German Refugees (1945)

Germany.
Various shots of the German refugees on the move - they are walking along road with their belongings, travelling on crowded trains, hanging off the wagons of moving train. Huge crowds of refugees waiting for train.
Various shots of German prisoners of war walking in a very large group along road. Various shots of German prisoners boarding train. More shots of moving train with people hanging out. More shots of the prisoners behind barbed wire. More shots of the refugees on the move along country road. More shots of the prisoners.
Note in the old record reading - Transfer of German population from Poland.
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[@dorothypowers5132]

My father was in USA Air Force in the 70s and we lived in Wiesbaden. I loved the country, and these are some of the best memories of my life.

[@blueshirtman8875]

Did you visit a death camp?

[@drcutburth29]

Good you show these

[@mikeamico6763]

I wonder how many fell off from hanging on the outside

[@barbarasunday3514]

My father was six years old. when he , his mother, and his sister wer among those refugees. My Opa was captured with his Red Cross unit (he drove an ambulance to avoid being a Nazi) Opa spent a year in a Siberian mine camp

[@CLARKE176]

These people were all fleeing the advancing Red army. It must have been a huge relief for them to be in western Allied captivity rather than end up in the Gulags.

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

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[@lindaatkinson3962]

It's a pity the newsreel has no audio,so as to understand better the images...It seems to me this footage belongs to the after-the-war period, probably '45/'46....They were no longer fleeing from the East.

[@charlesjames1442]

Late spring/early summer in northern Germany (British troops). The British are in shirtsleeves but the demobilized Wehrmacht troops are in heavy coats because they have no permanent shelter.

[@lindaatkinson3962]

@@charlesjames1442 - I guess you're right...You are an acute observer.

[@dleechristy]

Many war criminals fleeing the justice they well deserved.

[@blueshirtman8875]

They feared what they had inflicted on Poland .

[@albertmarnell9976]

These are civilians and low level soldiers. The higher ups did not go through this. What about what Russia inflicted on Poland? They invaded just a few weeks after the German army in Sept. of 1939. What the Poles went through is horrible. If you did not serve in the army, you would be put at the front or go to jail. If you were lucky, you might be a medic. These are young people, thin and many are crippled and missing limbs. They were the survivors.

[@piercehawke8021]

@@albertmarnell9976 Fast forward to today and; the Poles flat state they'd much prefer to deal with Germans vs Russians.
As one Polish man put it recently; we only had 5-6 years of the Nazis but, over 40 years of the Soviets.

[@albertmarnell9976]

@@piercehawke8021 So true! This is not talked about enough.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@albertmarnell9976 You are mistaken. The sons and husbands of those so-called civilians were Nazi soldiers who also brutalized the native civilian there. And Russians are brutal still cannot top Germans when it comes to cruelties. Germans were so evil that they even tortured and gassed small children. Millions of small children and babies were gassed by Germans.

[@ducktapepilot]

Hey it's Billy Corgan's grandfather @2:51

[@alexandre210613]

2:35 she doesn’t appreciate the Brit cameraman at all.

[@willhovell9019]

Millions of displaced German speakers heading west, another tragedy of Hitler's evil war. Not much sympathy for these people from the rest of Europe, after what the German armed forces and the vile SS did in so many countries, particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union , the Baltic States ,Yugoslavia and Greece . As they say in Germany there is no family that doesn't have a refugee grandparents or great grandparents. The same can be said if of every family of modern Greece with ancestors from the exchange of populations after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the Turkish Republic.
WW2 was horror that killed and murdered over 50 million people in Europe alone.
Germany in the modern age remembers , and tragically Britain forgets , with the illegal activities of Johnson, Patel, Truss and Braveman . Ashamed of successive governments of the UK since 2010 and their immoral , illegal and indefensible hostility to refugees especially Ukrainians and Afghans.

[@PUAlum]

@@herrmannwerrmann3854 what BS

[@duncanchizizi6543]

@@herrmannwerrmann3854 read proper history and not Nazi propaganda zombie. Also learn from what truely happened and avoid the same in future. Otherwise a repetition of Hitler like actions will render Germany no existed next time.