Germany after the War, 1945-49
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This powerful documentary from 2005 explores the condition of Germany when the fighting stopped in 1945 and the subsequent four years of occupation and reconstruction. Views are taken from all sides, but German voices are given predominance. With some remarkable footage and moving testimony, this film is an important addition to the history of post-war Europe. Uploaded for educational purposes only. Comments are welcome but restricted. Any aggressive assertions or use of inappropriate language will be immediately deleted.
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get over it what do you think the Germans and Italians and all others did to russian women and other contries women ,we don't cry over what happened to germans, go back to the history of man kind or even animals when they take over a betten male's females ; get real and stop trying to have us cry over what happened to these people
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well damn
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At 1:03:56 on the left wall looks like a mans face on left wall freaky.. Does anyone see this? I see his eyes, ears, forehead, hair, beard, ... Dang its like this man is making himself known... Dang I have chills looking at that.. Very Clear image.
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the allies should not have provided any form support for the German people after the surrender of the nazi goverment. the German people should have been left to starve, just as allied pow were starved while in German p.o.w. camps
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Thanks for putting that up. Studied the conflict for years but little on that aftermath. Learnt something tonight.
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Outstanding! Thanks.
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WW2 should be a model for "Why world wars must never occur again"
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The only meaningful yardstick to evaluate the integrity and insight of a historian is by his commercial success against the hostility of the officialdom. Two remarkable examples that fit this criteria are David Irving and Udo Walendy (from Germany).
Those two historians have to endure so much hostility, persecution, and yet they produce high quality historical research, which keeps in fear a legion of "court historians". Those lead a comfortable lifestyle by churning out the Hollywood-style history, but try to say something, which would disturb the "official historiography" and you would quickly find out that there is a price to pay, a very heavy price. -
Germany should not even exist. They started two world wars and lost both. If you go 0-2 in megalomania, you lose your country. Germany should be still occupied to some extant, and closely watched. We do not want them to go 0-3.
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thanks alot DR. Alen i enjoyed the video ive allways been a big war buff and ive never seen this one thanks for the upload !!!
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I'm really enjoying your set of videos. I feel as if they're as close to truth about the past as may be possible. Thanks.
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There is no crime when allied soldiers confiscate jewellery of millionairs royal Nazis.
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Western Allies might have done a great job by taking down the evil red army but they have done something worst by raping the defeated civilization's women. Atleast they should show some humanity over there. Now the western allies are paying for their bad will against German Women as Muslims now started raping the westerners & made no go zones in many western countries. They are protesting now to convert all western nations into Muslim nation. The civil war in west have begin.
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Soviets were far worse than Nazis, they murdered and raped millions of ethnic Germans.
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Try Heidelberg, it was spared from bombing. I have seen rooms full of paintings stacked against an apartment wall maybe 2000 of them. I wonder where they came from, and why, were they there. Heidelberg was a big nazi town.
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Dönitz did not make use of the title "Führer"- he was simply "Reichspräsident"- appointed by Hitler. It may all seem so absurd from our point of view today, but the collapsing Nazi-administration sought after legitimacy to negotiate with the western allies. Hitler, Reichskanzler from January 1933 on, and therefore "only" head of government, had been called "Führer" before as chairman of his political party, but that was no political or constitutional title. When Hindenberg lay on his deathbed in late July 1934 Hitler had a "law" drafted that merged the status of the German chancellor with that of the head of state after Hindenburg's death. That was signed on August 1st and Hindenburg died the following day. From that day on Hitler called himself officially "Führer und Reichskanzler". Hitler felt no shame to be paid for both positions though he made no use of the title "Reichspräsident". When the end came near he appointed Dönitz his successor as "Reichspräsident" and Goebbels "Reichskanzler". But when he commited suicide in his bunker Goebbels had been dead as well. The academical question about all that business is, whether Germany had anything that was legal at all, after Hitler's rise to power, as whatever he and his party are responsible for took place under violation of the constitution, which had practically been suspended in March 1933.
Dönitz had fled to Flensburg and all the rest of the party and state administration tried to join him there. Others tried to flee to Denmark. My father remembers the overloaded Horch, BMW and Mercedes cars of those high-ranking officials in town, while he and his mates were ordered to take refugees from the east under their care at the railway station or at the port and get them to places where they were supposed to live (school-buildings, gyms, private homes). Admiral Friedeburg had taken lodging in Glücksburg Castle. It was there that he took cyanide after surrender on May 8th. Jodl and Speer were in Flensburg and Alfred Rosenberg, one of the ideological figureheads of the party but better known as "Reichsminister für die Ostgebiete" and hence responsible for all those atrocities carried out in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, tried to hide in the military hospital in Flensburg. He ordered the staff there to bandage him all over his body and face so that he may escape arrrest. Foreign minister Ribbentrop was caught in Hamburg, Julius Streicher lived under a false name on a farm in Bavaria but was detected by an (ironically Jewish) American intelligence officer who had just stopped there to ask for a glass of fresh milk. -
In 2016 we once again are living in era where warmongering and McCarthyism is increasing.
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David Irving, David Cole and many other well researched revisionists were correct in the is assertions about the lies and deception. This video is for the most part, propaganda.
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They paid for the evil that their nation had done,the greatest evil the world had ever seen,was it fair? no,was it just? no. Was it justified?........sometimes a price has to be paid.The victims of the Nazis paid a far greater price.
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