von Rundstedt Captured, Weilheim, Germany, 5/2/1945 (full)
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- Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Extracted from US Army film "Russian-American Link-Up, Wittenberg, Germany ; Congressmen On Inspection Tour, Goppingen, Germany ; Von Runstedt Captured, Weilheim, Germany ; V-E Day In Piccadilly, London, England, 05/02/1945" No National Archives description. National Archives Identifier: 18069
Von:" If only that bohemian corporal Hitler had left the military tactics to me ."
More dangerous would have been Manstein in charge of the military. Would not have invaded Russia and D-Day would be messy, Allies would ultimately win.
His last name is Von ? von means from. I think his last name should be Von Rundstedt.
@@Stewie-Griffin karl rudolf gerd von rundstedt
0:31 that guy was making a snowball.
So no one is going to comment about that magnificent piano? OK
What about that piano? It’s badly out of tune I bet.
🙀
A shame indeed! 😂
I expected him to play it, but then I realized there was no sound anyway.
Probably a Bechstein grand, at the time the number one brand and the largest too, but they lost it all due the family's strong support for the nazi's; which is also the reason why you don't see them in concert halls anymore where Steinway took over. Still at least the old ones are absolutely unbeatable sound-wise.
He was asking how the food was in Nuremberg.
Intersting to see and a shame we are not privileged to hear what was said
Thank you.
I know that the IWM London have used 'forensic' lipreaders on the newsreels of soldiers of the WW1 era to understand what they were saying.
There was a lot of snow on the ground for May 2nd!
r true!
I think you mean 5th of February.
@@Oxley016 nope. In February von Rundstedt was still safely behind German lines.
@@tedmccarron In February he was directing several battles, Huertgen Forest for example.
It is 5 of February, with the exception of the US, every one else uses day/month/ year
Gerd was the Billy Martin of the Third Reich. Got fired, got hired, got fired, got hired!
Billy Martin?
@@dexterdog62 NY Yankee manager. Hired, fired, hired, fired.
@@dexterdog62 also, feuded with George Steinbrenner, owner of the Yankees.
@@steveroe6771 Who did? Gerd?
That must have been one helluva winter if the snow was that thick in the first week of May. He was about as far south in Germany one could get in Bad Tölz when he was apprehended.
I was thinking the same thing about the amount of snow.
or could it be the 5th of February?
@@johnmh1000 Indeed - not all the world writes the date like the USA! (illogically - month-day-year?!?)
@@johnmh1000 I had to look this up because it’s odd to have that much snow in May and he did indeed surrender in May. Hitler had him replaced on the western front on March 9th and he moved back to be with his family after March 11th when he met with Hitler for the final time. As Americans we like to be rebels by not using the metric system and writing our dates with the month first and day second which confuses things!
@@debrakleid5752 I'm still not sure how that explains the snow in May.
US as obsessive about records as Nazis were. Good recordkeepers or we wouldn't know anything about time period
Rundsedt said in the video - We lost the battle, but won the war!
When I read all of this very intelligent, well informed,ethically sound and wise comments,
I, as a German feel only shame.For whom,you may guess.
Rudi, I, as an American, say you have nothing to be shameful about sir. You had nothing to do with it ...
You need to remember but not being ashamed it's 70 years ago .
We should look back to the past to learn and look forward to the future to educate. Blessings and peace
"very intelligent, well informed,ethically sound and wise comments,"... I'll take your comment as sarcasm but seriously though, there is NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF. Why should you still feel ashamed or guilty for something that happened a long time ago, and something you weren't apart of? Germany is a different country today and the people of today have nothing to do with what happened in WW2. Seriously, you are still living with war guilt. Move on....
And remember: we live in a world filled with hypocrisy. The British Empire, USA, France, Russia (USSR or however you want to say it) etc. have committed worse atrocities compared to Germany. The only difference is, we only learn about what Germany did because they lost. And that is where the saying "winners write history" comes in and will always remain true. There is not a strict emphasis on what other countries did because they won, sad but true.
Hence, you have to laugh at the hypocrisy from Americans, Brits and these other countries accusing Germany of committing atrocities when their countries did the same or just as worse.
@@sulil1938 Yes Americans have their bad moments, but nothing like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews.
