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World War Footage

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Welcome to World War Footage, a channel by nikita ventures in cooperation with CHRONOS MEDIA. At CHRONOS MEDIA, history truly comes alive in many ways: as the largest independent private archive in Germany, CHRONOS distributes high-quality historical film material worldwide covering the period from 1900 until the threshold to the digital era. The film production of CHRONOS illustrates important events of the 20th century in documentaries, exhibition films and web clips. The people at CHRONOS do not perceive themselves as backward-looking chroniclers, but rather as dedicated historians who actively contribute towards shaping a better future through a well-grounded understanding of historical phenomena. He who understands history understands people - thus laying the foundation for a just world. This channel is part of the channel network of nikita ventures.

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2019-11-08 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 51 472 votes : 865-44 com : 253 (fr)
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When Americans and Russians took over Berlin (1945) | (Y) |
Music by Antoine Marsaud: Men of Honor https://music.apple.com/de/album/men-of-honor/1480737089?i=1480737112 0:00 Driving on the German Autobahn in direction to Berlin 0:50 Entering the US Berlin District 1:00 Picture of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill 1:15 Soviet soldiers marching, probably on Straße des 17. Juni in direction of the Siegessäule 2:40 German refugees pulling carriage 2:56 Trümmerfrauen "rubble women" at work 3:25 destroyed Berliner Dom (Cathedral) 4:15 US military visiting the Neue Reichskanzlei 5:40 Berliner S-Bahn 5:56 Olympia Stadion (olympic stadion) 6:59 Olympic swimming pool 8:11 American Beach Club / Amerikanisches Strandbad 8:52 Trümmerfrauen "rubble women" at work 9:34 Galopprennbahn Hoppegarten 13:37 US military playing golf Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016) Watch here the new restored pictures in our film trailer: https://goo.gl/CU0hUP
Raw Footage | Rare Footage | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Unedited Footage | Footage | Berlin | Russia | russians

2017-09-21 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 512 795 votes : 5337-421 com : 147 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Six Years Before the Big Decline (1939 - Rare Footage of Munich and Berlin) | (Y) | | |
Music by Antoine Marsaud: Danger https://music.apple.com/de/album/danger/1019808336?i=1019808348 Footage in original color and HD before restoring for the documentary Spirit of Liberation" (Kronos Media, 2016) Watch here the new restored pictures in our film trailer: https://goo.gl/CU0hUP
Germany | 1939

2015-03-02 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 15 373 votes : 128-9 com : 16 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
US-Army artillery operating in Germany (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Tank brigades and infantry brigades demonstrating their weapons. 00:35 M2 Mortar According to the following source the fired ammunition seems to be M49A2 High Explosive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:60mm-Mortar-Rounds.jpg (At 1:02 you can see the typical black top) 0:06 M24 Chaffee (light tank) 0:12 M7 Priest (motorised artillary) 1:26 M5 (light tank) 2:58 PzKpfw III (difficult to see because of the smoke)
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186

2015-02-27 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 1 138 566 votes : 3864-336 com : 124 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
German POWs in Italy and Germany (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
The first part of the video shows German POWs in Italy. On May 2nd 1945 German soldiers laid down their arms as the terms of the German unconditional surrender. You can see the masses of Wehrmacht members escorted by the US-Army. At 3:13 there probably is (according to the uniform) a German soldier belonging to the Panzer troop, who stands next to US-Soldiers smiling at the camera. At 03:22 you can see Hermann Göring during May 14th/15th 1945, who was interviewed among others by Klaus Mann (son of Thomas Mann) on May 11th 1945 in Augsburg. Starting at 03:37, the last part of the video shows masses of German POWs. On May 9th 1945 more than 40,000 German POWs were escorted through the Vogtland, including Plauen, Klingenthal, Tannenbergsthal, Morgenröthe, Jägersgrün, Hammerbrücke.
Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Prisoner Of War | transportation | D-Day | VE-Day

2015-02-23 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 5 354 votes : 38-5 com : 2 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
US-Troops march by Altenkirchen and Ebeleben (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
On March 7th 1945 Altenkirchen encountered several aerial attacks by the US-Air force, destroying most of the city.193 buildings were razed to the ground and more than 200 civilians were killed. Both churches, all schools and the rail station were in ruins. The reconstruction of Altenkirchen had been achieved in 1965. During the Second World the German's forced prisoners of countries occupied by Germany to labor in the field of agriculture in Ebeleben. On April 8th and 9th 1945 US-Troops destroyed several historical buildings, e.g. the the Ebelebener castle. To impede the advance of the US-Army, the German SS blew up some of the bridges. The city later was considered as part of the Soviet zone.
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Thüringen | Ebeleben

2015-02-20 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 16 271 votes : 153-17 com : 0 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
German locals forced to visit KZ Buchenwald (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
"Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald[...]) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier. Prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union—Jews, Poles and other Slavs, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses (then called Bible Students), criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war—worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2. Today the remains of Buchenwald serve as a memorial and permanent exhibition and museum." (Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald_concentration_camp)
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Weimar | Jedem das Seine | Ilse Koch | Karl-Otto Koch | liberation in 1945 | incarceration | Auschwitz | Ravensbrück | Bergen Belsen | Sömmerda | Buttelstedt | Mühlhausen | Gotha | Gelsenkirchen | Essen | Lippstadt | Magdeburg | Penig | Anne Frank | Heinrich Himmler | Adolf Hitler

2015-02-16 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 77 195 votes : 705-91 com : 0 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
German victims of World War 2 (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
This video shows German victims that have been injured or killed during the Second World War. With great probability this video was shot near Pilsen in Czechoslovakia. "It has long been known that German civilians fell victim to Czech excesses immediately following the Nazi surrender at the end of World War II. [...] Following Nazi Germany's defeat, the Czechs and the Red Army expelled around 3 million ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland and the rest of Czechoslovakia. In the process, up to 30,000 civilians fell victim to acts of revenge. Only a small minority of them had been Nazi perpetrators. Germans and Czechs had lived side by side for decades before Hitler's 1938 annexation of Bohemia and Moravia, the two regions that make up the majority of the Czech Republic today." (source: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/massacre-in-czechoslovakia-newly-discovered-film-shows-post-war-executions-a-698060.html)
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | tragic | death | civilians killed | human losses | wounded | World War (Film Subject) | Germany | Czech Republic | Czechs | Moravia | Bohemia | civilians | Nazi Germany | Czechoslovakia | Pilsen | Sudetenland | Sudetendeutschland

