Germany Today: Post-World War II Reconstruction, 1947 

You had a generous and caring mother in terms of the 2 German children she cared for at that time. RS. Canada

are you still in contact with the orphaned children?

@@chazhas5183 No but I wish I knew what happened to them as they were both in their teens.

I visited Ulm, in 1983 only, a little damaged in WWII, the Young @ that time, didn't care, but the "Elder Folks, esp. the Grandmothers still dislike Americans, I'am sure they Instilled that in the younger Gen. Today, the Adult rulers. Don't be "FOOLED".

I have zero respect for old Germans cause they committed way too many atrocities but Germans today are just great people- friendly, intelligent, kind, hard-working.......

​@@mirquellasantos2716same goes for any ww2 vet than!

I visited Hamburg in 1985-the old part of the city looks exactly as it did in 1939-the Germans rebuilt it exactly as it was (the RAF burned it to the ground in July 1943).

@@mirquellasantos2716 I think americans have a simple minded naive take on their own atrocious racist history, on the Germans and on other nations.

Thats True, but the reasons are varied and deep. The US 'Marshall Plan'' provided all the necessary materials and money, for Germany to recove quickly, which the Germans---to their credit, worked very hard to make full use of, and acheived amazing things. Although Britain recieved some US monetary help, which took 50+ years to pay off---our needs were far greater, BUT, because the Labour Government came to power in 1945 ( in American eyes---virtually communist), and because of the socialist programme, that Clement Attlee drew up, the 'Money Men' were very reluctant to lend more. I remember driving into our City Centes in the mid 1960's, and still parking our car on wartime bombsites , with levelled off rubble. Also---Politically, not only was it important to have a strong ''West Germany'' as a possible buffer Zone against Soviet agression, it showed the communist East, that life in the west, was much better.

What also is amazing that we still paying for reparation to the USA...😎

@@peterlustig4047 The hell you are. Germans got off very easy because the U.S. and Western democracies wanted to fold West Germany into resisting Soviet hegemony. One of the ironies and tragedies of all history is that Soviet cruelty leveraged the Western Allies into being (too) kind to Germany.

Same was true for Japan... Best thing that can ever happen to a country-- be flattened in an all out war against the US... we'll build it back as a modern state and hand them the keys... Later! OL J R :)

@Hal 9000 you are such a waste of oxygen. you can go fuck yourself lil piece of shit, everybody here won't mind. do you get it?

@N Q H *You're essentially correct...but the Russians didn't have 'jack-shit' until we sent them endless supplies of EVERYTHING that made it possible for Stalin to even 'move' an Army, let alone feed them!*

*Why 'Invade' something worth so little...they ALREADY 'own it' by default!* ( *France's economy is so weakthat without the 'Euro' their entire 'GDP' would collapse like a poor 'souffle'* )

@Mike B It will never happen again the Germans are against war and their government don't want participation in any operation.

Don't never say never.....Remember in 1918 it was the war the end all wars.....I was in Vienna one year and while I was observing the SovietWar Memorial an older woman, I assume she had lived and suffered under the Soviet invasion, said to me, 'look hard at it, as you never know when they might come back.'

@@gerrynightingale9045 garbage they had like 28k tanks in 41 and most of the lend lease didnt arrive till after 44 when it was basicallly a mop up.

Schlomo Rothstein you’re a slime piece of shit. Coward fucktard.

Just like in the United States, 1968, was an important year in Germany. German youths confronted Germany's NAZI past, the past of their father's and grandfathers. When the draft ended in the U.S., that young generation forgot about social issues and activism and disco danced the night away high on cocaine*. Meanwhile in Germany, the social activist remained steadfast in their goal to make Germany a humane country. They were successful. *OK, that was over-the-top hyperbole,

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We have socialists in the US too, just as racist and as evil but they're mostly associated with the more Marxist and Stalinist version of socialist racism. They're trying to use Critical Race Theory to justify teaching their national socialism to children, but for the most part parents have stopped them.

why most?

