I love these kind of videos, seeing the world from long ago, showing everyday normal life. Germany was a chaotic place in the Weimar era, but Berlin seemed so energetic and full of life. Sadly, the Nazis and their terror destroyed this. I hope some of the people we see here in the film escaped that with their minds and lives intact and lived full and good lives.
cool how in one scene show's "stadtbahn" (city-Train" and the S in "S-Bahn" is actually for "Schnell-Bahn" (fast-train). Most of the people don't no for what "S" stands. "stadtbahn" is only the big Line through the middle from berlin from Weszkrez (westcross to eastcross) Ostkreuz.
It's even today the most driven line in the city...partic always full especially on the alexanderplatz bahnhof...grooses me on -.-
WOW!!! Thank you for this video, Aaron! It's another incredible documentary about those beautiful times, just like all the other your videos! Thanks again!
This is a great video! I like how it shows how the city looked, the style of clothing people wore. The up close shots of people's faces were excellent. Most of the people, with the exception of people sleeping on benches, looked fairly healthy. I wonder if in fact that was the case.
und die Nichtstuer von heute in Berlin jammern über die "reichen Schwaben", zu hohe Mieten und etc., aber die scheinen ganz zu vergessen was Berlin einmal für eine feine Stadt war.. zumindest in der Stadtmitte.. und jetzt gammeln die Leute nur noch rum.. keiner will mehr richtig arbeiten.. alle sind jetzt Künstler o0
interessant ist auch das schon vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg 4,3 Millionen Menschen in Berlin gewohnt haben.. heute nur 3,4..
Our citys looked beautiful. They had grown and were built over centuries. Similar to Paris or Rome. But all was lost in the war. Even the smaller towns. In the rhineland where I live you hardly find any city that has survived. The houses that were rebuilt in the look of the 50s are all the same.
I was born in Berlin in April of that year. Surely don't remember much, except an ambulance ride to the hospital-because I had contracted 'scarlet fever' - and recovered. My Mom was able to get me out of there- first to Prague (another absolutely gorgeous city( - and then off to Madrid. Just to encounter a Civil War and bullets flying about our heads from opposing political fanatics. I have some faint memories that I rather forget---Don't blame the "locals" - Politics stink !I'm glad to be alive
@tahititom10 Omg are you 82 y.o. That's amazing, not many people are aware of what youtube is at that age. I wish to live as long as you have and then tell my grandchildren stories about these days..
I like this old Berlin a lot better. The West side is uber modern, abstract, lacking warmth and charm. The train station looks like a borg cube. There's still huge lots just paved over with concrete, nothing built on them.
The East side is covered in ugly concrete tenements. There's still uncompleted construction projects just sitting there. You can even find pieces of rebar and dirt out in the middle of the sidewalk. The East subway stations are tiled in various shades of vomit.
@leopoldvonhabsburg It's still a pretty city compared to others even in the US. Was there last in 2001. Don't know how the consctruction is doing if it slumped off or not-- was alot when I was there.
At least they have a very good transit system, many cities in the US don't.
@leopoldvonhabsburg I think it is more likely that there are different shades of vomit in your brain. Scheiß Westen, als ob eure Ghetto-Gegenden wie Gropiusstadt oder Märkisches Viertel was hermachen würden. Und dann erstmal die Ghetto-U-Bahnhöfe in Kreuzberg, komischerweise fällt da teils der Belag von den Wänden, anders als in den Ost-Stationen. FU!
Berlin people were (and still are) mostly politically left wing, many workers lived in the city, and in elections a great majority prefered socialdemocrats and communists. In 1932 for example the Berliners elected as follows for the Reichstag: Socialdemocrats 27,3%, Communst Party 27,3%, Nazi-Party 28,6%, Conservatives 13,2%.
I JUST READ A FEW OF THE COMMENT STATING IF WE COULD ONLY GET A FEW OF THESE PEOPLE PULL THEM IN TIME AND SHOW THEM BERLIN 1945 & 1949 WHAT SHOCK THEY WOULD SEE AND SEND THEM BACK TO PREVENT THE MADDNESS AND SADNESS TO COME. MAYBE WE COULD DO THIS EVEN TODAY. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE. MAN IS SUCH A DESTROYER
SEE NOT ALL GERMANS WERE NAZI'S INFACT BELINERS COULDNT STAND HITLER OR THE NAZIS AS HE FELT THE SAME OF BERLIN. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CITY WITH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE SO FILED WITH LIFE & VIGOR. ALL JSUT TO BE BOMBED A LAID INTO WASTE LAND THEN 45 YEARS OF COMMUNIST SOVIET RUSSIAN RULE, REBULIT WITH THAT UGLY GRAYISH BLOCK WORK & CONCREATE STALIN STYLE THE RUSSIANS ARE SO KNOW FOR. WORLD, HUMANS TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE LOST. HOW DO U FEEL??? DID U LEARN ANYTHING YET?? I HATE POLITICIANS OF ANY NATION
Toll, noch richtige Menschen auf der Strasse, die noch miteinander sprechen und sich angucken - statt der grenzdebilen auf ihre Handydisplays stierenden mickrigen AUTISTEN heutzutage! Ich hätte viel lieber damals gelebt...:-)
Fantastic! What a great collection of shots! It really brought pre-Nazi Berlin to life! Look at the culture and think of the possibilities! Not unlike New York at that time or even Paris. So lively! Utterly tragic! Thanks for posting this! (And let this be a warning to all of us).
