Germans surrender in Linz (SFP 186)

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9 жыл бұрын

US-Troops invaded Austria on May 1st. North and south of the Danube, units of the XII. and XX. Corps of the US Third Army moved in and occupied nearly the whole country in less than a week. Linz was evacuated without a fight. The official surrender of the City to Brigadier General Holbrook was executed by Mayor Franz Langoth. On May 9th, the meeting of US and Soviet troops took place on the Enns. The agreement of the German's surrender entered into force on May 9th 1945. The Second World War in Europe ended.
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Music "While I am thinking" by courtesy of Antoine Marsaud
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@axeaxeworthy1101 4 жыл бұрын

If you want to live, Go west and surrender to the americans. -Obergruppenführer Felix Stiener, Berlin 1945

@Jenjenilou 4 жыл бұрын

The Germans look relieved to be captured. Glad it's over and who can blame them? You can tell by their faces they've had enough.

@josiavantroyen4215 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a german. Yes, I wish to be proud of Germany sometimes but let's not pretend like Germany was innocent. I'm just saying this since you said "who can blame them?" Yes, this was an extremely difficult situation for a lot of Germans and they didn't really have a choice. But there were also a lot of Germans who would've ripped their heart off for Hitler and this war.

@hdanielnoble3671 5 жыл бұрын

My great uncle Rolly Noble was there. He is the one who directed the making of the first American flag to be placed there. The flag is now on display at Fort Benning.

@josephastier7421 4 жыл бұрын

Everybody in this video is just happy to be alive.

@carver3419 6 жыл бұрын

I was stationed for 26 months in Germany over 60 years ago, and I have spoken with many former WWII German soldiers. They were just glad the damn war was over. Most who were in the west eventually built good lives for themselves. There were some who were in Russias that were fucked up - alcoholism and similar mental problems.

@JG-tk7cn 6 жыл бұрын

I have to say watching WWII in color gives me more chills than watching in black and white. It really makes it seem like this didn't happen that long ago.

@tiktoksucks4143 5 жыл бұрын

Loner Laura that's because it really wasn't that long ago well it was but only a few decades

@monikabataityte4283 4 жыл бұрын

@@tiktoksucks4143 the effects are still seen today in society

@Joshua-fq9tm 4 жыл бұрын

here it seems like it happened in 60s

@danielplainview2360 4 жыл бұрын

I feel that way also.

@orgami100 4 жыл бұрын

In 1957 Linz was a very attractive city on the Danube river, we lived in the abandoned wooden barracks of the german soldiers . As a 8 year old Refugee from Hungary when the Russian tanks made a mess of the city of Budapest... by the way that's where I had my tonsils removed in a hospital was staffed by nurses nuns that reminded me of the movie The Sound of Music..

@eduardodeandres3864 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting

@louispaulrutko4384 7 жыл бұрын

excellant footage!! hats off to the man who obtained this film !!

@NaderR 8 жыл бұрын

That was the time of real soldiers. Ones accept the defeat while others respect the defeated..

@sum12see 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage...thanks for posting it!! I subscribed cant wait to watch more!!

@richardgoldman8761 6 жыл бұрын

In some cases at the end of the war being taken a POW by the US was a relief.

@josephastier7421 4 жыл бұрын

I would think that in ALL cases they were very happy to surrender to the Americans and not the Russians.

@chrisj197438 4 жыл бұрын

Richard Goldman Not always. My uncle was with US Army. He told me a story of three German soldiers who surrendered themselves to him. He took them to his Sargent who orderedhim to escort them to another company as they did not have the ability to hold prisoners. The other company was an hour away yet the Sargent ordered him tho be there and back within ten minutes. Obviously he wanted my uncle to take them away execute them and return. My uncle told them in the best German he could to surrender themselves to the next US outfit they saw. He told them to run. He waited a few seconds and started firing into the ground. He went back and never spoke of it.

@northernsurvivalbackcountr4986 4 жыл бұрын

Im sure it was a relief

@kingjoe3rd 4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisj197438 well, good thing he didn't because that would be murder and a war crime and as my company 1st Sgt told us in Iraq, "we are not savages, we do not beat and kill prisoners or loot and steal from civilians."

@AssinnippiJack 8 жыл бұрын

My Uncle Tony, one of eleven children born in the foothills of Appalachia in Ridgeway, PA to parents who came from Poland. Fought across France & Belgium as part of the US Army; was twice wounded then came home to marry and raise seven children of his own. Never once talked about his courage and valor.

