Beautiful Dresden before its destruction at the end of WWII in color: Watch and weep!
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- This film shows the beautiful German city of Dresden not long before World War II around 1936. Watching this film becomes extremely emotional if one realizes that what can be seen here no longer exists because of alied bombing raids.
These raids on Dresden took place from 13 to 15 February 1945 whereby almost the complete city was destroyed. The raids became a symbol of the “terror bombing” campaign against Germany, which was one of the most controversial Allied actions of the war. Some people called and still call this bombardment a War Crime. Just watch this film to see how beautiful it was and to realize that approximately 25,000 innocent civilians were killed during the bombardment to understand such opinions.
For more information, please read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing...
Some parts of Dresden have been rebuilt. Take a look here: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... and especially here: www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
The original B&W film has been restored, enhanced and colorized by means of state-of-the-art video software based on Artificial intelligence. Among other it has been speed-corrected, motion-stabilized, contrast & brightness enhanced, noise reduced, upscaled to full HD and colorized with DeOldify.
Source: archive.org
Music: Howard Harper-Barnes & Trevor Kowalski.
Please help to further identify the locations in this timeline:
00:00 Dresden before WW-II.
00:05 River view of Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
00:38 City hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight)
01:11 View from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers)
01:29 Frauenkirche
02:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle
03:18 Sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche
03:23 The Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle)
03:46 The Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle)
04:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station)
04:36 The Semper Opera with Quadriga
05:21 On the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache
05:37 View of the rear of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
05:58 View from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side)
06:11 View of the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building)
06:34 The Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke)
06:55 Japanisches Palais
08:09 The Garden Palais in the city park
09:17 Impressions from the city park Großer Garten
09:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger
10:56 Impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection)
11:40 The Porzellanpavillon with the collection.
These locations have been added thanks to CZcams viewer "The Beautymaker".
*Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel* ! There are more than 250 restored and colorized historic films on my channel from all over the world. Please help to identify the locations in the (draft) timeline. I don't know enough about Dresden to do it myself.
Thank you.
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Thank you for this video. A conservative estimate of the real number of casualties is 250000.
@@benjamin_lindner One zero too many. It were between 22.500 and 25.000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
I will try to name the locations as far as I know (sorry please for my bad english 🙏)
0:05 river view to Albertinum, Sekundogenitur, Estates house, Hausmannsturm from the residence castle, cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
0:38 city hall tower with golden sculpture of Hercules (5,05m hight)
1:11 view from the tower of the Kreuzkirche (in the background the Sophienkirche with her two slim towers)
1:29 Frauenkirche
2:33 Hausmannsturm from the residence castle
3:18 sculpture of Martin Luther at the foot of the Frauenkirche
3:23 the Johanneum (an extension side building of the residence castle)
3:46 the Stallhof (a tournament place of the residence castle)
4:23 Schinkelwache (formerly a police station)
4:36 the Semper Opera with Quadriga
5:21 on the left side can see the Sophienkirche, on the right side is the Schinkelwache
5:37 view to the backside of the cathedral Ss.Trinitatis
5:58 view from the Brühl'sche Terrasse to the Blockhaus (a guard station on the Newtown side)
6:11 view to the Erlweinspeicher (a storage building)
6:34 the Golden Rider (an equestrian sculpture of the elector August der Starke)
6:55 Japanisches Palais
8:09 the Garden Palais in the city park)
9:17 impressions from the city park Großer Garten
9:31 Kronentor from the Zwinger
From minute 10:56: impressions from the Zwinger with various pavilions(a building complex with green areas, exhibitions and collections- for example the porcelain collection)
11:40 the Porzellanpavillon with the collection
Some buildings in the video are also unknown to me (born in 1968)
Have a nice day.
@@thebeautymaker9784 Thank you very much! I'll add them to the description and CC captions
The old world buildings and craftsmanship is unmatched... We make trash now
Not even trash, ,....
We live in a different dimension now, it seems. Ugly, soulless, empty.
Yepp !!!!
See the brutalist architecture in the UK after WW2… horrendous
It aspires to trashdom.
Does anybody else notice how clean everything used to be??? There is NOTHING i repeat NOTHING lying on the streets. No Dirt, no papers, no plastic bags, no other trash. Also I see not a single crazy or homeless person. Everybody has something to do all nicely dressed up. Truly a different time.
As somebody who knows Dresden well, I can assure you that the streets are clean. On the basis of what can be seen in these movies, there is no reason to think that there is any significant difference between then and now.
Kindly improve your critical faculties:
It could be before WW2, or now, but movies created to show how beautiful a city is, will not include people who are " crazy or homeless".
Kindly remove your rose tinted glasses:
Being "nicely dressed up" is a subjective judgement. However, the ability of the citizens of Dresden to clothe themselves reasonably well with the money that they have now, is far superior to what it was when these moving pictures where shot. The same can be said of anywhere in Western Europe.
The dressing is what amazed me the most, even poor guys wear a simple suit.
Yeah, because nowadays the whole liberal society is so decadent and corrupt. Homeless people can shit on the streets and everyone throws away their trash. That would not happen under more authoritarian governemnts.
beautiful places were before war
@@Arminius1901 Bullshit. I grew up in Dresden. The old town looks cleaner now than in the video. Cant be said for Neustadt, but isnt it a good feeling to not fear to be sent to camps if you litter?
Some of these commenters saying, "the Germans had it coming." As if the issue boils down to us-vs-them. The real issue concerns the preservation and nourishing of culture vs its destruction.
