A Day in a Destroyed German City 1946

A Day in a Destroyed German City 1946 | Documentary

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7 ай бұрын

How was life in the destroyed German cities after the Nazis were defeated?
A Day in Dresden 1946 provides a glimpse. Elli Göbel guides viewers through post-war Dresden's ruins. As a war widow and one of millions displaced from the former German eastern territories, this young woman finds work as a 'Trümmerfrau', helping rebuild the devastated city. To care for her children, Elli demonstrates immense resourcefulness, especially in the face of dire supply shortages. For the prospect of a better life, she sometimes pushes the boundaries of what's allowed. When she learns of a violin audition from a newspaper, Elli takes a risk, sneaking away from her rubble-clearing job to procure an instrument from the black market. However, when the police arrive and arrest her, she faces potential imprisonment and losing her children. This fictional biography, rooted in real historical events, offers deep insights into the everyday struggles of the post-war era, illuminating the intimate connection between documentary storytelling and the haunting ruins of the past.
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@siegridthomas9674 7 ай бұрын

Let Me tell you...THIS IS ALL TRUE ! ! ...this is what my mom and I went through ! Often there was NOTHING to eat ! My dad was killed on the eastern front ( stalingrad) ! I was a baby...I often marveled, how my mother survived it all, with me ...she also had to clean bricks for the rebuild of the city...women like her became the heroes of her time...and unexpected in all this she was introduced to a wonderful man ! They married and lived together for 45 years till he past away...mom lived 20 more years...

@Drew791 7 ай бұрын

Wow! That’s quite a life! I wish women like her were still around today. Could you imagine any of these “influencers” scrubbing bricks to help rebuild a war torn city?

@user-fb3cf3fw1b 7 ай бұрын

@@Drew791 nope I'm afraid we'd never find anyone willing to do necessary things like those these days... male or female. Everyone wants everything handed to them and nobody wants to work... that's why the Latinos do so well here (in America), they don't mind working.

@timgordon4853 7 ай бұрын

You need to document your story, library or museum should know of organizations recording German history.I remember my great grand parents,and others rescued,what a scar to carry🙏 Dorothy

@timoheinanen8168 7 ай бұрын

@@Drew791You just nailed it man. So well said.

@stevegird7706 6 ай бұрын

Which "sector" was she in?

@gregkamer3754 7 ай бұрын

I was fully blown away by how you were able to combine archival footage with reenactments to make such a great video. Thank you so much.

@cruisepaige 6 ай бұрын

Lovely production.

@lsudx479 6 ай бұрын

This is a professionally produced show. It airs on television all over the world. It's not an amateur-made video. 🤣

@155gerard 5 ай бұрын

Some of the photos are not of German children in Dresden. The photo at 5mins 40 seconds of the little boy in the oversized tweed coat with his large stuffed animal crying in the ruins is a quite famous photo from an anthology of photos of civilians in London during the German blitzkrieg bombings and later V rocket attacks. The English boy's family had just been killed in the bombing. The video producer should not be piece mailing various photos from different settings, ingenuous and disrespectful to the memory of the civilians on both sides of the war.

@kidmohair8151 7 ай бұрын

this is above average for this kind of docudrama. a good story, well written, well acted. good interviews. interspersed with enough archival imagery to bring it home.

@cruisepaige 6 ай бұрын

This is almost too sad to watch. It’s my duty as an American to watch it, and learn, though.

@phantom8700 6 ай бұрын

I have yet to source check but it may not be a true story

@brenhugh 6 ай бұрын

@@phantom8700 The narration at the end informs the viewer that “…This is not biographical.”

@Scrat335 6 ай бұрын

My wife's mother was in the USSR, Belarus as a child during the war. For years they lived in a burned out rail car. Another car doubled as a hospital, another as a school. Half her family died in the war. She remembers being hungry and cold as a child.

@rosykatzCATS 5 ай бұрын

Mine was in Russia also

@BigJack273 11 күн бұрын

So were the blacks

@u.s.militia7682 6 ай бұрын

Civilians always suffer the worst in all wars.

@jimjenkins2510 6 ай бұрын

This is, hands down, the best docu-drama I think I've ever seen. It's extremely well made, and I learned a lot of things I had never known before, about a time I had never thought of, before. I remember my father, who served in thee mid-50's in the Army of Occupation, telling me how the train station in the town he was stationed in had been fixed up on one side for the GI's, but the other side (where Germans were permitted) was still in ruins. A sad time, with some amazingly resilliant people.

@marysue7165 6 ай бұрын

I had a senior German patient who lived though all this. She lived in a small town and due to family issues found herself homeless. She walk all the way to Dresdin, alone. That's a lot of moxie for a 13 year old. She said she slept only in cemeteries so avoid the groups of men who were causing trouble. Thankfully, she was never raped.

@redwater4778 6 ай бұрын

Dresden was full of refugees when it was bombed. The allies knew this.

@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993 6 ай бұрын

That you know of

@judithblu2399 4 ай бұрын

Oh wait. I am Je Ve Clarie RawEiE

@judithblu2399 4 ай бұрын

Oh wait. Raw!! It’s not working yet. My dad got his dragon suit back. We got it you guys and gals. See you on the dark side …soon I hope. It’s pretty bad here on my planet.

@judithblu2399 4 ай бұрын

Also. EPawE say you can say AweE now!! I se. Se I.

@rickjensen2717 6 ай бұрын

My mum, uncle and grandmother lived through this terrible time, luckily in western Germany. My grandfather was killed in 1942 on the Eastern front. The German economic miracle just shows what can be achieved with hard work, good organisation and competent politicians; not the appalling ones in the 1930s and 40s that caused all this misery and suffering on all sides.

@pingpong1064 5 ай бұрын

on all sides? it was clear war between pure evil (germany) to good.

@davidhoward4715 5 ай бұрын

The German economic miracle just shows what can be achieved with massive American aid.

@woodenseagull1899 5 ай бұрын

@@davidhoward4715With massive American aid, at the expense of the Allies. Britain fed them, provided Security and medical aid...At the expense of its own Citizens...without even a Thank you , or reperation...

@TEXCAP 5 ай бұрын

@@woodenseagull1899 My Uncle gave his life. Doesn't get much more expensive than that. He came from the American side

@ugoosx3pro723 5 ай бұрын

@@davidhoward4715 победил гитлеровский фашизм СССР и была подписана капитуляция . СССР победитель фашизма прошлого столетия!🌞🌿🎎🚩🙏

@tesshigginsfordistrict4 4 ай бұрын

This whole "A Day in..." series is so well edited, acted, and the historian commentary peppered thru is excellent. Really brings the time period to life. Please make more and thank you!

@alexman8800 2 ай бұрын

I think A Day in an Occupied/Freed City takes precedence.

@clausknappe8805 Ай бұрын

The original German should be toned down when there is an English speaker, otherwise a very true account, well done.

