Aerial View Of Bombed Hamburg (1943)
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Aerial view of bombed Hamburg, Germany.
Various high angle and aerial shots of bombed harbour and docks in Hamburg. Various aerial shots of the devastation of the city with shells of factories and houses, and others half standing.
FILM ID:1998.03
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Very good footage, this is very important to preserve for historical accuracy of what happened.
thanks for the suggestion dood
Yes, red menace of bolshevism needed stopped, and ethnic and cultural boundaries are necessary.
Prove me wrong
Like the footage of Rotterdam, Coventry, Antwerp, Guernica, Madrid, Warsaw, Belgrade, London…
Seeing all this makes me wonder why the war took as long as it did to end. I mean 60 plus cities ended up like this before the end of the war. Insane
Absolute madness
It was unnecessary slaughtering civilians and burning old architecture to the ground by RAF. Revenge. USAAF used same terror bombing strategy in Korea and Indochina: it didn't help them win the war in Korea or in Vietnam.
@@danielcoy4938 easy they started building stuff underground
@@spannaspinna with slave labour
Actually 160 German Cities and 850 German communities suffered this fate. The most heavily destroyed were Würzburg(85-90%) Düren(99.9%) Hamburg(60-70%) Dessau(over 80%) Hannover(75-85%) and Nürnberg(60-70%).
0:57 very rare footage of Nazi Germany's last Superliner, the S.S Vaterland. Launched in 1940 and laid up incomplete in Hamburg harbor.
Hamburg was devastated .
And rightfully so haha
@@AaronTheGreat________ Still your brains left?
@@AaronTheGreat________ That is both untrue and an incredibly insensitive and hurtful thing to say, Hamburg was destroyed far more then was necessary. Consider this 160 Germany cities and 850 German communities were attacked by allied bombers, the destruction wrought in Germany’s cities was excessive and after 1942 not justified. Dresden, Würzburg, Düren, Jülich, Nürnberg, Hamburg, Berlin, Augsburg and many other cities were absolutely devastated and often nearly completely destroyed to the point were it can be considered a war crime. I suggest you look at footage of German cities before and after their destruction because that will really show the devastation. Germany’s civilians had done nothing to deserve such devastating attacks on their cities and homes.
Reaped the whirlwind,
Unfortunately, the majority of German civillians supported their beloved "Fuehrer," and therefore they automatically signed their own death warrants.
you reap what you sow
Shocking and horrifying images of total destruction. You can see why they called Hamburg the Hiroshima of Europe. However, this footage is very cleaned up, as the streets and harbours and canals are no longer filled with thousands of dead bodies. What's really amazing to me is that only 17 years later ---- in August 1960 --- while people's lives in Hamburg are mostly back to normal and the city is being restored and rebuilt ---- a group of young teenaged men from Liverpool, England called the Beatles come to play rock and roll music at a club in the Reeperbahn. Today Hamburg is more famous for the Beatles than for the terrible death and destruction of WW2.
Being english myself i do admire the resilience of the german people in taking the hammering that we dished..of course it worked both ways....the ends did justify the means.
Curious... All the rubble has disappeared from the streets few actual bomb craters and not a sign of any life, with the exception of smoke from the building at 4:04. When was this footage taken?
And I can see absolutely no signs of any movement or people at all. Also, most all of the bridges and most Oil and chemical facilities seem to be preserved, maybe so the allies could use those resources? This must have been after allies had total control over the area? Amazing.
The allies didn't take Hamburg until 1945, so I assume this to be axis film
@@Kristopherf1 The title of the video is misleading. Operation Gomorrha (bombing of Hamburg by British and Americans) was at the end of July 1943. The film was shot by the British occupiers after the surrender in May 1945.
@@aporem6889 Absolutely correct!
@@aporem6889Thank you for clarifying! Do you think you can repost your comment to make it more visible to viewers ?
Just wait when insurance guy comes to see this.
In jedem Fall ist ein Schadensregulierer erforderlich.
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People have been led so far from the truth that its off the scale...
well I guess that all the Nazis that continued to fight after such raids didn't see the video
They had to - Propaganda and the regime forced them too - for the ENDSIEG - with the Volkssturm though the war was lost after Stalingrad battle !
