My great grandfather was there, as a cook. When Germans invaded Latvia they made many Latvians join their army, my great grandfather worked at a bakery so they made him a cook in the army, for the soldiers on the front lines. He followed the army all the way to the Battle of Moscow, and was pushed back all the way to Battle of Berlin. When the Germans surrendered he would have faced the gulag or execution as Latvia was under Soviet occupation, however when Russia had previously invaded Latvia a year before the Germans, they gave Latvians soviet passports. My great grandfather had hidden his soviet passport sown into his trousers for the whole war, so at this point when he was arrested he got his passport out and claimed to be a soviet citizen who had been captured by the Germans, and they let him go, so he managed to walk back to Latvia a free man.
damn your grandpa was realy lucky ....even those who were citizents or soldieres of the soviets were often put in gulags because they were seen as traitors for working for the germans even though they had no other way
Its hard to believe that these fights really happend...and its not even that much time since then. When i imagine that my great grandmother was born in Berlin in 1923 and still can tell me about these fights, its unbelievable... and always when she tells me about how they hide in their houses in 1945, you can literally hear the fear in her voice. Thats hard...
Totally agree. My grandmother was born in 1937 and she remembers how her father went to the front, how he sent the last letter home: "I'm going into battle on crutches, don't wait at home." He died near Feodosia in Crimea in 1942. Also she remembers the terrible battle near her village (Tsimlyansk) and bombing. An aerial bomb fell not far from her and exploded, she was saved by the house. And especially she remembered the occupation. When I listened to her I couldn't believe that it was all happening.
My late grandmother was also there in 1945, along with my father who was aged 4. They lived in Seeburger Strasse, Spandau. My grandfather was killed during the battle of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea. She moved to England after the war and married a British soldier after working as a translator for the British forces.
Kevin Arriaza but those old men fought the wars before the youth were born, like all the generals, even at that time the leader of the nations had experience of war
The large majority of film back then was in black and white, colour was rare. However, with modern technology they've managed to turn most footage into colour.
@@ascuzzibabadibupi978 ISIS is still a threat. Even though they lost all of their territory, as well as their ability to gather resources and fighters, they still have strong believers who will continue the fight. Not in a warzone, but in a crowd filled with civilians.
Ciorchinele Suprem exactly the caliphate has been fucked to nothing by Syrian and Russian army IS must be removed from Algeria with book haram and from Afghanistan
My grandfather was a WW2 vet and he once said this. He said every war movie he ever saw or video of war he ever saw . He said the one thing they always get wrong is this…..He said when men were fighting and dying there was never any of this dramatic or beautiful music playing in the background to tug on your emotions or heart….your buddies were just killed with no beautiful music playing like every movie he ever saw…..Wow! Did he get that right.
Yes, and Hollywood itself invented the "American Dream" that Never really existed either but did orchestrate the "Nightmare" the Western World is now experiencing unfortunately.
PrimalSavage 77 every Nazi deserved to die even if just fight for they home after killed 20 millions of soviets and 6/7 millions of civilians jews*. But I can agree that in the ends of war many kids and olds fight. they were the real inocent soldiers fighting for they home
Well at that point it wasn’t about fight for your country, it was about fighting to survive. The Red Army was coming to Berlin with the intent to kill, not to liberate. It was do or die for every German citizen.
@@cheekibreeki9818 There's footage 😐 and document's. Are you not aware Hitler's medical practitioner would give him a cocktail (of unhelpful drugs) as a morning pick me up? It's why he became erratic, made poor decisions that lost them the war. Like the Argonne forest offensive that went poor as mechanized infantry/tanks have trouble in dense forests. As for the elderly etc being armed, I think I've seen footage of them armed, but haven't read too much on that.
It wasn't war only for two armies. Did you know smth about american and british armies in Normandy, Libya, Italy and other locations? It was a war for USA and Japan, China and Japan too. Many other countries were involved in this mess. That's why the war was global.
Ben - one off the germans who was 12 years old fightin in the berlin battle may be living in Auckland city still as he came out here 7 years ago and it made the news that he twas invoved in battle off Also ahh met at church a german whos grand mother was raped in the battle off berlin. - sic.''
They didn't elect Hitler, Hitler pretty much wiped out the other german parties if I remember rightly, so there was no one else but the nazi party. It all came down to fear and nobody dare told him he was wrong.
@@samuelemery4410 thats not true actually. While yes he did use intimidation tactics he far from wiped out other parties. In effect he was elected. THEN he wiped out the other parties
Aside from the amazing footage, the music to this video is epic and captures fear, hope, determination, survival and just sheer courage to overcome any obstacle.
Imagine being a German soldier in that moment. You are surrounded, you know you will probably die at some point, you know war is over but you are fighting anyway because you must.
Imagine how a simple Soviet resident felt when the enemy horde, calling him unworthy to be considered a human, burned his house, deprived him of his homeland, and deprived him of his family. How did the mother feel who sent 11 sons to the front and received one funeral after another? How did the hero Matrosov feel when he rushed at an enemy machine gun to cover it with his body? How did the defenseless girl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya feel when the Germans tortured her and hung her for everyone to see? How did my great-grandfather feel when he crawled out from under fire with his machine gun with a shot in his leg? For the most part, Russians, especially those whose relatives went to this terrible war, do not feel compassion for the fascist nits
they fogught in Berlin and from Poland to stop the advantage of soviet troops also to save german civilians to getting killed and mass raped! soviet troops rape child to older woman thats why! nothing else, the war was over since stalingrad.
The soviet were known for winning the war in Germany, they are not known for having any good military tactics, their tactics was to send in wave after wave of men, until the Nazis run out of ammo, that's how they won WW2, surround the city, or village then send in solders to the slaughterer.
My grandfather lost three brothers in this war, and one of them died in the Battle of Berlin. His mother, wife and one daughter (he had two daughters) died of starvation in Leningrad during the siege. My mother was left alone, and she was sent to an orphanage, after the war in 1946, my grandfather found my mother and took her away. This war has brought a lot of grief to all people. I hope people will stop fighting someday...
