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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

MK ULTRA - Young people should see themselves for what they are and not WORLD through DISTORTED EYES of politicians

@CHARLES - WHO IS THE REAL KING !!!??????

BASED ON MY MEMORY, YOUNG MAN YOU SEE AND HIS FRIENDS HOSTED ME AT SŠTZU NOVO MESTO WHICH I ALONE ATTENDED + AT LEAST KID YOU SEE, HAVE COMPLETED UNIVERSITY FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER. EVERYONE YOU SEE ON ZAPOROZHETS VIDEO WAS INVOLVED.
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WESTERN CORRUPTION FORMULA: THEY USE HUMAN CONSCIOUS TO PENETRATE THROUGH MORE SOULS WHICH THEY AFTERWARDS LEAVE BEHIND FOR DEAD AND REMAIN COUPLED WITH SYSTEM THEY PENETRATE INTO BY MAKING FRIENDS OF ENEMIES THEY MADE TO THOSE WHO INITIALLY SAW THEMSELVES IN THEM. AS FOR GERMANS(EASTERN AND WESTERN), THEY DO REMEMBER VERY WELL WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR THEM - ALL TOO GOOD AND ITS NOT THAT THEIR PARENTS WOULDN'T EXPLAIN THEM - ITS A ROTTEN GERMAN CONSCIOUS. AS COLD WAR ENDED FOR THEM, IT WAS TIME TO BORROW ME AS THEY STATED FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE....IT WAS PRINCE CHARLES WHO FINANCED SS/GESTAPO GIRL PROJECT.

THEY REMEMBER WHATEVER IS CONVENIENT FOR THEM REGARDLESS OF HOW DISGUSTING MIGHT BE, AND DELETE WITH MOST OBNOXIOUS CRIMINAL LIES WHATEVER IS NOT CONVENIENT FOR THEM. SLOVENIAN GREGOR GOLOBIČ WAS THE ONE WITH ROBERT GOLOB OBSESSED WITH IDEA TO PROVE MY BEING INCAPABLE TO DISCERN BETWEEN WHAT I ACTUALLY SAW AND TRAUMA. YOU CAN SEE THE COMMENTS RIGHT BELLOW THAT WILL CLOSELY REMIND OF PERIOD(level of human conscious their politicians and royalties created) I LIVED IN AFTER 53 YEARS OF MK ULTRA BESTIALITY. IT WAS ABOUT MUCH MUCH MORE THA BERLIN WALL IN MY CASE, BUT REFUTED TRUTH THROUGH MORE AND MORE TORTURE TO BE AS INVISIBLE AND HIDDEN AS FOR GERMAN DISGRACE IN THEIR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS IS NO PLACE. MY WORK UNDER MK ULTRA IN RESPECT TO SOVIET UNION FOR THE MOST PART WAS COMPLETED BY AGE 12.








THE PSYCHIATRIC JOKE THAT YOU @CHARLES
WILL DEEPLY REGRET
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AND HERE ARE THE COMMENTS FOR MY KIDS HOPEFULLY TO SEE HOW IT WAS LIKE DURING THIS UNDECLARED 53 YEARS LONG WAR WHICH RAGED AS MK ULTRA CASE IN THE SHADOW OF MODERN PSYCHIATRY SINCE 1972



* If you enjoyed this video and want to see where history happened why not try some of my other videos *
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She certainly has the same facial Features as the Daf arbeitsfront ID woman from Austria.
SS WOMAN, WHO HAD NO INTERESTS IN IDENTIFYING HERSELF, IS WHO SHE WAS. SS WOMEN IN SOME CASES WERE 100X TIMES WORSE THAN MALES. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING COMMENTS DEMONSTRATE WORLD WE LIVE IN - SILENCE IS GOLDEN WORLD, HOWEVER, DIRECTED AT WW2 WAR CRIMINALS IN FORM OF CONCERNS
THATS AN EXAMPLE, NOT HER IDENTITY CARD.
I WAS THE ONE WHO COMMENCED THE SUBJECT OF THIS LOST GIRL, HOWEVER, I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT WHO SHE WAS AND EVEN LESS WHOM I WAS DEALING WITH.
YOU CARE WORRY WHEN ITS ABOUT YOUR ARYAN PEOPLE - AS FOR THE REST IT CAN BE SEEN FROM MY CASE. DOOMED ARE THOSE WHO SEE THEMSELVES IN YOU EVEN IN SUFFERING.
Seeing this lady, all alone, severely beaten. gives a person an other view of the tragedy of war. No matter if she was part of the military or just an ordinary civilian, , she puts a human face on the horrors of war and its aftermath.
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Yes exactly, that’s what I was trying to do with this video
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Meanwhile we see thousands of dead young men, and nobody feels anything.
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 @mrx0088  EXACTLY! Amazing right? Men don't count.
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 @mrx0088  Oh dear, you sad person. You celebrate them every year.
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Truly fascinating story. One of the atrocities of war that probably never saw severance. We must not forget all aspects of human life are affected by war and the results are usually appalling. Thank you for giving this unknown woman some dignity.
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In researching this I read so many accounts of Soviet atrocities and also from the other allies as well as the Germans.
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A very interesting video on this Blond Haired German Young Woman. Filmed briefly as she walked down the road. Battered and bruised about her face. Obviously this young woman was attacked. Yet her life was spared by those who attacked her. A fascinating look at a moment in time. At the surrender of the German Military Forces. Those in SS Uniforms were often summarily executed by the local's, Red Army other Soldiers etc. Aa the SS German Soldiers were truly dispisded by the Local Civilian populations. I hope th9s young German Woman made it home.To.live a full life after WW2 ended.
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Beware attributing innocent victimization to this person. As she is young and beautiful, there is a subjective bias to sympathize with her plight. She may have been worse than Irma Grese. We don't know.
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No winners in a war. Only lesser loosers
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 @sparklessconnectionselectrical  Unfortunately only too correct! Also it is astonishing how simple images/film clips like this can deeply affect us. The National Geographic picture of The Afghan Girl and the terrible footage of the napalmed girl running naked from the Vietnam War come to mind.
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I hope this helps. While stationed with the British Army in Germany (1984-1987), I had a serious relationship with a German girl. We almost married, but that's a different story. Her father was from Berlin and her mother from Coburg. Both parents were in their early teens in 1945 and were able to recount, quite graphically, what life was like in those times. Since the subject of the video is a 'Sudeten-Deutsche', I'll be describing Mutti... E. and her family lived in a village in farmland in Western Czechoslovakia. I'd like to tell you where, but, although I speak fluent German and would amuse her husband, G., by imitating his Berliner dialect, I couldn't for the life of me understand E. Her dialect was close to Bayerisch (Bavarian), but with 'something else'. Not the Bavarian nor the Saxon accent, but more 'Czech'. She was bilingual Czech / German. This, for me, is indicative of the long-standing mixture of the two cultures. She recounted being uprooted from her home in Czechoslovakia, where her parents were farm workers on German-owned properties; her parents, brothers and sisters, with a few belongings in a handcart, being spat on, her father beaten about the shoulders, walking Westward. They, too, met American troops somewhere before the present Czech-German border and were 'processed'; lengthy checking of documents, but fed and given a clean, dry (empty) room to sleep in and in the morning on their way to Coburg. Her father found work easily and they became 'Bayerisch'. She did insist, though, that Germans had been in the area for centuries, and resented (still, in her 50's), having to leave. It was painfully apparent that it was difficult for her to recount from that time. I've worked with someone of a similar age, from Kraslice / Graslitz: A very similar story and person. Thanks for uploading; I enjoy your videos.
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Wow thank you for sharing. Very interesting. I spent time in Germany as a pad brat but didn’t quite learn any German!
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 @thehistoryexplorer  "Pad Brat"! Bless! I suppose a relationship with a local girl gives incentive...
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There’s always someone like you in the comment that has to lie and interject yourself
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About 10 years ago, I was drinking tea in a Methodist Church tea room, an elderly lady spoke to me, her accent caused me to ask if she was German. She said 'Yes' but later said, 'no, Czech'. Her family were Sudeten Germans, who found themselves in Czechoslovakia after WW1 and suffered years of minor abuse from Czech neighbours. She explained that she was about 5 when the Germans took Czechoslovakia and how her family welcomed it as a sort of liberation. She had rather a pleasant life until about 1943 and as the Red Army moved west, the family fled to Germany where they were treated badly by the Germans, they resented having to feed Auslanders. She did tell me where she was, I have forgotten, but she was in a town that was bombed by the Americans by day and the RAF by night, she did say that she didn't like that much! In 1953, she came to England to work as a 'mother's help', learned English, married and lived a long and fruitful life. It struck me as odd that people were grateful to the Nazis for 'liberating' them, but it is that old story, if you were not there, if you have not experienced it, it is hard to understand. She did tell me that she knew that neighbours were taken away by the assorted 'police' organisations, but as a young girl she did not understand why and accepted the published story that they were 'criminals', indeed, often they were people who had been 'unkind' to the Germans. She did come to read the full horrors of all the camps and the 'activities' of the master race, although she was surrounded by some of it, naturally, her parents had sheilded her from what the knew, they too did not have a full picture then.
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 @danielr.9708  who are you talking about?
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 @mariahoulihan9483  Doesn't matter, it's just a troll
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Sadly, this is what's happening in America right now, and elsewhere. Not in the same way but the result is the same, people uprooted from their homes and families and deported.
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@David / No, its not happening in America! Maybe you need to support stopping wars in other countries, so people can remain in their own homes! And tons of gang members coming to America is not the same thing, at all.
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She was absolutely stunningly beautiful - but in the situation she was in, this just added to her peril. I hope she survived and thrived.
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Yes I hope so too. I think this story a a useful way of explaining what happened to so many other people at that time
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Exactly my thoughts.
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YES - we should ONLY CARE about BEAUTIFUL PPL.. epic comment genius
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 @CFox.7  I think you missed his point. Try again.
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 @RH-cv1rg  There was ZERO need to gush over her appearance. Go away
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 @CFox.7  A chasm between gushing and descriptive.
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@ There was ZERO need to even describe her degree of beauty. ... and the OP has clearly made effort to do it.
