The Last Christmas of the Third Reich 1944 | Bitter Celebration at the Gates of Hell
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- What was last Christmas like in Berlin under Hitler? What worried the civilian population the most? What was life like in Berlin in 1945? What was the last concert of the Berlin Philharmonic in World War II like? What happened to the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic? In 1944, World War II was coming to an end. The Allies were advancing through Europe, and the Third Reich was falling apart. In this context, Christmas 1944 was a very different celebration from previous ones. In this video, we will explore how Christmas was celebrated in different parts of Germany and Europe in 1944. We will see how German soldiers at the front tried to maintain the Christmas tradition, and how German civilians dealt with shortages, uncertainty and despair
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00:00 Situation at the end of 1944
01:25 Christmas news and last hopes
03:00Morale of the population and suicides
05:50 The fall of Budapest
07:15 The arrival of Refugees
07:35 Brutal bombings of Berlin and Dresden
08:21 The Berlin Philharmonic Finale
09:42 Speer's escape plan
10:59 The last concert April 12 
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00:00 Situation at the end of 1944
01:25 Christmas news and last hopes
03:00Morale of the population and suicides
05:50 The fall of Budapest
07:15 The arrival of Refugees
07:35 Brutal bombings of Berlin and Dresden
08:21 The Berlin Philharmonic Finale
09:42 Speer's escape plan
10:59 The last concert April 12
Narrate the videos yourself,don't you know English?
Propagandist narrative, no
fucking AI voice
I'll never support AI crap.
The British and commonwealth countries didn't exist as participating and carrying out all of the major fighting before the Americans finally appeared.
I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but after watching every conceivable documentary about World War 2 and especially the Nazis, I can honestly say I never ever get tired of it endlessly fascinating
For me the big draw about World War 2 is the role of ordinary people in the debacle. While we tend to focus on the Nazis, the soldiers, the military, and Hitler, it is crticially important to remember that it was GERMAN VOTERS who were responsible for the entire affair. After all, 93% of them voted for Hitler in the 1938 elections. For me the big lesson of World War 2 is - BE REALLY, REALLY CAREFUL WHO YOU VOTE FOR. Sadly, voters still haven't learned this lesson, and countries like Canada are languishing under the jackboot of their tyrant, Justin Trudeau. But, as mentioned, as much as everyone wails about Trudeau, it was Canadians themselves who elected the wretch.
In America, the government decided who you can vote for AND who wins.
@@danielkey929 uh try moving to Nicaragua or North Korea or Russia then you’ll understand political freedom or lack of it
@@barneyquinn3657 well, you’re partly correct, but it was a whole different atmosphere then .. if you weren’t voting for the Nazi party you were probably going to get a visit from the Gestapo the deck was stacked against you,There was no opposition. You were basically pressured / coerced into voting for the Nazi party ,to resist that was to invite a world of trouble
I wish the ending was different
Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away.....
🤣🤣🤣that song is stuck in my head
Remembering the civilian suffering of the poles especially Warsaw..the extreme suffering of the innocent citizens of Leningrad..moscow.. Stalingrad and many others scross Europe..never forget
Moscow did not suffer at all.
Remember the 2million German women ages 8-80 who were gang raped by Soviet subhumans at the end of the war. Never forget
Dresden, Berlin yes never forget indeed.
Just look at what the Poles did to the Germans.Bromberg etc etc.
@@danielhicks4826 You are probably some american hill billy virgin who has like 0 connection to Europe at all lol
Never forget the hunger winter in the Netherlands.
@@StatetrooperBillyBill my family ate tulip bulbs to survive.
Of de Holodomor......Dit was geen goede oorlog.Kijk toch eens wat er uit Europa geworden is.
De hongerwinter was erg .Als je eens wist .wat er in het oosten gebeurde .ga je schrikken..SPeterburg 1.3 miljoen dood door honger.
@@renekuipers4563 De holodomor in de Oekraine omgezet door Stalin.8-13 miljoen doden.
Playing Wagner's Twilight of the Gods as the signal to flee. It was like the U.S. Armed Forces Radio played Bing Crosby's version of "White Christmas" in Saigon for the final evacuation of the remaining US personnel and key South Vietnamese citizens with exit visas in April, 1975.
good catch/excellent reference.