@gatheringleaves Just that they had their world and the inner evil which dwelled inside their society was going to declare war on them. Now they have been labeled evil people and there are holocaust museums on every corner. It is sad. Also should be a warning to Americans.
@gatheringleaves It can get worse. China or russia bombing us would not be good, more and more homeless. People are living off their assets right now.
at 1:38 what is the symbol with the two crossed hammers ? It looks just like the symbol used in place of the swastika in the movie Pink Floyd The Wall. Interesting. Is it maybe some kind of workers union symbol ?
This is beautiful...its so bizarre to me, these naive and ridiculous statements about how the 'horrible Nazis' would come and destroy all this, and make these people suffer- "If only we could warn them", "they should have known" . These people are not so different from you or me, not smarter or more ignorant, Germans voted Hitler into power, & the 1930s were much better for Germans than the 1920s were. The Nazis of our era are doing horrible things to people as we speak! The Holocaust is NOW
"na klar" - hatten damals alles andere als eine stabile regierung, inflation, bürgerkriegszustände und massenarbeitslosigkeit. aber bleib mal schön deiner idiotischen ideologie verhaftet! wenns auf den bildern doch so schön aussieht. du hättest auch jeder wochenschau geglaubt! berlin, deutschlang zwischen zwei kriegen - das findest du erstrebenswert? dann mach mal .... traurig ist das, wirklich traurig.
@Novvalis ...Und ich glaube, Leute identifizieren zu können, die evtl. - oder gar mit Sicherheit - dann unter der Zeit ab 1933 zu leiden hatten. Schau mal die Dame bei 2:35 an, kurz nach dem Mann mit der runden Brille! Was meinst Du? Für mich ist sie "Zucker"...!
I really love watching Berlin during this era in movies...
if you want more, watch "Berlin Die Sinfonie der Großstadt" (1927), "Emil und die Detektive" (1930), "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1931) and "M" (1931) ... but not a lot of street impressions in "M", etc. Wonderful films, needless to say! ;) I really liked the concept of "Menschen am Sonntag", filming ordinary people living their normal lifes.
"Menschen am Sonntag",is one of the most outstanding movies in the history of cinema.those were rather economic hard times back then,but at 20 it's much easier to see the bright side of life and forget about all one's cares for a while ....
America got swept away similarly under Bush with rampant militarism and hate agenda along with new special police (homeland secrurity)! Very similar--fascism is fascism whether it is Nazis or Americans.
They look so ordinary, don't they and not at all like the Nazis portrayed in later films. How could they have been swept away by the propaganda of later years? You feel like you want to shout at the screen and warn them of their fate. But of course, you can't.
I don't think so. Nazi propaganda was always directed at drilling some specific message into its viewers minds, whether demeaning Jews and foreigners, promoting German superiority, or trying to boost morale. A filmstrip like this during the Allied bombardment would have just made people miserable and long for the days before the Nazis were in power, which definitely cannot what Göbbels would have wanted.
to bad, that the silly NAZIS have have laid the bais for destruction of this fantastic city. Not only that they killed millions of people but also lost huge parts of the "Deutsches Reich" with many impressive cities. The new Berlin of 2010 ist not the same as in the roaring twenties....
@Bobry47 ...but much more beautiful that woman at 2:35! But I think that she might be victim of the time from 1933 on... - or? What do you mean! Looks like...!
Yes berlin is nice and modern but i gues many beautiful historic monument was destroy. Dunno how your capital but Warsaw will look totally diffrent now if not war. But well its happend and we cant go back in time.
Well actually I think there are still many historic sights in Berlin (Reichstag, Berlin Cathedral, Unter den Linden, Brandenburg Gate, etc). What's so special about Berlin is the huge contrast between modern and historic places and the fact that Berlin is changing all the time. There's no city in which change can be seen that obviously. Berlin is multifaceted, Berlin is unique.
I lived there for two years (1999 and 2000) and it was fascinating! Berliners have a great sense of humor! But I have to say that Berlin the in 1920's must have been unbelievable. What a great era!
@lookaszx I totally agree with you , Paris and Vienna are considered to be the most beautiful cities in the world, but if Berlin wasn't bombed in WWII it would be the most beautiful city in the world instead beyond any doubt!
Thank you for posting these great snippets of "People On Sunday" (directed by Curt Siodmak & Fred Zinnemann and others). Btw: this was one of Billy Wilder's first movie projects and along with 'Symphony of a Big City" projectsprobably one of the best examples of the 'Zeitgeist' of the late 1920's. Brimming with documentary-style footage and charming staged sequences it's quite the cinematographic collage. Especially around 2:20 with all its portrait shots, it gets rather artful ... Cheers, Julia
Very nice film. I agree with the comment below that the atmosphere in the film resembles Berlin today. This is surprising .... but both today and in 1929 Berlin was a practical down to earth working city.
It's rather sad watching this video to think that the various people shown in it would all have very likely to have been caught up in the events that were to follow in not a great number of years, in one way or another. Either becoming soldiers, or being killed in allied attacks.. It's sad to see that we Europeans ending up obliterating each other over political rubbish.
