This is great, I haven't seen this in 40 years since I was in High School, we saw this every year in German class. I always wanted to see the Castle and finally did last year!
My folks met in Worms. I was stationed in Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden in the 80's. I consider Ludwigshafen my home away from home. I miss the Ebert Park. Great music at the Eberthalle.
Sasuke Uchiha What about the millions of Russians/Poles/Jews/Romani people etc killed by the Germans? If they had removed the madman in the 1930s things would have been different!
Despite of political reasons and the war, the 50s were closer to lifestyle of 30s and 40s than to the 60s. The 60s were really a cultural shock, mark the beginning of modern time in Germany.
I was born in 1949 and grew up during this time. In the 1960s the first post-war generation had grown up and the way of life changed radically, at least in the big cities.
@Jean @josif The Germans were destroyed because they started a war of aggression (WWII). Don't start a war and then complain you were treated unfairly. As for Americans discovering the beauty of Germany, a plurality or even majority of Americans have German ancestry, it makes sense they would want to explore their original homeland.
Circa 1954. The Marshal Plan passed congress in 1948. By 1954 West Germany had already gone through the new currency period, price control and the Marshal Plan was in full swing. I read somewhere that women did most of the rubble clean-up in the cities after the war. It's hard to believe that Hitler lost about 5 million troops in the Russian front alone which sent shock waves throughout Germany.
Yep, after the total failure of the Versailles Treaty, the French govt. revenge for war reparations from Germany after the Great War. The US and the US Army came up with the Marshall Plan so we wouldn't have to come back to Europe to bail them out for the third time!! Now 75 years later, the Germans and the French play nice to each other. Say thanks Germany and France, oh and pay your NATO Bills on time or else.
@Hal 9000 He's not an idiot (at least, not just from this remark), he's pointing out how incredibly expensive airplane travel was then. Try educating yourself before commenting, and learn some manners.
Oh no, 5 to 10 years until all the ruins were removed. Our house wit war damages was rebuild in 1956. Everything was only completely repaired in the 1960s. However, the economy (industry) actually started to produce more before 1955 than before the war (1938), that's right.
Don Maverick They don’t show the places where there are still people living in dugout cellars. Look carefully, and you can see some ruins in the background. It was the mid 1960s before most of the obvious wreckage was rebuilt or restored. Even so, 20 years is fast considering the fact that much of the work was done by hand under occupation governments. The average German was not cruising on the Rhine, sipping wine!
It depends on where you look. The cities certainly weren't rebuilt completely in 1950, but the countryside was hardly affected by the war at all, so there wasn't much to rebuild.
I have been here for two years and have seen most of this or have plans already to visit these places. There were a couple things I did not know about and will definitely be doing. Mainly the Passion Play is what I am excited for now that I know. Germany is still mostly the same except for when you go into big cities. There are a lot of low life people living in the cities.
Both Germany's are one again. Germany is a shining example of something good coming out of a tragic war. I lived there for two years; 1985-1987. I was in the US Air-Force assigned to the 86th TFW, 512th AGS/FS. When we went off base the Germans were good to us.
This is just speculation on my part, but I have to believe the goodness you felt was because of the gratitude of the German people. They were blamed for World Wars I and II, yet the Allies rebuilt German politics with stability and the Airliift of 1948, only three years after the defeat of the Nazis, meant that Berliners didn't starve.
An interesting infomercial, produced presumably by Pan American Airways. I was thinking, if I had survived say, Auschwitz, I'd be asking: "Who are these people!?" I bet I'd be more than a little surprised, when told... "These are Germans." I think my late Grandad, who passed when he was 89, would be slightly sceptical. He served from 1940 to 1946 in the RASC, driving and repairing ambulances. His tour of active service started with D-Day +3, France, Belgium, Germany, Bergen-Belsen, Berlin. (Put that on a Tee shirt) He was old school. He always maintained, he was a man, who had seen too much. Well, time moves on Grandad.
