Germans arrested by US-Soldiers (SFP 186)

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  • German soldiers controlled and arrested by US-Troops. At 2:00 you can see a different point of view, both sides working hand in hand to extinguish a fire.
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Комментарии • 148

  • @jimlowe8511
    @jimlowe8511 4 года назад +190

    My father fought in the North Africa campaign and all through Italy. He said the British troops looked after ordinary German soldiers when they were captured with food and medical attention for their wounded but any SS they caught it was a different story, as they saw the results of SS handiwork and atrocities throughout Italy.

  • @oldman2800
    @oldman2800 4 года назад +296

    Such a terrible pathetic tragedy, both wars, so many loved ones lost to placate psychopathic ambitions and lunatic ideologies

  • @raymondginn8085
    @raymondginn8085 5 лет назад +231

    As a young boy, I remember passing several times by a German POW camp in West Helena, Ark. There were thousands of them, and many were working on road projects throughout the area. I sure they were glad to be out of the war. My Dad was a lead carpenter at an Army Hospital in Memphis, Tn and he had several POWs in his work party. He spoke highly of their work and to, my knowledge, never had a problem with them.

  • @joecool4656
    @joecool4656 5 лет назад +105

    My grandfather served in the navy in WWII. At some point his ship had to transport German prisoners and they were more that happy to be aboard and never started any trouble.

  • @jackiewilson8772
    @jackiewilson8772 5 лет назад +223

    No one really wins wars. It brings out the absolute worst in humanity. Even the 'good guys'.

  • @PRR5406
    @PRR5406 4 года назад +83

    My uncle told me, when they took German prisoners the first thing they made them do was take off their shirts and raise their arms. If they had an SS tattoo in the armpit, they were shot through the head, no questions asked. Regular army were allowed to dress, and got humane treatment.

  • @alanstrong3295
    @alanstrong3295 4 года назад +121

    The Americans took the captured Germans to the States and put em to work. The Soviet Russians took em to Siberia and other horrible places. Very few returned alive.

  • @joeguzman3558
    @joeguzman3558 8 лет назад +67

    My next door neibur was a german soldier in ww2 ,he tells me before they surrounded many soldiers used to dig holes and hid their valuables and their lugers ,probably thinking one day they could come back for it ,he tells me there's lot's of gold and expensive jewelry in the ground.

  • @richardbenitez7803
    @richardbenitez7803 4 года назад +44

    At some point in the war, i have often wondered if the German soldier was relived to be captured. I know they wanted to be captured by americans and not the Russians.

  • @jamesebola1250
    @jamesebola1250 5 лет назад +50

    One such captured German pulled a small hand gun from his boot and killed my uncle in 1945. Needless to say that was the last thing he did.

    • @chappie3642
      @chappie3642 5 лет назад +14

      He was an idiot, meaning the German soldier obviously

    • @rodgerarmstrong2464
      @rodgerarmstrong2464 5 лет назад +11

      Very sorry to read about your loose, clearly the German got the taste of Ebola...

  • @scdevon
    @scdevon 8 лет назад +297

    You can see that the German soldiers were worn out. Our boys looked well fed and calm.

  • @amogusman907
    @amogusman907 2 года назад +14

    My Great-grandfather was German and joined the French army,he survived.
    But died from old age,may he rest in peace.

  • @hughsmith4008
    @hughsmith4008 4 года назад +129

    This war should have never happened

  • @briandora
    @briandora 8 лет назад +463

    it was better they were captured by the Americans their fate would be a whole different story had it been Russians

    • @tanakoyumi6822
      @tanakoyumi6822 5 лет назад +25

      Yeah they had 2 choices, killed on the spot or tortuous prison lmao

    • @machinenkanone9358
      @machinenkanone9358 5 лет назад +32

      But Americans gave the Soviet Army almost half of the Germans that surrendered to them. Large groups were marshaled and marked "1" and "2".
      2 s went to the east.

    • @darthlazy7076
      @darthlazy7076 5 лет назад +21

      Basically they wouldn't have a story if they were captured by Russians

    • @xavierthomas4157
      @xavierthomas4157 5 лет назад +16

      Yes. The Soviet Union was pissed when Hitler betrayed them and started invading Russia so when they started invading German cities, you had a better likelihood of living if you had just abandon your home and fled before the Soviets got to you.

