The Problems with the Berlin Airlift

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The Berlin Airlift: this animated history video explains why the Airlift was a critical part of German history.
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This is a work of nonfiction with one important exception: Erika is meant as stand-in for the children of Berlin. The opening scene is a dramatization (in fact, a lot of Berlin’s bombing happened in daylight). However, the final story with the Teddy Bear comes from a real interview with Gail Halvorsen, and is the inspiration for Erika (Source 9 in description).
As always, sources for factual claims are numbered within the subtitles.
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Sources (links upon request)
1. Alexandra Richie, ‘Faust’s Metropolis: a History of Berlin’
2. Roger G. Miller, ‘To Save a City, The Berlin Airlift’
3. Bettina Greiner, ‘Suppressed Ter - ror: History and Perception of Soviet Special Camps in Germany’
4. Ann and John Tussa, ‘The Berlin Airlift’
5. Andrei Cherny, ‘The Candy Bombers’
6. Robert Jackson, ‘The Berlin Airlift’
7. BBC, “Fact File: Big Week, 20 to 25 February 1944”
8. Sportpalast speech 1943 (link upon request)
9. HistoryNet, “Interview with Gail Halvorsen”
10. *Reading to accompany sources 1&3 * Wikipedia “NKVD special camps in Germany 1945-49”
11. *Reading to accompany sources 1&3 * Wikipedia “Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union”
12. American Experience ‘The Berlin Airlift’
13. (also sourced in 1 & 4) Berlin state election, 1946. Wikipedia.
14. Britannica, ‘Marshall Plan’
15. Arthur Percy, ‘Berlin Airlift’
16. Avi Shlaim, ‘The United States and the Berlin Blockade’
17. Helena Schrader, ‘Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift’
18. Truman Library, ‘Oral History Interview with Lucius D. Clay’
19. GHDI ‘City Councilor Ernst Reuter Appeals to the "People of the World"’
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@HAMBUTTFACE457 5 лет назад

Girls cry over Twilight and Titanic Men cry over *THE PROBLEMS WITH THE BERLIN AIRLIFT* *Crying intensifies*

@Asehpe 5 лет назад

If you think gender is involved, you haven't really paid attention to the video.

@whoareyou1034 5 лет назад

@@Asehpe I think it was a joke. I mean who really cries for any of that stuff lol? Edit: People say they cried here so I take this back.

@luispittairline339 5 лет назад

@@Asehpe M8 issa Joke r/whooosh

@Maxcraft12 5 лет назад

I cried

@14kslacker 5 лет назад

THE FEELS MAYN!

@NotHPotter 5 лет назад

I'm speechless. This was absolutely phenomenal.

@miksuko 5 лет назад

you're not speechless then you liar...

@guanche011 5 лет назад

pff... I'm not crying, you are crying. Now excuse me while I go hug my son.

@NotHPotter 5 лет назад

Seriously

@mkj161996 5 лет назад

So what if I'm crying, I can cry.

@votecthulhu9378 5 лет назад

same q-q

@EibaProductions 5 лет назад

Wow, simply wow. This mini-documentary is so full and rich of details, it is marvelous. I have learned in school about the airlift, which was transfered such as a "normal thing". You brought in life and the fate of the Berlin people, and that was really touching

@jcl6861 Год назад

The guy is either lying or misinformed. He didn't mention anything about unilateral financial reform by the western governments done on July 20th, in violation of potstdam accords. It is as response to now obsolete money flooding eastern zone from the western zone that the soviets closed the border on July 24th. Totally changes the story too.

@WanderlustZero 5 лет назад

I'm proud to say my Grandad was part of this - a 17 year-old kid who ran away from home in Southern Ireland to go and join the RAF, and accidentally ended up in the middle of a superpower crisis. He once told me about a friend he made, a German policeman, who accidentally ended up walking back into the turning prop of an Avro York...

@jcl6861 Год назад

The guy is misinformed. He didn't mention anything about unilateral financial reform by the western governments done on July 20th, in violation of potstdam accords. Obsolete money flooded the eastern zone - and only then soviets closed the border on July 24th. Totally changes the story. Some weird cover up going on In the media where there these events are shown as unrelated.

@NiklasFranGoteborg 5 лет назад

That last part broke me. My eyes are watering

@techhelpportal7778 4 года назад

Same

@mystilik 5 лет назад

Damnit, I'm tearing up a bit...great video dude~

@TILR 5 лет назад

I know right, shows the human spirt in its full :)

@sarkhan_guy 5 лет назад

Mystilik Mew me as well. *sheds manly tear* Me as well.

