I was 7 years old when the war ended in Europe. It was a bright chilly May morning in the Bronx and I asked my Mother why there were no celebrations , she said to me that we had to finish the war in the Pacific,then we would celebrate.
Notice at all of those French people waving American flags! They helped America gain its freedom hundreds of years earlier, we were able to help them regain their freedom hundreds of years later. Today, our nations both have large parts of our populations that are devoid of these facts, unthankful for each other's contributions to their current freedoms and as thus choose to hate over petty political issues instead embracing our historical bonds of friendship.
@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 Oh ok, that's why France has had annual memorials and celebrations honoring the American, British and Canadian men that lost their lives freeing france from the Nazi's. You can hate historical truth all you want, but that won't change it! People like yourself spend your entire lives willfully blind of any truth that doesn't fit the narrative you want to believe. Let me tell you, that is not truth, that is living in a delusion!
Usual cheap style of American propaganda. Very cheap people. Nazis didn't acted in this cheep indecent way, because this was only American, British, Soviet and french "GALLENTRY" style.
@Abdur Rasheed As things turned out, the Nazis didn't get opportunity to make propaganda films at the end of the war. Of course, they certainly produced a lot of them before and during the war... but none at the conclusion! If they HAD, I doubt if we'd see films of the Danes, Belgians, Dutch , Poles, and the French cheering them. Do you?
Thanks for the video, especially those who compiled them.May those who sacrificed their lives rest in peace May God have mercy on those who caused this catastrophe.
I was born in 1957. Scary to think just one dozen years after the war. Literally all my relatives served in the military. Great Uncle Nick was sergeant and landed at Normandy. My Dad turned 18 in Jun 45. He joined the Navy, trained as a LST driver and made it to California and was about to get over to the Pacific to support the invasion of Japan when the A bomb dropped and the war ended. His brother, my uncle was in the first US occupied forces that went into Japan. My grandfather who actually was born in Greece served in WW I. I was just old enough to start really wondering about the Vietnam war and the draft. Then that war ended. In 1982 I joined the Air Force. Left as a Captain
@@Shadowz196 Lies? What lies? I once saw a more protracted recording of the proceedings of the surrender at Soviet headquarters. Keitel arrogantly displayed the baton of a Field Marshal before signing the surrender, and after the counter-signatures the other participants abandoned him as if he were a vile insect. In seventeen months and nine days Keitel would strangle while dangling .for his crimes against humanity.
A fabulous book about being a child living the Burchgardens during the war and witnessed the American invasion. It's called "On Hitlers Mountain" by Irmgard A. Hunt. who lived there as a child under Nazi Germany. Her mother was pro Nazi, she tells about the education of children, joining the Hitler youth group etc. Three other eye witness books worth reading are "In the Garden of Beast" written by Eric Larson, and "The Nazi Officer's Wife", Edith Hahn Beer, who was a Jew that was able to pass as a German that married a German Officer even though he knew she was Jews. And "Berlin Diaries 1940 to 1945, by Marie Vassiltchikov a Lithuanian princess living and working in Berlin and working for the Nazi resistance. All of them are great insights of life in Nazi Germany. It's easy to find books on the war but good individual accounts aren't as easy to find. I praise for all four of this books.
Purtroppo siamo nella 3 guerra mondiale finanziaria dichiarata dalla Germania ..come disse nel 1945 il primo ministro inglese Winston Churchill , la Germania andrebbe bombardata ogni 20 anni ...aveva ragione !!!
At 4.36, Karl Hermann Frank of Czechoslovakia is described incorrectly as the former Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank: both of them were strung up.
@@fifthbusiness1678 Some may do but those called "the fogotten army" were called it for a reason. There was going to be bell ringing on 6/5/20 to commemorate the end of the war in Europe. Thankfully it was cancelled because of coronavirus. However I wonder how my late uncle would have felt had he not died as a result of attrocities in Asia during the war.
Let me tell you. The victors were generous with a defeated Germany. Would you imagine, how if Germany was the winner, after the all violence they did?.
