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I grew up after the war near Berlin and I still remember the rubble and misery we endured. My father never came home but died in Russian captivity. My Mother lost both her brothers in France. May we never see another war like what we experienced ever again!
Very sorry you had to endure that. My mom was a kid in Austria after the war. A liitle better luck for soldiers in Russia. They were sent back in 1960's.
My parents grew up in WW2, they were traumatized. Now I'm an adult myself and I understand why they couldn't show my brother and me their love. The war took away the ability to show kindness and love. My grandparents didn't show it to my parents, my parents didn't show us ... I suffered so much, my parents suffered, their prents suffered ... And I hope my son won't suffer too. All my love I give to him. The best I can. When war is over it takes generations and generation until also the mental health recovers.
I am so pleased that you have broken the chains that imprisoned your family to show love and kindness. This is the only way. My best wishes for you and your son!
Your parents sound like a couple of assholes. My grandfather served on the beaches in Normandy and my grandmother was an immigrant from Poland. Her entire family was wiped out and she met my grandfather who was a GI before we began initial withdrawal. They were both excellent people who showed all of their children love. My father and his siblings had a poor but happy childhood and gave us something slightly better but similar. There was trauma and they were definitely traumatize considering the only spoke of the war once or twice and when they did it was shocking. However, once they got back home they did their responsibility to their family and their children. I feel like your parents let you down and I'm sorry for that. God bless you. For some trauma can make us and for others it breaks us. 🤷
I am born 1953 , living in the countryside, and I remember well the destroyed cities like Hannover which scared me a lot. Still in 1966 in Münster rest of ruins were to be seen. In 1968 I worked during the holidays in a British military hospital as a civil worker, just 14 years old. The major nurse bullied us Germans always " bloody Germans" . I did not take it and complained about at my German boss. He laughed at me and told me to take it. I did not think so. So I went to the British colonel whose office area we Germans were not allowed to enter. But the colonel invited me in his office, curious what this young girl had to say . I told him in my little school English and he reacted nicely. He asked me for my father, wanted to know what he did during war. I told him proudly that none in my family has been a Nazi , my mother was not even in BDM and my father not in Hitlerjugend. But he was a parachute , fought in Crete and Monte Cassino. The Colonel smiled and said " brave man, brave daughter" . The major nurse had to apologize and to stop this mobbing. A very fair treatment by the British colonel I will never forget ! My father was very proud of me !
My dad was 16 or 17 when the war ended. His parents were killed because of the Nazis but I don't know the exact circumstances. His parents were originally from Hungary. As soon as he turned 18 he migrated to Australia to work on the Railways in Victoria. He met my mother and they got married. Then in 1975, they adopted me. They both Died in 2009. Mum in January, dad, the following December. Dad, being an orphan was temporarily placed in Hitler's youth, fortunately, it was in a Rural area where he never had to fight. Apparently, towards the end of the War, they made even kids fight. I could never imagine my dad with a gun. Even though I grew up to be involved with guns, dad was very much a pacifist. Being a german in WW2 was just no good for him, he could not wait to leave. I think because of his country of Origin he made an extra s[ecial effort to be kind to everyone. He was a very kind man.
Thank you for commenting on this. It is from people who actually lived through things that will teach everyone about what war does. All of the little things, the complexities, but also the simple truths.
Hungary always had been a close ally of Austria for decades joining the "fight against Bolshevism" very early and sending troops to former USSR to fight Stalin. This happened at a time, when US Governments supported Stalin in order to expand his realm. Anyway, they learned afterwards... Back to the situation in Hungary in the 1930s and early 1940s. Quite a Lot of Hungarians joined persecution and prosecution against "Jewish partisans and terrorists", killing hundreds of thousands of people, including children. Either this happened directly on site in the towns and villages as "porgroms", i.e. in a very brutal way that shocked even Eichmann (who actually complained to Himmler about the extreme violence and asked for advice in how to handle a mob slaying children in the streets...), or by deporting persons to concentration camps. Why such escalation, why such hatte crimes? Background had been "Treaty of St. Germain", a system of repression, economic damage and land loss imposed on Hungary by the allies of World War 1, quite close to the stipulations of "Treaty of Versailles", but even worse. A lot of Hungarians considered Jewish elites in Western countries to have created and organized all trouble they experienced after World War 1. By the way: In Hungary, German troops did not fight until end of 1944, and never fought against Hungarians and did not commit any athrocities against Hungarians. In fact, Wehrmacht soldiers had been helping Hungarians to defend country's population against the Stalin's "Red Army". that had been raping, slaying and looting everywhere in Eastern Europe as the Western allies did their best to support Stalin until 1947... Sad but true.
Yes, at the end of the war, they recruited old men and youngsters in to the "Volkssturm", meaning people's storm. The Hitlerjugend (Hitler's youth) was not a military organization, but educational, i.e. for brainwashing them.
My mom was 18 when the war ended. My father fought in the Heer Wermacht. Was wounded. They emigrated to the US in 1950. I was born a years later in America. Volunteered for Vietnam in ‘68, infantry. My Dad died when I was 8, so I don’t really remember him. My mom still alive just celebrated her 94th sharp as a tack. I’m torn when I watch these videos as I can see it from both sides, and after years of listening to my moms stories, understand how things got like they did. It’s times like now, when everyone is so divided that give opportunity to the rise of people who start all these problems. Then after so many deaths, countries unite and we sit back and ask what the hell was it all about. War solves nothing, all it does is destroy lives
@Piotrekw19 Poles and their endless victim trip. The war is over since 77 years, move on. Especially after occupying czechoslovakia one day after the munich treaty. You can try to whitewash your history but other than poles noone believes it
I once worked with a former US Army cargo pilot who spent about a year after the war flying supplies into Germany (mainly Berlin) for civilians. He and other pilots experienced children rushing into the airfields and begging. They started loading up and distributing specific things being asked for, especially food items.
My wife's Dad was a German soldier in WWII. He was captured by the Russians and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. At the end of the war when he came home and he knocked on the door his Mom didn't recognize him because he lost so much weight. After the war he worked for the Americans in intelligence. She said that he would come home with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist many times. He never talked much about those times.
And the Germans "rescued" thousands and thousands of N@z1s and gave them clearance to work for the US government. Disgusting. No wonder the Russians hated the West during the Cold War.
@@swagkachu3784U do realise the guy could have been a Nazi. Heck he probably killed allied soldiers. So he got what he deserved in my book nothing to be sorry for.
A German friend of mine who was only 8 years old when Berlin fell told me that to survive they had to catch rates, mice and anything and eat them or otherwise they would have starved and that went on for several months. After this he eventually became one of the late Kofi Annan's right hand men in the UN and never forgot his roots and what humanity really is, bad and good.
Thanks to all those posting here of their experience of the effects of world war II. It is a generation that witnessed the culmination of terrible destruction to a rebuilding of prosperity. May the world never forget the lessons learned from this tragedy.
here we are now on the very edge of war with Russia as i write this. All because of our corrupt Washington DC. may God help us and may God give the Russian military pause and discernment.
