Were not going to. The world and i didnt get it. From the fact that they were not. Going to record up. And. 3945. 00 on latvias baltic cuz. Just for several months the German Army Group north had been encircled by the red army on the cool and peninsula. The immense human and material losses of the past years had left nazi germanys once dreaded army in a state of collapse. Amateur photographs reveal the sorry state of the trapped units. In contrast nazi propaganda was still clinging to the myth of military strength in newsreel showed the swearing in of home defense units. If you order for anything but even the high fives even if you are right oh well thats what i mean youre. Going to want to pay for me and if youre fully open i mean come 1st ok i dont know. If it can get here if you are fit. To need step just units called folks when it is were made up of local home guards adolescence understands when the break in a soldier is the men are required to swear an oath to the field even though the military situation was already hopeless. I think. It. Was a tough. Task. Was that it was a bit. Longer so it was about making an ultimate sacrifice. The idea of sacrificing oneself for you very strong as a very important under National Socialism and a gun thats why hitler also thought the navy was so great because they went down with all hands serving as a toy that impressed him he thought it was great thats what you had to do almost one was more. On the 12th of january 945 the red Army Launched a major offensive in east prussia. At 4 45 am the sky turned as bright as day as up to 300 solve it got its perky dahmus and on the front opened fire on the german physicians. Red army cameraman filmed the apocalyptic scenes as the vam office lines of defense rapidly collapsed. Over the previous years German Forces had waged a campaign of destruction against the people of the soviet union the nazi ideology painted as racially inferior. Now the war on the east front was shifting onto the territory of the rush many germans feared the soviet red army would exact a terrible revenge. Dimension how much. Thats had a people who were simply afraid they had been told that the subhuman russians are coming and they were afraid of the red army that of course they also knew about the atrocities the German Forces had committed in the soviet union because that was known of and its us on a mission to that extent it was a mixture of prejudice against the russian subhumans had a realistic assessment that the red army would not be squeamish and its advance and a clear recognition of the mass crimes that germany had committed and a fear of vengeance for the money its forget to fish that. Many of the roughly 2 and a half 1000000 People Living in east prussia at the time wanted to flee their homes as fast as possible and head west but most of them couldnt. You know its an odd sort. Of the flow of football one boy to die for a long time the nazis had forbidden people to flee or they wanted them to stay put and oppose the advancing soviet army colonel and this was certainly one reason why the escape was later so chaotic and violent. People didnt leave until the last minute they could only take the Bare Necessities with them and theyve been worn down by. The war once is and often will include. Their fleet of these attacks middle went on these tracks mothers and their children and old men as always in war the weakest to get hit the hardest. They were left to fend for themselves and also made to suffer for the failure of an entire nation including the lack of evacuation plans exist and plan all to fall out. Because the soviet forces had largely blocked the road to the west many people trying to flee across the frozen lagoon but coastal waters could be every bit as dangerous. Many were aiming for the baltic coast near done say from where they hoped theyd be able to continue their escape by ship. Ports like goes in half and 2 days denia was still under german control. Thats where the van gogh stuff was moored waiting to take on refugees and soldiers named after a senior swiss nazi assassinated in 1986 the cruise ship was famous in germany out of hitler had personally attended its 937 village and handed. It over to our good hand for the last. 4 years the ship served as a holiday vessel for the Nazi Organization tough to wish for it a strength through joy Party Members would relax on its decks as a cruise the mediterranean or the north sea. Now it was supposed to transport evacuation refugees and soldiers westwards thousands of people were crammed together on board as it set sail and this overloading proved fatal. To avoid running aground in shallow waters as the captain said course far out into the baltic sea where the soviet navy was also up racing. The ship was detected until peter by the soviets. At least 9300 people died in the sinking. Siblings kind legally it was not a war crime at all because the us law for the sailing without lights in a conflict zone and was armed and carrying soldiers. As well so in a sense if you look at the laws of war the attack on the ghost law was legal. Whether its one of legitimate is another question and you know you can decide for yourself but for. On the other side of the globe the war was continuing unabated the u. S. Navy was cruising off the strategically important japanese island of. About 1200 kilometers south of tokyo. In mid february 945. 