Beautiful Dresden before its destruction at the end of WWII in color: Watch and weep!

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2 жыл бұрын

This film shows the beautiful German city of Dresden not long before World War II around 1936. Watching this film becomes extremely emotional if one realizes that what can be seen here no longer exists because of alied bombing raids.
These raids on Dresden took place from 13 to 15 February 1945 whereby almost the complete city was destroyed. The raids became a symbol of the “terror bombing” campaign against Germany, which was one of the most controversial Allied actions of the war. Some people called and still call this bombardment a War Crime. Just watch this film to see how beautiful it was and to realize that approximately 25,000 innocent civilians were killed during the bombardment to understand such opinions.
For more information, please read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing...
Some parts of Dresden have been rebuilt. Take a look here: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... and especially here: www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
The original B&W film has been restored, enhanced and colorized by means of state-of-the-art video software based on Artificial intelligence. Among other it has been speed-corrected, motion-stabilized, contrast & brightness enhanced, noise reduced, upscaled to full HD and colorized with DeOldify.
Source: archive.org
Music: Howard Harper-Barnes & Trevor Kowalski.
Please help to further identify the locations in this timeline:
00:00 Dresden before WW-II.
00:05 River view of Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
00:38 City hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight)
01:11 View from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers)
01:29 Frauenkirche
02:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle
03:18 Sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche
03:23 The Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle)
03:46 The Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle)
04:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station)
04:36 The Semper Opera with Quadriga
05:21 On the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache
05:37 View of the rear of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
05:58 View from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side)
06:11 View of the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building)
06:34 The Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke)
06:55 Japanisches Palais
08:09 The Garden Palais in the city park
09:17 Impressions from the city park Großer Garten
09:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger
10:56 Impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection)
11:40 The Porzellanpavillon with the collection.
These locations have been added thanks to KZfaq viewer "The Beautymaker".

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@Rick88888888 2 жыл бұрын

*Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel* ! There are more than 250 restored and colorized historic films on my channel from all over the world. Please help to identify the locations in the (draft) timeline. I don't know enough about Dresden to do it myself.

@angr3819 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Subbed.

@benjamin_lindner Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. A conservative estimate of the real number of casualties is 250000.

@Rick88888888 Жыл бұрын

@@benjamin_lindner One zero too many. It were between 22.500 and 25.000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

@thebeautymaker9784 Жыл бұрын

I will try to name the locations as far as I know (sorry please for my bad english 🙏) 0:05 river view to Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis 0:38 city hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight) 1:11 view from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers) 1:29 Frauenkirche 2:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle 3:18 sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche 3:23 the Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle) 3:46 the Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle) 4:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station) 4:36 the Semper Opera with Quadriga 5:21 on the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache 5:37 view to the backside of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis 5:58 view from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side) 6:11 view to the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building) 6:34 the Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke) 6:55 Japanisches Palais 8:09 the Garden Palais in the city park) 9:17 impressions from the city park Großer Garten 9:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger From minute 10:56: impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection) 11:40 the Porzellanpavillon with the collection Some buildings in the video are also unknown to me (born in 1968) Have a nice day.

@Rick88888888 Жыл бұрын

@@thebeautymaker9784 Thank you very much! I'll add them to the description and CC captions

@marlowkaplan3584 7 ай бұрын

The old world buildings and craftsmanship is unmatched... We make trash now

@antoonvermeulen8064 7 ай бұрын

Not even trash, ,....

@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 6 ай бұрын

We live in a different dimension now, it seems. Ugly, soulless, empty.

@theoroth3669 6 ай бұрын

Yepp !!!!

@jpip1382 5 ай бұрын

See the brutalist architecture in the UK after WW2… horrendous

@mrnikau1 5 ай бұрын

It aspires to trashdom.

@Magnus0891 7 ай бұрын

Does anybody else notice how clean everything used to be??? There is NOTHING i repeat NOTHING lying on the streets. No Dirt, no papers, no plastic bags, no other trash. Also I see not a single crazy or homeless person. Everybody has something to do all nicely dressed up. Truly a different time.

@notme444 7 ай бұрын

As somebody who knows Dresden well, I can assure you that the streets are clean. On the basis of what can be seen in these movies, there is no reason to think that there is any significant difference between then and now. Kindly improve your critical faculties: It could be before WW2, or now, but movies created to show how beautiful a city is, will not include people who are " crazy or homeless". Kindly remove your rose tinted glasses: Being "nicely dressed up" is a subjective judgement. However, the ability of the citizens of Dresden to clothe themselves reasonably well with the money that they have now, is far superior to what it was when these moving pictures where shot. The same can be said of anywhere in Western Europe.

@haraldomike3286 7 ай бұрын

The dressing is what amazed me the most, even poor guys wear a simple suit.

@Arminius1901 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, because nowadays the whole liberal society is so decadent and corrupt. Homeless people can shit on the streets and everyone throws away their trash. That would not happen under more authoritarian governemnts.

@ALEXPEAK 7 ай бұрын

beautiful places were before war

@abrakadabra2192 6 ай бұрын

@@Arminius1901 Bullshit. I grew up in Dresden. The old town looks cleaner now than in the video. Cant be said for Neustadt, but isnt it a good feeling to not fear to be sent to camps if you litter?

@maxmeister5064 4 ай бұрын

Als jemand, der als Zugezogener in Dresden lebt, kann ich sagen: vieles ist verloren gegangen, aber vieles ist auch sehr schön und ansprechend wieder errichtet worden. Das alte und das neue Dresden harmonieren halbwegs miteinander - anders als in so manchen anderen Städten.

@randyalfano5910 4 ай бұрын

The German ppl have shocked (& quietly exposed) the world with their unfathomable resilience to rebuild and endure Though, truly, nothing could ever replace what has been lost

@JabuLICORNE 5 ай бұрын

The 1930s were the last years of Europe's greatness. Then comes decadence and then collapse.

@HowieHoward-ti3dx 5 ай бұрын

Thanks to commie Che--ws.

@macarmenah 2 жыл бұрын

Quien filmó esa película, tenía un extraordinario grado de apreciación estética. No hay palabras para expresar tanta belleza de la ciudad, su arquitectura, monumentos, espacios, detalles, ambiente. Gracias, gracias.

