in which city in the world do you want to live in 1930s???

As a German who knows Berlin, Bremen, Cologne and Dresden, I can only say how beautiful these cities once were and how ugly nowadays. Germany did not need to hide behind Italian cities like Florence or Milan So much has been lost and destroyed forever and so many people died during and after the war.

The beauty of the old world takes my breath away.

Wahnsinn welche unersetzlichen kulturellen Schätze durch den Krieg verloren gegangen sind. Mir kommen die Tränen...was gäbe ich dafür dies gesehen zu haben

Germany used to have such beautiful cities. It is sad to see that a lot of them just became concrete jungles.

Feeling an actual knot in my stomach knowing all this beauty has vanished, never to return. Not a trace of this soul left in these citys nowadays. What a waste the WWII truly was.

0:07 Bremen 0:42 Berlin 2:07 München 2:44 Trier (thanks to ZombieSchandmaul) 2:50 Danzig 4:30 Dresden 5:55 Weimar (good catch Accu91! ) 7:10 Rothenburg ob der Tauber Luckily most of the iconic buildings are restored or rebuilt and are still the landmarks of these cities.

It looks peaceful and prosperous, it's crazy to think what kind of history came just a few years later...

I am in Kassel, DE. I once met a Chilean lady who told me that this was one of the most beautiful cities in all of Europe before WW2. Watching this video almost makes me want to cry. This country is still beautiful to me. I moved here from Southern California, and Germany honestly takes my breath away. It feels like something out of a fairy tale. But when I see these pre-war images, I can only fantasise about what might have been before...

I don't want to say that I want the old times back but the architecture and the classic style could be spread more again.

Das schöne an dieser alten Era war doch, dass jedes Gebäude sein eigenleben hatte. Und nicht jedes Haus oder Gebäude im allgemeinen, dem nächsten ähnelte. Diese Ornamente, einfach schön. Schade das es einen 2. WW gab sowie, dass vieles durch schnelle Bauten ersetzt anstatt, dass die alten wieder aufgebaut wurden. Danke für diese schönen Bilder!

Germany was the most beautiful country all over the world until 1945. Nowadays many beautiful places are abroad. Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, France and Italy. Not all was lost forever but a good 80% yes. It's really sad.

I showed this footage to my grandpa, he got so emotional, so I got emotional too. Hi from Argentina, by the way!

My goodness what a visual treat ! Very ornate buildings, public transport, people dressed very nicely. Thx NASS!

This is incredibly beautiful... probably the most beautiful composite of life ever summed up in 8 minutes. Very well done and thank you for sharing!

Wunderschön. Es stimmt mich traurig, was aus Berlin geworden ist. 😢

Germany is without a doubt heart of Europe in every metric

I live in Berlin and, even though it has beautiful areas, most of the nicest architecture was destroyed in the war and not rebuilt how it was beforehand. So it is a real treat to see this! If you come to Berlin, make sure you check out Bergmannkiez in Kreuzberg, it is one of the only neighbourhoods not to have been badly bombed during the war and so the architecture is what the whole city would have looked like before the war. It's really stunning. Also go to Dresden, the centre of the city has been rebuilt exactly how it was before the war. It's beautiful.

Seeing the Gedächtniskirche intact at 0:45 was incredible. The ruin of the tower and the 1960s new tower surrounded by high-rise buildings from the 2000s is so iconic now.

how clean it was, how busy without being hectic. No graffiti? Those were the days, when our grandparents where young. What beauty did they see and all was lost.

Frankfurt würde man heute gar nicht wiedererkennen. Schade, dass es nicht im Video ist. Einst eine so wunderschöne Stadt gewesen.

Looking at videos from German cities in the 1920s and 1930s always makes me very sad, they were so beautiful, social gathering everywhere, now I walk the streets of Germany, because I live here and in most places this beauty is gone and even more the social gathering is gone... makes me very sad.

Mir kamen die Tränen, so viel Erhebendes, Schönes, für immer verschwunden.....

Makes your heart bleed. All those beautiful buildings of my country and culture lost to a senseless war. So much heritage irrepacebly gone. Not to mention all the lives lost.

Thank you so much, NASS, you did a wonderful job. I felt like I was transported back in time!

