German Wehrmacht driving in to surrender near Prague (1945) 

Absolutely

Haunting. Soul shattering.

i get vibe from terminator movie with this music

Eh

I muted the sound because I thought it was extraneoua

If they did not do exactly that, they'd be hunted down like wild animals..

@@SuperIv7 Most of them were probably Conscripts, that hated the war in the first place and being in a POW camp they'd go home eventually, and not end up dead.

No surprise. A 'tour of duty' for German soldiers was the duration. By 1945 most were just plain sick of it. Superlv7 suggests that they were afraid of being hunted down. Not likely. Many Germans just went home without processing.

They were probably so happy not to be prisoners of the Red Army

@@vansnyder9499 That is because they feared that USSR will pay back on what they've done to the USSR people

With the return of Jesus Christ being next year (2022), they won't exist.

the next war will be at south china sea

I see what you are saying but we have only about 60 to 90 years left before we are all gone.

@@mvp2526 true.

All of these men were bad asses. Much respect to all of them..

I think it's originally color footage

Great footage! Notice the RUSSIAN flag patch on the soldier at 1:12 - this is not the Red Army, but the so-called Vlasov army, made up of Soviet POWs who had first been fielded by the Germans to fight against Stalin (who refused to allow assistance to Soviet POWs in the camps), but who later turned against Hitler and fought the Wehrmacht during the last ten months or so of the war. The Vlasov army were viewed as traitors by both Berlin and Moscow, and its men were killed on sight by both, but still managed to play a military role - and they were the ones who liberated much of Prague, before the Red Army had got there. Solzhenitsyn devoted some angry, eloquent pages in "The GULAG Archipelago" to the history of these betrayed and badmouthed Russian soldiers (most of whom later ended up in Siberia).

@@louise_rose I am not sure about vlasov army in this footage... cose this colours are weared by "civilians" - czech milition during uprising... but order of colours are wrong, czechs have red in the middle and blue is downstare... different from russian flag...

@@pieronem9311 The guy I indicated is a soldier, and he's clearly part of the army units "booking" or guarding the German POWs.

@@louise_rose u can see multiple of these flag on "civilians" in the video. They are czechs. I can also recognise uniforms of czech police in a crowd. This flag was one of main sign of the czech uprising. We can see it also on some vehicles withh german soldier.... maybe for passage through the enemy sector. Also lot of czech militionman weared a parts of germans uniforms. I know about vlasov army. Only they helped in Prague and saved the city. After that, they got to the american sector but US army handed them over to the Soviets.

I see the sign stating: furthest American advance.....which means you stay on the other side you're in Russian hands. Not a good idea.

Saludos desde Argentina....increible historia

Ваш дед был солдатом? И не понёс наказание?

Your grandfather killed children in Russia, and ran to the Americans to surrender. The scoundrel.

17 years? That doesnt make sense

lol that is fricken awesome

Yeah better surrender to a future allie fascist trash

@@mentalrevolutiongg2940 ??????????????????

@@charlesfoutch1132 very nice you were lucky, no teachers like that anymore, sad.

@@mentalrevolutiongg2940 OK snowflake.

I am in my 60s. My father fought in the Black Forest of Germany. He was wounded twice. He never romanced war. He had experienced and seen to much. He used to say you better have no options before going to war. He lost many friends and fellow soldiers. We rarely talked about the war.

@@mtadams2009 Interesting! I have been to the Black Forest area to visit a couple times. I love visiting Germany. Yes some of us older people had parents and uncles who fought in the war. My parents were quite young at the time but one of my older uncles fought in WW II and was part of the Dachau liberation. He gave my mother a dagger from a German rifle. I have it now...somewhere.

@@Ellecram That is interesting. Hopefully you can find it. Take care

@@mtadams2009 I will look for it this coming weekend.

A new war is coming dont worry.

Es waren ja auch die Amerikaner, und nicht die Russen, denen sich die Deutschen ergaben!

The German is doing a HH salute no?

