Hessen 1945 (in color and HD)

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  • Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2016
  • Impressions just after the end of World War Two from the German Region Hessen (Frankenau) close to Edersee.
    00:01 City of Bad Wildungen
    01:37 "Löwen-Apotheke" (pharmacy) in Bad Wildungen
    02:25 Frankenau
    05:32 Fritzlar Air Base
    09:47 City of Halle/Saale freight station and old bridge "Berliner Brücke"
    11:08 City of Halle/Saale Geiststraße
    Find more impressive videos in our playlist "Spirit of Liberation": goo.gl/Gzeto2
    Who knows what we see in this video? Write us your knowledge in the comments, describe the pictures by adding the timecode.
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    Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary “Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016)
    Watch here the new restored pictures in our film trailer: goo.gl/CU0hUP

Комментарии • 4,3 тыс.

  • @rcsuccession8579
    @rcsuccession8579 Год назад +13

    I am deeply grateful that I can now watch such precious old footage through RUclips.

  • @TonyCSilvaFilms
    @TonyCSilvaFilms 4 года назад +723

    I love how the person that filmed this did it knowing he was capturing history.

    • @ludomirsteinbruck9376
      @ludomirsteinbruck9376 3 года назад +2

      Of course

    • @skepalet
      @skepalet 3 года назад +6

      Yes, taped on camera, how the Americans take Nazis to Resorts.

    • @realcritical-kr2dd
      @realcritical-kr2dd 3 года назад +18

      @@skepalet wehrmacht*

    • @Boooooooooo541
      @Boooooooooo541 3 года назад +12

      @@realcritical-kr2dd You think the Wehrmacht where all saints?, did you look up what they did in Stalingrad and numerous cities, villages, across the USSR.

    • @realcritical-kr2dd
      @realcritical-kr2dd 3 года назад +21

      @@Boooooooooo541 Oh look, it's the cool guy 🥶, be careful everyone.

  • @teleguy5699
    @teleguy5699 3 года назад +68

    I'm retired military and it is amazing watching this in color raw. I can easily imagine myself being in the middle of WW2 instead of those distant B&W newsreels.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад +2

      @@yakovmatityahu Me? No, but I've been part of many wars in my career.

    • @marcelsinky1652
      @marcelsinky1652 2 года назад

      why do you have to say, you retired military, what does it bring to your commentary ?
      Is it because, you are retired military, you are allowed to appreciate it more than other people ?
      Your comment, saying you can imagine yourself been in the middle of WW2 is totaly stupid.
      Shame on you.
      You think it's funny !
      Let's make a mess in your retard country and then wish it would be fun to be there during the conflict ...
      Killing civils, maybe your family, raping your mom, sisters, having to eat your dog because nothing to eat ...
      very retard thinking ...
      In Ukraine, people was eating them family because nothing to eat ...
      What a wish ...

    • @harkmay
      @harkmay 2 года назад +2

      thanks for your service sir.

    • @teleguy5699
      @teleguy5699 2 года назад

      @@harkmay You're welcome!

    • @TheLobohobo
      @TheLobohobo 2 года назад

      No, one can’t!

  • @shmac96
    @shmac96 2 года назад +56

    This makes the experiences of my grandfather's generation so real for me. Thank you!

    • @shmac96
      @shmac96 2 года назад

      @@user-xw2nx4tr5n What kind of comment is that? Why would you say that? My grandfather fought for the Canadian forces and my mother's mother was Ukrainian whose family fled to Canada before the war.

  • @coldwarsarge7592
    @coldwarsarge7592 5 лет назад +73

    Thanks so much for sharing this and so many more incredible videos!
    As a history buff this is a nice treasure trove...keep uploadibg, please!

  • @Realthinx
    @Realthinx 6 лет назад +174

    priceless footage. thank you very much for making it available here

  • @elancrew9894
    @elancrew9894 3 года назад +113

    I think common German soldiers were just happy to have made it out of WWII alive and looking forward to going home. Some of their expressions are (seemingly) of excitement rather than of defeat.

    • @crowmack
      @crowmack 2 года назад +3

      The weren't when they were raping women, murdering and torturing people and burning down their houses. Oh no, it was all fun and games then. But when the boots on the other foot it's ...oh the common german soldier, just like you or I...fuck off.

    • @jackangus4530
      @jackangus4530 2 года назад +9

      Crowmack, you really ought to educate yourself instead of swallowing media hyped drivel and look at factual history from those from the axis side which were there.

    • @rodjones117
      @rodjones117 2 года назад +24

      @@crowmack My great Uncle Gustav, farmboy - army trucks came into the village, rounded up all the young men, there and then, and loaded them into the trucks. One month later he was on the front line in Stalingrad. Only escaped death because he got invalided out (when they still could) with frostbite-induced gangrene.
      Life is pretty much always more complex than people like you like to believe.

    • @jarosawkorczynski4746
      @jarosawkorczynski4746 2 года назад +1

      @@blindmelonstubbly The Wehrmacht was equally responsible for war crimes committed on occupied territories as SS. Since day one to the last day.

    • @etienneyitian
      @etienneyitian 2 года назад +34

      @@jarosawkorczynski4746 yeah. And the winner forget their own wrong behavior. Allied soldiers did also murder, rape and all that bad things. There is always evil people who over use their power on weaker people, everywhere. Life and humanity isn't simple.

  • @Wally-H
    @Wally-H 3 года назад +76

    You can't put a price on film like this, and big respect to those restoring them. As a social historian I find stuff like this fascinating, especially the fire in the marshalling yard and the use of Germans as a fire brigade.

    • @tommiheuni2817
      @tommiheuni2817 2 года назад +7

      This is the German fire brigade. She had exactly that uniform. In a village in Lusatia, the Russians shot the entire fire brigade because they thought it was SS.

