British Army Enter Hamburg, Germany: World War II (1945)

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The British 8th Army are seen driving tanks with German POW's in tow through Hamburg, Germany in this silent footage from the last year of World War II.
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British 8th Army enters Hamburg, Germany.
Various shots of German prisoners marching along road, pan to sign '20km Hamburg', more soldiers walk past. M/S British officer giving instructions. M/S's soldier under umbrella, he walks along road with dead turkey. Various shots convoy of vehicles on road. Various shots as the 8th Army (Desert Rats) enter Hamburg. Various shots of military vehicles driving through the city. C/U signs 'Hamburg, Berlin, Kiel'. Various shots of vehicles driving through. M/S German officer stood up in back of car, he waves white flag (?) as he passes.
Various shots tanks driving across bridge. L/S arches of bridge. L/S docks. Various shots vehicles driving over bridge. C/U German soldiers and military police looking at map. L/S pan down military base (?) L/S people gathered outside. M/S soldiers sat in car. M/S officer getting out and walking into building. M/S British officer drinking from bottle. C/U sign 'W. Woolworth Co'. M/S bombed buildings. M/S German officer talking to British soldiers and showing them the way on map. C/U German officer. M/S tanks driving past civilians. M/S German officers directing civilians. M/S German civilians.
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@johnjamesflashman6856 3 года назад

I saw a cartoon in an 1945 English magazine Lillyput I think. It was of two German soldiers talking and one said "When Churchill said we will fight them in the streets I didn't think he meant our streets".

@theemirofjaffa2266 2 года назад

😆🤣😂

@Bigguy5154 2 года назад

The Allies did indeed make the first move towards civilians!

@DrJones20 2 года назад

@@Bigguy5154 No the Germans started terror bombing first. In Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Belgrade etc. etc

@Bigguy5154 2 года назад

@@DrJones20 lol terror bombing. You're obviously not to be taken seriously. There were anti German pogroms going on all over Czechoslovakia and Poland which is how this whole thing started. So you're using pathos themed language and you're factually incorrect.

@redrb26dett 2 года назад

@@DrJones20 sorry to say but your wrong by a couple of year’s the Germans perfected terror bombing in the Spanish civil war sad but true ie not the invention but the time line for WW2 but the Germans started terror bombing in WW1 with the use of aircraft the famous zeppelin raid’s but the practice of killing civilians is as old as humanity

@stephenscull901 2 года назад

My college German Professor was from Hamburg. He told us that, as a ten year old boy, he was sent with his schoolmates to “defend” Hamburg from the British as they entered the city, since there were few troops left from the Wehrmacht to do so. With picks and shovels they went out. They were stopped by the British, lined up before the British commandant, and one-by-one he kicked them in the seat of their pants and said to each one, “Go home to your mother!”

@theemirofjaffa2266 2 года назад

😆🤣😂😅

@matty6848 2 года назад

Good job they showed compassion. It just shows how reckless the Nazi high command were with its own people when they were prepared to send school boys out on suicide missions. My eldest boy is 13 and I picture him being sent out to face grown adult men in combat. It’s sickening. The frightening thing is these poor kids were that brainwashed they were happily prepared too face death for Hitler and the fatherland.

@wallamboklahong9125 2 года назад

The Britishers are quite compassionste people from their childhood, they were brought up by their parents in Good Christian moral and Discipline, so we Indian Christians too are not so aggressive, not like those goons who follow other Pagan morals, they commit murder without hesitation, even in communal hit, they would murder a Child, because she would be of opposite Caste.

@nadanczysykowski1712 2 года назад

@@wallamboklahong9125 Wladolf Putler is the Russian Orthodox Church's patriarch's top follower, and obviously he is a bloody mass murderer!

@penelopelopez8296 2 года назад

Excellent! I’m sure they thought about that as they grew older and appreciated the compassion they were shown. A kick in the pants is much better than a bullet or hanging.

@Charles-xe2qh 4 года назад

At 4.20 my grandfather makes an appearance. He is the British MP leaning on a jeep and talking to two German police officers.

@Ardiless 4 года назад

Zău ? Mă nu minți ? 😂😂😂bă Cearlică lasă vrăjeala cu tactu mare ! Si măta mare unde era ? 😂😂😂

@bernard48 3 года назад

God bless your Grandfather, and all his generation,,,

@FiveLiver 3 года назад

4:19

@apocyldoomer 3 года назад

Charles so cool!!!

@FiveLiver 3 года назад

@Amanullah Ahsan I'm sure he was nothing like you - British soldiers are not thugs. German soldiers preferred to surrender to British units rather than American, and certainly not the Soviets.

@matthewpayne42 3 года назад

Not even WW2 could shut Woolworths, but online shopping did.

@catandfishfc 6 месяцев назад

Woolworths is still open in Germany!

@ianprice9563 5 месяцев назад

Still open in the USA - and I did hear it’s coming back to the U.K.