Probably the best comment! It is another question whether they deserve this generosity! In my opinion, they should have been punished much more harder. Much, much, much... harder. But of course I'm biased because they murdered my grandpa and other relatives as well as the relatives of millions of other Poles. In addition, they ruined my country completely ... they are really lucky that Poland did not have the power to punish them. Oh, something else in the meantime, the western propaganda is spreading that they have been liberated and not defeated and occupied. In this link for example there is talk of the liberation of the German city of Munich April 30th 1945 and not of an occupation, which would be historically correct. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UHn5RyaW3kc.html If we contradict, then we Poles are the falsifiers of history.If we Poles also defend ourselves against the fact that Poles are accused of Holocaust, just because certain Poles have committed crimes and we say that the Nazination was actually responsible. Because without them there would have been no war and no genocide. It should not be forgotten that they committed not only one genocide, but various genocides. But this is in fact never remembered. Anyway, if we defend ourselves against such allegations, then we are the very evil history falsifiers. In the meantime they dare to speak of Polish death camps. If we then fight back, then it was a oversight. Strange, they never say accidentally Jews camps . They would not dare make such slip of the tongue. These liars!
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Yes, you're right. Poland was a main victim of the destruction and violence, as the russians were too. I think it's unfair to put blames on the polish people, cause as you point out, there could been some, only a few who collaborated with the nazis, most suffered in their hands.
@@aromero385 well facts speak for themselvs , there were Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland , but aside that Polish people suffered the most because they got betrayed by everyone , even their own soldiers got stabbed in back by Russians so called "allies" , just wonder what would be the outcome if Poland would let pass through their land to beat bolseviks or even would have joined the axis.
I was Born Sept. 1st, 1958 exactly 19 years after it Had begun on Sept 1st 1939. When Germany Attacked Poland. My Mother's, older Brother was USAAC, Her future Brother in Law was USA Tank Corp, Her & Her Older Sister. Both Worked in the Ship Yard's, as Welder's during the War yrs. My own Father was exempt of Military Service? Due to a Hearing Problem, suffered as a Teenager. He worked in the Oil n Gas Industry His Entire Lifetime. Thank You so much for Sharing these Great Reminders. Of those Turbulent Year's. As Time Marches Ever Onward? Even More So, it Seems? We need to be Reminded from Time to Time. Wyo, Robert, 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🤔👀👀🤔👍🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fieldmarshal von Keitel was signing his own death sentence at this surrender though he may not have realized it at the time. He'd eventually be tried and convicted for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and hung. Due to a miscalculation by the hangman, he underestimated Keitel's weight so when he dropped, the weighting was insufficient to kill him instantly by snapping his neck. Instead, Keitel ended up dangling for over a minute or more slowly and painfully strangulating. Also, this was the second formal surrender of the German army and state. The first was signed by Fieldmarshal Jodl at General Eisenhower's HQ further west, but Stalin wanted a final surrender in Berlin where Zhukov and the Russian High Command would take center stage. So the Americans and the British agreed to the second surrender.
@@hoodatdondar2664 Worst is totally appropriate! Considering the 50 million deaths in Europe from various genocides and the effects of war. Whereby millions of children were murdered and the genocides were partly met with industrial means! This was not only the fault of the German Nazi government, but actually of the entire German nation, because the overwhelming majority of Germans had been supporters of the German Nazi government since 1936 at the latest, thus Nazis.
I have always wondered why the British and French did not declare war on the Soviet Union, when they crossed to Polish frontier? Guess that half of Poland didn't matter to them.
@@papapabs175 Not only you nicked Polish gold, you robbed churches, stole art from the museums, you murdered people. 6 Million of them. Yet, while West Germany paid war reparations to Israel, Poland did not get a penny, even though more than half of Poles murdered by Germans were not Jewish.
They would show news reels like this in the movie theaters. No TV in those days. I was a grade school kid then. When they showed a news reel showing President Roosevelt, people would clap like he was really there.