I might want to watch this later.
Wagner is a problematic composer, but most Classical enthusiasts regard his antisemitism as inconvenient and Mr. Hilter (the Python reference due to the sissy algorithm) liking him post was humous, so the NSDAP/Shoah are not reasons to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra famously performed "Der Ring des Nibelungen" on the rationale that it's excellent music and that Wagner was long dead when the Shoah happened.
@@troyevitt2437 I think also likely is that there is no antisemitism in his music. Take his art and forget his politics.
Most people like myself are not aware of his politics and it is best to forget.
Personally I find his music is very heavy and dark and much prefer lighter classical composers which is most others.
@@jfryer485 That Wagner had anti-Semitic views is widely known. He openly expressed such views in, "Judaism in Music"/"Das Judentum in der Musik". In it, he identified Jewish musicians as the ultimate source of what he perceived as, "substanceless music".
Good grief how did Hitler not understand how being at war with the USSR, England, and USA at the same time would not end well.
There are many books about this question. To summarize, he was ill informed about their strength and resolve and he was deluded by his own shit.
@@ronaldderooij1774 hitler thou ght nazi germany was his creation he didnt expect a long life superstious drug addict numerous attempts on his life so his early success made him foolishly force his agenda before early death took him and his creation this explains hitlers ardennes attack he was counting on miracle but these had abandoned him long ago many different perspectives nazis were mystical now theres a can of worms for you to .sort out
Soviets in berlin german officers used berlin telephone system to locate soviet advances
Megalomaniacs, dictators, and psychopaths are devoid of all rationality and truth, just like the idiots of today who are butchering and mutilating young girls and boys with their transgender BS.
@@bluenetmarketingthink deeper please
Very interesting about the orchestra. Thank you!
ty man
The German joke was actually, " This Christmas be practical. Buy a coffin." I think this is a Spanish channel because they've gotten that joke wrong twice. Plus if you look at their maps they're all in Espanol.
That's such a dark joke but kind of true
@@JGD185A Panzer often served as a coffin for multiple Nazis, around the end.
Yep
English speakers don’t use the word “thus” anymore and yet it’s repeatedly in the script for this doc
@@paullewis6213 these AI narrations get a lot of things wrong so it may not actually be in the script as much as it seems.
From 1943, food became increasingly scarce in Germany.
By late 1944, the country was running out of everything.
This is nonsense. Read Gotz Aly's book "Hitler's Beneficiaries", the German civlians were better fed during the war than in 1946-1947. The Wehrmacht had plundered the entire occupied continent of Europe to feed the German people.
My mother was a young child at this time, living in Wiesbaden. She remembers going to bed hungry and waking up hungry. She also heard of people who had starved to death. Luckily for her family, Wiesbaden wound up in the American sector, not the Soviet sector. She also remembers the air raid sirens, and having only seconds to get to the basement, which was packed with other people who lived in their apartment building. To this day my mother suffers from claustrophobia. If there is a room packed with people, her face turns white and she leaves in a hurry.
@@lindaoneil5085 mine has a nervous tick as her first memory is sitting in a bomb shelter near Nuremburg. Twitching her fingers. I have seen it in other people her age who had similar experiences like being followed by a sniper on an airplane while out on a field.
(There is no such thing as a country wide goose dish for Christmas as the video states. The country was and is much more diverse in customs and ... recipes.)
@@lindaoneil5085my mom grew up in Munich…she said the same thing. Always hungry and when the Americans arrived they were happy the war was over and not under Russian occupation.
Hey folks let’s not forget that the USSR occupied the Baltic States, part of Romania, half of Poland and part of Finland yet the Western Allies gave them a pass and only declared war on Germany.
Probably because unlike Hitler they realized that taking on Russia while you already have a formidable foe or two would end in disaster.
And England and France had a treaty with Poland to come to it's defense if invaded.
Ever hear the bitter saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"? It was a devil's bargain to defeat Hitler.
And that is the problem the west has with Russia today. When you let a fox into the henhouse to kill the weasel, the fox eventually turns on the chickens as well.
Yep. The double standards knows no bound even to this day. SMH.
Interesting historical insight into civilian suffering during the war. Thanks for posting.