@Real Thailand Sorry, not right. Germany did not get a dollar from the USA. The Marshall Plan gave Germany only goods from the United States valued at just $ 1.4 billion. Mainly agricultural goods. And that wasn't a gift, just a loan to be repaid. The US goods from the Marshall Plan were only converted into money in Germany when the KFW Bank sold these goods to the manufacturing industry. The money could then be used for rebuilding, but with over 200 cities completely destroyed, this was a drop in the ocean. It is still a popular fairy tale that after the war Germany was showered by the US with money from the Mashall plan. On the contrary, Germany was big business for the US. In spite of all this, the Marshall Plan naturally helped to alleviate the greatest misery (hunger) in the post-war years. One of the main reasons why the economic miracle was possible was that a large part of the hundreds of thousands of occupation soldiers poured foreign currency into the country, which is why it took significantly longer in England, for example, to recover from the war. The currency reform and the D-Mark was the actual starting signal for the economic miracle, when it was worthwhile for the US economy to invest in Germany. A lot of money flowed in during this time, but this money flowed back again with profit. Germany was more important to the US economy than France or Great Britain, for example. As early as the 1950s, Germany was again able to deliver high-quality goods that were urgently needed in the USA and were also relatively cheap at that time. On the whole, the partnership was a win-win for both, but forget the fairy tale of the Marshall Plan. This was just a major propaganda campaign designed to boost Germans' morale. According to the motto: Look here, the winner helps the defeated and is your friend. Most people still believe it today.

Yep! By plundering other countries!! 👍

LLTHEFATHERLAND

@@folkestender2025 your right..America did nothing... Then you sang in rejoicement as Angela Merkel came forth from the heavens...

All to appease De Gaul.

rgwholt We all despise the French

You can still purchase WWII French rifles...only used once, never fired!

Although France was forced to,pay reparations to Germany (then Prussia) after both the Napoleonic wars and the Franco Prussian war. Which she paid in full. It's a simple fact that despite establishing the rule of reparations Germany decided that the rule didn't apply to them and simply defaulted.

wow well said

Our cars are just as good, if not better. You just need to stop buying foreign cars.

To bad they didn't value other people's lives instead be know for the worst humans can do iam still reading about things that didn't come out until now a lot of them got aware but there dieing off now and will finally answer to the the who can give true justice

Germans should have been forced to rebuild Europe.

And who paid for it??

@@sjm8510 And the Russians too, by that logic.

@@tylerbozinovski4624 although I hated the Soviets, but they were technically liberating, your ancestors were destroying everything on purpose.

That’s a awesome story. Did your grandfather serve at all on the eastern or western front? We never hear stories of German soldiers. I know history is written by the victors but the Germans were also humans and not all were nazis.

@@braddavid902 "Our" war was in the East. The West was for the lucky ones. My grandfather was on a destroyer, mainly on the Atlantic and around Norway. My other grandfather was on the Eastern front, multiple times seriously injured but survived. Their brothers and the brothers of my grandmother were all on the Eastern front, most died. It wasn't their choice. You were drafted. If you refuse: death penalty.

@@Eunegin23 yeah the eastern front was hell. I could not imagine what they went through. The Russians treated German pows like animals.

@@braddavid902 Both sides. But there were also little stories of humanity. Also on both sides. After all, we are all humans. I recommend the (German) movie Stalingrad. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ovhuleRw71w.html

Wonderful?????

@@anamartins3223 wonderful in the sarcastic sense. Whenever you see the word propaganda applied to a film, it’s rarely a complement. The US government was quite willing to bend the story in drastic ways whenever it suited the broader narratiive of good (us) vs evil (them).

@@sfperalta lmao...don't forget about the Soviet propaganda now. You seem to be singling out just one and not the others, why?

@@theclown2393 ​ Because the film was produced by an American film company for an American audience? If there had been clips of Soviet newsreels in the video I might have had a comment. When you review a meal you've eaten, do you also review all the other meals you haven't eaten that evening? Sorry, I don't see the relevance of your comment to the content of this particular video. BTW, "propaganda" does not necessarily mean the story is false. It means a story told with a certain point of view to support your overall message. All governments and organization do it to some extent, then and now.

@@sfperaltathere's no harm in adding additional reviews. Regarding to relevance?? Soviets did participate in WW2, did they not???