@MichaelOnRockyTop 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@saturnascendz 7 жыл бұрын

Grandfather served in the Phillippines. He was captured and never talked about it. Not even to my Grandmother up until a high fever near his death. Some take their experiences to the grave.

@fengtube56 7 жыл бұрын

AssinnippiJack you got to solute these kids!

@LadyRider2007 6 жыл бұрын

I swear to God it looks like my mom is in the footage starting at :47 seconds.... looks so much like her! She escaped from the Russians when they invaded her hometown of Kleinzell and fled with her mother to Linz.

@terrytk9398 4 жыл бұрын

LadyRider2007 wow! If that is your mum it would be incredible. It’s certainly possible.

@chuckjohnson2564 5 жыл бұрын

My dad was an M.P. in the 102 inf div. 3rd army . The only thing that he would talk about was the winter of 1944 /1955. Said that he was never that cold before that time.

@benm5221 5 жыл бұрын

Best quality WWII video I've ever seen. Both German and American soldiers look like they just want to go home.

@trollking99 8 жыл бұрын

Very good film quality. If the image was sharper, it'd be almost HD.

@kamilksiazek8019 6 жыл бұрын

You write about Germans but remember that many men from Austria fought in Wehrmacht. Austria actually wasn't first German victim, they welcomed Hitler's army like liberators..

@joeguzman3558 4 жыл бұрын

My stepfather was in the ww2 US army he told me that one time around 100 or so German soldiers just draped thier weapons on the ground and just give up

@danielplainview2360 4 жыл бұрын

The look of exhaustion on those soldiers' faces speaks volumes. They have that look of "let's never do this again."

@nanba25 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting This square hasn't changed very much since that day. Obviously, the clicketing noise is to be taken off, just keep the low level music, that's enough

@salvadorrodenas3071 7 жыл бұрын

It were not easy to arrive to that situation, it cost so many lives and we should give some our prayers for those brave young alied soldiers who fought and died for something we today give for granted in our everyday more sick society. Here in Spain the nephews of those who fought in our civil war and eventually, years later forgave each others when democracy was newly instaured, are behaving as if the war had ended yesterday. We are condemned to repeat history every few decades.

@CovenantElite1117 6 жыл бұрын

I wish more had surrendered,rather than loose their life.

@adelestevens 7 жыл бұрын

Overwhelming impression of this film? The "and what are we supposed to do now?" Look on both American and German forces faces , and a look of relive on a few Germans who might have worked out that in a year or twos time they might be able to get back to normal life .

@okrajoe 7 жыл бұрын

Really interesting color footage.

@nickowens5621 8 жыл бұрын

What is the point of the fake projector sounds?

@nickowens5621 8 жыл бұрын

+searchandscan Phfft..

@scootin123 6 жыл бұрын

nick owens I didn't notice but sounds like a cool idea

@joeguzman3558 4 жыл бұрын

It took enormous amount of logistics and paperwork _ just imagine the amount of time and orders going to different places .

@fred8835 8 жыл бұрын

must have been very humiliating to surrender ,after all that sacriface they made they had to repeat history again.

@dormandavis2767 6 жыл бұрын

When I was in Germany in the early 80s there was still damage from the war that still had to be built. I still remember bullet marks on the buildings that they left as a reminder of what happened

@monikabataityte4283 4 жыл бұрын

they shouldve left one destroyed building

@GodsLightningrod64 5 жыл бұрын

Love the projector sound. Nice touch.

@colmconamara1602 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see how the populace replaced their swastikas with white flags and, what seems like, an Austrian national flag

@ronluckenbach9492 9 жыл бұрын

Great stuff...music very apropos...thank you for sharing.

@noelmajers6369 6 жыл бұрын

Outstanding quality footage - it looks just a few days old !

@DBHunter1 7 жыл бұрын

My dad was in the 90th div of the Third Army. TO....Tough Oumbres.

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see at least one female prisoner among them.I think you can see her marching off with the column.You would think they'd be separated.But ,probably,happier to be with her own side,until they reach the camps.

@jeremygraves1720 4 жыл бұрын

Love the music

@blackfirekomandr837 8 жыл бұрын

Today is 5'th of may 2016, today we mark 71 years from the liberation moment of Linz city by U.S. Armed forces on the 5'th of may 1945 and also of the Mauthausen concentration camp near of Linz down on the Danube river in Austria.

