A visit by an American couple to the East German city of Leipzig, still under communist rule and recovering from war damage. Then they took a plane to freedom: Switzerland.
Apparently they flew into Berlin and rented a VW for the trip to Leipzig. Great shots along the autobahn and leaving by air. All before the wall! Priceless.
*They went to the country that promotes terrorism, genocide, coups, human rights violations, the country that imposes sanctions, blockades, manipulation and disinformation, that is, we are talking about the United States.*
@@teloresumoasinomas1110 the united states is the land of the free. Freedom is our core value. We dont want big goverment with socialism that brings corruption and hunger. Btw socialist soviet union is dead and you should learn from history that socialism did not and will never work.
@@zamilthankyou8839 The United States could hardly be considered free. Unless you’re talking about the freedom to be homeless, to starve, or be unemployed. Or maybe you’re talking about the freedom to become a capitalist and exploit workers? The freedom to own private property? Yeah, that type of “freedom” didn’t exist in the GDR or the Soviet Union. Also, corruption and hunger? You’re thinking of capitalism. The majority of people in the last days of the Soviet Union wanted to preserve it. The Soviet Union didn’t fall, it was illegally dissolved against the will of the people. Look up what happened to life expectancy in Russia after it fell. Ask people who lived under the Soviet Union and what they think of it. The majority in most former republics say life was better. The Soviet Union did become revisionist and social imperialist starting under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, but it was still better than modern-day capitalist Russia. If socialism fails, why do so many people miss it?
Thank you very much for this video. Most of your other films are very far away (but very interesting too), but near that town I lived several years in the beginning 90'.
Schöne Erinnerungen an das LEIPZIG der DDR-Zeit. Im Jahre 1959 lebte ich ca. 40 Kilometer von dieser Stadt entfernt und besuchte LEIPZIG oft an Wochenenden. Danke an Herrn MICHAEL ROGGE für diese Aufnahmen!
schöne aufnahmen von leipzig, dann gehts über die autobahn nach berlin(west) von dort mit dem flugzeug nach zürich / sehr guter film, danke für das hochladen
Leeds in the UK has always reminded me a little of Leipzig, similar size city, part industrial/financial, the goths, both universities, the mixture of fine buildings & commie blocks etc although i would say that Leipzig appears a bit more cultured than Leeds. I just see a lot of similarities between Northern England & East Germany & both appear to be on the receiving end of ridicule & contempt from West german's & the Southern English
*Only the fools and ignorant like to ridicule and despise those who cannot overcome them. Or it will be envy, since many lived very well under the GDR than in the FRG. We must not allow ourselves to be manipulated by Western propaganda, which has spent its whole life slandering, defaming, lying about the socialist countries.*
@@andreasmietz6863 how was the life there ? Was it that horrible like the western elite propaganda portraying? How was the Health care , housing, Science and education?
Ich bin zwar erst 1982 geboren, bin aber in der Nähe von Leipzig aufgewachsen. Später habe ich 10 Jahre in Leipzig verbracht. Es ist schön,dank Filmaufnahmen ein wenig in die Vergangenheit reisen zu können. Although I was only born in 1982, I grew up near Leipzig. Later I spent 10 years in Leipzig. It's nice to be able to travel a little bit into the past thanks to film recordings
I was born in 55 in the UK. The footage from Leipzig reminds me of the UK in the late 50's/mid 1960's. The look of the people, the vehicles, state of the buildings etc. However, I went in to the former Eastern Block just after the wall had come down in 1990. I could not believe how much they had fallen behind the West. Terrible roads. Awful motorway facilities (eg no open toilets at service areas between Berlin and Dresden). Prague practically closed down by 2200. The run down buildings and general greyness . I had a weird feeling I was back in the UK in the mid 1960's . Strangely that was "comforting". Went back in 2001 and it was like being in the West. Prague had 4 McDonald's. Everywhere is becoming homogenised (sadly).
***** Sad situation if what you say is true with the 25 year anniversary of 9/11/89 coming next week. I did notice on my last visit to the former Eastern Block that East Germany had recovered "on the surface" eg Berlin seemed like one city again instead of 2 disparate cities' . Also Dresden was beginning again to look like "the Florence on the Elbe" again. Moreover Prague had become almost similar to a "western city" . But in contrast the further East /South East i went things were noticeably much poorer (eg Slavakia/ Romania/Belarus). Again had a feeling of "time travelling" back to the UK of the early/mid 1960's. lets hope that time will eventually "heal the scars" but sadly I did notice that there were many neo Nazi's around in the former Communist block. pretty much eradicated bar "the fringe nutters" in the West.