@codenamehalo9847 5 лет назад

anyone here on the communist side? or Democratic

@Ge3daReal 5 лет назад

the last part broke me, im going to hug my dad and mom now

@Emblazened 5 лет назад

I'm the same dude.

@aapelikahkonen 5 лет назад

Oh man, not only was this video super informative, I also got some serious mist in my eyes at the end. Superb work as always!

@GerackSerack 5 лет назад

Glad to know I was not the only one deeply touched by this video.

@LoopysLeftovers 5 лет назад

So, I wasn’t the only one.

@doyouknowdawae1343 5 лет назад

Damn onions ;(

@RoyRogerer 5 лет назад

As a foreigner residing in Berlin for over 10 years, this was particularly touching and a good lesson to where, what I have so far observed here, comes from. The Berliner identity is particular strong and uniting when it comes to hardships, though often times it is not apparent, because of big city mentality, where everybody seems indifferent to each other in daily life. I hear from families of friends how their grandparents would, even to this day, not waste a single thing, and we can see where it comes from. It was an act of solidarity that made this possible. Had there been a free for all, this would not have been possible. I just want to add, the people who worked hard for the survival of democratic Berlin are not forgotten, they are at least remembered as street names. Clayallee, Ernst Reuter Platz, Platz der Luftbruecke etc. Now I finally know where these street names come from.

@rufusmills6931 5 лет назад

I've never read about people crying in the comments of a RU-vid video before, I've never cried in front of a RU-vid video before.. this truly is special stuff, congratulations

@markwelschmeyer2426 5 лет назад

then you must spend your time the wrong end of youtube. i recommend The History Guy.

@andyward2794 5 лет назад

Thank you for an exceptional video. Thought provoking and insightful. As a Brit, I have a close affinity with Berlin as I have worked there many times over the years. From the early nineties In have witnessed a truly remarkable reconstruction of a historical city. I have flown into the hastily constructed Tegel airport and the East German Schönefeld airport. I was present for the final commercial flight from Tempelhof in 2008 and it is this airport and your remarkable video sealed my appreciation the greatness of my father and his generation. My father was not a politician or a man of influence, he was born in New York, too young to serve in the Second World War, his training with the 8th Airforce found him stationed at RAF Burtonwood in the U.K. A long with countless other unsung American service personnel he contributed to the massive logistical feat of suppling the besiege city of Berlin. Sadly my father passed away before I truly understood the significance of the utterances of an the 'old man'. It is now when I work in Berlin, a buzzing, friendly, welcoming and unified metropolis, that I feel proud of my father, his colleagues and their achievements of 70 years ago. Keep up the excellent posts William.

@chetpomeroy1399 5 лет назад

I really teared up about the little girl who wanted to give her old Teddy bear, that saved her life during the war, to that nice U.S. serviceman.

@williamcfox 5 лет назад

Click for free trial of the Great Courses Plus: ow.ly/vQwN30l6iQ4 This is a work of nonfiction with one important exception: Erika is meant as stand-in for the children of Berlin. The opening scene is a dramatization (in fact, a lot of Berlin’s bombing happened in daylight). However, the final story with the Teddy Bear comes from a real interview with Gail Halvorsen, and is the inspiration for Erika (Source 9 in description). As always, sources for factual claims are numbered within the subtitles. @williamcfox

@Neymarinet 5 лет назад

Dude come on, you can't just go running around making grown men cry like this. Outstanding video.

@johnnybadboy3475 5 лет назад

Oh boy this is like the oscars but for nerds Edit: this was written during the premiere

@TheRealVoiceOfReason 5 лет назад

Is it weird that this video gave me tears?

@NotHPotter 5 лет назад

Not a bit.

@EduardoEscarez 5 лет назад

I'm crying now...

@RyanLynch1 5 лет назад

me too almost...

@joshuab2926 5 лет назад

Nope, I'm right there with you

@numbereightyseven 5 лет назад

No. It's not weird.

@DrewPicklesTheDark 5 лет назад

Oh Berlin, from misery, to degeneracy, to hyper-nationalism, to strength and unity, to self-loathing, all within the span of a century. This was an interesting story, you hear a lot about the war, and politics after it, but you don't really hear too often about the actual events that took place after it.