The UK declared war against Germany for invading Poland, but then didn't say a word when the USSR invaded from the east. If the whole war was over Poland, then why was the UK satisfied to see Poland occupied by the USSR when it was over?
the USSR declared war against Germany because you Germans invaded them. they won't stop at Poland unless they beat the shit out of your brain! What Britain could say about that? get themself beaten by the USSR too??
because even though the soviets couldn't capture great Britain by land, they might be able to starve them out, they weren't going to risk a war against Germany and USSR
no, ritko. The USSR invaded poland as part of the Molotov Ribbentrop treaty in September 1939, so with the germany invasion still going on. That is what Schlomo meant, not the "reinvasion" of Poland in 44 and 45. Btw here is the answer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Polish_military_alliance there was a secret protocol "for mutual assistance in case of military invasion from Germany"
Good question. The answer lay with the wording of Britain's treaty with Poland --- UK response upon an attack by Germany against Poland. From a practical viewpoint, UK had it's hands full with a German war; a simultaneous war against the Soviet Union would have not been winnable. It's of interest to note that in both world wars Germany never had any designs on the UK; it was the UK which declared war on Germany both times. Treaties lead to WWI involvement, but the UK was the only initial combatant which entered that war for no other reason than to see what it could grab for itself. The same is true for WWII. All wars have a political cause.
My grandfather being Polish was a victim of child mandatory labour program and was brought to Germany during II world war to work on a farm. Despite being departed from the family he never spoke badly about German families he lived with. He said he was treated decently, was not beated or abused. When I kept asking him about other war stories he usually become quiet. Later I learnt from my parents that many people from his village were killed including kids at his age. It must have been a devastating experience for him. Watching this movie I see it could not be any different for the Germans at that time. It is now our generation's obligation to avoid war in Europe at all costs, so that our children learn about atrocities of war from books and not from the family stories.
Today, Germany is waging a hybrid war against Poland as part of the Fourth European German Reich ! For several dozen years they have been ensuring that the Polish Noah will grow in strength They finance Putin and send helmets to Ukraine Ty Polaku od siedmiu boleści !
Вы берете у нас в Сибири нефть и газ, и устраиваете войны с колониальной администрацией. А отдавать новые технологии не собираетесь. Это справедливо? ?????....
I knew an English coal scientist who went to Germany in June 1945, the first thing he had to do was to stop fires in underground mines. The German miners had all been dragged into the Wehrmacht over the last several months and the coal in the neglected mines had spontaneously combusted. There were also coal stockpiles on fire from the same cause, nothing much could be done about those as nobody could get near them and water would have actually made things worse.
It's truly amazing how the German people rebuilt their country so fabulously and quickly. They didn't mope around feeling sorry for themselves like other defeated people often do.
My first RAF Medical Branch posting was to RAF-Hospital Wegberg-1956-1959. During my free time, I traveled a large part of Germany and adjacent countries on a motorcycle. What impressed me was the friendliness of the local population, and just how quickly they had rebuilt so many of their cities. I would go back to that time in a heartbeat if time travel was possible. I am currently a small part of an historical record being compiled by a German historian at the University of Paderborn. The many photographs I took of the hospital etc. which is a thumbnail sketch of my time in Germany, have found a useful home in at least two museums / displays related to the various forces stationed in Germany during those years. Project British Forces in Germany. A Yorkshireman living down under in Tasmania the past 50 odd years. 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘
I am an American. My father too served in Europe. He stayed on after war's end due to point system. Later returning to the states he continued to send packages back, even after him & Mom were married. These were sent to some older folks he met while billed in a small town. He always remarked on the kids licking garbage cans from Army mess halls, how skinny the kids were. The utter destruction of everything & ultimately the futile nature of war.
Was it futile? Fascism in Europe was destroyed. Dictators were killed or went silent for a time. Putin is now rebirthing, fascism & “Nation Building”. Extremists in the US should watch closely.
@@TurdFergusen Die Regierung hat es mit allen Mitteln durchgesetzt und wer nicht mitgemacht, oder dagegen war wurde erschossen, oder erhängt. So war das im zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland. Die die man bei den großen öffentlichen Reden der Nazis sah, war nicht die Mehrheit des Volkes, die Mehrheit war dagegen. Schauen Sie sich mal eine neutral Berichterstattung darüber an, dann können Sie vielleicht mitreden ohne Lügen von anderen nachzuplappern.
My mother worked in London during the blitz as a nurse. She recalls dancing in the subway during bombing raids including hearing V2 s coming over. There was a sense of lets live for today, who knows what tomorrow brings. She later went to work in NYC and then NZ. She was very proud of her profession and I always admired her resilient approach to life.
My grandma was a nurse in Coventry during the bombings and was buried alive for a 2 days. She later served the Royal Navy in North Africa, I was always engulfed in her stories. She always preached to me to have a skill or a career to fall back on to be able to support yourself & your children. She was proud to be a nurse and it supported her to raise 2 girls alone. She didn't retire until her 70's and was still considered 'Doc' at our church up until she passed in her 90's.
She didn’t hear V2s. They were rockets travelling at more than the speed of sound. She heard V1s. I’m old enough to remember V1s. Saw and heard several. Luckily only one landed near us.
@@oldman1734 I don't think V2 rockets were even seen over London. However, the sonic boom from the V2 was heard after the rocket exploded but nobody understood what the second boom was. Furthermore, citizens of London were told at first the V2 detonations were cooking gas explosions. (Didn't want to terrify the locals... nevermind they had survived 5 years of the blitz and about a thousand V1's.)
My father was in Germany near the end of WW2 until April 1946. He was in the Army Airforce. The early occupation troops would use German houses for housing. My father respected the German people and tried to keep his fellow soldiers from trashing the house where they were living. My family visited Germany in 1967 and visited the people who lived in the house where my father stayed . They remembered my father and served us refreshments. We exchanged Christmas cards with them for several years.
My Father fought in the war, my mother was a German war bride, this clip brings tears, we all must remember this war, and never let our leaders do a thing like this again.
My guy, our leader is Everyone in the population, not the president or wtv if the population stock together they are the leader. I've never seen 1 leader in any animal groupd in this planet have so much control over others,
After 7 years. Right now, Germany is supplying weapons to some Ukrainian guys using some Nazi slogans, and glorifying Bandera who served in the Third Reich, so that they would kill Russians. What about repetition?
I spent 2 years in Germany 1955 to 1957 Cdn Army as part of British Army on the Rhine, or Occupation Force British sector. The Germans at that time had started the rebuild and were getting on with life by then. Still signs of war damage all over the place but very little animosity left and mostly the German people were looking to the future. Some of the younger ones still were not sure what the war was all about or why Hitler had started it but most were very happy it was over.
past 80 and still march to the tune when its played, mind yo I am in a power chair now as they have removed a hip. this only slows me down to the speed of the chair. Still have fond memories to keep the brain ticking over. Still inntouch with all my friends from thise days. Yes we are all still around.
thanks for doing your part, Canadians are revered for their bravery and ruggedness because of people like you. sorry for all your troubles though, i'm sure it wasn't any fun.
