Fun Fact: the mileage in which the American C-47s and C-54s flew during the Berlin Airlift totaled 92 _million_ miles - almost the same distance between the Sun and Earth. EDIT - Fun Fact #2: Sir Brian Robertson (military governor in the British-occupied zone of Germany) was the son of the legendary Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. He served as Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff during WW1, but William became famous for being the only soldier in the history of the British army to have risen from the rank of Private all the way up to Field Marshal.
⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:27 Geopolitics of occupied Germany; 🇺🇸 Gen. Lucius Clay vs. 🇷🇺 Vasily Sokolovsky; Ernst Reuter 7:43 Deutsche Mark 💶 currency reform; East German Mark 13:38 Berlin Blockade🛑; 15:08 Berlin Air✈️ Corridor; 🇺🇸Operation Vittles & 🇬🇧 Operation Plainfare 36:08 Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) pro-Western propaganda 40:13 Sunset 🌇 of Soviet spirit; Berlin Blockade ends🚧 44:44 NATO
I read a book about this called "The Candy Bombers", it goes into great detail of the Berlin Airlift, and what the air crews had to deal with on day to day operations, as well as General Clay and his staff.
In Germany a former Kanzler died, he was smoking one after another (and I'm serious), he was the only person I know where interviews are all with smoking because without smoking he would never gave a statement, and I think there was even in the 2000's a visit from him, and smoking is strictly forbidden in the Reichstag but I think for him they allowed it... he died old... smoking at least 60 cigarettes if not 80 daily^^ A good advertisement, since the tobacco taxes are extreme high (discounter shops got their own brands, 30 cigarettes cost 6,70€ is the best deal I found, every cigarette has a tax of ~20.2 €uro-Cent... the 30 package for 6,70€ is 90% tax, and this is always so, or even a little bit higher if you buy small or "only" normal XL packs, ~10% for the discounter brand and 90% for the federal goverments budget, the 20.2 cent is already a mix of the tax + VAT (19% in this case), only the "Energiesteuergesetz" brings more taxes in than the tobacco taxes, the Energy tax is very wide... oil, natural gas, coal, gas liquids, electricity even from "rape oil", bio-diesel, bio-ethanol... and everything used for producing electricity, I think even the (very small) wood pellet or wood "blocks" market for heating is taxes by this law... we have soo much taxes, and until 31.12.2023 the "H-Gas" tax is 13,90€/MWh but than it is yearly increasing... and starting on 1st January 2027 the tax will rise to 31,80€/MWh (from 13,90!) In the US there is even no federal VAT I heard, and well about gasoline... 654,50 EUR/1000 Liter or 470,40 EUR/1000 Liter (~264.17 US gallons), and the €uro is around 1,20 now... means 1000€ are ~1200 US-$... so you can imagine gasoline prices^^ Turkey has the highest, strange because its a quite poor country for European standards and only a very small part of the country is in Europe and Istanbul the only city which lies in 2 continents :D
Gail Halverson, the Candy Bomber: a true hero! He represents the best of the airlift and it’s objective, to supply West Berlin and keep the people there alive and free.
Rip Halverson. This doc was made at the right time when everyone big and small could still participate. They even got the lady that was run over by a tank.
Efforts to deliver foodstuffs during the Lift would have been at least halved if someone had thought to stockpile all the lunches General Clay discarded throughout his lifetime and used them to feed the Berliners. What a legend!
This is a perfect demonstration of what I call " Positive Stubbornness " The sheer Bloody Minded refusal to let someone else determine the outcome. It's great
The RAF's part of the Berlin Airlift was originally called Operation Carter Patterson after the a well-known removals firm of the period untilit was realised that it was giving the Russians the wrong message.
COL Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 - February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. *From Wikipedia
It is such a strange and disgusting feeling to hear these top officials from the hellish soviet system speaking about their decissions as if it was the most normal thing. And then the disastrous system falls and they just go on, they lived in the ivory tower, misery, suffering, tears, lost lives were not for them.