@@justsomeguy1141Even still is given as a sign of respect. This is the equivalent of the American salute for the Wehrmacht. The officer is merely showing respect to the American colonel in perhaps the only way he knows how.

​@@justsomeguy1141 The salute is done with the right hand, not left. I think he was just waving normally

Notice the Russian flag patch on the soldier at 1:12 - this is the so-called "Vlasov army", not the Red Army. The Vlasov army did most of the hard work of liberating Prague, before the Red Army had got there.

I hope he was caught by Soviets

What a badass

He could thank God that he wasn't catched by the Czechs!

so he was a nazi?

RESPECT, HE MUST HAVE BEEN "BAD TO THE BONES"!

@Shapiro Shekelberg damn your great grandpa Beta asf

No luck asking around people? Maybe there's a military historian that might know, maybe your grandmother would know?

Non-combatant country? Spanish “Blue Division” fought near Leningrad

@@rossomachin yeah but thouse were volunteers, and there were volunteers on both sides

@@MrPakurfulo it sucks for the spanish people franco didn't join the axis, then they would have been free from fascism in '45... lot's of idiot volunteers from the occupied countries, straight to the eastern front was their destiny, to be mauled by the red army.. what brutal times.. my grandfather was resistance in the west flanders region blowing up trains, after his brother was shot by the germans when the belgian, french and british armies ran for their lives to dunkerque..

How old are you then? 80?

Germans were happy because they knew that by surrendering to the US and British forces, they would be treated “well”…. Quite the opposite had they surrendered to the Russian troops.

@@sandtoy11510 german got a polite treatment - much more than they deserved

@@sandtoy11510 yes they treated the civilians very well when they bombed mainly civilians to death. the main targets in their mindless mass bombings had been children and women.

@@eranboko6431 you have to target the ones that promote wars and benefit from them - its not civilians but some filty politicians and their friends. apart from that it had been mainly children and women who had been killed deliberately in the mindless mass bombings of the british and us army - another war crime. some things never change if you look at more recent wars made up from a bunch of lies in the middle east.

By the this time the Germans had enough as well and were relieved they were able to surrender to Western Allied forces.

I couldn’t imagine! The relief of “It’s finally over” had to have been crazy on both sides. You can tell the Germans were happy to be surrendering to the western pincer and not the eastern one.

@@A_10_PaAng_111 They surrendered because of RED ARMY... not allied forces

@@TsarOfRuss It was a joint effort. No one denies that the USSR suffered the most at the hands of the Nazi's and the fighting was brutal. Lets not forget that the USSR and Germany also conspired together to carve up Poland and that the Soviets were mauled by Finland. Stalin's purges of the officer corps nearly doomed them.

They didn't know that the red army is coming and soon they are going to be abandoned (yet again) by West.

But big confused why german so strong participate in war 1 and 2

@@jerichofiselindo2305 Because France and Britain humiliated a proud people.

It was the last pocket that was organized and relaltively strong...they stood no chance against against their enemies. But still, this vid is very sad...i dont want to know what happened to the girls...

@@starsandnightvision that pride is what destroyed them in the end.

To be fair they've pretty much scrapped the barrel so much that that they went through the bottom and is just straight up digging into the ground at this point.

Prag has german culture. Theater. Writings etc...frieden

@@dagmarvandoren9364, ne. Praha má a vždy měla svou vlastní kulturu. Českou. A toto video vůbec není natočeno blízko Prahy.

@@dagmarvandoren9364 we have our own culture, we are central, not east not west. Wer mix and thats the beauty of it.

That is not all that fast. Maybe 10-15 words per minute. Back in the day (I'm 73 got licensed first about 1965) US radio amateurs had to send and receive 13 wpm for general class ticket, 20 I think for extra class license

Funny too, I thought at first that he was tapping in time with the video's music!

anyone know whats being said lol?

@@fourfortyroadrunner6701 great to hear your response boss!

