Beautiful but damaged Vienna (Wien) just after WW-II in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized]

This is a very high quality film that shows Austria's capital Vienna (Wien) just after World War II. It consists of raw footage, probably made for a post-war American movie.
Similar to Berlin, Wien was also divided into four zones that were each controlled by the allied forces of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France. This occupation lasted from 1945 to 1955 after which Austria regained self-control.
A great Hollywood movie that clearly depicts the situation in Wien during the post-war occupation is "The Third Man", written by Graham Green and with the highly memorable music by Anton Karas played on his zither. The title song was named "The Harry Lime theme" after the name of the main character in the movie. We would have loved to have added it to this film, were it not copyrighted. You can listen to it here: • The Third Man - Anton ... and here: • Anton Karas - Der Drit...
The film shows interesting parts of the city like the head quarters of the allied forces, Vienna's many old trams and a damaged part of the city and with a cathedral
Please help to identify the locations in the timeline!
The original B&W footage has been slightly speed-corrected, motion-stabilized, restored, enhanced and colorized with modern A.I. software.
Music: Various
Source: archive.org
Timeline: Please help to complete this.
00:00 Vienna just after WWII
00:54 "Haus der Industrie" Schwarzenbergplatz 4
03:28 "Staatsoper". East side of the opera, filmed from Kärtner Straße
04:10 "Maria am Gestade" church
05:07 Same church, different angle. address: Am Gestade 7

Пікірлер: 187

  • @Rick88888888
    @Rick888888882 жыл бұрын

    *Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel* ! A film about Wien between 1905 and 1915 can be viewed here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6Zqx6-TpK60j5M.html

  • @austriantruther4648

    @austriantruther4648

    2 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @nagihaneker2121

    @nagihaneker2121

    2 жыл бұрын

    İch wohne in wien 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

  • @benkda01
    @benkda012 жыл бұрын

    2:35 Wien, Spitalgasse 23. 2:58 Linz, view from Obere Donaulände to Nibelungenbrücke. 3:21 somewhere in Hungary. 3:26 Buenos Aires, Argentina, behind Teatro Colón (621 Libertad).

  • @rizzochuenringe669

    @rizzochuenringe669

    2 жыл бұрын

    Teatro Colón seems to be correct!😎

  • @rizzochuenringe669

    @rizzochuenringe669

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spitalsgasse 23 is correct!

  • @juanmartin7675

    @juanmartin7675

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, its Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. And you can see some argentinian products advertisements in trams like Quilmes beer.

  • @marcinp3789

    @marcinp3789

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, you are right. I wouldn´t guess it was Buenos Aires. Look what I wrote in my comment above.

  • @tongobong1

    @tongobong1

    2 жыл бұрын

    So this video is mostly fake. LOL!

  • @christianskrianz6127
    @christianskrianz61272 жыл бұрын

    Austria, I call you home! Then, now, forever. ❤🇦🇹❤ Amazing work Rick, especially those footages from the early 1900s bring me to tears because it's almost awe-inspiring that someone from the distant future, we, watch those people just live their daily lifes.

  • @ijsselstadt
    @ijsselstadt2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for showing this. One remark, although I understand the colorisation is done automaticaly I'd like to say that the trams were (and still are) bright red in Vienna

  • @heinzer69

    @heinzer69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes they were and are famously red and white trams. I would say judging by the clothes of the people and the motor vehicles this was filmed about the early 50’s. Also it’s colourisation- the correct English spelling.

  • @stevenr2463

    @stevenr2463

    2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! Was going to write that myself.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@heinzer69 You seem to forget that there are 6 times more viewers who use "colorization" compared to you Brits! Why do you believe you should dominate your way of spelling? This film was made for the entire world, so the majority counts

  • @marthae9338

    @marthae9338

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember them as red & white, but so close after the war.. maybe not a lot of paint avail??