    • @WarReport.
      @WarReport. 5 лет назад +19

      They would be rebuilding Russia for the next ten years.

  • @brianjschumer
    @brianjschumer 6 лет назад +36

    My dad for a bit was stationed in Texas with 8AF, before going overseas..said German prisoners, regular (Whermacht)...glad war was over for them, once Rommel Afrika Corps prisoners, came in with some hidden SS- officers..the POW camps demeanor changed, even some suicides,which where never looked into.

  • @goldmanjace
    @goldmanjace 5 лет назад +101

    What I have learned from this clip: The americans had no firefighters!

  • @timlamb9428
    @timlamb9428 8 лет назад +75

    we were over all good to them and i've heard that many german soldiers looked for u.s. troops to surrender to. we gave them food, water, clothes, medical help etc. many germans i heard felt liberated by us.

    • @Bt26x
      @Bt26x Год назад +3

      Very true! At all cost they did not want to fall into Russian hands. They knew the Americans would take care of them. At least the average solider, not so sure about the SS…

  • @bearsasshairyarse1638
    @bearsasshairyarse1638 8 лет назад +57

    Great footage! Never seen this one before.

  • @martinjeffery3590
    @martinjeffery3590 6 лет назад +82

    Most German soldiers were just regular soldiers ,once they had surrendered there was no more tension between them and allied soldiers thats why they seem to be at ease with each other

    • @josephdockemeyer4807
      @josephdockemeyer4807 5 лет назад +9

      You're right. I had relatives who were German soldiers.

    • @cavscout888
      @cavscout888 5 лет назад +11

      Except that even 'normal' German soldiers also killed civilians and POW's.

    • @monikabataityte4283
      @monikabataityte4283 5 лет назад

      @GRACE SLICK great to hear

    • @davehoward22
      @davehoward22 5 лет назад +9

      @GRACE SLICK which right wing websites is that nugget of info from?
      Do you know the scale of the problems the western allies had to deal with after a war the germans started and should have ended 3 years previously....about 50.000 to 100.000 germans died in allied hands,drop in the ocean considering they had to feed 5 million soldiers fleeing the russians..
      Add on around 13 million civilians doing the same
      About 8 million slave labourers and displaced people(again,a problem the germans caused)
      Add on all the other devastation around europe,and the problems in the far east,the germans are hardly in a position to complain about human rights abuses

    • @Yo-qt2nu
      @Yo-qt2nu 4 года назад +6

      A 105 old lady from eastern Ukraine told me that German soldiers were mostly Gentlemans.

  • @davidnelson1728
    @davidnelson1728 8 лет назад +180

    It surprises me that the Germans & US soldiers seem so comfortable with each other when just a few weeks earlier they would have been slugging it out for survival.

    • @klaus3794
      @klaus3794 7 лет назад +34

      That is because we felt liberated!

    • @DrEvil-yx4vr
      @DrEvil-yx4vr 7 лет назад +50

      David Nelson for that guys in the video the war is over. They are not longer enemys. Why not work togehter?

    • @linusfotograf
      @linusfotograf 7 лет назад +55

      They were probably happy the war had ended.

    • @binaway
      @binaway 7 лет назад +13

      My father told me the best POW camp guard they had was a veteran of the Battle of Crete, who limped due to a wound he suffered during that action.

    • @SuperNeowiz
      @SuperNeowiz 7 лет назад +43

      They are just men following orders, in both sides.

  • @anunusualironiccircumstanc2246
    @anunusualironiccircumstanc2246 5 лет назад +21

    A bunch of 15-17 year olds and old men.

  • @myfavoritepointguard446
    @myfavoritepointguard446 4 года назад +29

    These are the very lucky few to be able to surrender to the west

  • @jameswilson3991
    @jameswilson3991 4 года назад +20

    ordinary german soldiers would have been glad to go home most hated nazism

  • @astridbelge
    @astridbelge 7 лет назад +80

    0:52, that German boy looks confused and lost, poor lad.