    • @user-zc6dk8dv7e
      @user-zc6dk8dv7e 2 года назад +3

      @@tommiheuni2817 Не мудрено перепутать.Развеж что они были без оружия.Командир расчета пожарной команды выглядит прям штандартенфюрером.Ибо ненависть была к ним ужасная,да и было за что ненавидеть.Ну хуже врага нет так это -предателя:-Власовцев с Бандеровцами этих в плен на Восточном фронте точно не брали!

    • @charles_0017
      @charles_0017 2 года назад

      @@user-zc6dk8dv7e there were many reports of Russian soldiers raping kids and women in Poland and Germany, these weren’t even enemy combatants, they were just civilians. They even shot their own Soviet prisoners of war they discovered in German concentration camps.

    • @lesempecheursdepenserencer1418
      @lesempecheursdepenserencer1418 Год назад +1

      It was a Real german fite brigade and their duty to take out fire

    • @alexanderdatebashvili2031
      @alexanderdatebashvili2031 Год назад

      @@user-zc6dk8dv7e самый опасный враг это чекисты сталинцы , они купались в крови своего населения .

  • @RedStarRogue
    @RedStarRogue 6 лет назад +276

    I'm in awe of how vibrant the kodachrome colours are. It's always a bit surreal to see such great looking colour film from WWII.

    • @Jay-jq6bl
      @Jay-jq6bl 2 года назад +4

      The Wizard of Oz too

    • @gcrav
      @gcrav 2 года назад +7

      It's not Kodachrome, strictly speaking. The E-6 process was originated by the German company Agfa before the war and was a tightly held trade secret. Like so much other German prewar technology, the IP rights became spoils of war for a firm within the allied bloc (Kodak). Similar things happened with German audio technology (the tape recorder), and the Automotive IP of Daimler-Benz and BMW. My guess is that the original could be faded but digitally restored for modern video.

    • @allentoyokawa9068
      @allentoyokawa9068 2 года назад +1

      colors***

    • @selbstdenkergegenmsm3812
      @selbstdenkergegenmsm3812 2 года назад

      @@gcrav danke für die Aufklärung

    • @selbstdenkergegenmsmii1541
      @selbstdenkergegenmsmii1541 2 года назад +4

      na Hauptsache Sie achten auf die Technik anstatt auf die Gräueltaten den man den Deutschen angetan hat

  • @tashalee4294
    @tashalee4294 5 лет назад +15

    Go to settings and play back at .75 - looks much better. Thanks for posting!

  • @karinlearned7150
    @karinlearned7150 3 года назад +155

    Great film clip. Somewhere in the crowd of German POWs is my father. He was on the Russian front, deserted and went looking for the 'Ammies', surrendered and was sent to Hessen. He, among others, was then sent to France to help rebuild damaged areas caused by the war and was released in 1947.

    • @user-re2mj6oz3r
      @user-re2mj6oz3r 2 года назад +18

      Повезло сжигал и убивал у нас а попал во Францию

    • @blackbeard-wl6xt
      @blackbeard-wl6xt 2 года назад +15

      @@user-re2mj6oz3r откуда такая информация, что он сжигал- убивал??? Он может водителем был.
      Например, мой дед, был и водителем и разгружал и охранял конвои из США с лендлизом и немцев в глаза не видел. Кроме лётчиков люфтваффе в небе ( и то только самолёты ).

    • @lucius5208
      @lucius5208 2 года назад +10

      @@blackbeard-wl6xt no one was innocent

    • @kotofey70
      @kotofey70 2 года назад +1

      Повезло, а вот коммуняки своих из одного лагеря в ругой направляли

    • @user-re2mj6oz3r
      @user-re2mj6oz3r 2 года назад +1

      @@kotofey70 ну на то они и камуняки

  • @DLWELD
    @DLWELD 3 года назад +19

    Amazing films. Beautifully restored. And no artificial dust and scratches that some folks add to give it a period "feel". Sure would like to see a few technical notes though - film type, 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, kodachrome, camera type if recorded.

  • @homersamson2635
    @homersamson2635 4 года назад +41

    Awesome footage, many fascinating little insights and moments.

  • @kazuyoshisakamoto4096
    @kazuyoshisakamoto4096 4 года назад +18

    I was very impressed with the valuable color images. Thank you for posting.

    • @RicardoRMedina
      @RicardoRMedina 4 года назад +1

      All filmed by George Stevens Sr., the Hollywood movie director.

  • @stefanberger7493
    @stefanberger7493 2 года назад +3

    Fascinating pictures. Small town in the beginning up to 2:24 is Bad Wildungen. The film was taken in the Brunnenallee and Brunnenstrasse. Most of the buildings stil exist and have changed very little in the past 76 years.

  • @FriedrichKNobel
    @FriedrichKNobel 2 года назад +75

    Hessen
    0:01 city of Bad Wildungen
    2:25 village of Frankenau
    5:32 Fritzlar AB
    Saxony Anhalt
    9:48 City of Halle/Saale freight station and old Berliner Brücke
    11:08 City of Halle/Saale Geiststraße

    • @chronoshistory
      @chronoshistory  2 года назад +5

      Thank you so much for this information about the places. Could you please explain how you did recognize Bad Wildungen, Fritzlar and Halle an der Saale? Thanks!