  • @ijsselstadt

    @ijsselstadt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marthae9338 the colour in this film is computer generated, the film was black and white. The program has no knowledge whatsoever of the original colour and is making an interpretation based on the gray tones and what the programmers once told the program to do

  • @chriscarswell450
    @chriscarswell4502 жыл бұрын

    Awesome work Rick. The music fits perfectly.

  • @MG-ge5xq
    @MG-ge5xq2 жыл бұрын

    2:59 not Vienna. Landscape in the back does not fit to Vienna. 3:22 probably somewhere in Hungary. 3:28 not Vienna. Vienna never had tramcars like those.

  • @rizzochuenringe669

    @rizzochuenringe669

    2 жыл бұрын

    2:58 is definitely Linz. I used to live there for years.

  • @shaunwest3612
    @shaunwest36122 жыл бұрын

    Amazing work rick, amazing footage of a beautiful city 👌😃👍

  • @austriantruther4648
    @austriantruther46482 жыл бұрын

    So sad but beautiful! Thank you! Greetings from Austria.🇦🇹

  • @kayvan671

    @kayvan671

    2 жыл бұрын

    Du denkst das ist traurig? Euer Adolf hat bei uns viel schlimmeres angerichtet.

  • @andi4022

    @andi4022

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kayvan671 Ich denke nicht, dass Austrian Truther gemeint hat, dass es Wien am schlimmsten erwischt hat und es nirgendwo in der Welt schlimmer war/ist/jemals sein wird. 🙄 Kann man nicht einfach traurig sein, dass es überhaupt so weit gekommen ist? Ich persönlich finde gar nicht so sehr die Trümmer traurig. Vielmehr macht es mich traurig und sentimental, wenn ich mir denke, dass der Mann, der so lässig aus der Straßenbahn hüpft jetzt wahrscheinlich schon tot ist. Ich denke darüber nach, für wen die Frau, die in die Kirche geht, vielleicht beten wollte. Das könnte durchaus meine Urgroßmutter gewesen sein, die in einem Schutzbunker während Bomben fielen ein Kind verloren hat und ganz in der Nähe dieser Kirche gewohnt hat. Stehen mir diese Gefühle zu? Oder hast du dafür auch einen whataboutism auf Lager? Ich verabscheue "unseren Adolf" und alles was passiert ist zutiefst. Und es liegt mir fern den Alliierten etwas vorzuwerfen, grundsätzlich bin ich für den Einsatz auch dankbar. Traurig stimmt es mich trotzdem.

  • @brummagemjoe6111
    @brummagemjoe61112 жыл бұрын

    Looks like this was filmed in the British zone judging by the uniforms of the soldiers guarding the entrance to the building. This is The Third Man era. Wonderful movie. I expected to see Harry Lime dash across a street.

  • @sagichnicht6748
    @sagichnicht67482 жыл бұрын

    Now that is some rare stuff. Not too many different scence but pretty long shots too. Impressive, even if not every single scene might really be from Vienna.

  • @gregonline6506

    @gregonline6506

    2 жыл бұрын

    The first scene shows a tram I would recognise. Going to the Schwarzenbergstraße. The third and last sequence shows the stairs leading up to the church Maria am Gestade in the first District of Vienna.

  • @christinetaschner3400

    @christinetaschner3400

    Күн бұрын

    @@gregonline6506 👍👍

  • @gerardbannon5403
    @gerardbannon54032 жыл бұрын

    It is a tragedy that the Vienna State Opera House was 80% destroyed in the bombing - the 80% included the whole of the interior of the auditorium - On the rebuild the auditorium was re-created in a sort of post war austerity design - one can only imagine how sumptuous the Original must have been - the 20% that was not destroyed consists of the foyer, marble staicases, the emperorers relaxation room and at least one of the refreshment rooms - the contrast between the beauty of the 1860's magnificent foyer and the rebuilt auditorium is quite startling

  • @rodneycooperLMSCoach
    @rodneycooperLMSCoach2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful piece of film restoration. Kept thinking of The Third Man theme. Interesting how soon people get back to normal after the futility of war

  • @eddastrohmayer251

    @eddastrohmayer251

    15 күн бұрын

    Third Man is a great film! But unfortunately in reality there was much more destruction in Vienna and also many people, above all older women, dying of hunger...my mother lived as a young girl that time in Vienna and she had to tell very bad stories.