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 @CFox.7  Thank you for your judgement. It is not necessary.
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Why, because she was beautiful? We know nothing about her. She could have been an SS guard at a concentration camp or a completely innocent civilian.
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For more than sixty years I have wondered about this woman and her fate; eighty years after the fact and she is still a mystery.
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I think she was originally shown in World at War and people began writing in to the uk tv stations asking for info on her
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 @thehistoryexplorer  I am certain that is where I first saw her.
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Same for me in the Uk we watched that series with my father when I was a kid
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I have often prayed for this poor woman.
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Her video is captivating
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I first saw her over 10 years ago and her haunting look has never left me. War is a catastrophe and a human trait that needs to be eradicated
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She was captivating..even with a one left sore eye..but still pretty!! ❤
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Did you also pray for all those poor men who suffered worse than her? As far as you know, she could have been a prison guard at a concentration camp or worse. Sadly we'll never know.
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@juicyfruit4378  Yes sadly we never will.
She has become a mystery in time -
I dug as deep as I could and came up with this: These "The Lost German Girl" (as it is now called) pictures were filmed on the Czechoslovakia border just outside Pilsen, it was one day post-liberation. About this film I'll share things I've learned - mostly on German-language threads. Not a lot is known, as the 'girl' (as she's now known) to Germany returned and remained silent. Following the collapse of the Thousand Year Reich ...wait, make that less than 20-year Reich , for the annexation of their territory by Hitler, retaliation against 2.5 million Germans — called Sudeten Germans — deported back to Germany in this film is captured. By the new Czechoslovakian authorities, the Bohemia homes/items they stole were returned. During the retaliation, Czech citizens beat, tortured and rayped the occupying Germans; they said "eye for an eye." This 'girl,' Laura Bauer, for the Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM, Jutta Rüdiger’s League Of German Girls, had allegedly and eagerly entered. Out to support Hitler, Laura (allegedly) believed, and to do her part, joined. However, and reportedly so dedicated, into allowing her Luftwaffenhelfer membership, also commonly known as a Flakhelfer, and its female Flakhelferinnen group, she is said to have talked NAZI's. As an anti-aircraft flack gunner, the SS Flak Abteilung Alarm Prag, and stationed near Pilsen, this landed Laura. From the reading and research I've done, she and her best friend, Emi, from local Czechs, hid in a barn. There they were discovered. Over two days they were brutally rayped and beaten. So badly was Emi brutalized, in that barn she died. Some have said after her death, and right next to Laura hiding, from her retaliatory abuse Emi died. Laura escaped and that is where your attached film picks up. Of defeated Germans/NAZI's just outside Pilsen, US Army/Air Force cameraman Oren Haglund (before the war married actress Priscilla Lane, only to have her leave him the very next day!) filmed this march. In this attached film link, and to Haglund, a zombie-like Laura directly walks. She'd hidden 100 dollars of (now worthless) Czech/Nazi money and a Czech playing cards pack you see her holding. Around U.S. checkpoints, to bribe Haglund she approaches. In the film you see her obvious eye injury, but can also see two broken hands, the left includes a dislocated finger. To her, conveying the message she didn't need a bribe, into his pocket Haglund reaches, finds a penny, then in her hand places it. He also gave her his handkerchief and over her eye placed it, as well as a chocolate bar. Only decades later was the film discovered; in the National Archives Steven Spielberg's research organization found it. What has now become an iconic image includes additional footage Haglund took. Of beaten, shot and tortured Nazi/Wehrmacht soldiers, revenge on which the locals had exacted, roadside you see them. As they were leaving, a minute or so later he looks back and films her. In the ditch, to her eye you see her holding his handkerchief. She then gives him a smile. [Side note: to film her butt some sickos claim down Haglund pans. Totally false: in any Nazi/Wehrmacht uniforms still worn they were told to document; you clearly see her Wehrmacht/Nazi-issued britches.] From what I've read, to Germany Laura returned. To have discovered the truth about Hitler, and completely renouncing her Nazi days, she apparently married, had two daughters and with a quiet life went on. Pregnant at the time of her beating and raype, so badly brutalized she lost that baby. In your film you can see how pregnant she is. Of Laura's two daughters, one, Ula - b.1962, had named her daughter (Laura's granddaughter) Emi. At age 82, prior to Laura's, to the United States should she ever make it, Laura instructed Emi take that penny, kept all those years, somehow find Haglund's grave, and with him bury it. After a successful Hollywood film career, in San Bernardino Haglund was buried. From what I've been able to read, to America Emi made it, some reports say the early 2000's, and did just that. With US Army/Air Force cameraman Oren Haglund that penny now rests. Of this, parts may be inaccurate; on my limited Internet research it is based. And, it's about a woman who remained silent all those years; that I can find, there are no known interviews with Laura, Emi or any other family member.
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Thank you for sharing that. I tried to stick to facts in this video as there are lots of internet rumours around - some saying she was pregnant, had been raped etc
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I am from San Bernardino and remember a Haglund family. I wonder if it was the same family.
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It is Laura Bauer
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Wäre hilfreich, wenn Sie Quellen nennen würden. Ich muss sagen, dass der weitere Lebenslauf nach diesen Filmaufnahmen zu sehr nach einer "Hollywood-Fantasie" klingt.
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Years ago I attempted the same deep-dive you did into this woman. She does look a lot like Laura Bauer from the photos of Laura Bauer that I have seen. I had never heard the part about the barn that you found out. I have always believed she was probably beaten during a rape. A beautiful German woman, alone, defenseless, right after the war ended.
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Excellent comment Yoda. I’ve always wondered about this woman, “Laura” as well
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Wow, quite the info! Is she pregnant? I couldn't figure it out.
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Thank you for clarifying the film clip
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I was part of the discussions on various research forums and sadly, as stated, no one can definitively ID her. Poor woman went through what thousands of innocent women went through in former German areas that were "cleansed" of Germans. I hope she did go on to have a wonderful life after this hell.
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Well said my friend.
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 @thehistoryexplorer  from another internet source “Lore Bauer, known as the “Lost German Girl,” was captured in May 1945 footage by British journalist George Rodger, wandering alone in postwar Germany. Believed to be a refugee no further details about her life or fate have been confirmed. The beaten woman, probably also raped by Soviet soldiers, was filmed on a country road near the Czech border. The above was accompanied by a video clip identical to the one used here How true it is I don’t know….
 @46spanner  At the 8:38 mark this vid is showing 3 images. If the one on the left is Lore Bauer, then I would say she almost certainly is the lost German girl.
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we should lern in school about the crimes against germans as much as we do about german crimes
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Oh my, seeing that woman is so heart breaking, And she's just a glimpse of so many more. War is hell.
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not for Bankers
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Nope. War is worse. In hell it's the bad people that's being punished but in war, it's everyone; men, women, children. War is not hell. It's much, much worse!
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 @JTManuel  I'm unable to disagree with you. Cheers.
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and russia is doing that right now
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I remember seeing this footage many years ago and the fear and desperation on the poor girls face and it remained with me ever since. I would imagine she was one of thousands who suffered at the end of the war. It's always the civilians who suffer especially when vengeful locals find someone vulnerable to hurt. The story of an individual brings home the horrors of war. Well done finding the location.
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So glad you appreciated the video 👍 thanks
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You are focusing at the end of war victims. But how did this terrible war started? Why did this brutality started? It started at the beginning of war and so many victims in the area of today's Poland, Biauorusiia, Ukraina and Russia have suffered terrible circumstances. Terrible fate of millions of civilians there. This girl had a chance to survive, but mentioned victims at the east had not.
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 @TrockeyTrockey this is not the topic ! It is after the war !
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Earlier victims are the subject of many other videos.
How do you know she was a civilian. She has military trousers on. She could easily have been part of the German military. German women were very involved in the death camps etc.... Not saying she was but I think you're letting your male desire to defend women let you assume she was an innocent civilian.
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I too remember watching this film of her in the 70's. I think part of the fascination with her is that, though her hair is unkempt, she looks contemporary and sort of Bardot-esque, if I can put it that way. Who knows what became of her, we can only speculate - let's hope she led a long a happy life because she certainly deserved it.
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Well said my friend. This video could have been taken in Ukraine yesterday such is the modern feel of the footage
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yep but you cannot get you tube clicks with out doing the same video time after time.
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 @thehistoryexplorer  It could have been taken in many places Iraq, Afgan , Serbia , Kursk-Russia
how do you know what she deserved, either way? what role did she play in the war, as a German occupier?
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 @thecount1001  'The Count' hey James...? Go count your heavy metal records old man.
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I remember watching the documentary you mentioned, The Savage Peace. The first images I recall were that of a line of civilians with their backs to the camera who just started falling over. No sound. Then I realised they were being shot. A lorry then ran over their legs. A truly horrific view. I believe they were just villagers who happened to know the German language.
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That is truly horrific
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I saw that. Appalling and inhumane behaviour.
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In the Sudentenland - current Czech Republic. Will always remember that clip.
Thank You so very much for producing a very powerful video! Please continue to produce more of these WW2 Mysteries!
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I appreciate the very kind feedback. Although if YouTube continues to suppress these videos it might be something I have to walk away from
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Always wondered about this woman. If alive, she'd be around 100, which is a huge stretch. I just hope she led a long, healthy, happy life after the war.
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Langes und glückliches Leben??? Wollen Sie uns verarschen???
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​​ @christinenagel314  Why not? Do you know who she was?
I think Christine is using a strong word here, more like ‘are you shitting me’. From what I understand, after the grievous harm inflicted on the Russian people by the 3R, Russian troops took grievous and wholesale revenge against German womanhood, which probably means that the woman pictured had lifelong scars, in common with many others, far deeper than the external signs of a beating. Whilst West Germany experienced an economic miracle amid international cooperation for its reconstruction, East Germany was part of the Soviet Bloc until 1989 and life was hard for its citizens and liberty was in short supply. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Germany was in ruins and its people were close to starvation. No human being should pay the penalty for the crimes of another but no consideration of this issue is complete without an understanding that vast numbers of people suffered as badly or worse in that era.
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She is proudly still receiving Social Security.
