Just a brief few weeks after the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, you can see that the day to day life of Berlin is starting to come back into shape.
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The townspeople are in a panic. Still makes my blood boil. Mesmerizing story about guilt and when faced,, what it does to you. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He is the one responsible for finding cool places to visit every time Fotostrasse goes somewhere and he the one to blame about all the history you read here.

Das Gedenken daran sorgt seit Jahren für ideologische Fronten. Massensuizid in Demmin 1945: Ein Kriegskind erinnert sich | Video | Eine fast unbeschreibliches Drama ereignet sich Anfang Mai 1945 in Demmin: Aus Angst vor der Roten Armee töten sich Hunderte Menschen selbst - und ihre Kinder.

I was once told by a survivor that when she returned to her shtetl in Lithuania, many of the villagers were found using tallisim looted from Jewish homes as table clothes 70 years later. We should be thankful for theFelipe Tofani likes designing things and listening to weird music. It has all the makings of a "Holocaust Film" (I don't mean to disparage this important genre) but ends up being an American Western. They still refuse to believe that the Hungarian gendarme, train station masters, and the Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross had anything to do with the deportation of over 400,000 Hungarian Jews in the Spring and Summer of 1944. It was not what I expected it to be, but was excellent and thought-provoking.

Excellent photography and fascinating characters. I would really like to show this to some of my Hungarian friends but I'm' afraid I'd be tarred and feathered. He wrote that people who decided to commit suicide alone were few. A cross between a "Holocaust Film" and "High Noon". Die Kleinstadt wurde von Rotarmisten gebrandschatzt, die Bevölkerung terrorisiert. Do we give it back? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In Berlin alone more than 7,000 suicides were reported in 1945. In this astonishingly haunting film, deep undercurrents run beneath the simple surface in a quaint village that's ultimately forced to face up to its "ill-gotten gains" from the Second World War.

Massensuizid in Demmin 1945: Als sich eine Stadt selbst auslöschen wollte Detailansicht öffnen NS-Propagandaminister Goebbels besucht im März 1945 ein letztes Mal die Ostfront.

Such beautifully composed scenes that seem humorous at first, the confusion that the arrival of two Jews cause when they arrive in a small Hungarian village immediately after the end of WWII, but then turmoil and tragedy ensues and in the end just haunting sadness. Everyone else was displaced, sent to war or died in the years before. This is not what you think it is. Mai 1945 – der Zweite Weltkrieg ist in Europa zu Ende.

Watch with Prime Start your 30-day free trial. On 1 May 1945, hundreds of people committed mass suicide in Demmin, a town then in the Province of Pomerania, now in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. This video from Berlin in 1945 is an important document showing how this city coped with its destruction. And how its people managed to survive through one of the biggest battles in history. Die Stadt ist zerstört.

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Truly a rare work of fine cinematic art.

It’s fascinating to watch this color footage of the summer of 1945. The cinematography and music enhance the story well. Audio languages Magyar.

Demmin in Vorpommern war im Mai 1945 Ort des größten Massenselbstmordes am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die Welle aus Hass und Rache erreichte Anfang Mai 1945 im vorpommerschen Demmin ihren Höhepunkt. If you believe in karma the ending fits the crime. Death toll estimates vary. Please try againRentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked.

slow moving and a deep look into betrayal and trust Other reviewers have compared this film to High Noon. Facile and pandering, anti-Catholic and anti-European propaganda for the dim-witted. Berlin 1945 in Video: the Destroyed German Capital. Rent HD $3.99.

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Delivered in black and white with little dialogue, this film uncovers a dark secret kept by a whole village about the betrayal of a friendship for personal gain.

Really liked this movie.

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The suicides occurred during a mass panic that was provoked by atrocities committed by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, who had sacked the town the day before. Die Überlebende Brigitte Roßow erinnert sich. If you pay attention to the people in this short movie, you are going to find only the old, the woman and the young. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Add to Watchlist. Watch for $0.00 with Prime. The German journalist and historian Florian Huber wrote the book “Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt” (Child Promise Me That You Will Shoot Yourself) which is devoted to the events of mass suicide in Demmin in 1945. For example, in May 1945, up to 1,000 people killed themselves before and after the entry of Red Army into the German town of Demmin which resulted in a wave of rapes, pillage and executions committed by Red Army soldiers. It was profoundly touching, and now in 2018, some 73 years later, I found it historically educational.

Watching the interactions of the villagers as they confront their greed draws you into a different kind of world of people who struggled, did wrong when perhaps that's all they could do, and then have to face it later.

This movie breaks my heart but tells the truth. Anyone who stole from and denounced Jews during World War II (and their descendants) should be forced to watch this. That's what I thought while watching it.