I had a really good duty tour at Wiesbaden AFB...Beautiful place.

Als Wiesbadener erkenne ich hier leider nicht viel ...

In 1990 I was stationed for a time at Lindsey Air Station in Wiesbaden and I really enjoyed my tour of duty there. I asked an older local citizen about the war years and he said that the Americans didn't destroy the town because it was so nice and they wanted it for themselves. 1990 war ich zeitweise auf der Lindsey Air Station in Wiesbaden stationiert und habe meinen Dienst dort sehr genossen. Ich fragte einen älteren Einheimischen nach den Kriegsjahren und er sagte, die Amerikaner hätten die Stadt nicht zerstört, weil sie so schön sei und sie sie für sich haben wollten.

@harrycurrie9664

Жыл бұрын

"Wanted it for themselves" ...one way of putting it I suppose. Maybe they needed it to accommodate their liberators.

I've seen this footage many times. The majority of it doesn't seem to be in Wiesbaden at all. And no one can seem to explain the pro-Russian marches by civilians on the parade ground of Lindsay Air Station, which is indeed in Wiesbaden, but was never held by Russian forces. American troops took over Wiesbaden in March 1945 and they are still there to this day.

@Garwfechan-ry5lk

5 ай бұрын

Around Wiesbaden there were many Slave Labour Camps with People mainly Russian Ukrainian Poles and Serbians in them, they were made to work 14 Hrs a Day in Armaments factories, Farms etc these people were forcibly taken from their Homes in the German Retreat through Russia, they were the lucky ones much of their families were destroyed by the Germans. In the North of Germany the British liberated many like this and also the Remnants of what was left of Soviet POW's around Lubeck Hamburg Kiel in Horrific condition.

Leider hat man versucht das Bildformat auf 16:9 zu stretchen! Das Filmprektorgeräusch sollte man auch lieber weglassen

@ridouantaghi3189

2 жыл бұрын

Sag mal was ist denn ein Filmprektor?😂

Wiesbaden Airbase - US Army owned and operated... I flew the OV-1 Mohawk out of there for 3.5 years. 1st. M.I. Battalion....

Was sind denn das für Aufnahmen mit dem Russenaufmarsch? Das ist doch nicht in Wiesbaden. In Wiesbaden waren meiner Kenntnis nach niemals russische Soldaten. Das könnten Bilder aus Gotha sein. Bei 10:58 sieht man im Hintergrund vermutlich das Dach des Gothaer Schlosses. Aber vielleicht täusche ich mich auch.

@logoes24y26

4 жыл бұрын

Es handelte sich wohl um russische Zwangsarbeiter und Kriegsgefangene nach der Befreiung im Camp Lindsay in Wiesbaden. Wenn Sie in Googlesuche folgendes eintragen, sehen Sie das Filmmaterial von 1945. Die Menschen an genau der Stelle im Camp: "Critical Past. Speaker, representatives and Russian Major addresses the group of displaced persons at the VE Day celebration in Wiesbaden" Weitere Infos als Text: "Lagis-Hessen. Wiesbaden, Lager für sowjetische Kriegsgefangene" und "Gew-Hessen. Zwangsarbeiter und Kriegsgefangene in Wiesbaden"

@jurgenburberg1514

4 жыл бұрын

@@logoes24y26 Vielen Dank!

@jurgenczwienk1960

3 жыл бұрын

Richtig

I would bet if they didn't march with the red flags that day, they didn't get fed....

Hat jemand eine Idee, welche Landstraße ab 16:18 zu sehen ist?

The footage from the Soviet sector was really depressing. Like Orwell’s 1984. At 18:30, Germans begging for leftover soup outside an American mess hall. Sad.

@yaboyflvckor456

2 жыл бұрын

the same is happening now under russian occupied countries from baltic to yugoslavia... all the eastern europe lol...

@shirleybalinski4535

Жыл бұрын

My Dad said one of the things which bothered him bad in Germany was before & after Wars end, were the children at the back of mess hall licking garbage can s& lids, snatching food out of garbage cans & carrying it.home. He said they were pretty skinny.

@shirleybalinski4535

Жыл бұрын

Biden's America.

@neuwalter7386

5 ай бұрын

Einen sowjetischen Sektor gab es in Wiesbaden nicht!

I'm afraid the Soviet POWs that went home were in for a sad surprise. Stalin once said that there were no Soviet POWs--only traitors. Doubt that he'd changed his mind.

@2:00 Petersaue Island, I suspect, and my hunch: It is from the left bank of the Rhine looking over to what became Mainz-Kastel (that odd exclave of Mainz on the right side)... So much for Grossdeutschland and some hollering demagogue spreading conspiracy theories... Germans had a rough time in the 20s and early 30s, but they should have been careful...The colder historian's eye would have explained that WW1 also terminated centuries of feudalism, and society was re-adjusting... Of course, the Wall Street crash was also created by the usual con men operating in the USA and selling hallucinations to the greedy.

Das nicht alles, wenn überhaupt Wiesbaden ! Wiesbaden war Amerikanisch besetzt! Beide Teile enthalten wenig Aufnahmen die wirklich aus der Region kommen ! Es gibt auch nich viel! Leider schon gar nicht von Bombenangriffen wie am Anfang zu sehen!! LG aus Wiesbaden

@sina5878

Жыл бұрын

Wiesbaden hat was der zweite Weltkrieg und DDR betrifft extrem viele Geheimnisse. Weis es von einer älteren Dame um die wir uns kümmerten und durch den, Ex meiner Mom.

This is not Wiesbaden!

@rodjones117

Жыл бұрын

Most of it isn't, but there are some scenes of the Kurhaus and I think the Kurpark.

WIESBADEN LEBT !!!

Во как от русских бежали... Натворили дел и к американцам,позорники!!!

شيء فضيع ارتكبه هتلر المجنون والمهلوس وكيف تاق به التقة العمياء الشعب الالماني ليدهب ضحيتها اولا وقبل كل شيء الشعب الالماني باسره لقد ارتكب حماقة لم يرتكبها قبله اي انسان كان ليسقط الشعب من القمة الى الاسفل في غضون اعوام قليلة لولا الحماقة والجنون الدي ارتكبه هتلر لكانت المانيا في شكل اخر لانها كانت من الدول الاولا في العالم انداك فاستغلتها برطانية وحليفتها التقليدية امريكا للهجوم على برلين من الغرب وروسيا من الشرق وابادوها شر ابادة ياللاسف عمى وقع لالمانية وشعبها حل عليهم الدل والعار من كل جانب اسف