00 battleships opened fire on the island which is only 21 square kilometers in size they had is support from u. S. Bomb is based in the mariana islands. Evil commies are you would you know these volcanic island or family was operationally important because it had air bases that the money goes to escort bombers or as an Emergency Landing site for them so they sell their sights on the will jima in 4 course. Cameraman from the us office of war information filmed as several tens of thousands of u. S. Marines landed on the island shortly before 9 in the morning 3 days after the attack had begun. Their footage of the fierce fighting over the socalled sulfa island would later form the basis of the documentary film to the shores of. Writing from the greek here for a part position for a bunch of the camps look right down our throat. Besides the cameraman they were also photographers among the wall correspondents on the 23rd of february a few days after the start of the landing operation one of them snapped 2 u. S. Marines raising the stars and stripes on the summit of the extinct suribachi volcano. Although the men were actually replacing the flag raised earlier that day the photo was to go down in history. Thats why the vacant is on the 2nd world war was also a war of images and symbols millions of photos we have from world war 2 there are 5 or 6 that we all know. You are looking for sting of the flag an evil genius the reenacted honest symbolizes the american victory in the pacific. The conscience he can put if you. Lost it would be several months before the americans could really came victory in the pacific the fighting around he would seem unknown continued for weeks up to the picture at the volcano summit was taken the japanese defended is resorted to a particularly bloody tactic to come out of your mind as for the japanese commander was fully aware that he could not defend the island against the americans no one was to inflict the highest possible number of losses on the americans so that the war would become unpopular and would be stopped for political reasons really not didnt work but still the number of americans just was here which you were kind of. Immense. More than 6800 u. S. Marines were killed taking the island and almost 20000 u. S. Servicemen were wounded. On the japanese side most of the 20000. 00 or so defenders lost their minds at least 216. 00 men surrendered to the enemy of the commissary will cost for the americans were shocked by the japanese willingness to sacrifice themselves which was evident during the defense of. The americans hadnt really believed that the japanese would fight quite so tenaciously to the last delta but that played a very big role in the fact that at some point the americans changed their minds and said we have to find another way to end the war on the spin and. The forces that the japanese empire when just fighting doggedly against imminent to feast on t. V. Jima since october 944. 00 they come on has had also been relying on a new tactic in the pacific kamikaze flights. Pilots flew their planes directly into enemy warships usually killing themselves in the process vice admiral techie jiro nishi commander of the Japanese Naval air force had developed the idea. Just wanted to do it for commercial cuban for the time of the car american soldiers of course from the scholarly shocking if they hadnt expected anything like that it was a completely new form of warfare and the clicks feel warm. And i knew that me. And the american side hadnt reckoned with such a willingness to make sacrifices to get the squadrons of these flying bombs full names like morning sun and mountain Cherry Blossom it wasnt difficult to recruit fanatical youngsters to the suicide squads their message does a lot of things from getting tata on short if you look at the results though you have to say these attacks werent very efficient. They didnt really do much good at all. More than the americans shot down a lot of those planes before they could even reach their targets and even those that did hit the often didnt have much effect mists on the it was more a shock element. And shook even this element. Images like this also contributed to the shock footage taken on the 21st of january 945 show the consequences of a kamikaze attack on the u. S. S. Ticonderoga near the straits of formosa. Liddy Aircraft Carrier survived the attack more than a 100 men on board didnt and the death toll of american troops in the pacific climbed further. Less than 2 weeks later a summit in the soviet seaside result of the goal to have brought together the big 3 allied leaders of the anti hitler coalition. For some years britain the soviet union and the United States had been. United against the nazis and. Now as their forces moved into germany itself the end of the war in europe seemed only a matter of time british Prime MinisterWinston Churchill soviet dictated Joseph Stalin and u. S. President franklin d. Roosevelt focused on concrete planning for the post will future they had sketched out at the tehran summit more than a year earlier. And i dont think it was important to big 3 met at the altar the 1st issue was the westward shift of poland for sure theyd already discussed out of tehran now it was decision time and it was clear that there would be occupation sons done but for i didnt when they talked about what to do in the pacific not so much but sufficient. So far the soviet union had not participated in the fighting in the pacific but roosevelts health was declining and he