@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm 6 ай бұрын

I often think that the resilience and character displayed by the German people after the war was one of the reasons that helped propel them to the position they’re in today. Conversely, as an American, watching my own society, self destruct through drugs, delusional, fantasy, and outright laziness will surely leave us in a bad position, if not in the future now, I say this as a Bay Area residence, whose watched the Bay Area decline dramatically over the last 40 years

@fluffy1931 6 ай бұрын

How many stupid pills did you swallow. Post Ww2 Germany & western Europe enjoyed the economic plan called Marshall Plan & Berlin Airlift to avoid starvation. On top of that they enjoy the defensive shield under Nato. Besides never having to shoulder the burden of fully functional defense budget courtesy of US Armed forces deployed on the German frontier.

@Inspectergadget69 6 ай бұрын

Adversity kills the soul but redeems others...comfort can redeem the soul but kills others

@colbypriest141 6 ай бұрын

Are you forgetting what German society did to put themselves in this situation? All the men went off to make war on the entire world. But you think homeless people in the Bay area are far more self destructive and Germans are an example of the highest values and perseverance? Interesting.

@redwater4778 6 ай бұрын

Now Germany is filling up with people who didn't stay and rebuild.

@JohnsJohnson-ns5xm 6 ай бұрын

@@redwater4778 wanna trade? I live in the Bay Area. I’m watching our own people destroy our society over the last 40 years I have watched probably one of the nicest places I’ve seen on the planet turn into a hell hole and out of control crime out of control drug use right on the streets and sidewalks, but hey, what’s the worst that can happen? I’ve been to Germany four times over the last five years. I can honestly say your worst is better than our best to me. Also, you have something that we’ve lost as a country you still have a German a identity Americans have given up on that. I guess we’ll just see how it all plays out.

@munkittytunkitty 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing documentary! A very detailed look at a forgotten period of history and so well acted.

@judymerritt9458 6 ай бұрын

I had relatives in post war France and Belgium . I found a letter on a scrap of paper from the husband of one of my cousins. He described how hard things were . Food was very expensive and many people couldn’t get clothing . They made shoes out of wood. My father visited relatives while he was in the army in post war Germany. They butchered a scrawny chicken and dug up wine bottles they hid from the Germans to give him a meal. He felt bad because they had so little.

@keslot 6 ай бұрын

Finally a documentary about life in Germany, right after WW2. I have long been very interested in learning a bit about this topic

@ronaldgansler8812 6 ай бұрын

I’m very fortunate that my grandparents on both side of my family left Germany in 1930 and went to USA! Thank God

@Youngstown529 6 ай бұрын

Today, Dresden is an absolutely beautiful city. Even the cathedral has been rebuilt.

@tellyonthewall8751 6 күн бұрын

for west german money!!

@AlistairKiwi 6 ай бұрын

I had an employee from Czechoslovakia who was 7 when Germany invaded. Things were good for her family during the war. Afterwards, with father killed in WWII, they were treated like dirt and couldn't get food or work. Much hate targeted towards them due to being German. They escaped Czechoslovakia for East Germany, which was only marginally better apparently. She spoke about her childhood/formative years often. She was deeply scarred by the experience, and this was obvious. Still, truly one of life's memorable characters for her off-center & frequently hilarious perspective. She was much loved at our company. Also, she found true-love & lived a fairly comfortable life in Berkeley, Ca. She even trekked to the Mt. Everest base camp! Typical of H. That was the thought of thing that was an amusing holiday to her...

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...I DON'T BLAME THE CZECHS ONE GODDAM BIT FOR THROWING THE SUDETENLAND GERMANS OUT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA AFTER WW2!!! EVER HEARD OF A PLACE CALLED "LIDICE"?!!

@cqpp 6 ай бұрын

@@AdamsOlympiawrong

@theresavanriessen1269 6 ай бұрын

Years ago I found a documentary which covered what happened to Germans who'd moved to occupied areas, specifically Czechoslovakia, and how they were treated at the end of the war. According to the documentary, many were outright assassinated despite their seeming assimilation into the population as farmers, etc--both adults and children. It was shocking. I need to find it again, I could swear I'd watched it on KZfaq.

@cqpp 6 ай бұрын

@@theresavanriessen1269 Germans had been living in modern day Czechslovakia for about nearly a thousand years at that point, specifically in the areas known as the Sudetenland, Bohemia and Moravia.

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

@@cqpp...What's your point?!

@billwright2811 7 ай бұрын

It is amazing what a person is capable of when forced to. Only women and children left, because ALL THE MEN LOST THEIR LIVES.

@389383 6 ай бұрын

Since you shouted it, do you really believe ALL THE MEN LOST THEIR LIVES?

@joenuts5167 6 ай бұрын

most men over 12 and under 50 were dead@@389383

@Qwerty-hy5mj 6 ай бұрын

For most regions of postwar Germany, there were only 40 men left for every 100 women in the 20-30 age group.

@389383 6 ай бұрын

Surprised there were even that many.@@Qwerty-hy5mj

@koyotekola6916 6 ай бұрын

@@389383 Nobody in their right mind believe that, not even @billwright281. It's a metaphor.

@toniam.2080 4 ай бұрын

My mil just died at 102. She was taken from Poland and put in a forced labor camp in Germany. She had some brutal stories.

@hardyalbrecht1924 6 ай бұрын

I do remember, with a friend we explored ruins, at times we spotted a furnished room on the 3rd floor but the staircase was gone, we claimed on water pipes to the 3rd floor, examined cupboards and wardrobes and beds. Sometimes we found something to eat, once we found some cans of beans.

@jimciancio9005 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant System of loved ones being able to locate missing others by their simplified yet complex filing system. A lot of attention to details were given to these people in order to locate their missing loved ones. The fact it worked so well is amazing and how many people who were reunited by this simplistic process. 😊

@antennastoheaven 6 ай бұрын

Just casually clicked on recommended video and I haven’t even notice how fast 51 minutes has gone. Brilliant documentary.

@paulrimmer391 7 ай бұрын

It's always the poor citizens who suffer. The Germans survived to flourish again. God Bless guys!

@judithblu2399 4 ай бұрын

Jujublu💚

@Anthony-db7cs 19 күн бұрын

After a bunch of land was stolen from them again

@jackieyu4787 10 күн бұрын

What about Warsaw

@vanfja 2 күн бұрын

They flourish once again and produce a madman socialist influencer who influences all the western leaders and governments to restrict farming and citizens and lay the groundwork for another totalitarian government. Great Job allies.

@SarahAndrews24 6 ай бұрын

Wowww, hats off to the German rubble women,the Trummerfrauen, their contribution to the rebuilding of Germany is all but forgotten..Germany is great again only due to the extraordinary hard work and resilience of its people..Respect.

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 6 ай бұрын

As a Canadian, you're welcome and sorry it had to be done. P.S. you will figure it out !