@@easiesteevee2532 The message read " Hi Honey, I'm on my way home,.... do we need milk? " :) Sorry, I just couldn't resist this!

In broken English-Hindi?

Good one.

Nice

There is just no escaping the bastards!

Curious if anyone could or did

I also noticed that Americans communicate with Nazi soldiers very nicely, like good old friends

Так же будет с рфскими вояками и зеками мобиками

чё там российский флаг делает)

Этот подарок символ внешнего управления как проигравшим наша элитка взяла а мы проглотили...

@@DjonniDi таймкод

@@DjonniDi РОА наверное.

Thousands of them were shipped to Syria and have been used in the civil war there since 2011.

@@megamillionfreak You are correct some German-made weapons were so good they still use them and the Americans copied some of them

I believe the first true assault rifle?

@@ronaldburns7877 AK 47, the most famous, was also based on StG 44.

@@naturbursche5540 ak works komplett different

Well God bless him. He is very blessed not to have spent years after the war in the Gulags.

Volksturm was for older veterans of the war, not teenagers.

@@capoislamort100 that isn't correct. Male Teenagers who could hold a weapon and the veterans too had to join the '' volkssturm'' ask the Wikipedia for more details.

@@detroitandclevelandfan5503 ему очень повезло что его не расстреляли при сдаче в плен Советские солдаты

The younger Germans who were sent to the Russian front were often the most rabid of Nazis.

I think that's an Oberst (Colonel). The shoulder pieces are silver, so he could be a Major/Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel. The colour red means he's an Artillery Officer

its colonel

impressive story, in my opinion your mother is a hero. German red cross is by many very underestimated

she was lucky not to be caught by Russians god knows what would happen then

@@doposud Actually, mass killings of fleeing Germans and Hungarians (few people know about this) were done not by the Russians but by Czech partisans.

зато из Мюнхена в Прагу она ехала ,наверняка, с ветерком

What is the term "Chech" ?

Sadly - they are. Just depends on the - sometimes bad - choices we make.

it wasn't colored?

@@eniff2925 I think the colors are too consistent and match my imagination of what color film looked like at the time, sometimes including discoloration at the edges of the frame. AI colored black and white film is very inconistent and everything has the same muddy flickering between muffled greens and browns. Here you can pick out small details on uniforms and more colorful womens clothing is also present. Color film was somewhat readily available, but was very expensive. People used it more on special occasions, which this seems to be. You dont get to film an army surrender that often, so better put the good stuff in your camera.

@@yoshisaurusrex3767 thats what i meant as well but probably communicated it badly. I thought orginal comment said it was colored afterwards and i meant to say it was originally colored

@@eniff2925 Its alright :) The channel could communicate this a bit better.

Those fools still did think Americans will join them in their battle against Bolshevism I guess

Да, выглядят борзо, особенно сс

They had pride in themselves. Something society has lost

True. Today everyone looks like total trash.

@@megamillionfreak yeah you'll see people at Walmart wearing shorts halfway showing their damn underwear!

Depends on the country/ place.

He was well dressed, but the look into the camera was deep stare of contemplation. it's almost as if history being recorded can't be erased. Regardless if the tape is lost or the book burned. Humanity remembers.

And the women with the Germans

Waffen ss look like fucking kids oldest dudes there seem to be the driver and the man to his right along with the guy in the middle of the back seat.

@@jd-if2fe whores hoping to hide in American zone of occupation too

@@wadimgrig5972 🤣🤣

Anything specific that makes you think the the Germans in the half track were SS? I watched the sequence a number of times and that particular bunch of guys have a different and ice cold vibe than the rest. I think you are right.

A lot of these are restored and upscaled

Because they both know that the real enemy are Russians.

@@internettroll1985 not russians but the soviet union. It was even te biggest enemy of the russians starving them, sending them into war through death threats, sending them to the gulags.