@markmartin2292 2 жыл бұрын

All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain. - Roy Batty Bladerunner

@christopherattard6738 Жыл бұрын

War is stupid and senseless - these destroyed cities are witness to this - Dresden, but then also many other cities in Europe - too long a list to write here. Thanks for restoring this film - it is most extraordinary.

@jean6872 Жыл бұрын

*_The picture of beautiful Dresden is so sharp that I felt I wanted to step into my computer and be there in the past, feeling the warm sunshine on my face, and getting down on one knee to place my hand in the flowing Elbe as I did when a student in 1972. The sun shone over Germany then._*

@viech7595 Жыл бұрын

I live there. Honest to god they've done a really good job reconstructing a lot of it. Especially the historic center. Can only recommend as a place to visit :)

@zurcherzurich213 Жыл бұрын

It's worth a visit! Greetings from Switzerland :)

@MarkAnderson-ng8vc Жыл бұрын

@VK S Some people (academics) wanted to leave the Frauenkirche a rubble as a "reminder of the past;" fun fact actually: out of 9 expert architects brought in to consult, 8 of them opposed the plans drawn up by the citizens and organizations doing the rebuilding (mostly preferring something much more modern). The only dissenter was Leon Krier, Europe's most famous/infamous anti-modernist architect. I guess the lesson is, thank God the grass roots efforts prevailed against the professional architectural consultants.

@freigeist2814 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkAnderson-ng8vc I think the enemies of the German people are still very active

@EMMA-qd7gm Жыл бұрын

@@michko7979 I’m sorry, this is the impression Dresden left on you but what you’re saying is entirely untrue! As in every city it totally depends on the quarters of the city as well as which people you’re taking into consideration. Dresden is not the most diverse city, but still you will come across many different people with very different mindsets. The aspects of drug abuse and therefore criminality is also mirrored in statistics like the German Crime Index which portrays perfectly that Dresden is only in position 13 following many other larger German cities such as Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nürnberg oder Berlin…

@Donnerbalken_ Жыл бұрын

@@michko7979 lmao you have never been to frankfurt main station or berlin in general. i live in dresden since 8 years. where is the drug problem? we do have problems with alot of right wing people though.not saying the city is perfect in any way. but in terms of drugs its NOTHING compares to frankfurt or berlin wtf

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

Imagine how much engineuity, time and labor went into building this city. Amazing.

@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын

Do a comparison with WARSAW

@cweefy Жыл бұрын

Regardless of what happened here politically and militarily, that city was stunningly beautiful and architecturally amazing.

@sess122 Жыл бұрын

Whoever filmed this, nearly 100 years ago, did a marvelous job!

@SDD3204 2 жыл бұрын

My mother was visiting Dresden, but delayed by prior railway air raid damage. She visited shortly after the City's destruction. Lovely though the architecture was, it was the piles of bodies and sheer loss of life that my mother never forgot. There were few bomb shelters and the heat from the firestorm was incredible. The smell of the corpses piled in the streets hanging in the air for a very long time indeed.

@Rick88888888 2 жыл бұрын

So sad to hear that your mother witnessed this carnage.

@SDD3204 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rick88888888 Her experience was bitter sweet I think as she knew she was intending to arrive before the raids. Mum was glad to be alive. She "only" witnessed the horrific aftermath. Much later on she actually met a USAAF Pathfinder for the raid here in the USA too.

@Taiyou536 Жыл бұрын

My grandma bombed out from Cologne in 1943 saw Dresden burning from 200km away !

@anna-elisabethbender3123 Жыл бұрын

@@Taiyou536 Yes, indeed you could see the fire that far. Someone from Bavaria told me he saw it from the same distance.

@Taiyou536 Жыл бұрын

@@anna-elisabethbender3123 Gruesome isn't it ?

@user-lp9tt8sv2i 3 ай бұрын

Seit 48 Jahren lebe ich in dieser Stadt und ja, ich liebe meine Heimat. Sie hat Stolz, Charme und ist doch bescheiden. Dresden ist gemütlich, herzlich und eine sehr lebenswerte Stadt. Ich liebe die Spaziergänge an den idyllischen Elbauen, die Verschiedenartigkeit und Dresdens Kultur. Ich bin hier tief mit meinem Herzen verankert. Meine Großeltern haben mir schon als Kind von Dresden erzählt. Sie haben mir mit Worten Bilder von Dresden gemalt, die meine Heimat vor dem Krieg beschrieb. Dresden muss man einfach lieben. Für mich ist es nach wie vor die schönste Stadt der Welt.

@SC-gw8np 2 ай бұрын

You should take pride in your homeland. It is the homeland of philosophers & artists. It has a rich and beautiful heritage that cannot be denied by the world no matter how much it tries to.

@schneetiger9249 5 ай бұрын

Although it will never be and can be the same again, this beauty is lost forever, Dresden IS back and even some of the beauty has returned. The cities leadership made the right decisions to reconstruct most of the old center and they are still doing it. Its nearly unbelievable how much of the once lost, has returned. At least 50% of the vistas, places and buildings you see in this video are there again. Visit Dresden.

@christophersimonlkw Жыл бұрын

My father's family left Dresden in the night of the final bombardment. Them heard the bombers while in the train heading west. Just luck. Nobody knew that an attack will happen. Neither that hard. Thanks for posting your beautiful vid. 🖖🏻

@Charlie61 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very very much. As a child I often played in the ruins of Dresden. Now I have tears in my eyes ...

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

Finally - a great comment! I am full ethnic German, and both sides of my family suffered horrifically at the hands of the terror fire-bombers, and other war crimes. A German count wrote a great book - "The Vampire of the Continent" it is a free PDF, and will explain how that one tiny nation DESTROYED continental Europe over hundreds of years! Frederick the Great of Prussia also wrote about that horrible nation!

@alex-E7WHU 3 ай бұрын

I'm British, i have worked in Dresden (briefly) around 2004, such a nice city. I really like ze Germans, i found them quite polite and courteous generally. I remember going to a restaurant, in a large public square but i don't remember the name of it, outside were one (or two) old cannons, it was a really nice place to eat. Great food and excellent service. Might have been downstairs in the cellar but German beer has robbed my full memory of it 😂. Anyway, stop hating German people and russian people please. The actual enemy is closer to home.

@toke7560 3 ай бұрын

Most germans didn't want war. Like ours they were forced into it. Politicians, curse of the world.

@kerstinw8439 3 ай бұрын

I think you were in the restaurant Pulverturm it is near the Frauenkirche.

