US Army in Germany, April 1945. Subsequent soundtrack added.
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2021
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Eintreffen der 14th US Armored Division Drive in Langenprozelten und Gemünden auf dem Weg nach Hammelburg - April 1945. Siehe auch geschichtlicher Hintergrund www.taskforcebaum.de/dindex1....
Original silent film by American war correspondent with additional voice-over by Friedrich (Danny) Hildebrand in 2023. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
When I was in the Army in the 80's I travelled through these 2 towns Gemunden and Lohr quite often. Also the prison camp town Hammelburg a little further on. Did not recognise much from the film.The large brige with the church on the end with the infantry crossing I remember, but don't remember the town. Great film, Thanks
I hope you had a good relationship with the Germans in the eighties. I lived in Frankfurt in the fifties and had some very good friends in the US Army. It was a great time. I am now 88 years old.....
The cinema camera is actually like a time machine.
Wonderful how Krauts were able to get this stuff out, subtitles and all, while I'm trying to see if my uncle is in here, a Sgt in MN Red Bull artillery. He survived 5 yrs in that hell, starting in Africa, then into Italy, and disabled in Germany by land mine after that.
Krauts??? Aufpassen 😉😂😂😂
My father served in Italy. Thank you for this great vid.
Muy triste
The Werhmacht surrendering to the Americans was a blessing for them. It was rough, but not like how the Soviets treated German POWs. The POWs lived to tell about it after the war.
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so tired of reading this same comment
What about Ike's Rhine Meadows Death camps? 1 million starved to death post war.
@@clovergrass9439 Well war is hell especially when you start one and lose. There were many atrocities committed on both sides of the war. Many forget the Mameldy massacre committed by the SS during the Battle of the Bulge. Also when the Allies liberated the concentration camps many allied soldiers had an immense anger towards the Werhmacht more so with the SS. It was sad the Germans that surrendered were treated that way, but it was payback for Germany's atrocities. Out of the Werhmacht personnel that surrendered many survived being captured by the U.K and U.S, then being imprisoned by the Russians. Also most of the Germans that surrendered on the Western front lived and thrived on the Marshall plan and Germany's resourcefulness. The ones that surrendered on the Eastern front many didnt survive and make it back to Germany.
@@clovergrass9439😅
Amazing footage of the war.
This is amazing footage what a find
Thank you. The original pictures are from US war correspondents and the sounds are mine.........
Father was US GI iam born in germany fathers name clarence cantrell from texas indian head division i am a dual citizen my mom was german.my mothers name was anneliese schumm.wir nice video
Le charme irrésistible des allemandes ... J'acquiesce !
Gratulation! Seltenes Filmmaterial das ich noch nicht kannte, danke fürs hochladen.
Interessant ist auch die Szene in min. 3:09 mit erklärendem Untertitel, die das taktische
Vorgehen der US amerikanischen Truppen belegt. Bei Widerstand "das Ganze Halt" und
Einsatz der Air Force bis die Verteidigung zusammen bricht.
Hey man
Wie sagte noch Otto Carius," Fünf Russen sind Gefährlicher als eine Kompanie Amis!" Kampfwert hatten die Amis noch nie gehabt, nur Material im Überfluß.
They were just as much in danger from their own airforce as they were from the enemy.
my father was drafted following pearl harbor. I miss my father so much !!!
Bull…
😢❤
Where did he serve?
Sad days for Europe.
Was this the first use of the classic cinematographic scream heard in all action movies?
no, but there are no other ones in the net......
excellent. informing.
Excellent find.
I was 9 years old that time…..
I was still in the future
Beautiful old video
What an amazing video. Congratulations to those who found it.
Thank you. The original pictures are from US war correspondents and the dubbing is mine
Guten tag! Ich wolte gern Sie kennenlernen Herr Hildebrand! Ich bin aus russland. Respect Valentin
Guten Tag Valentin. Wie meinen Sie das? Kennenlernen persönlich oder hier im Netz?
Здравствуйте Валентин. Что вы имеете в виду? Знакомиться лично или здесь в сети?
@@dannyhildebrand2505 Hallo Danny! Can I have your email address for some questions? Respect Valentin
Well when German divisions were the size of companies, it takes the bite out of this photo op. Most German deaths were attributed to bombings too
Too bad the Germans fought until the end. Too many lives lost on both sides !
Of course you fight to the end. They knew what would happen if they lost and it did.
My grandfather was Otto Meissner but I’m 100% American .
April 1945/April 2024®️🇺🇸
@yie1918
April/1945/April 2024
Aber bitte nicht wieder eine "Befreiung" von allem.....Hab und Gut!!!
