Disarmed Wehrmacht returns from Czechoslovakia (Tannenbergsthal, May 1945) 

Not quite the reason, it wasn't so much relief at surviving military conflict. This withdrawal from Prague where they tortured and slaughtered 20,000 of the local civilian population meant they were firstly leaving behind their crimes and retribution from an immanent successful civilian uprising, and second were surrendering into the hands of US Army who would treat them far better than the advancing Soviet Army.

They also respect each other.

Another "worst global conflict in history " seems to be on the cards

By the same deepstate people who created the 20th century disasters. Not just in Europe. Laos, Cambolia, Vietnam, Korea, Irak, Afganistan, Serbia etc...And now they want to force the whole world against the Russians to save the USD and their economy. Son of a bitches

@@benedictearlson9044 then you interpret their laughs falsely. for sure there were some among them that may have smiled because of what you wrote. otherwise your claim has absolutely no ground. ordinary wehrmacht soldiers were by majority not involved in what you wrote ( this was done by SS units that operated at the back of the front line). where those wehrmacht soldiers innocent? probably not. were they responsible for the incredible atrocities that happened behind the front lines? for sure not. you really have to get your history straight here, because you throw every person with a uniform into one pot and that does absolutely not reflect the reality. and of course there were common soldiers that were part of the atrocities that happened, but its wrong to blame an entire army for that. please read at least into basic information, its not that hard to find out about an overall picture of "who did exactly what". read the wiki article of the wehrmacht and the ss, this would be a good point to start, because responsibilities are handled quite well in these articles ( at least in the german articles). for example it were the so called SS-Totenkopfverbände ( "SS-Deathskullcompanies") that were responsible for the deportation of jews, communists, sinti asoasf - they were a special division within the SS, because they tried to hide as good as they could what they were doing. also the ghetto in warsow was run by the SS - another example. no ordinary wehrmacht soldier ever did duty there. every concentration camp was run by the SS, again no ordinary german soldiers did duty there - there was a secret to be kept and guarded... as i said: get your history straight. i cannot believe this comment has 23 likes without anyone pointing out that you are very wrong in your interpretation, which shows that people are willing to believe whatever is written on the internet without any proof or evidence. please note that im not trying to whitewash the wehrmacht or what was done at all. but history is not a fairytale - and thats what you are trying to make out of it.

Life is risk no matter how you slice it... That's the price we pay for admission. Sux what happened..

Same happened to my Mother's boyfriend in Italy...truck accident and he died.... 😢 Life is unfair

Imagine the tens of thousands killed in waning four months of the war, long after it was lost.

@stophateing sow your button up

I was told a high school friend of mine was accidentally electrocuted while in Vietnam

My father is a Slovak too and moved to USA after the war..

@@vincentkosik403 he did the right thing because after German tanks left then in 1968 Russian tanks came in at night and stayed for decades

@@68scorpion68 He may have been a little bit nuts, but he wasn't stupid as they say

@@vincentkosik403 you had to be, because that person was leaving behind everything and everybody he knew and was entering uncharted waters

@@68scorpion68 So it was not an occupation, the Czechs were still led by the Czechs, unlike the German ones, where the protectorate was led by a protector. and it was German. At that time, the enemies of the empire were arrested and murdered. The Germans killed or executed during the occupation , ie from 1938 to 1945, ! 343 thousand ! Czech civilians. After 1968, 72 people lost their lives here. These people were not executed, they were killed in the first days of the occupation, or at a time when there were Soviet troops, ie in 20 years. Your statement is in line with current efforts to change history.

whi not ? Among Dolphy ( adolph ) and Koba ( osipa vissarionovici ) was a solid frenshiphood before the war

They did fall into the hands of the Russian army, The Russians occupied East Germany for many years to come.

WW I - lost; WW II - lost. Germans, stop fighting the world. That's enough...