I have no qualms in believing that Stalin was ruthless? What's the problem? To survive in that world, you must be... You would not be fit working in the government with such a faint mindset
Well in no way am I supporting the Soviet Union or Communism. Both can go to hell for all I care. However, I don't actually blame the Soviet Union for doing what it did the Germans. I blame them for the hardships and all that they caused to Eastern Europe. But for Germany, they killed Millions of Soviet Citizens. Given the time period, what would you think the US would've done if Japan or some other country murdered millions of Americans? We would've have just dropped two bombs, we would've eradicated that country beyond existence (the country would've been erased from the map). But again, I am not defending the SU or Communism, but I do understand where they come from.
Kinda curious to know why France was allocated a portion of Germany at the end of the war? Wasn’t Germany partitioned to the victors? France was liberated from defeat and had virtually nothing to do with final victory. If France was portioned a piece of the victors pie shouldn’t Poland have had a piece too then? The free Polish forces had far more military personnel and involvement in battling Germany after its capitulation then the free French had.
Well you could argue that the territorial concessions from Germany to Poland might have been reward enough, but it also might have something to do with the fact that they were “liberated” by the USSR.
Also the USA and Great Britain wanted to re-establish France as a world power. Particularly the British because they weren’t certain that the USA was gonna stick around in Europe or pull out as they did after WWI. Britain did not want to be left facing USSR alone.
Also why USA sided with and supported France keeping Indochina despite Roosevelt wanting them out and Ho Chi Min being an ally against the Japanese. The Vietminh received weapons and supplies from the OSS. Had FDR lived it might have been different but by the time the War was over it was felt that France was a necessary ally to bear some of the burden containing communism. Really a shame for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia... especially since Ho Chi Minh was really more Nationalist than Communist.
Man if you live in Europe try to get any Berlin stamped D-Mark and keep it until you retire in the future! It will be worth more money in the future collector in future!
I have always considered slavery and the Holocaust as the two most barbaric and ungodly episodes of history. And for many years I thought the Germans during World War 2 were the epitome of evil. But the more I watch and learn about the Cold War, and Soviet wartime atrocities, I see now that the Russians are every bit the Nazis equal in terms of savagery and the suffering they caused (a lot of which has been hidden in the sands of time).
Not all the French surrendered, by the end of the war they did field 1 army, they did face heavy combat against the Germans. Besides the fact it's the largest continental nation bordering Germany and we didn't much care for them. So even though a minor ally by the defeat of Germany, they were still a victor. They did help liberate their country. Plus the resistance.
bullshit. Vichy France was an all too willing ally of Nazi Germany, even attacking american and British troops and ships in/off north Africa. Poland bordered not Nazi Germany and Russia and put up more of a fight.
Maconnaith I didn't say I liked it. But the political situation at the time made it expedient I suppose. I don't think we should have treated the French as equals in the occupation of Germany.
Krauty McLederhosen They had the opportunity to come back to the Allied side peacefully by the Americans, they choose to fight, they had a grudge against the British for the attack on their navy.
Krauty McLederhosen Fuck the facist Vichy Government, a right to fire on the army sent to liberate them? Facist French should have been punished. The United States never attacked Facist Vichy France without provocation. Who side were they supposed to be on. The Nazis?
Krauty McLederhosen Obligated to fight? For Hitler? The guy who broke every treaty he made? The legitimate French government was in exile. Your obviously a neo nazi sympathizer. Yeah hey the Americans are coming to eject the hated Boche so lets kill Americans and not the enemy occupation troops. You really think Hitler wouldn't have used the French fleet if the British hadn't sunk it. What a moron. Nobody mentioned good vs evil but since you did it's hard to top the Nazis in that category. Maybe the Nazis would have just gone home if we asked politely. The French navy had the option to rejoin the Allied side, they refused and the British did what needed to be done.
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I wonder if there's a doc like this about the European Terrorism that went on during the Cold War. Because I was a little kid in West Germany when all of this was going on. It was a very scary time.
Where were the french participants in this effort? (after all, the Charlemagne division of the German Army was a fierce fighting unit in all, and especially the final parts of the battle of Berlin
Wasn't France pretty weakened after WWII? They did get a portion of Germany and Berlin, but afaik they didn't have the power to impose significant control unlike US or UK
How is it that the phrase " so it can never happen again" is bandied about in post conflict rhetoric when one short scan of history reveals that not only is it an unrealistic expectation it's an antithesis to the very nature of humanity and for that matter life itself. I guess no one would get out of bed otherwise.
