Such a terrible pathetic tragedy, both wars, so many loved ones lost to placate psychopathic ambitions and lunatic ideologies

My father fought in the North Africa campaign and all through Italy. He said the British troops looked after ordinary German soldiers when they were captured with food and medical attention for their wounded but any SS they caught it was a different story, as they saw the results of SS handiwork and atrocities throughout Italy.

My grandfather served in the navy in WWII. At some point his ship had to transport German prisoners and they were more that happy to be aboard and never started any trouble.

No one really wins wars. It brings out the absolute worst in humanity. Even the 'good guys'.

As a young boy, I remember passing several times by a German POW camp in West Helena, Ark. There were thousands of them, and many were working on road projects throughout the area. I sure they were glad to be out of the war. My Dad was a lead carpenter at an Army Hospital in Memphis, Tn and he had several POWs in his work party. He spoke highly of their work and to, my knowledge, never had a problem with them.

The Americans took the captured Germans to the States and put em to work. The Soviet Russians took em to Siberia and other horrible places. Very few returned alive.

One such captured German pulled a small hand gun from his boot and killed my uncle in 1945. Needless to say that was the last thing he did.

@chappie3642

5 жыл бұрын

He was an idiot, meaning the German soldier obviously

@rodgerarmstrong2464

4 жыл бұрын

Very sorry to read about your loose, clearly the German got the taste of Ebola...

My uncle told me, when they took German prisoners the first thing they made them do was take off their shirts and raise their arms. If they had an SS tattoo in the armpit, they were shot through the head, no questions asked. Regular army were allowed to dress, and got humane treatment.

At some point in the war, i have often wondered if the German soldier was relived to be captured. I know they wanted to be captured by americans and not the Russians.

You can see that the German soldiers were worn out. Our boys looked well fed and calm.

My next door neibur was a german soldier in ww2 ,he tells me before they surrounded many soldiers used to dig holes and hid their valuables and their lugers ,probably thinking one day they could come back for it ,he tells me there's lot's of gold and expensive jewelry in the ground.

@monikabataityte4283

4 жыл бұрын

jewish gold

My Great-grandfather was German and joined the French army,he survived. But died from old age,may he rest in peace.

This war should have never happened

What I have learned from this clip: The americans had no firefighters!

@paweljanowski869

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha you are number one

@kaidencongreso9531

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahah

Great footage! Never seen this one before.

it was better they were captured by the Americans their fate would be a whole different story had it been Russians

@tanakoyumi6822

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah they had 2 choices, killed on the spot or tortuous prison lmao

@machinenkanone9358

5 жыл бұрын

But Americans gave the Soviet Army almost half of the Germans that surrendered to them. Large groups were marshaled and marked "1" and "2". 2 s went to the east.

@darthlazy7076

5 жыл бұрын

Basically they wouldn't have a story if they were captured by Russians

@xavierthomas4157

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. The Soviet Union was pissed when Hitler betrayed them and started invading Russia so when they started invading German cities, you had a better likelihood of living if you had just abandon your home and fled before the Soviets got to you.

@WarReport.

5 жыл бұрын

They would be rebuilding Russia for the next ten years.

A bunch of 15-17 year olds and old men.

My dad for a bit was stationed in Texas with 8AF, before going overseas..said German prisoners, regular (Whermacht)...glad war was over for them, once Rommel Afrika Corps prisoners, came in with some hidden SS- officers..the POW camps demeanor changed, even some suicides,which where never looked into.

we were over all good to them and i've heard that many german soldiers looked for u.s. troops to surrender to. we gave them food, water, clothes, medical help etc. many germans i heard felt liberated by us.

@Bt26x

Жыл бұрын

Very true! At all cost they did not want to fall into Russian hands. They knew the Americans would take care of them. At least the average solider, not so sure about the SS…

These are the very lucky few to be able to surrender to the west

Most German soldiers were just regular soldiers ,once they had surrendered there was no more tension between them and allied soldiers thats why they seem to be at ease with each other

@josephdockemeyer4807

5 жыл бұрын

You're right. I had relatives who were German soldiers.

@cavscout888

4 жыл бұрын

Except that even 'normal' German soldiers also killed civilians and POW's.

@monikabataityte4283

4 жыл бұрын

@GRACE SLICK great to hear

@davehoward22

4 жыл бұрын

@GRACE SLICK which right wing websites is that nugget of info from? Do you know the scale of the problems the western allies had to deal with after a war the germans started and should have ended 3 years previously....about 50.000 to 100.000 germans died in allied hands,drop in the ocean considering they had to feed 5 million soldiers fleeing the russians.. Add on around 13 million civilians doing the same About 8 million slave labourers and displaced people(again,a problem the germans caused) Add on all the other devastation around europe,and the problems in the far east,the germans are hardly in a position to complain about human rights abuses

@Yo-qt2nu

4 жыл бұрын

A 105 old lady from eastern Ukraine told me that German soldiers were mostly Gentlemans.

It surprises me that the Germans & US soldiers seem so comfortable with each other when just a few weeks earlier they would have been slugging it out for survival.

@klaus3794

7 жыл бұрын

That is because we felt liberated!

@DrEvil-yx4vr

7 жыл бұрын

David Nelson for that guys in the video the war is over. They are not longer enemys. Why not work togehter?

@linusfotograf

7 жыл бұрын

They were probably happy the war had ended.