***** Hmm. You may laugh but even in the UK there is now an ever widening gap between the wealthy and the poor. The EU is too big now. Corrupt and a "gravy train" for the people involved. The Euro has failed the poorer countries' in the south such as Greece and Spain. But the loss of UK parliamentary sovereignty to the EU courts has made people in the UK increasingly hostile to the EU. I think a 50/50 chance the UK will leave in the next 5 years or so. But the world and Europe is becoming increasingly dangerous. eg Isis/North Korea/ Putin/ Japan v China /Neo nazi's in eastern Europe etc etc . The human race fills me with despair. We seem bent on our eventual destruction.
***** Churchill had no illusions about Stalin. he wanted the Allies' to invade the Balkans . he was overruled by the USA who were now the main player for the Western Allies'. Re Roosevelt. he was dead by the end of the war. Truman was the American president. But the problem is we had had 6 years of war (for the UK at least !) ,. The country was bankrupt and the people exhausted. We would have had to fight WW3 to stop the occupation of Eastern Europe. The only way we could have beaten the might of the Red Army is by Atomic bombs. if we had done this we would have lost all "moral force" that Democracies' were superior to the alternative. At least in the end the "cold war" was won without the deaths of another 50 million or so. Note the west "faced down" the Soviets in Berlin 1948 and in 1962.And should do the same with Putin again now if he dares to try what has done to the Ukraine to the Baltic States.
Keith Bate The reason the socialist countries look so old is because the state didn't see a practicality in repainting the buildings and all that as there were in a bad economical situation despite the fact that the expectations were very bright for the future since 1988 because the socialist economies were recovering, i have an eerie feeling too looking and living in these old, run down buildings despite being born just in 2002
@@keithbate9405I wouldn't be too much worried about so called Neo Nazis and Putin. You should worry about your becoming strangers in their land. Once you loose your land things are never going to be good for you.
Interesting clip. It would be nice to know what types of cars were on East German roads before Trabant and Wartburg came in the 1960s. Maybe some Ladas, Skodas and, for the upper class, less Volvos.
@@gregmenego2200 what ever magazones you read ylu should stop it There is no breeding program Also east germany i portet many workers fro. Vietnam later on. So... you might dont see any forigeners in this video but they will show up lol Or lovely vietnam leipzig people with their clothing and fruit stores However there really is no breedi g program but the more edjucader germany do t want to make to many childrens since our social systhem is broken and lots of thing gling wrong with our politic and school systhem bit the people who come here for them its like sugar csndy land and they dond get whats wrong with our politics and all thst so they produce children for thdm its a greate inviorment to raise some. And thats why it might seams like there is an incrase while germans decrase. But it is not a plan by liberal and left partys. You fell for propaganda my friend
@@rudibauer4585 Where....dont see shit. Had a good friend from DDR and the only undesirables wr so called freedom fighters training and kept out of view with restricted movements.
OmG..1959 I was 12 years old and I know all these pictures. Thank you for sharing💕
Apparently they flew into Berlin and rented a VW for the trip to Leipzig. Great shots along the autobahn and leaving by air. All before the wall! Priceless.
it is grate to see the city my dad and grandmother lived in before coming to the USA. it is amazing to see it Thank You
*They went to the country that promotes terrorism, genocide, coups, human rights violations, the country that imposes sanctions, blockades, manipulation and disinformation, that is, we are talking about the United States.*
@@teloresumoasinomas1110 the united states is the land of the free. Freedom is our core value. We dont want big goverment with socialism that brings corruption and hunger. Btw socialist soviet union is dead and you should learn from history that socialism did not and will never work.
Why did they Go?
@@zamilthankyou8839 The United States could hardly be considered free. Unless you’re talking about the freedom to be homeless, to starve, or be unemployed. Or maybe you’re talking about the freedom to become a capitalist and exploit workers? The freedom to own private property? Yeah, that type of “freedom” didn’t exist in the GDR or the Soviet Union. Also, corruption and hunger? You’re thinking of capitalism. The majority of people in the last days of the Soviet Union wanted to preserve it. The Soviet Union didn’t fall, it was illegally dissolved against the will of the people. Look up what happened to life expectancy in Russia after it fell. Ask people who lived under the Soviet Union and what they think of it. The majority in most former republics say life was better. The Soviet Union did become revisionist and social imperialist starting under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, but it was still better than modern-day capitalist Russia. If socialism fails, why do so many people miss it?
and I still live here 😁
It is a beautiful city and it is great to see this old film.
Recht vielen Dank für die Zeitreise in die Vergangenheit. Meine Geburts- und Heimatstadt Leipzig wird immer in meinem Herzen bleiben. 😢❤
Thank you very much for this video. Most of your other films are very far away (but very interesting too), but near that town I lived several years in the beginning 90'.
I didn't myself. This film was taken by an American couple who had the nerve to enter East Germany then.
Awesome random footage, to lend a sense of the everyday look, goings on, apparel, equipment...
