LOL, there was no German history before Bismark! It's hard to get Americans and Englishmen to hate Germans, because so many Americans and Englishmen ARE Germans.
@kevinwalsh1619 Haha yea. All real germans left and kicked everyone out of gaul before becoming france. After that literaly nothing happened until the late 19th centuary in original germany
the movie is very interesting and it should be a lesson for us all , they now are the most powerfull country in Europe and the people are very smart , if people respect them they can bring a lot of good things to the world there is no need for war to push things ahead
The great irony of this film is that they sons (& now grandsons & even great grandsons) of those WWII soldiers wound up going to Germany. It was considered one of the plummest assigments one could pull. A very strange thing.
But this can not be considered propaganda. It was meant as an informational & practical video preparing troops for occupation duty. No one had any idea what would happen. Most thought WWIII would begin immediately w/ the Soviets.
The non-fraternization policy in Germany was a failure almost from the outset. The GI's liked the German people better than any Europeans they'd met except the Dutch. And it was virtually impossible for GI's NOT to make friends with kids - and vice versa! In the end, the non-fraternization policy was never officially ended - it simply disintegrated.
Designers of western propaganda knew well the effects of propaganda on youths, they still show children between 2'd and 6'th grade propaganda videos designed to make them hate & fear communism and socialism, designed to be tedious and build associations at an emotional level by use of imagery, tone, and musical numbers that shift from festive to somber and menacing.
They stop showing these videos after the 6'th grade because children start retaining details and questioning what they're taught.
Any one else find it ironic that this video starts out to a German song (Beethoven's Ode to Joy), but in all seriousness, the saddest part about this video is that when Hitler first started using propaganda to make the jews, blacks, gypsies, and cripppled people look inferior to the "higher race" they were simmilar, but somewhat milder than this ( and videos like this are being shown to people in other countries around the world to turn them aginst others).
i look forward to when people will stop critisizing germans, ive heard enough hate towards german people, i cant stand it, im german decent, sure there are a few things in german history i cant exactly be proud of, but we learn from our mistakes, and im terribly sorry if you feel that we cant be trusted, but ill have you know a bit of history, the only reason hitler was elected was because he offered free beer paid for by the nazi party to anyone who would vote for him. so we arent all bad.
Well that "some day" that the video mentioned was 4 years later,lol. As soon as the we thought that the Soviet Union was a worst threat.All the talk about the bad Germans,and never trusting them went away quick.There's not enough characters in this box to explain how the history really was.So I'll just say that the recounting of German history here,was full of mistakes,and or,half truths as to be hopeless in understanding Germany in the period 1870-1945.
@AXS512 But what do you expect from a Propaganda film? The whole point of propaganda is that it's not a full story its enough of a story to make people think the way the creators want them to think.
At the time this video was perfectly true...the germans had bin in that cycle of surprise attacks...then peace....surprise attacks...peace...like cowards....for almost 100 years....not to mention what they allowed to happen in the concentration camps alone makes them unworthy to even have their own nation(at the time)
At the time this video was perfectly true...the germans had bin in that damn cycle of surprise attacks...then peace....surprise attacks...peace...like cowards....for almost 100 years....not to mention what they allowed to happen in the concentration camps alone makes them unworthy to even have their own nation(at the time)
My dad was a low ranking officer in the MI5 and was sent into Germany in 1946 to round up stray Nazis. Occupied Germany was in ruins and another war was the last thing they wanted. Their leaders lied to them and they were shells of human beings. This propaganda was the worse kind of ass gravy. The US came up with all kinds of crap to keep their claws in Europe.
After the War there were a group of German partisians called the Weherwulfs who attached Allied Troops. Most Germans were tired of six years of war so this movement never went very far.
This kind of poison is not uniquely american, , ive beeen watching propanda films for about an hour now on youtube. But dont take my word for it..see for yourself..
Why oh why didn't we have this same kind of situational awareness after the fall of Saddam's Iraq. Not that we should have gone there in the first place but if we had it would have been better to have FDR and Truman in charge. Likewise Afghan. Have to laugh at the fraternization part tho--lots of Americans born c.1946 on have German moms.
I see nothing false or misleading in this video. I have found no untrue statements or supositions. Every single word was spot on the money. Great info.
Anyone else totally lulzing over the irony that they played GERMAN composer Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" at the exact moment when the film shouts out Americas victory over Germany?
@alphatotheomega7 Frank Capra wasn't an idiot. He was completely aware what he was doing. Germans celebrated Hitler's birthday with Beethoven's 9th. Likewise at 4:26, the warm and fuzzy Tannhauser bit. Conscious irony all of it.
Beethoven was from Bonn, which is close to Belgium and not far from France and Holland. He was closer to being Dutch if anything. His title was "van", "not von", which suggests this. He once lived in Austria, and admired both Haydn and Mozart. Schubert was Austrian and he was around at roughly the same time as Beethoven.
Hungary does the same thing with the neighbouring countries - Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, etc. in the name of the "cruel and injust" treaty of Trianon where the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed and these nations took their lands back. There are literally tones of propaganda vids denigrating these nations. And yet youtube does nothing no matter how many flags these vids have.