I love your Channel. Very good program ❤
Ty Claudia
So many young people know very little about WW! Watching this would be a GREAT way of learning!
A heart rending story.
Fear of being shot when offered an escape
And suffering death by refusing a life line offered to them.
War causes hard decisions with bad consequences
The easiest decision would be not to initiate a war.
A lesson that fools even today fail to see.
The civilians had no part or any fault whatsoever in the Nazi Party, waging war in Europe. They just had the unfortunate fate of being born in Germany, at that point in history!!
Indeed, just look at Britain and France lol
Very interesting video, thank you! I read a ton about Furtwängler but never knew about the fate of the BPO after the fall of Berlin.
Best ww2 channel,amazing facts i never heard about before! Keep up the good work mate!
Ty man
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about last Christmas 🎄 of Nazism regime in 1944 ...Berlinale musicians were sent to the South western region far from Soviets approaches...thank you 🙏 ( war academy ) channel for sharing
The decision by Hitler to invade the Soviet Union brought them to this misery.
should have started the invasion in the spring rather than September.....but he thought it would be over in 6 weeks but alas, that ole Russian winter came early and furiously.......I guess he never studied Napoleon.....
@@alpha-omega2362 The invasion started on 22 June, but it was also later than originally planned.
@@alpha-omega2362 He literally couldn't, the Axis were overextended. In spring of 1941 they were in the middle of invading Yugoslavia and Greece, with Italy also already being occupied with Africa. Also the invasion didn't even begin in September lmao
@@maskaliki thanks.
@@alpha-omega2362The winter didnt defeat them the Soviet army did. Their army was wrecked by the time it reached the outskirts of Moscow. They were lucky they survived the first winter the Soviets werent good enough to turn the German retreat into a total rout.
I'm speechless, with the outcome of the last musicians who refused to go. what a shame.
It was like the musicians on the Titanic.
I was thinking of that as well
Patriots defending heimat today 👽 taking over
U think life is about running away all the time? Sometimes doesnt matter if ur gonna die. Gotta make a stand
Not everyone in life is after money, sometimes ideals are greater than what the average human mind can comprehend.
In the last days of Berlin, many people decided to stand with the Führer and go down with him, rather than fleeing from a city which they had given years of their lives in trying to build.
The germans paid a heavy price for their devotion to this Austrian
General Patton realized that the Germans were never the enemy.
@@LindaLinda-tc5kx general patton wanted to start war with Soviet union to defeat communism
There was another "joke" making the rounds at this time: "Enjoy the war, the peace will be terrible."
It sure was, when the Russians rolled in!!
Lmao that’s real asf
Heinrici was a loyal German officer to the Third Reich throughout the war, however he did have his limits. Heinrici point blank refused to follow orders in Russia when he felt it didn't make any sense. He persistently didn't follow through on a scorched earth policy. Hitler and the rest of them overlooked it because Heinrici was very valuable. But towards the end of the war, it was a different ballgame. Heinrici didn't protect a border as ordered, during the onslaught of Berlin, but retreated instead, because it was the best thing to do to prevent his entire unit from being wiped out. When Hitler heard about it, he was enraged and had Heinrici relieved of duty for not following orders. Also he had given orders for Heinrici to come to Berlin immediately. Just before Heinrici was going to be driven to Berlin, Captain Hellmuth Lang interceded. Lang took Heinrici to the side and told him not to go to Berlin, but instead, make a run for it to Plon and give himself up to the British. Lang found out and explained to Heinrici that was waiting for him in Berlin, was that he would be court martialed, be tried by a kangaroo court, he'd be convicted and shot by a firing squad for dereliction of duty. Heinrici heeded Lang's advice and thanked Lang profusely. He then ordered his personal chauffer to stand down and told him to stay put, because there was a serious need of soldiers there. The reality is Heinrici knew he couldn't trust his driver and probably didn't want to end up having to shoot him. Heinrici got in his staff car alone and drove himself to Plon with white flags on the staff car just before he came to the oncoming English army. He gave himself up to the British on 28 May. He was never charged with any war crimes and was released in 48. It was noted, that in 1943, that Heinrici didn't raze Smolensk to the ground as ordered. He died in 71.
He was one of the better ones. I remember that Lang also informed him that Rommel had been forced to take poison, and didn't succumb to his war injuries, as the press was saying.