  • @mariopenulli1395
    @mariopenulli13952 жыл бұрын

    4:12 Look at that window cleaner top right 👌

  • @demi3115
    @demi31152 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! Nice music too :)

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like it!

  • @carolynnewyork6919
    @carolynnewyork69192 жыл бұрын

    How simply beautiful, historical an timeless. Close your eyes an let the music Take u their stunning thank you.

  • @mariaelenabetancur7344
    @mariaelenabetancur73442 жыл бұрын

    Maravilloso video felicitaciones muchas gracias por compartir

  • @The_Butler_Did_It
    @The_Butler_Did_It2 жыл бұрын

    4:13 Woman standing on a balustrade two stories up to clean her windows. I guess there's nothing would frighten her after surviving a bombing raid.

  • @rizzochuenringe669

    @rizzochuenringe669

    2 жыл бұрын

    We are still cleaning our old windows that way. The house I'm living in is 140 years old and I wouldn't like to switch it.😍

  • @demporaya4852
    @demporaya48522 жыл бұрын

    The vibe and situation was excactly same as depicted in The Third Man movie which also situated in post-WWII Vienna

  • @eddastrohmayer251

    @eddastrohmayer251

    15 күн бұрын

    @@demporaya4852 Yes, but unfortunately in reality there was much more destruction...

  • @Sun.Shine-
    @Sun.Shine- Жыл бұрын

    My dream city to visit. I had been to Austria before but not Vienna ❤️

  • @frei4505
    @frei45052 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @hamlet7959
    @hamlet79592 жыл бұрын

    Keep expecting to see Harry Lime appear in a doorway! In fact there are a number of shots of the staircase where Joseph Cotton is pursued and accused by little "Oskar" of being the murderer of Harry's concierge. Little "Oskar" is the only member of the cast still living by the way. I can highly recommend the Third Man Museum to anyone visiting Vienna, not just for memorabilia relating to the film but also to learn more about the city in the immediate post-war period. Excellent museum and a very warm welcome guaranteed!

  • @marthae9338

    @marthae9338

    Жыл бұрын

    Next time...I lived there many years ago and would dearly love to go back.

  • @sylvier9548
    @sylvier95482 жыл бұрын

    une belle et agréable vidéo

  • @matthewstross2351
    @matthewstross2351Ай бұрын

    I drive by this everyday!

  • @MarinoTarot
    @MarinoTarot2 жыл бұрын

    Danke, das war eine schöne Zeitreise.

  • @helmstan6538
    @helmstan6538 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: The trams were painted light brown using surplus camouflage paint from the Afrikakorps. Only later did they repaint them in the typical red-white color scheme.

  • @oca8405

    @oca8405

    6 ай бұрын

    I overlooked the fact that the colour was changed. From a Japanese man who lives in Vienna!

  • @tarotarani3709

    @tarotarani3709

    Ай бұрын

    Were there Austrian soldiers in the AfrikaKorps? Or only german

  • @helmstan6538

    @helmstan6538

    Ай бұрын

    @@tarotarani3709 Well, at the time Austria was a part of Germany, so Austrian men served in all theaters where the Wehrmacht fought. A large number of Austrians served on the Eastern Front, which is why Austria was hit particularly hard by the defeat at Stalingrad. From 39 to 45, roughly 250.000 Austrians were killed as Wehrmacht soldiers.

  • @tarotarani3709

    @tarotarani3709

    Ай бұрын

    @@helmstan6538 I've done some research on the 9th Panzer Division and the 44th and 45th Infantry Divisions and they were only engaged in the European Frontlines.

  • @helmstan6538

    @helmstan6538

    Ай бұрын

    @@tarotarani3709 The 44th was probably the "most Austrian" division in the Wehrmacht, that´s true. However, many Austrians were also serving in other formations as well as in the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine (which is kind of weird, actually). But the majority of Austrians served on the Eastern Front, that´s absolutely correct!