@andrewbird57 2 года назад

My dad was liberated by the British Army in late April 1945 from a POW camp near Hamburg. This is probably who liberated him.

@fathertoson1974 3 года назад

Our greatest generation. My Dad was on the Dutch German border with the 6th Airbourne at this time. He never had a problem with the German's he met. They were just glad to have the British in control and not the Russian's.

@seanmoran6510 2 года назад

And now look at us 🤬 Personally id quibble about the greatest generation comment Let’s not ever forget that 2 million men volunteered yes volunteered in the Great War that great act of British Political Stupidity that got so many slaughtered! And changed this nation forever

@fathertoson1974 2 года назад

@@seanmoran6510 I never forget about the Great War either. As the German's said"Lions led by Donkeys". The reason for the comment was my Father was born in 1926 just after the General Strike, then the Great Depression, WW2 Rationing till circa 1954/55 and then being told by various Government's to "tighten your belt's". I totally agree about Politician's because they never, or don't want to learn from history. This Country at the moment is fast becoming the cesspit of the world. It's a total insult to all our veteran's.

@ivorbiggun710 2 года назад

@@seanmoran6510 We guaranteed our ally Belgium's borders. Doesn't seem too stupid to me. Without British intervention France would almost certainly have fallen to the Germans. I always find it strange, when people make comments like yours, that the fact that the British and Imperial forces lost considerably less men than Germany, France, Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary seems to be completely ignored. This idea that the British high command was led by a bunch of stuck up, uncaring fools seems a difficult one to budge but there is, in fact, a great deal of evidence that they were anything but. It was British forces which first employed many of the innovations used to break the deadlock on the Western Front, from tanks, to zoned artillery fire, integrated air-support and many, many more. The idea that senior British officers were the donkeys leading the lions is a myth perpetuated by middle class socialists, most of whom had not served during the Great War, in the 1920s and 30s.

@rows10 2 года назад

@@ivorbiggun710 The British Army was the smallest in Europe at the beginning of WW1 and was still smaller than France and Germany at the end of the war. It did not being in conscription until Jan 1916 and suffered less casualties than the other main combatants. So yes the Lions lead by Donkeys is a myth. But then it was first used by the Russians to describe the British Army during the Crimean War.

@lilbrit1019 2 года назад

@@rows10 Britain didn't have a huge land force but the navy played a incredible underrated and ignored role in world war 1. With it we secured the oceans and strangled Germany's colonies and the blockade in the north sea was a crucial factor in ending world war 1

@pauldainton6718 2 года назад

My wife is from there and we went to visit her relatives and at dinner her great great grandma spoke of running away from the Russians and ending up in Hamburg with nothing but her daughter and was sat on some rubble when a British soldier picked up her daughter and walked away with her, the great great grandmother sat crying and a couple of minutes later the soldier returned with the daughter who was wearing new shoes,

@johncater7861 2 года назад

Yes, just as well they didn't stay in Berlin and meet the terrible fate many of the Berlin women faced at the hands of the Russians.

@matthiasmoeser2652 3 года назад

My uncle comes with the British Army 1945 to Hamburg. He worked their in an hospital and met my aunt from Germany, who learned as a nurse in that too. Later both married an got two children. One was born in Hamburg, that's my Cousine... Nice story..

@Lee_Sullivan Год назад

Lovely story, and something good to come out of it all :-)

@santalucifer1169 2 года назад

Civilians and soldiers from both sides looked relieved knowing the war was over.

@penelopelopez8296 2 года назад

You know it, it was a brutal war that not only physically damaged soldiers but also psychologically damaged them. The anxiety of not knowing when you may come under fire or getting shot at really messes a person up.

@irishrover4658 5 месяцев назад

Especially the young ladies I noted in the street scenes focused on the watching Germans.

@penelopelopez8296 2 года назад

Excellent film footage. Thank you for allowing us to see it.

@Finglesham 2 года назад

Those in that area were lucky that the British arrived when they did, it was all part of Monty's plan. My father was a L/Bdr in the 13th RHA , part of 11th Armoured Division . who had fought all the way from the beaches of Normandy. We, now, cannot imagine war on that scale. Would you be alive the next day? Fate would decide. We are now so complacent of our security but it it is paper thin. Be prepared for giving your life to save your country. People did in the 1940s but who would now? Clearly, my dad survived. I did not envy his experiences.

@ftroop2000 2 года назад

I find so amaxinh how ignorant people are of how easily this could happen again. Thr complacency of govenments to to put defence as a waste of money, is astounding. When you know history, you become aware of how fragile peace really is. I am more and more certain that WW3 is approaching fast, and that is is because if weak leaders inability to make the hard decisions since WW2

@tommiatkins3443 2 года назад

Well. We can now Imagine it on that scale. Because Putin.

@GrahamWalters 2 года назад

My father was REME pioneer corp for 11th Armoured, one of the first into Belsen

@johncater7861 2 года назад

Well written.

