It is highly unlikely that a Panzerfaust would have been fired inside of a enclosed space, due to the backblast created when being fired. It would have injured the firer as well as anyone in the room.
Superb video. I'll be sharing it with my year group next week to inspire the pupils' flashback writing about our local history during WW2. Many thanks for all your digital matching of photos from then and now. Perfect.
Thank you very much for your comment, thats great it will help pupils with our local WW2 history, also in 1996 I delivered a mini digger to builders working in Woodhouse Road Hove when I looked into the hole they had dug there was the remains of a RAF Hurricane in there and I recently found a WW2 photo of it, the pilots remains had been removed by archaeologists and he was based in Tangmere where the remains of the plane are on display at RAF Tangmere museum
@@KS2teacher18 Thats correct he was 20 when he was killed, there is 2 versions the one I think is correct as it was seen by other pilots that he was shot down by a tail gunner in a Heinkel 111 with a very accurate 75mm gun, some bits of his plane are in the side entrance foyer of the Garden bar just a short distance away.
@@Russell9241 I didn't know about the Heinkel 111 tail-gunner, I'd only read the version where he'd lost a dogfight with a Me bf109 over Hove Lagoon. I must pop into the Garden Bar to see their display - and some liquid refreshment.
@@KS2teacher18 I also read about the dogfight but at Tangmere museum one of the staff there told me the Heinkel version and he said other RAF pilots saw it happen so I think this is probably correct, enjoy the pub visit
Russell, Thanks for this very interesting and worthwhile video. I live in Berlin myself and apart from seeing bullet holes and some scarring on the sides of some buildings it honestly never occurred to me to check more of it out. I will do so when I return there soon-thanks again and good luck on your future travels!
Hi Tom thanks for your comment really appreciated and I am hoping to visit Berlin again next June and follow up more WW2 true events and look for more war damage locations, Berlin is a really interesting place and I love cycling there.
Hi Russell!, great collection of videos you've made about Berlin!. It is really interesting because you show places that are not so touristy but for those of us who are passionate about history they are very valuable and it allows us to learn much more. Keep adding pieces to this great collection. A hug from a distance.
Absolutely and a Russian tactic was if a building was a German strongpoint they would use artillery to collapse the building forcing the German defenders to abandon before it fell down and crushed them
Germany won the war in late 1942. There was nothing Stalin could do to dislodge army group north from besieging Leningrad, absolutely nothing against army group center only 200 miles from Moscow….Ukraine was firmly under Axis control, Stalingrad the last arterial hub of the USSR was lost to Germany and the main arterial supply line of the USSR (the Volga River) was cut off. Stalin needed a miracle… Rommel was on his way to Egypt. U boats were devastating allied shipping in the Atlantic. Anglo Saxons kicked out of mainland Europe. Zionist regimes and Zionist propaganda no more. Peace for humanity
It is a really good museum, I also have posted my visit to the Bendlerblock museum that is very interesting and free to enter as well, thank you for your comment
I visit Berlin every year as its such a fascinating city, and I cycle everywhere there, my hired cycle was locked next to the billboard in the video, and I am now working on my next production, all the best Colin
An armour piercing round from a Russian tank made the hole in the steel part of the bridge, other dents probably shrapnel damage from high explosive shells.
Hi Russell, excellent work!, great precision in the superimposition of images and the music accompanies perfectly. Thanks for showing places that are generally not known and not visited. A big hug from Argentina.
Hi Ignacio, great to hear from you and thanks for the compliment and hug. The church in the video took a lot of research to find it in Berlin, and not knowing if it was still there I eventually found it on google maps. All the best Ignacio and a hug for you too.
They look like T34/85 tanks to me, the T34 was still the Soviet Red Army dominant tank, this later version T34 had some design flaws rectified that plagued the earlier version.
@CYCLING SOUTH soviets use large numbers of JS2 tanks in Berlin it's 122mm .cannon was good for smashing bunkers and barricades reinforced buildings etc
I lived in Berlin Germany in the late 90s. I also lived there in 1987. I still can't believe they didn't fix War marks left over from the Second World War. It's goddamn disturbing. I'm 47 years old. The same marks were in there when I was 12 years old. The Germans are too God damn cheap to fix anything. I'm still a German citizen and a Canadian citizen. Watching this video makes me want to give up my German citizenship.
All war damage in Berlin is now protected by law and is important as a reminder to people of the horrors of war, I hope you will keep your German citizenship.
Hi Russell, another great video!, and a very interesting and specific topic, the impact of the Blitz on London public transport. Great detail and very impressive the touch of intense red color on the buses. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more. Greetings, Ignacio.
Hi Ignacio, great to hear from you my friend, I thought about you at Holborn Circus as I know you went there for your London Blitz video. I hope to get another Berlin one done early next year, all the best Ignacio.
Hi Russell, great "Then and Now" video! and very emotional music, what's it called? It is good to show what happened in the Second World War in other cities and not only in the big capitals. Keep it up, your followers (I'm the first of course) we like it a lot. A hug from an Argentine friend.
Hi Ignacio, great to hear from you, the. music track I bought from Pond 5 a supplier of royalty free stock music its called embrace but when I look for soundtracks I search for emotional and thousands show up and it can take hours to find something that I feel works with the production, but this soundtrack I found in minutes (lucky me) getting the right soundtrack is so important. A hug for you too mate.
Great video. Reminds me of my parents, who used to meet at the clock tower. He was in the Canadian army, and they married before he left for Sicily. Will share this! 😊
Where I live, there are a lot of bomb craters in the woods just outside of town from the allied bombings in WWII. Whenever I take a walk in the woods it makes me think about what horrors went down this very place I‘m walking by, about 80 years ago. And now there are those craters left, in the peaceful woods, with birds chirping and nature turning quite a few of the craters into small ponds for animals to live. The scars of the horrors of the past are claimed for the peace of nature. It never ceases to amaze me.
You neede to take a look at the italien embassy there are sektion where you can even see destruction by bombs and verry intresting Shooting patterns in the walls.