@@internettroll1985 Soviets*

@@jfc6132 - Russians*

@@internettroll1985 Deep in politics US UK didn't really know who do they wat to support Hitler or Stalin. Only when they saw USSR was winning they decided to help in 1944. And it was done for $$$ and gold. Russians stopped paying US in 2007? Even after WW2 Churchill had a plan to attack Russia. Now look at Biden who started a proxi war with Russians using Ukrainians. Shameful merica! Who need enemies if you have friends like this?!

@@user-ye4zn9fe6l Он был убит во время отражения атаки немцев на наблюдательный пункт, откуда он корректировал огонь артиллерии, о чем сказано в его наградном листе на посмертное награждание.

@@user-og7pv7mv3c врят ли...там тогда эти наградные листы клепали пачками, не разбираясь...

I'm sorry to hear that

@@user-ye4zn9fe6l клепали пачками приказы, вели учет. Если узнаешь что такое архив? - так это сделали штабные писари! А не секретутки на печатных машинках, где только отвечали по радио!

@@user-ny3nv2rp9l путин засекретил архивы...В на тушение закона Кстате

So lies then? Germany was raped and tortured in its defeat, something all allied nations should be forever ashamed of. Lots of those soldiers were starved to death in the rhine meadow camps.

@@feolender2938 Yes, my heart bleeds for the poor mistreated Knott Zees.

@@glocen nope because they didn't create it

@@glocen yes, it was totally that simple. Don't tell me, poor ukraine are totally innocent right, putin man bad?

@@feolender2938 ("Sgt.J."). ON THE Other note! 🎵 That's Mr. Les Paul. Not Leo G. Fender. I, Have had the Pleasure of owning some of those very good playing things. I, Suggest Both of you, Read Some College Level books 📚. At a Library. Instead of "ask Jeeves." Internet Crap! I, understand there was a S..t head C.o. that caused a problem with German p.o.w.s. that is a shame. And, A U.S. Captain, Whom had a brother among the dead on telephone poles. And, Trees. Where their parachutes took them. And, Gunned by the S.S. troops. He ordered a an old officer. And, Young draftees to be Executed. To include pointing his 45 @ the Soldiers that refused to Shoot those ppl. What little i, read here... Makes you 2 look and, act like Dorks. No probs with the Major. But, Frightening the p.o.w.s for a joke was kinda cold. I, may have teased a few myself? There's a couple of Former C.O.s I, Would've rather beat em with an Entrenching tool ("one of those old green ones. Not the Smaller black ones.")Than go to war with those A.. Holes. I'm thankful that someone took the time. And, Evan endangered themselves to document 📄📃, 📷 📸 🖼️💽💿🎥🎙️ History. When I, younger. Had the same rants. Chill. It's over. Is it not some of our responsibility to make sure Dumbs..t don't happen again? Some friends are now passed that told me of eating black cheese, Fricken cold. A German officer asking his driver. And, A Jr. Officer "Vas is Nuts?" A short time later. The battle was back on. And, 2 old guys at the V.A. Hospital. "What are those badges guys?" Stalag #14. And, 17 Survivors. So... I, Was not there. You most likely were not there. And, I'm not ashamed I, made Good $$ playing music in Bars, Clubs, V.f.w s. And, an American legion post. Just No more Pvt. Parties. Only did few. Ain't doing none if those. Hmm... Continue to rant? Naw... It may have been nice if "Churchhill." Woulda let the brit cost guard/ Navy warn the Lusitania, That a German Submarine was near by.

Так советские войска уже идут и гонят фашистов, они все понимают и погибать не хотят. Вот и радуются что их отправляют на укрепление других рубежей. Уезжают довольные с девками, думая что наши до Берлина не дойдут. Знали бы, Дума б что улыбок было бы меньше.

живы остались вот и радуются и в плен к советским войскам не попали

Вот это улыбается возродили это войну с Украиной

@@Voldemar112 бухой? Иди проспись

@@user-lv9dx8ek8i Когда уже вы, россияне, проспитесь? Походу, никогда.