@alannafox6112 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful film! My father was a British POW having his rotten teeth removed in Dresden when the destruction happened. He was hiding with Germans in the luftschutzbunker when the bombs fell. He survived but witnessed the aftermath. He always had nightmares after this.

@HobbyOrganist 2 жыл бұрын

The Frauenkirche @ 3:06 has been rebuilt exactly like it was, using almost all of the original salvaged blocks of stone and supplanted by new ones in the same style.

@arlarl7176 Жыл бұрын

As far as I know the cross on the Frauenkirche was mad by an english craftsman who is a son or a grandson (?) of one of the british soldiers who were part of those who bombed Dresden. Very many Germans appreciated this cross very much and you could see the tears in the eyes of so many people when the cross was put on the top of the church. This was a very great moment, a symbol for peace.

@maxmeister5064 3 ай бұрын

They even succeeded, by means of fall angle calculation, to place all of the remaining original stones in their original spots...!

@edwardoneil3962 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful like a dream. Another time another place.

@369jones6 Жыл бұрын

The utter futility of war literally set in stone. Also back at a time when buildings were beautiful and made to lift the soul and not brutalist and soul grindingly drudge.

@tschibasch Жыл бұрын

The horror and insanity of war. There are no winners.

@LabRat6619 Жыл бұрын

A small group get very rich, whilst millions die.

@luskylusky Жыл бұрын

Usa wins the hegemony 100 years

@andrewgora3672 Жыл бұрын

Yes people seem to love it or rather visit it on other people's land. It was the Germans who were the "bad guys" 80 years ago and now it is the people of the middle east Russia and possibly in the future China. As a German uboat commander said in his memoir "every generation must rediscover the horrors of war but only after indulging in it". People and nations never seem to learn.

@giuseppecoretti98 Жыл бұрын

You are right. But If Hitler and Mussolini weren't born, never, maybe the german cities, including Dresden, would have remained beautiful and spectacular.

@willemvanlent6955 Жыл бұрын

GERMANY WAS SO BEAUTYFUL!!!

@user-pc3nc3hg6w Жыл бұрын

Interesting! I live in Dresden and the city looks exactly like that (the city center at least). I didn't think the reconstructions had been that faithful to the original!

@DasTubemeister Жыл бұрын

I visited Dresden I 2016. I was impressed how well it was rebuilt after the war. It’s a tragedy that people are still suffering in the 21st century due to wars. Most people just want to live in peace.

@Arthur-tx8fd Жыл бұрын

I love that when they rebuilt the city they.stil provided the old charm, no skyscrapers. Makes me wanna go there

@ccmarcum Жыл бұрын

Do go. It is very walkable and inviting. When I was there about ten years ago, they were still working on fixing the tunnels where people hid but then died from lack of oxygen. Don't miss the Zwinger Palace museum and the summer palace of Augustus the Strong, which is across the Blue Bridge in Pillnitz.

@christinecallahan5512 4 ай бұрын

Supposedly one of the most BEAUTIFUL cities of the world.......

@sybillemader6315 Жыл бұрын

Ein emotionaler Spaziergang durch eine der schönsten Städte Deutschlands. Man hat das Gefühl, sich vor soviel Anmut und historischer Eleganz, verneigen zu müssen. Ich liebe diese Stadt, sie ist voller positiver Energie. Jedes Mal,wenn ich in Dresden zu Gast bin, spüre ich, wie sehr mich diese Stadt vereinnahmt und mich in ihren Bann zieht. Es ist so, als würde ich genau in dieser Zeit leben, wie es diese wunderschönen Aufnahmen uns gezeigt haben. Man muss sich einfach darauf einlassen, dann spricht die Stadt zu dir.

@jurgenlindner4343 5 ай бұрын

Schön gesagt, geht mir genauso ♥

@rustykuntz94 2 жыл бұрын

My jaws on the floor everytime I see a pre 1945 Dresden, just a marvelous amazing city.

@valeriedavidson2785 Жыл бұрын

What about London and Coventry before the Germans blasted it to hell!!

@thomasherrin6798 Жыл бұрын

@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, I suppose they could say Coventry was an Industrial target, like our reason for bombing Dresden, but bombing London was a war crime to inflict murder and terror on Civilians, and had Germany decided not to choose war it would have not been subject to the allied bombing campaign, it's a tragedy and I wish it never happened, but if that means the U.K. had to suffer more due to the continuation of the German war machine the answer is NO, I've got a feeling that that Russia has far more to answer for than the allies, but their answer would more than likely be that they bought it on themselves!?!

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

Yes, and the British wanted to murder most Germans - they targeted civilians and started both wars with France, America, and terrorist Serbia - Russia was also involved, even Italy stabbed us in the back! Our best allies and friends are - the people of Finland, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Albania, Bulgaria, and Estonia - those are the nations that I love!

@valeriedavidson2785 Жыл бұрын

@@lottivonhesse9382 That is completely untrue and absolute nonsense. Get your facts straight.

@deeem2628 Жыл бұрын

Watch a documentary called Europa the last battle

@helmutmuench3633 Жыл бұрын

Omg I was there before the Church was rebuilt and know from relatives how beautiful it was. It was always compared to Paris . What a shame what humans can do unfathomable

@poetradio 8 ай бұрын

Some of these commenters saying, "the Germans had it coming." As if the issue boils down to us-vs-them. The real issue concerns the preservation and nourishing of culture vs its destruction.

@theprotector1234567 4 ай бұрын

It's not that the Germans had it coming, it's that the Nazi leadership did this to them, the leaders of Germany brought this on, and this is entirely the Nazi leadership's fault. They wanted the most total and radical war the world had ever seen. So those who defended the leadership did have it coming

@wwmproductions5787 Жыл бұрын

After being too the city and seeing this footage, it hits so much harder just how beautiful it was and still is.

@justjosh711 Жыл бұрын

This is probably the best video I’ve seen of that glorious Dresden beauty. I’m keeping it to watch again. Thanks so much for finding and sharing it.

@Rick88888888 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@CarmelSchaefer-ts3rj 9 күн бұрын

How fortunate to have a film of beautiful Dresden before its destruction in 1945.

@sven888 4 ай бұрын

"There are no winners in a war, only losers." - Arthur Neville Chamberlain.

@user-kx3fq1zo6f 3 ай бұрын

He knew what malignant powers were behind the push for war.

