2:43min Seeing our damaged bridge like that always leaves a great impression.

Thank you very much. I'm really pleased that you appreciated this footage. Indeed the generation who could tell us what WWII really was like have now almost gone entirely, apart from the occasional 95+ year old veteran. My father was in the Dutch navy from 1939 to 1945 and I am sorry now that I didn't listen too carefully to his stories when I was young. Now I'm retired I am trying to recapture some of the lost information from as many sources as I can. There should have been far more people like Steven Spielberg from other countries to interview the veterans in their last years of life.

@@Rick88888888 Thank you Rick. As a Dutch American I feel the same way. Neither of my parents wanted to talk about their experiences but even as a little girl I badgered them into telling me stories. My aunt just passed she was 95 and I visited her in R'Dam in June. I have a video of her singing an Indonesian song about birds. I will always treasure her stories of Java before and after the War. Speaking of Spielberg, Empire of the Sun could have been about my fathers experiences in the camps. He had a side business in Tjimahi kamp exchanging labor for cigarettes or other commodities. I highly recommend that movie.

@@Rick88888888 The more I watch atchive film like this, showing the LIberation of people, who have suffered years of ill treatment ,and far worse; and the joy of release. It brings home to me once again , just how fortunate we British were, to narrowly escape a similar fate. As for failing to aquire more information from your father, I, like most Family History buffs, can admit to such oversight. Many a time I have regretted not asking the very people, who had all the answers, after their demise.

@@Rick88888888 *_You are doing splendid work. Many thanks._*

You can still find a lot of old towns like this in the Netherlands

Still exist

@Große Scheiße But do they make new buildings in that style?

The city of Maastricht still looks largely like it was 150 years ago.

​@@benjaminloyd6056 yeap. They do

For what? The greater glory of the Wall Street pack and the further enslavement of the western nations?

Glad you enjoyed it

There is also a massive cemetery in Margraten which is maintained with the help of locals who pay to "adopt" a grave. They even helped to find families of people buried there. We Dutch never forgot who liberated us, amongst others we are grateful still to all the Canadians, Polish, British and Americans.

@@RPT-ss4uc I went to the Margareten Cemetery on US Memorial Day in the early 1990s. It was a very moving experience and the Dutch people have my heartfelt thanks for their kind remembrance of our young people who perished in the War..

Thank you so much!

De opnamen met de sneeuw moet rond de 3e week van januari 1945 zijn.

i'm from Zutendaal Belgian Limburg 15km from Maastricht... nice video...👌

Fighting for the Wall Street pack isn't fighting for freedom, on the contrary, it's fighting for one's own slavery.

And I guess that Europe must be liberated again in the near future.....look wat happen in France and Germany....

شو رأي طموح

No, that's just fantasy and wishful thinking on your end. They were very similar in their murders and brutally.

@@herrlich1461 I think you're missing his point.

@@jamesjwalsh No, I don't think so.

The CC captions are automatically made by KZfaq; In this case their algoritm is doing a bad job, nothing to do with me.

I don't think so, sorry.

And since 1945 we have been seeing and increasingly experiencing the horrors of Washington and of Wall Street.

Could be. The allied forces consisted of American, British, Canadian and Polish army fighters.

@@Rick88888888 Canadians did use American uniforms and equipment, but I think the stens give away the commonwealth connection.

They are men of the Netherlands Interior Forces, Commando Limburg initially dressed in civilian clothes. Gen.Simpson was in shock when he received the first batch of this 'Beggar Army' and changed his mind soon when they were put into action. He was so impressed that he delivered Sgt.Dautzenberg's citation personally to his mother after being KIA. Over 4000 men and woman served in the Netherlands Interior Forces, Commando Limburg & Brabant (incl. the 9 and 10.Coy's of Tholen Island and the St.Philipsland Peninsula) on the front line from the coast line of Tholen Island up to Germany. And their casualty rate was even higher then the Dutch Princes Irene who fought from Normandy up to the Netherlands. They fought f.i. at the Beringen and the Albert Canal (Belgium) against German Parachute Regiment 6. Therefor there was a mix of civilian, British and American outfits as each unit had to fit them selves out with either captured German, British or American equipment or clothing unless the unit Commander was able to supply them with that. If you look closely you can recognize a painted orange lion on some of the helmets. Being captured and recognized, torture and execution would be their fate as the Germans still considered them 'citizens' of their Third Reich and seen as Partisans instead. Still nobody knows about them and they are not mentioned in Dutch history books. Some former Resistance Fighters who belonged to them received their Dutch Resistance Cross after 50 years for being member of the resistance, but never for being on the front line for over 4,5 months or longer. My Granddad was one of them and belonged to the Orde Dienst-Tholen and later on the 10th of January 1945 to March 14th 1945 facing German Parachute Regiment 6 for 6 days behind enemy lines and raids of MEK40, the German equivalent of the British Royal Marines Commandos. This 'Beggar Army' had been under German occupation for 4,5 years and eager to fight and with bare hands necessary. Only recently some rare film footage surfaces to proof that these men really at the front lines. A thank you note from his Supreme Commander was the only thing my Granddad ever got. And they never complained about that. They just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible. Maybe in the future they receive the recognition they deserve. Who knows.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gauWdtZmldm6oYk.html 1.Coy./Netherlands Interior Forces,Commando Brabant in training. Most likely a training during mid Nov.1944 already deployed. At the end if the footage the reburriel of Sect.CO Piet Avontuur of 10th Coy./ Neth.Int.Forces Cdo Brabant at Zuylen Cemmetary, Breda amidst fallen soldiers of 1./Polish Armoured Div. He was KIA during a German Naval Commando (MEK40) at the St.Philipsland Peninsula of 22nd of January 1945. My Granddad's 9.Coy. was deployed at the adjacient sector to the right 6 day's later.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsWHh5d6m7KWZps.html Dutch Vullonteers of the Netherlands Interior Forces Commando Limburg that served under Simpson in Limburg into Germany. Note that initially they were dressed in civlian clothes, later in British or American uniforms.

Nee, Stoottroepen van de Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, Commando Limburg

They are Dutch Vollunteers serving under Simpson.

Your comment was fine until you finished by making political statements about Macron which has nothing to do with this video.

@@Rick88888888 Yet you upload this video in a very sensitive time.

@@TheWiseMagpie1 Please don't play "silly buggars" with me! You should watch the film from a 1930s perspective and try to avoid comparisons with today's bizar world.

​@@Rick88888888 oh yes, there are comparisons..........many!!! In Germany !! 👎👎 And i'm from germany!

Mohammed wird sich in der Zukunft um den Rest kümmern.

Yes, we now have Weimar world-wide. Hooray for those liberators! 🥳

@@aethelwulfofwessex7152 no need to cry

@@aethelwulfofwessex7152 follow your leader instead

Urdu speakers aren't killing hundreds of thousands of Dutch as Germans did.