My mom was 15 at in WW2 living in London she said she was in the fields near london and eyeballed a German Pilot flying very low he was in a Meschersmitt 109 a famous fighter. She also saw towards the end of the war waves and waves of bombers heading to the coast for hour after hour and she felt sad that this was happening as she had a faith. i guess this had to happen to bring Germany to surrender and give up the fight. My mothers Irsih father lost 3 shops he owned in London and retired a broken man he was tough tho as he stayed in london to help rescue people after each bombing living in the Underground to avoid death
You play silly games , you win silly prizes.
“History of ages past,
I enlightened shadows cast.
Down through all eternity,
the crying of humanity.
It’s then when the Hurdy Gurdy man came singing
songs of love….”
“Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity…”
Very interesting video 👍🏻 thanks! ➕🤍
I think Dresden suffered a much greater number of deaths.. I have read in more than a few books that the losses among the population are around 150,000 deaths.
My compliments, I always follow your videos with great interest.
Ty man
@@lucamasin11dresden also undeserved ???
@@Eric-kn4ynas so, so many more European cities as far reaching as Belfast Ireland...
Descriptive post. Appreciated.
Some of your videos are boring, however, this is my favourite RUclips-channel.
Good history Channel
Ty
My Opa was in his Panzer in the Carpathian mountains Christmas 44
did he meet Dracula?
@@alpha-omega2362 That’s why they kept the hatches closed 😂
You get all of this from "The Fall of Berlin" by Antony Beevor? Most of this info is in the first chapter
People make videos like this based on so few sources because they don't want to read.
How soon the world forgets these horrors . It seems that we are on the verge of an even more devastating conflict and people dont seem to have a problem with repeating this.
Philosopher Colin Wilson (‘The Outsider’) was certainly onto something: "For 99% of their lives, most human beings are in a state not too far from that of lobotomized pigeons." It explains a lot of what's happening today.
I agree
So many people suffered on both sides. Something for us to learn?
The ones that need to learn this are typically the ones not at the front, and given they're also typically authoritarian rulers hellbent on imperialism there's not much the ordinary folk can do except rise up against them.
Yes, don’t vote for socialism.
@richardager1861 - I learned from Jesus: You should love your neighbor as yourself. If this were practiced, there would be no wars among people. Nobody would even think of causing harm to another.
Christmas '45 wasn't much better. Bitterly cold with limited accommodation, coal, wood and rather paltry rations. Bis zum bitteren ende!
Why did the natzie commanders steal most of the supplies and take them into underground tunnels for themselves, whilst the poor civilians above starved and un-sheltered from the Bombs, why wasnt they evacuated or told to flee to safer areas?, im sure Mr Meyer could have warned them on the radio or put preparations into place, like underground railway lines, more shelters, fire watchers and fire services like the Brits had manged to do during the Blitz into organising the services into a well oiled machine...
Post-war was worse. Read Gotz Aly's book "Hitler's Beneficiaries". The German civilians had more food during the war than in 1946-1947.
"Gentleman, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."
Heinz Guderian's estate in Poland fell behind Soviet lines in January 1945. Hitler stole it and gave it to him as a bribe in 1943. He wanted to keep it after the war, lol. BTW, that last (or near last) Berlin concert was filmed and is on RUclips.
Chilling to imagine what the world could have become if events had unfolded slightly differently.
It's become that way right now unfortunately
@@BryanFerguson-gf6rv 2024 europe is 👽
i always say that everything kinda happened the way it should have in a way. hitler wanted everything so fast and took on way more than his army could handle. which led to the downfall. had he waited like his generals wanted to, in terms of invading the soviet union, things could have played out very different and either lasted mich longer, or had a different winner
Interesting , if you were to believe the narrator the US airforce was the only airforce that bombed Berlin and Dresden, my late dad was an RAF bomber pilot he took part in both mass bombings, the yanks were not the only one's to fight the Germans
I think the video producers were trying to cover for the UK with regard to the devastating bombing effects.
Yeah it was yanks who bombed civilians indiscriminately , RAF had specialist bits of kit and agents in occupied and enemy nations, they used mozzies at night using oboe, Rebecca's to target illuminate war manufacturing and other areas relating to war...