Several people tried to know who she was, her story and what she became. No result except maybe her name was Lore Bauer, but it is not certified. Even a youtube channel was dedicated to her. That women became one of the ww2 mysteries....
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I don’t think we will ever find out who she was unfortunately. There are lots of proposed ideas and all of them have their merits
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Has anyone tried using facial recognition software on the photos ? The mystery girl and Miss Bauer do look strikingly similar.
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So much information, but wrong. Her name was "Theresa Maria Lachnit" (born August 4, 1916 in Breitenfurt), lived in "Jungferndorf" (Kobylá nad Vidnavkou) with her family, and lived after the war in "Rain am Lech" in Bavaria. She died in the early 1970s in Altdorf, Bavaria, and is buried there. She was my grandmother's cousin, was married, and had no children. More is unknown.
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Not one person has found this information. How do you know it be accurate?
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She already said that it was a grandmom cousin! So what do you need more ? She got the information directly from her own family​. Probably.  @thehistoryexplorer 
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@user-fy8sp3vw3h nobody has ever come forward with that information in 80years. I’d be astonished if it would finally come out on my little video. That’s all I’m saying
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@ Neither my grandma nor my mother have ever seen this video and both had no internet. I saw this video in german TV 15 years ago for the first time. My grandma directly pointed to the TV screen and told me "das ist meine Cousine Theres". That some guys where searching such intense for more information by internet I noticed one week ago. Unfortunately my grandma past away many years ago.
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​@AB-ij4zk that's the evidence? 😂
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 @spm36  I don't care who believes me...I'm just reporting what my grandma said. Ich don´t know this woman.
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​ @AB-ij4zk  Mnogo je neozbiljnih ljudi.
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Breitenfurt in Austria or Germany?
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Is Lachnit her maiden(Geburtsname)name?
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If you can find some photos from the family album it would be helpful.
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Truly fascinating video! The whole world would like to know who the Lost German Girl Is! I wonder if she is alive today - living somewhere in Europe on a farm enjoying her golden years.
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I’ve been asking that same thing
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 @thehistoryexplorer  Low likelihood that she's living on a farm in Europe today. She looks like she's at least 25 years old in that film footage, which would make her 105 years old today if she's still alive since this was filmed 80 years ago.
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 @victormelanson5877  I agree. I guess. it is because she looks like she could be a person from today and we forget that this was 80 years ago and she was already a young adult. The part that spooks me is that she looks almost exactly like my friend ( German ) that I grew up with here in Canada only she is only in her 50s today
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When I saw this vid for the first time I had to cry. It´s so moving.
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We may never know, it is important to preserve the stories we can. Growing up, the survivors.....and veterans of WWII were all around me. My Hunter Safety Class was a decorated combat veteran of Europe, My dearly loved neighbors were Germans that migrayed agter the war. I listened to thier stories .... including horrific details and was so very glad they survived.....now that I am older and they are gone.....I miss them
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Interesting and moving story. Unfortunately, there are always many strange and unexplained fates in war. Always tragic and stressful for the people concerned and their families. Thank you for the video!
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VERY interesting video. Thank you for posting it.
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Hope she survived and lived a full and happy life after the war. The chaos caused in Europe by the Allies decision to let the Russians take an inch 😢
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It’s a difficult situation but I think you’re right about the regret felt after the Soviets took half of Europe
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Thanks for sharing. Well produced video done professionally
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Much appreciated! Thank you very much
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I can't express my gratitude for posting such a thought provoking video... I've seen this clip countless times on various war documentaries as well as probably the most popular being that of The World At War.. There's quite a graphic movie called Come And See and there is a piece towards the end, of a scene that's very disturbing, which I can't really describe on YouTube. Let's just say it shows a girl blowing a whistle... I often wonder if the director of Come And See took the idea, after seeing the clip of the lady who had obviously been beaten.
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Apparently it was influenced by this footage
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@thehistoryexplorer  I thought it had... I'm sure you know the clip I'm referring to in the movie. Hence the reason why I couldn't really describe it.... Thank you so much for replying.
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Interesting video, I have seen that footage numerous times and like many others I to have wondered who she was, and what happened to her?
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Thanks!
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You are most welcome my friend, thank you too
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Why not make it $2 lmao 😂
Class mate, great video
There are several references that she is Lore Bauer who was born on February 3, 1921 and passed away on October 30, 1994, She was born in Kollerschlag, Austria.
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Yes thank you. I’ve read them and feature that idea in the video
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Great video, always been fascinated by this lady! 👍🇬🇧👌
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Glad you enjoyed it and thank you!
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You can take the picture of Mrs Laura Bauer on the left, upload it to a decent face application, and apply the younger / teenage version mod to it. It will give a you a face strikingly similar to the one of this unfortunate Lost German Girl. At least for me it did. also one can pinpoint many similar features between the two faces. the chin , the upper lip, the hair line , the hair thickness, the eyebrow shape and density, the cheekbones are identical. It does not prove of course but it points toward identification. THank you again for for this poignant video, very touching. I keep thinking of so many women, millions who fell because of the fate and horrors of war.
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Good Research. Reminds me of the famous image of a little Vietnamese girl, naked running toward the cameraman with flames in the background. That photograph helped get her into a Cuban medical school. According to Wikipedia she is working as a pharmacist in Canada.
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Ah yeh that picture is terrifying
Phan Thi Kim Phùc is her name, there is an article on her in Wikipedia.
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 @pira1299  Thank you for that update. I changed the information I had on her accordingly.
This was always a heartbreaking video to watch. Who was responsible for such a heinous act? The fact that she survived and could somehow even manage to smile despite suffering such inhumanity is a miracle.
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Well said! There are a few accounts of locals beating civilians they suspected of being linked the Germans, or it could well have been Soviet forces who were pushing from the East. Very sad either way
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I ask the same, who was responsible for unleashing hell on this war and so many innocent people, civilian victims?
In the early '70's a college classmate told a group of us that she was raised in E. Berlin. Her father a sales rep for an E. German firm. While he was visiting Prague, he heard rumors. That evening he called his family and encouraged them to visit his sister in the West Zone, schnell!. They did and escaped before the Berlin Wall could lock them in. Karen has had a wonderful life and a great family, I like to think the German girl did likewise. Narragansett Bay
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Early 70s I was a baby but I remember The World at War TV series. I watched it with my Mother and have been fascinated ever since.
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Seen this Pic for many years....I've always wondered what became of her....War...Nobody wins.🙏
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The Term "Destroyed Beauty" comes to mind when you see Her
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Fascinating perspective, thanks!
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Glad you enjoyed it!
The World at War documentary was my first real introduction into the full story of WW2 as a young boy. It was an excellent documentary and cover most aspects of the war well, and one of the final images it finished on was of this young girl with the theme music rising in the background. Her image summed up the state of Germany and it's people at the time of watching in the early 80s for me. They had been broken and scattered to the winds. Now they were like a beaten dog that will never ever be the same dog again.
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Well said! Absolutely how I would describe it too
@thehistoryexplorer  When I see this girl it reminds me of a saying my Gran used, "I this life, even the wicked get worse than they deserve"
Who knows the truth.. but its interesting to note that everyone here assumes that because she is beautiful and beaten, that she must be innocent when the fact us we dont know anything about her.. perhaps she was an innocent victim of the war and perhaps she was beaten because of horrors she took part in executing..
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Nice work! Very interesting.
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Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it
I have seen this young woman before in other documentaries. The images of her remain powerful and haunting.
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They really are. I know lots of people say I shouldn’t be highlighting just one individual, but it helps to portray what happened to so many more women
Fascinating story, the clips of the "wandering girl" has been around for some time, but never any further details, so I suppose this gives some sort of closure, great stuff, a new subscriber here 👍
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Glad you enjoyed it and I hope you’ll check out my other videos 😊
I worked with a guy, maybe 25 years ago, whose parents were of German descent but living in what was then Czechoslovakia. After the war, it was payback time with the Czechs expelling the ethnic Germans. I'm sure they were treated every bit as brutally as the Nazis treated the Czechs, and that's probably what happened to that poor girl. Anyway, he said a number of his family were killed, robbed, beaten or raped by local Czechs and they made it out with whatever was on their backs. They weren't welcome in Germany either and eventually emigrated to the US. He said that even though he was born in the US, he felt it wasn't his home and he talked about returning to Europe and trying to purchase the land his family once owned.
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Just a little heads up - Oren Haglund was a Hollywood Production Asst. He assisted famed Hollywood Director, George Stevens ("Giant", "A Place In The Sun", "Shane", etc.). Stevens was the leader of the Film group sent by the Special Service Division of the War Dept. In the beginning of the video with the Americans wearing the Nazi hats/helmets, he's the one on the far left. But you are correct in saying Haglund filmed this particular scene. Also - The evidence is pretty heavy that this is Lare Bauer. Born in Kollerschlag, Austria 1921. She was assigned to the Prague anti-aircraft department in late 1944 as a technical assistant, or Helferin. Raped and beaten by Czech Partisans, Lore was caught fleeing the Red Army into West Czechoslovakia, which had just been declared a demarcated American military zone. Lore survived the Allied internment camp system, then went on to build a new life, working for an Airlines company after the war. She died in 94', at the age of 73. Big fan of your videos!
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Thank you my friend. I do show that at the start of the video. Good to show where these people had been and what their role was before this footage was taken
As a mother, I feel for her. Since we don't have the whole story it is very hard to know what to say. Except actions have consequences depending on what side you were on. It is horrible to see her like that especially if she was forced into something she didn't want to do. ♥️☘️
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Exactly Janet. There is so little information on her
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Let’s hope she lived a long life
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Her name was Lore Bauer. She was a “Helferin”, a female assistant to the Luftwaffe. From 1931-1938 she was a proud member of the Nazi BDM, the League of German Girls. No information on her fate after 1945.
I always wonder if advances in facial recognition and AI will allow us to identify people in so many clips from ww1 and ww2. I’ve seen this video so many times and wonder who she was and if she survived.
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Let’s hope advances in technology and facial recognition can solve this mystery in the future
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Sad, but not special. Everyone thinks it sad because she is good looking, but nobody would care if it was a middle aged man. War is a terrible thing, a lesson nobody learns.