It’s repeated many times throughout in different keys and with many different instruments, but never played long enough without speech to use an app like Shazam to find out the name.
Gen. Clay was seen as a hero of the airlift when in fact (had he not been kept under tight White House control) it would probably have ended another military conflict. "Let's send a convoy of U.S. Army trucks to the barriers and see what them damn Ruskies do!" Diplomacy was obviously not his strong point
General Clay understood the Russians very well. He knew that the Russian only understood one point of action; an action of force. Diplomacy never worked with the Russians but Russians understood when they were being pressured with a fist or a foot or a rifle to the face. Clay's problem was that he had to take the peaceful route when his understanding of the Russians told him otherwise.
frankly i think the allies should have traded berlin for another part of europe under soviet control. and also trade germany and italy for countries that did not start the war.
I do not agree! the lesson they learned from the Versaille treaty after WWI was that it is better to integrate Germany into the community of people. In my eyes De Gaulle is one of the greates leaders of all times. He understood this and was by far more clever than you!
They didn’t want to repeat the same mistake the West made with the Treaty of Versailles. Abandoning Berlin and forcing them under full Soviet control while asking for full reparations would’ve spelled disaster
I guess they all forgot about the 1,000,000 people who starved to death in Stalingrad 🙄🥱
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Germans absolutely LOVE American cigarettes. I have no idea why. I'm the son of a Military Service Member. During his time in his 23 years in the military, we went to Germany twice. Both times we used our military ration card to pay our rent and electricity bill. It was a very interesting time during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1960s and 70s, Terrorism was widespread in Europe at the time. If I didn't check in with my parents, believe me, my parents did far more than any terrorist could do. Terrorists want to keep you alive as a hostage to get what they want.
First, Who are you to be calling me a lier? You don't even have the balls to put your face with your name. Which makes you a coward. So climb back under the rock in which you came. Because you're a nobody. You are aren't man enough to meet me face to face. The only good thing you've accomplished in your pathetic life is win in a sperm racing contest that you really had nothing to do with, you got lucky. So take your trolling elsewhere you coward.
Just to put a bit of perspective and (hopefully) expecting the reader to not be dragged by ideology. At the end of WWII the soviets, british and americans agreed to let democracy run its course again in all Europe both east and west. Then when democracy showed that the results wouldn't be in USA's interests the americans pretty much did the equivalent of mounting a parade outside the polling station promising food and prizes in exchange of voting what the americans wanted, then, when the peoples of Europe obviously accepted the bribe, they called that democracy.
Hahaha, interesting perspective. So you would rather suffer and die of starvation but proclaim solidarity with communism then take a bribe? Welcome to the spoils of war, you must be new here lol.
+ilcool90 Good thing it was, for Germany would not have been the great country it is today with the interference of the Soviet Union's evil and dirty hands.
+ilcool90 Good thing it was, for Germany would not have been the great country it is today with the interference of the Soviet Union's evil and dirty hands.
If necessary, particularly at that time, the USA could have, if it wanted to, sustained 50 of those operations indefinitely. Really, it was not a burden for them at all.
What are you on about the Roman's were the one that built roads on Gothic mud trails to quickly pass doucheland for the British isles. Caesar conquered all of Gaul and it took the Germans years of treachery and actions resembling the way Balkan partisans resisted German occupation, that the Germans labeled as no honor. So there yah go Germany was never strong only good at hitting below the belt for all their victories.
35:20. USA never learnt this important lesson from children. The cold war could've been won by behaving like true Christians; when your enemy persecutes you, respond to them with kindness and it'll be like heaping hot coals on their heads. Start by learning to be kind & caring to your own people, (family, community, nation) & treat all of them fairly, firmly, with sacrificial love, justice and compassion . Only when your own house is in order can you help your neighbor without hypocrisy & self serving motivation. Then your "enemy ", ex: the average Soviet citizen, would see that freedom, justice, a strong work ethic with personal responsibility and its natural rewards, combined with a social conscience for the least of us, is the only way to live. The lies of their communist oppressors, the proverbial pigs in the farmhouse, would've been obvious to them and the rotten system would've collapsed from within a whole lot sooner. Walking with love in one hand and a sword in the other, just in case, will win people's hearts and minds. Jesus told the Roman Centurion with the sick servant that He had not seen anyone in Judea with faith like him. He didn't tell him to put down his sword; He told his disciples to take a cloak & a sword for defence then go to the nations as you live out & teach the gospel. No so called Christian nation has ever truly attempted to live the Truth, in fact, the opposite has been the norm. Pride, hypocrisy, greed, covetous lust for other's possessions, selfishness and fear of death rule our lives and certainly the religious, political and economical leaders of our nations. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; rather it's been wanted and left untried. So it goes
If I had been a Soviet Premier and you were the US President, I would have no respect for you. I would have seen you as weak. I would have destroyed you.