@sven888 3 ай бұрын

🙏@@user-kx3fq1zo6f

@agnesraya Жыл бұрын

Ich werde dieses Video einer ehemaligen Bewohnerin dieser Stadt zeigen, sie ist jetzt 98 Jahre alt. Sie hat mir viel über diese schöne Stadt erzählt. Das Haus ihrer Eltern lag am Stadtrand auf einer höheren Ebene. Sie konnte die ganze Stadt in Flammen sehen, und so dramatisch der Anblick auch war, er sah aus wie Gold, alle Fenster waren durch die Flammen vergoldet. Sie erzählte mir, dass ihre Familie jüdische Freunde hatte und dass die Treffen immer seltener wurden, bis sie sich nicht mehr sahen. Wie jüdische Geschäfte zerstört und vandalisiert wurden. Zwei Klassenkameraden starben bei dem Bombenanschlag. Ihr Mann kämpfte an der Front, kehrte verwundet zurück und war lebenslang behindert. (Deutsch ist nicht meiner Muttersprache Sprache, sorry für die Grammatik Fehler.)

@strenggeheim6672 Жыл бұрын

Du schreibst besser Deutsch wie einige Deutsche selber. 👌🏻

@thebeautymaker9784 Жыл бұрын

@@strenggeheim6672 *als 😉

@thebeautymaker9784 Жыл бұрын

@Agnes so toll, wie du schreibst, möchte ich mal in englisch können 🙈

@strenggeheim6672 Жыл бұрын

@@thebeautymaker9784 wie is schon richtig. ☝🏻

@thebeautymaker9784 Жыл бұрын

@@strenggeheim6672Nö, in dem von dir verwendeten Satzbau ist das nicht richtig 😉.

@georgecasanovas4638 Жыл бұрын

i was there a couple of years ago Dresden has one the most beautiful Christmas markets in the world, and the city still looks just as beautiful

@toke7560 3 ай бұрын

What a criminal shame. Such a beautiful place. Not like the featureless crap we have today. Man is so bad.

@robertwoodpa6463 Жыл бұрын

I read all the comments. The Nazis are all dead and so are the people that bombed Dresden. There is no point in arguing about anymore. What does it accomplish except bitterness and defensiveness?. All I can say is its a damn shame it happened and we should all enjoy that this beautiful city has come back as much as it has. We are all the richer for it.

@DasLamm68 Жыл бұрын

Newest research of several psychologists and psychiatrists indicated that big occurrences will irreversibly influence the minds, characters and culture of nations and their citizens which ist proved, regardless in what country You look.

@DasLamm68 Жыл бұрын

The American author Kurt Vonnegut went through the Dresden bombing as a POW which made him one of the most radical reviewer of the foreign politics of the US. As well George Orwell visited Cologne in 1945 and he was shocked about the senseless destruction an devastations. From the shock the view gave him he never recovered.

@bold58 5 ай бұрын

Incredible old buildings !

@Fl33xx 8 ай бұрын

So much was lost in this War.

@yvonneplant9434 7 ай бұрын

No kidding.

@TheTarget1980 Жыл бұрын

Nearly every single building in this video (excluding the "Neustädter Markt") is reconstructed now and you could produce a very similar film in the modern dresden of today. The heart of the city is no longer destroyed and is reborn. A miracle, thanks to the engagement of many many people at Dresden.

@AP-to2ss Жыл бұрын

Reborn? Zugekleistert u dreckig, dreckig ist FS und der Postplatz ist 😠

@TheTarget1980 Жыл бұрын

@@AP-to2ss genau lesen vor dem Kommentieren. Jedes Haus in diesem Video (!) . Der Postplatz vor 1945 ist in diesen Aufnahmen nicht (!) zu sehen.

@tomatin6437 Жыл бұрын

Hammer, das ist wirkliche Städtebau-Kunst und nicht das heutige Beton-Glaseinerlei. Danke fürs upload und der passenden Hintergrundmusik

@deanedge5988 Жыл бұрын

I am the son of one of the (at the time barely out of his teens) airmen who took part in the horrific destruction of Dresden. A gentle man he never spoke about it. I visited the city alone stood on the Augustus Bridge and was moved to tears of sorrow. I have also however read the Diaries of Viktor Klemperer a Dresden resident who has left one of the most searing accounts of what it was like to be jewish in Germany at the time. He survived the firebombing which in an astonishing turn of fate occurred the day before he was due to report for "resettlement" into one of the death camps. I am deeply sorry for the destruction of this beautiful city and tens of thousands of lives; a symbol of mankinds darkest side and most exalted achievements - but history is never simple.

@onkarbhaduri9492 Жыл бұрын

Yes, war brings destruction and leaves millions dead or incapacitated the leaders who force the destruction do not think of the generation to follow. Building and rebuilding are poles apart.

@mrpolsco6872 Жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was KIA whilst serving in the Polish Cavalry defending Poland when Hitler invaded from the West Stalin attacked shortly after from the East the Poles brave as they were never stood a chance. England and France declared war on Germany then did virtually nothing in fact the Guarantees offered the Poles prior to the invasion were like bad cheques giving them false hope they emboldened the Poles not to negotiate with the Germans over confiscated Territory following WW1. Yet the jingoistic Dogs of War are fanning the flames between Ukraine- Russian conflict they seem oblivious to the way stacked dominoes fall. The new ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT captures the insanity…brilliantly…what a waste, never again brothers never again.

@deanedge5988 Жыл бұрын

@@mrpolsco6872 The treatment of the Polish People in WW2 especially in the political betrayal by the "democracy's" is a shameful episode of British history; and the proxy war in Ukraine increasingly seems like a disaster of the 1914-15 kind. Never in our names again.

@mrpolsco6872 Жыл бұрын

@@deanedge5988 100% Brother🙏

@germanyinmybloodinmyheart7192 Жыл бұрын

@ dean edge Thanks for your words, I sense they are genuine. It is true: history is never simple but it's simple for the winner who write it! I wonder why on earth no one talks about the genocide of Palestinians systematically done by the usual friends who are twice as evil as the nazi, because they suffered during nazi period but today they have not learnt anything from that suffering, my dear, isn't it?

@paulaxander3339 Жыл бұрын

A lot was destroyed and with it went the old romantic Germany but much has been rebuilt. The Frauen Kirche shines again, the Elbe has been cleaned, and the opera house the Semperopera has been restored to its last brick, thanks to German ingenuity and dedication.

