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This is Lore Bauer. Born in Kollerschlag, Austria 1921. She was assigned to the Prague anti-aircraft department in late 1944 as a technical assistant, or Helferin. Raped and beaten by Czech Partisans, Lore was caught fleeing the Red Army into West Czechoslovakia, which had just been declared a demarcated American military zone. Lore survived the Allied internment camp system, then went on to build a new life, working for an Airlines company after the war. She died in 94', at the age of 73... The film footage was taken on May 8, 45', near Plzeň, along the old Prague Highway, by Oren Haglund of the United States Army Air Corps.
Hmm .. These are not Soviet female anti-aircraft gunners killed by the Germans. The Germans in such cases did not stand on ceremony .. She was lucky. It was in Stalingrad .. " By 16 o'clock on 23 August, General von Wittersheim's 14th Panzer Corps reached the northern outskirts of Stalingrad in the area of the villages of Latoshinka, Akatovka and Rynok. Dozens of German tanks from the 16th Panzer Division of Lieutenant General Hube appeared in the area of the Tractor Plant, one and a half kilometers from the factory workshops. Following the tanks, the enemy threw two motorized and several infantry divisions into the formed eight-kilometer corridor. However, the Germans did not break into Stalingrad that day. The enemy's path was blocked by three anti-aircraft batteries of the second division of the 1077th anti-aircraft artillery regiment, manned by female personnel. The division was commanded by Captain Luka Ivanovich Dakhovnik. In two days of fighting, the German corps lost 83 tanks. In futile attacks, three battalions of German infantry were drained of blood. But all 37 Soviet anti-aircraft guns were destroyed. Most of the female personnel were killed..." Of course, not only anti-aircraft gunners fought against the Germans - they were helped by workers from the Tractor Plant and regular units of the spacecraft. But the fact remains.
She would be identified as Lore Bauer, a young German girl who had been assigned as a Luftwaffenhelferin to operate anti-aircraft guns, as Germany was experiencing massive losses of male soldiers. Stationed in Czechoslovakia when the war ended, she and her other german and austrian female were brutally beaten and raped. When she ran into an American unit on the road, you can see her bury her face into a small notebook. It turns out that she had hidden about 100 Czech crowns (currency) which she did not realize was worthless at the end of the conflict. She flashed the currency to bribe the soldiers into allowing her to pass. To let her know that the unit was American, cameraman Haglund handed her a US penny. Over time she made her way back to Germany and married after the war. She gave birth to two children, and it was her granddaughter, Emi, who would visit Haglund’s grave in San Bernardino, California and leave a penny-the very same penny given to her grandmother in 1945-on his headstone.
This is an incredible story. I teach cultural history and would like to know your source for this story so I can seek it out before I tell this story and share this video with my students. Could you tell me your source please. Thanks so much for posting this. I agree that if this is she, then the footage should be labelled as such, for historical record. Thank you in advance for your help if you could reply or repost with the source. Kind regards.
@@marshhen Just google her name and you'll find the full story. She was Austrian, not German. Apparently SS working in anti-aircraft. She was with some German soldiers who were hunted down and beaten to death by Czech's. Her and a friend were dragged to a barn where only she managed to escape. Hiding behind hay bails looking at her dead friend until morning. It appears this footage is literally the next morning.
Who wants to hug this woman and comfort her, if you had the chance? It breaks my heart to see her in that devastated state of completely brokeness, totally beaten up, raped, but still smiles. Rest in Peace Lore Bauer ...
@mrsticky005 You may disagree with the sentiment, but no, that is not "the attitude that led to the camps in the first place." The attitude that led to the camps was indifference to undistilled bigotry.
This video have 6.2 millions of views and you can't learn almost anything about WW2 from it and in the same time real document movie "SIEGE - Documentary film by Julien Bryan about the German invasion and siege of Warsaw in 1939" have only 25k views... and why? MAybe because in that document the victims are real victims and Germans act like Germans did for many years of this war that they started and in the end 70 millions of people died in it. From the beggining of the war Germans were taking 16 years old Polish girls to Germany to make forced workers out of them but German man was so busy with constantly using them like a toy to the point that this kids were unable to do any actual work... and these Germans man were doing it to these young girls for months until their bellies grew so large that it was impossible to hide from anyone the fact that one of them impregnated her! But here everyone is very concerned about a woman that have 8 more years and is actualy an adult that was literally helping to bring death and destruction to millions of people in that part of the World. All over Central Europe Germans were planting signs "Only for Germans" in Slavic cities to limit access to Slavic people to many thing, but after the war there was mass amnesia, and here in the comments it is the same story, people correcting that she was suddenly not German at all, she was Austrian... what a huge coincidence that the German Chancellor was also Austrian?!
Most of the time when you see footage like this, you can almost see the differing features of that generation. But she looks totally modern. Strange how that affects perception and makes it more real. I suppose in reality, people were as modern then as they are today.
People in 1945 were homo sapiens, we have since then evolved into a more superior and advanced species. I agree with what your saying, we should stop calling these people 'humans' and forget about this inferior species.
@@bigfloppa5731 Sorry, but what in the fuck are you two talking about? Completely random responses to my original comment. Either I was horribly unclear, or there's a serious lack of reading comprehension going on here.
I think what he means is that her hair and face in particular look like what the modern version of attractive is. Whereas the other women look more attractive in a 1940s kinda way. She looks attractive by today’s beauty standards
@@mychannel-rt2gn Yes you should. His mother didnt't start WW2 nor did she kill jews. She had no choice in 1946 just like she had no choice in 1939. What's the matter with you? You live in 2024 not 1804.