While I have respect for what you are saying, I somewhat agree. Love/good should always triumph over hate/bad. However, at the same time, the only thing that needs to happen in order for evil to triumph is the will of the good to do nothing. While yes I am in the Military, I don't want to go to war. But if I have to lose my life to keep my fellow Americans safe, so be it. Again, I don't want to die, I want to live for my country, but God damn if I am going to let a hostile person, group, or country kill my fellow Americans while I sit on the side lines pointing me finger at them saying "Hey the bible says you can't do that." Then I don't deserve to be an American or deserve to live.
All people in power are untrustworthy West or East, now and then. And hence the division of powers in every democracy. Legislative power, Executive power and Judicial power do not have control over each other. Just because people in power cannot be trusted.
Me watching this at 3am for work due the next day like ◉‿◉
can u share it with me?
right
Me too lol
I watch it while knowing I’ll be getting up for work in a few hours, but it helps me to sleep, too
Same! Cant sleep, its 7 am
Fun Fact: the mileage in which the American C-47s and C-54s flew during the Berlin Airlift totaled 92 _million_ miles - almost the same distance between the Sun and Earth.
EDIT - Fun Fact #2: Sir Brian Robertson (military governor in the British-occupied zone of Germany) was the son of the legendary Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. He served as Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff during WW1, but William became famous for being the only soldier in the history of the British army to have risen from the rank of Private all the way up to Field Marshal.
Holy cow
thats awesome! thanks for sharing! Would appreciate a citation so I can repeat the fact
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Chapters 📖🔖:
1:27 Geopolitics of occupied Germany; 🇺🇸 Gen. Lucius Clay vs. 🇷🇺 Vasily Sokolovsky; Ernst Reuter
7:43 Deutsche Mark 💶 currency reform; East German Mark
13:38 Berlin Blockade🛑;
15:08 Berlin Air✈️ Corridor; 🇺🇸Operation Vittles & 🇬🇧 Operation Plainfare
36:08 Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) pro-Western propaganda
40:13 Sunset 🌇 of Soviet spirit; Berlin Blockade ends🚧
44:44 NATO
39:06 “Everything that goes with ‘Berlin’ they go and cut it up in sectors” That’s gold 🤣
I read a book about this called "The Candy Bombers", it goes into great detail of the Berlin Airlift, and what the air crews had to deal with on day to day operations, as well as General Clay and his staff.
StormLaker1975 Yes, excellent book 📖👍
Twenty cups of coffee and two packets of cigarettes
Yes, important guy, too. Imagine pissing him off!
Fuck off u bunch of wankers
In Germany a former Kanzler died, he was smoking one after another (and I'm serious), he was the only person I know where interviews are all with smoking because without smoking he would never gave a statement, and I think there was even in the 2000's a visit from him, and smoking is strictly forbidden in the Reichstag but I think for him they allowed it... he died old... smoking at least 60 cigarettes if not 80 daily^^
A good advertisement, since the tobacco taxes are extreme high (discounter shops got their own brands, 30 cigarettes cost 6,70€ is the best deal I found, every cigarette has a tax of ~20.2 €uro-Cent... the 30 package for 6,70€ is 90% tax, and this is always so, or even a little bit higher if you buy small or "only" normal XL packs, ~10% for the discounter brand and 90% for the federal goverments budget, the 20.2 cent is already a mix of the tax + VAT (19% in this case), only the "Energiesteuergesetz" brings more taxes in than the tobacco taxes, the Energy tax is very wide... oil, natural gas, coal, gas liquids, electricity even from "rape oil", bio-diesel, bio-ethanol... and everything used for producing electricity, I think even the (very small) wood pellet or wood "blocks" market for heating is taxes by this law... we have soo much taxes, and until 31.12.2023 the "H-Gas" tax is 13,90€/MWh but than it is yearly increasing... and starting on 1st January 2027 the tax will rise to 31,80€/MWh (from 13,90!)
