VJ Day In New York, The End of WW2 

I agree, colour does make it more modern!!

This is why people should take a good care of these footages and colorize it, so the newer generations can relate to how the war really is and know that it happened not too long ago.

the76yearold Guy like when the cubs won in 2016

Nice 😇😇😇

Hope you’re not dead

thedabcrab 3 assuming he was 6 in 1945 he’s now be 80 or 81.

Red Arrow yeah I hope u realize his fucking name is 76 year old man he’s like 80. It’s right but it would’ve been easier

Wouldn't you?

Lol Yeah

Living his life

@@adriansproho5379 Yup

As soldier or veteran you were a hero all girls wanted you.

amazing. i've re-listented to that part 100 times in my life. always thinking how lucky I am to not have suffered through such hell. thanks for recognizing that amazing line.

Thanks for posting this. I just saw it and I will endeavor to find that diary.

To go through hell in war ... to see your loved one , family again... the feeling is emotional beyond belief

Tears in my eyes

Unfortunately, both WW1 and WW2 are being used to promote the very ideas that led to those wars: Extreme militarism, xenophobia, and nationalism.

@@romanbarna1316 Actually, WW2 and the mentality in the US of 'never again' gave rise to what historians are referring to as the Great Peace. In case you hadn't noticed, there haven't been any conflicts between major powers since WW2. Nationalism will always be a thing and is not an evil, nor is it specific to one political spectrum.

"there haven't been any conflicts between major powers since WW2." This is more due to nuclear bombs than 'American mentality'. And despite Nuclear bombs, we've come close to a third world wars several times, most notably during the Korean War and the Cuba Crisis. If not for nukes, war would've certainly broken out at some point during the cold war. Extreme nationalism is what caused WW1 and WW2. This isn't up for debate. The alliance system brought forth by nationalist movements of Europe seeking military conquest and colonial influence led to WW1. The nationalist movements of Germany, Italy and Japan meanwhile gave us WW2. There is nothing wrong with liking your country. But the moment you think your country deserves more influence through war and sabotage, you become a threat to decency. Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Italy? Right-wing nationalists. Soviets? Left-wing nationalists. ISIS? Religious nationalists. The people behind the Armenian genocide? Etno-nationalists. Most of the misery in this world is caused by the nationalist. My entire point is that extremists are using the sacrifice of WW2 veterans to push for the kind of ideology that they were fighting against.

@@romanbarna1316 Root causes: WW1 was caused by European politics. WW2 was caused by the crippling terms put on the Germans at the end of WW1. Without those terms, Hitler would never have risen to power. The Cold War was caused by the successful German attempt to destabilize Russia during WW1. If you seek to say nationalism caused WW2, you must also say nationalism caused WW2 to be won by the allies. Further, saying "American Mentality" has nothing to do with the Long Peace is factually incorrect. The fact that the US developed its military to project power globally, when instead it could have simply developed it to secure its own hemisphere or continent, forced the peace into place. Otherwise, the Soviets would have invaded into Western Europe, Korea would be entirely communist, and nukes likely would have already been used on Western Europe by the Soviets and Japan by the Chinese. We only avoided China being nuked in our own history because the President, at the time, thought that the Chinese threat didn't warrant a nuclear response and denied his general release of nuclear arms. Otherwise the border between North Korea and China would still be radioactive today. We didn't discover the world ending capabilities of nuclear weapons until long after we already had them. When we had found out, there had already been several instances where the US and USSR could have gone to war but didn't. If you honestly believe the USSR would not have invaded Western Europe without the US being there, you are ignorant of how Soviet leadership actually was and that for a very long time, nuclear bombs were just considered a highly expensive bomb and nothing more.