@@motorhead4446 funny you say this but there were thousands of Germans who stood against the nazi party, whether it was by little acts of kindness to the people being persecuted, by joining resistance groups or by full on attempting to overthrow Hitler by coup. These people knew their government was taking away their fellow human beings rights and sending them to some unknown destination, never to be seen again, and they CHOSE to do something. This person’s mother didn’t, she sat back until it was her that was forced to flee like a rat from her home, and now we’re supposed to have sympathy for her? Oh please🙄 We always have the choice to do the right thing, it may not be easy but the choice is always there.
@@mychannel-rt2gn Are you serious??? How old are you, 13??? Stand up against Hitler and overthrow him??? I'm Albanian. I grew up in communist Albania. So it's my fault for the eastern block implementing bolshevism??? It's my fault for the mass deportation of millions of people? It's my fault for 100 million plus victims of bolshevism???? Most probably you grew up in the west and have never experienced totalitarianism, and yet you have wet dreams about freedom while reading Karl Marx right? We should fight dictatorship LOOOOOL. So instead of being a keyboard warrior, how about you go to North Korea and fight totalitarianism, or Cuba or Venezuela since you care about the human race so much LOOOOOOOOL
@@Laura-Yu Yes, it's alarming to see how numb they are, and that most of them didn't know how to react that the war was over. To them, it would never be over.
@Skip ads Soldiers don't inflict war, politicians do and they don't tend to fight in them. I suppose you think if your country is invaded then no one should defend because being a soldier is evil. You don't seem to have put much thought into both sides of what a soldier does, they protect as well as attack but either is the result of politicians.
Never before in all our history have we ever be able to look back in time and ACTUALLY see people and events as they happened. Now we can and thank you. This is an amazing gift to give us and those in the future.
Dude, that girl around the 1:30 mark is probably like 15 but looks 35. They lived hard back then, and in times of war it had to be so brutal. I can't imagine the hardships they endured.
@Sept Cinq Maybe she found the clothes or she was given or whatever because she had lost everything. Some German women wore parts of uniforms not to go naked. I think this is not that important. It´s more important what she had to suffer and if someone has helped and rescued her. War is always hell for esp.civil people. In all countries to all times.
In Anthony Beevor's "Berlin 1945: The Downfall", he describes women meeting one another, in queues for shops, or at bombs shelters, or elsewhere around the city. They'd talk to one another about news from the front, or where to find food, or this and that, but they never talked about "it".
Not true, there was a book by an anonymous woman who was actually journalist Marta Hillers, it was called “A Woman in Berlin and it was all about her experience during the fall of Berlin. They did talk about it, amongst themselves. But not after the war.
It is fascinating how this young woman looks like she has made a time jump into the past, apart from the circumstances she looks very modern and not old-fashioned, just put her in other clothes and she could be the girl living next door right now.
This gave me chills. When you're used to seeing WWII footage in black and white, it's really powerful to see it in color. Not sure how to describe it, but it kind of removes that "distance" between the past and present and makes it seem a lot more real or relatable.
@@Chrisisplays So if i said "I really enjoy having hands, they are quiet convenient and let me enjoy life better" That would be insulting to people born without them? Ive never been insulted by people enjoying what they have, even if i didnt have said thing. at least they take note of it and enjoy it while they can because a lot of things you cant enjoy later in life
Pretty sure the Americans won. None of their infrastructure were destroyed like the other participants and civilian life was uninterrupted during the war. (maybe not for hawaii). Americans didn't have to worry about invasion or air raids like britain or france.
I am addicted to old footage like this. It actually helps with anxiety sometimes just laying down and watching these clips knowing people so long ago dealt with much worse and still persevered
Same here, makes me feel less alone in the scheme of human history. People across all generations have felt what you've felt at some point or another. 'Nothing is new under the sun'
That quality is amazing, it seems this period is so closed through images. My imagination becomes destroyed and replaced by something closed. Something it was told by school, grandparents or books, that's a thing, but watching it, its another one.
One of them was my Oma - my mother's mother. She was in Berlin until 1951. My father's father was one of the Americans dropping bombs on her city. When her brother finally made it back from an Italian POW camp in 1947 he found her and my great grandparents still living in the rubble of their apartment. He convinced them to move out of East Berlin only weeks before the Soviets turned it into an open air prison. Oma survived a childhood vaccine that crippled her and killed her brothers, the Gestapo harassing our family, a two year illness and hospitalization, and survived the war and occupation in Berlin, and even narrowly missed the Dresden massacre. She had a massive heart attack soon after I was born. The doctors said she shouldn't have survived and that she only had weeks to live. She stubbornly kept living until I was about 30 years old. She was almost 90. I could write a whole book about all the wisdom and knowledge I gained from that woman. If not for her, I'd be _completely_ unprepared to deal with the mess we're all living through now.
@@MseeBMe What an amazing story. It was boring here in Poland. From time to time, a German branch searched the village huts and barns for hidden food. They had no qualms about taking the last cow from the large family. My uncle's father tried to hide the cow, so they punished him for it. That he died after a week. I know from certain sources, because I talked to someone who survived the war in Norway, that the Germans paid there for providing food for the army. But local farmers officially refused to sell. Because they did not want to be accused of collaboration. That was the different.
It's so heartbreaking to see the look of deep sadness, despair, physical pain and hopelessnes the poor girl has...the swollen eye received in a brutal beating, and God only knows how many bastards abused her. She is a real portrait of someone who is in the brink of letting herself die out of sheer exhaustion.