  • @MrReaperofDead
    @MrReaperofDead2 жыл бұрын

    It's almost like you can see the presence of hope in the skies after the ending of that terrible war...

  • @MarinoTarot

    @MarinoTarot

    2 жыл бұрын

    beautifully said

  • @NNWael
    @NNWael2 жыл бұрын

    Makes me thinking of members of my family already gone. Thank you!

  • @DavidAPiano
    @DavidAPiano2 жыл бұрын

    At 4:15 there is a very brave woman cleaning a window standing on the outside ledge of the building off to the right, i bet she didn't take any shit from the Nazi's.

  • @DavidAPiano

    @DavidAPiano

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@semsemeini7905 Yes Vienna seen a devastating pogrom against the Jews on Kristallnacht, and hundreds of thousands of Austrian men joined the Nazi's and fought with the Wehrmacht and joined the murderous SS, but there was also a resistance it was small, but many fought on the Allied side, tens of thousands of Austrians also were arrested for political reasons and died in concentration camps, 2700 were executed without trial. Although i was making a bad joke about the woman not taking any shit from the Nazi's. The women cleaning the window may well have had relatives arrested by the Nazi's, or she may have supported the Nazi's, it's impossible to know.

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv74543 ай бұрын

    Name of the music in the beginning, please.

  • @rodrigoj.frazao8288
    @rodrigoj.frazao82882 жыл бұрын

    Muito bonito!

  • @AngieWien15
    @AngieWien152 жыл бұрын

    Nicely done. Only the scenes with the ships that come after the scenes in front of the main entrance to the "Neue Kliniken" of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, as well as the following scenes (supposedly in front of the State Opera, up to the scenes in front of the Maria am Gestade church) were not recorded in Vienna. Vienna had no bridge like the one in the background of the ships. All bridges were destroyed, with the exception of the Reichsbrücke, which was a suspension bridge with distinctive chains. The alleged scenes at the State Opera clearly show on the tram cars that it is not Vienna. And the color of the trams in Vienna has always been red and never such a yellow / orange. But maybe that's just not feasible when coloring?

  • @jeff66651
    @jeff666512 жыл бұрын

    I really love this city. I have been a whole year there and I can't forget Vienna

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    "can" or "can't"?

  • @jeff66651

    @jeff66651

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 "Can't" 😅

  • @rizzochuenringe669
    @rizzochuenringe6692 жыл бұрын

    4:10 Passauerplatz, 1st. District

  • @theressamurphy2996
    @theressamurphy299611 ай бұрын

    Such a beautiful city... Unforgetable... We were there in April

  • @tedarias9040
    @tedarias904016 күн бұрын

    TMC and The Third Man we just watched it Amazing!!!

  • @gypsysnickerdoodle4354
    @gypsysnickerdoodle43548 ай бұрын

    5:40 Now I have to walk to Am Gestade 7 this afternoon. I’ve never noticed that church steeple before

  • @Maks19944
    @Maks199442 жыл бұрын

    0:54 "Haus der Industrie" Schwarzenbergplatz 4. 3:28 "Staatsoper". East side of the opera, filmed from Kärtner Straße. Approximately 500 meters away from the first location 4:10 "Maria am Gestade" church 5:07 same church, different angle. address: Am Gestade 7

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @Maks19944

    @Maks19944

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 You're welcome :) Btw, do you have more footage from Vienna after WW2?

  • @gonindunit

    @gonindunit

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vielen herzlichen dank. Ich kenne Wien sehr gut aber nicht alles. Danke schoen!

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Maks19944 Not at the moment, sorry!

  • @Dunkcanio

    @Dunkcanio

    2 жыл бұрын

    I always wonder where some of the featured places are, and what they look like now, so I'm away to look on StreetView. Thank you!

  • @starcrib
    @starcrib2 жыл бұрын

    I'm Surprised it wasn't leveled. 🎬🌪💥

  • @tonisiret5557
    @tonisiret55572 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Is it a concrete jungle now, or do original building's still remain?