Extremely disturbing, not so much for what it depicts (since it looks so very ordinary, happy, and prosperous) but for the absolute horror than came just a very few short years after this. This is a wonderful video. We can appreciate these times for the joy they were. Yet it makes me seriously doubt mankind and if we have a future.
About what people might say about us in the future..If someone tells me that if I hadn't voted for George Bush there would have been no lies about weapons of mass destruction and no Iraq war I will have the pleasure of replying "don't blame me idiot, I DIDN'T vote for Bush." And I am not saying the Democrats are any better-remember ol' slick willie?-"I never had sex with that woman" -now he has become an elder statesman giving empty talks at $25,000 a pop but he is still a lying scumbag to me.
If only the idiots in that film knew the hell they were going to be plunged into shortly because of the madman they supported and let take over their country. I would love to travel back in time to Berlin in 1929 with pictures of Berlin in April, 1945 and tell the people "This is what Berlin is going to look like 16 years from now."
I'm fairly sure the sort of people in the film (yes, I'm generalising, I know) didn't support Naziism, at least not as early as 1929, and if and when they did (later) it was more a matter of their class / type acquiescing in Hitler than what we would think of as supporting him. That said, I share your reaction of "Would to God they had known what was in the offing". It's an old story, and it may be that in the future people will think the same about us.
There have been many, many, lies and exaggerations claimed written or stated , about the National Socialist era of Germany. For various political/social reasons and agendas. One could spend hours upon hours learning from a different perspective on that era by reading articles from:
the Journal for Historical Review archived at the website: ihr(dot)org for example or visiting the websites:
Berlin in those times were politically rather confused, but certainly NOT nazi, they infact needed the big financial crises and many acts of open terrorism to at least win the elections, i don't recall the numbers of percentage, but it's surely easily to find on some wikipedia page.
What's interesting is a freshness and a really modern lifestyle!!!
Do not count out time machines - the computer could not have been visualized just a few decades ago. We may have to correct all misdeeds . . . never know!
I will let the historians using a time machine correct the misdeeds. As for me I would use it to go back to 1929 and 1930 and listen to all those Whiteman Old Gold radio broadcasts with Bix and to 1930 and listen to the Camel Pleasure hour broadcasts with Bix. I would especially want to go back in time to hear the Camel Pleasure hour broadcast of July 2, 1930. On that show a singer named Francis Williams was singing a song called All fall in love and Bix played a great solo so she forgot her cue
WOW... I traveled in time. Just amazed about what I've seen and experienced. And Marlene (it was she, wasn't it?) who sang in english from the film "Die blaue engel" 1929.
The authentic music really adds to the feeling of this video! The other footage I've seen here of Berlin, 1929 has modern music that just takes away from it, I think!
Brilliant pin-sharp video in HQ! No doubt filmed using Carl Zeiss lenses, then the best in the world. I played hockey in Berlin in '56when much was unrecognisable.
I love things like this!! It's like these Germans are still alive, their walks preserved forever! The hair fashions seem quite current, and Berlin was so beautiful....everyone seems to be walking a lot too!!! thanks for posting, best wishes
Such a quality of life it was in those days. I heard that Berlin was very wild in the 20s Opium Houses, Cocaine and the height of sophistication=Lesbianism...
I love the close ups of the people!! Awesome shots of beautiful people. I got goose bumps when that part came on! I felt really touched by those people.
Interesting to me, is really, then and now, things are really the same. People getting around doing their business and leisure. Transportation, phonographs, the camera photographing... things are pretty much the same now... maybe a few higher tech things now, but the basic framework is there!
Lovely shots of a lovely city. So sad to think that these people had ww2 around the corner and the destruction of much of their beautiful city (as we did in London). Thanks for posting
this awesome, I like the sort of raw, time travellers guide sorta video style, until the day comes of time machines, we have this stuff :)
deanmullen10 20 hours ago
Ganz fantastisch! Thank you for posting.
costernocht 5 days ago
Smile for the camera? A few 'Social Undersirables' there...we'll sort you out - in time.
cosycleaner 1 week ago
Keine Türken
erickooy 2 weeks ago
@erickooy lol
DasKindwarimBrunnen 2 weeks ago
@erickooy ne, dafür ein paar nazis von morgen ( von 1929 aus betrachtet)
Jeansschwimmer 1 day ago
Very nice footage. Superb!
bonosbones 1 month ago
Thank you Billy Wilder
berlioz1935 1 month ago
2:23 These poor human beings had no idea, what should happen to their beautiful city just 16 years later:-(
ruhri0411 1 month ago
@ruhri0411 or what they do to another inocent people ...
toquielkan 1 month ago
Wunderbares Erlebnis als wäre man in eine ganz andere Welt eingestiegen.
FalconSupreme 1 month ago
@FalconSupreme
Sehen sie mich! SEHEN SIE MICH!
Das Monstrum in meinem Selbst ist So grob geWorder!
gatheringleaves 1 week ago
Love it, we recreated 1920s Berlin virtually and online so people can experience it again, a little bit.