@cliveengel5744 2 года назад

Imagine surviving on the Eastern Front where you had Hundreds of Divisions and thousands of Tanks battling it out in the Open. The Western Front was a just a skirmish that lasted 1 year - the Eastern Front 1940-1945 - over 300 Divisions and 80,000 Tanks and 30,000 planes and 459,000 trucks on action - A monumental Clash of the Titans.

@timmo491 5 лет назад

Brit secret weapon - the umbrella. Always keeps the enemy guessing.

@rodgeyd6728 4 года назад

Also good for protection against incoming mortar rounds 🤔

@rodgeyd6728 4 года назад

@uranus is mine like your style.

@COIcultist 4 года назад

@@rodgeyd6728 "Go on. Why do you carry the umbrella?" Response. "I was never any good remembering the bloody passwords and who else would be carrying a damned brolly?" Sounds like a cheesy line from a film? As always in war the truth is stranger than fiction. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter

@lewisner 4 года назад

I was going to comment on the umbrella but I can't do better than that !

@rodgeyd6728 4 года назад

@@lewisner I'm shooting Germans now on PS2 Medal of honour, went through picking my weapons! No umbrella though 🤔

@Les_Hewitt 4 года назад

I was very surprised to see what looks like my uncle John sat on top of a tank, in front, talking. At the 0.55 minute mark. I'm pretty sure it's him. :-)

@panchopuskas1 4 года назад

Les_Hewitt ....and the man with the brolly and the chicken looked remarkably like my dad although you can’t get a good look - and that’s the sort of daft thing he would do.... he told me that Hamburg was just a pile of rubble when they arrived and that the people were very relieved that the war was over ( I suppose that went for 99.9% of everybody on all sides)......

@xayood2997 4 года назад

0:55

@ianprice9563 5 месяцев назад

@@panchopuskas1operation Gomorrah, summer of 1943, was one of the more successful raids (3 nights, if I recall correctly) by Bomber Command in that it created one of the early firestorms which destroyed much of the city. And I think BC went back later in the war.

@lordemed1 3 года назад

The regular German soldiers must have felt incredible relief to have surrendered to the British.

@gedhuffadine1873 2 года назад

@Problem Hole I know this is a crass remark but who started it?pls don't Replyplay dangerous games get bad prizes

@2paulcoyle 2 года назад

@@gedhuffadine1873 Started where it didnt end. The Armistice left the WW1 German power centers still in control of Germany, and the citizens. The military, industrial, finance, etc. The Kaiser Wilhelm still alive.... Then there was, a bit, the hard money policies after the war, leaving the citizens vulnerable to appeals of anti-democratic . Plus Europe physically ruined, Russia going communist....a perfect storm.

@davidgreenwood5241 2 года назад

@Problem Hole it’s called war ye it’s horrible

@Finglesham 2 года назад

@@gedhuffadine1873 Not the British.

@ursulaschneider5166 2 года назад

The British treated the German soldiers with humanity and respect. As POWs they were entitled to food shelter and medical attention. All German POWs in the British sector received the appropriate treatment. The Americans, on the other hand, made life very hard for German POWs. Short rations, mo shelter and an intolerant cruel attitude. My German POW father in law told me this. We will not speak of the Russian treatment of POWs.

@u.s.militia7682 2 года назад

To have witnessed the misery before & during the war and the greatness that followed it must’ve been the ultimate life experience.

@francisebbecke2727 2 года назад

I was stationed with the US Army from 1977 to 1980 during the Cold War near Hamburg, one of my favorite cities in Germany. Saw some familiar sites in this movie.

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe 2 года назад

I believe the Nearest US Base to Hamburg was in Bremerhaven , The North of Germany apart from the port of Bremerhave. Was in the British Zone US Forces were in the South of West Germany.

@highpriority4015 4 года назад

thanks for saving video

@keithhallam1155 2 года назад

The most amusing action (if anything in a war could be amusing) was further north (north of Kiel, on the border with Denmark) when German armed forces were determined to surrender when they were in Denmark (which meant a British POW camp) rather than surrender in Germany, where they might encounter Soviet troops. Eight RAF Police, with Sgt Barney Hallam in charge, were left holding a border crossing, and found themselves with hundreds, then thousands of prisoners.

@sawitreekermin1194 5 лет назад

😉 when I worked in Norwegian ship, I went to Hamburg , I was enjoying to see all of old buildings , it amazing, it , I wish 🙏🙏some day I will go back to visit Hamburg Again 🇩🇪

@renatekonig4716 4 года назад

You are wellcome back to visit Hamburg! :-)

@jbs9231 4 года назад

What was left of them.

@jbs9231 4 года назад

Yes, Tomorrow another day.

@wilkybarkid 4 года назад

Don't think I've ever seen video footage of the ram in action before

@shaungillingham4689 2 года назад

What a tragedy ww2 was, what a appalling loss of life, utter madness.