Cause allies brougth our people destruction,rapings, bombings, mass murders, starvation and took away our peoples freedom and all morality, as we see today how the world is
at 2:50 definitely some confusion on the part of the producers/writers. The picture is in fact Hitler's home/retreat, which was called the Berghof. The Eagles Nest was an entirely different building Hitler was said have visited about a dozen times for meetings. At least they showed the right building. I understand the Berghof demolished now, with only some tiny remnants of retaining walls, etc.left, while the Eagles Nest is still open for business.
I'd like to know hat Goring was Pompously saying in that interview. Mass murders, death camps, and his relief at not being killed already gave him hope for personal survival.
Probably his derring-do in the First World War. There was nothing heroic about him as a Nazi -- nothing! The British had one order involving him: DO NOT ASSASSINATE! He was an incompetent administrator of the Luftwaffe, and the Nazis would have come back with a more competent commander than he.
Goring was probably denying any knowledge of that nasty business, blaming everything on Hitler and Himmler. Goring could be very charismatic and affable, so he was probably trying to charm the press.
Does anybody know the name of the Souza march playing in the background at the end of the video,, when Montgomery is going through the streets of Copenjhagen?
@@grimmace9081 Finish that job? They had like 12 million men under arms in 1945, and could have pushed on into France if they’d wanted to. The USA would have been able to do little to stop it (the USSR had heavy air superiority also).
@@ArmyJames Well, I don't know about that. The US became the worlds only nuclear power just a few months later, which gave the Soviets a pretty good reason not to push on.
@@davesaunders3334 So, we can be stuck with a senile old wimp who will do nothing if we're attacked. If Biden was in Office when Pearl Harbor was attacked....we'd all be speaking Japanese right now. Biden is a danger to America's security and well being. We're screwed with him.
This was before TV of course so these newsreels were shown in movie houses between the two movies that were playing. It's the only way people at home could see anything that was going on in the world.
It turns out that the memory of some is short and these misfortunes happen from time to time because the greed of some is the misfortune of many. In the 20th century there were two world wars. After 1945 there were several regional wars due to the greed of a few envious ones. It is customary to say "this will never happen again". And this is repeated even though it is always happening because memories are erased.
While these men were in uniform, they appeared impressive - until they were in civilian clothes, they were insignificant old men. Their uniforms, rank and medals did a lot to bolster their confidence.
Very true.. they were being manipulated by their own system with metals and decor and it went right to their heads. And then used their population to fight their initiated battles for them. They wanted power dammit and that's all that mattered to them. Thugs
It's interesting to look them up and see whether they were executed. Keitel was hung and took 24 minutes to suffocate to death. They were literally dead men walking in these videos.
@@lewisner Seyss-Inquart would also die with a rope around his neck on the same night as Keitel. Goering was scheduled for a similar result, but he committed suicide as he knew what awaited him. Karl Hermann Frank would be turned over to Czechoslovakia, where he would die for brutalizing the Czech nation. As the bleakest of all Christmas carols put it, "The wrong shall fail/ the Right prevail/ with peace on Earth, good will toward men". The Wrong most certainly failed due to their ruthless, arrogant cruelty.
Previews for more crappy films and the expensive popcorn, soda and candy push. The movies are a waste today. I watch all the old war films and horror movies from the 40s and 50s....they were the best.
Most of these civilians and military personnel, except for the young children, are gone now….all lived their lives and have passed away. A hand full are still alive, although well into their 80s and 90s. Soon, we’ll have no more WWII Veterans left. I had the pleasure and privilege of working with a few of them in the 1970s and 80s at the Grumman Corp. the stories they shared with me are priceless.
Why do some people think of living under Nazi rule as a "good" alternative? Before I retired, I was a journalist who ran three newspapers. I was a self-admitted liberal, but I had limits. Once, I had someone working for me whom I knew had political leanings far more "left" than I had. I had a verbal trap for him. I said, "I could never work for Pravda." He angrily asked, "Why?" I answered, "Because I don't anyone looking over my shoulder and telling me what to write and what to think." Bottom line is, whether it is Berlin in 1933 or Moscow anytime, dictatorships are wrong.