1920sberlinproject 2 months ago
mhmmm
spankbandit 2 months ago
I love these kind of videos, seeing the world from long ago, showing everyday normal life. Germany was a chaotic place in the Weimar era, but Berlin seemed so energetic and full of life. Sadly, the Nazis and their terror destroyed this. I hope some of the people we see here in the film escaped that with their minds and lives intact and lived full and good lives.
mdhookey 2 months ago
cool how in one scene show's "stadtbahn" (city-Train" and the S in "S-Bahn" is actually for "Schnell-Bahn" (fast-train). Most of the people don't no for what "S" stands. "stadtbahn" is only the big Line through the middle from berlin from Weszkrez (westcross to eastcross) Ostkreuz.
It's even today the most driven line in the city...partic always full especially on the alexanderplatz bahnhof...grooses me on -.-
dabeiisalles 2 months ago
WOW!!! Thank you for this video, Aaron! It's another incredible documentary about those beautiful times, just like all the other your videos! Thanks again!
LucaC1993Production 2 months ago
Berlin is:currywurst,bier.
vagabond812 3 months ago
This is a great video! I like how it shows how the city looked, the style of clothing people wore. The up close shots of people's faces were excellent. Most of the people, with the exception of people sleeping on benches, looked fairly healthy. I wonder if in fact that was the case.
akeffo 3 months ago
Thanks for posting t-videos.Finaly i see t-life before tragedy. B-regards.
almasan1247 3 months ago
und die Nichtstuer von heute in Berlin jammern über die "reichen Schwaben", zu hohe Mieten und etc., aber die scheinen ganz zu vergessen was Berlin einmal für eine feine Stadt war.. zumindest in der Stadtmitte.. und jetzt gammeln die Leute nur noch rum.. keiner will mehr richtig arbeiten.. alle sind jetzt Künstler o0
interessant ist auch das schon vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg 4,3 Millionen Menschen in Berlin gewohnt haben.. heute nur 3,4..
BadWithNames123 3 months ago
What an amazing, vibrant, happy place Berlin was before the Nazis got there and ruined everything
2002ibiza 3 months ago
Danke für dieses Video!!
Die Nazis waren noch nicht an der Macht!
Wunderbar!
Danke!!
v.g.
Achim
achimreinhardt 3 months ago 2
Which is the name of these enormous monument at 1.5-1.10????
and my last ask which is the name of song and band at 2.06??
Danke Schön!
Cristian1929 3 months ago
Our citys looked beautiful. They had grown and were built over centuries. Similar to Paris or Rome. But all was lost in the war. Even the smaller towns. In the rhineland where I live you hardly find any city that has survived. The houses that were rebuilt in the look of the 50s are all the same.
johndoe3k5 4 months ago
Is it just me or does the guy at 1:18 look like Hitler?
gingergiblet 4 months ago
@gingergiblet It's just you. :)
Sometimes Hitler was posing that way, but that's not enough to look like him. :)
mach99999 3 months ago
@minacc100
Das ist Ausgang von U-Bahn-Linie U1 - Möckernbrücke. Älteste In Deutschland - 1902.
Ich schrieb darüber in einem Beitrag auf meinem Blog - Underground.
TheClothierin
TheClothierin 4 months ago
I used this video in my blog.
Thanks!!
TheClothierin 4 months ago
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jimzs23 4 months ago
to think hitler would have been considered one of the worlds greatest leaders if it wasnt for the war
zl4iuzmh 5 months ago
Wo kann man denn solche Kniebundhosen kaufen?
danzwoot 5 months ago
...not much blonde and blue-eyed Germans in that film !
Beobachter2010 6 months ago
I was born in Berlin in April of that year. Surely don't remember much, except an ambulance ride to the hospital-because I had contracted 'scarlet fever' - and recovered. My Mom was able to get me out of there- first to Prague (another absolutely gorgeous city( - and then off to Madrid. Just to encounter a Civil War and bullets flying about our heads from opposing political fanatics. I have some faint memories that I rather forget---Don't blame the "locals" - Politics stink !I'm glad to be alive
tahititom10 6 months ago 2
@tahititom10 Omg are you 82 y.o. That's amazing, not many people are aware of what youtube is at that age. I wish to live as long as you have and then tell my grandchildren stories about these days..
OnRock19 2 months ago
no diversity,so cool.
hilletehnoob 6 months ago
check this /watch?v=f1R3k9Wc2kU
MSGDK 6 months ago
is marlene dietrich singing? o_o
AnneAulisRobin 7 months ago
@AnneAulisRobin
johnster1964 7 months ago
@AnneAulisRobin yes !
Beobachter2010 6 months ago
Armes DEUTSCHLAND, was ist nur aus Dir geworden??? Es ist zum Weinen!
zMisterT 7 months ago 6
Wo steht eine Zeitmaschine, mit der man für ein Wochenende in die Vergangenheit reisen kann ?
ChillaBoy1956 8 months ago
@ChillaBoy1956 Suchen sie auf google mal nach Swingstle de. :)
nederland4045 8 months ago
2:07 Man jumping to the tram xD
MegaSound15 8 months ago
this movie is absolutllllly amazing!!!!
wernernon78 8 months ago
I like this old Berlin a lot better. The West side is uber modern, abstract, lacking warmth and charm. The train station looks like a borg cube. There's still huge lots just paved over with concrete, nothing built on them.
