my fathers father fled on foot to spain from belgium took a boat to uk joined the belgian army part of the uk army fought on dday in a later wave he helped liberate belgium and left the army. god save his soul.
@bluedevil37652 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful days in our history! Thank you Great Britain and United States! And the Piron Brigade of course!
@joecole7122 Жыл бұрын
You're from Belgium. What did you think of King Leopold iii and his role in the war?
@emib65999 ай бұрын
@@joecole7122 Some years ago protestor against the racism asked to remove his statues from public places. The belgian government agreed and put them in a museum where is labelled as a genocidal.
@spencersholden7 ай бұрын
@@joecole7122I have a Belgian friend who called him,”a disgrace to all Belgians.”
@spencersholden7 ай бұрын
@@emib6599that is exactly where they belong.
@jonasastrom74223 ай бұрын
@@emib6599 That's the wrong Leopold...
@user-th5nb3ox1w11 ай бұрын
My grandfather was in the British troops that liberated Belgium and the Netherlands. Our greatest generation.
@robsan52 Жыл бұрын
I know in Holland and I believe in Belgium there are long lists of people waiting their turn, who have volunteered, to take care of the grave of a fallen allied soldier buried in their town. People will take care of a soldiers grave their entire life. Such an incredibly kind thing to do.
@Coolerman56510 ай бұрын
My Dad served with the Coldstream Guards Guards Armoured, he was in Brussels and for a short time was billited with a Belgien family, he would talk of them and their kindness many a time, then four months later Dad found himself at Cristmas down in the Ardenne freezing.
@godofzombi5 күн бұрын
Did he fight at Beringen?
@dennisroyhall1213 жыл бұрын
The Belgians - bless ‘em [ and I say as a proud Englishman most sincerely ] are a fine people and have a really right beautiful national anthem both in music and in words, listen and read those two items...for the music, you can hear the tones as from 3:27 in the background....I salute them, all of them , Que vivent les Belges!
@vdreeh86012 жыл бұрын
i salut your country for the heroic actions to save me and my familly and country friends love from belgium
@aidanlutz81062 жыл бұрын
I wish to move to Belgium when I get older
@vdreeh86012 жыл бұрын
@@aidanlutz8106 i live in belgium and lemme tell you that my country sucks
@aidanlutz81062 жыл бұрын
@@vdreeh8601 I’d mostly live there because I want to work for International Relations in Brussels. And besides, I’d rather live there than America.
@vdreeh86012 жыл бұрын
@@aidanlutz8106 yeah but you wont earn that much our tax is 25% you will make like 1800€ a month so about 2000$ a month
@ColonelSponsz Жыл бұрын
J' avais 6 ans en 44, et j' vu les volutes de fumee, qui s' echapait du dome du palais de justice, depuis le bas de la rue Guillaume Lekeu a Anderlecht ! C' etait la liberation !
@lw36466 ай бұрын
Lots of people thought Germany was a few weeks from surrender by late summer 1944. The allies had recaptured France, Brussels, had pushed into Holland, the Russians were racing west. Somehow though the German army regrouped. Operation Market Garden didn't really work, the allied supply lines became stretched, the US forces advanced through woodland where they couldn't deploy their bombers or artillery. That winter as well was one of the coldest in memory.
@usmale49154 жыл бұрын
My dad was a paratrooper during WWII. His platoon worked their way from southern France and helped liberate Paris! This video of Belgium and Brussels being liberated reminded me of my Dad. I guess the French were so overjoyed! Thank you for the video upload!
@paulmcdonough10934 жыл бұрын
Today the British take are country back leave e u British pride moves forward other nations don't have the guts to vote leave and they moan
@michaecide4 жыл бұрын
@Abdrasid Khalid You sound like a Nazi. Ironic.
@dukadarodear21764 жыл бұрын
Your father's generation were made of great stuff. That was the last great Holy War.
@alexzander18394 жыл бұрын
@@SugarRainer France would never have "Third Worlders" in the first place if they didn't extract a hefty colonial tax from their former colonies to this day. That is the root cause of the demise of those nations because it stunts their growth and the result is people fleeing those lands in search of better opportunities. Even the Italians called out rhe French on that which caused a row between those two countries. Google it up.
@charleswood70014 жыл бұрын
@Jerry Pecks France is extremely divided today, and along ethnic lines. The Yellow Vests, largely unreported by the outside world should go some way to showing you how the globalist media behaves, what their agenda is, and also, just how divided and fractured France is. Also, the majority of babies born today in Paris are already non-white French. Much of Paris today looks like north Africa or some place in the middle east. Maybe you see that as a strength, maybe you think it is diversity, and a good thing.
@yxuzy72053 жыл бұрын
What a relief! What a joy it must have been to be liberated!
@hendriktrappeniers29162 жыл бұрын
The Belgian Brigade Piron got an heroes welcome. You see colonel Piron at the hotel de ville with the bourgmestre.
@alessandrocarpi98982 жыл бұрын
Thanks to Britain & Canada even for the liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands.