We children played with worthless mark's

The Nazi control of private business during the Hitler years was so onerous in many industries that the difference between it and Soviet "central planning" could actually be argued.

@freebeerfordworkers That is a very simplified and generalised argument. Would you tell Europeans like the Belgians, Dutch, Danish or the Polish that the wars were self-inflicted. Would you REALLY frame the second WORLD war in terms of European history ? How many times has a major military force been "whipped" and it has come to any good ?

Europe had likely been overrun by Bolshevism.

@@1968Christiaan The Netherlands and Denmark were neutral during the First World War. They did suffer deprivations ... from the British naval blockade of Germany. Per the Second World War, occupied Denmark's economy actually grew. The main casualty in Denmark in WWII was their pride. That didn't keep them from being revengeful after the war,though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksb%C3%B8l_Refugee_Camp

such cruelty and hatred from a so called hero country i honestly never liked america or the fake dream it presents and im from europe america might be strong and beutiful but its a rotten place with a rotten history and cringe worthy morals im glad i never visited.

I have yet to read the Plan and I would question the lax review of Naziis, why so many Nazi war criminals were allowed to escape to South America and the US under USAF protection.

Totally agree. They come to loot and kill and call it democracy.

But they changed the tune very fast when the (West-) Germans became "allies" against the bad communists.

@@flitsertheo THEY had no choice, besides, who would willingly want to be a slave of the Soviet Union. Enough of totalitarianism. Germany--was /is, a nation of hard workinging intelligent educated people, who have invented , created , many of the modern worlds advances in sciences( putting aside what Churchill called ''Perverted science'' ) that came out of Nazism, those tallents were missused and abused.The West NEEDED a democratic Germany, with all it's plusses, as a defence against further Soviet advances; a BULWARK. That's why they were eventually armed and trained , as member's of N.A.T.O. It's all rather obvious really.

Colin Powell in his biography mentioned that while stationed in Germany, he would dine with German families and he was impressed by their well-mannered children.

The cigarettes were for caddying and the chocolate for introducing them to the sisters.

Yes your "best friends forever" was the only reason the national language of GB remained english. Also it was in the interest of all and yes the USA as well to rebuild these devastated lands (you forgot Japan) so that communism would not take root and to keep the SU out. This thereby helped spare GB and much of the world the task of having to fend off a much more imposing SU. Prior to WW2 the USA was already likely the most powerful economic force in good health. We just lacked a substantial military with the exception of our Navy (thanks Teddy (TR)).

@@blitzegron4848 Unfortunately, in history, one must often "start" at the consequences of own actions, in order to point out mistakes which happened along the way. In the big picture of things, spotting mistakes as a contemporary witness is far more difficult. True today. True at any point in history. Furthermore, in order to "avoid history repeating itself", one must *first* admit that mistakes were made. Also own mistakes. Because, according to biblical logic: only by "removing the splinters from own eyes", can we avoid "sowing seeds", which we all "reap" at some point. *So here is how European reign and domination of the world ended in 1945, and a few subsequent years (short version, longer version below):* At the end of WW2, the USA (American Century) refused to honor an important treaty Western Allied leaders had made in Quebec. A treaty/agreement almost nobody had ever heard about. With that, Washington DC intended to become the sole nuclear power, and not share (as promised per treaty) nukes with London/GB/Empire. By doing so, the new alpha stated that it did not want an equal power at eye level. They wanted a "junior partner". And with that, they became the new alpha. Rule Britania, repealed and replaced by the American Century. Pax Britannica, replaced by Pax Americana. Rule the Waves? Let's put it this way. No more "Two Power Standard". Who had "the bigger one"? :-) Washington DC (The American century) was in a position to "tear up a scrap of paper" and not care what anybody in "old Europe" thought about it. Washington Internationalism/The American Century, the other "new power" rising across the Atlantic, whose position was basically *"observe calmly, secure our position, cope with affairs calmly, hide our capacities and bide our time, be good at maintaining a low profile, and never claim leadership.”* It's interesting to google that quote. Of course it refers to a timeless political strategy, which is true at all times, and explains a lot about the headlines we see in the papers today. Anyway... *Re. the concept of "being able to spot an anomaly" as history unfolded forward. Of course, it does not "happen backwards", but there is a timeline.* Machiavelli's "balance of power". Of course Machiavelli didn't invent the concept of "balance of power", but was one of the first to put it down in words in western literature. *Would a true Machiavelli have ignored the noticeable change/shift in the "balance" of the powers at around the turn of the Century? (1900)* Note that the reality of the time was that while GB/Empire and the rising USA were roughly equal in "power" at the time (around 1900), only one of these 2 "powers" had the potential to hang on to her power as the world noticeably changed around the contemporary witnesses at the time, and at least for wise leaders, also in the foreseeable future (Washington DC as the firmly established soft power "master/hegemon" in the Americas, vs. London the "still master" of an outdated 1,000+ year old colonial model). Would a true Machiavelli have snuggled up to a power without being able to "leverage/hedge" any deal (treaty/accord/agreement/etc.) it made? Would a true Machiavelli have relied on "appeals to emotion" (like "everybody speaking English") to ensure a dominant position? Last time I checked, "snuggling up" without also being in a position to "leverage" and/or "hedge" a deal, wasn't in the book (The Prince). Re. the concept of "how history unfolded aroun the turn of the century, around 1900": reality (aka "the truth") created an anomaly in the algorithm on the timeline of history. Stalin spotted it, and he intended to imitate it. I'm sure he identified the "weak links" of Western European domination set up by Versailles by the "Big Three", and other post-WW1 treaties, without Moscow being consulted. The early *Communism in One Country* advocates in Moscow, soon to become World Communism: "Observe calmly, secure our position, cope with affairs calmly, hide our capacities and bide our time, be good at maintaining a low profile, and never claim leadership." I'm sure he read a lot...