This old man was very lucky to be charged with no war crimes at all, But this old man just wanted to go home ,drink cognac and read his favorite detective novels ,should have never been called back a 3rd time in 44. great tactical mind, just tired and done with it all.
Really ? Listen to his nonsense at Nuremberg czcams.com/video/igrmMKkRMRs/video.html .
Apparently he expects us to believe that the entire High command had no idea of the conduct of the follow-up squads as they invaded Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
But he was a criminal even if he wasn´t charged with his crimes.After all he was a Nazi.
@@Maria7162 I disagree, he never expressed sympathy for the Nazi Party, and even criticized it. One thing people dont realize was that not all German during WW2 were stonch Nazis, many weren't, many Whermacht Generals were the same as well, even some of Hitler's Field Marshals.
So just calling a german during this time a "Nazi" is just blatant.
@@Maria7162 He was not.
That's the same thing as claiming that every Russian in the Sovjet era was a communist.
@@opoxious1592 That´s the same thing claiming that every American is a war criminal
I wonder why many of these videos are silent. I believe there was already audio available in movies in the mid 1940s
Pour avoir le son, il fallait un « camion de son » et le microphone était relié par un fil jusqu’au camion…
@@summicron2 it’s very clear, we all speak French … :)
@@summicron2 easy for you to say that.
recording sound was more expensive/cumbersome, a lot of newsreels during the sound era were still taken without sound and just dubbed with narration and added music. heck even up to the 80s until tapes became more common most home movies recorded on film were still silent - some in color, yes, but most silent
@@sup3rkangkong
Thanks for the explanation.
Still disappointing, but it is what it is :)
Von Runstedt was a Field Marshall but, why was he so impressed with that colonel rank uniform?
He was the Honorary Colonel of an infantry regiment, which was considered a great honour. His rank badges were that of a Feldmarshal and bore the regimental number of that regiment, while his collar patches reflected his honsrary status.
@@awaygood1 Thaks guy, I just guess that people at that time who didn't know the fact, when they looked him with those collar patches without seeing his shoulder would have been curious to see many generals saluted a colonel.
"Make peace, you fools!"
von Rundstedt is not a fool.
@@andrehoensbroek1 Yes, I know. HE said THAT to the OKW.
@@yaknbo understand ! Keitel was the fool
@@yaknbo Understand, so Keitel was the fool.
@@andrehoensbroek1 Keitel was an ass kissing scoundrel. They called him "Lakeitel" (Lackey).
Good ole Rundstedt; strong against the enemy, weak against Hitler.
@@ohio Guderian and Rommel?
@@ahmetozbey4820 Guderian had 170 Red Army commissars shot immediately on identification. Aware of the July plot to kill Hitler, he played both sides and later took charge of the kangaroo court to convict them. Even in detention after WW2 he thought Nazism's "fundamental principles were fine".
How could he be innocent ?
@Hissam Ullah Yes, they did.
But they faced NO repercussion whatever from Nuremberg judges.
The tossers win and win again.
@@ohio What about August von Mackensen?
@@benzflynn Do you know what the fundamental principles of nationalsocialism are?
So many of these Generals turned a blind eye to the absolute atrocities being committed, most rode the devil's back in search of promotion and glory.
True! Who support Rommel when obliged to commit suicide? A complice
You have that right, and the Germans still revere their memory. Schools and streets named after Rommel, a damned Nazi, no less than the Nazi Stauffenburg who tried asasisnate Hitler. Only the Germans consider Stauffy a traitor.
And a lot of people who love nazi Germany will say it was only the SS committing crimes against humanity
wow, how many people speaking nonsense in these comments
@@georgelevy1189 You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about if you believe that "the Germans still revere their memory."
Runstedt fought in WWI….he was up there in age by the end of WWII and I believe he spent several years in prison and was released to live out his golden years, in obscurity, with his wife. He was one of the lucky ones. I wonder if he ever wrote an autobiography.
Kind of sad: their only child was a son who was a physician, I think. He and his dad were both in prison together until the son got ill and died of cancer in '48. His wife died a few years after that.
Id give a billion to hear what he was talking aboutg
Probably how funny it is they disconnected the microphone, so that Jorge Aldridge would say in 2019 that he would give a billion to hear what he was talking about.