Tha Americans along with the Russians were the only ones that mattered. The Russians could have fought their way to the Atlantic coast if Stalin had ordered.
And the only reason that The Germans did not succeed in The Ardennes was because The British 21st Army Group under Monty stopped them. Hitler chose well aiming to break through The American line, the Yanks were weak and incompetent and he knew it.
Who thought that?
It was the British RAF General Harris orders who thought firebombing Dresden when the war had only 2 months left to go was a good idea .
Agreed
So where is the video / photos of Hitler at 1944 xmas dinner ? I am nearly certain the photo in the title is from xmas 1941, misleading
It’s not the last Christmas in Germany. In 1945 everyone put there Hitler stuff in the attic and forgot they were Nazis
I think that the many comments about who played the major part are quite disrespectful of the many who died opposing the Nazis. As a mark of respect to those who died, let’s just talk about the Allies (which includes the Russians, whatever one might think of their politics or ultimate goals).
The Ruskies was mentioned along with yanks but shamefully they was the only two..
There was no single victor, but there's no doubt as to the fact the Soviets were merely allies of convenience. They started in bed with Hitler and only became an ally AFTER Barbarossa. With their brutal sweep across Europe and occupation, it seems insane to me that Russians are actually proud of what they did and even now Putin uses it as a rally cry. The disconnect is unbelievable.
The Russians fought 80% of the German Army the western allies the remaining 20% 🤔🇬🇧
@@AJ-qn6gd I don't dispute the contribution of the Russians; there's a good book called "Russia's war", which also highlights that the Russians executed about one million of their own troops during the war - very motivational.
Germany brought this upon themselves.
Exactly, the nazi enthusiasts should think about that, it was a criminal regime
Do you have any information of the final Easter of the war? April 1st 1945.
0:18 wait what?? There is no way? Berlin has been Germany’s capital since the 1800s bud
Germans were on the ascendant Christmas 1939
Germans were on the ascendant Christmas 1940
Germans were at the gates of Moscow Christmas 1941
Germans were still holding Stalingrad Christmas 1942
Germans were in retreat Christmas 1943, in areas far away from the Reich
Germans were on the attack in the Ardennes Christmas 1944
Due to the propaganda machine in the Third Reich, Germans had some small cause for hope on almost every Christmas during the war.
I’m not sure about the Germans were still in control of Stalingrad Christmas 42. They were desperately in need of relief, supplies etc they were starving and freezing to death and then soon after they surrendered I know that Christmas wasn’t that unhappy for the populace since they weren’t told the truth of the situation.the soldiers certainly had a Christmas to remember but more like too forget. what’s they say something like 90,000 surrendered and only a few thousand made it back to Germany
Germans overextended when they invaded France and Norway plus failed to secure peace with the British.
They sealed their fate after Barbarossa and the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor ,just a matter of time by then.
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During most of the war, all of these battles were fought on foreign soil, not on German territory, you have to remember that. Yes, there was bombing of some major industrial centers, but there were wide swaths of Germany that remained untouched. So it was easy for the Nazis to lie to the people about how the war was going. It probably came as a big shock to a lot of average people in early 1945 when they discovered that indeed Russians, Americans, and Brits were actually at their borders. They finally realized they'd been lied to. Read about what happened to the East Prussians for example.
@@theskeptic2010 good point
In the late 1960s I met a very nice German family who had immigrated to the US after the war. I remember talking with the father who was a soldier in the German army under Hitler. Being fascinated by WW II, I had to ask him if he had ever seen Hitler in person and his response was, "I was at one time nearly as close to him as I am to you right now". When I asked him his opinion of Hitler, he simply stated, "He vas a fuckink nut!"
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BTW, the total tonnage of the bombs dropped by the Americans on North Vietnam was more than the total dropped by ALL the allies everywhere in WWII!
Yet America lost that war that tells me if you want to win it must troops on the ground yes it will be costly but victory will be likely
Wow, these computer-generated narrators are getting better, but they're still disappointingly fake sounding here and there. Especially when saying the number "Nineteen. Fortyfour".
"Like and Subscribe" at the beginning of vid; the perfect deterrent...
Enjoy man omg
TRES Heavy
Thank you for this video. It gives a heartbreaking Christmas by nazi life. Indeed the worst Christmas for Berlin.