@@ralphbernhard1757 Please don't quote God's Word because you just butchered it. WW1 begot WW2 for many reasons. America became dominant because central Europe was rubble, British empire was a house of cards that could not suffer the weakening of GB herself and so the colonies saw weakened and exploited it. GB did have a nuke by about 1950-2 based on US fat boy bomb. No nuke development was ever going to be done in England while Germany was a threat. If not for US and Marshall plan, Europe would have gone from speaking German to Russian or at least been puppet states like Vichy France or Warsaw pact. Treaty signed in Quebec? Not aware of one. Name, parties and when was it signed?

@@blitzegron4848 Longer version: *"Many prominent British scientists were soon transferred to the United States to work on the Manhattan Project. The team of 19 scientists from the British project who worked at Los Alamos included Chadwick, Peierls, Fuchs, and William Penney. *Nevertheless, General Leslie Groves, who disapproved of collaboration, put the British scientists in limited roles to restrict their access to complete information.* In September 1944, a second summit was held in Quebec City to discuss plans for the final assault on Germany and Japan. A few days later, Churchill and his family went to Roosevelt’s estate in Hyde Park, New York. The two leaders pledged in a memorandum, *“Full collaboration between the United States and the British Government in developing Tube Alloys (edit: code word for nuclear technology) for military and commercial purposes should continue after the defeat of Japan unless and until terminated by joint agreement”* (Goldschmidt 217). Despite this promise, the death of Roosevelt in 1945 marked the end of wartime collaboration. *President Truman chose not to abide by this second agreement, and United States nuclear research was formally classified in the 1946 Atomic Energy Act.* *The British had contributed to the successful creation of an atomic bomb, and yet after the war were faced with the reality that they had been cut off from its secrets."* From atomicheritage Of course. Times had changed drastically. *Around 1900 the "formula" for success was "no navy/battleships = no leverage = no power".* Effect? Everybody wanted the esteem and power battleships brought. *In 1945 it was "no nukes = no leverage = no power"...* It had surpasses "the battleship" as symbol of power.

@@ralphbernhard1757 Point 1 attacking factories makes more sense than mine, forests or some other resource. While there were attacks on civilian targets, war production factories had more impact and limited civilian casualties. Also impacted less civilian use products. Point 2. Shocker! Helping Germany and Japan helped USA. It helped Everyone but USSR. GB Scientists had restricted access. Of course they did. Super TOP Seceret projects require need to know. NAZI spies were everywhere and blended in very well. GB got a good shake from USA. How many Brits died to save USA vs USA dying for Brits? They are a brother nation (blood thicket than water? ) because and despite our past. Lol I don't even remember what started this conversation. The world would be a safer place if all NATO would honor 2% gdp requirement. The one thing all could do to prevent WW3.