In the US there is even no federal VAT I heard, and well about gasoline... 654,50 EUR/1000 Liter or 470,40 EUR/1000 Liter (~264.17 US gallons), and the €uro is around 1,20 now... means 1000€ are ~1200 US-$... so you can imagine gasoline prices^^ Turkey has the highest, strange because its a quite poor country for European standards and only a very small part of the country is in Europe and Istanbul the only city which lies in 2 continents :D
Twenty packs of cigarettes, and two cups of coffee.
Breakfast of champions
Cold War was a hard case. When the Berlin Wall stand, people had no choice but to wait until the crisis is over.
Gail Halverson, the Candy Bomber: a true hero! He represents the best of the airlift and it’s objective, to supply West Berlin and keep the people there alive and free.
Rip Halverson. This doc was made at the right time when everyone big and small could still participate. They even got the lady that was run over by a tank.
I don't always listen to music in German but when I Du
Du hast Du hast mich
AmiEvil I see what you did there
lmao
Well played sir, well played.
16:00 when you just finished your twentieth cup of coffee and need that damn cigarette
You're gonna need *both* packs after that much coffee 😂
Clay Miller at least
37:24- 37:28This is what happens when you don't have that cigarette.
@@o-anonium8653 they act like removing any other drug from a person! I’m convinced that modern cigarettes contain to much of that drug!
This is still one of my favorite comments. Clay was a legend
Damn the Berlin Airlift generated a lot of unsung heroes. Especially Gail Halverson and Mr. and Mrs. Heimlich.
Famous of course for the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Amazing what a good sense of humour some Berliners had during this! 😊❤️👍
Awesome! MGS1 was the first I've ever learned what the Cold War really was until TODAY! Thank you!
Metal
Gear
Solid...
MGS3
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"Bevin put his weight behind it"
And we see his big belly. Good choice of words Kenneth😀
Efforts to deliver foodstuffs during the Lift would have been at least halved if someone had thought to stockpile all the lunches General Clay discarded throughout his lifetime and used them to feed the Berliners. What a legend!
This is a perfect demonstration of what I call
" Positive Stubbornness "
The sheer Bloody Minded refusal to let someone else determine the outcome. It's great
Thanks for the video!! Helped with my History studies!!!!
I was there in 59. I did not want to extend past 4 years so that ended it for me
Bro Dropped the Hardest History intro and thought we wouldn't notice 🥶
The RAF's part of the Berlin Airlift was originally called Operation Carter Patterson after the a well-known removals firm of the period untilit was realised that it was giving the Russians the wrong message.
Very informative
COL Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 - February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. *From Wikipedia
thx for the uploads
“I too, am a jelly donut!” -JFK
Did he really say that then.
@@terryrodbourn2793 yeah that's an old wives tale
bombs first candy second
+utedassmopp So you're saying bombs first, nothing second would have been better?
That's some tortured logic. No bombs at all, maybe? Yes please.
No, you said that, not him.
@@ImAzraa no bombs at all? I guess they should've just asked Hitler nicely to give up in WW2 instead of fighting him.
What are you, a moron?
Priorities innit?
my adhd ass cant handle when they start speaking in russian and dubbing with english at the same time :(
Suniva C so it’s not just me
sloo shy, ya t[overdub kicks in]tbh same
Do you speak Russian?
It is such a strange and disgusting feeling to hear these top officials from the hellish soviet system speaking about their decissions as if it was the most normal thing. And then the disastrous system falls and they just go on, they lived in the ivory tower, misery, suffering, tears, lost lives were not for them.
I have no qualms in believing that Stalin was ruthless? What's the problem? To survive in that world, you must be... You would not be fit working in the government with such a faint mindset
You see the same in American officials today... What the guy above me said
Well in no way am I supporting the Soviet Union or Communism. Both can go to hell for all I care. However, I don't actually blame the Soviet Union for doing what it did the Germans. I blame them for the hardships and all that they caused to Eastern Europe. But for Germany, they killed Millions of Soviet Citizens. Given the time period, what would you think the US would've done if Japan or some other country murdered millions of Americans? We would've have just dropped two bombs, we would've eradicated that country beyond existence (the country would've been erased from the map). But again, I am not defending the SU or Communism, but I do understand where they come from.
