My great Aunt’s house in Belfast was demolished by a bomb which failed to detonate but the mass and velocity was enough to cause catastrophic damage. The only item that was undamaged was her son’s pram (old stroller) which sat atop the rubble. How it ended up there, no one could say.
During WWII Britain and Germany were sworn enemies. By 1965 the relationship between the two countries was so solid that the late British monarch her majesty Queen Elizabeth II was on a state visit to western Germany. In politics, there is no permanent friend or permanent enemy. As a foreigner, i admire the relationship between Britain 🇬🇧 and Germany 🇩🇪 From Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬.
Windsor was the name the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's chose during World War 1 so they didn't have the same name as the German heavy night bombers that were attacking the UK, the Gotham G.V.
@@Aengus42 I know the Windsors have deep German roots through George I and even down to Prince Albert. The point I was trying to make was that her late majesty visited Germany by the invitation of the German government and with the nod of her majesty's government. Which means there was forgiveness and healing of both the British and German sides.
@@theochambers8090 um wow the one time nukes were used in all of history it *may* have contributed to forcing a surrender. Not really relevant considering it was a one time only thing unless you are advocating that nukes should be used more often?
@@dylanmilne6683 talking about the spirit of the people, just like armed forces, brotish are known, not just myth, to be up in spirits in the face of adversity. From an Indian
The Japanese were far more worried about the russians being able to redirect their efforts towards japan, the nukes were an easy-out. The fire bombing america had already done caused far more deaths than the nukes anyway.@theochambers8090
England was truly at its greatest in WW2 everybody working together, rationing, families in the country took kids from the city, amazing . I have faith this will happen again 🏴
@@geoffreyharvey that's good to know. I reckon a lot of the trouble is all the overseas telly shows. Our son had a real pom accent when he was a little bloke, because he watched so much Thomas the Tank Engine!
Love that generation and i loved my nan this was what she was like but were screwed with people today they would be waving a white flag screaming to join the other side.......
Mum was a kid living around Carshalton way when the German buzzbombs destroyed the first of three family homes her Dad and Mum would lose during the Blitz. She told me of the time when her Mum was heading toward the safety of the Parish Church when Nan decided it was no good and turned around. The church took a direct hit that night with all inside killed. Mum recalled to me how she watched in stunned horror as a airplane spun into the Crystal Pa lace while Dad told of the sky dark as night with dogfighting Spitfire and ME109. These are the reasons I decided I would give up my career to take care of Mum and Dad. I insisted they pass away at home with myself at their side lightly holding tightly a once strong but now so very frail hand. (Dad and Mum if you’re reading I still love you ❤ xx Darren)
@@SPQR. There's a thing called context. In the context of this video and my statement, at what point did you think I meant physically? Are you so perpetually online you feel the need to say irrelevant things? That old lady had her house blown up, with no shoes on said I'm not leaving my house. If you don't consider her strong you are a complete smeghead. GTFOH, you bellend.
@@SPQR. That's why women have babies and still work and and don't drop to the ground after one flick to the nether region. If that's weak ...! Woman aren't weak, just fragile males who are full of Ego and scared of other men think so.
The fools who think that only need that feeling in order to prop their own ego up. Look up videos of men enduring a simulated device that imitates period cramps. Women stand and work every day undergoing the real thing and these guys buckled and fell lol.
Hah! Respectfully; that's bang out of order, we've got plenty of people with true grit and tenacity - we just don't have a war on. Instead we have low trust in the government, an incredibly poor economy for peacetime, a breakdown in healthcare, public transport, social services... All the stuff we SHOULD be able to pride ourselves in is tumbling around us. If you're mourning because we've lost something essentially British, point at the pricks in charge, not the people.
This is what our country was all about at one time, these men and women that fought for our freedom, I bet there are looking down in dismay as what it has turned into !!
PR mode here, and very selective in who they spoke to and put on film. Never any angry bombed out people who didn't like it that the monarch had warm homes to go to if they got bombed.
George the fifth was always there for the people in the country David offered him to move to Canada and he refused on stage in London while Buckingham palace was still being bombed but it still stayed in London and never move to Canada as many suggested to do
Nowadays: “I’m traumatised, as a non binary they them how am I supposed to get out of there I am a plus size gluten free girlie, I’m disabled and this is ableist, I’ve got my ADHD and my anxiety meds in there. Bloody tories! I’m a VEGAN!!!!”