@@Stranger7_7 KOBA ( well knows as osipa vissarionovici djugaj villy ) every times WISHed the war and everytimes he wined The ww2 wishs and wins Berlin bolckade 1946, he wished and wins The COLD WAR, 1947 he wished and wined ( sic !) The KOREAN WAR, 1950 -1952 he wished the war and wined GREEK CIVILIAN WAR, 1954-1956, koba wished the war and LOST The hightes dangerous war in CUBA, 1959, Nikita Krushceva wished and wined the war Don't 'forget the ROCKETS CRISIS octumbre de 1962, when all depended of one soviet man to press a buton INDOCKINESE WAR,,1964--1973 ( Vi Et Nam ) soviet leaders wish and win the war CAMBOGIAN WAR, most cruel the war in the, the soviet leaders wish and win the war All african war as Angola, etc wars, soviet wished and winwd the war AFGANISTAN 1979, brejneva leonid vissarion wished and wined the war If I forget one, war help me please

@@Stranger7_7 And in both they made the enemy tremble

Thats a bummer. My grandfather survived the WWII fighting in chetnik ranks and then in a penitentiary squad on first lines in Bosnia where they were charging the retreating Germans and expelling them from the country somewhere along the line his position was hit with a shell, SS troops along with Handzar collaborationists slaughtered everyone who was remaining while he was thrown by the blast away and rolled down the hill getting to be rescued and hospitalised in a part of Croatia until the end of the war. He died in 2019 age 95.

@GOVnoRasha why the ukrainian flag for

thats unbelievable.. so very sad. but if you dont mind, i would like to thank your family for your sacrifice.. because without American support me , my children, and my grandchildren would'nt even exist.. because Germany would of eventually invaded Britain, so my 12 year old mother probably would never have survived.. so , i realise it doesnt help much, but your family's sacrifice literally saved about 12 lives in my family.. and for that i am eternally grateful

Ok

@stephenbartley8133. What do you mean? Just look how germany treated the french during occupation. Im sure your family would have been fine. Unless you mean britain not surrendering and germany making it to the shore of the island. Though britain would have probably surrendered if the nazis actually made it over the canal

Agva ?!

when was he born

One Strong Man.

Why would the Germans put an Allied soldier in a POW camp in Eastern Poland ? There were concentration camps & so-called death camps in E. Poland, but no POW camps for Western Allied Troops....though there may have been camps there for Russian POWs.

@@Baskerville22 Same question. Unfamiliar with that tactic.

At Aarnham my great Uncle pretended too be dead when operation market garden failed and he ended up on a road all this squad killed......Germans passed him and then he slide into the river and escaped. he died I think 1960s

Τι ήταν Γερμανοί?

Curious if they were white or black?

They were poor white sharecroppers served the Peek family near Lamar Country TX.

@@homenj3897 maybe I’m just ignorant but you don’t hear much about white sharecroppers

@@austint7533 , Ironically, after starting my own career, I had by accident and unknowingly returned to Clarksville, TX (Red River County), where my grandparents had lived, to work. Then even by the remotest coincidence, I met via business, a man named Powel Peek, a farmer, very elderly, with a large real estate holding. As he and I were in discussion related business, he asked me about my family, background, being triggered by my last name. I shared what little I knew. He then informed me, he thought my family had worked for his father in the 1870’s until 1930’s. He was little older than my father (1918), I reached out to my dad and he confirmed, this was the family they had worked for. My understanding is my grandparents had immigrated from TN to TX after the Civil War, very poor, uneducated with limited skills trying to survive. Peeks were a wealthy white family and were a means to survival until WWII. My own father quit school after 7th grade (1925), farming until 1941. Have read and seen documentaries of this area of the South during this period and seen few blacks in the area. Today, blacks make up a probably 35% percent, of country population. Where I was born and raised in remote West TX, a black man was a rare sight also. We had two black families in the whole county (Upton). Extremely remote rural areas and blacks were too smart to live there. We watched MLK, in his prime on TV nightly. What we observed was the exact opposite of what we lived. The Blacks we knew were hard workers, honest, respected and good athletes (football), family people. They had lives equal to the area whites. So racism was unknown and to see MLK and those events, were strange to us as children, We lived hard lives, survival a focus. The Mexican population was much larger (15%+) than the blacks and increasing daily (wet backs, few, if any, spoke English, attended school, except for the few). Different times and thinking. I escaped to university along with my sister. She returned, married and left never to return. I never returned after leaving for college in the early 70’s, doing my best not to visit Vietnam, where I now work, lol. Sorry to bore.