Yikes! Medieval German kitsch meets 1950s American kitsch. I went to school in Tuebingen, a medieval German city in Schwabenland and tended bar in a small, obscure village nearby in the 1980s, but none of my friends were wearing Loden and Dirndl or carving cuckoo clocks. They lived much like I did back home in Chicago. I'm quite sure that they would laugh at this weird Pan-Am travel brochure as much as I did.
The place is heavens on earth Oh my god 🙏I pray tht u show me this place once Aftr tht u can take my live from me But I want to see this place before I die in my life Wry very big wish
A country full of carouser, happily dancing people, enjoying their daily dose of bratwurst, selling cuckoo clocks. Beautiful country it was! Good to see movie if want to know what some parts of Germany looked like around1952(or later), without showing the scars of WWII that were still there.
East Germany was milked out dry By Russia. Lots of produced goods went east as reparations for ww 2. Building and maintain the border and wall swallowed lots of money. They also had to pay in cash for the Russian present army. Also is prepaired as a buffer and battlefied in case of conflict with the west . East Germany never had a change to get on its feet.
@@bluecollarguy67 But East Germany was the most successful of the Communist countries with the highest living standard among them. I mean it still sucked, but that's quite impressive when you consider that the Soviet took away all their machines and didn't give them money.
@@oliviagomez815 Britain has benefited most from the Marshall Plan, followed by France and Italy. Germany only comes in 4th place. The UK received 3.4 billion dollars, France 2.8 billion, Italy over 1.5 billion and Germany just over 1.4 billion. For the most part, Germany has taken a stake in itself
*It's nothing short of 'amazing!' how Germany re-built their ancient Cities from 'ruin and corpses'...the result of unrestricted warfare from the sky from people who supposedly possessed the 'moral high ground' to stand in judgment of women and children and MURDER THEM* ( *The reconstruction of Berlin alone was far greater than building the 'Great Wall' in China or the Pyramids of Egypt...they are nothing more than 'heaps of stone' in comparison to the painstaking reformation of a 2,000-year old City* )
5 Years after the unconditional Surrender,and all the young Boys and Adults don't forget stoolen 6 Years of there Live, in the 50' the majority of them had not the Power to reflect whats happens....
Things were far from ideal in the 1950s in Germany and this seems more like a tourist advert to kick start the German economy by America. Large numbers of Germans left for other countries at that time and housing was in short supply as Germany was re building because parts of it had been completely flattened by bombing. These places shown were not bombed out and time didn’t stay still. People didn’t wear traditional costumes in most places and struggled to rebuild their lives. So many lives were lost and there was a bitter taste in peoples mouths after the loss of the war and the shame of what had occurred. Make no mistake, Germany was occupied by America in the 1950s and well into the future. That’s just for starters.
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According to my grand-grandfather (I'm german), the post-war years in germany were actually worse than the service on the front. Fighting under machine gun fire is fuckin' horror. But that's to end sometime, and you expect one day you come home and see your wife and children. What REALLY fucks you up is when you actually come home and your whole city is not standing anymore, your kids died, your wife is a shadow of herself, being deafened by bomb shockwave, starving to death, and you have to find food for yourself AND all those you love. In Munich, a big city where EVERYONE just tries to survive among the ruins. They ate cats and dogs and rats, as he told me, living through that for many years was even more devastating than to be brothers in arms and fight the russians.
This is great, I haven't seen this in 40 years since I was in High School, we saw this every year in German class. I always wanted to see the Castle and finally did last year!
man .. i like ur comment after 10 years !!! lol
My folks met in Worms. I was stationed in Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden in the 80's. I consider Ludwigshafen my home away from home. I miss the Ebert Park. Great music at the Eberthalle.
In 1960, I took a 3 hour cruise on this river, around each corner was a castle :)
granskare The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies
@ʀᴀᴢᴏʀʙᴀᴄᴋɢᴇʀᴍᴀɴɪᴀ As well as the Confederate States . But yes subject idiocy.
Sasuke Uchiha What about the millions of Russians/Poles/Jews/Romani people etc killed by the Germans? If they had removed the madman in the 1930s things would have been different!
ليش
Delicious!
Despite of political reasons and the war, the 50s were closer to lifestyle of 30s and 40s than to the 60s. The 60s were really a cultural shock, mark the beginning of modern time in Germany.