My great Grandfather faught in the Wehrmacht. He started since 1941 but he doesn't like talking about Berlin and the other cities he went to years before. But he told me a story on his time on Berlin before German surrender. He was hiding up in a building after being separated by two blocks at least. He could see his "Friends." Down of to the block but the Russians already stormed the street. (This was all at night of course.) He knew they would searching buildings for people and all that's why he tossed a grenade on the 4th floor staircase so the Russians wouldn't get him. All he had with him was his gun (MP40) and his knife. (At least that's what he told me.) Anyways, he spent half the night hiding in a room getting sleep, and the other half, looking out the window. This all happened for a few days too. He was simply to afraid to leave his room. Edit (October 8th 2022): He also fought in the west before being shipped east (again). My family has a lot of people in this war, both close related and distant. We had Italian partisans in 1943 who once fight allies. My great cousin was in the US Navy I think as well. Most of my American side family where mostly field hospital people. (English is bad.) My great grandmother had a half sister who was a nurse in Finland durring the winter war of 39. And I know we had family that fought in the Soviet union in the later part of the war but I can't recall their roles. But my great grandfather is still proud of his history. He always tells me that you can't let others ruin what things mean to you. But I know deep down he feels a bit bad for Germany's role as an aggressor. To this day, he still hangs out with someone from the armi. I think they still shoot guns too. He's old, but being 102 doesn't stop him from having a hobby !
@@Sillu a lotta people on my grandads side was in the war. All on different fronts, different specifics like the Luftwaffe, and the Kriegsmarine. Though not as exciting as the one you see now.
Mr. Valkorion was it his once owned house in Berlin? Or was it just some random house? Also was he the only one there or did he have a couple other people?
@@Moonlight.Deadite It was just a random building from what he told me. And he said that there was a few other people with him but they too got separated.
I know from my uncle (a soldier 17 years old) that in the past few days the German soldiers in Berlin have only fought not to be caught by the Russians and brought to Siberia. It was a fight for their own lives and no longer for stupid Nazis from which they were abused and betrayed. He said in this last days of war it was no longer a fight Wehrmacht against Red Army, It was a fight that everyone alone or in little groups had to fight against the Red Army to survive. My uncle and 3 other comrades pulled himself in 2 weeks out of Berlin through the subway tunnels and canals and flee at nights through Russian-occupied territory to river Elbe. He swam to the western side and surrender himself to the British and was after 6 weeks POW camp dismiss and was at home near Kiel. Many of his comrades were caught by the Russians and didn't come home until 5 years later, but most came never back. 80 percent of his old comrades died or murdered in Siberian gulags.
My grandma grew up during this time. She once gave me a good insight into how people thought back then: "if your neighbor was killed by a bomb, you were just glad it wasn't you, and you kept living."
I have a bit of reflection when I see this videos from ww2, because while they were fighting in Europe my grandparents were chilling just going to school
My father was master of supply in the army in Kuwait in 1992, I can't ever imagine what it was like to arm men that you knew you may never see again. May all the soldiers finally rest and know peace.
I don't think he died. If was hit by that 57mm cannon he would't fall to the ground, but his body would be destroyed while taking off. I think he was pushed by the gas coming from the muzzle brake. You know that feeling when some one fires a revolver next to you but its a 57mm AT cannon.
My grandfather was the first commander, I wasn’t born yet but it must be terrifying to be there. Rest In Peace to all the soldiers that lost their life’s and family’s during this war. Now, a moment of silence. 😔😔
1:00 The guy on the gun nearly blew the entire group to hell. Must have been in quite the hurry...on a different note, the fellow at 2:16 looks like he was one hard SOB.
I dont think actual battlefield footage should be dramatized with epic music...I get that music makes the visual experience more immersive, but to me it seems like it just reduces an entire worlds ungodly suffering to an entertainment piece 🙃
@@adamjones3818 and extreme communist fascism left right Nazi commie whatever they all have extreme views. No tolerance for others alternative opinions 😂
"Hey honey, the Russians are firing artillery and are going from house to house to plunder and rape you mind closing the window? I’m reading the newspaper."
@@distinctspace8916 hey, mom, nazis are exterminating us and our children, cause they view us as lower race and torture our civilians, close the window please. It's hard to study
It's insane how this happened less than 90 years ago. They gave up their tomorrow's for our today's. My hats off to every single soldier, that is the bravest shit I have ever seen.
my grandfathers youngest brother Alan volunteered for the army when he was 17. he served with the canadian 1st army in north africa as an infantryman. he never talked about it much. one christmas when the family got together he waited until everyone had gone downstairs to play some music. he had had more than a few, and he told me about his first action.....the germans had fired artillary with smoke canisters and launched a large infantry assault. he was ordered to counter attack in the smoke. a german soldier came suddenly out of the smoke at him. Alan was big man and won by bayonetting the other soldier through the throat. He cried and cried. He went outside and came back in later. talking to the other members of my family after he passed, i appear to be the only one he told that story to. 14 kids, 6 in uniform. All 14 gone now.
Many Families Are Not Even As Much As Yours Think Of That Little German Man He Had A Family But Alas He Didn't Get Lucky But At Least Luck Was On Alan Side And He Survived Rejoice At Least That Alan Has Lived
@@Kobaford They did not intimidate Japan in to surrender, they invaded Japans overseas posessions wile the USA was coming for them from the other side, while the japanese people had been starving for years, and they along side the army where lacking recurces of every kind. Hirahito just realized there was no point in continuing he saw that if needs be japan would be invaded and he could not stop it.
@@theroldan8675 not exactly. Many abortions happened. I am German and my family fled from Eastern Germany to west and survived. I have no Russian but Polish, Austrian and Greek
You have got to respect the german army. They didn't stop fighting even when they were pushed all the way to Berlin and surrounded by Russians they did not give up easily.
@Buttrape Bill Are you dumb He passed, and fell due to the shock wave from the shot. It’s like a push, no more. Since the VET fired, this had to be done immediately.
@Buttrape Bill You better compare the Americans, who in less than a year killed more than 500 thousand of their soldiers on the Western front, given the fact that Germany in 1944 could not even resist adequately.