wanted to bring moscow along side to end the war quickly and avoid further heavy losses. Thoughts roosevelt approached stalin and told him that he needed him in the pacific he negotiated with her mum got him to promise that the red army would attack tracking down 3 months after they came to the war in europe well you know what i mean stalin kept a promise to the day talk and all. In return the western allies pledged to expand their support for the red army by bombing the german rice 2 days after the summit they trained their sights on the city of dresden. On the 13th of february 945 some 800 british lancaster bomb is took off for what was then germanys 7 philologist city which had previously been largely sped and strikes. And this is a 2 or 3 women its a church i wanted something to show stall and growth a supporter of the so rich so i go and so the idea of took root out. They flew harriets behind the german lines on the soviet front and caused chaos there so that it would somehow help the red army. The british planes reach dresden just before half past 10 in the evening and also met a camera filming the explosives and incendiary bombs dropping from the edge of the attack has made no attempt to hit specific targets large areas of the since he were to be destroyed within 15 minutes 3 courses of the city center was on fire. Yesterday and for the fact that the attack on dresden was so devastating had to do it the circumstances are kind of for president have no antiaircraft defenses its antiaircraft guns hes taken to the Eastern Front but sometimes you know many of its night fighters couldnt take off all of a target it was a clear night and no defenses and the british could go in relatively low and thats fine or could drop its flares accurately in the bombers were able to follow them exactly so it was a textbook attack on. A few hours later on valentines day 945. 00 american bomb is attack dressed in again this time in daylight the u. S. News reported. The veteran 1st division of the air force today gated to 100000 tonne of bombs to happen are all they had been part of the. Imposing transpose had on the album river was hit by a total of 4 waves of attacks. Not much here blasting away for the russians now 45 miles away links to defraud a large drive from east to west london when. The Anglo American air strikes devastated the city and killed up to 25000 people. I could never have believed that an officer of the dresden missing person sent that death could ever take people in so many different ways and. Dismembered apparently sleeping peacefully distorted by pain completely cold up dressed naked or as a miserable heap of ashes. And above all this the pungent smoke and the m. Bearable smell of decay. Pictures taken months after the attacks still give an impression of the extent of the catastrophe. In the previous also. The surprise german offensive in the battle of the bulge in december had slowed down the us british had violence and it would be another month before the americans could start moving east again. Just over the border in judicial they met with fierce resistance. And. The german news real reported. Ive been barred from and driver valen from getting both iraq. For their gig not under my 1st delving harbison and either come on what are going to be over on 500. 00 you got. The germans if and is blew up the nearby roy dad so the river levels rose noticeably. The u. S. Forces had to wait until the floods had subsided before they could cross the river on the 23rd of february and enter the center of view. The g. I. s encountered a shocking picture ulicks no longer existed the town had been under fire for months and countless artillery shells and bombs had rained down on it. The last inhabitants had been evacuated in december of the previous year. What remained was a field of rubble where the german defenders had dug in and with fighting a pointless and basic battle in the ruins against the. An occupy is at the beginning of march why do you as and how is the Supreme Commander of the ide forces in europe came to look at you that for himself one of the places he visited was the historic citadel for a long time it had been considered impregnable and no enemy soldier had entered it since the napoleonic wars the footage shows here with eisenhower was intended to send a clear signal that the entire german reich could be counted like the same trees old fortress. Meanwhile in the east the red army continued to advance steadily in addition to east prussia in the north it was also sweeping further south into salesian a region in present day code and that was of great strategic importance because of its industrial base. Our tanks ran everything down in a raid on the soldier wrote in his diary on the 23rd of january day tracks class in vehicles horses and anything else on the road the reasons for the red army success namely security are seen both men and materiel as well as serious tactical mistakes made by hitler that no one had called into question for years so i remember that armed forces since november 1043 hitler had been putting his priorities on the west a lot was going wrong there in june july and august 1940 but he stuck to his vision he said i have to give these western allies who kicked us out of france another major blow now kicked the music its like well and thats just so and so at a time when the red army was mounting one of the biggest offensives ever on the west. He was focusing on the west