2015-02-13 | HORS-SUJET |

2015-02-06 | HORS-SUJET |

2015-02-02 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 74 063 votes : 324-29 com : 7 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Deportation of German POW's (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Text Wikipedia: "Following the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht, which went into effect on 8 May 1945, some Wehrmacht units remained active, either independently (e.g. in Norway), or under Allied command as police forces. By the end of August 1945, these units were dissolved. On September 20, 1945, with proclamation 2 of the Allied Control Council, 'all German armed forces on land, on sea and in the air, the SS, SA, SD and Gestapo, with all their organizations, staffs and institution, including the general staff, the officer corps, the reserve corps, the military schools, veterans organizations, ... are to be fully and finally disbanded in accordance with the methods and procedures as defined by the Allied representatives.' After September 20 the allies began officially dismantling the various commands. By the time the war in Europe ended in May 1945, the Wehrmacht had lost approximately 11,300,000 men." Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht#Generalfeldmarschall_2
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | End of war | transportation | Prisoner Of War

2015-01-30 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 865 629 votes : 3980-276 com : 157 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Germans surrender in Linz (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
US-Troops invaded Austria on May 1st. North and south of the Danube, units of the XII. and XX. Corps of the US Third Army moved in and occupied nearly the whole country in less than a week. Linz was evacuated without a fight. The official surrender of the City to Brigadier General Holbrook was executed by Mayor Franz Langoth. On May 9th, the meeting of US and Soviet troops took place on the Enns. The agreement of the German's surrender entered into force on May 9th 1945. The Second World War in Europe ended.
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | surrender | invasion | Donau | Linz | Wehrmacht

2015-01-26 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 15 592 votes : 71-3 com : 1 (fr)
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Bridge at Remagen and devastated Cologne (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Text Wikipedia: "The Ludendorff Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Bridge at Remagen) was in early March 1945 one of two remaining bridges across the River Rhine in Germany when it was captured during the Battle of Remagen by United States Army forces during the closing weeks of the Second World War. Built in 1918 to help deliver reinforcements and supplies to the German troops on the front, it connected the villages of Remagen and Erpel between two hills flanking the river. The town of Remagen is located close to and south of the city of Bonn. At the end of Operation Lumberjack (1-7 March 1945), the troops of the American 1st Army approached Remagen and were surprised to find that the bridge was still standing. Its capture enabled the U.S. Army to more quickly establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine. After the U.S. forces captured the bridge, Germany vainly tried to destroy it multiple times over the next two weeks. While it stood, the bridge enabled the U.S. Army to quickly get 25,000 troops, six Army divisions, and thousands of heavy tanks, artillery pieces and trucks across the Rhine. The bridge collapsed on 17 March 1945, ten days after it was captured, killing 18 U.S. Army Engineers. It was never rebuilt. The towers on the west bank were converted into a museum and the towers on the east bank are a performing art space." Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludendorff_Bridge
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Bridge at Remagen | Ludendorff-Brücke | Brücke von Remagen | Cologne Cathedral | Kölner Dom | Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge) | Cologne (German City)

2015-01-23 | HORS-SUJET |

2015-01-19 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 11 774 votes : 94-3 com : 8 (fr)
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Liberated US-Prisoners burn down Stalag 7A (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
In May 1945 US-Prisoners at Stalag 7A in Moosburg were liberated. In this video, they burn down several buildings of the camp causing a big fire. Not far away from the flames you can seen some soldiers sun bathing. Wikipedia: "The camp was opened in September 1939[3] and was designed to house up to 10,000 Polish prisoners from the German September 1939 offensive. The first prisoners arrived while the wooden barracks were under construction and for several weeks lived in tents.[1] British, French, Belgian and Dutch soldiers taken prisoner during the Battle of France started arriving in May 1940. Many were transferred to other camps, but close to 40,000 French remained at Stalag VII-A throughout the war. British, Greek and Yugoslavian prisoners arrived from the Balkans Campaign in May and June 1941. A few months later Soviet prisoners started arriving, mostly officers. At the end of the war there were 27 Soviet generals in the prison. More British Commonwealth and Polish prisoners came from the North African campaign and the offensive against the Italian-held islands in the Mediterranean. They were brought here from Italian PoW camps after the Armistice with Italy in September 1943, including many who escaped at that time and were recaptured. Italian soldiers were also imprisoned. The first American arrivals came after the Tunisia Campaign in December 1942, and the Italian Campaign in 1943. Large numbers of Americans were captured in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. Among the last arrivals were officers from Stalag Luft III who had been force-marched from Sagan in Silesia (now Żagań), Poland).[4] They arrived on 2 February 1945. They were followed by more prisoners marched from other camps threatened by the advancing Soviets, including part of the American officers that had been marched from Oflag 64 in Szubin, via Oflag XIII-B, under their senior officer Lt.Col. Paul Goode. During the 5½ years about 1,000 prisoners died at the camp, over 800 of them Soviets. They were buried in a cemetery in Oberreit, south of Moosburg. Most died from illness, some from injuries during work. It has been said that there were some casualties from Allied bombs at work sites.[citation needed] On 1 August 1942 Major Karl August Meinel was shifted into the Führerreserve, because on 13 January 1942 he wrote a critical report to General Hermann Reinecke on the segregation and execution of Russian prisoners of war in Stalag VII-A by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst SD (security service) of the Reichsführer SS (Heinrich Himmler).[5]" Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VII-A Slate reads: LT CE NERPEL 0001 SP 186 Roll No. 11-36c
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186