Audible audiobooks (Duel under the stars ) describe this bomb attack.Tin foil strips dropped from aircraft & jamming the radar made this possible
They reaped the whirlwind.
3:33 two people walking north by train tracks
Looking good
Notice how they show the Brits only the industrial areas, not all the civilian housing and churches, schools, hospitals, or city center?
That’s because the Brits already knew that part.
They saw Coventry with their own eyes.
Hamburg was personal for the British, as in order to maintain the secret of the Enigma Code’s cracking… the Coventry was destroyed completely. Only 574 people died, but the best estimation available say that only 15% of the city remained. A city of 250,000… around 200,000 fled and became homeless.
@@lordbonney9779 no it was actually because the British didn’t want to admit that they had intentionally targeted civilians in these attacks as well as the fact that Hamburg was very much beloved as a city do to it’s cultural heritage as well as it’s architecture, so showing how much of the Altstadt had been destroyed would have made the British look bad.
@@Wilhelm322 🤣
The British mainly focused on the civilian impact. Bomber Harris took the Bible quote “An eye for an eye” extremely seriously my friend.
Notice that Firestorms Hamburg and Dresden were both labelled as “revenge” cities. On those missions the bombers were instructed to attack the city. Not the industrial centres IN the city.
The Brits of the time proudly admitted the civilian crisis they caused as the Germans afforded them a similar regard during the Blitz.
The video mainly shows the industrial side of the bombing as that was the part that actually contributed to the war effort. Dresden and Hamburg housed vital facilities that supplied the Kriegsmarine and Wehrmacht making then targets. The video doesn’t show the civilian side as, from a military perspective, it didn’t matter.
@@lordbonney9779 if the bombings were revenge attacks then wouldn’t they have wanted to show the piles of dead bodies in the streets as well as the destroyed buildings? and why didn’t the military care about showing the destruction of the Altstadt of both Hamburg and Dresden?
That is not correct. From 3:56 until 5:12, you see Rothenburgsort, which was one part of town which was hit the hardest. Footage starts at approx 53°32'41.79"N, 10° 0'55.13"E and moves south-east to approx 53°32'13.77"N, 10° 2'30.37"E, looking south. If you hopp into Google Earth (standalone version), you can activate the 1943 overlay (which was actually taken around 1941, if not even 1940 and is sadly slightly offset), you can see that most of whats shown was actually civilian housing before. Some buildings still stand, but the channel you see has been filled since. A good point of orientation is the round bunker at 4:43, which still stands.
So sickening rip to all the innocent people
look at the war crimes here...oh its not war crimes If u win
I was taught about Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but not this.
Too bloody right mate, they deserved what they got.
Revenge
@@AaronTheGreat________ yea revenge isn't a good excuse for war crimes
@@mavssami41 Hamburg was a legitimate target, no war crime committed.
I just googled - it says over 37,000 died 😪
In real 100k+ would have died
@@adx1042 Same in Dresden : 100.000 in February , but it was bombed in March and April , again .
45.000 civilians died in Hamburg while Dresden lost 22.700-25.000 and Berlin lost 20.000 civilians. In total around 600.000 Civilians mostly women children and elderly perished in the Bombing of German Cities and Communities
Damage did small damage
The title of the video is misleading. Operation Gomorrha (bombing of Hamburg by British and Americans) was at the end of July 1943. The film was shot by the British occupiers after the surrender in May 1945.
I know the Nazis had to be defeated,but it makes to sad to see beutiful Germany in that state,and I hate think of what the Soviets did to German women.
Estimates of over 1 million women, including grandmothers and little girls.
They got paid back in their own coin, remember Warsaw, Stalingrad, Moscow, Kiev, and many other cities the Nazis destroyed! They reaped what they sowed!
And I hate think of what way the millions of kids and women died in the gaschambers of the nazi's.
A b. Who cares? They got what they deserved.
@@gbernardusb242 Bolsheviks needed stopped
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind wo sind sie geblieben 💀☠💀🖤🖤🖤
햄버거 패티처럼 도시가 잘구워졌구만 ㅋ
I wonder if this documentary was shown in the cinemas in Germany?
ich mach voll die pippen pips und snips
Why should they have shown this? It looked the same everywhere outside the cinemas.
