Was there back in ‘14 and took several self guided walking tours. Noted this and in some areas (mostly former East Berlin) it seemed like you could track which intersections were most heavily fought over by the damage around windows, particularly those that were “half windows” in basements.

My father-in-law was in WW2 US Army but he never made it to Berlin. He said he didn’t want to see it in ruins. He was not at all pro-Hitler but he said that it was difficult seeing civilian casualties.

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@@Revolver1701 Perhaps that is why the Anglo-American troops razed to the ground Dresden, a beautiful city in which there were no military installations, and the victims were mostly civilians.

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@BillBird2111Type the following words in the KZfaq search engine: Soviet Storm. You will see all the details of the war from the beginning to the end, all military operations, documents and so on.

In Romania they say the Germans came and didn’t rape us. The Russians came and rapped us. If you ask me. They never cared for labels when I’d correct them and say “you mean the Nazis, you mean the Bolsheviks” I always got blank stares. Clearly labels didn’t mean anything. So when I tell the story I say “the Germans came and they didn’t rape my grandma and her sisters, the Satanic Bolshevik Marxists came with their Mongoloid Turkmen hoards and my grandma had to hide out in hey stacks with her sisters” cause in 2023 in America labels matter. I mean it only takes a little research, Bitchute is great but you might be scared at first, cause you can post literally anything on there. Not like here. Where I get suspended for words every other week. But there was a Bolshevik Jew who I forget his name, had to be minister of war or something, guy demanded more European blood. But also Stalin sent his blonde haired blue eyed Russians into Berlin for the photo opp. The Hoards were used in the south against the Ukrainians Romanians Hungarians Slavs and Austria. The southern part of romania wasn’t subject to battle. So I wasn’t supporised when I asked the Romanian lady in my church with strong Asian features. She was from the north, 15min from the boarder with Ukraine and Besserabia MD so her family was clearly rapped….. and ultimately, what do you expect to see when arriving in Germany after 3months of relentless bombing the world had never seen. But emaciated bodies. Who starves first if the infrastructure is shot ? The soldier? The civilians? Or more than likely it’s those emaciated bodies in the camps that were greatly effected by the bombing leading up to DDay. So how can you trust any soldier in any war the world over. They had to have known they were nothing more than tools. They had to have realized they don’t have a clue what they’re fighting for let alone what they’re looking for. I don’t doubt a single soldier said, “wait didn’t we spend the last 3 months bombing them, oh yeah it looks like a forest used to be over there” nope none asked. All the camps are in the East and were supposed the take the Satanic Bolsheviks accounts ??? Now You’ll ask why I keep calling them satanic. Well because according to Europe they were and are. But we live in America and we wouldn’t know if Hollywood wasn’t there to tell us.

@@sandozpop6017 There is no such thing as a PRISM. There is such a thing as the eastern front. Where they show which sector of the front the commanders were on, what were the successes and failures. Show some documents. The battle in Stalingrad is a Soviet prism, in fact Paulus won there. The Battle of Kursk was lost by the Soviet Union. The USSR eventually suffered a monstrous military defeat from Germany and Japan. All any achievements of the USSR are a prism.

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I can feel your thrill. That is what 'hiistory tourism' is all about. May I add tha story I believe is fact: the placing of the flag was a great honour, and the first photo was of an unknown soldier; this last photo was of a man with a name,by a professional photographer, on Stalin's direction, as a reward for his servicer. He 1had been made a scout, to go behind German lines, and collect information on troop numbers and movements. But, by order of Stalin, any civilians, German or Russian, whom he interviewed, were to be killed, shortly after. Stalin believed they might in turn be interrogated by the Nazis, and reveal what they had told to the scout. A very hard thing to do, kill a helpful person. The scout remembered one beautiful young woman, with many children, who was very friendly, and tried to help, and he had to slit her throat at the end, which was his way of execution. The memory of this woman haunted him for a long time after, nearly driving him mad. He had to remind himself that he had obeyed his orders, and done his duty. So, this professional photo of him, planting the hammer and sickle, was set up as a reward, for it had been hardly earned.

​@@larrywilson9392 seems too unrealistic, Stalin wouldn't personally command scout units of the giant 10 million people army

Just did the same yesterday! It felt very powerfull in some way. There is even a soviet soldier graffiti visible on one wall on the roof saying: Astrahanj - Makarov.