Yea, they opted to go with soccer 🙄

@@Helmuesi911 You obviously mean football.

Basketball did.

Who cares? At least 25% of Germany's culture is now US based. Music. Movies, TV, clothes, video games, food....

Remember what Jesse Owens did during the Olympics in '38

What's that?

It's literally an American propaganda lol

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HI The blockade started in June 1948.Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.

Good thing everything went EXTREMELY uphill from there. Gosh they even surpassed the UK in GDP per Capita

476233 - You're incredibly naive. The Allies created Hitler with their Treaty of Versailles and the hardships it placed on the German people.

God Allowed It!

@@frankmartinez1015 - Religious arguments typically rely on faith and revelation rather than empirical evidence and logical reasoning. Therefore, they are unacceptable in 21st century debate

No concentration camps though

Virtue signal much?

These very things need to be taught again, only to American journalists now. FACT!

and expulsion of German citizens from German lands, Königsberg, Ostpreussen, Schlesierland, Sudetenland, Danzig,...

they didn`t want something like the ugly truth about those murderous mass expulsions getting in the way of the official narrative would they.

There's very little in dispute over this war.

I have on occasion said that the last major battle of WWI was the invasion of Okinawa.

The victor is the judge and the jury and the vanquished is the accused. Goring

Haha 🤣 Are you seriously trying to use the same logic & talking points of Nazi Germany here in 2019? And do u really think WW1 would have turned out any different as it ended in WW2, If the allies Continued on with fighting to complete total victory, rather than Capitulating With an armistice to end the war? Reparations was not about punishing Germany for so called losing WW1, But rather for going about with WW1 Wanting to conquer & occupy other countries in the first place & in Trying to prevent Germany with the capabilities of starting another war in the first place. It just goes to show how right the allies were for demanding total utter victory in WW2 rather than capitulating once again in to doing an armistice there in 1945 to avoid more deaths before the end of the war. Because then people like you would be once again saying the same exact thing about WW2 Lmao 🤣 🤣 The one so called strength the germans had over the allies, is their lack of value for human lives. My grandfather was the one sole survivor out of our hole entire family, his grandmother, grandfather, father mother, brother, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, cousins, Were all killed Some in gas chambers, starved & worked to death, And others shot in the head & dumped in a mass grave while waiting in line to be next. Just Proof of some of the evil & cruelty German people are capable of, And the people who are naïve to think that it can’t happen again. Just watch Yes things are good they’re in Germany right now but just wait and see if the economy ever collapses there again, they would find some people to blame for their problems, & Are truly capable of doing the same kind of evils all over again. God forbid

RCBM, Europe has not had a Great War since 1945 and that is an accomplishment, the Balkan War was terrible but it didn’t spread beyond the Balkans, Russia and the Ukraine still skirmish and that conflict will continue in some form for some time, as for Germany this film didn’t come close to being correct. By the 1960’s West Germany was well on its way to becoming the industrial engine of Europe and after reunification Germany became one of the worlds greatest industrial nations, so all in all Germany came thru the War years and thrives without Nazism today like all of Western and Central Europe Germany has a Democratic and enduring Governent

German economy didn't collapse coz reparations but coz German attempt to cheat it by hyperinflation. It was run by German government. BTW Germany started the war and destroed vast parts of France, Belgium and Netherlands. It was logical, it had to pay it. German prosperity was started by French reparations after Franko Prussian war back in 19th century. France paid it...

Yes i'm french and I love very american

…That’s why people from North Africa and the Middle East are moving by the millions to Europe specially Germany because they love “ Americans “ thanks to the mass destruction and bombardment, starvation, of their Nations just ask the people from Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia,Irak.Afghanistan Etc..

@@brunokirchensittenbach9294cope and seethe

Why Me they knew what they were doing

People will use the transgressions of the past and reparations as a malicious and underhanded method of extorting resources. And justify it by playing the victim.