@Mens_Rights 6 ай бұрын

@@XxxXxx-fm3wo It didn't have to be done. Dresden had little to no military value. This was death and destruction, for its own sake. We need to stop canonizing the WWII allies. A lot of the things they did were wrong.

@bertplank8011 5 ай бұрын

NO....the allies deliberately chose to obliterate the very heart of German culture....in an attempt to totally destroy the German people. Deliberate and calculated.There was even the Morganthau plan to castrate all German adult males.....thats a fact. In Japan the allies spared Kyoto which was the centre of Japanese culture..... People knew Harris was the architect of the deliberate bombing of civilians in Germany.....which is why the mass murderer was known as "Bomber Harris".....and was disliked by the British public after the war. Germany was by no means innocent of course .....but there is a difference between winning a war and attempting to obliterate a whole nation. General Patton realized this at the end of the war saying "we fought the wrong side".....He was assassinated of course... Unfortunately you can no long express free speech on subjects like this....but you can look for other sources of information.(like the book "Other Losses"....by James Bacque)

@ColinHarperSummerson 6 ай бұрын

Astonishing, shocking, and upsetting at times , what the people had to endure, excellent video, thank you 🙏

@asullivan4047 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the rebuilding process in Russian occupied Berlin. Didn't go as well in comparison to American sector of West Berlin.

@bugra320 4 ай бұрын

You did absolutely an amazing job by reanimating those days

@joshuafess4295 6 ай бұрын

And yet kids today gripe about how “difficult their lives are and how hard it is adulting” if you put them this situation they wouldn’t last 5 minutes thank you for this special and wonderful story and making it into such a great documentary

@demaistre2458 6 ай бұрын

Its more the lack of any belonging or community or higher calling. Our issues arent based out of the material

@joshuafess4295 6 ай бұрын

@@demaistre2458 wise words

@katazack 6 ай бұрын

I think any generation, even the latest ones in the U.S., will find a way to persevere in the worst circumstances. All the nonsense that we dwell on daily disappears and the survival instinct kicks in.

@mayc.onaise5649 4 ай бұрын

Germany had it coming

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 2 ай бұрын

Our lives are "imagined out of nothing". We are passive when exposed to overload of information on the internet.

@evilborg 6 ай бұрын

My mother lived through WW2 in Ulm, Germany. Her stories were similar to this documentary even as a child.

@shelbynamels973 7 ай бұрын

Why did they cut the video before the end credits?? C'mon, their work deserves to be acknowledged.

@Matthew_Eitzman 6 ай бұрын

It’s symbolic of the lives cut short.

@shelbynamels973 6 ай бұрын

🤣😂👌@@Matthew_Eitzman

@WilliamTravisFocker 5 ай бұрын

I did some searching--it was made by ZDF, the German public broadcaster. You can find the episode on their website under "One Day in Dresden, 1946."

@155gerard 5 ай бұрын

Some of the photos are not of German children, so a bit ingenuous for the producer to piece together various photos. The photo at 5mins40 seconds is a quite famous photo of a small child in London whose home was just destroyed, family killed by the German blitzkrieg. The boy is in an oversized tweed coat holding a large stuffed animal.

@gratefulguy4130 4 ай бұрын

@@155gerard So just a small taste of what the holocaust museum does then? There are 100s of photos just of the victims of Dresden which they pretend represent "victims of concentration camps". There are a great deal more from other sources being equally misleading.. they love using photos of Soviets and partisans killing people on the edge of mass graves as "evidence" of German "atrocities" as well. The list is endless yet you don't seem concerned with that.

@daniellebcooper7160 6 ай бұрын

This should be shown in every school, instead of 'gender studies'. Thank you for making this available.

@koyotekola6916 6 ай бұрын

@daniellebcooper7160 No doubt. The difference between the two topics you mention is remembrance of history so as to not repeat it. Gender studies does nothing to improve mankind.

@Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs 6 ай бұрын

History is a huge thing in our family. Elie Weisel's "Night" is mandatory reading for my children at age 10. At age 13 I make them watch Schindlers List and they are quizzed. If they fail, they watch it again. Being Native American, we also study a lot on our people, Stockbridge Munsee and Menominee. Those who fail to heed history's warnings are doomed to repeat them.

@koyotekola6916 6 ай бұрын

@@Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs So true. I'm very proud of your approach to the world and especially with your children. They are the building blocks of our future.

@vanmoose76 6 ай бұрын

I was born in Amsterdam in 1946 and lived in the “shadow” of WW 2 which affected me for the rest of my life! Living in Canada and then in the US I see how it’s people have no clue how losing/destroying everything affects the masses, the ensuing corruption…yet persevere to rebuild and work hard to find the secret to living again! No time for feeling sorry for oneself so they innovated and rebuilt, creating a beautiful renewal of several European countries.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

@@koyotekola6916Oh the irony

@dietlindvonhohenwald448 6 ай бұрын

My grandma was among those women, my mother and my aunt were small children and my grandpa was MIA, he was drafted and fought in Stalingrad. What they did not know then, is that he was taken prisoner by the Russians and taken to a POW labour camp in Siberia. After 8 yrs he got out and found his wife (my grandma) and daughters with the help of the Red Cross. After the Soviet Communists built the wall (iron curtain) many family members of our family on my mother’s side were cut off. Hard years of bare survival, we grew up hearing all the stories.

@marthae9338 6 ай бұрын

I had a friend whose family was expelled from a town south of Breslau. She herself had been drafted and was a telephone operator for the Kriegsmarine, captured by the British and in a DP camp at the end of the war. She and a friend walked out of it, a British soldier let them pass after she said "you aren't going to shoot us now".. they walked from Kiel to Stuttgart and by some miracle found family. This is a true story, and it has haunted me; trying to imagine myself in such a situation is near impossible. So much we take for granted..

@YoreBeatenPath 6 ай бұрын

@diet…. That’s amazing he survived Stalingrad and the Gulag. Very few did.

@user-ju7cf9iu8z 6 ай бұрын

@@YoreBeatenPath смешно. Из советского плена вернулось более 65% немецких пленных. А из немецкого плена менее 30%. В советских лагерях очень часто у пленных и охранников была одна и та же норма питания.

@michaelmullen4597 6 ай бұрын

I worked with a German. He told me how bad things were during the great inflation. How he remembered eating dandelions till there were more and eating soup seasoned with shoe leather He told me of conditions on the eastern front - so cold that motor oil froze in the crankcase, about cramming as many as possible into a staff car to keep from freezing. He was a chemist and told me that was in a communications unit. The Russians had telegraph lines made of iron. He said it took them a good while to figure out how to reconnect broken lines.

@krzemas80 5 ай бұрын

Chlip, chlip.

@gratefulguy4130 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like an incredible man.

@Laura-wb2se 6 ай бұрын

This video is very well done - the most interesting documentary I’ve enjoyed in quite some time. Thank you!