Love those minor details.
Schöne Erinnerungen an das LEIPZIG der DDR-Zeit. Im Jahre 1959 lebte ich ca. 40 Kilometer von dieser Stadt entfernt und besuchte LEIPZIG oft an Wochenenden. Danke an Herrn MICHAEL ROGGE für diese Aufnahmen!
Kai Guleikoff Wie alt bist du?
Thank you very much for posting this video.
Was there last week, you'd be suprised how little its changed, loads of street trams and cafe's with polite Germans.
I love history and things like this are great. love it
Thank u for this beautiful video
Thanks, great footage
danke fürs hochladen.. echt schön sowas zu sehen.. grüße aus leipzig / thx for the upload .. great to see these images .. regards from leipzig
schöne aufnahmen von leipzig, dann gehts über die autobahn nach berlin(west) von dort mit dem flugzeug nach zürich / sehr guter film, danke für das hochladen
So neat to see the city I live in now! Much is of course different, but there are many buildings in this film that are just the same...
"Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein..." - wird immer noch gespielt:-)
ja, ein sehr schönes Lied und ein tolles Video- mein Geburtsjahr.
I have lived since 2020 in Leipzig , very nice city in Germany .
Echt coole sache! Danke für den Upload!
Grüße aus Leipzig!
Danke schön..Auch Grüsze aus Amsterdam !
Falls Sie es noch nicht kennen.
Hier ein paar schöne Bilder aus dem Leipzig 1931 in Farbe. ;)
You should see it today the city is verry beautifull now
Oh i am born in leipzig 1995 and still live here
Leeds in the UK has always reminded me a little of Leipzig, similar size city, part industrial/financial, the goths, both universities, the mixture of fine buildings & commie blocks etc although i would say that Leipzig appears a bit more cultured than Leeds.
I just see a lot of similarities between Northern England & East Germany & both appear to be on the receiving end of ridicule & contempt from West german's & the Southern English
*Only the fools and ignorant like to ridicule and despise those who cannot overcome them. Or it will be envy, since many lived very well under the GDR than in the FRG. We must not allow ourselves to be manipulated by Western propaganda, which has spent its whole life slandering, defaming, lying about the socialist countries.*
Socialism is always destructive and accompanied by the smell of decay.
Trust me I know exactly what i'm talking
about.
Best wishes from Leipzig
That was my home until 1961.
Tolles Zeitdokument!!
I was born 1968 in Leipzig and very interest this old movie !!!🤗🤔👍👍👍👍
Me too. Born in Leipzig in August 1968 💕
@@andreasmietz6863 how was the life there ? Was it that horrible like the western elite propaganda portraying? How was the Health care , housing, Science and education?
What was it like visiting East Germany.
You are not related to the former Olympics chief Jacques Rogge are you?Great videos by the way.
Ich bin zwar erst 1982 geboren, bin aber in der Nähe von Leipzig aufgewachsen. Später habe ich 10 Jahre in Leipzig verbracht. Es ist schön,dank Filmaufnahmen ein wenig in die Vergangenheit reisen zu können.
Although I was only born in 1982, I grew up near Leipzig. Later I spent 10 years in Leipzig. It's nice to be able to travel a little bit into the past thanks to film recordings
Es bereitet mir grosze Freude Ihre Erinnerungen wieder zum Leben zu erwecken!
💕
I was born in 55 in the UK. The footage from Leipzig reminds me of the UK in the late 50's/mid 1960's. The look of the people, the vehicles, state of the buildings etc. However, I went in to the former Eastern Block just after the wall had come down in 1990. I could not believe how much they had fallen behind the West. Terrible roads. Awful motorway facilities (eg no open toilets at service areas between Berlin and Dresden). Prague practically closed down by 2200. The run down buildings and general greyness . I had a weird feeling I was back in the UK in the mid 1960's . Strangely that was "comforting". Went back in 2001 and it was like being in the West. Prague had 4 McDonald's. Everywhere is becoming homogenised (sadly).
***** Sad situation if what you say is true with the 25 year anniversary of 9/11/89 coming next week.
I did notice on my last visit to the former Eastern Block that East Germany had recovered "on the surface" eg Berlin seemed like one city again instead of 2 disparate cities' . Also Dresden was beginning again to look like "the Florence on the Elbe" again. Moreover Prague had become almost similar to a "western city" .
But in contrast the further East /South East i went things were noticeably much poorer (eg Slavakia/ Romania/Belarus). Again had a feeling of "time travelling" back to the UK of the early/mid 1960's.
lets hope that time will eventually "heal the scars" but sadly I did notice that there were many neo Nazi's around in the former Communist block. pretty much eradicated bar "the fringe nutters" in the West.