My mother-in-law was a teenager in a small town in Austria in those days. As the war was coming to a close the family prayed that the Americans would get to them before the Russians. The Americans did and, my mother-in-law's home being larger than most, they took it over as their local headquarters. She told me they were very nice and well-behaved.
My mother was a nurse, and she became acquainted with a lady from Germany, who had become a doctor, and told her how bad it was during and after the war. At one point she had to make a skirt out of a swastika flag, as she had no other cloth available. Here in the US my grandfather's brothers, who were farmers, had German POW's sent out to work for them(in Kansas) as they could speak German. Their own father had been an immigrant from Germany when he was 16, stowing away so he wouldn't be drafted when Bismarck was busy unifying the German states.
In the late 60s I met Germans who immigrated to the US as children after WWII. Their father was a Nazi soldier. His children would claim they were from Lithuania. Other German post war immigrants in the town would tell their neighbors they were Dutch.
My mother was born 1938 in Danzig. She lost her mother during the war and was separated from her father and siblings. Two of her brothers served in Wehrmacht. One did not return. As the Soviets advanced, she became a refugee and headed west with another family from Danzig. They settled in a small German town near the Czech border. My mother's father reemerged in 1950 in Leipzig with a new wife and the surviving siblings. My mother went to live with him briefly and did not want to stay, so she returned to the couple that took care of her. They were known to me as Oma and Opa. My mother eventually got a job on an American base as a translator in Nuremburg where she met an American GI, my father. She would return home with my father and start a family. She never recovered from the War and suffered from horrible memories and anxiety throughout her life. I think today we would classify it as PTSD. She is gone now, but I'm in touch with my family members back in Germany and my cousins there say the same thing. Their parents, similar age as my mother at the end of the war were very distant. They did not want to be close to many people and were often distant with their own children. I wonder if it had something to do with loss and not wanting to get close to anyone for fear of losing them. The one thing I take away from this terrible event in human history is that my parents, both born before the war from waring countries who had parents that were at war with each other had children together. There's hope!
So many posters go on about this generation being less strong minded than that of the time of WW11. But it's an illusion. The same mental traumas happened to people then as now. Dig into family histories and the people who came back from war and/or regugeehood often carried mental scars as severe as any.
@@carelgoodheir692 I'm sorry but the mental tramas of "this generation" pales in comparison to what the WWII generation experienced. That's why they're called the "GREATEST GENERATION". ‘Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.’ G. Michael Hopf
I can't imagine how people felt after going through a war. For the first two months of this recent war in Ukraine, I was wrapped up in the news so much it interfered with my daily life. It was traumatizing to see the constant dehumanization that seemed to get worse and worse. After years of living through a war, I imagine I would never look anyone in the eyes again, disgusted by the species and the feeling that individuals are powerless, lost in waves of destruction and survival.
My Dad fought in WW2 like a lot of people fathers did of my age - My friends & I used to listen about his stories - Sometimes his stories would reveal the horrors of what men can do to each other-As well as themen with integrity - As I have got older and wiser (some might question that) - And replayed his stories over in my memory - I have my views on my Dad - But as a young man who when was conscripted to fight Germany had already resigned himself to being killed over their at 18 year old ! - But after being demobed at 23 years old at the end of WW2 -And seeing the the hardship of the peoples - He signed up for the control commision - In a bid to help rebuild all of Europe including Germany - And I think it was his way to make amends for all that he had done in the name of King & Country ! - He had a passport signed by Bevin that allowed him to cross any of the zones in Germany - British of course American & Russian Zones To me actions speak louder than words ! - And I am proud of my Dad for the way he thought about what he was made to do and what he did when the powers that be released their grip on him !
My Dad never spoke a word of it although he had a treasure trove of war souvenirs. We only learned about the horror of the concentration camps from letters from a fellow soldier after he died.
My father was sent to Nuremberg in1945 as an Army Corp of Engineers from America.The war was over, he was there to help heal the wounds. He told me to be proud of our heritage and I hope for the best for Gremany forever. Bless you all.
My 1st wifes father was in Germany at the end of the war,a british Soldier,he had been seconded to a US officer as an interpreter.He said it was bad enough seeing places like Dresden but what made him a pacifist was being one of the 1st soldiers to discover Belsen.
The replies to this video are remarkable in and of themselves. I hope the owner of this channel can document them to preserve them along with the archive footage shown.
And here in South Africa we've had 26 years of post apartheid democracy led by the ANC and the country is moving towards collapse through gross incompetence and wide scale corruption.
I met a man at Oktoberfest who had been a US POW. He sought my friends and I out pegging us for US GIs. What he told me brought tears to my eyes. He told me that he was sent to a camp in Tennessee, and that the POWs had to build their barracks while living in tents. Some of these men learned their trades in the POW camp according to him. He appreciated that after the war, the Allies gave Germany the material to rebuild, but allowed the Germans to do the work. This restored their pride. Much like we see in this video. That was long-term thinking by the Allies, and something seriously lacking in today's geopolitics. There's more, but at the end of his story all three of us were crying. I just pray that we are the same people today that we were back then.
It really is kinda shocking to watch these old videos and see where we were and compare it to where we are now. The process of rebuilding an entire country inside and out is really fascinating.
Puh for people born long after WWII its not possible to imagine something like this. There was something about my grandparents, i can’t explain. They stood together like no modern person do today. They always worked on problems and loved each other and all of their children and grand kids with all their hearth. They also never complained, because they always remembered it can get worse.
Was stationed in the USAF in Germany in the mid 80's. Had a large group of older German civilians to work alongside with. They all found time over a meal in their homes to share with the experiences of growing up post war.
My Great Grandparents on Mom's side immigrated from Germany in 1800's sometime. They settled in Frederick, Texas. My Grandmother was born around 1880-ish. She passed away at 83 in 1978. My extended family is very large Catholic. My Grandparents moved to West University Place in Houston near Rice University. Mom and her twin sister were born in 1924, 7 children total. They grew up during the Great Depression and told us stories about a less fortunate people coming by looking for work and my grandmother would feed them. . My grandmother would also feed any homeless animal that passed by. The people would move on but the animals would stay, lol. My grandmother, my mother, and I all have that animal animal lover gene in our DNA. My grandfather, Papa Dutch was blessed to have a very good job at a family-owned Dairy. The owner was an alcoholic and handed over many duties to my grandfather and my grandfather was well rewarded. They were very blessed during the Great Depression. My mother had four brothers and two of them fought in WW2. My mom is twin sister's husband also fought in WW2. One was in the Army and two were in the Air Force. My mom's brother all graduated from Rice University back when it was an all-male, free University. I have always been very proud of all of them. Throwing up during the Great Depression made strong men and women. Watching this video reminds me of how history repeats itself. What is going on in Putin's Russia right now is very similar to what happened in Hilter's Germany. The people must be reprogrammed.
I was born during the war in 1942 in Bristol England. You would think that being English my family would have hated the Germans. But I never heard a bad word said about them by my parents. My dad was in the 8th army and my mother looking after me and my brother and her mother. Their view was that like us the Germans had to take the war into its stride and that they were in the same boat as us. My mother and gran would have given them all the help they needed after the war because they knew that the people there were no different than us really Lots of bad things happen in war but we must learn to overcome the things that took place and rebuild for future generations so that peace can replace hatred .