It's meaningful to hear what those who were there have to say. It must be an enormous relief when war ends and soldiers can go back to being just people, people who would never have killed if not for the war. My brother was a medic who served 2 tours in Vietnam, so your father has a little special meaning to me. Bless you.

Thank you for such fascinating insight. I noticed him too but have nothing like your knowledge of insignia. Most interesting to see the camaraderie and lack of malice.

@Kevin McCormack It says nothing about this particular individual, just as membership in the many, many American and other Allied units that committed war crimes (certainly on a much smaller scale) says nothing about individuals in those units.

@Kevin McCormack It's the standard uniform worn by all panzer crewmen. The skull was a different version than the SS skull. Totenkopf was an SS division

the gi next to him has a "liberated" zeiss ikon contax in brown leather case around his neck

@WingsandBeer, it is standard Heer tank crew insignia. Nothing to do with the SS-Totenkopf.

Which does not make much sense, the column would move towards Czechoslovakia?

"Czechoslovakia, May 1945" ?

@@neinnein9306 If you look on the map, Gasthof zur Tanne in Tannenbergsthal (Saxony) is in GERMANY, not in Czechoslovakia. Not that far from the border but NOT within Czechoslovakia.

@@smitthone yes, i just quoted the title of the video.

I want to eat there! Is it good? hehe

5:42, a US Captain wearing a Combat Infantry Badge.

Yes, its shocking realistic. Unbelievable the war is 76 years over. By the way "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed in colour 1938...

@@sandhase8129 Yes, I'm a film buff and there has been color film for a while, but WW2 in my mind is a black and white event. Not until recently has all the color renditions have been showing up. Not the fighting so much.

esp in color the American stars & stripes truly is a flag of beauty

@@garyschultz7768 Yes it is!

Yeah also the fact as you get older the war seems not so far away.basically twice my life time ago before I was born.

That's utter rubbish. Your grandfather was telling you lies. Read some history books about the war - and the war at sea in the Atlantic and the Western front.

@@brianhammer5107 In a history book you find anything about operations and the generals who masterminded them. You find nothing about the ordinary soldiers and their lives. The war at the sea is not covered in that video and my granddad didn't serve in the navy. But propably you should consider talking to people first hand before you insult others.

@@lukewagner5492 Completely false - you are not a professional historian and you don't know what the literature says.

@@brianhammer5107 So wasn't my granddad. He was simply there when things took place. But I'm sure you know more people who served in the Heer than I do.

​@@lukewagner5492 Look, sorry your grandfather may have had guilty feelings later and didn't tell you the whole truth - but the German soldiers were fighting for a horrid, brutal, Nazi regime and there is no denying that. A lot of them committed atrocities. There is no getting around that. Germany was a great nation that went mad for a while. Today, the kids are brought up in a free and rational state. The 30's were NOT such a time.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the average German soldier who never knew of or committed atrocities.

@@eflint1 German soldiers brutally killed 27 million Russian men, women, children, and the elderly. And millions of people in other countries.

@@user-si2dr1pn3p wasn't that Stalin to his own people.

@@petergoodwin2465 No. Stalin's victims are another topic. But the Germans brutally killed 27 million Russian people.

@@petergoodwin2465 The Germans burned people in crematoria.

Probably about half of the US soldiers were of German descent. It is also true that fighting men generally respect one another. It is when the support and administrative and military police units show up that things get bad.

Лживые кадры,это не чехословакия.

It's more amazing how black soldiers shed blood for their countries still were treated like 2nd class citizens. Even the enemy soldiers were treated better.

@@mirquellasantos2716that’s the power of race

​@@lskrologhow do you know? Did you recognize the village?