    • @FriedrichKNobel
      @FriedrichKNobel 2 года назад +14

      ​@@chronoshistory
      I like this detective work:-D Bad Wildungen was a bit difficult. The inner city and the boulevard with the trees looks different nowadays. But the streetsign "Edersee 13km" at 1:05 was a good hint which city it could be. The significant building "Löwen-Apotheke" at 1:41 still exists at the Main place.
      Fritzlar AB was the next airfield to Bad Wildungen. Quite flat countryside without a forest in that part of Hesse is uncommon. So it was obvious Fritzlar.
      Haale/Saale was not easy but the streetsign "Berlin 168km" was a good hint where it must approximately be. The architecture is inner german and not in the south or north. In the end at 9:59 the significant small tower in the background at the burning huge freight station with the four pinnacles that still exists nowadays and the bridge on the left was obvious Haale/Saale. The Geiststraße was the quite intact inner city of a german city with a tramway in 1945 only 168km from Berlin. Haale Saale is known being relatively spared. Which clips do you need help?

    • @chronoshistory
      @chronoshistory  2 года назад +7

      Thank you so much for the great explanations, @Friedrich K. Nobel ! This already helps us a lot!

    • @willbass2869
      @willbass2869 2 года назад +2

      Thanks

    • @stevek8829
      @stevek8829 Год назад +1

      War stock footage is often abused in this way. I see the same footage illustrating wildly opposite situations.

  • @federalli169
    @federalli169 7 лет назад +4

    I'm amazed Bye these captured moments. Thank you for sharing

  • @johnnieireland2057
    @johnnieireland2057 4 года назад +14

    I just rented "The Spirit Of Liberation" from Vimo, because of this footage you posted. Thank You! Going to watch it now!!

  • @TheRaulr151
    @TheRaulr151 2 года назад +13

    Amazing footage!! Really brings it to life and the reality of it all. Thanks to the greatest generation!

  • @spellchanger1169
    @spellchanger1169 3 года назад +56

    It's funny how back in the day when you filmed a stranger as they walked by they smiled, now if you film strangers in most cases they are going to rush you and scream at you to turn that camera off.

    • @G-Mastah-Fash
      @G-Mastah-Fash 3 года назад +26

      Because cameras were a novelty back then. Now they're spying devices.

    • @serendipitousconversations
      @serendipitousconversations 3 года назад +5

      @@G-Mastah-Fash well said

    • @adamadaam8375
      @adamadaam8375 3 года назад +4

      Different context. In our time peoples are so dangerous and toxic that you cant imagine what he is going to do with the videos.

    • @spellchanger1169
      @spellchanger1169 3 года назад

      @@adamadaam8375 Yeah it is definitely different when, what are you going to do with the Footage? Project it on a wall? Opposed to uploaded to RUclips... lol.

    • @adamadaam8375
      @adamadaam8375 3 года назад

      @@spellchanger1169 dude stop being so naive.

  • @unknown_3301
    @unknown_3301 5 лет назад +199

    How wonderful to see this in color.

    • @rudolfkraffzick642
      @rudolfkraffzick642 4 года назад +6

      Triumph and misery. But looks like an almost friendly conquest, the sun shining all days long. But the winners and loosers all gone today.

    • @lookchahshway5182
      @lookchahshway5182 4 года назад +1

      @@rudolfkraffzick642 Time has no discrimination, it catches up with everybody.

    • @Realkeepa
      @Realkeepa 4 года назад +1

      Wonderfull???

    • @australorps3066
      @australorps3066 3 года назад +2

      Its really wonderfull to see this because its of the city where i live in (its very small) and my great grandfahter must be in this video. i can relocate so many spots out of this video its just amazing.

    • @kayaa1888
      @kayaa1888 3 года назад

      Wow really?

  • @utubeozpat
    @utubeozpat 6 лет назад +1695

    Great quality footage but proper speed is 0.75.

    • @rogerpattube
      @rogerpattube 5 лет назад +47

      They did look super-industrious!

    • @mrmaje1
      @mrmaje1 5 лет назад +22

      Oh yeah..thanks!

    • @vacuumelite2065
      @vacuumelite2065 5 лет назад +19

      good shout......much smoother. :-)

    • @Dr.Pepper001
      @Dr.Pepper001 5 лет назад +11

      Good call. Thanks.

    • @gus2600
      @gus2600 5 лет назад +18

      Thank you for the tip. It made viewing much more enjoyable!

  • @kmorris180
    @kmorris180 Год назад

    Good footage. Everytime I see films like this from the war, I look for familiar faces of those I knew who served on either side.

  • @neilmurray6943
    @neilmurray6943 2 года назад +3

    The guy smoking the pipe looks just like my late Dad's best friend Bill Alt. He was there and took lots of pictures. A Major in the Army Corp of Engineers. He had the best WW2 stories and pictures.

  • @RusslandTV
    @RusslandTV 6 лет назад +33

    wo ist eigentlich in Hessen der Ort, von dem aus es nach Berlin nur 168 km ist?

    • @soists2558
      @soists2558 6 лет назад +4

      @Russki
      Vielleicht ist das ein Fernhinweis auf die 168 Kilometer entfernte Autobahn (gar so viel gab es ja noch nicht), die dann nach Berlin führt. Aber das ist Spekulation. Ja, wenn man einen Straßenatlas von 1945 hätte ...

    • @swarthyjake4433
      @swarthyjake4433 5 лет назад +1

      der oder eider umphf phumf fahten .

    • @e30325ikiller
      @e30325ikiller 5 лет назад +3

      nirgends

    • @krimsk0
      @krimsk0 5 лет назад +3

      Halle

    • @marcop4508
      @marcop4508 5 лет назад

      @@swarthyjake4433 Fubar! ;-)

  • @battlestarone
    @battlestarone 7 лет назад +286

    was talking to an old man who was a german pow at a camp near my town..they had a lot of freedom when here getting to go into local town etc..he got friendly with local scottish girl..married her after the war..lived in the usa till she died after being married over 50yrs..then returned home to germany..he knew everything about my town...lovely man.