Thank you very much friend, greetings.
I am sure the prisoners in Nazi concentration camps would have considered December, 1945 even more heartbreaking and life-threatening. The overworked and underfed foreign workers in Germany, far from their families, probably did not look back on Christmas, 1945 as one of their best holiday seasons. World War II brought death and devastation to people on both sides of the struggle.
When you said Americans or soviets assaulting Berlin, you mean WESTERN ALLIES and Soviets.
Yes
Americans financed the whole thing, so little snowflake, it was AMERICANS and don't you forget it.
No, they mean Americans. Without the Americans, there wouldn't be western allies. The other countries were invited as a token gesture to appear as unity. England had zero chance against Germany without the United States joining the war and funding the war. Kind of like Bulgaria and Romania were with the axis powers, but we all know their contribution was little to nothing on behalf of germany.
@@frogman1941 .
I take it you are ignoring the 4,850,000 Empire troops that fought in WW2 as well as the 1,000,000 British troops. Or was that something you regard as a token?
@@grahvis no matter their contribution, it would have been a german victory if the U.S. didn't save england and france a second time. Yes, the europeans contributed but the U.S. provided the weapons, manpower, funding and actual ability to end the war.
A very good vid marred only by a robot voice which does not quite work as a human. Otherwise a Merry Merry vid. Ho Ho Ho.
It was terrible for all the People in Germany to suffer the Bombings,lack
of food,Etc..
The bombings were terrible. All the children lost in all wars is terrible. It is easy to second guess the pilots, but war is war, and all suffer. Pray for peace and freedom.
Fascists then had such an ideology that perpetual war is actually healthy and desirable because it keeps eliminating the weak. Hitler himself stated in 1945 it was natural and inevitable German people would perish because they proved to be not superior to the Slavic people. The whole thing was based on the (now debunked) survival of the fittest /Social Darwinism theory.
To think, the inhumane bombs dropped on Japan killed 98% civilians. Those civilians wet the ones that were unfit for military duty. They were old men, old women, children, medical workers, handicapped citizen, and people with mental difficulties. The damage was mostly to residential zones, schools, and hospitals. Japan was so defeated that a lone, low flying, over weight, slow, unarmed except for their cruel bombs, was met with absolutely no resistance. That shows how defeated Japan was. The American history books do not mention that. I have one that is used in their secondary schools.
@@indridcold8433 The Japanese would have fought to the "last man". The a bombs were necessary to end the war. The carnage would have been many times worse {on both sides}, had there been a "mainland invasion"!!
@@johnreape2833 You must be American. You have been indoctrinated that way. I actually do have a history book that is used in their secondary schools. It was sent to me mistakenly when I ordered a UK history book. The fallacies in the, "history," book are incredible works of propaganda and indoctrination. It says exactly what you just said. The fault is not yours. An unescorted, slow, low flying, bomber, not being repelled in any way already proved Japan had fought until the last warrior. Not a single aeroplane came up to repel it. Not a single anti aircraft gun was fired. It was a sight seeing tour for the pilot until the bomb was dropped. Old ladies, old men, children, were all that was left. Granted, the Americans have targeted noncombatants, intentionally, in the past. But, that was ridiculous to achieve a kill rate of over 98% civilians. It was just a grotesque experiment on civilians. Their government has even, intentionally, irradiated their own citizens in the 1950.
@@johnreape2833No, Japan surrendered because soviets invaded manchuria.
It's sad that a single maniac's unwillingness to accept that defeat was inevitable at this point resulted in tens of thousands of more lives lost, for absolutely nothing.
The German and Japanese leaders knew they would be executed so they tried to keep the war going as long as possible. It also created enough chaos for some to escape to other countries.
Adol,f conquered Europe, and within 3.5 years later was hiding in a hole in the ground!..Amazing!
Let's not get too nostalgic. The way things are going on in this world we might be reliving it.
A tragic story however..... They started it.
'They' were reacting to the Weimer republic and the moral, societal and economic destruction that cancer caused. The same Weimer republic that has been erased from history books written by the same old crowd.
Britain were the ones who declared war on Germany though
They were eating better than Christmas 1917.