2015-01-16 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 19 642 votes : 94-21 com : 14 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Segregation in US-Army during World War 2 and Stalag VII-A Moosburg POW camp (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
It appears to be just another day at the US-Army base presenting daily camp life of the soldiers chatting, cooking and washing clothes. Indeed, we can see them trying to create tasty dishes with their field kitchens. As you can see at 1:06, the soldiers seem to like sauerkraut, a very popular food in Germany. However, if you take a closer look at 1:42, you can get an impression of the strained relationship between black and white soldiers due to apartheid at that time. World War 2 continued racial discrimination against African Americans in the US Military. Still the armed forces were segregated and several units did not even allow blacks to enlist in any ranks or only employed them as cooks or waiters. Finally, in 1948 President Truman ended segregation by signing Executive Order 9981. Wikipedia: "Stalag VII-A was liberated on 29 April 1945 by Combat Command A of the 14th Armored Division. A German proposal for an armistice was rejected, followed by a short, uneven battle between the American tanks and retreating German soldiers for control of bridges across the Amper and Isar rivers." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VII-A)
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | apartheid | sourcrout | kraut | field kitchen | army camp | segregation | blacks | black and white | cultural conflict | African-American | minorities | equal treatment | racial | Rassentrennung | Schwarze und Weiße | Stalag 7A Moosburg | Prisoner of war Camp | Racial Segregation

2014-09-16 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 17 098 votes : 90-3 com : 3 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt's in action, takeoff and flight (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
This footage was shot on May 29th, 1945. 02:22 Amazing takeoff of two P-47's side by side. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the largest and heaviest fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. It was heavily armed with eight .50-caliber machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack roles could carry five-inch rockets or a significant bomb load of 2,500 pounds; it could carry over half the payload of the B-17 bomber on long-range missions (although the B-17 had a far greater range). The P-47, based on the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine — the same engine used by two very successful U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair — was to be very effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and, when unleashed as a fighter-bomber, proved especially adept at ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific Theaters. The P-47 was one of the main United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighters of World War II, and served with other Allied air forces, notably those of France, Britain, and Russia. The armored cockpit was roomy inside, comfortable for the pilot, and offered good visibility. A modern-day U.S. ground-attack aircraft, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, takes its name from the P-47. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_P-47_Thunderbolt Slate reads: Lt. Col. Wm. Clothier, SFP 186 Mono Pack Camera 509 May 29 Silent
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (Aircraft Model) | Aircraft (Type Of Fictional Setting) | Takeoff

2014-09-10 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-09-02 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 4 391 votes : 23-0 com : 5 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Normal life at US-airbase during WW2 (1945 in color) | (Y) | | |
This video shows the normal everyday life of the US-Air Force soldiers (from the 493rd Bomb Squadron) during WW2. Soldiers playing, smoking Luky Strike cigarettes, repairing and fixing aircrafts, demonstrating equiment etc. The vehicle with the plexiglass nose piece from a B26 on the top is a mobile control tower for use in inclement weather or where there was no fixed control tower. The Officer in the cone with the radio headset is communicating with aircraft and has a flare pistol to signal or acknowledge incoming or outgoing aircraft. A flare was usually used to indicate to all aircraft that take-off time had arrived. Flares were also used to acknowledge flares deployed by aircraft with wounded on board upon return as well as a number of other "situations" on board a returning battle damaged aircraft. The twin engine aircraft that is undergoing engine work is a Big Wing Martin Marauder, B-26B-40, rolled off the assembly line in February 1944. The Air Ambulance is a Stinson L-1C (Army Air Corps designated them as an O-49) Vigilant. Slate reads: Captain Carter Prods. 196 Strip-Y-54 ROLL C-15 Date 3-31-45
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Military Airbase (Airport Type) | Aircraft (Type Of Fictional Setting) | Life | Santa Barbara Miss | Buzzin' Hussy | 493rd Bomb Squadron | Big Wing Martin Marauder | B-26B-40 | Air Ambulance | Stinson L-1C | Army Air Corps | O-49 | Vigilant

2014-08-26 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 142 496 votes : 549-149 com : 11 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
US-soldiers shooting with an anti-aircraft weapon, Remagen-bridge (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
US-Army soldiers shooting with an anti-aircraft weapon. This weapon consisted of 4 parallel-mounted 50 cal machine guns – weapons that played a pivotal role in preventing the Germans to destroy the bridge of Remagen. Hitler had ordered his troops to destroy all the bridges over the Rhine in order to prevent the Allied troops to cross the large river. But the 9th. blinded division of the US-Army secured the Ludendorff-bridge (Ludendorff-Brücke), also know as the bridge of Remagen (Brücke von Remagen). Before, German troops tried to destroy the bridge, but the explosives did not work. Some hours later, US-troops began to cross the river. Hitler, furious, ordered Göring to mobilize every available Luftwaffe aircraft to destroy the bridge, but all these missions failed.
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Anti-aircraft Warfare | Weapon (Interest) | Shooting (Disaster Type) | Brücke von Remagen | Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge)

2014-08-19 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-08-15 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-06-17 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 7 414 votes : 70-6 com : 0 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Martin B-26 Marauder squadron flying over Germany (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engined medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. After entering service with the U.S. Army, the aircraft received the reputation of a "Widowmaker" due to the early models' high rate of accidents during takeoff and landings. The Marauder had to be flown at exact airspeeds, particularly on final runway approach and when one engine was out. The 150 mph (241 km/h) speed on short final runway approach was intimidating to pilots who were used to much slower speeds, and whenever they slowed down below what the manual stated, the aircraft would stall and crash. The B-26 became a safer aircraft once crews were re-trained, and after aerodynamics modifications. The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss rate of any USAAF bomber. Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-26_Marauder
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Douglas A-26 Invader | Martin B-26 Marauder (Aircraft Model) | US-Bombers over Germany | 1945 in color | aerial views | aerial footage

2014-06-10 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 32 960 votes : 241-30 com : 10 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
B-17- and B-24 Liberator squadrons flying over Germany (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Introduced in 1938, the Boeing B-17 was the foremost bomber in World War 2. Of the 1.5 million tons of bombs dropped on Germany and its territories by the U.S, 640,000 tons were dropped by the B-17. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was also an American heavy bomber. Often compared with the better-known Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 had a more modern design with a higher top speed, a greater range, and a heavier bomb load; it was also more difficult to fly, with heavy control forces and poor formation-flying characteristics. Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | Consolidated B-24 Liberator (Aircraft Model) | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (Aircraft Model) | US-Bombers over Germany | 1945 in color | aerial views | aerial footage

