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My father was in the 12th. He was a combat engineer in the 119th.

Great footage,My dad was in the 9th armored as well. Drove a backtrack .

My dad was an 8-year-old boy at the time, living a few miles away from where this footage was filmed. He was born and raised in Nuremberg.

excelente video y muy buena calidad gracias por subirlo saludos desde Argentina

The 89th was a part of FIRST ARMY 💪🏼 under Hodges not Patton.

My late great uncle was a master sergeant in the 2nd squad (24th). Among his bring backs was the flag that flew over the post office in Cologne, which I still have to this day. I was the only one in the family he would speak to about his experience, and only then the bare minimum and only because as a child, I asked him all the time. But he would give me things to feed my quest for knowledge about WW2 and his service. Thank you for posting this. 👍

Based on the date, this footage was taken shortly before the 8th was sent to the incomprehensibly hellish (and ultimately failed ) battle of the Hurtgen Forest in November, followed by a short respite in Luxembourg before being called back into action to help defeat the Nazis at the Battle of the Bulge.

My Uncle John Paulow was a SGT. and spoke Russian for them. I still have the regimental book

Take this video down it clearly says “RESTRICTED” at the beginning!!!!

Thanks for posting.

Julich , Linnich und dan Hilfarth / Huckelhoven aan de Rivier de Roer nach Vlodrop Holland..

Well, I'm not sure you can call it surrender when the enemy is walking all over your country . . . literally.

At 4:26 two russian babes?

I keep trying to see my father in these videos

My Dad in the 6th Armoured Division! Wow, Thank You

Excellent footage thank you so much for sharing.👍🏻

This is truly moving. Just found out my Great Grandfather was in the 117th. I’m so thankful for his service and bravery.

My GG grandfather was 102 Ozarks, unfortunately he died 5 years before my birth in the 1990s. But luckily he left behind many photographs since he was a photographer

They knew they had a purpose: To get rid of the Nazis.Quite different in Vietnam; soldiers took a place just to leave it to the enemy again.Every dollar in WWII was worth spending.

As the enemy cities fell , the G.I'S knew the end was nigh.

Many American soldiers could speak German.

Almost 10000 miles from there the Tenth Army was fighting on Okinawa.

Great video. I'm from Jülich. Some scenes - houses and streets. - I can clearly identify. But I'm not sure if every scene was shot in Jülich, may be in the region. For me this vids are a treasure. Thanks for the upload.

My beloved Uncle Norman died here on April 19, 1945. He was 18 years old. He was shot by a German snipper. My mother never got over it.

Hey can you help me with something do you have discord I've been trying to find out some info about something about the 95th

Bin jahrgang 1952 in mü

I think you have two diferent Vilages. I live in Alsdorf near Bitburg. From minutes 1.52 knows i the Buildings 49.88887938730358, 6.462632410144597 its a small village with 430 People

I believe my dad was in CCB --- at least part of the Battle of the Bulge. He was with an 81mm mortar crew from the 48th AIB.

Wait a minute, they have horses?