@binaway

7 жыл бұрын

My father told me the best POW camp guard they had was a veteran of the Battle of Crete, who limped due to a wound he suffered during that action.

@SuperNeowiz

7 жыл бұрын

They are just men following orders, in both sides.

0:52, that German boy looks confused and lost, poor lad.

@josephdockemeyer4807

5 жыл бұрын

My uncle, Johann Hartmann, was a very young Wehrmacht soldier on the front. He said that, towards the end of the the war, there were new and very young soldiers made available. Kids around 15 years of age. When the serious fighting started, some of these poor kids shit themselves. Cried, too. I find that incredibly sad. My grandfather was a Colonel in the Wehrmacht. Grandfather's brother was Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, the young and famous WWII Flying Ace: the "Blonde Knight"... He's all over the internet and was just a kid when he started. These were good men.

@Babatunde-hp9xj

5 жыл бұрын

If they had surrendered to the russian who know what would happen to him I felt bad for that lad i was glad he was sent to fight the americans cause if he was sent to fight the russian he would have not survived poor lad.

@Linda-vx4fn

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephdockemeyer4807 is it true that if Germans did not join the Nazi Party, they were shot dead?

@tekay44

4 жыл бұрын

Poor lad? how many GIs did he murder? how many Polish women did he rape? Russian women? poor lad my ass.

ordinary german soldiers would have been glad to go home most hated nazism

End of a horror time

Kids and old men.

And on that day the German's knew they had a new Bad*** in town. 🇺🇸

@paullooney2522

4 жыл бұрын

That badass needs to go home,and mind its own business.

schmidt, bauer captured by smith and bower

They didn't seem i a big hurry to put that fire out at the end where they were ambling around with buckets of water. It obviously wasn't their house that was burning down.

Hard to imagine they woulda shot each other in like 3 months prior... Plus in this case I would've swap uniforms

"Catched"??

WWII: Just another history chapter of the Homo sapiens species trying to destroy itself.

Why do the American soldiers look a lot taller than the German soldiers? Ive seen a few videos already where German soldiers look shorter! Germans are usually tall people.

@1_hour_ago

Жыл бұрын

Because they already use all their forces and loses them, at the end of the war there left young old sick soldiers

@johnnyflores5954

Жыл бұрын

The average American soldier during world war 2 was around 5:10, and the Average German soldier was around 5:7.

Straight blues antoine marsaud. What a nice cool basic blues music

@worldwarfootage

5 жыл бұрын

You can download it here: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

The music ??

WWII in 12-bar blues. :-)

Was this documentary colorized?

Where was this?

the music is wonderful!

i agree sr

caught*

nice vids .German soldiers putting out fires. Ironical.

Is this a movie or real footage.

They surrendered and were treated pretty good from Americans,most of them moved to live in USA and Canada.

@jonasmuller3815

6 жыл бұрын

No my Greatgrandfather was killed by US soldiers after he surrenderd

1:18 and the final victory?

@javierthomas7414

8 жыл бұрын

+Rex Diaz too much

Robberies in action.

Sim..se entregaram e foram viver de boa na América...

Thanks AMERICA ! Thanks AMERICANS ! POLISH -AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP FOREVER ! - NZS - Narodowe Siły Zbrojne .

@LawrenceofIsrael

Жыл бұрын

what for? It was the red army that "liberated" you.

My father fought In Vietnam War then got killed

los soldados Americanos se portaron bastante decentes y apegados a los tratados de guerra

Are the germans arrested? Not taken as POW?

Name of the song

What's the artist and song name of the music?

@worldwarfootage

8 жыл бұрын

+KBNoyes Antoine Marsaud - Straight Blues. itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

Germans captured by US Soldiers is much better English.

@worldwarfootage

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeremy Swanson You are right. It has been corrected.

@Jeremy031152

8 жыл бұрын

+World War Footage Good for you. Well done.

@mountainguyed67

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeremy Swanson what did it say before?

@worldwarfootage

8 жыл бұрын

+mountainguyed67 Classified information ;)

@markrichards636

7 жыл бұрын

mountainguyed67 ; It said catched and not captured, could have used caught as well.

Well for one thing the German army we're just regular soldiers they got caught up in the madness just like everyone else the SS and the death's-head was a fanatical. Soldier for Hitler's cause and once they committed themselves they were trapped like everyone else what you going to do when you're attacking just lay down your weapons say I give up it doesn't work that way. They did exactly as a soldier would do and even though it was horrendous they were a badass Army.

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i like this tune.

Germans try to do everything right even if it’s losing

It's a bit like today how they rifled through the pockets except they had uniforms on back then ' now they just wear huddies

What is the music that is playing, title?

@worldwarfootage

6 жыл бұрын

Here is a download link: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

I feel Americans behave them better then Russians . American always set high standards .

@patmiddleton3947

4 жыл бұрын

Rahul su30mki well the Americans did not have the Germans bombing,killing ,raping,murdering and burning their way across their homeland like the Russians ,Belorussians and Ukrainians did.They did not come as tourists.

The Losers must work for The winners!😤😤😤

Music?

@worldwarfootage

5 жыл бұрын

The track is called "Straight Blues". You can download it here: itunes.apple.com/de/album/straight-blues/id1019808336?i=1019808355

Just look German army they surrender n give treat very good humanity by us

cool tunes

not one war ... us uk France. together attacking is shame

it was very ugly