It's not that the Germans had it coming, it's that the Nazi leadership did this to them, the leaders of Germany brought this on, and this is entirely the Nazi leadership's fault. They wanted the most total and radical war the world had ever seen. So those who defended the leadership did have it coming
The 1930s were the last years of Europe's greatness.
Then comes decadence and then collapse.
Thanks to commie Che--ws.
I live there. Honest to god they've done a really good job reconstructing a lot of it. Especially the historic center. Can only recommend as a place to visit :)
It's worth a visit!
Greetings from Switzerland :)
@VK S Some people (academics) wanted to leave the Frauenkirche a rubble as a "reminder of the past;" fun fact actually: out of 9 expert architects brought in to consult, 8 of them opposed the plans drawn up by the citizens and organizations doing the rebuilding (mostly preferring something much more modern). The only dissenter was Leon Krier, Europe's most famous/infamous anti-modernist architect.
I guess the lesson is, thank God the grass roots efforts prevailed against the professional architectural consultants.
@@MarkAnderson-ng8vc I think the enemies of the German people are still very active
@@michko7979 I’m sorry, this is the impression Dresden left on you but what you’re saying is entirely untrue! As in every city it totally depends on the quarters of the city as well as which people you’re taking into consideration. Dresden is not the most diverse city, but still you will come across many different people with very different mindsets. The aspects of drug abuse and therefore criminality is also mirrored in statistics like the German Crime Index which portrays perfectly that Dresden is only in position 13 following many other larger German cities such as Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nürnberg oder Berlin…
@@michko7979 lmao you have never been to frankfurt main station or berlin in general. i live in dresden since 8 years. where is the drug problem? we do have problems with alot of right wing people though.not saying the city is perfect in any way. but in terms of drugs its NOTHING compares to frankfurt or berlin wtf
All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain. - Roy Batty Bladerunner
When a place like Dresden is destroyed we all lost something.
Luckily some of those wonderful buildings were restored in the past decades. Come and visit! :)
Nobody cares about Dresden
So ist es. Die Menschheit insgesamt hat durch diesen sinnlosen Krieg soviel verloren.
The Frauenkirche @ 3:06 has been rebuilt exactly like it was, using almost all of the original salvaged blocks of stone and supplanted by new ones in the same style.
As far as I know the cross on the Frauenkirche was mad by an english craftsman who is a son or a grandson (?) of one of the british soldiers who were part of those who bombed Dresden. Very many Germans appreciated this cross very much and you could see the tears in the eyes of so many people when the cross was put on the top of the church. This was a very great moment, a symbol for peace.
They even succeeded, by means of fall angle calculation, to place all of the remaining original stones in their original spots...!
Whoever filmed this, nearly 100 years ago, did a marvelous job!
Als jemand, der als Zugezogener in Dresden lebt, kann ich sagen: vieles ist verloren gegangen, aber vieles ist auch sehr schön und ansprechend wieder errichtet worden. Das alte und das neue Dresden harmonieren halbwegs miteinander - anders als in so manchen anderen Städten.
The German ppl have shocked (& quietly exposed) the world with their unfathomable resilience to rebuild and endure
Though, truly, nothing could ever replace what has been lost
So much was lost in this War.
No kidding.
Ich werde dieses Video einer ehemaligen Bewohnerin dieser Stadt zeigen, sie ist jetzt 98 Jahre alt. Sie hat mir viel über diese schöne Stadt erzählt. Das Haus ihrer Eltern lag am Stadtrand auf einer höheren Ebene. Sie konnte die ganze Stadt in Flammen sehen, und so dramatisch der Anblick auch war, er sah aus wie Gold, alle Fenster waren durch die Flammen vergoldet. Sie erzählte mir, dass ihre Familie jüdische Freunde hatte und dass die Treffen immer seltener wurden, bis sie sich nicht mehr sahen. Wie jüdische Geschäfte zerstört und vandalisiert wurden. Zwei Klassenkameraden starben bei dem Bombenanschlag. Ihr Mann kämpfte an der Front, kehrte verwundet zurück und war lebenslang behindert. (Deutsch ist nicht meiner Muttersprache Sprache, sorry für die Grammatik Fehler.)
Du schreibst besser Deutsch wie einige Deutsche selber. 👌🏻
@@strenggeheim6672 *als 😉
@Agnes so toll, wie du schreibst, möchte ich mal in englisch können 🙈
@@thebeautymaker9784 wie is schon richtig. ☝🏻
@@strenggeheim6672Nö, in dem von dir verwendeten Satzbau ist das nicht richtig 😉.
My mother was visiting Dresden, but delayed by prior railway air raid damage. She visited shortly after the City's destruction. Lovely though the architecture was, it was the piles of bodies and sheer loss of life that my mother never forgot. There were few bomb shelters and the heat from the firestorm was incredible. The smell of the corpses piled in the streets hanging in the air for a very long time indeed.
So sad to hear that your mother witnessed this carnage.
@@Rick88888888 Her experience was bitter sweet I think as she knew she was intending to arrive before the raids. Mum was glad to be alive. She "only" witnessed the horrific aftermath.
Much later on she actually met a USAAF Pathfinder for the raid here in the USA too.
My grandma bombed out from Cologne in 1943 saw Dresden burning from 200km away !
@@Taiyou536
Yes, indeed you could see the fire that far. Someone from Bavaria told me he saw it from the same distance.
@@anna-elisabethbender3123 Gruesome isn't it ?
GERMANY WAS SO BEAUTYFUL!!!
