German Mass Surrender at Chemnitz 1945 COLOR HD [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]

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2 ай бұрын

Video footage of German troops surrendering to Allies near Chemnitz
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Footage has been:
- Digitally restored
- Upscaled to HD
- Edited
by Look in The Past channel.

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@maxshenkwrites 2 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for presenting this footage without all of the "enhancements" that mar these films on other channels (obtrusive soundtrack music, narration--particularly AI narration--, subtitles, etc). I like seeing this original raw film in the correct aspect ratio without any additions or alterations. I very much appreciate it.

@LookinThePastWarArchives 2 ай бұрын

Glad you like it! This channel is dedicated for the original film reels without narrations or music/fake sounds added. The videos are all remastered and cleaned up for better quality though. I have a separate channel for narrated informative videos: kzfaq.info

@jeffclark7888 2 ай бұрын

Precisely.

@eranthys 2 ай бұрын

@@LookinThePastWarArchives In my opinion colorization is also enhancement.

@robertglennienz 2 ай бұрын

Not sure what this has to do with live trains.

@maxshenkwrites 2 ай бұрын

@@eranthys But... the source footage here was filmed in color. @robertglennienz I think the question, actually, is what do you think live trains have to do with a video that is clearly labeled as World War II footage.

@Lecknye1961 2 ай бұрын

That is my father sitting in that jeep at the beginning of the video where the Germans were walking by him HOWARD O NYE 38067610-T41-45 AB

@TI4438 2 ай бұрын

Much respect to your father.

@daleburrell6273 2 ай бұрын

...if you say so...

@user-du4st4hj2m 2 ай бұрын

وكيف عرفت والدك صديقي العزيز وهل سمعت من شخص صديق لكم بانهوا والدك

@jeffrandall4046 2 ай бұрын

@@daleburrell6273he just did

@jharris0341 2 ай бұрын

Respect to your father.

@MGB-learning 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@markpaul-ym5wg 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@kevinjohnson-lf3kj 2 ай бұрын

Alot of those Lutwaffe who flew to the American lines in Checkolasvakia were turned over to rhe Soviets..Bad News for them.

2 ай бұрын

I guess it didn’t matter too much to them whether they were murdered by the Russians in their camps in Siberia or at the Rheinwiesenlager by the Americans…

@marcwinfield1541 2 ай бұрын

Churchill really was responsible for most of the transfers of prisoners to the Soviet Union

@Leon-bc8hm Ай бұрын

Yup the price for starting a world war.

@PercyKlvana Ай бұрын

Chemnitz was called "Kamenice" but it was in Germany, just slavishe title, after war it ended in East Germany and rename Karl Marx Stadt... Nowadays back in Chemnitz...the problem was mostly with Soviet red army because there were many nationalities inside also polish, Czechs, and many Jews in red army ...they very easy killed Germans cause hated them...also Mongolian red army was underneath Soviet red army and Mongolia wasn't in USSR but their army was from 1825-1992 part of red army ... in red army was later also Romanian in 1945 and others nationalities from Nazi satelite states ... not only Russians were in red army and killed or raped civilians, made robbery, vandalism etc.

@4urluvjones155 2 ай бұрын

How did gun camera footage end up in this film??

@mikeborsos8621 2 ай бұрын

Only a few fragments of the footage has been taken in Chemnitz. Some of it appears to be taken from the advance along the Erzgebirge on the German and the Czech side,

@renekleppel8569 2 ай бұрын

Es gibt da kein Tschechien. Das ist Ur Deutsch- Böhmen Mähren.

@r.s.9761 2 ай бұрын

@@renekleppel8569Das sollte jedem klar sein, dennoch steht selbst auf der amerikanischen Filmklappe Tschechoslowakei bzw. Czech.

@libertyvilleguy2903 2 ай бұрын

At 8:00, that young lady rides her horse quite proudly.

@kubanskiloewe 2 ай бұрын

she cant ride at all.

@henrymajander3104 2 ай бұрын

A bit coy - ’don’t film me, got no makeup on’

@mason7778 2 ай бұрын

Yes👍. and today incabable of nothing!!

@sperryfishingslovakia1367 2 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJ52hruZyd29hmw.htmlsi=TAHmaJgfbRfsMNkZ. the girl on the horse did not end well..

@PercyKlvana Ай бұрын

She has Nazi pants, waffen SS pants..probably girl from airport ..we saw some planes in this video footage...this girl should working like mapmaking, target communication, radio operator...