30:57... Loved him in "Steptoe and Son" ;)
Love it
Clay is 1 menacing looking individual.
this is the best video eva
Kinda curious to know why France was allocated a portion of Germany at the end of the war? Wasn’t Germany partitioned to the victors? France was liberated from defeat and had virtually nothing to do with final victory. If France was portioned a piece of the victors pie shouldn’t Poland have had a piece too then? The free Polish forces had far more military personnel and involvement in battling Germany after its capitulation then the free French had.
Well you could argue that the territorial concessions from Germany to Poland might have been reward enough, but it also might have something to do with the fact that they were “liberated” by the USSR.
Also the USA and Great Britain wanted to re-establish France as a world power. Particularly the British because they weren’t certain that the USA was gonna stick around in Europe or pull out as they did after WWI. Britain did not want to be left facing USSR alone.
Also why USA sided with and supported France keeping Indochina despite Roosevelt wanting them out and Ho Chi Min being an ally against the Japanese. The Vietminh received weapons and supplies from the OSS. Had FDR lived it might have been different but by the time the War was over it was felt that France was a necessary ally to bear some of the burden containing communism.
Really a shame for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia... especially since Ho Chi Minh was really more Nationalist than Communist.
Well, Poland did annex a part of Germany after the war.
@@williamflowers9435correct description
Excellent video
Man if you live in Europe try to get any Berlin stamped D-Mark and keep it until you retire in the future! It will be worth more money in the future collector in future!
i spent 5 hours doing a paper on this very video :(
yo let me see that
@@jennnifer4737 hes lying lol
I think I have a piece of the Berlin Wall somewhere in my stuff. People stick together in hard times.
"Many people thought that the end of the Berlin Blockade meant to end of the Cold War. 😅😄😃😂
I have always considered slavery and the Holocaust as the two most barbaric and ungodly episodes of history. And for many years I thought the Germans during World War 2 were the epitome of evil. But the more I watch and learn about the Cold War, and Soviet wartime atrocities, I see now that the Russians are every bit the Nazis equal in terms of savagery and the suffering they caused (a lot of which has been hidden in the sands of time).
Not all the French surrendered, by the end of the war they did field 1 army, they did face heavy combat against the Germans. Besides the fact it's the largest continental nation bordering Germany and we didn't much care for them. So even though a minor ally by the defeat of Germany, they were still a victor. They did help liberate their country. Plus the resistance.
bullshit. Vichy France was an all too willing ally of Nazi Germany, even attacking american and British troops and ships in/off north Africa. Poland bordered not Nazi Germany and Russia and put up more of a fight.
Maconnaith I didn't say I liked it. But the political situation at the time made it expedient I suppose. I don't think we should have treated the French as equals in the occupation of Germany.
Krauty McLederhosen They had the opportunity to come back to the Allied side peacefully by the Americans, they choose to fight, they had a grudge against the British for the attack on their navy.
Krauty McLederhosen Fuck the facist Vichy Government, a right to fire on the army sent to liberate them? Facist French should have been punished. The United States never attacked Facist Vichy France without provocation. Who side were they supposed to be on. The Nazis?
Krauty McLederhosen Obligated to fight? For Hitler? The guy who broke every treaty he made? The legitimate French government was in exile. Your obviously a neo nazi sympathizer. Yeah hey the Americans are coming to eject the hated Boche so lets kill Americans and not the enemy occupation troops. You really think Hitler wouldn't have used the French fleet if the British hadn't sunk it. What a moron.
Nobody mentioned good vs evil but since you did it's hard to top the Nazis in that category.
Maybe the Nazis would have just gone home if we asked politely.
The French navy had the option to rejoin the Allied side, they refused and the British did what needed to be done.
I wonder if there's a doc like this about the European Terrorism that went on during the Cold War. Because I was a little kid in West Germany when all of this was going on. It was a very scary time.
2:55 Great music
I believe there were 270 thousand flights in the Berlin air lift
Where were the french participants in this effort? (after all, the Charlemagne division of the German Army was a fierce fighting unit in all, and especially the final parts of the battle of Berlin
Wasn't France pretty weakened after WWII? They did get a portion of Germany and Berlin, but afaik they didn't have the power to impose significant control unlike US or UK
@@FoxInFlame For them the overseas colonies was the real thing.