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I think it’s always useful to focus on an individual to portray experiences which we know happened to many many more people
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I commented on your Dieppe video because my dad was captured at that raid. He was a POW for the remainder of the war. In early 1945 the Germans starting emptying POW camps and marching Allied prisoners west in brutal winter conditions. (Have you ever done a vid on this?) In the 1950s he filled out an application form to the Canadian govt for financial assistance for those who were mistreated while in captivity. I have a copy of the form, he goes into some detail about this march. He mentions an encounter with Waffen SS, it's only a few lines, and they are blurred, I can't decipher what it says. It's a mystery (my dad never talked to me about the war, he died in 1973 when I was 15) that I will probably never solve.
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I did see your comment, thank you so much for sharing. I havnt made a video on the POW camps as I try to go to places that still exist today, but it would certainly be an interesting (and sad) story to tell
I hope who ever she is will one day be identified & she lived a great life 🎉❤
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I really like your videos! I am so tired of seeing the thing over and over again. Your deep dives are refreshing!
Dziękuję za tą historię. Tak zwróciłem uwagę na nią oglądając dokumenty o wojnie w kolorze. Przerażające. Ale jeszcze bardziej to co robili Niemcy na froncie wschodnim z Rosjankami
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I hope she survived and overcome her trauma i pray 🙏 she went on to have a good life.
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Part of my family had to flee from CZ. It was winter and they passed a field . It looked strange and they had a look . Out of the ground were hands sticking out. They found a masse grave .. not all were dead . They tried to get out but through the cold they were frozen . There final attempt there hand/arms were frozen RIP
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My gosh that’s horrific
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@ and this story was told me by my father . It was the sister of my grandmother who was witness . Also I know of two accounts were families who had girls hanged themselfes . As they knew what would happen
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Great video Rob!
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Thank you Rob!
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A good video, and I also hope you have found peace, greetings
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Well said Carlos
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I write stories. I was and still am, deeply moved by her. I wrote a short story about her some years ago, inspired in part by some experiences of my own and a conversation I eavesdropped in Zurich airport. - She was enrolled by british military intelligence to assist post war reorganisation and retained her years after - The woman I overheard described a similar story and described the character accurately, including her falling victim once again in later years and her desolate end. The story is quiet short; I kept it so because the conversation I listened to was also brutally short. I also felt and still feel, I am intruding on the lost girl's life and destiny. If the History Explorer wants to look and disseminate it, they would be welcome. I did not write the story for thrills and entertainment, I even feel a little guilty about my action. It remains unpublished.
War, the gift that keeps giving through generations.....
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There are no winners in war, that’s for sure
I'd say she was a civilian,looks like she was wearing whatever clothing she could find. Obviously beat up probably by people in a rage due to atrocities,and their fury went out of control to the point of physically attacking a female German.
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Personally I think the same. She is wearing oversized German uniform trousers which suggest they were given to her after her ordeal
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 @thehistoryexplorer  Her look of trauma has me wondering if the worst happened to her, other than death, whether a man or men violated her, I understand that many German women privately carried with them the experiences of that happening to them, and it's a largely unspoken part of history. It shouldn't be glossed over like it is.
We can only imagine the horrific ordeal she had obviously endured...a haunting image from just a blink of an eye ago in the history of the world...sad to say, mankind has certainly got no kinder in the years since.
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Terribly sad. Such a haunting story
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Thanks for making this video. Many will have seen this film over the years and wondered what became of her. Whether Laura Bauen or Theresa Maria Lachnit, as stated she was a member of the Nazi SS Flack gun helper group, in Czechoslovakia. Clearly in the wrong country, job, place and time but so lucky to have survived considering what the Czechs endured before and after the assassination of the 'Butcher of Prague' Reinhard Heydrich. The total eradication of Lidice and Lezaky villages and their population is just one example causing hatred and explaining the resulting revengful acts by some Czechs. How many young lives were shot down in aircraft by her group, equally how many bombed civilians died are both horrendous numbers. All wars create death and hostilities on all sides, man is the most dangerous animal on earth. Glad she made it anyway, but 'we' are still war mongers today.
I read somewhere she had a Daughter “Kathy” who became a model, famously graced a Badfinger Album Cover.
Very interesting. There are some faces we see over and over and become connected with a time/event, etc. The Tommy carrying a wounded soldier in a trench at the Somme (I believe), the casual British or Canadian trooper in a landing craft headed to Normandy, The gum-chewing 20 mm gunner in the USN, etc.
The identity of this woman should be respected and protected, both for her sake and that of her family. She clearly does not want to be identified. Her trauma is the result of a horrific experience—this is the reality of war. Sadly, similar suffering continues in the many conflicts around the world today.
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That’s an interesting perspective. I hadn’t thought of that
This woman was abused by Czech nationalists. What many people don't know is that such abuse, expulsion, and murder of Germans had already occurred on a large scale in Czechoslovakia and especially in Poland before World War II, between 1919 and 1939. These very things were one of the main reasons for the outbreak of World War II. Of course, we're told all of this somewhat "differently" today!
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I’ve never heard that before. Thank you for sharing
My father was from that part of Czechoslovakia; born and raised in Liberec - also in what was then known as the Sudetenland. Liberec was some distance from Pilsen, but not a great distance. I can't speak to the details of this woman's existence, but she very likely spoke both German and Czech if she was from the Sudeten region (even if she wasn't ethnically German). Owing to the utter chaos that existed at the end of the war, it is not likely that you will be able to tease-out any further details about this woman's story, if her identity remains a mystery. Even after all these years, maybe there is someone out there who knows something about her.
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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing
You do incredible work
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Thank you my friend
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If she was military in any capacity and associated with the SS, she may have died in a Soviet gulag. My understanding is that all of the soldiers depicted in the video who were members of the SS were, by agreement, ultimately turned over to the Soviets (tho they may not have known that when the film was shot). Most of them died in the Soviet Union. Gender and beauty didn’t figure into Soviet decision making.
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Such a shame,Young girl,So sad.
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Always wondered about this poor woman , thanks for this video.
I remember vividly seeing this footage as a very young child , as I grew up I realised what her battered appearance could have suggested what had happened to her . Over my life I have never forgotten the footage or her , I’m nearly 60 now and often think of her , even though she will remain a total stranger
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It’s terrible isn’t it, as I get older the more I feel compassion for her
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 @thehistoryexplorer same , one can only guess what happened to her :/ .
Très très intéressant... Je me suis souvent demandé comment elle avait fini la guerre et si elle avait survécu.
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This forces emotions to fly in many directions. First, the horror of beating a woman. Then, knowing she was one of the enemy. Then realizing that the enemy are also human victims. Then knowing that people on our side can be just a cruel. And so, where do we place our support and empathy? We feel for the injured woman - then she sits among the other prisoners and she's "the enemy" again. She smiles. Would the Germans have helped an American women if the story had been reversed? We don't know. How far do we share our humanity? Or cruelty? -- And why this woman? Because she was attractive? What if she had been ugly - or a man? Like someone once said, the "real evil" isn't a nation or an army. It's war itself.
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A brilliant comment, the dichotomy of war. That’s why we must follow the law of armed of armed conflict which prohibits the mistreatment of POWs regardless of our emotions
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There was another YouTube video of this and in the comments someone ID her and gave a long explanation. She apparently was a relative. She married and led a full life after this.
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This will always be a mysterious girl.
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Finding out would make a great TV show, like the show The Unexplained, or one like that.
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It really would. I found the story fascinating and to be honest there is much more out there in the internet but it can’t be proven, so I just stuck to the facts
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I think that woman Laura Bauer in the photograph is her. A forensic study measuring and comparing her features and the distances between them, would come as close to confirming or denying it as it's possible to get
The first time I seen this picture the caption didnt know who she was but said she was probably raped and beaten by either the Germans or Russians. Of course they were guessing. In any case it's a sad picture no matter what nationality she was.
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It seems that although it is possible that this woman is still alive, she has more than likely passed. Even if she were 20 years old in this footage, that would make her approximately 100 years old today. It must have been extremely difficult to be a woman during WWII in Europe, regardless of what side you were on. Attractive women would have received more attention from all sides, and choosing between different opportunities would have been extremely difficult, especially when it looked like Germany was going to easily win the war at the beginning. Being a young person, and feeling that Germany was going to run Europe, and maybe the world, the decision would have been fairly easy to make for most young people at the time, especially an attractive young woman. There are repercussions in life. Hopefully, she made it to safety and was able to put the bad memories behind her and live in anonymity.
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Well said. What a considered comment. Not many of those on YouTube these days
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 @thehistoryexplorer  Thank you so much. Fantastic job on the video. Best wishes. 🙏👍
Well at least she seems to have survived a war where millions of other women didn’t, I assuming the small smile at the end was one of relief.
Splendid in deed, I used to see this clip in various Second World War documentaries but couldn't figure out what's behind the curtain's until this video, thanks for the video!
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She seemed to have suffered enough,i hope she found hope and a life.
My grandfather was a member of the so-called band of brothers. My grandmother was a Ukrainian who escaped Stalins wrath. Barely. The rest of the family was eliminated on her side. They had three children. All born in Germany after the war. One being my mother. Yt deletes almost all my comments about this incredible history. Its not right. I have so much to say about post w*r that grandfather told me. I really can't stand what Suzan Woshitzky did to this place. History erasure seems to be the plan.
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She was " Sudeten- deutsche". This means a german speaking czech. They were not popular among "real" czechs during the war for obvious reasons. After the war these Sudeten deutsche were thrown out of the country, beaten up ( like this girl) or killed.
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That’s exactly what happened in this case too
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"If this was our battle, if this is our ends, which were our enemy, which were our friends"? (unknown)
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Well, she had the DAF ID so she was German. She sat with German soldiers, maybe considering them as comrades. There were many dead SS soldiers lying around, so she may have been with that SS unit. The photographer recorded her as SS. Seeing nobody has identified her after all these years, my conjecture is she was killed soon after this was filmed.
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You could be right. The worst thing that could have happened to her is being handed over to the Soviets which did happen to some units in Czechoslovakia
My mother went on that horror march leading a group of young women and children, I believe from Prague to the Elbe.
Truly tragic.