@feistyphysicist 2 года назад

Indeed, and you would think everyone would have learned from it. We have to be careful to defeat the Russians in Ukraine, but not crush them - that would be a mistake. They must be given an exit.

@Channel-os4uk 2 года назад

What, getting rid of Nazis? Not madness

@zmajbosna4270 2 года назад

@@Channel-os4uk I like Lgbt and multiculturalism too. Wouldn't have those without defeating the Nazis.

@johnturner8383 2 года назад

Armour plated umbrellas. Top secret British invention, Germany never had a chance...

@vincentstackohare1082 2 года назад

Tank crews with umbrellas ! very civilised :)

@noaoah3662 4 года назад

Oh what a shame that the city of Hamburg tore down and destroyed the beautiful gothic portal of the Elbbrücke, now its a bare modern bridge, one could never guess that such a beautiful thing once stood there

@cirrus1964 4 года назад

Yes indeed. Bombing Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry, wasn't the smartest thing the Germans executed!

@pawelpap9 4 года назад

Beautiful might be a slight overstatement. After WWII Germans wanted to breath some fresh air into their architecture, admittedly with mixed results. But I am not sure pseudo gothic monstrosity is missed by many.

@noaoah3662 4 года назад

@@pawelpap9 that is false. Germany’s priorities were rebuilding, and fast. Consideration for architecture was minimal, which is why so much postwar architecture looks like garbage and is of garbage quality. The gothic portal, a piece of history and architecture was simply torn down to expand the bridge. “Breathing new life” into architecture was never a priority.

@pawelpap9 4 года назад

Noaoah I guess it depends where you look. It is true that much rebuilding was done hastily without paying much attention to historical context. Entire cities were stripped of old architecture and since nowadays it is forbidden to build copies of old buildings, they will not come back anytime soon. However, it is also true that modernism started dominating post war style. Replacing organic city structure by high rises and wide streets. I could give you endless examples for both, but if you live in Germany just walk around. Finally, I am not sure why you call this month to city a gothic building. I hope you do not imagine it was constructed in Early Middle Ages. I admit I do not know why it was removed, maybe the reasons were purely utilitarian as you claim, but by the looks of it not much was lost in terms of esthetic value. Not everything is worth preserving just because it happens to be 100 years old.

@noaoah3662 4 года назад

@@pawelpap9 i am well aware of the age of the portal, it was constructed in the late 1800s. To me, it is a cool piece of architecture, and it was demolished to expand the bridge, which still exists today. I just found it to be a shame that a piece of old architecture was destroyed, since Germany had already lost so much in terms of culture and architecture.

@vivians9392 2 года назад

Seeing the F.W. Woolworth building makes my heart jump. My favorite place to shop when growing up!

@Section5_CdnIntelService 2 года назад

No doubt many NAZIs too were regular customers.

@jgdooley2003 2 года назад

Frederick Winfield Woolworth....there used to be one in Eyre Square, Galway. There must have been 1000's all over the planet.

@benjaminmoogk3531 10 лет назад

6:34 "64" unit sign on Universal carrier for the Machinegun Battalion

@ianlacey6588 2 года назад

Possibly apocryphal but I heard that the garrison had formed up in a square for the formal surrender. The British officer taking the surrender drove up in a jeep, got out strolled over to some pigeons, fed them, and then deigned to notice the reception committee. One of those stories you would like to be true.

@fernandothauby379 2 года назад

Muy británico!!

@harrylor66 Год назад

Yes, that has happened in HOLLYWOOD MOVIES.🤣

@haeleth7218 3 года назад

I am British but if I had been a German citizen of Hamburg I would have been so happy to see the British and NOT the Russians!

@Swift-mr5zi 3 года назад

@Aniruddh Literally thousands of Germans fled so they could surrender to the Britiah and Americans and not the USSR

@nigelsw55 3 года назад

@dèmic He is neither, but you are both.

@norbertdannhaeuser5563 3 года назад

My parents were who lived at that time in Hamburg!

@markscouler2534 2 года назад

Yeah I wonder why after what the nazis did to russia could you blame them for getting some revenge

@sinclairwhitbourne2090 4 месяца назад

Yes, because they really would have paid for the barbarism they inflicted on the people of the Ukraine, Russia and all the other peoples of the USSR. They got off lightly (relatively speaking) didn't they? July 1943 was a downpayment on what they brought to others.

@luisrodriguez9583 2 года назад

Se acabó la pesadilla para vencidos y vencedores. Mis respetos y condolencias a todos los familiares, compañeros y amigos de todos los fallecidos en ésta guerra en la que trajo luto y destrucción en Europa, África y Asia. Y mi admiración por la reconstrucción tanto económica y estructural.

@kieranharford8755 2 года назад

It brings back memories, of 8 years before I was born! Thank God for the Allies!

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@Kieran Harford. And thank the British and Commonwealth for resisting Hitler when the whole of Europe threw in the towel. America and Russia did nothing until AFTER Germany declared war upon them. Without the terra firma of 'Battleship Britain' America would have had no base from which to fight.