I was born in 1949 and grew up during this time. In the 1960s the first post-war generation had grown up and the way of life changed radically, at least in the big cities.
Folke Stender what happened then/ what exactly has changed?
@@daniel6648 the boomers grew up and fucked everything up
Not just Germany, everywhere in the West.
@@daniel6648 The introduction of the contraceptive pill and the resulting de-stigmatisation of pre-marital sex.
Can’t explain the nostalgia for old Germany and the times I have never seen.
a wonderful footage. It is bringing back childhood memories in beautiful Germany.
Ulrich Lehnhardt The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies
@@josifhanovre3379 fake news...
In the 50's they discovered the beauty of the country which they destroyed several years earlier ! Crazy world !
---which they were compelled to destroy---
What did compell them to destroy mediaval city centres?
Jimmy Harris The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies
@Jean @josif The Germans were destroyed because they started a war of aggression (WWII). Don't start a war and then complain you were treated unfairly.
As for Americans discovering the beauty of Germany, a plurality or even majority of Americans have German ancestry, it makes sense they would want to explore their original homeland.
ratchet500000 The most important thing now is Germany in the most powerful
One of my favorite places to visit...Rothenberg
Rick Potter Rothenburg
Circa 1954. The Marshal Plan passed congress in 1948. By 1954 West Germany had already gone through the new currency period, price control and the Marshal Plan was in full swing. I read somewhere that women did most of the rubble clean-up in the cities after the war. It's hard to believe that Hitler lost about 5 million troops in the Russian front alone which sent shock waves throughout Germany.
Yep, after the total failure of the Versailles Treaty, the French govt. revenge for war reparations from Germany after the Great War. The US and the US Army came up with the Marshall Plan so we wouldn't have to come back to Europe to bail them out for the third time!! Now 75 years later, the Germans and the French play nice to each other. Say thanks Germany and France, oh and pay your NATO Bills on time or else.
das schöne Rothenburg :-) Was heut genauso schön ist wie damals
Just collateral damage.
Eigentlich noch schöner! ;)
The 50s was a great time to fly.
If you didn´t have to pay it.
@Hal 9000 He's not an idiot (at least, not just from this remark), he's pointing out how incredibly expensive airplane travel was then. Try educating yourself before commenting, and learn some manners.
@Hal 9000 p
Perhaps one day I will have the pleasure to experience Germany for myself...🌎🌏🌍😽😺❤️luv@undwallace... xxxooo.
Those buildings are beautiful
I wish those times come back :(
I ❤️ Germany
awesome footage...........i love it!!!
I wonder if they still do this in 2020. Towns people still put on their old gear and acting. 12:15
More than a third of Americans are of German origin, and still speak the language fluently.
That explanes a lot, sad enough!
@Sasuke Uchiha English are not Germans lol.
They are celtic.
A 3rd of Americans speaking fluent German? Are you dreaming? I bet less than a 3rd of all Americans do speak any foreign language fluently.
Philip Croft. I buy the first part of your statement,not the second part though.
Spinnst Du, oder? So ein Quatsch.
this plane acts more like a time machine,
when live yourself in good-old germany was
Respect the germans !!!
5 years and almost rebuilt
Oh no, 5 to 10 years until all the ruins were removed. Our house wit war damages was rebuild in 1956. Everything was only completely repaired in the 1960s. However, the economy (industry) actually started to produce more before 1955 than before the war (1938), that's right.
Don Maverick They don’t show the places where there are still people living in dugout cellars. Look carefully, and you can see some ruins in the background. It was the mid 1960s before most of the obvious wreckage was rebuilt or restored. Even so, 20 years is fast considering the fact that much of the work was done by hand under occupation governments. The average German was not cruising on the Rhine, sipping wine!
It depends on where you look. The cities certainly weren't rebuilt completely in 1950, but the countryside was hardly affected by the war at all, so there wasn't much to rebuild.