Exploitation of the occupied countries, especially the USSR helped with the food supply.
In WW1, Germany starved because of the British blockade.
@@RBAILEY57 Still eating better.
@@RBAILEY57germans had developed synthetic nitrogen for crop fertilizer in 1930s
The narration is taken from Anthony Beever's book "Berlin"
I'm hanging on my seat to know what happened to the Orchestra.
I wonder if Christmas 1945 may have been even worse for Germans?
probably depended on which sector they were in...if American, then better... if Russian, not so good...
Americans sent Christmas care packages to Germany in 1945. One German interviewed said that was the reason he decided to emigrate here.
@@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338 Nah, Germans were starving in 1946-1947, they were better fed during the war when they had a whole occupied continent to feed off of. Americans didn't start really feeding the Germans well until 1948.
If the war in Europe was still going on in the summer of 1945, who knows, but the first atomic bomb may have been dropped on Germany.
Their goose was cooked, long before Xmas 1944...…
June of '44 the military leaders all knew it was over.
@@danielebrparish4271 yup...long before Xmas 1944....
5:31 When I was stationed in Germany, a woman who lived through the third reich, told me from the beginning of the war to the very end of it, all Germans would listen to the BBC. She said it was the only place where one could find out what was really going on and it was 100% accurate. The BBC reported even when it was not going well for Britain. They reported how the Bismarck was wreaking havoc on the British Navy. When Germany started losing the war, all Nazi radio stations were reporting that Germany was winning the war by attrition and victory which was just around the corner. Because of BBC broadcasts to Germany, the German population knew the war was unwinnable in 43. They heard on the BBC, at the time, that the German position is untenable and it is just a matter of time. Wounded German soldiers, minus an arm or leg(s) returning from the front confirmed it. The BBC even warned German civilians to evacuate areas where the Russian Army would eventually be, without giving full details of what was going on. Even front line German officers who were in command were getting needed information from the BBC. They not only listened to it, but heeded it. They did that so that they could make better plans in maneuvering, but more so for plans in retreating.
My grandfather died Stalingrad 1943
Good information but the computer voice is too annoying for me to watch these videos.
Toughen up soldier
@@Eric-kn4ynPrik, you'd better start loosing that blue rince aswell, and start growing the feckers instead of chemically castrating them, yer eejit gommer..
JOHN 1 - 5 - 19.
All Governments belong to Satan.
TIMOTHY 3 - 13 [ 2 ]
But evil men and impostors will grow worse, and worse deceive and deceived.
When my parents hired a nanny for me after my late father was stationed in Germany after WWII. Her husband who was a radio operator spoke flawless British English told my father that the minute he saw the American soldiers, he surrendered. He knew that that would mean that for him, the war was over.
I've seen pictures of German soldiers tossing their weapons and helmets onto piles after the German surrender was announced. Instead of looking depressed, they looked relieved, like they wanted to say, "Whew! I'm glad that's over with!"
Belschnickel, didn't show up that year.
HiroSima?
Where is your narrator from?
I imagine a Springtime for Hitler like rendition of Stille Nacht in the Fuhrerbunker.
Jingle. Bells
You never hear from a German how much they regret the war. I do not think they did regret it.
Just like the British regret having built the British Empire (by war?) and the Americans regret...hm...a lot? It's history, none of my business.
I had a very "interesting" experience when visiting the Cathedral of St-Lô in France. When I signed the memorial book I took a few seconds to see where some visitors had come from and what they'd written. There were messages of horror and hope from all over the world ... except from German visitors. Except for one or two entries, every. single. message. was blank, as if they didn't dare try to say anything.
Recent actions has shown that the Germans didn't have sny regrets and will.repeat it again at the slightest opportunities.
It was so catastrophic for them there was a collective amnesia. You would go insane dwelling on how much & who you lost. It is said Getmans moved on to rebuild the country. Ironically Britain bankcrupted, austerity & rationing while Germany rebuilt, their GDP overtook Britains by the sixties.
The old joke goes "the German people hate the terrible things that Hitler did...like lose the war!"
Another stock footage RUclips moneymaker for someone who is either fed up working 9 to 5 or is retired and never saved enough during their working years.
...COULD YOU DO BETTER?!!!
@@daleburrell6273 On track for retirement, so... yeah!