@Lord Farquaad You are really stupid. 80% of all Axis troops were located on the eastern front, their elite were there, and as a result of the war we lost even less than the Axis. And the United States, with an adversary who could no longer defend normally in the west, because all the troops were in the east, managed to lose 500 thousand soldiers. The USSR in 2 months in Japan has done more than the USA in 4 years. The United States and the next 50 years subjected hundreds of thousands of its soldiers as a result of nuclear tests, I hope you do not need to talk about this. My point is that you are an idiot who is trying to use idiot's arguments in discussions.
I really like the audio to this and the timing i have seen alot of footage from the world wars and generally the music downplays the severity of these situations and i think you did a great job putting this together!
Same footage a hundred other channels had. I was looking to see the German soldier with the K98k sniper, minutes of my life was wasted due to this. Thanks for the comment.
The Mosin Crate ahhh. The unavoidable, and seemingly ubiquitous ... 'HATER' --> for you!! :: where is your phukkin video jerk ?? Post the link when you make one... make damned sure to spend alot of time and even invest a little of yourself into it... when done, we can all comment how useless you are as a human being ... next time the tide comes in, with all the garbage, you should go out with it...dick.
most of comment section i see all of their grandfather facing WW2... pretty surprised that my grandfather is not, he born right after the wars ends, and thankfully i get a chance to meet my great grandfather which is on WW2 with British side... since they taking over our country...
That was Hitler's last moment in front of a cam, he wish the kids good luck and give them medails for fighting and say, that the boys have fight to the end.
My great grandfather was drafted from Armenia (soviets ) 19 y/o and no news until 2010 when we received a letter from Moscow that they recovered his metal name plate near Stalingrad where he fell. Gradmom kept on waiting for him 🙁
@@cyrosubod2317 Not a big fan of Mark Felton. Always simping on the Germans and Prussians. Nonetheless, not many people know that the SS Charlemagne held their own ferociously against the Soviets. Inflicting massive casualties, in fact, they were some of the last men to defend the Riechstag.
Actually in Phillipines my grandfather is a Filipino Soldier and fighting japanese but he was on the bataan death march luckily Americans saved him and fellow Filipino soldiers
@@baseballworldwide9439 He kind of was. Patton was mentally very similar to Hitler and wanted a world run by the Anglo-Saxons. He was a very racially driven person when you get down to it.
He was a panzer crewman from either the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich or 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf. That tiny clip was actually taken during the Third Battle of Kharkov in 1943 as was the first 17 seconds of the clip. The rest is from the Battle of Berlin as stated. Sorry but a 62 year old anorak here obsessed with the Eastern Front of WW2.
Thank you for putting the video on It means a lot to me seeing my great grandfather’s face even though I never knew see him thank you for putting that video in I subscribed 👍😞
Yeah their will to fight was Not some stupid money it was their families And loved ones they wanted to protect them at all costs so they done everything they could
A lot of this footage is not from Berlin. For example, the opening first 20 seconds are from Stalingrad, the scene at 1:55 shows a German soldier overlooking Kiev, the famous scene with Hitler from 3:53 was taken somewhere in Mid/Late March 1945, as it was shown in the last German Newsweek from March 22nd, 1945, the short scene from 2:29 onwards, when German soldiers are handed out Panzerfausts, is a scene from the German Newsweek No. 748 from 11th January 1945.... There are a few scenes that are actually from Berlin in this video, but these are all taken by the Soviets. To my knowledge, there is no German footage from the Battle of Berlin, because propaganda movie production has long ceased in April 1945, and no German war reporter was still running around Berlin taking footage with a camera....
My father and his 3 brothers survived the war, each in different branches of the military. My dad was a Tec5 in thr Army Air Corps. He fought in the Battle of Fogia, Italy, which historians have said was more fiercely fought than the Battle of the Bulge. He also did lookout duty in the Atlas Mountains, and drove in a convoy through the Holy Land.
That’s Exactly the thought that Runs through me, the new world is bliss and doesn’t lead in the shoes these guys stepped in, may my condolences go to every soldier who lost their life.
Tavish I don’t think he did,because being knocked over by that blast is gonna hurt but it ain’t gonna kill ya, plus we never saw the bullet hit the soilder and if it did he would’ve been blown to peices
@@averagetexan9930 ever heard of over pressure? The power that comes out of that Barrel alone can kill ....thats Why you are instructed To stand behind a connon and Not just to the side
@@tavish4699 well this happened to my dad my mom told me cuz of the soldier told her everything and he got knocked out of a cannon and the barrel didn't he hit him he got knock out my dad was a nazi soldier he died on the end of the war but hey see it not that bad getting knock out by a cannon
My grandfather was there, bless his soul...... We went there for vacation a few weeks ago, had to make an early trip home thanks to this coronavirus nonsense. Hopefully we can go back there in the coming months.
@@ericmercredi246 I meant this as a joke. My grandfather hasn't been in a war since he lost the remote under his couch. But I have an uncle that's a Vietnam war vet.
Stay tuned, I'm working on this same footage but with sound, just pure sound without music
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@Sillu Ok, We wait.. Thanks
My great grandfather was there, as a cook. When Germans invaded Latvia they made many Latvians join their army, my great grandfather worked at a bakery so they made him a cook in the army, for the soldiers on the front lines. He followed the army all the way to the Battle of Moscow, and was pushed back all the way to Battle of Berlin.
When the Germans surrendered he would have faced the gulag or execution as Latvia was under Soviet occupation, however when Russia had previously invaded Latvia a year before the Germans, they gave Latvians soviet passports. My great grandfather had hidden his soviet passport sown into his trousers for the whole war, so at this point when he was arrested he got his passport out and claimed to be a soviet citizen who had been captured by the Germans, and they let him go, so he managed to walk back to Latvia a free man.
Al Viktorovich What a great story
Al Viktorovich I wish people today were that smart.
damn your grandpa was realy lucky ....even those who were citizents or soldieres of the soviets were often put in gulags because they were seen as traitors for working for the germans even though they had no other way
@Tony 94 what nationality was he ?