Her name is Lore Bauer, a young German girl who had been assigned to operate anti-aircraft guns as Germany was experiencing massive losses of male soldiers. Stationed in Czechoslovakia when the war ended, she and her other female companions were brutally beaten and raped by angry Czechs who had suffered at the hands of the SS. When she ran into an American unit on the road, you can see her bury her face into a small notebook. It turns out that she had hidden about 100 Czech crowns (currency) which she did not realize was worthless at the end of the conflict. She flashed the currency to bribe the soldiers into allowing her to pass. To let her know that the unit was American, cameraman Haglund handed her a US penny. Over time she made her way back to Germany and eventually married after the war. She gave birth to two daughters, and it was a granddaughter, Emi, who would eventually visit Haglund’s grave in San Bernardino, California and leave a penny-the very same penny given to her grandmother in 1945-on his headstone.
I guarantee you she didn't get help. German civilians were never even acknowledged as victims. My whole family on my father's side was completely messed up from the war. My two aunt were teen girls back then and were abducted and gang raped by Polish soldiers. My great grandma was drowned, my grandma beaten up. My father became an alcoholic and my two aunt were never able to be with men, never got married, never got to have children even though they wanted to so badly. People often forget that everyone, no matter the side, will be a victim in war.
The allies never considered civilians as victims and most European countries expelled Germans after the war 2 millions German refugees died AFTER the war
You have to be careful who you vote for. Millions of people suffered and died because of them. A few years earlier, Germany fainted with delight while listening to Hitler's speech.
@@nnnnnn3647 you also got to ask what was the living conditions of Germans to make them support someone like Hitler and dedicate to him. Hitler came in and took people with nothing and in a couple years rapidly improved their living standards. The scary thing is a population can get behind anyone in such a situation. Especially if they can deliver.
All?? look at these Germans - healthy, smiling, clean... And what did happen to them - they were invested by Americans and Brits using MArshal plan. The only penalty - taking some lands on behalf of Poland, Russia... But they never had to pay anything or weren't charged with allegations related to murders, destruction of Europe culture. I am European harmed quite hard by Germany during War. I understand we need to be friends but is this ok that we never been gratified and we live in poverty and they now live in wealth?? Dear Germans - don't get offended I have many of You as friends but not sure if this is right... At least as we are now in EU - possibly you should pay a bit more taxes to other countries you harmed during War.
Тут написали, что её изнасиловали, что ж, в масштабе человеческой жизни конкретного человека это трагедия, её жаль. Но в масштабах нападения германии и всей грёбаной европы на Советский Союз и всего того, что они творили на нашей земле, её ничуть не жаль! Напротив! Каждый из них заслуживает не только этого, но большего! И каждый из вас обязан в ноги поклониться каждому советскому солдату за то, что они вели себя на вражеской территории достойно! Не будем брать отдельные случаи!
в смысле нападения всей европы? Англия была союзником. Испания и Португалия не нападали. Французских, Греческих, югославских армий тоже не припомню на уроках истории.
@@soen2368 Я вам так скажу, если вы наблюдаете за СВО на территории Украины и немного интересуетесь этой темой, то вы должны понимать, что официально Россия противодействует ВСУ, но по факту Украине содействие оказывают очень-очень многие, даже оставаясь в тени. Вторую мировую же можно рассмотреть под разными ракурсами и очень многое попытаться оправдать, что, собственно, в наше время и происходит (чаще и чаще слышу фразу о том, что немецкие солдаты не виноваты, они, бедняги, подверглись душевным терзаниям со стороны своей совести, выполняя преступные приказы и т.д.). Знаю, что в некоторых государствах Европы организовывались партизанские отряды для борьбы с Германскими силами, и я написал слова о "всей европе" не для того, что бы принизить подвиги иностранных борцов с рейхом, но для того, что бы обратить внимание на масштабность той своры, которая действовала против СССР. Про Францию и Испанию поинтересуйтесь побольше, в одной из этих стран было колаборционистское правительство, которое содействовало фашистской Германии.
I have seen the original commentary related with this video and it was disgusting. Basically saying she deserved it because she was German. I learned now she was Austrian. Regardless, no woman deserves this, plus it's a war crime.
From 1983-85, I was stationed in Northern Germany with the US Army, 2nd Armored Division (FWD). My Landlady was a nice old German lady who had been 16 in 1944 when she was “recruited” into the German Army. She had learned English in school and was pretty good, so she was assigned to a communication unit and eventually she was asked to help translate communications that were intercepted. She said that she acted like she didn’t understand most of it so she was transferred to switchboard operator. When the war was ending one of the older women told her to flee as the Russian army closed in to Berlin where she had been moved to. So she fled with a few other girls and some women and hid out in the woods with fighting going on around them. They were told by the women to look for either Americans or English soldiers to surrender to. After about five or seven days, she wasn’t sure how many days, they heard the Americans coming and hid until they were sure that they could come out. They cut off their insignias and she told the soldiers that they were trying to get to their homes, but they were interned and interrogated for about 6 months and then allowed to leave the camp but she had to stay in the nearby town until they let her travel. Eventually the Army went and got her and asked her if she was willing to work for them. Of course she said yes and worked as an interpreter and later in the office of the Military Government. She stayed working for the Army until she retired in the 1970’s. She bought a barn and converted it into a 4 apartment building, renting out 3 of the apartments and living in the 4th. She was a nice lady and she loved my kids, but I don’t think she ever married or had kids of her own, at least I never saw any. As far as I know she may have been like the girls in these films. I remember you Frau Alfrida.
Thank you for sharing this. I hate that society has deemed all Germans as bad people. I'm American, but have 50% German anscestory and there is alot of Germanic culture that I am very proud of. Many Germans were not evil during WW2. It was the SS that was committing horrible crimes keeping most of the German people and regular German military in the dark. Anyhow, thank you for the story, I enjoyed it.