You do realize the war was not over. Roosevelt knew we needed the Russians if we were going to invade Japan. Manhattan Project was not a certainty. It was a raw deal for sure.

Not everything is US fault

You do realize at that point another war, potentially world war, against the soviet union was just unacceptable. The american people would have revolted at the idea that now as the nazi regime has been defeated more americans need to die in a new war.

Good things for USA because Russia people's sacrifice their own lives for security of USA in Europe and USA civilization

25 million Russians died in world war ll Millions in Belarus Ukraine Poland Czech Yugoslavia Greece. Murdered. Horrific deaths most were women and children. Bodies being made into soap. Horrific.

THEY ALL MUST HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN PUBLIC BY HANGING, THAT WAY YOU WON'T HAVE NEONAZI WARS IN VIETNAM, IRAQ, SYRIA, ETC

@@crapisnice These German soldiers here are not even Nazis, they're regular Wehrmacht units. If we follow your logic they would have executed the entire German population.

@@distantthunder12ck55 Why only the German population, shot the whole world! sarcasm - Ayoze you have a very one-sided sick view of things. A little petty. What have the Germans to do with Vietnam and Korea, but in fact the biggest warmongers have been hanging around there. And don't forget the Treaty of Versailles in your reflections.

@@susannesperre9573 What the hell are you talking about? I was defending Germans and Germany in reply to the moron saying they should all have been executed.

History isn’t being cancelled. It’s just being forgotten. But your right, these are important scenes to remember.

@@RobPetty622 I think today's "sheeple" are trying real hard to erase it!!

@@hauntedmoodylady smartest and totally correct comment I've heard latley. Well said.

Once the librarys are defunded the changing of history is a mouse click away

@@hauntedmoodylady I think you might benefit from a psychiatric evaluation

Interesting if true.

Americans killed a lot of surrenders like the Germans did.

@@teleguy5699 Yes…it’s not a liberator-pacificator behavior…as the US always claim to be

@@mrhaltstop2294 We could be just as brutal. War makes humans that way, but what we did with post war Germany and Japan you have to admire. We weren't conquerors, and we helped rebuild both nations.

@@teleguy5699 I know that war makes inhuman…the one with the finger on the trigger has always the last word when impunity rules

@@mrhaltstop2294 Well said. Be well brother.

Non, les horreurs ne sont pas terminées avec les révisionisites allemands et anglo saxons , 80 ans après les crimes ça continue, à vomir 🤮 ! 😊

Danke schőn.

The same could be true for Ukraine today. Simply accept to be neutral and your hell is over. But no, they are crazy about joining NATO. Ok, so be it.

Sadly the Russians turned up 2 days later, and all these men where turned over to them. They all were either shot or went off to Russian work camps untill 1954. (that's why the Americans let them keep their uniforms, and metals on) Notice all the Jews in American uniforms, are watching, and listening. American Intelligence was what they were called. Always 50 miles back from the front, untill the smoke cleared! Then they said they were Heros! lol!

the soldiers in this video are so skinny and so the civillians are, compared today

@@MTC008 32 million people around the World, starved to death after the war was over.

@@bennyboogenheimer4553 no what i mean is that people eat a lot less compared how people eat today because there are lots of fat people nowadays

All their uniforms were perfectly designed.

I've always loved America... But lately I've forgotten why.

@@jimbo7577 Don't give up the faith, the losers and haters will soon come to an end.

@Kafa kafica There's a severe crack not broken yet we still have the time to fix the crack, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

@@j.kevinmoran9678 Deep respect for your generation... (me: in childhood migrated to NY... from PRC, some years served with DOS in low capacities. during last decade took retirement early, travelled the world, learned German and Russian languages... then understood... it might be a bit late to seriously hold on to that kind of optimism as you just shown. Gives me no pleasure...)

@@j.kevinmoran9678 Thank you for saving us! 🇨🇿♥️🇺🇸

Our men didnt give a shit about "grandeur". They wanted to get back home to their families!