2014-06-03 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 9 791 votes : 145-2 com : 5 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Four P-51D Mustang fly in a line (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Among the 4 fighters that appear in this video is the P-51D Mustang s/n 44-14275 WR-F 'Down for Double' flown by LtCol. Gordon M Graham of the 354th FS, 355th FG. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II, the Korean War and other conflicts. The Mustang was conceived, designed and built by North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a specification issued directly to NAA by the British Purchasing Commission. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed. From late 1943, P-51Bs (supplemented by P-51Ds from mid-1944) were used by the USAAF's Eighth Air Force to escort bombers in raids over Germany, while the RAF's 2 TAF and the USAAF's Ninth Air Force used the Merlin-powered Mustangs as fighter-bombers, roles in which the Mustang helped ensure Allied air superiority in 1944. Information source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | SFP 186 | Special Film Project 186 | North American P-51 Mustang (Aircraft Model) | mustang p51 | P-51 Fighter | P-51D Mustang Down for Trouble | War Aircrafts | aerial views | aerial footage | 1945 in color

2014-05-11 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-05-09 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 126 310 votes : 437-90 com : 17 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Hitler's destroyed Berghof in Berchtesgaden (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
On 25 April 1945, five days before Hitler's suicide, four-engined bombers of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command attacked the Berghof and its surroundings. After the air raid, the Berghof itself was only slightly damaged. On 4 May 1945, allied forces occupied Berchtesgaden without a fight. The occupation of the Obersalzberg was a that prestigious goal that American and French units had delivered a race to it. Before the allied forces could reach the Berghof, SS-men had put the damaged Berghof on fire. After that, the population plundered the building. According to German documentary-producer Guido Knopp a team of former U.S. military intelligence service CIC took into custody also Hitler's sister Paula Hitler who had been hiding near the Berghof.
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | Berghof (Structure) | Berchtesgaden (City/Town/Village) | 1945 in color | Adolf Hitler (Military Commander) | Nazi Germany (Country)

2014-05-08 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-05-08 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 330 007 votes : 837-88 com : 84 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Berlin 1945, color film footage showing life in the destroyed city (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
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." Text Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Motion_Picture_Unit
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | Special Film Project 186 | First Motion Picture Unit | Owen Crump | SFP 186 | Berlin after the bombs | 1945 in color | Battle Of Berlin (Event) | Shell | Großadmiral Prinz Heinrich Straße | Battle Of Berlin (Military Conflict)

2014-05-06 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 4 736 votes : 44-1 com : 1 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
303rd. Bomb Group (Hells Angels) celebrates German surrender, 8.5.1945 | (Y) | | |
Burning signs on the soil. Soldiers from the 303rd. Bomb Group sit together and laugh. Two pilots stand before a panel and look at the newspaper headline "Germany quits". 8,960 men served in the 303rd. Bombardment Group (H) "Hell's Angels" during World War II. The 303rd Bomb Group was a B-17 Bomber Group stationed at Molesworth, England from 1942 to 1945. Their motto was "Might in Flight". B-17G #42-38050 Thunderbird was one of the 303rd's most famous aircrafts and one of the few B-17s to fly over 100 combat missions.
WW2 | Hells Angels (Organization) | Bomberpilots celebrate victory | Special Film Project 186 | World War 2 | WWII | First Motion Picture Unit | German Instrument Of Surrender | 1945 in color | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | Unedited Footage | Footage | World War II | Victory In Europe Day (Event) | VE-Day | SFP 186

2014-05-05 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-04-29 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-04-22 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 13 694 votes : 60-4 com : 2 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Dangerous landing in a military glider, type CG-4A (SFP 186) | (Y) | | |
Pilot or co- pilot injured when landing in a glider in 1945. Landing and unloading of several American gliders, that supplied the troops with material. One of the landings fails, the wing breaks off and the injured pilot is carried away by medics. Gliders were of central importance to supply the troops with material. They were towed by motorized military aircraft and then released. Often they landed behind enemy lines. The Waco CG-4 Haig (also known as "Hadrian") was a commonly used gliders in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. The first flight tests began in 1942. Overall 15 companies including the Wicks Aircraft Company of Kansas City (Missouri) produced more than 12,000 CG-4A. 1,074 CG-4A were built by Waco Aircraft Company in Troy (Ohio ). The CG-4A consisted of plywood and metal. Every glider was flown by a pilot and a copilot. Up to 13 soldiers could be transported with equipment or a jeep or a quarter-ton truck, or a 75-mm howitzer. The gliders were loaded on their unfolded bow section. After their landing, the aircrafts were immediately discharged and then abandoned. Normally, Curtiss C-46 or Douglas C-47 Dakota were used as tow planes. Text Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_CG-4A
Waco CG-4 Haig | World War 2 | aircraft | Special Film Project 186 | Glider-pilot injured after crash | WW2 | Military Glider | WWII | US Army Air Force | Rare Footage | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Hadrian | assault glider | World War II | First Motion Picture Unit | SFP 186 | 1945 in color | Waco CG-4 (Aircraft Model) | Glider (Invention) | Glider (Aircraft Type)

2014-04-15 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 41 337 votes : 283-56 com : 3 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, about the extermination of the Jews | (Y) | | |
Excerpt from the documentary "Geheime Reichssache - the defendants of the 20th July 1944 in front of the Nazi People's Court". German and English subtitles available! Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (10.07.1900 in Munich - 23.05.1945 in Lüneburg) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Nazi Germany. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler later appointed him Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the administration of the entire Third Reich (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung). Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service. He studied agronomy in college, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Hitler. Over the next 16 years, he developed the SS from a mere 290-man battalion into a powerful group with its own military, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known to have good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). On Hitler's behalf, Himmler formed the Einsatzgruppen and built extermination camps. As facilitator and overseer of the concentration camps, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Romani people, and other victims; the total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people. Most of them were Polish and Soviet citizens. Late in World War II, Hitler charged Himmler with the command of the Army Group Upper Rhine and the Army Group Vistula; he failed to achieve his assigned objectives and Hitler replaced him in these posts. Shortly before the end of the war, realising that the war was lost, he attempted to open peace talks with the western Allies without Hitler's knowledge. Hearing of this, Hitler dismissed him from all his posts in April 1945 and ordered his arrest. Himmler attempted to go into hiding, but was detained and then arrested by British forces once his identity became known. While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945. Text Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | Heinrich Himmler (Activist) | Schutzstaffel (Organization) | The Holocaust (Disaster)