The German people tend to be far too deferential toward their government, both before WWII, and today, allowing hordes of Islamists into Germany to make havoc...While technology changes, people don't. In addition, the ' It can't possibly happen here ' mindset doubtless delayed many Germans in the 1930s from fleeing Germany in time. If they had not departed Germany by 1933, it was likely not going to happen. Dachau was opened in 1933, just months after Hitler came to power. Additionally, IBM ran the records division for the camps, and had an office adjacent to the front gate at each and every camp. IBM refused to sell their technology to the Germans, and insisted on leasing them the equipment and supplying the techs for the duration. Seldom, if ever mentioned, like the cannibalism of the Japanese Army.
I think one of the most poignant things of this period must have been the brilliant resilience of the german women to both deal with life, kids, food, water, fuel for cooking, heating, clothing etc as well as having to support an utterly dejected male population, one hell of a burden
xzqzq: are you a Zionist or a Zionist Jew? Its a dead giveaway when someone has "hordes of Islamists" anywhere in a post. (I'm a Christian, not a Muslim...but I don't HATE Muslims). ZIONISM/Marxism/Communism....is the WHOLE problem. Israel is a ZIONIST apartheid "state" with a PM whose grandfather was a BOLSHEVIK.
+johann sebastian bach If it comes from America, it is at least 50% propaganda... :D It's just that they are so much better at it today... That's experience...
+johann sebastian bach Ofcourse it's propaganda , that's fucking obvious; but that's the prerogative of the victors, just as it's the prerogative of the vanquished to moan.."we were not to blame".....Anyway "civilian"....?....the nazis got back what they dished out... That's not to say the 1918 allied conglomerate wasn't to blame for chasing the general German population into the claws of the NSDAP...which was a defacto creation of the allies....The opportunistic incompetent Nazi clowns did everything Adolf promised in his shoddy little book, and everything the allies wanted them to do; with the purpose of creating a wing clipped Germany with no pretensions. Only positive thing is that the lesser of the two evils came out on top.....
A friend told me what happened when the British soldiers first entered her village in Northern Germany after the defeat in 1945 when she was a young girl. They came in very cautiously at first, guns raised, and searched every hiding place and poked every haystack until they were sure there were no pockets of resistance left. At one point they found an air rifle in someone's house and a great commotion ensued until it was explained it was just used by the young son to shoot birds. Once they had secured the village, they behaved well and in a disciplined manner and didn't mistreat the inhabitants. The German children used to sometimes run up to the soldiers stationed around the village and shout in English, "You have a bird!" which is a direct translation of a German idiom meaning "You're crazy!" ("Du hast einen Vogel!"). Of course the soldiers didn't understand what the children meant and the children didn't know the direct translation has no meaning in English.
@@GabrielaLtc They just carpet bombed them and let them die of hunger till cannibalism ensued. The Russians raped every female and allied soldiers for chocolate and cigarettes, it has been so reported.
@@GabrielaLtc Not everything told about "the Germans" is true. Have you not been taught that history is written yb those who win the war? Well sorry but if I had to decide whether to trust Germans or Brits, I'd definitely choose Germans. Brits aren't trustworthy, not the slightest bit. Also they did nothing to apologize to the world for all their colonization wars. On the contrary, they still believe they are the hottest sh*t on this planet, even when no one cares. The EU doesn't even care about Brexit, yet Brits are so stuck up they think "oh nobody can live without us"...in reality, nobody cares. Also nobody cares about the coronation or the "royals", it's a joke. They take themselves far too serious.
Ten years after the war there was very little evidence of the war. The German CULTURE is one of the most productive cultures in the world. They are a great people.
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Aren't you getting cause and effect a little confused here? That's in no small part thanks to the campaign of denazification after the war. Plus eastern Germany never recovered from the war, not fully, not even to the present day, after being subjected to Russian occupation. That same threat of Russian agression was also a unifying factor that people could get behind.
My family and I, as a 7 year old, moved to Germany in June of 1956. My father helped administrate a Catholic orphanage and as a result ,we traveled through Bavaria quite often. My siblings and I became friends with many German children. We lived there for four and one half years. The thing that made the most lasting impression on me was the still devastated regions through which we traveled and regularly visited. The destruction and immense rubble piles still lining the streets of many cities and what appeared to be industrial areas was still clearly visible. The shortages of many basic commodities which we took and still take for granted was wide spread. Yes, I agree that, the German people are a great and industrious people and as we know, with the incredible resources made available through the Marshall Plan, Germany healed itself and prospered. But let there be no mistake, ten years after the war Germany was still crawling out of the rubble. We still have shoe boxes filled with pictures of that period in case the revisionist want to say different.
I remember living in Germany in the early 1960s as a little boy because my Dad was stationed there. He was in the US Army as a SSG. We were stationed near Frankfurt. I remember thinking how odd this place is. The people living there didn't seem to have anything. I was glad when we we left to come back home.
My dad was in the Air Force as an aviation mechanic we never got to go with him to other countries like Germany where he was stationed. We stayed on the base in the US.
(West) German here, a little story about the coal transportation right after WW2. During the winter 1945/46 people started looting coal trains. The catholic Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Frings, basically gave absolvence for stealing or "organising" of food and heating materiel during his silvester sermon on 31. december 1946 and so coined the term "fringsen" for exactly that activity. The grandpa of a friend of mine was "drafted" by the british to protect these coal trains from looting and they gave him a rifle to do so. In reality, it was understood that he would never fire a shot in earnest, since most people who would steel from the trains were from his neighbourhood. When his service wasn´t needed anymore, authorities somehow forgot about the weapon and it was still in hios family a few years ago, allthough undocumented...
the german mother fending for her children during ww2 has my deepest admiration and respect and awe .They did an impossible heartbreaking job and they did it well..the real hero are those mothers
I remember reading about German diaspora from West Prussia to many countries in Europe and Americas, I could not imagine how hard life had been for these people who were forced to leave their homes they grew up in. It also broke my heart especially when Prussia was dismembered, people were stripped off of their identity.
That's so interesting. How do you feel about the fact that that is exactly what they did to Jews, but with the focused intention of annihilating them completely in the most barbaric way imaginable?
@@Aethelrose who did what? The prussian refugees? Dont be so hypocrital, you americans were interested what happended to the jews in the midlle of the 40s, when it was already a question of money! So if you want someone to care for the jews, make it by yourself , your country made a genozid and kept the whole land which wasn't even yours!!! And you will tell us germans about moralitiy? Whats that, a bad joke?!
@@Aethelrose those things are fake, you have been deceived. you spend your breath on defending the oldest enemies, murderers, and blasphemers of Christ and his church. Repent.
My uncle served in Germany in the US Army in the early 80s. He served on the Berlin wall and he told me about how he saw a East German Soldier defect to West Germany.