That is sooo true

@@Knjaz-opium Не обожествляйте наших дедов. Милосердие дальше детей и женщин, не распространялось. Наши деды были очень злы, и они жаждали мести, и они выпустили в себе зверя, чтобы победить фашистского зверя. Это война. Это кровь. Это грязь. Это месть. Иначе никак.

@@max-lz6rl I remember how in the early 90s your glorious Soviet army was chased away from the collapsing GDR (German Democratic Republic). At night, your soldiers and families had to climb into unlit trains at Schwerin's main train station and run away. Under derisive singing of the East Germans. Я помню, как в начале 90-х годов вашу славную советскую армию прогнали из разваливающейся ГДР (Германской Демократической Республики). Ночью вашим солдатам и семьям приходилось забираться в неосвещенные поезда на главном вокзале Шверина и убегать. Под насмешливое скандирование восточных немцев. Sorry for the translation.

@@Knjaz-opium I beg to differ. Sure, maybe the soldiers would have treated them nice but what after? They were all sent to Siberia as prisoners. Bad prospect I'd say. Also, the Ostgebiete were lost and without any transportation that would accept German war personnel except for other Wehrmacht units🤷🏻‍♀️

@20 ВЕК So what? Nevertheless, you are for example not able to build a reasonable car. "Lada Maschin" hahaha. If you wouldn't steal so many cars in Germany, you would all have to walk. You can't even tie your own shoes.

God bless your dad. Glad he’s still here

Respect.

And if your Dad had known he was going to live this long he would've taken more care of himself. Lol. Respects to you and of course your dear old Dad.

My regards to your father wounded in the city of our celebrated corsair, the great Robert Surcouf. All the best from St Germain en Laye, the native city of the ancient kings of France.

Not many left now. My grandfather, a regular, fought quite a famous (at the time) rear guard action at Dunkirk (at which the first VC of WWII was awarded), fought his way across France in 1944 and was shot dead by a Hungarian sniper in April '45.

Thanks to you I was able to find it on Google Maps.

Why aren't you allowed to post the link to the map? @janmachala5297

@@underlordd I don't know. Since the video came out, I tried to post links to different online maps in the comments, but not one appeared here.

Yeah, it took a little away from the feel of the video. When he first tried to kiss her and she pulled away he should have stopped right there. He looked a bit like a degenerate.

Imagine what would have happened after the cameras were taken away. Probably, even the camera is not able to show us the true face of war.

@@mtungare In France (and of course Germany) some thousand women got raped by GI's. It is not comparable with the amout in the east but happened also.

she probably got worse when the russians took over Prague.

@@neinnein9306 Raped almost entirely by Russian soldiers!

He was probably sending morse to Snoopy! 😄

Yeah this generation would look at that thing like: WTF???

Lmao

Looks like part of a music video

@@scottburns2600 They would probably think it was some primitive Wi-Fi device.

Only the americans, the british were still seen as unreliable, one time they returned a whole population of cossack refugees back to the soviets

It depends, sometimes they would give them up to the Soviets but only those who fought on the Eastern Front I believe.

@@yibithehispanic cossacks refugees or Cossacks soldiers fighting for the Axis ?!

@@HoboTango Both, yes.

@@UhtredOfBamburgh They were not soviet soldiers and if I remember well kozak is just the ethnic name of the cossacks, there's not a lot of difference.

They are glad that they surrendered to the Americans ... the Soviets would probably have shot them ... and sent the rest to Siberia.

@@VIS35 totally agree, many remnants of wehrmacht grateful they're in western front and surrender to allied than being in eastern front and surrender to ussr because they're all gonna die in gulag.

not on the cart full of dead soldiers.

They're just glad the Red Army didn't get them.

Some of the are Soviet collaborationist (with 3 color flags). And they are definitely happy (for a while) to surrender to the US.

Капиталы важнее всего!

Есть войны из за таких как они !