    • @woznotwos
      @woznotwos 7 лет назад +23

      My wife's family knew a German pow , he worked on a nearby farm . He was an artist and would draw peoples portraits. My father in law had the guys self portrait once upon a time but its now with his brother in Ireland. He stayed in the uk for some time after the war but they eventually lost touch.

    • @christianworthinton8000
      @christianworthinton8000 5 лет назад +3

      +emosh73 Enough said!

    • @renataostertag6051
      @renataostertag6051 5 лет назад +25

      Kindly - do NOT intermix POWs inside the USA with the camps (death camps) Eisenhauer erected INSIDE Germany AFTER the war !!!!!! Understood ?! Please - OMG !

    • @georgschmidt4670
      @georgschmidt4670 5 лет назад +9

      Renata Ostertag: Is correct

    • @someturkishguy8638
      @someturkishguy8638 5 лет назад +5

      Lucky guy, he actually didn't get executed in the first half hour.

  • @blakeskidmore523
    @blakeskidmore523 2 года назад +46

    Wow, you can feel the relief on all of these men. They survived. Life would carry on. Amazing footage.

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 года назад +4

      But didn't a huge of German troops end up dying in Eisenhower's death camps?

    • @blakeskidmore523
      @blakeskidmore523 2 года назад +7

      @@almartin2138 Nope. This is a myth pushed by one author that is not taken seriously by any historians and has been thoroughly debunked.

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 года назад

      @@blakeskidmore523 Oh really? Out of interest, who was the author? And why would someone lie about such a thing?

    • @etienneyitian
      @etienneyitian 2 года назад +6

      not that much, a lot of german prisonner of war died after the war from hunger and bad treatment

    • @almartin2138
      @almartin2138 2 года назад

      @@blakeskidmore523 Hi Blake, shall corially ask you once again, could you be so kind as to inform me where one can go to find your assertions? Fanx in advance ; )

  • @traingirl4715
    @traingirl4715 2 года назад +1

    I ' be always wondered how they colour these B&W movies... amazing

  • @shanemcredmond9751
    @shanemcredmond9751 7 лет назад +188

    what a fabulous piece of film, thanks for the upload

  • @dampfunddiesel8020
    @dampfunddiesel8020 4 года назад +274

    I had an uncle who had to serve in the Wehrmacht. He killed in action on March 27, 1945 at the age of 19 at Seelower Höhen. The war in Europe ended 6 weeks later. I never got to know him. My aunt named her son Walter after him. That was 75 years ago. Germany must never go to war again.

    • @fujitofusan
      @fujitofusan 4 года назад +54

      Dampf undDiesel no country should be at war. We need to learn from ww2

    • @spacecatboy2962
      @spacecatboy2962 4 года назад +4

      yeah but you never know, he might have been a dick. I had a uncle died right before i was born, and based on my relatives, he was probly a dick to

    • @saschabrauning8313
      @saschabrauning8313 4 года назад +9

      Hallo Ich kann leider nur wenig English Ich komme aus falkenhagen Das ist in der nähe von seelow noch heute findet man viele überreste des krieges
      Ist denn dein verwanter gefunden und Auf einem der soldatenfriedhöfe bestattet worden?

    • @rothari1865
      @rothari1865 4 года назад +63

      ww2 was initiated by Allies, Germany did its best to avoid it.

    • @Oscoe63
      @Oscoe63 3 года назад +43

      @@rothari1865 LOL

  • @kutjanus9933
    @kutjanus9933 3 года назад

    Listening to sound with headset makes me sleepy..what a ASMR !!

  • @jld142
    @jld142 3 года назад

    Nice Video.
    I knew where parts of thus Video was filmed and its interessting to see what has changed and what not

  • @mikemann2053
    @mikemann2053 7 лет назад +6

    Really interesting footage. Thank you.

  • @rexracernj7696
    @rexracernj7696 6 лет назад +11

    Facinating footage. Victors, and vanquished! Everyone here, winners and defeated, just seems happy & relieved the war is over.

  • @silkegoerlich9735
    @silkegoerlich9735 Год назад

    Danke für diese Eindrücke ....

  • @observer1242
    @observer1242 Год назад +1

    Very cool. Goes along with some of the descriptions my father told me about in that area after the war had ended. He was there with the seventh Army 100th infantry division.

    • @nonamordukova7724
      @nonamordukova7724 Год назад

      Надеюсь он в аду на веки вечные

  • @kinocchio
    @kinocchio 4 года назад +672

    People dressed so well back in the day.

    • @nosferatuoddz7974
      @nosferatuoddz7974 4 года назад +27

      @pork n beans ok boomer

    • @sven5206
      @sven5206 4 года назад +36

      You should come to visit Germany these days - we don't only dress well but have cars as well :D

    • @eldragon4076
      @eldragon4076 4 года назад +27

      @@sven5206 naturally you are missing his point - whoooosh

    • @captfalconXX
      @captfalconXX 4 года назад +17

      @pork n beans LOL... Yeah, those saggy pants exposing their nasty butt cracks and boxer underwear.

    • @eldragon4076
      @eldragon4076 4 года назад +39

      @@nosferatuoddz7974 better than brainless millennial

  • @danlaplume4942
    @danlaplume4942 5 лет назад +4

    Very beautiful documentary ....the memory is here .

  • @Katrin-jj3mg
    @Katrin-jj3mg 2 года назад +18

    The soldier in 4:24 breaks my heart, he looks so incredibly young and scared. Reminds me of my grandmother's brother, he went missing in Russia aged 20. My great-grandmother never got over it.

    • @haizee2330
      @haizee2330 2 года назад

      Probably murdering Belarusian Jews.