@JK03011997 5 лет назад

I am now sitting here with tears in my eyes and I can't say that happens a lot. Admittedly, being German and growing up with stories of post war Germany. My Grandfather and his wife were in Berlin at the time, freshly reunited after he was released from being a british POW. They told me they had to search for coal in the rubble, and sometimes even stole it from train cars. They told me how the hunger in the "Hungerwinter"s 46/47 and 47/48 was nearly matched by the harsh rationing in Berlin with all of them being next to unbearable. They showed me pictures of street corners before and after the war. They didn't speak about those who they lost during and shortly after the war, but they didn't need to for me to know. What I could never fathom was how one could have any hope for a better future after having grown up in the rubble of a war, being indoctrinated into a beliefsystem, having ones world and values completely destroyed and finding oneself again in the rubble of a horrible war with a party pulling the same strings as the one you had trust in when you were a teenager. I honestly don't know how or why those Berliners were able to see so optimistically into the future that they seemed so surprised (and maybe even slightly offended?) by the reporter asking whether they would vote. Especially since for many, including my grandfather 1946 was the first time in their live that they were going to have say in their future.

@tismon112 5 лет назад

Jonas Kr. mean it's only fair.. they watched carelessly when they killed 6 million people and raped 2/3 of Europe? Starving for some time is only fair.

@cocidy 5 лет назад

those were civilians

@tismon112 5 лет назад

Lol.. and so were the victims of Germany.. I mean the party boasted about it. The Germans knew what they were doing

@JK03011997 5 лет назад

@simon meski Still, civilians should be off limits. The world wars were messy though, and civilians were targeted in strategic bombardment by all sides. But that should be taken as an excuse to retaliate after the war ends. Besides I am pretty sure punishing Germans wasn't the Soviet's goal, if that were the case they would have starved their part of Berlin, too. I am pretty sure this video even went into the details of the reasons for cutting supplies. But just to make sure my point didn't get diluted too much: Targeting civilian populations is just appalling, doing so in peace time even more so.

@Fulllife3.2 5 лет назад

@@tismon112 A wrong against another wrong doesn't make a right,it just makes a double wrong.

@jonathanthomas7228 5 лет назад

Your video just nearly brought me to tears. Well done, sir. My grandfather flew during and after the war. Thank you for recognizing these brave and wonderful pilots.

@hardcorehardo 5 лет назад

Berlin is a very special city. Many Foreigners dont understand that and when anyone asks me why, in the future i shall send them a link to this video.

@welshlad6427 4 года назад

Hardocore I ❤️ Berlin.

@bartreardon5197 5 лет назад

I wasn't going to say anything but after watching I read the other comments - I'll admit that the end of this had me choked up - super informative and a part of WWII history I had maybe a passing knowledge of framed by the story of the girl with her toy bear. Excellent writing and presentation. Thank you.

@catcherinthesky4106 5 лет назад

I wonder where we have to go back in Russian history to find morality, ethics and care about their own and other people? Before Rurik? Never?

@bdsteffen0217 5 лет назад

You can tell this video is so amazing, gives so much detail, and makes it so human that a man who barely cries, not even during funerals starts to tear up from this video telling the suffering of these people he's never met or knew about.

@edwinku5651 2 года назад

Its been 3 years and now im sad that this video is still a hidden gem of RU-vid

@peletsoivre9110 5 лет назад

There is one last french pilot alive today who made the airlift in 1948, he had an amazing carrier during WW2 and the cold. When he will die, I'll feel so bad.

@Strothy2 5 лет назад

My Grandma was in Berlin 1945 when the Russian came. After the city was sacked and the Russians began to plunder and rape the city, she and her mother hid away in a pile of coal that was transformed into a makeshift cave for three days straight. Her sister was so afraid of cellars that she rather hid upstairs, needless to say that being a young 15y old German Fräulein at that time in history was quite bad. My Grandma did not talk about those until her 87 birthday... really tells you how much horror those people had to endure. She never had to witness the Airlift or the occupation of the city she like many other families fled Berlin after the shooting and raping had stopped.

@LogieT2K 5 лет назад

The image of the b-17 at 2:26 is a example of the risks of flying bomber in ww2, the plane has just hand is horizontal stabiliser destroyed as it stray in the path of the plane aboved bomb, another hit that plane directly and destroyed it taking the lives if. all ten of the men onboard. I know that this is nothing compared to the suffering they inflicted on the ground but i feel like its forgotten that bomber crews had the highest mortality rate of all branches of the military in the second world war. Thanks for taking the time to read, RIP to all casualties of that devastating conflict

@TheOwlGilga 5 лет назад

Damn your writing, your video quality from design choice to clips displayed your narration and research, everything is perfect. Keep up the amazing videos I always look forward to new ones. Thanks from Germany!

