Flight over Nuremberg 1945 - Aerial Footage (SFP 186)
0:18 St Lorenz church in Nuremberg
0:35 Flying in from the West towards the center of Nuremberg. Three groups of towers visible near the horizon: left: Nuremberg castle - center: the two towers of St Sebald church - right: the two towers of St Lorenz church.
0:45 River Pegnitz
1:07 The rail yard is most probably the 'Rangierbahnhof' in Nuremberg. (The water tower in the clip is similar to the still existing one at the marshalling yard in Nuremberg)
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General information about this footage:
After Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, General Arnold ordered Lt. Col. Owen Crump to document the extent of the damage caused by aerial bombardment. This project was code-named "Special Film Project 186." Crump and his crew, using color film, surveyed bomb damage inflicted on the major European cities. In addition, Crump recorded the debriefings of Nazi civilian and military personnel in Allied custody such as Herman Goering, as well as the capture of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps by American soldiers.
Crump and his crew shot hundreds of hours of film - most of which has never been seen. The Army Air Force declined to fund the production and editing of the footage at an estimated cost of $1 million. The documentary The Story of Special Film Project 186 points out that the effort was "the biggest color film project of World War II-and the biggest unseen film of all time."
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Human stupidity and its wars - destroying invaluable treasures since forever!
00:35 Flying in from the West towards the center of Nürnberg. Three groups of towers visible near the horizon: left: Nürnberg castle - center: the two towers of St Sebald church - right: the two towers of St Lorenz church. 00:45 River Pegnitz.
@robertlong7033
7 жыл бұрын
You got it friend. Those church towers leaves no doubt that it's Nuremberg. It too took a brutal beating. I heard that there was an estimated 30,000 people buried under all that rubble. You certainly know that region.
@peternemeth1777
7 жыл бұрын
Robert Long No it wasn't 30000 dead poeple. Alltogether Nürnberg had been bombarded around 30 times. And alltogether around 6000 poeple died there. The most severe bombing was on 2nd January 1945. There around 1800 poeple were killed. The death rate wasn't so high because most habitants of nuremberg left the city and lived in smaller villages in the near of nuremberg mostly in the houses of relatives.
The city at the beginning of the clip is Nürnberg (Nuremberg). The Gothic church with the two towers is the St Lorenz church ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lorenz,_Nuremberg )
The rail yard is most probably the 'Rangierbahnhof' in Nuremberg. (The water tower in the clip is similar to the still existing one at the marshalling yard in Nuremberg)
@s.z.6325
4 жыл бұрын
yes, the water tower and the little bridge are still standing today. Not long ago I was a train driver stationed in Nürnberg RBF , it is really shocking to see this destruction.
Wenn ich das sehe ueberkommt mich der Hass! Diese schoene Stadt - so zerstoert !!!
@klamin_original
5 жыл бұрын
Dann hoffentlich auch auf die richtigen Personen, die ursächlich überhaupt dafür verantwortlich waren, das sowas passiert ist
So sad to see the destruction.
@user-ul3jm8tu5r
3 жыл бұрын
this is a payment for the destruction that the German army brought to other people's territories (look at what remains of Stalingrad). I also wonder why the whole of Germany was not demolished for the atrocities of the Nazis
@linusfotograf
3 жыл бұрын
Глеб Денисов Because the whole of Germany wasn’t nazis.
@sonjagatto9981
Жыл бұрын
@@linusfotograf Von Herzen vielen Dank!
@stephenhowes8937
27 күн бұрын
I am not interested in Stalingrad, sorry. It was Hamburg that became the cradle of British Rock very shortly after the war with The Beatles and countless more. Stalingrad and all eastern Europe never had anything to do with getting hip after the war.
Auch das sind historische Aufnahmen, alles gut erkennbar..Nürnberg hat viel geleistet...danke dafür.. aber später auch Eigentore geschossen..
@Mumie12345
2 жыл бұрын
Den Altstadtfreunden haben wir auch viel zu verdanken. :)
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