and so turning himself into stalins best allies. Awful storm. In this years many germans had fled to say leisure to escape from the western allies bombing salesian had been largely spared from aerial bombardment but now the soviet advance put them right in the middle of the war. Like in east prussia most people here only had one goal to escape from the read all. Of it 1st to listen and then doesnt enjoy will be terrible because its get beaten or die vi because what we did during the Eastern Campaign especially against soviet civilians but also in poland into a list of often poor in the crimes we committed will return to us as vengeance yes vote. So on. Those fears often proved to be justified Many Red Army soldiers committed atrocities in revenge for the crimes of the family and the s. S. Divide as cadets who will see an escalation of violence against the german civilian population here the shooting of civilians the shooting of women and children. As she soon found on knaan the abduction of german civilians. On the 2 vilest and the mass rape of women lost 5 of article on fall on to 6 a while ago by out on door to call on at the Sexual Violence against german women can be explained by various factors so does there come on the one hand it is said that a womans body in symbolic of the nation which means that any desecration to use the term from that time so many desecration or dishonor through Sexual Violence therefore also means the desecration or dishonor of the entire nation and. Nazi on. Nazi propaganda regularly focused on these desecrations and so. Continue to feel the climate of fear and hatred among the population this is a news reel from january 19th to see find. The republican pope and read out would you be the power running god im tired and blood dripping from out of their car if i. Even got to meet in one of the harley i found out of the price we have been trying to become offered here right out of politics and thered be nothing to be done you dont darken own even a tiny power nor. Indeed indeed be a lower income youre from holland im going to. Africa go through but ill put you thought good for her. Even on a whim. Despite the hopelessness of the situation military capitulation remained to boo for the nazi leadership. Instead strategically outdated concepts were constantly advanced to stop the red army. Largest city dogs have become a question for the germans was how to stop this red army onslaught. They did on a concept that have been developed in 1904 in the Eastern Front to set up fixed points to transport hopes to would later be declared fortresses one decent point to fatah his points would be defended and so act like breakwaters against which the red army as a tax would bring the breslau in love is todays broad swath and poland was one of the breakwaters chosen to stop the russian advance. Youre going to Love National disclosure mr big house ill be 1st impressed low in my view that i knew i was on a good deal and you know what i do if you are leaders museums go like the hunger. He was not somebody referred cornbread thrown behind him from outer feeder trance guys busy or tough men on problem dr mchugh on the stop spending for 34 i tried. On the 28th of january col hunt. Ordered the civilian population to leave the city. However due to a lack of organization and fear of the dangerous 200000 people remained military untrained civilians were to join units of the fog storm damaged and s s to defend the city anyone who refused would be shot. As fruit its was a ups working moms this led to some absurd measures runways were built inside the city and people tried to defend it in a kind of urban warfare that massively raised the death toll among the german civilian population. Out. On other sections of the front while breslow was still under siege the red army was advancing to the order River Building bridgeheads on the west bank near christine nevertheless the nazi leadership appeared unimpressed. In the middle of the month googles wrote in his diary as for the east the fear is no longer too concerned he has the impression that we have slowly regained a firm footing. While the red army was conquering large parts of solutia and polar raney in the east the americans british and canadian swim aching rather slow progress in the west their next big objective was the rhine river since the end of february u. S. Forces had been fighting their way towards. The trying is that in the run was the big natural border in the west and fighting on its approaches or was heavy and washingtons relatively current approach to the war in 1905 was one of the worst march for. You are sobbing in terms of casualties a lot of he was. On march the 5th when american units reached the suburbs of cologne the 3rd u. S. On the division and to through the western districts. To. The ordinary citizen of cologne has nothing to fear from the allied troops said leaflets that had been dropped over the city earlier. A day later as g. I. s with fighting their way into the city center they encountered a young woman who had apparently got caught in a car between the lines. She was seriously injured but they were able to rescue. A few 100 meters away the americans and counted among german resistance nest me of the cathedral. A panther tank was blocking the way to the rhine but even that couldnt hold up the offensive for long and it was taken out with a targeted hits. Only 3 of the 5 men crew escaped from the burning brick the last