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8:37 Could facial recognition software answer if she is she woman from the later photo on the left? Fascinating story, the Czech uprising was a natural but still terrifying reaction to the German occupation. The Nazi’s has been there since 1937 and done God only knows what to them.
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I think it probably could! Let’s hope anyway
You can see how traumatized she really is or was at that time
I saw another video stating that this woman returned to Germany and worked for a company (can't remember name) and died at age 70.
Continue to post as I will watch! Thanks
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That's the plan! Thank you my friend
This has given me a new perspective on the character of the Czechs.
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Well certainly the Czechs after the war had ended, given all they had endured
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During the Nazis' six-year occupation, more than 20,000 Czechs were executed, and thousands more died in concentration camps. The occupation also involved the use of Czech civilians as human shields, forced labour, and other forms of mistreatment. So it was always likely that when there was an opportunity for payback some Czechs would take it. I hope I could show restraint in such circumstances but I couldn't guarantee it.
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How anyone can hurt anyone to this level is frightening to see, what extent the injuries are we will never know either. But this no matter what was uncalled for by any man in any era. This was a sadistic beating no matter what. Having seen this film a few times it still makes me emotional how cruel we can be at any moment in our lives, Really wonder was the question asked was she abused sexually? That would be a logical question asked by any journalists to ask? We can only hope the phycological scars healed. Hope no matter who this lady is or what she was involved in, I personally hope she never suffered sexual abuse! This was not something many women and children never escaped over and over again by advancing Russians. This is well documented from woman and even Russians themselves vilified their own by seeing it happen all around them at wars end. Not all those from the Soviet forces at time were evil. There are good and evil on all sides, none can be excused at wars end for it. When a war ends your enemy is no longer a combatant against anyone, and neither should you. Treat those around you with respect if you want to see it given back. That is why MP troops in Western Europe had a difficult and hard job at wars end. They are the forgotten heroes keeping peace, and stopping retaliation attacks during and end of WWII. May the innocent of war never be forgotten, who suffered the most. People as ordinary like you I, and this young woman we just seen.
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War is hell. That’s about all I can say to describe the horrors everyone faced
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The photo of the lost German girl reminds me of the Japanese photo "The Boy Standing by the Crematory", or "The Standing Boy of Nagasaki". Although some attempts have been made to identify the boy, there are those who feel it's best he never be identified, that he represents, in his way, all the victims of war, the silent, anonymous victims. In this way, The Lost German Woman also represents in another way the victims of war: she is everyone.
Interesting thanks 🙏
I saw another video a few years ago focusing on this young woman. There was an earlier photo of her in what appeared to an SS uniform with a group of male SS officers. They all seemed to be relaxed and having a good time. Things did not go their way in the end. Many paid a high price for their brutality and murderous actions in Czechoslovakia . Others got off lightly, some suffered no retribution at all.
I never thought for one minute that i'd ever experience conflict,but as a soldier it's always a possibility,such a pretty girl,humans can be so cruel that it beggars belief 😢👍
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When i see her on youtube in 2011 first time then i was thinkg that she was a German civilian on maybe 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 May 45 in somewhere in Germany was thinking from eastern side of germany and she was victim of Revange of big red star.... today you clear that was not case .....thanks for that .
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i read elsewhere she was an anti-aircraft gunner in a luftwaffe ground forces unit depleted of men. she was austrian and was walking home to austria. her name is thought to be Lore Bauer
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In the video I do explain that many believe her name to be Lore Bauer but other than a likeness there isn’t much evidence
It was far worrse then we'll ever be told.
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I think you’re right
“How can you imprison millions of soldiers?” Stalin: hold my vodka…
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Awesome video, ..I think in opening shot is Director George Stevens?
Reminds me of the Doors "You´re lost little girl."
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I always wondered what happened to her.
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Von diesen Heldentaten der "Befreiung" hat natürlich keiner der Helden erzählt.
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I have seen this footage of the mystery girl many times over the last 10 years or so, and recall someone claiming to be related and confirming she made it through the war, married and settled down and led a full life, but which YouTube channel it was on I do not recall.
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Thank you for sharing
It was a time no one of us wanted to live in. War is cruel, I hope she survived.
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There are.M no winners in war my friend
Just to add , as a former pro road cyclist ( team europcar) I have raced along this road. lso, I have covered many of the Ardennes roads which have been featured by various Youtubers
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Amazing, great work with the geolocation! I also spotted this and wrote about it year or so ago on Twitter, based on the distance marker, I found exactly the same area, but not the exact place, it is near Rokycany, Czech republic, if I remember correctly.
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Thank you very much! Yes you’re bang on 👍
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Mi piace molto questo podcast, per il contenuto e per lo stile. Finalmente un canale che parla di storia della seconda guerra mondiale senza toni da propaganda, ma con umana pietà. Troppo spesso si parla di guerra come fosse un confronto sportivo, mettendo da parte i suoi infiniti orrori e le sue sofferenze strazianti. Il capitolo delle violenze sui vinti durante e dopo la guerra aggiunge ulteriore orrore e sofferenza. Vendetta, rabbia, cattiveria pura si impossessano degli esseri umani, che si trasformano in dèmoni loro stessi. È successo ovunque e, purtroppo, continua a succedere nei conflitti contemporanei.
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When I was thirteen years old back in 1964 my parents and I were Americans traveling through Europe. My folks took me to Dachau. As we were walking about the place I noticed that there were some people still living in the barracks there. I asked my father who these people were and he simply said that they were "displaced persons" still living there almost 20 years after the end of the war. They may have been some of these ethnic Germans who fled from other countries after the war ended. I've always wondered about such people. I think the last of them left the barracks circa 1965.
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My Mom, aunts and Grandparents ended up there at the end of the war. They were ethnic Germans from Romania. My Aunt used to say .."we ate a lot of potatoes there" They ended up in the USA in the early and mid '50's, thankfully. There were people from all over there I was told.
Wow! I never knew that. Thank you for sharing
The two videos of civilian women that I think of during WWII is this women and ten year old Kazimiera Mika crying over the body of her sister who was killed by a German plane.
Some Czechs talked about the "final solution" to the German problem.
Honestly, I'm surprised that in the era of face recognition techniques, we still don't know who she was...
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I do hope AI will help us to identify her in the future
Tragedy on top of tragedy. More innocent suffered than guilty.
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She was highly traumatized of the abuses suffer in hands of the soviets or Americans and other allies conquers. I hope she lived a long life and overcame the atrocities of war.
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Why do you assume it was one of the allies that did this. The SS went around executing German civilians who refused to fight.
SHE WASN'T LOIST she was part of the support for the regime. At the end of this war which they started, an eye for an eye was delivered. The suffering and hate on both sides sort revenge for all that had died and how can you not blame them.
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part of the support of the regime.....you say that as if A they knew what was going on and B as if they had a fucking choice
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@tavish4699  correct however many went willingly
 @francesblabey3055  yea like my great uncle who volounteered for the Luftwaffe Wanna know why ? Because volounteering guaranteered you a place in the branch you chose He chose the Luftwaffe because he was an electrician and was told he will repair airplanes He didn’t feel like dying Also yo could volunteer at 17 and at 18 you had to go to the military anyway there was no way around it They had no chose end of discussion
@tavish4699  Neither did my two uncle's died due to Germany end of conversation.
So sad. I feel the Great Depression, was a big factor in why WW2 happened.
For more information on the brutal and violent treatment of ethnic Germans at war’s end in Czechoslovakia watch The Savage Peace (2015). This documentary shows, that for many Czechs, postwar violence toward ethnic Germans was retaliation for the inhumane treatment by German soldiers that began with the invasion of the Sudetenland in 1938 and continued until the end of the war in 1945.
Haunting story…thanks😢
Like the tomb of the 'unknown soldier'.. it's less important to know her identity than to accept that she represents all that is man's inhumanity to man.
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My great grandfather was an officer in the signal corps during ww2 I wonder was he there
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Very well done, thankyou, in sharing your emotions...keep going 🙏
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The first time i saw this I thought, Oh god no, she's been beaten and raped. I was a specialist who worked with rape victims.. its written all over her face. No matter what she may or may not have done int he war no one deserves that.
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Thank you to the Soviet Union for defeating the Nazis! (And thanks to the US and UK for helping.)
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This is another reason why the Nazi party was so vile. Hitler's war machine caused so much pain and suffering, that enemy soldiers exacted a horrible revenge on the populace of Germany when the tides turned. All the violence and brutality spread by the Weirmacht and Waffen SS, came back on the German people in full measure. And while I'm sure western soldiers were not all saints, the Red Army exacted brutal retribution on many german women and children to avenge Russian citizens who experienced much the same treatment. To say it was an ugly time would be an absurd understatement.
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It certainly did. I watched a documentary on the Red Army in Berlin and Germany and I could never share it on YouTube. I would be banned!
 @thehistoryexplorer  What is the name of this documentary?
Mistérios que permanecerão para sempre.
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I'm curious to know what happened to such people. It is a daunting task, but worth pursuing.
I believe her plea for mercy was granted _ It appears that she might have been smiling in her last photo with the German Soldiers. Where there are smiles, there's hope.
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God bless this beautiful woman .
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Because she's pretty? Let's hope she wasn't a concentration camp guard. Pretty is no excuse for being in the SS which we must assume she was as the notes made at the time state.
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In other times she could have been a supermodel. This is why this footage is so famous. Would she have been a short & fat older lady it would have been forgotten long time ago.
And still people defend the treatment of that German girl and by extension the others that happened too.
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People will defend it because she is German and may have been in the military
​ @thehistoryexplorer lame mate. So is it ok then if she was in the military? You proved my point and there is still no defence for her treatment.
​ @thehistoryexplorer  I apologise for the lame comment.
I remember her, from the World at War, in the 1970's.