@user-bu9ju5ic9h 6 ай бұрын

My father (aged 20)was on the Baltic coast at the war’s end (Parachute Regt) he told me soldiers could get as much tobacco as they wanted but were only rationed 200 cigarettes a month. So he rolled his own smokes and used the cigarettes as currency. He did saw what he spent it on.

@Bob_The_Builder190 7 ай бұрын

Amazing work. I really love your documentaries. ❤❤❤❤

@eksiarvamus 7 ай бұрын

Thank You for that documentary!

@rosesprog1722 7 ай бұрын

This is not perfect, of course, but it is the first production that presents the situation the Germans found themselves in after the war that is accessible and not too dramatic for those who still hate the Germans 80 years after the end of the war even if they or their families did not suffer during the war. The films I know about that period are much more tragic than this so the haters are deadly in their comments and they refuse to even start to get anywhere near considering that the German civilians too suffered a lot and that they were also victims of that war but THIS film is perfect for that and I will use it as such. Thanks for this upload, great idea.

@alexcarter8807 7 ай бұрын

They voted for their Great Leader, so one must assume things worked out just how they wanted.

@renatewest6366 7 ай бұрын

When you vote does your preferred party always win?

@rosesprog1722 6 ай бұрын

@@renatewest6366 I have stopped voting a long time ago, I just don't like being lied to in my face. If more of us did the same they wouldn't have any choice but to make serious changes to that old, inefficient, costly and corrupt elite club who make a thousand promises when they want your vote and then forget about you for the next five years. And when you ask about their promises they all say the same thing: Well, the situation has changed, we couldn't predict that, first things first, etc, etc... I don't believe in that system. At the last election there was an electoral reform in the promises but the turnout was much better than they expected so they just dropped it, they showed us themselves what will make reforms possible, our move.

@rosesprog1722 6 ай бұрын

@@renatewest6366 I don't vote so if ever my country goes to war, I'm not part of it, don't starve me to death.

@buggsmcgee9270 6 ай бұрын

Lets Go Brandon@@alexcarter8807

@raymondpomfret4214 6 ай бұрын

The madness of men who want war ,absolute insanity and still we have them 😢😢

@1USACitizen192 Күн бұрын

makes physcopaths money.

@adriang6259 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant video. Something I’ve been interested in for years. Huge effort for Germany to rebuild after WW2 and Versailles. Some vile comments here. Some people have to look a bit deeper than the obvious.

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...I CONTEND THAT A HECK OF A LOT OF THOSE "VILE COMMENTS" ARE COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED-!!! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

@@daleburrell6273TYPE IN ALL CAPS! THAT FIXES EVERYTHING!

@freckleheckler6311 4 ай бұрын

@@daleburrell6273justified? Not until you realize the farce of ww2 history written by the victors. You wouldn’t be prepared though, to realize Germans are modern history’s greatest victims.

@sassycat6487 2 ай бұрын

They rebuilt because of AMERICAN aid.

@TheWorld-xs8ly 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for posting this. It’s great information 😊

@markschilleman4695 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding video. Thank you, I am a German-American

@greeneyeswideopen774 6 ай бұрын

In the end though, the Rubble Girls (Men and Children) are heroes. They brought their cities back to life, brick by brick.

@Andy_Babb 7 ай бұрын

This is wild. Love it. I’d like this series on ancient cities now lol

@alansewell7810 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this superbly produced and colorized documentary. The colorization and scripting brings to life the difficult conditions of Russian-occupied Germany.

@user-ju7cf9iu8z 6 ай бұрын

В отличие от немцев, русские не сжигали деревни вместе с жителями, не вешали на площадях тех, кто им не нравится. И у русских не было государственной программы по уничтожению местного населения с использованием газовых камер.

@alansewell7810 6 ай бұрын

@@user-ju7cf9iu8z Stalin was easier on occupied Germans than he often was on his own Russian people.

@user-ju7cf9iu8z 6 ай бұрын

@@alansewell7810 За время правления Сталина (1924 - 1954) было репрессировано около 4 000 000 человек. Из них расстреляно около 1 000 000. Это конечно ужасные цифры. Но это гораздо меньше того, что указывает в своих мемуарах предатель Солженицын ( 110 млн) и гораздо меньше, чем погибло в немецкой оккупации. Например, английские, американские и японские интервенты, которые пришли "помогать" россии, убили за один год около 115 000!!!

@alansewell7810 6 ай бұрын

@@user-ju7cf9iu8z The numbers you mentioned of 4,000,000 (confined in the Gulag) / 1,000,000 (executions) were confirmed by British Journalist Alexander Werth (raised in Leningrad and fluent in Russian) who reported from the Soviet Union to the British press in the 1930s through 1945. HIs book RUSSIA AT WAR gives a balanced account as seen from a British journalist who had no use for communism or Stalin, but was sympathetic with the Russians in getting the Germans off their territory.

@agrameroldoctane_66 7 ай бұрын

She was not from Wrocław, she was from Breslau. And there was not tens of thousands of refugees was 1.2 milion.

@dawnX2148 6 ай бұрын

Breslau renamed Wroclaw after war and area becomes part of Poland

@agrameroldoctane_66 6 ай бұрын

@@dawnX2148 exactly

@boink800 6 ай бұрын

They should have said 'Breslau' as they said that in German. Wroclaw is the city after 1945.

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

You are correct except for the number of refugees. Between 1945-1947 some 10-15 MILLION Germans were expelled from their traditional homelands and sent west, to make room for the newly resurrected Poland and Czechoslovakia. My ancestors were from Breslau, and those whom survived were among them.

@agrameroldoctane_66 5 ай бұрын

@@sealteamtwo117 1.2 was estimated number for Poland only.

@mariahenrich9602 6 ай бұрын

A family member as a child was shot in the leg by allie planes shooting down on trains filled with children escaping the city. My father in law was shot at in an open field after his small town was obliterated. Even as a child he saw that as overkill.

@pradeepswaminathan3993 6 ай бұрын

Any mention of the number of German soldiers the SS shot . Wasn’t that an overkill too .

@koyotekola6916 6 ай бұрын

What you are referring to is war time. This video is about post war Germany. The Americans treated the Germans much better than the Russians did. But in war time, all sorts of atrocities happen. He should be glad he wasn't napalmed like that poor little girl in Vietnam.

@BasementEngineer 6 ай бұрын

@@pradeepswaminathan3993 Why don't you inquire into the number of Soviet troops killed by their rear-guard police battalions? These were required to stop Soviet soldiers from retreating or surrendering.

@Bluegrassriver8 6 ай бұрын

Your point needs to be more well known and understood. Any and every war has so much overkill in every way possible. Since war is hell, we need to never resort to war, if possible. It is not glorious like Hollywood wants you to imagine.

@yycslawek 6 ай бұрын

Why are comments depicting German atrocities being deleted or not allowed?

