I knew a German woman in Dusseldorf back in the 1980s who told me that she was a little girl back then when the Americans arrived. They lined everybody up in a row and she thought they were going to kill them all. She was terrified. But they only wanted to know their names and addresses then they were all sent sent home to clean up the rubble in the streets and get on with their lives....others also told me anecdotes of life as a German kid during the war. Made me think and gave me a more perspective on what happened and what is still happening in place like Ukraine. Damn the warmongers......
When my brother was in the British Army mid to late 70s, he got friends with a German boy in the German Army. The boy spoke perfect English, his parents broken English and his Grandfather had no English. His Grandfather had retired a few years before. He was 66 at the time. He was 13 in 1923. In November of that year in Hamburg he went to the bakery with a wheelbarrow full of money to buy bread. Whilst he was in the bakery buying loaf, a thief caught sight of the wheelbarroŵ full of money. But he had dumped the money and stole the wheelbarrow. This was during Hyyperinflation when there were 2 trillion Deutchmarks to the pound.
Taking a wild guess, but I believe the first part of the video shows M-10 tank destroyers from the 747th tank battalion (they were short of Sherman tanks) and troops from either the 29th or 83rd Infantry Divisions marching through Munchengladbach. You also get a brief glimpse of an M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer with a 76 mm gun with a muzzle brake, probably from the 643rd Tank Destroyer battalion.
Hmmm I wonder how many deserted , claiming to never have been in the German military ? Just slipped on civilian clothes . Did the allies try to weed them out ?
@@seerstone8982 Nazism's only ideology is murder, and murder, and more murder. World War 2's Allied side was composed of nations with a lot of blood on their hands from various imperialist and colonialist atrocities, but to compare them to the Nazis is a false equivalency.
@@DrJones20 Russia was supplied by America by way of Alaska moving supplies across the ice into Sibera. The Soviets were fat on U.S. Spam when they were raping children in East Germany.
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I knew a German woman in Dusseldorf back in the 1980s who told me that she was a little girl back then when the Americans arrived. They lined everybody up in a row and she thought they were going to kill them all. She was terrified. But they only wanted to know their names and addresses then they were all sent sent home to clean up the rubble in the streets and get on with their lives....others also told me anecdotes of life as a German kid during the war. Made me think and gave me a more perspective on what happened and what is still happening in place like Ukraine. Damn the warmongers......
When my brother was in the British Army mid to late 70s, he got friends with a German boy in the German Army. The boy spoke perfect English, his parents broken English and his Grandfather had no English. His Grandfather had retired a few years before. He was 66 at the time. He was 13 in 1923. In November of that year in Hamburg he went to the bakery with a wheelbarrow full of money to buy bread. Whilst he was in the bakery buying loaf, a thief caught sight of the wheelbarroŵ full of money. But he had dumped the money and stole the wheelbarrow. This was during Hyyperinflation when there were 2 trillion Deutchmarks to the pound.
Fortunate were those who fell into American and British hands.
Daanngg not even one comment ? I would like to point out that the germans seemed kinda happy or relieved for some reason . ..
It was a really brutal war for both sides I'm sure the Germans where happy not to have to fight
For some reason? Take a history lesson
They were probably relieved that they were not occupied by the Russians.
Taking a wild guess, but I believe the first part of the video shows M-10 tank destroyers from the 747th tank battalion (they were short of Sherman tanks) and troops from either the 29th or 83rd Infantry Divisions marching through Munchengladbach. You also get a brief glimpse of an M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer with a 76 mm gun with a muzzle brake, probably from the 643rd Tank Destroyer battalion.
Hmmm I wonder how many deserted , claiming to never have been in the German military ? Just slipped on civilian clothes . Did the allies try to weed them out ?
Good question.
In the last day's all males including old men, and children were soldier's.
Dude all the males where dead or captured
The German civilians nor the military don't look like they were deprived of much food
Most of the food shortages were after the war
Excellent point.
They plundered the rest of Europe to keep themselves fed.
46 and 47 were much worse!
Even in defeat the German people are always well dressed with their suits an ties an top hats
And that matters, does it?
Well dressed murderers
@@DrJones20 I guess we Americans didn't murder anybody in Vietnam!
@@seerstone8982 Nazism's only ideology is murder, and murder, and more murder. World War 2's Allied side was composed of nations with a lot of blood on their hands from various imperialist and colonialist atrocities, but to compare them to the Nazis is a false equivalency.
@@DrJones20 An other childish comment . Grow up.
It sucks to be a German in 1945
Apparently the US military didn't have long coats like the Germans . Just short jackets
Krauts got owned
How many countries did it take to beat them?
@@seerstone8982 Basically one, but try again wehraboo
@@DrJones20 Russia was supplied by America by way of Alaska moving supplies across the ice into Sibera. The Soviets were fat on U.S. Spam when they were raping children in East Germany.
british dress style
Lo mejor que hicieron las tropas americcanas le duela a quien le duela sino como estuviera el mundo