@@DevotedDisciple-x No, it wasn't only the SS. Germans supported NSDAP on its way to power. Don't try to take a blame away just because you're half German. It would be as pathetic as apologizing for atrocities Germans had to suffer from angry mobs during their expulsion from Czechoslovakia. Which some of people here actually do, apologizing our crimes with previous crimes of Nazis, disgusting...
@@DevotedDisciple-x Most Germans were just like you or me. Sign-up to the military was mandatory, there wasn't a choice to opt out. And propaganda was strong. Most Germans had no awareness of the concentration camps and what was really going on (you can see videos of Germans being shown videos of the concentration camps for the first time, and the shock & horror worn on their faces is real). And by the time people started to get an inkling of what was going on, it was too late. Untold thousands of Germans were killed for trying to speak up against or flee the system (it wasn't just Jewish people who were being hunted down and executed). Rape and abuse also occurred on all sides (even Allied sides). Hitler was evil, no doubt, but many German people were also victims of him. The SS were a totally different breed to the average German soldier because to become an SS memberm you really had to display a total disregard for the sanctity of human life.
@@cosmobane6995 But of course. People haven't changed much, somatically, for millennia. Even the realism of the "prehistoric man" look has been highly debated, in recent times. The only thing that has substantially changed in millennia is average height. People now are, at average, much taller.
@@Shendue Meh, I've been hearing that a lot recently. Historical folks looking similiar to today sounds to me like the next hype in popular science. And these hypes are like avalanches, once everyone agrees, you're laughed and ridiculed for saying ANYTHING else. Always remember that it's not all black and white. Fashion trends and ethnical mixtures did change across the millenia. Even skin color can change within a few generations.
"Between war and Hell, war is worse." "How do you figure?" "Think about it, Father. Who goes to hell?" "Well, sinners." "Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in hell." -Hawkeye Pierce.
Even according to bible the damned are thrown into lake of fire and their souls destroyed. Where does this idea of eternal existence in hell come from in Christian religion? Nothing biblical to support
And if you have to be Christian to go to heaven, then only Christians are in heaven. Why anybody want to spend eternity in such a place? A few minutes is more than enough
Yes , I guessed same by looking at the straight hair of that girl, most girls/women from that period as seen in pics and videos of that time had curly or wavy hair not straight hair..
@@maverickkanav it probably bears considering that a) that's silly - those were simply the style at the time, hence seeing them in pics and videos, and b) at this point people who had once taken pains about their appearance might no longer be doing so.
Of the millions and millions of people who have suffered and died in war, most have not been soldiers. The vast majority of deaths are civilians; men, women and children. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
What makes this sad is that it the Civilian to Soldier ratios are increasing rather than decreasing. So, with older warfare either more soldiers died than civilians or it waa 1:1. For example, in the American Civil War was aproximate 1 civilian for ever 12 soldiers. In the Napoleonic War it was anywhere from 1:3 to 1:1. This was also similar for WWI where it was around 1:1.7. Then you see the introduction of heavy bombing, landmines, et cetera. So in WWII you see that somewhere around 3:2 or 2:1. Korean War 2:1. While the Iraq war is around 4:1. Some comflicts, especially if they are short, can still have lower ratios, but the trend is most definitely going up.. It's quite tragic.
@@cleodello over 200 thousand people, mostly civilians , were incinerated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today the term “collateral damage” is used to gloss over civilian deaths.
Vast majority of soldiers in WWII were also civilians, drafted into service for the duration. Its easy to talk of Military and Civilian casualties, but in the big wars with draftee armies they are essentially the same thing. I think today's modern wars with the volunteer armies are different beasts, but when it comes to massive clashes of nations many civilians find themselves pressed into uniform to kill other civilians form another nation. Makes the wars more tragic in my opinion, makes those casualty tallies from battles more painful when you think of all the people who were in school or working jobs just a year or two prior who were thinking of their future.
@@colinkelly5420 good point. What is astounding is the fact that the decisions of a few politicians seals the tragic fate of millions of people. And then the propaganda machines are deployed to entice the people to join wars, not always pure or honorable. Wars that began as disputes and diplomatic failures among political leaders; even WWI could have been prevented as well as the rise of Hitler, had the treatise following WWI not been so brutal against the German people, which only set the stage and gave rise to the likes of Adolph Hitler. Political Corruption and the love for power are culprits behind political fiascos leading to war, and entire populations have to suffer because of it.
@@vivacristo1000 Yeah, I wished more people would realize that there would be no war if people just didn't participate in it and refuse orders. Unfortunately, like you mentioned, propaganda works too well ...