    • @josephdockemeyer4807
      @josephdockemeyer4807 5 лет назад +35

      My uncle, Johann Hartmann, was a very young Wehrmacht soldier on the front. He said that, towards the end of the the war, there were new and very young soldiers made available. Kids around 15 years of age. When the serious fighting started, some of these poor kids shit themselves. Cried, too. I find that incredibly sad. My grandfather was a Colonel in the Wehrmacht. Grandfather's brother was Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, the young and famous WWII Flying Ace: the "Blonde Knight"... He's all over the internet and was just a kid when he started. These were good men.

    • @Babatunde-hp9xj
      @Babatunde-hp9xj 5 лет назад +10

      If they had surrendered to the russian who know what would happen to him
      I felt bad for that lad i was glad he was sent to fight the americans cause if he was sent to fight the russian he would have not survived poor lad.

    • @Linda-vx4fn
      @Linda-vx4fn 4 года назад +1

      @@josephdockemeyer4807 is it true that if Germans did not join the Nazi Party, they were shot dead?

    • @tekay44
      @tekay44 4 года назад +20

      Poor lad? how many GIs did he murder? how many Polish women did he rape? Russian women? poor lad my ass.

  • @Karina-er7mx
    @Karina-er7mx 2 года назад +5

    Why do the American soldiers look a lot taller than the German soldiers? Ive seen a few videos already where German soldiers look shorter! Germans are usually tall people.

    • @1_hour_ago
      @1_hour_ago Год назад +2

      Because they already use all their forces and loses them, at the end of the war there left young old sick soldiers

    • @johnnyflores5954
      @johnnyflores5954 Год назад +1

      The average American soldier during world war 2 was around 5:10, and the Average German soldier was around 5:7.

  • @illinoishasenteredthechat950
    @illinoishasenteredthechat950 4 года назад +14

    And on that day the German's knew they had a new Bad*** in town. 🇺🇸

    • @paullooney2522
      @paullooney2522 4 года назад +9

      That badass needs to go home,and mind its own business.

  • @Tonneback
    @Tonneback Год назад +2

    Are the germans arrested? Not taken as POW?

  • @JohnMorley1
    @JohnMorley1 7 лет назад +16

    They didn't seem i a big hurry to put that fire out at the end where they were ambling around with buckets of water.
    It obviously wasn't their house that was burning down.

  • @endahendah2412
    @endahendah2412 5 лет назад +30

    schmidt, bauer captured by smith and bower

  • @chrisj197438
    @chrisj197438 4 года назад +17

    Kids and old men.

  • @m.marcho5980
    @m.marcho5980 7 лет назад +35

    They surrendered and were treated pretty good from Americans,most of them moved to live in USA and Canada.

    • @jonasmuller3815
      @jonasmuller3815 6 лет назад +11

      No my Greatgrandfather was killed by US soldiers after he surrenderd

  • @shahida5051
    @shahida5051 5 лет назад +17

    End of a horror time

  • @PelicanIslandLabs
    @PelicanIslandLabs 5 лет назад +15

    WWII in 12-bar blues. :-)

  • @lostsoul3154
    @lostsoul3154 4 года назад +24

    WWII: Just another history chapter of the Homo sapiens species trying to destroy itself.

  • @irydka22
    @irydka22 8 лет назад +71

    Thanks AMERICA ! Thanks AMERICANS ! POLISH -AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP FOREVER ! - NZS - Narodowe Siły Zbrojne .

    • @LawrenceofIsrael
      @LawrenceofIsrael Год назад +1

      what for?
      It was the red army that "liberated" you.

  • @synthesizer301
    @synthesizer301 7 лет назад +14

    Straight blues antoine marsaud. What a nice cool basic blues music

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  6 лет назад

      You can download it here: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

  • @pngmick
    @pngmick 6 лет назад +27

    nice vids .German soldiers putting out fires. Ironical.

  • @katikalsal2658
    @katikalsal2658 4 года назад +8

    The music ??

  • @joeythegreat2330
    @joeythegreat2330 5 лет назад +5

    Hard to imagine they woulda shot each other in like 3 months prior... Plus in this case I would've swap uniforms

  • @Rickster5176
    @Rickster5176 9 лет назад +16

    "Catched"??

  • @thomasmcleod9295
    @thomasmcleod9295 7 лет назад +6

    Where was this?

  • @rexdiaz8121
    @rexdiaz8121 8 лет назад +18

    1:18 and the final victory?