Recommend top plead officially pie such emerge introduce.
How is it that the phrase " so it can never happen again" is bandied about in post conflict rhetoric when one short scan of history reveals that not only is it an unrealistic expectation it's an antithesis to the very nature of humanity and for that matter life itself. I guess no one would get out of bed otherwise.
WHAT IS THE MUSIC AT 2:55 ?!?!
I have been trying to find out for so long and it's really been bugging me. Please, someone
It’s repeated many times throughout in different keys and with many different instruments, but never played long enough without speech to use an app like Shazam to find out the name.
@@beneze3286 It's called Midnight the stars and you
Micah’s daddy was killed by the fighting air corps
death and destruction
24:59 Please tell me this song name 🧐
Gen. Clay was seen as a hero of the airlift when in fact (had he not been kept under tight White House control) it would probably have ended another military conflict.
"Let's send a convoy of U.S. Army trucks to the barriers and see what them damn Ruskies do!"
Diplomacy was obviously not his strong point
General Clay understood the Russians very well. He knew that the Russian only understood one point of action; an action of force. Diplomacy never worked with the Russians but Russians understood when they were being pressured with a fist or a foot or a rifle to the face. Clay's problem was that he had to take the peaceful route when his understanding of the Russians told him otherwise.
3;54 its Liam Neeson at the panel board WOW ''twin
WHICH WAS NOT calld 4
Yo was up all the kids forced to go here by mrs Wilde
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25:23, the apprehension of Germans of what was happening in Berlin was unnecessary!
History yr 9 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👑👑👑👑👑👑
15:36 - Hahaha! 😃
Hahaha pun intended?
Naoise Wheeler - Obviously; the English do say the darnedest things when speaking English...
Micah’s daddy was killed in gatow
So, no matter how rich or poor you might have been, if you had >40 marks, everyone was topped at 40 Dmarks? That seems......odd
That sounds indeed a little bit communist.
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Micah’s daddy was killed by edloe
Micah’s daddy died long ago
frankly i think the allies should have traded berlin for another part of europe under soviet control. and also trade germany and italy for countries that did not start the war.
I do not agree! the lesson they learned from the Versaille treaty after WWI was that it is better to integrate Germany into the community of people. In my eyes De Gaulle is one of the greates leaders of all times. He understood this and was by far more clever than you!
So Berlin was in the Soviet area…but yet was divided in 4. Make this make sense.
They didn’t want to repeat the same mistake the West made with the Treaty of Versailles. Abandoning Berlin and forcing them under full Soviet control while asking for full reparations would’ve spelled disaster
Because politicians are idiots and governments are full of politicians.
cigarettes 'order" poison yourself o
Tell me what happened
Who got the answers
I guess they all forgot about the 1,000,000 people who starved to death in Stalingrad 🙄🥱
Germans absolutely LOVE American cigarettes. I have no idea why. I'm the son of a Military Service Member. During his time in his 23 years in the military, we went to Germany twice. Both times we used our military ration card to pay our rent and electricity bill. It was a very interesting time during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1960s and 70s, Terrorism was widespread in Europe at the time. If I didn't check in with my parents, believe me, my parents did far more than any terrorist could do. Terrorists want to keep you alive as a hostage to get what they want.
Why you lying
First,
Who are you to be calling me a lier? You don't even have the balls to put your face with your name. Which makes you a coward. So climb back under the rock in which you came. Because you're a nobody. You are aren't man enough to meet me face to face. The only good thing you've accomplished in your pathetic life is win in a sperm racing contest that you really had nothing to do with, you got lucky. So take your trolling elsewhere you coward.
@Xureux
Quit being a dick.
@@Xureux
And why are you a dick?
gen. clay was right!!!!
Ben?
Just to put a bit of perspective and (hopefully) expecting the reader to not be dragged by ideology. At the end of WWII the soviets, british and americans agreed to let democracy run its course again in all Europe both east and west. Then when democracy showed that the results wouldn't be in USA's interests the americans pretty much did the equivalent of mounting a parade outside the polling station promising food and prizes in exchange of voting what the americans wanted, then, when the peoples of Europe obviously accepted the bribe, they called that democracy.