@@Geojr815 well, one single person can not start a world war... one single person can not start a political party.... one single person can not manipulate the whole nation... Here in Germany we still have thousands of actual Neonazis. These people do believe that Hitler was the great Führer, who did all of that by himself. They still fall for the propaganda from 1930-45. You are not one of them, but you sound very naive... Without Dietrich Eckart (1868-1923) of the "Thule Society", there would have never been a german Reichskanzler named Hitler.... And without the millions of germans, there wouldn´t have never been a WWII... at least as we know it. I am sorry for my bad english... But let me ask you this: Who is responsible for the nuclear mass murder of hundres of thousands japanese civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Would you give all the credits to Harry Truman? Did he decide that all by himself?
@@KillKenny09 Take a breath dude jeez. Don’t insult me or act like you know anything about me you lil punk. I barely even said anything but my point is that, yes, the origins of the war can be traced back to one man. The Nazis were by far the most radical/aggressive/prejudice political party during their rise to power. They very likely would not have had any momentum or influence in the German government without Hitler. He created fame and sympathy through his mass public speeches and propaganda and writings like Mein Kampf. He was the one who was appointed chancellor (after some very improbable circumstances) and eventually made himself dictator. Hitler was the one who lead Germany to re-armament and annexation and eventually invasions. Hitler sparked WW2 how tf can you argue that. Maybe another world war would have happened a different way but we are talking about this war dummy
Interesting film. I was born in Germany in the British sector after WW2,1946. My father was a POW captured in 1939, in Poland and mother was Ukrainian. Her whole family was taken by the Nazi's. They met after the war in a refugee camp.
@@johnindo6771 the Holocaust was not just against the Jewish people there was at least 6 million other people murder in the Holocaust. My maternal grandmother was a Holocaust Survivor. She was the only one of her family to walk out of the Holocaust alive. My family is Christian.
My half sister Monique, same mother, was born in Berlin 4th of May 1945, our mother managed to cross into France where later I was born, I recall the hatred we received as refugees from the 3rd Reich, being called 'sale boches' and often made to apologize for atrocities committed against the French & others during the war... As an old man now I sometimes watch these, at time poignant and disturbing, 'documentaries' on RU-vid, they bring tears in my eyes, but I have to admit that my heart bleed with both shame and proudness at what Germans were able to do, during the war, and its aftermath, when within 10 years they were possibly the most vibrant if not the most dominant industrialized country in Europe, when France was still dealing with poverty and poorly equipped to rebuild, especially in the North (Normandy, Brittany, Pas de Calais, etc.) Even England, which I visited in the early sixties, London still had entire blocks in ruins, same in Holland and Belgium... Growing up in the fifties was a mixture of happiness and sadness for what had happened less than 10 years earlier, that and that alone is the reason I cherish the idea of European Union, regardless of certain problems which are now becoming a trigger for possible disunity, which could see old & all problems resurfacing as if History has to always repeat itself but let us hope that sanity will prevail and the future will be saved from such a monumental failure that resonates deeply watching this documentary... Amen
Thank you for sharing that history...your history. So unfair that you had to bear some of that shame over something that really had nothing to do with you, other than the accident of birth of where and to whom you were born. Coincidently, I was born exactly 5 years after your sister, on May 4, 1950.
The Russians beat you pretty good. Your people the shoemakers, the tailors donned those dramatic fancy nazi uniforms and began to fantasize they were superior race. All those fantasies were finished by the Russians! Btw the Germans are not Aryans. Aryans are Persians and some people of North India. Read what Aryan is.
@@visionist7 so what? The nazis were defeated and that crazy austrian clown hitler committed suicide. Russians wreaked havoc in berlin. Hundreds of thousands of nazis were marched to siberia the gloomy sad faces of german generals is a sight to be happy at, almost all worked to death in siberia, germany was ruined. the superior race lol. Look at the so called superior race german prisoners marching defeated spat upon by ordinary Russians! The retired german chancellor now works for a russian oil company! The head of the arrogant bows forever.
As our Grandfather came from Germany to USA before WW1 2 of his sons were drafted into the US Army. Uncle Paul served in an Airborne Unit and saw the horrors of war. Our Father was sent to Nuremberg in 1945 Army Corp of Engineers.His job clean up . Germany is part of my heritage, Peace to all.
I lived in Germany during the mid to late 1950's, the memories of what I saw of it make it difficult to realise there had been a war. The recovery was remarkable, only the ruin of Cologne Cathedral stands out, everything else I saw was restored.
I was in Cologne in July, 1959 and saw the cathedral..I was told it was not destroyed during the Allied bombing raids although the rest of the city was destroyed.
The Economic Miracle Years. But I’ve heard people say that many nazi administrators and officials were still needed and ran things. I have heard it claimed that denazification was not fully completed until the mid 1960s.
My Uncle was in the Battle of the Bulge. I never ever heard him talk about what he saw. When he found out I was joining the Army the only thing he said was how much he hated the Army, and Military life. At the end of his time served, and the War had ended the recruiter talked to him about reenlisting. These were his words to the Recruiter. " Before you waste my time and your time I just want to let you know that I'm not interested in anything the Army has to offer me". That was the end of the conversation.
My uncle certainly wasn't proud of his bravery. Perhaps The Bravery of others, but not his. I think it was probably just be accumulation of what he saw, and the death of that he saw.. the war definitely affected him, and not in a good way.
I had to chuckle...Like your dad, my dad was drafted and served during Korea and he absolutely despised the army and often told the story about finally getting out, walking in the door at home, taking off his army jacket and wiping his feet on his army jacket. He hated it....And what do I do? I joined in 1986. 😂
My great-grandfather was actually an elementary school principal before the war. After the war the teachers were checked pretty thoroughly. As he had been forced to join the party he was initially rejected. He was later accepted due to his initial refusal to join the party.
Saul Juarez. This quote is quite prevalent and I’m trying to figure out the alternative.Are we to assume that it would be more accurate if the particular time period would be elucidated,let’s say by Goebbels or Streicher for instance?
@@Fugazinome if loser get to write history then germany would've won both world wars and after their victory against russians in berlin they decide to split their country in to east and west order to help both the russians and te allies in their rebuilding effort.
@@idodeclare6804 Yes, that’s about it.I’m so tired seeing that cliche of a quote as a comment to all WW2 related postings.Nobody is keeping them from writing their own take to the best of my knowledge.
I'm so tired of this brain dead quote. Most genocides commited by victors and we steel know they happened. Like native americans genocide, armenian genocide, pontic greek genocide, kongolese genocide, great irish famine, holodomor, etc. It's not how public perception of history works.
My mom was preschool in 1945 in the british zone. She already knew about hunger whilst her baby brother got the milk. She said the soldiers gave her candy.
How America and its Allies treated the vanquished countries of Germany and Japan after WW2, was truly unbelievable. How does anyone think that these countries would have been as kind to its vanquished enemies?
My school teacher ( German, history, religion) , who has not been a Nazi but was a Christian in Prussian tradition, said : they did it not because of humanity, but because they needed our help against the Sovietunion and the communist ideology. This interest was put higher . Otherwise there would have been the Morgenthauplan, which is getting realized actually. The strategy is always : US in, Russia out, Germany down. This means now tearing ungrateful ( to Russia) Germany in a war against Russia. Anyhow I appreciate the humanity of the American people very much. This is different from the policy of their government, they mostly do not know about the real reasons , brainwashed like the whole collective West.