@@robertstotesbury8005 Who said they did? I said I'd like to see it as a historian. Trust me though, I'm sure they were in awe of the military magnitude coming from those small US towns though in the 1940's when they knew about nothing but their neighbors. I was part of the buildup to Desert Storm and I was impressed. And I wanted to just get home too.

@@teleguy5699 I totally agree that kind of military buildup will never happen again. To go back in time and see it all knowing what we know now would be some experience for sure!

I live in that town where the armies met. My uncle saw americans tussians and germans at same time

@@zerofox7347 No doubt!

Well, that means they thought they can escape retribution for what they did in the Soviet Union.

Yeah the history of these units deserves to be known for sure, but the same way should be known the history of their poor Soviet, Czech, Polish, Slovakian, French, Serbian etc victims. Imho even more important and interesting is the role of Sudetengermans, who lived in Czechoslovakia back then. My great grand-auntie was German living in Olomouc (german Olmütz). She spoke fluently German and Czech. A very interesting woman tbh.

@@davidknichal6629 You are right. His role in the war must be remembered. There is a certain mythomania with German units. There is a strange fascination for these units that leads to forgetting the criminal nature of the state they served and of which they were instruments. The equidistance between the Reich and the USSR habitually hides anti-communism; the world would not have been the same with a triumph of the Reich, fortunately the allies won, something impossible if the USSR had not been among them.

@@unhappyallthetime8445 ты лгун приведи документы, которые говорят о готовности СССР к вторжению в Германию. Наверно это СССР подошёл к границам Германии.

@@unhappyallthetime8445 беда у тебя с головой

Initially that was not the case for the Americans. Remember that the war was still going on in the Pacific. There was a real possibility that the Japanese home islands would have needed to be invaded. If that were the case many of the Americans in Europe were going to be shipped back to the US for retraining and then they would have been sent to the Pacific to fight the Japanese. Fortunately the Pacific war ended without an invasion.

@@joevignolor4u949 I forgot what division it was. But a US infantry division arrived so late in Germany. That it was sent back to the US and was being re-trained to fight in the Pacific.

Many of the German soldiers who surrendered to the Americans were initially very happy that that didn't end up in Russian captivity, however, their original euphoria didn't last for long. Large numbers of German POWs were thrown into open air holding pens by the Americans and British, where they starved and died from lack of shelter and medical care. The Americans and British also turned over large numbers of German POWs to the French. The French used them for slave labor. They probably were still luckier than those taken prisoner by the Soviets but it was certainly no picnic to be taken prisoner by the Americans.

@@MrSloika Remember also the fact that the Dutch and French used orphans from the ruins of German cities to clear the minefields in those countries. As a result, thousands of German orphans were killed clearing mines.

I'm curious: could american soldiers feel relief with german bro like on this pictures, if wermacht razed a third of USA like in USSR?

Haha…the music is epic…

I was wondering if that German Officer, thought he was gonna’ keep his field glasses?

The baby that is seen in a moment, he should be alive.

@@gnza2012 Missed out on Eisenhowers order off march 1944.- ''Kill all krauats on the Ground.''

Well duh. A gigantic Armed force doesn't just disappear. Especially a well trained force like the Wehrmacht. In fact they were so solid and organized that they formed the core of the modern German Army (Bundeswehr).

The Germans still looked the part . The field gray and stand up collars, crisp epilettes looked smart . After seeing their earth brown uniforms on color footage the Yanks standing next to the men in filed grey must have thought and come to the conclusion ' Hey we look like the red army in that brown shit ' and changed it to green after the fall out with their red allies und their uncle Joe. The infamous fall out aka Berlin blockade came in 1947 resulting in the cold war lasting 44 years . Some victory eh. A hollow victory. Should have just let the Germans do the biz in the east and not get involved . Now , again we have problem with the barbarian hordes of the east. Nothing has changed. The Russians are still the menace they always were.

Yeah, German soldiers were ready to kiss the feet of Americans. I always say that German soldiers were true cowards.

Me too!!