@Ekatjam 6 ай бұрын

My grandfather went missing in April 1945 on the Eastern Front. My grandmother did everything to find him and got taken by a man who said he knew where he was being held and could get him food. This went on for a week until she had someone follow him, only to find out he was eating the food himself. My father and his brothers at this time were scavenging anything that could be used, including looting the factory that made all fabric items for the Kreigsmarine. In 1990 when my father regained ownership of his father's home, the basement still had canvas body bags in it.

@asullivan4047 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately one of the misfortunes of war. Are unscrupulous individuals who take advantage of the post war weary 😩. ( eating food ment for someone else. )

@mottthehoople693 6 ай бұрын

did your Grandmother ever find her husband?

@Ekatjam 6 ай бұрын

No, my grandfather was in Russia since the first week of the invasion and disappeared in April 1945 near Konigsberg, East Prussia. @@mottthehoople693

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...THAT'S DISGUSTING-(!)

@markmower1746 6 ай бұрын

I don't believe any of you made it all up.

@tessaleroux7725 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. What happened to Dresden was criminal and take my hat off to the women and children left behind especially those who lost their men in the war. Bless them all. So tragically sad.

@emilyturowski3451 6 ай бұрын

No empathy from me. Not after Germans destroyed my country and people.

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU: 1- THE GERMANS STARTED THAT GODDAM WAR IN EUROPE, AND 2- ALL THAT THE GERMANS GOT WAS A DAM GOOD TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE!!! WHEN A COUNTRY STARTS A MAJOR WAR- AND THEN LOSES IT- THERE ARE BOUND TO BE UNPLEASANT CONSEQUENCES...(!)

@pawelpap9 6 ай бұрын

As criminal as your comments?

@johntomlinson6849 6 ай бұрын

As criminal as Treblinka?

@warsaw012 6 ай бұрын

As criminal as Auschwitz?

@samratsengupta96 7 ай бұрын

Remember hiroshima, nagasaki, warsaw, stalingrad and long list of many other cities this is what war brings, from ww2 or from historical times

@pauld9561 7 ай бұрын

Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco. This game is fun!😂

@woodenseagull1899 7 ай бұрын

You are leaving out; that it is the price Germany & Japan paid for STARTING the WARS in the first place....!

@sydmccreath4554 6 ай бұрын

@@pauld9561c ¥ n +

@lolafinch 6 ай бұрын

Gaza?

@stischer47 6 ай бұрын

@@lolafinch Tel Aviv?

@hardyalbrecht1924 6 ай бұрын

Ich kann mich noch daran erinnern. Mit einem Freund machten wir zusammen Erkundungstouren in Ruinen. Wenn in einem Wohnhaus im 3. Stock ein Zimmer sichtbar war aber das Treppenhaus fehlte sind wir an Wasserrohren bis zum 3. Stock herausgeklettert haben in Schänke und Bett nachgesehen ob es etwas zum Essen gab. Einmal fanden wir einige Dosen Bohnen.

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

Dass war auch fuer der Zeit typisch in die Ruinen.

@MichaelMomany 6 ай бұрын

This reminds me of some of the stories my mother told me about growing up in Mannheim during the war. Nobody can say the current German people do not understand what it means to be a refugee.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

It's 2023. Few native born Germans were alive during the immediate post war years

@renataostertag6051 5 ай бұрын

I am!

@MWayne-zz1cr 6 ай бұрын

Dresden is a beautifully restored city now.

@CoryPiston 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing story!! and what a shame that its looking like history will repeat itself time and time again . May the world learn from the past .

@user-wz2qe2pv6r 6 ай бұрын

Ive always been fascinated by the huge hill outside Berlin built from the rubble. All the houses there now have underground garages...

@user-ds8no1ro2q 6 ай бұрын

What a wonderful movie. I have always wondered how the German civilians survived after 1945. I have read "To Destroy a City" and "1945" but this film simply and graphicly with edited real footage woven into a fine film well acted did a good job. I have known some older Germans who survived. Some had class and some did not. We are all the same, are we not?

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...NO, WE ARE NOT "ALL THE SAME": WE ARE INDIVIDUALS!!!

@rolfsinkgraven 7 ай бұрын

Dresden firestorm city, if you survive that you are very lucky. After ww2 we all said this never again, did not work very well eh.

@renatewest6366 7 ай бұрын

Also Hamburg

@themsmloveswar3985 6 ай бұрын

Annalena Barebrain did a 360 degree turn???

@goldgeologist5320 6 ай бұрын

Sadly humans have short memories and rarely learn from the past.

@A14b19 6 ай бұрын

My grandad coming back home in Italy after fighting in ww1 in alps walked the local forests and picked up Austrian bayonets helmets shovels brought them back to use helmets made buckets bayonets taken to blacksmith and made in to knifes .I remember German helmet use in the caw stable as a bucket 😂

@CaptHollister 6 ай бұрын

My uncle in Northern Italy still regularly finds WW1 artifacts in the fields and on mountain hikes. We forget the scale of what happened in the alps during that war.

@annemaria5126 6 ай бұрын

I remember Aachen in 1952. I was 4years young. Did not understand the mess I saw: ruined buildings. Later, at the beach in Katwijk near Leiden, I saw men loosening one leg, then humping into the sea on one leg. Men with one arm instead of two. It was 1956 and we had a beach-vacation there, along with many germans, 11years after the war. Money is allways welcome, no matter where it comes from.

@madmanmechanic8847 6 ай бұрын

Wow what a fascinating story very well done this should get some kind of Award. I was totally drawn in to Elli and her story BRAVO BRAVO !

@matthias04 5 ай бұрын

The name of the city that Elli left is Breslau. It was only renamed to Wroclaw when the city became polish in 1945 and is still today called Breslau in German.

@edithwright6357 5 ай бұрын

I was 6 when the war ended. I still remember a lot. Yes food was scarce. We got chestnuts in the mountains to eat. My Opa fished from the Neckar River. I gutted and scaled them. Had coffee and a pice of bread for breakfast. School provided 1 ladle hot chocolate and sweet roll.

@akhilesh_ku 5 ай бұрын

Now your age must be around 65-70 😮

@wor53lg50 4 ай бұрын

⬆️And these are the educated surgeons Europe imports en-mass??, complete madness....

@cms9902 6 ай бұрын

It's a great shame you didn't include the credits at the end. For anyone thinking this channel produced this documentary, it is highly unlikely.

@hugueslevistre5519 6 ай бұрын

My grandfather was deporté de travail, he has cleaned after the first bombing knight and second...this man was broken for life !

@episodebeats2817 6 ай бұрын

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

@389383 6 ай бұрын

One of the stupidest sayings ever said.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

I'm always amazed by the strength of Holocaust survivors

@saltyroe3179 6 ай бұрын

During the war the NAZIS confiscated the food in the conquered lands letting them starve. Summery execution of the conquered was common. The Soviets lost about 2/3 the German 1933 population. One can understand, but not justify, the post war treatment of Germans by the conquering Soviets. In contrast the US during the occupation of Japan brought in food to prevent mass starvation. My Stepfather was awarded a Medal by the Emperor of Japan for his work in getting food to Japan. As a child my stepfather only said terrible things about Japanese, he never told me about what he did for the Japanese people, and I only found out about his relief work in Japan after he died.