I lived in Germany from 1966 till 1976. I am amazed after seeing the destruction how Germany rebuilt its roads factories universities all just in 21 years. Great country super great Germans I learned a lot from the Germans... Honesty sincere work friendship and many many good values on life.
@@John-jl9de As Americas main Ally, Britain was treated badly by the US. we were bankrupted by the war, with massive destruction of OUR cities and factories ect, yet it took 4 months of tough negociating to get a reduced loan, that was only cleared in 2006.
@@John-jl9de The same Americans who financed Hitler?? American Bush Family had a steel factory in Lower Silesia. They used forced laborers from Gross- Rosen concentration camp .AND Americans still elected these criminals and made them the President of United States. British and Americans played a game on both sides, Europeans concentrate so much on hatred towards Germans they do not notice that Europe is being destroyed and turned into Multikulti shithole like North America. My grandfather was a prisoner of a Nazi camp.. can't deny the suffering of Slavic people. But there is much more to the World War I, World War II and now a war in Ukraine.. Americans and the British are always involved in these Evil wars. And yes, I was taught at school about Marshall plan and also about HOOTON PLAN which is now taking place across Europe
@@sofiabravo1994 I care zero for German children then. I am rather happy that at least the Germans paid a bit for their crimes! At least they saw what killing children does.
My father was 5 when the war ended for them in NW Germany. They were living on a family farm that sustained during and after the war. He said they would eat a lot of rabbit. To this day he still won’t eat rabbit. 😅 My father was lucky. His father was able to evade being captured and made his way home. They immigrated to the US where my father ended up attended U of Michigan and USC. 😊
I served in the 11th ACR on the border between East and West Germany, from 1975 - 1977. I didn't think much about it, but that was barely 30 years since the war ended. Now, looking back, I can see many facets that were still the result of being an occupied, defeated country. They were recovering very nicely, there was a remnant of that legacy. Very interesting. I'm wondering if there is any kind of follow up to this type of documentary as the country moved forward through the 60s and 70s.
All of Europe was rubble, practically. The ugly concrete buildings in Dresden, Berlin and London cannot compare to the beautiful old structures they replaced. millions dead, starving and disfigured, broken physically and emotionally, was too high a price to pay for visions of expansion and subjugation. The first and second wars were a terrible tragedy. Let's hope that many more safeguards are in place to put the brakes on any future aggression.
I am glad that the German people got back on their feet after the 2nd World War . They are a strong people . I am English and wish them much happiness.
They were mesmerized by Hitler. But who could blame them? He brought pride back to their nation, cleaned out brothels, got many jobs in the country. A powerful pedigree to go bye when inciting hatred against all other races.
UK on Czechoslovakia before WWII: "We don't care, give it to Hitler" UK on Czechoslovakia after WWII: "We don't care, give it to Stalin" UK on Czechoslovakia after communism: "We just don't care" UK years after WWI and few months after WWII: "Germans are our friends again.. we'll help you rebuild"
@@Scimiter1948 Taking UK would mean, that CZ is already occupied. But let's say it's not. I think France would try to help UK, and Czechoslovakia was France ally. So it would be in war automatically. Many Czechoslovak people fought on the side of UK in the war, and UK was considered friendly country in CZ's. So they would help UK (it wouldn't be much of a help, but they would). This scenario is however not relevant. Because UK in Munich Agreement gave Hitler border regions of Czechoslovakia, without CZ being invited to the "conference". Czechoslovakia was warned that, if they don't act upon the Munich Agreement, they would be considered instigators of war between Germany and Czechoslovakia. That forced CZ to stop war mobilization, and basically give up their land. Short after that the whole country was occupied. Then Germany had two sides to attack Poland, and also quality metal industry of CZ to use in war in addition to German one.
The devastation is tragic and heartbreaking. It's commendable how Germany recovered from war and blossomed into a great country. I pray for all who lost their lives in WW II. May their souls rest in peace.
@@gabriel_swift8847 This is a very interesting perspective. But, why did Hitler commit those atrocities to the Jews then? Could Germany have done things differently after WWI or was it to late for Germany to reestablish itself and an other war was the only way?
@@gabriel_swift8847 XDDDDD Tell the milions of people murdered by germans in racist exterminations that it is their fault for existing and giving germany a bad name
@@gabriel_swift8847 Thank you for this perspective. I have often wondered about the heartbreaking existance after, especially for anyone who was decieved, or an ordinary person living maybe an already difficult life who didn't agree, but got swept away in the hatred of the time, being dragged thru the mud of their own government. This is why we must not hate the people of Russia, and of course many other citizens of aggressive countries. We don't choose where we are born, and as much as we want the pride of good things we didn't really do ourselves to be attributed to us, we don't want the condemnation of things that aren't our fault. I pray we treat each other as human beings, and not a label preattached to us.
@@gabriel_swift8847 BS. The mistake of Germans was to allow a racist and vindictive Austrian to destroy them from within feeding them racist ideology that they promptly and willingly swallowed. So as long as some Germans do not blame their propaganda prone brains, Germany will always be subject to falling for narcissistic propaganda narratives. The next person to control their minds and destroy their country and all they have work so hard to achieve is around the corner and is most likely am American "with strong Germanic Roots" looking to "avenge the German people".
My dad was in Vienna Austria as part of the post war occupation. As a Sergeant he was placed in charge of work crews assigned to look for bodies still buried in the rubble. What was unique was that his crews were US prisoners in trouble for very serious crimes - rape, murder etc. He was told to shoot to kill if these prisoners tried to run. I guess in that environment, you had to be very harsh..
My mother in law went to Germany after the war from the UK as part of the Red Cross. She had trained as a dietitian and spent a lot of time there assisting those people.
My father was a WWII veteran, just to clarify where I'm coming from. After Germany unified in the late 19th century, the work ethic of the German people increasingly posed a problem for the British; GB felt a sense of entitlement regarding industrial output, yet Germany posed an increasingly serious challenge based upon standards of precision, quality. etc. Competition was already simmering prior to the assasination of the Archduke Ferdinand; GB would not brook any intrusions into their sphere of influence, merit be damned. German military attachees had witnessed firsthand how the British treated their adversaries in the South Sudan and elsewhere, and subsequent German policy was promulgated based upon such observations. Germany was essentially backed into a corner which they were ill equipped to occupy, and so they responded. A century has passed...is it still necessary that Germans be made the scapegoat of history? I've worked with a great many Germans during the course of doing international business, and I was always very impressed with every aspect of their behavior; these people are not the monsters they've been made out to be, and it's well time that we moved past that thinking.
My grandfather was a fireman in London docks during The war, he lost many friends during the war , But he never hated the german people. I spent many times in Germany, my ex girlfriend is German.I feel sorry for all the trouble German people are going through now, they are strong people,
How come germans are in trouble '' now '' ?:)) Germany is the strongest economy of Europe today lmao .And everyone knows that WW2 was not only their fault .