The war only get tears
Had relatives that fought on both sides.
Obviously captured footage
Вы брали STALINGRAD и Тишина
?????
Ich habe vor ca.15 Jahren mit meiner Familie in Gemünden Urlaub gemacht.Von Kriegshandlungen/Kriegsschäden keine (offensichtlichen)Spuren.Das haben die Gemündener prima wieder aufgebaut!
Es war auch nur ein kurzer Luftangriff. Dann hatte man Einsicht
Of course the United States set up a massive plan to aid economic renewal to rebuild Europe and to strengthen democracy after the devastation of the war. Assistance in the amount of $13 billion for reconstruction was given to: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and WEST GERMANY between 1948 and 1952.
Reap what you sow..,my aunties house outside London UK was flattened in 1941... by your dear Luftwaffe …My grandpa liberated Holland Belgium…saw concentration camps..didn’t come home until 46. I gave his disgusting Nazi war trophies to a museum as reminder ..Never again 🫡
Ja! Was man mit amerikanischem Geld alles so schaffen kann. ☝🏻😎✨
@@TheLobohobo are you bent in the head? What can you do with American money? Are you Serious ? You seriously need a history lesson you ignorant shit ‼️🤣
this is april 1945 and the war in europe is over in early may. by the time it's sent back to the states, gets developed and distributed to theaters it would likely be september of '45. wonder how many people would ever see it at the time.
No, you will be surprised, all these clips of American war correspondents disappeared for decades in US military archives and only came to the public a few years ago
well, perhaps we should look to see if this secret hiding place also has the tapes of the apollo moon landing, that NASA says are lost?
Ich bin im zerstoerten Wuerzburg aufgewachsen..5 US Kasernen hatten wir dort..
Von 1986 bis 1989 war ich in Giebelstadt auf dem dortigen US Army flugplatz stationert. Viele Wochenenden habe ich in der schoenen Stadt Wuerzburg verbracht. Meine Frau und ich haben uns in Giebelstadt kennengelernt und kommen so oft wie moglich gerne zuruck.
Wuerzburg und die wunderbaren Menschen dort werden fur immer in unseren Herzen leben..
Es tut mir leid, dass du das miterleben musstest, der Bombenanschlag war schrecklich.
@@user-ok6nb6lr4y den habe ich gottsei Dank nicht erleben muessen bin 5 Jahre nach dem Angriff aufgewachsen in den Ruinen
Again Watching real! history , thanks to those brave but very pissed off men I just two years later and like millions since was born free . Have always realised that fact , pity more nowadays don't...
I was nine years old in April 1945 when the Americans came to our village in the Harz Mountains. The SS had already fled, so not a single shot was fired when they took our village. The US soldiers were restrained but not aggressive, although they had suffered great losses since the Normandy landings. In the Huertgen Forest they lost about 33,000 men. All men who had not caused the war. Our freedom of speech in Germany today often includes an anti-American attitude. To these people I say: if the Allies had not defeated us and hounded Hitler and his Nazi generals to the last day, we would not have a democracy or freedom of speech today. Examples: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. I am very grateful to the Americans, was ashamed to be German for many years after the end of the war. Later I lived in Frankfurt and was proud to have many American friends among the US military.
Danny Hildebrand
@@dannyhildebrand2505 ...maybe those Germans with the "anti-American attitude" would like the Russians BETTER?!!
@@dannyhildebrand2505Thank you for your interesting story ,you were a child and not to blame and it’s hard to reconcile with what the Nazi did and I don’t think the human race has learned anything war is evil and it’s always the innocent that suffer under dictatorship and the Nazi were one of the worst ,but all countries have had there mad leaders in the past not one country is with out blame .
After 5 years they said "we win the war" yeah right!!
wonder who the one star was about half way in
which one do you mean? Say time code!
@@dannyhildebrand2505 sorry didnt know there was more than one ,starting around 9:44 he is watching troops and a gaggle of POWs
Sorry I understood you meant the name of a "movie star". :-)) In any case, he was a Brigadier GeneraI Sorry about my english. I am German
@@dannyhildebrand2505 np
This film is an incredible historical treasure. It matches exactly the descriptions of my favorite teacher in the fifth grade in the 1950's, a WWII army veteran who saw combat in France and Germany. There are no embellishments. Just the simple unvarnished painful truth of war and it's consequences. Thanks for sharing this! Any veteran watching this film please take note and vote blue this November if you want to avoid a repeat of these events. We don't need another lunatic leading us down this path again.