Even at the outbreak of WW2, the Germans were still very weak militaristically (compared to France, Britain) and economically as a result of the injustice of the Versailles treaty over a war they did not start. Whats truly interesting is that they did as well as they did. Their loss to combined forces by attrition was inevitable.
Socialism is simply the idea that working people ought to be in control of production. You seem to be arguing against authoritarianism, not socialism
Firstly this was made only a year after the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, started by Germany. Secondly the video clearly ordered the soldiers to be respectful of Germans. Thirdly this is nothing compared to the attitude of the commies in the east, who literally raped Germany.
This is not a totally unfair view of the Germans. The Germans have all been an extreme group of people, they have always felt that they have been a superior people. Now, I'm not saying that we should start invading them because their evil, because a lot of people around the wolrd are like this.
Lol Those bastard Germans! Of course some of this is kind of funny now, but I understand the sentiment and the seriousness of it then. It was overly cautious, but we needed to be because of all the shit that had happened. They didn't want to take any chances of being too friendly at the time. I'm glad I got to be stationed in Germany MANY years after the War and had a really good experience.
Thanks. That was very interesting history. It must have been creepy serving in immediate post-war Germany. Some of the worst murderers in human history were walking the streets and it took some time to find them. It was good advice for it's time. The US attitude towards rebuilding Germany saved Germany. The other Allies wanted to destroy Germany permanently.
It's funny because today roughly 60 million Americans are ethnically German. There are more people living in the United States with ancestral heritage from Germany than any other nation. They even have the Irish beat.
So we brought over high level nazis to work in everything from NASA to Pharmaceuticals (Merck for instance) - Including the Koch Bros dad who worked for Stalin THEN Hitler - and everyone wonders where our constitution went?
@mk3238 I love the American Conservative attitude of "EVERYTHING WHO'S BETTER THAN US SHOULD DIE!" You're just jealous that they figured out how to create a successful, socialist government and economic structure while the US is still struggling with the concepts of "rich people should pay more taxes than poor people", "should gay people have rights", and "unregulated businesses who control every aspect of everything and are widely responsible for our situation are better than the government".
@suspicious35 Burkina Faso was highly successful under Thomas Sankara until a French colonialist-backed coup d'etat murdered him. But I feel like I'm wasting my time, because whenever I give this example to libertarian/conservative ideologues it goes in one ear and out the other. There are no socialist countries in Europe, if we use the proper definition of socialism, which is worker's control over production, instead of the trite modern definition of "has free health care."
This may seem pretty bleak and unfair. But contrast this to Bush's "Mission Accomplished" attitude towards Iraq. Makes the Greatest Generation seem a whole lot smarter.
@stuka52 Indeed, Roosevelt knew that Wilson was incompetent when it came to foreign affairs. He vowed to abandon Wilson's mistakes and even helped reconstruct the army-less League of Nations into the armed UN; his cousin Theodore also called Wilson a "drugstore clerk." It's funny that Capra-who you think would've been a liberal with the anti-corruption theme in Mr Smith Goes To Washington and the anti-banker theme in It's a Wonderful Life- was in private a supporter of Hitler's ally Mussolini
i didn't know i was still a nazi and can't be trusted....lol. nah despite this scheemy and rediculous propaganda movie, the americans were more than awesome and definetly mingled with the rest of us germans. actually made a ton of friends and even visited them in the us. and now im married to one of the allies lol.
We should be producing videos like this but changing the word Nazis and Germans by Muslims and Islamofascists. And those videos should shown to our children from first grade. The history of terrorism and murder was not created by so called radical Muslims but by ALL Muslims on the planet. They are enablers so we should never clasp that stinky hand in friendship.
@apocalipsis82 Change the word Nazis and Germans for Tea Partiers and Republicans. What you propose is just like more Nazi propaganda. Muslims are the new Jews in this country. And you're falling for the same hate speech they did. There are a billion and a half muslims on the planet --if you were right there'd be none of us left. One thing about bigoted morons -they're bad at math.
No, Tea Partiers don't have the balls to start vicious street brawls and region-wide civil wars with Communists like the Nazis did. They're just little old ladies in tennis shoes and the "awe shucks" "Leave it to Beaver" crowd.
Until the yellings and rantings of the general public, easily led by the same politicians they bitch and reelect, lead to the willful and calculated murder of 12 million people, disregard everything that comes from their mouth and mind.
@sinistar99 People like you need to die. You are a good example of what's bringing this country to it's knees. You are the kind of person who would voluntarily walk into a prison and slam the door on himself. The muslims need idiots like you, but secretly laugh at you for being so easily lead down the well of death. I wish I could do the deed. We don't need pussies like you in America.
@apocalipsis82 are you serious? ALL Muslims? you know Al Qaeda is the one responsible for the terrorism right? That's like saying all the white people should be wiped off the planet because a group of men in Oklahoma gangbanged some chick.