Tony 94 *KURWA*
It´s kinda strange to see images of men fighting and dying before I even existed.
And imagine that someone over 90+ years read this comment.
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@@chriswilliams7057 Why are you posting weird hitler propaganda?
Kind of makes you wish we were never born
ssssSTopmotion I’m reporting your a racist person
Its hard to believe that these fights really happend...and its not even that much time since then. When i imagine that my great grandmother was born in Berlin in 1923 and still can tell me about these fights, its unbelievable... and always when she tells me about how they hide in their houses in 1945, you can literally hear the fear in her voice. Thats hard...
Totally agree. My grandmother was born in 1937 and she remembers how her father went to the front, how he sent the last letter home: "I'm going into battle on crutches, don't wait at home." He died near Feodosia in Crimea in 1942. Also she remembers the terrible battle near her village (Tsimlyansk) and bombing. An aerial bomb fell not far from her and exploded, she was saved by the house. And especially she remembered the occupation. When I listened to her I couldn't believe that it was all happening.
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@@user-lw5ff8fq5m Wow.. who knew that battle wilk be brought there noce again
My late grandmother was also there in 1945, along with my father who was aged 4. They lived in Seeburger Strasse, Spandau. My grandfather was killed during the battle of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea. She moved to England after the war and married a British soldier after working as a translator for the British forces.
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“Older men declare war, but it is the youth who must fight and die.” - Herbert Hoover
Old men with crooked noses.
@@samuelskogqvist5565 They will pay, some day.
@bigbenhoward also the mexican revolutionary pancho villa was there with his men to battle Americans
@@gunarsmiezis9321 No they won't. I mean, they're already dead. But no, they won't pay for it.
Kevin Arriaza but those old men fought the wars before the youth were born, like all the generals, even at that time the leader of the nations had experience of war
When you realize that they even had good cameras in 1940 and ISIS is still filming with their flintstone based toasters.
The large majority of film back then was in black and white, colour was rare. However, with modern technology they've managed to turn most footage into colour.
I only found this funny because I like to joke a lot about ISIS and Al Qaeda
You got my like
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ISIS is still a threat. Even though they lost all of their territory, as well as their ability to gather resources and fighters, they still have strong believers who will continue the fight. Not in a warzone, but in a crowd filled with civilians.
Ciorchinele Suprem exactly the caliphate has been fucked to nothing by Syrian and Russian army
IS must be removed from Algeria with book haram and from Afghanistan
1945 idiot how long do you think the war was tell me when you think it started
My grandfather was a WW2 vet and he once said this. He said every war movie he ever saw or video of war he ever saw . He said the one thing they always get wrong is this…..He said when men were fighting and dying there was never any of this dramatic or beautiful music playing in the background to tug on your emotions or heart….your buddies were just killed with no beautiful music playing like every movie he ever saw…..Wow! Did he get that right.
They should put kevin mcleods music like mappers when they put one of his music or countryball modern history video they put right music
He was soviet soldier or german?
My Dad told me men f collapsed from pain when srapnell went through their bodys
Yes, and Hollywood itself invented the "American Dream" that Never really existed either but did orchestrate the "Nightmare" the Western World is now experiencing unfortunately.
A moment of silence for the soldiers and the civilians that lost their lives
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Aryan singh bruh
except the nazis they can eat shit
PrimalSavage 77 every Nazi deserved to die even if just fight for they home after killed 20 millions of soviets and 6/7 millions of civilians jews*. But I can agree that in the ends of war many kids and olds fight. they were the real inocent soldiers fighting for they home
well they had the choice to refuse to join the military if no military existed there would be no wars
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*You have been kicked. Friendly fire will not be tolerated*
908 Misfit haha😂😂🤣😅
@@sittingbackandwatchingital3845 chill boi
Friendly fire can happen its Very often in wars
Jokes on all y'all I'm white😂
Alberto Quinones your name sounds Mexican
The sheer devastation of war is mind blowing
Isn’t it crazy to think that they knew there was no way to win but they STILL kept fighting....
Well at that point it wasn’t about fight for your country, it was about fighting to survive. The Red Army was coming to Berlin with the intent to kill, not to liberate.
It was do or die for every German citizen.
@@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 yeah.
They were fighting for their own survival and the civilians who had still not evacuated it was a complete bloodbath for the Germans
@The Empire I would tell you listening to western propaganda will rot your brain. But it seems your brain is already rotten.
@@cheekibreeki9818 There's footage 😐 and document's. Are you not aware Hitler's medical practitioner would give him a cocktail (of unhelpful drugs) as a morning pick me up? It's why he became erratic, made poor decisions that lost them the war. Like the Argonne forest offensive that went poor as mechanized infantry/tanks have trouble in dense forests.
As for the elderly etc being armed, I think I've seen footage of them armed, but haven't read too much on that.
Brutal war by two armies willing to fight until the bitter end. RIP to both sides and those trapped in the middle
It wasn't war only for two armies. Did you know smth about american and british armies in Normandy, Libya, Italy and other locations? It was a war for USA and Japan, China and Japan too. Many other countries were involved in this mess. That's why the war was global.
Ben - one off the germans who was 12 years old fightin in the berlin battle may be living in Auckland city still as he came out here 7 years ago and it made the news that he twas invoved in battle off Also ahh met at church a german whos grand mother was raped in the battle off berlin. - sic.''
If each soldier was giving a second shot they would all sit by a river fishing ...... this is war not personal theres a difference
They didn't elect Hitler, Hitler pretty much wiped out the other german parties if I remember rightly, so there was no one else but the nazi party. It all came down to fear and nobody dare told him he was wrong.
@@samuelemery4410 thats not true actually. While yes he did use intimidation tactics he far from wiped out other parties. In effect he was elected. THEN he wiped out the other parties
Not a single phone in sight, just people living in the moment
Probably dying
What do you expect? People running around while holding a wired telephone?
Talking about to be real here and now!