The East side is covered in ugly concrete tenements. There's still uncompleted construction projects just sitting there. You can even find pieces of rebar and dirt out in the middle of the sidewalk. The East subway stations are tiled in various shades of vomit.
leopoldvonhabsburg 9 months ago 4
@leopoldvonhabsburg It's still a pretty city compared to others even in the US. Was there last in 2001. Don't know how the consctruction is doing if it slumped off or not-- was alot when I was there.
At least they have a very good transit system, many cities in the US don't.
jmitterii2 3 months ago
@leopoldvonhabsburg I think it is more likely that there are different shades of vomit in your brain. Scheiß Westen, als ob eure Ghetto-Gegenden wie Gropiusstadt oder Märkisches Viertel was hermachen würden. Und dann erstmal die Ghetto-U-Bahnhöfe in Kreuzberg, komischerweise fällt da teils der Belag von den Wänden, anders als in den Ost-Stationen. FU!
BeIIegar 1 month ago
Berlin people were (and still are) mostly politically left wing, many workers lived in the city, and in elections a great majority prefered socialdemocrats and communists. In 1932 for example the Berliners elected as follows for the Reichstag: Socialdemocrats 27,3%, Communst Party 27,3%, Nazi-Party 28,6%, Conservatives 13,2%.
TheAccelerated 10 months ago
Was mir aufgefallen ist, da ist ne frau im video die überall auftaucht, sie hatte wahrscheinlich damit was zu tun gehabt.
ComputerHacken 11 months ago
@ComputerHacken Es ist von ein film, Berlin ein Simpfonie der gross stadt.
nederland4045 8 months ago
I JUST READ A FEW OF THE COMMENT STATING IF WE COULD ONLY GET A FEW OF THESE PEOPLE PULL THEM IN TIME AND SHOW THEM BERLIN 1945 & 1949 WHAT SHOCK THEY WOULD SEE AND SEND THEM BACK TO PREVENT THE MADDNESS AND SADNESS TO COME. MAYBE WE COULD DO THIS EVEN TODAY. ONE CAN ONLY HOPE. MAN IS SUCH A DESTROYER
BOSTONBUCK 1 year ago 3
SEE NOT ALL GERMANS WERE NAZI'S INFACT BELINERS COULDNT STAND HITLER OR THE NAZIS AS HE FELT THE SAME OF BERLIN. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CITY WITH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE SO FILED WITH LIFE & VIGOR. ALL JSUT TO BE BOMBED A LAID INTO WASTE LAND THEN 45 YEARS OF COMMUNIST SOVIET RUSSIAN RULE, REBULIT WITH THAT UGLY GRAYISH BLOCK WORK & CONCREATE STALIN STYLE THE RUSSIANS ARE SO KNOW FOR. WORLD, HUMANS TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE LOST. HOW DO U FEEL??? DID U LEARN ANYTHING YET?? I HATE POLITICIANS OF ANY NATION
BOSTONBUCK 1 year ago 3
1929 da war mann/frau noch zu fuß unterweg´s
olafwinkler 1 year ago
Amazing! Thank you!
ourDC888 1 year ago
Toll, noch richtige Menschen auf der Strasse, die noch miteinander sprechen und sich angucken - statt der grenzdebilen auf ihre Handydisplays stierenden mickrigen AUTISTEN heutzutage! Ich hätte viel lieber damals gelebt...:-)
Talulah1998 1 year ago 3
@Talulah1998 Und was meinst Du zu meinen Kommentaren unten - von vor zwei Monaten? Meinst Du es auch bei 2:35?
refohtiew 1 year ago
1:59 a MAN with a stroller?? What? o.0
tannalv 1 year ago
Fantastic! What a great collection of shots! It really brought pre-Nazi Berlin to life! Look at the culture and think of the possibilities! Not unlike New York at that time or even Paris. So lively! Utterly tragic! Thanks for posting this! (And let this be a warning to all of us).
cirvine11 1 year ago 2
what is the name of all the song
DreamTeam2919 1 year ago
Was das Fick! Berlin!
bimhimbim 1 year ago
too bad.... they ha no idea what was ahead of them. Americans should wake up.
TheAmazingamerica 1 year ago
What's that supposed to mean?
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
@gatheringleaves Just that they had their world and the inner evil which dwelled inside their society was going to declare war on them. Now they have been labeled evil people and there are holocaust museums on every corner. It is sad. Also should be a warning to Americans.
TheAmazingamerica 1 year ago
@TheAmazingamerica
A warning to americans about what?
Modern Day America is a craphole I don't think it can get much worse
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
@gatheringleaves It can get worse. China or russia bombing us would not be good, more and more homeless. People are living off their assets right now.
TheAmazingamerica 1 year ago
Dam´´ good video. Great, you can feel their souls....love it.
ddanzig 1 year ago
yeah...esp. when u imagine whether those people knew what would happen to them in..just the next 10 years..
SuperPromethee 1 year ago
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dersimerdal 1 year ago
at 1:38 what is the symbol with the two crossed hammers ? It looks just like the symbol used in place of the swastika in the movie Pink Floyd The Wall. Interesting. Is it maybe some kind of workers union symbol ?
649scott 1 year ago
@DIY SHOP
arikarp 1 year ago
@649scott
1:38 This was a symbol for coal mines or coal dealers, aswell for miners and unions, it had nothing to do with swastikas or nazis!