I'm British, i have worked in Dresden (briefly) around 2004, such a nice city. I really like ze Germans, i found them quite polite and courteous generally. I remember going to a restaurant, in a large public square but i don't remember the name of it, outside were one (or two) old cannons, it was a really nice place to eat. Great food and excellent service. Might have been downstairs in the cellar but German beer has robbed my full memory of it 😂. Anyway, stop hating German people and russian people please. The actual enemy is closer to home.
Most germans didn't want war. Like ours they were forced into it. Politicians, curse of the world.
I think you were in the restaurant Pulverturm it is near the Frauenkirche.
Although it will never be and can be the same again, this beauty is lost forever, Dresden IS back and even some of the beauty has returned. The cities leadership made the right decisions to reconstruct most of the old center and they are still doing it. Its nearly unbelievable how much of the once lost, has returned. At least 50% of the vistas, places and buildings you see in this video are there again. Visit Dresden.
Imagine how much engineuity, time and labor went into building this city. Amazing.
Do a comparison with WARSAW
Quien filmó esa película, tenía un extraordinario grado de apreciación estética. No hay palabras para expresar tanta belleza de la ciudad, su arquitectura, monumentos, espacios, detalles, ambiente. Gracias, gracias.
Seit 48 Jahren lebe ich in dieser Stadt und ja, ich liebe meine Heimat. Sie hat Stolz, Charme und ist doch bescheiden. Dresden ist gemütlich, herzlich und eine sehr lebenswerte Stadt. Ich liebe die Spaziergänge an den idyllischen Elbauen, die Verschiedenartigkeit und Dresdens Kultur. Ich bin hier tief mit meinem Herzen verankert. Meine Großeltern haben mir schon als Kind von Dresden erzählt. Sie haben mir mit Worten Bilder von Dresden gemalt, die meine Heimat vor dem Krieg beschrieb. Dresden muss man einfach lieben. Für mich ist es nach wie vor die schönste Stadt der Welt.
You should take pride in your homeland. It is the homeland of philosophers & artists. It has a rich and beautiful heritage that cannot be denied by the world no matter how much it tries to.
The horror and insanity of war. There are no winners.
A small group get very rich, whilst millions die.
Usa wins the hegemony 100 years
Yes people seem to love it or rather visit it on other people's land. It was the Germans who were the "bad guys" 80 years ago and now it is the people of the middle east Russia and possibly in the future China. As a German uboat commander said in his memoir "every generation must rediscover the horrors of war but only after indulging in it". People and nations never seem to learn.
You are right. But If Hitler and Mussolini weren't born, never, maybe the german cities, including Dresden, would have remained beautiful and spectacular.
I visited Dresden I 2016. I was impressed how well it was rebuilt after the war. It’s a tragedy that people are still suffering in the 21st century due to wars. Most people just want to live in peace.
Interesting! I live in Dresden and the city looks exactly like that (the city center at least). I didn't think the reconstructions had been that faithful to the original!
"There are no winners in a war, only losers." - Arthur Neville Chamberlain.
He knew what malignant powers were behind the push for war.
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*_The picture of beautiful Dresden is so sharp that I felt I wanted to step into my computer and be there in the past, feeling the warm sunshine on my face, and getting down on one knee to place my hand in the flowing Elbe as I did when a student in 1972. The sun shone over Germany then._*
Thank you very very much. As a child I often played in the ruins of Dresden. Now I have tears in my eyes ...
Finally - a great comment! I am full ethnic German, and both sides of my family suffered horrifically at the hands of the terror fire-bombers, and other war crimes. A German count wrote a great book - "The Vampire of the Continent" it is a free PDF, and will explain how that one tiny nation DESTROYED continental Europe over hundreds of years! Frederick the Great of Prussia also wrote about that horrible nation!
My father's family left Dresden in the night of the final bombardment.
Them heard the bombers while in the train heading west.
Just luck. Nobody knew that an attack will happen. Neither that hard.
Thanks for posting your beautiful vid. 🖖🏻
Regardless of what happened here politically and militarily, that city was stunningly beautiful and architecturally amazing.
Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial sites as targets. The destruction of industrial sites always was some sort of bonus for us. Our real targets always were the inner cities.
- Arthur Harris
That was the hardline approach very much required at the time...the germans needed to be pounded into submission and an eventual surrender.
Based
@@doctorsocrates4413Problem is that does not work, you should know that better than anyone else.
_"German Village was the nickname for a range of mock houses constructed in 1943 by the U.S. Army in the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, roughly 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, in order to conduct experiments used for the bombing of Nazi Germany._
_Dugway was a high-security testing facility for chemical and biological weapons. The purpose of the replicas of German homes, which were repeatedly rebuilt after being intentionally burned down, was to perfect tactics in the fire bombing of German residential areas during World War II._
_The U.S. Army employed German émigré architects such as Erich Mendelsohn to create copies as accurate as possible of the dwellings of densely populated poorer quarters of Berlin. The main goal was to find a tactic to achieve a fire storm in the city center."_
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Village_(Dugway_Proving_Ground)
@@23MythicHillar85 Yes, i did not work then and it will not work today. It needs to be common understanding that this was a war crime, nothing else. And i don't want to belittle what the Achse did to their enemies!
The American author Kurt Vonnegut went through the Dresden bombing as a POW which made him one of the most radical reviewer of the foreign politics of the US.
As well George Orwell visited Cologne in 1945 and he was shocked about the senseless destruction an devastations. From the shock the view gave him he never recovered.