Thanks grandad but you speak garbage and obviously know nothing. For 1946 this is a very interesting and an amazingly unbiased little film. Hey they got Elvis. Germany isn't in trouble it's been an amazing transformation and some of my best buds are from there. Most Europeans esp Danes and Dutch still hold quite the grudge though. Made in Germany is the most respected imprint on earth.
I'm interested in seeing a docu about the Germans who were kicked out of Czechoslovakia, Poland and other parts of eastern Europe after the war. Those countries were going to make damn sure than Germany never had an excuse to invade them again; in the process a lot of innocent people suffered and died.
My grandmother was a little girl and lived on the Eastern side of the iron curtain until they escaped to the western side in 1947. The stories she has and things she saw could only be described as a horror show.
A well posted documentary. I was a soldier in Germany in the early 1950s. it was much the same then but almost daily progress was visible. I used to admire the Germans ordinary folk, but I often thought as we worked among them, I wondered if they would have given us the same fair play as we administered to them at that time. I did though get to like them and still do.
What fair play??? Read up on Rhine Meadows Camps, "Germany Must Perish", "Morgenthau Plan". By 1947 Germany was being deliberately starved. Germany's saving grace, ironically, was the iron curtain, whereby the erstwhile friendlies of the allies, the Soviet Union, were declared the new "enemy du jour". The allies realized that the only soldiers who successfully battled the Soviets, the German soldiers, would be necessary to stop the new Soviet aggression. Thus the allies' decision to feed the Germans and re-arm them.
@@jasonbennett7002 If you wish to call public newspapers "dark corners", that's your problem. Fact is, newspapers around the world proclaimed "Judea Declares War on Germany" in 1933. No mailing list required.
I lived through WWII as a child, saw the blitz and the burning of docklands from 15 miles away. The Battle of Britain, the arrival of young Americans and Canadians preparatory to D day, watched doodlebugs, the arrival of German and Hungarian POW's, came under VII attack, experienced rationing and being evacuated. Life then was no picnic ! Next time will be ten times worse. There will be no next time after that THIS IS FOR ALL YOU WHO WOULD NUKE ANOTHER NATION ! Will you NEVER learn ?
Простые люди не хотят бросать бомбы друг на друга. Простые люди работают, воспитывают детей, надеются, что жизнь их детей будет лучше. А бомбы хотят бросать политики.
Wars are started by ´´people´´ who do not have to die in them and benefit from them. Without politicians and politics there would never have been and could never have been such wars. Politics is mankind's greatest problem. If humanity should go to war again, it would only be to free itself from politicians and politics. Any system that leaves people no choice and simply gives orders that everyone has to obey is a dictatorship. Any government that doesn't ask anyone but only decides and then forces people to comply with rules they were never asked about is a dictatorship. There are liberal dictatorships like the EU dictatorships and the USA etc. and there are dictatorships like North Korea. But they are all dictatorships by definition.
@@videre8884 The easiest and best solution would be for good honest people to run for office, instead of leave those positions for crooks. But decent people don't want those positions, and would rather mind their own business, and think their "staying out of it" is somehow a good thing. Corrupt people get into power because better people refuse. George Washington, being a decent man, did not want to be president, and though his stepping down from that position was considered honorable, I wonder what he expected after leaving.
I am a 21-year-old, proud American🇺🇲, my grandfather emigrated from Germany to America in 1945 with his family. First to New York, then here in Pennsylvania.
Absolutely nothing compared to Warsaw, Minsk, Kiev, St Petersburg (Leningrad), Budapest ... the list is endless. Episodes like the Babi Yar - a blot on humanity, a stain.
The Germans, the Brits, the Americans of that generation didn’t sit around and wait to be “rescued”. They built back. And they built back better. On their own. Without slaves, without socialism, without waiting.
My Mum was fifteen at the time of the German surrender. She tells me that, although the British people were naturally bitter towards Germany for starting the war with all its attendant horrors, they were magnanimous in victory and realised how difficult things were for so many Germans trying to live in smashed up cities with equally devastated infrastructure. There was a good deal of sympathy for the average German and I think that says a lot for the British character.
yeah thats why more germans died after the war, then durring the war, and all the idustrial plants, instead of being refurbished for peacefull products, were tottaly destroyed, and even 300,000 germans were sent off to europian centers as slave labor. yeah some sympothy for the germans, when ussia got half of europe, so we saved europe rom th nazis to turn around and give it to stalin, such a deal for those europians who came under the red cloud of communism. yep a great deal we allies gave them
glastonberry True, but you can't blame the average American or British Joe, who gobbled up their government's hate propaganda because they didn't know any better. Our parents, grandparents were the Jews dunces, and now we are all paying for it.
glastonberry MANY americans were mad when the president gave up the country to russia, all the germans anticipated the americans and british to cock block the russians.the countries that were saved by the U.S were cheering that they didn't get taken by the russians.as for slobodan888 stop being a butt hurt nazi, Jews are not causes of problems ok?
ThaMinecraftNetwork no im not some hurt nazi, im not a nazi at all, but truth is truth, and even though i agree that president roosevelt and churchill betrayed these countries by letting stalin take them over.. i blame the goverement as much as i do the people, in fact i blame the churches even more. but unfortuantly our goverement tricked americans into that war, by getting japan to do what our goverement wanted, and that was fire the first shot..and hitler was furious that the japaneese fell for it, for he wanted to keep america out of the war. and just like world war1, america saves britains bacon.
"...that the next generation will grow up a sane and Christian people." "...that respects truth, tolerance, and justice." Welcome to 2021 when all of the above doesn't apply. Sad.
I am an American ,duly proud of my Anglo-Celtic ancestry;vicariously proud of my uncles & great uncles who served so dutifully in that war....HOWEVER.....the sickening truth about the CAUSES of war is not what we have been told....
once you give people a taste of blood, killing gets in their blood. Too many people and not enough resources for all means its time to steal and kill in order to acquire necessary resources needed for survival. You haven't seen anything yet. There are a great many empires that have been systematically killing for centuries. The question is who is next on the chopping block. WE ARE.
Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland... and an outraged world denounces German aggression. Sept. 12, 1939, the Soviet Union invades Poland... and an outraged world denounces German aggression.
Set. 3, 1833,UK invades Malvinas Islands(Argentina)....and outraged world denounces Argentinian aggression. Even today the islands are occupied by British troops.
+LUCAS MANSO Malvinas was unoccupied and unclaimed when the British entered, they weren't part of Argentina and they never have been, Argentina had no interest in the Falkland Islands until British people populated it, fuck your anti British propaganda fuck Argentina, nation of lying pigs
"Even today the islands are occupied by British troops.", and with the full support of the citizens of that island. Argentine troops tried to destroy their lives and they didn't appreciate it. What a surprise! (It was a desperate attempt by the failing Argentine government to divert the growing dissatisfaction of their people. The invasion accomplished nothing but death, destruction, and the collapse of that evil government.)
I had a friend who's older brother was blinded in one eye by the Hitler youth. They would beat him up everyday after school because he would not join. His parents would not allow him to. Finally one day they held him down and poked one of his eyes out. They then told him since he was disabled, he could not join the Hitler youth and they never bothered him again.