@@arminiusofgermania Poles and Greeks in particular like to be compensated by Germany several times and are not even ashamed to try again and again. That is why young Germans are annoyed when their tax money is wasted and they are insulted as Nazis. With such demands you can also lose many young Germans who were previously friends with people from these countries. Young people will no longer understand it, 75 years are 3 generations of new people in all countries, there are no more victims and no more guilty. There is no hereditary guilt and no hereditary victimhood. There is only responsibility that it can never happen again.

@@folkestender2025 Beware of mustachioed lunatics and the best seller "mein kamphy chair".

@@arminiusofgermania It doesn't have to be a black mustache, some also have yellow hair ;-) When I see the yellow hairs outsmarting democracy in the USA and Great Britain. If I see, imprisoning 230,000 people without human rights and court in Turkey. If I see politicans incapacitating independent judges in Poland and Hungary, to get the full authority and power over all law and courts in their country. It is not a good development. Hitler and the Nazis started similar like this. First the stupid voters are lured with sugar, then the power is secured by legislative changes and then the whip comes against all opponents.

...... NICE ONE!

Well Fock religion and if you aren’t the pot calling the kettle black. Before you write out of your ass you really should read a history book about Europe,middle east,Russia and America before ww1 Thur ww2. You sound as dumb as you write. Know nothing and blame all others.read a book and quit listening to the liberal professors who them self failed history and trying to rewrite history with there lies and views.not truth!

It's cool that you're not alone noting that fake history. Per the Franco-Prussian War in 1879-71, it was indeed caused by mass dementia ... by an incensed French press and a stirred up populace at a perceived insult. Hurt French feelings and pride launched that war.

Germany after 1945 was a miniature and neutered version of the Germany before.

Decades of next to no money spent on self-defense helps out a lot, too. Yes, it was imposed after the war, but it does still greatly affect an economy and leave lots of money for other things, such as infrastructure and excellent educations, which more directly help produce more wealth.

@@LynxSouth During the Cold War, Germany had the second largest army in NATO after the USA, but between 1945 and 1955 Germany was not yet allowed to have an army. It certainly helped the reconstruction that they did not have to spend money on armaments for 10 years.

@@callsigndd9ls897 I thought it was France that was second-largest, but OK. I'm not sure what I was thinking of, maybe spending as a percentage of GDP. Thanks for the correction.

@@LynxSouth Yes, France and UK is stronger due to nuclear armament, but from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s Germany provided NATO's second largest army in terms of personnel and material because Germany was right at the interface between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Together with the other NATO partners stationed in West Germany and on the other side with the GDR People's Army and the Soviet troops, more troops were concentrated in a narrow area in the entire German area than in the rest of the world. I am glad that this time has passed since 1990. I did my military service in Northern Germany from 1969 to 1971 and our barracks was 1.5 km from the inner-German border. It was not a pleasant feeling when someone shouted at night "ALAAARRM" because someone in the Kreml farted again (lol).

French!

Quote from Solzhenytsin, (sp?) "Governments need victories, peoples need defeats." Not always true! But worth thinking about re Europe in the 20th Century.

Good laugh Germans we asked where they liked to live, French sector for Food American Sector For White goods British sector For Ever.

What do you expect...do you know what the Nazis did in the Eastern Front?

And now disappearing in their own country. Been to Frankfurt recently?

cwb0051 GOD BLESS GERMANY AND THE WHOLE WORLD!

wp r LOL

@Daniel S For the what?

Waterloo 1815....Franco Prussian War 1871...…..Near defeat in 1917.....True defeat in 1940...…..Indochina.....1954...….Algeria.....1962.Five out of six ain't bad......in a hundred and forty seven years. Let's see, a little further back in time......Canada in 1762.....Louisiana the same year......Haiti in 1799...….oh...and Mexico....1863 or 1864....withthe execution of Maximillian...…..it's a pretty fine record.....

@@brucemarsico6 Yes the French ARE losers (where's the Crimean War?) but go on and you'll find that ALL western countries are...losers.

No Germany is a really powerful country one of the most powerful countries that have ever existed so respect I'm french 😎🇩🇪💪

Actually the only lost world war 1 and 2

Wholly different society and culture.