  • @southtexasgenetics5380
    @southtexasgenetics5380 7 лет назад +12

    the music is wonderful!

  • @Colinke
    @Colinke 8 лет назад +3

    Was this documentary colorized?

  • @rahulsu30mki76
    @rahulsu30mki76 4 года назад +6

    I feel Americans behave them better then Russians . American always set high standards .

    • @patmiddleton3947
      @patmiddleton3947 4 года назад +11

      Rahul su30mki well the Americans did not have the Germans bombing,killing ,raping,murdering and burning their way across their homeland like the Russians ,Belorussians and Ukrainians did.They did not come as tourists.

  • @chrisj197438
    @chrisj197438 6 лет назад +6

    Germans try to do everything right even if it’s losing

  • @colombianflag717
    @colombianflag717 5 лет назад +1

    Is this a movie or real footage.

  • @gilvale6234
    @gilvale6234 4 года назад +5

    Sim..se entregaram e foram viver de boa na América...

  • @elina1482
    @elina1482 7 лет назад +9

    los soldados Americanos se portaron bastante decentes y apegados a los tratados de guerra

  • @Jeremy031152
    @Jeremy031152 9 лет назад +29

    Germans captured by US Soldiers is much better English.

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  9 лет назад +3

      +Jeremy Swanson You are right. It has been corrected.

    • @Jeremy031152
      @Jeremy031152 9 лет назад

      +World War Footage Good for you. Well done.

    • @mountainguyed67
      @mountainguyed67 8 лет назад

      +Jeremy Swanson what did it say before?

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  8 лет назад +3

      +mountainguyed67 Classified information ;)

    • @markrichards636
      @markrichards636 8 лет назад

      mountainguyed67 ; It said catched and not captured, could have used caught as well.

  • @joniethan
    @joniethan 9 лет назад +15

    caught*

  • @nastybastardatlive
    @nastybastardatlive 5 лет назад +2

    Robberies in action.

  • @germanynato6776
    @germanynato6776 2 года назад +2

    My father fought In Vietnam War then got killed

  • @handyman8135
    @handyman8135 7 лет назад +5

    i agree sr

  • @hugoarturotopetediaz2019
    @hugoarturotopetediaz2019 Год назад

    Name of the song

  • @marcelaguerrero8688
    @marcelaguerrero8688 4 года назад +4

    Soi la única latina aquí

  • @KBNoyes
    @KBNoyes 8 лет назад +1

    What's the artist and song name of the music?

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  8 лет назад +2

      +KBNoyes Antoine Marsaud - Straight Blues. itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

  • @timothybarker3589
    @timothybarker3589 6 лет назад +6

    i like this tune.

  • @johnhansel270
    @johnhansel270 6 лет назад +9

    Well for one thing the German army we're just regular soldiers they got caught up in the madness just like everyone else the SS and the death's-head was a fanatical. Soldier for Hitler's cause and once they committed themselves they were trapped like everyone else what you going to do when you're attacking just lay down your weapons say I give up it doesn't work that way. They did exactly as a soldier would do and even though it was horrendous they were a badass Army.

  • @wiwattanaponnakoo7068
    @wiwattanaponnakoo7068 5 лет назад +4

    The Losers must work for The winners!😤😤😤

  • @toddandangelbrowning2920
    @toddandangelbrowning2920 6 лет назад +1

    What is the music that is playing, title?

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  6 лет назад +2

      Here is a download link: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

  • @frictionfrictionovich371
    @frictionfrictionovich371 6 лет назад +1

    Music?

    • @worldwarfootage
      @worldwarfootage  6 лет назад

      The track is called "Straight Blues". You can download it here: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

  • @slavvodkaman9359
    @slavvodkaman9359 6 лет назад +3

    Just look German army they surrender n give treat very good humanity by us

  • @camarocarl7130
    @camarocarl7130 7 лет назад +3

    cool tunes

  • @jamieforrester2857
    @jamieforrester2857 4 года назад +2

    It's a bit like today how they rifled through the pockets except they had uniforms on back then ' now they just wear huddies

  • @azadazadgabayl29
    @azadazadgabayl29 7 лет назад +1

    not one war ... us uk France. together attacking is shame

  • @hinaynihorvath3926
    @hinaynihorvath3926 Год назад

    it was very ugly