Hmmm... Me parece que no es eso lo que dice. Si no leo mal sus labios, lo que dice es: "Qué hubiera sido de las cómplices y canallas ´democracias´ capitalistas, que toleraron más de seis años de atropellos, represión y bravuconadas de Hitler, rechazando un pacto anti-nazi con la URSS, si nosotros no hubiéramos detenido y luego aplastado a la basura nazi en su propia guarida, al precio de 20.000.000 de soviéticos muertos".
Keitel was faced with several documents that he personally signed, all precise evidence of war crimes he committed, at his trial at Nuremburg. He denied signing any of them....he was the shown the instrument of surrender of the German Armed Forces that he signed bearing his same signature...and could not deny signing it when he was shown the film of him signing it. He was found guilty of war crimes (one of which was his personal, signed order directing the secret state order, the Bullet Decree (Kugel Erlass) to murder recaptured escaped allied prisoners of war (POWs). He was found guilty by unanimous Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal vote and hung. His body then cremated in one of the Nazis concentration camp crematoria, placed there by captured camp SS former guards. His ashes were then shovelled into the camps garbage pit....!
Man they're building sure could take a beating in Germany. Could you imagine today's buildings how easily things burn and go down. Not much hiding that you could do in them to fight a war nowadays.
We Americans have typically built wooden houses in our middle-class suburbs. We do not expect war to come to our country, but if it ever did, those houses would be easy rollovers for tanks.
Many paid a high price and some the ultimate price for liberation. But this was a time when our press was truly free and not owned by a single party, reporting the facts and only the facts.
It amazes me how pompous some of the German Field Marshals and Generals continued to act, even in defeat. And the Brits and Americans let them continue to strut around.
Considering the actual situation during the occupation the appraisal seems a bit exaggerated. Luckily we managed sailing our Jewish population to safety in Sweden.
….all these happy people and to think Poland, where this catastrophe started, is always omitted and forgotten...thanks to the USA and England, Poland had to wait another fifty years to be free again and really be able to celebrate...…...
The fortunes of war. Half a continent is better than none. And the war coukd not have been won without the Russians, and their huge slave armies. @@lancejensen9328
I cannot imagine the shere joy of having the Nazi hob nailed boot finally removed from the back of your neck after literally years of oppression. Free at last! And I am glad that my friends and family could help.
Note on Doenitz: Germany had a head of state (president) who appointed a head of government (chancellor). In 1932, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor. Hindenburg died in 1935, and Hitler, who had assumed dictatorial powers in 1933, dictated that the office of President and Chancellor be combined in his person. He was then officially known as ‘Fuhrer’, his party title. This office was abolished on his death. He had decreed that the office then be split, with Doenitz becoming President, and Goebbels becoming Chancellor. Since Goebbels committed suicide the day after, he did not do much. That left Doenitz as President, the head of state. He then ran what was left of the government.
Thanks to the fact Hitler was not a military strategist and refused to build a long range bomber to strike relocated Soviet war factories (as his own Generals wanted) he was soon to discover on the Eastern Front what he was about to in Normandy.....the might of a industrial Country. Had the factory’s been destroyed the Soviet Union would had fallen....... Gott Mit Un
Some of these German military monsters seem to look pleased with themselves as if they have just had refreshing holiday. What they find to grin about I cannot imagine.
@Jean-Michel Stichelbaut ; most of them did not come back at all. Also, most of the Soviet soldiers were imprisoned upon their return to the Soviet Union as well, for they had been corrupted by Western ideals.
Truth is some wanted to get rid of Hitler. Even Rommel was a part of a later plot. Not saying most were not idiotic followers of the 3rd Reich...but some did not subscribe to Hitler's insanity.
@@danrook5757 Patton wanted to. He saw the Soviets for what they were and wanted to conscript all German POWs who were fit to fight to join the US Army and push the Russians back to Moscow and level it. If we had, Ukraine wouldn’t be dealing with Putin’s nonsense right now. Oddly enough, Abraham Lincoln wanted to return all of the recently freed slaves back to Africa. He foresaw a future of Southern resentment and decades of turmoil if they remained in America to integrate into white society. His staff ultimately talked him out of it because doing so would’ve eliminated badly needed manpower that was necessary to rebuild the South and avoid a rekindling of armed conflict in the future. I often wonder what the makeup and attitude of the US would be today, had Lincoln stuck to his guns and followed through with his plans? I’m willing to wager that we might not have been bogged down with a welfare state and the crime rate would be half of what it currently is.
