man .. i like ur comment after 10 years !!! lol

I was born in 1949 and grew up during this time. In the 1960s the first post-war generation had grown up and the way of life changed radically, at least in the big cities.

Folke Stender what happened then/ what exactly has changed?

@@daniel6648 the boomers grew up and fucked everything up

Not just Germany, everywhere in the West.

@@daniel6648 The introduction of the contraceptive pill and the resulting de-stigmatisation of pre-marital sex.

granskare The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies

@ʀᴀᴢᴏʀʙᴀᴄᴋɢᴇʀᴍᴀɴɪᴀ As well as the Confederate States . But yes subject idiocy.

Sasuke Uchiha What about the millions of Russians/Poles/Jews/Romani people etc killed by the Germans? If they had removed the madman in the 1930s things would have been different!

ليش

Delicious!

Ulrich Lehnhardt The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies

@@josifhanovre3379 fake news...

Rick Potter Rothenburg

Yep, after the total failure of the Versailles Treaty, the French govt. revenge for war reparations from Germany after the Great War. The US and the US Army came up with the Marshall Plan so we wouldn't have to come back to Europe to bail them out for the third time!! Now 75 years later, the Germans and the French play nice to each other. Say thanks Germany and France, oh and pay your NATO Bills on time or else.

---which they were compelled to destroy---

What did compell them to destroy mediaval city centres?

Jimmy Harris The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies

@Jean @josif The Germans were destroyed because they started a war of aggression (WWII). Don't start a war and then complain you were treated unfairly. As for Americans discovering the beauty of Germany, a plurality or even majority of Americans have German ancestry, it makes sense they would want to explore their original homeland.

ratchet500000 The most important thing now is Germany in the most powerful

Just collateral damage.

Eigentlich noch schöner! ;)

If you didn´t have to pay it.

@Hal 9000 He's not an idiot (at least, not just from this remark), he's pointing out how incredibly expensive airplane travel was then. Try educating yourself before commenting, and learn some manners.

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Oh no, 5 to 10 years until all the ruins were removed. Our house wit war damages was rebuild in 1956. Everything was only completely repaired in the 1960s. However, the economy (industry) actually started to produce more before 1955 than before the war (1938), that's right.

Don Maverick They don’t show the places where there are still people living in dugout cellars. Look carefully, and you can see some ruins in the background. It was the mid 1960s before most of the obvious wreckage was rebuilt or restored. Even so, 20 years is fast considering the fact that much of the work was done by hand under occupation governments. The average German was not cruising on the Rhine, sipping wine!

It depends on where you look. The cities certainly weren't rebuilt completely in 1950, but the countryside was hardly affected by the war at all, so there wasn't much to rebuild.

This is just speculation on my part, but I have to believe the goodness you felt was because of the gratitude of the German people. They were blamed for World Wars I and II, yet the Allies rebuilt German politics with stability and the Airliift of 1948, only three years after the defeat of the Nazis, meant that Berliners didn't starve.

I also was in the airforce in the 80s and was sent to Suwon Korea. Wished I was sent to Germany.

I wonder if they still do this in 2020. Towns people still put on their old gear and acting. 12:15

That explanes a lot, sad enough!

@Sasuke Uchiha English are not Germans lol. They are celtic.

A 3rd of Americans speaking fluent German? Are you dreaming? I bet less than a 3rd of all Americans do speak any foreign language fluently.

Philip Croft. I buy the first part of your statement,not the second part though.

Spinnst Du, oder? So ein Quatsch.

Lynn Farley Rothenburg

I have to visit Germany very soo my Mother's family of nobility came from Friederichshafen in Baden Wurttemberg

step outside and say that Fritz !

It wents to Fürth the naboring city greetings from Nuermberg Germany

Hal 9000 shut piece of shit

Hal 9000 there was islam In that time already

Hal 9000 your generation is new there not islam

Islam and muslims do not lough. They are always frustrated, sad and uncapable to build something good. The biggest wankers world have ever seen

Let's hope the best...

Germans don't let rubble lay around for decades..

Elberiver11 Bis auf Heidelberg, Regensburg, Halle und Erfurt waren alle restlichen Städte zu 80% zerstört!!!!!!

Galland Germany didn’t have two atomic bombs fall on them after

Lenzo Flatti wiesbaden nicht vergessen

yes from 1:55 to 2:04

Traumgeblubber The German people were subjected to genocide by the Allies

Bullshit! With a minimum of historical knowledge you should know, that Hitlers place in the Alps was Berchtesgaden!!!!

@@volkerleiste6191 Among others perhaps m'friend. Now simmer down and have a coke.

You have no idea at all! For you are not a native of the region. You just " belive" in american TV and other bullshit sources

Nope, not much ever got done in East Germany or any other country under Communism, despite all of their propaganda suggesting otherwise. .

The aussie patriot the Marshall Plan saved their asses.

East Germany was milked out dry By Russia. Lots of produced goods went east as reparations for ww 2. Building and maintain the border and wall swallowed lots of money. They also had to pay in cash for the Russian present army. Also is prepaired as a buffer and battlefied in case of conflict with the west . East Germany never had a change to get on its feet.

@@bluecollarguy67 But East Germany was the most successful of the Communist countries with the highest living standard among them. I mean it still sucked, but that's quite impressive when you consider that the Soviet took away all their machines and didn't give them money.

@@oliviagomez815 Britain has benefited most from the Marshall Plan, followed by France and Italy. Germany only comes in 4th place. The UK received 3.4 billion dollars, France 2.8 billion, Italy over 1.5 billion and Germany just over 1.4 billion. For the most part, Germany has taken a stake in itself

yes! you are right!

+Iván Monge ))))

This video only shows the leisure and good times, not the many sacrifices made! Why make such a negative comment?

According to my grand-grandfather (I'm german), the post-war years in germany were actually worse than the service on the front. Fighting under machine gun fire is fuckin' horror. But that's to end sometime, and you expect one day you come home and see your wife and children. What REALLY fucks you up is when you actually come home and your whole city is not standing anymore, your kids died, your wife is a shadow of herself, being deafened by bomb shockwave, starving to death, and you have to find food for yourself AND all those you love. In Munich, a big city where EVERYONE just tries to survive among the ruins. They ate cats and dogs and rats, as he told me, living through that for many years was even more devastating than to be brothers in arms and fight the russians.

Are you dump ?