2014-04-08 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 62 353 votes : 298-27 com : 31 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Count Schwerin von Schwanenfeld remains steadfast against Roland Freisler | (Y) | | |
Schwerin was born the son of the diplomat Ulrich von Schwerin. He lived until the age of twelve with his parents and sisters almost exclusively abroad. Only then his father received as Prussian envoy a German domestic use in Dresden. The family was politically very interested. The environment was conservative, the education christian and strict. Schwerin gained practical political experience in the confrontation of the German minority with the Polish state. The vast majority of Germans of the former Prussian provinces of West Prussia and Posen, who had come through Versailles to Poland, "opted" for Germany. Those who remained in the corridor were especially Germans, who were bound by possession. The minority organized itself to defend its securitized by the League of rights. Here, the Foreign Office in Berlin and the League of Nations in Geneva were the main point of contact. Schwerin was for many years the voice of the minority leadership in Poland, which itself could not travel freely in the ministries in Berlin. Within the German minority it came to clashes between the established leadership and the NS-friendly Jungdeutschen Party. Schwerin made his first negative experiences with the Nazis as a student in 1923 as an eyewitness to the march on the Feldherrenhalle. He followed the rise of the NSDAP from 1930 increasingly critical. Hitler's behavior after the murder of Potempa in August 1932 ment a crossroads for him. Schwerin commented on the murders of 30 June 1934 with the words "who does not even get it now ..." during the so-called Röhm-Putsch. On the 20th July 1944 Schwerin was in the center of the coup, in the premises of the commander of the Reserve Army in the War Office (now the German Resistance Memorial Center in the Stauffenbergstraße) in Berlin. He was arrested after the failure of the coup along with Yorck, Schulenburg and others shortly before midnight. Schwerin's detention stations were the house prison of the Gestapo at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8, the cell block of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and again the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse. He was sentenced to death and confiscation of property in the fourth trial of the members of the coup on 21 August 1944 by the People's Court under the chairmanship of its President Roland Freisler. During the interrogation Schwerin called as a motive for his resistance activities "the many murders that happened at home as abroad," before he was shouted down by Freisler and was described as "shabby lump". On 8 September 1944 the judgment in the prison in Berlin Plotzensee was carried out. His wife, sons and mother came also into custody in Güstrow and Dresden, the two elder sons (second son was Christoph Andreas Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld) have been put in the Kinderinternierungslager Bad Sachsa later. His body, together with those of the other five executed have been cremated in the crematorium Wilmersdorf on the 8th September 1944. His ashes were passed the next day in a reservoir to the Reich Ministry of Justice. In 1978 his widow erected on the Forest Cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem in the Dept. 10A-11 a cenotaph with epitaph, which is maintained as a memorial grave of the State of Berlin. Translated from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Wilhelm_Graf_Schwerin_von_Schwanenfeld
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | Roland Freisler (Activist) | Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld | Volksgerichtshof | Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus | Nazism (Idea)

2014-04-01 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 2 635 votes : 29-9 com : 1 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
USA saved West-Berlin from Soviet takeover | (Y) | | |
Excerpt from the documentary film "Test for the West" that has won on the first Berlinale festival 1962 the Silver Bear. Women begin to clear the rubble, while their husbands either have died or are still in captivity. For the children war is indeed over, but there is never enough to eat. When the Soviets try to take over West-Berlin by means of a blockade, the United States do not give up the city but provide it with a unique airlift.
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | West Berlin | Soviet Union (Country)

2014-03-25 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 2 868 889 votes : 8757-1388 com : 227 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
German war prisoners, 1945 (in color) | (Y) | | |
Rare color footage of German war prisoners in captivity of the US Army in Germany, 1945. The music track is "Slump" by Antoine Marsaud: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/slump/id1016480793?i=1016481190 0:26 This prisoner is most probably Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski, known as Erich von Manstein (1887 - 1973). He was a German commander of the Wehrmacht and attained the rank of field marshal. Born into an aristocratic Prussian family with a long history of military service, Manstein joined the army at a young age and saw service on several fronts during the First World War (1914–18). He rose to the rank of captain by the end of the war and was active in the inter-war period helping Germany rebuild her armed forces. In September 1939, during the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was serving as Chief of Staff to Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group South. Adolf Hitler chose Manstein's strategy for the invasion of France of May 1940, a plan later refined by Franz Halder and other members of the OKH. Anticipating a firm Allied reaction should the main thrust of the invasion take place through the Netherlands, Manstein devised an innovative tactic—later known as the Sichelschnitt ("sickle cut")—that called for an attack through the woods of the Ardennes and a rapid drive to the English Channel, thus cutting off the French and Allied armies in Belgium and Flanders. Attaining the rank of general at the end of the campaign, he was active in the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942), and was promoted to field marshal on 1 July 1942. He also participated in the Siege of Leningrad. Germany's fortunes in the war began to take an unfavourable turn later in 1942, especially in the ruinous and strategically catastrophic Battle of Stalingrad, where Manstein commanded a failed relief effort in December. Later known as the "backhand blow", Manstein's counteroffensive in the Third Battle of Kharkov (February–March 1943) regained substantial territory and resulted in the destruction of three Soviet armies and the retreat of three others. He was one of the primary commanders at the Battle of Kursk (July–August 1943), one of the largest tank battles in history. His ongoing disagreements with Hitler over the conduct of the war led to his dismissal in March 1944. He never obtained another command and was taken prisoner by the British in August 1945, several months after Germany's defeat. Manstein gave testimony at the main Nuremberg trials of war criminals in August 1946, and prepared a paper that, along with his later memoirs, helped contribute to the myth of a "clean Wehrmacht"—the myth that the German armed forces were not culpable for the atrocities of the Holocaust. In 1949 he was tried in Hamburg for war crimes and was convicted on nine of seventeen counts, including the poor treatment of prisoners of war and failing to protect civilian lives in his sphere of operations. His sentence of eighteen years in prison was later reduced to twelve, and he served only four years before being released in 1953. As a military advisor to the West German government in the mid-1950s, he helped re-establish the armed forces. His successful memoir, Verlorene Siege (1955), translated into English as Lost Victories, was highly critical of Hitler's leadership, and focused strictly on the military aspects of the war while ignoring its political and ethical contexts. Manstein died in Munich in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein
World War II (Event) | Special Film Project 186 | WW2 | Deutsche Wehrmacht | First Motion Picture Unit | US Army | Kriegsgefangene | WWII