I am super impressed. Not only by your remaster abilities, but the sheer beauty and aesthetics of the original material. I've enjoyed every frame of this wonderful portrait from an lost era.

when i see these pictures, i must cry. So very nice my old Germany ...

einfach nur genial, mir fehlen die Worte... vielen Dank fürs Hochladen ......

Eine grossartige Arbeit dieses Video! Vielen Dank! Ich hätte gleich heulen können, als ich die Bilder aus Berlin und Dresden sah ... was wir mittlerweile gemacht haben .... BÄH ... die neuen Häuser sehen alle wie gelöcherte Schuhkartons ...

Majority of the best men in Europe: from Germany to USSR were killed in WWII. Wished WWI never happened.

Ein großartiges Video. Beindruckend für mich die absolute Sauberkeit der Städte!

Es sieht alles sehr schön aus. Toll, dass es solche Aufnahmen gibt

I had no idea Germany looked like this, thank you for uploading ❤

At 0:52 in, to the left was the damaged in 1943 and later demolished in 1955 , Wilhelm Shallen house exhibition hall. The church in the right background is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The ancient looking statuary around Berlin was very impressive like at 1:31 in of Kaiser Wilhelm I on his horse destroyed in late 1949. The architecture of ordinary downtown Berlin was amazing but almost all was destroyed during WWII. Great colorized video NASS of a long lost version of prewar Germany.

Wow, it’s a Germany I know through bits and pieces of drawings and shadowy memories. So unusual to see without intrusion of modern buildings. Thanks, awesome.

And this is "just" the architecture. I talked to my great grandparents, who were in their teens/early 20s during that time and all of them feel like the people were replaced along the appearance. Not physically, but mentally. WW2 didn't just change the way everything looked (Old buildings being replaced by new age bullshit), but it changed the way people interacted with each other. It's gotten worse and worse. Starting in the late 50s/early to mid 60s, where Germany was mostly rebuilt. Respect and care for one another slowly but surely began to fade away. What we have today is just significantally worsened because of the changing demographics. Many folk live here now, that would not even set a pieceful foot close to the German border before. Before they died, they felt like, if Germany was ever in a war again, it wouldn't be because of outside force, but because of what we have amongst our midst. WW2 didn't just damage the generations that lived through it all, but it has damaged us mentally to this day. We are incapable of being on our own and being sovereign, because we fear us more than anything on the outside. We are raised to believe that we are quite literally our own biggest flaw. That self hate will kill the German folk, sooner or later. I've witnessed People actively choosing to not look inside their own folk anymore for companionship and marriage, because they were made to believe that you shouldn't be together with your own. We are mentally crippled.

Excellent job on that sound design! It is matches the scenes, held back, and is never distracting from the fascinating images, but in fact supports them very well.

It looks beautifully ornate. A lot of love went into those buildings

Not a single cellphone in sight.. everybody dressed nicely.. talking, working, enjoying the moment.. beautiful times.

Astonishing footage! Excellent job in restoring these images. We are very fortunate that this material survived for posterity.

Germany looks so advanced even in 1930. I am from India and I really wonder how both Japan and Germany grown from the ashes and became most prosperous nations in world

Little did they know the horror that was just around the corner and that their cities would be left in absolute ruins and they would have to rebuild them all from scratch

Thank you!! That was wonderful and then it ended!!! Please post more, I fell in love with it!!!

Wahnsinn, eine Welt in der keiner starr auf sein Handy schaut.. Beautiful.

Every point of view is enjoyable. This is so well filmed, the perspectives. The rythm of the people and transport is mesmerizing. I wonder if they were noticed filming was going to take place.

This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to time travel

I'm living in Berlin, this video absolutely breaks my heart

Thank you so much for this outstanding documentary with very vivid impressions! My heart is bleeding when I see all these gorgeous buildings. And thank you for creating such a beautiful time documentary! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Wow. What a great video to see what it used to be like. Shame that the majority of that architecture was destroyed in the war. I visited it several times and the replacement buildings were no where near as beautiful. Thank you.

bei den modernen gebäuden bekommt man augenkrebs, diese alten gebäude geben den augen urlaub. großartig.