    • @Katrin-jj3mg
      @Katrin-jj3mg 2 года назад +1

      @@haizee2330 Maybe he was just a boy being overwhelmed by the system with a mother who couldn't sleep at night with worry.
      Not all were war criminals.

    • @haizee2330
      @haizee2330 2 года назад +1

      @@Katrin-jj3mg I was talking about your great uncle

    • @Katrin-jj3mg
      @Katrin-jj3mg 2 года назад +3

      @@haizee2330 just for your information...my great uncle was a boy who never wanted to be a soldier. on his last visit in 1944 he told my grandmother that he knew he would die if he had to go back to the front. He died in Russia and it broke my great-grandmother. Nobody can understand the circumstances anymore and that is also unnecessary. No one gets justice from it.
      A fate of many in many countries, but a tragedy for our family.

    • @bubiruski8067
      @bubiruski8067 2 года назад +2

      @@haizee2330 Had not the Fnglish orchestrated this war no atrocities had happened.
      In the end the Fnglish declaration of war cost more than 60 mil lives !

  • @user-vs5fd5dh5d
    @user-vs5fd5dh5d 3 года назад +2

    эти убийцы , сгубившие миллионы сейчас на пенсии и получают свой кайф на канарских островах и других южных курортах

  • @connorgillespie9606
    @connorgillespie9606 5 лет назад +106

    put this to 0.75 speed and the movements seem significantly less jumpy and more realistic

    • @xenagomez4017
      @xenagomez4017 4 года назад +2

      How do u do that??

    • @rockiesecho8518
      @rockiesecho8518 4 года назад

      you are so smart!:)

    • @Ralphieboy
      @Ralphieboy 4 года назад

      It could also have been filmed at the wrong speed...cameras were not all that mechanically accurate back then

    • @scottlarson1548
      @scottlarson1548 3 года назад

      @@Ralphieboy More likely they shot at a slower film speed to conserve film.

    • @malines999
      @malines999 3 года назад +1

      Cars drives like 0.5 speed 😅😅😅

  • @floydyakrill
    @floydyakrill 4 года назад +3

    Amazing quality footage 👌

  • @connecticutskier2
    @connecticutskier2 Год назад +4

    I lost my only uncle in WW fighting Germany. He graduated from high school at 14 and a half, I think of the great life he should have had, he was the oldest of five and the only son and was an
    Army Air corpsman, most of his crew got out and were captured and returned. He was on a B-17 and my father was a Torretta Flier in 1944 on a B-24, the plane was the Ol 45, and he was lucky, did his fifty missions and his only job in the last year of the war was in Madison, WI giving out weekend passes to new recruits. He died in 2008 at 92 and might have been the last man left on the plane, and he did attend a few reunions in the 1990's. He had more common sense than anyone I have ever known.

  • @caseyjonessnr1200
    @caseyjonessnr1200 2 года назад

    Another very interesting visual document.

  • @tiredlawdog
    @tiredlawdog 5 лет назад +6

    I got to ride in one of the C47s, What a magnificent plane. Noisy, rough, and just a course plane. It was a true work horse. Loved it.

  • @teresasalazarhernandez5877
    @teresasalazarhernandez5877 5 лет назад +36

    Me da gusto ke exista este tipo de vídeos en los ke se aprecian momentos ke nunca se podrán olvidar y se ven tan claros muy buen vídeo gracias saludos desde México

    • @parowozy
      @parowozy Год назад

      Germany should not exist for what they did

    • @ASHTAR1958
      @ASHTAR1958 Год назад

      SALUDOS A AMLO

  • @snackxy
    @snackxy 3 года назад +17

    Ich liebe solche überarbeiteten Aufnahmen alleine der "Kultur" unterschied im vergleich zu heute ist enorm

    • @jule5234
      @jule5234 2 года назад

      Unglaublich schön und sentimental,,bin 2 Jahre danach geboren

  • @patriciaroult1988
    @patriciaroult1988 3 года назад +1

    Document très émouvant, et rare, n'oublions jamais merci à vous 👍👍🥰

  • @Flying_Tiger_enthusiast
    @Flying_Tiger_enthusiast 5 лет назад +8

    Starts in Bad Wildungen,
    from 2:23 to 5:31 POW collecting point near Frankenau 14 km east of Frankenberg (Eder),
    5:32 to 9:46 maybe todays Heeresflugplatz Fritzlar (German Army Airfield Fritzlar),
    from 9:47 till end propably Halle (Saale) (Saxony-Anhalt).
    Director George Stevens (4:17) and the guy at 2:16 to 2:22 knew more.

  • @martaparsons5633
    @martaparsons5633 5 лет назад +13

    I remember Daddy in his Ike jacket. Amazing footage.

  • @user-vn1tn8cc7y
    @user-vn1tn8cc7y 4 года назад +11

    Исторические кадры --- 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Спасибо 😊 за хороший исторический видеоролик.

    • @abubakarabu9215
      @abubakarabu9215 4 года назад +1

      Живут же всё токи немцы лучше

    • @ale-ksej
      @ale-ksej 4 года назад +4

      @@blackbird7213 И миллиони мирних и невинно замучених в стенах НКВД

    • @ale-ksej
      @ale-ksej 4 года назад +3

      @@abubakarabu9215 Менталитет совсем противоположний, плюс законопослушность у немцев!Закон и для всех а только не чинов,судей,депутатов,ментов...

    • @invisible_hulahoop
      @invisible_hulahoop 2 года назад +1

      @@ale-ksej дохуйлионы, ага

    • @user-ps5ey2ss2q
      @user-ps5ey2ss2q 2 года назад

      @@ale-ksej хватит сказки сочинять про Н К В Д. Даже либеральные историки приводят цифры из статистических документов. За период с 1922 по 1954 год (за 32 года Советской власти) приговорены к смертной казни менее 700 тыс. преступников.