They confuse the two Franks.... the one in the movie, Karl Hermann, was in Bohemia and Moravia: hanged by the Czechs. The governor of Poland Hans Frank, top nazi, was hanged in Nuremberg.
Richard Carpenter If you like men who have a stick up their ahem and a lemon in their mouth, sure. I’ll pass, on my end 😂 if I had to choose, at gunpoint, it’d be Colonel Peiper. Heck, I’ll even take Rommel, Hydrich, or even Goering. Though if you put Hess or Himmler in front of me, I’d simply beg you to shoot me, and quickly.
I think it was more because it was common knowledge that Göring was very vain and Finland wanted to influence him in that way to receive aid more from Germany.
That’s ridiculous. The Greatest Story Never Told is a joke and will only appeal to the uneducated skinhead type. Dennis Wise, who wrote it, has no college degree that qualifies him as an Historian. It’s trash
@@masterofzero7105 - Not because I say so but because it's true. How can you fall for that anti semitic bullshit? Hitlers aggression started WWII and in the end, he treated the German people just like he treated the Jews. Though he turned the German economy around, he was a brutal dictator just like Stalin. Fuck both of them
@@TheWorld-xs8ly Yep and now we have fiat currency, never ending debt and usury, all things the germans openly fought against! Oh thank the heavens for the Allies and all their lies! So proud to be a brainwashed slave like you, we are so lucky
That's what usually happened with the generals. Guderian did, and Rommel would have had he not committed suicide under pressure. The Nazis would have definitely executed Generals Tedder and Harris for the air war.
Oh my Lord . Those women from Denmark at the end of this video were absolutely beautiful. Especially the last blonde that was looking up at the Special Forces guy. All over town women were forever grateful for ALL the Soldiers there . I can't imagine how many babies were convinced that night and every night after.
Yes, and while technically unconditional surrender, the top leaders and many everyday GI's and civilians knew not to repeat the awful Versailles Treaty whose provisions had ensued a stewing, unstable Germany, ripe for extremism & 'The Great War' -Part 2 = WWII... Instead, despite vastly more provocation, the Western Allied WWII leaders knew they should welcome Germany and Japan back and help rebuild them (Marshall Plan), stabilizing them toward a prosperous freedom loving postwar. Didn't happen automatically. My dad, other WWII vets and Dutch and Danish family friends we knew knew they had to/should be kind to Germans and Japanese for the future's sake, (e.g., for no WWIII), but they had to work at it some. By the 1980's my dad appreciated Sony and Nikon, then Honda. He accepted VW by 1956...
Yes, WWII followed WWI by only 20 years... we learned from that... we still militarily occupy Catholic Germany and Italy, and Shinto Japan and THAT has prevented WWIII for 75 years so far... and none in sight... We may also have to occupy the Muslim lands now... until all religions are gone... thrown out by the very religics themselves...
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Versailles would have stopped another war - if it had been enforced. The harsher peace of WW2 did not lead to another war, because it was enforced. ‘Versailles caused the next war’ is an old, false idea. The Prussian culture that caused the first war still existed in Weimar. Versailles was meant to contain it, while Germany re-educated itself. That culture would have had another go, Nazis or not. After the Second war, that culture was wiped out, and Germany was rebuilt without it.
@@andrewcross8244 Most of Europe disagrees. The US position would have then been a Cold War with Nazi Europe, instead of the East Bloc. Half a continent is better than none. Also, Hitler looked forward to a final showdown with the United States. Of course, nukes would have come along, and maybe he would have put his plans on hold. Maybe.
A United Newsreel was in the Russian TV show Seventeen Moments of Spring in chapter 1. Himmler was watching it and not telling anyone he was watching it. It looked real so I looked it up, lol. It was.