When I was a 17 year old kid in Topeka Kansas and working at my very first job, a McDonald's, I befriended a WW2 German soldier that had relocated to, I guess to the Midwest, Topeka .. after the war with his Family. He was in his mid 60's I think, and this would have been 1985 as I only worked there less than a year. How we became friends is, a little girl had dropped her Ice cream, this man who I didn't know at the time had just ordered an ice cream cone and instead, gave the little girl his cone. I promptly turned around, made him a new one and gave it to him without charging him. I would very occasionally see him come in and he would always get a coffee and water or, an ice cream cone. After a few months, one Friday when I was off, I came in after class from High-School to pickup my paycheck and ran into this man. He said "thank you for your kindness" and I said no problem. He had a accent, I asked about it and he said he was German. I was very intrigued and ended up talking to him for 20 - 25 mins. He told me he was in "The War" and was a "young German soldier in Hitler's Germany" I remember this very specifically because he said "Hitler" ... I remember the whole time I was talking to him, wondering if he had killed anyone in the war, but, never asked that question. When I was 12 or 13, I remember asking one of my Uncles who had served in Vietnam if he had killed anyone and both my Mom and Uncle told me I should never ever ask a soldier that question. I talked to him I think a few more times. It was always on Fridays when I came in to get my check that I would sometimes see him. One Friday I said hello again and ended up talking to him for over an hour. I had always been fascinated with War, not the death and destruction but about the bravery and courage it took for men to fight in wars and face death everyday. I was anxious to ask him about how bad war was and what he experienced. He brushed me off at first and said, "oh I don't remember much" but the more I inquired, the more he would open up and talk. I remember him telling me that they would drink and sing a lot and that WAR is not exciting like in the movies or news. To this day he told me I should be very thankful that I live in a time of peace. He said war is a time when bad things happen to everyone. He said he had lost a Brother and that because of the war his Mother became very sick. He then went on to say that the Russians raped a lot of German women. He also said that German soldiers would rape German women as well. He also said that at the end of the war he became separated from his unit and fell in with the driver of a truck and a few other soldiers and that they were pulled over by the German Military Police and arrested as suspected deserters. He said the SS ran the small camp they were in and that the camp was back and forth on the phone with the Gestapo trying to decide what to do. He said at the end of the WAR a lot of German soldiers would deserter and had no food and would end up looting, stealing food and raping women. He said he was cleared and released to a different unit. I'm not sure but I think he came over to the United States in the late 40's. 48 or 49. I knew his name at one time, I can't remember. But, I remember him. I am sure he has since passed away. I think about him anytime I see anything related to WW2. Old black and white videos, Hitler mentioned, this video. I can only assume she was beat and raped. I've read up a little on war atrocities during WW2 and it turns out that the Russian's visited a great deal of harm upon the German people at the end of the war and during it when they had a chance. I also read accounts that American G.I's also raped French and German woman as well. Regardless of all the horrors of WW2 ... to see this video is very sobering and my heart sinks to think what she went thru, what many many many people went through after the war. I hold women in very high regard and to see her blank brutalized face both angers me and saddens me.
@@Cissy2cute and still German soldiers rаper a lot of women in occupied territories - French, Polish, Russian, Eastern European! You can read a book “Nightingale” by English author or watch Belarusian film “Go and see” in order to be aware of the horrors caused by German soldiers, especially SS and gestapo
I was born in Germany in 1972 and grew up in a "fixed" post-war world of polluters and losers. My grandmother and her sisters only had the chance to live and enjoy life in their "wild" years in the '20s. Hardly anyone talked about the war, especially not about World War II. I never got to know one of my grandfathers, because he was a staunch Nazi and, despite being exempt from military service due to illness, volunteered for the Eastern Front from France, from which he never returned. My great-uncle freed himself from Russian captivity and somehow managed to get back to Germany. I know from him that shrapnel kept festering out of his body until his death a few years ago. But I remember that one or the other memory broke through with contemporary witnesses at family celebrations and one or the other spoke about what they had experienced. I was, alas, too young to understand everything - for children in peacetime, war is far away, an abstraction, and even death is not understood. According to my great-aunt, who died in 1987, in the inner city of Hamm, where I was later born, Jews were forced to lie down on the street at the beginning of all evil (Night of Broken Glass). Then the "upright" German citizens were forced to march over these Jews. Kicking their legs, arms, stomachs and heads so that the "common" Jew would know where his place was. She had tears in her eyes at the time and quickly broke off the story/remembering because we were in the room with us as children. This story came when I was maybe 7 or 9 years old and I have never forgotten it. The woman filmed in this video certainly paid a price for the war far greater than her own guilt. I hope that despite everything, she was happy in her life and was able to process or at least suppress what she had experienced. And this is happening again now, in Ukraine. I detest this war and hate myself (as a German who is now 50 years old) for the good feeling that we Germans are not responsible for such a tragedy again. Deutsch: Ich wurde 1972 in Deutschland geboren und wuchs in einer "reparierten" Nachkriegswelt der Verursacher und Verlierer auf. Meine Großmutter und deren Schwestern hatten in ihren "wilden" Jahren nur die Chance in den '20ern Ihr Leben zu leben und zu genießen. Kaum jemand hat über den Krieg gesprochen, vor allem nicht über den 2. Meinen einen Opa habe ich nie kennengelernt, da er überzeugter Nazi war und sich trotz Wehrdienstfreistellung durch Erkrankungen aus Frankreich freiwillig an die Ostfront meldete, von der er niemals wieder zurückkehrte. Mein Großonkel brfreite sich selber aus russischer Gefangenschaft und schaffte es irgendwie zurück nach Deutschland zu kommen. Von Ihm weiß ich, dass bis zu seinem Tod vor einigen Jahren immer wieder Granatsplitter aus seinem Körper eiterten. Doch erinnere ich mich, dass die eine oder andere Erinnerung mal bei den Zeitzeugen auf Familienfeiern durchbrach und der eine oder andere über erlebtes gesprochen hat. Ich war leider zu jung, um alles zu verstehen - für Kinder in Friedenszeiten ist der Krieg weit weg, ein Abstraktum und selbst der Tod wird nicht verstanden. In der Innenstadt von Hamm, meiner späteren Geburtsstadt wurden nach Aussage meiner 1987 verstorbenen Großtante am Anfang allen Übels (Reichskristallnacht) Juden gezwungen, sich auf die Straße zu legen. Dann wurden die "aufrechten" deutschen Bürger genötigt, über diese Juden zu marschieren. Ihnen auf Beine, Arme, Bäuche und Köpfe zu treten, damit der "gemeine" Jude wusste, wo sein Platz ist. Sie hatte damals Tränen in den Augen und brach auch schnell wieder mit dieser Erzählung / Erinnerung ab, da wir als Kinder mit im Raum waren. Diese Erzählung kam, als ich vielleicht 7 oder 9 Jahre alt war, doch ich habe sie niemals vergessen. Die gefilmte Frau von diesem Video hat sicherlich einen Preis für den Krieg bezahlt der wesentlich höher war, als ihre eigene Schuld. Ich hoffe, sie wurde trotz allem glücklich in ihrem Leben und konnte erlebtes verarbeiten oder zumindest verdrängen. Und dies geschieht zur Zeit wieder, in der Ukraine. Ich verabscheue diesen Krieg und hasse mich dafür (als mittlerweile 50 jähriger Deutscher) für das gute Gefühl, dass nicht schon wieder wir als Deutsche für so eine Tragödie verantwortlich sind.