significant resistance had been broken. By Late Afternoon on the 6th of march fighting had stopped the 2nd world war was over in the city districts on the left bank of the rhine the next day the dam of time cmon noted merely the heap of rubble that was cologne was left to the enemy the us military however reported in more detail. Current by the end of the cologne was a major german city and by far the largest city that the allies had conquered by their home boruc homburg reply to learn munich were still far away. On current always so it made sense to document the taking of a kilometer to its iconic cathedral in the western part of the right of the more broadly than say the conquest of the. Our new phase of. Cameraman from the Us Army Air Force is a company the advancing troops as pas of special film project 186. 00 and captured the massive destruction on 16 millimeter color film. Their footage paints an impressive picture of cologne nearly 3 quarters of which have been destroyed the u. S. High command attach great importance to the film work the feelings for played a major role in the 2nd world war not only from a documentary purposes but also for propaganda and a competition and they have portable unpractical Camera Technology and they use color fellow americans filmed in color of course on so you could take your impressions home with you and talk a bit to document them for the cinemas on the one hand but also for internal use in the military or. Before they were crushed 2 colognes defenders have managed to blow up the bridges over the rhine which meant the allies would not be able to cross the river for the time being. Then just a day after the conquest of downtown cologne the americans pulled off another military coup about 55 kilometers upstream. A small advance patrol from the us 9th Army Division reached the luton doff bridge which spans the rhine at remagen. To the great surprise the structure had not been blown up and there was little resistance from enemy troops. Very much for the remarketing for storm battalion did not turn up after having been there and done a bit of shooting on the small patrol that there werent any american soldiers would not have been able to reach the bridge and the bridge approaches so easily. The bridge was captured in a surprise attack the action was reenacted for propaganda units a few days later. More than. 1000 u. S. Soldiers were to reach the eastern back of the rhine within the coming 24 hour winds then most units try to correct a mistake and destroy the bridge with area tax and up to refine it however it took 10 days for the struck to actually collapse by then u. S. Plane is had built a plan to bridge and could continue getting units across the rhine on and off scale it was a heavy blow for the defend is and those responsible suffer the consequences. It looks son of was hitler was furious and he had the bridge commander executed along with some others i could get a hold of 3 or 4 people i feel ought to and they were Court Martialed convicted of an art murder god i would say im a lot of good song but the dictator had stopped appearing in public on the 20th of march to tell had himself filmed one last time in the garden of his chance living hutch and realized that the worlds lost and if so when did he realize and its one argument is that hitler was of course not stupid hunt and it soon realized how bad the situation was through the war but youve got this one does not just lead him to withdraw more and more. It only dared to face the public when he could announce a victory when he says it was not a handle these new victories were not forthcoming hitler became more and more depressed in a time of physical decay set in but of course it was clear to him all of this was going to analyze it. On the day he gave medals to members of the hitler youth who had distinguished themselves in the fighting the fact that the war was lost didnt have solved germans from the duty to defend their homeland the Younger Generation in particular was swept up by this inhuman fanaticism and is caught in these are young people with a 3rd of its final reserves especially in this last phase of the war in 4445 years they were the law. Last reserves each and every one of them comes a disposable mass to be used as cannon fodder the 1st fuel for the final battle. And comfy spot. On the field i feel like i needed a few 1000000 finish dont you think you can feel it if im not not going to be joined. By when. And im not im like probably me in cancun phenomenon. Im in. Company and. Over the money up front up front to me how come you have. To let me sell these in town of low bond you bania in present day poland had been taken over by the red army in february 1945 at the beginning of march however the van most recaptured it one of the red german Success Stories of those days. The. Propaganda minister you as if that is immediate he went there and shortly afterwards gave the finance to speech in nearby gurlitz it was to be his last appearance on the sweet. Yet. Within a quarter hour who crawled up. I. Tired. I thought there. Were great deal of getting done. Your problem by rather. Than i have it. Wasnt it no one ever was what i want im. Not that obvious again and that it or that i end up got the bill i thought it up its in particular use to put it cynically at his best here and gives a speech where he says then they will go into this fight like into a Church Service you know and get this things