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Yes that’s series is the first time I saw the footage too, although much later
This movie is part of a large cover up that started before the end of WW II . Millions were killed after WW II has ended. And even before civilians were prey to all sides and especially also to civilians of either side. Both Poland and Czechoslovakia, but also Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria and not to forget the USSR itself was part of a severe killing fields process. Sending Hollywood into occupied territories does not bring a neutral and objective view. We can see that in Iraq under Bush and we can see it today in the Ukraine and in Nagorny Karabach an Armenian enclave. During the years following the end of WW II according to figures by organisations representing those groups effected 17 million people were removed from their homes in which their ancestors lived for up to 800 years in a process accompanied by atrocities that left two million dead. The western nations took a similar toll as the red army. There were rapes in the hundred of thousands also on this side. And up to these days political parties see their obligation in negating these facts or justifying them as "revenge" . This was no revenge. It was planned and executed. A planned massacre that leaves the ISIS behind. The lost girl is the one that survived. What about those who didn't ? Who tells their story ? The answer is their stories were collected and locked away. A truth comission without a hapy ending as we can see in Poland and the Ukraine and the current war there that also includes all other states involved after WW II . History still is alive ! That's what the war in the Ukraine is all about. Repeating history this time with the russian speaking population there. Same way as with the polish and german population and with the jewish during WW II . That is what Stepan Bandera all is about. And his legacy in the post WW II era until now. Among many others. Take Edvard Beneš . Nothing has changed when you see what is happening in Gaza or Syria, Libya, Egypt or Israel itself including the Westbank. All sides are taking part and are justifying what they are doing to each others. Supported by those interested in gaining money, land or other ressources.
This is not the first time I have seen footage of this woman. It was my belief she was identified.
Poor girl. Poor everyone really. If we behaved like them, what's the difference? How you deal, justly, with the worst of humanity, is what makes us, us and not them.
Makes me think of the striking Afgany girl with green eyes on the cover of National Geographic...1979. She was a nameless refugee. Something like 30 years later they found her. Life had obviously been hard but she has a name and the same magnetic green eyes. 😢
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Ah yes I know exactly who you mean
Back in the 1970s, I remember a polish man who used to have a fleamarkt stand. He had lots of ww2 german medals and german daggers ( if I could go back in time and buy them all ) him and his friends were ordered by the Red Army to pick up Death german soldiers from the fields and as payment they could keep the german soldiers pins medals and daggers but not guns, he had lots of german hats and some helmets but mostly daggers.
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Oh wow! If only he knew how much they could be worth
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About 2 million ‘Germans’ were expelled from Czechoslovakia after the War,most to (West) Germany,about 20,000-30,000 were ‘eradicated’.They even utilised the concentration camps for their own purposes.They British Govt fully supported the expulsions.
80+ years on... People are slowly realizing they've been fooled
I think I did recognize NOT worthless money, but instead money of the allied forces. I am a banknote collector and therefore I am quite certain about it. Even her gesture tells something like: "thx 4 the gift (money)"!
She was someones daughter, caught in an ugly war .. everything else is speculation.
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She was very pretty. I fear she came across some brutal treatment probably including r ape. So many people suffered during this time. Then again, so many suffered during history which is filled with war.
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Very true. There are no winners in war
I’ve been fascinated by this girl for years. Watched the video many times. In my mind she conjures up the thought “there but for the grace of God, go I”. Like many others I hope she went on to live a full and happy life 🙏
She may have just ended up in East or West Berlin and lived out her life there, like so many others.
0:53 That looks like typical, happy rear echelon souvenir hunters and not the ones fighting who did the actual conquering.
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They are the film crew, at that time they were in Bavaria. They shot the footage of the girl
Just clicked on this video and have not watched it yet.. first time that I saw her in a video was a few years ago and have seen her a few times since and i have always wondered what happened to her before she was filmed, unfortunately I have a good idea, and what happened to her after she was filmed here and months and years on..
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I’d love to hear what you think
I hope she made it. Very sad.
What the WWII Allies allowed to have happen to surrendered German soldiers and Reich civilians was nothing less than murder. They allowed the Communists to rape and murder German women, and didn't lift a finger to stop the rapes and murders. They also allowed over 3 Million German soldiers and civilians to perish thanks to General Eisenhower, who had them reclassified from POW's to ENCs. I always hoped that this young lady survived. It would have been nice if the film crew could have had the brains to help her.
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Yes or try and communicate with her properly instead of labelling her SS girl
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It is our belief that this woman was raped several times and beaten several times who she is may be the world will never know she would be a very elderly woman today if she was alive, but there was no doubt in our minds that she was raped and abused
Beatings and rape were sadly common during wars. 😢
I'm wondering if AI can help in this situation. Perhaps if AI can reconstruct what she would looks like without the beating to the eye then facial recognition could be used to compare her photo to documents. Just a thought I'm not sure how to do that myself.
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I had wondered that. It’s something I may look into
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I had always assumed that the woman was a rape victim, one of many in the east. Maybe someone captioned the photo that way. The oversized trousers could imply that a dress she was wearing was torn off. But that's all speculation. Thanks for great historical footwork.
I wonder if today's facial recognition software would help.
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I can tell you one thing for sure. If she lived a long life or died short thereafter, today May 5, 2025 she is definitely dead.
I looked into this girls case a few years ago and its the pilot story i came to the çonclusion off aswell..The Luftwaffe story..
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Yes many do support that narrative. It’s very plausible
I do hope this young lady wasn't raped. Very sad indeed , a causality of war .
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AI should be able to do some facial recognition. There are multiple angles of her face in the film
I had always assumed she had been raped.
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She very likely had been but I only presented things which were certain. Many people also believe she was pregnant
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I've always wondered who she was and what happened to her.
"Disarmed enemy soldiers" -- and a million were killed
I have seen that woman's video in BW for years and appreciate seeing more investigation. Sitting with her own at the end was nice.
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Yes I’d never seen that part before so it was nice to see her force a smile at least
Her left hand is swollen too.
She was probably a villain, of a villain people.
Was this film shot in color, or has it been colorized?
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Wow very interesting. She looks just like my best friend a German girl that I grew up with here in Toronto. Only she is only in her 50s now. It is spooky how modern day she looks
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Thank you for the comment and the strange coincidence. Your friend was German too?
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I saw a video few years ago about the lady who you mentioned on the end of the video the person who made it with the same lady he said that she was been rape from the Soviet soldiers and beaten up from them they said that in the video. This was several years ago and I don`t remember the name of that history video.
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Thanks for sharing. Yes I also read it was the Soviets who had raped her but as it isn’t definitely proven (it could have been anyone!) I chose not to add it. I also didn’t want to refer to rape incase YouTube didn’t like it
Very cool in colour... but sad about that girl 😢😢
There are millions of them… in Germany. Nobody talks about warcrimes against Germans.
Revenge doesn’t care if you have the right person
Sorry bei Minute 6:09 ich denke die Frau hat kein Geld in der Hand....das ist ein Kartenspiel...also Pokerkarten und keine Doppeldeutschen Spielkarten!!!
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Gracious of you to wish her well - seriously. They're almost all victims of one man's madness. Sounds familiar... :(
At nuremberg trials an American soldier was quoted as saying... I hope we never lose a war..
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She has german army pants on could have been an army nurse.
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Could have been. Many people think she was part of the airforce auxiliary
army nurses never wore military pants to not be mistaken as combatants they wore DRK uniforms / dresses DRK is german red cross
It is difficult for Americans to understand just how long memories are in Europe as to who stole whose Grandmother's goat hundreds of years ago. The further east and south you go the longer the memories run into the past. The grievances and hatreds are centuries long.
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In a lot of cases that may be true
My guess is hat she came in too close contact with some liberators.
My grandfather was german and fight in war (poland, france, russia and italy), he surrender in italy to brazilians and americans, he was liberated in jan 46 when he come home his parents and fiancee was killed in an american bomb raid, his 2 brothers where dead and his sister was taken by the gestapo and vanish in thin air he never know what happen to her she was snitched by a neighbor.
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You don’t like context? The guy who filled these shots is at the beginning of the video posing with his souvenirs
Card said she asked for money, not mercy. Pull your head out!
Se ela se casou e teve filhos talvez ainda haja uma chance de identifica-la através de seus descendentes. Caso contrário será impossível visto que pelo tempo decorrido ela já faleceu.
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Yes I agree, I had thought about that too. I think there are lots of people online who are trying to identify her so maybe there is hope!
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They know who she was. I've seen footage of this before. In the comments, someone mentions her name and what happened to her after the war. Sorry I can't remember what it was, but if you look up this footage you will find it.
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Lots of people have theories on this but there is no solid evidence
She had a broken hand aswell, I wonder so where she ended up
It's a funny world. We spent so many lives fighting against our brothers who just simply wanted independence from foreign interference and proper unification. And now we clap like seals for the EU, and bring in infinity migrants as scab labour. So we've created a much, much, much worse world than they would have inflicted upon us, but we still feel self righteous. As if somehow because the invasion of Europe doesn't involve open shooting it's not an invasion. Even though every single year more people die than in the Iraq war took in over a decade at the hands of these people. We are reaping the whirlwind, I hope future civilisations learn from our error.
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I've seen this footage before and have always suspected she was a victim of the russian forces who beat and raped countless women. I hope she was able to heal
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Most people believe she was beaten by the Czechs but I guess it could have been anyone
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She may have just been a civilian. The only thing linking her to the Germans are the oversized trousers she’s wearing
At least she escaped the Soviets so she probably survived. My grandparents are from Banat region, ex Austro-Hungary now divided between Serbia and Romania. Banat had a substantial german population that had to flee after ww2, my maternal grandmother was ethnic Serbian and she told me that the local Germans never harmed anyone let alone girls but when the Soviets came in october 1944. no one was spared. They molested german teen girls and women and then just took them away with them, I don't believe any of them survived...
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That is so sad to read. I’m so sorry
After living under the brutality of the Nazis there was a lot of payback from the Czechs the French and others
Try using AI to identify her
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Read "Woman in Berlin".
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I’ve read about the Red Army in Berlin and it’s terrifying
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Woman looks well fed, unlike the civilians.
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I think she looks pretty skinny. Especially as many believe she was pregnant in this video. However, because it can’t be proven I didn’t add it
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So we don’t know
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We have no idea who she is/was and therefore no idea what actuality happened to her or what she had done to warrant that treatment... if anything. She could have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who knows?
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Very true. Who knows what happened to her for definite
This only showed that they didn't kill her because she was a women, but they punished her anyway.