4:35 imagine seeing the barrel of a 205 mm artillery canon pointed straight at your building. 💀

The swastika is an old Indian motif which actually represents peace and harmony.. of course the dumb indoctrinated masses will never take the time to find this out for themselves...

I was in Berlin in 1973, and I remember my one journey on the U-bahn, with the slowing down at stations, and the guards with submachine guns in the gloom. I got off at Fredrichstraas, but I did not go out of the station as I was unsure if it was allowed. The two Russian soldiers didn't look very approachable, so I think I took the train back to where I was staying.

How did either of you get into Berlin when the Soviets were still around and controlling the city? (Are you talking about west Berlin?)

@jbradley8659 Back then, by car, West Berlin was accessible by a few heavily controlled roads. I was in my early 20s and hitch hiking around. I was meeting someone I had met a couple of months earlier who was then working in W. Berlin. I got a lift at the E.German border. A driver had a certain amount of time to reach W. Berlin, including a short break, if you took longer, they would want to know why.

I was stationed there from 85 - 87, we weren't allowed on the U Bahn that went east. When we would go to the Grunewald for FTX and dig in positions we always found shells, rounds and just tons of shrapnel. You couldn't dig anywhere and not find something. The Kaiser Wilhelm was my favorite place with its history

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Germans have children? Every German I meet is a childless Marxist well in their 40s.

I went to Berlin in 1987 for the one and only time and remember the bullet and shrapnel pockmarked walls. I visited the East and still remember going on the train over the wall, seeing the sand of no man's land and then suddenly seeing the Trabbies!

It's insane how Berlin was such a battleground to end the 2nd World War. I mean, it makes sense, but still, nuts to think about.

​​@@garylancaster8612 There was "sand" from all the rubble blasted by artillery? Man... that's a helluva sight, I imagine.

@@thalmoragent9344 No, the sand was the "no man's land"area on the Eastern side of the wall. About 100 yards of raked sand behind the wall, guard tower and attack dogs before the buildings of East Berlin began.

Someone tell the Americans

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Germans should never have fought for the city once the war was lost.

Well the housing in the center was pretty much destroyed by bombing and fighting but as Berlin was a big city already at the turn of the last century there are a great amount of these "gründerzeit" buildings still standing in the neighborhoods forming a ring around the center. Like 25% of the current housing consists of original apartments in buildings built until 1918 and another 12% from 1919 to 1945.

@@nytoaddis76 How can you say that? They fought to the last man as they were ordered too. The alternative was to be shot either by their superior officers or shipped to Siberia to die in a gulag. Death was preferable.

​@@nytoaddis76 They thought the Soviets were running out of men too, obviously.

Most of Berlin is still buildings from before 1945. But the area around the former chancellory building is all modern - maybe that's what you mean.

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I agree. I have never seen the the geography of the battle for the Riechstag before.

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Your dad most likely saw terrible things during the war. Things one would rather try to forget and not share it with anyone.

They all realised they fought the wrong enemy… if Germany wasn’t stopped we wouldn’t be blessed with all the lovely diversity we have now… 😕

Band of Brothers gives not the true angle of view . It's a simple Hollywood Soap Opera.

@@HelmutHein Bob is mid pacific way better

Not "the" final battle, the resistence continued in other places. It all ended in the zoo.

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@@BattleGuideVT You can play Call Of Duty: World At War and play the Berlin Campaign, which includes the Reichstag, to get a good grip of what it was like back in 1945 for the Red Army and the Nazi soldiers and citizens themselves. In terms of realism and realistic portrayal of the action and battle scenes.

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@@BattleGuideVT Memorial Hall now is the Philadelphia Children's Please Touch Museum ... one of the best museums for kids in the country. However, for the adults, there is an exhibit in the basement dedicated to the 1876 Great Centennial Exhibition- the very first World's Fair in the US. There is a complete diorama of the exposition of how it looked in 1876.

​@@mrbutch308This is true to a very limited extend. There is a discussion that the Reichstag architect got inspired by the dome of that. But that is not for sure and rest of the building has nothing to do with it.

oh shit im from outside philly i gotta check this out

Neoclassical architecture has its roots in ancient Rome, and before that ancient Greece. Many monuments in Washington DC and other cities (I have never been in USA, but I have seen them in countless movies) are inspired by Imperial Rome (still visible today!!). Europe is full of such architecture (especially in government and institutions buildings in capitals), and from Europe it reached the USA.