The utter futility of war literally set in stone. Also back at a time when buildings were beautiful and made to lift the soul and not brutalist and soul grindingly drudge.
Supposedly one of the most BEAUTIFUL cities of the world.......
Wonderful film! My father was a British POW having his rotten teeth removed in Dresden when the destruction happened. He was hiding with Germans in the luftschutzbunker when the bombs fell. He survived but witnessed the aftermath. He always had nightmares after this.
Absolutely beautiful like a dream. Another time another place.
I read all the comments. The Nazis are all dead and so are the people that bombed Dresden. There is no point in arguing about anymore. What does it accomplish except bitterness and defensiveness?. All I can say is its a damn shame it happened and we should all enjoy that this beautiful city has come back as much as it has. We are all the richer for it.
Newest research of several psychologists and psychiatrists indicated that big occurrences will irreversibly influence the minds, characters and culture of nations and their citizens which ist proved, regardless in what country You look.
great city, beautiful architecture.
War is stupid and senseless - these destroyed cities are witness to this - Dresden, but then also many other cities in Europe - too long a list to write here. Thanks for restoring this film - it is most extraordinary.
Dazu, es gibt keine Gewinner, die "Gewinner" sind oft die Verlierer. Es wird schlecht über sie geschrieben (Kommentare in CZcams) obwohl sie "nur" reagiert haben und zudem im Vergleich und in der Regel als Soldaten noch Mensch geblieben sind, ihre Menschlichkeit nicht verleugnet haben.
My jaws on the floor everytime I see a pre 1945 Dresden, just a marvelous amazing city.
What about London and Coventry before the Germans blasted it to hell!!
@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, I suppose they could say Coventry was an Industrial target, like our reason for bombing Dresden, but bombing London was a war crime to inflict murder and terror on Civilians, and had Germany decided not to choose war it would have not been subject to the allied bombing campaign, it's a tragedy and I wish it never happened, but if that means the U.K. had to suffer more due to the continuation of the German war machine the answer is NO, I've got a feeling that that Russia has far more to answer for than the allies, but their answer would more than likely be that they bought it on themselves!?!
Yes, and the British wanted to murder most Germans - they targeted civilians and started both wars with France, America, and terrorist Serbia - Russia was also involved, even Italy stabbed us in the back! Our best allies and friends are - the people of Finland, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, Albania, Bulgaria, and Estonia - those are the nations that I love!
@@lottivonhesse9382 That is completely untrue and absolute nonsense. Get your facts straight.
Watch a documentary called Europa the last battle
After being too the city and seeing this footage, it hits so much harder just how beautiful it was and still is.
Incredible old buildings !
I am the son of one of the (at the time barely out of his teens) airmen who took part in the horrific destruction of Dresden. A gentle man he never spoke about it. I visited the city alone stood on the Augustus Bridge and was moved to tears of sorrow. I have also however read the Diaries of Viktor Klemperer a Dresden resident who has left one of the most searing accounts of what it was like to be jewish in Germany at the time. He survived the firebombing which in an astonishing turn of fate occurred the day before he was due to report for "resettlement" into one of the death camps. I am deeply sorry for the destruction of this beautiful city and tens of thousands of lives; a symbol of mankinds darkest side and most exalted achievements - but history is never simple.
Yes, war brings destruction and leaves millions dead or incapacitated the leaders who force the destruction do not think of the generation to follow. Building and rebuilding are poles apart.
My Grandfather was KIA whilst serving in the Polish Cavalry defending Poland when Hitler invaded from the West Stalin attacked shortly after from the East the Poles brave as they were never stood a chance. England and France declared war on Germany then did virtually nothing in fact the Guarantees offered the Poles prior to the invasion were like bad cheques giving them false hope they emboldened the Poles not to negotiate with the Germans over confiscated Territory following WW1. Yet the jingoistic Dogs of War are fanning the flames between Ukraine- Russian conflict they seem oblivious to the way stacked dominoes fall. The new ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT captures the insanity…brilliantly…what a waste, never again brothers never again.
@@mrpolsco6872 The treatment of the Polish People in WW2 especially in the political betrayal by the "democracy's" is a shameful episode of British history; and the proxy war in Ukraine increasingly seems like a disaster of the 1914-15 kind. Never in our names again.
@@deanedge5988 100% Brother🙏
@ dean edge Thanks for your words, I sense they are genuine. It is true: history is never simple but it's simple for the winner who write it! I wonder why on earth no one talks about the genocide of Palestinians systematically done by the usual friends who are twice as evil as the nazi, because they suffered during nazi period but today they have not learnt anything from that suffering, my dear, isn't it?
Nearly every single building in this video (excluding the "Neustädter Markt") is reconstructed now and you could produce a very similar film in the modern dresden of today. The heart of the city is no longer destroyed and is reborn. A miracle, thanks to the engagement of many many people at Dresden.
Reborn? Zugekleistert u dreckig, dreckig ist FS und der Postplatz ist 😠
@@AP-to2ss genau lesen vor dem Kommentieren. Jedes Haus in diesem Video (!) . Der Postplatz vor 1945 ist in diesen Aufnahmen nicht (!) zu sehen.
Ein emotionaler Spaziergang durch eine der schönsten Städte Deutschlands.
