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It's still crazy to think this really isn't that long ago

Don't forget that Russia also invaded Poland by mutual agreement with Germany.

My grandmother left Germany when she was 17 years old in 1932. She was the only one in her family to come to New York to settle in Hoboken NJ without knowing the language or anyone in this country. She is my hero. She was the sweetest woman I ever knew. She looked just like Mrs. Claus.. glasses and all. I will always be proud of her for her strength and courage. Love you Grandma. ❤️❤️❤️

When you realize that the lightning bolts on your grandpa's helmet doesn't mean he is an electrician:

Very nice, I have been studying ww2 for 45 years and there was some film here ive never seen before! Keep up the good work!

Sad how while the Germans in these clips were getting on with life millions of Indians in India were suffering a famine due to British Policy. At the same time 6M Ukrain's were also starving to death due to Stalin Policies. The world has always been a right mess.

I hope people in America watch this and realize how fragile our freedom is . Anyone who follows a person who preaches hate and condones violence is against what America stands for.

All of this should be a serious part of education in schools through out the civilised world.

The commentator is amongst the best most linguistic cultured I heard in the last 30 / 40 years - as an American commentator - greetings, appreciation and respect! Peace✌

Camera quality better than todays CCTV

Such important work you guys do. I really believe it's a lifesaving gift to humanity--we need to continue to look the realities in the face however difficult and always remember that we are all made of the same stuff and need to stay on guard against the potential evil within ourselves. Looking into this darkness will help us keep moving towards the light. Thanks again for making it possible.

Thank you, very much for this film. As an American, born in the 50's and living in Germany in the 70's I am fascinated by the history of this country. Although many of the scenes of this (and other films) I find extremely disturbing - I am convinced that they must be saved for posterity and document one of the very worst periods of western civilisation.

I can imagine back when I was in school if I watched this for a pop quiz or assignment I wouldn’t have taken interest in this at all. And knowing me I probably would’ve gotten a flat C grade too. But right now there’s an odd interest in seeing history for me. Something chilling about the past.

Nazis never annexed Austria. Both countries reunited in 1938. Most forgot, that Austria and all other German countries were part of Holy Roman Empire till 1812. From 1813 to 1866 they were part of the German Federation. Not only Hitler was jubilated by the crows in Vienna. Austrian tanks moved to Stuttgart and Munich and were also heartily welcomed by the crowds.

When you realized almost all the people you see there is already dead...

This is a fabulous glimpse into history! Thank you!

Correction: Nazi Germany AND the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. Yet war was only declared on Germany for some unknown reason?

Great film. Make sure that the historical revisionists don't decide that this film needs to be expunged for some reason as is currently being done with statues and books in this country. Who knows, someone in the near future may decide that we don't need to know what happened in Nazi Germany.

Thank You for sharing this amazing video! We must Never Forget!

Wish all the best for your mission. To remember is a way to fight the chance that this horror can happen again.

Amateur film has a unique quality to portray daily life and momentous events from a natural, almost innocent depiction of the image. This historic footage is chilling not because of ghastly pictures, rather an almost mundane record of events that were unfolding and were to become catastrophic for the world.

Change the Group names in 2020 and its History repeating itself.

I love how the bloke at the start of the film kisses both of the youngsters but gives the old girl a pat on the cheek.

No mention of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 from the east.

I visit this museum anytime I'm in Washington DC. If you get the chance, please go. I always keep my card of the victim you get when you arrive. When you leave you find out if you're a survivor or not. It's always an eye opening, sad visit. But only 84k subscribers! REALLY? Come on people. Learn from history or we're bound to repeat it.

"He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice!!!"

It makes one wonder why our greatest generation fought so hard, and then we see why!