​@@RedneckRapture What do you think led to those harsh terms imposed on Germany after WW1? A French nationalist desire for revenge. No matter how you try to spin the wars, it always boils down to militaristic, flag-worshipping nationalists causing most of the issues. (Besides, contrary to popular belief, the treaty of Versailles was neither too strict nor too lax. The economic downturn was largely caused by Germany trying to trick the French with irresponsible economic policies. The idea that Versailles was too harsh comes mostly from American interwar figures like John Maynard Keynes. Modern historians reject that claim.) Besides, it's intellectually lazy to blame WW2 entirely on Versailles and ignore the long tradition of etno-nationalism that had existed in Germany since the early 19th century. And yes, 'defensive nationalism' ended WW2 as well, but we wouldn't have had WW2 if people were less nationalistic to begin with. If people had spent less time worshipping their flags and more time worshipping their common humanity. Nationalism is without a doubt the most destructive and disgusting ideology that exists, be it right-wing nationalism or left-wing nationalism. Hundreds of millions of people killed or displaced since the 19th century in the name of "national and ethnic pride".

which alot of ppl overlooked

Quite true.

Except Japan was going to surrender. The U.S. dropped the bombs to scare the russians.

Marcus Olsson Tell that to the men who fought in Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Japanese we're willing to fight to the last man.

Ellijah De Leon Exactly.

There's no more patriotism because the US is a career war country. There have been so many wars that the US has been involved with since WWII that no aggression was ever initiated to us. We can't stay out of other people's business.

#triggered

@@seywhut2985 Nice try communist troll. Ain't gonna work

@@seywhut2985 Yeah, Europe started the 2 worst wars in the history of humanity. Shut up, cretin.

@@thorshammer7883 Afghanistan prooved you wrong, years of ocupation just leaded the US to their biggest humilliation since Vietnam and the Taliban took it in less than 1 month

When the war ended, there wasn't many jobs because the U.S. was in a war economy. However, as the industries converted back to making civilian goods, the economy took off by 1947-1953. Despite the Soviet Union being the new enemy, this was the finest period in U.S. history because people saved up money during the war and they were eager to buy much needed things!

Really?

@@marianpetriz7642 yes check it out on Steve Hodells website

@@mistervacation23 holy crap! It is her!

@@Omar-Vazquez I sure think so anyway

@@mistervacation23 has it been confirmed ? Sources ?

The little boy's name is Joseph Schleifstein and he was part of the inspiration for the movie Life Is Beautiful. After Buchenwald was liberated he and his mother and father went to live in New York. I believe he is still alive today, age 78.

I've got to start watching the entire video before I comment

Sources OP ?

​@JavierNYC423 Steve hotel

Everywhere.

That's not a Confederate flag Nor does the Confederate flag represent hate

@@autisticpain1960 yes it does, just like the nazi flag. You literally can't deny that as it's a historical fact. Just move on from the stupid fucking flag, they lost the war lol

@@runninggames771 I can tell you don't have a very high IQ

​@@autisticpain1960Confederacy was a nation of slaveholders first, I'm justified in saying that its flag is as much a symbol of hate as the Nazi flag

@@pabloulloa2091 It's a symbol of hate because of some bad history that happened a long time ago and only now people want to get mad about it even though no one cared about it 10 years ago. Yeah okay.

Went down hill? Culturally you mean. Now USA has to deal with problems even bigger than before. For example the fact of not being 1st economic power in the world amymore, and in 30 years, will be passed by India also.

Yup everything went down hill after the 60s

This is from a documentary series from the bbc and can’t find out what the source video is but I’d like to know too.

Korea was almost a decade away and Vietnam was two decades away. And neither of those wars were even remotely on the scale of the Pacific Campaign.

@@Longlius exactly!

cant wait man.

No comparison. Idiotic.

They shouldn't have started a war they couldn't win.

Yeah, Russia beat the Germans singlehandedly, which was why Stalin spent the two years between 1942 and 1944 begging the other allies to open up a western front against Germany. Wars aren't won exclusively with men. They're won by strategy, materiel, and resources.

A "few hundred Allied troops died"? WTF? The Russians could not have won without the materiel and support from the other Allied nations. You are deeply devoid of facts.