@cliveengel5744 2 года назад

Thank god for the Russians as the British could never take on the might of the German Army

@cliveengel5744 2 года назад

@@donaldhoult7713 - What Nonsense - were were the British 1939 - 1943 there was plans to invade England or the British Isles . The plan was Soviet Union since 1937 - The Soviets knew That and so did the Germans. The whole Idea that German wanted to take over the UK was nonsense - it was not about Beer and Pies but about Oil, Minerals and resources.

@honkytonk4465 2 года назад

Pre-birth memories,wow!

@АлексусГрафоман 3 года назад

Помимо прочего, обратил внимание на мощёные дороги. В Калининграде (наст. Кёнигсберг) тоже много добротных мощёных дорог осталось. Так сделано в прошлые века, что луж и ям нет до сих пор. А там где положен асфальт, то, по словам местных, там всё время ремонтируют дороги и происходит подтопление. Очень интересное и ценное для историков документальное видео. Это от слова документ.

@oceanhome2023 2 года назад

Mega upvotes! Awesome observation, also the pics of the un bombed Autobahn 0:10 , these are what inspired Eisenhower to make the Interstate Freeways in the USA . The incredible still standing structure at 2:58 is amazing does anyone know what it is ? And how did it remain untouched ?

@ДенисУсков-д8ш 3 года назад

Интересные и уникальные документальные кадры.

@nomejodanya 4 года назад

At 2:06 one can see the south side of the Harburg bridge, which connects the southernmost district of Hamburg with the district of Wilhelmsburg by crossing the southern Elbe river.

@alvashoemaker8536 2 года назад

THANK YOU for sharing this; I can only read about this in books(something I like to do, BTW); THIS VID brings it to life…(The ONLY destruction : city wide has been from Mother Nature: hurricanes; to see/experience this kind of destruction must be a horror I CANNOT IMAGINE;). Y’all take care…👍🏼👣

@brianpack369 2 года назад

In the first shot, it looks like their leaving Hamburg.

@petermitchelmore2592 2 года назад

Hamburg: former chancellor Helmut Schmidt (from 1974 to 1982) grew up there, was an anti aircraft gunner during the war and became mayor afterwards.

@benjaminmoogk3531 10 лет назад

1:33 line of Ram Kangaroo APCs

@brustar5152 5 лет назад

A Canadian development

@andrewcharles459 2 года назад

Nice to see the Ram Kangaroos in action. I think this is the only film I've seen them in.

@Ferr1963 3 года назад

05:30 This guys are waiting for Woolworth to open at the Schwarz Freitag

@AJ-qn6gd 2 года назад

Perhaps they’re after some “pic n mix” 😜

@benjaminmoogk3531 10 лет назад

3:47 "58" unit sign on Kangaroo APC. 49th Armoured Carrier Regt?

@12dougreed 5 лет назад

Not a kangaroo.Its the emblem of 7th armored brigade. It's actually a dessert rat. After the war the brigade moved to Soltau, about 75 km from Hamburg

@TheFordmustangv8 3 года назад

5.30 Capt Stirling founder of the Special Air Service with some of his men in a heavily armed jeep....

@benjaminmoogk3531 10 лет назад

4:17 "74" unit sign on armoured car

@kingcobra7183 2 года назад

"Z" must be Russian sympathizers lol

@jmariliou 3 года назад

When i see Hamburg 1945, i can't forget 45000 died here during bombing. So strange to read comments about building style!

@60toodles 2 года назад

too bad. They started it and killed many innocent civilians all over europe in pursuit of power. Save your pity for those who deserve it.

@HarborLockRoad 2 года назад

On the bright side, nobody mentioned the Beatles played there...

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@jmariliou. We were bombed out twice by November 1940. My entire family ( other than me ) were lost SO I say "SPLENDID - served 'em right!

@jmariliou 2 года назад

@@donaldhoult7713 WoW my grandfather, a disabled civilian from WW1, was killed in Brest by British bombs in 1941. All Brest families received British bombs, even on hospitals. My father was a prisoner in Dresden, he had several of his colleagues killed by British bombs. Did they deserve this too?

@silverhost9782 2 года назад

@@jmariliou Reap the whirlwind

@davidreyes2021 4 года назад

Excellent

@neilbuckley1613 4 года назад

Note at thee end of the video that the German women felt safe to stand and watch unlike Berlin and other cities in eastern Germany.

@Charles-t7z Месяц назад

It seems so odd to see a 'freeway" during WW2.

@xerox9591 2 года назад

Well the British. If you see now what has become of the UK.... a Third World country, and it is going down faster and faster every day. Was this year once, last year twice over there for my work. A Third World disaster. What exactly did all these men die for?

@tonyves 2 года назад

Sorry you had such a dreadful time in the UK, maybe don't come back? Apropos our economy/politics - your ignorance shines through.