@sugarkane4830 Жыл бұрын

It’s is a very beautiful city. The Frauen Kirche is so beautiful. It’s was Christmas time when I was then as well.

@berndschmidt5346 Жыл бұрын

Das sind wundervolle Aufnahmen meiner Heimatstadt. Viel haben mir alte Menschen vom alten Dresden berichtet. Und einiges ist auch wieder so aufgebaut.

@shewolf1144 Жыл бұрын

Ich stehe morgen mit meiner 80-jährigen Schwiegermutter, die das alles als 3-jährige erleben mußte, in der Menschenkette. I'll be a part of the human chain tomorrow with my 80 yeara old mother-in-law who had to experience all that in the age of 3... My heart is bleeding.

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

I LOVE our Volk!

@lexituller6988 Жыл бұрын

"Our fight has so very little to do with the borders of this great nation, the safety and preservation of Europe and her ethics are our true struggle" AH 1941

@BlueSteel331 Жыл бұрын

Mein Gott ! - es war wirklich eine wunderschöne Stadt.

@user-mc3qn4nh2b 11 ай бұрын

Why didn't the author say that Dresden was criminally destroyed by the United Kingdom and the United States. Civilians died from 100,000 to 275,000. It didn't make sense.

@Steven91637 Жыл бұрын

Wunderbar und traurig zu gleich was waren die Städte in Deutschland schön

@dottoreeff Жыл бұрын

Arthur Harris: Deutschlands bedeutendster Stadtbaumeister seit 1942

@ivannaslobojanska2738 2 жыл бұрын

Хочеться щиро подякувати💞 людям,які зберегли ці безцінні кадри,а Вам,шановний пане Рік,за те,що відновили і показали в кольорах!👍💞

@johnhawkins2105 Жыл бұрын

It really was beautiful. My grandfather took part in the raid and many like it, flying Wellingtons and than Lancasters. He was with RAF Bomber Command from it's inception til the end of the war. 55,500 members of his fellow crews were not - a 45% death rate. I think most would argue if Germany hadn't invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Austria, Hungary, etc or bombed the UK relentlessly,, beautiful Dresden could have survived intact.

@World_Pearce Жыл бұрын

I visited in the summer, much of the historical quarter is intact. Looking at this video there isn't much being shown that wasn't on show in August 2022.

@TheGecko213 Жыл бұрын

Video shows ugly Brownstone buildings in urgent need of roof replacement They should thank Bomber Harris for saving the Germans money to tear down this ugly buildings.

@Mark_Harwood Жыл бұрын

Your knowledge of history is lamentable. Dresden was a war crime, nothing more, nothing less. The innocent women and children who died were not responsible for the calamity that befell them. Bombing Dresden served NO military purpose.

@johnhawkins2105 Жыл бұрын

@@World_Pearce They are historical buildings that have been rebuilt, mostly after re-unification as the soviets didn't do much restoration.

@johnhawkins2105 Жыл бұрын

@@derbeisser8777 People have long accused the Treaty of Versailles as being a contributor the WWII. Have you looked at the terms of the treaties the German Empire ratified against France after the Franco/Prussian war or against the Russian Empire during WWI? Or any other treaty they authored upon winning any confrontation? The conditions in the Versailles Treaty were on par or even more favourable. And they didn't comply to the majority of them regardless. Germany's biggest grevience was that they lost.

@greenisnotacreativecolor7291 Жыл бұрын

All those questionable comments ("The Allies were bad...", "The Germans deserved it..." etc.) aside, this is quite an educational presentation of this city's memorable history. Thank you for this video!

@mikehull5042 Жыл бұрын

If you were being bombed constantly and then one day a raid happens you find another shelter but when you go home to your street you homes gone family are dead as well as you friends and neighbours on the same street. Try and be like that then

@sarahago3292 Жыл бұрын

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this!💖 Dresden is my hometown and today I wake up here with this wonderful pictures...🥹

@Rick88888888 Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Жыл бұрын

Please, if your English is good enough, read a book by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut called "Slaughterhouse Five," Disguised as fiction, Vonnegut tells his real-life story of being a prisoner of war in Dresden before the Allies bombed it to rubble. "Slaughterhouse Five," Vonnegut reports, was an underground place, a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he and other American soldiers, again prisoners of war, barely survived the lethal bombing which killed most Dresden inhabitants.

@sarahago3292 Жыл бұрын

@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Very interesting, thank you.

@Omid-bk9vu Жыл бұрын

Meine Heimatstadt 😊 Meiner Meinung nach ist Dresden einer der schönsten Städte 🫡

@reise-infosde3970 Жыл бұрын

war

@neinundnein6358 Жыл бұрын

Auf alle Fälle in Deutschland! Die sind aber dabei, sie zu zerstören, indem sie haufenweise F*linge aus dem Südland hier ansiedeln - wegen "Fachkräftemangel"

@nichderjeniche Жыл бұрын

@@neinundnein6358 einfach mal nachts beim Hauptbahnhof Dresden vorbeigehen... mehr sage ich nicht...

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

Meine Heimatland, too! Ich Liebe Dich - aus Amerika - I am an ausslander!

@MrJudge51 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful city this once was. heart breaking what a war can do. Do we ever learn? 😪

@andyj639 Жыл бұрын

Afraid not. Part of the human condition to want to wage war and destroy beauty and inspiration.

@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013 Жыл бұрын

@@andyj639 ((human))

@Aranimda Жыл бұрын

Most of us do learn, except for those in postlitions of power and the military.

@Jazzeinberg 6 ай бұрын

My French city of Le Havre, France biggest harbour, was also rased down by the RAF in 1944 when it was occupied. It was really beautiful, quite similar to Honfleur but on a larger scale. There is nothing left from it. Now its only concrete.

@jacobbrodnansky1182 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful city. Much more clean and impressive than any modern city today. Such a shame that the allies destroyed a great city like Dresden.

@LetsGetitBoah Жыл бұрын

Modern Architecture sucks, it's a shame we haven't learned to bring back the ways of old.

@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын

Hitler should have given us a list of untouchables---like London Coventry , Manchester Birmingham Bristol Liverpool Glasgow Cardiff Exeter Plymouth Norwich Bath Canterbury Warsaw Antwerp Moscow Stalingrad St Pertersberg and Guernica. OH SORRY. I meant Dresden.

@dodgermartin4895 Жыл бұрын

We destroyed cities... they tried to destroy complete cultures and civilizations. If not for that, their city would have not been torcherd. Hitler's war was hell.