Pretty much
Hahaha, interesting perspective. So you would rather suffer and die of starvation but proclaim solidarity with communism then take a bribe? Welcome to the spoils of war, you must be new here lol.
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Bring back the Bomb...💥
Stalin calls it quits, but I thought Stalin was the iron man who never backs down?
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Who's here from Mr. Chase's history class? #EasternSHS
I am Dorothy - it's your friend Mark!
Jesus Loves You All
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Sadly, yes he does. It's a chappy job but someone's gotta do it 👍
The blockade should not have been lifted, the west would eventually not have been able to keep it up financially
+ilcool90 Good thing it was, for Germany would not have been the great country it is today with the interference of the Soviet Union's evil and dirty hands.
+ilcool90 Good thing it was, for Germany would not have been the great country it is today with the interference of the Soviet Union's evil and dirty hands.
+Patricio Ramos Negrete
Germany a great country ??? What are you smoking ?
If necessary, particularly at that time, the USA could have, if it wanted to, sustained 50 of those operations indefinitely. Really, it was not a burden for them at all.
sikmade *second biggest
whos watching this in 2019 :OOOOOO
ME! Cold War buff
@@amkrause2004 Not me
Berlin Strong! Germans and a very strong people. Even during the great Roman Empire, the Romans could never conquer Germania!
What are you on about the Roman's were the one that built roads on Gothic mud trails to quickly pass doucheland for the British isles. Caesar conquered all of Gaul and it took the Germans years of treachery and actions resembling the way Balkan partisans resisted German occupation, that the Germans labeled as no honor. So there yah go Germany was never strong only good at hitting below the belt for all their victories.
35:20. USA never learnt this important lesson from children. The cold war could've been won by behaving like true Christians; when your enemy persecutes you, respond to them with kindness and it'll be like heaping hot coals on their heads. Start by learning to be kind & caring to your own people, (family, community, nation) & treat all of them fairly, firmly, with sacrificial love, justice and compassion . Only when your own house is in order can you help your neighbor without hypocrisy & self serving motivation. Then your "enemy ", ex: the average Soviet citizen, would see that freedom, justice, a strong work ethic with personal responsibility and its natural rewards, combined with a social conscience for the least of us, is the only way to live. The lies of their communist oppressors, the proverbial pigs in the farmhouse, would've been obvious to them and the rotten system would've collapsed from within a whole lot sooner. Walking with love in one hand and a sword in the other, just in case, will win people's hearts and minds. Jesus told the Roman Centurion with the sick servant that He had not seen anyone in Judea with faith like him. He didn't tell him to put down his sword; He told his disciples to take a cloak & a sword for defence then go to the nations as you live out & teach the gospel. No so called Christian nation has ever truly attempted to live the Truth, in fact, the opposite has been the norm. Pride, hypocrisy, greed, covetous lust for other's possessions, selfishness and fear of death rule our lives and certainly the religious, political and economical leaders of our nations. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; rather it's been wanted and left untried. So it goes
DMR Robertson thanks for the good ol’ fashioned christian finger wagging. Gotta love it.
If I had been a Soviet Premier and you were the US President, I would have no respect for you.
I would have seen you as weak.
I would have destroyed you.
While I have respect for what you are saying, I somewhat agree. Love/good should always triumph over hate/bad. However, at the same time, the only thing that needs to happen in order for evil to triumph is the will of the good to do nothing. While yes I am in the Military, I don't want to go to war. But if I have to lose my life to keep my fellow Americans safe, so be it. Again, I don't want to die, I want to live for my country, but God damn if I am going to let a hostile person, group, or country kill my fellow Americans while I sit on the side lines pointing me finger at them saying "Hey the bible says you can't do that." Then I don't deserve to be an American or deserve to live.
"How many divisions does the Pope have?"--Stalin
@@Zedzian23 Not many.
West then and now is completely untrustworthy
so why are you on an American website/app? You're sure enjoying this American invention and company nicely.
+Lerone Williams
The founder of Google is a Russian
All people in power are untrustworthy West or East, now and then. And hence the division of powers in every democracy. Legislative power, Executive power and Judicial power do not have control over each other. Just because people in power cannot be trusted.
The founder of Google is an American citizen.
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