LuxemBeast you’re incredibly toxic
That's because it was physically impossible to if they had modern technology they would use it as well
Aside from the amazing footage, the music to this video is epic and captures fear, hope, determination, survival and just sheer courage to overcome any obstacle.
Imagine being a German soldier in that moment. You are surrounded, you know you will probably die at some point, you know war is over but you are fighting anyway because you must.
Yeah, people defending Moscow or Leningrad probably felt similarly
you are so right!
Imagine how a simple Soviet resident felt when the enemy horde, calling him unworthy to be considered a human, burned his house, deprived him of his homeland, and deprived him of his family. How did the mother feel who sent 11 sons to the front and received one funeral after another? How did the hero Matrosov feel when he rushed at an enemy machine gun to cover it with his body? How did the defenseless girl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya feel when the Germans tortured her and hung her for everyone to see? How did my great-grandfather feel when he crawled out from under fire with his machine gun with a shot in his leg? For the most part, Russians, especially those whose relatives went to this terrible war, do not feel compassion for the fascist nits
@alexandervaltsev6937 it's not the same because you weren't encircled by a country who wants you dead the Germans had no where to go
they fogught in Berlin and from Poland to stop the advantage of soviet troops also to save german civilians to getting killed and mass raped! soviet troops rape child to older woman thats why! nothing else, the war was over since stalingrad.
1:02 almost blew that entire squad up. He couldn't have waited another 2 seconds?
Lmfao ye wtf
Soviets were far from bright.
The soviet were known for winning the war in Germany, they are not known for having any good military tactics, their tactics was to send in wave after wave of men, until the Nazis run out of ammo, that's how they won WW2, surround the city, or village then send in solders to the slaughterer.
Killed one of them
Wtf was he thinking
What a terrible war, must have been terrifying.
What war isn't terrifying?
@@victuz The great Emu War for example Lmao
@@bakers2366 omg 😂😂😂
The war in Iraq looks like kids playing in the forest compared to this.
EvbotheClown so they would lose up to some what 200 - 1 billion people to this?
Rare images how my grandpa describes his way to school
SOME Grandpas tell the actual truth, tho.
My grandfather lost three brothers in this war, and one of them died in the Battle of Berlin. His mother, wife and one daughter (he had two daughters) died of starvation in Leningrad during the siege. My mother was left alone, and she was sent to an orphanage, after the war in 1946, my grandfather found my mother and took her away. This war has brought a lot of grief to all people. I hope people will stop fighting someday...
Victim Support- sean O'Dwyer- number 136- 140 Hobson Street.- Auckland 1010. - New Zealand.- South pacific.''
Get out of Ukraine then
@@Ogier78 somár
@@Ogier78 write this to those who came there, just as the Nazis came in 1941. Why are you writing this to me?
My great Grandfather faught in the Wehrmacht. He started since 1941 but he doesn't like talking about Berlin and the other cities he went to years before. But he told me a story on his time on Berlin before German surrender. He was hiding up in a building after being separated by two blocks at least. He could see his "Friends." Down of to the block but the Russians already stormed the street. (This was all at night of course.) He knew they would searching buildings for people and all that's why he tossed a grenade on the 4th floor staircase so the Russians wouldn't get him. All he had with him was his gun (MP40) and his knife. (At least that's what he told me.) Anyways, he spent half the night hiding in a room getting sleep, and the other half, looking out the window. This all happened for a few days too. He was simply to afraid to leave his room.
Edit (October 8th 2022): He also fought in the west before being shipped east (again). My family has a lot of people in this war, both close related and distant. We had Italian partisans in 1943 who once fight allies. My great cousin was in the US Navy I think as well. Most of my American side family where mostly field hospital people. (English is bad.) My great grandmother had a half sister who was a nurse in Finland durring the winter war of 39. And I know we had family that fought in the Soviet union in the later part of the war but I can't recall their roles.
But my great grandfather is still proud of his history. He always tells me that you can't let others ruin what things mean to you. But I know deep down he feels a bit bad for Germany's role as an aggressor. To this day, he still hangs out with someone from the armi. I think they still shoot guns too. He's old, but being 102 doesn't stop him from having a hobby !
That's a great story, thanks for sharing
@@Sillu a lotta people on my grandads side was in the war. All on different fronts, different specifics like the Luftwaffe, and the Kriegsmarine. Though not as exciting as the one you see now.
Mr. Valkorion was it his once owned house in Berlin? Or was it just some random house? Also was he the only one there or did he have a couple other people?
@@Moonlight.Deadite It was just a random building from what he told me. And he said that there was a few other people with him but they too got separated.
I know from my uncle (a soldier 17 years old) that in the past few days the German soldiers in Berlin have only fought not to be caught by the Russians and brought to Siberia. It was a fight for their own lives and no longer for stupid Nazis from which they were abused and betrayed. He said in this last days of war it was no longer a fight Wehrmacht against Red Army, It was a fight that everyone alone or in little groups had to fight against the Red Army to survive. My uncle and 3 other comrades pulled himself in 2 weeks out of Berlin through the subway tunnels and canals and flee at nights through Russian-occupied territory to river Elbe. He swam to the western side and surrender himself to the British and was after 6 weeks POW camp dismiss and was at home near Kiel. Many of his comrades were caught by the Russians and didn't come home until 5 years later, but most came never back. 80 percent of his old comrades died or murdered in Siberian gulags.
1:03 : Player "StalinDaBoss457" received a disciplinary sanction for attacking a friendly player.
Lol
Im waiting for butthurt people to reply and cry
He didn't kill him. He gave it a concussion.
This angered Stalin, who punished him severely
@@stephenwraysford6788 no its falling from the Shockwave (not a girl just a dare pfp for 2 days ;-;)
Out of all this I'm impressed that people could actually record. People today can't even get the image right.
One of the most badass videos on youtube. Incredible footage
Thank you!
Yes! :D
Most based video on youtube
My grandma grew up during this time. She once gave me a good insight into how people thought back then: "if your neighbor was killed by a bomb, you were just glad it wasn't you, and you kept living."
I am the one who is very interested in ww1 and ww2 but he has no friend who is it too?