In 1929 the nazis were hated in the traditionally red Berlin!
ruhri0411 1 year ago
@649scott No, it's just a symbol for coal-mining, like doctors, policemen or firefighters have their own symbols; nothing political.
eddings33 5 months ago
This is beautiful...its so bizarre to me, these naive and ridiculous statements about how the 'horrible Nazis' would come and destroy all this, and make these people suffer- "If only we could warn them", "they should have known" . These people are not so different from you or me, not smarter or more ignorant, Germans voted Hitler into power, & the 1930s were much better for Germans than the 1920s were. The Nazis of our era are doing horrible things to people as we speak! The Holocaust is NOW
JeuneFilleaCarnival 1 year ago 2
Damals war Berlin noch Berlin und Deutschland noch Deutschland. Heute ist alles runtergekommen und total überfremdet.
DeutscheFreiheit1 1 year ago
@DeutscheFreiheit1
"na klar" - hatten damals alles andere als eine stabile regierung, inflation, bürgerkriegszustände und massenarbeitslosigkeit. aber bleib mal schön deiner idiotischen ideologie verhaftet! wenns auf den bildern doch so schön aussieht. du hättest auch jeder wochenschau geglaubt! berlin, deutschlang zwischen zwei kriegen - das findest du erstrebenswert? dann mach mal .... traurig ist das, wirklich traurig.
smellycat81 1 year ago
oh, I can't take my eyes off the screen when I watch this...it's like coming home for me...this is so fantastic!!!
GlamourOfThePast 1 year ago
ein sehr schönes Zeitdokument vergangner Tage....ach wie wehmütig es einem da wird...
Novvalis 1 year ago
@Novvalis ...Und ich glaube, Leute identifizieren zu können, die evtl. - oder gar mit Sicherheit - dann unter der Zeit ab 1933 zu leiden hatten. Schau mal die Dame bei 2:35 an, kurz nach dem Mann mit der runden Brille! Was meinst Du? Für mich ist sie "Zucker"...!
refohtiew 1 year ago
I really love watching Berlin during this era in movies...
if you want more, watch "Berlin Die Sinfonie der Großstadt" (1927), "Emil und die Detektive" (1930), "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1931) and "M" (1931) ... but not a lot of street impressions in "M", etc. Wonderful films, needless to say! ;) I really liked the concept of "Menschen am Sonntag", filming ordinary people living their normal lifes.
Danke für den Clip!
lapislazuli7 1 year ago
@lapislazuli7
"Menschen am Sonntag",is one of the most outstanding movies in the history of cinema.those were rather economic hard times back then,but at 20 it's much easier to see the bright side of life and forget about all one's cares for a while ....
mokacode 1 year ago
the man at 2:38 looks exactly like Jake Gyllenhaal or Tobey Maguire... weird :P
Gruenfuchs 1 year ago
America got swept away similarly under Bush with rampant militarism and hate agenda along with new special police (homeland secrurity)! Very similar--fascism is fascism whether it is Nazis or Americans.
rankpines49 1 year ago
They look so ordinary, don't they and not at all like the Nazis portrayed in later films. How could they have been swept away by the propaganda of later years? You feel like you want to shout at the screen and warn them of their fate. But of course, you can't.
jaxthename 2 years ago
This is a propaganda video made by nazi regime with typical pictures of "good old times Berlin" aired on screen during allies bombing on the city.
deepenhancer 1 year ago
I don't think so. Nazi propaganda was always directed at drilling some specific message into its viewers minds, whether demeaning Jews and foreigners, promoting German superiority, or trying to boost morale. A filmstrip like this during the Allied bombardment would have just made people miserable and long for the days before the Nazis were in power, which definitely cannot what Göbbels would have wanted.
saiyajedi 1 year ago
@deepenhancer
you`re wrong. it`s a part of "people on sunday"!
smellycat81 1 year ago
to bad, that the silly NAZIS have have laid the bais for destruction of this fantastic city. Not only that they killed millions of people but also lost huge parts of the "Deutsches Reich" with many impressive cities. The new Berlin of 2010 ist not the same as in the roaring twenties....
writingangel2 2 years ago 2
Smile in das camera ... XDDDD
Spino162 2 years ago
At 2:39 ist beautiful women
Bobry47 2 years ago 3
@Bobry47; Yes, she is but look at 2:23 she is also very beautiful!
sutherland72 2 years ago
Indeed..my friend but i love girl from 2:39 her eyes and lips is a obsession for me !Now is dead for certain!
Bobry47 2 years ago
Well, you´re absolutely right, she is lovely!
sutherland72 2 years ago
@Bobry47 ...but much more beautiful that woman at 2:35! But I think that she might be victim of the time from 1933 on... - or? What do you mean! Looks like...!
refohtiew 1 year ago
Damn if WWII doesn't start Germany and Poland will have such a beautiful capitals :( wars suck
lookaszx 2 years ago 38
@lookaszx
Well have you been to Berlin now? It's one of the most awesome and unique cities in the world I can assure you ;)
Spino162 2 years ago 2
Yes berlin is nice and modern but i gues many beautiful historic monument was destroy. Dunno how your capital but Warsaw will look totally diffrent now if not war. But well its happend and we cant go back in time.
lookaszx 2 years ago
Well actually I think there are still many historic sights in Berlin (Reichstag, Berlin Cathedral, Unter den Linden, Brandenburg Gate, etc). What's so special about Berlin is the huge contrast between modern and historic places and the fact that Berlin is changing all the time. There's no city in which change can be seen that obviously. Berlin is multifaceted, Berlin is unique.