Вам просто делать некуй

US 87th Infantry Division, apparently.

Gi 4th from right at 3:58 is wearing an Armored Divison patch on his left shoulder.

Not unbelievable, but "Unthinkable". This was a correct name of british warplan against USSR, where british and american troops with their German broters going to fight against Stalin.

I am not a big history buff, but i believe those are the troops that fought in Czechoslovakia. Quick check of German side reveals that among those men were "elite" troops from • Hermann Goering Panzer Corps • Grossdeutschland Panzer Corps Of course list is bigger. I remember hearing somewhere that Grossdeutschland and Herman Goering Panzer Corps were prioritised for supply and were considered "elite". Perhaps that's why they don't look as tore down as other less prioritised divisions who surrendered. Perhaps someone more informed can enlighten this for both of us.

Because these Nazis are certain the USA will forgive them for their war crimes.

Liked your comments, feel the same. Can't help buy think what the Germans faced who surrendered to the Russians looked like.

@@als1023 bad eggs for breakfast.....

These guys are strolling around like everybody’s friends the Germans have all their stuff with them except the weapons and they look pretty fresh, the reality of it all is they really were a professional army, you get the impression that the us gi’s were undisciplined, dangerous lot.

Брат моего деда пройдя войну с Сталинграда получил тяжелое ранение при освобождении Праги вернулся домой и умер в 47 а сейчас в Чехии памятник Коневу ломают.

Sad. God's TRUE angels....

Aha ! you see that too. My friend told me just an hour ago, i can't believe its true

god- how advanced and what year did that there camoflge uniform come out and who were the lucky ones too show itt off. ?????

Не советую повторять.

Tannenbergsthal liegt im Sächsichen Vogtland nicht in Thüringen.

@@mathiaskrause7838 Also sowieso,nicht in Boehmen ?

Tannenergsthal liegt im sächsischen Vogtland. Das ist richtig. Das überrascht mich das Filmaufnahmen aus dieser Zeit auftauchen.

Those continuity things are amazing.

isnt fascinating that germans on video can discuss here?

Please elaborate, we are barely taught anything about the Czech role and adjacent countries before, during and after the war.

it's exactly as you wrote it! (Poland The German Pact "Piłsudski-Hitler" was signed on January 26, 1934). I am Czechoslovak and I know how Britain and France betrayed us and threw us ahead of Hitler. Poland really attacked Czechoslovakia together with Hitler. Even in 1939, after Czechoslovakia was divided into Slovakia and Bohemia, Hungary attacked Slovakia and took over the whole of southern Slovakia! (The Hungarian-Slovak War lasted from April 23 to 4, 1939.)

Correct. Poland annexed the area around Teschen (german name). When you are lying knocked out on the floor, they come for you …..

Rightly or wrongly, “England” was trying to stop a new world war. Now it didn’t work out like that as we all know... Poland’s non aggression pact with the Nazis didn’t work out too well either.

@@marspp Every German pilot shot down in the skies of Spain was one less enemy in the Battle of Britain. The UK government decided that the way to prevent war was by sacrificing Czechoslovakia and Spain. The battle in Spain was lost, but the war was finally won. The misfortune is that Western Europe was liberated by the allies, but Spain, which had been the first to fight, was not liberated.

Poor, poor Germans. How could they do this to them. In similar situation few years back Germans usually gave Poles about 20 min to leave the house or else.

@@robertcudny1839 Czechs were frustrated from persecutions, executions, mass murders (exc. Ležáky village), germanization and potential annihilation. They linched Germans every day and mass executed them (exc. "Kino Bořislavka massacre", where they shoot them and used truck to crush german bodies).

@@23Disciple I'm not supprised.

My great-grandparents had to leave their homeland in the Sudetes in 1946 after having lived there since the 18th century. All the time they lived next door to their Czech neighbors, my grandmother's brother is missing in Russia, he was only 20 years old. She never got over it. It's always the little people who have to make the biggest sacrifices.

