My great grandfather, who was wounded twice, said WWII was the best thing to ever happen to him. He met my great grandmother in Germany after the war.

@stubi1103

Ай бұрын

Was your great Grandmother a German woman?

My Father was there. Thank you, so well done. Bravo.

those german POW were smiling because they knew they would eventually go home. the ones captured in the east by the soviets would either be slaves or dead

keep up the great work. best restored and colorized footage on the internet unlike many other attempts where the color is constantly glitching back to mono or that the only colors in it are glitching blue and orange. this channel's got the best i've seen so far.

@kevinindublin

3 ай бұрын

It's not 'colourised' footage. It's actual colour footage, shot on colour film of the time.

@oddity7263

3 ай бұрын

@@kevinindublin now is it? wow, from what I know, coloured footage at the time was quite rare and expensive, hard to come by, like they were only saved for super or delicately significant or important events, political or religious though I suppose footage of the final days of ww2 in Europe counts as quite significant...

Please don’t block anything with a blurry box. It is important for people to see the actual carnage of war.

@Steveross2851

Ай бұрын

@barbarasmith3899 that's KZread censorship, probably, not the author of this video. KZread increasingly frequently does this.

@Zeus2024-pn2ht

15 күн бұрын

@@Steveross2851 Yes, extremely annoying, and disgusting really. Liberal approach.

the color film brings all these events alive

Now imagine Easter European countries. They were liberated of 5 years of Germans only to spend 50 under the Soviets

clear, concise, colourful

I wish channels like these were on trending vs useless couples breaking up or random ppl recieving painted phone cases

@SpickyGonzalez

9 күн бұрын

Unfortunately you fought for the modern consumerist world that we live in

Je suis d'origine normande (manchoise), les images des destructions des villes normandes (Cherbourg, Caen surtout) sont vraiment terribles par rapport à celles des autres villes françaises libérées. Autrement, une des meilleurs vidéos sur cette période que j'ai pu voir.

My father in law piloted barges into Toulon harbor still mined. This video gives no hint of those mines. He said the French were starved. I'd like to know about those mines.

"Cherbourg streets are a shambles" - Chelsea Football Club's season, mate!

I wish they wouldn't blur the wounded, I know it sounds barbaric, but it is important to see the realities of war and the destruction it causes.

George Stephen's films were already very good but imagine these have been enhanced to HD as well. So fascinating! Makes 80 years ago look like yesterday! We all need to remember though Nazis are back in 2023 within America itself this time - trying to take over. Hitler Tojo and Mussolini would be proud.

@IamKingSleezy

7 ай бұрын

Good comrade, +50 credit score

15:48 Ernest Hemingway!

The invasion and advance into France might have been much harder without the French Resistance I think.

The veterans on our side said the enemy uniforms were grey. But these seem to be quite green.

I'm guessing most German soldiers were greatful they had been captured and were in camps behind barbed wire, it meant the war was over for them, they'd live through it.

Thanks

But how is Paris and France doing now -all these years after the liberation?

The occupation was obviously carried out by the Nazis but back then and until quite recently the French used to call it “the German Occupation”.

@chrisl211

Жыл бұрын

No, we call it "l'occupation"

Not a fan of the added sound

@rudolfkraffzick642

Ай бұрын

Only the Russians are blamed for the death "missing" of over more than 1 Mio. German POWs. Not to mention of the Mio. killed civilians (starvation) after the unconditional surrender. This is denied history of the winners who "take it all", as the American song states.

Time is a flat circle....

@terryreynolds4346

Жыл бұрын

Nah a donut

@woodrowpreacely7521

10 ай бұрын

Color is so good here really could have been made yesterday. Does make one think - and there's scientists who confirm it now - that we can go backward and forward in time - as time is circular and not linear as we thought. Government knows it's true.

Этим пленным канкретно повезло...

Quality footage

Arde Paris?

Horizontal collaborators.

Now we have Russia. Same as then.

Salutes to a great generation. Proud to be n American!

The GI uniform is cooler back then. Now they wear very large baggy clothing

Not Nazi, not Martian, but German occupation

When I see all the young soldiers fall on the Normandy beaches and can’t believe our US Supreme Court won’t defend democracy. They are pathetic.

the smell of freedom is in the air

BEFREIER ???

Den Franzosen gings ziemlich gut unter uns. Im Gegensatz zu den deutschen in Deutschland anschließend.