2014-03-18 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 1 745 094 votes : 5959-878 com : 182 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
US-Fighters strafing on German land, 1945 (in color) | (Y) | | |
American pilots filmed their attacks on German freight trains, vehicles, factories and - like in this example - also on villages and houses in 1945. In their cameras they had color film material.
Strafing | Special Film Project 186 | Fighter Aircraft (Aircraft Type) | First Motion Picture Unit

2014-03-11 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 1 570 014 votes : 7242-865 com : 170 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Airstrikes during World War II, Germany 1945 (in color) | (Y) | | |
American pilots filmed their airstrikes on German freight trains, vehicles and factories in 1945. In their cameras they had color film material. At 6:00 it comes to a massive explosion, probably after fuel tanks have been hit.
World War II (Event) | Special Film Project 186 | Footage (Media Genre) | Airstrike (Cause Of Death) | First Motion Picture Unit | Alliied airstrikes | color film

2014-03-02 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 926 598 votes : 5434-556 com : 96 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Last words by Albert Speer at the Nuremberg Trials (with subtitles) | (Y) | | |
On 31 August, the 260th day of trial, all defendants were allowed to hold a brief conclusion, that had not to be submitted to the court before. "Mr. President, Members of the Court! Hitler and the collapse of his regime have brought an incredible time of suffering on the German people. The useless continuation of the war and the unnecessary destruction make the reconstruction to be a very hard task. Privation and misery have come over the German people. It will, after this process, deprise and condemn Hitler as the proven author of its misfortune. But the world will learn from the Happened not only to hate the dictatorship as form of government but also to fear it. [...] What means my own destiny, after all what happened and in regards of such a high purpose? The German people did in earlier centuries contributed much to the development of human culture. It often has brought these contributions in times where it was just as powerless and helpless as it is today. Valuable people don't let themselves being driven to despair. [...] But a people that believes in its future will not be lost. God saves Germany and the western culture!"
Nuremberg Trials (Event) | Albert Speer (Author) | Adolf Hitler | death sentence | Ww2 | World War II (Event) | Germany | Nazi Germany (Country)

2014-02-25 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 35 597 votes : 180-12 com : 18 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, returns from exile in 1945 (in color) | (Y) | | |
Charlotte of Nassau-Weilburg (23.01.1896 - 9.07.1985) was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964 and Duchess of Nassau. After the occupation of Luxembourg on 10 May 1940 by German troops the Grand Duchess and her family and the government fled to exile in Canada and London via France, Portugal and the United States. From 1940 to 1944, the Grand Duchess became a symbol of freedom and independence of her country through her radio talks on the BBC. During this time she visited in 1941 Luxembourg emigrant groups and clubs in the United States. Then she traveled in 1942 and 1943 on the so-called "goodwill tours" through the United States. On 25 August 1942 the Grand Ducal family was received by U.S. President Roosevelt. Finally, on 10 September 1944 the city of Luxembourg had been liberated by American troops. Prince Felix and hereditary Grand Duke Jean returned the same day and were enthusiastically acclaimed by the population. On 14 April 1945 also the Grand Duchess returned from exile. After having returned, she visited the villages and towns of the country that had been destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge. Translated text by Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_(Luxemburg)
Footage (Media Genre) | Charlotte of Nassau-Weilburg | Battle of the Bulge | First Motion Picture Unit | Grand Duchess of Luxembourg | hereditary Grand Duke Jean | Prince Felix | Special Film Project 186 | Luxembourg (Country)

2014-02-19 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 1 127 votes : 14-2 com : 1 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Cathedral, Berlin 1945 (in color) | (Y) | | |
Footage in color of the Berlin Russian Orthodox Church, located at Hohenzollerndamm. It was built in 1938. Today it is the church of the Berlin Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Joseph Stalin, November 7, 1941: "Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain."
World War II (Event) | Special Film Project 186 | Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Cathedral | Moscow Patriarchate | Archbishop Mark | Eastern Orthodox Church (Religion) | Mikhail Divakov | Germany | Joseph Stalin (Author) | Adolf Hitler (Author) | First Motion Picture Unit