@caspian5964 2 года назад

It’s a first world country, and the British soldiers died for the liberation of Europe

@xerox9591 2 года назад

@@caspian5964 London is not London anymore, it is a Third World Capital, a nightmare. And all those soldiers if they could see what their country has become... they wouldn't have died on the Continent. Sad but true.

@caspian5964 2 года назад

@@xerox9591 what are you in about, you clearly don’t know London

@davidhoward4715 2 года назад

@@xerox9591 Xerox, go live in Moscow. You will be happy there.

@blasterelforg7276 2 года назад

3:47 really sleek armoured personnel carrier

@nicholaspatton1742 2 года назад

Yeah, Those are Canadian Ram 2s tanks converted to APCs by removing the turret and gun equipment. I believe they could hold 12 to 15 men. They were called kangaroos.

@andrewclayton4181 2 года назад

I'm surprised so much is still standing after operation gomorragh. An old soldier once told me that it was a completely flattened moonscape. Perhaps it was in places.

@Bj-yf3im 3 месяца назад

The areas that were hit hardest during Gomorrah were the areas where the firestorm happened: Hammerbrook, Borgfelde, Rothenburgsort and Hamm. Hammerbrook, for example, is today comprised of only office buildings and other industrial houses and Borgfelde has relatively newly built apartment blocks and a rebuilt Erlöserkirche. The areas shown in this video are mostly the downtown area where, fortunately, a lot survived like the Town Hall, the Post office building and the Speicherstadt.

@falihhassan8011 3 года назад

I astonish a bout the brave of German to build their country as quickly as they can

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@Falih Hassan. ALL subsidised by the winners!

@davidhoward4715 2 года назад

@@donaldhoult7713 Exactly. They should have left Germany in ruins.

@remy3014 3 года назад

Stunning by thousands germans soldiers on the highway surrender.

@rlgenge 5 лет назад

30 seconds in is that Jacob Rees Mogg?

@deplorabled1695 5 лет назад

Still negotiating Brexit even back in his early days.

@lauriebotell9880 4 года назад

That British officer is Capt H.A. Thompson of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU). Note the stills camera around his neck.

@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927 4 года назад

@@lauriebotell9880 I wonder if he was my slave master. Anyways, you want tea and crumpets, I shall serve them to you right away ma'am.

@matthewbrooker 3 года назад

No, standard issue WW2 Rupert

@alo9409 3 года назад

@@matthewbrooker true, he is having trouble distinguishing his own soldiers from the barrel-scraped German farm boys.. Go figure!

@pierrenicolai86 3 года назад

ils vont revenir?

@dhss333 2 года назад

The Hauptbahnhof is seen here; I worked in the kitchens of the Restaurant Schifferbörse, Hotel Kronprinz, opposite the stn., in 1977. A few verbally arrogant Germans also employed there. 1979-'84 I worked 'black' on building sites in Köln & the Ruhr & later Berlin.

@qwe1qwe2-j2t 10 дней назад

WHAT DO YOU MEAN VERBALLY ARROGANT GERMANS CAN EXPLAIN MORE

@wombatwilly1002 2 года назад

Interesting to see Woolworths in this clip and Bata Shoes in another.Bata set up shop here in Canada not far from where I type this.

@miklmiklmtrcycl6009 3 года назад

Are those not Canadian Ram tanks with turrets removed called “kangaroo” APCs?

@pierrealarie2897 3 года назад

I thought the officer talking to the German soldiers in the beginning was wearing Cdn battle tunic. You don't see the buttins

@andrewcharles459 2 года назад

They are Ram Kangaroos, yes.

@denisrobertmay875 2 года назад

@@andrewcharles459 by April '45 pretty nearly all types of tanks were being used as"Kangaroos " so you have check each turretless tank.

@edpzz 2 года назад

Hamburg must have been a long old Drive from Italy for the 8th Army, Woops my mistake 7th Armd Did take part in the fall of Hamburg

@Derek_S 2 года назад

Thanks for that. I found this video confusing as my father was with the 8th army right across North Africa, Egypt and Palestine before landing in Italy. He was in Rome when the war ended and never mentioned going to Germany at all. He didn't get back home until 1946 though so I don't know what he did after the war had ended. He died years ago, so I can't ask him now. Could the 8th army have people in two places at once or did they go from Italy to Germany after the war ended in 1945?

@Paranomasia12 2 года назад

@@Derek_S They likely mistakenly used 8th 'Army' rather than XIII 'Corps' Edit: Just like how I just accidentally wrote XIII rather than the VIII I was actually thinking about.

@theemirofjaffa2266 2 года назад

That could hardly have been possible. Those that ended up in Hamburg must have been the remnants of the Normandy campaign heading east towards Germany.

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@edpzz. It was a long war for the British and Commonwealth. Not so for Hollywood's finest!

@tonydrewry1954 2 года назад

The eighth army sailed back from Italy to England (late 43 early 44) to train for d-day

@888ssss 2 года назад

Come out with Hans Huppe.