@rangerminun7381

Жыл бұрын

"Uns" --- Euch

@taunusjunge3383

Жыл бұрын

Die Franzosen hassten die deutschen Besatzer, welche minderjährige Résistance-Mitglieder ohne Prozess erschießen ließen. Das Massaker von Oradour durch die Verbrecher der Waffen-SS war nur ein weiterer Tiefpunkt der Barbarei des widerwärtigen Nazi-Regimes in Frankreich und Europa. Nach dem Krieg übrigens machten Nazis in der jungen Bundesrepublik mühelos Karriere (siehe Filbinger-Affäre und Konsorten).

@seattlewa8500

Ай бұрын

Doing ‘pretty well’? Is that supposed to be a joke?

Why do people feel the need to come to these videos and talk about what their family tree did in WW2? Lol.

@sassycat6487

14 күн бұрын

Because it's why we feel such a connection to the war almost 80 years after it ended. Most people who didn't have family in it don't ever think about it or care.

Gotta love the Americans in the Hotchkiss 105mm German gun shooting at Germans. The commentator said 155mm it's gotta be a 105mm Hotchkiss..

انزال النورماندي المعركة الاخيرة لجيش هتلر

Советские нацисты расстреляли триста героев РОА за поддержку восставших жителей города Прага , прямо на больничных койках . Убили героев РОА тяжело раненных в боях с гитлеровцами , май 1945 .

@Olga-Che35

2 ай бұрын

Ты и тут гадишь? Лучше вспомни, как вы уничтожали евреев в Львове, Киеве....

@user-mb1gh8jn3r

2 ай бұрын

@@Olga-Che35 не мы , а вы . Вы напали на Чехословаки . И создали западную украину. Для Степана Бандеры .

@Olga-Che35

2 ай бұрын

@@user-mb1gh8jn3r да ты шо? Польша и Германия дербанила Чехословакии в 1938 г. А евреев убивали по всей бывшей Усср. И теперь батька ваш бандера, а шухевич мать

@user-mb1gh8jn3r

2 ай бұрын

@@Olga-Che35 какая Польша . Где республика Подкарпатская Русь .

@Jerseyboondocks

Ай бұрын

The Soviets weren't Nazis. What's wrong with you. Aunt, the Soviet Union lost the most people in World war II fighting Nazi Germany. They helped turn the tide of the war.

so ein Schwachsinn wenn ich immer lese Befreiung von Paris ,weil es den nie geben hat.

@seattlewa8500

Ай бұрын

You are the nutcase.

First

Eh bien, les Français sont-ils satisfaits de la libération ? Aimez-vous vivre dans un pays musulman?

@joshualarson505

3 ай бұрын

Based

Yes Germany was a terrible and criminal country in WW2, but it is a model country for exemplary behaviour today.

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

2 ай бұрын

Не хотят больше потеряться!

@Jerseyboondocks

Ай бұрын

Good behavior for being scared to death to be called racist and letting millions of third world fighting age men into their country? Are they really better off now...hey as long as they don't seem racist right? That's all that matters?

In this video he fails to mention NORMANDY where a combined troops from the UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA went to ENGLAND to launch there attack against GERMANY, but don't forget the PACIFIC where AMERICAN FORCES were fighting JAPANESE forces. Then came the ATOMIC BOMB and the war was over then KOREA AND VIETNAM then 911 the WORLD TRADE CENTER the PENTAGON and PENNSYLVANIA and I was in NYC

@metalgearray6832

9 ай бұрын

Why don’t YOU make your OWN video about THOSE battles TOO instead of complaining like a BOOMER. World war 2 was HUGE, this video is all but a small GLIMPSE.

@seattlewa8500

Ай бұрын

What is your point?

France was liberated in 1940

@cindyhutchins5532

3 ай бұрын

You missed it by 4 years!

@Egg.335

3 ай бұрын

bruh

@user-nx5ks3tl6w

2 ай бұрын

От себя 😁

@ArxSirius

Ай бұрын

😂

Amerikanische Nazis lösen die deutschen Nazis in Frankreich ab.

Today, Russian soldiers are fighting fascism again. Forward Russia! Bravo!

@PrinceChaloner

Жыл бұрын

Putin and Hitler are the same...

@user-Sashka_Pyoureshko

Жыл бұрын

Are you one of Hitler's unfinished Nazis, Vanka Kalmar?

@davidclark3588

Жыл бұрын

Imagine actually believing something this stupid

@lifted.5916

10 ай бұрын

wut ? Russia are the invaders and are gonna invade moldova after ukraine and ur saying ukraine is fascist.

@metalgearray6832

9 ай бұрын

@@PrinceChaloner you mispelt Zelenskyy