2014-02-17 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-02-14 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 15 983 votes : 128-4 com : 1 (fr)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Flying over the ruins of Berlin in 1945 (in color), Part 3 | (Y) | | |
The Allied air raids on Berlin in World War II were flown by British, American and some French bombers, also there were some Soviet air raids on Berlin. Overall, there were 310 air raids on Berlin. The first air raid took place in the night of 7th on the 8th June 1940. Given the experience of the First World War, the fear of an attack with chemical weapons was still high and the population was asked during the air raids to wear respirators because they feared the use of gas bombs. On the same night, an industrial district was attacked by a French aircraft. On 25 August, the Royal Air Force attacked for the first time in Berlin. One day before, the German Air Force had for the first time dropped bombs on London during the Battle of Britain. The British had by then deliberately not attacked Berlin, on the one hand, for fear of a German counter-attack against London, on the other hand because of the large distance of Berlin from the British Isles and the strong air defense. Medium attacks continued until the end of 1941, when, after a particularly costly attack on 7/8 November (21 of 169 aircraft were lost) a strategic rethinking began. The British focused from now on lighter targets such as the Ruhr. From the 16th January 1943 to 30 March 1943 the Tempelhof district, the Deutschlandhalle, St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the great auditorium of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Berlin, the German Opera House in Bismarck Street, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the comedy were destroyed. Moreover, 600 major fires caused damages to 20,000 houses, entire neighborhoods were partially destroyed. Several hundred people died. From 2 to 26 November 1943, entire neighborhoods were destroyed, as well as the main building of the Technical University of Berlin, many buildings of the institute in the area, the Zoological Garden Berlin, the School of Engineering Beuth in Berlin-Wedding, the head office of the Berlin Transport Services in Köthen (Berlin - Kreuzberg), the Chemical Institute of the Agricultural College of Berlin, the Haus der Berliner Burschenschaft Arminia, the office of the German Pharmaceutical society and the Holy Trinity Church (at the corner Mauserstrasse / Kanonierstrasse - today: Glinka street in Berlin-Mitte), as well as the KaDeWe in the Tauentzienstraße (Berlin- Schöneberg) and the transmitter of the TV broadcasting station Paul Nipkow. During this period, nearly a thousand people died. In December 1943, the hotel Fürstenhof, parts of the S-Bahn on Sundgauer Strasse Station, parts of the St. Bernhard church in Berlin-Dahlem, the Berlin-Lichtenrade parish school, the building of the Berlin University and the village church Lichtenrade were destroyed by fire and bombs. In addition, there was extensive damage to many homes. In the evening hours of 27 January the British Royal Air Force attacked Berlin with 481 bombers. They threw 1,761 tons of bombs on the city, while 33 aircrafts were lost. According to the report of the High Command of the Wehrmacht especially densely populated residential areas and cultural sites had been destroyed by mines, explosive-, incendiary and phosphorus bombs. As of April 1944, the German fuel production were attacked by the Americans to reduce the supply of aircraft and tanks. On 3 February 1945 Berlin was attacked by 958 U.S. bombers of which 939 came through the German defense line. On 26 February 1945 1,184 U.S. aircraft reached Berlin and threw 1628.7 tons of explosive bombs and 1258 tons of incendiary bombs. On 18 March 1945, a Sunday, began shortly after 11 in the morning the largest air raid on Berlin. 916 B-24 and 305 B-17s of the 8th U.S. Air Force, accompanied by 632 fighters, dropped more than 4,000 tons of bombs. This mainly affected the government district and the area around the Schlesischer Bahnhof. Berlin was the German city with the most air attacks. Nevertheless, the number of casualties remained lower than for example in Hamburg. The author Jörg Friedrich mentions in his book a total of 11,367 deaths. In Berlin (unlike in other German cities with denser buildings or in valleys such Wuppertal or Stuttgart) no firestorm had occured. Text translated from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftangriffe_der_Alliierten_auf_Berlin
Neue Wache | Palast der Republik | Brandenburger Tor | Battle Of Berlin (Event) | Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof (Transit Stop) | Deutsches Historisches Museum | B-17 Bomber | Unter den Linden | zerstörte Stadt | Stadtschloss Berlin (Building) | Berlin | Bomben | Special Film Project 186 | Straße des 17. Juni | Hotel Adlon | B-24 Bomber | Humboldt Universität | Zeughaus | Royal Air Force (Organization) | Zweiter Weltkrieg | Ruinen | Luftangriffe | Feuersturm | Sprengbomben | Brandbomben

3 Vidéos en Anglais

2015-01-12 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-12-03 | HORS-SUJET |

2014-05-17 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 51 079 votes : 291-35 com : 0 (en)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Corpses of Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children | (Y) | Joseph Goebbels |
On May 1, 1945 around 22 clock, Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide, probably with cyanide. According to the statement of Goebbels ' secretary Schwägermann Goebbels has shot himself while his wife has poisoned herself. This is contradicted by the autopsy results of the incompletely burned bodies, carried out by the Red Army. Shortly before, the SS-doctor Helmut Kunz had drugged their six children, who were then murdered by Magda Goebbels and Hitler's personal doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger with cyanide capsules. On May 2, 1945, around 17 clock three Soviet officers entered the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Just meters away from the emergency exit of the Führerbunker they discovered the bodies of Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda; their dead children Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holde, Hedda and Heide had already been found in the nursery of the bunker of the Reich Chancellery. Magda Goebbels had directed the murder of the children just hours before her own death. Joseph Goebbels was the only Nazi minister who remained in the bunker with his "leader" until the last moment. "In the delirium of betrayal that surrounds the Führer, at least one man must stay with unconditional loyalty next to him", he wrote in a postscript to Hitler's political testament. No insight, no regrets. The soviet report states: "The man's body was of low stature, the foot of the right leg (clubfoot) stuck in a half squat position, in a charred metal prosthesis; the remains of a charred party uniform of the Nazi party and a singed Golden party badge lay on him; at the charred corpse of the woman a scorched gold cigarette case was discovered; on the body a Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP and one seared golden brooch. At the head of the two bodies lay two Walther pistols No. 1"
World War II | World War 2 | Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | WWII | WW2 | Horrible nazi suicide | Corpses of the Goebbels family | Nazism (Idea) | Goebbels suicide | Goebbels suizid | Goebbels Familie | Joseph Goebbels suicide | Joseph Goebbels suizid | Goebbels Selbstmord | Goebbels Familie Selbstmord | Goebbels Kinder | Goebbels children | Goebbels enfants