@SticksTheFox 5 лет назад

Im so impressed with this mini-documentary. Its so full of rich detail and research. I genuinely learned something about a past so close. Thank you!

@dennissvitak148 5 лет назад

Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen, the "Candy Bomber" of 1948, stayed in the US Air Force. In 1971, I went to Berlin as a 15 year old dependent, singing in our Wiesbaden (HQ USAF Europe) High School choir, for a massive music festival in Berlin. My host family were the Halvorsens. In 1971, then Lt. Halvorsen was now full Colonel Halvorsen, the US Air Force Commander at Templehof. To say that he was liked and respected by the Germans is a vast understatement. My link to history! Brilliant move by our Air Force.

@olanmcevoy8581 5 лет назад

Best one yet, thank you as always for making these!

@nicolek4076 5 лет назад

At risk of being accused of Anti-American sentiment, the Berlin Airlift was started unilaterally by the RAF. Later the US authorities saw the value of it and expanded it into a supply line that saved the population of West Berlin.

@williamcfox 5 лет назад

Not disagreeing, I just hadn't seen that in anything I read. USAF and RAF did some flying in of supplies before the blockade, but TIL if the RAF was technically 1st. Thanks for writing

@xavierrodriguez2463 5 лет назад

Nothing wrong with having anti-american sentiment.

@BizzarFish1 5 лет назад

A chunk of the footage you showed were of the AVRO York ( based off the Lancaster bomber) The AVRO York was primarily used for the transportation of coal, and contributed around 1 million tones of resources (coal, food ETC.) there were around 7 RAF squadrons that used the AVRO York from 1948 to 1949, most of the Yorks used in the airlift were then sold off for civilian use, and the coal dust from the airlift was found in their fuselages when they were scrapped due to airframe fatigue problems. Admittedly as regards to you not being able to find stuff there are a lot of books around containing information but i don't thing many of them were widely available, since i have access to the AVROHeritage museum archives (A museum where i volunteer) i can get more information that was not released to the general public. feel free to ask me stuff in future if you are featuring AVRO aircraft, reasonable documentary keep up the good work.

@Jt-fx8tl 5 лет назад

@le254athe6rbe3lt if you go to the United Kingdom they will mostly talk about England's history if you go to Italy it will talk about Italys history if you go to Zimbabwe they will mostly talk about Zimbabwes history

@22steve5150 5 лет назад

Britain tended to come up with the big ideas and then get America to go along back then. I prefer to think of the 1940's-1950's UK-US partnership as a kind of "master-blaster" arrangement (If you've seen Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, you'll get my meaning), one provides the brains and one provides the raw power!

@welshlad6427 4 года назад

Have heard of this story but never really known the full story. Absolutely amazing and so humbling.

@berlineczka 5 лет назад

9:13 Elbe does not flow through Berlin. The river's name is Spree.

@stirbjoernwesterhever6223 3 года назад

Yeah, but the Spree is conected to the Elbe, otherwise you wouldn't get through to Hamburg.

@henktl3580 5 лет назад

Amazing storytelling. Great video as always.

@e42musi 5 лет назад

Outstanding video! Moved me to tears... keep up the good work William.

@GeorgeSemel 5 лет назад

Stalin made a huge miscalculation on that one, See, unlike the Soviet Union the United States had the airplanes the fuel and the Pilots along with our friends made it work. And work it did once things got organized. The German provided the Aircraft Mechanics to work on the aircraft. It also taught us some things that are still in use today, we take overnight air freight for granted, The Berlin Airlift showed us how to do it. It was also the high watermark for the then new USAF. During the war, it was the USAAF. Became a separate service. They put out a request for a new transport plane, the specs were to include all the lessons learned during the lift, Lockheed came up with the C-130, a legendary aircraft.

@QemeH 5 лет назад

Listen, I don't want to be disrespectful. As a german I fully recognise the gigantuan effort the western allies put into our country. But the big miscalculation here was not about military strength, not even about weather the west would have the determination it took. The big mistake was to underestimate the people of Berlin. They had lived under a brutal dictator for more than a decade and they weren't about to let it be done to them again. The western allies correctly called the war "liberating germany" (from it's own government, let's not forget that), while the soviet union waged war on the entire population.