@nicolasfresne2365 15 күн бұрын

Some of the ss used komando prisoners as human shields . My grand father was one the French lads Germans took with them in the Chemitz region close to the borders on the infamous Road of death. Most of them died or were killed by theirs guards as they were unable to walk anymore. He was lucky enough to escape in April 1945 and was brought up to Anasberg hospital.

@JonHullock 2 ай бұрын

These lucky soldiers are the ones who didn't die in battle up until this point at least.

@MarkHarrison733 2 ай бұрын

Eisenhower starved thousands of POWs after VE Day.

@stevelopez372 2 ай бұрын

Theses lucky ones didn’t have to be Marched off to Siberia like the others at the Eastern Front.

@richardbrown6565 2 ай бұрын

Not so sure about that. A lot of German POWs were turned over to the Russians. @@stevelopez372

@MarkHarrison733 2 ай бұрын

@@stevelopez372 The western Allies killed many POWs after VE Day.

@renemagritte8237 2 ай бұрын

@@stevelopez372 You are mistaken, they were turned over to soviets together with the territory of Saxonia. They surrounded to Americans but became Russian prisoners and were sent to the journey of no return for most of them.

@bassomatic1871 2 ай бұрын

Anyone know who the two star American general is?

@henrymajander3104 2 ай бұрын

The one of the Stuka landing is an eye-opener for me, I didn’t know there were any flying still…

@TagW110 2 ай бұрын

I've seen the footage elsewhere - it was taken the same time that 190 footage was. Cool thing? The fellow flying that Stuka? Rudel himself! Apparently I think they said it was the entire squadron or what was left of it surrendering to the Americans having fled the east.

@tileux 2 ай бұрын

The JU87s were refitted with cannons (as in 37mm guns) and became vicious tank killers on the eastern front. The top anti-tank aces had many hundreds of soviet tank kills to their names. But that could only happen on the eastern front because the soviets didnt have the number or quality of fighters to stop them and only achieved air superiority in the dying weeks of the war. In the west the JU87 was obsolete from June 1940 when they proved to be easy pickings for british fighters. Id guess the anti-tank cannons have been removed from that one. The ju87Gs were a stopgap for the hs129, which was basically the first variant of the A10 warthog but the germans never got the design perfected.

@teller121 2 ай бұрын

to me, calling the Stuka obsolete has always been a curious thing. Under that line of reasoning, it was obsolete from the day it left the assembly line. It was as vulnerable to fighters in 1937 as it was in 1942. It was never meant to offer a challenge to fighter planes, whether the fighters were Spitfires or I-16 Ratas. In other words, like the A-10, if the Stuka's pals had not achieved air supremacy, it was vulnerable to heavy losses...in 1940 or 1945.

@no_triggerwarning9953 Ай бұрын

The footage of the JU87 is interesting as it is fitted with a flame damper on the exhaust for night operations, I hadn't seen footage of a JU87 with this equipment before.

@anitabowie5974 2 ай бұрын

All that destruction, how sad.

@teller121 2 ай бұрын

Stuka almost looks like it's mounting 20mm in each wing instead of original 7.92mm mg in one wing. I know they added "packets" of 20mm under the wing later (and 37mm) but wasn't aware they had altered in-the-wing armament.

@R.Lennartz Ай бұрын

Yes, this must be a D-5, they were armed with 20 mm cannons, and an MG 81Z for the gunner, it also had slightly longer wings.

@jerryeinstandig7996 2 ай бұрын

missing were the dates and places of these historical documents.

@randomdudeyoudontknow 2 ай бұрын

This is not all from Chemnitz, there's also footage from Czechia.

@TheBilllebob 2 ай бұрын

5:15 He hands over a tube of Pervitin.

@George-vf7ss 2 ай бұрын

😂

@frantisekzdibsky7180 23 күн бұрын

I believe that Chemnitz is either just the beginning or the end. Then it is in Czechoslovakia. The city of Karlovy Vary (capitulation of the general), the airport apparently Cheb and at 10:34 Loket and then Karlovy Vary. The bombed part of the city is probably in Germany, or Cheb, but that's just an estimate, no guarantee

@zen4men 2 ай бұрын

================ See the car at 07:20 - ================ driven by a boy ! Looks too young to drive! One wonders what happened to his parents. Looks as if he saved his brothers. / Anyone know the marking on the door? /

@christinemacdonald3188 Ай бұрын

Is there any kind of narrative from historians indicate more about what is taking place, who we are watching?