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Take the dates of beginning WW1, WW2 and the current war in Ukraine. Sum the date like this dd.mm.yyyy (day.month.year) dd+mm+yy(part1)+yy(part2). You'll get 68 for each of them. Coinsidence 1/900.

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You know there’s a war in Ukraine don’t you? A resurgent Russia is knocking at the door of Europe. Are we supposed to just ignore him?

Just like in Ukraine! Yeah?

Nice to hear the truth once in a while.Thank you.

Probably because she would've gotten into big trouble for saying anything bad about the Soviets, or conversely, gotten in trouble for saying anything good about NS Germany.

@@marcks-3980 That might’ve been the truth were it not for the simple fact that there was no one to provide either food or medical care to Berliners besides Soviets, and the death toll among the survivors in the first 2-3 months after the war’s end would’ve been staggering without Soviet involvement. Guess she knew what she was talking about.

@@marcks-3980 no. She told me long after war, when I asked her about their war experiences.

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Thanks Callum. Berlin is a very interesting city to visit.

I would go based on this video but I don’t speak German and like the French they speak little English. I have been to Paris and used schoolboy French to negotiate the Metro. Berlin would be a whole other kettle of fish. I doubt I would get very far. I’m glad they are reunited. The Cold War dominated my early years as it did many. I’m glad the Soviet Union disbanded. It was a cruel system. My history teacher used to say we are free in the West. “Free to be poor, free to be ignored. Free to be hungry. In the Soviet Union everyone knows their place. The concept of freedom is a capitalist construct designed to enslave the proletariat.”

@@davidgaine4697 language is most definitely not a barrier. I had little German the first time I went and a local missed his train to help us get ours from the airport. Public transport is excellent and the best way to get around. The historic centre is small enough to walk round and I’d strongly recommend the boat trip I spoke of. The English speaking tours of Unterwelten are the second most common and popular. Check them out online. There were only 7 native speakers on our tour and the guide was Danish. English is now the lingua franca of Europe. The Humboldt Flak tower is right next door. And the U Bahn and S Bahn take you right there. If you’re interested in the DDR, the museum not far from the Brandenburg gate is excellent. I’d also recommend Stasiland for life in the DDR. My brother does business in Germany and has no English. My niece lives in Berlin part time and has learned sufficient German, but also uses English when it’s easier.

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Was there in 82...same experience Army!!

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@@BattleGuideVT You're welcome! Awesome, I will check it out soon :).

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​@@BattleGuideVTMark Felton has a badass history channel on KZfaq. Covers WW2 mostly.

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It wasn’t because we saw that picture everywhere, it was because literally every family had someone who perished in that war

And? The US has the marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima which was also staged

​@@pyatiggreetings from Czech republic! I am grateful to your ancestors ❤ Za Pobědu!

@@LarryDaLobstahust don’t make me laugh on it, US lost only 150 000 lives on it and you teach in schools it was you who won the battle 😂

აი ჩემ ჭუჭუს იჯდებოდი იქ სტალინი და ბერია რომ არ ყოფილიყვნენ!

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Think that was insane the Empire Of Japan was working on there own nuclear bomb more destructive then atomic bomb a hydrogen bomb. If the war against them had dragged on for 6 months to a year longer then it did. It would have been American atomic bombs vs Japanese hydrogen bombs. Allies were completely in the dark they only found out about Japanese weapons program after the war.

@@MATT-2042 Germany was well on its way to developing nuclear weapons too, and had a way better delivery system for them in the V2 rockets.

@@ChairmanMeow1 WW2 nearly became a 3 sided nuclear war.

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It is a city of contrasts. Deeply proud but sad, ethereally beautiful but scarred by conflict. For me the Brandenburg Gate is the most iconic, not the Riechstag. It was Checkpoint Charlie between East and West.

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При сохранении нынешней политики Германии будет водружено знамя России.

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@@aresares9548 Do you mean the Soviet soldiers looked like they were wearing two watches but in fact one was a compass?

@@davidgaine4697 да он именно это имеет в виду, у меня есть такой компас он носился на ремешке абсолютно как часы и был на них похож, введите запрос в гугл "Компас Адрианова" и убедитесь в в этом.

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