Reminder: So far ~32,000 Palestinians civilians have been killed by bombings in under 7 months and over a million+ homeless. So they’re literally dealing with WWII levels of death. Meanwhile 1,200 Israelis have died but seized land and housing. Tell me again how this isn’t an “ethnic cleansing”.
Everyone in gaza has been told ti leave, i know its hard and many are being forced to stay/used as shields... but aside from that, anyone remaining is HAMAS and you can blame HAMAS for what is happening.
Something like 100 thousands civilians died in Mauripol alone in the first 2 months of the ukrainian war . What happens in Gaza is a small skirmish . Low intensity conflict
It's so weird how people just blindly accept this blitz spirit thing as truth and one of the last sources of pride for Britain. This film is from 1940, it would have been shown in cinemas to change people's view on the war and being bombed out. It is propaganda. Valuable for studying but not to be taken at face value. It's wrong to mythologise it.
What the bloody hell are you talking about these people are people who lost their homes and are being asked about the struggles and experiences it's not something that's made up it's facts and you trying to deny it is the only thing that's weird here and no one is mythologies anything when these things actually happened too many people who lost their homes
@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx it's propaganda. They made it during the war so it's probably not the whole story. They were trying to cheer people up and get them to keep going through the bombs. They didn't film the people who were crying because it would not be good for morale. It doesn't mean everyone coped with the blitz so casually.
@@user-Aaron- please re read…my question is questioning the original poster who appears to think that our weapons “rained down and killed people during the blitz”. The poster seems to justifying the enemy’s actions and putting the blame onto us.
Quintessentially British. Not wanting to make a big fuss about something, not even being literally blown up.
Not anymore. Britain is nothing like this now.
@@Patrick3183i was gonna say😂😂😂
Facts 👏 😂❤
English
@@georgeriddell9356 The English are British, along with Scots, welsh, and Northern Irish.
Grandfather decided to "stick it out too" he was right.
What a bloomin gem.
My great Aunt’s house in Belfast was demolished by a bomb which failed to detonate but the mass and velocity was enough to cause catastrophic damage. The only item that was undamaged was her son’s pram (old stroller) which sat atop the rubble. How it ended up there, no one could say.
In bed, where do you think I was 🤣👌
During WWII Britain and Germany were sworn enemies. By 1965 the relationship between the two countries was so solid that the late British monarch her majesty Queen Elizabeth II was on a state visit to western Germany.
In politics, there is no permanent friend or permanent enemy.
As a foreigner, i admire the relationship between Britain 🇬🇧 and Germany 🇩🇪
From Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬.
The Royals have German roots
Windsor was the name the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's chose during World War 1 so they didn't have the same name as the German heavy night bombers that were attacking the UK, the Gotham G.V.
@@Kayser-i-Rum1453they are german
@@Aengus42 I know the Windsors have deep German roots through George I and even down to Prince Albert.
The point I was trying to make was that her late majesty visited Germany by the invitation of the German government and with the nod of her majesty's government.
Which means there was forgiveness and healing of both the British and German sides.
@@Aengus42 and also Battenberg was renamed to Mountbatten
God she wouldn’t even recognise England now
Only some of the buildings and parks.
The holes In the buildings from bullets speaks volumes enough.
Bless tough folk like this that fought for our survival. If only there were more people like this around nowadays.
She’s the definition of grit!
Such a loss we only have footage but no voice recordings from 1939 Warsaw under siege.
One of the main reasons the battle of Brittan failed was because of the spirit and determination of the British public.
Has a bombing campaign EVER forced a people to capitulate?
@@dylanmilne6683ahem, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with the rest of the firebombing of japan
@@theochambers8090 um wow the one time nukes were used in all of history it *may* have contributed to forcing a surrender. Not really relevant considering it was a one time only thing unless you are advocating that nukes should be used more often?
@@dylanmilne6683 talking about the spirit of the people, just like armed forces, brotish are known, not just myth, to be up in spirits in the face of adversity. From an Indian
The Japanese were far more worried about the russians being able to redirect their efforts towards japan, the nukes were an easy-out. The fire bombing america had already done caused far more deaths than the nukes anyway.@theochambers8090
England was truly at its greatest in WW2 everybody working together, rationing, families in the country took kids from the city, amazing . I have faith this will happen again 🏴
This lady is made of stronger stuff it's called granite ❤
That dear old lady reminds me of Ronnie Corbett
A completely different generation, stoic people.