  • @mentugo

    @mentugo

    2 жыл бұрын

    The inner part of Vienna (1. District) still has a high density of historical and "old" buildings!

  • @tonisiret5557

    @tonisiret5557

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mentugo Good to hear. The will of governments throughout history has cost everyday people much, glad some history remains.. 👍👌

  • @gonindunit

    @gonindunit

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only older buildings that were demolished were due to bomb damage. Nowadays, if they want to convert an old building, they just renovate the funky inside and leave the beautiful, original facade.

  • @seandelap6268
    @seandelap62682 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful footage and it still looks beautiful despite the ravages of the 2nd world war.

  • @christian_traxler

    @christian_traxler

    2 жыл бұрын

    A very elegant lady!

  • @janisburgisser9247
    @janisburgisser92472 жыл бұрын

    Who else wants to turn back time and live 1 day in this beautiful world?

  • @starsandnightvision

    @starsandnightvision

    Жыл бұрын

    Any time except 40-45.

  • @theotherohlourdespadua1131

    @theotherohlourdespadua1131

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@starsandnightvisionNot '38?

  • @michaelzapletal3345
    @michaelzapletal33452 жыл бұрын

    2:48 Entrance to General Hospital Vienna

  • @rizzochuenringe669
    @rizzochuenringe6692 жыл бұрын

    3:05 IMHO is Linz, not Vienna. Bridge is called "Nibelungenbrücke", until 1955 the border between US-Sector (right side= South) and Soviet Sector (left side= North)

  • @harryzet5797

    @harryzet5797

    2 жыл бұрын

    i lived in linz. you are correct

  • @mrx-gv2ku
    @mrx-gv2ku2 жыл бұрын

    00:00 is "Palais Pollack-Parnau".. it was destroyed and does not exist today. Instead there is a modern building

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much

  • @hannecatton2179
    @hannecatton21792 жыл бұрын

    And now look at the Legoland blocks that are being thrown up there , like all other western cities. A tragedy.

  • @kuhfell
    @kuhfell2 жыл бұрын

    The sequence from 3:15 to 4:02 is definitely not Vienna. (Vienna in Austria - Europe) Also the Tramway on the bridge in the scene before cannot be Vienna (there were only two bridges with tramtracks: the Floridsdorfer Bridge, which had four arches and was partially blown up, and the Reichsbrücke, which was a suspension bridge), therefore also the ships are presumably not in Vienna, maybe on the Danube, maybe in Hungary...

  • @juangarduno4764
    @juangarduno47642 жыл бұрын

    Pobre chica , cuantas veces la hicieron subir esas escaleras

  • @Zugfaehrtdurch
    @Zugfaehrtdurch2 жыл бұрын

    4:11 Argrhhh, person standing on the window sill on the outside and cleaning the window. My dad and I were always so angry with my mother when she did this, I once threatened here to make the window dirty again if I should ever see her doing that again. Thank god from around 16 on I was tall enough to do that without needing to climb somewhere 🙂

  • @MichaelJirochVisualArtist
    @MichaelJirochVisualArtist2 жыл бұрын

    The sound track would be so much better if he used the Harry Lime Theme, from The Third Man.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    You didn't read the full description! Please press the 'SHOW MORE' button.

  • @a3igner
    @a3igner2 жыл бұрын

    Which church at 5:41? What’s the name?

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maria am Gestade church

  • @fabianpersic
    @fabianpersic2 жыл бұрын

    Servus! Dear friend: Excuse-me but at 3.28 is the TEATRO COLÓN in Buenos Aires! NOT the Wiener Staatsoper!!!

  • @rizzochuenringe669
    @rizzochuenringe6692 жыл бұрын

    5:09 Catholic Church Maria am Gestade. 1st. District Salvatorgasse 12

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much

  • @Codemned
    @Codemned7 күн бұрын

    These tramways were called Americano. They came from the US since the Viennese ones were destroyed.