Wanna be friends
Well you can now speak with your friends about ww3
I am
Who the hell you think im watching this too so that makes me one of you
Jaa
I have a bit of reflection when I see this videos from ww2, because while they were fighting in Europe my grandparents were chilling just going to school
Seeing these actual footages literally brings you back in time man. RIP to all those men we saw in this video. Not many of them made it out alive.
1:02 someone give that man a cookie, he shouldn't play with cannons
Probably forgot to turn friendly fire off.
Meh porbably ded anyway
Nah or knock out
Well he is noob
1:03 That awkward moment when you forgot friendly fire was on.
topaz the gem chill
Im prety sure the shell didnt shoot him since he fell later than you would expect, I assume it was the shockwave that hit him a moment later.
He didn't kill him. He gave it a concussion.
My father was master of supply in the army in Kuwait in 1992, I can't ever imagine what it was like to arm men that you knew you may never see again.
May all the soldiers finally rest and know peace.
Stop lying. Your father has worked at Wal-Mart, Illinois alll his life.
@@dfui. sorry don’t mix my family with yours
2:52 a hero fall :(
It’s amazing to see how Berlin rebuilt after this.
Yeah but it has ugly architecture now.
@@samuelskogqvist5565 say that to england instead...
Well they are still building the airport🤷🏾♂️
@@johnnyhun1 say that to fucking Warsaw
it didn't.
0:22 this should've been the thumbnail
Call Me Spence truee
I thought the same
Why not?
RUSH 🅱️ CYKA BLYAT
Spence
RIP to all poor people, soldiers who died & fought in Berlin.
Moment of remembrance and honor for those who fought and lost their life in these wars to keep us safe.
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1:03 Soviet friendly fire
yes...It's unbelievable ... maybe that guy had survived to berlin and then died for a demonstration in front of the camera .
I don't think he died. If was hit by that 57mm cannon he would't fall to the ground, but his body would be destroyed while taking off. I think he was pushed by the gas coming from the muzzle brake. You know that feeling when some one fires a revolver next to you but its a 57mm AT cannon.
typical competent red army soldier
Lets report them.. hate teamkillers
Ysbrand vd Velde same gun as french at 1 tank?
When did Berlin get palm trees
where ? couldn't see any
Zak Bond
Afrika Campaign
But I didn't see any in the video
Zak Bond. Ok
Linden trees. Probably up the Unter Din Linden.
@@candyextreme8406 *Unter den Linden
My grandfather was the first commander, I wasn’t born yet but it must be terrifying to be there.
Rest In Peace to all the soldiers that lost their life’s and family’s during this war.
Now, a moment of silence. 😔😔
My grandfather fought in Italy against the fascists. He was a Jeep driver in the front
1:00 The guy on the gun nearly blew the entire group to hell. Must have been in quite the hurry...on a different note, the fellow at 2:16 looks like he was one hard SOB.
Wish I was that fuckin tough when I served...
I would say he suffered a concusion at most, no visible bullet wounds (nothing hit the ground)
Looks like a tank gunner
Jay N
The better question is, what idiot runs in front of a cannon.
in his defense we dont know what was on the other side of the barrel down the road .....mayby one of the last few german tanks mowing down russians
guys, the man at 1:02 survived. We'd know if he got hit...he woud literally explode into a million pieces
Probably just got knocked by muzzle blast, still very dangerous shock could have splat his bones n organs
No shit
он от ударной волны упал, но не умер
i think he just fell bc of the loud shot
Me seeing this for the last 80 year's is just giving me way to many memories.
How old are u
@@skjskxskms49 Can't say, plus that's weird to say that to me.
I dont think actual battlefield footage should be dramatized with epic music...I get that music makes the visual experience more immersive, but to me it seems like it just reduces an entire worlds ungodly suffering to an entertainment piece 🙃
Most won’t know the horror of war and thus are destined to repeat it
This is the sad truth
Look at what is happening today
So many people support fascism and extremism
@@adamjones3818 based.
I can understand why you think that, no real hate
@@adamjones3818 and extreme communist fascism left right Nazi commie whatever they all have extreme views. No tolerance for others alternative opinions 😂
Most of this isn´t from Berlin, you can see it yourself
Šimon K. Mostly Stalingrad ...
Roman Borkowski Yes
Jesi ti iz Balkana???
And yes
Not from Stalingrad
When the quality in 1940 better then android
No no you got a point
Stfu stupid apple user..
Atleast we're cheaper than your crap
@@hellercord5584 no need to yell, no need to shout, no need to riot, just close your eyes and meditate
@@zookathecuka4396 😂😂😂
When the battery of the first phone in the world (took 10 hours to charge and lasted 20 minutes) is better than the iphone you have
My great grandfather was there as a tanker. He was a colonel in the Soviet Army.
0:07 This is Brest Fortress in June 1941
Team fortress 0
Many parts or this video were taken on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1944
War is War
@Professor Shibe he said a statement
This War is still relevant right now. We're living in conditions of goals that weren't achieved then.
The power on that artillery cannon 1:02 made him fall over
1:03 the guy at the back fell over when the field gun fired
He didn’t die
Omg I can’t imagine what that war felt like
scary death
"Hey honey, the Russians are firing artillery and are going from house to house to plunder and rape you mind closing the window? I’m reading the newspaper."
Just buy call of duty ww2
This comment is not sponsored btw
@@distinctspace8916 hey, mom, nazis are exterminating us and our children, cause they view us as lower race and torture our civilians, close the window please. It's hard to study
I can. Once you were drafted you were fu&$)d
It's insane how this happened less than 90 years ago. They gave up their tomorrow's for our today's. My hats off to every single soldier, that is the bravest shit I have ever seen.
my grandfathers youngest brother Alan volunteered for the army when he was 17. he served with the canadian 1st army in north africa as an infantryman. he never talked about it much. one christmas when the family got together he waited until everyone had gone downstairs to play some music. he had had more than a few, and he told me about his first action.....the germans had fired artillary with smoke canisters and launched a large infantry assault. he was ordered to counter attack in the smoke. a german soldier came suddenly out of the smoke at him. Alan was big man and won by bayonetting the other soldier through the throat. He cried and cried. He went outside and came back in later. talking to the other members of my family after he passed, i appear to be the only one he told that story to. 14 kids, 6 in uniform. All 14 gone now.