@godfreyzilla8608
I can only agree with you. I am an 88 year old German and lived through the whole war as a child in Germany fearfully. At the end of the fifties I worked as a driver for the US Army in Frankfurt and had many American friends. In later years I traveled a lot in the USA and learned to appreciate the country and its people. I am still very grateful to the Allies, especially the Americans, that they did not give our Nazis a chance to negotiate shortly before the end of the war and instead forced unconditional capitalization, which ultimately ensured democratic conditions in our country, from which we still benefit today. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten this or don't even know it. You are right: we don't need any Trumps, Putins, Erdogans, Khameneis, Xis or Kim Jong-uns on this planet. There are other concerns that need to be addressed.
@@dannyhildebrand2505 : Thank you for your kind comments. I know that the punishment placed on the German people after WWI by the Allies created the situation that gave birth to the Nazi party.
Blind revenge is never a smart nor a good thing to do. As a result many Germans were convinced that the party would save them from the effects of that extreme punishment. I believe many German civilians went along willingly with the Nazi party as a result but many innocent civilians did not and suffered for that. In many ways the German people themselves were victims of the Nazi extremists both directly and indirectly by extending a lost war causing tremendous suffering for all sides. This in no way excuses the concentration camps but it does matter.
I am a retired architect. My first mentor was born in Kempten in 1935 and lived there during the war and after until 1951 when he emigrated to the USA. I worked with him for four years before returning to the university. He taught me so much that I was able to test out of two years worth of studies in engineering and architecture.
Before that I had a good schoolmate friend who was born in Hamburg in 1948. When I met him about 1955 he was wearing lederhosen. He had a beautiful sister but that is another story.
Both my mentor and my schoolmate were named Wolfgang. Both have since passed.
I am sorry to hear that the young German people do not know or understand the history of the last century but times have changed and the situation in Germany is very different now as I understand it. Hopefully they will find a way to peacefully resolve the differences that occur in Germany today. If not God help us all - again. God Bless
trump is not a rhino biden supports wars. the bushes, cheeneys were rhinos. all otherwars by lbj, truman and roosevelt.
@@dannyhildebrand2505, ignorant bast. Ard
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Use "Deepl" translater! Very easy to handle.......
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The German faces look thin here.
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Yes, and many had to die because of a single criminal (see Huertgenforest) 33,000 US soldiers there alone.
As an 88-year-old German, I thank all the Americans who sacrificed themselves for us in World War II. Without them, there would probably still be no democracy in our country.
@@dannyhildebrand2505 ...I really like your attitude!!
I have to say that we Americans have our share of "rotten apples" too...
Another thing to remember is that if the Nazis had won WW2- they'd have turned the whole world into a great big execution yard- and not just for Jews- EITHER!!!
Hitler and and his gang had to be STOPPED-!!!
You're not saying anything new. The Nazis still wanted to conclude a peace treaty with the Allies in April 1945, but thank God it turned out that Hitler and his gang were fought unconditionally to the last man, so that a new beginning was only possible here in Germany. Nevertheless, many Nazis escaped after the war but are now dead. Today, like many other countries, we unfortunately have to record a new emergence of these fools. By the way: Europe can only hope that the mentally ill Donald Trump does not take the helm again. If Ukraine is left in the lurch, as he has announced, Putin will attack Moldova, Poland or the Baltic states next.
@@dannyhildebrand2505 My father at twenty years of age joined the Polish Army in September of 1939 and fought the Germans in the streets of Warsaw when the Germans invaded until he was taken prisoner. He told me only some of the things the Germans did like kicking men women and children to death in the streets with their heavy boots and laughing while they did it.
@@dannyhildebrand2505 ...WHY DON'T YOU STICK IT IN YOUR EAR?!!
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT BIDEN CHICKENED OUT IN AFGHANISTAN AND LET AN AWFUL LOT OF US MILITARY EQUIPMENT FALL INTACT INTO ENEMY HANDS!!! I SURE AS HELL WOULDN'T CALL THAT A SUCCESS- AND IF THAT HAD HAPPENED WHILE DONALD TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT- HE'D HAVE BEEN CHASED RIGHT OUT OF WASHINGTON DC- AND THAT'S IF HE WAS LUCKY!!!
THE FACT THAT BIDEN IS STILL PRESIDENT TELLS ME ALL THAT I NEED TO KNOW!!!