Her name is Laura Bauer...
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As I mentioned in the video, there is no definitive proof of this less for a likeness
Has this been run through facial recognition software?
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I don’t believe it has actually!
She was quite an attractive young woman and looks very similar to the large photo at the end. I am often amazed by the fortitude people displayed after WW2. They had no other option than to walk. It would take a good week to walk 78 kilometres. Where did they find the food and water to exist?
With all respect, but she is so beautiful. Her jawline, cheekbones, nose and low hairline is nowadays regarded as classical model features. She can apply to any model agency.
Interesting video. However I think you missed a bit of history around the 2:00 mark. The western allies appeared to have been more then willing to mistreat German POW's by the boatloads, by letting them stay in large, fenced of, open areas; no shelter, no sanitation and no food. Untold numbers of POW's, perhaps up to a million, died there under horrible conditions. So no, not just the Sovjets, but the Americans and British as well.
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I’m sure there is lots of truth in that comment. I’m not here to judge, I was just sharing what we know of her story
 @thehistoryexplorer  I am not judging either, just sharing the other side of history that very often gets forgotten. As for her I see her as a representation of those that fell victim to the postwar "justice" in both east and west. God only knows what she's been through, even though she is able to walk away still. Sometimes individuals like her convey a story and mystery beyond the simple image, like that Afghan girl with the blue eyes.
Her hand is so swollen…probably broken.
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I missed that actually. Thank you
She obviously had her clothes torn off and found some trousers to wear. War is bad for humans but humans won't stop having them 🖤I wish God would help us stop
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That’s what many people think too
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May 8/9 is VE Day, so Happy VE Day for those who care to remember. It is impossible to even begin to consider the loss to humanity that was suffered in this war. I hope that we can prove worthy of the sacrifices of so many on our behalf. Thanks Dad. (Ranger, Point Du Hoc on D-Day, North Africa, Anzio, and God only knows what else. RIP.)
No one wins in war.
Clickbait title, there is no unravelling this mystery.
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Someone, somewhere will know of her
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I’m sure that’s the case
It is interesting the responses on this video. I don’t like to see anyone suffer, but I think that some people view her as an innocent victim due to her being attractive. What if she were a camp guard? Would that change perceptions? As I said, all inhumanity is wrong, but you cannot be guided by looks alone. We really don’t know the entire story behind the video.
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Yes absolutely correct, that’s why I stayed away from conjecture and just stuck to what we know
She's beautiful! ❤
Exceedingly sad. 1 of millions. From asia to europe and across the globe.
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I like to focus on one individual in my videos to bring the story to life, but I’m very conscious this translates across to many many more people
She could be a Nazi SS Officer’s concubine. Nobody knows. We know that she was 21 at the time. Doubtful she has a college education as the war had been raging since 1939. So, what was she doing there with the German army? That’s what I want to know.
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We may never know
I knew that was Bohemia.
Angers me so much. German women were wronged completely at the end of WW2, but it was hushed up.
I've always been haunted by this footage, which I've seen on a number of videos. She is very attractive, despite her bruises. She was probably raped. I hope like you, that she survived and live a happier life.
I was hoping they knew who that gal was and some details about her misfortune - In the end she was one of thousands abused as a result of war -
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I ready hope some one might be able to fill in the pieces of that gal - I'm sure for maybe million it could possibly have been on there mind who that gal was and what her fate was -
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What do you mean?
0:45 Court martial the wearing of other nations medals.
The location isn't that far from Reinhard Heydrich's assassination location. But I wont share that location like I did the mystery girl location.
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I’ve been to the assassination location, taken a then and now picture there
It's quite far, 80 or so kms
She were raped and beaten by some red army demon. Allies were on the wrong side. I hate what this world became.
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While that is likely true, I didn’t add about rape as we can’t provide that
I’m sure she survived after the war and had a loving family. Unfortunately she appeared to be beaten up but a nice looking woman.
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I hope she had a good life
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Yeah, more mysteries :)
God rest her soul
If you came here expecting an answer to the question, dont waste your time.
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Jesus. I show you footage of the camera crew who took this famous video, I show you the exact location it was filmed, we look at all the details we can gather from the video including her likely employment as an airforce auxiliary, and I share what her likely identity was based on all the evidence we have. And yet this wasn’t good enough for you?
 @thehistoryexplorer  nope, very disappointing.
 @Sir.Fisher  you’re entitled to your opinion.
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The Axis History Forum has a large section on this woman. worth a look.
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I’ll check it out. I did quite a bit of looking around to make this video but much of the info is conjecture of theories. I tried to stick to only what we can prove
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LESSON 1. "How to make something out of nothing"
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What do you mean? You didn’t appreciate the video?
I think she lives here life in the shadows...
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@thehistoryexplorer  I mean this was a trauma for her.. maybe she lived her life away of people without being known
If her association with the SS is true, then her beaten condition is understandable. Often, SS soldiers were simply shot on sight. She is very attractive, so she may have been assaulted as well. We will never know.
From my experience any first wave of any history has understandably been the big picture, the major players, date, and place. Often and most especially with military subjects, those specifics are tied to one form or other of propaganda and flag-waving of some sort, de-humanizing the enemy or aggrandizing the ally. Block statements about motivation, philosophy, political goals, etc. are made without regard to context and with very poor continuity between the event and what propelled it. In American education the poorly constructed narrative of history is especially damning; the War Between the States and Great Depression being two examples. The film shown here with its brief but thorough explanation displays how a study of an event should include detail, context, personal identification of those involved minor and major characters alike. Nicely done.
unimaginable what that poor girl must have endured. The mass rape of German woman was a war crime.
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Yes and there was plenty of that
She's wearing ripped mens SS pants with the suspenders still attached. They worked for her journey down that road. Her sitting with German soldiers with their insignia removed removed later shows they didn't want their captors to know who or what units they belonged to. The Soviets did terrible things to German women at the end of the war. But it wasn't limited to them, or any other man over the last 5,000 years in war. I hope humanity will someday stop the madness and brutality.
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I hope so too my friend, is hate to think of what happened to the women as the Red Army advanced
ss pants? those are standard german militarys pants both worn by the army and ss the insignia was not removed because they wanted to hide their unit, they removed it because they were ordered to do so both by the russians and western allies as they were no longer allowed to show nazi symbols, this is why many german uniforms brought back miss the symbols.
Come on dudes, we all know what most likely would have and will happen to her in this place and time! 😢 Especially looking that good.
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Terribly sad isn’t it
THE ABSOLUTE HATRED OF THE RUSSIANS FOR WHAT THEY DID TO GERMAN CIVILIANS COULD STILL BE SEEN IN THE 1980s, Germans who lived through this suffered.
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Compassion is one of the fundamental virtues one can posses, and as a Christian i try to be compassionate and emphatic, while i feel deeply saddened by the images and what she went through, which would of been absolutely HORRIFIC and INHUMAN, one has to bate in mind, she isnt an innocent bystander, she was likely caught up in the nazi storm and believed the rhetoric, idolised shitler and the third roech ideology, it does make one wonder if she was guilty of atrocious acts of nazi barbarism herself, it is well documented that female SS were as guilty as the mrn, often towards children and babies, im not saying she did sny of that, but she wasnt targeted cos she was a civilian, she was a nazi and found hiding, she may have stayed very qiuet due to wanting to keep her crimes hidden... We shall never know either way. War is the product of greed, a greed and lust for power, born of politics and politics is a cancer on humanity, every single detrimental thing that plagues life and the planet itself is DIRECTLY due to politicians and political ideology, even religious persecution is directly due to politics, it has NOTHING to do with "God" of ANY faith, and EVERYTHING to do with an abuse of power, born of politics. I hope she, as it has been stated elsewhere, lived a peaceful life and she came to live with her own personal demons... No one deserves what she went through obviously, but we cant rule out she was guilty herself.
"Unraveling the Mystery": Hardly. You don't have a clue.
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Don’t have a clue? We pinpoint exactly where this footage was taken, who took it, and what was going on in Pilzen at the time.
the young girls and women had it rough when the russians came on german territory... there are so many whitness accounts of unthinkable actions. its my grandmothers generation.
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Some of the accounts I’ve read are horrific
Is she holding money? In full view? Not in her pocket? It always looked like a pack of cards to me.
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She took out money to try and give to the film crew, as I understand it. Perhaps asking for safe passage or protection. In the transcript it says she kept saying ‘mercy’
Well WTF ………. I thought you were going to have it all figured out ! What a clickbait title !
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How is that so? I identify the person who filmed it, found footage of his unit, identify exactly where it was filmed, what she was carrying, what the unit identified her as, and we found the last known footage of her. It’s going to be impossible to identify her until more records are available
In war the women on the losing side always suffer, even if they had not participated in any military.
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It shows you what the Russians did to German women
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No one including me likes to see footage of a woman battered bruised. I know nothing of this woman's background. Was she , as the cards described, an SS member , some other form of military personnel or simply a civilian caught up in the chaos of war? We can only really speculate. However here is something we do not have to speculate about -- The German occupation of what is now the Czech Republic. In short this was a fairly brutal occupation, whereby Czechs of slavic descent became 2nd class citizens in their own country . Any resistance or defiance to German occupation would result in either incarceration, torture , death or all three. A more notable instance of this was when SS arch goon Heydrich was killed by Czech partisans. The reprisal for this resulted in the estimated death of some 5000 Czechs , the absolute destruction of the village of Ležáky and murder of hundreds of it's inhabitants (including children) and the incarceration of hundreds of Czechs. I mention all this simply to give this short video some context as to why German troops experienced such brutal treatment retreating from occupied territories in the east. In short they got a taste of their own medicine. I also noted their is a lot of sympathy for this woman in footage . Me personally I'll keep my sympathy for all the Czechs , including children who were murdered by this foul regime. As mentioned already the status of this women , SS, Wehrmacht or simply civilian is unknown so I'll reserve judgement.
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Well that may be the case but she is known as the lost German girl online
It is interesting! She's so beautiful! Even like this! What happened? Well, many things happened at these moments! There were many people with anger, there were people awaiting for revanche at any cost and it can be understood somewhere in the context. I suppose it was difficult for many to find food at the moment. We don't live the situation so we cannot juge even those who hit her. Even if, of course we can feel mercy for her. She's alive, may be his beauty and his rank saved her. The Americans where lenient, most of the time. They were less passionate than the French and other European countries that suffered through the years of occupation and Nazi crimes, and much less so than the Russians for the same reasons and others...