Spino162 2 years ago 3
I lived there for two years (1999 and 2000) and it was fascinating! Berliners have a great sense of humor! But I have to say that Berlin the in 1920's must have been unbelievable. What a great era!
herrrob14 2 years ago
@lookaszx I totally agree with you , Paris and Vienna are considered to be the most beautiful cities in the world, but if Berlin wasn't bombed in WWII it would be the most beautiful city in the world instead beyond any doubt!
kostasdaskk 7 months ago
@kostasdaskk
What about Florence, Italy? Italy is full of beautiful cities, like Venice
Everybody loves Barcelona, Spain too.
McLarenMercedes 6 months ago
@lookaszx warswa was soooo beautiful, and so berlin....
micharon90 6 months ago
from 0:33-0:37 you can see the nazi stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung, SA) marching in the background
shipvillager 2 years ago
Yes, an ominous sign of things to come...
hurlockbros 2 years ago
considering the massive effects of what came later, i would say maybe 10 of the people in this vid made it to 1945.
acerb45666555 2 years ago
1:09 - the Goldelse was former in front of the Reichstagsgebäude, and now it has four rings.
manuka1981 2 years ago
Sadly, some of those in the closups ended in concentration camps 5 years later. (They looked jewish!). How would they know.
Atlargein 2 years ago 2
Could be, over 5% of Berlin was Jewish at that time, today it's only 0.5% thanks to fucking Adolf...
Chrissib1989 2 years ago
its weird she sings 'they dont know it theryre reaching danger!"
the rise and fall of evil!
powert0me 2 years ago
Is this real? Where did you get this video? Amazing.
nirvanafatal 2 years ago 2
Beautiful simple life back than.
Misspinkpaws 2 years ago 2
echt mal interessant zu sehen wie das damals war.
es ist grade mal 80 jahre her und in diesen 80 jahren hat sich so viel geändert ...
SamuGER 2 years ago 4
wunderbares Video !!!
hoffmann9471 2 years ago
What is the song starting at 2:06 that is played after Blond Women? What band recorded the 2nd song on the video?
jazzgirl1920s 2 years ago
... hi Jazzy,
i do want to know that song as well ...
RheingoldxxL 2 years ago
wot's this bleeding Wall Street thing anyway??
PropertyIsTheft1969 2 years ago
Wonderful choice of music!
(And let's not even mention the wonderful "Menschen am Sonntag"!)
Hadewijch 2 years ago
Y pensar que muchos de esos niños y jovenes (si es que todos) lucharon en la WWII.... que desperdicio de vidas !!!
Saludos !!!!!
elbwolf189 2 years ago
Thank you for posting these great snippets of "People On Sunday" (directed by Curt Siodmak & Fred Zinnemann and others). Btw: this was one of Billy Wilder's first movie projects and along with 'Symphony of a Big City" projectsprobably one of the best examples of the 'Zeitgeist' of the late 1920's. Brimming with documentary-style footage and charming staged sequences it's quite the cinematographic collage. Especially around 2:20 with all its portrait shots, it gets rather artful ... Cheers, Julia
macNjulia 2 years ago
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macNjulia 2 years ago
the songs i think are 78 of Weintraub Sincopators..a German jazzband in 20s
vertxxgg 2 years ago
i like the song
unicorn1221 2 years ago
Very nice film. I agree with the comment below that the atmosphere in the film resembles Berlin today. This is surprising .... but both today and in 1929 Berlin was a practical down to earth working city.
chrisdahms 2 years ago 2
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chrisdahms 2 years ago
It's rather sad watching this video to think that the various people shown in it would all have very likely to have been caught up in the events that were to follow in not a great number of years, in one way or another. Either becoming soldiers, or being killed in allied attacks.. It's sad to see that we Europeans ending up obliterating each other over political rubbish.
Blissmillah 2 years ago 24
Bravo. Great stuff.
BERLIN1929 3 years ago 2
I know it's probably contrary to the point of this video, but I'll post it anyway:
How very little has really changed!
And how frightening that is...
NihilNominis 3 years ago
sometimes i really understand my grandparent when they say: " Previously, everything was better!"
mymarci 3 years ago 3
Extremely disturbing, not so much for what it depicts (since it looks so very ordinary, happy, and prosperous) but for the absolute horror than came just a very few short years after this. This is a wonderful video. We can appreciate these times for the joy they were. Yet it makes me seriously doubt mankind and if we have a future.
chem100 3 years ago 3
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HughJason 3 years ago
About what people might say about us in the future..If someone tells me that if I hadn't voted for George Bush there would have been no lies about weapons of mass destruction and no Iraq war I will have the pleasure of replying "don't blame me idiot, I DIDN'T vote for Bush." And I am not saying the Democrats are any better-remember ol' slick willie?-"I never had sex with that woman" -now he has become an elder statesman giving empty talks at $25,000 a pop but he is still a lying scumbag to me.
jazzgirl1920s 3 years ago
If only the idiots in that film knew the hell they were going to be plunged into shortly because of the madman they supported and let take over their country. I would love to travel back in time to Berlin in 1929 with pictures of Berlin in April, 1945 and tell the people "This is what Berlin is going to look like 16 years from now."
jazzgirl1920s 3 years ago 5
I'm fairly sure the sort of people in the film (yes, I'm generalising, I know) didn't support Naziism, at least not as early as 1929, and if and when they did (later) it was more a matter of their class / type acquiescing in Hitler than what we would think of as supporting him. That said, I share your reaction of "Would to God they had known what was in the offing". It's an old story, and it may be that in the future people will think the same about us.