Así es la guerra: la terminas y luego terminas paranoico. Lo triste es que el mundo entero debió aprender la lección que dejó la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero aun así seguimos viendo como otros humanos se matan entre sí estúpidamente.
Sure, its a xenophobic and an unfair view of Germans. But American treatment of Germans after the war was outright charitable, compared to the other allies. Its no secret that the Russians raped Eastern Germany of its assets - feminine, financial and industrial. The British were even more condescending and harsh in their view of Germany (Can you blame them?) The French occupied the a small corner of Germany and exploited its assets shamelessly. But America gave West Germany the Marshall Plan.
@Eszpresszo Yes but the Marshall plan was fought for by british foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan. Marshall may have been the father of the plan but Bevan was the midwife.
This video was more of an information movie than a propoganda movie, because we the western world. Everything in it was true, and due to this policy, there was no more war in europe after WWII
This is the worst American propaganda I've ever seen and I've seen some bad ones...not only is it morally wrong but factually as well. Luckily the American occupation force changed their strategy so as not to make the German people bitter toward them or things like this might have influenced further aggression.
u will equip urself with a plastic bag to shit in, a comic magazine to laugh at, a bottle of american air, some pictures of "german looking" american chicks, so tht german beauties won't deceive u. Have a nice day in Germany.
american troops are still in germany because the germans chose not to have an army... they could be independent, but the germans rather americans pay for military protection
@datawraith3080 Germany's had a strong army since the 50s again lol, what are you talking about ? The americans were stationed in germany to fight the russians during the cold war. And they are partly still there to provide a basis in europe for operations in africa/middle east etc.
@Fr4nkWh1te don't forget Germay allies where with iran and other middle east powers at the time and all wars started by germany after all the past wars we thought germany was not a country to worry about but after each war they proved world wrong as wars show germany was the cause..could there be a world war 3 and could germany be the country that starts that as well,,maybe we should look back at history..maybe not.
no fraternization, no friendships? Wow was the idea to make the German people hate the Americans?? LOL. And this video really worked out well- cause alot of soldiers got German girlfriends/wives/baby mommas almost overnight. Bravo propaganda movie.
Funny. A good friend of my family was a guard at Nuremberg. And occupied Germany after the war. He married a German girl and brought her back to the USA and stayed married for over 55 years. She was a very nice person. And her whole family was Nazis. They had a friend who did the same thing.
lol, sympathy after World War 1. Anyone who has ever read the Treaty of Versailles knows what a bunch of trash that was. The people were so sucked of their wealth by France and Great Britain that they were burning their money.
I guess that means they couln't have any apple strudel, weiner schnitzel, or sour kraut with dumplings and beer those soldiers must have been upset the whole time they were there.
Since I have a lot of friends who have German mothers and or grandmothers and fathers or grandfathers I guess the propaganda film makers should have put you will not marry them. That was an epic fail.
@fiddleandcatz Yeah, the three most powerful countries are France, UK and germany, while all the other ones are in serious trouble, like Spain, italy, portugal.
lol this is pretty tame actually, considering how fresh the memory of the war was. I wonder what this film would have looked like if the Germans had won. I don't think respecting local customs and property rights would have been of high priority.
No soup for you
Stephen6131 4 hours ago
hearts and minds i guess.. too bad that crap doesnt work with iraq and afghanistan.. they obviously want no part of anything american over there..
Frequent2001 8 hours ago
Nek minnit
MrFisturmom 6 days ago
LOL, there was no German history before Bismark! It's hard to get Americans and Englishmen to hate Germans, because so many Americans and Englishmen ARE Germans.
kevinwalsh1619 1 week ago
@kevinwalsh1619 Haha yea. All real germans left and kicked everyone out of gaul before becoming france. After that literaly nothing happened until the late 19th centuary in original germany
killerryan7 1 day ago
the movie is very interesting and it should be a lesson for us all , they now are the most powerfull country in Europe and the people are very smart , if people respect them they can bring a lot of good things to the world there is no need for war to push things ahead
TaviYamato 2 weeks ago
I had to watch this before I gone to Germany for vacation.
billyjackphillips132 3 weeks ago 4
Fortunately, chapter 4 wasn't inked.
TheRealThreeP 3 weeks ago 2
holy shit The German Empire grew through conquest? my fucking god i never realized Imperialist powers grew through war!
z0mb1nat3r 3 weeks ago
"You could lay the groundwork for a new war to come." That kinda did happen, with the Cold War.
disneyfan85 1 month ago 5
It was kind of funny when Goebbels magically disappeared.
xXMeganMcKenzieXx 1 month ago
When they were listing the German WWI conquests, and announced France, they showed the Cathedral of Louvain, which was actually in Belgium.
chouyi007 1 month ago
@chouyi007 I was just about to ask what cathedral that was. I wasn't aware of any major French cathedrals being burned out in WWI.
ragemanchoo82 1 week ago
Funny how all that changed when the cold war heated up.
jonpetry 1 month ago
All of this now applies to USA criminal state.
draoi99 2 months ago
I love propoganda!!! At least that's what I've been told.