@robinjunghans5358 Жыл бұрын

@@dodgermartin4895 Wallstreet did finance Hitler's uprising. Sweep in front of your own front door.

@dodgermartin4895 Жыл бұрын

@@robinjunghans5358 Yeah a guy named Sutton wrote a book about that... just a conspiracy theory.

@jimjimskimmer1935 2 жыл бұрын

Kills me to see this. So beautiful. What a shame.

@Taiyou536 Жыл бұрын

I talked to an old woman who knew Dresden at that time she told me how beautiful Dresden was .

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

Agreed, JimJim

@stellayates4227 Жыл бұрын

When I think of WW2 and the bombing, I often think how much more beautiful our cities would be if it never happened. London was full of bombsites decades after the war, Coventry had its cathedral and much of the medieval centre destroyed, Warsaw, Rotterdam and Berlin all blown apart, the list goes on. This film on Dresden was just too sad to see.

@timklein3962 Жыл бұрын

Leave it to the elitists; they perpetrate all these wars.

@robertmchugh4639 Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@rklight33 Жыл бұрын

Brits did quite of bit of their fair share in their bombing of Rotterdam

@neelektronik 7 ай бұрын

Unique footage. My great-grandfather was a Red army soldier and fought in Eastern Germany at the end of the of war. He was amazed by the luxurious lifestyle these people enjoyed. Their clean, well-ordered towns with paved streets, electricity and well-constructed houses in contrast with what he saw growing in 30s Russia. And after all the misery he been through - losing his relatives, losing the comrades in battle, facing the hard life at the front. He now asked himself: if the Germans had so much, why did they start a war and attack us, the people that had so little?

@filic101 7 ай бұрын

pa da u pravu si zasto

@Leumas_Ekal 7 ай бұрын

The reason you guys had so little was because you were communists. Also, the soviets were in no way innocent they were invading people left and right and they took over half of Europe by the end of the war. Stalin is responsible for more deaths than Hitler and is objectively worse than him. And all fascist governments worst enemy is communism and all communist governments worst enemy is fascism so war was bound to happen. Hitler did not like Europe being took over by Communists.

@natalliaf6387 7 ай бұрын

they didn't

@cho7777 6 ай бұрын

@@Leumas_Ekal Sometimes I wish people like you would not have slept all the time during history lessons.

@cho7777 6 ай бұрын

I am german. There is no easy answer to this question. I could write a book, trying to explain it but it never could justify it. At the end I ask myself, why there have not been a lot more Staufendberg's... What makes me think is, that even today, when everybody can see the horrors of that war or other wars, it still happens all the time. Look at russia vs. ukraine. I NEVER believed that it would happen again.

@TYROSJOERG 2 жыл бұрын

Eine herrliche deutsche Stadt. Leider wie so viele Städte in Europa ein Opfer eines sinnlosen Krieges.

@johneygd 2 жыл бұрын

That ai digital remastering process alone is mind blowing,since this footage was originally recorded in low-res b&w,you cannot go back with a time machine to tell those camera mans to shoot in hi-def color,BUT with the incredible deoldifyer software now you can reverse something what was once impossible to reverse👍

@Casper-we3dq 4 ай бұрын

I see WW2 as a war where there were no winners in Europe. Germany lost so much of its beautiful architecture and history and all nations suffered in different ways. I wonder if WW1 and 2 had never been what Europe would be like today.

@user-kx3fq1zo6f 3 ай бұрын

Every war is a bankers war. The "elites" have destroyed Europe deliberately over the past 100 years. Its sickening.

@CGermanB 2 жыл бұрын

I have been to Dresden during East German times many times and always remember the ruins of the Frauenkirche. They were there as a reminder of the atrocities of war. I am happy that is has been fully rebuilt and once again shines in its glory.

@leeworsham5706 2 жыл бұрын

They chose Dresden not only for the lack of military targets but the spirit breaking effect it would have on the Germans seeing one of their most ancient and treasured cities reduced to powder. Just like how they intentionally went out of their way to destroy Arno Brekers statues glorifying a martial physique and a healthy body.

@queenofastora 2 жыл бұрын

dresden was a major railway hub for germany at the time to transport a lot of war material intended to be used on the eastern front, but also to relocate people the nazis wanted in death camps. around 50,000 workers worked at factories in the city that produced material for the german army, as well as ammo depots and barracks. to say dresden did not have any military targets is simply not true. you can decide for yourself if that justifies the bombings

@CapoKies 2 жыл бұрын

@@queenofastora This is just made up bullshit. They ignored military structures that were outside the city. They targeted citizens and the city itself because it was peak white civilization. There were no prisoners of war there. There were refugees. Mostly women and children. So sad to see how absolutely void of actual knowledge people are.

@jcord0013 Жыл бұрын

@@queenofastora The point is that the city and its people are victims of the circumstances that caused WW2 as much as anyone, even the internees. The National Socialists did not appear out of nowhere, and they were funded by the elites of Europe, to include the Vatican and the Italian Illuminati families. Hitler himself was really a Rothschild. To say that the German people en masse deserved this fate is to condone the sinister crimes of the Allied elites who themselves were collaborating with the evil regime that ruled Germany. Look up Operation Paperclip to get a sense of how all of these parties were in bed together. Ergo, ww2 was a contrived event designed to reduce the world's population and further the political aims of a handful of world elites. It is still ongoing.

@sammybeutlin2763 Жыл бұрын

@@jcord0013 Nice, someone with actual knowledge. I hope, you dont fall for fake nowadays partys like the AfD. Democracy is an illusion, now and in the past. Our only freedome would be an attack against our politicians and there groups (Bilderberger, Freimaurer, Group of Thirty etc.). Even those people, who clew themselves at streets arent fighting for the environment: they get money to do it. Even small movements are often fake, just like Pegida. It makes me so sad, at least i have good German bread.

@losabias4723 Жыл бұрын

The same they sus with Königsberg.

@kaikromer2858 4 ай бұрын

Ein berührendes Zeitzeugnis, auf hervorragende Weise restauriert. Vielen Dank dafür, sicher im Namen vieler Dresdner, die ihre Stadt in dieser Form nicht mehr kennen.

@Lagerttha 9 ай бұрын

Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities. - Arthur Harris

@doctorsocrates4413 8 ай бұрын

That was the hardline approach very much required at the time...the germans needed to be pounded into submission and an eventual surrender.