Getting some George Michael vibes here😅😅😅
At least UK, America, Canada, Australia could celebrate Christmas virtually in Peace only Europe was a real mess. our countries were made of Loving Families and Love never loses that is why we won the war !
Great photos. I read a fantastic book by a survivor of the inhumane carpet bombing of Dresden, which apparently was a " present " from Churchill to Stalin. The book claims 300,000 plus died inside the fire-storm, some of them melting as the temperature was incredibly high.
this is not true - nazi propaganda said 40.000 and more, nowadays science tells us about 25.000.
300 000 greatly exagerated, numbers are 30 000 rather or around that number
That’s a David Irving number. The real number of deaths in Dresden was maybe 25,000
@@missthunderstormable not exaggerated at all, the city was filled with hundreds of thousands of refuges from the east.
@@LindaLinda-tc5kx that s different topic. Refugees are one thing and killed ones another, it s proven that around 25000 were killed
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Who else knows about Budapest because of where in the world is Carmen sandiego video game
Operation Spring Awakening March 1945. Last German offensive of the war on the eastern front.
And now....let's hear from the experts.
There's a lot of mistakes in this war documentary.
Yup?, in the first 5 seconds aswell..
He nose.
He's basing everything on ONE book.
Honestly….does it really cost that much more to have an actual human narrator? Well already immersed in robot voices from ‘customer service’ calls to the majority of politicians.
Well yes friend. It is a lot but I don't have the budget to hire anyone.
Read it yourself
@@jettjones9889 the annoying presentation ruins the video.
@@waracademy128creo que eres de España y tu canal es super bueno.
Get used to it.
Can anybody throw some light on rather murky past of maestro Karayan during WWII?
Ahh, Christmas with Hitler. I think I see Mel Brooks in that picture.
Did you see me ?
I don’t know what they expected differently they started it remember the bombing of London invasion of Poland and Czechoslovakia Russia
Yes I do remember the bombing of London, our Christmas was the pits too. My friend lost his mum and sister
Don’t blame me. I voted for Ernst Thalman of the German communist party in the 1933 elections. I’d never vote for Adolph. Why would anybody vote for that clown?
Hitler many didnt vote for him he got 54% vote ?
And the world was left with a 47 year cold war against, wait for it adolf's original foe the soviets which brutalised the whole of the eastern bloc. They even had to build a wall to stop 700 people a day escaping to the west. How many jumped the wall to head east? Zero!
This man’s voice is really pleasant to listen to. He’s a good reader, too.
Is it real? Sounds like it might be AI.
@@captainhurricane5705Sone Bots have feelings too ?
sounds terrible
I’m guessing the OG sounding oration is a rebellion against non OG style oration
Good video but those sound effects hurt my ears.
After seeing this, the last Christmas of WW2 and its impact on German civilians, we can see the true nature of war, a declared war. There was no call for a "ceasefire" then. Now consider today, a declared war by the state of Israel against Hamas, the dictatorship ruling over the Gaza Strip, and around the world massive crowds, waving Gaza banners calling for a "ceasefire." Had such ever happened during WW2 the free world would have lost to the tyrants of that day. The sad fact in a declared war civilians ALWAYS suffer, those who stood for the tyrants and those who did not. War is hell... There is no way around that fact.
Damn that's cold.
@@mariakelly90210 The truth of the matter always is.
people back then certainly lived a more healthy lifestyle; there is not a single obese person is sight - except Göring, of course
Looks like a seance a la Himmler
Tough noogy!
How many did they kill in their concentration camps??
Yes, That's what comes from looking the other way.
"All wars are bankers wars!"
Antisemitic claptrap.
This guy nose.
@@jeremyboughtono2 Good.
Isn't that the truth! The sooner people realize this, the better. There was one man involved in WWII who said he didn't want war, and it was the one everyone ultimately blamed it on. He was the same man who ousted the bankers and freed his people from crippling debt. What happens when you break free from the system? You awaken the beast...
This is what happens to a people when it decided to follow a Pied Piper. Ruzzia is following a Pied Piper today.
You keep repeating the same clips whether or not they have anything to do with the period/places being commented upon. I should start again, this is not useful.
After Europe had been turned inside out with incredible brutality, what did the population expect