Destruction of villages, buildings, houses etc. is made, - here above, - because of battles and Allied Air forces. [ Speer Albert didn't permitted destruction of, left to enemy, german territory, against Hitler's orders...] In East ? Brutal, horrific destruction of hundreds of villages, homes, agricultural units, etc. in Russia, [or some occupied Balkan countries, f. example Serbia, Greece and Poland} , was cynical, in a very large climax, because of strategy of extermination, elimination of inferior races, [Slaves, Russians especially, Polish, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, Bielorussians etc.] For the rich future of German people ...About 15.000.000 to 18.000.000 of Russians were dead of executions, or burning, starvation, or cold [ : burned homes, villages...] KOSTAS TRENT
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I believe for the German nation a powerful inventive amongst others to continue resistance was allied insistence on unconditional surrender, a poss Versaille 2, the absolute shame of a great nation.
Пуля. на. 2. не. делится. ! Айзенах. 2024. г.
Not a man bun in the bunch lol!
Stupid comment
Who won this war, Germany, America and the Soviets, who were tired on 4 fronts, captured the tired Germany, that is, Russia and America did not win the war.
Бред сумасшедшего
@@user-nx5ks3tl6wyes sometimes people need to just take a history. But other times it wouldn't do him any good they wouldn't have the ability to understand. 👍
You are right... 🤔🤔🙄🙄😂😂
Soundtrack? No spoken words from any human, epic Clik bait.
I'm sorry sir, I'm just an amateur filmmaker and not a professional. I was glad that I could use a few war sounds. These are normally silent films, which I'm sure you're aware of.
@@dannyhildebrand2505Yes, I understand and good work. Just remove any reference to "soundtrack" unless you add " added soundtrack"
Môj Dedko bojoval v oby dvoch vojnach v Berlíne strieľal aj do Američanov prečo pre to že sa skurvili z Američami
Americanov vs Americanov????
Funny, can’t find anything at all on any fighting in ww1 in Berlin.
The United States saved Europe from Russia in the first war and from Hitler in the second war. You would all be speaking German all over Europe if the United States hadn't come to save you. And the US was not invaded and never has, by Russia or Germany. It was just a favor. You are welcome. 😅
@@annfrost3323 A very very expensive favour. You didn't do out out of compassion, but to enrich yourselves, as you have been doing ever since. $$$$'s
The judeo allies were so honorable and noble.
Judeo? 🤔🤔🖕🖕🖕😂
I find the Americans had the best looking uniforms and equipment for infantry in ww2, my opinion now….
Wenn sich ein Soldat ergibt braucht der Ami keine Tritte mehr aus teilen......
Ob der sich ergeben hat oder kassiert wurde, nachdem er kurz vorher vielleicht noch einen Kameraden des Amis erschossen hat, weißt Du doch gar nicht. Auch der sinnlose Widerstand der Deutschen zu dieser Zeit noch, kann einen solchen Wutausbruch verursacht haben. Dabe waren die Amis im Verhältnis zu den Russen noch gnädig und weitgehend anständig, obwohl sie u.a. bei den ebenfalls sinnlosen Kämpfen im Hürtgenwald alleine um die 33.000 Tote zu beklagen hatten. Fast jedes Dorf in Deutschland wurde danach noch mit weiteren zigtausend Toten der Alliierten verteidigt.
Fazit: fast alle von uns Deutschen hätten einen Tritt in den Arsch verdient..............
Ich hasse die Amis und alle Besatzer.
Der Ami ist als sehr feiger Soldat bekannt.
@@dannyhildebrand2505, wenn es um die eigene Heimat geht, bis zum letzten Verteidigen. "A.H war nicht fähig einen Krieg zuführen!" Die Folgen der damaligen Niederlage prägt uns bis heute noch.
Ein Glück, dass dem "Gröfaz" das nicht gelang. Ein Glück auch für Deutschland, dass die Allieierten sich auf keine Verhandlungen mit uns in den letzten Tagen des 3. Reichs eingelassen haben, wie von den Nazis und seinen Generälen erhofft, denn sonst hätten wir ihn, Göbbels und Co noch weitere Jahre ertragen müssen, anstatt der uns zugeführten so erfolgreichen Demokratie.
@@dannyhildebrand2505, was aus unserer zum Großteil "links faschistisch" abgedrifteten Demokratie geworden ist, sieht man ja heutzutage sehr deutlich. Die Zustände heute sind nicht mehr weit weg vom damaligen "dritte Reich." Sie verbreiten sehr gerne Alliierte Propaganda, die Sieger schreiben leider die Geschichte. Deutschland hat bis heute noch keinen Friedensvertrag und ist nicht souverän. Deutsche Kanzler/in müssen den USA immer noch die Hoheitsrechte unterzeichnen. Wie schon geschrieben "Hitler" war damals nicht in der Lage einen erfolgreichen Krieg zu führen.