wait how is this public

Yo conocí a Otto Scorzeny. Por casualidades de la vida conocí a Otto Scorzeny, pues él, trabajaba como ingeniero o al menos eso pensaba yo, en el pasaje la Montera en Madrid y era cliente del establecimiento donde yo trabajaba, ubicado en el mismo pasaje. Muchas veces me contó como aterrizó en el Gran Sasso para liberar a Mussolini, y como al salir del Gran Sasso con él, la avioneta no tenía espacio para coger velocidad y cayeron durante un tiempo al vacío hasta que pudo coger altura. Uno de mis jefes de la empresa donde yo trabajaba, medía casi dos metros y era amigo de Skorzeny. Al entrar como cliente y hacer alguna broma con él, solía decir Otto Skorzeny, que de joven, su altura era de 1.93, pero que ya con sus años, por la mañana media 1,90 y por la noche al acostarse no llegaba al 1,88. Le preguntábamos porqué. Yo, adolescente, me figuraba que era porque al calzarse los zapatos aumentaba de estatura, Scorzeny, con guasa, decía que se levantaba muy estirado de la cama y según pasaba el día se iban asentando sus vértebras y articulaciones y por eso se acortaba su estatura. Yo con 15 o 16 años más o menos no sabía apenas la historia del personaje y en esos años no le di importancia. Con el paso del tiempo averigüé las andanzas de su vida y me quedé perplejo cuando supe con quien hablaba y con quien bromeaba. Con una cámara Polaroid, mi jefe hizo algunas fotos de él y yo salía en ellas, aunque nunca me preocupé de tener alguna, quien sabe dónde estarás ahora esas imágenes, pues han pasado ya más de cuarenta años. Esto fue en el año 1973 aproximadamente. No entro en política, solo quiero comentar esto como un personaje histórico que fue y al que conocí. Recuerdo que nos hicimos varias fotos en Plaza del Carmen, con el fondo del teatro Madrid donde salíamos mi jefe. Scorzeny y yo, pero en esos momentos de mi vida ni me preocupé de pedir una copia de las fotos para tener alguna. Ahora con el paso de los años, ya me gustaría tener ese recuerdo. Según me contó Skorzeny, con referencia al rescate de Mussolini, después que él y el Duce habían ocupado sus puestos en la cabina del aparato que debía de sacarles del Gran Sasso, vivieron todavía un breve momento de angustia. El piloto de la avioneta duda en despegar con el aparato sobrecargado. Creo que Otto me decía que al subir a bordo dos personas más, estaba sobrecargado. El despegue fue un momento aterrador. Se quedaron sin aliento al ver como el avión vacilaba en la extremidad de la pista y desaparecía de golpe en el abismo, sin velocidad suficiente para sostenerse. Pero al cabo de unos segundos de caída, remontó en altura para sostenerse ya en el aire. Tengo esta historia y fotografias en mi blog, por si le interesa a alguien. rumboalmisterio.blogspot.com/p/otto-skorzeny.html

The city where all this was filmed appears mostly intact.

My great grandfather fought in ww2, he went through Omaha beach, fought in battle of the bulge, and wrote letters everyday, he was also in the 2nd infantry division and every time he killed or saw a dead German soldier, he would take their medals, patches, flags, helmets, mini flags, pictures, uniforms, hats, and stuff. After ww2 he married my great grandmother and had this big chest filled with the stuff he took from the dead germans, but when my mother and her sisters and my grandpa and my great grandfather went to six flags, my great grandfathers house got robbed, they took everything especially the boots and also the big chest, they took everything and trashed the house. The only thing that remained was his jacket, his letters, and his pictures because the jacket was with my aunt who lived elsewhere, the letters because they were hidden, and the pictures because they were with the letters. He never talked about the war to my grandpa or anyone even when they took him to therapy he would not talk, the reason that my grandpa knows is because he found his letters, pictures, jacket, boots, pants, medals, and his stuff. I think the reason why my great grandfather didn’t speak was because he was shell shocked.

@ 1.52 Lee Majors from I dream of genie

A generation that knew what triggered really meant.

amo este canal Brasil.

I wonder who the civilian was who came out to talk to the troops and iff it was the mayor saying the German troops had moved out of town? The Hungarians who surrendered were the most well prepared troops for surrender I have ever seen. I wonder how much of their kit they took into the POW camps?

SS murderers.

AT 3:00 a dead guy on the sidewalk and no one notices him. It's like Detroit.

German civilians: "What's that about the Jews? Some on my best friends are Jews. I got lots of Jewish friends."

Great footage. ...be cool if the history TV shows used some of these sorts of clips instead of the same tired old clips they've been recycling for the last 50 years.

Hungarian

Classic real footage

Thank you so much for sharing this stunning portrait of WWII in europe.

Starting at 4:11 is interesting. Looks like they're having the POWs move to the rear, perhaps queueing them so don't they bunch up and get hit by German or American fire on the way back? The one GI definitely looks like he's telling them to hurry.

Wow, that's amazing footage to me. My dad had just been taken out of the 34th, 135th, K company by shrapnel to the knee at Monte Cassino. He was a medic. One of the first into north Africa on the HMS Malcolm and Broke. He mentioned with great regard Skaliky.

US Sniper at 1:12 (or at least sharpshooter)

I'm curious to know what old German officers say

My dad was in the 89th I.D.,355th I.R.,2nd Battalion Co.G in WW2

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