  • @albertocolonia9377
    @albertocolonia9377 3 года назад +2

    que video mas asombroso su calidad es magnifica a pesar del tiempo gracias por dejar conocer esto .

  • @frostfrost8115
    @frostfrost8115 5 лет назад +10

    What surprises me most is the quality of the camera. Could it be that the quality of the shooting during these years?

  • @sammieboy1159
    @sammieboy1159 6 лет назад +15

    this is amazing... I feel so much more connected to what happened in ww2
    now they don't look like people from another world

  • @user-gm4ol8ro4n
    @user-gm4ol8ro4n 4 года назад +2

    Спасибо!

  • @ralphgeigner5497
    @ralphgeigner5497 2 года назад +7

    To have much of the German uniforms & equipment now, is of much value $ Excellent film.

  • @WILTALK
    @WILTALK 7 лет назад +454

    This area seems to be relatively intact. Most German towns in other area's were rubble after the war. Or perhaps this area was picked to film for precisely that reason.

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent 6 лет назад +30

      WILTALK eh frankfurt, wiesbaden and darmstadt were a wasteland and today wiesbaden and darmstadt were reconstructed into those classic 19th century style cities frankfurt was made a financial capital.

    • @eduardorivero544
      @eduardorivero544 6 лет назад +55

      Wiesbaden wasn't that damaged, only about 20% of the city was destroyed, which is a small toll, given the circumstances. Kassel, Frankfurt and Dramstadt were the biggest and most bombarded cities in Hessen, a very very sad thing. Frankfurt and Kassel in particular were medieval living monuments

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent 6 лет назад +12

      Eduardo Rivero I remember an older man telling me that you could see the flames of darmstadt miles away....

    • @eduardorivero544
      @eduardorivero544 6 лет назад +6

      Yea, that was a constant with big and medium cities in Germany, since their old towns had so many old wooden buildings, when the Brits bombed them they became a major bonfire

    • @MrBigstick25
      @MrBigstick25 5 лет назад +85

      WILTALK I’m sure it was American propaganda. Like you said the Allies pretty much fire bombed civilian towns with 0 military targets inside. A war crime that was never really talked about at the time.

  • @mravecsk1
    @mravecsk1 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for sharing... Nice to see footage like this..

  • @drziske
    @drziske 2 года назад +1

    The sequenz at the beginning (1:20 and later ) are filmed in Bad Wildungen, which was the Headquarter of the Americans in Hessen. I grew up there and interestingly my father (born 1938) is seen in one part of the film

  • @JonnyJenkins
    @JonnyJenkins 3 года назад +3

    Sehr schönes Video, war mit meinen Großeltern als Kind immer am edersee.

  • @user-ib4bo8pm3u
    @user-ib4bo8pm3u 5 лет назад +10

    Очень достойно союзники отнеслись к пленным.Видимо не сильно была злость и чувство мести .Еще на машинах пленных возят... пешком должны были идти.Но дела прошлые, земля им пухом.Этим немцам повезло что союзникам успели сдаться ...не дожидаясь когда с востока придут те, кого они верломно пытались захватить, еще совсем не давно

    • @xeniabauer9757
      @xeniabauer9757 4 года назад +3

      очень достойно ,"американские освободители" несколько миллионов немецких солдат застрелили и заморили голодом в лагерях на своей же родине в Германии,это тщательно скрывается по сей день

    • @pepegonzalez8549
      @pepegonzalez8549 4 года назад

      фашики= сталинсты. Вероломство - это значит кто первый кого вероломнул.

    • @user-gi5kz4uu6p
      @user-gi5kz4uu6p 2 года назад +4

      @@pepegonzalez8549 Хорошо. Где советский план "Барбаросса" и "Ост".

    • @prosto4ok272
      @prosto4ok272 Год назад

      @@xeniabauer9757 Нет Ксюша справедливости на Земле!!

    • @paranoidandroid6095
      @paranoidandroid6095 10 месяцев назад

      Быть может за стеною Эльбы укроюсь от твоих пашей, от их всевидящего глаза, от их всеслышащих ушей

  • @scottmclennan6114
    @scottmclennan6114 5 лет назад +32

    There’s an Aussie with his slouch hat as one of the liberated POWs at about 7:15.

    • @cyrosubod2317
      @cyrosubod2317 2 года назад +2

      That man comes from north africa or either greece

    • @repentorperish1405
      @repentorperish1405 2 года назад

      @@cyrosubod2317 : bronze Australian Military Forces 'Rising Sun' Crest (GSB) on the side of his slouch hat - he's one of ours, ..mate! 👍
      Whoever he was, we hope his family were all pleased to see this digger return home, and hope he had a good life from there on, and we thank him, and his family for his service.
      LEST WE FORGET.
      Peter 🇦🇺

  • @user-dd3ht5qm2d
    @user-dd3ht5qm2d 2 года назад +4

    Замечательный материал. Спасибо.

  • @user-wx7vl8ve1b
    @user-wx7vl8ve1b 3 месяца назад

    El sonido de la cinta corriendo,bien de la época, felicitaciones por la calidad del material, saludos 🇦🇷

  • @ferdinando3621
    @ferdinando3621 5 лет назад +11

    Bellissimo documento!!!

    • @DESMINDMUSIC
      @DESMINDMUSIC 3 года назад

      Why is there no sound? I would like to hear what the Germans are talking about

    • @c.w.1827
      @c.w.1827 3 года назад

      @@DESMINDMUSIC
      ....damals gab es manchmal keinen Ton dazu! Leider.