  • @robertgambling502
    @robertgambling5022 жыл бұрын

    At 2:40 a man in a dark overcoat got off the tram at a fairly high rate of speed. Maybe he was a stunt man for a movie.

  • @captain_insan0
    @captain_insan02 жыл бұрын

    Amazing where did all the giants go?

  • @samjones3106
    @samjones31064 күн бұрын

    Maria am Gestade church still there. So is the woman washing windows 4:15.

  • @ijsselstadt
    @ijsselstadt2 жыл бұрын

    The scenes from 3:26 until 4:01 are not from Vienna. The seem to be coming out of Spain or Portugal or perhaps even Mexico or South America

  • @uncinarynin
    @uncinarynin2 жыл бұрын

    Impressive pictures but I guess the AI should look at more trams of Vienna and realize they are all red and not some vague shade of beige-orange.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    The A.I. has no idea which country is involved. Maybe in the future it will learn to automatically recognize specific country features. It's impossible to manually change the colors of the trams (although I am attempting to make some software for this purpose).

  • @uncinarynin

    @uncinarynin

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 thanks ... that's what I thought as well. I guess it would have to "learn" from photos/films of museum trams and color them right as it recognizes them?

  • @michaelzapletal3345
    @michaelzapletal33452 жыл бұрын

    4:17 Church "Mary at the shore"

  • @SergioRamirez-co3qm
    @SergioRamirez-co3qm2 жыл бұрын

    En comparación con Berlín no le fue nada mal Con mucho respeto Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

  • @christianschneider880

    @christianschneider880

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yo are right. Vienna Had punctual damages, but wasnt destroyed completely.

  • @justinkauffman731
    @justinkauffman73128 күн бұрын

    The end result of Franz Joseph sending Archduke Ferdinand to Bosnia. Over 30 difficult years.

  • @tommyk4289
    @tommyk42895 ай бұрын

    02:50 Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna , The old Buildings of old General Hospital (AHK), I think it must be the wards of Gynecology.

  • @throughmyeyes9940
    @throughmyeyes99402 жыл бұрын

    once a great place

  • @maxgrau9083
    @maxgrau90832 жыл бұрын

    wundervoll

  • @robtyman4281
    @robtyman42812 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful piece of footage. But it looks more like the 1950's than the 1940's - just judging by the cars.....which look very 50's, rather than 1930's cars which everyone was driving in the 1940's for obvious reasons.

  • @rizzochuenringe669
    @rizzochuenringe6692 жыл бұрын

    1:42 1st District Schwarzenbergplatz 4 (today Haus der Industrie)

  • @michaelzapletal3345
    @michaelzapletal33452 жыл бұрын

    3:27 Concert Hall

  • @vangestelwijnen
    @vangestelwijnen2 жыл бұрын

    From 3:27 onwards we seem to go back into time for a moment (1920's?).

  • @benkda01

    @benkda01

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's not even Austria.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    What is it then?

  • @samanli-tw3id

    @samanli-tw3id

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 Those look like Lisbon streetcars which never ran in Vienna.

  • @BogdanMaslovskiy
    @BogdanMaslovskiy Жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather a russian living in moscow was 16 in 1941 and had committed a crime (I believe it was theft or petty fraud something along those lines) and was given a choice of being sent to a work camp or to the war. He chose the war and after brief training was tasked to parachute down into german territory with a team of paratroopers and free captured russian soldiers . Having completed the task he was awarded the Soviet Medal for Bravery and was exempt of his sentence and criminal record. He chose to stay in the war whether it was from peer pressure or honour it is unclear but he chose to stay and became an anti aircraft marksman, he almost died multiple times with one of the times being when his anti aircraft firing location was bombarded and bomb that landed near to him killed some of his team, knocked him unconscious and covered him in rubble, he was later miraculously found by dogs sniffing around the rubble assumingly after the bombs stopped coming in. He finished the war in Vienna at 20 years of age with a dozen medals and awards and along with the other soviet victors enjoyed looting Vienna and took a lot of jewlery, watches and fur goods. On the train back from vienna he contracted malaria and passed out, waking up to all of his loot and possessions being stolen down to his passport. But most importantly he got back to russia alive and went on to live till the late 90s. I am sixteen now at the time of writing this and am taken away by the man he was, moral or immoral I struggle to imagine a 16 year old petty criminal or any 16 year old for that matter of this generation that could compare in courage, patriotism or honour. If only he lived a decade or two longer I wouldve been able to say I knew him. He was a great man.