@angelacharin636 6 ай бұрын

It took 70 years to rebuild and even today in Germany they find unexploded bombs. War has generational consequences and it's always the innocent that pay the price.😢

@garrywynne1218 5 ай бұрын

Same throughout the UK

@Steelhorsecowboy 7 ай бұрын

War is evil.

@asullivan4047 6 ай бұрын

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job/reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Resourcefulness became the " Mother " of invention during the lean years following the war's end.

@JohnnyPollas 5 ай бұрын

I hate how they´ve avoided talking about the tens of thousands massacred by the British phosphorus bombs during the Air Raids in February 1945...

@wor53lg50 4 ай бұрын

Yep, and all those phosphorus incendiarys dropped on london deliberately on a lunar low tide=low river??, "fuk around and find out", surely does hold its meaning dos'nt it?.. , i mean can you imagine a world where people or individuals aint punished for their actions, complete lawless anarchy for others wouldn't you say?.....

@Don-mu2qh 6 ай бұрын

I was in East Berlin in 1966 with my father and there was still bomb damage and horse drawn carts.

@piabader4106 6 ай бұрын

In Austria Ruins existed in the 1960s

@knightsnight5929 6 ай бұрын

In London, the bombed docks were only fully redeveloped in the 1980s. My father spent his childhood playing in the ruins of the bombed-out parts of the city.

@Don-mu2qh 6 ай бұрын

@@knightsnight5929 Sometimes people overlook how much Britain suffered as a result of that war.

@Ingsoc75 7 ай бұрын

Good documentary. I had no idea that deactivated Panzerfaust warheads were recycled into cookware.

@sydmccreath4554 6 ай бұрын

So were the German Stahlhelm (Soldiers helmets).

@BillBird2111 6 ай бұрын

Yup. That was news to me as well.

@marthae9338 6 ай бұрын

Neither did I. I imagine lots of things were creatively adapted.. out of necessity.

@musicguy20 6 ай бұрын

Wow Germany was humbled for sure

@bobdollaz3391 6 ай бұрын

Leider

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE ALLIES WANTED TO HAPPEN: 1- GERMANY WAS SMASHED, 2- THE GERMANS WERE SOUNDLY DEFEATED, AND THE ALLIES RUBBED THE GERMANS' NOSES IN IT, AND 3- THE GERMANS WERE GIVEN A BEATING THAT THEY'D REMEMBER FOR GENERATIONS!!!

@hectornagano1819 7 ай бұрын

I greatly admired the resilience of the German people after the war . Especially the women. Once again you have made Germany great again.

@TH-tl6sy 6 ай бұрын

Well not all, many decided " I'm out of here!" And headed to North America figuring if they had to start rebuilding a life with nothing they might as well head to the new world where there was opportunity. My Grandfather who fought on the eastern front remembered how bad it was after WWI and for how long so packed my 17 year old father's suitcase, and told him to go and build a good life. My other grandfather took his whole family and left. With nothing more than they could pack in one suitcase each. Parents met in the new world because there were large communities german immigrants.

@fredflinstone6601 6 ай бұрын

Now there’s mass immorality.

@renatewest6366 6 ай бұрын

My Dad was 18 when released from Germab POW camp in Cherbourg, France in 1948 and returned home.when he returned home he got a job but in 1955 announced to hos family he was migrating to Melbourne, Australia. He went for a holiday in 1974, his first trip.home.His father had died.He took me as O had never been. Before ( I was 17). He had an extended holiday catching up with extended family on Germany and Poland .Meet my step.mother and stayed in German He had been naturalised Australian but to apply for work as a nurse( had worked as a Medic during war) had to reapply to be a German citizen for work. My beloved Dad past away in February 2016.I miss him dearly.May eternal rest Grant unto him oh Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him..He was 87.He had nightmares from the war as his school friend ( from 6 years.old).was blown to smithereens by some weapon in front of him.Too young to be fighting.He was taken from school at 14 and sent for.Army training. Sent to Front at 15.

@bertplank8011 6 ай бұрын

Well informed people now know WHO runs these wars....but you cannot say this on You Tube....You Tube is owned by them.

@JH-pt6ih 6 ай бұрын

And the resilience of the people in all the other countries who had to rebuild after the war - do you greatly admire their resilience too or is it only "special" people whose resilience you admire? It was the "make Germany great again" mindset that got these German people invading neighboring lands and committing horrible atrocities that brought about the suffering for everybody ELSE including themselves.

@BlackJuck 6 ай бұрын

Göring: “There will never be an allied bomber flying over the reich” Allies: “wanna bet?”

@kennethvenezia4400 7 ай бұрын

Nothing like making it to the end just to find out the story is fiction. Still, I'm sure the real stories of the post war are even much sadder 😢. Thanks for the video 😊

@cattymajiv 7 ай бұрын

Whether that exact Elly existed or not, the rest is true.

@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra 6 ай бұрын

Okay, but I don't like being jerked around. The odds of getting the violin in the way she did was slim, and I was believing it.@@cattymajiv

@marthae9338 6 ай бұрын

You were not "jerked around". Although fiction, it is entirely possible that similar things occurred. Very possible in fact. @@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra

@389383 6 ай бұрын

If you are going to make it up at least have her find her sister!

@jonossell121 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads up. Don't really do fiction so I'm out

@VagoniusThicket 6 ай бұрын

Detroit ,Gary,South Chicago,Baltimore etc did not have bombardments yet parts looks like that today . Hmmm? 🤔

@389383 6 ай бұрын

Cities throughout human history have thrived and then died.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

The ravages of white flight and racism. I know you are telling to say the opposite, but that's just ignorant.

@Brunodomini 6 ай бұрын

You should have let the credits roll at the end, so we know who to properly thank. Without them, this video-posting is theft.

@brianarbenz1329 6 ай бұрын

Germans should have listened to the Dresden artist Hans Grundig. He was an anti-fascist who painted "The Thousand Year Reich," a painting showing Dresden being burned with incendiary bombs from planes -- in 1936. How's that for farsightedness.

@christopherx7428 6 ай бұрын

Before and during the war, she lived in Breslau, not Wroclaw. The expulsion of Germans from where their people had lived for maybe 1000 years is one of the most efficient examples of ethnic cleansing. Still, Germans built up their lives again and looked forward - as opposed to e.g. some in the Middle East...

@daleburrell6273 6 ай бұрын

...AND HOW MANY OF THOSE "EXPELLED GERMANS" WERE SENT TO GAS CHAMBERS AND CREMATION FACILITIES?!! AND I DON'T HAVE A DAM BIT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE GERMANS WHO WERE THROWN OUT OF THE SUDETENLAND BY CZECHOSLOVAKIA-!!! ...WHEN YOU START A MAJOR WAR- AND THEN LOSE IT- THERE ARE BOUND TO BE UNPLEASANT CONSEQUENCES...