Я родился в СССР в 1974 году. Я тоже слышал рассказы дедушки фронтовика и тоже не придавал им должного значения. Второго дедушку я не застал - он умер от ран после войны. Я не считаю, что немецкие дети того времени, а тем более все последующие поколения немцев должны были иметь чувство вины за то, что они не делали. Советским гражданам это тоже было не нужно. Так воспитывали меня, так воспитывали моих родителей, так воспитывали всех советских людей. И советские люди в целом простили немцев. Чувство вины вам привили ваши же нынешние союзники. Мало того, у них было в планах помножить Германию на ноль, а немецкий народ рассеять по миру. Кровавый Сталин был против. Сейчас ситуация имеет множество исторических параллелей - с этим не поспоришь. И есть параллели и со ВМВ. Но для России нынешняя ситуация схожа с той, что была перед ПМВ. Нет сейчас СССР и некому задавить фашизм снова поднимающий голову по всему миру...
The girl in the beginning, we don’t really know what happened to her and we never will but one things for sure she definitely got hurt, I hope she survived and lived a full life after this.
@@danielfernandez4544 Never in history was "Eye for an eye" a good idea. Near to my home there is a little village, an ex communist forced labor camp, where after releasing both the prisoners and guards got houses and since that year they live together and hate dessapeared step by step and they had to learn to live together.
@@danielfernandez4544 but just as well she could've been part of the resistance. do you think anyone would've asked back then or believed it? many claimed it, but those who really were had really lost everything and also were traumatized again when with the denazification all the bandwagoners and criminals were back in their old positions. and not that it ever counted for anything, but the truth is that not all germans were nazis.
The corrections made to these old films really makes you humanize people of previous eras and feel so much more emotion and sorrow for them. While on the other hand feeling so much more happy and lively in the good ones, like you could jump right in with them and go completely unnoticed. It's truly fascinating what this channel is doing.
I had the same reaction, but oddly, I immediately thought of how normal people like her (not her, just people in her generation and nation) did such evil things on mass. Thanks for sharing!
I once read a book titled “Crimes and Mercies” about one of the greatest unknown crimes in the history of humanity - the mass rape and often murder of German women and girls as young as 2 yrs old by the Soviet Red Army. It makes perfect sense why this woman was so absolutely desperate to ensure she was not captured by such vile human beasts
Spiritually, she is Europa. Her story is our story symbolically. Her tragedy is the tragedy of Europe and its people over the thousands of years and countless wars. And ultimately....
If everyone experienced war, no one would wish for it. With a simple clip it's amazing how clear these people have needlessly suffered at the hands of human pride
Oh mate, some people would definitely still wish for it. It's myth that all veterans despise war. Often times they despise the conditions, because they're bad, I mean you barely get showers and food sucks for instance. But there are some that definitely like combat. That's why you have volunteers in special forces or foreign legion.
@@KRaikkonenSF Sadly I have to agree. We had a professional soldier marry into our family, who always gave me an uneasy feeling; Strangely I always thought "Trained Killer" whenever I saw him. Much later we would learn that he was in fact a psychopath.
@Amadeo Bordiga That's not it, perhaps you don't know anyone that's been with the military, there are many who are perfectly socially included individuals and who say they wuldn't mind going back.
Imagine the only time you've ever been knowingly caught on film and you look like this. I can't imagine what was going through her mind when she covered her face.
Women, especially young women, are tragically the worst victims in war. Young men, after years of egged on hatred against other people before the war against them begins, are thrust into the barbarity of war. While many can internally separate the man from the soldier, many, after years of seeing their friends die in horrific ways, their homelands assaulted, and long stretches of killing, sleeping and defecating in mud trenches, eating whatever they can amass, and a complete disassociation with their humanity, become close to barbaric animals. Suddenly, they come across vulnerable and isolated young women (something they might not have seen in months) from the nations they now hate and they have a mixture of sexual desire and a thirst for revenge combined with their already reduced humanity and all of that thrown into a theater of war where there is no longer law, no longer repercussions, and no longer any resemblance of a society. It's a horror that is committed by all sides, and something the nations of the brutalizers try and sweep under the rug, even preferring the guilty go free then the bad PR that comes with it. The victims, if they even survive the assaults (which many do not) have nowhere to turn to for justice, and must carry their horror, combined with the shame they feel, inside themselves for the rest of their lives. War is truly a horrible thing. Of course, many of the men might just have been scumbags and rapists to begin with, as Lord knows plenty of that happens without wars going on.
What set them apart was the hairstyles and clothes but as you can see, without the vintage hairstyle all done up, and the dresses from that time, they looked no different than anyone today.