  • @0815Catgus

    @0815Catgus

    6 күн бұрын

    Average Russian, looting and pillaging

  • @philsosshep4834
    @philsosshep48342 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful film but I wonder why he kept filming the same lady (maybe his wife girlfriend ) entering the same place several times?

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is raw footage for a movie. I don't know which movie.

  • @MJ-iq4sz
    @MJ-iq4sz2 жыл бұрын

    4:19 ... oh mein Gott .... die Frau beim Fensterputzen ...

  • @watcher8582

    @watcher8582

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, toll gesehen!

  • @user-dw2kh1it8g
    @user-dw2kh1it8g11 ай бұрын

    This is not the Vienna Staatsoper, possible the Opera in Bratislava

  • @nicowag45
    @nicowag45 Жыл бұрын

    its not just after the war, as most of the cars are from the mid 50's!

  • @billbergmann7840
    @billbergmann78402 жыл бұрын

    better than today...and that'scoming from someone who was born and raised in vienna

  • @mtlicq

    @mtlicq

    2 жыл бұрын

    Really? Why?

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville222 жыл бұрын

    Some sequences were re-shot and repeated here, ....with the woman in the long coat & cap.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    As stated in the description: this was raw footage for a movie

  • @Baskerville22

    @Baskerville22

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 My excuse is that i'm always so keen to watch your offerings, I can't be bothered to read the "description"

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Baskerville22 You really should read these descriptions, especially if you want to better understand what you are watching.

  • @michaelzapletal3345
    @michaelzapletal33452 жыл бұрын

    2:40 The man surely was an American (?) spy! 😊

  • @wladdobryakow6594
    @wladdobryakow65942 жыл бұрын

    Здание готичесское. Заметьте двери для людей более 2-3 метрового роста сделаны. И так по всему миру. Во дворцах дверные ручки на уровне головы. Моло где это сохронено. Но в германии мест хватает. Эти люди жили всего 300 лет тому назад. История это умалчивает.

  • @lyudmilaglyuza4160

    @lyudmilaglyuza4160

    2 жыл бұрын

    И что за вазы на крыше зданий? Какое у них предназначение? В моем городе сохранились такие вазы, это точно не украшения

  • @vjazz
    @vjazz2 жыл бұрын

    So beautiful.... ich liebe wien (●'◡'●)

  • @benkda01
    @benkda012 жыл бұрын

    Some of the scenes were not filmed in Austria!

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    Such comments are only helpful if you specify *which* scenes

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    He doesn't bother to reply.

  • @benkda01

    @benkda01

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Rick88888888 I tried to reply twice, both times my comment vanished after a few minutes! But I wrote them as a new comment, look in the first level of comments!

  • @benkda01

    @benkda01

    2 жыл бұрын

    Short version (I am currently on the move on my small phone): Initially, I didn't know myself and I thought you knew the locations and you just forgot to write them. But then I did some research for quite some time and I at least found the one in Buenos Aires :)

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@benkda01 The only reason for comments to disappear is when KZread filters find them inappropriate of you used (rude) words that are in my active blocked words filter list.

  • @philfluther2713
    @philfluther27132 жыл бұрын

    02:38 possible 'other half'.

  • @ray12210
    @ray122102 жыл бұрын

    This is the only building in Wien that got damaged? They were lucky. I was in Vienna and they were still pissed off because Vienna was treated like an "open city" such as Paris and Rome.

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think there was much more damage, but don't know the details. Watch the film "The Third Man" by Graham Greene! Any damage would have been inflicted by the allied forces because Austria joined Germany without a fight (the "Anschluss").