It’s a fallen world. man won’t learn till the King returns

УрокбылпреподанСССР, нофашистскаяэлитаоткупиласьивзрастилановуюгидру, котораяпородилаещебольшененавистиклюдям, ониопятьсчитают, что в праве решать, комужитьнаэтомсвете! Этобитваприведеткихокончательнойгибели. Иначе быть не должно!!!!!!!!!

Sim. 😢

in wwII my grandfather was a postal clerk at camp McCoy Wisconsin,, so .

You know who was yours.

I had to turn my PC audio off, I hated the "music" so much.

Music? It was more like the sounds you hear at the spook house in an amusement park.

I think they were just only too happy to get food & shelter...... their nerves were likely shot to hell tho.... despite this it's quite possible some of the younger ones here are still alive !

Some never wanted to be there in the first place and likely assumed they were dead men walking. They had just been given the gift of life. Let that perspective sink in. Not everyone in WW2 Germany was a fanatical knot-z (thanks algorithms) some just liked their country or town, some were drafted and didn't have a choice. That's the thing about wars. Usually the people that cause wars are the A-holes and those who suffer the most are regular people who would be equally served having a beer together and shooting the bull together instead of trying to kill each other because their leaders told them to do so.

Relieved to escape the wrath of the Russians

Relieved to not be going to Russia.

But the German officer uses his left arm to do the Nazi salute ..........although it seems that his right arm is invalid

He should have shot the German officer on the spot.

with the left arm, is not the nazi salute...

@@halukkilic3171 : Yep 👍

You did notice though, that he merely lifted his left hand and arm, and very casual. Not sure this was meant as a salute...

Seems like an Oberleutnant in the luftwaffe

Yeah thats what i thought too, nazi commanders taking orders from us soldiers

these are ROA - russian liberation army. ofc they cant surrender to ussr

@@noname-sz4br roa pow get later on handed over URSS due to agrements, most of them didnt survive the gulags

Yeah, no wonder. After the atrocities commited by the nazis and tens of milions of dead on the soviet side, i wouldn't have expected for them to be treated nicely by the red army.

Millions of Germans would die to American Rhineland deathcamps. More German soldiers died after WW2 than during. Americans really have no place telling Germans how "evil" they are for anything even if the atrocity propaganda was real.

@@Tonyx.yt. I hope so.

That dumbass doughboy thought he was going to get a big smackeroo and she shut that shit down hard.

I have no repect for her what was she doing up there?

Tell us more

Только вот американский солдат пришёл уже тогда, когда советский освободил эту землю от нацистов

@@Dmitry_Avtorskie_pesni_cavers Я согласен. Красная Армия сражалась сильнее всех.

@@jamesrobertson2712 and America didn't even have to get involved the war. Have fun fighting a war without trucks, you used them against us in the following conflicts. Scumbags.

@@Dmitry_Avtorskie_pesni_cavers я думаю вы согласитесь, что не стоит принижать заслуги солдат альянса в этой войне. Согласен, с тем, что советский союз понёс больше потерь в человеческих жизнях, чем другие страны участники этой войны, но это в том числе и из за бездарного военного руководства союза, которые не щадили и не ценили человеческих жизней, просто закидывали трупами. И стоит помнить, про ленд-лиз от США, по которому поставлялось продовольствие: военные паровозы, самолёты, танки, военный транспорт, боеприпасы, медикаменты, еда и прочее. Это серьёзный вклад. Кстати ссср так и не расплатился за этот ленд-лиз с сша...

i can't even imagine the migration of so many people , Germans fleeing from Russians trying to surrender to Americans , Americans going east and Russia going west Germans infront of them running for their lifes becose out of every 100 German soldiers captured at eastern front 3 survived

@@doposud do you feel sorry for the Germans? If yes, then you are a completely sick person. 27 million Soviet people died, are you out of your mind?

Who was that?

@@Pioneer_DE Czech German, leader of pro nazi political party before war in Czechoslovakia, he was part of SS during war and he was on high political position during Protectorate, he was responsible for war crimes and murders, he was executed in 1946.