@jmace1957 2 ай бұрын

That's where my father ended the war. US 76th Infantry Division. His division had advanced into Czechoslovakia, and then pulled back to Chemnitz.

@renekleppel8569 2 ай бұрын

So ein Quatsch. Die US Armee war maximal bis Eibenstock hinter Zwikau . Dort war ein Entmilitarisierte Zone im Gebiet von Schwarzenberg. Die Russen waren bis Annaberg Bucholz - Scheibenberg. .Schlema+ Aue war zeitweise unter US Hoheit.. Der Verrat an Deutschen war Maß los. Das Abschlachten der Deutschen fand unter den Augen der US Truppen Statt. Benesch Dekret. Dieses Blut und die Schuld wird euch kein echter Deutscher vergeben. Die US Truppen haben noch bis weit Ende 1945 Deutsche an Russen Ausgeliefert. Die kamen nach Ausschwitz in ein Lager und sind dort jämmerlich vereckt. Von den SS Soldaten hat keiner Überlebt. Verbrechen der Russen. Polen Tschechen und Amerikaner. Diese Schuld wird noch gesühnt. Da könnt ihr sicher sein. Mögen eure Väter dafür in der Hölle schmoren.

@martinquarton184 2 ай бұрын

No escort soldiers in some of the vehicles.

@salvatorelentini1620 Ай бұрын

Sono convinto che la resa è uno dei momenti peggiore per ogni soldato. Ma quando la resa non è individuale, ma disposta a conclusione di un lungo conflitto, con la consegna al vincitore, la sobrietà e misura dei gesti, il decoro e la cura del l'uniforme e la mantenuta disciplina, con la dignità del volto, con il tempo riescono a trasformare agli occhi dei posteri una cocente sconfitta bellica, in una quasi vittoria morale. Trovo, con l'osservazione distaccata di oggi, inutile e poco cavalleresco l'inutile atteggiamento brusco ed arrogante di chi prende in custodia coloro che disciplinarmente e con compostezza si consegna al vincitore. È vero, che l'odio ed i dolori subiti hanno necessità di tanto tempo per essere metabolizzati... ma da lì si percepisce il valore e la grandezza di un popolo.

@astralclub5964 Ай бұрын

Just hope Captain Spiers doesn’t show up handing out cigarettes!

@greenbeagle13 2 ай бұрын

Thank God for the Greatest Generation..... ❤❤

@andreychizov8201 2 ай бұрын

bullshit

@greenbeagle13 2 ай бұрын

@@andreychizov8201 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 THE GREATEST GENERATION.....!!!!

@user-fb8rg5cx1i Ай бұрын

Amen to that brother.

@siliconvalleyengineer5875 2 ай бұрын

Wow the germans first blitzed on panzers, then fought battles riding tigers and leapords, at the end of the war they surrendered on horse pulled carts. The germans look damn glad the war was over and they somehow survived it. Just my opinion.

@achimstemmer889 2 ай бұрын

No Leopards in WW 2

@YoutubeGold-dc5fd Ай бұрын

no more killing!

@andreabartlomei8809 11 күн бұрын

Where Is Chemnitz???

@jokava1 2 ай бұрын

who is the general at 08:22 ?

@craigmiller4794 2 ай бұрын

I'm guessing Walton Walker.

@jokava1 2 ай бұрын

@@craigmiller4794 thanks a lot i meant the German one

@johncater7861 2 ай бұрын

Were the civilians Sudeten Germans? Did the Czechs take retribution on German civilians?

@MarkHarrison733 2 ай бұрын

Yes.

2 ай бұрын

Retributions? You mean if the Czech mass murdered thousands of them in cruel ways and forced hundred thousands to leave what has been their home for centuries within days with having to leave behind all their belongings then the answer is yes.

@elyjane8316 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@ToddChaddingtonEsq 2 ай бұрын

so what the germans did to the sudeten czechs? that's another way of saying it right?

@mrktyb Ай бұрын

@@ToddChaddingtonEsq idiot

@user-du4st4hj2m 2 ай бұрын

ماذا حل بهااولاء الناس هل هم رقود تحت باطن الارض 😢😢

@daleburrell6273 2 ай бұрын

...some of them CERTAINLY are- this was over 70 years ago...(!)

@RedStarRogue 2 ай бұрын

1:11 pilot is like "yep, surrendering, take me in please. As long as you don't hand me to the Soviets I wont resist."

