshevism and “Jewry” were intertwined. A non-racial war against the soviets was impossible given the national socialist ideology laid out years before the war
Ee hat viele Deutsche gerettet..danke
….The end
"Bis zum letzten Atemzug kämpfend..." 😂😂😂
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@@beastblox. it's funny, because he wasn't "fighting". He killed himself like the pathetic coward he was.
alleine "Der Führer ist kämpfend gefallen" welcher Hohn
Na er hat halt mit sich selbst gekämpft.
Du verstehst das nicht. :)
Naja. Was willst du erwarten. Er ist ja auch jahrelang der Propaganda ausgesetzt gewesen. Er hat sie quasi geatmet.
Da kommt man von jetzt auf gleich nicht raus. Für Menschen wie ihn war Hitler eben eine Art Held. Wobei es der Begriff Kultführer noch eher trifft.
Wir werden wahrscheinlich nie erfahren, ob er diese Geschichte damals selbst geglaubt hat oder ob er nur die Fassade aufrecht erhalten wollte.
A euphemism, but one did not speak openly of suicide at that time.
@@kreativkopf9363 heute sind wir auch der Propaganda ausgesetzt, Tag täglich.
@@mrtrizzle3653
Interpretieren kann man alles...
EHRENMANN !!!
Finde ich auch und bin Türke
Nazi Mann
Peter Gore Seer,
Donitz Announce On Video, On Brit TV, The German U-boats Never Use Coded Transmission All Were In German, I Was Flabbergast, No Enigma Just German. SO?.
1:58 - Sind wir Bolschewiki? 🤎
!!! 🤐
First off: I get the feeling that he didn't write that speech, it was probably prepared in advance. And also I feel Dönitz never wanted to become head of state. About the speech, there's a reference to "God, our Lord". The NS regime was atheistic, they not just tried to exterminate Jewish people, they also persecuted Catholics where some even died in the concentration camps (and where Pius XI wrote an encyclical named "Mit brennender Sorge"). So any reference to God would be something remarkable all things considered. And yes, I am aware of what is said about Hitler being engaged in some other form of mysticism.
They never persicuted the Catholic religion. Pure lies and nonsence.
@@occidentadvocate.9759 Father Maximilian Kolbe?? and Dietrich Bonhöffer??
This is modern day revisionism. Hitler often sought help from heaven in his speeches. He asked for God’s help during the invasion of Russia speech
Actually, the Nazi regime wasn’t atheistic at all. Hitler was a sort of Deist who openly frowned upon atheism. In his war speeches he references God many times. German soldiers had a belt inherited from the 2nd Reich which said « Gott mit uns » (God with us)
It was Pius who imposed thr fascists in Italia and "Mit brennender Sorge" was directed against the government in Spain and called Germany to support Franco.
göring, dönitz and speer and so forth were geniuses, they could hav won the war if it weren't for hitler's idiocy
Hitler's idiocy, along with his paranoia and hysteria, were exactly why he was so effective as a public speaker and politician. Fortunately those qualities have a self-defeating effect. We see that with today's leaders too.
thoroughly debunked myth