​@@Katrin-jj3mg It is sad what happened,Germans lived in Sudetenland for a long time and I think that through centuries,we had pretty good relations,but no matter that they lived there for so long,it was always part of our country,Germans had pretty good life in Czechoslovakia,yet they betrayed us and caused fall of our country.

Amen my brother!

Unfortunately, things are looking like humanity didn't learn the last 2 times.

Actually Wehrmacht had largely a also relied on horses for moving their troops way into the war as did in Poland in 1939.

You mean ''rest IN peace''..

With 4 chords? Hardly.

Behind the Panzers, the German Army was a horse-and-cart affair throughout the war.

@@None-zc5vg One would have thought that most of the German-raised horses were dead, either from battle or overuse, by the end of the war. The German army went through their horses in the first years of the war, especially in the East, and had to resort Soviet draft animals, which were smaller and less capable. In these films by the American military, one rarely sees horses on the road home. I see lots of civilian vehicles. But now that I mention, maybe I am wrong. I will have to go back and review some of the videos on this subject that I have watched in the past.

Hello Anon Anon: Reviewed this video, and see a few horses between the trucks, so I am wrong. Some of these poor critters did survive the war!

@jmpmc100 Thank you for answering my question.

I realize I should have written "notoriously." in the first sentence of my question.

All the vehicles seem in good order, far better than those before Berlin, the men without bandages.....

Opposite of surprise, ppl are amused to see the most stereotypical representation of germans in Action even in abject defeat

So you think, it's all just a matter of luck?

ويبقي وجه ربك

German soldiers have to decide which feet to kiss- Americans or Soviets. What a bunch of cowards.

how awesome of them...sigh...

Both the Wehrmacht and the SS committed atrocities. They molested children, raped women, tortured civilians and killed them.

As an American and am not proud of this film. As a matter of fact it angers me. Why? While American soldiers were so nice with the enemy who were torturing and killing them they were brutal with black American soldiers who shed blood to defend America.

@@mirquellasantos2716 look everyone, it's a little commie posting in here. Hello little commie. Why don't you rescind your citizenship and move to Venezuela with your comrades? Get a move on!

@@mirquellasantos2716 Oh shut up with your race bullshit. You simply know nothing of what you speak.

I note that he wore the Deathhead insignia. I really question those GI's posing with that scum.

When I see these things I always wish that the smiles and handshaking could have taken place without a proceeding war.

They still made them lmao

@@lachlanmclennan2188 so did 2 other companies in Germany there's a big difference in claiming that someone designed them and simply manufactured them.

Thanks for the info. That makes sense.

True, first western "allies" sold us(Czechoslovakia) to Hitler in 1938, than to Stalin in 1945. That said, many ordinary people supported communist government at first, most of them realized it was mistake after 1948, but it was too late already...

and the western europe as american occupied territory

@@janfrosty3392 Better that Russian occupied territory. All the Warsaw Pact joined NATO asap.

There are now monuments and memorials to the American liberation. And often the Russian ones in the E of the Cz lands have been removed.

Конкретно это плёнка оригинальная

@@zamanium7517 ну это само собой. Имеется ввиду что эти оригинальные пленки переводятся в цифру, благодаря чему мы можем их здесь увидеть

@@christmarxxx понял . Спасибо

Да, такую историю, где американцы обнимаются с немцами как с братьями стоит документировать! Прямо встреча на Эльбе!

@@user-td6cp2dg6f ну а ты чего ждал? Демагогию никто не отменял

Supply unit?don't think so. See 0:12 - 0:28

@@rikspring Cavalry, tankers.

@@bertv.374 👍 the guy @ 0:15 is a senior lance corporal of the panzertruppen

@@rikspring Thats what I mean, tankers. black with pink lining. The skull made me think it was cavalry due to the history of the skull. In many armies the tank batallions are still called cavalry.

Genau!! Einfach wunderbar!

Okay!!!!

The end of the Nazi's..das is gut!

@@kenpudsey6435 Natrulich war das ende des NS wichtig und gut...ja, stimmt

@@jjns5600 Well said JJ 👍