Rare footage From World War 11 (color)

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[Ken H]

Footage showing surrendering troops to US Army. southern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia 1945. Isn't strange that some Germans still carry weapons when surrendering plus a few shots from Prague.

[Ken H]

Bach's Air on a G string in the background makes this very moving.

[Misterioso]

World War Eleven? I guess I’ve lost count.

[cynwoody]

Methinks the Krauts priority was to make sure they surrendered to the Americans, not the Soviets.

[GreenLanternCorps]

World War 11?

What about footage from World War 10?

(Just giving you a hard time...)

;)

[Misterioso]

Picture is distorted.

[fso301]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3108089/posts

[M Kehoe]

Good evening.

Rare footage From World War 11

Eleven? Must be because Skynet became self-aware.

5.56mm

[central_va]

Amazing. In color too. I like the Kraut General smiling like it is all fun...

[Defiant]

Isn't strange that some Germans still carry weapons when surrendering

That was in case the surrender wasn't accepted.

[Ken H]

He was no doubt very grateful to be in American hands.

[xrmusn]

We used to refer to it as World War II (AYE AYE)
(Ya like that nautical touch?)

[OneWingedShark]

> World War 11?
> What about footage from World War 10?

You stole my comment.

[Olog-hai]

How did the planet ever survive the first ten?

[reg45]

Methinks the Krauts priority was to make sure they surrendered to the Americans, not the Soviets.

Especially, if they had a wife or girlfriend with them.

[GeronL]

lol

[reg45]

He is smiling because he has made it to the Americans without being killed.

[Riley]

I’ve read that the Americans sometimes repatriated these guys to the Soviets, if the Russians were close by. I have a book by a Gebirgsjaeger (mountain troops) sniper who was captured by Americans who were going to hand the group over. He escaped, ditched his uniform and just went home.

[xrmusn]

Methinks the Krauts priority was to make sure they surrendered to the Americans, not the Soviets.
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A lot more truth to that than many think.

A few years back when ‘they’ started saying the reason we ‘dropped the bigun’ on Japan was purely Racist, the reasoning being we never would have done that to Germany because they were White.
The idea was brought up that the ‘real’ reason we dropped it was because the Soviets were going to do to Japan and the Pacific like they did too Europe - either dominate it or split it up.

Patton was one of the few ‘name’ players who recognized what Russia was and MacArthur had China pegged correctly also.

[CrazyIvan]

I missed 9 world wars? I have got to stop drinking.

[whodathunkit]

Thank you for the posting.