  • @user-vz8vo2ov4k
    @user-vz8vo2ov4k 5 лет назад +10

    sound of a movie projector . perfect!

  • @svetlanasemuhina7061
    @svetlanasemuhina7061 3 года назад +14

    🌐...Благодарю... Уникальные кадры...)))...!

  • @AndreLei1982
    @AndreLei1982 3 года назад

    Die Qualität ist ja unglaublich gut.

  • @t72driver56
    @t72driver56 4 года назад +32

    Well done.i like to watch and learn much more history.and also see the lifestyle of the world in the past.as I was iranian fighter and tank driver in the battle field war with Iraq 1980 to1988.thank you so much and hope to see much, much more like this.

  • @raikaoutdoorfan
    @raikaoutdoorfan 4 года назад +4

    Tolle Aufnahmen direkt aus meiner Heimat!!
    Vielen Dank für dieses Video!!!! :D
    Great shots straight from my home !!
    Thank you for this video !!!! : D

  • @franciscombe1286
    @franciscombe1286 2 года назад

    merci pour sait video magnifique

  • @jeromedavid7944
    @jeromedavid7944 3 года назад +32

    By looks of the footage this little town didn't receive the full wrath of the Allies firepower. I was stationed in a town along the Main River in northern Bayern named Aschaffenburg. It wasn't so fortunate as it was practically leveled. However 25 Ks or so east down the Main River was the storybook medieval aged town of Miltenberg which had not a stone or board disturbed. The story was that a US fighter pilot escorting the B 17s spotted the exceptionally historic beauty and cultural value of the ancient walled city and talked the flight commander into not bombing it because of its lack of war making facilities. I was very luck to visit many German cities, towns, hamlets, and villages all having unique historic n cultural personalities.

    • @romandirks6703
      @romandirks6703 3 года назад

      The River is called Main

    • @garboraaxo6401
      @garboraaxo6401 2 года назад +1

      How nice to spare a town because of its architecture! Indiana Jones in real life! 😂

    • @pacza_vacza
      @pacza_vacza 2 года назад

      you would not indulge in pistols and machine guns, or who would not bomb you

    • @jeromedavid7944
      @jeromedavid7944 2 года назад +2

      @@pacza_vacza That's a good question to ask Herr Putin in the Kermlin Comrade Troll!

    • @pacza_vacza
      @pacza_vacza 2 года назад

      @@jeromedavid7944 Which country do you live in?
      Before Putin, there was also Garbachev and Yeltsin

  • @geraldgrages4605
    @geraldgrages4605 5 лет назад +6

    Moms side is from Hessen Nassau.Thank you.

  • @user-to4on1fd8g
    @user-to4on1fd8g 4 года назад +11

    Спасибо за съёмку 👍

    • @user-jj6oq5ho1k
      @user-jj6oq5ho1k 3 года назад +2

      Ура нашел

    • @user-to4on1fd8g
      @user-to4on1fd8g 3 года назад +2

      @@user-jj6oq5ho1k Да, русскоязычных мало под этим видео.

    • @kinglion6193
      @kinglion6193 Год назад

      Я чë то не понял,это немецкие пленные под конвоем американцев,или нет?

  • @user-wm5dj5dm2p
    @user-wm5dj5dm2p 10 месяцев назад

    Very interesting images.

  • @susanurban5920
    @susanurban5920 3 года назад

    I hope everyone in this film got to go home. Great footage.

  • @mpgsix
    @mpgsix 7 лет назад +44

    The footage is very good. Wished there was a narration to go along with it.

    • @stanlee2200
      @stanlee2200 2 года назад

      there is narration from george stevens..its on youtube....well some of it is.

  • @tomat6362
    @tomat6362 6 лет назад +9

    A fortunate region, untouched by the war, and a precious time capsule.

  • @janinalaura22
    @janinalaura22 4 года назад +8

    Frankenau, my Hometown

    • @Oscoe63
      @Oscoe63 3 года назад

      👍 I bet it's grown a lot bigger since 1945 !

  • @Allen7
    @Allen7 3 года назад +1

    Does anyone know where were they taking those POW's?

  • @panika2810
    @panika2810 4 года назад +235

    German unforms are a work of art...

    • @corky1548
      @corky1548 4 года назад +9

      and it was a gay person who made them

    • @RicardoRMedina
      @RicardoRMedina 4 года назад +20

      Hugo Boss?

    • @savedemperor8024
      @savedemperor8024 4 года назад +14

      @@corky1548 nobody cares if he was a f** or not

    • @bobbypaluga4346
      @bobbypaluga4346 4 года назад +26

      corky Where did you come upon that bit of misinformation? Boss was not gay, not that it matters

    • @zachbocchino5501
      @zachbocchino5501 4 года назад +3

      They truly are

  • @tomfu6210
    @tomfu6210 5 лет назад +91

    1:27 In right bottom corner a little angel appears

    • @charlottesweb7202
      @charlottesweb7202 4 года назад +1

      I seen that little angle appear and turn to look at the world around her xx

    • @L1V2P9
      @L1V2P9 4 года назад +11

      @@charlottesweb7202 She could still be alive today. Around 77-78 maybe.

    • @seanmahoney2755
      @seanmahoney2755 3 года назад +1

      Tom Fu thank you

  • @kevingumfory
    @kevingumfory 9 месяцев назад

    My family is from Hessen. We had been in america for 3 generations before the war. My Grandad was a staff sergeant in the red ball express. Wars should have to be fought by those who profit from war. Instead it us, fighting our families. You never seen a rich man on a front line. I really enjoyed this video. It made me wonder if I had looked at a cousin or an uncle. It made me wish I still spoke my predecessors language. It made me miss my Grandma and Grandpa. I love you all and I suspect we are all cousins or aunts and uncles if we go back far enough. I call no man my enemy.