@@TheWolfsnack lol could very well be, but she's a wounded woman so instinctively all the men are going to shed a tear, put on heir armor, and get defensive of her. Various comments (whose veracity I haven't checked, but they're enough to make you skeptical at least) point out she was part of the ss
@@7yep4336dfgvvh Various commenters have no idea what they are talking about because no single historian managed to get to the conclusion of the woman's identity, besides the fact that she's German. So she could have been beating the Jews, or she could have been a civilian assaulted by the degenerates of the red army, who destroyed and raped their way through Berlin. But let me tell you something, you don't beat someone to the point of getting your hands swollen from it in the state she was.
This was fascinating footage and brought out a variety of emotions from me, it felt almost lewd watching it almost lascivious the cameras I focused upon them felt like staring it was so personal, the comments here are solid gold with historical context and personal stories
I watched this video last evening, and though it's almost 80 years old, I got chills from it, because I know wars, and brutal treatment of people of other races, religions and nationalities have always been with us and still continue to destroy people, body and soul. This is the face of anyone in the world - man, woman or child - who suffered horrific trauma and degradation. I was so haunted by this video, I had to take time to sit and pray in silence.
"brutal treatment of people of other races, religions and nationalities have always been with us" Blah blah blah muh colored people though. You don't even know the WW2 guys had Chinese, Africans, Muslims and "Native" Americans as allies. The big bad guy with the stache was a big fan of Islam and wanted it to be the religion of his empire. You... really don't know anything about WW2 or real history about anything.
@@Anarchist86ed I seriously doubt that's true at all. He was in favor of Nordic ideals, not myths from the desert. He may have used Islamic people to further his cause, but they were probably next on his list, had he won the war.
The aftermath was probably the hard part because it was about picking up the pieces, burying the dead and the trauma that persisted decades after. Hope this young lady got the help she needed and was able to live her life again.
I'm sure she did, as did all the soldiers who came back and went about their lives. Most didn't even know what they went through until after they passed and found the military items. They weren't pussies like today's generations
I think that is what grabs people the most. I agree with you. The woman who is the subject of this footage looks like a lady from today's society, NOT World War II Europe.
@@DrCruel It was a period of conspiracy and I believe that Hitler did run away because lots of countries politicians were involved in WW-2 that is why he got support to escape. Even America knew that he was alive somewhere in Argentina. They never exposed him because of their own fear and they made a deal in exchange they got some German talented people like scientist to work on NASA. America was behind and Russia already showed that they reached to moon first. So USA staged planted a Photo which looked like on the moon. But years later recently people noticed that flag is so straight and Moon does not have blowing air/wind/breeze blow. They kept it in archive those data in a Confidential Documents. The photo which they published of his dead body looked like double/duplicate of him. In past many places he was using his double or duplicate person to miss guide his enemies attempt to kill him. PLUS they never showed any one’s body his girlfriend or anyone who was with him. They have never shown any proof about his death. Hitler own quotes " IF YOU TELL A BIG ENOUGH LIE AND TELL FREQUENTLY ENOUGH, IT WILL BE BELIVED." Which means his death lies were told for many years and people now believed it. Since long now he is dead of old age, now it does not matter if the truth comes out. But they will not because Politician will never be believed. IF NAZI GUARD WERE TOLD THAT all POW are CRIMINAL THEY HAD TO DO THEIR DUTIES. EVEN TODAY IN USA JAIL THOSE GUARDS ARE NOT PUNISHED IF THEY HAVE A PERSON BY MISTAKE OF OTHERS PROSECUTED WRONGLY AND THE GUARD HAVE TO EXECUTE A PERSON BY ORDER. THEY DO NOT GO AFTER A “GUARD” WHO HAD TO DO THEIR DUTIES. Watch Title = Former Auschwitz Guard Guilty of 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder Any Nazi born after 1919 was considered “Brain Washed” and exempt from punishment. Watch - RU-vid video Title = What Happened to the Nazis after World War 2? After WW-II the international law came before that it was not there. Another Video to watch is = Sensational film footage of Berlin after the surrender (May 3, 1945). They said it was double duplicate of Hitler.
Beautiful girl, may she Rest In Peace. This poor soul suffered more than any woman should. War is hell not just for soldiers , but for the elderly, women, children, and animals.
May want to reconsider those well thoughts, she was a Nazi. “She was Lore Bauer - sometimes misspelled as Lara Bauer, age 24. Filmed 5/4/45. She had been a Helferin, a female assistant to the Luftwaffe, the Nazi Air Force. She was a proud member of the Nazi BDM (in 1931-1938), the League of German Girls.”
Космос замкнут (Един) , иногда глядя на кадры хроники ловил себя на мысли , что многое знакомо , особенно лица людей , кто знает , может быть нас не первый раз забрасывает на эту планету , возможно мы забыли или боимся вспомнить пережитое ( полное ощущение что видел лично эту даму , именно на этой дороге )
The way she moves her hips it shows she walked a lot of kilometres on foot. If she's used to standing around that might well be more than 50km in a single day or more spread out over the course of a week
All of them were in serious danger.. How you hear of soviet battalions, that would get rape-leave. Or the german punishment battalions, that would roll in after the werhmacht, and uproot the slightest resentment or disloyal civilians with the harshest methods. Also including rape.. What we human are capable of. Of wondrous things
We are all moved by the imagery and proclaim "no more war," yet we rationalize their suffering in different ways and continue to fight even here in the comments section...🤔
Human nature bud. We are not much different than our caveman ancestors. Still very animistic creatures. It'll still take many years and horrors to each other until we either destroy ourselves or move beyond out primitive nature.
@Xx Xx It's not wise. An argument in a comment section really has nothing to do with war. Other things we do every day maybe do have something to do with it.