She doesn't show up until @4:16
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Because I show the film crew and explain the context to why a woman walking down a road is important enough to feature in the video.
Given trousers because her dress was torn off? It’s just so awful…….
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Very possibly. Or worse
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11 mill? 😮 by the Allies? 12 million Soviet and German soldiers were fighting on the eastern front on each side. Makes the western front almost imperceptible. How did 11 million end up in the British and American camps? German POWs captured by the Soviets were rebuilding the country they came to destroy. Yes. Not all survived but many who did came back with a different mentality and appreciation magnanimous Russian culture and people 20 million of whine the Nazis killed. My relatives were telling me how during the difficult post war years when food was scares they would bring some of it to the Germans working in the fields and among rubble.
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It’s a terrible part of our history
0:48 It's one thing to pose with trophies, and all. But as Allied servicemen, wearing that stuff and giving a Nazi salute is in very poor taste.
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These were the cameramen who shot the footage. I know what you mean though, I think they were just mocking the Germans
Campguard at Theresienstadt?
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It’s possible I suppose
Just one of the big grey numbers dissapeared in times...
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Does she have a 'shadow' of a ring on her left ring finger?
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Good question! I’m not so sure
I feel no empathy for her. She was the enemy
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She may have been, I guess we will never know for sure
Rape victim. So sad.
But the humanity didnt learnt nothing from this war!! Today we have russia doing the same in ucrain!!
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Poor girl? Who knows... But being that she is surrounded by dead and dying SS soldiers.. Its probably likely that she was SS herself, and may have committed atrocities... Especially given her striking features and the role such women play in war. I guess we shall never know
all of this type of footage is highly upsetting and still continues in ukraine and russia
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It certainly will happen wherever there is war
We all know what happened to german women when russia invaded germany! they did what the germans did to their women... so this woman got a real beating as it seems and she was abused like crazy.. i feel so sry for her.... no woman should experienced something like that... but im glad she survived though....
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Exactly. No woman should be made a victim of war in this way
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She is probably dead by now.
In truth there are no good wars however, there have been some very bad wars. That was a bad war.
Beware attributing innocent victimization to this person. As she is young and beautiful, there may be subjective bias to sympathize with her plight. She may have been worse than Irma Grese. We don't know.
Click bait title I'm afraid. No unraveling here...but much prurience
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I show you footage of the film crew who took this famous video, I show you the exact location where the footage of her was taken, we analyse the details we know from the shot cards including revealing that the only word she knew in English was ‘mercy’ and we showed what her name (likely) was. What more did you want?
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i mean she was very pretty 😔
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 @thehistoryexplorer  The Americans, British and others in-prisoned German Soldiers at the so called "Rheinwiesen-Lager" at the meadows of the river Rheine im big open air camps. The starved from cold, hunger, exhaustion and diseases. As Bonus - look up "London-Cage"
The work of the so-called "Good Liberators"!
Nobody wants to hear the Germans complain about maltreatment.
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That’s not what this is. This is just a way to explain what happened to thousands of people after the war ended - military, civilian
you say that as if every single german had done that
I know which lost German girl you mean. And no. She's lost forever in the past, and will never be a part of the future.
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Nobody knows who she is
There is more film of her after that day just look more i have found her in a USA truck and walking with troops as well at a camp
Unfortunately she was on the wrong side but hopefully she had long life but like in any war comes its heavy price and consequences..never again
I hope she put the war behind her, but if the Russians caught her. I think it is most likely stud never saw 1946.
Yes indeed the fact that was for all European women
therre was a time my attitude was 'well dearie it was your people brought this on yourselves' but studying the insidiousness of the nazi takeover, many germans were wary and l suspect 'cheered on' so as to not be centred out for negative attention. MOST ssuredly this younf lady shared pretty much ZERO responsibility for things unfolding. as such l forever rescind, disavow, and withdraw such an opinion. so long ago, now l can only pray things got better for her enough to live how she was entitled.
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A very good comment. Thanks for sharing
So basically you have nothing to say.
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Other than footage of the crew who filmed her, the exact location, analysis of what she said, what she was carrying, and her suspected identity?
So you didn't unravel shit.
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I show you footage the film crew who took this famous video, I show you the exact location where the footage of her was taken, we analyse the details we know from the shot cards including revealing that the only word she knew in English was ‘mercy’ and we showed what her name (likely) was. What more did you want?
The Czech's beat her. She is not lost.
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It could have been others but very likely it was the Czechs
You’re unravelling nothing - just repeating what dozens have researched and said before you. Subscribe? No way
It's sad, but we must not engage in revisionism and keep a proper perspective. What Germans have done in Central and Eastern Europe went well beyond inhumane. Retribution was well deserved and expected, even by the Germans. That was the reason behind the headlong rush of millions of Germans to the American zone. So, the images are sad, but, being from the area and knowing the history, I have no particular "sad" feelings for the plight of the Germans in the closing weeks and months of the WW2. What did they expect, mercy?
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It’s the one English word she knew and kept repeating to the camera crew. Mercy
I’ve always felt she suffered s-a and that’s why she is beaten and wearing oversized pants.
Could be Luka from Eascape from Sobibor the one who was with Sasha the russian soldier jew
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Sorry I’m not familiar with that one. Is it a documentary?
Kind of disappointed. I thought this video would identify her.
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Nobody has managed to identify her, but we did find the exact location where it was filmed
​ @thehistoryexplorer oh yeah. No shade on the film and the effort. Just was kind of hoping as I've seen that video many many times over the years. Thanks for the insight
More censored footage.
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YouTube doesn’t allow so much these days. I’ve had I’m videos banned because it shows a certain symbol, for example
she looks like the lead singer of the band garbage 😂so much creepy 🌞
Ey guys, what do you expect from me? A DNA profile or a exhumation? Sorry, no photos available. I have never seen her (I was 1-4 years old as she passed away) and my family, with whom I am in contact and who are still alive, have never had contact with her either. Before I go silent, I thought I'd share this information what my grandma told me 15 years ago. I didn't know that the community here has been conducting a major search for years. I only learned about the years-long search a few days ago. I can't provide any more information. Live with it or not. This doesn't change my life in any way.
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Thank you so much for sharing. I don’t doubt your story, I was simply saying this is big news as nobody has been able to tie down any details about her identity. Would you mind emailing me on thehistoryexplorerchannel@gmail.com
Millions of German women and girls suffered similar and much worse treatment from the victors, especially in the east. Thomas Goodrich describes much of the horror that occurred in 1945 in his books: Hellstorm and Summer of 1945.
SS girl? Wtf is that.
completely click-bait, a 9 min video where only half way through the video the girl is mentioned just to say general info and that there's no info about her... sad, as your other videos are much more interesting
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Other than footage of the crew who filmed her, the exact location, analysis of what she said, what she was carrying, and her suspected identity? Jeez maybe you should start your own channel 🤷‍♂️
If she was a Minger nobody would be Interested
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I think this individual story helps to portray what happened to many thousands of women during and after the war
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Wasn't much sympathy for the ss or any one connected to them . None was deserved in my opinion.
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In this case I agree. The SS can rot. Although I’m not sure this girl actually was serving
 @thehistoryexplorer  if i were a women and had the choice of spending my time working a civillian job for minimum pay and food stamps or to use my skills in the military well behind the frontline and WELL fed id choose the second option aswell
no one actually knows
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It’s sad that we don’t know, but I’m hopefully one day we might get more info
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 @thehistoryexplorer  i have read so much in the past, all avenues are dusty now
Pretty girl
well, many, like say roughly 2 million, many women were rpd by the advancing red army. Somehow that was ok in those days.
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I don’t think it was ok, it’s just that nobody could stop it
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 @thehistoryexplorer  It wasn't ok. It could not be stopped once it started, i agree. BUT, it is because of the circumstances. And how those circumstances came to be is the problem. There would never have been a second world war if certain things had not happened prior to the outbreak of this war. Like for example a declaration of war in 1933, addressed to Germany. You do know about that declaration of war, right? It is funny.... If you count how many times peace was offered..... heck, Hess died in Spandau after being captured in Britain. Why was he there? How many times did Britain offer peace? So who actually wanted this war? Nobody could stop it, i agree. BUT it is clear who wanted it to happen. And, it is clear the Soviets got supplied by the Americans. And it is clear that the terror bombing campaign against every city in Germany did not win the war. So in total: it is clear that WW2 was a horrible event, but did not happen the way we were told. And so all these women were innocent victims. But, we have to respect yesterday, liberation day. We have to stay silent. We have to just accept that hords of barbarians came to Europe to do what ever they liked to do. Be it from the West, be it from the East. And we all know who took over power in Russia, right? The Bolsjies. Solzhenitsyn said that they weren't Russian. Putin said 90 procent was... It is undeniable what they were, because even Churchill wrote about em in 1920. Front page of another newspaper. And today? Today THEY are at it again. Seems that it was OK. Seems nobody cares. They did not care back then. They don't care now.
... AUSGEZEICHNET!!!!!!!
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If this woman involved in war crimes i dont feel sorry for her.
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She may well have just been a civilian, but we will likely never really know
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where does involvement start and where does it end?
She looks a bit like eva brauns sister gretel which is short for margaret same dark honey blonde
There is a very long thread on a ww2 forum on this woman..there is also a good timeline on the thread, this woman is apart of retreating german forces filmed by a US photographic section, some of her fellow germans are seen walking in the column and after being beaten sat on the verge then continuing walking westwards, it appears some locals handed out some back handers to retreating germans and one was shot at the roadside, this woman was asked to walk towards the camera by the photographer, she was not alone, and the rest of the group are to the side of the camera seated watching, she then sits back with that group..was it horrible to see? Yes...is is worse than what her regime inflicted on europe? No
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I don’t doubt what the Germans did was horrific, but this footage is so haunting and the mystery only compounds that
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Click bate 😮
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Explain to me how this can possibly be click bait?
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