Man hat das Gefühl, sich vor soviel Anmut und historischer Eleganz, verneigen zu müssen. Ich liebe diese Stadt, sie ist voller positiver Energie. Jedes Mal,wenn ich in Dresden zu Gast bin, spüre ich, wie sehr mich diese Stadt vereinnahmt und mich in ihren Bann zieht. Es ist so, als würde ich genau in dieser Zeit leben, wie es diese wunderschönen Aufnahmen uns gezeigt haben.
Man muss sich einfach darauf einlassen, dann spricht die Stadt zu dir.
Schön gesagt, geht mir genauso ♥
Omg I was there before the Church was rebuilt and know from relatives how beautiful it was. It was always compared to Paris . What a shame what humans can do unfathomable
What a criminal shame. Such a beautiful place. Not like the featureless crap we have today. Man is so bad.
This is probably the best video I’ve seen of that glorious Dresden beauty. I’m keeping it to watch again. Thanks so much for finding and sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A lot was destroyed and with it went the old romantic Germany but much has been rebuilt. The Frauen Kirche shines again, the Elbe has been cleaned, and the opera house the Semperopera has been restored to its last brick, thanks to German ingenuity and dedication.
It’s is a very beautiful city. The Frauen Kirche is so beautiful. It’s was Christmas time when I was then as well.
i was there a couple of years ago Dresden has one the most beautiful Christmas markets in the world, and the city still looks just as beautiful
Ich stehe morgen mit meiner 80-jährigen Schwiegermutter, die das alles als 3-jährige erleben mußte, in der Menschenkette. I'll be a part of the human chain tomorrow with my 80 yeara old mother-in-law who had to experience all that in the age of 3... My heart is bleeding.
I LOVE our Volk!
They chose Dresden not only for the lack of military targets but the spirit breaking effect it would have on the Germans seeing one of their most ancient and treasured cities reduced to powder. Just like how they intentionally went out of their way to destroy Arno Brekers statues glorifying a martial physique and a healthy body.
dresden was a major railway hub for germany at the time to transport a lot of war material intended to be used on the eastern front, but also to relocate people the nazis wanted in death camps. around 50,000 workers worked at factories in the city that produced material for the german army, as well as ammo depots and barracks.
to say dresden did not have any military targets is simply not true. you can decide for yourself if that justifies the bombings
@@queenofastora This is just made up bullshit. They ignored military structures that were outside the city. They targeted citizens and the city itself because it was peak white civilization. There were no prisoners of war there. There were refugees. Mostly women and children. So sad to see how absolutely void of actual knowledge people are.
@@queenofastora The point is that the city and its people are victims of the circumstances that caused WW2 as much as anyone, even the internees. The National Socialists did not appear out of nowhere, and they were funded by the elites of Europe, to include the Vatican and the Italian Illuminati families. Hitler himself was really a Rothschild. To say that the German people en masse deserved this fate is to condone the sinister crimes of the Allied elites who themselves were collaborating with the evil regime that ruled Germany. Look up Operation Paperclip to get a sense of how all of these parties were in bed together. Ergo, ww2 was a contrived event designed to reduce the world's population and further the political aims of a handful of world elites. It is still ongoing.
@@jcord0013 Nice, someone with actual knowledge. I hope, you dont fall for fake nowadays partys like the AfD. Democracy is an illusion, now and in the past. Our only freedome would be an attack against our politicians and there groups (Bilderberger, Freimaurer, Group of Thirty etc.). Even those people, who clew themselves at streets arent fighting for the environment: they get money to do it. Even small movements are often fake, just like Pegida. It makes me so sad, at least i have good German bread.
The same they sus with Königsberg.
The town was full of refugees from the German areas in the east when it was bombed. My mother was with her three-week-old infant (my eldest brother) on a train that stopped outside Dresden and she saw the red sky on the horizon from the firestorms in the burning city. The train, also full of refugees, was diverted to the Czech Republic, where my mother was first sent to a camp and six months later she was allowed to continue her journey to Bavaria.
Germans learned a huge lesson. At the start of the war, Germans ALL supported Hitler and were proud of their victories. Now Germans are subservient to USA and Jews. USA just bombed their natural gas pipeline, Germans quietly took the hit.
@@joeschmoe21 No, not all Germans supported Hitler or his war. It is also good to learn that generalisations like this are never correct!
@@patriciabrenner9216
Good heavens. I take back my question. It was irrelevant to ask, whether your parents or grandparents were monsters. The monster is you!
I love that when they rebuilt the city they.stil provided the old charm, no skyscrapers. Makes me wanna go there
Do go. It is very walkable and inviting. When I was there about ten years ago, they were still working on fixing the tunnels where people hid but then died from lack of oxygen. Don't miss the Zwinger Palace museum and the summer palace of Augustus the Strong, which is across the Blue Bridge in Pillnitz.
Meine Heimatstadt 😊
Meiner Meinung nach ist Dresden einer der schönsten Städte 🫡
war
Auf alle Fälle in Deutschland! Die sind aber dabei, sie zu zerstören, indem sie haufenweise F*linge aus dem Südland hier ansiedeln - wegen "Fachkräftemangel"
@@neinundnein6358 einfach mal nachts beim Hauptbahnhof Dresden vorbeigehen... mehr sage ich nicht...
Meine Heimatland, too! Ich Liebe Dich - aus Amerika - I am an ausslander!
How much of Dresden has been restored or reconstructed from the past. This film is vital for the reconstruction of Dresden.
@@Nussbaum981 This is oversimplified. In background of the new buildings were and will be restored the buildings of the baroque and the Gründerzeit.
Just thank you for this beautiful film. Dresden reminds me much on St. Petersburg.