I have been here for two years and have seen most of this or have plans already to visit these places. There were a couple things I did not know about and will definitely be doing. Mainly the Passion Play is what I am excited for now that I know. Germany is still mostly the same except for when you go into big cities. There are a lot of low life people living in the cities.
Both Germany's are one again. Germany is a shining example of something good coming out of a tragic war. I lived there for two years; 1985-1987. I was in the US Air-Force assigned to the 86th TFW, 512th AGS/FS. When we went off base the Germans were good to us.
This is just speculation on my part, but I have to believe the goodness you felt was because of the gratitude of the German people. They were blamed for World Wars I and II, yet the Allies rebuilt German politics with stability and the Airliift of 1948, only three years after the defeat of the Nazis, meant that Berliners didn't starve.
I also was in the airforce in the 80s and was sent to Suwon Korea. Wished I was sent to Germany.
What a happy life they had 🥺
VW's everywhere ! . . . I own one '55 Oval sedan , cheers from Arizona usa
You can still bullet holes on the walls going into Rothenberg.
Lynn Farley Rothenburg
To think this place caused a huge war less than 10 years earlier sad but least it still looked good.
who see this video in 2020 ?
Hello Sr , your country is strong.One of my dreams is visit Germany
I have to visit Germany very soo my Mother's family of nobility came from Friederichshafen in Baden Wurttemberg
unglaublich, welche Schätze ihr da ausgrabt!
step outside and say that Fritz !
Nice. I lived on the river in Nuremberg. Always wondered where it went. Haha. Good old day's
It wents to Fürth the naboring city greetings from Nuermberg Germany
An interesting infomercial, produced presumably by Pan American Airways.
I was thinking, if I had survived say, Auschwitz, I'd be asking: "Who are these people!?"
I bet I'd be more than a little surprised, when told... "These are Germans."
I think my late Grandad, who passed when he was 89, would be slightly sceptical.
He served from 1940 to 1946 in the RASC, driving and repairing ambulances.
His tour of active service started with D-Day +3, France, Belgium, Germany, Bergen-Belsen, Berlin. (Put that on a Tee shirt)
He was old school.
He always maintained, he was a man, who had seen too much.
Well, time moves on Grandad.
Yikes! Medieval German kitsch meets 1950s American kitsch. I went to school in Tuebingen, a medieval German city in Schwabenland and tended bar in a small, obscure village nearby in the 1980s, but none of my friends were wearing Loden and Dirndl or carving cuckoo clocks. They lived much like I did back home in Chicago. I'm quite sure that they would laugh at this weird Pan-Am travel brochure as much as I did.
lovely :)
The place is heavens on earth
Oh my god 🙏I pray tht u show me this place once Aftr tht u can take my live from me
But I want to see this place before I die in my life
Wry very big wish
7:27 Paddle steamer Vaterland, build in 1926 and modernized in 1962. The Vaterland was withdrawn in 1972.
Can’t keep Germany down!
Hal 9000 shut piece of shit
Hal 9000 there was islam
In that time already
Hal 9000 your generation is new there not islam
Islam and muslims do not lough. They are always frustrated, sad and uncapable to build something good. The biggest wankers world have ever seen
Let's hope the best...
Back when flying still was flying, rather than a bus with wings
A lot of ghost there bcoz there's so many people died there
5:44 Tatra!
A country full of carouser, happily dancing people, enjoying their daily dose of bratwurst, selling cuckoo clocks. Beautiful country it was! Good to see movie if want to know what some parts of Germany looked like around1952(or later), without showing the scars of WWII that were still there.
Damn they really fucked it up after the war
In Munster two years 1958 hard workers clean country.
no sign of after war ruin?
Germans don't let rubble lay around for decades..
Elberiver11
Bis auf Heidelberg, Regensburg, Halle und Erfurt waren alle restlichen Städte zu 80% zerstört!!!!!!
Galland Germany didn’t have two atomic bombs fall on them after
Lenzo Flatti wiesbaden nicht vergessen
yes from 1:55 to 2:04
6:49 - Time traveler ;D
Traumgeblubber The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies
Hokywood in action.
Post card Germany.
0:14
Dick durrance...