NWSurvival81 2 months ago 2
It's not safe to go out...it's not right to stay home...he said, "My advice...is to carry a gun..."
4evernate28 2 months ago
They showed this film on my Lufthansa flight to Hamburg last year. Still holds up after all these years.
marty1901 2 months ago
Only 26 years after WWI they say?! Wow..thats really close.
hellotelephone1 2 months ago
@hellotelephone1 26 years is very close
badgerattoadhall 1 month ago
And what is with an video: Your Job in America ? (Afghanistan, Iraq ..... there must be an end!)
blacktears1978 2 months ago
There were no attacks on allied soldiers after VE Day.
MrAcarine 3 months ago
The great irony of this film is that they sons (& now grandsons & even great grandsons) of those WWII soldiers wound up going to Germany. It was considered one of the plummest assigments one could pull. A very strange thing.
But this can not be considered propaganda. It was meant as an informational & practical video preparing troops for occupation duty. No one had any idea what would happen. Most thought WWIII would begin immediately w/ the Soviets.
VictorLepanto 3 months ago 4
@VictorLepanto Ummmm sooo why can it not be considered propaganda?
tvbaby5 2 months ago
this video is so true
saligari666 3 months ago
I am a firm believer that people do change, but for a reason this propaganda still holds true these days. Not just specifically for germany tho.
manahanalex123 3 months ago
@ 9:29 the world conquest disease. Apparently it is contagious.
fullmetaljason 3 months ago
Im american and the Germans are my favorite people. I look up to them.
14M88G 4 months ago
The non-fraternization policy in Germany was a failure almost from the outset. The GI's liked the German people better than any Europeans they'd met except the Dutch. And it was virtually impossible for GI's NOT to make friends with kids - and vice versa! In the end, the non-fraternization policy was never officially ended - it simply disintegrated.
MelosAntropon 4 months ago 6
@MelosAntropon yeah everyone loves the dutch
thatdutchguy420 4 months ago
Designers of western propaganda knew well the effects of propaganda on youths, they still show children between 2'd and 6'th grade propaganda videos designed to make them hate & fear communism and socialism, designed to be tedious and build associations at an emotional level by use of imagery, tone, and musical numbers that shift from festive to somber and menacing.
They stop showing these videos after the 6'th grade because children start retaining details and questioning what they're taught.
Laughingblades 4 months ago
@Laughingblades Once people understand that Communism means more government, it usually turns them off of it. ;P
Blackfriday420 4 months ago
@Laughingblades The American media is too liberal/conservative to be biased. One says one thing, the other totally different.
DarPower1 3 months ago
"Aw hell, this is where we came in!"
"Yeah.... this is where we came in..."
taufactor 4 months ago 2
Funny, most Republicans are doing the same to Muslims....
According to Fox News, all Islamist want to destroy me, you, your faith, and rape our women....
HatterMadigan 4 months ago 2
holy shit is that rens voice actor right around 4:00????
vegito4690 4 months ago
@panamapax Another Austrian-born Führer, eh?
Hairysteed 4 months ago
yeah, every empire is built in blood- dumb asses
Jakethesnake1281 4 months ago
@Jakethesnake1281 so america is not an empire???
VacantaMareCLASSIC 4 months ago
Any one else find it ironic that this video starts out to a German song (Beethoven's Ode to Joy), but in all seriousness, the saddest part about this video is that when Hitler first started using propaganda to make the jews, blacks, gypsies, and cripppled people look inferior to the "higher race" they were simmilar, but somewhat milder than this ( and videos like this are being shown to people in other countries around the world to turn them aginst others).
gkjhg5 4 months ago
i look forward to when people will stop critisizing germans, ive heard enough hate towards german people, i cant stand it, im german decent, sure there are a few things in german history i cant exactly be proud of, but we learn from our mistakes, and im terribly sorry if you feel that we cant be trusted, but ill have you know a bit of history, the only reason hitler was elected was because he offered free beer paid for by the nazi party to anyone who would vote for him. so we arent all bad.
ShaunBredlTV 4 months ago 2
Well that "some day" that the video mentioned was 4 years later,lol. As soon as the we thought that the Soviet Union was a worst threat.All the talk about the bad Germans,and never trusting them went away quick.There's not enough characters in this box to explain how the history really was.So I'll just say that the recounting of German history here,was full of mistakes,and or,half truths as to be hopeless in understanding Germany in the period 1870-1945.