this is a kind of staging of the downfall and also a permanent staging of the will. He pal money into in sydney will just mean we will definitely not survive and thats it actually says. Hes talking about the turning point about Victory Homes you can but the underlying motif of them and if you later he says actually nazi ideology or nothing and if he did okey or mists in january googles had announced a campaign called the peoples sacrifice with the economy and hung on to us in the napoleonic wars the population was to donate towards its own defense. And of the year of one point coming up now because i dont want to go back to our part european gave. My banker and i mean that in there you can bet at least if any of them is going to. Be one of our back one particular men up and down the you know i. Faced with the stress of canucks the regime was desperately trying to compensate for its huge losses putting women into the fight. On top post season in i know got some stopped your country you know the Richard Young tom davis from fine preferred to compound some novocain from smith dont stand on their own and. Its just you know as i think poppy is how she. This pitot about another brutal thing was that the range of response or frosts was a maximum 100 meters usually 50 or 60 to be really effective with but then those who fired them always paid with their lives due to stop the flood of the us interest on the money to me its all of this father today that was the regimes cynical calculation one local defense volunteer kill one enemy tank destroyed. All. The areas still under german control was shrinking day by day the nazi leaders now audit their people to sacrifice not only clothes and ion but also themselves. Designed for the hymns those kind it was an indication of the regimes lack of restraint and its brute will to destroy everything in the end it was ready to open all the floodgates to throw off every form of responsibility and to do everything in its power to continue this war was hopeless as it was to carry on with it right down to the last of all it still gets torn up in the pacific war on the 9th of march us b. 29 super fortress planes were loaded with bombs on side the main island of the northern marianas the destination of the long range bound this was the japanese capital the Mission Commander and Major General cases even they had decided on a radical change of tactics as part of operation Meeting House tokyo was to be attacked not only with explosives but also with incendiary bombs these were also to be dropped everybodys attention areas. An armada of bomb is took off from the 3 island airfields in the afternoon of the 9th of march each of the more than 300. 00 aircraft was carrying 40 k. Just a bombs with a total of 1500. 00 napalm bonnets. The g. I. s nicknamed them tokyo calling cards. There are no known original photographs of the attack scenes filmed later showed the super fortress bombers dropping their deadly legs. More than 1600. 00 tons of bombs were released over the city at low altitude japanese houses were mostly made of wood and paper and immediately went up in flames strong westerly winds fanned the flames into a firestorm up to 100000. 00 people died during the attack and over 40 square kilometers of the city were destroyed its still seen as the most destructive conventional air strike in history i mean what a man to be upon him thanks to gods intention was to send a clear message to all of the japanese that they were now in danger. Had even guns guns and the japanese war propaganda whipped up the will of japanese soldiers to go on fighting to their deaths. Rootless this in and towards. The fanatical determination of the japanese was once again evident on the smallest of japans 5 main islands the us invasion of iraq in our began on the 1st of april when 180000 troops moved into position around the island and began to land. At 1st they were met with little resistance but the defendants had retreated into the interior where they put up a frenzied fight. With. A vendor. Doing their jobs when we think of the battle of okinawa there were a lot of civilians dug in the caves and we dont have a comma and we are because americans were used to deliver the message in japanese the message come out of the caves surrender i mean there is no sense in killing yourselves are willing to die by flame through. Ours are hand grenades with flour and veil for time from. Sleep. By no means everyone was ready to give up teaches plunged to their deaths from cliffs taking their people whos with them all to escape life under american occupation. It took months before okinawa was completely under u. S. Control. On the 12th of april 945. 00 u. S. President franklin d. Roosevelt dies at the age of 63. 00. Throngs of americans turned out to watch his funeral procession cost through the streets of washington and bid farewell to their war time the day Vice President harry s. Truman took over the reins in berlin the news caused a sensation here is the miracle i always predicted hitler reportedly shouted when he heard of roosevelts death. Knell whos right the war is not lost. The. Building the future today had our w. P. A. Awesome University Researchers and students there are working to advance screen mobility. I want to save the world my entire team wants to save the world. Together theyre researching tirelessly to develop the mobility of tomorrow. Rev. 13 w. 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