@danielgreen3715 3 года назад

Thank God we got to Hamburg before the Russians or it would still be A Soviet Naval Base Now!

@lordemed1 3 года назад

@Fast&safe HaugŽdrebe and a good opinion, at that.

@mongo2022 3 года назад

Por el contrario, creo que es una pena que los soviéticos no hayan llegado antes, para destruir desde los cimientos esa ciudad y ejecutar algunos cientos de nazis.

@liamhackett513 2 года назад

@@lordemed1 neither of you know the history. The allies had the zones of occupation already agreed beforehand.

@florinivan6907 2 года назад

Germans be like: Maybe we should have invested more in that atomic bomb thing and not put our faith in these panzers.

@channel12929 2 года назад

اللہ سے سب کی بخشش اور مغفرت کی دعا ہے

@unknownknown7427 2 года назад

Didn’t know Woolworth had a store in Germany

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@Unknown Known. Big Business has never recognised borders and many business leaders and aristocrats in the UK approved of Hitler. The Woolworth's store opened in 1927.

@angloaust1575 2 года назад

Then in the sixties the Beatles Invaded it!

@petersmith4202 2 года назад

Did woolies have a sale on

@Zwia. 2 года назад

You're welcome Europe for us Brits and Americans for saving you all

@nparsona 2 года назад

Jeez, so disconnected from reality. You must be one of those Brexit people.

@joebyrne3159 2 года назад

I think that the Russians had alot to do with winning the war too!

@caspian5964 2 года назад

@@nparsona what’s disconnected from reality about that comment

@nparsona 2 года назад

@@caspian5964 Well anyone who has any knowledge of WW2 knows that the majority of the German strength was lost on the Eastern front. Look at the casualties for the US, UK, and Germany (western front and Africa), then compare them to the casualties on the Russian side and the German ones on the Eastern front. Also, Britain was fighting to preserve its own freedom and its empire more than fighting for other people.

@caspian5964 2 года назад

@@nparsona I know but why would you assume he is one of those “brexit people”

@slaneyside 2 года назад

those local people looked pretty happy that the war was coming to an end. at this point i imagine they know the games up and they don't really care anymore who wins or loses as long as the privations and suffering stop.

@emib6599 2 года назад

Happy because they were defeated by the allied army, in the eastern part i don't think there was too much space for happiness for the end of the war.

@frankmontez6853 2 года назад

Yeah seems like some cities areas of Germany wern't as devastated as others . How much of Germany and other countries did the allies feed and otherwise supply until they were able to stand on their own ?

@maconescotland8996 2 года назад

Hamburg was heavily bombed in WW2.

@deaftears 2 года назад

Why did they help him escape?

@johnturner8383 2 года назад

At the end of the war The British gave some of the German police pistols. That fired dye, a kind of waterpistol. Trust in the police being low..

@franciscobazaez6069 3 года назад

Y el audio 🤬🤬🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@frankpatton5978 2 года назад

my old dad was in the 21st foot and mouth regiment !.

@johncater7861 2 года назад

Yes, the political high command had already decided that Berlin and the East would be ceded to Stalin. The American forces had the Germans on the run and were crossing the river and could easily have gotten into Berlin before the Russians but were instructed to stop and get back over the Elbe river.

@josephguo6256 2 года назад

try to remember the DUNKIRK evacuation.

@AlphaBravoCheeseCake 3 года назад

The amount of butthurt, angry Germans and people in the comments angry over a video made 70+ years ago wahaha

@fifthbusiness1678 3 года назад

Wha? I don’t see many, if any, at all. I think you’re confused.

@erich2432 2 года назад

LMAO! No modern Germans care about bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne etc. Dead things don't come back. As simple as that! It's funny you were under rationing till 1954 despite winning WW2. LOL! And it's your fellow Brits who are pushing those narratives like Dresden war crime etc. Irving a Brit, Beevor a Brit And funnily enough, the Bomber Command is responsible for the death of your Empire. Lol! Arthur "Send your Lancs around, lose your bank account" Harris. Try it, Brits! Take the first shot at Germans this time. The reprisals would be gold. I am sure those 170k Brits living in Germany would get the taste.

@pauldainton6718 2 года назад

Stay off the drugs kid

@stevenkreiss2113 2 года назад

F.W. Woolworth wow never knew they were in Germany that far back.

@josepherhardt164 2 года назад

Coca Cola Deutschland invented Fanta when Coke syrup became unobtainable. (Check the Wikipedia article on Fanta.)

@nicolaeparaschiv6599 2 года назад

Great german Army kaput

@olddave4833 3 года назад

looks like a 1937 Ford at 2:47

@andrewcombe8907 Год назад

Interesting the police were still performing their usual duties of traffic control, static guards and crowd control as the UK came in.

@ready9597 2 года назад

Why? Only German soldiers films 🎥. Nipon( Japanese soldiers 🎥 films no one.

@LectionesInterbellum 2 года назад

And meanwhile “the ‘murricans entered London”… and there goes your empire.