AXS512 4 months ago
@AXS512 But what do you expect from a Propaganda film? The whole point of propaganda is that it's not a full story its enough of a story to make people think the way the creators want them to think.
hateshiganaikurayami 4 months ago
At the time this video was perfectly true...the germans had bin in that cycle of surprise attacks...then peace....surprise attacks...peace...like cowards....for almost 100 years....not to mention what they allowed to happen in the concentration camps alone makes them unworthy to even have their own nation(at the time)
Leninslineage 4 months ago
At the time this video was perfectly true...the germans had bin in that damn cycle of surprise attacks...then peace....surprise attacks...peace...like cowards....for almost 100 years....not to mention what they allowed to happen in the concentration camps alone makes them unworthy to even have their own nation(at the time)
Leninslineage 4 months ago
@Leninslineage You just described Russia. And your beloved Lenin. All governments are evil, why? because they are run by man and man is evil.
philyB08 3 months ago
My dad was a low ranking officer in the MI5 and was sent into Germany in 1946 to round up stray Nazis. Occupied Germany was in ruins and another war was the last thing they wanted. Their leaders lied to them and they were shells of human beings. This propaganda was the worse kind of ass gravy. The US came up with all kinds of crap to keep their claws in Europe.
spacecowboy5000 4 months ago
This was a really good propaganda movie.
formless777 4 months ago
After the War there were a group of German partisians called the Weherwulfs who attached Allied Troops. Most Germans were tired of six years of war so this movement never went very far.
Talltrees84 4 months ago
@Talltrees84 The only thing the Weerwolves accomplished was assassinating the mayor of Aachen.
kentamitchell 4 months ago
Amazing all Americans should watch it and learn the truth.
ThexxA7X88Xx 5 months ago 2
one day!
DjDePutaMadre 5 months ago
This kind of poison is not uniquely american, , ive beeen watching propanda films for about an hour now on youtube. But dont take my word for it..see for yourself..
lerch25 5 months ago
Germans today still hate Americans believe me.
smokndarasta 5 months ago
@smokndarasta What if it is because of videos like this?
JorgeL721 4 months ago
@smokndarasta Who doesn't?
spacecowboy5000 4 months ago
I can see why Patton hated this.
DrStudioManTonic 5 months ago
Why oh why didn't we have this same kind of situational awareness after the fall of Saddam's Iraq. Not that we should have gone there in the first place but if we had it would have been better to have FDR and Truman in charge. Likewise Afghan. Have to laugh at the fraternization part tho--lots of Americans born c.1946 on have German moms.
eclecticdufus 5 months ago
I love the quotes of the National anthem, and Bismarck being misconstrued.
KarlDerGrol3e 5 months ago
And Chapter 4? A new Führer: David Hasselhoff. With a new title: Hooked on a feeling.
Dodec84 5 months ago
Those darn toymakers....
SuperJazzi11 6 months ago
I see nothing false or misleading in this video. I have found no untrue statements or supositions. Every single word was spot on the money. Great info.
smacman68 6 months ago
I like how he says in the video "We poured in our sympathy". HA! I guess the Treaty of Versailles is they're "sympathy".
This video is bogus. Thanks for posting it though shows what people really thought of Germany. Sad...
tylerpharaoh1989 6 months ago in playlist War Footage
@tylerpharaoh1989 you've already cost your life
xIegionx 5 months ago
@tylerpharaoh1989 You are such a moron. The Treaty of Versailles was pre World War II. Poor moron.
apocalipsis82 5 months ago
Anyone else totally lulzing over the irony that they played GERMAN composer Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" at the exact moment when the film shouts out Americas victory over Germany?
alphatotheomega7 6 months ago 47
@alphatotheomega7 you are right! i noticed that immediately!
giugio93 5 months ago
@alphatotheomega7 you are right! i noticed that immediately!
giugio93 5 months ago
@alphatotheomega7 that's irony
xIegionx 5 months ago
@alphatotheomega7 Frank Capra wasn't an idiot. He was completely aware what he was doing. Germans celebrated Hitler's birthday with Beethoven's 9th. Likewise at 4:26, the warm and fuzzy Tannhauser bit. Conscious irony all of it.
eclecticdufus 5 months ago
@alphatotheomega7 Hmm, there's debate over whether Beethoven was really a German or Austrian.
yTubeBlowsBigBalls 2 months ago
@yTubeBlowsBigBalls
Beethoven was from Bonn, which is close to Belgium and not far from France and Holland. He was closer to being Dutch if anything. His title was "van", "not von", which suggests this. He once lived in Austria, and admired both Haydn and Mozart. Schubert was Austrian and he was around at roughly the same time as Beethoven.
anonUK 2 months ago 2
@alphatotheomega7 I love that when the said "The United States" they showed the german Armoured Cruiser Blucher capsizing at heligoland bight.
Jakethesnake1281 1 month ago
@alphatotheomega7 And then "Victory leads to peace. Sometimes NOT." I think they had that in mind 8-) Funny video lol
MrExtasiz 3 weeks ago
im german and this has to be the funniest shit ive ever watched!!
SuperTravis898 6 months ago 6
Would you rather the Russians have occupied all of Germany instead? Get real
adgw1423 6 months ago
Hungary does the same thing with the neighbouring countries - Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, etc. in the name of the "cruel and injust" treaty of Trianon where the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed and these nations took their lands back. There are literally tones of propaganda vids denigrating these nations. And yet youtube does nothing no matter how many flags these vids have.
gogoasacenusie 6 months ago
NO-- NOT THE TOYMAKERS!!!
Ollieshini 6 months ago 7
@Ollieshini ...YES EVEN THE TOY MAKERS!!!