HughJason 3 years ago 3
There have been many, many, lies and exaggerations claimed written or stated , about the National Socialist era of Germany. For various political/social reasons and agendas. One could spend hours upon hours learning from a different perspective on that era by reading articles from:
the Journal for Historical Review archived at the website: ihr(dot)org for example or visiting the websites:
barnesreview(dot)org
vho(dot)org
germarrudolf(dot)com
Thanks, just thought I'd share this information.
mfh2kdw210 3 years ago
Berlin in those times were politically rather confused, but certainly NOT nazi, they infact needed the big financial crises and many acts of open terrorism to at least win the elections, i don't recall the numbers of percentage, but it's surely easily to find on some wikipedia page.
What's interesting is a freshness and a really modern lifestyle!!!
sedahedonja 2 years ago 4
Do not count out time machines - the computer could not have been visualized just a few decades ago. We may have to correct all misdeeds . . . never know!
MMfanAZ 2 years ago
I will let the historians using a time machine correct the misdeeds. As for me I would use it to go back to 1929 and 1930 and listen to all those Whiteman Old Gold radio broadcasts with Bix and to 1930 and listen to the Camel Pleasure hour broadcasts with Bix. I would especially want to go back in time to hear the Camel Pleasure hour broadcast of July 2, 1930. On that show a singer named Francis Williams was singing a song called All fall in love and Bix played a great solo so she forgot her cue
jazzgirl1920s 2 years ago
Stunning ! Thanks very much for posting this. Have subscribed.
HughJason 3 years ago
WOW... I traveled in time. Just amazed about what I've seen and experienced. And Marlene (it was she, wasn't it?) who sang in english from the film "Die blaue engel" 1929.
Where do you find all this intresting clips!?
Thanks Aaron1912
mrchrille1 3 years ago 2
The authentic music really adds to the feeling of this video! The other footage I've seen here of Berlin, 1929 has modern music that just takes away from it, I think!
gregoryagogo 3 years ago
Berlin's glory days...when it was still a beautiful, innocent, world-class city. How different things would be just 16 short years later.
:(
ataramprat 3 years ago 3
That Hollander record never sounded so good. It looks like Paradise - it couldn't last.
merrihew 3 years ago
Amazing, wonderful, extraodinairy! Aaron1912, I think it's one of your best videos!
Drewfan30s 3 years ago
Brilliant pin-sharp video in HQ! No doubt filmed using Carl Zeiss lenses, then the best in the world. I played hockey in Berlin in '56when much was unrecognisable.
fatsfan70 3 years ago
Wonderful footage, leaving a similar impression on me as gregoryagogo descibed in a previous comment. Thank you for sharing!
kspm01 3 years ago
Fantastic!!! Got anymore of this type of stuff? I LOVE IT!! Thanx!
beefnotfish 3 years ago
I love things like this!! It's like these Germans are still alive, their walks preserved forever! The hair fashions seem quite current, and Berlin was so beautiful....everyone seems to be walking a lot too!!! thanks for posting, best wishes
k9henrydog 3 years ago
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Ich liebe Deutschland!
Drewfan30s 3 years ago
Ganz toll. Danke schön.
17olaf61 3 years ago
At least it was 1929, not 1939.
coreyteen13 3 years ago
Such a quality of life it was in those days. I heard that Berlin was very wild in the 20s Opium Houses, Cocaine and the height of sophistication=Lesbianism...
Shurayuki18481 3 years ago
@Shurayuki18481 Weimar Germany!
NDrLoR 1 week ago
Interesting how the Worldwide Economic Crash turned a civilized nation like that into savage barbarians -
JCJasion 3 years ago
So, with all this going on and people seems to be striving and doing well, did they need Hitler?
HarborGuy 3 years ago
I love the close ups of the people!! Awesome shots of beautiful people. I got goose bumps when that part came on! I felt really touched by those people.
Interesting to me, is really, then and now, things are really the same. People getting around doing their business and leisure. Transportation, phonographs, the camera photographing... things are pretty much the same now... maybe a few higher tech things now, but the basic framework is there!
gregoryagogo 3 years ago 3
Gregory,
you took the words right out of my mouth !
Thanks !
parlophonman 3 years ago
Great Footage!
Wonderful Marlene!!
Thanks for posting!
MarleneXtreme 3 years ago
Where do you have all this footage from?!
awesome :D
KorbinianLooser 3 years ago 2
The footage is from the german film 'Menschen Am Sonntag' (People On Sunday)
Aaron1912 3 years ago
Lovely shots of a lovely city. So sad to think that these people had ww2 around the corner and the destruction of much of their beautiful city (as we did in London). Thanks for posting
burnt62 3 years ago 2