RIP for all the souls who died and continue to die in war.All the beautiful architecture destroyed.
What a beautiful city this once was. heart breaking what a war can do. Do we ever learn? 😪
Afraid not. Part of the human condition to want to wage war and destroy beauty and inspiration.
@@andyj639 ((human))
Most of us do learn, except for those in postlitions of power and the military.
There are no winners after war just destruction and suffering on both sides
That is so very true.
There are winners actually : the rulers of today.
@@guidedbywind147 But they are also losers.
@@anacletwilliams8315 This never was a war between peoples. Americans never wanted to send their youngs to die in the wars of Europe in the first place. This was a war orchestrated through intense and restless propaganda, while the real struggle lied and still lies between the peoples of the earth and a groundless, international financial clan, who are still ruling today. And we the peoples are still losing.
@@guidedbywind147 Yes, we are all losers. That's what I said.
Absolutely stunning!!!!! My heart is crying for what humanity has lost.... 😭💙
Rick you're doing an amazing work!!
Yes--Now cry for the cities of the rest of Europe, incl Britain of course.
@@MrDaiseymay I find it just as sad - the whole war was just the mass destruction of european culture
@@rohmilchgeniesser drama queen
@@gertdehond4721 War the likes of which the world had never seen and feeling sad about it make someone a drama queen? That's pretty confusing.
@@gertdehond4721 ? I'm not even a woman lol
When I think of WW2 and the bombing, I often think how much more beautiful our cities would be if it never happened. London was full of bombsites decades after the war, Coventry had its cathedral and much of the medieval centre destroyed, Warsaw, Rotterdam and Berlin all blown apart, the list goes on. This film on Dresden was just too sad to see.
Leave it to the elitists; they perpetrate all these wars.
I agree.
Brits did quite of bit of their fair share in their bombing of Rotterdam
We must always remember that it could happen to us still. We must always be vigilant and question everything that the politicians and media tell us.
I have been to Dresden during East German times many times and always remember the ruins of the Frauenkirche. They were there as a reminder of the atrocities of war. I am happy that is has been fully rebuilt and once again shines in its glory.
Wunderbar und traurig zu gleich was waren die Städte in Deutschland schön
Arthur Harris: Deutschlands bedeutendster Stadtbaumeister seit 1942
Florence on the Elbe was indeed a fitting name for such a metropolis.
My best friend, I liked the video very much, thanks you for sharing, stay safe, stay blessed
Thanks for visiting
I donated for the reconstruction of the „Frauenkirche“. Today it looks better than before WW2.
Yea because the sandstone did not oxidize yet
@@suchendnachwahrheit9143 Oxidation is one cause. The other is black carbon and nitrous oxides from burning fossil fuels. So the Energiewende will also help to preserve Dresden‘s beauty.
I’ve been at Dresden twice and i find so beautiful, I just cant imagine how it was before the tríed to vaporize her
was and still is a beautifull city. Im living here for 6 monts now and the city is very alive...
Hammer, das ist wirkliche Städtebau-Kunst und nicht das heutige Beton-Glaseinerlei. Danke fürs upload und der passenden Hintergrundmusik
That ai digital remastering process alone is mind blowing,since this footage was originally recorded in low-res b&w,you cannot go back with a time machine to tell those camera mans to shoot in hi-def color,BUT with the incredible deoldifyer software now you can reverse something what was once impossible to reverse👍
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this!💖
Dresden is my hometown and today I wake up here with this wonderful pictures...🥹
You're welcome 😊
Please, if your English is good enough, read a book by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut called "Slaughterhouse Five," Disguised as fiction, Vonnegut tells his real-life story of being a prisoner of war in Dresden before the Allies bombed it to rubble. "Slaughterhouse Five," Vonnegut reports, was an underground place, a former slaughterhouse in Dresden, where he and other American soldiers, again prisoners of war, barely survived the lethal bombing which killed most Dresden inhabitants.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Very interesting, thank you.
All these beautiful buildings from the old world. Not built by us but destroyed by us.
And that's how We humans treats each other...
Destroyed by ZOG.
Positively
@@KlarenceMS well, if you read the book of revelation, chapter 20 you will learn that it is not really the humans destroying the buildings, but it is Satan himself trying to destroy the evidence that the millennial kingdom already happened and he has been a short time.
And he does get those who sell out for riches and wealth, to find ways to destroy the buildings by creating wars and fires, and what not, but he is the one truly behind it all trying to hide the evidence
All those questionable comments ("The Allies were bad...", "The Germans deserved it..." etc.) aside, this is quite an educational presentation of this city's memorable history. Thank you for this video!
If you were being bombed constantly and then one day a raid happens you find another shelter but when you go home to your street you homes gone family are dead as well as you friends and neighbours on the same street. Try and be like that then
From the moment I first saw the city in 2016 I fell in love with it and have returned every year (including 2020!) It is amazing how much is restored but never forget the horror of Ash Wednesday 1945 when the Allies put aside their moral high ground & even Churchill thought they had gone too far.
You don‘t leave morality just because a bombed city is exceptionally beautiful. The firestorm in Hamburg was equally horrific. But you cannot escape the fact that the primary and outrageous moral failure was committed in Germany.
Churchill war criminal
Хочеться щиро подякувати💞 людям,які зберегли ці безцінні кадри,а Вам,шановний пане Рік,за те,що відновили і показали в кольорах!👍💞
Dresden keeps rebuilding itself to this day and has gained a good amount of its beauty back. There is a very powerful society in the city who pushes for reconstructing historical buildings and already succeeded in many cases.