Give me a billion I'll tell you what he was saying. Lip reader
He's talking about quality of US cigarettes
They can do it with lip reading
@@dannyc.jewell8788 👍🏻
High end Packard, probably a 180.
Theres a longer video of this out there. He looks terrified and guilty. He knew what was going on during his campaign in the east.
However, he did stand up to hitler because he didnt want to waste his men's lives.
And where. Could you please send me the link
@@robinkalousek7247 theres links everywhere. "Make peace you fools!" Is his famous quote after D day
Von Ronstadt surrendered.
He was not "captured."
Was he singing “Blue Bayou” at the time?
Richard V., Let's face it, it amounts to the same thing.
@@routeoz02 NO, it does NOT amount to the same.
It was the father of Lynda?
@@badbotchdown9845 His uniform was decorated with Silver Threads and Golden Needles.
Wrong aspect ratio, why?
Sharp looking uniform.
Anti-antifa? Anti-antifascist means you're a fascist lover, man. Safer not to come near me and millions of my friends.
Tony Barnes Lol. That’s cute.
@@tonybarnes9194 "Millions"??? LOL! You are dreaming, soyboy. You are the ones who act like fascists. You are LOSERS. Mind my words.
@@antiantifa1250 That soyboy Tony right away threatening you with violence. xDDDDD
@@tonybarnes9194 Ok Ben Davis kid.
May 2 and it’s snowing? It must have been a miserable Winter.
It was the 5th of February, 1945. 05/02/45 is both the military and the European way of writing the date.
@@johnbergin3787 It's May. He was not captured in February when the Americans were still hung up in Aachen and just finished eliminating the Bulge salient created by the German offensive.
Looks cold
It's indeed may! But the region is on high alttude and close to the alps so late snow is nothing unusual there.
"May I offer you a cyanide capsule?"
“No, but do you have any Grey Poupon?”
Did von Runstedt speak English? Just a thought, he was Biden in1945; old and washed up
May 2 and there's snow all over the place? Must have been a late spring.
Think it's 5th February
Germany before climate change
@@pascaltorvic6246 Don't you read the comments before you write, that explains this is May 2, 1945?
Who was the American two star sitting with him?
General Frank Milburn, CO of XXI Corps.
@@tcarroll3954 Great call. Thanks!
Why was von Rundstedt in Weilheim?
a GERMAN STAFF CAR WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANED OFF........OR ELSE..............
Did you see the bit of tree on the roof?
I noticed that too!! You are correct!! Bill
Probably why the Germans lost the war. Worried too much about snow-free staff cars.
I give up: What German staff car?
@@wholeNwon the car being used was an american one.....A field marshall 's car would not look that sloppy.....
Rank certainly has its privileges. The Field Marshal is treated with respect while the footsloggers and junior officers of the Wehrmacht are kicked, pushed and driven into Rhine meadows and starved to death.
There dont die mutch in the Rhine Fields
the former POW's I spoke with when I lived in Germany [Munchen] including former SS said they were always hungry but in Allied hands they received the basics to survive. I don't believe they had the same in the hands of the Russians.
@@dickyt1318 yes, they suffer but not so mutch died, only around 5000 Died, the Rhine Meadows had 1 Million Prisonors
@@dickyt1318 Perhaps the men you spoke with were not in Rhine Meadows. It is an established fact that Gen. Eisenhower did not grant POW status but designated them as"disarmed enemy forces" which relieved him from providing proper food, shelter and medical facilities. Germans captured earlier in the war were treated fairly and humanely in US and British POW Camps.
Why captured so early times. Why not in may?
It's the US system to put the month first followed by the day of the month. So 5/2/45 means 2 May 1945 (I thought he was actually captured on 1 May, may have been very late at night). I'm surprised at the amount of snow around.
I don't know. How much do you want to bet thats what he said
The date is the 5th of February. Not the 2nd of May.
No, it was May. Check the timeline on any reputable source.
Since you're replying 3 weeks ago at this time, You must be reading the comments that came before yours, like a year ago. Why in hell don't you know this has been explained about 9 times in these comments before you wrote your ignorant declaration?
Can't be...
Would have liked to know what was being said!!
Small talk.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 Thats the very atom of Historical moments sometimes and can tell us so much !!