***** Hmm.
You may laugh but even in the UK there is now an ever widening gap between the wealthy and the poor.
The EU is too big now. Corrupt and a "gravy train" for the people involved.
The Euro has failed the poorer countries' in the south such as Greece and Spain.
But the loss of UK parliamentary sovereignty to the EU courts has made people in the UK increasingly hostile to the EU.
I think a 50/50 chance the UK will leave in the next 5 years or so.
But the world and Europe is becoming increasingly dangerous. eg Isis/North Korea/ Putin/ Japan v China /Neo nazi's in eastern Europe etc etc .
The human race fills me with despair. We seem bent on our eventual destruction.
***** Churchill had no illusions about Stalin. he wanted the Allies' to invade the Balkans . he was overruled by the USA who were now the main player for the Western Allies'.
Re Roosevelt. he was dead by the end of the war. Truman was the American president. But the problem is we had had 6 years of war (for the UK at least !) ,. The country was bankrupt and the people exhausted. We would have had to fight WW3 to stop the occupation of Eastern Europe. The only way we could have beaten the might of the Red Army is by Atomic bombs.
if we had done this we would have lost all "moral force" that Democracies' were superior to the alternative.
At least in the end the "cold war" was won without the deaths of another 50 million or so. Note the west "faced down" the Soviets in Berlin 1948 and in 1962.And should do the same with Putin again now if he dares to try what has done to the Ukraine to the Baltic States.
Keith Bate The reason the socialist countries look so old is because the state didn't see a practicality in repainting the buildings and all that as there were in a bad economical situation despite the fact that the expectations were very bright for the future since 1988 because the socialist economies were recovering, i have an eerie feeling too looking and living in these old, run down buildings despite being born just in 2002
@@keithbate9405I wouldn't be too much worried about so called Neo Nazis and Putin. You should worry about your becoming strangers in their land. Once you loose your land things are never going to be good for you.
paradise
Life seems to be nice there(1959)
Autobahn frei, keine LKW, keine PKW. Schon, heute keine chance :)
Interesting clip. It would be nice to know what types of cars were on East German roads before Trabant and Wartburg came in the 1960s. Maybe some Ladas, Skodas and, for the upper class, less Volvos.
Sri Bibit There was no upper class but technically there were some who were a bit more rich than the others
@@cruyffssoul2397 More privileged.
Sri Bibit *slightly* more privileged perhaps. What I’m trying to say is that the cars are probably around the same level.
@@cruyffssoul2397 Party officials were definitely upper class - like in all socialist states.
priceless....... (",)
Meine Heimatstadt
Leipzig ist immer am besten in Deutschland!
Seit es dort die Antifa gibt nicht mehr.
Am 1.10.1959 kam Hammer und Zirkel im Ährenkranz dazu in die Flagge
Leider !
And 1961 the Wall .
No, I'm not related
1:23 We can see Donald Trump walking across the bottom of the screen
😂😂😂
10 years of DDR..interesting footage.
the one thing that east germany was communist that time
ESTE AÑO LAS ESVASTICAS
EXTRAÑO las esvasticas
Sachsen- anhalt
Wrong Sachsen .
We have Leipzig still, but sadly Konigsberg is gone forever.
HÖREN SIE DIESES LIED AUF RUclips....
LIBERDADE - NACAO NESTA
LIBERDADE - NACAO NESTA
Дуже шкода німців які залишилися під радянською окупацією
Jetzt ist Deutschland unter amerikanischer Besatzung, was ist schlimmer??😮
Take a plane to freedom be explored by capitalism
Not a migrant in sight
Greg Menego Nothing wrong with having migrants. The only issue stems in nationalising a lot of them without strict regulations
Its the breeding program that is the concern for me.....in a hundred years European will so outbred that there will only be a "foreign" population.
@@gregmenego2200 what ever magazones you read ylu should stop it
There is no breeding program
Also east germany i portet many workers fro. Vietnam later on. So... you might dont see any forigeners in this video but they will show up lol
Or lovely vietnam leipzig people with their clothing and fruit stores
However there really is no breedi g program but the more edjucader germany do t want to make to many childrens since our social systhem is broken and lots of thing gling wrong with our politic and school systhem bit the people who come here for them its like sugar csndy land and they dond get whats wrong with our politics and all thst so they produce children for thdm its a greate inviorment to raise some.
And thats why it might seams like there is an incrase while germans decrase.
But it is not a plan by liberal and left partys.
You fell for propaganda my friend
Bullshit! ... There where lots of migrants from the lost east german territories.
@@rudibauer4585
Where....dont see shit. Had a good friend from DDR and the only undesirables wr so called freedom fighters training and kept out of view with restricted movements.
Under filthy Russian communist rule & oppression, 1945-1990. (The music accompanying this video sounds like it's from a dreary 1940s American movie.)