@entertainmentbayrock3249 7 жыл бұрын

interesting documentation near my homebase!

@Maximillian2701 9 жыл бұрын

Great footage. May I ask, what's the music?

@worldwarfootage 9 жыл бұрын

+Maximillian2701 Thank you! The music is "While I am thinking" by Antoine Marsaud. itunes.apple.com/de/album/while-i-am-thinking/id1019808336?i=1019808346

@KF-qj2rn 7 жыл бұрын

amazing the continuous miracles, technology, that occurred allowing us to see this...in the 80s we had Time(tm) life encyclopedic book sets (by Time magazine) and that was literally it...Jane's Defense weapons of the Soviet Union and comblocs, etc.

@juanperez1340 4 жыл бұрын

The Germans are very lucky that they are given up to the Americans, and not the Russians. They will live, another day

@paulwilliams8555 4 жыл бұрын

Symbolic. Linz , Austria was Adolph's birthplace. He was Austrian not German. That's why his dialect sounded so foreign. Like the East Germans sounded so different.

@HappyFlapps 4 жыл бұрын

The color really has the effect of making this period of history so real to me... ...along with the soundtrack.

@pleasedontwhipmemaster2353 4 жыл бұрын

Who's dam lawnmower is making that noise in the background 🤔😠

@eugenebell3166 5 жыл бұрын

It must be difficult finding music to play as a background to something as important and serious as this but, this sounds like something off the Issac Hayes film 'Shaft'. Come on you could have done better.

@deniscarrier5107 4 жыл бұрын

I don,t think many ever really wanted a war

@shirleybalinski4535 Жыл бұрын

I love watching facial expressions. You can read everything in those faces.

@BeachsideHank 6 жыл бұрын

The G.I. "guards" may just as well have slung their arms instead of rather casually and indifferently treating them like they were holding some firewood. ☺

@ThaV1c 4 жыл бұрын

At 1:30 are they officers with the caps and leather jackets?

@yellowdeer7163 6 жыл бұрын

Once again Good triumphs over Evil. Thanks to the greatest generation. Thanks Dad.

@user-kc4ti5yz8j 4 жыл бұрын

Today everyone wants to be an Austrian citizen 🇦🇹 😊😊

@avadhnamravichandran5071 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, the Germans look like super hero's even in the surrender thier uniforms awesome

@StopFear 6 жыл бұрын

Their uniforms? Who cares? I am sure the killed German soldiers couldn’t care how well designed their uniforms were.

@keitholdbean3173 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder what became of those men and how many of them got home and had a decent life ?

@JG-tk7cn 6 жыл бұрын

Most Germans went on to live happy lives assuming they were not caught by the Soviets.

@jammer3618 5 жыл бұрын

I would say most. The prosperity of west germany speaks to that. As well as the fact that democracy was firmly rooted by the 1970s. Most had seen enough of dictators.

@dethray1000 Жыл бұрын

2.5 to 3 million germans died after the war ended,starved,disease and the allied forces could care less,indirect punishment-both civilians and pows

@HarryWebb46 4 жыл бұрын

Terrible! What an utterly Stupid War! No More Brother Wars!

@alberte.3059 6 жыл бұрын

Most top Nazis knew the war was lost after Stalingrad...

@jerodx100 5 жыл бұрын

A lot of young men in civilian clothes.

@a373e 7 жыл бұрын

что за музыка играет.кто подскажет?

@garypulliam3740 4 жыл бұрын

0:39 Sgt Major? Yes?

@eliangio 6 жыл бұрын

A verdade é que todos estavam cansados dessa guerra

@reytheheroraw 4 жыл бұрын

3:05 Perconte? Is that you?

@beachside1 5 жыл бұрын

Much better to surrender to the Americans then the Russians. Siberia and gulags werent very good options.

@paulackley5390 4 жыл бұрын

So many well trained German soldiers. Too bad they were under the wrong leadership.

@garypulliam3740 4 жыл бұрын

0:23 and 2:42 is same man. No?

@agonydefeat8275 6 жыл бұрын

What music melodie is used.