Civilized society compare to today's...... Beautiful building's. Thank you for sharing your videos 🙏
This civilized society murdered millions of people soon after.
What a beautiful city. Much more clean and impressive than any modern city today. Such a shame that the allies destroyed a great city like Dresden.
Modern Architecture sucks, it's a shame we haven't learned to bring back the ways of old.
Hitler should have given us a list of untouchables---like London Coventry , Manchester Birmingham Bristol Liverpool Glasgow Cardiff Exeter Plymouth Norwich Bath Canterbury Warsaw Antwerp Moscow Stalingrad St Pertersberg and Guernica. OH SORRY. I meant Dresden.
We destroyed cities... they tried to destroy complete cultures and civilizations. If not for that, their city would have not been torcherd. Hitler's war was hell.
@@dodgermartin4895 Wallstreet did finance Hitler's uprising. Sweep in front of your own front door.
@@robinjunghans5358 Yeah a guy named Sutton wrote a book about that... just a conspiracy theory.
Man nannte Dresden damals nicht umsonst auch Elb-Florenz! Einst war sie eine der schönsten deutschen Städte.
It's sad how wars erase so much history - not just WW2 but all of them.
Sad you don't know who started WW2.
Bolshevism was the fuel and Churchill was the fire that started ww2 and all of his friends with the small hats.
Unfortunately the human race never learns.
@@deansharpe7499 germans started it.
My French city of Le Havre, France biggest harbour, was also rased down by the RAF in 1944 when it was occupied. It was really beautiful, quite similar to Honfleur but on a larger scale. There is nothing left from it. Now its only concrete.
Das sind wundervolle Aufnahmen meiner Heimatstadt. Viel haben mir alte Menschen vom alten Dresden berichtet. Und einiges ist auch wieder so aufgebaut.
Sad we dont build houses like that anymore. They have style and can be remembered for the next 1000 years while todays concrete jungle is just waiting to be replaced.
@Dennis Wilson Houses can be modernized on the inside. They don't need to be completely demolished and replaced by faceless concrete blocks with flat roofs and ugly windows.
But that often happens because it's cheaper.
Unique footage. My great-grandfather was a Red army soldier and fought in Eastern Germany at the end of the of war. He was amazed by the luxurious lifestyle these people enjoyed. Their clean, well-ordered towns with paved streets, electricity and well-constructed houses in contrast with what he saw growing in 30s Russia. And after all the misery he been through - losing his relatives, losing the comrades in battle, facing the hard life at the front. He now asked himself: if the Germans had so much, why did they start a war and attack us, the people that had so little?
pa da u pravu si zasto
The reason you guys had so little was because you were communists. Also, the soviets were in no way innocent they were invading people left and right and they took over half of Europe by the end of the war. Stalin is responsible for more deaths than Hitler and is objectively worse than him. And all fascist governments worst enemy is communism and all communist governments worst enemy is fascism so war was bound to happen. Hitler did not like Europe being took over by Communists.
they didn't
@@Leumas_Ekal Sometimes I wish people like you would not have slept all the time during history lessons.
I am german. There is no easy answer to this question. I could write a book, trying to explain it but it never could justify it. At the end I ask myself, why there have not been a lot more Staufendberg's... What makes me think is, that even today, when everybody can see the horrors of that war or other wars, it still happens all the time. Look at russia vs. ukraine. I NEVER believed that it would happen again.
Bella ciudad con una arquitectura singular reflejo de la cultura de un pueblo trabajador que ama la belleza arquitectonica.
Kills me to see this. So beautiful. What a shame.
I talked to an old woman who knew Dresden at that time she told me how beautiful Dresden was .
Agreed, JimJim
The Dresden bombing by the allies was the only scientifically proven case of *igneous storm* -- an unique flame of fire which has destroyed a city. Neither the bombing of Tokyo nor the nuclear bombings against the Japanese cities by the allies were causes of that type of fire. This is the case when an entire city burns as a single flame of fire. The underground temperatures in the bunkers and subways burned the families and civilians alive (added: like it occurs inside an oven without direct fire). Undoubtedly it was a war crime against Germany.
Brasil
I agree The People of Dresden had few chances of survival than the Japanese. it was awfull. One Surviving british airmen pretty much said any children or infants or elderly people would have been Liquefied on the Spot . He said to his dieing day he would never forget the smell of burning human fleash and the screams. He said you could hear them and smell them even up in the Air!
Check the bombing of Hamburg. The same physical phenomenon: firestorm. Massive death toll there, as well. A deliberate targetting of the parts of a city with the highest population density, designed to cause the maximum killing of civilians. This crime was given the euphemistic name „morale bombing“.
Notice in the streetscapes how clean the city is , don't see any garbage.
La Florence du Nord, sortie d'un tableau de Canaletto ! Magnifique !
Echt bijzonder. De schoonheid voordat het ophield. Erg goed gedaan, deze combinatie van beeld en muziek.
So sad to know that all these blocks are gone even though they are rebuilt in modern time. Never forget what national socialsim and communism can to a civilised society in no time. Thanks for a great memory in motion.
But the war made some people very, very rich. The same people that every war makes very, very rich. Ask Gutle Schnapper.
Eine herrliche deutsche Stadt. Leider wie so viele Städte in Europa ein Opfer eines sinnlosen Krieges.
Well reading the comments I am horrified. Apparently many people still approve of destroying a complete city and its inhabitants. Probably until they experience such an event in their own lives.
Did you?