ElZappata 6 months ago 15
@ElZappata ESPECIALLY THE TOY MAKERS!
anglicky69 6 months ago
War is such an incredibly sad and horrifying human obsession.
TripleJCosplay 6 months ago 6
@AllKnowingCreator
Even at the outbreak of WW2, the Germans were still very weak militaristically (compared to France, Britain) and economically as a result of the injustice of the Versailles treaty over a war they did not start. Whats truly interesting is that they did as well as they did. Their loss to combined forces by attrition was inevitable.
Socialism is simply the idea that working people ought to be in control of production. You seem to be arguing against authoritarianism, not socialism
mastersausagemaker 6 months ago
5:47 Obviously the empire from star wars was based off of the Nazis.
SaltySangster 6 months ago
Humans are fucking idiots.
SaltySangster 6 months ago
What a nice advice they were giving to American soldiers: "Do not associate with German children!" I sincerely hope they didn't :-)
vweltz 6 months ago 14
@vweltz
There is no record of an American GI laying a finger on a German child.
OrodesIII 2 months ago 12
@OrodesIII "Records" keep out the gruesome details (the stuff the Government doesnt want you to see)
DTfromHELL 1 month ago
Firstly this was made only a year after the end of the bloodiest conflict in human history, started by Germany. Secondly the video clearly ordered the soldiers to be respectful of Germans. Thirdly this is nothing compared to the attitude of the commies in the east, who literally raped Germany.
TheProgressistViewer 7 months ago 8
Just remember what Germans did to russia though...
YodaVanGrindey95 7 months ago
it seemed to have worked
verticalmatt 7 months ago
This is not a totally unfair view of the Germans. The Germans have all been an extreme group of people, they have always felt that they have been a superior people. Now, I'm not saying that we should start invading them because their evil, because a lot of people around the wolrd are like this.
TheBBQribs 7 months ago
@TheBBQribs Do you understand the difference between a group of people, and a government? Hint: They are not the same thing.
TheDataDiva 7 months ago
@TheDataDiva Who elects the Governments? Hint: the people do...
colmcarrigg 7 months ago
Lol Those bastard Germans! Of course some of this is kind of funny now, but I understand the sentiment and the seriousness of it then. It was overly cautious, but we needed to be because of all the shit that had happened. They didn't want to take any chances of being too friendly at the time. I'm glad I got to be stationed in Germany MANY years after the War and had a really good experience.
ridewave444 7 months ago
you have to remember this was made in 1946 a year after the war was over
aderandie2 7 months ago
Thanks. That was very interesting history. It must have been creepy serving in immediate post-war Germany. Some of the worst murderers in human history were walking the streets and it took some time to find them. It was good advice for it's time. The US attitude towards rebuilding Germany saved Germany. The other Allies wanted to destroy Germany permanently.
robmclaughjr 7 months ago
did he say stormtroopers around 5:00- 6:00?
1928722 7 months ago
It's funny because today roughly 60 million Americans are ethnically German. There are more people living in the United States with ancestral heritage from Germany than any other nation. They even have the Irish beat.
Friendo1231 7 months ago
So we brought over high level nazis to work in everything from NASA to Pharmaceuticals (Merck for instance) - Including the Koch Bros dad who worked for Stalin THEN Hitler - and everyone wonders where our constitution went?
NevadaRides 7 months ago
this is deep :
JamesianDGAF 7 months ago
@mk3238 I love the American Conservative attitude of "EVERYTHING WHO'S BETTER THAN US SHOULD DIE!" You're just jealous that they figured out how to create a successful, socialist government and economic structure while the US is still struggling with the concepts of "rich people should pay more taxes than poor people", "should gay people have rights", and "unregulated businesses who control every aspect of everything and are widely responsible for our situation are better than the government".
Cainus44 7 months ago
@Cainus44 Name one successful socialist government. Toady Europe is economically moribund and is trapped and in a fatal ponzi scheme.
suspicious35 7 months ago 2
@suspicious35 Burkina Faso was highly successful under Thomas Sankara until a French colonialist-backed coup d'etat murdered him. But I feel like I'm wasting my time, because whenever I give this example to libertarian/conservative ideologues it goes in one ear and out the other. There are no socialist countries in Europe, if we use the proper definition of socialism, which is worker's control over production, instead of the trite modern definition of "has free health care."
warmongerpro 7 months ago
@suspicious35 Eh, the Peoples Republic of China, I hear they own the USA debts now...
colmcarrigg 7 months ago
What a nice phrase 05: 38 "The gestapo gangsters" I like how he says it, so american! =)
Dklonmy 7 months ago
Epic
papichika 7 months ago
This may seem pretty bleak and unfair. But contrast this to Bush's "Mission Accomplished" attitude towards Iraq. Makes the Greatest Generation seem a whole lot smarter.
ganubby 7 months ago
Things sure do look bleak in Whooville.