@@danielgreen3715 Sometimes, maybe, yes. But not when a POW like Rundstedt is presented as a trophy. Here Rundstedt only says "Ich weiss nicht" (I do not know). I could read it from his lips.
@@renatovonschumacher3511 I believe time has painted Rundstet in a more favourable and Realistic manner than how it was back then when emotions were still high!! ..But then on the other hand just immagine the media circus nowadays and how he would be presented! ...
It was snowing on May 2nd?
5/2/1945, February
Remember, the winter of 1944-45 was the worst one in Europe in a long time. Check the weather reports for the battle of the bulge for confirmation.
Weilheim? wo denn da?
i love general von manstein and heinz göderian...
afrika corps. Fuck the two of them. They served a mad man.
@@johnmcdonald9304 Be quiet you ignorant oaf.
Very good piano
Elton John thought so too.
German should be still a monarch back then after the ww1, nobility would be still exist
Sure, then you get another Kaiser Wilhelm again who ruins the country one final time !
Who's sorry now?
I did not know it snows in MAY
Depends where you are!
Its February 1945 film
Extreme south of Bavaria, not far from the Alps, probably a fairly high elevation - yes, it could snow that late.
@@vishnupundle9321 May 1945.
It just snowed in Denver in June.
Lion is always a lion
Do you mean the Lion in Afrika or the Lion on this Semi European Island out there in the Atlantik,who
has occupied the Image of that Lion for herself?
Wasn't he sentenced at Nuremberg?
that was Keitel
THEY WERE ALL, sentenced, some to a life of luxury
About
Na koncu widac, jak panowie generalowie sie ciesza, ze przegrali!!! Ups ... wygrali...
Ai dos Vencidos...
bit pointless without sound !!!
That was all small talk. Nothing of import would be said with reporters there - even the military variety. Hell, they were probably discussing the route the cars came to get there.
cameras were not able to record sound during those times, son.
Nothing like the German military
yes,so successful
isto nem tem som.
Over lips you can see that he says - "American troops are the best!"
That's in my hometown lol
Meine auch, aber erkennst du wo das gefilmt wurde?
it was Gap vs. Hugo Boss
Most of the perpetrators of Nazi war crimes were never charged, and returned unremarked to civilian life.The West German Central Prosecution Office of Nazi War Criminals only charged about a hundred former Einsatzgruppe members with war crimes. And as time went on, it became more difficult to obtain prosecutions; witnesses grew older and were less likely to be able to offer valuable testimony. Funding for trials was inadequate, and the governments of Austria and Germany became less interested in obtaining convictions for wartime events, preferring to forget the Nazi past. A very sad ending to genocide. RIP
yeah, thats would be one reason, the other reason reason would be that there wasnt as many war crimes as it is said, or maybe they considered that germany was already destryed enough and most of the german men were dead
Lip readers please
Yankees didn't allowed German to defeat Russia.
@@johnmcdonald9304 There is zero need for flipping out in this way. Good Lord. Grippage, man.
@@mortalclown3812 Oh yes there is. Members of my family damn near lost their lives fighting in WW2 and I won't put up with Neo Nazis romancing the worst regime ever to have existed.
@@mortalclown3812 TWAT.
Germany was in retreat on 06/06/44
Incorrect , The Germans were soundly defeated on the Eastern Front , The size of the Red Army , their huge amounts of Equipment , T-34 Tanks , Aircraft , Mig 2 and 3 , and Illusion 2 's ( 10's of thousands ) made them unbeatable , by the way , the German Generals were not captured by the US Military , they VERY voluntarily surrendered the the US military due to the massive war crimes committed to the Russian people (20 to 27 million deaths) and the devastation of their countryside , cities , infrastructure and industries , the Red Army had been chasing them down for 1000's of kilometers .
Tem algum brasileiro vendo esse video
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a few years later , american MPs would be knocking him about
As well they should. Too bad he escaped the noose.
@@jammer3618 he was a professional soldier... don't be an idiot.
If they want ti get punished very badly maybe
Germany a beautiful country, spoiled for the most part by the nation that inhabit it.