@@sanbaoqigong4135 You don't have to of had direct experience of something to empathise with it. You can imagine how it must feel.
@@weirdplanet1082 No imagination is strong enough to have the real-life experience of war and combat.
@@thepianocornertpc That’s true. I’m not actually denying that. Still you can imagine to some degree & still empathise with people or situations. You don’t have to actually experience every horrible experience to know it’s horrible. We have the ability know when something is bad or wrong without having to directly go through it. Yes it’s not the same & never will be but it does not mean we have no comprehension at all.
I worked m10 years as a war photographer.Now ,if you please...
I was in Dresden this past August (2023). I stayed in a small hotel less than a 90 second long walk to the Frauenkirche. It is now as beautiful and awesome as it ever was. But when you stand outside and walk around it, you can tell which blocks of stone are the originals and which are replacements for those that were too shattered. The same goes for many buildings at locations all over the city.
But I disagree with the title of this video. I did not weep. At 90 years old I was alive during the war. I remember what it was about and who started it and and what they wanted 2 do. Sow the wind and weep the whirlwind.
My fear now, as an American in 2023, is that we are having a national breakdown and repeating the same mistake now that Germany made almost 100 years ago. Only days ago, a former President spoke unashamedly of "tainted blood" with the same goal of grabbing the office of our government and repeating what Hitler did.
This time there will be no shattered stones to rebuild St Patrick's Cathedral or Rockefeller Center across it on Fifth Avenue. There will only be glass lined holes in the ground where the entire island of Manhattan stands.
Are you American?
@@TobiGamingMore "My fear now, as an American in 2023, is that we . . . "
@@JoeHarkinsHimself what?
@@TobiGamingMore read it again, perhaps aloud, slowly, and see if that have already answered your question before you asked it
"My fear now, as an AMERICAN in 2023, is that we . . . ""
@@JoeHarkinsHimself ok
Mir blutet das Herz, wenn ich mir vergegenwärtige, was aus diesem ehemals so reichen und kulturellen Land und seiner Bevölkerung geworden ist.
Bin Bulgare, aber ich fühle den gleichen Schmerz, fast alle Völker Europas sind in einen sehr beschämenden Zustand geraten. Was aus uns geworden ist, ist zwar noch schrecklicher.
Ja, es ist sehr, sehr traurig. Und die meisten sind sich des Verfalls, des Niedergangs nicht einmal richtig bewusst.
@@susannesperre9573
Ja. Leider Wahrheit.
Hab mich mal ne Weile auch mit den wechselseitigen Auswirkungen zwischen Kultur und Architektur beschäftigt. Das war härter als die Bücherverbrennungen. Die 2000 Flächenbombardierungen urbanen Gebietes war militärisch ziemlich unnötig.
Wir waren in der Steinzeit angekommen. Der Rest war gesteuerte Sozialisierung. Schon die zweite Generation weiss und fühlt nicht mehr, was einem Stefan Zweig, im Leben so wichtig war.
I see WW2 as a war where there were no winners in Europe. Germany lost so much of its beautiful architecture and history and all nations suffered in different ways. I wonder if WW1 and 2 had never been what Europe would be like today.
Every war is a bankers war. The "elites" have destroyed Europe deliberately over the past 100 years. Its sickening.
unbelievable how beautiful old german cities were. It's such a shame. People don't build these things anymore. At least here in Vienna we have our old town.
Dresden looks exactly same, most of the buildings were rebuild with the original stones
Weil die verfügbare Flak nach Wien gebracht wurde (auch die aus Dresden). Wien sollte um jeden Preis gerettet werden. Leider geriet auch Wien zum Kriegsende in die alliierte Bomberreichweite.
A remarkable city. Despite its near obliteration, Dresden today is alive and well. While it will never regain its pre-war beauty, the level of civic pride amongst its people is astonishing. I try to visit every year, in order to take stock of the numerous re-construction projects occurring throughout the historic centre.
Glad to hear they are recreating such architectural design
Rick,
Many thanks for this brilliantly restored film of pre-war Dresden. You are quite correct in your sentiments-the destruction of such architectural beauty, but more importantly of life, does not even bear thinking about! 😢
It really was beautiful. My grandfather took part in the raid and many like it, flying Wellingtons and than Lancasters. He was with RAF Bomber Command from it's inception til the end of the war. 55,500 members of his fellow crews were not - a 45% death rate. I think most would argue if Germany hadn't invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Austria, Hungary, etc or bombed the UK relentlessly,, beautiful Dresden could have survived intact.
I visited in the summer, much of the historical quarter is intact. Looking at this video there isn't much being shown that wasn't on show in August 2022.
Video shows ugly Brownstone buildings in urgent need of roof replacement
They should thank Bomber Harris for saving the Germans money to tear down this ugly buildings.
Your knowledge of history is lamentable. Dresden was a war crime, nothing more, nothing less. The innocent women and children who died were not responsible for the calamity that befell them. Bombing Dresden served NO military purpose.
@@World_Pearce They are historical buildings that have been rebuilt, mostly after re-unification as the soviets didn't do much restoration.
@@derbeisser8777 People have long accused the Treaty of Versailles as being a contributor the WWII. Have you looked at the terms of the treaties the German Empire ratified against France after the Franco/Prussian war or against the Russian Empire during WWI? Or any other treaty they authored upon winning any confrontation? The conditions in the Versailles Treaty were on par or even more favourable. And they didn't comply to the majority of them regardless. Germany's biggest grevience was that they lost.