lol, it doesn't look at all like it did. 90% of the city's magnificent old architecture was destroyed in WWII..

There was just a major gang war in Hamburg last week, involving hundreds - a completely absurd, but suddenly very real "modern" development. Same goes with the graffiti everywhere, like at the place where the "tariff free" zone checkpoint shown in the film is. So absurd.

Beautiful city. As you say it looks the same today.

Another 5,000 went down with the Cap Arcona when she was bombed by the RAF, most of them concentration camp prisoners, just one day before the end of the war.

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Königin Louise operated as a mine layer at the gulf of Finland and was lost on a russian minefield.

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Awful tragedy!! They should never have overfilled the ship given the high risk of being sunk - madness.

@@tancreddehauteville764 the other options were getting murdered by the Russians or going over the frozen Baltic sea and get shot by planes there

@@tristane3444 Or escape by train and avoid all of that.

@@tancreddehauteville764 Not really, the Soviet Army had almost closed the cauldron, tracks and trains were easy targets for the Soviets who had already undermined the evacuation routes away from the Germans. Ciao, L

@@tristane3444 That is correct - the bad treatment that the Soviets had endured under the Nazis' onslaught was known and the citizens could only expect horrible reprisals. They had not much choice, Ciao, L

Not partly destroyed... Totally Destroyed!

There were literally just the fringes standing in 1945.

How about relating to reasons for this city, as rest of Nazi Germany had to be rubbled? How about sorrow for millions of innocent people massacred by these insane Nazis ? How about your own fathers losses and millions of his generation paying the ultimate price to stop Nazi Germans insanity? You should be ashamed of yourself!

@@unclestuka8543 well done! What goes around, comes around!

75% was destroyed

It still ist a vibrant place ;-)

@@Brawesta Готовтесь, подмывайтесь, скоро будем в Гамбурге. Гитлер капут!

@@Horsemanray The Harbour still operated fine in the post war period, the shift in how we transport our goods and the Downfall of Ocean liners is what killed these old Harbours

How was the hookers? Hopefully young and professional..

Thousands of Jewish children never got older ...

@@OmmerSyssel In my town in west germany we have "Stolpersteine" all over the sidewalk. They tell the horrible storys of those who got deported. The place, i waited for the Bus everyday, has one of them. The name of a 15 years old boy is witnessed on a "Stolperstein" there. I cannot Imagine the horror, being captured in the light of day, in front of everyone, as a 15 year old. Today we have people in this country, that spit on those "Stolpersteine". Its unbelieveable, how many germans already forgot the Hell Hitler brought upon german Jews who lived here for decades. It makes me sick..

Yes England declared war on Germany my family was in Hamburg at the time this was filmed they did not want war nor any other relatives The English bombed Hamburg in 1943 and killed around 40,000 mostly the old and woman and children

There was a little matter of Czechoslovakia and Poland and Auschwitz. It would not have stopped there. You cannot transfer guilt like that. Hitler was an evil man who led the Germans and Europe into a nightmare. And now it is Putin.

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@@johnsmith-mq4eq you'll need to expand. Why?

@@gvdlpgg2406 you left out Stalin a man by any definition was more evil than Hitler did you read the wrong history books? The USA and UK supported Stalin as they have supported Communism since around 1920 over a hundred years. Hitler was only in power for 12 years

@Ignatz Rosenbaum Worked by my ship there, in 1990. Blohm and Voss, we were in Bismarks original dock.

Cruiser Admiral Hipper, most likely. Bismarck was launched in early 1939.

Narrator said, "Admiral Hipper".

Note the young Hitler jugend with his swastika armband probably about 13 years old, I wonder if he survived the war.

Free labour and fortunes had higher value than humanitarian values.

And huge for the British. So much whale meat used instead of cod……

@@babaganoush6106 Готовтесь, подмывайтесь, скоро будем в Гамбурге. Гитлер капут!

Most whaling continued up to the 1980s.

They were taken to South America by some rich passengers of the Cap Arcona who didn't want to miss them in the streets of Montevideo or Buenos Aires.

@@ottosaxo Thanks , going down to Rio ! and beyond.

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Onhan se kukoistava mutta hölmöys pursuu edelleen esille entisistä suurvalloista Englannista ja Venäjältä. Saksa, Ranska ja Italia ovat ikäänkuin jo ohittaneet sen vaiheen. Hampuri on hieno mukava kaupunki.

S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Strassenbahn, Bus, Fahrrad.

Die Arbeiterviertel umgaben den Hafen, die Wege waren nicht weit. Vor allem Rothenburgsort und Hammerbrook wurden 1943 verwüstet und entvölkert. Danach wurden diese Gebiete nie wieder so aufgebaut, wie sie bis dahin waren.

They fucked around. They Found out.

Your timeline is messed up

@@meiken417 absolutely not, boycotts went into effect long before the war started. for example, the sale of helium to Germany had long since been banned. That explains the German global Zeppelin industry relying on hydrogen, and of course the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. What's interesting about the Hindenburg is the absolutely drippingly ridiculous mass media coverage in the US, which destroyed the stock and insurance of the whole Zeppelin industry (and enabled the rise of the US fuel airline industry, which for some reason survives despite multiple accidents every year and now, 90 zillion flights later, we somehow cry about "muh global warming" LOL) So my point is there was already an economic war going on although, as this video shows, when its own commerce is on the line, the West always finds an exception to its "values". And of course that effects exports - the oil oligarchs in the US didn't seem to give a toss and gladly sold their oil to Germany.

Most of it, can't say that the harbour wasn't a proper target, but the bombing of the residential areas was pure retaliation for the Blitz in England.

@@Heatfarmer nice measured retaliation ya got there. I too like to stamp repeatedly on someone's face if they bump into me in a corridor

@@visionist7 The blitz was more than a bump. What happened was War. Started by Germany which unfortunately got the brunt of the response. I've visited Hamburg numerous times and have taken my Family. It Thankfully has become a very vibrant city again. The port Anniversary is a wonderous sight!

@@Heatfarmer Don't play the innocent crap. It was TOTAL War, From day one. Bomb aiming, early in the War, was very primitive and unreliable anyway, Hamburg ? All types of Shipbuilding, Submarine building, and repairing Docks. Wharehousing, Major Administration and government buildings. Industrial manufacture, none can function, without people. Thats why the Luftwaffe targeted London's East End Dock area, killing over a 1000 dockers.The Luftwaffe had NO QUALMS, at bombing civilians. Their first target, was the Spanish Town of Guernica, with no protection, or warning. One thousand four hundred people killed, four thousand injured. this was 1937.

The commentator said, ''Admiral Hipper'' which was sunk in the dock by the Allies.

Tends to be the outcome when common people feel neglected ...

Maybe keep your stupid politic views to yourself next time frenchie