MiHiVidz 8 months ago 5
lol 0:23
Carthsting 8 months ago
The Germans and the backstabbing French won in the end. NEVER ENTER THE EU. BRITAIN STRONG.
cheeseofultimatedoom 8 months ago 6
What else do you expect from war propoganda?
TheMikhail13 8 months ago 2
One mistake, Germany was not occupied after WWI, which is why the Nazi's had an easier time to come to power.
stuka52 8 months ago
@stuka52 Indeed, Roosevelt knew that Wilson was incompetent when it came to foreign affairs. He vowed to abandon Wilson's mistakes and even helped reconstruct the army-less League of Nations into the armed UN; his cousin Theodore also called Wilson a "drugstore clerk." It's funny that Capra-who you think would've been a liberal with the anti-corruption theme in Mr Smith Goes To Washington and the anti-banker theme in It's a Wonderful Life- was in private a supporter of Hitler's ally Mussolini
hulkyone 8 months ago
"you are going up against... GERMAN HISTORY!"
AAAUUGH!! I haven't been so afraid of a history book since my graduation exam.
Treblaine 8 months ago 6
i didn't know i was still a nazi and can't be trusted....lol. nah despite this scheemy and rediculous propaganda movie, the americans were more than awesome and definetly mingled with the rest of us germans. actually made a ton of friends and even visited them in the us. and now im married to one of the allies lol.
13Njord 8 months ago 3
this video is very degrading... and in no way 100% true. >:( i'm a proud German.
shadowthecat971 9 months ago 2
THIS IS RETARED NAZI ARE GONE FOR GOOD FUCKER
NerfGaming 9 months ago
What is the name of that song in 4:44?
OldTimesProductions 9 months ago
What is the name of the music playing at 2:54?
OldTimesProductions 9 months ago
"why these people are ok, it was just that Kaiser we had to get rid of"
AMIEVIL86 9 months ago
I want to do a German girl.
luv2bud 9 months ago 11
Never trust the Hun.
captainbadd 9 months ago 3
We should be producing videos like this but changing the word Nazis and Germans by Muslims and Islamofascists. And those videos should shown to our children from first grade. The history of terrorism and murder was not created by so called radical Muslims but by ALL Muslims on the planet. They are enablers so we should never clasp that stinky hand in friendship.
apocalipsis82 10 months ago
@apocalipsis82 Change the word Nazis and Germans for Tea Partiers and Republicans. What you propose is just like more Nazi propaganda. Muslims are the new Jews in this country. And you're falling for the same hate speech they did. There are a billion and a half muslims on the planet --if you were right there'd be none of us left. One thing about bigoted morons -they're bad at math.
sinistar99 10 months ago
@sinistar99
No, Tea Partiers don't have the balls to start vicious street brawls and region-wide civil wars with Communists like the Nazis did. They're just little old ladies in tennis shoes and the "awe shucks" "Leave it to Beaver" crowd.
Until the yellings and rantings of the general public, easily led by the same politicians they bitch and reelect, lead to the willful and calculated murder of 12 million people, disregard everything that comes from their mouth and mind.
idahobuckeye 9 months ago
@sinistar99 People like you need to die. You are a good example of what's bringing this country to it's knees. You are the kind of person who would voluntarily walk into a prison and slam the door on himself. The muslims need idiots like you, but secretly laugh at you for being so easily lead down the well of death. I wish I could do the deed. We don't need pussies like you in America.
Moralvorstellung28 9 months ago
@apocalipsis82 are you serious? ALL Muslims? you know Al Qaeda is the one responsible for the terrorism right? That's like saying all the white people should be wiped off the planet because a group of men in Oklahoma gangbanged some chick.
themangotangolime 9 months ago
Hell, i'm leaving right now! Didn't you hear the man?? Stormtroopers! By the thousands!!!
DarKas 10 months ago
that film scares !!!
titino5959 10 months ago
the propaganda tactics are still the same in this modern age although some techniques may have been evolved all these years. DAMN
machicniii 10 months ago
6:24
Those fucking toymakers. I HATE THEM SO MUCH!
Truly they were the third Reich's right hand!
UTubeSrfr 10 months ago 4
Así es la guerra: la terminas y luego terminas paranoico. Lo triste es que el mundo entero debió aprender la lección que dejó la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero aun así seguimos viendo como otros humanos se matan entre sí estúpidamente.
juankmu 10 months ago
Seacrest out!
MessiahComing 10 months ago
did they get the title wrong?
wichuks 10 months ago
Sure, its a xenophobic and an unfair view of Germans. But American treatment of Germans after the war was outright charitable, compared to the other allies. Its no secret that the Russians raped Eastern Germany of its assets - feminine, financial and industrial. The British were even more condescending and harsh in their view of Germany (Can you blame them?) The French occupied the a small corner of Germany and exploited its assets shamelessly. But America gave West Germany the Marshall Plan.
Eszpresszo 10 months ago 60
@Eszpresszo Yes but the Marshall plan was fought for by british foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan. Marshall may have been the father of the plan but Bevan was the midwife.
erinvasion86 5 months ago
6:08 They were discussing their plans for a picnic that afternoon.