@Johnnygold332 8 ай бұрын

Based

@23MythicHillar85 7 ай бұрын

@@doctorsocrates4413Problem is that does not work, you should know that better than anyone else.

@jeanvaljean7266 5 ай бұрын

_"German Village was the nickname for a range of mock houses constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Army in the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, roughly 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, in order to conduct experiments used for the bombing of Nazi Germany._ _Dugway was a high-security testing facility for chemical and biological weapons. The purpose of the replicas of German homes, which were repeatedly rebuilt after being intentionally burned down, was to perfect tactics in the fire bombing of German residential areas during World War II._ _The U.S. Army employed German émigré architects such as Erich Mendelsohn to create copies as accurate as possible of the dwellings of densely populated poorer quarters of Berlin. The main goal was to find a tactic to achieve a fire storm in the city center."_ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Village_(Dugway_Proving_Ground)

@silversurfer493 5 ай бұрын

@@23MythicHillar85 Yes, i did not work then and it will not work today. It needs to be common understanding that this was a war crime, nothing else. And i don't want to belittle what the Achse did to their enemies!

@dietmarschwarz7524 Жыл бұрын

Es ist ganz gewaltig. So war Dresden wirklich wunderschön.

@d4vier822 Жыл бұрын

Das Stadtbild ohne massenhaft Verkehrsinfrastruktur ist wirklich atemberaubend.

@moritzlevold2206 Жыл бұрын

Ist echt ne Schande und das alles nur wegen dem Größenwahn von nazis. Leider wurden die Städte nach dem Krieg für Autos gebaut was Städte echt verschlechtert hat in meiner Meinung

@robinjunghans5358 Жыл бұрын

@@moritzlevold2206 du lügenmaul verbreitest Unsinn über die Kriegswichtigkeit Dresdens. Eine Hauptstadt mit knapp 700k Einwohnern ist selbstverständlich immer Verkehrsknoten. Das rechtfertigt aber keinen 70 stündigen Brandbomben, Sprengbomben und Phosphorterror.

@moritzlevold2206 Жыл бұрын

@@robinjunghans5358 Lol Lügenmau. Okay die Stadt Dresden hat ja auch nur ein historisches Gutachten veranlasst was die Todeszahl auf 25 tausend gesetzt hat. Aber ich denke wenn man noch an kriegspropaganda aus den 50ern glaubt hat es eh keinen Sinn über offizielle Zahlen zu reden ihr habt ja immer eure eigenen. Köln und andere Städte in nrw haben es mindestens genauso wenn nicht noch mehr getroffen wo ist die Betitelung als schlimmste bombardierung dafür?

@Lardenoy Жыл бұрын

La Florence du Nord, sortie d'un tableau de Canaletto ! Magnifique !

@rennor3498 10 ай бұрын

Florence on the Elbe was indeed a fitting name for such a metropolis.

@tongsllc 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for a beautiful memory. Danke für schöne gedenkbarkeit.

@1956paterson 2 жыл бұрын

How much of Dresden has been restored or reconstructed from the past. This film is vital for the reconstruction of Dresden.

@thebeautymaker9784 Жыл бұрын

@@Nussbaum981 This is oversimplified. In background of the new buildings were and will be restored the buildings of the baroque and the Gründerzeit.

@urszulakarolkiewivz1437 2 жыл бұрын

Co za styl architektoniczny ,wspaniałe budynki i otaczającą przyrodą . Rewelacyjna robota jesteś wielkim profesjonalista .Oglądam twoje filmy z wielką uwagą i niecierpliwie na nie czekam . Wszystkiego najlepszego .👏👏

@andreasschmitt666 Жыл бұрын

Mir blutet das Herz, wenn ich mir vergegenwärtige, was aus diesem ehemals so reichen und kulturellen Land und seiner Bevölkerung geworden ist.

@recepismail2547 Жыл бұрын

Bin Bulgare, aber ich fühle den gleichen Schmerz, fast alle Völker Europas sind in einen sehr beschämenden Zustand geraten. Was aus uns geworden ist, ist zwar noch schrecklicher.

@susannesperre9573 Жыл бұрын

Ja, es ist sehr, sehr traurig. Und die meisten sind sich des Verfalls, des Niedergangs nicht einmal richtig bewusst.

@andreasschmitt666 Жыл бұрын

@@susannesperre9573 Ja. Leider Wahrheit. Hab mich mal ne Weile auch mit den wechselseitigen Auswirkungen zwischen Kultur und Architektur beschäftigt. Das war härter als die Bücherverbrennungen. Die 2000 Flächenbombardierungen urbanen Gebietes war militärisch ziemlich unnötig. Wir waren in der Steinzeit angekommen. Der Rest war gesteuerte Sozialisierung. Schon die zweite Generation weiss und fühlt nicht mehr, was einem Stefan Zweig, im Leben so wichtig war.

@lizzapaolia959 5 ай бұрын

Civilized society compare to today's...... Beautiful building's. Thank you for sharing your videos 🙏

@Usulovski 4 ай бұрын

This civilized society murdered millions of people soon after.

@PianistStefanBoetel Жыл бұрын

Dresden keeps rebuilding itself to this day and has gained a good amount of its beauty back. There is a very powerful society in the city who pushes for reconstructing historical buildings and already succeeded in many cases.

@vangestelwijnen 2 жыл бұрын

Echt bijzonder. De schoonheid voordat het ophield. Erg goed gedaan, deze combinatie van beeld en muziek.

@achenarmyst2156 Жыл бұрын

I donated for the reconstruction of the „Frauenkirche“. Today it looks better than before WW2.

@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Жыл бұрын

Yea because the sandstone did not oxidize yet

@achenarmyst2156 Жыл бұрын

@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Oxidation is one cause. The other is black carbon and nitrous oxides from burning fossil fuels. So the Energiewende will also help to preserve Dresden‘s beauty.

@eternalmack5872 Жыл бұрын

No more brother wars

@micheleedwin4004 Жыл бұрын

No city or place should suffer like this city did and the others in Germany and in England. My family lost their home and business in Liverpool. A whole street burned because the water mains were fractured and there was no water to put out the flames. Never again, please God.

@sebastianrichter6075 Жыл бұрын

Mein schönes Dresden in ganzer Pracht und Schönheit, meine Heimat!!! Thanks for upload!