Interesting. But these are the elites. Not ordinary people. Many ordinary germans went hungry, the narrator in the beginnig gives an idea that life was amazing for germans

"We defeated the wrong enemy" General Patton

Native Americans of the Americas went through some similar pains and jews cry for attention

"When I was a child, my family and I lived in lower Germany in the town of Eisenbrech. Our little town was in what was called the Black Forrest, next to the reservoir of Lake Schluchsee. There are many stories told about this area, and many of these stories contain more truth than you can imagine. As children in those days, we never wandered far from our homes unless our parents were with us and even then, never after dark. There were dark places, forbidden places, where nocturnal things were and people were not allowed. However, some of these creatures, these fabulous monsters, were not content to nap or stay away from us. Many of my sad memories are of other children, close friends, and even a cousin who disappeared into the night. Some were taken with a shout and others simply disappeared silently. Worse than these losses were cases where certain people, people who could not bear their losses, would arm themselves and go on the hunt for the dark creatures who stole the children. My parents did their best to shield our eyes from the horrors that followed ... the bags of blood left in the village square one morning, or the confusing symbols carved and scratched into the stone of distant buildings. These seemed to me to be warnings: to stay away, to spread terror and fear in us all. It all ended in a terrible night of fire when a small number of people returned after weeks of absence. Most were severely injured with deep scratches and bleeding from their ears and eyes. Just minutes after they collapsed from exhaustion, darkness began to flow into the town square from Forrest, seemingly stalking people and daring even our many torches and gaslights to go after them. I will never forget the monster who appeared then. It seemed to be a tall thin man. Impossibly skinny with long arms and legs that were very hard to distinguish from the trees in which he was hiding, watching us. From the trees and bushes around him flowed new figures, smaller and human-like, running toward us like madmen. The events that unfolded seem vague and blurry to me, they always have been. The night came alive around us with fire as the men of my village lit the trenches full of tar and pitch. When dawn finally came, I remember being numb with horror as I looked at the destruction my men had wrought on the surrounding Forrest, the charred debris and blackened remnants of trees in stark contrast to the morning gray fog and the glistening puffs of smoke thrown up by the fires. burning. No bodies were found to bury, and it seemed that we had defeated, or at least driven away, any attacking forces. As the years passed, no more children were taken, and while we, as humans, were glad of this, we remained vigilant and always cautious. On this day a celebration was celebrated, every year since then on the winter solstice, a feast to honor the slain and to honor the strange enemy we encountered. The elders of our city thought it a happy joke: to start putting on funny and scary masks during the celebration, to give a face to the great and tall faceless creature we all feared so much. It wasn't until many years later that something unusual happened again, when soldiers came to call young men to war and build a fortress in our neighborhood. Railroads were to be built to move supplies and troops for this war. It was on these railroads and trains that the Doctor arrived. "

Imagine if someone changes these films to color hd

this will never forget

Thank you everything about this is sheer quality history at its best

We need this footage and more like it. So we can see where it started going wrong. And when it starts to go off the rails. And learn from there.

after these past 60+ years, i still come upon pics I've never seen (maybe just don't remember)

Thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work. New subscriber here.

I wish one could find all these amateur films & clips in one place, arranged and sorted as they were filmed in order so one wouldnt have to see something twice. Probably loooads of hours but would still be fascinating. Does anyone know a more structured site (or a pysical place in the world) about this than RU-vid?

History repeats itself

Reminds me so much of modern day America.

I LIVED IN GERMANY FOR YEARS,I spoke to older germans even my german doctor, except for these same videos we see; Germany was like then as it is now. People going to work, kids going to school, weddings, etc.

Thank you for this important footage.

Very good video and clear narrative

Thank you for posting here from Italy 🙏

1:20 - This amateur film is an example of a rare size of movie film: 9.5mm. It had the sprocket holes in the center of the strip of film instead of along the edges, as was standard for other formats. 9.5mm movie film wasn't sold in the USA.

some of the footage in Poland looks more like Russian soldiers than German ? in the video it's around 10.30 on the time line

Super interesting video, thanks

Does anyone know anything about that cabinet they’re carrying at 10:24 ? I have a cabinet that looks exactly like that in my house. It has another piece that sits on top. I’ve tried looking for some similar cabinets online but I can’t find any that look exactly like that.

7:23 *man walking on the street casually dissapears*

The "boys"who let them increase the power should pay for this tragic war! May all the jews rest in peace!