@@Pioneer_DE Sudeten German, SS-Obergruppenführer and basically number 2 in the Protectorate. Even before the war, he was a radical and during the war, many warcrimes were done by his order. He was a very hated person, even other German commanders disliked him, but Himmler liked him. He managed to surrender to Americans, but was later on given to Czechoslovaks and executed in public hanging. People who were invited to watch him die were the relatives of Czechoslovaks killed by his orders.

Jsem si říkal, že to asi nebude Praha 🙂

Yeah i was like "near Prague"? Western-allies weren't (sadly) allowed anywhere close to Prague "near Pilsen" would probably fit better. But I guess on the US scale (and compared to the whole Europe and overall span of 3rd reich it could pass as "near"). I just feel like then the whole fact that they kept fighting on the eastern front just so that they could surrender to the west.

You might be right, although the plate at 0:27 shows "Prague" but that might be just the way they called the region. How do you know this place is Holoubkov? Can we verify that somehow? Thanks.

@@chronoshistory This video is notorious. Official US Army film from demarcation line. I know the places myself.

@@chronoshistory yep 100% that’s it in the link there.

@@Nonminusultra1 Yes, it's around Holoubkov direction Plzen there is also a separate page on Facebook about events, otherwise there was also a mysterious and beaten woman.

0:43- 3:52 it is in Rokycany, near the city slaughterhouse, where Karl Hermann Frank was detained

Знать бы как все обернется, этих немцев да вместе с "союзничками" в один лагерь, до полного осознания так сказать ...

They're Vlasotsy, google it up Vlasov and Russian Liberation Army

Это предатели власовцы. Русские, которые воевали за фашистов под предводительством Власова. Их стали привлекать, когда уже совсем немцам туго стало на фронте.

Absolutely correct. We happen to be living amongst a collective group of imbeciles.

@@chop3625 I rather live among said imbeciles than among those folks in the video.

@@chop3625 good time create stupid man. Stupid man create hard time. Hard time create good man. Good man create good times. Good times create stupid man. Repeat.

@@charles5895 this has no sense.

@@chop3625 funny, I bet you see yourself as something above all other people.

Revolution - Antoine Marsaud

If it was a Hitler salute which is disputed by many here it had become the standard German forces salute months before and the OberLeutnant didn't mean anything more than delivering a normal military greeting. He would not have been provocative giving it.

I want those sunglasses

ROA evacuating from Prague where they were helping insurgents for two days.

ROA and RONA criminals, some of the worst rapists and necrophiles and pedophiles of all nazis. The ROA are also seen earlier in the video.

ROA criminals from Warsaw uprising

RONA corectly part of ROA

@@aleksspy more precisely some individuals from RONA joined ROA later on. In any case, ROA and RONA were differen organusations

Same for me, dude. I remember first hearing about the war in school as a wee lad and 30 years later am stilled as baffled about the incredibly bizarre policy and conformity that brought the war to reality. These days, my head-canon just accepts the events as a mass blood sacrifice to the blood gods by the occult elites.

It all starts with nationalism and 1 meglomaniac. I can think of a few of those right now...

@@lakecityransom not just Nationalism, Communism and Religion too! Both have killed far more than Nationalism. To be honest its all the same just a different name. Two groups of people brainwashed to attack each other!

@@David-bc4rh не только. война помогла США стать самой богатой и могущественной страной на планете. эта война была нужна элите США. как и сейчас нужна война, которая снова разрушит европу, иначе США провалятся в финансовую пропасть.

@@lakecityransom Biden?

Very interesting story. Could you provide/remember the name of the pilot? Thanks.

@@Nazco Can't remember the name of the pilot. But his grandson's family name was Liptak.

That's amazing. I wonder if he knew that Stuka ace (can't think of his name right now) who had a very similar experience of the war.

@@gratefulguy4130 I'm fairly hazy on the details of Liptak's flight history in the war. I remember that he had a couple of extended breaks from flying due to injury and, once, because he was in hiding behind enemy lines. Unfortunately I was fairly young when my friend inherited the ring (he was a school friend), so didn't ask the questions that I would today.

