Old footage thread - Jow Forums timemachine

It's interesting how on these old videos so many people are smiling although times were tough. Nowadays almost no one is smiling.

Mannheim, once a royal capital. Levelled.

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Lübeck. The old hansa-town was the first victim of the allied bombing terror targetting exclusively civil targets.

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Budapest before WWII

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Stuttgart. Levelled.

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i'm smiling all the time, just not in the streets

i for one am happy to live in a western democracy

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There's not a single person in these specific photos. Here's one from 183. The first one with people in it. The first photo I posted was from 1826-27. But maybe you were making a general, larger observation.

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Ulm. Birthplace of Albert Einstein, home to the highest cathedral in the world and once home to a magnificient oldtown from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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youtube.com/watch?v=jZkzmfUjpwA

*1838

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youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBfEcQgULI&t

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you don't deserve freedom

Würzburg. Residential town with an old town that rivalled Prague.

Levelled.

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Observation was based on two videoclips posted so far - one by me and one by Norwegian guy.

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Augsburg. Largest preserved historical old town in Germany. City of commerce and home to influential Renaissance family of the Fuggers. Levelled.

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Andrew Jackson.

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Munich. Doesn't need an introduction. Also absolutely bombed to shits.

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Königsberg pains me the most.

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Dessau. The small residential town was home to the Bauhaus for a couple of years. It was absolutely levelled.

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Not sure if its totally original, but you can see the intelligence in his old eyes in this one..

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Braunschweig. Royal capital and largest Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque timberframe ensemble in the world at the time.

Absolutely flattened.

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Time to go to bed. Here's Steve Irwin with a kola.

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Frankfurt. For hundreds of years, the emperor would be crowned here.

Completely flattened.

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Dresden

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Stalingrad, Soviet Republic of Russia, 1942.

Germans attempted to launch their annihilation offensive on the encircled city of Stalingrad only to be gunned down with ferocious fervor from the vengeful slavs knowing the Germans were nothing compared to their order number 227 and own leadership.

Millions of young German and Russian men died in the cold barbaric meat grinder of the Östfront.

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Please tell me pic related is still standing.

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Bremen. The commerce city was famous for its Renaissance architecture and prosperity. The expansion of the city was modelled after English cities at the time with long rows of houses with a distinct, stretched floor plan.

Levelled to the ground.

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After the nukes.

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'fraid not old chap

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prewar Bucharest

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That would be a painted picture from the period. Evidently it was common to paint over pictures.

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about 10% has been rebuilt

Nuremberg

second to none, this unique Medieval oldtown has been levelled to the ground

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pls no more

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Very sad, but don't act like you didn't deserve it.

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One barbarism won't justify the other.

Ran out of old pics, now I only have B&A

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Magdeburg

after the most devastating siege of the 30-years-war, it took almost 300 years for this city to recover, which ranked 2 among the most populated German cities in the Middle Ages. It was again completely flattened in the last days of war.

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where what that picture taken? auschwitz?

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Where the people at? Many such cases in early photos.

>inb4 slow shutter speeds
No parked horses or carts either.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras

France.

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long exposure

Leipzig

an old centre of commerce and trade, the city was heavily damaged in WW2. These captchas are killing me.

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not even commenting on that bullshit, at least post a historical photograph and not CGI

Essen

at the heart of Germany's industrial capacities, Essen was a prime target of the allied bombings.

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youtube.com/watch?v=pDAdmoaKjCI

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Worms

one of the oldest cities in Germany, it is mentioned in our most popular folk epic the "The Nibelungs" as a royal seat

completely flattened

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Mainz

Once an architectural marvel started yet by the Romans, this city, too, was completely flattened

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one of the reason the french surrendered so easily in WWII was because they experienced the bombings of the precedent war and understood the damage it done to cities and villages, by surrendering they maintained most of their cities and civilians safe
it was a bit of shamefur dispray but maybe it was the right thing

Königsberg

birthplace of Prussia and home to one of the most important philosophers, Königsberg was completely levelled to the ground

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yes the Hofkirche is still standing

Freiburg

Located at the hills of the Black Forest, this old and beautiful unviersity town was completely destroyed.

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Kassel

Royal seat and Medieval oldtown, the city was spoiled with architectural riches. Completely flattened.

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Aerial bombings of this nature and scale were certainly known, along with tanks and aircraft carriers. Sure, given their position one country or another focused on this and that. It was well known strategic bombing was gonna happen to the winner of the skies, even as far back as the end of WW1 everybody planned on it. Germans being germans, they went expensive high tech while not able to deal with the combined might of the allies. There's a reason they declared war on the US, we were operating 'volunteer' pilots to fly bombing missions on them when we were at peace. They sank our ships. Good times, am I rite?

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Berlin

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Just want to say on behalf of all burgers whose grandfathers fought with the "allies"-- we are sorry.

It kinda justifies the latter more. Just like a father avenging his child by killing its killer. Not saying its moral, but its more justified than the first killing.
>at least post a historical photograph and not CGI
Sure thing.

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How close was the BUF from taking power in Britain?

Cologne

Once the largest German city, completely flattened

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I was there a few weeks back for a night. This explains a lot about how it looks today. A lot of turks after dark.

Polish moral philosophy everyone

Danzig

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>Karlsruhe
City of occult symbolism

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>mfw I look through a shitton of old maps and photos form pre war german cities and compared them to today

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Indianapolis, before Americans saw fit to tear down our cities and build strip malls.

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I don't understand how something like this can be torn down without massive riots in the streets.

Aah, the good ol' days

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The riots are to tear them down now. Its current year.

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I think that was designed by a German

at least you have Boston and Charleston

To make room for this, isn't it grand?

Actually this made me look for videos
youtube.com/watch?v=Sk1lUY9rh6M