@woodenseagull18992 жыл бұрын
It's a shame you treated us so badly over Brexit, when we gained our liberty. Then you allowed the Germans back in .
@walesruels2 жыл бұрын
It makes me cry with joy watching this! With love from Britain.
@Martin-es8mb2 ай бұрын
Vive la Belquie.
@juliataylor26233 жыл бұрын
Why is there so little footage of this episode in our history. What a great country we are this is tearfully moving footage.
@gordonspicer Жыл бұрын
unfortunately its "were". That aspect is terribly sad to many
@John-ob7dh4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic to see little Belgium liberated.
@coetrupe3 жыл бұрын
they still have the congo that time lol
@xgentis3 жыл бұрын
@@coetrupe And the brits had their whole Empire. Your point being?
@AlexandreAuCambodge2 жыл бұрын
@@xgentis Not "little Belgium", then?
@tony26823 жыл бұрын
and to think that most of those soldiers and people in the crowds are now no longer with us.
@williamrubinstein3442 Жыл бұрын
Almost none. A 20 year old in 1944 would be 98 in 2022.
@ianprice95634 ай бұрын
Well…yes…
@lw3646 Жыл бұрын
An amazing day. So much emotion and joy.
@davidbcousins183 жыл бұрын
The question for us is whether the darkness will fall again and humanity must again suffer to regain freedom from tyranny.
@fjimmel3 жыл бұрын
Socialist Democrats will ruin America. It will be a rough 4 years.
@pincermovement726 ай бұрын
Look at the whole of the west now , the difference from these pictures is easy to discern and easy to predict.
@Hereford16425 ай бұрын
My favourite bit is at 0:42 when the angry woman goes to hit the German prisoner and the guard just puts his hand up:- 'Now now madam, no need for that sort of thing.'
@aderfigueroa3 жыл бұрын
Good job Brussels saving the Books 📚 saving History
@michelsmet2611 Жыл бұрын
Commentaire un peu cru d'un défunt collègue ayant vécu la Libération de Bruxelles : "C'était de la folie, on baisait dans les rues, en public !".
@gordonspicer Жыл бұрын
glororious to watch and made me very proud yet sad as this was probably Britain's peak of power & respect. Tear in my eye how low we have become all thanks to our own Government & ex- Prime Minister Cameron
@matthewwalkemar87262 жыл бұрын
Loved learning about this in the documentary the world at war episode 19 pincers
@richardloring7545 Жыл бұрын
5th Coldsyream guards....my dads brother was there ..died 11th April crossing River Hase in Germany ...at end of war
@cababyboomerq60123 жыл бұрын
The Nazis were so heartless.....so disgusting.
@madeleinemalefason2 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see !
@eugenebell31664 жыл бұрын
Good stuff!
@Finglesham2 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see now, but bloody terrifying at the time for the soldiers. I know as my father was there. 21st Army Group, 11th Armoured Division 13th Royal Horse Artillery. L/Bdr. It was not all fun and games. He spent 4 years of his life doing that stuff and survived ( hence me). I am pleased that I did not have to do that. Still, The Germans are the major power in Europe and provide the cash for the other wastrels to carry on their communist policies. ( France/Italy in particular) I am glad us UK people are out and I hope my grandsons never have to fight that lot again.
@leaomartinofaria16672 жыл бұрын
Interessante mesmo...o povo depositou todas as confiança nos aliados principalmente os EUA....a liberdade sempre tem o seu preço!
@lidijatravina7438 Жыл бұрын
Человечество без мудрых лидеров это ужас! Неужели по такому фильму 1944 это непонятно? Ненавидите Россию, надо сдерживаться, чтобы такая война не вернулась снова!
@emib65992 жыл бұрын
Those people were the people that created the EU (the embryo started in 1951) after witnessing the last big genocidal imperialist war, with the idea that never again a person in Europe has to live towards this again only because he borne in to a border instead of another. The peoples that write neo fascist propaganda should be ashamed for spitting on those memories and those deaths. . Please if you find people that spit on this memories put a thumb down 👎you'll make their propaganda comments falling down in to oblivion of the chat.
@robertlaube5744 жыл бұрын
Awsome channel, i live in the wrong time
@smoaky1234 жыл бұрын
Why would you EVER want to live back then??
@paulinbrooklyn4 жыл бұрын
KING POTUS You needn’t interpret Robert Laube’s comment literally to understand the sentiment. After nearly four years of living in the surreal political climate here in the US and seven months of being aware of the Global Pandemic, it sure would be a nice catharsis to have a moment in time when those two threats have been eradicated.
@robertlaube5743 жыл бұрын
@@paulinbrooklyn amen, well said, thank you.
@jenniferjuniper973 жыл бұрын
May we all be so happy again. Up democracy in the USA!
@TANKTREAD Жыл бұрын
Celebrate the love!
@mattdevereaux4550 Жыл бұрын
Joyous!
@zdenkacogleiova2862 жыл бұрын
Dej susulku konce tá má skúsenosti!
@matthewpayne423 жыл бұрын
The Belgium poeple fared better than their neighbours the starving Dutch.
@carlmorris67443 жыл бұрын
I love it!!
