German surrender 1945, heer, fallshirmjager and luftwaffe troops UNIQUE FOOTAGE

Unique footage of the surrender and disarmament of german troops. Lots a detailed uniform and equipement can be seen in good quality. The location is between Soest and Hilversum, may 1945.

[MrWolf-kdyh]

My grandfather was in the 6th panzer army and survived the battle of Stalingrad where he was captured by the Russians. His resolve and unbreakable spirit saw him coming back home to his family in 1956.
He out lived everyone he knew and made it into his 100 birthday.
He is a good man and always proud of him.
Don't let bad leadership paint the broad brush for good honorable everyday men

[frankteunissen]

My Father was from Nijmegen. He was 17 at the time and he had learned English in school and spoke fluent German because Nijmegen is right next to the German border. He worked as an interpreter first for the Americans and later the Canadians. One of his tasks was interpreting the interrogation of POWs. He said that on the whole it was a sad business. Some of the things he saw caused him nightmares, making him sit screaming upright in bed in the middle of the night from time to time, right until he died in 2004. My Mother learned to cope with his episodes fairly early on in her marriage. She never complained or anything, just reckoned it was part of the deal she had made at the altar.

[boudiccasbattalion]

yep this is my dads battalion ( 1st Leicestershire Reg, 147th Brigade, 49th division, The Polar Bears ) enjoying themselves disarming these German units. My dad ( lance cpl Les Hall )was in Blackpool at this time eating dinner I expect, as he had just been liberated from a prisoner of war camp by the Yanks and flown back to blighty after being captured at Arnhem .He had spent 6 months being starved, beaten up and forced march across Europe in the worst winter in living memory so even he was glad to go to Blackpool, where he put back on the 4 and ahalf stone he had lost...Incidentally, the Leicestershires replaced the 6th Duke of Wellington Reg in July of 44 after the Dukes suffered fantastic bad luck and very heavy casualties, so heavy in fact, that they were returned to England to reform .My father was in both regiments and like most vets never talked about his war experiences however reading the war diaries of the regiments its amazing he survived especially when you consider he was shot in the head.., which is never great ..lots of mess and missing teeth..and as he said to me one drunken time .." I got the rest kicked out playing Rugby league" ...i dont think they make them like that any more ...needless to say he was very bitter about the war particularly his lost friends ...I dont think he ever got over his experiences, PTSD wasnt a thing in those days and like all his generation never complain about his lot he just got on with things ...ps he was just turned 19 years old when he landed in Normandy D plus 7...

[fleetwoodmac]

My father was an RAF pilot who worked with BAOR after the war. He told me that most Germans regretted having lost the war but few showed any contrition about having been part of it.

[laserprop]

If I was one of those soldiers, either side, I'd be sitting there all day counting and recounting my fingers and toes, ecstatic that I had survived the slaughter.

[micahjamesfilms]

This is haunting. What a stark contrast to see some calm after so much violence. War is asinine.

[karstenpaulsen]

My father fought until 4th May 1945 as a member of the Alarmbattallion 1. He was wounded and captured by Canadian soldiers in the near of Oldersum. In this area the last hard fights where done.

[mbabist]

My late father was drafted near the end of WW II and served in the Army of Occupation. One time he had to guard a work detail of German POW's. The Germans learned that an American colonel was coming for an inspection. They asked dad if it was true that American officers carried their own kit (instead of a batman), and dad affirmed it. So, instead of taking the chow truck back to camp, they all waited behind to see if what dad told them was true. Sure enough, this colonel got out of this jeep carrying his own luggage. It really made the Germans day seeing that.

[paulgabolinscy]

Great footage. Some of those soldiers were so young.
Thanks for posting 🇬🇧

[harimurtiwibowo]

No more war. War just makes people suffering, pain, starving and crying. Let peace comes into the world forever.

[LouishWaltz]

I knew a man who fought in this war, who we used to talk to walking his dog around the local park.
I visited him sometime in the early 2000's and he showed me photos he had taken during his time fighting in the war.
I never forget the ones he took of them all celebrating with a beer in a makeshift beer tent, when the war was declared 'over'.
I only hope his photos were kept, treasured and perhaps shared by his family.

[graemedurie]

Some of those troops on both sides, captors and captives, look so young. There's one captive who looks no more than 15.

[buttersstotch]

That Luftwaffe officer with sunglasses on the car looks like a coolest dude of the WWII 1:02

[PauloPereira-jjjv]

I just can't imagine how sad is the end of such a war, when everything is over - and at the same time is not. There are so many work ahead.

[nero]

My great grandfather fought from 1944 to 1945; he was apart of the 69th Infantry Division 273rd Infantry Regiment. Although I don't no much since he pasted when I was little. My Gram told me he never really talked about it since he hated it, he hated war. I get that since he was just a farmer and only 18 and thrown into a war.

[ariesrcn]

1:27 you see a German military police on the right. They were the last to disarm and often worked with allied forces to keep the peace after Germanys surrender.

[alancameron]

My Uncle was stationed in Soest.Last tour of duty.Bless the sacred memory.

[sonnyburnett]

Two of my Uncles fought in WWll, one in Europe and the other against Japan. “WHEN” I could get a story out of them they would always try to make the stories not sound awful, but you knew it had to. How do you tell a humorous story about people trying to kill you. They genuinely sacrificed themselves for our good. Thank you vets!

[Scottie]

These German soldiers should thank God they weren't taken prisoner by the Red Army.

[Blackmoonu]

Those former German soldiers captured in the west were who rebuild Germany and alloued this country to have strong economy