Many Families Are Not Even As Much As Yours Think Of That Little German Man He Had A Family But Alas He Didn't Get Lucky But At Least Luck Was On Alan Side And He Survived
Rejoice At Least That Alan Has Lived
After the gillete commercial I had to come here
To prove that men like starting wars?
@Lord Farquaad 😎
@Lord Farquaad Now Europe's flooded with fairy tale creatures!
@@localshithead7430 Yes because no woman ever started nor took part in a war.
@bigbenhoward shhhhh she is too triggered to understand that
why is the music from the dark knight trilogy playing
batman: WHERE IS HE?! WHERES HITLER??
soo german people of today are descendants of the red army.. lol
Comrade Kobus this is true
@@Kobaford They did not intimidate Japan in to surrender, they invaded Japans overseas posessions wile the USA was coming for them from the other side, while the japanese people had been starving for years, and they along side the army where lacking recurces of every kind. Hirahito just realized there was no point in continuing he saw that if needs be japan would be invaded and he could not stop it.
@@theroldan8675 not exactly. Many abortions happened. I am German and my family fled from Eastern Germany to west and survived. I have no Russian but Polish, Austrian and Greek
The fact that these people were in a war and could of lost their lives but still hold the camera more steady then any school fight
ww2 camera is better than my camera
You have got to respect the german army. They didn't stop fighting even when they were pushed all the way to Berlin and surrounded by Russians they did not give up easily.
*German army*
@@ashtonmccauley8247 sorry
@@Kobaford you absolutely right.
Russians had no choice! Stalin was a murderer of his own people and America wasn’t willing to sacrifice the amount of men it took to take Berlin
@@MadCapDarkglobe true.
1:02 why? WAIT FOR THEM TO MOVE
Некогда. Артиллеристы и так дали им пройти. Солдат просто упал от взрывной волны
@Buttrape Bill Are you dumb He passed, and fell due to the shock wave from the shot. It’s like a push, no more.
Since the VET fired, this had to be done immediately.
@Buttrape Bill You better compare the Americans, who in less than a year killed more than 500 thousand of their soldiers on the Western front, given the fact that Germany in 1944 could not even resist adequately.
@Lord Farquaad You are really stupid. 80% of all Axis troops were located on the eastern front, their elite were there, and as a result of the war we lost even less than the Axis. And the United States, with an adversary who could no longer defend normally in the west, because all the troops were in the east, managed to lose 500 thousand soldiers.
The USSR in 2 months in Japan has done more than the USA in 4 years.
The United States and the next 50 years subjected hundreds of thousands of its soldiers as a result of nuclear tests, I hope you do not need to talk about this.
My point is that you are an idiot who is trying to use idiot's arguments in discussions.
riazonbin why are you so fucking biased lol
My grandfather fought in WW2 not anywhere in Europe but he fight in Iwo Jima
That must’ve been hellish aswell
2:16 definition of war torn
I really like the audio to this and the timing i have seen alot of footage from the world wars and generally the music downplays the severity of these situations and i think you did a great job putting this together!
If you'd like to come out of the closet but don't know how. Post a comment here, any comment will do.
Who gives a fuck! it is good footage.
Same footage a hundred other channels had. I was looking to see the German soldier with the K98k sniper, minutes of my life was wasted due to this. Thanks for the comment.
Lol, I saw some stalingrad footage, along with some france footage. I knew I wasn't crazy.
The Mosin Crate ahhh. The unavoidable, and seemingly ubiquitous ... 'HATER' --> for you!! :: where is your phukkin video jerk ?? Post the link when you make one... make damned sure to spend alot of time and even invest a little of yourself into it... when done, we can all comment how useless you are as a human being ... next time the tide comes in, with all the garbage, you should go out with it...dick.
Who gives a fuck just watch and don't fucking complain trash can
most of comment section i see all of their grandfather facing WW2... pretty surprised that my grandfather is not, he born right after the wars ends, and thankfully i get a chance to meet my great grandfather which is on WW2 with British side... since they taking over our country...
It's super unique that we have footage of ww2 sadly not from ww1..
We have footage of ww1?
berlin: is exploding
hitler:
hey kid nice face heil me
That was Hitler's last moment in front of a cam, he wish the kids good luck and give them medails for fighting and say, that the boys have fight to the end.
@@zetroboombang7767 He also said that they were braver than his generals.
@@zetroboombang7767 I thought he'd already killed himself
much2Ask it was before he killed himself
Lol the "heil me" cracked me up
War is old men arguing and young men dying
@bruceownsu Ok, old man.
I love the history of World War II it's so interesting
Really
@@mafiaolorapedodevioladossa2894 yes it's very very interesting all the tactics they used like Operation Overlord at D-Day 1944
My great grandfather was drafted from Armenia (soviets ) 19 y/o and no news until 2010 when we received a letter from Moscow that they recovered his metal name plate near Stalingrad where he fell. Gradmom kept on waiting for him 🙁
2:32 name gun: panzerfaust
If you listen close enough you can hear a gunshot in a bunker.
Crazy to think the last men to defend Berlin were Frenchmen from the SS Charlemagne.
And kids around 8-12 years old
You watch too much mark felton there’s actually alot of german than french
@@cyrosubod2317 Not a big fan of Mark Felton. Always simping on the Germans and Prussians. Nonetheless, not many people know that the SS Charlemagne held their own ferociously against the Soviets. Inflicting massive casualties, in fact, they were some of the last men to defend the Riechstag.
@@bebased1785 allot off them were Jews hideing out in Waffen S.S.
There were actually a few British SS there too. Little known fact.
Actually in Phillipines my grandfather is a Filipino Soldier and fighting japanese but he was on the bataan death march luckily Americans saved him and fellow Filipino soldiers
would have been better if they cut crap music out, and had the real sound effects
Peter Owen I don't have the real sound of this tracks
do you have real battle of berlin footage, most of it is stalingrad footage
Nooop
"The goal of war is not to kill but to live"
-Miles Barnes
bigbenhoward ...What made you think that?