I know a lot of nations that way. Germany is beautiful because the people built it that way . Before that it was mostly impenetrable forests. The Romans found that out the hard way.
most 'FOREIGN countries are
ai que frio
He seems to be paying attention to his neck??? Lmfao
What? What did I do lol
Those Yankees knew they were in the presence of military superiority...
No, they were merely extending him the courtesies that educated military men-even enemies-extend to each other.
aptly named: Shitster, Shyster, Shill, but what’s in a name?
hahaha you know it bro
Why is he?aLLowed2smoke.
Why not? And idk if you're joking nor you're just bad at typing.
Why not? He was a captured soldier.
@@josephjakubec3171 a captured field marshal as well, so was a vip.
why not
Because he is a Field Marshall, respected the world over.
Il en faudrait encore des Von Rundstedt
Pour combattre les immigrés terroristes en Europe ? Bonne idée
Why did that German general get to ride off into captivity in a Mercedes? He should have been made to sit out in the cold in the back seat of a Jeep.
Rules of Geneva Convention
It´s a Packard, not Mercedes
strapped to the hood like a trophy deer.
Generals don't do that to Generals. It's a pact they have with each other.
Because he had a high rank. Even if they were enemies there was still respect
I like that uneasy look on their faces knowing they are going to be held responsible for their action.
Its kaitel ?
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My Fuhere was so clear don t permut captured haigh comandants.
The dishonarable judeo allies.
US-fighting against Germany was fighting for downfall of USA today
Vae victis !
It's fake....very good editing ...where did they take him? To disneytopia?.
To the new stormtroopers?
You do write for the Onion, correct C.S.?
@@sipesthebest128 I am currently freelancing.
I only work for those who seek truth to some of earth's most perplexing lies and illusions.
I have this obsession for truth that doesn't allow me to write lies and illusions .
That's why I explain to people the Disney connections to Kennedy assasination and hidden wizard of Oz.
I was always curious how a society of deception functions.
The Presidential deception of Donald and Mickey...
Ironically coincidental Disney media's...
The Presidential deception of a wizard of Oz... ironically coincidental dead Disney associates...
Can I say....1966 to 2016...happy 50 th Walt Disney..
USA a media's created democracy of deception...
Kennedy was the Os enigma...
Monroe was sleeping beauty...
Kennedy was king of hearts..
Jackie was queen of hearts..
Onassis was emporer of O's.
The killer was wizard of Oz...
Best true lies I ever read was the Kennedy assassination by wizard of Oz...
I understand why the dead Disney associates....do you?
@@sipesthebest128 What Señor Lewis wrote by way of response is one of those patently insane spider web conspiracy comments that alert me, ironically, perhaps, to the truth in Revelations. (Ok, that was wishful thinking, but hey. Can you blame a gal?)
@@mortalclown3812
I'll have to agree, it did sound patently insane to me, but there's much of that going around in these dark days.
Packard !
His arrogance would be a lot less if the Russians had him instead.
The Russians should have been on trial for war crimes as well as some of the other allies.
The Russians and Germans have one goal destroy the YEW pig 💨😏🔥💀
Actually I didn't find him arrogant: He's a bona fide Prussian military dude - belly like a washboard, new haircut. That's how he rolled. Goering, conversely, was a cartoon of Germanic arrogance. (Just finished watching him from arrest to post suicide photos. Fresh on it mind.)
Wouldn't yours be the same...?
😂
Captured!!!???,they surrendered!!!
Germans eat potatoes
So do the Irish.
more kebab now.
Von Runsted ,an war criminal, dont make me laugh🤣🤣, the real criminals walk free like von Braun, and what about Yankee doodle who tortured german pows!!
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Wtf? Those pathetic still allowed to smoke during interrogation?
why not
The evil of German history, beyound words
allies war criminals kept killing the victors write history
E JACS --- Get your little neo-Nazi ass to Germany and you'll find the same history there written by them. Also, do us a favor and stay there.
Excuse me. The only war criminals were the Nazis and the Japanese.
@@robertbishop5357 and what about Russians? Katyn or Finland
e jacs Sucks to be a loser, doesn’t it
@@robertbishop5357 U R NUTS the allies commited war crimes as well as the Germans. The victor wriers history
Fajna propaganda! Taka zydohamerykanska!!! Pewnie i Putin by sie na to nie nabral...
Too bad the FFI did not take care of that jerk.