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@Verboden WO11 etc etc etc. No. It was Khan and his mates!

@tonyves 2 года назад

Our empire? We gave it back. Note "gave".

@marceloweels 2 года назад

Portuguese?

@aizatjunaidi69 2 года назад

When the british troops enter hamburg cuz they know german hamburger were nice and delicious thats why they all came to germany and buy the german hambuger

@bonniepark6802 2 года назад

Didn't know we had silent films in 1945

@artistjung57 2 года назад

아메리카 미국땅과 캐나다 현재의 영토가 의심 스럽습니다. 전 세계인들을 혼돈에 빠트리는 어떤 음모가 있어 보입니다. 진실 역사를 밝혀야 합니다. 이제는.. 그리고 전쟁없는 지상낙원 세상으로 살아야 합니다. 각 나라 점치인들이 잘~ 해주시길 앞으로 기대 하겠습니다 .

@margaretbushey3192 3 года назад

Roll out an "er' and paste it on the end of Hamburg and you've got a tasty American staple. Who'd have thought it. All kidding aside my dad was a navigator in the 8th Airforce and my mom was part of the Red Cross that followed Ike into the POW camps.

@kallejodelbauer2955 2 года назад

They didnt fight in Hamburg, because they came after the surrender of Germany.

@photoisca7386 2 года назад

Many years ago I read in a book about the 7th Armoured Division, it was likely the first British vehicle in Hamburg was a scruffy water truck whose driver was lost. He roamed around under the noses of the police and Heer until he got his bearings, then gave a two-finger salute and departed.

@davidwillard7334 2 года назад

British tank Commander : OHH !! LOOK ! BOYS !! THE ! RUSSIANS ! ARE OVER !! THERE !! ( There goes our win ! For all ! Of Germany ! )

@woodenseagull1899 2 года назад

We never got paid for the demolition of Hamburg!

@donaldhoult7713 2 года назад

@woodenseagull. Now then! It's your own fault if you didn't join the Union.

@HarborLockRoad 2 года назад

British enter Hamburg? Shouldnt it be a fish and chip shop???

@seltaeb9691 2 года назад

My father went over on D-Day+1 & thus went thru France Belgium Holland, then stopped for a rest. I wish I had heard his story, he met my mother in Holland who was just like a Nazi, abusive vindictive & cruel. Thanks Adolf.

@alanmoffat4454 2 года назад

APROPREATHION BY FINDING ALSO CALLD THEFT IF ANYONE COMPLAIN S .

@Марсианин-ж3о 3 года назад

Yeah, British were afraid that Red armee will occupate whole Germany

@jmariliou 3 года назад

American too! This is the good reason that brought them to Europe. It is also the good reason which conditioned the reduction of the Japanese!

@wrath_of_thrawn2163 2 года назад

@@jmariliou woeful misunderstanding of history, when the US joined the war in 1941 all indications were that the Soviet Union was on it's last legs during Barbarossa

@jmariliou 2 года назад

@@wrath_of_thrawn2163 And? Obviously the USSR was overwhelmed, even before starting to fight. Without the material aid of the USA, the game was lost for them. if the US came, it was mainly because the communist USSR was going to eat Europe, its colonies, and what goes with it, including an essential economic side. I don't know where are you from, and what kind of subjective history book teached you. In East history books, the "story "is so different. Hard to do a "synthese" for that. Impossible to be binare. My ex-girl-friend was an history teacher in Dresden before 1989. West tried to change the history she learned and teached before 1989. So she stopped everything and now she is a music teacher. No truth, no pravda.

@Scimiter1948 2 года назад

@@jmariliou Some thing a lot of people forget the massive aid that was sent to the USSR by the allies, also is it a coincidence that the Russians started to win, after the British broke the German codes.

@richardconnelly7141 3 года назад

IMAGINE BACK IN THE DAY WALKING 20 KM FOR A HAMBURG

@g.rasputin6386 2 года назад

Soldaten mit Regenschirmen...gabs in der wehrmacht nicht.

@dhss333 2 года назад

The bren carrier: a joke vehicle compared to Wehrmacht vehicles.

@adventussaxonum448 2 года назад

Wehrmacht vehicles were mainly horses

@Scimiter1948 2 года назад

@@adventussaxonum448 Again a lot of people do not realise the German army relied mainly on horse transport.

@davidhoward4715 2 года назад

Adrian, learning is hard; but try gaining some knowledge.

@dhss333 2 года назад

@@davidhoward4715 Ditto the British helmet and smallarms.

@odorisiogilberto 2 года назад

Video storico molto interessante che ha raccontato. La Vittoria del «Bene»contro le forxe del Male Nazionalsocialista di ilh il giorno 30/4/1945 ,A.D.Adolf Hitler,

@odorisiogilberto 2 года назад

Mi correggo:contro Adolf Hitler

@channel12929 2 года назад

I salute to all 🤝🙏✋🧑‍🏫