Thank you for your service.
P.S. "... What made you think that" was a joke pal.
This just shows that being a soldier in war is worse than people think.
General Patton would later say that we fought the wrong enemy.
Cause he big dumdum
@@snooziblu not really
@@baseballworldwide9439 k bud
@@baseballworldwide9439 He kind of was. Patton was mentally very similar to Hitler and wanted a world run by the Anglo-Saxons.
He was a very racially driven person when you get down to it.
@@baseballworldwide9439he couldn’t even fight worth a sh1t his tanks were horrible
That guy at 2:16 looks badass they should put him in a game
He looks tired and fed up with life to me. Probably very hungry too and would give anything for a wash.
He was a panzer crewman from either the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich or 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf. That tiny clip was actually taken during the Third Battle of Kharkov in 1943 as was the first 17 seconds of the clip. The rest is from the Battle of Berlin as stated. Sorry but a 62 year old anorak here obsessed with the Eastern Front of WW2.
Girls locker room: Uggh I hate PE
Boys locker room:
I hate and love this comment
Yeah fuckin...take Berlin and wipe fascism from the face of earth. Yeah that’s what boys will do in their locker room
baikolio I know but it’s just unoriginal and shit
@@colourfulmartin4329 its from 6 months ago though
I'm russian and german I love sense of humor
who knew that the Dark Knight Rises theme song would go so amazingly well with this historical footage
Amazing work
1:01 see that guy eat shit when the bast was so close? XD
hes fine btw, probs dead NOW but hed have some ringing ears at that time
trench g
"hes fine btw" being so sure i take it you were one of the guys running next to him! Kids nowadays.
how in the hell do you know he's fine btw lol
trench thats not funny
Lmao XD
2:52 rest in peace you will be rememberd
Indeed Rest in peace.. Pretty stupid to run right out in the middle of the street tho
Sotis175 when Commisar says go, you go
good point
@@Cba409 yes but you still need to be tactical and stay close to the walls and such. To run straight through a intersection us never a good idea
Sotis175 yes, or maybe he wanted to die
The people that filmed all this must be really brave to film their fellow comrades in battle taking Berlin.
But the German filmers are bad because they lost?
Thank you for putting the video on It means a lot to me seeing my great grandfather’s face even though I never knew see him thank you for putting that video in I subscribed 👍😞
Imagine the balls of all those German troops, fighting knowing that almost all countries are against you
Those who fought to the end are nazi fanatics and ss
@@jam4678 idiot
Did u miss history and geography class?
Like are u dumb
Yeah their will to fight was Not some stupid money it was their families And loved ones they wanted to protect them at all costs so they done everything they could
what a hell of a time to live in
A lot of this footage is not from Berlin.
For example, the opening first 20 seconds are from Stalingrad, the scene at 1:55 shows a German soldier overlooking Kiev, the famous scene with Hitler from 3:53 was taken somewhere in Mid/Late March 1945, as it was shown in the last German Newsweek from March 22nd, 1945, the short scene from 2:29 onwards, when German soldiers are handed out Panzerfausts, is a scene from the German Newsweek No. 748 from 11th January 1945....
There are a few scenes that are actually from Berlin in this video, but these are all taken by the Soviets. To my knowledge, there is no German footage from the Battle of Berlin, because propaganda movie production has long ceased in April 1945, and no German war reporter was still running around Berlin taking footage with a camera....
My father and his 3 brothers survived the war, each in different branches of the military. My dad was a Tec5 in thr Army Air Corps. He fought in the Battle of Fogia, Italy, which historians have said was more fiercely fought than the Battle of the Bulge. He also did lookout duty in the Atlas Mountains, and drove in a convoy through the Holy Land.
Looking at this makes me feel as if I'm from another world, trapped in a literal hell an inferno...
Wish battlefield 5 was like this
Dylanger Spry ahahha was thinking the same thing, atleast we getting the pacific theatre soon
Yeah that's true hopefully they do a good can't wait to see what the Japanese are going to look like
@@morganborzelli8942 Pacific with German and British uniforms no thanks.... we should all stoped playing bfv...
Are DICE gonna add USSR as a dlc faction like seriously.....Looks like COD World at War will always be the best ww2 game
Marto LOL they did it with France in Battlefield 1. They had the U.S as a main faction even though they were barely in WW1
Hats off.
Deep in myself I´d like to feel how those brave men ectually feel.
That’s Exactly the thought that Runs through me, the new world is bliss and doesn’t lead in the shoes these guys stepped in, may my condolences go to every soldier who lost their life.
What it feels like on the final exam.
Some of them are from Stalingrad and other footage for eastern front
1:02 the shock wave from the field gun knocked that dude right on his ass.
probabably even died cause of that
Tavish I don’t think he did,because being knocked over by that blast is gonna hurt but it ain’t gonna kill ya, plus we never saw the bullet hit the soilder and if it did he would’ve been blown to peices
@@averagetexan9930 ever heard of over pressure? The power that comes out of that Barrel alone can kill ....thats Why you are instructed To stand behind a connon and Not just to the side
@@tavish4699 well this happened to my dad my mom told me cuz of the soldier told her everything and he got knocked out of a cannon and the barrel didn't he hit him he got knock out my dad was a nazi soldier he died on the end of the war but hey see it not that bad getting knock out by a cannon
Yeah the soldier were spying on him saw him almost got hit by a cannon barrel but eh yeah don't know if there were spying on him I really don't
R.i.p for those who died in the war and when i was 10 i always like to be a soldier and i am now 15 wich still likes soldiers...
We need to learn this lesson of the history.
My grandfather was there, bless his soul......
We went there for vacation a few weeks ago, had to make an early trip home thanks to this coronavirus nonsense. Hopefully we can go back there in the coming months.
@@ericmercredi246 I meant this as a joke. My grandfather hasn't been in a war since he lost the remote under his couch. But I have an uncle that's a Vietnam war vet.