Invasion: Germany (1945)

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10 жыл бұрын

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Cologne, Germany.
Various shots American troops walking through bombed streets of Cologne, they walk past wall with Heil Hitler daubed on it. Various shots of civilians. L/S smoke rising in distance. M/S German man with injured arm, U.S. medics bandage it. Various shots civilians gathered in square, C/U puppy in pram with baby. L/S prisoners of war gathered in enclosure. Various shots of prisoners talking to American soldiers. Various shots of civilians gathered together in square.
FILM ID:1966.02
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@panchopuskas1 2 жыл бұрын

I knew a German woman in Dusseldorf back in the 1980s who told me that she was a little girl back then when the Americans arrived. They lined everybody up in a row and she thought they were going to kill them all. She was terrified. But they only wanted to know their names and addresses then they were all sent sent home to clean up the rubble in the streets and get on with their lives....others also told me anecdotes of life as a German kid during the war. Made me think and gave me a more perspective on what happened and what is still happening in place like Ukraine. Damn the warmongers......

@stephenroney2366 Жыл бұрын

When my brother was in the British Army mid to late 70s, he got friends with a German boy in the German Army. The boy spoke perfect English, his parents broken English and his Grandfather had no English. His Grandfather had retired a few years before. He was 66 at the time. He was 13 in 1923. In November of that year in Hamburg he went to the bakery with a wheelbarrow full of money to buy bread. Whilst he was in the bakery buying loaf, a thief caught sight of the wheelbarroŵ full of money. But he had dumped the money and stole the wheelbarrow. This was during Hyyperinflation when there were 2 trillion Deutchmarks to the pound.

@KimFsharpHarp Жыл бұрын

Fortunate were those who fell into American and British hands.

@battistebuono2530 Жыл бұрын

Taking a wild guess, but I believe the first part of the video shows M-10 tank destroyers from the 747th tank battalion (they were short of Sherman tanks) and troops from either the 29th or 83rd Infantry Divisions marching through Munchengladbach. You also get a brief glimpse of an M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer with a 76 mm gun with a muzzle brake, probably from the 643rd Tank Destroyer battalion.

@frankmontez6853 2 жыл бұрын

Daanngg not even one comment ? I would like to point out that the germans seemed kinda happy or relieved for some reason . ..

@tyewallace6863 2 жыл бұрын

It was a really brutal war for both sides I'm sure the Germans where happy not to have to fight

@liamwilliams146 2 жыл бұрын

For some reason? Take a history lesson

@robertsansone1680 Жыл бұрын

They were probably relieved that they were not occupied by the Russians.

@frankmontez6853 2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm I wonder how many deserted , claiming to never have been in the German military ? Just slipped on civilian clothes . Did the allies try to weed them out ?

@tjslaboratoryofrockrootsof1116 Жыл бұрын

Good question.

@seerstone8982 Жыл бұрын

In the last day's all males including old men, and children were soldier's.

@daniellap.stewart6839 Жыл бұрын

Dude all the males where dead or captured

@JDDC-tq7qm Жыл бұрын

It sucks to be a German in 1945

@frankmontez6853 2 жыл бұрын

The German civilians nor the military don't look like they were deprived of much food

@marcusfieldfield4069 2 жыл бұрын

Most of the food shortages were after the war

@jamesadams6009 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent point.

@DrJones20 2 жыл бұрын

They plundered the rest of Europe to keep themselves fed.

@johndcorcoran6550 11 ай бұрын

46 and 47 were much worse!

@thomaschevalier9356 2 жыл бұрын

Even in defeat the German people are always well dressed with their suits an ties an top hats

@jamesadams6009 2 жыл бұрын

And that matters, does it?

@DrJones20 2 жыл бұрын

Well dressed murderers

@seerstone8982 Жыл бұрын

@@DrJones20 I guess we Americans didn't murder anybody in Vietnam!

@DrJones20 Жыл бұрын

@@seerstone8982 Nazism's only ideology is murder, and murder, and more murder. World War 2's Allied side was composed of nations with a lot of blood on their hands from various imperialist and colonialist atrocities, but to compare them to the Nazis is a false equivalency.

@monikaquinton Жыл бұрын

@@DrJones20 An other childish comment . Grow up.

@frankmontez6853 5 ай бұрын

Apparently the US military didn't have long coats like the Germans . Just short jackets

@playmobil806 Жыл бұрын

british dress style

@DrJones20 2 жыл бұрын

Krauts got owned

@seerstone8982 Жыл бұрын

How many countries did it take to beat them?

@DrJones20 Жыл бұрын

@@seerstone8982 Basically one, but try again wehraboo

@seerstone8982 Жыл бұрын

@@DrJones20 Russia was supplied by America by way of Alaska moving supplies across the ice into Sibera. The Soviets were fat on U.S. Spam when they were raping children in East Germany.