@@BasementEngineer I didn't see ANY part of WW2. Because I was born in 1962. I believe it happened, quite simply because of the Mountains of evidence. And when someone I have known and trusted for many many years, relates something like that to me , yes, I believe them. Any more questions?
@@ghostofreagan3181 I want to see authenticated forensic evidence for any all allegations of German atrocities. All I ever get pointed to are the Nuernberg War Crimes Trials. And these have been termed Lynching Parties, and Kangeroo Courts by some USA supreme court justices. Normal and accepted rules of evidence were not applied!
Sorry to hear what happened to German civilians after the war, they rebuilt their country easily but nothing will restore the life of the civilians that lost their lives.
wow, 10:45 "The new German Policeman has to understand, that he is the servant of the public and not its master" This should be shown as a educational video to every cop in US and Europe now days, strange that it was right in 1945 and its opposite today in USA or Europe. Are Fascist Governments back?
+MadIgor FKGoog yeah, watching the rise of"third way"(fascist) economics which caused EU's and USA's debts, and the gestapo-like USA police, it's obvious that Germans who fled infiltrated the bankster-friendly Labour/Democrat parties -- "_nomenklatura_" ...google that word.
Post-war Germany had two groups of people: those who knew or wanted order and actually showed up for work, even when the plant had been flattened or the company closed down. Then there was a smaller contingent, those who were 'unreconstructed' in spite of the war. They were called 'werewolves' and caused more trouble than is generally known.
I'm actually surprised that after the total and complete brainwashing the German people had been undergoing for so long by the Nazi regime, that the vast majority of the population were so ready and willing to 'reform'. It must have been so confusing for them, especially the young people who'd been indoctrinated from their infancy.
Any sources to back up this wild story? The were a few werwolve groups (Wehrwölfe = Goebbels dream of a kind of Guerilla war behind the line) but think of it as 15-17 years old boys with hardly any supplies and no support from other Germans, a bit of ammunition and little food trying to survive in the woods. This was definitely NOT ONE group of people in all of Germany. Germans wanted order, MOST of them, those who say otherwise have no clue of German work culture. However what's not well know is the destruction and demolition wasn't as wide spread as old footage makes you believe. Germany always was and still is today not centralized at all. An old joke: the typical German small town somewhere in the country side (far away from large cities) : a church, a townhall, a soccer field perhaps a public pool and one company often existing for many decades if not centuries being a world market leader in some specialized product, profession, or service. The allies early on had planed or hoped to "smart bomb" industries and important infrastructure. But the technic of the time wasn't capable to do that. So, the bombing strategies adopted and switched to carpet bombing the cities.
Is it any wonder my generation grew up ignorant of the truth, the undergirding of that which was World War Two. This propaganda piece is a real winner. The narrator keeps alluding to a war of "their making." Bullshit! WW2 was a direct unavoidable consequence of the treaty ending the first chapter in 1919, Versailles, where Germany was forced at literal gunpoint to accept total responsibility for WW1, a war in which history documents Germany as the last major power to mobilize fully. ( The order of mobilization thusly: Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany) If there is a root cause for the events transpiring in 1939, one need look no further than France and Britain, the phony victors who drafted Versailles and who forced German delegates to sign on the dotted line. Had the war ended as have it should, all parties accepting equal responsiblity, there would have been no Hitler, no Third Reich, no Wehrmacht, no SS, no 2nd World War.
+velocinox I wasn't aware that You Tube posts required end notes, footnoting and attribution when posting a "rant." Anyway, I wasn't thinking of the 14 point proposal when considering this particular period in history. I was more inclined to recall a statement made by Lloyd George when he said he feared all that had been accomplished at Versailles was to assure another war in 20 years. I was also considering those who today continue to view Germany as the black hat villain of the 20th Century. In the future, I will do my best to add footnotes and attribution.
Who was genuinely offering peace at Versailles? After all, if you will recall, Clemenceau laughed openly at Wilson's proposals refering to him as incredibly naive. There were no definitive peace overtures at the conference that I recall as it became nothing more than an extension of war against Germany from the Hall of Mirrors. Even the more minor of delegates such as Ho Chi Minh were ignored out of hand when seeking codification of individual autonomy.
OJ was guilty as can be...and what does this have to do with Germany? If Germany was the aggressor in World War One, how is it then it was the last major combatant to mobilize in 1914? (Order of mobilization; Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain and France. Germany) If you are correct, then explain the diplomatic cables from Berlin, particularly those received by Russian Foreign Minister Izvolsky seeking a minor Balkan war as opposed to the conflagration it became. Germany was pleading with Izvolsky to deal with its Serbian ally. Nobody is innocent when it comes to the prosecution of war, however, to call Germany the aggressor in 1914 indicates a total lack of historic knowledge, that the post-Versailles propaganda machine is sufficient.
+robert glenn Germany *was* the 'black hat villain' of the 20th century. Well, it was one of them. Along with a lot of dark grey hats and one or two lighter grey ones. The treaty of Versailles was diplomatic suicide, favouring narrow-minded punishment over actual solutions, but the Third Reich was completely unjustifiable. Had it not been for the racialist ideology, militarism and violent expansionism, then the Nazis would have been exactly what Germany needed to re-establish itself as an independent power, regain an economy and some self-respect. They achieved that - an absolutely incredible feat - and then they exceeded it and chose to attack their neighbours for 'living space'. The treaty of Versailles didn't make them aggressive expansionists or genocidal racial fanatics. That's all on them.
I was in the 2nd TAF during the occupation, For the most part, relations were harmonious, however, some still thought they could continue the war, and they had to be handled firmly. I in general enjoyed my 18 months I was never on a normal station but lived in the community.
I worked with the Polizei when I served in the Royal Military Police in Germany and I can tell you they were a dedicated and professional bunch. The public respected them and so did the British Armed Forces. We used to do joint patrols and work together on investigations. When I came back to the UK it was a whole different story.
No there not , they are servants to the super rich who run the puppet government. You are just a number and someone they rule over and tax the hell out of.
Impressive document even it’s outdated style. My ancestors were also among those people. In view of this catastrophe, we should not pettily argue about the past, but be modest and humble. We should weep for the many dead and above all be careful not to become headless, negligent and arrogant ourselves. No country and no human being is immune from the danger of falling to the dark side while being sure to have found the right or holy path. Let‘s learn from the past.
So happy that Germany recovered and rebuilt after this…..better than before. It was important to ensure that the German kids who went through this war grew up understanding that war and fighting is not the way to live. That must have been hard for some of them I can imagine but they persevered and built their country back better than ever. Today, Germany is a really cool place to visit….beautiful country.
Well, I for one do not believe all the lies told about Germany. A little research would disclose the inconsistencies and continuous lies necessary to support the original allegations.
@@Nollic15 Well, since 1945 at least the influence of German thinking on the international scene has been diminished as to be practically zero. We all can see the results of that everywhere: All western countries are turning into judicial and political cess pools, with the economic well-being not far behind. Hope you enjoy it.