I did some DeOldify and a lot of audio editing in some other life and honestly, your restauration is the best I ever saw, even the colorization could have fooled me, well done.

Nice! I could recognize some places/buildings. Thanks for uploading it. I wonder if there are similar videos in Hamburg

You did an amazing job on this one. It seems like the camera was better than most. Seemed to have a higher fps. I know taking video was new then and people were shy and starred but it's funny to see that they are driving through a village and everyone is making eye contact.

Thank you for the interesting video! The city in the beginning is Bremen. The "Marktplatz" with the famous city hall and the Roland Statue and the "Dom" Cathredal is shown. Fortunately those buildings survived the war in more or less good condition. Today they are perfectly restored and the "Marktplatz" still looks almost like in the 1930s or earlier. Bremen is definitely worth a visit.

Krass, wie schön unser Land doch einst war. Mir kommen die Tränen wenn ich das mit heute vergleiche. Wie gern hätte ich doch in dieser Zeit gelebt. Neumünster, wo ich her komme, in Schleswig Holstein, wurde erst vor kurzen zur hässlichsten Stadt gekürt. Was eine Schande und Verbrechen gegen die Menschen in unserem Land, bis heute

Was für eine wunderschöne Weltstadt Berlin doch einstmals war! Und heute? Eine einzige Wüste.

The most mindblowing thing is in 100 years people will look at footage of our time and say "wow, back then the world was still normal".

Utterly fascinating, as always. You should win a technical Oscar for your excellent work!

Such a GREAT WORK! Thank you a lot for it!

Every building was much more beautiful then nowadays, it was unique.

I was born in germany, not ethnically german, with my parents hailing from south-eastern turkey in the kurdish region. Watching this makes my heart ache and long for a time passed, forgotten and almost dream-like. I feel so much nostalgia for a time and place I am not from. It's so sad, because Germany has so much of a deep and diverse history, with every region having its own character and history and so many different dialects, it's really beautiful. I am proud to say that I was brought up and live in a country that was once known for all it's contributions to science, architecture, literature, poetry and so on...but most of these things don't even get a shed of light in school or elsewhere, with most of the attention being placed on only nazi-germany, which was a sad period, but sadder is the act as if this was the only history there is. History indeed gets written by the victor, as well as the future of a whole country. In this case the allied.

As an Italian with German mother, I have to say that old German cities were very beautiful. Fortunately some cities are rebuilt like before but other not, like Rhur. I have to admit that I prefer German gothic monumentality than Italian narrow roads of some medieval town.

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God I love seeing streets belonging to everyone, being shared by cyclists, pedestrians, even children with their pull-carts, instead of just being given to cars to allow them to drive slightly faster.

In some cities the bombings did the damage. In others modern urban renewal. In my home town many beautiful buildings had to make way for parking lots or shopping centers.

Επίσης, ένα άλλο, πολύ όμορφο βίντεο! Συγχαρητήρια και καλή χρονιά!👍🇬🇷☃️

A lot of the architecture here is beautiful. What a rare record of pre WW2 Germany and all those buildings that would be destroyed. Fascinating to watch.

I like that there’s only street noise with no commentary or text. This type of footage is very relaxing to watch that way.

They destroyed the old world and used the wars as an excuse to do so. This is just amazing and heartbreaking at the same time.

The craftsmanship from those days was lost to the new age. I don't think there would be but a handful of architects and artists' that could re-create such monumental statues and buildings. What a pleasure to watch, thanks Nass. Happy New Year!🎉🥳

So sad we lost all this beautiful buildings 😢Build up over many generations - destroyed in a few years in stupid war 💔

Man was für tolle Aufnahmen. Soviel schönes und Interessantes. Der Winker am Bus hat mich zum schmunzel gebracht. Oder die Szene wo der Gentelman die Dame auf dem Fahrrad schiebt. Danke für die tolle Arbeit un den Upload

Even though the rumblings of events were stirring in the 30's, it's amazing to see the casual, everyday people just going about their lives - likely blissfully unaware of the snowball soon to start rolling into a war of colossal magnitude and devastation. These "calm before the storm" videos are always fascinating, like videos from NY just before 9/11, etc. You never know when normality of life will change so drastically until you look back on footage like this and reflect on how different it was before.

at 4:30 you can see the skyline of Dresden from a train bridge Dresden was severly bombed and largely lay at ruins after WW2, but it was rebuilt just today I took a train over the very bridge that the train in the video crossed there, and had the same view as there, just ~90 years later this is an insane video, nicely done!