What a bad ass!!
With some shrapnel
And now we have people crying because they heard a joke.
Usually sporting blue hair.
Similar accent to Aussies of the same time period.
It's the quality of microphone that's why everyone sounds the same also it showed class talking properly in those days haha
The aussie accent has pretty much disappeared... The younger generation sounds like a cross between American and some sort of British.
@@greasylimpet3323 yeah it's the same everywhere man the young ones want to sound like there from London in UK and everywhere els 😂😂
@@greasylimpet3323Tasmanians still have a very Aussie accent 👍
@@geoffreyharvey that's good to know. I reckon a lot of the trouble is all the overseas telly shows. Our son had a real pom accent when he was a little bloke, because he watched so much Thomas the Tank Engine!
Built different back then 😂
Built better really, I almost feel like some of us would be a bit shameful for them to see these days
Imagine the woke brigade going through the blitz. We have become soft
Bs you have become soft
Love that generation and i loved my nan this was what she was like but were screwed with people today they would be waving a white flag screaming to join the other side.......
Bs
Mum was a kid living around Carshalton way when the German buzzbombs destroyed the first of three family homes her Dad and Mum would lose during the Blitz. She told me of the time when her Mum was heading toward the safety of the Parish Church when Nan decided it was no good and turned around. The church took a direct hit that night with all inside killed. Mum recalled to me how she watched in stunned horror as a airplane spun into the Crystal Pa lace while Dad told of the sky dark as night with dogfighting Spitfire and ME109.
These are the reasons I decided I would give up my career to take care of Mum and Dad. I insisted they pass away at home with myself at their side lightly holding tightly a once strong but now so very frail hand.
(Dad and Mum if you’re reading I still love you ❤ xx Darren)
Don't know why so many people think women are weak.
They pretend to be so they illicit help from men.
Physical weaker then men yes.
@@SPQR. There's a thing called context. In the context of this video and my statement, at what point did you think I meant physically? Are you so perpetually online you feel the need to say irrelevant things? That old lady had her house blown up, with no shoes on said I'm not leaving my house. If you don't consider her strong you are a complete smeghead. GTFOH, you bellend.
@@SPQR. That's why women have babies and still work and and don't drop to the ground after one flick to the nether region. If that's weak ...! Woman aren't weak, just fragile males who are full of Ego and scared of other men think so.
The fools who think that only need that feeling in order to prop their own ego up. Look up videos of men enduring a simulated device that imitates period cramps. Women stand and work every day undergoing the real thing and these guys buckled and fell lol.
Back when society had a backbone. Kids were reigned in by strong parents and people weren’t afraid to stand up to bullys. What’s happened to us
She's as cool as you like. Pride of Britain right there 💪
Imagine interviewing a Londoner now. They wouldn’t even be able to speak English.
do not make them like mother any more
this is when English people had a back bone and the men yes men had balls
Outstanding
Remember your history, Englishman.
🇬🇧🇬🇧MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Back when ‘Great Britain’ was actually great
Proper people!
She looks like judi dench
People today would be talking about how much money they expect their solicitors to get them 🙄😅
That's what people in Ukraine often experience now
Oh shut up
She’s not a victim - she’s a survivor! Or simply a bystander 😂
A victim can be harmed, injured or killed by an accident, event, or crime. A bombing victim can survive. The one who's always dead is a murder victim.
Brave soul's and we give everything away today so sad
🤡
She sounds remarkably like Dame Judy Dench!❤❤❤
Unfortunately women, or men, like this don't exist in Britain anymore.
She be one of them dresses with just the eye vents open
They do just not in London ironically
Hah! Respectfully; that's bang out of order, we've got plenty of people with true grit and tenacity - we just don't have a war on.
Instead we have low trust in the government, an incredibly poor economy for peacetime, a breakdown in healthcare, public transport, social services... All the stuff we SHOULD be able to pride ourselves in is tumbling around us. If you're mourning because we've lost something essentially British, point at the pricks in charge, not the people.
Women were encouraged to be obsessed with how they look to attract men. That is definitely a weakness.
Speak for yourself
Everyone alive today should watch this, and then get a bloody grip
❤
When women were women and men were men....... The greatest generation
What a generation those people were! Our snowflakes would just crumble under that kind of strain.
Bs, you people are so cringe your
Probably the gossip type.
Spoken like a true snowflake.