  • @seanmahoney2755
    @seanmahoney2755 3 года назад +6

    When we work together no matter what our differences. No force on earth can stop us, but us. Freedom is our drug. Fight fight fight to the death of it. For freedom is everything. It’s more precious now than ever.

  • @georgerare
    @georgerare 5 лет назад +32

    Спасибо за кадры!

    • @ytrew9717
      @ytrew9717 3 года назад

      why are so many russians interested about those movies? Do many russians talk about this time, what they say? I'm very curious.

    • @georgerare
      @georgerare 3 года назад

      @@ytrew9717 I don’t know for others, it was very interesting to me before

    • @ytrew9717
      @ytrew9717 3 года назад

      @@georgerare sorry but could please explain why: what do you find so interesting? (You can write russian, google will translate).

    • @k.m.6107
      @k.m.6107 3 года назад +1

      @@ytrew9717 are you serious? You really don’t understand WHY???

    • @serhius555
      @serhius555 2 года назад +6

      @@ytrew9717 Не верю что вы не понимаете почему русский сказал спасибо за эти кадры. Извиняюсь,но я вам вопросом на вопрос отвечу - почему с мая 1945 в Берлине над Рейхстагом развивался советский флаг и стены Рейхстага были исписаны победными лозунгами в основном на русском языке? И на улицах Берлина висели плакаты с Сталиным и развивались советские флаги,почему? Почитайте историю, посмотрите архивные видео что творили фашисты на советской земле.Узнайте какой ценой досталась победа над фашизмом советскому народу.У меня по отцовской линии почти всю семью в селе фашисты расстреляли. Спаслись чудом только бабушка (мама отца ) и её сестра.По материной линии бабушка блокаду Ленинграда пережила. А вы спрашиваете почему эти кадры интересны русским. Историю изучайте что бы не задавать таких глупых вопросов.
      PS. 2:24 Жаль что этих фашистов из видео в плен американцы взяли а не советские солдаты . Очень жаль.

  • @paulolopes9547
    @paulolopes9547 4 года назад +12

    Que bom ver vídeos da II guerra em cores!

  • @woodybear8298
    @woodybear8298 2 года назад +9

    I'd love to see pictures of that town as it is today. Looks like it survived the war in good shape.

    • @andrewkitchenuk
      @andrewkitchenuk 2 года назад

      Should have been bombed flat, the same as they did to so many towns in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

  • @johnthompson1978
    @johnthompson1978 3 года назад +2

    It's amazing how many different languages are found in the comments.

  • @michaelbrown865
    @michaelbrown865 5 лет назад +14

    I imagine the overwhelming emotion was relief, they had somehow survived.

    • @watching99134
      @watching99134 5 лет назад +5

      More like anxiety about what the future would hold.

  • @user-nw4om2ou2k
    @user-nw4om2ou2k 7 лет назад +5

    It's fantastic!

  • @mpower6004
    @mpower6004 2 года назад +3

    Great informative review as always .And yes I stay away from these vehicles and avoid them like plague .

  • @YKYFMYR
    @YKYFMYR 2 года назад

    With the RUclips Custom Speed Extension for Google Chrome you can adjust this video speed to 0.6x playback speed which I think reflects the actual speed they were moving at when the video was recorded.

  • @dokasaku1233
    @dokasaku1233 7 лет назад +633

    i just love german uniforms they are so powerful and stylish

  • @lunawender4
    @lunawender4 7 лет назад +6

    Tirando a questão da Guerra é fantástico assistir imagens quase centenárias é algo surreal.

  • @daveosmena5005
    @daveosmena5005 Год назад

    Great footage

  • @barrybaz6692
    @barrybaz6692 3 года назад

    Very good film thanks for the upload .But just to mention that the addition of a commentator would really make it special .

  • @crafter170
    @crafter170 5 лет назад +563

    Far too many fine European people killed on both sides during that dirty war .

    • @ut000bs
      @ut000bs 5 лет назад +17

      Agreed. That and a couple of Americans trying to free them.

    • @crafter170
      @crafter170 5 лет назад +63

      @@ut000bs oops sorry about the Americans .Don't forget about the 26 million fine Russians.

    • @tickysiasiluka68
      @tickysiasiluka68 5 лет назад +20

      scott scot84 .You're ignorant.Germany invaded the USSR and killed millions and then Russians had to fight back. Stalin killed political opponents in the Gulags.

    • @jphilology7357
      @jphilology7357 5 лет назад +7

      that was the plan

    • @crafter170
      @crafter170 5 лет назад +9

      @@marka.1770 .Maybe they all remembered what a top guy Jssse Owwns was ??.?

  • @paintdoctor5532
    @paintdoctor5532 5 лет назад +8

    This footage was from that town that was famous for the fast walkers..

  • @1518karen
    @1518karen 7 месяцев назад +1

    In Newark New York, a small village near Rochester, there was a German Prisoner of War camp. It existed to supply labor to canning factories and the like. When the war ended many were not in a hurry to go home.. Years later, some former prisoners visited Newark and the people who treated them so well.

  • @YaltaAngel
    @YaltaAngel 4 года назад +8

    У них тогда даже было на улицах лучше, чем у нас сейчас

    • @ale-ksej
      @ale-ksej 4 года назад

      Обично при диктатуре и культе одной личности чистота и порядок везде!Только касатся цивилизоваих и законопослушних наций!

    • @user-cu1ll1us8i
      @user-cu1ll1us8i 2 года назад

      Возьми веник и подмети, тоже будет чисто. Чисто не там где убирают, а там, где не сорят