Uhh...we tried. Too many terrorist insurgents and factional disputes. See here the Germans are patient and cooperative. They know how to work and build a better future.

Because they’re backwards and tribal people

I do not hate Germany and have worked with Germans throughout my career.

No it's 2946

Wasn't U.S. policy still pretty vengeful ("Let 'em starve.") in 1946, not as benevolent as this video indicates.

@@adammosel4895 US policy towards Germany in 1946 was still very naive. They still believed that all Germans are Nazis and that there are still werewolves who want to keep fighting. It should also not be forgotten that the war only ended in Europe, in the Pacific it lasted 5 months. There was also a ban on fraternization, but that didn't last long because at some point the GI's no longer bothered about it. 40 percent of the US population at that time consisted of people with German roots who also had a certain amount of political influence internally in order to normalize the relationship with the German civilian population. Another important reason to stabilize (West) Germany as quickly as possible was the emerging Cold War with the USSR. There were also very strong Communist parties in Italy and France, supported by Moscow. It could not be ruled out that these countries could become unstable. The US needed a stable bulwark against communism in Europe.

Well he would say that wouldn't he?

john mcdonald said a guy who was a vicious war monger himself.

A leopard can’t change it spots. Brexit now

Churchill was a drunken sot

@@kentcyclist Countries/nations are not leopards. But the brexit fiasco might tempt one to wonder if England is:-(

I didn't see any in Germany when I was there, but they were just being integrated into the army during the fall/winter of 1948 so it was doubtful they would be sent back over. During the early 50's, integration was swift, especially during the Korean War. I remember the early to middle 1950's, the Air Force was working hard at integration and it appeared to be very smooth.

@@suzanneterrey4499 I did see one colored MP I think, at the Nurmberg trials. He was standing at the back of the courtroom, maybe behind the prisoners. I really cant remember but I did see him at the Nurmberg trials. That is what led me to thinking about it. I don't think Nazis would take to kindly being bossed around by folk of color.

*Yes...and then they were released!* *'Auschwitz was actually the size of small village consisting of Camps 'A'& 'B'...'B' was 'Birkenau'...there were over SIX-THOUSAND 'SS' assigned to Auschwitz in rotating shifts/days-off/sick-leave, etc. as well as 'transfers' etc. & out of those thousands, less than 10 were hanged*

Hal 9000 didn’t ask

Like illegal state of Israeli troops abusing innocent Palestinian people

They found space to imprison them amidst the MILLIONS(BILLIONS???) of DEAD BODIES! Truly The most amazing miracle!

El Grande karma is a bitch

I don't think there is a second country in the world that has come to terms with its dark history like Germany. Have Great Britain, France, Belgium or the Netherlands ever grappled with their dark past of colonialism? Has the US come to terms with its dark history of slavery and the genocide of indigenous peoples? Did Denmark or Sweden come to terms with their dark history when they terrorized half of Northern Europe? I don't even want to talk about Russia and the USSR and how much sacrifice the Bolsheism and Communism cost. No, nobody did that because dark German history distracts so nicely from one's own dark history. If you point one finger at Germany, you forget that you are pointing four fingers at yourself. Apart from that, no German or citizen of any other country can be responsible for what happened more than 75 years ago. But it would be more honest to admit that almost every country has many dirty stains on its white vest.

@@callsigndd9ls897 ....WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!

"Their" wars...??? My God, what a gullible inocent you are !

Not really. These events happened long ago and dont effect the conscience of germans today

The kid? lol

Actually, he was listed as 'missing in action' at the end of WW I...

Yes. Especially in terms of thousands of muslims on the streets.

Exactly! ... although I'm not sure how the Austro-Prussian War started, but that was a war between Austria and its allied German states and Prussia and its allied German states and it was in 1866, 81 years before 1947. Per the Franco-Prussian War, the "mass dementia" for war was coming from the French press and public over a perceived insult. Anyway, because of their hurt feelings, France launched that war.

@Mor Dor The French government surrendered in 1941 and unsurrendered in 1944 after D-Day when the war was almost over.

Churchill was afraid the U.S. would withdraw from Europe and didn't want Britain facing the U.S.S.R. alone,

Well they certainly wouldn't praise what their ancestors did, would they? They're probably embarrassed.