Spunky. Bless 'em all. 🌹🌹🌹
Doesn't she remind you of Judi Dench?
A lot of photos were set up. People found limbs and babies in trees. Its amazing what you can get through
Ya wanna see England now !
Lad Mongolians
Her resolve reminds me of the mothers of Gaza. Stong ladies.
Lmao
🤡
@@papadonkusWhat about genocide is funny to you?
@@papadonkus My man here doesn't have any sympathy for people that are not for the west.
@thomase13 The fact its about brown hairy beduins the same ones who ruined my turkey
Typical defensive unpleasant English woman ( and I’m one too 😂)
They just blew up her house what do you expect her to be like
@@SandileNgwenya-gv7nxI’d expect her to be upset, and in fact to she’s acting like it’s nothing. Lighten up love 😂
Back when British were British.
Idiot
Gor blimey guvner
This is what our country was all about at one time, these men and women that fought for our freedom, I bet there are looking down in dismay as what it has turned into !!
Germany is permanently disgraced because of what they did/allowed to happen.
Idiot
Allowed to happen? They did it.
🫡🫡
Oh yeah I forgot...humans used to be badass
If you think the public are fit for war today ...😂 we are not .
The people and this country doesn't exist anymore
👏👏👏🌟
PR mode here, and very selective in who they spoke to and put on film. Never any angry bombed out people who didn't like it that the monarch had warm homes to go to if they got bombed.
George the fifth was always there for the people in the country David offered him to move to Canada and he refused on stage in London while Buckingham palace was still being bombed but it still stayed in London and never move to Canada as many suggested to do
Nowadays: “I’m traumatised, as a non binary they them how am I supposed to get out of there I am a plus size gluten free girlie, I’m disabled and this is ableist, I’ve got my ADHD and my anxiety meds in there. Bloody tories! I’m a VEGAN!!!!”
Stop exaggerating
A tiny fraction of over 300 million people defines the entire country?
@@Smalltownthings they do when they're the only people given a voice anymore
Eliza Doolittle?
"Gaaarn!"
👏👏
People today: HE USED THE WRONG PRONOUNS!
Does shoehorning in irrelevant non-issues make you feel better?
Reminder: So far ~32,000 Palestinians civilians have been killed by bombings in under 7 months and over a million+ homeless. So they’re literally dealing with WWII levels of death. Meanwhile 1,200 Israelis have died but seized land and housing. Tell me again how this isn’t an “ethnic cleansing”.
~600,000 German civilians were killed by bombings during ww2
Everyone in gaza has been told ti leave, i know its hard and many are being forced to stay/used as shields... but aside from that, anyone remaining is HAMAS and you can blame HAMAS for what is happening.
@@jimsmith3715 Hamas and Israeli military (IDF).
Something like 100 thousands civilians died in Mauripol alone in the first 2 months of the ukrainian war . What happens in Gaza is a small skirmish . Low intensity conflict
It's so weird how people just blindly accept this blitz spirit thing as truth and one of the last sources of pride for Britain. This film is from 1940, it would have been shown in cinemas to change people's view on the war and being bombed out. It is propaganda. Valuable for studying but not to be taken at face value. It's wrong to mythologise it.
It's weird that you have a problem with "one of the last sources of pride for Britain"
What the bloody hell are you talking about these people are people who lost their homes and are being asked about the struggles and experiences it's not something that's made up it's facts and you trying to deny it is the only thing that's weird here and no one is mythologies anything when these things actually happened too many people who lost their homes
@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx it's propaganda. They made it during the war so it's probably not the whole story. They were trying to cheer people up and get them to keep going through the bombs. They didn't film the people who were crying because it would not be good for morale. It doesn't mean everyone coped with the blitz so casually.
A lot of our own weapons rained down and killed people during the blitz.
@gh-vi9tkSo that lets the enemy out of any killing of civilians then? We did it to ourselves?
@@GMN360Show me where they said or even implied anything remotely close to your first sentence.
@@user-Aaron- please re read…my question is questioning the original poster who appears to think that our weapons “rained down and killed people during the blitz”. The poster seems to justifying the enemy’s actions and putting the blame onto us.
@@GMN360 The enemy are everyone's governments.
@@user-Aaron- I thank you.
Was ist das für ein komisches Englisch 😂😂😂
Only your comment 😂😂😂
"Cockney"
Proper London, not the jungle language you hear spoken today.
Wrong.