@Brakvash 5 лет назад

17:29 This story moved me to the point of tears.

@marcusvarley6445 5 лет назад

I've never watched a RU-vid video that has brought a tear to my eye until I watched this. Good job, man. Amazing work.

@pjofs 5 лет назад

Great video! Subscribed and I have the feeling I will watch alot more of your videos.

@marieloewel6284 5 лет назад

Such a good video!! I really like the illustrations :)

@berend4983 5 лет назад

Thanks for making these amazing quality videos! Truly fantastic.

@industrialborn 5 лет назад

the quality of your videos is only geting better and better

@TheNavalAviator 5 лет назад

It's funny that the Berliners built the Tegel airport, which still runs today, under blockade and ahead of time, while Berlin these days is currently unable to finish the airport Brandenburg.

@brando9031 5 лет назад

Incredible video as always. Keep it up my man.

@LeLyfa 5 лет назад

That's very touching because it's a very similar story to the one of my own grandmother, except that their mother didn't want my grandmother, to eat those candies, because she thought, that they were poisoned. Thank you very much for this Video.

@markusraat818 5 лет назад

The best video I have seen in months. Thank you! Liked and subscribed

@LameWolff 5 лет назад

I'm watching this on Christmas eve. Humbling. Merry Christmas all.

@gnothseed8135 5 лет назад

Thank you for making quality content!

@dj33036 5 лет назад

My father was a pilot that flew C-47s during the Berlin Airlift.

@paradoxicalpanda7954 5 лет назад

You have an amazing ability when it comes to telling stories.

@Bhoenix 5 лет назад

The practice of dropping packets of candy has given the planes used in the airlift a teling nickname: Rosinenbomber, or raisin bomber.

@mindbomb9341 5 лет назад

Best treatment of the Berlin Airlift I have ever seen. Good job.

@JurijFedorov 5 лет назад

Amazing episode. Such a great job! Also, The Big Lift (1950) is interesting to watch if you want to see more of post war Berlin.

@carsonm682 5 лет назад

Sounds like extra credits, but you did go into more detail than them and there wasn't endless information to go over so good video!

@GregTingey 5 лет назад

A REMINDER The airlift was STARTED by the British - as an experiment later taken up by the US - who had more planes, of course. But liquid fuel & salt had to be brought in by us (the Brtish) as we had specialist aircraft for that purpose ( Insulated tankers & flying boats respectively

@royrosales81 5 лет назад

Fantastic video, buddy. Thank you for sharing!

@adamg.5525 5 лет назад

I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this video. You never seem to hear about the Marshall plan these days, so it's great to see someone finally mention it. Great video, definitely subscribing for more.

@chenlee9835 5 лет назад

Wow! I've seen other videos on the Berlin Airlift and this one made me tear up. Great job!

@GunBuilt 5 лет назад

Well done you've earned yourself a new subscriber and I'm sure I'm not the only one

@expansivegymnast1020 5 лет назад

Loved this video! The Berlin Airlift is one of the few times that America's actions lived up to America's rhetoric.

@BoarVessel-BCEtruscanCer-xy7et 5 лет назад

I'd like to hear a about Soviet bombing raids. It's normally USAAF and Arthur "Fire up the Lancasters" Harris and the RAF. I've never heard about Soviet campaigns and German efforts to intercept them.

@Eliphas_Leary 5 лет назад

You are a great history teacher. Ever thought about telling the story of Conrad Schumann?

@klobiforpresident2254 5 лет назад

The guy who famously jumped the barbed wire? Do say, is there more to his story?

@QemeH 5 лет назад

And now you know, why JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" with such conviction and passion. During that time it truly was a statement that could compare only to "civis romanus sum".

@savedin98 5 лет назад

...you have talent...combining history and storytelling...great...

@theredhunter4997 5 лет назад

wow for some reason I feel like crying after watching this, great video, and I could really feel the emotion in it, thanks I love videos like this.

@Lucas-ku6gl 5 лет назад

incredible video thanks for prducing such great content for us

@jcm95 5 лет назад

Awesome video, great quality!