  • @johntyjp
    @johntyjp2 жыл бұрын

    Got away with it quite well really, seeing as Hitler was Austrian !!!

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv74543 ай бұрын

    Sad. :/

  • @andrasvincze6894
    @andrasvincze68942 жыл бұрын

    1:21: Die Werbung "Tungsram" auf der Wiener Bim ist bemerkenswert: es ist eine ungarische Elektrik Firma, noch immer existiert. Damals war die Firma auf Augenhöhe mit Siemens, Philips oder General Electric. 3:21 ist in Budapest, wahrscheinlich in der Vaci Strasse. "Cipesz" ist Schumacher, "Uri Szabo" ist Herrenmode.

  • @melaniehuber44
    @melaniehuber442 жыл бұрын

    2:57 Spitalgasse , 1090 Wien

  • @nagihaneker2121
    @nagihaneker21212 жыл бұрын

    Wow, diese Leute leben jetzt nicht. die zeit vergeht so schnell die alten sind besser

  • @tramways_1435
    @tramways_14352 жыл бұрын

    Trams in Vienna we're Red, clear red, not yellow.... For the rest, top!

  • @Rick88888888

    @Rick88888888

    2 жыл бұрын

    The A.I. colorizer software didn't know that...

  • @thomasnovacek4686

    @thomasnovacek4686

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some scenes do not come from Vienna, but at 2:58 am you can see the Niebelungen Bridge from Linz / Danube, and in Linz the Chremefarben trams were traveling at that time. At that time, the Linz city harbor did not yet exist, and the main handling took place on the Donaulände near the Niebelungen Bridge.

  • @tramways_1435

    @tramways_1435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasnovacek4686 The scènes from 0:00 - 2:57 are in Vienna, the boats could be in Linz, you probably know better than I, but the trams thereafter (4:00) are not even in Austria. Looking at the type of trams this (and the Trolley-Bar) this looks more like Barcelona, or even South America (Buenos Aires?)

  • @thomasnovacek4686

    @thomasnovacek4686

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tramways_1435 That's correct, in other comments Buenos Aires was named as the actual location for the film. But these also seem to me as if they were cut into it ...

  • @tramways_1435

    @tramways_1435

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasnovacek4686 The city thereafter, with the church-building I don't know. There are no Linz trams to be seen. The trams from 0:00-2:57 have the Vienna city logo on the side, so should be red...

  • @alegriadelahuerta3268
    @alegriadelahuerta32682 жыл бұрын

    La señora de la gabardina que aparece una y otra vez debió ser muy religiosa. Creo que fue grabada como cinco veces entrando en la iglesia.

  • @larisamel1409
    @larisamel14092 жыл бұрын

    А где же Штирлиц

  • @gaborgredely1848

    @gaborgredely1848

    2 жыл бұрын

    Berlinben!

  • @larisamel1409

    @larisamel1409

    2 жыл бұрын

    А Кэт уже пошла стучать в коммендатуру постояла подумала и решилась настучать на Сталина

  • @sansdomicileconnu
    @sansdomicileconnu2 жыл бұрын

    le 3eme homme

  • @larisamel1409
    @larisamel14092 жыл бұрын

    Как мог в таком городе где одни дома как произведения искусства и Штраус иКальман творили шедевры мог родиться такой дьявол как Гитлер

  • @gaborgredely1848

    @gaborgredely1848

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hitler nem itt született. Braunauba. Hogy Bécs ennyit kapott? Arról az osztrákok is tehetnek. 1938ban igen csak lengették a jobb kezüket. Hirtelen németté váltak. 45ben gyorsan újra osztrák lett mindenki. Erről nagy kuss van.

  • @haymobachmaier
    @haymobachmaier2 жыл бұрын

    The Tram was yellow, not red?

  • @benpayne4663
    @benpayne46632 жыл бұрын

    sow the wind. reap the whirlwind.

  • @livewallberg
    @livewallberg Жыл бұрын

    Schaut sauberer aus als heute.