Of course not - they made films by the UFA to hide the truth - what a pathetic attempt : Hitler always refused to see a bombed out city when he travelled by train ( if possible ) or plane he had the shutters down !
No. They didn't have cinemas anymore, .....
@@KK-rg1wz Some existed - but not in Hamburg I guess - most where in occupied countries .
Very good, right and absolutely correct thing happened.
it was TOTAL war...
Easy for you to say and stupid. My mother and her parents were born in Hamburg. They came to the U.S. in the 1920s. Their relatives were mostly still in Hamburg and the surrounding areas. My great-grandmother was born in 1865. He was 73 years old at the time of the bombing of residential areas. She survived by serendipity. Your statement, "Very good, right and absolutely correct thing happened." Are you trying to convince others or are you trying to convince yourself? The bombing was not just strategic. It was a genocide. What does a 4 year old or a 73 year old have to do with military targeting or policy? I have nothing to say about U.S. policy. I should not be punished for it just because I was born here.
More war crimes
No war crime here at all
@@brucefuller5331 Then why it is bombed by Allies?
@@yoseipilotBecause german nazis were murderers of Europeans?
I lived through this horror.
Really? That's insane. How did you survive?
@@eliw.1197 I was 5 at the time and remember being rushed in my Uncles arms to different bombshelters that night. the bombs whistling out of the sky ,the flames frizzed my hair and the terror settled in my heart forever. When morning came ,we stood outside a bomb shelter and everything was flattend ,burning ,smoking and stinking. They put us on trucks and evacuated ,to a train station ,that was still functioning. I think it was the Altona Bahnhof. ,put on a train and send to villages in Schleswig -Holstein. Nobody ever talked about this as I grew up. Not in the schools, not anywhere. But as I grew up ,I learned that this was a neccessary evil in order to put an end to an evil regime. Yes ,I am glad that there archives about this. And hopefully the generations to come will see this and realize War is Hell .
@@blancahumphrey532 Amazing you remember that. I mean, it's horrific that it happened. You are my grandfather's age and he had it easy compared to that. When did you start to talk about it?
@@eliw.1197 I started talking about it after I got to my new Home the USA, My Mother did asked me in 1970 ,out of nowhere ,did I remember anything about the bombing. I told her everything I remembered .She was very surprised . But confirmed my memories. And that was the end of that . There is no sense talking about that any more. she said Nobody else in the family did either. But I am writing in a diary about it and am thankful for the You Tube videos . That time of terror under a vicious Dictator needs to be remembered. But the way it looks to me ,my generation will soon be gone and the younger ones dont realy want to know . Wishing you and your Family a Very Happy Thanksgiving Day.
@@blancahumphrey532 History is always written by the victors ! Not much about the suffering of the Germans who died or lost their home forever in the Eastern parts of Germany .
Is thos why we call little slabs of meat we fry up "Hamburgers"
As in people from Hamburg?
You are not human!
BROKE EVERY INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIME...
Compliments of the 8th Air Force!
...and an honest "thank you" from a German who loves justice.
@@aporem6889 Crazy people all around!
Mostly the RAF..Americans still had training wheels
@@Kevin-ke2in Ig it wasnt for the 8th air force you would be speaking German!
@@williamramos1280 you do realise the war started in 1939 not when America was attacked and Hitler declared war on them. Prior to that the RAF carried the load and bomber command carried out 1000 bomber raids at the time the us was still making a nice earner out of the war
redused to rubble a once big ship building town
Why was it bombed?
For lulz
@@startracksha what?
@@itsmejohnson5931 Bad joke, sorry. Actually, US and UK come with the idea of strategic bombing. Their goals were to destroy strategic production sites, kill as many people as they can (to reduce mobilization reserve) and make Soviets afraid.
War
Hamburg was a big ship producer city, it was a populated and industrialized city that had direct conection to the sea and big shipyards, dockyards and ports, so the german government decided to produce a big part of it's vessels there. At that point in the war, it was pumping out plenty of U-boats, a problem for the Royal Navy that needed to deal with them to protect merchant ships going to britain. By bombing it, a significant part of naval production would stop, reducing the strength of the Kriegsmarine by a lot.