Why is there barely any footage on RU-vid

I want to ask permission to use some video scenes for video content on my channel 🙏

This video gives insight into the slow methodical evolution of the holocaust that is often hard to depict. Thanks for sharing!

And to think we are on our way to this today

If you think Nazi regime was the worst, try living under the regime of the ' civilized ' British regime

Amazing footage, thanks for your hard work!

did you have films about comunist crimes in balkan and ost europe?!? Its the time of 1944 till 1992. thanks

When I was growing up, many of my friends parents and grandparents had numbers tattooed on their arms, which became visible, sometimes, when sleeves rode up.

Good reporting, good voice control.

Thank you for posting.

Thanks so much

Heartbreaking when we know where this all led

GOSH. THANKS. AS. LOTS. OF. HISTORY. HERE. &. GOOD. FILMING. AND. VOICE. !!

In the very first scene the narrator say the family Mercedes, but if you look at the emblem it’s not a Mercedes. Maybe a pierce arrow ? Anyone know ?

Devastating times of war 😭

My comments are being shadow banned.

It's disgusting...our country was involved , something to really think about....God bless us all.

What is up with the footage at 10:00 ? If the two shots are from the same camera then the woman has been washing her feet for ages and what exactly the guy with the axe is supposed to be doing is incomprehensible to me.

fascinating!!!

Heartbreaking to watch. Murderous, inhumane fiends. These murderers were monstrous abominations. Couldn't imagine what those people went through. Unimaginable!

Excelente material !!!!!!

It's interesting to note that Russia's role for the first 18 months of WW2 was as an ally of the Nazis. They invaded Poland a week after the Nazis as part of an agreement to divide Eastern Europe between them.

The vast! majority welcomed him back to his homeland...

Thanks for this.the ordinary at first then pure hitlerism after

i'm sorry but this video made me sleepy, at least you could've put some music between explanations

Thank You

I want to contribute but internet police and professionally insulted have actually made me think about what I say.....

"Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy!!!" (from the Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska; 300)

Why does the 'exit full screen button' kind of look like the swas stika?

@8:31 That woman had a lot of hutzpah trying to enter that store. I don't know that I would have been so courageous, given the potential consequences.

Because I am Greek and I know Greek history, swastika is not a hate symbol. It is exactly the opposite. And that's why Hitler used it for his propaganda. He wanted to be seen as the good right leader of the German citizens. The fact that even in Greece they tell you that you are a nazi because of this symbol, is just ridiculous and insult to our glorious history.

Excellent film footage.

Thanks for this

If you want to know what these films are cut the sound, the interpretation is mostly assumed and is incorrect.

I feel like zapping back in time and telling those people to bug out while they still had a chance. The SA, the propaganda on the streets, the graffiti, nazis were a militia with enough power to invade Poland, don't you see the signs? just drop everything right now and go man, just go.

Not a cellphone in sight

Jeez, I'm Jewish and when I saw the line of Jews in Austria trying to get visas I could only imagine what it would have been like to be unsure if I was going to make it out of the country knowing that if I didn't, it would mean almost certain death. I want to live every day honoring those Jews' legacies.

1:26 look I’m not judging I’m just confused as to the time period and that being a no no

It is easy to see how so many people went along with this.

The Germans actually defined themselves as 'Netsies'

Any ideology that holds ideas as greater than people could do this.

History is repeating itself god help us

تحياتي لك على مجهودك الرائع جدا جدا اسعد الله اوقاتك متألق في كل مكان وزمان من بغداد للغالين قناتكم متميزه وتعليق قمه التألق ربي يسعدك يارب

Such evilness.

Wow we are learning about this at school. :)

How can such a civilized society becomes so cruel against human race.

I grew up in a polish catholic and Germanic Jewish neighborhood in Omaha. It was mandatory lessons trust me we don’t forget.

None of this would have happened if Churchill did not demand war upon Germany. Teach that.

is this mikhaila peterson narrating?

Look at the ancient Persia Look at the modern Germany And you'll understand why they believed they're the Best.