Witness to the bombing of Dresden part 14 of 14

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Frau Schmidt, 97 years old, survived the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by being fortunate enough not to able to get into the shelter she planned to take cover in. These fourteen films will look at her life, the life of an 'ordinary' housewife in Nazi Germany and how she and her family reacted to the war and the bombing of February 1945.
In the main I have left the German conversation.
This film was made Pirna on 15 March 2009.

My channel is one of the most prolific from Poland, although not amongst the most visited. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced around 1,000 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occasional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects

Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating!

There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers.

Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!

Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!

In 1997 I founded Polish Business News http://www.pbn.com.pl .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).

My blog can be found via http://www.ceepackaging.com and http://www.pbn.com.pl and contains background information and more details of many of my films. This information is in English.

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• Dresden
• Pirna
• Weimar
• Republic
• Nazi
• Germany
• German
• Deutschland
• bombing
• RAF
• USAAF
• second
• world
• war
• WW2

[Phedrus1975]

@ alanheath2 ; I will give them a go, consider me subscribed! My grandfather served with 2/51 Highlanders during WW2, and never spoke about it. It was only after I joined the RAF that he began talking about his experiences. Difficult to image the pressures of that time, and impossible and wrong to judge.

[alanheath]

@Phedrus1975 Thanks for subscribing! I can well understand your father not wanting to talk about it. Do you know where he served?

[j0andc0]

I feel for the woman, as i do with all civilians in war, but i'm sick of people talking of Dresden like it was the only blitz.

Will Mr Heath be doing compensation fights for the people of London who endured constant bombings for 57 nights straight through with thousands killed.

Or Coventry where Germans caused a fire storm destroying 60,000 buildings and killing 100s of civilians again.

Or Greenock which german attacks aimed at the ship yards, but again the innocents suffered there instead.

[alanheath]

In the first place I am not doing compensation fights for anyone.

In the second, this film is about Dresden. It is not about London, Coventry or Greenock.

I have got lots of films about other aspects of WW2 which I suggest you at least look at the titles of before making insinuations about me.

[ElayneKevaux660]

hiya bin so geil

[Gary190tube]

It's terrible what happened but Dresden was a legitimate target. At the time it was very much "it's us or them."

[Phedrus1975]

@alanheath2; My grandfather was initially part of the BEF (2/51 Seaforth Highlanders) which was evacuated from Dunkirk, with the overwhelming majority of his unit captured at St. Valery. Later he was 'absorbed' into an MP unit and served in North Africa, Madagascar, Beruit and Iraq. Left the Army in 1946 after 11 years service.

[alanheath3]

@Phedrus1975 If you are interested, I have similar material with interviews of Sobibór death camp escapees on my alanheath channel.

I am very pleased you liked it.

Frau Schmidt unfortunately died five months after this was filmed. I saw her daughter though last week in Nuremburg.

[Phedrus1975]

@ Alanheath2: No offence meant. Found the whole series of videos enjoyable and intriguing, and felt the lady was being very dignified with a very 'diplomatic' answer, instead of something controversial or salacious. Interesting series of videos though, thank you.

[alanheath3]

@Phedrus1975 That is OK. Sometimes I get a bit defensive as I receive a lot of abuse from all sides

[alanheath3]

@Phedrus1975 As an interrogation or questioning technique (which incidentally also works with sales) we ask leading questions in order to get the person to give the contrary answer. I don't think I have ever done this on film but I do it all the time when speaking to eye witnesses, especially of Nazi acts of terror. The point of this is check the veracity of the witness by giving a leading question which is incorrect but may be commonly held belief.

[Phedrus1975]

I didn't mean to offend with my earlier post, I am merely making an observation that it is what's known in the business as a 'closed' question, intended to give a specific reply. I very much doubt it to be intentional or contrived, just an observation...