What a big fail
Resiliant the germans are, after their nation being almost wiped of the map, came back and prospered just after 5 years, not so much east germany tho.
Nope, not much ever got done in East Germany or any other country under Communism, despite all of their propaganda suggesting otherwise. .
The aussie patriot the Marshall Plan saved their asses.
East Germany was milked out dry By Russia.
Lots of produced goods went east as reparations for ww 2.
Building and maintain the border and wall swallowed lots of money.
They also had to pay in cash for the Russian present army.
Also is prepaired as a buffer and battlefied in case of conflict with the west .
East Germany never had a change to get on its feet.
@@bluecollarguy67 But East Germany was the most successful of the Communist countries with the highest living standard among them. I mean it still sucked, but that's quite impressive when you consider that the Soviet took away all their machines and didn't give them money.
@@oliviagomez815
Britain has benefited most from the Marshall Plan, followed by France and Italy. Germany only comes in 4th place.
The UK received 3.4 billion dollars, France 2.8 billion, Italy over 1.5 billion and Germany just over 1.4 billion. For the most part, Germany has taken a stake in itself
15:12. Ahh yes old Garmisch. Vacation getaway for Hitler and the SS just a decade earlier😔
Bullshit!
With a minimum of historical knowledge you should know, that Hitlers place in the Alps was Berchtesgaden!!!!
@@volkerleiste6191 Among others perhaps m'friend. Now simmer down and have a coke.
You have no idea at all! For you are not a native of the region. You just " belive" in american TV and other bullshit sources
*It's nothing short of 'amazing!' how Germany re-built their ancient Cities from 'ruin and corpses'...the result of unrestricted warfare from the sky from people who supposedly possessed the 'moral high ground' to stand in judgment of women and children and MURDER THEM* ( *The reconstruction of Berlin alone was far greater than building the 'Great Wall' in China or the Pyramids of Egypt...they are nothing more than 'heaps of stone' in comparison to the painstaking reformation of a 2,000-year old City* )
5 Years after the unconditional Surrender,and all the young Boys and Adults don't forget stoolen 6 Years of there Live, in the 50' the majority of them had not the Power to reflect whats happens....
Things were far from ideal in the 1950s in Germany and this seems more like a tourist advert to kick start the German economy by America. Large numbers of Germans left for other countries at that time and housing was in short supply as Germany was re building because parts of it had been completely flattened by bombing. These places shown were not bombed out and time didn’t stay still. People didn’t wear traditional costumes in most places and struggled to rebuild their lives. So many lives were lost and there was a bitter taste in peoples mouths after the loss of the war and the shame of what had occurred. Make no mistake, Germany was occupied by America in the 1950s and well into the future. That’s just for starters.
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北風亂夜未央 你的影子剪不斷 徒留我孤單 在湖面成雙
yes! you are right!
+Iván Monge ))))
Бля. почему. я. не. немец. ,. почему. я. ленивый. ,. не. хочу. учиться. ,. хочу. но. неспособен. воровать. . Я. живу. в. дерьме. вокруг. меня. все. и. всё. (кроме детей. ). дерьмо. и. я. продолжаю. здесь. жить .
#populationreplacement
the speakers voice...so false and unauthentic...long live the USA
Too Englisch for me prefer Bayern
現代香港故事,你珍惜
it seems war aggressors get the best of peace time..
This video only shows the leisure and good times, not the many sacrifices made!
Why make such a negative comment?
According to my grand-grandfather (I'm german), the post-war years in germany were actually worse than the service on the front. Fighting under machine gun fire is fuckin' horror. But that's to end sometime, and you expect one day you come home and see your wife and children.
What REALLY fucks you up is when you actually come home and your whole city is not standing anymore, your kids died, your wife is a shadow of herself, being deafened by bomb shockwave, starving to death, and you have to find food for yourself AND all those you love. In Munich, a big city where EVERYONE just tries to survive among the ruins.
They ate cats and dogs and rats, as he told me, living through that for many years was even more devastating than to be brothers in arms and fight the russians.
The 3rd rich
Are you dump ?
Deutschland rising. No one can stop us now 🇩🇪