Germany has been defeated, but not yet occupied. While the Red Army is already on the Oder, the Allies in the West are making slow progress. Only when Cologne is conquered and the bridge at Remagen falls into the hands of the Americans does the Wehrmacht’s will to defend itself weaken. Now American camera teams are also allowed into the areas liberated by the Nazis. The first destination is the bridge at Remagen, which has already become a legend. The evacuated inhabitants of Cologne return to their destroyed city. Impressive colour photographs show the faces of the defeated. Other teams of the “Special Film Project 186” and the Hollywood director George Stevens follow the US troops on their way through the Westerwald towards Thuringia.
Some really neat footage I don’t think I’ve seen before.
edit: (CW: The Holocaust) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjgzYuWgFk This channel also has a documentary from the same director which follows the liberation of Dachau in colour.
Nuremberg, Hitler’s “city of the Reich Party Rallies” has capitulated after a bloody house battle. At the end of April, the city and its surroundings are a preferred operational area for the camera teams of the “Special Film Project 186”. Meanwhile, Hollywood director George Stevens is heading south. In Dachau concentration camp, his team documents the horrors of National Socialist extermination policies. They also film one of the evacuation transports from the death camps in the East. Stevens: “It was as if we were walking through Dante’s visions of hell”. At the beginning of May the photojournalists reach Obersalzberg, Hitler’s private refuge in the Alps.
The End of the War in Colour: Episode IV - Visions of Hell / Directed by Michael Kloft
The videos cool, but something about that smugness when narrating about the german inability to recognize their own complicity in the Nazi’s genocide really got me heated. Real fucking tone deaf considering the current genocide these smug fucks support implicitly. USians, Germans, French, etc
Anyways. Muted with no subtitles this is some interesting footage, I’ve never seen WWII footage like this in color.
I like the one German woman who said that people would learn nothing and repeat the same old shit in 20 years. That holocaust denialism is infuriating to see but something we need to see in an era of Antideutsche and Feddit genocide denialism.
Now American camera teams are also allowed into the areas liberated by the Nazis.
I think it’s meant to be “from the nazis” ?
I found YouTube links in your post. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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