Leaving Warsaw (FLAME THROWING T-34 in pursuit) Ausland-Tonwoche Nr 700 Jan. 1945
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Episode 244
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Ausland-Tonwoche
Nr. 700, Jan. 1945
1:24 - Germany: ROA (Russian Liberation Army) at an Orthodox Church service
2:05 - General Vlasov and other senior ROA officers give Christmas gifts to children
3:04 - Flemish fascist boarding school for girls
4:02 - Berlin: Underground bunkers, which house a public kitchen, library, reception hall mayor,
printing, hairdressing salon.
5:59 - Western Front: Use of charge boats against a bridge
6:49 - Volkssturm recruits receive their uniforms and weapons
6:10 - Volkssturm recruits being trained to use anti-tank weapons
7:38 - Poland: Military operations, near the river Veyhsel, Warsaw and Breslau
Before the end of December ominous reports were received by Guderian-who, in this desperately late period of the war, had been made chief of the German general staff. German Army intelligence reported that 225 Soviet infantry divisions and 22 armored corps had been identified on the front between the Baltic and the Carpathians, assembled to attack. But when Guderian presented the report of these massive Soviet offensive preparations, Hitler refused to believe it, exclaiming: “It’s the biggest imposture since Genghis Khan! Who is responsible for producing all this rubbish?”
If Hitler had been willing to stop the Ardennes counteroffensive in the west, troops could have been transferred to the Eastern Front; but he refused to do so. At the same time he refused Guderian’s renewed request that the 30 German divisions now isolated in Courland (on the Baltic seacoast in Lithuania) should be evacuated by sea and brought back to reinforce the gateways into Germany. As a consequence, Guderian was left with a mobile reserve of only 12 armored divisions to back up the 50 weak infantry divisions stretched out over the 700 miles of the main front.
The Soviet offensive opened on January 12, 1945, when Konev’s armies were launched against the German front in southern Poland, starting from their bridgehead over the Vistula River near Sandomierz. After it had pierced the German defense and produced a flanking menace to the central sector, Zhukov’s armies in the centre of the front bounded forward from their bridgeheads nearer Warsaw. That same day, January 14, Rokossovsky’s armies also joined in the offensive, striking from the Narew River north of Warsaw and breaking through the defenses covering this flank approach to East Prussia. The breach in the German front was now 200 miles wide.
On January 17, 1945, Warsaw was captured by Zhukov, after it had been surrounded; and on January 19 his armoured spearheads drove into Łódź. That same day Konev’s spearheads reached the Silesian frontier of prewar Germany. Thus, at the end of the first week the offensive had been carried 100 miles deep and was 400 miles wide-far too wide to be filled by such scanty reinforcements as were belatedly provided.
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You always craft a succinct, but thorough, description of the topics covered, to include the overall background and context at that particular stage of the war that the film footage is actually about. This adds meaning and depth to the pictures presented in the video, fostering greater understanding of the events portrayed. Great job!
Nicely spoken🤔
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Very good footage and coverage...as always, Frederick.....
Many thanks!
Remember when the B&W maps had names of Russian and Ukrainian Towns & Cities on them? I fear if this keeps up, the next maps will have the Reich's Capital stenciled across the screen...
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Germans in their hubris started whole ROA thing when they no longer occupied any part of the Russia 😁 Now suddenly they were not Untermenchen, but it was too late.
they never trusted them, and rightly so because they betrayed them at the end, might just have been for propaganda purposes
Looks like they were making the big vats of Spaetzle in that Berlin bunker. Interesting how they were filming with the gun cameras in 1945. This may be gun camera footage from 1944 as supply lines were non existent in 1945
Don't talk nonsense that German supply lines didn't exist in 1945.
Have you any idea where Vlasov and his gang were attending church.
No, sorry
@@M1945 I feel Vlasov is a rather tragic figure. He was a traitor but he had plenty of reasons to justify his actions. I don't feel sorry for him but the war threw up moral choices that were not easy for individuals to grapple with. The Stalin regime was widely hated within the Soviet Union. And Soviet pows were treated extremely badly both by the Huns and even their own country. He was foolish to have believed any kind of independent Russian state would have been permitted by the ideologues of Germany. They only wanted puppets.
Those poor schoolgirls probably forced at gunpoint to make this film. Those Nazis were so evil, i know as mister tv tells me so.
Imagine what happened to them after the Red Army got hold of them.
@@choochoo9436 Flemish it says.
If you need the tv to tell you what's what then you need to get out more.
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