@pleunmaarleveld959 6 ай бұрын

Well they had no choice , did they, after their unconditional surrender?

@christopherx7428 6 ай бұрын

@@pleunmaarleveld959 No, of course not. Still, it was an ethnic cleansing on a scale we have not seen since but the Germans accepted it and built themselves a new life in the area they had left. Like I said, others could learn from it.

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

You can thank Roosevelt for that. At the Yalta Conference he agreed to shift the Polish border west, incorporating an immense area that had always been part of Prussia/Germany. The largest ethnic cleansing operation in history occurred from 1945-1947 when some 10 - 15 million Germans were forced from their traditional homelands and sent into the Allied-occupied areas, so that their former homes could become part of Poland and Czechoslovakia. Roosevelt also agreed at Yalta that the Soviets could have war reparations from Germany in the form of human labor, in tacit agreement that the Reds could round up millions of men and women and ship them to the Soviet Union, where a huge number perished in labor camps for years after the war. My family was also from the (former) German city of Breslau, the same city and district capitol which, in this film, is given the Polish name "Wroclaw."

@baobabka25 5 ай бұрын

My mother and her family were resettled from their home near Lwów to Wrocław in 1945. Nobody asked them if they wanted to do it. And it has not been the German city for 1000 years, just 300 before the WWII. The mad Gauleiter Hanke decided to defend Festung Breslau even after Berlin signed capitulation act. He surrendered on the 06th of May 1945. Result? 75% of the city in ruins. And so this was the landscape my mother saw after arrival.

@richardsimms251 3 ай бұрын

Germany has sure turned itself around since the end of the Second World War. It is a first class country now and a model country for the world to admire. RS. Canada

@frankgordon8829 6 ай бұрын

The millions of German POWs that that went into Russia, not only worked in mines in Siberia, but only an estimated 6,000 came back alive to Germany. Some were kept for a decade after the war! WE kept millions also! Read "Eisenhower's POW camps" or the book "Other Loses." We refused to let the Germans go in flagrant violation of the UN charter we AND Russia signed! Another excellent book is "A Woman in Berlin."

@tdirtyatl 6 ай бұрын

If their leader hadn't started that war that wouldn't have happened.

@389383 6 ай бұрын

What are your sources? Wikipedia says " A commission set up by the West German government found that 3,060,000 German military personnel were taken prisoner by the USSR and that 1,094,250 died in captivity (549,360 from 1941 to April 1945; 542,911 from May 1945 to June 1950 and 1,979 from July 1950 to 1955)." Germany had over 5 million Russian prisoners. Over half of them died in captivity. From the Holocaust Encyclopedia.

@user-ju7cf9iu8z 6 ай бұрын

Вы бредите?! В Германию вернулось почти 2 000 000 пленных из 3 000 000 захваченных. А вот нормы еды немецкого пленного: до 1943 г. рядовым солдатам давали в сутки по: 400 г хлеба в день, потом норма возросла до 700 г; 100 г любой крупы; 500 г картошки и других овощей; 100 г рыбы; 30 г поваренной соли; 20 г сахара; понемногу чая, уксуса, приправ, постного масла и муки. В Советском Союзе некоторые категории жителей получали меньше еды. Или сравните это с тем, как кормили советских пленных в немецком плену: взрослому мужчине в лагере в пересчете на сутки полагалось чуть больше 300 грамма хлеба, 29 грамм мяса, 9 грамм жиров и кусочки сахара весом 32 гр.

@anthonyeaton5153 26 күн бұрын

They sowed the wind and reaped the Whirlwind.

@kevinvilmont6061 6 ай бұрын

I watch hours of history. WW2 specifically. I never thought about the German civilians as I did today. Just regular people bombed out of there homes through no fault of there own. Startlingly familiar.

@MrMoriarty100 6 ай бұрын

Casualties aside, Dresden was nothing in architectural terms to Exeter for destruction of the old architecture if you say 30% of the city was destroyed, and being in mainland Europe is steadily being rebuilt - properly. Exeter's blitz saw the rubble cleared within the week... Followed by every damaged building, levelled to the ground.... Followed by any isolated intervening buildings in the bombed areas, followed by entire blocks of those mediaeval streets that had been nowhere near the bombs, until you arrive at the city today, a beautiful mediaeval cathedral in the close surrounded by a concrete steel and plate glass jungle.

@user-ds8no1ro2q 6 ай бұрын

Do you think this did as much damage as the bombs?

@MrMoriarty100 6 ай бұрын

@@user-ds8no1ro2q More I reckon.

@brianligat9493 6 ай бұрын

So will you do other films about the German bombing of London, Sheffield and Coventry, or many other European cities?

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

I just rewatched the film Hope and Glory,, which I recommend. It's a snapshot of a family's life in London during the war.

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

I guess the Brits should not have started incinerating cities full of innocent civilians, if they didn't want London, Sheffield and Coventry to be bombed.

@cattymajiv 7 ай бұрын

This has so many ads it's completely unwatchable!

@Ira88881 7 ай бұрын

I love YT, so I had to spring for the $29 a month for Premium and ad-free.

@389383 6 ай бұрын

I can no longer watch KZfaq on Chrome but still can on Mozilla. Once that is closed off I can get a lot more reading done!

@PS_____ 6 ай бұрын

I'm on a free 90 day premium trial and I have no plan on converting to a paid subscription. I don't think there is a single thing on YT that is worth paying their fee for or that is not available on other platforms for free.

@skataskatata9236 6 ай бұрын

get a block er

@ianrobson9601 6 ай бұрын

@@Ira88881 Adblock Plus is free ! $29 a month ? You must be made of money mate. I don't pay for anything

@SN-sz7kw 6 ай бұрын

Yet no-one accused the allies of committing genocide.

@Schutti73 6 ай бұрын

In the tribunals and the new foundet UNO the Germans have less rights as other countries. They were forbidden to accuse the allies and in the Charta of the UNO is a passus that the allies can infade Germany without a reason. This test is still there. Also the ethically cleansed people from other countries with german background (CS, PL YU...) have no rights, the charta of the UNO dont protect them.

@lukelewkowicz2233 7 ай бұрын

As usual the theme of war is reflected to us as a calamity of nature. Years of depressions are another example. Neither could be further from the truth. These are self imposed times of misery. In this presentation there is one statement "war brings the worst in humans". that reflects nothing but periods of self anihilation.

@marthae9338 6 ай бұрын

Good grief.

@nielspemberton59 7 ай бұрын

Anos de Hambre ! Also in Spain from 1939 to 1955.