Wunderschön, faszinierend 👍 Dankeschön für das Video ❤️

So much of those beautiful architecture lost forever. So sad , so frustrating. So hard to accept .

This is amazing to watch. Thanks very much

Sadly all of these structures were probably destroyed during WW2. Fantastic look into the long lost past. Awesome video restoration. Thank you NASS.

Germany civil society was so advanced and well organized at that time. Astonishing how a relatively small group of extremists have been able to destroy this completely.

Sensationelle Arbeit, total realistisch ,weil in Farbe, weil in ,, Bewegung,, da fühle ich zurückgesetzt in jener Zeit in einen Normalen Tagesablauf ohne Gestellte Zsenen, die Unwirklich erscheinen würden und weniger Interessant. Aber Diese Darstellung ist genau der Alltag , wie er eben so war Damals. Interessant finde ich die Infrastruktur und die vielen Bauten, auch schön anzusehen wie die Mode damals war ........in echt . real!!!! Ihr macht wundervolle Arbeit , bitte weitermachen!!!!!!

The fountains that were in all the major cities that had healing sound. The way they were build for the water to circulate and produce that calming healing sound (frequence).

Very few people have the foresight to understand how valuable images of normal life would become. Even today, with all our movies and social media, not much of it is authentic, regular life.

C'est magnifique ! Toutes mes félicitations pour votre travail.

The colorization and the speed adjustment makes this old footage look so incredibly contemporary and modern.

Woah, you did a really great job here. This gives the real Germany-1930-feeling (and the creeps). Thank you!!

Beautiful.. Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for beaming me back roughly 90 years into my home country. Some of the streets survived war and other "attacks" especially in Munich and parts of Hamburg. But lots of these are lost. Funny how people look into the cameras or those who operated it. Today non-filming people are the rare subjects ;) Greatings from Germany - MB

Danke für das Video. Auch großen Dank an den Kameramann. Er hat wirklich ein Auge für die Gebäude und die Menschen gehabt. Ich selber bin in einem Dorf aufgewachsen und habe schon ein gewisses alter. Immer wenn ich als Kind mit meinen Eltern in die Stadt gefahren sind wurde ich " Stadtfein " gemacht. ( Die beste Sonntagskleidung ) Und wenn wir dann endlich angekommen sind, konnte ich mich garnicht sattsehen an den Gebäuden. Überall Ornamente, Schmuckgiebel, Brunnen einladende Plätze zum verweilen. Und heute ? Einr riesige kalte Glaswand mit sichtbaren Stahlträgern. Man schaut 3 Sekunden hin und hat alles gesehen und auch schon wieder vergessen. Ich vermisse die alten schönen Gebäude.

93 years later. we all watching this. great work from you. i hope the cameraman was a good guy. he did a wonderfull job. just filming the moment.

This is Delightful! Great architecture. 💚

how beautiful it once was...

Ein kleines Detail, was mir aber am meisten auffällt: Es gab damals fast keine Verkehrsschilder. Und ich glaube moderne Städte wären viel schöner und zeitlos ohne 15 Schilder in jeder Straße. Klingt albern, aber achtet mal drauf! Ich fotografiere hobbymäßig und mir fällt jedesmal auf die Fotos ohne Schilder sind einfach besser.

Very nice video.The first shots are from Bremen. We still have a wonderful old town in the center.

Tellement triste de voir ces merveilles absolues détruites ......... Merci pour ce partage magnifique

Hopefully in a parallel universe this still exists.

As a fan of the Old Europe I absolutely love this very much!!!!

what a beauty and atmosphere of those times. It seems to me that it was a completely different feeling when you come to a country that you could see before only on postcards or paintings, and then you see all this beauty and majesty with your own eyes, an incredibly beautiful country

Muito impressionantes, imagens extremamente nítidas, parabéns pelo vídeo!! Adorei!

Interesting to watch how many people take notice of the camera. Not an everyday sight in that age.

Beautiful, and so awesome that you included Danzig