4 Vidéos Autres Langues

2018-03-21 | HORS-SUJET |

2016-02-16 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 240 780 votes : 1048-159 com : 22 (de)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Deutsche Jagdpanzer (Tank destroyers) | (Y) | | |
0:14 Panzerkampfwagen VI „Tiger“ "Der Panzerkampfwagen VI „Tiger“ war ein schwerer deutscher Panzer. Aufgrund seiner starken Hauptwaffe und des hohen Panzerschutzes war der Tiger einer der kampfstärksten Panzer [...]. Als schwerwiegende Nachteile galten neben der konventionellen Formgebung ohne geneigte Panzerung die aufwendige Herstellung, seine Untermotorisierung, die geringe Reichweite und eine störanfällige Technik in Verbindung mit einem hohen Instandsetzungsbedarf, welche die Mobilität des Panzers erheblich einschränkte. Infolgedessen gingen mehr Fahrzeuge durch mechanische Defekte und Selbstzerstörung als durch direkte Feindeinwirkung verloren. Obwohl die strategische Bedeutung des Tigers aufgrund der niedrigen Produktionszahl von nur 1350 Exemplaren gering war, gilt er als einer der bekanntesten Panzer [...]" Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_VI_Tiger 11:22 Jagdpanzer 11:41 Innerhalb eines Jagdpanzers "Ein Jagdpanzer ist ein zur Panzerabwehr konzipierter Panzer. Ursprünglich waren sie mit einer Kanone ausgestattet, ab der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts auch mit Raketenbestückung." Ab August 1944 hat die deutsche Armee fast nur noch Verteidigungsaufgaben, für die der Jagdpanzer perfekt ausgestattet war. Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanzer 12:09 Tiger II "Der Panzerkampfwagen II war ein leichter Panzer, der Mitte der 1930er-Jahre von MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) entwickelt worden war. Als erkannt wurde, dass die Produktion der für die Ausstattung der Panzerdivisionen vorgesehenen zwei Haupttypen Panzer III und Panzer IV länger als angenommen dauern würde, entschloss sich das Heereswaffenamt im Juli 1934, als Zwischenlösung ein schnell zu fertigendes Kampffahrzeug in der 10-Tonnen-Klasse in Auftrag zu geben, welches die Lücke bis zum Erscheinen der Panzer III und IV schließen sollte. Von 1935 bis Ende 1942 wurden rund 1.900 Panzer II hergestellt." Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_II
Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | Tank | PzKpfWg | Tiger | Kampfwagen | Panzer | Kampfpanzer | Bovington Tank Museum | Dorset | England | Tiger II | Königstiger | King Tiger | Winston Churchill | Georg VI. | T-34 | Michael Wittmann | Falaise | Normandie | Jagdpanzer | Tiger B | Eisenhower | Jagdpanther | Tank Killer | Panzerkiller

2016-02-12 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 60 000 votes : 253-49 com : 17 (de)
World War Footage | (Y) | (Ajax)
Sowjet-Panzer KW-1 gegen die deutschen Panzer Typ II und IV | (Y) | | |
2:38 KW-1 3:30 Panzer III 3:58 Panzer IV "Der KW-1war ein sowjetischer Panzer, benannt nach dem Befehlshaber und Politiker Marschall Kliment Jefremowitsch Woroschilow. Der KW galt nach der sowjetischen Terminologie als schwerer Panzer. Er besaß anfangs eine bis dahin nicht gekannte starke Panzerung [...] sowie eine 76,2-mm-Kanone. Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 20 km/h im Gelände war relativ gering und die Kraftübertragung unzuverlässig, so dass diese Panzer öfter mit Defekten liegen blieben, als dass sie durch Feindeinwirkung zerstört wurden. ie Versuche, den KW weiterzuentwickeln, führten zu einer neuen Serie schwerer sowjetischer Panzer, die mit dem IS-1 ihren Anfang fand und die die KW gegen Ende 1943 ersetzten." Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KW-1 "Der Panzerkampfwagen III und der Panzerkampfwagen IV waren mittlere deutsche Panzer. Als Standardmodell für die künftigen Panzer-Divisionen vorgesehen, war der Panzer III mit einer panzerbrechenden Kanone für die Panzerbekämpfung ausgerüstet, während der bauähnliche Panzer IV als Unterstützungsfahrzeug dienen sollte. Anfangs nur in sehr geringen Stückzahlen hergestellt, wurde der von Krupp entwickelte und ab 1937 produzierte Panzer IV mit 8500 Exemplaren der meistgebaute deutsche Panzerkampfwagen. Der zunächst mit einer kurzen Kanone ausgestattete Panzer [...] änderte sich mit dem Einbau einer langen Kanone grundlegend." Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_III https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_IV
Footage | Unedited Footage | Raw Footage | Rare Footage | PzKpfWg | Tiger | Tank | Kampfwagen | Panzer | Kampfpanzer | Bovington Tank Museum | Dorset | England | Russland | Tank Heavy KV1B | Klimenti Voroshilov | Rudolf von Ribbentrop | T-34

2016-02-09 | HORS-SUJET |

vus : 2 828 votes : 21-2 com : 1 (de)
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Panzerkraftwagen Typ VI, aka Tiger | (Y) | | |
0:13 Panzerkampfwagen VI in Bovington Tank Museum "Der Panzerkampfwagen VI „Tiger“ war ein schwerer deutscher Panzer, der vom Alleinhersteller Henschel in Kassel von 1942 bis 1944 gefertigt und von der Wehrmacht ab Spätsommer 1942 eingesetzt wurde. Aufgrund seiner starken Hauptwaffe und des hohen Panzerschutzes war der Tiger einer der kampfstärksten Panzer [...]. Als schwerwiegende Nachteile galten neben der konventionellen Formgebung ohne geneigte Panzerung die aufwendige Herstellung, seine Untermotorisierung, die geringe Reichweite und eine störanfällige Technik in Verbindung mit einem hohen Instandsetzungsbedarf, welche die Mobilität des Panzers erheblich einschränkte. Infolgedessen gingen mehr Fahrzeuge durch mechanische Defekte und Selbstzerstörung als durch direkte Feindeinwirkung verloren. Obwohl die strategische Bedeutung des Tigers aufgrund der niedrigen Produktionszahl von nur 1350 Exemplaren gering war, gilt er als einer der bekanntesten Panzer [...]" Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_VI_Tiger 4:41 Ausgestellter Panzer I in Bovington Tank Museum "Der Panzerkampfwagen I war ein deutscher leichter Panzer der 1930er-Jahre. Er war der erste deutsche Panzerkampfwagen, der in Serie produziert wurde. Zwischen 1934 und 1937 entstanden knapp 1500 Fahrzeuge, wobei es neben den Hauptausführungen „A“ und „B“ noch mehrere Weiterentwicklungen und Abarten gab." Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_I
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