@jackx4311 6 ай бұрын

ZERO sympathy. My (English) family was devastated by the war that Germany started. Even those who came back alive were torn to pieces on the inside, and never recovered. If your nation does that to other peoples, don't complain when they hit you right back, and even harder.

@Brunodomini 6 ай бұрын

There's an argument that the meddlesome British should have stayed out of the first world war, which they entered and made a world war, all to keep their German imperial rivals (known as the Hun) down. British propaganda of that era is utterly disgusting and shows something warped in the British ruling classes that still lingers. Otherwise, what the Nazis did in consequence of that first lost war remains almost unbelievably depraved. Still, that history didn't start in 1933.

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

By starting two world wars the Brits got themselves in trouble by picking fights with the wrong people, then came crawling to the U.S. for help - and the American people were naive enough to jump in. But they lost their empire anyway. Sorry about your family members (if true), but they only have their own government to blame. Particularly when Lloyd George and Clemenceau teamed up to intimidate that half-wit Woodrow Wilson at Versailles.

@KK-rg1wz Ай бұрын

@@sealteamtwo117 "the Brits" didn't start these wars.

@RobertJamesChinneryH 7 ай бұрын

Geez and I thought we were the "good guys"

@daniellebcooper7160 6 ай бұрын

'We' brought an end to the war as soon as we could. The main word here is WAR. Wars are dreaded by sane people for good reason.

@user-ds8no1ro2q 6 ай бұрын

We were. Children, though, are never bad guys.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

This was a black mark on our record for sure

@SteveHolland3.14 6 ай бұрын

When this horrible war in Gaza ends, will the people rebuild or rearm? I hope they learn from the German model and rebuild.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

Germany wasn't unusual in rebuilding. It's typically what happens. But Germany also rearmed and is a member of NATO.

@georgemiller151 6 ай бұрын

How many people married someone else only to find out their “dead” spouse or family has returned form the grave?

@user-ds8no1ro2q 6 ай бұрын

My God!

@tdirtyatl 6 ай бұрын

Or Soviet captivity, which was much the same thing.

@kaythegardener 6 ай бұрын

I met a woman who was from the first family. Her father was held by the soviets until the late 1950s in the Gulag/ former prisoners' settlements. He married again to a woman who had also been imprisoned & started a 2nd family. The 2 sides found each other in the 2010s!!

@sealteamtwo117 5 ай бұрын

That happened often. In the post-war years, divorce or annulment was streamlined to reduce the burden of such occurrences. A close family member was listed as missing and presumed dead in Russia until his name appeared on a list of German prisoners still being held in the Soviet Union. This was several years after the war had ended, and in the meantime his wife had remarried - to an American army officer. The divorce papers were simply a formality.

@fritzs1207 6 ай бұрын

heart breaking what they did to Germany😢

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking what Germany did to millions of people. Dresden was indeed way too much, but as a whole Germany started a war and slaughtered six million Jews. I hope you're also heartbroken over the six million Jews the Germans killed. Even just Kristallnacht was heartbreaking, let alone what came latetm

@KK-rg1wz Ай бұрын

heart breaking the war they started, what they did to the Jews, Gipsies, Eastern Europeans, ....

@petermacmillan6756 6 ай бұрын

My family is German. It was hard after the war, but they were all better off than the Poles, Russians, Norwegians, and other Europeans under German occupation during the war. That doesn't make what they experienced any easier, but there were millions of people who suffered far more because of German aggression who didn't live to tell their stories.

@Wolf-hh4rv 5 ай бұрын

But rarely does the story of German suffering get told. The German people were also victims.

@seattlewa8500 5 ай бұрын

@@Wolf-hh4rvThey were victims of their own leaders. Norway, Poland and others were also victims of the German leadership.

@Wolf-hh4rv 5 ай бұрын

@@seattlewa8500 yes. But the popular version of WW2 must change and acknowledge the horrific suffering of the German people. We know the facts but now the message must be honest.

@krzemas80 5 ай бұрын

@@Wolf-hh4rv Grundsätzlich haben die Deutschen das geerntet, was sie gesät haben. Die Unterstützung für die Nazis war kaum weniger als 100%, was etwas aussagt.

@mikeb5372 4 ай бұрын

@@Wolf-hh4rvVictims of themselves by way of democratic elections as well as the horrendous philosophies that permeated their culture

@alexcarter8807 7 ай бұрын

12:58 - getting food stamps and using them to pay your rent is certainly a thing in the US. You're poor and homeless, and if you are lucky you find someone who will let you live in the garage or in a shed, and you pay them by using your food stamps (AKA EBT) to buy food for them. Then for your own food, you go out and scrounge or beg or steal etc.

@brianarbenz1329 6 ай бұрын

And it was the Marshall Plan that lifted West Germany from these ashes to become a stable and prosperous country. Same for France, Holland, Italy. Never give a free pass to the hollow claim that someone "made it on their own."

@kaythegardener 6 ай бұрын

Apparently SNAP benefits are worth 10-15 cents / dollar on the homeless market in the Pacific NW in 2022...

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

I've bought groceries for my sister with my EBT, and she reimburses me. That was the only way I could afford prescriptions. I still bought food, but not a lot

@goodmoodgoodday5385 6 ай бұрын

It hurts to see that. My family, my parents on my father's side, also had to flee Silesia. My mother lived not far from Dresden and was able to escape days before the construction of the wall, the so called Anti Faschist Protection Wall. And I still remember growing up in south-west Germany, always with the stigma of being an unwelcome refugee. As a German, you are excluded among Germans just because you come from another region. Yes, I remember my parents' stories about how my grandfather illegally distilled alcohol and traded it to the Russians for butter. He went to Hamburg with the butter to trade fish there. Hard times that I have never experienced myself and cannot imagine.

@GenauOK 4 ай бұрын

Why do they say Wroclaw? The correct name was Breslau

@chaysecrossley. 17 күн бұрын

Because in 1945, at the Potsdam Conference, it became Wrocław.

@user-um7xq9my9z 7 ай бұрын

THATS GAZA SOON

@daniellebcooper7160 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, this is what it takes to rid society of the likes of Hamas and the Nazis.

@pawelpap9 6 ай бұрын

3:00. It was Breslau, not Wroclaw. It became Wroclaw after she fled.

@freehorizons9491 6 ай бұрын

Its BRESLAU!

@boink800 6 ай бұрын

It was Breslau ... until May 1945.

@gregoryaparker 6 ай бұрын

This is a lesson for anyone considering a war with America. Once America mobilizes for war then it is just a matter of time before you are picking through the rubble of what was your home. And for anyone commenting on Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq... America hasn't seen a full mobilization for war since the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. I'm talking about changing over from building cars to tanks, collecting pots for helmets and vehicles and putting out Liberty ships faster than they can be named.

@pazza4555 6 ай бұрын

You know that there were other countries on our side, right?

@rolandgeorgschramm1839 4 ай бұрын

What went wrong in Vietnam.? Just a friendly reminder USA DIDNT win the last world War. It was the Allies.