@worldwarfootage 5 жыл бұрын

The track is called "While I am thinking". Here is a download link: itunes.apple.com/de/album/while-i-am-thinking/id1019808336?i=1019808346

@Mutlap 6 жыл бұрын

German cloth cover styles are still the same today.

@Endeavour30 7 жыл бұрын

2:42 - Christopher Nolan lookalike

@garypulliam3740 4 жыл бұрын

lol

@sjaakdewinter6258 6 жыл бұрын

They fought for nothing, when they are going back their city is destroyed. That s what you get with a dictator> always you loose.

@MrDaiseymay 6 жыл бұрын

I could never understand the German reluctance to surrender , especially when the Allies were so far into Germany and Austria. AND--of course, the Russians closing in behind--madness.

@shirleybalinski4535 3 ай бұрын

The American Army contained many soldiers of German heritage. Many were immigrants as children, children of immigrants. Some were Jewish. A great deal spoke German as they came from ethnic neighborhoods & small towns where German was spoken. I suppose to some extent there was familiarity. Not all thought this way of course.😢

@johnnyadriel4651 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder who the dude dressed in black getting into the back of the truck at 1.43.He looks very out of place.

@garbageday587 7 жыл бұрын

John Cash. He's a time traveler

@Anwar-xv6zm 5 жыл бұрын

Germany going home after War

@jcvr732 5 жыл бұрын

Dont forget that was the entire world against Germany

@colincocks1335 4 жыл бұрын

I think you will find it was Germany against many nations but not against the whole world, er japan for instance

@krommekachelpijp1 4 жыл бұрын

Miauw miauw miauw! Nice music😼😹

@fatalexception1269 6 жыл бұрын

3:01 Colin Farrell

@garypulliam3740 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! lol

@kingjoe3rd 4 жыл бұрын

he actually looks like the little short Italian guy from Band of Brothers.

@paintdoctor5532 5 жыл бұрын

No wonder they lost...they forgot to take the plug out of their tanks cannon..

@synthesizer301 7 жыл бұрын

beautiful music aintoine marsaud : while i am thinking

@albanischerss-soldat7539 6 жыл бұрын

0:02 Hauptplatz

@timlamb9428 7 жыл бұрын

the citizens in those countries treated american soldiers like hero's or celebrities it seems. like ..."look it's captain america !"

@tekay44 4 жыл бұрын

only after defeated, they were waving flags and cheering, when the wermacht was rolling all of Europe. they are full of shit in these photos.

@blase1101 7 жыл бұрын

3:17 is this polish flag?

@uistbhoy8777 7 жыл бұрын

Linz flag

@Bastlzz 7 жыл бұрын

no, it's the austrian flag

@DannysChannel100 6 жыл бұрын

blase1101 It's the Austrian Flag.

@garypulliam3740 4 жыл бұрын

Looks Polski flaga. Hard to see.

@dinatulsaadah6143 5 жыл бұрын

i love german

@juanrome6223 6 жыл бұрын

Mi padre guardia de asalto dela República Española, tuvo que sufrir la hospitalidad de Francia , cuando la retirada del ejército republicano hacia Francia, fueron llevados con malos.modos hacia campos como el de Argeles donde no habían barracones tuvieron que dormir en las arenas.dela playa , muriendo el 25% delos refugiados , gracias al gobierno.frances .

@hectornavarro3332 4 жыл бұрын

They have enough of war. They were the lucky ones

@davidwinter6148 4 жыл бұрын

I still wonder how German history books present this time to their high school students. The same with Japanese history books.

@user-jc2xl4gm7t 7 жыл бұрын

I live in Linz.....

@reginaldmcnab3265 4 жыл бұрын

More German soldiers died in allied prisoner of war camp during 6 years after the war than during 6 Years of war! Shame!

@MrRcScale 8 жыл бұрын

F22 jetl

@bigjulie3714 4 жыл бұрын

A penny for their thoughts? Surely it would be "someone sold me a con job?"

@glenpierce777 8 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many SS got away in that lot of POW's?

@waynester71 8 жыл бұрын

Not many, they would have been questioned & examined beneath their armpit at some point for that oh so telling SS tattoo number

@siwex77 7 жыл бұрын

3:20 to polska flaga?

@OrnumCR 4 жыл бұрын

siwex77 ....You reckon they’d be flying the Polish flag in an Austrian city?? I’d say it’s the Austrian flag...just looks odd from that angle...both flags can possibly look similar if shown from certain angles I suppose...