@eduardoleva9842 Жыл бұрын
Todavía faltaba mucho, toda la costa hacia el mar, más allá de Amberes en manos de los nazis. Pero hermoso momento para los belgas sacarse de encima a los invasores.
@chriscarr91713 жыл бұрын
Short memories I'm afraid.
@tillavanrooyen41823 жыл бұрын
A short respite in a war that will only be over once the earth has found it's equilibrium. Whether it be heaven or hell.
@trevermcdonald24023 жыл бұрын
Their gratitude didn’t last long, they now prefer the EU to the UK. Such is life!
@johnfitzpatrick40073 жыл бұрын
It was the Uk that left the Eu.Get your facts right.
@gray35533 жыл бұрын
@@johnfitzpatrick4007 Yes, and the fuckers tried to shaft us a few weeks ago with Clause 16 and made themselves look like "bell ends" to the rest of Europe.
@johnfitzpatrick40073 жыл бұрын
@@gray3553 They have been shafting us for 300 years,yet there is still people who believe we benefit from a corrupt government we haven’t voted for in 60 years.
@xgentis3 жыл бұрын
Grateful sure but not suicidal.
@Anonymous-bn1lo3 жыл бұрын
In 1944 my grandpa in africa they call them " white savior "
@christophersibley30232 жыл бұрын
How easily they have forgotten us there freedom fighters
@freebornjohn2687 Жыл бұрын
WTF are you talking about?
@nomis7772 жыл бұрын
What a video .
@Zander_452 жыл бұрын
De nos jours, à Molenbeek et Anderlecht (2 communes de Bruxelles), ils arriveraient à jeter des pierres sur ces héros
@davidnavarro4821 Жыл бұрын
To the octogenarians and nonagerians on KZfaq: does anyone remember witnessing these events ?
@harleyblue9992 жыл бұрын
How could todays forget so quickly,inevitable time the destroyer,those of that day sadly gone,replaced with a moral less society.I weep watching this.
@MrJaEsteban3 жыл бұрын
The same Belgians had welcomed Leon Degrelle and the Wallonie Legion a few months earlier ...?
@RangaTurk3 жыл бұрын
Point taken, but the French also managed to expand their Paris underground Metropolitain subway system at the height of the German occupation in 1942.
@hendriktrappeniers29162 жыл бұрын
No not the same Belgians, it was a very small minority that welcomed him. At the liberation, you may be certain that those persons were not there (they were hiding for the wrath of the real Belgians).
@walkingandadventures61142 жыл бұрын
Perhaps EU should watch a few of these videos…
@woodenseagull18992 жыл бұрын
Yet....Thats all forgotten today by the EU " Gravy Train ". Who then, puts a German in charge...!
@Charles-t7z8 күн бұрын
Sure, acting all big and bad when the Brits arrive. That's easy.
@westpointsnell41673 жыл бұрын
Why aren't these Germans sleeping
@dealermando2 жыл бұрын
That night , they had Guylian chocolate for Dinner, while watching brussels burning
@fjimmel3 жыл бұрын
The proud English in American trucks and jeeps and tanks.
@marypetrie9302 жыл бұрын
Fjimmel....Idiot!
@eugenemurray29402 жыл бұрын
Er...Allied Vehicles.... Backed up by P51 Ds... American Airframe... With British pattern engines...
@rnstoo12 жыл бұрын
Its the BRITISH army. And the most effective American tanks had British guns. It was an Allied effort including a major Canadian effort as well. At the end of the day it is the MEN that count
@silverhost97822 жыл бұрын
And the proud Americans with their British naval radar, ASW equipment and nuclear research are probably off screen somewhere too
@flitsertheo2 жыл бұрын
Besides the obvious Shermans and Jeeps most of the vehicles were British (or Canadian).
@dealermando2 жыл бұрын
They should have come earlier and liberate belgian Congo too from the hands of the sadistic belgians
@leaomartinofaria16672 жыл бұрын
Foi triste demais a humilhante derrota dos Alemães durante a 1 guerra mundial e 2 guerra!
@maku80753 жыл бұрын
Now they are under Soviet European Union. 😂🤷
@gabykoynkuli57042 жыл бұрын
Yes but we have chosen to be under the control of Soviet european union. That’s the difference
@Olaf_Stein Жыл бұрын
Es lebe das heilige Deutschland.
@privateemail58702 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the USSR!
@Suma_Naide2 жыл бұрын
Ok commie
@64MDW2 жыл бұрын
With billions of dollars in aid and countless Lend-Lease tanks, aircraft, equipment, jeeps, trucks, fuel, coal, food, communications wire, food, gasoline, and much, much more. A lot of good men died getting the goods to Russia...something the Russians still don't admit. Stuff Russia. The legacy of Stalin lives on...ask the people of Ukraine.
@privateemail58702 жыл бұрын
@@64MDW are you done crying?
@silverhost97822 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the big 3!
@stevetaylor8698 Жыл бұрын
The Germans wouldn't have been there in the first place had in not been for the German/Russian alliance. The Russia would have folded had they not received allied support.