Was he an ethnic German hungarian national?

"from a family which suffered a lot from germans" How do Poles see the Soviets? Stalin invaded Poland *with* Hitler in 1939, but of course only Hitler was said to have "started WWII," while Stalin was actually rewarded for having done it, by later being allowed to keep his apparently rightful share. I'm not seeing a good side in this war... and usually there isn't a good side in any war.

I was raised by my polish mother and my polish grandfather who fought in the second war. Communist Russian soldiers massacred over 27000 innocent Polish people in katyn Forest no war crimes ever charged against Russia. Then when the second war was over America Britain France and all its allies betrayed Poland let communist Russia occupy their country from 1945 till 1989. No other country suffered more in the second War then Poland. invaded by two countries and betrayed. And still never broke the Polish people because Poland only kneels to God.

@@Christmas-dg5xc although you do seem to be making excuses for the Nazi's with your whataboutism. Maybe the OP's relatives were in the German sector throughout the war, and from 1941 it was all in Nazi's hands. Think before you post

@@Christmas-dg5xc Well, we see him same as hitler - bloody dictator which violated whole country. In Poland three most common opinions is: both bad, germans worse; both bad, soviets worse; both; both bad, hard to point whoever was worse as both done horrible things. I'm rather with the third opinion. They've killed less of us, but done their best to break spirit. Judging by how many young poles still think communism is viable way for humanity, they've had some (grim) success.

@@geoffmaloney2717 It's the other way around. Just about everyone else is making excuses for the other 92% of the problem, if they even bother to be aware of it (Hitler's 21 million genocides were 8% of all genocide deaths during the 20th century, and his Holocaust accounted for about 2%) - because "at least they weren't Hitler." www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM But I guess nobody wants to believe that every human life has equal value.

Наверное потому, что ваша страна вам промывает мозги, особенно по поводу своей истории

Seek “lost German girl” for more colour footage.

Странные символы у РФ: этот триколор и Z с неоднозначной историей

@@dlr759 Так это торговый флаг

Рашист иди на х

@@dlr759 *если какой-то предатель нацепил себе российский триколор, это не значит, что история неоднозначна. В СССР с ним бы и тогда и сейчас поступили бы очень конкретно - суд, приговор, виселица.*

@@dlr759 Z это старославянская буква «Земля» ничего странного

eh comunication ?

Absolutely. The irony is, Hitler viewed the war as a means to safeguard European ‘culture’ (in so far as he saw it). But the war was the most single destructive event, culturally and otherwise in European history. Tragic, every aspect of it.

Finally an intelligent and educated comment. Maybe one day the truth about WW2 will be told and the illogical propagandistic game will end. Respect to that sacrificed generation and its idealistic dreams.

Ultimately this war was a mass-psychosis that did vast damage to the European races and their magnificent culture and heritage.

Well, it was only useless from the point of view of the Germans trying to steal everything and kill everybody. from the point of view of everybody else, just trying to defend themselves, it was well worth fighting.

@@odysseusrex5908 Why the hell stupidity doesn’t hurt?

Так война уже закончилась

What is VE

@@EZEQUIELMACHIWl Victory in Europe

Мой отец тоже был призван в 1944 в 17 лет. На фронт не отправили. Тоже не был признан ветераном ВОВ, но юбилейные медали в 1965 и в 1975 получа. И один раз торшер в подарок от военкомата. А вот дед - погиб в ноябре 43 в Беларуси, оставив в деревне на Вятке вдову с двумя детьми. Ни медалей ни торшера , только отчество Ивановна у мамы.

Тогда по глупости всё запутали. Всегда солдаты, воевавшие на фронте, во всем мире имели статус ветеранов. А в Российской Федерации фронтовиков лишили статуса ветеранов, дав им статус "участников". А гражданские стали официально именоваться ветеранами. С военнослужащими тыла все ещё сложнее.