@tonybarnes3858 2 ай бұрын

wow I've neer seen this comment before

@garrywagner7717 12 күн бұрын

Nice ford trucks.

@Elmaestrodemusica Ай бұрын

If they are being expelled, at least they are allowed to leave with their families and some of their possessions, some on horseback and even in vehicles. Think of those who were driven from their homes during the war and occupation on foot (including the sick, elderly and children) with nothing, including their families ....

@davidnorwich3771 2 ай бұрын

Great to see some rare footage of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D (Dora) The poor german lad that gets out of the cockpit and surrenders looks glad that it all over.

@LookinThePastWarArchives 2 ай бұрын

Just finished an informative video on the Fw190 it contains more footage many of it in color: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9iTZtlilcrNiWg.html

@franek_izerski Ай бұрын

They were fleeing from the Red Army, they preferred to surrender to the Ami's.

@Backwardlooking 2 ай бұрын

My Headmaster was a Major in the British 8th. Army having served in Command of a Tank recovery and repair unit. Shovelling up melted flesh from a tanks. He remarked that when as part of the occupation army in Germany none of the Germans had supported Hitler!. Of course like World War One the only REAL emotion amongst most of many Germans was having lost. The didn’t complain when they were winning. Watch them in 1940 in Socialist Berlin after the defeat of France.

@tancreddehauteville764 2 ай бұрын

What would you expect them to do? To celebrate defeat? WTF??

@belleriffraff 2 ай бұрын

Well, when most dictators control a country, complaining to the authorities, who are part of the dictatorship would be like signing off on your imprisonment or worse. l Like now, in 2024 complain about certain genders, you are arrested and jailed. Didn't know British military surrendered to the americans there either..

@rioamazoco 2 ай бұрын

Just as there are no Brits today admitting that they supported Brexit, huh?

@daleburrell6273 2 ай бұрын

@@rioamazoco ...I'D IMAGINE THAT THERE'S A HECK OF A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUPPORTING BREXIT- AND SUPPORTING HITLER-(!)

@ggregd 2 ай бұрын

"Socialist Berlin" ?

@Cainer444 2 ай бұрын

Chemnitz looks like it was spared the destruction that other German cities experienced. Looking at a map, Dresden wasn't too far from Chemnitz.

@thrashmaniac5194 2 ай бұрын

These scenes are often not filmed IN but in small towns around or the outskirts of Chemnitz. Chemnitz you can see after minute 11:50. Doesnt look that spared to me. Chemnitz was destroyed 40% in total, the inner city 70%. Usual for a city of that size in these days. The only bigger city that wasnt destroyed that much was Halle an der Saale.

@FILMARCHIVCHEMNITZ 2 ай бұрын

Im Film gibt es keinen Anhaltspunkt, das da Chemnitz zu sehen sein könnte.

@christiansimmank9619 2 ай бұрын

Kameradschaft, Zusammenhalt und Schutz der Frauen, Kinder und der Gemeinschaft. Grundlagen unserer Kultur

@josefhorndl3469 2 ай бұрын

Außer die Frauen und Kinder waren nicht "reinrassig" bzw. "arisch" genug, du Schlaumeier :(

@SilviaKeisel 2 ай бұрын

Nur Worthülsen. Gibt es irgend eine "Kultur", Gemeinschaft oder Gruppen die das nicht von sich behaupten würde?

@nicholasjones227 2 ай бұрын

@@SilviaKeisel Das mögen für Sie Worthülsen sein.Für andere sind das vielleicht wichtige und bedeutende Begriffe .Und selbst wenn das viele Menschen so sehen bedeutet das nicht das es für den Einzelnen nicht weniger wichtig ist.

@nomeansno2335 2 ай бұрын

@@SilviaKeisel Ja, die Grünen zum Beispiel

@SandroM.R. 2 ай бұрын

@@SilviaKeisel Du laberst Scheiße. Angeboren?

@WilloSNoack 18 сағат бұрын

The German Wermachts surrendered to the US-Army in the Soviet occupied Zone nit to the Red Army of the USSR!

@kpdvw 2 ай бұрын

Video was impressive, Audio was NOT...!

@jorgecruzseda7551 2 ай бұрын

What audio???

@fredgarv79 2 ай бұрын

maybe you didn't know, home movies did not have sound at all until like the 80s. 8mm home video was only 5 minutes at a stretch with no sound in the 50's 60's and 70's.

@daleburrell6273 2 ай бұрын

...well, "ya CAN'T please EVERYBODY!!!"