@rhysgriffiths3544 5 лет назад

That video was so emotional and well made, a truly great vid

@skiingcrocodile2153 5 лет назад

I didn't even remember I was subscribed to this channel, but i'm thanking past me for doing it

@hamzahiahmed 5 лет назад

I love the quality of your work, keep it up

@jogl.8595 5 лет назад

I'm writing a history paper about Berlin in the cold war. The Airlift was one of my first topics and judging your video based on my information from my university books, it is realy accurate. I realy like the way your presented this important moment of German history. I'm German and we learned in school about the Airlift but not that accurate. I had to look up information about this incident my self. Your videos are awesome I realy like them, keep up that quality of your content :D

@dennissvitak148 5 лет назад

William Henry Tunner was the General in charge of the Burma Airlift, during WW2. This was a massive operation, carrying thousands of tons of equipment to the Nationalist Chinese, over the Himalayas, or, "the hump." This is where Tunner gained the expertise in mass airlifts.

@hecade704 5 лет назад

this made me tear up and I cried quietly for a while... thank you

@KathyXie 5 лет назад

I cried so much in the last part, and looks like I wasn't the only one

@silverdon55 5 лет назад

I know this story. Yet it never fails to make me tear up. Even more critical example today.

@vsiegel 5 лет назад

I have tears in my eyes. I was born long after the war, in Berlin, and I love Berlin.

@yeetiusmaximuss 5 лет назад

The teddy bear part at the end got me. Goes to show that todays foe can be tomorrows friend.

@DieAlteistwiederda 5 лет назад

Even today walking through Berlin as a visitor is a bit surreal because you can see to this day where the wall was. You see East German street lamps, traffic lights and street signs on one street and the next its all West German stuff. It gets harder to see this today but in this small stuff you can still see it if you know what you are looking for and looking at. I was born in Leipzig in 1992 so I never knew the GDR/East Germany other than from stories but I still saw a lot of stuff that took a few more years to phase out.

@Zorn27 5 лет назад

Fantastic video ☺️

@HaydenLau. 5 лет назад

It's love across boundaries that achieve great things, not irrational hate just because you were told to

@VinylIsForever 5 лет назад

glad to read the comment section and realize i wasn't the only guy who got a few tears in their eyes :D this was incredible, you gained a subscriber

@stonedcaterpillar3342 5 лет назад

This was a great video dude

@user-nh7my6gg5b 5 лет назад

As a child of Americans stationed in Germany, all our German neighbors would throw candy out the window at me and my brothers as we walked back home from school. I wonder if it had to do with this?

@QemeH 5 лет назад

Did this occur only at specific times during the year? Because there are some traditional holidays where kids get sweets, fuits (precious goods!) and sometimes even a little money - kinda like the american "trick or treat" on halloween. If not.. well, it might well have been a way to show appreciation to the allied forces and to make them feel welcome (which is kind of a touchy subject if you're technically occupying a foreign country).

@The_Engie 5 лет назад

Circumstances surrounding the leadup to the airlift are from the start of the video to 10:15 , at which point the direct explanations of the airlift begin.

@Corey_Brandt 5 лет назад

That was a great video! Kind of threw me off though when there was a GCP plug in at the end.

@redneckraconteur 5 лет назад

My father flew in the Berlin Airlift. Thank you for this. I learned things I didn't know.

@blainerdude1217 5 лет назад

I love this vid. Keep up the good work.

@Violent2aShadow 5 лет назад

It's not every day that I find a video where I'm crying by the end.

@nathnathn 5 лет назад

Amazing work.

@danieldawson7443 5 лет назад

Brilliant video. Thank you very much

@Anthony-wk9sb 5 лет назад

Great content as per usual

@mickey811 5 лет назад

Well done, what a great video

@heavyweaponsguy21 5 лет назад

Great vid!

@rohansaxena4751 5 лет назад

A very inspiring story of endurance

@jacksonfrost7790 5 лет назад

The artwork in this video is super great!!!

@Vampirzaehnchen 5 лет назад

I've seen this question in the chat: "Gautham Gopakumaran Quick question: Who came up with the idea for the Berlin Airlift?" If I didn't learn wrong, it was Lucius D. Clay.

@danielbat9887 5 лет назад

This video and the Berlin Wall are great. I watched the whole thing with a big smile. Indeed, no amount of tyranny and aggression can break the spirit of free people. Amazing work and I'm excited for more.

@PiousMoltar 5 лет назад

A smile? Most of us are crying

@juliannolten8975 5 лет назад

absolutely astounding, great job.

@SA-5247 2 года назад

This was a great video!

@jcl6861 Год назад

The guy is either lying or misinformed. He didn't mention anything about unilateral financial reform by the western governments done on July 20th, in violation of potstdam accords. It is as response to now obsolete money flooding eastern zone that soviets closed the border. Totally changes the story too.