KedViper 10 months ago
Unidirectional vision of Germany.
dsmurashev 10 months ago
This video was more of an information movie than a propoganda movie, because we the western world. Everything in it was true, and due to this policy, there was no more war in europe after WWII
Tomacomo 10 months ago
@Tomacomo LOL and the war against former Yugoslavia, was that just a bad dream?
RachelBartlett 9 months ago
Is this the same reason why The US is still in Germany?
:D
chica476 10 months ago 4
@chica476 Yes.
AmersfoortTristan 8 months ago
"you are up against more than tourist history, you are up against...
GERMAN HISTORY!"
LAWL!! So over the top.
Treblaine 10 months ago
yeap this was amerrican propaganda... but wait is really nearly to the awful truth! Germans are nice but please no more wars!
kyoshiroma 10 months ago 2
lol phony peace
dairyburrymarry 11 months ago
@dairyburrymarry : I LOLed at 10:00 the war phony peace war phony peace war phony peace chorus
uyenst 11 months ago
This is the worst American propaganda I've ever seen and I've seen some bad ones...not only is it morally wrong but factually as well. Luckily the American occupation force changed their strategy so as not to make the German people bitter toward them or things like this might have influenced further aggression.
SovietCanukistan 11 months ago
u will equip urself with a plastic bag to shit in, a comic magazine to laugh at, a bottle of american air, some pictures of "german looking" american chicks, so tht german beauties won't deceive u. Have a nice day in Germany.
deceived81 11 months ago 35
american troops are still in germany because the germans chose not to have an army... they could be independent, but the germans rather americans pay for military protection
datawraith3080 11 months ago
@datawraith3080 Germany's had a strong army since the 50s again lol, what are you talking about ? The americans were stationed in germany to fight the russians during the cold war. And they are partly still there to provide a basis in europe for operations in africa/middle east etc.
Fr4nkWh1te 11 months ago
@Fr4nkWh1te don't forget Germay allies where with iran and other middle east powers at the time and all wars started by germany after all the past wars we thought germany was not a country to worry about but after each war they proved world wrong as wars show germany was the cause..could there be a world war 3 and could germany be the country that starts that as well,,maybe we should look back at history..maybe not.
johndebbra 11 months ago
Aw, hell! This where we came in!
federationcaptain 11 months ago
...And fortunately we're free and dominated (culturally and economically) by a fat-hamburger-eaters-country.Wow!
zxblack 11 months ago 5
no fraternization, no friendships? Wow was the idea to make the German people hate the Americans?? LOL. And this video really worked out well- cause alot of soldiers got German girlfriends/wives/baby mommas almost overnight. Bravo propaganda movie.
AvacadoDesperado 11 months ago
Funny. A good friend of my family was a guard at Nuremberg. And occupied Germany after the war. He married a German girl and brought her back to the USA and stayed married for over 55 years. She was a very nice person. And her whole family was Nazis. They had a friend who did the same thing.
MrSimonGirty 11 months ago
Guess we took this pretty seriously, seeing how we're still there. ;)
MaiaRikae 11 months ago
lol, sympathy after World War 1. Anyone who has ever read the Treaty of Versailles knows what a bunch of trash that was. The people were so sucked of their wealth by France and Great Britain that they were burning their money.
RedPenguins01 1 year ago 3
i´m german and i love this (satire)video xD....no,for real - be afraid! new slogan:
"sauerkraut and wiener schnitzel 4 the win >:D " ...
propaganda on all sides was/is so stupid ^^
bluthundsmut 1 year ago 2
Love that scene ''Hitler- out.''
Latvietis96 1 year ago
I guess that means they couln't have any apple strudel, weiner schnitzel, or sour kraut with dumplings and beer those soldiers must have been upset the whole time they were there.
TRASUPO 1 year ago 3
That means they could't have any apple strudel, weiner schnitzel, sour kraut with dumplings and beer, our soldiers must have been pissed off man.
TRASUPO 1 year ago
Since I have a lot of friends who have German mothers and or grandmothers and fathers or grandfathers I guess the propaganda film makers should have put you will not marry them. That was an epic fail.
terry2315 1 year ago
they call them fuhrer but there not really
hitler was called fuhrer cuz he had all the power
and fuhrer only means leader in german i can be the fuhrer from my art class
MrUbercheese 1 year ago
when they were listing allies from ww1 they did not mention japan
42proyon 1 year ago
Has anyone else noticed that the EU is near enough german run?
fiddleandcatz 1 year ago
@fiddleandcatz Yeah, the three most powerful countries are France, UK and germany, while all the other ones are in serious trouble, like Spain, italy, portugal.
ModelbuildingTANKS 1 year ago
lol this is pretty tame actually, considering how fresh the memory of the war was. I wonder what this film would have looked like if the Germans had won. I don't think respecting local customs and property rights would have been of high priority.
bob555555 1 year ago 2
I like the spiked helmets.
ahmedeox 1 year ago
Obviously they did a good job cause today Germany is one of the few morally serious countries in the world.
HisEmptyHouse 1 year ago 3