@Xx Xx "yet we continue to fight even in the comment section" why shouldn't we? what does that have to do with war? or what else is it supposed to mean if you're saying it doesn't have anything to do with any wars, like I say?
The second woman looked vaguely jewish. There WAS a female camp with jewish prisoners nearby, whom got freed. But then, she wouldnt be surrounded by soldiers being pow. So she was a german girl, taken pow she too. Flakhelferin?.
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.” or “Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!” General William T. Sherman 1880
@Matt C In your lack of empathy you are showing a characteristic which was an aspect of the Nazi crimes. Just look into that girl’s eyes. Did she deserve her suffering? And, where does it end? Because they were cruel and made us suffer, we have to be the same? And so the human race wallows in its shameful mess.
@@renataostertag6051 He just paraphrased Pindar ,a Greek philospher from the VIth BC who said " War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach"
This is terribly sad, when I see this it makes me think of my own daughters. I hate to imagine a situation where a country would ask or force its young ladies to take up arms. I would go back to war for them.
I think the hardest thing about watching this is knowing that war will never go away. It might take different shapes ( probably all future wars will be fought with robots, drones and perhaps biological weapons) but men will always fight for resources and power, I think. Just look at everyday bullying and pressure, then you understand that all this happens on a greater scale, too.
@@andydixon2980 You speak the truth. It'll be that way until they figure out how to remove the Asshole Gene from our DNA. Until then, "Only the dead have seen the end of war".
a qua yes, you are quite right. I used to work in an office which was run like a totalitarian police state, with spying, bullying, sexual harassment and the abuse of petty power as a constant refrain. I used to go home at night crying on the bus. In 1999, three staff members took their own lives. This was in a perfectly legit HM Government department here in Edinburgh. War is simply a projection of these authoritarian behaviours onto a larger scale.
@@harrietlyall1991 Thank you for this insight into your former job. I hope you have found a way out of this horror. This trip here on planet earth can be really tough. Unfortunately, lot of our behaviour is more or less biological . Fighting for survival, climbing up the hierachy and humiliating, killing your enemy. Rape as a weapon of war is as old as mankind, just remember the mass rapes in ex Yugoslavia. Still, I believe that mankind as a species might develop. Looking at the long way that evolution has taken us this probably isn´t the last chapter. Of course this is only a faint consolation for those suffering. I truely hope your life has improved. Warm greetings from Germany!
My Lithuanian mother was exactly the same age as Lore. Born in Memel (now Klaipeda) in 1921, she fled from the advancing Bolsheviks to Denmark, then Germany in 1942. When this footage was shot in 1945 mum was still 24 and in Berlin. She had personal belongings stored in a warehouse in the East side of Berlin, so she and an older lady snuck over one midnight and got her belongings and escaped back to the West. She came to Australia in 1949. So glad to hear Lore made it out alive and lived to 73. My mum lived to 75 and passed away two years later in 1996. What brave women they were back then.
Labas, that’s an incredible story about your grandmother. I am Lithuanian too, and my great grandmother was 9 months pregnant and in labor as the bombs fell in Kaunas. She escaped into the forest and gave birth alone, between the trees, with bombs falling all around her. Our women were beyond tough, in a cruel world.
Thanks God your mom made it. I am Lithuanian myself. My grate grandmother was born in 1921. She survived the war luckily, as so many were exiled by Russians.
Why do have to kill each other non stop ? Wars are absolutely insane. No reason humanity should act this way. Imagine if we all got along and helped each other. Wooow
Not particularly complicated. Czech partisans who were fighting the Germans since 1939, took out their revenge at wars end on this unlucky female German soldier. Thankfully she made it to the American lines and I am sure she was treated fairly.
She has been through some kind of hell. Wearing parts of a uniform, obviously beaten up, one of a number we might call collateral damage to de-humanize it.
Pictured is Lara Bauer, a young German girl who had been assigned to operate anti-aircraft guns as Germany was experiencing massive losses of male soldiers. Stationed in Czechoslovakia when the war ended, she and her other female companions were brutally beaten and raped by angry Czechs. In the video she is seen suffering from wounds to her visage, and clutching in her hand a notebook, with Czech currency - which had become worthless by the war's end. She attempts to bribe the US soldiers (who are filming the video) to pass, at which point she finds that the currency is worthless. Many Germans, both ethnic Germans and German soldiers, were forcibly expelled from many territories in Europe when the war ended, many brutally beaten to death and killed in gruesome ways, in the tens of thousands. Many German women, hundreds of thousands of them, at the end of the war met similar fates at the hands of mostly Soviet and other Allied soldiers. To this day, no one has answered for these crimes.
@@mtkn744 Unfair to the young Germans who were victims but there were good reasons no one else in Europe was shedding any tears for Germans just as no one in former Greater East Asian Co Prosperity Sphere was particularly broken up about Japanese civilian casualties in 1945. My uncle and aunt were in Berlin with State Dept after the war and things were very hard in Western Zone and much worse in the Soviet Zone. They adopted an orphan girl and brought her back to US.
Maybe they had the idea that they were going to be raped, which is what usually happens when an army conquers. Not in this case, obviously, but that might be what they were thinking.
@@Mateyhv1 who knows, the one filming was focused on young women. Maybe they felt more vulnerable. One women smiled but the others didn’t. Most of the men smiled
И что вы хотите сказать этим видео? Вызвать жалость к этим людям? Они уничтожили 26 миллионов советских граждан, не считая тех кого еще не нашли, не счтая тех, которые не родились...Русские, украинцы, грузины, казахи, киргизы, узбеки, поляки, эстонцы и т.д. Они сломали судьбы миллионов людей, разлучили миллионы людей...Никакой жалости к ним быть не может!
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