@kevinjohnson-lf3kj 2 ай бұрын

It was WW 2.. No audio ..dum ass

@MarkHarrison733 2 ай бұрын

We fought the wrong enemy.

@seattlewa8500 2 ай бұрын

If you think Hitler and Nazi Germany were not an enemy, then you are as ignorant as you appear.

@kaitannenhofer2909 2 ай бұрын

1000 years freedom against 90 years freedom 🎉😂

@jacquesmalite2612 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure,nazism and communism were Brothers....mass murders.

@westcyde9790 Ай бұрын

Man the Germans just look so elite from pride and the way they carry themselves they were the size of the state Oregon and the whole world had to team up against them sheesh

@burningblue1254 Ай бұрын

Germany had the most advanced military in the world in 1939 and had an operational force of 1,000 fighters and 1,050 bombers . Seventy five divisions, consisting of 24,000 officers and 2.7 million military personnel and the best tank force. You also exclude Japan and Italy. Two other highly militaristic powerhouses. Oregon is 98,000 sq. miles and Germany is 358,000 so how do you get off saying they are similar? Germany is almost 4 times the size! Get a grip!

@CurtisWebb-en5kh 2 ай бұрын

Thank you from California. All of those who surrendered were glad they were treated as prisoners. Unlike the way prisoners of Germany were treated.

@jimmys0614 2 ай бұрын

Un peu exagéré…

@jimmys0614 2 ай бұрын

Un peu exagéré…

@user-ih1mo8vv7o 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@user-cm9pt8bo3l 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunate comment. The lack of information is very evident.

@falk6121 2 ай бұрын

Yes, maybe they were „treated“ on the Rheinwiesen.

@andyx2299 2 ай бұрын

RIP heiliges Deutschland 😪

@voodoochile804 2 ай бұрын

Was da unterging war ein Terrorregime mit Schwerverbrechern an der Spitze. Daran war gar nichts "heilig". Das sollte heutzutage jede*r wissen.

@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 2 ай бұрын

Anything but holy!

@daleburrell6273 2 ай бұрын

...I'D say that "holy Germany" DIED the day that the Germans decided to follow HITLER...(!)

@rioamazoco 2 ай бұрын

Du kannst dich bald dazulegen, Bernd-Tino.

@Templeborough Ай бұрын

Better translation here might be "Sacred Germany". Could be a reference to another book by the authors of "Holy Blood Holy Grail" and the Germany of the spirit espoused by von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler. Admittedly it does look strange to us.

@SimonGardiner-bj3pq Ай бұрын

You've had a taste of Russian occupation (in the view of many who lived in Poland, Latvia etc FAR WORSE than any NAZI occupation) DO YOU WANT SOME MORE?

@charleswells5751 2 ай бұрын

You probably never saw so many rapists and murderers in one single video.

2 ай бұрын

When lions had to surrender to sheep…😏

@tonybarnes3858 2 ай бұрын

My father was a Marine, landed on Okinawa, went on to serve his country 35 more years. He would laugh in your face and say the lions came, better late than never, and crushed the sheep who followed the evil of fascism.

@davidjackson2179 2 ай бұрын

Nazi sympathizing bootlickers are literally the most cringe thing on the internet. So embarrassing and shameful.

@alexmckenna1171 2 ай бұрын

Igorant Toads surrendered to decent people.

@seattlewa8500 2 ай бұрын

Your ‘lions’ lost the war, fortunately. They surrendered because they knew they were defeated. So much for Hitler’s ‘master race’.

@user-ez6bw4xf1g 2 ай бұрын

Deutschland erwache

@nihilmiror6312 2 ай бұрын

Relieved, but none the less pissed off at having to surrender. 👍🫡

@code_red999 27 күн бұрын

the us fought on wrong side.. imagine if they defeated Russia. there would not be the cold war

@tomcooper6108 21 күн бұрын

The Russians had advanced a long ways by that time. Fighting them back and defeating them, then occupying the whole of Russia would have been impossible.

@wordsmithgmxch 7 күн бұрын

Sometimes there's only a wrong side and a wronger side. And the Nazis were far, far wronger. If the Nazis (and the Japanese too, remember) had won, the US would have been isolated, the UK would have become a client state, Europe would have been totalitarian from Gibraltar to the Urals, and there would have been endless deportations, concentration camps, enslavement, murder, exterminations. I'll take the Cold War: Eastern Europe was lost for half a century, it is true, but it was the USSR that was isolated.