@Reiner.Zufall Жыл бұрын

Man nannte Dresden damals nicht umsonst auch Elb-Florenz! Einst war sie eine der schönsten deutschen Städte.

@Eddison548 11 ай бұрын

All these beautiful buildings from the old world. Not built by us but destroyed by us.

@KlarenceMS 10 ай бұрын

And that's how We humans treats each other...

@paraconsistentjojo 10 ай бұрын

Destroyed by ZOG.

@jodiehunter1313 10 ай бұрын

Positively

@jodiehunter1313 10 ай бұрын

@@KlarenceMS well, if you read the book of revelation, chapter 20 you will learn that it is not really the humans destroying the buildings, but it is Satan himself trying to destroy the evidence that the millennial kingdom already happened and he has been a short time. And he does get those who sell out for riches and wealth, to find ways to destroy the buildings by creating wars and fires, and what not, but he is the one truly behind it all trying to hide the evidence

@anettewaits3677 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Rick - beautiful 💚

@Rick88888888 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@nikolasmaillis6862 Жыл бұрын

There are no winners after war just destruction and suffering on both sides

@anacletwilliams8315 Жыл бұрын

That is so very true.

@guidedbywind147 Жыл бұрын

There are winners actually : the rulers of today.

@anacletwilliams8315 Жыл бұрын

@@guidedbywind147 But they are also losers.

@guidedbywind147 Жыл бұрын

@@anacletwilliams8315 This never was a war between peoples. Americans never wanted to send their youngs to die in the wars of Europe in the first place. This was a war orchestrated through intense and restless propaganda, while the real struggle lied and still lies between the peoples of the earth and a groundless, international financial clan, who are still ruling today. And we the peoples are still losing.

@anacletwilliams8315 Жыл бұрын

@@guidedbywind147 Yes, we are all losers. That's what I said.

@Sox148 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely stunning!!!!! My heart is crying for what humanity has lost.... 😭💙 Rick you're doing an amazing work!!

@MrDaiseymay 2 жыл бұрын

Yes--Now cry for the cities of the rest of Europe, incl Britain of course.

@rohmilchgeniesser 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay I find it just as sad - the whole war was just the mass destruction of european culture

@gertdehond4721 2 жыл бұрын

@@rohmilchgeniesser drama queen

@Gunshinzero 2 жыл бұрын

@@gertdehond4721 War the likes of which the world had never seen and feeling sad about it make someone a drama queen? That's pretty confusing.

@rohmilchgeniesser 2 жыл бұрын

@@gertdehond4721 ? I'm not even a woman lol

@tomduggan51 Жыл бұрын

Rick, Many thanks for this brilliantly restored film of pre-war Dresden. You are quite correct in your sentiments-the destruction of such architectural beauty, but more importantly of life, does not even bear thinking about! 😢

@marktaylor4821 10 ай бұрын

We must always remember that it could happen to us still. We must always be vigilant and question everything that the politicians and media tell us.

@mammutpreflood6993 Жыл бұрын

Die schönste Stadt der Welt 😭

@AS-bc9qd Жыл бұрын

Prag sagt hallo.

@tonisecke5399 Жыл бұрын

Die schönste Stadt in Deutschland auf jeden Fall!!!

@lottivonhesse9382 Жыл бұрын

No doubt about that! Dresden was the jewel of the world, but the ALL LIES could not stand it, and through sheer hatefulness, spitefulness, jealousy, and greed, destroyed my former Heimatland! Vielen dank fur die Meldung!

@10akaufmann 2 жыл бұрын

A remarkable city. Despite its near obliteration, Dresden today is alive and well. While it will never regain its pre-war beauty, the level of civic pride amongst its people is astonishing. I try to visit every year, in order to take stock of the numerous re-construction projects occurring throughout the historic centre.

@meegssan5716 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear they are recreating such architectural design

@sean1121970 Жыл бұрын

It's sad how wars erase so much history - not just WW2 but all of them.

@aboveitall1653 Жыл бұрын

Sad you don't know who started WW2.

@deansharpe7499 Жыл бұрын

Bolshevism was the fuel and Churchill was the fire that started ww2 and all of his friends with the small hats.

@davidmccann9811 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the human race never learns.

@helmutengel871 4 ай бұрын

Danke ein sehr wertvolles Video , das ist nicht wieder herzustellen was da Zerstört wurde !!

@megapixl8799 3 ай бұрын

Doch, so gut wie alles.

@fundermentalist9473 2 жыл бұрын

Great footage, I’ve just spent 4 hours searching for pictures of pre war Dresden only to be flooded by page after page of the bombing aftermath it really annoyed me and saddened me, and now I’ve found your channel great stuff just what I wanted to see the splendour of baroque architecture!! Thank you rick88888888 I’ve subscribed to your channel as it’s very useful 👌

@Rick88888888 2 жыл бұрын

Great and welcome!

@TheMorningDawnTMD Жыл бұрын

Sad we dont build houses like that anymore. They have style and can be remembered for the next 1000 years while todays concrete jungle is just waiting to be replaced.

@matsemoto5301 Жыл бұрын

@Dennis Wilson Houses can be modernized on the inside. They don't need to be completely demolished and replaced by faceless concrete blocks with flat roofs and ugly windows. But that often happens because it's cheaper.

@95MAFS Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Extremely beautiful material.

@KRYPTOS_K5 Жыл бұрын

The Dresden bombing by the allies was the only scientifically proven case of *igneous storm* -- an unique flame of fire which has destroyed a city. Neither the bombing of Tokyo nor the nuclear bombings against the Japanese cities by the allies were causes of that type of fire. This is the case when an entire city burns as a single flame of fire. The underground temperatures in the bunkers and subways burned the families and civilians alive (added: like it occurs inside an oven without direct fire). Undoubtedly it was a war crime against Germany. Brasil

@e.jenima7263 Жыл бұрын

I agree The People of Dresden had few chances of survival than the Japanese. it was awfull. One Surviving british airmen pretty much said any children or infants or elderly people would have been Liquefied on the Spot . He said to his dieing day he would never forget the smell of burning human fleash and the screams. He said you could hear them and smell them even up in the Air!

@sichelgaito Жыл бұрын

Check the bombing of Hamburg. The same physical phenomenon: firestorm. Massive death toll there, as well. A deliberate targetting of the parts of a city with the highest population density, designed to cause the maximum killing of civilians. This crime was given the euphemistic name „morale bombing“.